Police, land agency sign MOU<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: National Land Agency (BPN) head Luthfi I. Nasution
\nand National Police chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar agreed to further
\ncooperation in investigating agrarian disputes on Friday.<\/p>\n
Luthfi said BPN expected the cooperation would settle civil
\nland disputes across the country, particularly on land ownership
\ndocument forgery.<\/p>\n
\"This kind of forgery has caused huge economic losses,
\nparticularly if the fake documents are submitted to a bank as
\ncollateral to get loans,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Currently, Luthfi said, there are more than 3,600 land
\ndisputes across the country. -- JP<\/p>\n
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\nScene-maternal-maternity
\nUniversities to promote safe motherhood
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Maternal mortality rate investigation<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: An international organization has agreed to research
\nIndonesia's high maternal mortality rate to help formulate a
\nstrategy to reduce the death rate.<\/p>\n
The research will be conduced by the Initiative for Maternal
\nMortality Program Assessment (IMMPACT) in cooperation with the
\nUniversity of Indonesia.<\/p>\n
Minister of Health Achmad Sujudi, during the launch of the
\nprogram, said efforts to curb the death rate since 1988 had
\nfailed to live up to expectations.<\/p>\n
Figures released in 1997 show that every year 17,000 mothers
\ndie during or after delivering a baby. The figure is triple the
\naverage rate in Southeast Asia and 50 times the rate in developed
\ncountries.<\/p>\n
IMMPACT consists of researchers from the University of
\nAberdeen in Scotland, England's London School of Hygiene and
\nTropical Medicine and the University of York, John Hopkins
\nUniversity in the United States, and the Institute of Tropical
\nMedicine in Belgium. -JP<\/p>\n
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\nUNICEF gives RI children awards
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UNICEF awards RI children<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: Sixteen children have been nominated by non-
\ngovernmental organizations and the government for the inaugural
\nUnited Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Award for Youth
\nLeadership in East Asia and the Pacific.<\/p>\n
The winners will be announced on May 6, during the 6th East
\nAsia and Pacific Ministerial Consultation on Children, to take
\nplace in Bali from May 5 to May 7.<\/p>\n
\"Unicef wants to ensure Indonesian children have a voice in
\nthe decisions affecting them. And this is one way of
\ndemonstrating that the work and actions of children have made a
\ncontribution,\" UNICEF's representative to Indonesia Steve Allen
\nsaid in a press release.<\/p>\n
The regional director of UNICEF, Mehr Khan, said the award
\nwould become a regular event in the region to correspond with
\neach ministerial consultation, the next to be held in two years.
\n-- JP<\/p>\n
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\nScene-map-renewal
\nGovt releases new map
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Indonesia, minus East Timor<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: The government has released a new map of Indonesia,
\nwhich scraps now independent East Timor and the Malaysian-owned
\nislands of Sipadan and Ligitan.<\/p>\n
The map, to a 1:5,000,000 scale, was launched in conjunction
\nwith National Education Day on Friday.<\/p>\n
Head of the Coordinating Body for Survey and National Mapping,
\nRudolf W. Matindas, said it in cooperation with and the Ministry
\nof Fisheries and Maritime Affairs had completed the map.<\/p>\n
Rudolf said the territorial borders and the Exclusive Economic
\nZone were drawn according to international law and bilateral
\nagreements with neighboring countries. --JP<\/p>",
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