VOI News 20:00 WIB, GMT+7, 04.02.2012

 

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa submitted a document on the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty or CTBT to the United Nations during his visit to New York this week.

 

Indonesia's trade minister, Gita Wirjawan,  has called for the country's labor laws to be reformed, saying that increasingly aggressive unions and mass protests are posing a major stumbling block to economic development.

 

The World Bank's newly appointed Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific, Pamela Cox, will visit Indonesia next week to meet with government counterparts and opinion makers in the country to get a better sense about the challenges and aspirations of emerging middle-income countries.

 

An official has said that Bali saw a 22.85 percent increase in Australian tourists coming to the island from last year's 788,644 visitors.

 

The Bike2Work community will hold a 511-kilometer bicycle tour from Jakarta to Yogyakarta during February 4th to 9th to commemorate World Cancer Day on Saturday and raise awareness of leukemia.

 

Indonesian Social Affairs Minister, Salim Segaf Al Jufri in Jakarta on Saturday dedicated Sulaimaniyah Islamic boarding school under the United Islamic Cultural Center of Indonesia-UICCI foundation.