Monday November 13, 2006 An approximate 69% of the 2.5 million hectares of coral reefs found in the Indonesian seas, have now been destroyed, and will need the concerted efforts of many parties including coastal populations to restore, said Sapta Putra Ginting, Executive Secretary of Coremap Phase II, in Padang,
West Sumatra , last week. Coremap will build a network of 400 observation stations throughout the...read detail
Monday November 13, 2006 Indonesia will bring the forest conservation issue to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) taking place in
Nairobi, Kenya, from November 6 to 17, 2006, reports ANTARA.Dadang Hilman, member of the Indonesian delegation from the Environment Ministry to the Meeting said that will submit issues relating to forest conservation in controlling global warming.Forestry is e...read detail
Monday November 13, 2006
Surabaya has a new airport. On Tuesday, 7 November, the new
Juanda
Airport went into operation with many hitches. As all planes were that day diverted to the new airport , located north of the old one, operations were not as smooth as expected. Minister for Law and Human Rights, Hamid Awaludin, who was to give a speech at the
University of
Airlangga was left waiting in the plan...read detail
Monday November 13, 2006 Balidiscovery.com reports that a small group of Bali hotel and travel operators recently produced a tongue–in-cheek video advertisement to draw attention to their growing frustration with the Australian market's prolonged recalcitrance to return to Bali for their holidays. Seeking to launch a low-cost Bali awareness campaign, the Little Bali Hotel & Resort Company (LBHRC) tore...read detail
Monday November 13, 2006 Internet and the mobile phone have changed the lifestyle of ’s young generation, confirmed a research done by Synovate. Out of the 18 million Internet users in , 40% are between the age of 20 to 24. This is the young generation that Dentsu Strategic Planner, Janoe Arijanto calls: the “look at me” generation, reports the Kompas daily of 7 November. Young people today want to look ...read detail
Sunday November 05, 2006 Amid the gloom, there is fortunately a silver lining. According to survey results, Times Education Supplement in its issue of 26 October 2006, confirmed that the
Gajah
Mada
University in
Yogyakarta has been selected among world’s 100 best Universities, covering three categories, reports Media Indonesia on line. These categories are: in Social Sciences, rated at no. 47 with ...read detail
Sunday November 05, 2006 International Visitors arrivals through ’s 13 entry points during the first 9 months until September 2006 dropped 9.26% to 2.93 million compared to the same period last year, which reached 3.23 million, reported the National Statistics Board. Whereas, arrivals in September was down 2.87% compared to August. September arrivals in Bali compared to August was down a small 0.21% but a...read detail
Sunday November 05, 2006 Last Tuesday, on the last day of October, heavy rains finally drenched the city of
Jakarta . It was a welcome respite from the unbearable heat that has been on the city for more than two months. This has been a long dry season, and rains have come very late as temperatures soared unusually high even for ’s equatorial dry season. Temperatures of 35 and 36 degrees centigrade were not unusu...read detail
Sunday October 29, 2006 Indonesia hopes to increase its trade volume with to $30 billion by 2010, Indonesian Ambassador Sudrajat said on Wednesday (18/10/06), as reported by Indonesia’s Trade and Investment News. "Indonesia is looking forward to the China-ASEAN summit at the end of the month, and President Susilo (Bambang Yudhoyono) will be in attendance," Sudrajat was quoted as saying by Xinhua.&nbs...read detail
Sunday October 29, 2006 Further, Indonesia’s Trade and Investment News reports that on Saturday, 21 October, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoytono met visiting 's new military-backed Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont and urged the Thai Prime Minister to lift martial law, that was put in place after the kingdom's bloodless coup last month. President Yudhoyono also told PM Surayud that, based on ’s experience...read detail
Sunday October 29, 2006 On Wednesday, 18 October, Parliament passed the new Law on Customs and Excise, which slashes red tape and imposes stiffer sanctions on smugglers, reports ’s Trade and Investment News. The legislation, which amends and updates the previous Law passed in 1995, is also designed to ensure adequate supplies of strategic goods on the domestic market through the imposition of export duties.&nb...read detail
Sunday October 29, 2006 Indonesia is stepping up its surveillance for bird flu and is ordering that all birds be kept caged in cities, after new human fatalities occurred, reports Indonesia’s Trade and Investment News issued by the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy.
now has recorded 75 human cases of H5N1 influenza, of which 55 have been fatal. Improved surveillance is leading to more suspect hum...read detail
Sunday October 29, 2006 President Director of Garuda , Emirsyah Satar recently confirmed that the airline would stop using Bali as its second hub next to
Jakarta . Al Purwa, Chairman of the Bali chapter of the Association of Indonesian Travel Agents (ASITA), later related Garuda’s reasons to his colleagues in Bali, following a meeting last week with a member of Garuda's management team, as reported by balidisco...read detail
Sunday October 29, 2006 Every 28th. October, commemorates Youth Pledge Day, or “Hari Sumpah Pemuda”. On this day in 1928, some 78 years ago, Indonesian youths, hailing from different ethnic groups and islands in the then Netherlands East Indies, convened a 2-day Youth Congress in Batavia - present-day
Jakarta . At the end of this historic meeting these youths pledged their commitment to: One Homeland &nda...read detail
Thursday October 19, 2006 Our two weekly Bedo meeting was held again in the Bali Garden Hotel on 18. October.The agenda of our meeting:
Evaluation Bali Design Expo at Kuta Karnival 23-24 Sept. 2006
The winner of our Home Decor Design Expo
BEDO finances & expo finances
Bizplan, Exportplan, CRMplan, new members BEDO Bali
Expo report & new idea/ input of members
BEDO planning for C...read detail
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