Memo Blasts State Dept. Iraq Effort

" In a confidential memo, a long-time Republican operative who has served in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad for the past year says the State Department's efforts in Iraq are so poorly managed they "would be considered willfully negligent if not criminal" if done in the private...

BI: Soeharto`s hospitalization has no impact on market

""No, everything is okay," Miranda told the press when asked whether Soeharto`s illness and hospital treatment has effected the economic situation.Miranda who came at 8 p.m and left the hospital at 9.45 said Soeharto was asleep and she merely had a conversation with his...

BI expects investment to reach Rp1,165 trillion in 2008

"Senior Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia (the central bank) Miranda Swaray Goeltom said she expected that investment in 2008 would reach Rp1,165 trillion to meet the economic growth target of more than 6 percent.With the need of investment amounting to Rp1,165 trillion,...

Inflation rate in 2008 expected to drop: BI

""Inflation next year will be lower than this year when the figure is estimated to range between 6.33 percent and 6.7 percent," Miranda said here on Thursday.She said BI`s studies on next year`s inflation rate had used pessimistic assumptions such as high oil and commodity...

Indonesia 2007 inflation seen at 6.3-6.7 pct - central bank

""Year-to-date inflation to November is still around 5, even we have a high month-on-month number in December, it will take the (full year) number within 6 percent, maybe between 6.3-6.7 percent," senior deputy governor Miranda Goeltom said.The statistics bureau reported on...

RI economy expected to grow 6.2 pct in 2007 : Central Bank

"The Indonesian economy is expected to expand by 6.2 percent this year on the back of increased consumption and high exports, a central bank official said. Economic growth was expected to reach 6.3 percent in the third quarter of 2007 and 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter,...

Indonesia November inflation seen subdued, central bank says

""If there is no change of government subsidies for domestic fuel ... then November inflation should be more subdued, contained by food prices as well as no administrative price rises," Goeltom was quoted by Reuters as telling reporters on the sidelines of a seminar in...

BI hosting international conference on poverty

"Asian speakers at the conference would include Central Bank of India Governor YV Reddy, Central Bank of the Philippines Governor Armando M Tetangco, Central Bank of Bangladesh Governor Salehudin Ahmed, Central Bank of Indonesia Deputy Governors Miranda S Goeltom and Muliaman...

Man Who Says He's Jesus Says He's the Antichrist

"More than 12 members of a Doral based church showed up at a South Beach tattoo parlor to get the numbers 666 tattooed on themselves, all as a show of faith to preacher Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, who is now sporting a 666 tattoo of his own. "I am Jesus Christ man," he said...