Hugh Thomas Joins Robust Resources

Hugh Thomas Joins Robust Resources

SYDNEY (Yosefardi) – Hugh Thomas, former banker at JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, have been appointed non-executive director of Robust Resources Ltd, a company where Salim Group is substantial shareholder. Mr Thomas, according to Robust, has provided strategic...

Foreign Tourists Increase 2.37% in July

JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Foreign tourists visiting Indonesia reached 717,784 tourists in July 2013, increased 2.37% from Rp701,200 in July 2012. Compared to June 2013, the figure declined 9.09%. Foregn investors visited Indonesia in June totaled 789,594. Total...

Bojonegoro Residents Block PetroChina Drilling

BOJONEGORO (Yosefardi) – Tens of residents from Ngampel Village, Kapas sub-district, Bojonegoro Regency in East Java set a blockade in front of drilling location of PetroChina-Pertamina joint operating body (JOB) in the area. Protesters, led by village head...
Jero: I Have no Idea (on Kernel Oil Case)

Jero: I Have no Idea (on Kernel Oil Case)

JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Jero Wacik claimed that he has no knowledge on issue related the graft money found in the office of the ministry’s secretary general or the graft case implicating PT Kernel Oil. In the president palace,...