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Govt needs to anticipate expiry of oil contracts

Indonesia Resource Studies (Iress) Marwan Batubara reminds the government of the need to take strategic and beneficial ...

WEF report: RI`s economic competitiveness improving

Since 2005, Indonesia has improved its score on each of the 12 pillars of competitiveness, according to Thierry ...

Foreigners trying to control RI`s economy: conomist

Senior economist of the Advisory Group on Economic Industry and Trade (ECONIT) Hendri Saparini said foreigners were ...

Palestinians` Fayyad had heart attack in US, stable

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad suffered a heart attack while visiting the United States but is stable, a ...

Economist: Indonesia must not be blinded by free market ideology

Indonesia must not be blinded by the free market ideology, an economist from Cambridge University Ha-Joon Chang said ...

RI among emerging economies redefining global economic structures

Indonesia and five other major emerging economies - Brazil, China, India, South Korea, and Russia - are redefining ...

Heaven is a fairy tale, says physicist Hawking

Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said ...

NTB people question govt`s decision to acquire Newmont stake

The people of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) province are questioning the government`s decision to acquire the seven percent ...

Asean seeking food security amid surge in global prices

The current global food and energy price hikes have concerned President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as this year`s ASEAN ...

Asean considering transactions in local currencies

The idea to create a single currency for the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) seems difficult to ...

ASEAN has good single currency prospect

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has a good prospect for a single currency like the euro by the ...

President Yudhoyono calls for save-electricity-fuel movements in regions

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered all regional heads to join a movement to save fuel and electricity to ...

Gulf intellectuals say UAE activist arrested

Another Emirati rights activist has been arrested, bringing to four the number jailed in the oil-rich Gulf state in ...

Unrest slashing Arab economic growth: World Bank

Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa is putting the brakes on economic growth in the region that had been ...

VP back from Australia

Vice President Boediono arrived back on Sunday from a five-day Australian visit. The vice president, accompanied ...