Indonesia

INDONESIA IS OFTEN ECLIPSED by its more vocal neighbor, China, or its more prosperous Asian colleague, Japan.

With the United States increasingly looking to China, Dino says Indonesia has developed a bit of a "middle-power" complex.

Indonesia has become a democracy but in Papua the army still seems to function as a state within the state.

Of course, you do not need any reminders that nature is often unkind to Indonesia.

"In terms of [workers'] productivity and logistics, Vietnam and Indonesia cannot compete with China at this moment, " he said.

The attacks came as Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, appeared to be re-establishing itself as a tourist destination.

He said that is one of the U-China's IT manufacturing companies in Indonesia, the performance is pretty good.

The 36-year-old scientist says he decided to leave Japan and return to Indonesia after a realization he made while changing diapers.

He said he has accepted ASEAN's invitation to join the East Asia Summit, which will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2011.

She told him she had maintained a correspondence with his father and that he knew all about Barry's life in Indonesia and in Hawaii.

Certainly, the sinking of Indonesia and the folding of the plates has not completed, but the S American roll is trying to start.

His visit is a sweet return for the president who spent several years of his boyhood living in Indonesia.

'Indonesia can be a good partner for the U. S. to reach out to the Muslim world, ' he said.

Last Monday, thousands of workers began a week-long strike on Monday at the Grasberg mine in Indonesia's Papua province.

Whatever you jot down on your itinerary, a voyage through Indonesia's 17, 508 islands is an epic experience, never just a journey.

A warning system was installed in Indonesia after the 2004 disaster but it did not seem to work after Monday's quake.

At the Taman Safari Zoo in Indonesia, one-month-old Sumatran tiger twins and a pair of baby orangutans shared a room in the zoo's nursery.

Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, is under up to two meters of water. Forty percent of the city is under the surface of sea water.

The 47-year-old president is the son of a black Kenyan father and a white American mother. He grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia.

Indonesia has not managed to draw investment in the sort of labour-intensive manufacturing for export that fuelled China's boom.

The way was open once more for the British to challenge the Dutch supremacy over the trade of Indonesia.

Indonesia has been a wobbly place to do business since the fall of President Suharto in 1998, but things are getting especially rocky now.

That, at least, is the finding of a recent study of illicit transactions in Indonesia.

In a joint news conference, Mr. Obama said he is glad to be back in Indonesia.

After the fall of Suharto in Indonesia, I began to explore conditions of poverty in a country that was on its way towards modernization.

Which I thought was maybe a little obvious, given that I was in Indonesia at the moment, but I didn't force the point .

FOR power stations on the coast of China, it is often cheaper to import coal by sea from Indonesia than from mines in the interior.

Indonesia and the Philippines are the only countries expected to see increased growth both this year and next.

Now the dilution of Bahasa Indonesia is not the result of a deliberate government policy. It's just occurring naturally.

He said the review would determine the length of the delay that Indonesia will ask for.

But it was Mr Yudhoyono's words about Islam and its place in Indonesia that drew attention.

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Ballot said the primary aim of the computer link between Dutch and Indonesia was to raise public awareness of the apes and their plight.

The Bali Breakfast builds on an initiative taken by Indonesia at the time of the U. N. meeting on Global Climate Change.

Lastly, I was invited by an elderly medicine man to come and live with him in Indonesia.

In both India and Indonesia, elections loom next year, and inflation still remains something of a bug-bear.

Chen Shui-bian has made surprise visits to Libya and Indonesia on his way home from Latin America.

A goby fish with brilliant orange streaks stands out on a bit of gray bubble coral in Maumere Bay off Indonesia's Flores Island.

The Malaysia-Indonesia maritime border row was one of the numerous border disputes in the region.

Unlike India, Indonesia does not stagger its election, though some Christian districts will be allowed to delay voting a few days.

Indonesia is in a very active seismic zone, also, but by virtue of it's larger size than Japan, it has more total earthquakes.

This was the culmination of years of debate, in many ways a tribute to Indonesia's vibrant new democracy.

South Korea, Denmark and Sweden come out on top, whereas India, Egypt and Indonesia wind up at the bottom.

So far, Indonesia's generals have behaved pretty impeccably, despite the many problems of that vast archipelago.

It has been abandoned for half a year in 2006 before client decided to appoint Aboday Architects (Indonesia) to revive the project.

But it was great to be there with no phone, no fax, no email. . . I'm about to go off to Indonesia for UNICEF.

The name of the product is due to the fact that its ingredients were manufactured and bought in the Makassar port in Indonesia.

It said that only Indonesia, South Korea and India had currencies that appeared to be slightly over-valued against the dollar.

Obama just concluded visit to India, he and his wife Michelle take the "Air Force One" aircraft flew to Jakarta, Indonesia 9.

Indonesia is always treading a fine line on these sorts of issues.

He tells the story as an illustration of the sort of religious violence that has become all too common in Indonesia.

Merapi volcano is still spewing ash and smoke, however, a volcanologist said the Government of Indonesia, eruption activity sign of abating.

She had spent the war years in a Japanese concentration camp in Indonesia, where she was born.

I don't think we were at war against Indonesia, or simply trying to impoverish the Philippines.

Indonesia has also persuaded reformed jihadists to try to talk their brethren out of their beliefs, with mixed results.

China's rate of labour productivity growth outstrips that of Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia and Turkey, it says.

Flying can be hazardous anywhere in Indonesia, and the same is at least as true of Papua.

The meeting also adopted the establishment of peace in Indonesia's network of centers of the concept of the book.

When he is seven, his mother married a Indonesian whom she known when her studied in the Hawai University, then they moved to Indonesia.

The company recently demonstrated its plane in Europe and is talking to agencies in Australia and Indonesia, Wahlberg says.

We need the United States, China, Bolivia and Venezuela to say less, and for Europe, Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa to say more.

For this reason, some parts of Indonesia to take the form of supplementary laws and regulations, constraints on personal conduct.

This paper is an attempt to make a preliminary exploration of three different cases of Singapore, Indonesia and Philippines.

At the other end of the scale, in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, it was seen as a positive force by more than 90% of those questioned.

Ironically for such a gourmet luxury product , kopi luwak began life as the cast-offs of the Dutch when Indonesia was their colony .

Our reporters placed restaurant orders with a twist like a vegetarian meal in France and factored in a peanut allergy in Jakarta, Indonesia.

However, he characterized policy responses so far as "reasonable" and was still optimistic about his exposure to Indonesia and South Korea.

China was Clinton's final stop on a four-nation Asian tour that also took her to Japan, Indonesia and South Korea.

Underlying their concerns was the expectation that Mr Ban wanted to put an American in charge: Lynn Pascoe, the US ambassador to Indonesia.

The forum is an attempt to carve out a niche for Indonesia in Asian diplomacy.

Chen Biting, Shenhua's chairman, said the company wanted to buy coal assets in Indonesia, Australia and Mongolia.

When I called to congratulate him on winning the Cup, the team was in Indonesia; it was in the middle of the night.

Government officials said the deal would allow Indonesia to retain intellectual property rights over virus strains in the country.

But Indonesia is not the first country to succumb to agricultural protectionism, and will not be the last.

In western and central Indonesia, the main meal is usually cooked in the late morning, and consumed around midday.

The United States also began to restore bilateral ties with Myanmar (formerly Burma) and to promote ties with Indonesia.

His mother was white, his father was Kenyan, they broke up when he was two and the young Barack later lived in Hawaii and Indonesia.

Isla Batam, known as the "Pearl of the Indonesia" is located just off the South West coast of Singapore.

Dunne, the son of renowned auto spy photographer Jim Dunne, grew up in Detroit and currently lives outside Jakarta, Indonesia.

It's also down in the other markets, which are traditionally our strongholds: Russia, Germany, Indonesia, UAE, and on and on and on.

The Delegation of Indonesia advised that the General Assembly should consider wisely the recommendation to convene a diplomatic conference.

The crisis had begun in Thailand in 1997, then infected Indonesia and South Korea, and now it had spread to Russia.

Found: A new species of "hopping" fish off the coast of Indonesia.

He says the Bank, at the request of Indonesia, is also restructuring seven of its existing projects in the country.

In the aftermath of the tsunami in Indonesia in 2004, I spent days trying to locate in Banda Aceh the exact location.

An African-American with a father born in Kenya and a childhood spent partly in Indonesia presents a very different face to the world.

A person born in Indonesia by a Mexican parentage is allowed to carry a Mexican name on his Indonesian citizenship form.

Coming up in today's show, Tzu Chi volunteers hold a free clinic for people living off a huge landfill outside Jakarta in Indonesia.

Only a few years earlier, Indonesia and Malaysia had been fighting a guerrilla war against each other on the island of Borneo.

The tsunami badly damaged one of the main palm oil terminals in western Indonesia, near the city of Meulaboh.

A roaring economy and religious violence are evidence of a growing disparity between Indonesia's global ambitions and its problems at home.

Hegrew up in Indonesia and Hawaii. this unusual background made him wonder who he was.

The tongue of the plate holding Indonesia is buckling, like an accordion, due to the squeeze it is under.

Indonesia's Department of particulate shellac gum imported from Indonesia by the company derived from the production line processing.

The agreement will reduce Indonesia's debt payments to the United States by nearly $30 million over the next eight years.

Further along the timeline, China, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand could also develop into the next group of online markets.

But he had at least set standards for government accountability and openness in Indonesia, which helped democracy to grow.

Indonesia and the United States together hope to improve the quality of education for the next generation of Indonesia's leaders.

Indonesia has already begun to confront some of these difficult challenges.

For all that ASEAN operates according to its famed consensus, Indonesia has been its stealth leader.

At least one person has been killed and several injured by a suicide bombing at a church in Central Java, Indonesia.

He said China and Indonesia are friendly neighbors and the two peoples enjoy time-honored friendly exchanges.

I saw it in my mother, as she worked to lift up the rural poor, from Indonesia to Pakistan.

Indonesia suffered years of chaos and low growth after the collapse of his rotten regime.

When Ann returned to Indonesia, the young Barack remained behind in Hawaii, where he was raised by his maternal grandparents.

The United States is reaching out to fast-growing economies like Indonesia and Vietnam as new markets for American goods and services.

The next Facebook is increasingly likely to be founded in India or Indonesia rather than middle-aged America or doddery old Europe.

Fragments remained as Indonesia and the Pacific islands, and a few survivors reached India, where they became the elite Brahman caste.

Such crimes are extremely rare in Indonesia. But public interest quickly waned as the killer's trail appeared to cool.

The United States, Britain, and Australia discouraged travel to Indonesia and parts of the Phillippines.

Indonesia, a key player in talks shaping the Law of the Sea, has been irritated by the US navy sailing ships through its straits at will.

The court case was over a toned-down version of the U. S. magazine that was launched in Indonesia last April.

But for now the company is wary of relocating due to political instability and lack of skilled workers in Vietnam and Indonesia.

The ban by Indonesia, its biggest supplier, led to a surge in the price of sand, used in both concrete and land-reclamation.

Civil society in Indonesia, he declared, defines its main function as trying to prevent this reversal. It is the number-one priority for us.

There were other hominids, too, like the rugged Homo neanderthalensis in Europe and the Hobbit-like Homo floresiensis of Indonesia.

China, Japan, and Indonesia must be among Obama's priorities, but many others will clamour for him to visit their capitals.

Indonesia is an important market for Australia, with which it shares a maritime border.

By early January the rate on America's debt had climbed a bit, but Indonesia's financing costs had plunged to a shade under 6%.

Merapi and the other volcanoes of Indonesia, by contrast, are the result of two plates moving together.

Bold horizontal bands of black, white, and yellow pop out on a well-lighted sweetlips (Plectorhinchus polytaenia) in Indonesia.

Its research ranks China constantly in the bottom three for corporate governance, just above the Philippines and Indonesia.

An expensive tsunami warning system either came to late or did not reach communities at risk after Monday's quake in Indonesia.

About this incident, is likely to request low-key South Korean NIS understanding, Indonesia to accept an apology to an end.

They are the only developing economies with annual GDPs of over $1 trillion (Indonesia's is only half that).

During one such trial in Indonesia last month, of a Christian accused of insulting Islam, rioters attacked the court and burned churches.

Don't be such a bore! Combine In Indonesia, the two principal political parties have combined to form a government.

Indonesia must resolve long-simmering regional conflicts, and parts of Mexico are close to being overwhelmed by drug violence.

It is karaoke night. Every night seems to be karaoke night in Indonesia.

An earthquake off the coast of Indonesia triggered a tsunami that surged across the Indian Ocean, and reached as far as the coast of Africa.

He has brought Indonesia closer to Australia, its big southern neighbour with which it has a troubled past.

Indonesia's decision to stop clearing, which will slow the growth of its palm-oil industry, was not just for the good of the planet.

Two years ago, I represented the international youth delegation to the U. N. climate negotiations in Bali, Indonesia.

Hillary Clinton embarked on her first tour abroad as America's secretary of state, visiting Japan, Indonesia, China and South Korea.

In Indonesia the same month, Mr. Gates said the U.

Months later, Mr. Hidayat said he was confident enough about how far he could push Indonesia's moral enforcers.

The brand is now among the premier juice drink brands in more than 15 countries including Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and India.

The company of all flights from Bali, Indonesia, currently only limited to flying during the day, all night flights to suspend operations.

An erupting volcano on Indonesia's Java island has sent ash and hot air onto surrounding villages, injuring at least six people.

Scott's book carefully chronicles Durham's life at every step and provides a good bit of detail about her work in Indonesia.

That has prompted concerns that Indonesia's monetary-policy horse might be clopping along far behind the inflationary cart.

Indonesia is in a zone known as the Pacific " ring of fire " , which is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity .

The head of Indonesia's volcanology agency says the eruption broke through the lava dome, where pressure had been building.

Indonesia now wants to raise its diplomatic game, acting the part of a regional power with a global impact.

Unlike Thailand's army, which returned to politics with a coup in 2006, Indonesia's has stayed back in the barracks.

Vietnam does not produce denim, but Indonesia does, and its denim can be exported tariff-free within ASEAN to sew into jeans.

Stephen Sherlock says a presidential partnership with the PKS would not be good for Indonesia's long-term political development.

Nothing but the impression that Indonesia is a "barbaric" and " inhuman" country.

When Mr Obama does eventually come to visit the new Indonesia, some aspects will recall the old one he thought he had left behind.

The Bank Indonesia meeting tomorrow is a close call but should BI hike rates once again the IDR will benefit.

The United States was also the first on the ground in Aceh, Indonesia, providing essential food, water and sanitation facilities.

There will be great coordination of these events during the final sinking in Indonesia and significant rolling of the S America Plate.

In its annual report in January, Freedom House, an American think-tank, rated Indonesia the only "free" country in South-East Asia.

Only a few countries, like India, Indonesia, and Thailand, are feeling the brunt of the pandemic, right now.

The Bank is moving to capitalize on Indonesia's current program of decentralizing power to the country's more than 400 local governments.

The United States had supported the IMF efforts in Thailand, Indonesia, and South Korea, and had made contributions in the last two cases.

Thanks to years of price wars between Indonesia's three major telecommunications companies, mobile contracts in the country are dirt-cheap.

However, it exports more coal than any other country, and substantially more than Indonesia, the world leader in thermal coal, and Russia.

The 'Indonesia story' is part of a broader trend, as investors have rediscovered the non-China parts of Asia.

With our neighbors across the sea are : South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia , Brunei and Indonesia six countries.

During the Suharto era, Bahasa Indonesia was the only language that we could see or read.

She arrived in Indonesia in a spirit of blissful "innocence" that her son would later marvel at with something less than admiration.

Security is expected to be tight during the president's trip, particularly in Indonesia.

They live on Komodo Island and a few neighbouring islands in Indonesia. Driven almost to extinction, they are now protected.

Once adjusted to account for that depreciation, Indonesia's GDP and growth rates both sank significantly below conventional figures.

The central banks of Brazil, Indonesia and India are raising interest rates to put a stop to inflationary trends.

Sound economic management has left Indonesia in a strong position to withstand the global downturn.

But several countries in Asia have grown rapidly at a time when cronyism was common, including Indonesia and South Korea in their time.

But so far firms have rarely chosen Indonesia for such a role.

Some drifted west to India's Andaman islands. Others washed up in Indonesia's Aceh province.

One nurse was shown to be infected with a seasonal influenza A (H1N1) virus, which is now circulating widely throughout Indonesia.

We have spoken previously of the areas to be affected by the bending of the tongue holding Indonesia, but can now give more specifics.

Survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 4, 900 people on Indonesia's island of Java have spent a second night outdoors.

Sumatra in Indonesia's tropical forests, grows a very unusual plant, whose name is big plants, known as the world's largest flower.

Better to ship coal to India from Sumatra or Kalimantan in Indonesia than dig it up from mines in Bihar and transport it across the country.

Mr. Hidayat had been warned twice to not bring her to Indonesia, Mr. Alattas said.

Indonesia's government has signed a deal with the U. S. drug manufacturer Baxter International to develop a human bird flu vaccine.

Obama 10 at the end of 20 hours of Indonesia's "whirlwind" visit, and leave the country with his wife, Michelle, flew to South Korea.

And, a deeper look at Aceh, Indonesia and how the calamity of the 2004 Asian Tsunami may have brought peace to this war torn province.

Taiwan and Indonesia have now joined the list of at least 12 regions that have banned Chinese-made dairy products.

Also, she encountered, in a shop in Sulawesi, Indonesia, a bottle of what purported to be Dutch whisky.

Chrysler Group manufactures Jeep vehicles in the U. S. , Austria, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Venezuela, Argentina and Egypt.

Relations between America and Indonesia have never been better.

The pact is particularly significant because Indonesia is one of the most biologically diverse countries on Earth.

Riana, a 13-month-old female Bornean orangutan plays as her mother, Tari, sleeps at Taman Safari in Cisarua, Indonesia.

The bank bought controlling stakes in PT Bank Halim Indonesia last December and in Macao's Seng Heng bank in August.

RIM and the government will meet Jan. 17 to discuss the matter, a spokesman for Indonesia's Information Ministry said.

Around 650 survivors have washed up in Indonesia and India in recent weeks; hundreds more may have drowned.

Some guy once told me that girls from Indonesia are cheap, so I'm doing this to prove to everyone that we're not.

In 2009 Indonesia joined the G20 club of major economies, giving it a higher profile.

Bank Indonesia yesterday held its rates at 6. 5 per cent, indicating that inflation looked set to remain within the bank's target range.

The tsunami, triggered by an earthquake off Indonesia, left 300, 000 dead in countries around the Indian Ocean.

Haryono Umar, one of the KPK's commissioners, does not dispute Indonesia's poor showing in TI's league table.

Obama's November 18 talks with the regional leaders took place on the last leg of his nine-day trip to Hawaii, Australia and Indonesia.

A baby made his way into the world this week in Indonesia at 19. 2 pounds (8. 7 kg) - about three times the weight of an average newborn.

Active involvement of Chinese companies in major infrastructure projects in Indonesia has been a bright spot in our business ties.

One of Indonesia's most active volcanoes spewed out clouds of ash and jets of searing gas, killing at least 25 and injuring 14.

Indonesia has so far only benefited from China's expansion and has not expressed concerns over its growing power.

"The detection of further human cases in Indonesia or elsewhere would not be surprising, " according to a WHO statement.

Mysticism and profits have come together since the 13th century introduction of Islam to Indonesia by Indian Moslem merchants.

"Indonesia can be a model where Islamand democracy exist hand in hand, with no contradiction between the two, " he told CNN.

Just a decade ago Indonesia was on the brink of catastrophe.

But because there was not a liquid market for insurance on Indonesian companies, lenders bought credit derivatives on Indonesia itself.

The World Health Organization said Indonesia has not shared virus samples since the start of the year.

The retrospectively confirmed cases bring the total in Indonesia to 65. Of these cases, 49 have been fatal.

Ever since Indonesia declared independence in 1945, the police had been the neglected, ill-equipped little brother of the army.

Li &Fung, for example, reported in late March that it had moved some of its clothing production to Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia and India.

In 1960 Khruschev headed a delegation to visit Indonesia and was royally treated by his host.

The meeting agreed to hold the next working group meeting in Indonesia in the second half of next March.

In Indonesia, where single names are common, what appears to be just part of a name may in fact be the whole name.

Indonesia has launched a massive bird flu drill to prepare for the possibility of a human-to-human outbreak of the deadly virus.

The irony raises a difficult question for the new Indonesia: is sex now considered to be a worse offence than torture?

Indonesia was hit by an earthquake, tsunami, and volcanic eruption in less than 48 hours.

He said that Indonesia pays great attention to the relations with China and regards China as an important strategic partner.

Indonesia is now a net oil importer due to surging domestic consumption to fuel its own growth.

And it is the heat that powers a modest number of electricity generators around the world, from Iceland to Indonesia.

Health workers over Indonesia have started a major vaccination campaign to help earthquake survivors ward off any chance of disease.

The country's banking sector is still fairly undeveloped (though ironically this helped Indonesia avoid the worst of the market crash).

And China's neighbors across the sea are: Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia.

In few countries is the word "pornography" as politically charged as in Indonesia.

Nasi goreng is a fried rice dish popular in Indonesia, while rambutans are a tropical fruit with a sweet translucent flesh.

This lion at a wildlife sanctuary in Indonesia found his light at the perfect moment for me to capture it.

Mr Connolly hopes Indonesia and Australia can be "tough and rigorous" about dealing with the truth at last.

Indonesia, which has 60 per cent of the world's peat bog forests, emits two billion tons of carbon dioxide a year doing this.

The World Health Organization says Russia is one of the smokiest nations in the world with more smokers per capita than Indonesia or China.

For Indonesia remains, in many respects, a hard country to do business in, especially compared with the rest of the region.

He was a Knight International Journalism Fellow, and has given workshops to journalists and nongovernmental organizations in Indonesia.

When a woman who has just given birth cannot afford to pay medical fees, there is a risk in Indonesia that her baby will be taken hostage.

Indonesia has one of the world's fastest growing economies, expanding at a rate of six percent this year.

The company offers the most comprehensive products and services in life insurance industry in Indonesia .

As much the most populous country in South-East Asia, and its biggest economy, Indonesia has always played a dominant role in ASEAN.

With its wealth of resources, and young population, Indonesia should achieve respectable rates of growth for decades.

Barack Obama is an American whose father came from one foreign country (Kenya) and who spent part of his childhood in another (Indonesia).

So far only China and Vietnam have responded, though Indonesia and Pakistan have pilot vaccination programmes planned.

Australia and Indonesia have been slowly negotiating a prisoner exchange deal for more than two years.

Indonesia's tourism industry, an economic mainstay, has continued to grow after each JI attack in the past.

Mysticism touches almost every aspect of life in Indonesia and business is no exception.

The referendum in East Timor was followed by an orgy of Indonesia-inspired arson, looting and violence.

As part of a project to improve education standards across Indonesia, Australia is funding the construction of six new schools in Bali.

It has announced plans to set up new branches or expand operations in Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Turkey and Brazil.

In Indonesia's murky political system, regulations often emerge out of the blue, and can contradict existing ones.

Forest rangers patrol with elephants as part of a local government campaign against illegal logging in Jantho, Indonesia.

China does not seek a trade surplus, and will import more from Indonesia and promote sound, balanced and sustained growth of our trade.

BARACK OBAMA is set for a trip to Asia, beginning with a stop at his boyhood home of Indonesia.

And, unlike in 1997, Indonesia has been quick to acknowledge its responsibility for this year's smog, and to ask for help.

The warts of a frogfish blend in with the bumpy texture of a sea sponge as it awaits unsuspecting prey in the Lembeh Strait, Indonesia.

Samples from these chickens and from pet birds in a market near the woman's home are being tested by Indonesia's animal health authorities.

Like Brazil, but unlike China and India, Indonesia owes much of its success to nothing smarter or more high-tech than a commodities boom.

It may look like a gremlin, but this tiny animal is actually a pygmy tarsier, recently rediscovered in the forests of Indonesia.

But the virus continued to infect people in Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia and Vietnam.