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        "id": 1049643,
        "msgid": "ministers-step-into-beer-wrangle-1447893297",
        "date": "1996-01-31 00:00:00",
        "title": "Ministers step into beer wrangle",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Ministers step into beer wrangle JAKARTA (JP): Two ministers pledged to solve problems related to the labeling of beer on the resort island of Bali, while the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) expressed concern over such trade regulations in the liberalization era.",
        "content": "<p>Ministers step into beer wrangle<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Two ministers pledged to solve problems related<br>\nto the labeling of beer on the resort island of Bali, while the<br>\nIndonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) expressed<br>\nconcern over such trade regulations in the liberalization era.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are summoning all parties involved in the labeling and<br>\nsales of beer in Bali to get first-hand information, based on<br>\nwhich we will look for a solution,\" Minister of Industry and<br>\nTrade Tunky Ariwibowo told reporters yesterday after installing<br>\nexecutives and commissioners of state-owned industrial and<br>\ntrading companies.<\/p>\n<p>Beer producers have stopped supplies to Bali for more than two<br>\nweeks in protest against the labeling by PT Arbamass Multi<br>\nInvesco, which collects an alcohol levy of Rp 400 (17.3 U.S.<br>\ncents) per bottle. Arbamass is a private company controlled by<br>\npolitically well-connected businessmen Ari Sigit Soeharto and<br>\nEmir Baramuli.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Tourism, Post and Telecommunication Joop Ave said<br>\nhere Monday that he would investigate the case, which has<br>\naffected the hotel and restaurant businesses in Bali.<\/p>\n<p>Kadin's chairman, Aburizal Bakrie, told the press yesterday<br>\nthat the beer labeling, which indicates the satisfying of trade<br>\nregulations policed by a private company under a ruling by the<br>\nBali governor, is ironical because it has been introduced in an<br>\nera when the government is liberalizing trade through<br>\nderegulatory measures.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Tunky said he had sent a letter to Bali Governor Ida<br>\nBagus Oka, who issued the regulation on the alcohol levy<br>\ncollection by the private firm.<\/p>\n<p>\"So far I haven't received his answer yet,\" said Tunky.<\/p>\n<p>Sukamdani Sahid Gitosardjono, president of the Sahid hotel<br>\nchain management company, said that a long drought of alcoholic<br>\ndrinks in Bali might affect the country's target to lure more<br>\nforeign tourists to the country. (kod)<\/p>\n<p>Photo -- Page 9<\/p>",
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