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Archive: 4 April 2010

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Indonesian Film Industry Association Opposes Plan to Open Investment to Foreign Players

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">“The quality [of local duplication] is good. Some 98 percent of our films are duplicated here,” he said.

Indonesian Film Industry Association Opposes Plan to Open Investment to Foreign Players

A film industry body has come out against the government’s plan to open up the sector to foreign investment, saying liberalization would undermine the interests of local players.<br /><br />The film sector is one of several reportedly being opened up to foreign investment through the...

Indonesia's Sweet Decades

Foreign investors are usually either over-optimistic or wildly pessimistic about Indonesia. Before 1997 they were piling in without a qualm. Then in the wake of the Asian crisis they convinced themselves that it was close to being a failed state.

Bali Demands a Share of the Lucrative Revenues Generated from Visas on Arrival

(4/3/2010) Beritabali.com says that the provincial government of Bali is demanding a share of the income the national government collects through the sale of visa-on-arrivals purchased at the island's Ngurah Rai International Airport.

China promises to increase imports from Indonesia

Yogyakarta (ANTARA News) - China has pledged to encourage its private companies to increase imports from Indonesia to create growth in trade between the two countries.<br /><br />"To maintain trade growth we will keep pushing businessmen to increase imports from Indonesia...

Indonesia, China agree to strengthen partnership

Yogyakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia and China agreed on steps to strengthen the strategic partnership agreement the two countries signed in April 2005.<br /><br />Indonesia`s minister of trade Mari Elka Pangestu and her Chinese counterpart Chen Deming signed "Agreed Minutes of...

Indonesia, China to implement ACFTA as scheduled

Yogyakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia and China have agreed to implement the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) as scheduled and not to postpone its application to 228 tariff posts as requested by Indonesian entrepreneurs.

Four investors ready to enter Aceh

Banda Aceh (ANTARA News) - Four investors have been confirmed to invest in Aceh in 2010, according to the head of Aceh Promotion and Investment Agency, Anwar Muhammad, here on Saturday.<br /><br />"Two of the four investors are from abroad and they will cooperate with local...

Yogyakarta`s exports to China increasing

Yogyakarta (ANTARA News) - Yogyakarta`s exports to China and other countries grouped in the free trade area agreement have been increasing from year to year, a regional trade official said.<br /><br />"In the last several years, Yoyakarta`s exports to countries which had joined...