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Satu zona waktu bisa hemat triliunan rupiah

Menteri Koordinator Bidang Perekonomian Hatta Rajasa menilai rencana penyatuan zona waktu di Indonesia merupakan langkah penghematan bagi negara.

"Ada studi-studi yang mengatakan bahwa dengan penyatuan zona waktu, maka pengaturan dan...

 

Sektor industri mendominasi ekspor Sumut 2012

Medan (ANTARA News) - Sektor industri menyumbang 71,95 persen nilai ekspor provinsi Sumatera Utara (Sumut) dan masih tetap mendominasi perdagangan luar negeri pada awal tahun 2012.

"Dari 1,667 miliar dolar AS nilai ekspor Sumut pada...

 

Penghentian TKI Informal akan Dilakukan Bertahap Hingga 2017

Kementerian Tenaga Kerja dan Transmigrasi akan menghentikan pengiriman Tenaga Kerja Indonesia (TKI) sektor informal ke luar negeri secara bertahap dan akan berakhir pada tahun 2017. Para calon TKI tetap akan dibekali dengan pelatihan sebelum...

 

RI Makin Diakui di Dunia

Dalam Ajang World Economic Forum 2012 yang diselenggarakan di Davos, Swiss, Indonesia masuk dalam kategori trillion dolar club.

Menteri Perdagangan Gita Wirjawan memaparkan hal tersebut ditandai dengan output ekonomi nasional atau...

 

Cadangan devisa Indonesia 23,34 triliun rupiah

Deputi Gubernur Bank Indonesia (BI) Hartadi A. Sarwono mengungkapkan total penerimaan dari pengelolaan cadangan devisa mencapai Rp23,34 triliun sepanjang 2011 lalu.

"Karena cadangan devisa meningkat dari 96 miliar dolar AS pada akhir...

 

Penyaluran Kredit Usaha Rakyat 2011 capai Rp29 triliun

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Menteri Koordinator Bidang Perekonomian Hatta Rajasa mengatakan...

 

Indonesia dorong percepatan alih teknologi kapal selam

Batam (ANTARA News) - Wakil Menteri Pertahanan, Sjafrie Sjamsoedin, memastikan pemerintah akan mendorong percepatan alih teknologi pembuatan kapal perang dalam negeri, termasuk kapal selam.

Selama ini, kata Sjafrie di Batam, Rabu...

 

Indonesia di Mata Media (Media Coverage on Indonesia)
Rendang Voted the Most Delicious Food in the World, and Nasi Goreng is No. 2

About 35,000 people have voted West Sumatra’s rendang as the number one food in the world. Guess which food came in second? Nasi goreng!

Satay, another staple Indonesian dish, also stood proud at No. 14.

In July, CNNGo came out with its own “World’s 50 Most Delicious Foods.” In that list, Thailand’s Massaman curry topped the culinary hierarchy, followed by Italy’s Neapolitan pizza

 
Indonesia's Batik Makers Turn Sustainable Practice into an Art Form

Indonesia's most highly developed art form, batik, is made by an ancient wax-resistant dying technique that predates written records.

Batik textiles were worn by the leaders of the prosperous Majapahit empire, which ruled much of south-east Asia between 1200 and 1500; they still remain a popular element of Indonesian culture. In recognition of batik's significance, Unesco in 2009 inscribed it on

 

Rendang Among Top 15 Best Foods in the World: CNNGo

CNNGo published an article last week that ranks the 50 most delectable eats on the planet, and one of Indonesia's most popular dishes, rendang, made it onto the list at number 11.

Unfortunately, neither nasi goreng, sate ayam nor Indomie made the culinary hall of fame, with rendang being the spice-rich country's only native cuisine to make the cut.

The article, titled “World’s 50 Most

 

Batak Family Feasts Breaks Record in Indonesia

What would you think of an open field filled with thousands of women carrying a kilo of rice above their heads? That’s exactly what happened at Lapangan Banteng, Medan, Indonesia on Saturday afternoon, July 9 2011. This grand event was not an art show or any mass demonstration, but an internal event of a clan from the tribe of Batak.

Tor-tor is a traditional dance that seems to lack aesthetic

 

Harungi jeram di Bali

Bila teringat tentang Bali, keunikan seni budaya, keindahan pantai dan panorama alam pasti terlintas di minda. Baru-baru ini Bali menjadi pilihan kami berlima untuk meraikan persahabatan yang telah terjalin selama 31 tahun. Saling mengenali sejak berusia 11 tahun, saya, Murni, Sya dan Roza sepakat memilih Bali untuk menikmati keindahan panoramanya dari sudut yang berbeza iaitu menerusi aktiviti

 

Ketakjuban Rinjani

HARI Pertama: Sudah berjam-jam lamanya kami menyusuri denai berjarak lebih tujuh kilometer ini. Setibanya di Pos 3, kami terduduk keletihan sambil membasahkan tekak yang telah lama kering. Sedikit makanan dijamah bagi melapik perut.

Selesai menunaikan solat jamak takdim zuhur dan asar, kami meneruskan pendakian. Kali ini, tiada lagi hutan tebal, sebaliknya terhampar luas kawasan savanah yang

 

TSI bukan sekadar dunia haiwan

MENYINGKAP tentang taman safari di seluruh dunia, sudah pasti andaian yang dibuat adalah biar di mana pun lokasinya, apa yang ‘dihidangkan’ di situ tentunya sama. Segala-galanya adalah mengenai kehidupan haiwan dan alamnya. Kebiasaannya dengan menaiki kenderaan empat roda, pengunjung dibawa melihat pelbagai haiwan beraksi, bergambar dengan haiwan dan sebagainya.

Namun suasana berbeza pasti

 

News

Garuda, Airbus ink $2.5 billion deal

 

Publicly-listed national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia signed a purchase contract on Wednesday for 11 A330-300 planes worth US$2.54 billion from

 

Govt to counter negative opinions of Indonesian CPO

The government considers claims of environmental destruction being lodged against the Indonesian palm oil industry as a part of a trade war, which

 

Indonesia develops rival sustainable palm oil scheme

The Indonesian government hit out at the Kuala Lumpur-based Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) on Tuesday, asserting that it was finalizing

 

Garuda, Standard Chartered Bank ink deal to boost expansion

National flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia (Garuda) and Standard Chartered Bank today announced the expansion of their strategic cooperation, aimed

 

Malaysian developer opens office in Jakarta

Malaysia’s No.1 property developer S P Setia Berhad marked its entry into the Indonesian market by officially launching its representative office

 

Chinese firm to build $400m cement plant

China’s largest cement maker, Anhui Conch Cement, plans to begin construction of a cement plant in South Kalimantan later this year with an

 

Pertamina’s $1.96b Spending Plan to Boost LNG Output

State oil and gas firm Pertamina has settled on a plan to invest $1.96 billion from this year through 2014 to build gas-related infrastructure, it

 

Indonesia Draws Record $19.3 Billion in Investments

Foreign investors pumped a record $19.3 billion (‪Rp 176 trillion‬) into Indonesia last year, up 20 percent from the previous year, the

 

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Opini (Opinion)

Indonesia: An abundance of wonders and beauty

Indonesia has a national motto which reads in Bahasa Indonesia - Bhinneka Tunggal Ika; translated to English it means Unity in Diversity. For anyone in Indonesia this is familiar but for those less

 

Musik Pop

Saya menyalahkan Ruth Sahanaya. Semua berawal darinya. Saya tidak pernah memperhatikan musik pop Indonesia sebelum mengenalnya. Namun ketika mendengar ia bernyanyi Kaulah Segalanya, saya langsung

 

Analysis: Indonesia: Year in review

As the year comes to a close, Indonesia can look back on 2010 with no small degree of satisfaction. The economy is performing well, foreign investment is on the rise and there is continued political

 

All to gain from a buoyant Jakarta

TWO articles published last week underscore Indonesia’s lustrous economic prospects. If Southeast Asia’s largest economy fulfils its potential, Malaysian policymakers should welcome this

 

Made in Indonesia – sold around the world

There has been a lot of good economic news from Indonesia lately.  The economy is expected to grow by at least 6 percent per annum over the next five years.  Nominal per capita GDP is expected to