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Indonesia hopes ranking in doing business to be double digit

Indonesia hopes its "Ease of Doing Business" ranking would be in the double digits in 2016. "The countrys target ...

Rice imports aimed at curbing poverty rate: VP

Vice President Jusuf Kalla defended rice imports from Pakistan and India, saying they are aimed at curbing poverty ...

North Korea under UN sanctions

Four sets of UN sanctions have been imposed on North Korea since it first tested an atomic device in 2006. Heres ...

Agriculture ministry plans measures in anticipation of La Nina

Indonesias agriculture ministry is making preparations in anticipation of the natural phenomena La Nina, which usually ...

Mt Soputan in North Sulawesi erupts

Mount Soputan at the border of Minahasa Selatan and Minahasa Tenggara in North Sulawesi erupted at 20.53 local time on ...

Poverty rate rose in September 2015

The number of Indonesians living in poverty rose by 780 thousand to 28.51 million in September 2015, from 27.73 ...

Jakarta index closes lower in first trading day 2016

The Jakarta composite index (JCI) closed lower on Monday, the first trading day in 2016 on negative sentiment from ...

Inflation in 2015 was at five-year low

The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) has announced that the year-on-year inflation for 2015 was recorded at 3.35 ...

Indonesia`s economy expected to perform better this year

The Indonesian economy is expected to perform better this year than it did last year after the government issued a ...

Railways can solve Papua`s transportation problems

Railways are considered to be the most economical and efficient means to solve the transportation problems in ...

Indonesia government prepares 10 leading Youth Programs in 2016

The Indonesia government, through the Ministry of Youth and Sports, has prepared 10 flagship programs to help the ...

Indonesia`s biggest sago factory begins operations in Papua

Indonesias state-owned forestry company PT Perhutani has set up the biggest sago factory in the country in Kais, West ...

New Year`s eve celebrations held peacefully

The New Years eve celebrations have gone peacefully across Indonesia with no untoward security incidents. "It ...

Policy implementation to maintain rupiah stability

The year 2015 has been marked with a long arduous struggle to shore up rupiah to regain some of its lost value ...

Some small enterprises seem gloomy over ASEAN free trade

Wahab an Nasaru is one of many gemstone artisans who ironically have had to close their businesses while their ...