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90% Sumbawa Area Controlled by Mining Investors

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About 90 percents Sumbawa continental area was gained control by mine investors. At least several mine permits (KP - Kuasa Pertambangan) have already been issued by Pemkab Sumbawa. KP's permit expenditure was issued without evaluation of environmental aspects. The local government was asked to cancel numbers of that KPs.

UAE to Invest $600 million in Lombok Tourism

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Emaar, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) company, is ready to invest US$600 million to open a tourist resort on 1,175 ha of land in Lombok island in West Nusatenggara province, an Indonesian tourism official said here Thursday.  The tourist resort would be built in tandem with the construction of an international airport in Lombok island scheduled for completion in 2009.   Wardiatmo, senior adviser for economic and science affairs to the Culture and Tourism Minister, told a panel discussion themed "Increasing Middle Eastern Tourist Arrivals Through Tourism-based Entrepreneurship"

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NTB to Have New Governor
Friday, 11 July 2008

bajangTemporary election result for NTB Pilkada (Pemilihan Kepala Daerah ; Governor Election) shows that candidates TGB Bajang & Badrul Munir is in leading position with 37,82%, followed by incumbent candidate Lalu Serinata (26,9%), Zainy Arony (18,1%) and Nanang Samodra (17,2%).

This is not so far from Quick Count prediction released by LSI for NTB Pilkada, which also state candidate TGB Bajang with 37,06% votes result.

 

 

 

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NTB to Run Governor Election
Friday, 06 June 2008

logo-pilkada The people of NTB will elect their governor next July. Currently, there are four candidates running for the election, according to official statement by KPUD (Provincial Election Committee). 

The four candidates are (in sort order) Nanang Samodra, Zainy Arony, Zainul Majdi (also known as TGH. Bajang) and Lalu Serinata

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U.S. Lifts Indonesia Travel Warning
Monday, 26 May 2008

travel-warning-smallThe United States lifted a travel warning that was set on Indonesia after several bomb attacks in 2004. Primary reason stated that security situation had been improved in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Announcing US decision, Cameron Hume, US Ambassador said on Sunday (May 25, 2008),"The government ... has disrupted, arrested and prosecuted numerous terrorist elements," Sunday. The travel warning was put in place after several bombs went off in Indonesia capital city, Jakarta, in 2000.

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President to Observe National Empowerment Program in Lombok
Friday, 23 May 2008
Presiden SBYPresident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to observe a national empowerment program for village people (PNPM-PM) in East Lombok district in June.

"We have received the notification and we are coordinating the preparations with the East Lombok district administration," spokesman of the West Nusatenggara provincial administration Ibnu Salim said on Thursday.
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Lombok Ahmadiyah Members Seek Australian Asylum
Friday, 16 May 2008

lombok-ahmadiyah_smallSix members of the Ahmadiya Islamic sect in Indonesia are seeking asylum in Australia, saying they can no longer live safely in Indonesia after being declared heretics and threatened with a government ban.

In July of 2005, Indonesia's highest council of Muslim scholars issued a fatwa declaring the Ahmadiya sect of Islam heretical because they said the sect's beliefs challenged Mohammad's status as the last prophet.

Since then attacks against Ahmadis have increased.In 2006 their mosques and houses were destroyed on the island of Lombok, and now six members of the group displaced by that violence have approached the Australian Consulate in Bali seeking asylum in Australia.

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