Source: The Jakarta Post
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Borobudur festival
Borobudur festival: Local artists perform a horse dance during the Borobudur Community Festival at Klipoh field in Karanganyar village near the world’s biggest temple in Magelang, Central Java. The event on Saturday was jointly organized by the Nahdlatul Ulama’s Muslim Cultural Institute, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Borobudur management. – Antara/Hari Atmoko
Friday, July 2, 2010
Cultural parade
Cultural parade; Participants of an old bicyble club are ready to get engaged in a carnaval in the framework of commemorating the city`s anniversary of Medan in one of the main road in that city, North Sumatra (July 1). Many participants from 21 sub-districts joined the 420th anniversary of the city. (Antara/Septianda Perdana)
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
RI still has potential to attract investors
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia still has a good chance of attracting foreign investors as world trade has been improving.
Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) for investment, transportation, information and telecommunication Chris Kanter said in Jakarta Monday that actually Indonesia has some special features which attracted foreign investors.
"World trade would soon be restored, and the Asian region may rise quicker, and Indonesia will have the positive utility of economic restoration. In the restoration process and afterward Indonesia would become increasingly interesting to foreign investors," he said.
He said that some of the pluses Indonesia has include in attracting foreign investment include the large population, the readily available work force and productivity would could still be further raised, the availability raw materials, political stability and the still wide space for market mechanism application.
Besides, he added, costs not having directly to do with economic activities have been increasing, in other words a good corporate governance is already in existence.
Direct foreign investment to the developing countries especially to Indonesia, he said, may be restored in the 2010-2014 period.
However, in the competition of direct foreign investment, Chris Kanter said, the developing countries need to be improve themselves.
In the meantime, the independent commissioner of PT Indosat Tbk also suggested to strengthen the domestic market, produce a conducive climate for investment and improve infrastructure to reduce fixed production cost.
To boost domestic investment, Chris reminded the government to give concrete support.
Several stimuli like tax and custom duty reforms, policy and implementation synchronization, and improvements in manpower and infrastructure sector, are all considered the `sugar` which the government needs to provide. (*)
Source: Antara News
Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) for investment, transportation, information and telecommunication Chris Kanter said in Jakarta Monday that actually Indonesia has some special features which attracted foreign investors.
"World trade would soon be restored, and the Asian region may rise quicker, and Indonesia will have the positive utility of economic restoration. In the restoration process and afterward Indonesia would become increasingly interesting to foreign investors," he said.
He said that some of the pluses Indonesia has include in attracting foreign investment include the large population, the readily available work force and productivity would could still be further raised, the availability raw materials, political stability and the still wide space for market mechanism application.
Besides, he added, costs not having directly to do with economic activities have been increasing, in other words a good corporate governance is already in existence.
Direct foreign investment to the developing countries especially to Indonesia, he said, may be restored in the 2010-2014 period.
However, in the competition of direct foreign investment, Chris Kanter said, the developing countries need to be improve themselves.
In the meantime, the independent commissioner of PT Indosat Tbk also suggested to strengthen the domestic market, produce a conducive climate for investment and improve infrastructure to reduce fixed production cost.
To boost domestic investment, Chris reminded the government to give concrete support.
Several stimuli like tax and custom duty reforms, policy and implementation synchronization, and improvements in manpower and infrastructure sector, are all considered the `sugar` which the government needs to provide. (*)
Source: Antara News
RI again to compete in four international olympics
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia will again send SMA (senor secondary school) students to the international science olympics for physics, mathematics, biology, and chemistry in July 2010.
The teams on Monday were received by National Education Minister Mohammad Nuh at his office in Jakarta Monday in the company of SMA Development Director Sungkowo.
The minister said the ministry made a significant jump in preparing new doctors. "In the next five years there must be a significant jump in the production of potential young doctors," he said when receiving the Olympic team.
Starting in 2010, the minister said, the government provides Rp 1 trillion in scholarships until S3 level. Each year he said some 1000 to 3000 scholarships would be issued.
He said right now there are 23 thousand of the 270 thousand lecturers in the universities. The total is less than 10 percent of the total number of lecturers. "We must be able to prepare foreign scholarships for 400-500 seats and scholarships for 1,500 domestic seats," he said.(*)
Source: Antara News
The teams on Monday were received by National Education Minister Mohammad Nuh at his office in Jakarta Monday in the company of SMA Development Director Sungkowo.
The minister said the ministry made a significant jump in preparing new doctors. "In the next five years there must be a significant jump in the production of potential young doctors," he said when receiving the Olympic team.
Starting in 2010, the minister said, the government provides Rp 1 trillion in scholarships until S3 level. Each year he said some 1000 to 3000 scholarships would be issued.
He said right now there are 23 thousand of the 270 thousand lecturers in the universities. The total is less than 10 percent of the total number of lecturers. "We must be able to prepare foreign scholarships for 400-500 seats and scholarships for 1,500 domestic seats," he said.(*)
Source: Antara News
Indonesia Still Open to Illegal Foreign Fishing Boats
MEDAN, KOMPAS.com - The North Sumatra Fishermen’s Association executive board has asked sea security personnel to put in order and control the activities of foreign fishing boats still illegally operating in North Sumatra’s territorial sea.
"The operation of the foreign fishing boats are causing a loss to the traditional fishermen, because their catch had been declining," Secretary of the All Indonesia Fishermen’s Associations Central Executive Board Ihya Ulumuddin said in Medan Monday.
He said that ordinarily, the catch of the small fishermen was quite good, reaching 60 to 80 kilograms, but following the illegal operation of the foreign fishermen their catch reached only 30 to 40 kilograms.
"The problem is that most of the fishing areas of the local fishermen had already been controlled by the foreign fishermen with their sophisticated fishing gear," Ulumuddin said.
He said according to reports of the local smaller fishermen from Batubara Regency in the North Sumatra’s western coast, they often found the foreign fishermen illegally fishing in the sea. And, he added that two Malaysian fishing boats had been caught by the police while illegally fishing near Pandan Island waters in Batubara regency, North Sumatra.
The police has arrested 8 crew members of Thai nationality, in addition to several tons of fish catch as evidence, and the ship’s captain was a Malaysian. The foreign fishing boat is currently at Belawan port and still being legally processed by the North Sumatra water police authorities.
Source: Kompas.com
"The operation of the foreign fishing boats are causing a loss to the traditional fishermen, because their catch had been declining," Secretary of the All Indonesia Fishermen’s Associations Central Executive Board Ihya Ulumuddin said in Medan Monday.He said that ordinarily, the catch of the small fishermen was quite good, reaching 60 to 80 kilograms, but following the illegal operation of the foreign fishermen their catch reached only 30 to 40 kilograms.
"The problem is that most of the fishing areas of the local fishermen had already been controlled by the foreign fishermen with their sophisticated fishing gear," Ulumuddin said.
He said according to reports of the local smaller fishermen from Batubara Regency in the North Sumatra’s western coast, they often found the foreign fishermen illegally fishing in the sea. And, he added that two Malaysian fishing boats had been caught by the police while illegally fishing near Pandan Island waters in Batubara regency, North Sumatra.
The police has arrested 8 crew members of Thai nationality, in addition to several tons of fish catch as evidence, and the ship’s captain was a Malaysian. The foreign fishing boat is currently at Belawan port and still being legally processed by the North Sumatra water police authorities.
Source: Kompas.com
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Chinese investors eyeing West Kalimantan-Sarawak border region
Pontianak, W Kalimantan (ANTARA News) - A number of investors, including Chinese, were interested in building the West Kalimantan and Sarawak border region where they planned to build their businesses.
"They needed 20 thousand hectares of land," West Kalimantan Governor Cornelis said in Pontianak Friday.
He said that wages in China had been increasing and West Kalimantan is practically free of earthquakes.
West Kalimantan is also strategically located as it is in Indonesia`s sea lanes and bordering with Sarawak. But investors need to be given easy access to licensing, and need adequate infrastructure.
Cornelis also admitted West Kalimantan is still facing limited infrastructure, such as electricity, roads, and ports. And the province is still depended considerably on other areas, although it is a palm oil producer.
Since the province has no special port, West Kalimantan became dependent on Malaysia, Cornelis said. (*)
Source: Antara News
"They needed 20 thousand hectares of land," West Kalimantan Governor Cornelis said in Pontianak Friday.He said that wages in China had been increasing and West Kalimantan is practically free of earthquakes.
West Kalimantan is also strategically located as it is in Indonesia`s sea lanes and bordering with Sarawak. But investors need to be given easy access to licensing, and need adequate infrastructure.
Cornelis also admitted West Kalimantan is still facing limited infrastructure, such as electricity, roads, and ports. And the province is still depended considerably on other areas, although it is a palm oil producer.
Since the province has no special port, West Kalimantan became dependent on Malaysia, Cornelis said. (*)
Source: Antara News
Fish exports reach 621,800 US dollars
Padang, W Sumatra (ANTARA News) - Indonesia`s fish exports in the first quarter of 2010 reached 621,800 dollars.
"Compared with last year`s first quarter, this year`s exports increased 7.72 percent or 44,570 dollars, Minister for Marine and Fishery Resources Fadel Muhammad said in Padang, Friday.
He added that Indonesia`s marine and fishery resources in the first quarter of this year had increased 15.27 percent compared to last year`s corresponding period.
The increase by 31 thousand tons from 203.44 thousand to 234.51 thousand tons came from non-tuna fish products.
"All in all, the balance of fish products still reached a surplus," he said. (*)
Source: Antara News
"Compared with last year`s first quarter, this year`s exports increased 7.72 percent or 44,570 dollars, Minister for Marine and Fishery Resources Fadel Muhammad said in Padang, Friday.He added that Indonesia`s marine and fishery resources in the first quarter of this year had increased 15.27 percent compared to last year`s corresponding period.
The increase by 31 thousand tons from 203.44 thousand to 234.51 thousand tons came from non-tuna fish products.
"All in all, the balance of fish products still reached a surplus," he said. (*)
Source: Antara News
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