On Sunday I found myself to be in a most peculiar state. Awake, in the city, complaining of the time and the heat all before 9am. In my early days here I would sometimes get home around 7am on a Sunday but that is not me any more and I do like a lie in on Sundays to recharge and enjoy the laziness that Sunday has to offer. However, a promise was made and I did not want to back out of it and so I w...

The ruling Democrat Party last night announced the dismissal of Muhammad Nazaruddin from his position as the party's Treasurer. The party's senior official Amir Syamsuddin told the media that the decision was made in response to the growing rumors in society about Nazaruddin's involvement in several criminal allegations including an attempt to bribe the Secretary General of the Constitutional Cou...

My nephew rang me last night and said he wanted to get married to his long-time girlfriend. After all the best wishes etc, he informed me they want to get married in Bali. It’s not as simple as getting a flight over to the island, finding a ‘man of the cloth’, sticking a ring on a finger and saying “Oh yeah!” Any couple wanting to get married in Bali must undertake a legal wedding cerem...

You could see the internet wariors racing for their keyboard once Singapore striker Nigel Vanu received a red after lashing out at an Indonesia player during their SEA Games encounter at the Bung Karno earlier this afternoon. 1- 0 against the hosts following poor performances against Malaysia and Cambodia, Vanu's red gave them a target for their opprobrium. When something goes wrong it is always...

Unspun rarely follows football. Being a contrarian from childhood he shied away from football because it was what everyone else seemed to like. And so life passed for him with passion about teams like Liverpool and Manchester United seeming an amusing mystery to him. But last night Unspun’s resolve on football weakened. After all, he reasoned, it is the finals of the SEA Games matches and it...

Because being sick will suck you dry, not only physically, but mostly financially. In private hospital, one (brief) examination from specialist doctors costs about Rp 100.000 - Rp 200.000, equal with 2 to 4 times the minimum regional salary per day. Medicine is not included. The fare of hospital's rooms if you have to be hospitalized is about Rp 200.000 per day for class II (the average class). No...

From Kompas today (28/12) we read that Minister of Agriculture, Suswono, has a solution to Indonesia's low competitiveness in agriculture products. Rightly, he points out that the reason for the low competitiveness is high transportation costs due to poor infrastructure. So, again rightly, the country needs to improve the road infrastructure. But, now comes the tricky part, he also says that...

Do you want to watch Indonesian TV but you live in outside Indonesia?... Now, you can enjoy Indonesian TV programs with live streaming TV. Anyway you can still wacth Indonesian TV with indline. Beside that In many Indonesian forum, some people find how to...

Are You like Indonesia movie? If you like, You can watch Indonesia movie on RCTI this week.Mengejar mas-mas (Chasing Guy) Monday, 31 March 2008 at 22.30 WIBShanaz runs away from her house in Jakarta to Jogjakarta because her mother decides to marry her bo...

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PT Sharp Semiconductor Indonesia was founded by Sharp Corporation as a production base of Electronic Components. The main products are compound semiconductors such as hologram laser, and opto electronic device such as photo coupler, infra red detecting unit, etc. We will supply electronic components, firstly to Asia [...]...

Lesson #4: Good family upbringing; strong family ties; real school is at home We read�elsewhere, that China and India will lead the world economies in 2050.�Everybody is surprised and is hard to believe that prediction especially concerning India. Not man...

Geotrans 3.0 has been released. Geotrans is the coordinate conversion application program among a wide variety of coordinate systems, map projections, and datums. Geotrans runs in Microsoft Windows, LINUX and UNIX environments. GEOTRANS can also be used to convert large numbers of coordinates contained in either text files (.txt) or comma separated values [...]...

Canary Cookies-Kue Kering Lebaran Material: 500 gr butter mix (2:1) 800 gr flour 6 egg yolks 450 gr granulated sugar 300 gr walnuts chopped rather fine that has been fried (fried first and then chopped) 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 tsp almond essence 2 egg yolks for sprinkling for a sprinkling of chopped walnuts on top. 200 grams of cooking chocolate steamed. 100 g almond paste. 1 tsp [...]...

PT Surya Toto Indonesia Tbk - A well known foreign company (PMA) and market leader in Sanitary Wares, Plumbing Fittings & System Kitchen looking for qualified candidates to fill the following position: PPIC Supervisor (PPIC) Requirements: Male, max [...]...

PT Mead Johnson Indonesia - Mead Johnson is a world leader in nutrition, dedicated to helping provide infants and children with the best start in life. With more than 70 products in over 60 countries, the company is trusted by parents and health care prof...

Agus Martowardojo (korananakindonesia) Agus Martowardojo Profile Name : Agus Dermawan Wintarto Martowardojo Popular Name : Agus Martowardojo Birth Date : Amsterdam, 24 January 1956 Age : 54 years old Nick : Agus-Marto Religion : Islam President Yudhoyono has just announced the successor to Sri Mulyani, Minister of Finance who resigned to take up his new position as Managing Director of the World...

During my dive trip in Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi, Indonesia, exactly a year ago, I spotted several frogfish. A type of fish that looks like a frog, just like its name ;). Frogfish is actually a type of anglerfish. In Autralia, they are known as anglerfish, while 'frogfish' refers to a different type of fish (I don't know what kind of fish Australians referring to when they're talking about frogfish!

PT Darya Varia Laboratoria, Tbk - Darya-Varia Group - We are a Pharmaceutical Group engaged in the manufacture and marketing of prescription and OTC medicines. We are inviting young and talented professionals to join us for the following position: Legal Staff (LS) - Head Office Responsibilities: Handling legal matters [...]...

YKK Zipper Indonesia - Being the leader of fastening industry, our product have been useful to support domestic textiles industries, yet they are also export commodities in their own rights. The worlds is changing fast and moves [...]...