Development of a hyper mass-market automobile industry and cheap cars for as many as possible.

Purba on the quality levels of Indonesian construction methods, and building contracts in Dubai.

Callum criticizes partial privatization plans for Kratakau Steel, Garuda Indonesia and Bank Tabungan Negara.

Callum on the tin mining industry, government limiting of production and exports, and illegal mining.

Callum on the causes of Indonesia's oil woes and the way forward.

Minimum wage rates for 2008 throughout Indonesia.

The top Indonesian exporters for 2007.

Developing geothermal energy with Iceland.

Foreign buying of palm oil estates and plantations.

Light, airy batik fashion is best.

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

Indonesian airlines to be banned from flying into Europe.

The government is to hold a "Visit Indonesia Year" in 2008.

Cement demand and investment.

Creating a national brand for Indonesia.

Much of the media in Indonesia is bad quality, pornographic and unprofitable.

Making Indonesia number one in biofuel production.

On nationalizing foreign businesses.

Land ownership in Indonesia is grossly unbalanced.

Indonesian herbal medicine, jamu, and quality standards.

The top four Indonesian companies, according to Forbes.

Indonesians have a taste for luxury in the Singapore property market.

Indonesia is ranked 60th in the tourism beauty stakes.

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

Farmers in Indonesia are judged to be far behind their peers in comparable countries.

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

Current trends in the furniture industry are to the modern designer end.

Advice for foreigners on buying villas and land in Bali.

Jusuf Kalla says a syariah based banking system will better create prosperity.

A slow decline is forecast for cigarette production and consumption.

Foreigners may soon be able to buy apartments.

The Toyota Rush and Daihatsu Terios will soon be launched.

Bank Artha Niaga & Swadesi are being bought out by foreigners.

Toyota hopes to export the Fortuner model and increase exports of the Avanza.

The cautionary tale of Newmont executive Richard Ness.

Bajaj of India intends to take on the Indonesian motorbike market.

The Trade minister says the Indonesian shoe industry is still competitive and sound.

Three Adidas shoe factories in West Java close down.

The railways industry will be opened up to limited competition but not fully privatised.

Construction of one thousand Base Transceiver Station units is being tendered out for the Telkom Flexi service.

The state electricity company has intentions to reduce prices for industry.

The government is restricting the level of foreign investment permissible in the fiber optic industry.

The electronics manufacturing industry is struggling to compete with black market, parallel import, and smuggled goods.

Profits reported by major Indonesian retail banks year to date have generally witnessed respectable gains on last year's performance.

The number of companies experiencing difficulties in paying workers their annual bonus has increased, particularly in the textiles sector.

Palm, Microsoft and Excelcomindo Pratama (XL) are working together to bring the Palm Treo 750v smartphone to the Indonesian market.

Nissan has committed $60 million over the next few years to increase its market share in Indonesia, and plans to shortly launch the new Livina model.

It is proposed that non-Indonesians be able to have right of use over land for up to 70 years.

Indonesian toy and games manufacturers struggle to compete with Chinese competition, even in the domestic market.

Bank Indonesia says it regards foreign players in the banking market no differently than their local counterparts.

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.

Bank Central Asia is the sole Indonesian listing in Forbes' Fabulous 50 Asian Companies list.

Bank Halim may be bought out by ICBC of mainland China.

Bank Indonesia says there are fifty banks in the country which are in an unhealthy state.

Frozen eel exports from Indonesia have met with rejection from European health officials.

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

Indonesia fears its textiles industry could suffer sanctions from the US over the Chinese transhipments issue.

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

Free trade, or globalization, has caused much financial suffering in Indonesia, says a scholarly body, but the blame is laid squarely on the nation itself.

Reliance on chemical pesticides harms Indonesian food and agriculture exports to Europe.

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

The courts may be getting serious about the selling of pirated computer software.

Sales of cars in August 2006 bucked the recent downward trend but year-on-year comparisons paint a still bleak picture. Some say the market will not recover until 2008.

Great opportunities are said to exist in the Indonesian cable television industry, as research shows television viewers hanker for more than terrestrial stations offer.

Three new licenses have been granted for the provision of 3G phone services.

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.

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

Small and medium sized businesses are to receive subsidies on their loans.

Tourist arrivals in Indonesia continue to decline overall.

The level of exports of furniture from Jepara, central Java, continues to decline.

Exports of Indonesian furniture continue to stagnate.

The sharia compliant banking sector in the country continues its rise.