Indonesian state-owned companies as a whole are projected to record net profits totaling Rp81.2 trillion at the end of 2008, up from Rp 71.59 trillion in 2007, a state enterprises ministry official said."This year, after-tax profits will total between Rp 80 trillion and Rp 85 trillion," Said Didu, secretary to the state enterprises minister, said after a meeting with the House of Representativ
So, why now the exposure of a $50 billion Ponzi scheme? Why, suddenly, did Bernard L. Madoff volunteer to the sleepy SEC late last week his confession admitting to a decades-long financial fraud?
Well, I couldn't tell you why. Smelling a political rat, however, one wonders whether this might have something to do with the crisis Vice President-elect Joe Biden predicted back in October.
Is some
From CNNMoney.com - "U.S. homes lose $2 trillion in value in '08":American homeowners will collectively lose more than $2 trillion in home value by the end of 2008, according to a report released Monday.Beginning, middle, and end, this housing story remains deplorably bad:"This year marked the acceleration of the market correction, and is likely to end with the eighth consecutive quarter of declin
In a move not exactly designed to lower investors fears about rampant monetary inflation and other shady dealings without congressional oversight in the USA the Federal Reserve is battening down the hatches.While money printing has become a fairly transparent business for central banks in the past 2 decades, the Fed acts like comical Ali in Baghdad, claiming there is no fire when everybody can see
Yes, you read that right. $596 Trillion. Thats a Trillion, with a T. [ Lets name this number RBN (Really Big Number) :) ]. Now that I have your attention, lets get to the details -
- This is the size of the derivatives market, as reported in the recent report by the Bank for International Settlements , the numbers are thus thus as on Dec '07.
- This $596 Trillion represents the notional value
The troops's robotIncreasingly the length of the row of the soldier Uncle Sam that his life drifted in the battlefield or experienced the mental crisis strengthened the United States determination in making troops super-strong. Could not die or depression. His choice filled up the line skuad their future military with the soldier's robot in the style of The Terminator, the killing robot of the Hol
Even after the historic stock market rally, global markets have lost $50 trillion in wealth over one year. I think people still haven’t come to terms or grasp the magnitude of wealth destruction we have just lived through. Sure, we can flip out about the $200 billion the U.S. Treasury injected into consumer debt markets [...]
As if we needed any more evidence that this financial bubble is one for the history books. The government has now committed the American taxpayer to roughly $8 trillion. We’ve already used up over $2 trillion and the risk is absolutely amazing. Can you believe the state of California is now a higher credit risk [...]
There are two, ever so
very vocal camps on the issue of financial bailouts. There is the
Paulson-Bernanke Camp, which is throwing money around like so much
confetti and there is the Everyone-Else -Outside-Washington Camp that
is watching its tax dollars go down the black hole that is Washington
politics. Now, after about a trillion dollars worth of various bailout
and stimulus packages, the Fed i
US consumers have taken on $14 trillion in debt, which may not seem like a lot, but it is up 137% in a decade. That is what rising housing prices and easy...
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BEIJING, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- A senior Chinese planning official said on Friday that 1.18 trillion yuan of the 4 trillion yuan (586 billion U.S. dollars) economic stimulus package will come from...
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-The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost 2 trillion dollars in emergency loans that were funded by American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral for these loans.-U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is calling for a new world order to beat the financial crisis.-Barack Obama is preparing to overturn hundreds of George W. Bush's execut
Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg News asked a U.S. court today to force the Federal Reserve to disclose securities the central bank is accepting on behalf of American taxpayers as collateral for $1.5 trillion of loans to banks.
The lawsuit is based on the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, which requires federal agencies to make government [...]
When US presidential candidates remind us about the great fundamental strength of the US economy you have to worry about the deficits and debts. This video explains what has gone wrong.
Big rescue moneyVia Yves Smith, an important article in FT Alphaville about the inadequacy of the bailout so far: despite the big-sounding numbers, financial institutions are losing capital faster than governments are putting it in.I’d add a couple more data points: Japan’s bank bailout in 1998 was more than $500 billion, in an economy whose dollar GDP was only about 1/4 that of the United Sta
Politicians in the Eurozone are relieved these days as they see commodities and especially crude oil prices retracting to levels last seen a year earlier. But the improving outlook on the price front comes at the heavy price of monetary inflation.The hope for a slowdown in price inflation is overshadowed by the terrifying numbers on the ECB's balance sheet that almost touched the €2 TRILLION lev
This report may come as a surprise to you. It is often thrown around that we as a nation are heavily in debt. We hear the words billions and now even trillions being thrown around with really no breakdown of where the debt is flowing to. In this article, we are going to breakdown every [...]
Coming Soon: The 600 Trillion Derivatives Emergency Meeting by Seeking Alpha- snip:Here is an update (PDF file) on the size of the derivatives market with the latest official figures from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Hold your breath, as we are not anymore talking paltry billions but TRILLIONS of whichever fiat currency. Current emergency meetings on banks and markets are still on
Before, they called it the financial bailout, the much heralded branding for the financial mess that seems to has plagued the whole world in light of the shortage in funds and over-lending that has seen most banks and financial institutions dance with potential bankruptcy which has already claimed a couple of big names today.
With [...]
US billionaire Warren Buffett call them the real 'weapons of mass destruction'. This market is worth more than $516 trillion, roughly 10 times the value of the entire world's output: it's been called the "ticking time-bomb".read more | digg story
Seeing a lot of Google queries regarding the size of the derivatives market landing at an older post of this blog, here is an update with the latest official figures (pdf) from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS.)Hold your breath, as we are not anymore talking paltry billions but TRILLIONS of whichever fiat currency.Current emergency meetings on banks and markets are still only in the sta
Each morning, as I watch the news, read the papers, and write my posts, I’m reminded constantly that this is the “worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.”
It remains to be seen if we’ll ever have another crisis on par with the collapse of capitalism in the 1930s (see Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker, for [...]
The government decided on Thursday to speed up the disbursement of Rp25.9 trillion of the Rp290 trillion allocated for the social safety net and growth stimulation in the 2008 national budget to ease liquidity."This month the government will speed up the disbursement of Rp25.9 trillion in the budget as the finance minister has explained which is needed to assure continued economic activities in In
With People so concerns about their retirement accounts the candidate's are going to have to address this issue. According to data that I gave read retirement funds have lost over 2 trillion dollars....
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Search engine giant Google has unveiled a $4.4 trillion plan dubbed Clean Power by 2030 that calls for all energy in the US to come from renewable sources.
The web giant in a release posted on its site said: ‘While this plan will cost $4.4 trillion (in undiscounted 2008 dollars), it will ultimately [...]
Well the time is here now to get an update on our national funds and the picture isn’t pretty. All the federal bailouts, treasury cash injections and foreign infusion of funds into our institutions/stocks has meant that America's national debt is set to pass $10,000,000,000,000 this week. To put this in perspective, the $700 billion bailout is only 7% of the forecasted national debt, small chang
The Bailout Bill Goes DownApparently Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader in the House, does not know how to count very well. Leading up to one of the most important votes in recent history, it would seem that she did not know how many in her own party would vote yes, let alone how many in the other party would vote yes. The result; only 205 yes when 217 was needed to pass this bailout bill, a bill that
by James Ostrowski, Mises.org - 3/20/2001
President Bush has proposed a $1.6 trillion tax cut. I would like to suggest that the president modify his tax proposal. He should increase the size of his tax cut to $21 trillion.
Well, it’s not really a $21 trillion tax cut. It’s a $2.1 trillion tax cut. I got the [...]
My people, mi gente... Don't call it a remake, it's the Truth!Sent straight from The Rebel Diaz CampWe have been following the unfolding economic crisis with much concern... $1 Trillion being spent to bailout these Wall Street crooks, whilethe needs of our poor neighborhoods and communities of color continueto be ignored by the US government... The hood has....BEEN in an economiccrisis and we refu
Chief CEO has called for the Maldives Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) to be abolished and liquidated. He said a large percentage of MTDC’s shares were being “controlled” by people.
In my previous post I wrote about the long term fall out and adverse impacts from all these government bailouts. Tony Parker, a regular contributor to this site and an experienced investor, offers a different view as to why the bailouts could end up being a success and even realize a decent profit for the American taxpayer.In light of the recent bailout of the finance services firms, the mainstrea
By Reuters 21 Sep 2008 04:47 PM ET The U.S. Treasury Department is working through the weekend with Congress to craft a plan to spend as much as $700 billion to absorb bad mortgages and other assets from bank or other institution balance sheets to keep the financial system from collapsing.The move comes close on the heels of an $85 billion Federal Reserve rescue of American International Group a
The only reason to invest in the stock market is to make a profit. Duh. And conventional business wisdom has it that the best way to make a profit is to insist that regulators get the hell out of the way and allow market forces to do their thing. They’ve said it often enough. We [...]
* Treasury securities outstanding as of March 31, according to the Fed’s Flow of Funds (report page 87, pdf page 95): Also $5.3 trillion.
If Fannie’s and Freddie’s obligations were equivalent to 10% or even 20% of the U.S. Treasury debts, the idea that they could fit under the Treasury’s “full faith and credit” umbrella might [...]
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) — America’s out of control, drowning in debt, gorging: $75 trillion and getting worse. Now we’re dumping Fannie and Freddie on America’s balance sheet. Every year we pile trillions more on future generations.
Can’t trust McCain? Obama? Time for new leadership! The best qualified for president is the same great American hero [...]
The U.S. government’s seizure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has triggered more than $1 trillion of credit default swaps tied to the mortgage giants.”
That trigger fired the starting gun for a stampede to dump as much toxic paper as possible into the lap of the US Government. Just what bankers and money managers [...]
That's the size of the mobile youth market according to mobileYouth's latest 2008 research - the mobile youth report. Here are some sample data sets from the report available for download & sharing.More free youth data available for download at mobileYouth (fill in the form on the home page)Mobileyouth Data Sample View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: statistics data)More
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According to Google Blog number of Web URL's Google crawler indexes has crossed 1,000,000,000,000 mark from just 20 million and 1 billion in 1998 and 2000 respectively.According to Google they have come long way and their crawl techniques are unique "We don't index every one of those trillion pages -- many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content similar to the calen
-In order to accommodate the rescue plan for Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac, the U.S. national debt ceiling has been raised to $10.6 trillion dollars.-A new Harvard study says that eating soy reduces sperm count.-A prominent cancer doctor has issued a new warning about cellphones.-New EU internet proposals have raised civil liberty fears.-This is frightening.....A third of Muslim university students b
Mumbai (PTI): The combating of global warming could cost upto a whopping USD three trillion. However, given that the GDP of the world today is over USD 65 trillion , the amount is affordable, a top expert on global warming has said. Shailesh Haribhakti, Chairman of industry body Indian Merchant Chambers' committee on 'Combating global warming' in a note said there are various estimates made on w
The Google index has just hit a groundbreaking one trillion pages today, thats 1,000,000,000,000!!! So how do they find all these pages anyway? heres an excerpt from Googles blog:"We start at a set of well-connected initial pages
and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow the links
on those new pages to even more pages and so on, until we have a huge
list of links. In fact, we fou
The Google index has just hit a groundbreaking one trillion pages today, thats 1,000,000,000,000!!! So how do they find all these pages anyway? heres an excerpt from Googles blog:"We start at a set of well-connected initial pages
and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow the links
on those new pages to even more pages and so on, until we have a huge
list of links. In fact, we fou
No! No! Not 1 trillion dollars; don’t get me wrong. Google is super rich but they are nowhere near the 1 trillion dollar mark yet.
I’m talking about their Google index. The Official Google Blog yesterday reported that their Google index has hit 1 trillion unique URLs on the World Wide Web. That’s...
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We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our
Bill Gross of Pimco, perhaps the most famous bond investor in the world, says that bank write-offs for mortgage-related paper are far from over. In a note...
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I’m on the road training folks as part of my job, so unfortunately I wasn’t able to cover much of the news today - that primarily being Washington Mutual tanking and respected, former White House economist Nouriel Roubini estimating that it will take $1 trillion to get us out of the housing/mortgage mess.
Here’s the links to the stuff I wish I could have written about had time pe
Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ACB) Friday said it has received approval...
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From HealthHabits:
As published in this past Sunday’s Observer, Zoe Wood reports that “the market for products derived from the obesity ‘epidemic’ could be worth £1 trillion within four years”. That is $2 trillion in US dollars.
$2 000 000 000 000
According to the World Health Organization, almost 1/3 of the world’s population is overweight, while 400 million are clinically obese.
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NEW YORK - UNITED States financial companies have lost more than US$1 trillion (S$1.4 trillion) in value this year, and yet another decline on Monday shows concerns aren't going away soon.Banks and brokerages began the week lower on the same fears that have been proven toxic since last summer in the ongoing credit crisis. The financial sector was hit with a confluence of troubles on Monday: cautio
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No doubt it is really a matter of concern for the whole world, that The Gross National Debt has crossed 9 trillion dollars. Necessary steps should be taken to have a check on it and also to control it's further expansion at this pace.
The global market for pharmaceuticals was worth more than $693 billion in 2007. It is expected to increase to over $737 billion in 2008 and will top $1.0 trillion in 2013.
The market is divided into branded prescription drugs, generic prescription drugs and over-the-counter products. Branded prescription drugs have the largest share of the market, with more than $525 billion in sales during 2007.
The Indonesian central bank may suffer this year a much bigger deficit than last year due to a costly interest payout to holders of its key certificates, local press said Tuesday. Bank Indonesia, the central bank, is expected to suffer a total deficit of 8.02 trillion rupiah (about 861 million U.S. dollars) by the end of 2008, as it has to pay the interest of its certificates. Last year, the b
Wireless social networking products, services, applications, components, and advertising will generate more than $2.5 trillion in revenue by 2020, according to iSuppli.
This is a interesting Question, Today We will see A equally timepass questionTake a Look!!What comes After a trillion?There is a Very simple answer trillion and oneJust KiddingIn almost all major countriesThey use these termsmillion = 10^6Billion = 10^9 (i.e. 10 to the ninth power) (for Americans; not Brits!)Trillion = 10^12Quadrillion = 10^15Quintillion = 10^18Sextillion = 10^21Septillion = 10^2
Agence France-Presse - June 06, 2008 Original URL THE world must spend one per cent of its annual economic output to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the IEA said today, calling for an "energy technology revolution" to curb global warming. Unless governments take action now, carbon dioxide emissions will rise by 130 per cent by the middle of the century and oil demand will grow 70 per
Malicious Legislation WatchClimate Security Act is about NeitherOnly US Senators would have the overbearing arrogance--think Al Gore--to think that they can vote to change climate. But the Senate votes tomorrow on a piece of Buffoonery called the Climate Security Act.Maybe the Senators attach a rider outlawing tornadoes and floods, while they're at it.Tomorrow's Senate vote, which will cost every
In our time of economic crisis what's and the difference between a Billion or 6 Trillion? The numbers - How much will it cost American taxpayers to curb US carbon-dioxide emissions? Far more than the issue of polar-bear protection... The political climate bill battle observers say started on May 20. Government witnesses told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Comm
The region's leisure and tourism sector is likely to receive a major boost with the planned investment of Dh.11 trillion on theme parks and other leisure and tourism projects in the Middle East, over the next twenty years.
The forthcoming attractions in the region include the Restless Planet and Universal Studios in Dubailand, Entertainment City in Qatar, Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, Aquaventure
The Bush initiated invasion of Iraq has been a major factor that has trebled the price of oil, according to a leading expert, costing the world a staggering $6 trillion in higher energy prices alone. Dr. mamlouh Salameh, an adviser to such organizations as the World Bank and tue UN Industrial Development Organization, told the [...]
The most popular targets for real estate investments now are countries in the new economic region stretching from China across India and the Middle East to Africa (CHIMEA), said a report.
The top 50 emerging markets represented in A T Kearney’s recent Real Estate Opportunity Index spent a combined total of $1.7 trillion on construction in [...]
Okay, my blog has been getting über left leaning political, but, you know what? If it doesn't do it now, when will it? So if left leaning politics isn't your thing, step on or maybe, more accurately, click on.This isn't because John Cusack has me as one of his top friends over at MySpace. Although it did warm my little blogging heart , and I got a screen shot to save it because nothing is forever. It's because going on a $3 Trillion shopping spree really does put into perspective how wasteful this war is. I read John Cusack's latest blog over at the Huffington Post this morning and it got me over to an interesting site. I'll post the blog here in full so you can read it too: The $3 Trillion Shopping SpreeTHAT WAS FUN. Just got done spending $3 trillion. Try it yourself - it's a lot
How would you spend three trillion dollars: $3 Trillion Shopping Spree [hat tip Young Anabaptist Radicals]
Why $3 Trillion? Because that is the estimated amount that this war in Iraq will cost.
Some things I learned yesterday about one day in Iraq: It costs 720 million dollars
Which could buy any one of the following:
84 new elementary schools
12,478 elementary school teachers
95,364 Head Start places for children
1,153,846 children with free school lunches
34,904 four-year scholarships for university students
163,525 people with healthcare
423,529 children with healthcare
6,482 families with homes
1,274,336 homes with renewable electricityWhen will it end?
It is hard to wrap your mind around the size of the American housing market. Today’s Case-Shiller Index reported a further deterioration in the housing market. The difficulty in determining what real estate was valued at the absolute peak is somewhat hard to determine since many regions hit peaks at various different times. [...]Related Posts:■Summer and Housing in the Garden of Eden. 3 Reasons Why Housing Will Soar This Summer!■Lords of Housing: Believing in the $22.5 Trillion Housing Market.■Current Status of Real Estate Market: Boring!■Of Bubbles Past. Need a Map for Housing? Ask a Housing Perma-Bull and They’ll See the World Through Colored Glasses!■The Psychology of a Crashing Housing Market: Sending in Your Home Keys Just Got Easier.
Former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn thinks the credit crisis will take $1 trillion in losses out of the market. That is a number much higher than most...
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According to Bloomberg today, former World Bank President James Wolfensohn is predicting that losses from the global credit turmoil may climb to $1 trillion. Wolfesohn, who was the head of the Word Bank from 1995 to 2005, said after addressing the European Pensions and Savings Summit:
“It does seem to be a major adjustment on [...]
The real estate projects that are underway in GCC have cross Dh.8.8trillion mark, according to an industry research.
The figure has been arrived at, taking into account all additional developments (even in their concept stage) that are currently happening in the GCC, which accounts for a total of 3,519 projects worth Dh.9.27 trillion.
Majority of these developments are happening in the Saudi
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Here’s something to think about. According to CNN Money yesterday, credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s recently estimated that a financial meltdown at mortgage financing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could require a taxpayer bailout costing $420 billion to $1.1 trillion. CNN Money senior writer Chris Isidore noted that this staggering amount [...]
The Foreign Exchange market (Forex) is truly the largest exchange in the world. The amount of dollars traded on the Forex market on a daily basis is in the trillions. Most of this currency trading takes place between between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, multinational corporations, governments, and other financial markets and institutions. However, [...]
This number is huge, I don't know how we will gonna handle this anymore. It's not only about national debt, it's also about an entire nation complaining about personal debts and credits... we have to stop this from spreading and start to handle things in a better way.
From Public loot since 1947: Let us bring back our money by M R VenkateshIt is one of the biggest loots witnessed by mankind -- the loot of the aam aadmi (common man) since 1947 by his brethren occupying public office. It has been orchestrated by politicians, bureaucrats and some businessmen. The list is almost all-encompassing. No wonder, everyone in India loots with impunity and without any fear. [ ... ] In fact, some finance experts and economists believe tax havens to be a conspiracy of the western world against the poor countries. By allowing the proliferation of tax havens in the twentieth century, the western world explicitly encourages the movement of scarce capital from the developing countries to the rich. In March 2005, the Tax Justice Network (TJN) published a researc
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Courtesy of The News news added on 6/10/2007 ISLAMABAD: The federal budget for 2007-08 with an outlay of Rs 1.599 trillion presented in the National Assembly on Saturday contains huge subsidies and relief for the masses and the public sector entities. The subsidies amount to Rs 133.9 billion, while relief to the people included major increase in salaries of the government employees by 15 per cent, pensions by 15 to 20 per cent and reduction in customs duty on raw material for industries, tariff rationalisation on vehicles, and zero duty on sewing machines, bicycles and cottonseed oil.The Rs 1.599 trillion federal budget includes Rs 1.056 trillion current expenditure and Rs 543 billion development expenditure. The federal budget for 2007-08 is 11.9 per cent higher than the revised estimates
According to Reuters via Yahoo Finance:
Soros says global subprime losses could top $1 trillion
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor George Soros said on Wednesday that global losses from the subprime mortgage debt crisis could top $1 trillion.
“Losses being recognized now amount to $1 trillion,” from the subprime mortgage debt crisis, said Soros, asked about an [...]
Vietnam needs VND221.5 trillion to implement its airport development plan from now until 2020, the Ministry of Transport said on April 8.
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According to the Internal Monetary Fund, sub-prime related losses are expected to topple $1 trillion. Thus far the street's consensus is that sub prime related losses have only reached $170 billion; however, related losses to mortgages, mortgage securities, commercial real estate, and consumer credit may all add up to nearly $1 trillion if conditions continue to deteriorate.
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Many of you may be familiar with the show American Greed on CNBC. The show highlights examples of greed and corruption in rather dramatic case examples. This weekend, they had a couple of Southern California men from Compton, that decided to swindle church goers by convincing them that they could buy luxury cars [...]Related Posts:■Real Homes of Genius: Today we Salute you Pacoima. Zillow says $457,000 but Listed at $225,000?■When will my home cost me an ARM and a leg?■A Trip down the Housing Graveyard: The Casualties of the Housing Bear Market.■Lying Dirty Scoundrels of Housing: 3 Additional Factors to the Housing Explosion: Money Supply, Consumer Inflation, and Celebrities?■The Plague of Housing: Why we Will Feel and Be Poorer Because of the Housing Bust.
President Director of state oil and gas company PT Pertamina Ari Soemarno said that he has been asked by the government to pay its 2008 dividends of Rp15 trillion and express readiness to do that."We already had a meeting with Vice President Jusuf Kalla and discussed the matter," Ari Soemarno said in Tokyo Wednesday after signing an agreement on an assistance of Rp 6.4 billion to renovate the Indonesian School and Indonesian Hall in the Japanese capital.The request was made following a windfall profit for Pertamina as the result of the constantly skyrocketing world oil price, which had once even reached more than 100 US dollars per barrel.Ari Soemarno disclosed further that Pertamina still has a strong position in Japan, which is proved by a cooperation in the building of a number of oil p