In Jun 09, Indonesia is having inflation rate of 0.11% with Customer Price Index (CPI) of 114.10. From the total of 66 cities, 47 is having an inflation while 19 is having deflation. The highest inflation happens in Tarakan (1.44%) with CPI 124.85. The lowest inflation rate (0.01%) happens in Medan, Bekasi and Depok with the CPI of 112.61, 112.43, dan 112.69 respectively. In the other hand, highest deflation happens in Ambon (2.70%) with CPI of 110.45 and the lowest deflation happens in Banda Aceh (0.02%) with CPI of 114.16. As you may know already, Batam shall be the host of international event, ASEAN Jazz Festival 2009 which shall took place in Ocarina Batam Center on 7-8 Aug 09. This is such a good movement from Indonesian government and also Batam local government to further increase international community awareness about Indonesian Jazz music culture and also to promote Indonesian program of Visit Indonesia 2009 and Batam Local government program of Visit Batam 2010. According to ASEAN Jazz Festival official site, International artist who shall performed in this music fest is Lewis Pragasam trio (from Malaysia), Aya Yuson (from Philippines), Tze (from Singapore), and The Intersect 3+1 (Thailand). While for Indonesian artist, you can expect Ran, Notturno, Tohpati, Sketsa, Devian, Baim Trio, Imel Rosalin and Arina Mocca, Alien Loves Earth (Baron, Soulmates-Krisna’Ada band’- Budhi ‘Tiket’- Rindra ‘Padi’). ![]() Sydney Hotel Batam Center For those of you who need info of cheap hotels (budget hotels) in Batam Center area Batam Island, you can find the additional info below. You might need this info if you want to attend the ASEAN Jazz Festival 2009 in Ocarina on 07-08 Aug 08. You can refer also the previous posting for the other low rate and cheap hotels in Batam Center area. As I said on the previous post, you can consider one of these hotels if your preference is just a clean place to lay your head and rest after watching your favorite artist on the festival. Another interesting point is that these hotels also quite near from Batam Center International Ferry terminal, one of the Batam gate to the outside world. All of these hotels can be reach on max of 15 minutes from the Ferry terminal. Go to Budget Hotels in Batam Center Area Part 1 Search terms for this post:sydney hotel batam, Batam center terminal, batam red lights, budget hotel batam, hotel 01 batam, hotel asean batam, nearest hotel in batam centreLooks like this time around, there is no country in the world which sterile from the global economy crisis. This is one of remarkable proof that we are indeed already come to one world one economy period since we are all connected in such a way. Even for countries that has Communist ideology I read from this site that Fidel Castro, the charismatic Cuban Leader said that the country face another budget cuts on government spending as Cuba struggles with the global economic downturn. He said it during the celebration of 56th Cuban revolution on Sunday 26 Jul 09 in front of the 200,000 people who filled into the parade grounds of Holguin, about 500 miles southeast of Havana. In another 2 weeks, Batam shall be the host of International event, which is ASEAN Jazz Festival. Many Indonesian and International Jazz musician shall performed infront of their audience in Batam latest hostpost tourism spot, Ocarina Batam Center on 07-08 Aug 09. This Jazz music event, for sure shall bring many visitor from outside Batam to watch this rare event, The visitor may even come from foreign countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand or Philiphines. And why don’t they since their musician shall play also on the festival ? Search terms for this post:skyview hotel batam, sky hotel in batam, budget hotels in batam, cheap hotel batam center, happy hotel batam, hotel01 batam, hotels okarine, sky view hotel batam indonesiaIndonesia Finance Minister, Sri Mulyani Indrawati said on that Indonesian Government shall no revise the target of economic growth in 2009. Sri Mulyani reasoned this statement by adding that the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels bomb attacks did not leave a bad impact to the Indonesia`s economy. Indonesian Government has set the economic growth of Indonesia to be 4-5% this year. Sri Mulyani released this statement during meeting with the five other cabinet ministers and representatives of the Indonesian chamber of commerce and industry (Kadin) on Jakarta, Wed 23 Jul 09. Finally, Indonesian Police officially released 2 sketches of bomber suspects of the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton Hotels bombing in Jakarta last Friday 17 Jul 09. It was announced by PR Kadiv Mabes Polri Irjen Pol Nanan Soekarna during press conference at Bellagio Mall, Kuningan Jakarta, 22 Jul 09. Indonesian Police just recently released another 3 positive identification of killed victims on JW Marriott Hotel Bombing. All of them are Australian nationality. Team of Indonesian Disaster Victim Identification (DVI), has made positive ID on one of the victim who being killed on the Jakarta’s Bombings last Friday as Australian John Gear Rufer McEvoy. “The victim is identified as John Gear Rufer McEvoy,” spokesman of the National Police headquarters Insp. Gen. Nanang Soekarna said here on Sunday. | |||
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