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Food self-sufficiency is expected to be realized in 2018, and there will be no imports in 2016, Vice President Jusuf Kalla asserted. “Food-sufficiency is expected to be realized within three years for which the efforts have started a year ago,” Kalla said…
Indonesia has officially offered Japan the opportunity to take part in the semi high-speed rail construction project connecting Jakarta to Surabaya in East Java, a senior minister said. Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan delivered…
Halal Zone will soon arrive in Pulogadung Industrial Area, East Jakarta, serving as a showcase for Indonesias halal industrial products, officials said. “Halal Zone will have facilities that support halal management and halal product distribution,” Financial…
No one wants Foodpanda Indonesia. Not enough consumers ordered its delivery service and after as long as a year trying to sell the business as a going concern, Foodpanda’s parent Rocket simply shut it down. The last order was taken at 10pm on Monday October…
eCommerce group Lazada Indonesia says its current volume growth has accelerated to more than 150 per cent than at the same time last year. Key contributing categories are FMCG and fashion, which are both growing more than three times as much as last year.…
Swiss chocolate producer Barry Callebaut has expanded its operations in Indonesia with the grand opening of its first chocolate factory in the country. Through a long-term outsourcing agreement with GarudaFood Group, one of the largest food and beverage…
Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport recorded an increase in the number of passengers coming and going through the airport. In September, the airport has seen 14.8 million passengers flying from and to the airport, an increase of 16 percent from the same…
Marine and Fisheries Affairs Minister Susi Pudjiastuti will facilitate fishermen or ship owners who owns ships with a capacity of less than 10 gross tonnage to have access to banking services. Minister Susi said that ship owners would only need came to the…
The tax amnesty scheme in Indonesia has had a much smaller impact on funds flowing out of Singapore’s private banking industry than feared, an RHB report suggested on Tuesday. The funds flowing out of Singapore likely made up only 1-2 per cent of assets under…
Deputy Director of the BI Financial Management Department Asral Mashuri in Jakarta, Tuesday 4, 2016, said that Bank Indonesia (BI) is planning on implementing a coin deposit machine to ease people in saving the form of money. “The machine would look like an…
Indonesia is predicted to be the country in Southeast Asia with the second-highest price for Apple’s new iPhone 7, according to a recent price study by iPrice Indonesia, local arm of online shopping startup the iPrice Group. The iPhone is manufactured in…
The government is optimistic the country would be self sufficient in salt supply in 2017, an official said here on Wednesday. Agung Kuswandono, the Deputy II in Coordination of Natural Resources and Service at the office of the Coordinating Minister for…
Dozens of domestic workers attended a course at Sanggar Kegiatan Belajar in Malang City on Tuesday. The course for domestic workers was held by the Institute for Community Research and Development (LPKP) Malang chapter and the International Labour…
Vietnam and Indonesia are tipped to become the largest Southeast Asian eCommerce markets within the next five years. Stunning growth in both markets is predicted in a report by global research company Frost & Sullivan which expects the broader region’s…
Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL Group and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are once again conducting their joint preventative training, known as Get Airports Ready for Disaster (GARD), at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport, Lombok…
With Indonesia’s affluent middleclass and millionaire population growing rapidly amidst a temporary slowdown in the property market, there is great interest from local and regional industry players and experts on how Indonesia’s property sector can face its…
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