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accused of tax arrears to Garuda Indonesia confused. Spokesman PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Pujobroto denied that his company has arrears unpaid taxes to the government.

“Garuda has no tax arrears. We’ve made clarifications to the Office of the Ministry of SOEs on the subject and Garuda are not delinquent taxes,” said Pujobroto, Friday (29/1/2010).

He claimed to be fooled by the news that mentions that the state-owned airline was in the top 100 largest companies in Delinquent taxes last five years.

As is known, the Directorate General of Taxes launch until December 31, 2009 the tax arrears 100 companies reached USD 17.5 trillion, or 33.7 percent of total tax arrears of Rp 52 trillion.

“Garuda has even received an award from the Directorate General of Taxes at the time of receiving the award Garuda Annual Report Award. Not long ago the Tax Office Tangerang Municipality also give credit where Garuda is always to meet tax payment obligations,” he asserted

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However, Deputy Governor of Central Bank of China, Zhu Min, said that the revaluation will not improve the world trade imbalance.

In front of the World Economic Forum in Davos, he said China was trying to increase domestic consumption, but warned some time to ask for China’s increasing spending.

Zhu said Beijing has been maintaining the yuan exchange rate stable through the financial and economic crisis through his own stimulus package. “The move was good for China and also the world,” he asserted.

He also indicated that the revaluation will be done. Beijing has committed to the deal G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, who says many countries will coordinate the exit strategy of a large stimulus package that was adopted to combat the slowdown of the world.

“If the world (partners) are ready to run the exit strategy is, China is ready … including on various issues – concerning liquidity, exchange issues,” he told the forum.

China is under pressure while maintaining yuan to remain weak against the dollar. Critics say China’s policy is to make China’s exports cheaper and triggering a large trade surplus with the West. China’s trade surplus reached 196.1 billion U.S. dollars in 2009.

Zhu said a stronger yuan will not solve the trade imbalance. “The exchange rate is a matter of rebalancing issue. The exchange rate will not be able to change everything,” he said.

Beijing recognizes the need to stop depending on exports. “The crisis has taught us that the pure export model unsustainable and we’re working on it. The situation has improved, but still takes time,” he said.

‘I’m still old-fashioned person. If the glass is still good, I’m not going to throw it to buy a crystal, even if my income increases. I’m still going to use it, “he said.

Leadership of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, also gave a note, mengeser very difficult to model this growth of exports to be drawn drawn domestic demand.

“With U.S. consumers buy less in the middle of the crisis and China through the stimulus spending and businesses to China to buy more, the trade imbalance problem becomes looked a little better than before the crisis,” Strauss-Kahn said.

But he warned, much of China’s consumers are able to compensate for declining consumption in the U.S.. In separate sessions, the group chief executive of Standard Chartered Bank, Peter Sands, said there was no quick fixes on the choice of China’s currency.

“I think there are many simple things you said about the renminbi currency. Some seem to believe that if revalued, all the macroeconomic imbalances will disappear instantly. That’s wrong. It’s too simple,” he said.

He showed that the value of Asian economies has increased and this value will be reflected in the value of Asian currencies against western currencies.

“I believe that the frequent passage of time, renminbi and other Asian currencies will be valued and managed in order to be more important things to reconcile some macro-economic imbalances in the world,” he added.

French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the financial sector billionaire, George Soros, during the Davos meeting pleaded with China to let its currency strengthen.

In a major speech on the first day of the forum, Sarkozy covertly menyerangan China, saying the trade imbalance has adverse world economic recovery.

“The instability in exchange rates and an assessment of a particular currency lower against the competition fair trade and honest,” said Sarkozy.

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Samuel Santoso looked so busy. Every day, since the clock showed 04.00 o’clock until 22:30 o’clock when Indonesia was, he continued working at her job in Kupang, the capital of East Nusa Tenggara. This area should be appointed through hard work to leverage the potential of local resources available.

Santoso realized, not easy to start a business in the province. Many problems must be faced, ranging from human resources, capital, marketing, to transportation.

“In 2004 I arrived in Kupang. I learned a number of business opportunities in a number of districts. Then, I decided to pursue efforts emping corn. The whole area in NTT to plant corn and corn became the staple food,” Santoso said in Kupang, Saturday (16 / 1 / 2010).

However, corn processing in the community is still simple. Fried corn and eaten just like that, or ground into a makeshift emping. There are also ground corn kernels, then cook the rice instead. This custom lasted hundreds of years.

Armed with knowledge of corn emping learned in Yogyakarta, Santoso provide new inspiration on the tasty corn emping, hygiene, quality, and able to compete in the market.

Gorontalo Province recognizes excellence emping quality corn Santoso. They asked Santoso help train local farmers and a processing engine assembly emping Santoso quality results.

Every day, 100 to 200 kilograms (kg) of maize seed is processed into emping round. He produced 80 kg-180 kg emping, lost 20 percent because of the skin and eyes discarded seed corn.

Corn raw materials purchased from farmers at a price of Rp 2,000 to Rp 3,000 per kg. All types of corn can be used in NTT emping with the development of 2-3,5 cm in size after the ground with the engine.

“Corn NTT far more qualified than other regions. We processed corn was not destroyed, even though the wider developing ground with 8-10 kg force. However, maize from outside is always broken,” he said.

After all, this corn emping more palatable than other regions. In fact, Santoso just fry the garlic without preservatives.

Product emping Santoso’s corn can now be found in supermarkets, shops, kiosks and food stalls. Emping spread in 21 regencies / cities as NTT.

In fact, Santoso emping only distribute it to the City of Kupang, Kupang regency, East South Central, and Sikka. Everything is simply due to the limited human resources and capital. Most entrepreneurs from other districts to buy emping in Kupang for sale in the district concerned.

“Without it I am overwhelmed promotion serve requests. But, I worked as labor, capital, raw materials, and human resources available,” he said.

Demand in the City / County Kupang emping 500-1000 kg of maize per day, East South Central 200 kg per day, and Sikka 500 kg per day. Shipping emping to these places was in accordance with the transportation to the area.

Emping distributed to every supermarket and shops in the four districts in 1-3 days up consumer invaded. Usually emping it for breakfast, also for the journey and by-the typical NTT. “Demand from other regencies in NTT to 2,000 pounds, but I could not serve. I let this business go naturally,” he said.

Packaging

Emping packed in plastic and can be taken anywhere. Santoso artificial Emping can last for 5 months.

Size 450 grams sold USD 8000-USD 8500 per bag, while the size of 250 grams sold at Rp 5,000 per bag. However, in supermarkets or stores, emping sold at Rp 10,000-Rp 15,000 per bag. Size 250 grams sold at Rp 8,000 per kg.

Santoso offers flavored corn emping tasty (crispy), sweet honey, and spicy sweet. All of this sense of the most desirable consumers.

Corn emping business is now managed by CV El Shahadai, where its director Santoso. Looking ahead, Santoso optimistic that his efforts would be successful now citizens of East Timor and Australia began to be interested. Only limited capital and labor to make this request not yet been provided.

Santoso employs 10 local workers with a salary Rp 650.000-Rp 1.5 million per month. However, they are very difficult to adapt. Despite years of working 1-3 job, they must continue to be led.

Almost every week he asked the leaders of work units the local device provides an understanding of entrepreneurship to college graduates in the province. Santoso always emphasized the wealth of natural resources in NTT and how to manage it.

There are a number of natural resources wasted NTT, like fibers from palm, palm fruit, acid Java, bamboo shoots, bamboo, bamboo tree, white wood, and straw. In fact, all this can be managed to generate money very adequate.

He gave examples of people successfully self-employed as business snack, handicraft household industry, and furniture. The advantage in this field is more promising than the civil servants (PNS). Being civil servants also have to fight with thousands of college graduates and high school.

“I want to wake up the public optimism that the NTT many business opportunities. I just talk frankly about the benefits I get from this corn emping efforts to build their business sense,” he said.

NTT community can also self-employed, they just need assistance and venture capital. The government does not only talk, but also give the capital and guidance to the community.

Santoso emping plans to build factories in the city of Kupang corn to produce 30 tons of maize grain per day and absorb the work force of about 3,000 people.

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Minister of Industry Mohamad S Hidayat, Indonesian textile products admitted difficult to compete with China’s products cheap. Therefore, the necessary steps to break the ongoing national textile industry can produce efficiently in order to increase competitiveness.

“We are hard to rival products (textiles) China, especially in terms of relatively low prices,” he said at the inauguration of the restructuring program expansion textile machinery and textile products (TPT) in Bandung, West Java, on Sunday (31.1.2010).

He said there were several factors, especially in the field of production and distribution that led to China’s TPT industry is more competitive now compared to Indonesia. These factors, among others, China has the raw materials of cotton, while 99.5 percent of Indonesia to import cotton to meet the needs of textile raw materials.

In addition, he added, China has a chemical raw material industry dye TPT (Dyestuff) is quite a lot, whereas Indonesia most needs are still imported pigments. Similarly, the supply of textile machinery. China, he said, has a textile machinery industry is quite good, while Indonesia had to import the machine.

“China has a commercial interest rates are more promising than Indonesia. In addition, China implemented a tax rebate incentives for export industries,” said Hidayat.

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