TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:The head of the Electronic Entrepreneurs Association, Ali Soebroto Oentaryo, said that in general, the strengthening of the rupiah, tend to disrupt electronic goods sales. It creates a dilemma for electronic dealers because consumer wants prices to drop, but the suppliers refuse to do it. “The consumers want prices to drop because they notice that the dollar has weakened,” said Ali last week.

TEMPO Interactive, Tokyo:Indonesia is still considering participating in the Asia-Pacific free trade agreement. “We think we are not ready yet because the agreement is very hard for the local industry,” Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu after attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference (APEC) in Yokohama, Japan, with Vice President Boediono yesterday.

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Transmitting messages to the general public via the mass media is unquestionably one of most effective measures available to policy makers. It is even more pertinent for a country such as Indonesia, which has been a fully fledged democracy since the end of the previous century. By doing so, policy makers can convey their messages and gather feedback from the public. Putting it into more conceptual language, it is a thesis-antithesis-synthesis process toward producing better policies.

Long regarded by many as one of the least profitable industries, the agricultural industry has been attracting greater attention from the global business community in recent days. This is good news for countries such as Indonesia, where most of the population still makes a living in the agricultural sector and there are still large tracts of land that can be developed into farmland. Agricultural commodities were among the first to recover from the impacts of the global financial meltdown.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian economy is projected to grow at a 6.8-7.8 percent pace in 2015 with the inflation rate tending to decline and fundamental factors continuing to improve, Bank Indonesia said.

Tokyo (ANTARA News) - Indonesia is still undecided about joining negotiations for an expanded trans-Pacific free trade pact on the grounds it still has to prepare a lot of things before making up its mind. "We cannot join the negotiations all at once. We need an agreement from other countries because we have not been invited but have to apply for (the membership of the forum)," Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said in a press conference here on Sunday evening.