TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The Energy and Mineral Department has unveiled today a new directorate which will in charge on the new field of energy which had not received the size of emphasize before, the renewables. In its official website the energy department introduces the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Directorate General, a level which the oil and gas have long has its own directorate established.

Jakarta. Many domestic producers of food, beverages and cosmetics have been battered by the Asean-China Trade Agreement and are choosing to import products and sell them rather than produce them, the Indonesian Employers’ Association (Apindo) says. Association chairman Sofyan Wanandi said on Monday a flood of cheap imported products and rising manufacturing costs, especially for electricity, had hurt manufacturers.