Good News From Indonesia

Surakarta Mayor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, a controversial figure behind the production of the Esemka car assembled by vocational high school students, is scheduled to test drive the car from Surakarta in Central Java to Jakarta in the coming weeks. The car has been prepared to undergo emission tests at the thermodynamics, motor and propulsion system [...]

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Saya menggunakan Blackberry (BB) sejak tahun 2007, ketika BB belum begitu dikenal orang di Indonesia. Ketika saya pulang ke Indonesia pada 2009 akhir, saya cukup terkejut ketika semua orang yang saya kenal punya BB, dan menanyakan pin BB saya. Kalau di seluruh dunia dilanda iPhone, Indonesia takluk pada Blackberry, produk RIM dari Kanada. Bahkan Indonesia [...]

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Passengers flying on Indonesia’s national carrier, Garuda, will be able to surf the Web and send emails on eight new airplanes starting next year. Garuda Indonesia’s president director Emirsyah Satar announced in Jakarta at a talk today that Wi-Fi will be provided starting in 2012. According to Emirsyah, the plan is still in the early [...]

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Boeing and Lion Air, an all-Boeing Next-Generation 737 operator, are pioneering the use of precision navigation technology in South Asia with the introduction of Required Navigation Performance (RNP) flight operations. RNP enables airplanes, using global positioning systems, to fly precisely predefined flight paths without reliance on ground-based navigation stations. Lion Air, together with Boeing and [...]

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Kemajuan teknologi komunikasi di dunia ini begitu cepat geraknya dan secara radikal telah merubah cara-cara hidup manusia, dari urusan sosial, politik, budaya, pendidikan dsb. Bahkan jaringan teknologi komunikasi lewat computer, saat ini merambah dapur ibu-ibu rumah tangga. Teknologi dibidang ini juga mengalami kemajuan yang dulu tidak pernah dibayangkan; misalkan saja pernah perusahaan Sony, berencana mengembangkan [...]

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RIM’s Jim Balsillie, Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Blackberry making company, spoke of his excitement about Indonesia during the launch of the new Blackberry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 in Jakarta on Tuesday 15th November 2011. For the first time, the Canadian company announced that the two new handsets would go on sale in Indonesia [...]

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By: Siva Govindasamy Dubai 1 hours ago Source: Garuda Indonesia has picked the CFM International Leap-1-A for its Airbus A320neo aircraft, and ordered CFM56-5B powerplants for its standard A320s and Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines for four more Airbus A330s. The 15 standard A320s, which will be delivered from 2014 and the 10 A320neo that are [...]

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Anda suka berjalan – jalan? Punya mimpi ingin mengelilingi Indonesia suatu saat nanti? Berarti, anda harus mengunduh aplikasi ini; Nusantara Beta. Nusantara Beta adalah aplikasi untuk smartphone Android atau Blackberry yang berisi tentang travel guide dan direktori pariwisata Indonesia. Aplikasi yang memiliki motto ‘Jelajahi Negerimu, Kenali Negerimu, Cintai Negerimu dan Ceritakan Negerimu‘ ini merupakan aplikasi [...]

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Blue-chip Internet company Google has expressed an interest in investing in Indonesia, and is discussing its terms with the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM). BKPM chief Gita Wirjawan said the board had been communicating intensively with Google. “Google is considering investing in Indonesia by establishing PT Google Indonesia,” Gita said Wednesday. He added that Google had [...]

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Indonesia and Mozambique have established cooperation in science and technology covering aeronautical technology, biotechnology, energy, disaster mitigation, transportation, communications and information technology and non-technological fields. “Mozambique has a big interest in our capacity; they want to learn from Indonesia. We are happy for their trust in us,” Minister of Research and Technology Suharna Surapranata said [...]

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