Monday August 14, 2006 The National Planning Board (Bappenas) has released information that the Government has specified nine priority areas in its 2007 work plan, which are expected to absorb near to Rp. 173 trillion of total budget for the year, or 75.12% of expected total 2007 Budget Allocation, reports Bisnis Indonesia. The nine priority areas for development and their expected outlays (in Rp. Trillions) ...read detail
Monday August 14, 2006 Indonesia’s per capita income has topped $1,500, said the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) on 2 August, thus technically lifting the country to lower-middle income status, reports Indonesia’s Trade and Investment News. Agency Head Rusman Heriawan told reporters that the figure marked a considerable improvement ( or two and a half times increase) over the depth of the financial cris...read detail
Monday August 14, 2006 Several weeks ago, in an off-the-cuff remark widely publicized in the international media, Vice President Jusuf Kalla joked that should not be disturbed if many
Middle East tourists go into “instant marriages” in , if that shoud improve genes. Women activist groups, especially, were appalled, and the next day, VP Jusuf Kalla publicly apologized if his joke had offended some p...read detail
Monday August 14, 2006 The National Bureau for Statistics informed that total international tourist arrivals through ’s 13 main gateways from January to June 2006 was down (-)7.54% compared to the same period last year. Arrivals to
Bali dropped by (-) 19.1%, direct arrivals to
Lombok declined by (-) 13.58%; To Tanjung Pinang down by (-) 12.31%, and to Batam down by (-) 9.07%. On the other hand, ...read detail
Monday August 14, 2006 With the islands of Batam, Bintan and Karimun now designated Special Economic Zones, many more governors are urging that the national government appoint similar areas in their respective provinces. In response, the national government, in a preliminary move, has stipulated nine requirements that must be met by Regions as qualification before SEZ can be designated in their province, these are:...read detail
Monday August 14, 2006 Ubud Readers & Writers Festival Releases More Details on Exciting List of Speakers and Events - September 30 – October 3, 2006.
The Ubud Readers & Writers Festival returns September 30 – October 3, 2006 promising once again to fill Ubud hillside arts community with the creative vibrations of talented writers and their appreciat...read detail
Sunday August 13, 2006 Bali by the Numbers: July Arrivals Show Month-by-Month Improvements But Suggest the Path to Full Recovery will be Long.Overall Monthly Arrivals to BaliDirect foreign arrivals to Bali for July 2006 totaled 121,988 - an +11.25% percent increase over the previous month although lagging a dramatic -23.01% behind July 2005's record setting arrivals (158,453).As graphically presented on balidiscovery.co...read detail
Saturday August 12, 2006 Colorful Warning Signs in Indonesian Posted on Major Swimming Beaches in Bali.As part of a tsunami awareness program now underway, the government is providing public information pamphlets and erecting large signs on major beaches in Bali, as shown on balidiscovery.com.Somewhat surprisingly presented only in Indonesian, the signs warn:• If you feel a strong movement of the earth, please leave ...read detail
Saturday August 12, 2006 Chief of Police Soenarko Mobilizes Special Police Assigned to Village Level Community Policing.
Among the 11,467 officers active duty police officers assigned to serve and protect the people of Bali number 695 members of the special community liaison officers in the Community Safety and Public Order Development Force (Babinkamtibmas).
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Monday August 07, 2006 Sanur Community Sets Three Days of Family Fun Activities. The Sanur Village Development Foundation has announced a three-day long Sanur Village Festival to take place August 25-27,2006.Activities will be held in three main areas: a) Along the entire length of Sanur Beach covering the area marked by Jalan Segara Ayu to the north and Jalan Pantai Sindhu to the south; b) the ijumpi stage facing ...read detail
Sunday August 06, 2006 On 3 August, the Department for Culture and Tourism launched the joint ASEAN campaign in to Combat Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) in Tourist Destinations. This forms part of Indonesia’s commitment in ASEAN to jointly fight the crime regionally and in individual countries. In fact, since 2002 already has in place a number of legal instruments to combat this growing internat...read detail
Monday July 31, 2006 Indonesia is due to hold an infrastructure conference and exhibition in November in an effort to drum up private sector investment in infrastructure, reports Indonesia’s Trade and Investment News published by the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy.
Titled “Indonesia Infrastructure 2006”, the conference will be held on November 1-3, and will include a two-day foru...read detail
Monday July 31, 2006 Thirty of the 53 Indonesian orangutans recently confiscated by the government of will soon be released in their new habitat in
Central Kalimantan
and
Sumatra
, to increase the present population of these primates, said Director General for Nature Conservation at the Department of Forestry, Arman Malolongan. In the past decade, ’s orangutan population had decreased drastically, from 3...read detail
Monday July 31, 2006 Responding to criticisms that the government had been slow in warning local inhabitants of the impending tsunami along the south coast of Java, Vice President Jusuf Kalla, Chairman of the National Coordinating Body for Natural Disasters, has called on related Ministers to urgently work towards the completion of the tsunami warning system to be accelerated to 2008 at the latest, and that threatened...read detail
Monday July 31, 2006 When President Yudhoyono met evacuees of the recent tsunami in Pangandaran, West Java, he promised that not only will the government restore West Java’ s most popular beach resort to its former popularity, but the president was determined to build Pangandaran into a much better resort.
In a follow up action, Minister for Culture and Tourism, Jero Wacik, explained how P...read detail
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Nine Priority Development Areas In Cabinet’s 2007 Work Plan
