Ujung Kulong National Park has a newly printed revised guidebook – a book that Lonely Planet has described as “excellent, but rarely available.”

New Zealand’s Ambassador to Indonesia, David Taylor, launched the revised guidebook at a gathering in Jakarta recently that included National Park staff, senior Ministry of Forestry and Ministry of Tourism officials, as well as local government officials, community representatives and business people from Banten Province .

Indonesia and New Zealand have agreed to strengthen bilateral links in the geothermal sector. Last week, the President’s Special Delivery Unit on Development Coordination & Oversight (UKP4) held a roundtable discussion on geothermal cooperation between the two countries. At the event, New Zealand presented the findings and recommendations of the Geothermal Scoping Mission that New Zealand commissioned last March to Indonesian government agencies, industries, universities, as well as international organisations.

According to the 2011 Index of Economic Freedom published by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal, New Zealand’s economic freedom score is 82.3, making its economy the 4th freest in the 2011 Index. For further information, please visit the 2011 Index of Economic Freedom website.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon Murray McCully and Indonesian Foreign Minister HE Dr Marty Natalegawa held the fourth annual meeting of the New Zealand-Indonesia Joint Ministerial Commission (JMC) in Auckland on Friday 9 September 2011.