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Analysis: Indonesia scooting while big wheels freeze Debnath Guharoy, Roy Morgan 3   |The world’s big wheels remained frozen in the northern winter last week. While the “Occupy Davos” demonstrators heaped shame on the visiting dignitaries, there was one glimmer of hope. For the very first time, “Fixing Capitalism” was a cryptic item inked into [...]

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Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and his Indonesian counterpart Marty Natalegawa met in Jakarta on Tuesday and were set to raise bilateral relations between their two countries to “a new level”. Paet brought along with him an Estonian business delegation, as talks on expanding trade and investment partnerships between Indonesia and Estonia were high on [...]

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Oleh: Ahmad Cholis Hamzah, MSc Pada tahun-tahun 1950an sebelum masa Konfrontasi Indonesia- Malaysia, hubungan rakyat di kedua negeri serumpun ini sangat erat; banyak orang Indonesia menikmati lagu-lagu dari Malaysia misalnya yang di dendangkan Cek Ramli almarhum. Film hitam putih dari Malaysia juga diminiati di Indonesia. Sebaliknya juga banyak orang Malaysia juga mengagumi lagu dan film [...]

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Oleh Ahmad Cholis Hamzah, MSc Membaca buku kumpulan tulisan Liew Chin Tong anggota parlemen muda Penang Malaysia yang berjudul: “Speaking for the REFORMASI GENERATION” saya ingat kondisi Indonesia semasa Orde Baru dulu. Pak Chin Tong – begitu saya menyebutnya menulis tentang hiruk pikuk politik di negeri Jiran dengan segala dinamikanya persis yang pernah kita alami [...]

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Jakarta will be a center of the world’s halal food as headquarter of the World Halal Food Council (WHFC) that will be officially opened in January 16 2012. “The office, located in the MUI (Indonesian Ulema Council) Building, Central Jakarta, will be inaugurated concurrently with the opening ceremony of the WHFC annual meeting,” the Director [...]

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(The Jakarta Post) : The Netherlands will become a center for promoting Indonesian cuisine in Europe, according to the nation’s new top envoy to The Hague. Retno Marsudi said after her swearing in on Wednesday that she would use the best of local cuisine to enhance the relationship between the two countries, antaranews.com reported. Culinary [...]

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[The Jakarta Post]: Through its embassy in Jakarta, the Kingdom of Norway is on Thursday set to grant the “Royal Norwegian Order of Merit” to former Indonesian ambassador to Norway Retno Marsudi, currently the Indonesian Foreign Ministry’s director general for Europe and North America. The order is commonly awarded to Norwegian citizens living abroad, Norwegian [...]

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[The Jakarta Post]: Indonesia will host the 13th International Robot Olympiad (IRO) at Tarumanegara University in Jakarta from Thursday to Sunday, with around 1,000 robots from 13 countries being expected to participate. The Robotic Organizing Committee Indonesia (ROCI) founder and chairman Santoso Gondowidjojo said that Indonesia would exhibit more than 200 robots at the event. [...]

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[DAWN.COM] – For a quick insight into Indonesia’s ambitions of exerting regional power and global influence, visit Bali in December when the luxury beach resort morphs into an animated hub of discussion and debate on democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Delegates to the Bali Democracy Forum are a motley crew: the meeting [...]

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[indonesia.travel] Aerowisata Hotels & Resorts, a chain hotel group spread in a number of locations across Indonesia including Bali,Lombok, Pekanbaru, Bandung and Papua, has been certified “Eco Hotels” by TUV Rheinland from Germany. Aerowisata, a subsidiary company of Garuda Indonesia, gained recognition for its commitment to enhance aspects in waste management, water treatment, conservation, efficient [...]

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