Hasyim nominated for presidency<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: The Christian-based political party Love the Nation
\nDemocratic Party (PDKB) has proposed chairman of the country's
\nlargest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Hasyim Muzadi as
\nits presidential candidate.<\/p>\n
PDKB chairman Manasse Malo said on Tuesday that Hasyim
\nfulfilled the requirements for the country's leader because of
\nhis willingness to listen to people regardless of their ethnic
\nbackground or religion.<\/p>\n
The party's executives met Hasyim on Tuesday to convey their
\nintention at NU's headquarters on Jl. Kramat Raya in Central
\nJakarta.<\/p>\n
Hasyim himself did not immediately respond to the proposal,
\nsaying that he would consult NU's clerics who he said had
\nassigned him to lead the organization instead of running for
\ngovernment posts.<\/p>\n
Several provincial chapters of Golkar, the country's second
\nlargest political party, had once nominated Hasyim as their
\npresidential candidate, but Hasyim rejected the request. -- JP<\/p>\n
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\nScene-Aceh-road
\nMinister says colleagues indifferent
\nJP\/4\/Aceh<\/p>\n
Minister says colleagues indifferent<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: State Minister of the Environment Nabiel Makarim
\ncomplained on Tuesday about his colleagues' indifference in the
\ncontroversial road construction project that will cut a large
\nswath through a protected forest in Aceh.<\/p>\n
Nabiel told a hearing with the House of Representatives'
\ncommission VIII on environment that he had been seeking a
\nsolution to the matter by consulting Minister of Regional
\nSettlements and Infrastructure Soenarno and Minister of Forestry
\nM. Prakosa as well as nongovernmental activists and the House
\nlegislators.<\/p>\n
\"But so far there has been no response from the forestry and
\nregional settlements and infrastructure ministers,\" Nabiel said.<\/p>\n
Nabiel said he would consult Prakosa about the appropriation
\nof the forest and Soenarno about the priority road projects in
\nwar-torn Aceh.<\/p>\n
The road project connecting eastern and western coasts of
\nAceh, called Ladia Galaska, will cut through the protected forest
\nin Leuser, which has long served to maintain a rare and fragile
\necosystem.-- Antara<\/p>\n
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\nScene-presidency-bill
\nHouse indecisive on presidency bill
\nJP\/4\/bill<\/p>\n
House indecisive on presidency bill<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: Two years ago, the House of Representatives (DPR)
\nagreed that it would deliberate upon the presidency bill, but the
\nspecial committee tasked with debating the bill has inexplicably
\nnot begun.<\/p>\n
A member of the special committee, Zein Badjeber, provided an
\nexcuse on Tuesday, saying he had never been invited to discuss
\nthe bill.<\/p>\n
\"We are just waiting for further developments,\" Zein of the
\nUnited Development Party (PPP) said here.<\/p>\n
A plenary meeting of the House in June 2001 agreed to
\ndeliberate the bill, which was drafted by the House members to
\nprevent abuses of power by the President.<\/p>\n
The bill was drafted when then president Abdurrahman Wahid had
\nbeen mistakenly accused of misusing US$2 million in humanitarian
\naid for Aceh from Brunei Sultan Hasanal Bolkiah.<\/p>\n
However, the special committee has never convened a meeting to
\ndiscuss the bill. -- JP<\/p>\n
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\nScene-Megawati-PDIP
\nMegawati rejects caretaker idea
\nJP\/4\/PDIP<\/p>\n
Megawati rejects caretaker idea<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI
\nPerjuangan) chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri brushed aside
\ndemands for a caretaker leadership to run the daily operations of
\nthe party, saying it would only create a dual leadership.<\/p>\n
\"There is no such thing as a caretaker leader, according to
\nthe party's statutes, so the issue is no longer up for
\ndiscussion,\" the party's deputy secretary general Pramono Anung
\nWibowo said after the weekly meeting led by Megawati.<\/p>\n
Megawati, also the President, had been under pressure from
\nmany sides to name a caretaker so that she could focus on running
\nthe country, rather than splitting her time while running the
\ncountry's largest party, especially with a major national
\nelection campaign coming up.<\/p>\n
\"We really thought that the suggestion would good for the
\nparty's sake, but now it is no longer a subject that can be
\nconsidered, because everybody needs to be in conformity ahead of
\nthe 2004 elections,\" he remarked.--JP<\/p>",
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