Indonesia Update

Indonesia’s mobile market has grew significantly. Hutchison Charoen Pokphand Telecom (HCPT) Indonesia decided to become the new player to the country’s mobile market after it rolled-out its nationwide GSM-based services Thursday.
HCPT Indonesia will compete with existing local giants Telkomsel, Indosat and Excelcomindo as well as CDMA-based operators Telkom, Mobile-8, Bakrie Telecom and Sampoerna Telecom Indonesia.
Telkomsel […]

It’s a good news. Instead of negotiating a contract to sell the Avian flu virus samples to an American vaccine company, an Indonesian engineer creates a new technology to combat against bird flu and awarded an international grant from Qualcomm, a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless […]

Please allow me to talk about myself on this occasion. I already decided to quit from my existing job as a journalist with Tempo, Indonesia’s most respected general affairs magazine, and turn independent writer and full-time blogger.
Beyond my expectations, news of my departure hit the country’s blogosphere and got a lot of positive responses from […]

One day after Garuda jetliner crashed in Yogyakarta, I found there are no such emergency or special pages in the airline’s website. The Web just provides the standard menus like Reservation, Destinations etc. There are no, for instance, emergency banners to direct the site visitors to special pages which consist of the latest information on […]

JAKARTA — Garuda Indonesia jetliner carrying 140 people burst into flames as it landed at Adi Sutjipto airport in Yogyakarta early Wednesday, killing at least 22 people and wounding score others, officials said.
MetroTV television reported that many bodies had not been evacuated from the burned plane.
The Boeing 737-400 was carrying 10 Australians, including journalists […]

An Indonesia minister fails to find humor in political satire. He even said it humiliates government institutions and provides a “negative political education” for the people. But on the other hand, by revealing this, I think the minister “has” a sense of humor, too…
Groundbreaking political satire Republik Mimpi (Republic of Dreams) TV program, says it […]

JAKARTA — Government leaders and security chiefs from six Asia-Pacific nations will gather later on Monday to discuss ways to better fight terrorism and an apparent rise in Muslim extremism in the region, officials said.
Participants from Indonesia, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore - nations seen as especially vulnerable to terrorist attacks - […]

JAKARTA: Rescuers searched for survivors yesterday after landslides killed at least 40 people on an eastern Indonesian island, with scores more believed buried under the mud. Seasonal downpours cause landslides and flash floods each year in Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains. […]

Indonesia may choose Japanese technology to anticipate the possibilities of natural disaster such as earthquakes and tsunamis hit.
The Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) system would send the disaster warnings through designated organizations, even when the receiving devices were switched off.
If an earthquake or tsunami occurred, TV sets and portable TV receivers would be activated […]