Indonesia is still the largest producer of cinnamon, cloves, and “nutmeg, mace, cardamons” in the world. (And coconuts too).Indonesia is also among the largest ten producing countries of many other agricultural commodities like vanilla, cocoa, coffee, …
Indonesia is still the largest producer of cinnamon, cloves, and “nutmeg, mace, cardamons” in the world. (And coconuts too).Indonesia is also among the largest ten producing countries of many other agricultural commodities like vanilla, cocoa, coffee, …
Indonesia is still the largest producer of cinnamon, cloves, and “nutmeg, mace, cardamons” in the world. (And coconuts too).Indonesia is also among the largest ten producing countries of many other agricultural commodities like vanilla, cocoa, coffee, …
From Tanjung Karang, it takes at least six hours by car to get to Buay Bahuga, a small village in Way Kanan District, Lampung Province.For almost half of the journey, we go through a potholed-, narrow- and winding road, up and down the hills of Bukit B…
From Tanjung Karang, it takes at least six hours by car to get to Buay Bahuga, a small village in Way Kanan District, Lampung Province.For almost half of the journey, we go through a potholed-, narrow- and winding road, up and down the hills of Bukit B…
From Tanjung Karang, it takes at least six hours by car to get to Buay Bahuga, a small village in Way Kanan District, Lampung Province.For almost half of the journey, we go through a potholed-, narrow- and winding road, up and down the hills of Bukit B…
There’s no shortage of creditors wanting to lend to pedigreed borrowers, such as PT Astra International, Indonesia’s largest car retailer. It’s the small and midsized businesses that are getting shut out of the credit market because lenders are unwilli…
There’s no shortage of creditors wanting to lend to pedigreed borrowers, such as PT Astra International, Indonesia’s largest car retailer. It’s the small and midsized businesses that are getting shut out of the credit market because lenders are unwilli…
Treespotter spurs a heated debate over common sense, which boils down to this: Is it OK if “expat blogs use the words racism, radicalism, Islamism, hypocrites and whatever else rather liberally to express [their] unpleasantness” in living in Indonesia?…
…Benjamin Olken, an economist from Harvard, used randomized evaluations to study ways to deter corruption in public works projects. He looked at 600 projects in Indonesia in which villagers were responsible for using a grant from the central governme…
Late last year, responding to the economic slowdown, the administration promised that they would stimulate the economy by accelerating the implementation of the 2006 government budget.The realization of the 2006 Government Budget up to July 7, 2006 So,…
A fish seller at Sunda Kelapa’s fish market © Javajive Pictures Indonesia in Pictures
I noticed that a member of my family was browsing this website. I mentioned to him that he’ll need to take everything with the biggest grain of salt, but had to finish my tasks and he was gone before I could elaborate or listen to his inquiries.
Anyway, there’s so much disinformation in this website, it’s […]
Indonesia is about to surpass Vietnam as the country hardest hit by avian flu. And while Vietnam has not had a single human case or poultry outbreak this year, public health officials and experts say the situation in Indonesia is likely to get worse……
I thank Budi Putra for guest blogging in the last couple of weeks.Now, let me introduce our second guest — Phone Nuryadin of Seputar Ekonomi. He is a researcher at Econit Advisory Group, and occasionally writes op-ed pieces, among others, in Jawa Pos…
Found this website by accident - MuslimHeritage.com. Shows what Muslims were in the past - rahmatan lil ‘alamin, a blessing for all.
Unfortunately, that’s not the case now. Not yet, I hope.
Note: If you’re a Muslim (or not) blogger, please help spread the word. Link to this article (or the website), so others may find it […]
Koran Tempo today reports the following timeline on how the government responded to the recent quake and tsunami: The quake struck at 15.19 WIB (Jakarta Time), recorded by the Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) at 5.5 on the Richter s…
Under fire for failing to warn people in the southern coast of Java about the impending tsunami, this is how the government explains itself:1Seven minutes after the quake, we sent hundreds of text messages to “ministers, district heads and mayors as we…
Monday’s quake struck at 3:24 p.m. about 150 miles beneath the ocean floor…After the quake, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and Japan’s Meteorological Agency issued warnings of a possible tsunami. It struck Java about an hour later.Science and Tec…
My friend once told me about muslims in a corner of Russia looking for free quran, because they’re so poor and can’t afford it - yet they really would like to study it. I knew there are institutions giving Quran for free, but I wasn’t able to find it at that time.
I only found it […]