Judge detained in bribery case<\/p>\n
BATAM, Riau: The head of the Batam District Court, Krisman
\nSormin, is being held at the local prosecutor's office for
\nquestioning as a suspect in a Rp 50 million bribery case.<\/p>\n
\"He is being detained for 20 days and the detention can be
\nextended for 30 days, but this depends on the investigation,\"
\nchief prosecutor Sution Usman said here on Friday.<\/p>\n
He said his office had rejected Krisman's request to be placed
\nunder house arrest because the suspect has no home in the area.<\/p>\n
Sution could not say when the suspect's dossier would be
\nhanded over to the courts.<\/p>\n
It is alleged that Krisman received a bribe of Rp 50 million
\nfrom a female defendant, the late Sulistianti Sudirohusodo, three
\nyears ago.<\/p>\n
The court ruled against Sulistianti, despite Krisman's alleged
\npromise to rule in favor of her. --Antara<\/p>\n
East Java councillors told to cancel German trip<\/p>\n
SURABAYA: Germany's deputy ambassador to Indonesia, Hermann
\nSausen, has asked the East Java (Jatim) Legislative Council's
\nCommission B to cancel their plan to visit Germany to conduct
\ncomparative studies on tobacco plantations there.<\/p>\n
\"To learn about tobacco, you should go to Turkey or Greece,
\nnot to Germany. We don't have any tobacco plantations, we have
\nonly tobacco-processing and auctioning sites in Bremen,\" Hermann
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Herman made his point on Thursday in response to a question
\nraised by a commission member, Sri Hartono, about the extent of
\ntobacco plantations in Germany and why the country was famous
\nworldwide for tobacco.<\/p>\n
East Java Legislative Council Chairman Bisrie Abdul Djalil
\nsaid that they were to visit four European countries, including
\nGermany. Other visits were to the Netherlands to study
\nsmallholdings, Switzerland for banking and France for small and
\nmedium enterprises.<\/p>\n
\"We haven't set a date for our departure, but I think Rp 20
\nmillion will be sufficient for each member's transportation and
\naccommodation expenses, said Bisrie, a representative from the
\nNational Awakening Party (PKI).--Antara<\/p>\n
Urban areas to get loans from World Bank<\/p>\n
PONTIANAK, West Kalimantan: Each of some 46 poor rural
\nsubdistricts in West Kalimantan will get between Rp 1 and Rp 2
\nbillion in financial assistance from the World Bank for the
\ndevelopment of living environments.<\/p>\n
Vice chairman of the Regional Environmental Impact Agency,
\nSamsul Usman said here on Thursday that the assistance, known as
\nUrban Poverty Project, was part of a national program and
\nintended for developing poor urban areas across West Kalimantan.<\/p>\n
Samsul, however, said he was not sure whether the Rp 49
\nbillion budget proposed by his agency to help some 46 poor
\ndistricts in seven regencies would be approved by the regional
\nadministrations.<\/p>\n
Aspar Aswin, the West Kalimantan governor, said at a
\n\"Community Driven Urban Settlement\" workshop held in the
\ngubernatorial offices that the number of poor urban people had
\ndecreased significantly from 44,28 percent in 1999 to 24,28
\npercent in 2001.<\/p>\n
He hoped that the Urban Poverty Project would prioritize to
\nslum improvement, the development of industrial sites and water
\ncatchment areas and the reordering of living
\nenvironments.--Antara<\/p>\n
Bukit Asam to go public in June<\/p>\n
MUARA ENIM, South Sumatra: President of PT. BA (Bukit Asam), a
\nstate-owned coal mining company, Ismet Harmaini, said here on
\nThursday that his company was gearing up to go public in June.<\/p>\n
\"We are now all ready for that as we have wanted to become a
\npublicly listed company since 1997,\" Ismet said.<\/p>\n
Ismet explained that if the South Sumatra based PT. BA, which
\nproduces some 10 million tons of coal annually, wanted to be
\nprofessional and have a more competitive edge, it would have to
\nincrease its export capacity in the near future as well.<\/p>\n
PT. BA's business manager Teguh said at a seminar on the
\npotential of South Sumatra's natural resources in Palembang that
\nthe company planned to increase its exports to some 50 million
\ntons annually over the next 25 years, making the company the
\nworld's biggest coal exporter.<\/p>\n
Teguh further explained that South Sumatra had some 5.6
\nbillion tons of coal deposits, amounting to 50 percent of
\nIndonesia's reserves. Antara<\/p>",
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