American Business Community Support for Entrepreneurs in BaliBalidiscovery.com met Peter Meyer, a Governor of AmCham Indonesia – the American Chamber of Commerce - for a quick interview regarding the Regional Entrepreneurship Summit (RES) held in Nusa Dua in July 2011.

From: The Jakarta GlobeBy:Muhamad Al Azhari Arutmin Indonesia, a subsidiary of coal miner Bumi Resources, and Japanese steel manufacturer Kobe Steel are jointly constructing a smelter that will transform brown coal into higher-quality coal.“Low-rank coal is in abundance in Indonesia.

By:Niluksi Koswanage Indonesia, the world’s largest palm oil producer and exporter, could lower the maximum export tax rate by this month, a small concession by Jakarta to a powerful industry lobby that says the duty structure hurts trade.

From: The Jakarta GlobeBy :Ririn Radiawati Kusuma The government listed for sale on Monday nine resource blocks in Kalimantan, including eight with coal-bed methane gas, in the latest effort by the country to boost development of alternative energy.

Malaysia plans green palm oil certification scheme- paper(Reuters) - Malaysia, the word's No.2 palm oil producer, will come up with a certification scheme to ensure the tropical oil is grown without clearing forests and destroying wildlife, a newspaper reported on Monday.

(Reuters) - Indonesia's foreign tourist arrivals grew 9.9 percent in June to 674,400 people, the statistics bureau said on Monday.The main destinations were the resort island of Bali and capital Jakarta, it said.

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:Audits conducted by the Supreme Audit Agency and the Development and Finance Comptroller, or BPKP, have revealed massive unpaid taxes incurred by oil and gas firms. It is hoped that these findings will give the government an opportunity to resolve matters, possibly by...

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Investment in oil and gas explorations in Indonesia will increase by US$68.43 million in the next three years, the director general of oil/gas of the ministry energy and mineral resources ministry, Evita Legowo, said.