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Indonesia to offer infrastructure projects worth $5 billionAditya Suharmoko , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Wed, 02/17/2010 1:14 PM | Business
Indonesia
will host an Asia-Pacific ministerial conference from Apr. 14 to
Apr.17, offering infrastructure projects worth at least US$5
billion, officials say.
RI to hold int'l Muslim conference on climate changeAntara , Jakarta | Tue, 01/26/2010 9:38 PM | National Indonesia is scheduled to hold an international Muslim conference on climate change in Bogor, West Java, from March 1 to March 2, 2010. Head of the conference's steering committee Ismid Hadad told a press conference in Jakarta on Tuesday that the Muslim conference would be a continuation of the declaration of the Muslim Seven-Year Action Plan for Climate Change concluded in Istanbul, Turkey, in June last year. Ismid, who is also the chairman of the patronage council of Kehati Foundation, said there would be three items to be discussed at the conference, including climate change issue and what Muslims can do, Antara news agency reported. The second item will be the plan to establish a Muslim Association for Climate Change Action (Macca), which is expected to become an umbrella organization for the implementation of the action plans in various Muslim countries around the world. The third item will be the declaration of four cities in the Muslim countries as green cities or “Al Khaer City”, which will also include Bogor. The other three will be Madinah (Arab Saudi), Salleh (Morocco) and Sanaa (Yemen). Up to 150 environmental experts, scientists and elemas have been invited to the conference from 30 Muslim countries including the United Arab Emirates, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, African countries, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait and Egypt.
Indonesia the world’s largest fish producer in 2015: MinisterAndi Hajramurni , The Jakarta Post , Makassar, South Sulawesi | Wed, 12/09/2009 10:03 PM | Business
The government
has increased measures to meet its target of catapulting the country
to the top fish producer in the world in the coming six years.
Food project to attract big investmentNani Afrida , The Jakarta Post , Nusa Dua, Bali | Thu, 12/03/2009 9:56 AM | Business A planned large-scale commercial farming or food estate project in Merauke, Papua, is expected to trigger fresh investment of up to Rp 50 trillion (about US$5.3 billion) in the area in the next five years. However, Agriculture Deputy Minister Bayu Krisnamurti said on Wednesday that they would have to build basic and supporting infrastructure first before it could actually attract investors. “We have to build public infrastructure first to attract investors,” Bayu told reporters after the opening ceremony of Indonesia Palm Oil Conference (IPOC) in Nusa Dua. According to Bayu the government has estimated that between Rp 2.5 and Rp 3 trillion is needed to build the required supporting infrastructure in Merauke. “We have tried to find some funds for the food estate project,” he said, adding that the government was also seeking cooperation with international donors such as the ADB. Several giant companies including Medco, Artha Graha and Sinar Mas have also expressed interest in investing in the Merauke project. “This is a big project. We expect that after the basic infrastructure is ready, investors will come to the area and build more facilities, including ports,” Bayu said. Commercial food estates are actually rare in Indonesia, as crops such as rice, corn and soybeans are usually grown by small scale farmers on plots of two hectares or under. The government plans to open up an initial 27,000 hectares of plantation in Merauke. “We start with 27,000 hectares as the first step. The land will be expanded up to 500,000 hectares out of the available 900,000 hectares of potentially usable land in the area,” Bayu said, adding that government would start the project next year.
President targets economy to grow 7 pct in 2014Saturday, October 24, 2009 03:40 WIB | Economic & Business | | Viewed 418 time(s)
Jakarta (ANTARA
News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has targeted the domestic
economy to grow by seven percent at the end of his second five-year
term in office.
Exports continue to rise: BPSAditya Suharmoko , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Tue, 09/01/2009 4:41 PM | Business
Exports reached
US$9.65 billion in July, a 2.85 percent increase from the previous
month, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) announced Tuesday.
Scientists to discuss renewable energyErwida Maulia , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Tue, 06/02/2009 1:59 PM | Business About 180 scientists from over 20 countries will gather in Jakarta next week to present their latest inventions on renewable energy. They will attend the International Workshop on Advanced Material for New and Renewable Energy (AMNRE) from June 9 to 11, organized jointly by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and the ASEAN Sub Committee on Material Science and Technology and the Sub Committee on Non-Conventional Energy Research. Scientists having confirmed their attendance include those from 10 ASEAN countries, Japan, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Egypt, the Netherlands, France and the UK. Chairman of the AMNRE workshop steering committee, Masbah Rotuante Tagore Siregar of LIPI, said on Monday that the event was aimed at exchanging ideas on advanced materials for renewable energy among country participants. "This will be a crucial contribution to the finding of solutions for energy problems as well as for climate change and global warming issues," said Masbah, also Indonesian representative to the ASEAN Sub Committee on Material Science and Technology. "Research and development are global activities requiring networking among countries across the globe. The AMNRE workshop is I think the right event to gather *the results* of research in ASEAN and to obtain information from developed nations like the Netherlands, France and Japan," he added. Masbah said the development of new and renewable energy would not merely focus on producing energy itself, but also on producing "zero-pollution" new energy. He said LIPI had been tasked with developing alternative energy as well as advanced materials by the State Ministry for National Development Planning. Another LIPI scientist, Bambang Prihandoko, said LIPI was currently developing - among other technologies - solar cells, fuel cells, dry lithium batteries, and hydrogen as alternative energies. He said Indonesia had great potential to slowly convert its use of fossil-based energy to solar energy, yet has only made use a very small proportion of this potential due to its inability to produce its own silicon wafers; components for solar cells that are very pricey and available only through imports. Trying to catch up with industrialized countries such as Japan, Germany and the Netherlands, LIPI is also developing fuel cells, electrochemical conversion devices producing electricity from fuel. "Our goal is to reduce the price of fuel cells. Now it is one-tenth of the price in the early 2000s, but we're targeting to make it as low as one-hundredth the 2000s price." He said LIPI was trying to develop fuel cells using local materials to reduce production costs, including replacing the use of platinum for the wires of electrodes with cheaper materials like aluminum. Bambang said LIPI was set to launch a fuel cell vehicle prototype this year.
Tourist arrival up by 1.35 percentThe Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sat, 06/13/2009 6:26 PM | Business
While the tourism
industry slumps in the rest of Asia, Indonesia recorded a 1.35
percent increase in the number of foreign tourist arrivals between
January and April of this year, an official said Saturday.
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