JAKARTA (Dow Jones)--Indonesia's Parliament Tuesday approved a new electricity law allowing private-sector investment in generation and granting authority to the government and regional administrations to issue permits for power projects, the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources said in a...

Three synthetic fiber manufacturers - PT Teijin Indonesia Fiber Corp., PT Indonesia Toray Synthetic and PT Sulindafin - have invested Rp 72 billion (US$7.13 million) on new machinery to cut costs and boost competition.

DENPASAR: Australians dominated the flow of foreign tourists to Bali during the seven-month period of January-July 2009, a tourism official said."Their number in the period was 225,170, an increase of 36.

Pekalongan, C Java (ANTARA News) - Local sarong manufacturing company PT Pisma Putra Tekstil Pekalongan is exporting 70 percent of its production and has therefore difficulty meeting increased domestic demand, a spokesman said.

Wood processors are urging Indonesia's government to speed up the replanting of deforested land into sustainable timber plantations to help secure a more constant supply of timber.The Indonesian Pulp and Paper Association (APKI) and the Association of Indonesian Wood Panel Producers (Apkindo) on...