Indonesia :: One and Only

Mustaqim Adamrah ,  The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta   |  Mon, 10/06/2008 9:58 AM  |  Business

Several local firms will conduct tests on Indonesian-brand vehicles before launching the models to tap the country’s car market, which is dominated by Japanese firms.

State-owned train manufacturer PT Industri Kereta Api (Inka) will produce a car under brand name Gea (a girl’s name in Indonesia), while Semarang State University (Unnes) is teaming up with local administrations to manufacture a car model named Arina.

An unnamed Serang-based company will also join in the race by producing a car called Tawon, which means “bee” in local dialect. Read the rest of this entry »

Pacitan, E Java (ANTARA News) – Indonesia`s textile and textile product exports in the first seven months of 2008 rose 6.17 percent to US$6.06 billion from US$5.71 billion in the same period last year, an Industry Ministry official said.

Textile and textile product exports contributed 22.38 percent of the country`s non-oil/non-gas exports and 14.45 percent of industrial product exports over the period, the ministry`s director of industrial and mining product exports, Hartojo Agus Tjahjono said here on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »

Zainal Effendi – detikSurabaya

Surabaya – Berawal dari keprihatinan dengan harga kedelai dan banyaknya home industri tempe yang gulung tikar, dua siswa SMP Kristen Petra III berhasil menciptakan alat fermentasi tempe. Alat ciptaan siswa SMP ini dapat mempersingkat waktu pembuatan tempe hanya menjadi 5 jam.

Alat fermentasi tempe ciptaan kedua siswa ini menyerupai box yang mempunyai pengatur temperatur suhu. Dengan begitu alat ini dapat mengefisienkan waktu pembuatan dengan meminimalisirkan waktu pembuatan tempe yang lamanya 36 jam. Read the rest of this entry »

JAKARTA, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s anti-graft agency said on Wednesday an official at the country’s anti-trust watchdog and a businessman were suspects in a 500 million rupiah ($52,910) bribery case involving TV broadcast rights for soccer.

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