Triwik Kurniasari, The Jakarta Post, JAKARTA After more than a decade of tourism malaise on the Thousand Islands regency, the city has plans in store for a revival. The city administration will procure more accessible public transportation to serve the regency, including enlarging its airport runway from 930 meters to 1,400 meters to allow bigger planes to land at the airport, first built in 1990.

Ika Krismantari, The Jakarta Post, JAKARTA Mother Earth Plantations Pte (MEP) is investing in the first mega jatropha project in Indonesia, with US$100 million over four years in West Timor. Singapore-based MEP president Roland A. Jansen said Tuesday the company had started this mega biofuel project -which includes the development of 1 million hectares of land and the construction of a processing plant - half a year ago and is aimed to start initial production of 30,000 tons by 2013.

The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector is a multilateral affiliate of the Islamic Development Bank Group. Established in Jeddah in 1999, it has a mandate to support the economic development of its member countries by financing private sector projects in accordance with Shariah principles. The Jakarta Globe recently talked to Khaled M.