U.S. and Indonesia Sign Science and Technology Agreement

The United States and Indonesia celebrated their long history of scientific exchange and collaboration last year with the signing of a new bilateral agreement that will help to strengthen and promote scientific research and technological cooperation. The U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, Cameron R. Hume, confirmed the union in a ceremony with the Indonesian Minister of Research and Technology Suharna...

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Why Indonesians Are All a-Twitter

With a population of nearly 240 million people spread over a vast array of 17,000 islands, with many of those living virtual light-years from the technologically-savvy capital of Java, one might not expect that Indonesians are the world’s most prolific users of the social networking site Twitter. But beyond all expectations, Indonesian Internet users over the age of 15 beat out both the United...

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Moving Indonesia toward Technology-Based Business

Indonesia’s Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology received a much-needed helping hand from Battelle, the Pacific Northwest arm of the U.S. Department of Energy, when the two agencies formed a partnership to help the Indonesian government develop a more business-like approach to providing technology services to the private sector. The plan, which became known as the Twinning...

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Indonesia Tech Boom Tantalizes Venture Capital

Experts are predicting an Internet explosion in Indonesia, where the nearly two hundred annual Web startups are taking advantage of rapidly growing markets and readily available investors. Groups of young entrepreneurs are flooding Indonesia with both innovative and familiar Internet-based concepts, attracting venture capitalists and developers looking for new opportunities. Because China and...

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