JAKARTA, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian government plans to form a state-owned animal husbandry company to help achieve beef self-sufficient, detikcom online news quoted a minister as saying on Tuesday. "A state-owned animal husbandry company is very important in the future. This is for beef self-sufficient (purpose)," said Agriculture Minister Suswono. Suswono said that the company will deal productive cows development and calf procurement for consumption cow.

VIVAnews - The Indonesian government is alleged of issuing permit to oil palm companies having no concerns over the environment. Coordinating Minister for the Economy Hatta Rajasa insisted that the government has never granted any permit to companies which destroy the economy. "We'll invite surveyors or consultans [to make an evaluation over the suspicion]," he said today, September 8. The government, he said, refuses to be treated unfairly.

Indonesia’s efforts to modernize its infrastructure have lagged India’s slow-but-steady improvements, though Jakarta’s progress could be fast-tracked in the eyes of foreign investors with passage of a politically complicated land-acquisition bill.

Jakarta. The government plans to expand a tax incentives program for foreign investors to include additional downstream and “pioneering” sectors, as well as offer sweeteners for companies that invest more than $1 billion and create a certain number of jobs, the country’s investment chief said late on Monday.

A consortium comprising Tata Power, Origin Energy and Supraco Indonesia has won the bid for the Sorik Marapi geothermal project in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The Sorik Marapi project will include the development of about 240MW of geothermal generation capacity. The project will be developed by Sorik Marapi Geothermal Power (SMGP), a special purpose vehicle formed by the consortium.