Cell phones are on display in a shopping center in Jakarta. (file photo)

Minister worried cell phone tax inflict losses on consumers

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Indonesian Minister of Trade, Gita Wirjawan, concerned over cell phone tax plan. The tax, he said, could inflict losses on consumers as nowadays cell phone was considered as an essential product. "The cell phone tax must be in line with domestic production of cell phone. We still have to develop our cell phone industry," Gita Wirjawan said...

The market in Africa and Middle East offered great potential for Indonesian fishery. (illustration)

Govt to boost fishery export to Africa

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Indonesia is ambitious to boosts export of fishery products to Africa and Middle East. The market in Africa and Middle East offered great potential, Director General of Fisheries Product Processing and Marketing, Saut P. Hutagalung, said. The fishery export from Indonesia to Middle East is currently outnumbered by more affordable commodity from India, Bangladesh, Thailand, and...

A worker cook lontong -a kind of rice cake wrapped in banana leaf- in a micro enterprises center in Banyu Urip, Surabaya, Easy Java. Starting next year, government will not impose tax on micro enterprises with profit less than 300 million IDR. (illustratio

Selasa , 25 Dec 2012, 18:30 WIB

Govt. will not impose tax on micro enterprise

Imported garlic floods Indonesian traditional market due to local product shortage. (illustration)

Senin , 17 Dec 2012, 21:00 WIB

Govt to adjust import duty

Government set its target to stop importing rice in 2013. According to Asian Development Bank, the volume of imported goods will decline and the economic growth will be maintained at 6.3 percent in 2013. (illustration)

Senin , 17 Dec 2012, 19:30 WIB

ADB: Indonesian import will decline in 2013