Good News From Indonesia

In 3rd ASEAN Undergraduated Quiz Bowl Competition 2011, Bangkok, Thailand, delegates of Indonesia successfully won the first place, excelling all countries from ASEAN. 3rd ASEAN Undergraduated Quiz Bowl Competition 2011 was a quiz competition about food and agriculture for first bachelor degree student, in regional level. This competition has been held since 2007, by ASEAN [...]

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PT. Karyamitra Budisentosa was established by Ali Tanuwidjaja – a man that was graduated from Aerospace Engineering Department, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA. From Karyamitra, Ali has produced high-quality shoes which almost of them – about 97% – are exported. The scope of Karyamitra’s export maket are Singapore, Australia, Canada, France, Germany,Italy, Netherland, Portugal, Spain, [...]

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What is the biggest issue the world is facing now? Probably, most will answer : environment. Yes, at this moment people are trying to make the Earth a better place to live. On December 24th, 2009, UN General Assembly passed a resolution agreeing to hold a Rio +20 Earth Summit in 2012. Then, a group [...]

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Indonesian students have won so many medals from international competition around the world including in Indonesia itself. Let’s start from the competition which was held in our beloved country, Indonesia. Indonesia International Mathematics Competition 2011, held on 18-23 July 2011 in Bali. 1. Elementary School Anthony William Brian, Gian Cordana Sanjaya, Alicia Maydeline (gold medals) [...]

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In December 2010, the Indonesian Foreign Minister was asked what kind of role Indonesia would like to play globally. Mr Natalegawa replied that the idea was ‘to put Indonesia on the radar screen’ by showing a kind of intellectual leadership in the region. More than a decade after being severely hit by an economic crisis [...]

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Economic and social experts predict that the Indonesian economy would be able to equal those of Asian giants Japan and South Korea in the next 20 years if its current political and financial stability continued.?? Noted American political scientist George Friedman said Thursday that Indonesia had a unique place as an emerging economy with a [...]

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Twitter launched in Dutch and Indonesian Monday, bringing the microblogging service’s total count of supported languages to 11. Dutch and Indonesian were the first two languages to be fully translated by a team of volunteers, who worked through Twitter’s Translation Center to translate twitter.com, support pages, and the service’s desktop and mobile applications. The addition [...]

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Manila. Indonesian social worker Tri Mumpuni is among the winners of Asia’s prestigious Magsaysay award this year for giving green technologies to the poor, organizers said on Wednesday. Award foundation president Carmencita Abella said Tri, along with an Indian engineer and a Philippine charity group, had helped harness the technologies to empower their countrymen and [...]

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Despite the loss of one of its major sponsors, the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival is set to go ahead this October, and aims to be even bigger and better than ever. Festival organizers plan to hold a variety of events from Oct. 5-9 in more than 50 venues around Ubud, including panel sessions, workshops, [...]

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Indonesia’s Growing Global Geopolitical Significance I am writing this from Indonesia. Actually, that is not altogether a fair statement. I am at the moment in Bali and just came from Jakarta. The two together do not come close to being Indonesia. Jakarta, the capital, is a vast city that is striking to me for its [...]

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