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        "id": 1201949,
        "msgid": "new-regulations-needed-for-new-world-trade-era-1447893297",
        "date": "1995-01-02 00:00:00",
        "title": "New regulations needed for new world trade era",
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        "summary": "New regulations needed for new world trade era JAKARTA (JP): The government is tightening its control over the foreign publications which will begin flowing into the country in larger numbers this year in line with the worldwide trade liberalization measures. Attorney General Singgih told a press conference last week that the government will particularly search for publications with provocative contents.",
        "content": "<p>New regulations needed for new world trade era<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): The government is tightening its control over<br>\nthe foreign publications which will begin flowing into the<br>\ncountry in larger numbers this year in line with the worldwide<br>\ntrade liberalization measures.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Singgih told a press conference last week<br>\nthat the government will particularly search for publications<br>\nwith provocative contents.<\/p>\n<p>Singgih predicted that the number of these publications coming<br>\ninto Indonesia will increase to take advantage of the new General<br>\nAgreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) which came into force as of<br>\nthe new year.<\/p>\n<p>The Attorney General's Office has the power to bar any<br>\npublication that is deemed not fit for Indonesian readers,<br>\nranging from those considered pornographic to those that contain<br>\ncommunist teachings.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an end of the year press conference on Thursday,<br>\nSinggih said that another possible impact of the global trade<br>\nliberalization measures mandated by GATT is the attempt by<br>\nindustrialized countries to dump nuclear and industrial waste in<br>\nIndonesia.<\/p>\n<p>He said that even before the new GATT, Indonesia seized 214<br>\ncontainers filled with toxic and hazardous waste being dumped by<br>\nmultinational companies.<\/p>\n<p>Another negative impact of free trade, this one coming through<br>\nincreasing number of foreign airlines passing Indonesian air, is<br>\nair pollution, Singgih said.<\/p>\n<p>Besides air pollution the planes also cause noise pollution,<br>\nhe added.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia must anticipate the excesses of trade liberalization<br>\nmeasures, he explained, adding that the nation would also need a<br>\nnew set of regulations to handle these problems.<\/p>\n<p>He said the rapid economic development which Indonesia has<br>\nseen in recent years has also made the country a breeding ground<br>\nfor many economic crimes.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994, the Attorney General's office was preoccupied with<br>\nthe handling of the huge scandal at the state Bank Pembangunan<br>\nIndonesia (Bapindo) and the allegation that a huge textile<br>\ncompany had been making fictitious exports to cash in on cheap<br>\nsubsidized loans from the government. Singgih predicted more<br>\neconomic crimes in 1995 and warned that the perpetrators will<br>\nbecome more clever.<\/p>\n<p>The Attorney General's Office saved Rp 7.2 billion ($3.2<br>\nmillion) of state wealth that would have been lost through<br>\ncorruption, embezzlement and tax fraud in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>This amount excludes the funds saved from the Bapindo scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Bapindo's total losses are estimated at Rp 1.3 trillion, but<br>\nthe government has confiscated the assets of its perpetrators to<br>\nrecuperate some of it.<\/p>\n<p>Singgih said his office had 117 corruption cases, 155 economic<br>\ncrime cases and 93 narcotics cases between April and October. The<br>\noffice also had 250 civil cases during the same period. (imn)<\/p>",
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