Urip Hudiono, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Here's a statistic that might surprise anyone who has spent more than five minutes in Jakarta's malls: Only a quarter of Indonesia's 220 million people have a cellular phone or access to a cell phone service.

State gas company PT PGN has blamed a six-month delay in the opening of a key US$1.1 billion pipeline -- which sent its shares tumbling by 23 percent last week -- on management and technical problems. The pipeline will span a total of 1,106 kilometers and link South Sumatra and West Java, and have...

Bank Indonesia says foreign nationals will only be allowed to work as top-level executives at foreign-owned banks in the country. The central bank's deputy governor for banking affairs, Muliaman D Hadad, also said they hoped to accelerate the "transfer of knowledge" at these banks.