Bogor, West Java (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Indonesia had adopted the decentralization or regional autonomy concept in order to optimize development in each and every region as mandated by the reform movement. "But although we have adopted decentralization, we remain a unitary state and the President is the head of the government," Yudhoyono said when opening the 3rd National Working Meeting at the Bogor Palace on Thursday.

London (ANTARA News) - Italy is the third biggest European investor country in Indonesia after Britain and the Netherlands with an investment value of US$4.05 million in the first quarter of this year, a diplomat said.

Ternate, N Maluku (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has thrown his weight behind the North Maluku provincial government`s wish to turn Morotai Island into a special economic zone. Addressing a ceremony marking the relocation of North Maluku`s provincial capital from Ternate to Sofifi, the president asked the relevant parties to draw up a master plan for the development of the island into a new economic center.