Thursday January 25, 2007 Director General for Tourism Marketing and Promotion, Thamrin B. Bachri recently disclosed that Parliament had agreed to allocate a budget of Rp. 158 billion for international tourism marketing 2007 spending, of which Rp. 20 billion is earmarked to promote five priority destinations for 2007, reports Erwin Nurdin for Bisnis Indonesia. The five priority regions are West Sumatra, North Sulawes...read detail
Thursday January 25, 2007 In a surprise statement on Wednesday, 24 January, - only hours after meeting the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation led by Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato, - President Yudhoyono announced at the Palace that Indonesia will discontinue meeting donor countries grouped in the Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI) starting immediately this year 2007. For the past 15 years Indonesia was obli...read detail
Tuesday January 16, 2007 Barely two weeks into the new year and Indonesia already reported four more deaths from the bird flu, bringing Indonesia’s total to 61 fatalities, the highest in the world. The four cases occurred in Jakarta and Bandung, after contact with infected poultry.
A limited emergency cabinet meeting was called, in which the government decided that the main cause for the most recent re-emergence o...read detail
Tuesday January 16, 2007 Sixteen days into the disappearance of the Adam Air Boeing 737-400 jetliner, until today the exact whereabouts of the plane has yet to be pinpointed. KI-574, on what was a routine direct flight, departed Surabaya for Manado with 96 passengers (among whom 3 American citizens) and 6 crew on board. At 15.07 West Indonesia Time, the plane inexplicably fell off the radar screen of the aircraft control ...read detail
Tuesday January 09, 2007 President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono remains extremely popular and if an election were held today he would win by a virtual landslide, according to a new poll released on Thursday (28/12/06). This was reported by Indonesia’s Trade and Investment News released by the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy.
The Jakarta-based Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) found in its latest poll that the ap...read detail
Tuesday January 09, 2007 In his end of the year report, Culture and Tourism Minister, Jero Wacik conceded that 2006 tourism targets had not been achieved, reported Bisnis Indonesia.
Although December arrival statistics had not been received from the National Statistics Board, Minister Jero Wacik estimated that total 2006 arrivals will again decline by 4.11% compared to 2005, to reach around 4.8 million, an almost ...read detail
Tuesday January 09, 2007 Indonesia rang in the year 2007 with “mixed feelings”, as aptly described by President Yudhoyono when opening the first day of trading of the Jakarta Stock Exchange on 2 January.
Although the public was initially buoyed by the peaceful end of the year celebrations throughout the country, and prospects of a better new year economically, yet the many human tragedies that occurred, caus...read detail
Friday December 22, 2006 Director General of IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Agency) Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei also visited from 7-9 December in his tour to a number of Asian countries recently. During this visit ElBaradei met with President Yudhoyono, Indonesian Foreign Minister, Hasan Wirayuda, Minister for Research and Technology, Head of the National Atomic Energy Board (BATAN) Head of the Nuclear Energy Supervisory...read detail
Friday December 22, 2006 Malaysia, targets an arrival of 1.5 million visitors from next year, up 50% compared to 1 million this year, said ’s Tourism Minister YB Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor last week promoting the Visit Malaysia 2007 program in
Jakarta , reported Media Indonesia on Line. During January-August 2006, Indonesian tourists to increased 25.1% compared to the same perio...read detail
Friday December 22, 2006 One of 's leading private security companies, SNP Security, recently completed an intensive four-day safety audit of Bali and its tourism industry that tracked significant improvements in the
Island 's approach to safety and security, reports balidiscovery.com.The Managing Director of SNP Security, Tom Roche, said
Bali today is in a visibly and vastly more improved security situation than ev...read detail
Friday December 22, 2006 At year-end, family and office gatherings for Christmas and the New Year are the order of the day for most people. Which means buying presents, new clothes, food and drinks. All that will result in endless shopping sprees for clothes, foods and presents, or gatherings in restaurants. In this regard, life in metropolitan
Jakarta
is no exception.
This year super de-luxe malls have mushroo...read detail
Thursday December 14, 2006 From Nusa Dua, Bali, Antara reports that Transportation Minister, Hatta Rajasa recently confirmed that up to this moment, the Indonesian government has not recognized per se the concept of Low Cost Carriers, and will accordingly, not issue specific regulations pertaining to LCC’s and its existence. Rajasa made this statement to the press after opening a meeting of Air Communications Di...read detail
Thursday December 14, 2006 In the latest development, Acting Head of Research and Development in the Department of Transportation, Denny Siahaan, disclosed that his Department plans to designate seven (7) airports as international passenger and cargo hubs for distribution to other provinces in Indonesia, reports Bisnis Indonesia. These airports are: (1) The Kuala Namu airport of Medan, North Sumatra, (2) the Hang Nadi...read detail
Thursday December 14, 2006 Commencing the ASEAN Open Sky policy in 2007, Indonesia will offer fifth freedom rights to ASEAN airlines flying to Balikapan and Tarakan in
East Kalimantan . While fourth freedom rights are offered for flights to the cities of Manado in North Sulawesi and Pontianak in East Kalimantan, said Secretary General of the Department of Transportation, Wendy Aritenang Yazid as reported by Bisnis Indone...read detail
Thursday December 14, 2006 The annual ASEAN Tourism Forum 2007 (ATF 2007)will be held at
Suntec City, International Convention and Exhibition Centre from 26 January - 3 February 2007, announces the release issued by the Department of Culture and Tourism. The Indonesian delegation to ATF 2007 will comprise the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Central Java Tourism Office, INNA Hotel Group, Grand Istana...read detail
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