The euro area has a scent of political revolution in the air. France’s Presidential election saw Sarkozy rejected and the Socialist contender Hollande replace him. The Greek general election has produced a result of supreme incoherence.
The main feature of Indonesian GDP growth in the first quarter 2012 was a decline in contributions from exports. Because of its weakening growth, exports will be a drag on GDP growth in 2012.
“Travel warning: Indonesia dangerously beautiful” reads a tagline on a sticker on the front window of a little, off-the-beaten track travel agency in Depok.
Is mixed marriage a status symbol? For some, like movie stars and rich people, it may be, but not in my case. My wife, an Indonesian, and I met in a Jakarta hospital and fell in love, and decided to tie the knot.
The Vice President’s criticism of the volume of the adzan, a call for prayer from a mosque, has reaped public controversy.
Heard about the reformasi dance? It goes two steps forward and one step back.
A blue moon is a rare thing, but not as rare — or amazing — as the “barely believable” triumph, as one report had it, of Manchester City on Sunday. Players and supporters euphorically celebrated City’s first English Premier League title in 44 years, at the expense of its chief nemesis in the suburb that was bidding for a new record of 20 championship titles.
Indonesia is mourning the loss of dozens of lives on board the Russian-made Sukhoi 100 Superjet that crashed on Wednesday. The nation agonized overnight while waiting for news after the plane went missing during a demonstration flight.
The central bank kept its policy rate unchanged at 5.75 percent at its monthly open market-operations meeting on Thursday as Indonesia’s first quarter economic growth slowed to 6.3 percent from 6.5 percent in the previous quarter, as most analysts had predicted.
The Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced prominent socialite Nunun Nurbaeti to 2.5 years in prison on Wednesday for bribing members of the House of Representatives in return for their votes for Bank Indonesia senior deputy governor candidate Miranda S. Goeltom back in June 2004.
The Democratic Party and Golkar Party, the 2009 general election winner and runner-up, respectively, are approaching the 2014 presidential election in contrasting styles.
