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Effectiveness of social security spending must be improved

Coordinating minister for economic affairs Hatta Rajasa has called for the improvement of social security spending to ...

RI racing against time to meet MDG targets by andi abdussalam - (d)

Indonesia, one of the 189 countries that declared in 2000 their commitment to achieving eight Millennium Development ...

Poverty remains high, minister says

Poverty remains high in the country and therefore it needs serious handling, Social Affairs Minister Salim Segaf Al ...

RI-US Strenghten The Cooperation of Marine Economic

Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Sharif C. Sutardjo, today (April 19) in the Ministry of Marine Affairs and ...

Easter bomb attack near Nigeria church kills at least 20

A car bombing near a church in northern Nigeria on Easter Sunday killed at least 20 people and put the country on ...

Tiger Woods To Match Every Dollar Raised in Grassroots Facebook Fundraising Campaign

-        - Woods personally inviting the most active fundraiser to meet him at the ...

Indonesia must conduct structural reforms: ADB economist

Indonesia must conduct structural reforms in order to become an advanced country with a high income per capita and ...

Govt bows to demands for delayed power tariff hike

The Indonesian government has bowed to the demands for the delay of the electricity tariff hike despite worries that ...

Govt`s poverty reduction target remains despite fuel price hike

The government assured the public here on Wednesday that it would not cut its poverty reduction target despite its ...

Team to save migrant workers` lives in Saudi Arabia

The government is racing against time to save the lives of seven migrant workers on death row in Saudi Arabia, where ...

Al-Qaeda donates food, money to Somalis

Islamist extremist group Al-Qaeda has donated food, money and clothes to Somalia in an apparent publicity push that ...

Indonesia needs to grow at least nine percent

An economist said Indonesia needs to grow minimally nine percent in 2015. A growth of 6.5 percent would not as ...

Australia alleviates poverty in west nusa tenggara

Australia`s support to alleviate poverty in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) is further demonstrated on Friday by visiting ...

Afghans hold anti-US rally on eve of war anniversary

Hundreds of Afghans marched through Kabul on Thursday, the eve of the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. military ...

Jakarta to host world Delta Summit

The first World Delta Summit will be organized here on November 21-24, 2011, according to Secretary of the ...