Alaksir Jakarta blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Jambi province is preparing an industrial area focused on downstream agricultural and plantation industries at Muara Sabak Port for which all the supporting infrastructures, including the new port, are expected to be completed by 2010.
Orangutan Outreach (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Jon Afrizal , The Jakarta Post , Jambi In a bid to further preserve their areaâs forests and increase regional revenue, Jambiâs provincial and municipal administrations signed a carbon trade agreement with an Australian investor last week. Jambi Governor Zulkifli Nurdin and Mayor Bambang Priyanto signed the contract on Nov. 12 with Australian consultant Peter [...]
Orangutan Outreach (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Indonesian organisations have circulated the following information about the impact of the global credit crunch and falling palm oil prices on peasant farmers in the province Jambi, Sumatra. Translation from the Indonesian by DTE. Since palm oil became 'the golden crop' around the year 2000, the European market for this commodity has grown year on year, [...]
Steven Rubio's Online Life (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
... when we saw him ... the HBO special had plenty of them, including Phil Hartman and John Paragon as Jambi (I don't think Lawrence Fishburne had joined the cast yet), but my memories of our show are that it was just Pee-wee (someone will read this who was at the show and will correct me on this). The HBO special got a lot of attention, after which Reubens made several popular appearances on...
Indonesia and World Tourism News (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Valentine Low in Jambi The Prince of Wales yields to noone in his love of rainforests, but sometimes it is a love that is hard won. Yesterday he made an epic journey through the storm-lashed tropics, along dirt roads made all but impassable by the rain, to visit a camp that he believes could represent [...]
H5N1 (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... from the November issue: Hundreds of dead chickens discovered a few weeks ago in Merangin regency, Jambi, have been infected by avian flu, an official confirmed. Head of Merangin’s husbandry agency Imam Budi Cahyono said his agency had conducted a rapid test on the chickens in Antak Seribu village and found the animals were infected with the disease. “Our participatory disease surveillance...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Plummeting prices forced Asnawi to close his three-year-old oil palm fruit transportation business in the Indonesian province of Jambi two weeks ago. "In August, the...
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... use of props — among them walking sticks, big cardboard televisions containing human heads (à la Jambi from Pee Wee's Playhouse), and collapsible knives, which served little purpose other than to make sure the dance contained something gratuitously phallic. It was all very So You Think You Can Dance, but who am I kidding, I love that show too. I'll take this stuff any day over a worthless...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... one only embarked upon by the brave. As the Prince’s convoy set out from the regional capital of Jambi, the short stretch of tarmac soon gave way to a forest road pitted with ruts and craters where the only way across the numerous rivers that criss-cross the landscape was by rickety wooden bridges that looked as if they would scarcely bear the weight of the large 4x4s carrying the Prince...
