Archive: 22 January 1995
23 articles found
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Nursing home: The option for nobody's elderly
Nursing home: The option for nobody's elderly By Ati Nurbaiti and Rita A. Widiadana JAKARTA (JP): Suharti, 72, never dreamed that she would spend the last years of life in a nursing home. She always fancied herself as a happy grandmother living in a comfortable house, surrounded by naughty but cute...
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
High mountains and moving hospitality on trip to Flores
High mountains and moving hospitality on trip to Flores By Angela Ee JAKARTA (JP): "Nama?...Agama?" Our names and religion were the only formalities needed to break the ice. We were at Kampong Pemo Baru -- a village built to replace one destroyed in the 1992 earthquake in Flores.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Fears over conglomerates dismissed
Fears over conglomerates dismissed JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto dismissed yesterday fears over the growing dominance of a score of conglomerates in Indonesia's economy. The President said that Indonesia has solid regulations to protect the interests of the people from the growing activities of...
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Brouwer enjoys historic Dutch-RI ties
Brouwer enjoys historic Dutch-RI ties By Meidyatama Suryadiningrat JAKARTA (JP): As Indonesia celebrates its golden anniversary and progresses towards the next millennium, one cannot escape the fact that the Netherlands is embedded in the nation's history.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Kampong Improvement Program: Providing basic services
Kampong Improvement Program: Providing basic services By Dean Carignan JAKARTA (JP): Call it growing pains. Indonesia's cities, among the most rapidly expanding in Asia, are attracting new residents at a dizzying pace.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Hindarto looks forward to more freedom
Hindarto looks forward to more freedom By K. Basrie JAKARTA (JP): Merdeka!!! The word, which means freedom, is the instant response given by Maj. Gen. Mochammad Hindarto to a question about how he views the completion of his term this week as chief of the Jakarta Police.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Ragunan school grooms national athletes
Ragunan school grooms national athletes By Arif Suryobuwono JAKARTA (JP): Plants need special treatment to grow. Talented Indonesian athletes get that special treatment at Ragunan. Harvest time is an endless season for the 18-year-old Ragunan school.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Jakartans get older by the day
Jakartans get older by the day Siblings used to fight each other for the honor of taking care of their beloved parents; but now seniors fear dependence and rejection. Government officials stress homes for the elderly must be the last option for those who are too poor to take care of their elderly...
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Guess What?
Guess What? When singer and designer Ida Royani began to cover herself from head to foot in the Moslem fashion in the 1980s, many of her friends jeered. "My only rivals were grannies from the kampong," she said. Few women turned up at parties or hotels in Moslem clothes.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Losing
Losing From Jayakarta As if awakened from a slumber, Indonesian soccer is stirring back to life. It seems that the appearance of the Liga Dunhill, combining the potential of Association and Galatama soccer, has been able to animate the national soccer scene.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Fashion's future as seen by Indonesian designers
Fashion's future as seen by Indonesian designers By Dini S. Djalal JAKARTA (JP): Five years until the new millennium, and, by the looks of recent collections, the fashion world is waiting anxiously for its arrival.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Massage proven beneficial after sports: Experts
Massage proven beneficial after sports: Experts By Hario Tilarso JAKARTA (JP): Massage manipulates the body's muscles and is usually performed after tiring physical activities. Systematic massage essentially relieves soreness, but intensive research by experts has shown that massage is very...
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Guess What?
Guess What? Who is the funniest cabinet minister? Minister of Health Sujudi strikes again. His target, this time, was the state pharmaceutical company PT Sincona Indonesia Lestari in Bandung. It has just exported the first batch of Quinidine Sulphate, a medicine for heart disease patients, to the...
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Seminars, in a way, wasteful
Seminars, in a way, wasteful JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto recently appealed to government officials to hold working conferences and seminars at government premises rather than at hotels or convention centers.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
NY diamond manufacturers in Jakarta
NY diamond manufacturers in Jakarta JAKARTA (JP): If the well-being of a nation's economy was measured by the number of European jewelers infiltrating the domestic market, then Indonesia is indeed be gaining affluence. From Jan.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Guess What?
Guess What? State Minister for Administrative Reforms T.B. Silalahi expressed his disappointment at seeing Bandung, West Java become a forest of buildings. "In 1957, when I came here for the first time, I immediately fell in love with the city. Everything was very beautiful.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
'KONI boss needs President's nod'
'KONI boss needs President's nod' JAKARTA (JP): The National Sports Council must ask for President Soeharto's approval of its elected chairman, the council's top official Surono said. "Sports cannot be separated from our national development program as a whole.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Ugly scenes spoil Asian Cup semifinals during match
Ugly scenes spoil Asian Cup semifinals during match SHARJAH, UAE (AFP): Ugly scenes after a 90th minute equalizer by host club Al Shaab from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates marred its Asian Cup Winners' cup semi-final clash with Saudi Arabia's Al Ittihad Friday.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Guess What?
Guess What? Noted painter A.D. Pirous was soaking wet after a short trip in the rain. Although his gracious host, Mrs. Astari Al Rasjid, offered him a change of clothing, he preferred his dripping wet shirt instead. "I just hope I don't get sick," he said.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Culture and time bridged through art of batik
Culture and time bridged through art of batik By Barbara Healy YOGYAKARTA (JP): Someone once said that artists are "people whose gift of seeing transcends the world of appearances" and whose "sight signifies insight".
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Seaworld provides costly education and recreation
Seaworld provides costly education and recreation Text by Rita A. Widiadana photos by Mulkan Salmona JAKARTA (JP): Aquarium mania hit Jakartans when Seaworld, the first real marine aquarium in the country, opened last year.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
'Pergeri' helps elderly people fulfill themselves
'Pergeri' helps elderly people fulfill themselves By Rita A. Widiadana JAKARTA (JP): Elderly, happy, active and creative! That is the motto of the Indonesian Society of Gerontology, a non-profit organization for the elderly. "Getting old is a natural process.
Sun, 22 Jan 1995, 00:00 WIB
Two held over heroin
Two held over heroin BANGKOK (Reuter): Thai police charged two men with drug trafficking after seizing 44 kilos (97 lb) of heroin, officials said. The two Thai men were arrested late on Friday on the outskirts of Bangkok as they were about to hand over the heroin, narcotics police said yesterday.