Jakarta (ANTARA News) – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at a ceremony to mark the 82nd anniversary of Mother`s Day here Wednesday stressed the important role of women in national character building. “The task of mothers and women in general in the future is to build the character and behavior of our children toward noble and [...]
Post-tsunami development in Aceh province has surpassed expectations, a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) official said. UNDP Deputy Country Director Stephen Rodrigues said in a press release received on Thursday, research conducted in cooperation with the National Statistics Agency (BPS) in 2010 had shown Aceh and other Indonesian provinces had made impressive progress in the [...]
Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa said resource-rich Indonesia with a population of 240 million has great potential to become a new global economic power. “We have great potential to emerge as a new global economic power,” he said on the sidelines of a panel discussion held by the Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association (ICMI) [...]
Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Indonesia`s economy is projected to grow by around 6.1 percent in the fourth quarter to make the annual growth reach 6.0 percent, according to the finance ministry. In its statement received here on Monday the ministry said in line with the global economic recovery and supported by various efforts that had [...]
Secretary-General of ASEAN Dr Surin Pitsuwan believes that Indonesia can take ASEAN to a greater height as the next ASEAN chairman in 2011. “With her own profile in the international arena, her credentials and credibility as an active player of the developing world and emerging economies, a rightful member of the G-20, the largest Muslim [...]
