Retailers have agreed to comply with a new regulation that puts limits on listing fees and trading terms that retailers may charge suppliers. Despite its compliance, the Indonesian Association of Retailers (Aprindo) said the regulation would hurt its profit margin even more during these adverse economic times.

In an ironic twist during her campaign for the development of creative industries, Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu was met Sunday with protests during her visit to a center of creative industry in Cirebon, West Java. Dozens of protesters claiming to be members of the Cirebon Rattan Craftsmen Society staged protests to demand the minister revoke a 2005 ministerial regulation on rattan export terms and conditions.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia needs to squeeze far higher yields from existing palm oil plantations rather than open up more land in a country with some of the world's swiftest deforestation, a Greenpeace official said on Monday.