The Indonesian Government has claimed that it won't be pulling back the services of Research in Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone.

Indonesian sugar imports are proving to be of a great help to drive up the demand for supplies from Australia, following the international economy’s recuperation from economic depression, according to Queensland Sugar Ltd., the nation’s leading exporter.

The recently signed deal between Norway and Indonesia to save Indonesian forests is expected to protect the environment significantly. It will ensure a cleaner future for Indonesia apart from lower emissions. It will also benefit Singapore very much due to the cleaner air and sky.

The deal was signed between Indonesia and Norway at a ceremony in Oslo on May 26. It is aimed to stop the conversion of Indonesian forests and peat lands into plantations.

An Octopus in Indonesia was found taking shelter in coconut shells. This scene amazed the Australian scientists who were the spectators to this unusual sophisticated behavior by an invertebrate animal.

This octopus, Amphioctopus Marginatus, treasured halved coconut shells, and after clearing their insides carried them along to the depth of 65 feet. It made a shell out of two and used it as its hiding destination.

On Wednesday, the local media reported that on Thursday, Malaysia's Foreign Affairs Minister Anifah Aman will meet his Indonesian counterpart in Jakarta, with the aim to talk about the mounting tensions between the two countries. 

According to a report in a well-known newspaper, the aim of Anifah Aman's one-day trip to Jakarta is to lessen the negative opinion some Indonesians have of Malaysia, even though he called it as "a normal sort of meeting".

The news of the presence of the H1N1 virus in live pigs from Indonesia has affected sales of pork in Singapore. Authorities have cleared that the deadly virus is not transmitted by eating pork but still people are not pacified.

Sales of pork kept on falling despite assurance by Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) that infected pork is safe to eat if cooked properly but it seems that people are scared of the havoc caused by H1N1 flu virus worldwide.

Indonesia's flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia plans to raise up to $400 million in an initial public offering in June next year to fund its expansion.

The raised amount will be used to pay its debt, strengthen its capital structure and for carrying out expansion plans.

The company officials believe that the IPO would encourage good corporate governance and efficiency, enabling the airline to compete in Indonesia's crowded airline market.