By Akhyari Hananto Many see that the last incident occurred on Berakit water off Bintan Islands where Royal Malaysian Navy intercepted Indonesian ship (from Ministry of Fisheries) was a current evidence that Indonesia needs to immediately procure more battle ships to safeguard its territory borders, especially where it shares borders with Malaysia and Singapore, where many illegal [...]

By Akhyari Hananto Every time the Independence day is approaching, I remember what my dad said to me when I was still a little kid. He said “This nation was built through many million lives, sea of blood and tears. Do whatever you can to preserve the freedom, and the spirit of your people to prosper”. [...]

This is truly a heartwarming news that visitors flocking in Indonesia Pavilion had reached 4.8 million yesterday, and expected to top 5 million on 17 August, the day the nation celebrates its independence. The committee of the expo 2010 will only formally announce info on overall achievements like best pavilion, most visited pavilion, most this and [...]

By the time you reach Trowulan the streets are narrow, the traffic sparse and the air clean. But sprinkled about this charming rural district, on well-manicured grounds, are the ruins of temples that suggest the city that once thrived here; imagine the spaces between them filled and you get an idea how extensive this capital [...]

Indonesia and South Korea are ready to begin a joint project on jet fighter production in 2012.  The project would be able to build a jet figther prototype in 2020. The planned cooperation for the project, dubbed the KF-X project, was initiated in 2006. The joint project is widely seen as a pilot project for Indonesian military in [...]

Indonesia’s economy expanded by 2.8 percent in the second quarter — beating the 2.6 percent forecast by economists, and a faster pace than the 1.9 percent gain in the first quarter — buoyed by surging household consumption and rising exports, the country’s Central Statistics Agency reported. Year-over-year, GDP climbed by 6.2 percent in the second quarter [...]

Dear Good Readers, GNFI got the honor to present what we had received earlier from the one who initiate the ‘underwater temple’ project in Pemuteran Water in Bali. We have posted about this earlier thinking that it might be a phenomeal “underwater temple” discovery. You might be the first to read. You will also see how they [...]

Please see the flag below, and notice the green color, crescent and stars spangled at it. I know you must be thinking that it’s the flag of a Muslim country somewhere there in Middle East. I am sorry, you are wrong. Lemme give you another clue. Find the picture below. Yes, they are muslims, with Southeast Asian faces. [...]

There’s been a lot of talk about how emerging markets are now safer than the developed world. And for the most part, this is just talk. You can point as much as you like to stronger growth prospects and better balance sheets. It doesn’t make much difference yet. When a crisis comes, foreign investors still flee [...]

by Ahmad Saiful Muhajir We already posted some new rare species found in Indonesia, but it seems that more and more beautiful and fabulous rare species are found gaian, by the joint expedition between Indonesia and NOAA called Indonesia-USA Deep-Sea Exploration of the Sangihe Talaud Region (INDEX 2010). This expedition started from June to August 2010 with [...]