Good News From Indonesia

Indonesia’s biggest private oil and gas firm, Medco Energi Internasional, is working to promote energy saving and the use of gas fuel through a new program it calls Medco Earth Day scheduled to take place on April 26. Medco has encouraged participation in Earth Day and Earth Hour since 2010, but these events were lacking [...]

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Rosihan Anwar, who passed away on Thursday (April 14), was a humble senior journalist very much committed to press freedom, according to Deputy Chairman of the Judicial Commission Imam Anshori Saleh. “I admired his modesty and his commitment to press freedom,” Imam, former journalist of Media Indonesia, said here Friday. Rosihan was also one of the [...]

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TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:Fijian Prime Minister Voreqe Josaia Bainimarama is learning from Indonesia’s experience in developing democracy. Indonesia was deemed to be one of the countries that has managed to develop direct democracy and guarantee freedom of speech. “Fiji wants some feedback from us,” said Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa following a bilateral meeting at Merdeka Palace yesterday. Fiji, [...]

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Alyssa Diva Mustika, a student from Pamekasan Junior High School, East Java, won the gold medal at the International Mathematics Contest held in Romania between March 22 to 29, Antara news agency reported. Speaking to journalists, Diva said she was glad that she had been able to win the competition, which she said had been [...]

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PT Garuda Indonesia, the flag carrier that raised $530 million in a January initial public offering, may buy 18 planes with fewer than 100 seats to expand services to areas without airports for larger aircraft. Garuda plans to buy the planes by 2015 with delivery starting next year, Elisa Lumbantoruan, the airline’s finance director, said in [...]

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From regular citizens who are conscious of environmental issues to tourist spots and malls, more and more Indonesians are participating in Earth Hour celebrations. Governor Fauzi Bowo, in his role as the country’s Earth Hour ambassador, will kick off the campaign at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday at City Hall, alongside representatives from around 700 community [...]

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The Sak Brand Group’s philosophy is happy & free.  Peace and harmony among all things is interwoven into our spirit, our deep rooted heritage and our down-to-earth style.  Friends from childhood, Mark Talucci and Todd Elliott both grew up overseas.  Their love for finding and importing unique textiles was drawn from going to local hippie [...]

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While young people can sing the praises of contemporary Indonesian authors such as Dewi Lestari and Djenar Maesa Ayu, it is unfortunate that many of them have never heard of Amir Hamzah, one of the most influential figures in the country’s literary history. That, however, may change this year. In order to commemorate Amir’s legacy [...]

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Having already dragged myself, my husband and TechCrunch readers around the world, I’m now doing it with my unborn kid. We landed in Jakarta last Saturday and will spend two weeks traveling around Indonesia for the State Department, speaking and having conversations about how to encourage more entrepreneurship here — particularly among women. According to [...]

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Deep in the heart of Jakarta, hidden beneath the faded facade of the capital’s Kota Tua, a secret chamber holding an enigmatic relic has been uncovered. Concealed under a thick layer of dust, deep within the bowels of Jakarta’s History Museum, also called Fatahillah Museum, is a mural by master painter S. Harijadi that tells [...]

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