Jakarta Informer

A South Korean supplier of city gas identified as Samtan Co. plans to buy a 34 percent in equity share of E-Pertagas, a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) producer in Indonesia, a company official said. E-Pertagas is a joint venture between South Korean LPG provider E1 Corp and Pertagas, a subsidiary of Pertamina, Indonesia’s state-owned oil [...]

The Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, will be in Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 8. Dr Yaacob and fellow ASEAN environment ministers will be meeting Mexico’s Foreign Secretary, Patricia Espinosa – the incoming President of the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate [...]

Yahoo! has announced that it has acquired Koprol, an Indonesian Internet service that lets people use mobile telephones to instantly connect with nearby people and places. “Users are increasingly relying on mobile devices to communicate and access the Internet and they are looking for seamless integration between those devices and PCs,” said Rose Tsou, senior [...]

The minister for transportation recently requested Indonesia’s national air carriers to undergo massive reform in order to lift the European Union’s ban on Indonesian airlines to land in the EU. The ban was enforced in 2007, and although Indonesian carriers did not fly to Europe at the time, the ban served as a reminder to [...]