JAKARTA, Feb 16 - Indonesia plans to order its nearly four million civil servants to use local products ranging from footwear to heavy machinery to help the economy weather the global financial crisis, officials said...
JAKARTA, Feb 9 - Indonesia expects crude palm oil output to rise about 5 percent to 19.7 million tonnes this year, against 18.7 million tonnes in 2008, Achmad Mangga Barani, director general of planations at...
JAKARTA, Feb 5 - Indonesia has appointed Karen Agustiawan as the new president director of state oil firm Pertamina, State Enterprises Minister Sofyan Djalil said on Thursday. Agustiawan is currently Pertamina's upstream director....
JAKARTA, Jan 21 - Indonesia is considering extending the maturity of its first retail Islamic-compliant bonds to five years from originally planned three years, a finance ministry official said on Wednesday. The government is currently...
JAKARTA, Jan 19 - Indonesia plans to start physical trade in crude palm oil (CPO) via an exchange in the second half of 2009, a move that will give the world's top producer its own...
JAKARTA, Dec 31 - The Indonesia government may announce more fiscal plans on Wednesday to help Southeast Asia's biggest economy withstand the global economic slump. Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati is due to hold a...
South Asia's largest economy, Indonesia has delayed the signing of a trade agreement with New Zealand and Australia which was supposed to be signed in the current month to March, next year. The deal is under aegis of the FTA signed between ASEAN and the two South Pacific Ocean countries.
JAKARTA, Dec 24 - Indonesia will borrow 142 billion yen ($1.57 billion) from Japan to pay for a commuter train project in the capital Jakarta in order to reduce congestion, an official at the economics...
Dec. 23, 2008 (China Knowledge) - Indonesia and China clinched a preliminary agreement to allow Southeast Asian countries to borrow US$1 billion to buy China-made products, sources reported, citing Indonesia's Vice President Jusuf Kalla.The China...
JAKARTA, Dec 22 - Indonesia will evaluate existing mining contracts to see whether they need adjusting particularly on royalties and the size of mining areas after the passage of a new mining law, the energy...