Indonesia's cellular market has a newcomer: Hutchison Charoen Pokphand Telecom (HCPT). HCPT is a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based global cellular giant Hutchison Telecommunications International (HTIL) and Thai agroindustry group Charoen Pokphand.

With one of the largest populations in the region--even in the world--and a low wireless penetration rate, Indonesia is an extremely attractive market in the telecommunications industry.

At launch, HCPT’s network covered most of the Java Island and the company intends to expand its coverage to Sumatra within 2007 and commence service in Kalimantan and Sulawesi by the end of 2008.
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It's good news. Instead of negotiating a contract to sell the Avian flu virus samples to an American vaccine company, an Indonesian engineer has created a new technology to combat against bird flu and has been awarded an international grant from Qualcomm, a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies.

The statistics indicate that bird flu has infected 81 people in Indonesia, killing 63, since the first human case was identified here in July 2005. Globally, there have been 165 fatalities from 271 human infections.

Bandung Institute of Technology's PhD student Ria L. Moedomo has successfully created an application which provides a system to assist in processing and analyzing poultry sales and the distribution process to track and combat against Avian Influenza.
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Please allow me to talk about myself on this occasion. I already decided to quit from my existing job as a journalist with Tempo, Indonesia's most respected general affairs magazine, and turn independent writer and full-time blogger.

Beyond my expectations, news of my departure hit the country's blogosphere and got a lot of positive responses from other bloggers, with some even naming me "Indonesia's first full-time blogger".

Many of them asked me why I decided to be a full-time blogger. My colleague, a Jakarta-based Malaysian blogger, Unspun, invited me to write a guest posting on my "controversial decision".
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Indonesia's respected and influential media, Tempo, launched its blog section in Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) recently. Tempo news magazine, which also publishes the daily Koran Tempo, is the first mainstream media (MSM) in the country to venture into the blogosphere.

Intended as part of its online version Tempo Interactive, some of its active bloggers who already run their personal blogs as well as other editors and journalists will blog here covering general topics.
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Heavy rains from Wednesday evening through Friday afternoon have caused flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia, and massive flooding in other parts of the country. Reuters reports that the number of people displaced by the floods in Jakarta has now climbed to 340,000.

Apart from getting the latest updates from the Indonesian media online, yes, we can also follow the current situation on the Jakarta floods by entering Indonesia's blogosphere.
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