JP\/4\/scen-21<\/p>\n
People told to choose trustable leaders<\/p>\n
PADANG, West Sumatra: Chairman of the Freedom Party Adi Sasono
\nurged people to vote for leaders who are ethical and moral, and
\nhave common sense in the 2004 elections.<\/p>\n
He said on Sunday that moral and ethical leaders would help
\nthe nation overcome its multidimensional crisis.<\/p>\n
Adi, formerly the state minister of cooperatives and small and
\nmedium enterprises, said a lack of credible leaders would only
\nmake Indonesia suffer.<\/p>\n
He noted that many national leaders often ignored the public
\ninterest and instead made their personal interests a top
\npriority. He said that the state assets sales was an example of a
\ndecision that was made only to benefit the leaders.<\/p>\n
Adi said Indonesia's future generations would not be able to
\nenjoy the state assets, because many had been sold to foreign
\ncompanies.<\/p>\n
Indonesia is scheduled to hold its first general elections in
\nApril 2004 and a two-step direct presidential election from June
\nto August 2004. -- Antara<\/p>\n
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\nScene-pkb-solidary
\nSolidarity required to combat corruption
\nJP\/4\/scene<\/p>\n
SALATIGA, Central Java: Deputy secretary general of the
\nNational Awakening Party (PKB) Yahya Staquf urged cadres in
\nSalatiga to boost their cooperation for the 2004 elections.<\/p>\n
He suggested that cadres in the mayoralty improve their
\nevaluation guidelines and organize a meeting once every three
\nweeks.<\/p>\n
Yahya, spokesman of former president Abdurrahman Wahid,
\nemphasized that solidarity was the key to helping the party gain
\nmore votes in the 2004 elections.<\/p>\n
During the 1999 elections, the PKB ranked fourth and won 51
\nseats in the House of Representatives (DPR).<\/p>\n
Yahya also called on cadres to unite and combat the practices
\nof corruption, collusion, and nepotism (KKN) blamed for the
\ncurrent multidimensional crisis. -- Antara<\/p>\n
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\nIndonesian city to host Chinese lion-dance festival
\nJP\/INDONESIA<\/p>\n
Singkawang to host Lion Dance Festival<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: The city of Singkawang in Kalimantan, which is
\npredominantly Chinese-Indonesian, is to host the next World
\nChinese Lion Dance festival in 2004, a report said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Zeet Hamdy Assovie, secretary of the Singkawang town
\nadministration, said Singkawang "probably has the biggest reserve
\nof Chinese lion dancers in Indonesia".<\/p>\n
The first Indonesian city to hold the festival was Padang,
\nWest Sumatra, in March last year.<\/p>\n
Singkawang is located 145 kilometers north of the West
\nKalimantan provincial capital of Pontianak, and is known as "the
\ncity of a thousand Chinese temples".<\/p>\n
Lion dances and other public demonstrations of Chinese culture
\nwere banned during the iron-fisted rule of former president
\nSoeharto, who was toppled from power in 1998.<\/p>\n
Ethnic Chinese-Indonesians account for about three percent of
\nthe 214-million-strong national population. -- AFP<\/p>\n
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\nIraq-war-demos-Indonesia
\nIndonesian anti-US rally urges boycott of American goods
\nJP\/IRAQ<\/p>\n
Protesters urge boycott of U.S. goods<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: Some 2,000 Indonesians on Sunday held an anti-U.S.
\nrally in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta, calling for a
\nboycott of American goods in protest against the "invasion of
\nIraq".<\/p>\n
The protesters, who came from the Yogyakarta chapters of the
\nUkhuwah Islamiyah Forum, the Prosperous Justice Party, the Hizbut
\nTahrir, the Indonesian Muslim Students Committee, Muhammadiyah
\nand Nahdlatul Ulama, rallied at a main intersection in the center
\nof the city to protest the war.<\/p>\n
"We call on people not to consume Coca-Cola, McDonald's or
\nKentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) products because it has been proven
\nthat they contributed to the U.S. aggression on Iraq," Chairman
\nof Ukhuwah Islamiyah Forum Ahmad Mursidy told protesters,
\nreported Detikcom.<\/p>\n
Posters at the rally bore slogans such as "The United Nations
\nis a puppet of the United States", "People reject U.S.
\nterrorism", "The United States is the real terrorist" and
\n"Boycott all U.S. products".<\/p>\n
The protesters also called on Muslims to continue to pray for
\nthe Iraqi people and urged the government to severe diplomatic
\nties with Washington.<\/p>\n
Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority nation and a
\nstrong critic of the war, has seen almost daily protests since
\nthe war began.<\/p>\n
The government is now pressing for a key United Nations role
\nin the interim government following the fall of Saddam Hussein's
\nregime. -- AFP<\/p>\n
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\nOverseas-workers-resend<\/p>\n
JP\/4\/scene<\/p>\n
Migrant workers go back to work<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: The Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration has
\nissued a letter that allows Indonesian migrant workers to go to
\nSaudi Arabia starting next month, after the Iraq war is over.<\/p>\n
The chief of the Federation of Manpower Service Agencies
\n(Himsataki), Yunus Yamani, said he had received a copy of the
\nofficial letter No. 350\/2003 issued on April by manpower minister
\nJacob Nuwa Wea to the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Jakarta regarding
\nthe recommencement of migrant worker placement to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
"The letter stipulates, among other things, that the placement
\nof Indonesian workers to Saudi Arabia can resume in May," said
\nYunus on Sunday.<\/p>\n
He said the ministry would only allow those companies that had
\nproper facilities for migrant workers, including a bed for each
\nworker, to resume placement.<\/p>\n
Many believed that the placement of migrant workers overseas
\nwas banned by the government due to the Iraq war.<\/p>\n
However, the government said placement agencies needed to
\nimprove the communications skills, especially language
\nproficiency, of Indonesian workers before sending them overseas.
\n-- Antara<\/p>",
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