The Trans Java toll road or highway.

Buying palm oil estates and plantations in Indonesia.

Bali is the best vacation island in the world.

Internet connections in villages and rural areas.

Two investors desert Bintan island.

Freeport contributed over $1.5 billion in revenues to Indonesia in 2006.

Six Singaporean investors leave Batam.

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

Advice on buying homes, houses, and 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, producers of motorcycles, 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, or primitive houses.

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, with the cruise ship and surfing industries being targeted.

The city of Yogyakarta plans to build a Knowledge Park, or “Taman Pintar”, to spur on the information technology industry.

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.

Rural poverty in Indonesia. Forty-five percent of villages in Indonesia are classed as underdeveloped.

Balinese tourism continues to struggle with tourist arrivals to Bali declined 20% from January to May 2006, on the same period in 2005.

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 in the period January to July 2006.

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 woodcarvings and handicrafts.