Saturday April 21, 2007
CBC News, Canada, reported that Indonesia has resumed sending samples of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus to the World Health Organization, Indonesia Health Minister said Tuesday in calling for a share of any commercial vaccines that result.A dispute over the sharing of bird flu samples in Indonesia, one of the countries worst affected by H5N1, has hampered WHO's efforts to get nations to prepare ...read detail
Saturday April 21, 2007 Bisnis Indonesia reports that Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, recently inaugurated a Museum on Volcanoes on the slope of Mt. Batur, an active volcano in the district of Bangli, Bali. Here visitors may learn how volcanoes erupt, and children may play at interactive computer games animations.
Balidiscovery.com adds that of the 129 volcanoes found in Indonesia, in the...read detail
Saturday April 21, 2007 In the past week the Indonesian islands experienced, what meteorologists call: “a weather pattern anomaly”. Normally, May would be the beginning of the dry season and the start of the grand rice harvest on land, and fish catch at sea. But not so today. Hot oppressive weather has been alternating with sudden downpours drenching most islands. These storms are punctuated by loud thunderbo...read detail
Friday April 13, 2007 Following BEDO's invitation a representative of CBI from the Netherlands www.cbi.nl and a senior expert are visiting Bali for a working session on Quality Management Systems and the development of a pilot program together with BEDO and other stakeholders.The open session is scheduled for Saturday 14th April 2pm at Bali Garden Hotel meeting room.For more information please contact Dian: 0361 790 96...read detail
Thursday April 12, 2007 Last November 2006 Indonesia took the unprecedented step of rejecting a WHO draft proposal delivered by the organization’s Dr. David Heymann, in which it was stated that countries afflicted by the H5N1 avian flu virus are obliged to submit virus specimens to WHO, yet having no rights whatsoever to these, wrote Indonesia’s Health Minister, Siti Fadilah Supari in Kompas daily of 11 April...read detail
Thursday April 12, 2007 The Department of Culture and Tourism has just completed its report on results of the recent National Coordinating meeting (Rakornas) held in Jakarta on 27-29 March 2007. Since this editor received news only at time of distribution of the Digest, we wish to inform those interested that you can log on to the Department’s website at www.budpar.go.id. The report is available in Bahasa Indonesia...read detail
Thursday April 12, 2007 The United Nations has confirmed that the 13TH UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the parent treaty of the Kyoto Protocol, will be held in Bali, Indonesia, from 3-14th December 2007 at the Bali Convention Center, Nusa Dua. The conference is expected to be attended by over 10,000 participants from 189 countries, said Indonesian Environment Minister, Rachmat Witoelar. Indeed, Climate Change,...read detail
Thursday April 12, 2007 "Change or Die" Seminar organized by Bali Export Development Organization aims to create awareness and to provide solutions for quality management systems and a growing competition in Asia, demanding change for Indonesian producers in order to remain competitive....read detail
Saturday March 31, 2007 Among a number of Bills that were passed by Parliament in Q1 of 2007 is the Bill on the Management of National Disasters. One of the major points in the Law is the formation of the National Board for National Disasters Management, which will have the position at a level with Ministries, and is directly accountable to the President, said Chairperson of Parliament’s Working Group, Aisyah Badow...read detail
Saturday March 31, 2007 Head of Bank Indonesia in Bali, Ketut Sanjaya told a recent discussion forum on Bali’s Economic growth in 2007, that the island province should not solely and continuously depend on Tourism alone to boost its economy, reports Kompas daily.
It has been proven that tourism is very sensitive to and is adversely impacted by issues such as safety and security. For this reason, Bali must p...read detail
Saturday March 31, 2007 “Fantastic. Spectacular!” These were words expressed by Malaysia’s former Prime Minister, Mahathir Muhammad as well as Malaysia’s own Diva, Siti Nurhalizah praising the concert they had just attended at the Bukit Jalil Stadium in Kuala Lumpur recently, which featured Indonesia’s top three divas: Krisdayanti, Titi DJ and Ruth Sahanaya.
That evening, the three Indonesi...read detail
Saturday March 31, 2007 Effective midnight 31 March, Indonesian airports enforced rulings limiting passengers to carry Liquids, Aerosols and Gels (LAG) as carry-on luggage in plane cabins. This include perfumes, hairspray, thinners, ethanol and similar. Announced on Television just a few days before, the new rules surprised a number of passengers. A foreign tourist who wished to carry a bottle of mineral water into the p...read detail
Saturday March 31, 2007 Delivering his opening address at the start of the Tourism National Coordination Meeting recently, President Yudhoyono urged the Department of Culture and Tourism and all tourism stakeholders to be more creative and more innovative. The many Indonesian tourism potentials that Indonesia possesses must be maximized, the President said. For at the present moment the President deems that Indonesian To...read detail
Saturday March 31, 2007 For 2008 next year, Indonesia assumes an economic growth target of 6.8% and a Budget deficit of 1.7% of GDP said Finance Minister, Sri Mulyani, announcing the Government’s Work plan for 2008 at a recent press conference. The target, which had been decided by President SBY at an enlarged plenary cabinet meeting, is above the earlier predicted growth of 6.5% maximum, said Minister Mulyani.&nbs...read detail
Monday March 26, 2007 The Expense and Delay of Overland Trans-Shipments Increase Calls for the Expansion of Bali's Port of Benoa.
(1/20/2007) Plans by the government to encourage exports from Bali by upgrading two seaports in East Java has received a less-than-enthusiastic reception by Bali exporters and freight-forwarders who see the maximization of Bali's Benoa port as a more workable solution to upgrading the c...read detail
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Indonesia Resumes Sending Avian Flu Virus Samples To WHO
