Tuesday September 05, 2006 The Bali branch of the National Movement for the Rehabilitation of Jungles and Pastures (Gerhan) hopes that a recently allocated government fund of Rp. 12 billion (approximately US$1.3 million) can be used to restore some of Bali's jungle and natural pasturelands, reports balidiscovery.com. Members of Commission IV of the People's Consultative Assembly (DPR), Made Urip and Gde Sumarjaya Lingg...read detail
Tuesday September 05, 2006 Four births in a species usually is no reason for celebration, except when that animal is teetering on the brink of extinction, reports the Jakarta Post. World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) and biologists announced Friday they found indications of the birth of four Javan rhinos in the
Ujung
Kulon
National Park , Banten, raising hopes for the survival of what many consider the rares...read detail
Tuesday September 05, 2006 The National Statistics Bureau informed that total number of domestic air passengers in July improved by a hefty 13.5% to 2.75 million passengers compared to June’s 2.42 million. Top increase was at
Bali ’s Ngurah Rai airport, up by 23.7%, followed by
Makassar by 18.8%, and
Jakarta ’s Soekarno-Hatta airport by 17.2%.
Jakarta ’s international airport handled ...read detail
Tuesday September 05, 2006 In the State Address on 16 August, President Yudhoyono mentioned, that: “We have succeeded to reduce the level of poverty from 23.4 percent in 1999 to 16 percent in 2005”. This statement was harshly criticized by a number of Indonesia’s leading economists, who accused the government of providing misinformation to the public. Some of them calculated that after the...read detail
Wednesday August 30, 2006 The week prior to and after Indonesia’s National Day on 17 August, the mass media was most preoccupied with the question of Indonesia’s State Ideology. With Indonesia’s economy still not quite out of the doldrums, and the country having experienced enormous natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis that had destroyed hundreds of lives, property and livelihoods of thousands ...read detail
Saturday August 26, 2006 Failed Bali Carrier Reported to Have Sold 49% of its Shares to an Unnamed Australian Carrier.
(8/26/2006) The Indonesian-language Bisnis Indonesia reports that Air Paradise International (API) has sold 49% of its shares to a yet-to-be-named Australian airline.The Director of Civil Aviation at the Indonesian Department of Transportation, Santoso Edi Wibowo, told the press that the final composit...read detail
Saturday August 26, 2006 Bali's Coral Reef Under Threat
Only 8.74% of Bali's Surrounding Reef Considered in Excellent Condition.
(8/26/2006) Bali's natural beauty is under threat, both above and below sea level.According to page-one report in the Indonesian language Bali Post, 23/19% of Bali's natural reef has been destroyed.According to the report, of an estimated 61.13 square kilometers of remaining natural reef s...read detail
Friday August 25, 2006 The United States and 10 Southeast Asian nations signed a trade and investment arrangement on Friday (25/8/06) that opens the door to possible free-trade talks, reports Indonesia’s Trade and Investment News published by the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy. US Trade Representative Susan Schwab signed the Trade and Investment Framework Arrangement in Malaysia with the 10 member stat...read detail
Monday August 21, 2006 Days after President Yudhoyono gave his State Address and Financial Note for 2007 before Parliament, a number of economists questioned data used by the President in his Address. These economists are among others, Fadhil Hassan, Iman Sugema, Aviliani, Dradjad wibowo, Hendre Saparini and Ichsanuddin Noorsy. While they underlined that their criticism on data presented was not because they questi...read detail
Monday August 21, 2006 ’s 61st year of
Independence
was celebrated throughout the country with widespread public participation and enthusiasm. As required, the official commemoration of the Declaration of Independence was held at the Merdeka Palace in Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta with the hoisting of the copy-original of the first Indonesian red-and-white flag (the original being already too fragile to...read detail
Monday August 21, 2006 The much toted rumour that Tourism would become one of the government’s priority areas for development in 2007, in tandem with agriculture and marine production development, did not materialize. In his National Day address, the President did not even mention once the word “Tourism”. Nevertheless, not taken aback, on the eve of National day, groups of tourism industry compone...read detail
Monday August 21, 2006 All who heard, - both supporters and critics alike, - had to agree that President Yudhoyono gave an impressive State Address to the Plenary Session of Parliament on 16 August, on the eve of Indonesia’s Independence Day. Delivered in a most convincing manner, the President’s 94 minutes’ speech was punctuated by almost incessant applause from the floor. Earlier, members of the...read detail
Monday August 14, 2006 On Friday, 11 August, the UN Security Council finally succeeded to unanimously agree on, and issue Resolution No. 1701 on a permanent Cease fire between and . Accepted by all 15 members of the Security Council, the Resolution was proposed by France and the United States. In the original text of Resolution 1701 as published in the Jerusalem Post, the UN considers that the situation in Lebanon ...read detail
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Efforts Underway To Reforest Some Of Bali's Vanishing Forests.
