Many children from transnational couples are legally eligible for Indonesian citizenship after lawmakers passed a bill in August.
Now all their parents have to do is to negotiate thickets of red tape and bureaucratic ignorance to get their claims processed by immigration.
Or they can get someone else to do it.
“My boss, a Malaysian citizen, asked me […]
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), through its community empowerment program (CEP), is preparing a number of development projects valued at US$15 million in South Sulawesi.
“The South Sulawesi administration and the Japanese government have signed an agreement to carry out development projects in the province,” JICA’s deputy resident representative Hanazato Nobuhiko said Friday in Jakarta.
He said […]
PT Essar Indonesia, a local affiliate of India-based conglomerate Essar Group, will build a pellet factory at a cost of US$500 million on Kalimantan island to strengthen its presence in the country’s steel industry, an official says.
“Essar is willing to build a pellet factory with a production capacity of about two million tons per annum,” […]
PT Aquatico will soon take over half of Jakarta’s piped water concession after the government gave the green light Thursday for the consortium to acquire all shares of PT Thames PAM Jaya (TPJ).
The assessment team comprising officials from the city administration, Public Works Ministry and the Asian Development Bank, approved Aquatico’s take over bid since […]
ndonesia shares rose 0.7 percent to hit a freshrecord Monday, lifted by gains in most Asian markets, firmerlocal currency and growing hopes that the central bank would cutkey interest rate early next month.
The Jakarta Stock Exchange main index was settled at1,728.933.
Bank Indonesia is expected on Dec. 7 to cut its benchmarkinterest rate to 9.75 percent […]
Indonesia has set a modest target of 4 gold medals at the 15th Asian Games in Doha.
A limited budget means the former southeast asian powerhouse has had to cut back on expectations.
For a country who once dominated Southeast Asia’s sporting scene - Indonesia’s small contingent reflects the country’s struggling economy.
With just US$5m to spare, the […]
India’s third-largest motorcycle maker, TVS Motor Co., plans to invest up to $100 million in Indonesia over the next three years to set up a production base for the region, a company official said on Monday.
TVS is the second Indian motorcycle company to tap demand for two-wheeled transport in the world’s fourth most populous nation. […]
Thousands of Yogyakartans flocked to polling stations Sunday to directly elect their new mayor and deputy mayor for the first time.
A total of 358,044 citizens cast their votes at 887 polling stations in 14 districts. Two pairs of candidates were running for the 2006-2011 term.
Businessman Widharto and his running mate, former deputy Yogyakarta mayor Syukri […]
Despite complaints about the government’s handling of the May 27 earthquake in Yogyakarta and parts of Central Java, Japanese Red Cross chief Tadateru Konoe praised the effort.
Konoe toured quake-hit areas Saturday in Klaten, Central Java, and Bantul, Yogyakarta.
“I think the response to the quake is sufficient,” he said. “Moreover I’m impressed by the fact that […]
Many Yogyakartans reacted indifferently to the upcoming mayoral elections which will kick off Sunday while all preparations were completed Thursday.
Santoso, 48, a resident of Tegalturi in Giwangan district, Yogyakarta, said he was given a voter’s card but he claimed he had no information about the upcoming election.
“When’s the voting day anyway?,” he asked two pedicab […]
Indonesia and the Czech Republic Tuesday agreed on bilateral defense cooperation, in the forms of the exchange of student officers, defense information and transfer of technology and data, a top Indonesian military official said.
The agreement with the eastern European nation was reached a week after Indonesia agreed to purchase weaponry from Russia worth 1 billion […]
Thailand will send 48 endangered orangutans home to Indonesia this week, two months after their return was delayed by a military coup, a Thai forestry official said Monday.
The primates had been smuggled into Thailand and were seized at a Bangkok zoo two years ago.
They would finally be sent home Wednesday, flying on a military aircraft […]