Thursday December 14, 2006 During a Thursday, December 7, 2006, visit to Bali to meet with the Island's tourism leaders, Indonesian Vice President M. Jusuf Kalla declared Bali the gateway for visitors to Indonesia and the key to the revival of the nation’s tourism fortunes, reports balidiscovery.com.”Beautiful Bali ” 2007 Slogan launched As reported by Antara News Agency, says balidiscovery.com, the V...read detail
Thursday December 14, 2006 “People in the West usually place their goals at the front, placing first those goals they wish to attain. Then they spend all available energy to achieve these goals with best possible results. The Oriental, in contrast, thinks first of the energy to be spent. Any energy required is placed in front, and through least effort he wants to achieve the greatest results. And, since he expends lit...read detail
Friday December 08, 2006 In the past two weeks, President Yudhoyono’s schedule has been to meet a number of Heads of State and of Governments as the President went on official visits to and . This schedule was immediately followed by a visit of South Korea’s President Roh Moo-hyun to
Jakarta . Results of these meetings are agreements signed between Indonesia with Japan, Russia and South Korea respectively....read detail
Friday December 08, 2006 PT Intralink Sinergi has just launched its software translator program which is capable of translating Bahasa Indonesia into 200 different local languages in and 14 foreign languages, said the company’s President Director, Mohammad Teguh Setiabasa in
Bandung recently, as reported by Media Indonesia. The fourteen foreign languages include English, French, German, French, Mandarin, Ko...read detail
Friday December 08, 2006 Meanwhile, CEO of Viva Macau, Andrew Pyne, announced that the airline is due to launch its Macau-Jakarta flights on 22 December. Flying three times weekly at first, but next year to increase to seven times, Viva Macau flies B 767 aircrafts with 245 seat capacity. Viva Macau plans to carry 60,000 passengers yearly between Macau and
Jakarta , or an average 70% load factor. The airline is op...read detail
Friday December 08, 2006 INACA, the Indonesian National Air Carriers Association estimates that next year, the number of domestic passengers will increase 15% to 33.34 million, and international passengers increase 8% to 6 million. Until October 2006 the National Statistics Board noted the number of domestic passengers to have reached 23.91 million and international passengers 4.52 million. This optimistic prediction...read detail
Friday December 08, 2006 The National Statistics Board announced that January-October arrivals in 2006 still lags behind 7.91% compared to arrivals during the same period last year. Ten months tourist arrivals this year through 13 international entry air and seaports was 3,224,089, down compared to 3,501,077 in 2005.During this period, the number of visitors to Jakarta has held steady, with a minimum decrease of 0.2% to a...read detail
Friday December 08, 2006 Stop fighting among each other and start rebuilding together, for lags far behind on the world’s productivity scale, was the strong rebuke given to and Indonesians by productivity guru Prof. Michael Porter of
Harvard
Business
School in
Jakarta last week. Although not exactly in these words, yet the message was loud and clear. To the outside world, Indonesians to...read detail
Wednesday November 29, 2006 Somewhat pushed into the shadows by the brouhaha caused by the visit of President Bush to Indonesia recently, - on 13 November Indonesia signed an important Security Agreement with Australia on the island of Lombok. Signing the Agreement on the Framework for Security Cooperation between and were Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Dr. Hassan Wirajuda, Australia’s Foreign Minister, Alexander ...read detail
Wednesday November 29, 2006 The Borneo Orangutan Survival Chairman, Willie Smits last week said that the recent forest fires in Kalimantan especially on peat land is estimated to have killed some 1,000 orangutans (pongo pygmaeus). The fires have caused these big apes to become dehydrated, suffer acute respiratory problems, lack food or are even harmed by the fires. Moreover, BOS notes that there are now 120 sick orangutans i...read detail
Wednesday November 29, 2006 Meanwhile, Bisnis Indonesia reports that starting next year, Indonesia’s Lion Air will fly to more international destinations. "In response to urging from the government, Lion Air will add more international routes, in particular to Singapore and Malaysia, where the airline plans to fly to from 10 Indonesian cities, said its Corporate Communication and Public Relations Direct...read detail
Wednesday November 29, 2006 XFN-ASIA from Manila reports that - Cebu Pacific Air Inc will launch thrice-weekly flights between Manila and
Jakarta early next year, the unit of publicly-listed conglomerate JG Summit Holdings Inc said. The maiden flight to Indonesia's
Soekarno-Hatta
International
Airport is scheduled for January 31, it said in a statement. Direct flights to Kuala Lumpur and
Bangkok will ...read detail
Wednesday November 29, 2006 Having been sufficiently shocked by the findings of scientists on how earth’s climate is changing dramatically through greenhouse gas emissions (see Indonesia Digest No. 39.06), I was most eager to learn about the results of the Climate Change Conference that was held during a fortnight in
Nairobi, Kenya. Scouring Indonesian papers, I found little on the subject, so I surfed the net....read detail
Sunday November 26, 2006 Just in Time for Holiday Shopping – An Exhibition by Bali's Leading Manufacturers and Artisans December 8-17, 2006.
(11/26/2006) The Bali Export Development Organization (BEDO) is holding the First Annual "Made in Bali" Christmas Expo from December 8-17, 2006, at the Mal Bali Galeria, Dome Area – 2nd Floor, near Simpang Siur and the Dewa Ruci Monument.Open daily from 10:0...read detail
Monday November 13, 2006 President Yudhoyono warns that Indonesia’s population growth of 1.3% annually is higher than even before the 1997 economic crisis, and is an alert signal for all, since population growth impacts the supply of food that must be supplied by the government, increased need for health facilities and, of course, the need for more jobs. For this reason, the President has asked the National Fa...read detail
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