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BY AHMAD PATHONI, ALYSHAH HASHAM, MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL

GIVEN the constant flow of news about tougher tobacco industry regulations from all continents, tobacco executives could be forgiven for thinking there are no countries where they have a relative free hand to sell their products.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

AS Indonesia’s economy continues to grow so too does demand for paint and coatings in the region. In 2008, the archipelago recorded a 6.1% increase in gross domestic product (GDP), moving from a GDP per capita of US$3,700 in 2007 to US$3,900 the following year (using purchasing power parity adjustments).…

BY AHMAD PATHONI

INDONESIA’S cigarette production has continued to increase in the past four years after a period of decline between 2000 and 2003, according to the country’s industry ministry.

Production rose 3.89% in 2008 from the previous year to 240 billion sticks, the ministry said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Commission report has highlighted concerns about some steps taken by European Union (EU) trading partners to protect their personal care product sectors from the recession that could restrict EU exports. A key worry was Indonesia’s draft regulation on cosmetics labelling and packaging that insists product information such as usage advice, product numbers and expiry dates be labelled in Indonesian.…

BY WILL ROBERTSON, MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE ROBUST nature of the southeast Asian palm oil industry has been illustrated by the way the market has remained strong despite both the global recession and the arrival of weather phenomenon El Nino this year and its attendant drought conditions.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

Food commodity prices are seldom out of the news nowadays, due to a mushrooming global population, the food-for-fuel controversy, an increasing focus on sustainability and the continued growth of the organic sector. However, beyond the generality of crop prices spiralling to new highs in 2007 and 2008 and then plummeting – in some cases – back to where they were before the boom, the picture is far from uniform.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GLOBAL initiatives designed to promote sustainable practices in the bio-based oils and fats industry are making strong progress. The key Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) has now released "principles and criteria" designed to ensure soy production does not cause long term damage to the environment and society.…

BY MARK GODFREY

IN terms of suicides by migrant workers, "Hong Kong risks becoming another Gulf," claims their representative in the territory. Comparing reported incidents with accidental deaths and suicides by workers in Gulf Arab countries, Mia Sumiati, a coordinator of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Organisation (IMWO) in Hong Kong, noted an increase in suspicious deaths or proven suicides amongst the 140,000 strong Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong.…

BY WILL ROBERTSON

THE INDONESIAN government is facing legal action over its failure to sign and ratify the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). But the treaty is still unlikely to be formally adopted in this smokers’ haven because of political reasons, tobacco industry observers have told World Tobacco.…

BY MARK ROWE

INDONESIA’S paint industry appears likely to weather the worst of the global economic downturn. Indeed, Indonesia may be one of the few major countries where sales of paint for industrial and domestic use will rise. In January 2009, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono forecast economic growth of 6.2% for the year in a budget that revealed capital spending plans that were 14.3% up on 2008.…