PLN plans blackouts for Palangka Raya<\/p>\n
PALANGKA RAYA, Central Kalimantan: State electricity company PLN
\nsaid on Monday it would cut power alternately to parts of the
\nprovincial capital Palangka Raya for the next three months,
\nsaying it needed to carry out maintenance at its power plant.<\/p>\n
PLN Palangka Raya branch manager Bagus Setiawan said parts of
\nthe city would be subject to day-long blackouts every seven days
\nfrom April until June.<\/p>\n
He said the temporary power outages were necessary, as PLN's
\n65-megawatt, coal-fired Asam Asam power plant was due for a
\nroutine overhaul of its machines.<\/p>\n
Maintenance was needed every 14 months or 10,000 hours of non-
\nstop operation, he said. With power consumption in Palangka Raya
\ngrowing, the plant could no longer serve the entire city while
\nmaintenance was underway, he said.<\/p>\n
\"Maintaining and overhauling our plants is a form of service
\nthat most of our customers have difficulties to understand,\"
\nBagus said.<\/p>\n
Indonesia is facing power shortages in many provinces due to
\nincreasing demand and few new power plant projects. PLN is still
\nrenegotiating a number of existing power plant contracts to
\nreflect the impact of the 1997 economic crisis. -- Antara<\/p>\n
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\nDanish drowns while snorkling in Bali
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Dane drowns while snorkling in Bali<\/p>\n
DENPASAR, Bali: Danish tourist Lars Boubjery, 49, died while
\nsnorkling off Jemeluk Beach in eastern Bali on Saturday -- the
\neighth foreign tourist to die on the resort island this year.<\/p>\n
Boubjery went snorkling alone near Purwakerti village, around
\n75-kilometers east of the provincial capital Denpasar. His body
\nis at the city's Sanglah Hospital.<\/p>\n
A friend, Nils Oehgerich, and two fishermen recovered the
\nbody, after seeing it floating lifeless in the calm sea.<\/p>\n
If the death is confirmed as a drowning, it would bring to
\nfive the number of foreign tourists who have drowned in Bali this
\nyear, Gus Sumastra, a hospital official responsible for handling
\ndeaths involving foreign tourists, said.<\/p>\n
He said another tourist had been killed in a traffic accident,
\nanother from a heart attack and another had hanged himself.<\/p>\n
The last tourist drowning was 63-year-old German national
\nJurgen Kramer. He died off Mandira Beach in east Bali on March
\n21.<\/p>\n
The hospital had not been able to contact his relatives and
\nhis body was at the morgue, Gus said. -- Antara<\/p>\n
Officials appeal for aid for 2,000 families<\/p>\n
KENDARI, Southeast Sulawesi: Officials here have called on
\nJakarta to disburse aid to 2,000 families who fled strife-torn
\nAmbon and East Timor but arrived too late to receive government
\naid.<\/p>\n
The families were part of 9,000 families of refugees in the
\nprovincial town of Baubau, said Mayor Amirul Tamim on Monday.<\/p>\n
He said his office had called on Jakarta to send funds to
\nrefugees who had not yet received any aid. Each family is
\nentitled to receive between Rp 2 million (about US$224) and Rp 4
\nmillion in aid, depending on the size of the family, he said.<\/p>\n
Amirul said the 2,000 families were unable to receive
\nassistance as they had been living in other areas not covered by
\nthe aid program.<\/p>\n
He also suggested to refugees to return to their home villages
\nas security had improved.<\/p>\n
The province of Maluku has been ravaged by three years of
\nsectarian clashes, however, the signing of last year's peace
\nagreement has helped curb violence there.<\/p>\n
Violence in East Timor broke out when locals voted
\noverwhelmingly for independence in 1999, forcing thousands to
\nflee to neighboring provinces.<\/p>\n
Although pro-Jakarta militias sporadically attack East
\nTimorese, the country has been relatively peaceful. -- Antara<\/p>\n
Candidates to vie for Sukabumi mayoralty<\/p>\n
SUKABUMI, West Java: Councillors of the West Java town of
\nSukabumi short-listed on Monday three pairs of candidates to run
\nin the upcoming election for Sukabumi's mayor and deputy mayor.<\/p>\n
The city's 30 councillors will elect a new mayor and deputy
\nmayor from the nominated pairs of Molly Mulhayati Djubaedi and
\nMunandi Saleh, Mohammad Muslikh and Abdusyukur Iwan Kustiawan and
\nMohammad Kusoy and Sulaeman Mukhtar, during a plenary session.
\nHowever, an election date has not been announced yet.<\/p>\n
The United Development Party faction (PPP) and the National
\nMandate faction (PAN) nominated Molly and Munandi.<\/p>\n
The factions of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle
\n(PDI Perjuangan) and the Golkar Party nominated Muslikh and Iwan.<\/p>\n
Kusoy and Sulaeman were nominated by the National Awakening
\nParty faction (PKB).<\/p>\n
Analysts have predicted that the prevailing vote would go to
\nthe first and second pairs because they had the support of the
\ncouncil's factions. --Antara<\/p>\n
Filipino deported from Palu<\/p>\n
PALU, Central Sulawesi: The immigration office of Palu, Central
\nSulawesi, deported on Sunday a Philippine citizen for violating
\nimmigration laws by overstaying his visa and temporary residence
\npermit.<\/p>\n
Filipino Manuel Alario Santos, who is married to an
\nIndonesian, was sent back to Davao, the Philippines by way of the
\nSam Ratulangi International Airport in Manado, North Sulawesi.<\/p>\n
Palu immigration chief Mahadi Utama said that Santos' visa
\nexpired on December 31, 2002. He was found last month in his
\nwife's village in Baubau, Southeast Sulawesi.<\/p>\n
Santos said he was sad to leave behind his pregnant wife and
\nchildren. He did not say how many children he had or how old they
\nwere.<\/p>\n
\"I hope I can return to Indonesia some day on a six-month visa
\nto see my family in the village,\" Santos said. --Antara<\/p>",
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