SBY-JK STILL CONSIDERED BEST TICKET FOR NEXT ELECTIONS

Jakarta, Feb 23 (ANTARA) – While Vice President Jusuf Kalla (JK) has expressed readiness to run for presidency in the upcoming presidential elections, political observers say it would be better for him to maintain his duet with incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY).
A research institute released the results of its survey on Monday indicated that [...]

SBY-JK GOVT TO REMAIN SOLID DESPITE POSSIBLE RIVALRY

Jakarta, Feb 22 (ANTARA) – The government under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla (SBY-JK) is expected to remain solid until the end of their tenure in October this year despite possible rivalry between the two in the coming presidential elections in July.Political observers have aired concern that Jusuf Kalla’s statement of [...]

MOST OF RI’S GARBAGE NOT DISPOSED OF PROPERLY

Jakarta, Feb 21 (ANTARA) – About 79 percent of the estimated 176,000 tons of garbage urban Indonesians produce each day fails to be deposited properly but is thrown into rivers, onto parks or burnt at any convenient place due to the lack of waste transportation services and appropriate garbage dumps.

NATIONAL STEEL INDUSTRY FACING GLOOMY CONDITIONS

Jakarta, Feb 20 (ANTARA) – The global economic crisis has begun impacting Indonesia’s iron business with the steel industry now making every possible effort to shore up sales amid excessive stocks, a gloomy world market and declining domestic demand.

RI EXPECTED TO HELP BRIDGE WEST-MUSLIM WORLD

Jakarta, Feb 18 (ANTARA) – US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in her two-day visit to Indonesia is expected to lay the foundations of a role that Jakarta can play in nurturing the close good relations between the United States and the Muslim world. “The relations between Indonesia and the United States are always [...]

FIRMS BEING ENCOURAGED TO INVEST IN BIOFUEL PROJECTS

Jakarta, Feb 17 (ANTARA) – Facing the problem of depleting oil reserves and continuously increasing fuel oil consumption, Indonesia is trying to make use of its vast land territory by encouraging investors to invest in integrated biofuel projects to replace fossil fuels.

MK WARNS OF POTENTIAL DISPUTES IN COMING ELECTIONS

Jakarta, Feb 13 (ANTARA) – The struggle of 11 small political parties against the 2.5-percent parliamentary threshold clause in the election law came to naught on Friday when the Constitutional Court (MK) rejected their demand for a judicial review of the rule. The parties had filed a lawsuit with the MK demanding a judicial review [...]

MIANGAS ISLAND BELONGS TO INDONESIA

Jakarta, Feb 13 (ANTARA) – Miangas island in North Sulawesi which shares borders with Mindanao island in the Philippines clearly belongs to Indonesia. So, there is no need to kick a fuss over its ownership status, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda says. Electronic and print media have in the past several days focused on a report [...]

WILL SBY-JK PAIR CONTINUE IN 2009 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?

Jakarta, Feb 11 (ANTARA) – Whether President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla (SBY-JK) are to maintain their coalition in the presidential race next July has now become a hot political issue, due in part to a controversial statement by an executive of Yudhoyono’s Democrat Party (PD). In the statement, Democrat Party associate [...]

REGIONAL ADM DEEMED UNSUCCESSFUL

Jakarta, Feb 7 (ANTARA) – Last Tuesday’s violent rally in Medan demanding the elevation of a district’s administrative status to that of a province, and causing the death of a North Sumatra councilor, has sparked calls for a review of the benefits of regional administrative re-divisions. After chairing a limited cabinet meeting on Friday to [...]