Indonesia’s credit rating outlook was raised to positive by Moody’s Investors Service, highlighting the strength of Asia’s emerging economies amid soaring debt burdens in developed nations from Greece to Japan. The outlook on Indonesia’s Ba2 local-and foreign-currency sovereign ratings was changed from stable, Moody’s said in a statement today, three months after Standard & Poor’s raised [...]

The opening of direct flight route from Indonesia to Europe recently following the lifting of travel ban on some of Indonesian airliners by the European Union is expected to boost the number of European tourist coming into Indonesia. Over one million foreign tourists from the territory are expected to come into Indonesia this year, higher than [...]

Merantau is an Indonesian martial arts film released on August 2009,  introduces a variant of Silat called as “Silat Harimau” (Tiger Silat) and a Minangkabau (an area in West Sumatra, Indonesia) tradition called as Merantau (wandering about). This film had been released in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and as far as I recall, it got satisfactory [...]

Someone sms-ed me this morning from Jakarta (thanks, bro!), he said that Indonesia’s finance minister, Ms. Sri Mulyani had been appointed as Managing Director of World Bank. I followed the news until just now, and eventually the president gave approval. I understand that this has brought waves of twitter messages, along the the pros and contras. [...]