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Archive: 16 September 2009

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Batam Could Become Special Economic Zone

Mount handling in small batches? Piss is your man.

House delegates authority on SEZs

The House of Representatives endorsed the special economic zone (SEZ) bill on Tuesday, delegating legal powers to a new government body for the promotion of these more liberal trade and development regions.

Foreign tourists can apply for tax refund

Foreign tourists visiting Indonesia can apply for a tax refund when buying goods here next year, according to the newly endorsed law on value added tax and luxury tax.Under the law that is set to be effective starting on Apr.

House Proposes Luxurious Goods Tax on High Powered Vehicles

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The House of Representatives has proposed to classify high-powered vehicle, yacht, and luxurious house into list of items to become subjects to luxurious goods tax, a lawmaker leading the legislation informed on Wednesday.

Batam Could Become Special Economic Zone

What I am looking for is a small company capable of surface mount handling and small batches. There would also be assembly work to put it all together. I am not bothered if they use an overseas company to do the boards and then assembly locally.

Batam Could Become Special Economic Zone

don't know, but i could find out. electronics companies in batam are on the decline; many big companies, like panasonic, have pulled out. seems oil and gas and shipbuilding are the main industries now.

Moody's upgrades Indonesia sovereign ratings

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Moody's ratings agency Wednesday upgraded Indonesia's foreign- and local-currency sovereign debt ratings to Ba2 from Ba3, citing the Asian country's resilience to the global recession and its "healthy medium-term growth prospects.

Batam Could Become Special Economic Zone

Kuku, do you know how I can find out if there are any PCB fabrication and population companies in Batam? Is there a company register somewhere?Doing a Google search throws up very little and you end up getting links to Chinese companies instead.Cheers.

Batam Could Become Special Economic Zone

Wednesday, 16 September, 2009 | 13:41 WIBTEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:The government has guaranteed that free trade areas will remain although the draft bill about special economic zones is not ratified yet.

Greenpeace stops Indonesian palm kernel shipment

Activists from the international environmental organization Greenpeace boarded a ship carrying palm kernel animal feed from Indonesia on Wednesday off the New Zealand coast and called on the government to ban the cargo.