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Foreign investment up 30.3 pct in first quarter

Foreign investment rose 30.3 percent in the first quarter of 2012 to Rp51.5 trillion, compared with Rp39.5 trillion ...

Govt to revoke hundreds of mining permits in Kotabaru

At least 107 mining permits in Kotabaru district, South Kalimantan, will be revoked because companies to which they ...

No bad feeling to Widjajono`s

Ninasapti Triaswati, bereaved wife of Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Widjajono Partowidagdo said she ...

Kalimantan elephant population continues to dwindle, says official

The population of Kalimantan elephants continues to dwindle as a result of damage to protected forests, an environment ...

Batam receives investment applications worth $9.850 mln in April

The Batam authorities have received investment applications worth US$9.850 million from six companies since early this ...

Tax on mining exports aim to encourage downstream industry: Hatta

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa said the government`s plan to raise taxes on raw mining ...

Negotiations on mining contracts to go on: Minister

Chief economic minister Hatta Rajasa has said that renegotiations on mining contracts with companies in the extractive ...

Govt signs contracts of eight CBM blocks

The Indonesian government signed working contracts on eight CBM (coal bed methane) gas blocks in Kalimantan and ...

Ethiopia pm accuses Eritrea of kidnappings

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi accused Eritrea on Tuesday of abducting dozens of Ethiopian miners from the ...

Zero tolerance against terror in Papua

Indonesia was shocked following a fatal shooting that killed a reporter and injured four passengers aboard a Twin ...

Legislator urges police to seriously deal with airplane shooting

Legislator Aboebakar Alhabsyi of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) faction has urged National Police Chief General ...

Indonesian river pollution increases 30 percent

Jakarta (ANTARA News) The research results from the Ministry of Environment on river water quality indicates that up to ...

Minister opens Indogreen Forestry Expo 2012

Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan opened the Fourth "IndoGreen Forestry Expo 2012" and launched the Management of ...

Myanmar bans mining near major rivers for environment reason

Myanmar has banned mining of mineral resources along the country`s four major river courses or near these river banks ...

Govt to create rice fields amid food scarcity threat

The government plans to create rice fields on 100 thousand hectares of land this year in anticipation of the threat of ...