Denpasar, May 17, 2009 – The number of Australian tourists visiting Bali in the first quarter of 2009 rose 24.85 percent to 71,970 from 57,647 in the same period last year. ANTARA News reported. “The Australian tourists accounted for 14.67 percent of the total tourists coming to the Island of Paradise in the first quarter which [...]
When Indonesia finally quit from OPEC last year, I straightly thought that Indonesia would no longer be fuel exporter, as the reason behind the withdrawal was simply because Indonesia produces less than 1 million barrel a day. Then I managed to think further, that actually, OPEC is just a bunch of greedy nations that tries [...]
The Smiling Report 2009 shows that the trend continues downwards (source here). Mystery Shopping Providers around the world have participated in the Smiling Report 2009 which compiles customer service data from evaluations conducted across a spectrum of industries. The summary for 2008 includes answers to more than 2.5 million questions covering Smile, Greeting and Add-on sales [...]
Yahoo! praised the quality of applications developed by Indonesian programmers in the Yahoo! Mobile Developer Award (YMDA) 2009. Not only that, the interest shown by Indonesian developers toward this competition is higher compared to the one held in Singapore. For this reasons Yahoo, through Turochas Fuad (Head of Yahoo! Mobile), plans to hold this event [...]
Indonesia is willing to lead peace keeping force in Somalia after receiving request from the United Nations, Indonesian military spokesman Sargom Tambun said here Thursday.The spokesman said that currently the Indonesian force was inventorying its top officers to be selected for the position. “There has been a request from the forces which are now on duty [...]
I watched Channel Newsasia last nite and found a relieving news that Indonesia’s economy (still) grows 4.4% Jan-March 2009. This is the worst growth in the last 5 years. Well, this is quite shocking because : - Once economists predicted that Indonesia’s economy would dip below zero in the first quarter. - Indonesia neighbors’ economies shrink, below [...]
Kompas reported on Bali as the best island in Asia Pacific according to a Hong Kong based magazine, DestinAsia. It’s such an honor, but is it that surprising? Bali has snatched that title four times already. Apparently foreign tourists still love Bali so much. I bet there are still hundreds, or even thousands, of islands in [...]
Indonesia’s Media Nusantara Citra (MNC), the biggest media network in Southeast Asia launched IndoStar II, the biggest S-band satellite over the sky (China will have the bigger one… not in the near future). This is a true leap-frogging toward the media industry in Indonesia, as well as in the region. Indonesia was the first to launch [...]
Tour de Singkarak 2009 Indonesia’s tourism is going wild, in a good way, of course. After spending about Rp 6 billion on Tour de Singkarak, the Culture and Tourism Ministry is betting hard left and right to boost Indonesia’s tourism industry. The Jakarta Post reported that the latest attempt was to stitch the Visit Indonesia Year [...]
Did you know that Indonesia is 15th largest car producer in the world in 2008? I bet you do, because I have posted one article about that. But hey, this is different. The new comer is Volkswagen, one of the most respected car brand on this planet, the creator of these legendary vehicles. Volkswagen AG plans to [...]
