The Trans Java toll road is probably going to be built shortly.

Foreign buying of palm oil estates and plantations.

Bali is (still) the best island in the world.

Internet connections in villages are not necessary.

Two investors desert Bintan island.

Freeport contributed over $1.5 billion in revenues to the state in 2006.

Six Singaporean investors leave Batam.

The Jakarta MRT, Mass Rapid Transit train system, is planned to open in 2014.

Advice for foreigners on buying villas and land in Bali.

By 2008 there will be about eighty or ninety malls in Jakarta, up from sixty odd now, even while shoppers often prefer to go to Singapore.

An example of some of the bureaucratic red tape that companies face in Indonesia.

The cautionary tale of Newmont executive Richard Ness.

Ten Indonesian cities are held to be suitable for the holding of international conferences and conventions.

The company at the heart of the Sidoarjo mudflow disaster in East Java, Lapindo Brantas Inc., faces losses of over $100 million.

TVS Motor Company of India sees Indonesia as the base for its operations in South East Asia.

Chinese and Vietnamese competition claims PT Krene, a manufacturer of bags and computer carry cases in Gresik, East Java, which has gone out of business.

The Royal Doulton Company is happy with its investment in Indonesia and plans to put another $125 million into its operations here.

About 14% of Indonesians live in pre-modern type housing.

Textiles producers are being encouraged to modernise their equipment with the offer of subsidies on loan repayments.

East Nusa Tenggara province is being touted as a hot property in the tourism sector in years to come.

The city of Yogyakarta plans to build a Knowledge Park, or "Taman Pintar", to spur on childrens' interest in information technology.

The government is gearing up to force the movement of manufacturing industries to industrial parks, while some lament the lack of infrastructure in such places.

Forty-five percent of villages in Indonesia are classed as underdeveloped or "left behind".

Balinese tourism continues to struggle with tourist arrivals to Bali declining 20% from January to May 2006, on the same period last year.

Indonesia still has a long way to go to compete with the likes of Singapore, says the head of the national investment body.

Tourist arrivals in Indonesia continue to decline overall.

At least ten provinces have proposed themselves, or parts of themselves, as candidates for special economic zone status.

The last six months have witnessed a deterioration in economic conditions, according to grumpy consumers in East Java.

The Asmat culture of Papua, or Irian Jaya, their rituals, dress, and handicrafts holds some interest. Their woodcarving designs in particular are renowned throughout the world.