As promised earlier, now we are posting some of your dreams for Indonesia in the future. We are sorry we cant include all dreams you submitted via twitter @GNFI or email, you may resubmit em again and i will post em into the next entry(ies). Here we go : 1. PH_Alerts I dream of no more traffic jam [...]

Fast-growing economies Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia will drive a “massive digital revolution” in coming years as disposable incomes increase, a study released Wednesday suggested. The Boston Consulting Group said more than 610 million people in the “BRICI” markets currently use the Internet regularly but that will grow to 1.2 billion by 2015 — over [...]

You, me, all of us, wanna Indonesia to become a respectable power in the world, Indonesia certainly has a very rich past. It was because of its richness, Indonesia was prone to invasion of other countries innumerable times, and its wealth was plundered. It is also world’s most diverse country. There is not a single country [...]

For a newspaper columnist, I’ve spent a lot of time over the past week in the emotionally charged world of television news. Each of my interviewers was incredibly thorough, preparing and framing questions, discussing with producers and calming guests all at the same time. Each interview was a unique scenario. While many outsiders tend to see media [...]

Baliem Valley and the Dani tribe waited a long time to be discovered. Papuan highland belongs to one the most recently explored New Guinea areas. The tall mountains in west Papua (Irian Jaya) were generally considered as uninhabited. No sooner than 1398 did the pilot Richard Archbold notice that there was something special about the [...]

I must admit, I was a bit taken aback to find that a “cigarette museum” was on the list of places my guide wanted to show me in Surabaya. I’m not a smoker and I don’t like being around it, but the guide assured me I would like the museum so I went along for [...]

‘Confidence in the Economy Is Driven by the Woman’ Economists trying to map the global economic recovery tend to focus on demography. The key players at the moment, says former Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, are women, who may hold the most potential for jump-starting global growth. Indrawati, now managing director of the World Bank, [...]

Indonesia’s very own minimarket brand, Alfamart will soon investing $$$ to neighboring countries as it now has strong presence in Indonesia and capital to expand further. Alfamart owns more than 4,300 Alfamart stores nationwide and plans to open at least 10 Alfamart stores in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City by the end of 2010. This [...]

I read in newspaper about Dewaruci’s adventure in Europe  recently, I was deeply touched by the fact that Dewaruci ship has became legend not only in Indonesia, but also elsewhere in the world. In Amsterdam, many people were crying when the ship (with young Indonesian navy cadets on-board) leaving Amsterdam port, many event tried to stop [...]

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Scientists using cutting-edge technology to explore waters off Indonesia were wowed by colorful and diverse images of marine life on the ocean floor — including plate-sized sea spiders and flower-like sponges that appear to be carnivorous. They predicted Thursday that as many as 40 new plant and animal species may have been discovered [...]