eyesonindonesia Amsterdam, August 17, 2022– Ms. Ardi Stoios-Braken, took over from colleague Mr. Hans de Brabander, head of economic affairs at the Dutch embassy in Jakarta on 1 July: ‘The Dutch embassy in Jakarta has a political, economic, consular and cultural department. In total we have 68 fte of seconded and local staff.” De Brabander:…
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The New Indonesia nina/jakobi eyesonindonesia Amsterdam, Aug. 17th — The Government of Indonesia has decided to build a new city for its capital in the island of Kalimantan (Borneo). The concept of the new environmentally friendly capital city, requires sustainability across all dimensions, ranging from use of sustainable construction methods, to energy efficient design and…
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Games Changes Global Agriculture by Kyle Kling Amsterdam, Aug 16th — With biotech manufacturing set to transform agriculture, investors who want to stay ahead should pay attention to this rapidly evolving space. By 2050, the world’s population is set to increase by more than 35 per cent and reach nine billion. To feed everyone and meet the…
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Cooperation with OECD eyesonindonesia Jakarta / Amsterdam, Aug 1 st 2022– Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati and OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann renewed the OECD-Indonesia Framework of Cooperation Agreement (FCA) for another five years and launched a new, fourth Joint Work Programme (JWP) to guide co-operation in 2022-2025. The Programme will support Indonesia in advancing the implementation of its Medium-Term…
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Farmland ownership in the Netherlands is merging preservation and profitability. Watch how farmers and environmentalists are working together to create more sustainable agriculture practices.
Global Progress ? eyesonindonesia Amsterdam, July 18th 2022– Last month, mid-June 2022, more than 250 people working within the PET plastic value chain gathered in Brussels at the Petcore Europe Conference to discuss circularity and other important issues in the PET plastic value chain. The rising prices of both PET and its recycled counterpart rPET are a…
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Collaboration required to avoid a humanitarian disaster eyesononidonesia Amsterdam, Juli 17 2022– The human tragedy that continues to unfold in Ukraine has shocked and saddened us all. What has also become clear is the suffering will be magnified as the repercussions are felt across the global food system. Simply put: the war has knocked the…
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Indonesia’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘BBB’ : Stable Outlook. fitch/eyesonindonesia Low Public Debt; Weak Revenue: Indonesia’s rating balances a favourable medium-term growth outlook and a still low government debt/GDP ratio against government revenue, sovereign external debt to GDP and structural features such as governance indicators and GDP per capita that are weak compared with…
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Clean Rivers Clean Brain Part IV eyesonindonesia.com Amsterdam, July 1, 2022 — Without plastic, we might even have to change the way we talk about ourselves. “Consumer is inherently a single-use term,” Walker says. In a world where packaging is recycled and reused, not thrown away, we can become citizens instead. We might also find that for…
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Clean Rivers, Cleaner Brain Part III eyesonindonesia.com Amsterdam, June 29, 2022– Exposure to EDCs during critical periods of fetal growth can have long-lasting effects. “If the mother is pregnant and she is exposed to plastics or other chemicals that alter the development of her fetus, those changes are lifelong, irreversible changes,” Swan says. This means that…
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