Jakarta, Aug 27 (ANTARA) - Bank Permata said on Wednesday its profit after tax in the first half of 2008 rose 40 percent to Rp277.5 billion from Rp198.2 billion in the same period last year.

Jakarta, Aug 27 (ANTARA) - International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank's private investment arm, said its total investment in Indonesia now reaches more than US$700 million and expresse

Jakarta, Aug 27 (ANTARA) - Bank Indonesia (the central bank/BI) predicts Indonesia's economic growth rate in 2009 will exceed the government-set target of 6.2 percent if the country does not experi

Semarang, C Java, Aug 27 (ANTARA) - The construction of the first unit of a thermal power plant (PLTU) in Rembang district, Central Java, has been 52 percent completed, a spokesman said.

Sydney, Aug 27 (ANTARA) - A number of Indonesian tea products have the potential to penetrate the Australian market now that Chinese products are trapped in a pesticide residue case, a researcher

Jakarta, Aug 27 (ANTARA) - The rupiah edged closer to Rp9,150 per dollar in the Jakarta interbank spot market late Wednesday after it tumbled last week due to a fall in global crude prices on low d

Jakarta, Aug 27 (ANTARA) - The government will conduct semestral evaluations of the restructurization of local clean water companies (PDAM)'s debts to ensure the program is carried out according

Jakarta, Aug 27 (ANTARA) - The government has given the green light to Garuda Indonesia's plan to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) of its shares next year, a company official said.

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Jakarta, Aug 27 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono received the UN secretary general's special envoy for Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, at the presidential palace here on Wednesday.