TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:Food and beverage businessmen have suggested that the port of Dumai no longer be used as the entry point for food and beverage imports. “Based on information from the excise office, very little food and beverage imports come through Dumai,” said Franky Sibarani, the Indonesian Food and Beverage Businessmen Association Secretary General, yesterday.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Three foreign investors look set to build cocoa-processing plants in West Sulawesi province next year with a combined production capacity of 90,000 tons per month, a spokesman said. The three were Geogchoubou Group Company (CGGC) of China, Barry Callebaut of the Netherlands, and International Container Group of the Philippines, Harry Warganegara, chief of the West Sulawesi chapter of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), said on Friday.

Bantaeng, South Sulawesi (ANTARA News) - After noticing potential seaweed in Bantaeng, South Sulawesi, when accompanying Indonesian ambassador to Russia Hamid Awaluddin on September 28, investors of the National Investment Agency of Moscow immediately started building an industry. The wish to quicken the building of a seaweed industry in the regency 120 kilometers south of Makassar, was proven by a second visit Friday.

Banda Aceh, Aceh (ANTARA News) - Foreign investors hope that Aceh would provide legal certainty for investment in the province regardless of the fact that Aceh has recovered from regional conflict and the aftermath of the December 26, 2004 tsunami. US Consul General in Medan (North Sumatra) Stanly Harsha, said here on Saturday that Aceh needed legal certainty and better implementation of the Islamic sharia to attract international investment.

Banda Aceh, Aceh (ANTARA News) - Business circles expressed hope that the Aceh Business Summit organized by the regional government would lead to concrete actions. "We hope our meeting would not be a mare ceremonial event but must give birth to a concrete action by the government to invite investors into Aceh," Fakhrizal Murphy, a businessman who attended the event, said.