Indonesian Political, Business & Finance News

Archive: 5 December 2010

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Indonesia's palm oil tax at comfortable levels: SMART

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia's export tax on palm oil products remains at comfortable levels but any steps by the government to change the structure needs to equally benefit planters and refiners, a top planter said late on Thursday. Palm oil giant SMART TBK said the government's plan to review the export taxes, currently at their highest this year at 15 percent, in December, needs to consider small farmers who do not have similar economies of scale as big planters.

Indonesia to make small aircraft to connect regions

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia plans to produce the prototype of a small capacity aircraft for air travel to and from regions inaccessible by land in 2013.

Talks of investing in Indonesia island yet to happen: envoy

TAIPEI -- Recently improved relations between Taiwan and China have enhanced Taiwan's trade ties with Indonesia, but no formal talks have been launched on the possibility of Taiwan investing in an Indonesian island, said Andrew Hsia, Taiwan's top envoy to Indonesia, last week.