“Regulatory reform is a multi-faceted task that involves various stakeholders, and it requires co-operation between all levels and all stakeholder groups in ASEAN, namely government administration, business, and peoples.” Jakarta. ASEAN integration made another step forward, as delegates met for the First ASEAN Regulatory Reform Dialogue (ARRD) in Jakarta recently, a press statement of the [...]
“Food production, rice in particular, is prone to problems. Thailand and Vietnam are big exporters but some other countries also have rice surplus such as Pakistan, India, Myanmar and Cambodia. There is no problem if we try to explore cooperation on rice procurement with them so that we will have substitute rice sources. We do [...]
Realization of gas lifting meanwhile reached 94 percent or only 8,514 million cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of the target of 9,057 MMSCFD set for the 2011 budget. Padang, West Sumatra. Indonesia`s crude oil production has until now reached 910,000 barrels per day which is still below June`s production of 950,000 bpd. “Right now crude [...]
In the 21st International Biology Olympiad in Changwon, South Korea, last year in July, Indonesian students won two gold and two bronze medals. In the 41st International Physics Olympiad in Zagreb, Croatia, in the same month, Indonesian students hauled in four gold and a silver medal. Jakarta. An Indonesian student has taken home the gold [...]
The treaty obliged ASEAN member states not to develop, produce, buy or posses nuclear weapons. Members are also urged not to ask or receive any assistance in the form of nuclear weapons from third countries. Bali. Ten ASEAN member countries are scheduled to resume talks with five nuclear weapon states early in August, Indonesian Foreign [...]
