Archive: 27 February 1995
37 articles found
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Wall Street performance buoys JSX
Wall Street performance buoys JSX JAKARTA (JP): Steady performance in Wall Street and the regional bourses kept the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) from falling below its support level of 450 last week. The market, however, was seen trading in a narrow range of between 453 and 454 during the week, as investors still maintained a wait-and-see attitude for other leads to indicate a firm direction of the market.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Indonesian referees urged to 'improve their morality'
Indonesian referees urged to 'improve their morality' JAKARTA (JP): With a salary hike as the carrot and potentially severe punishment as the stick, the chairman of the All Indonesia Soccer Association (PSSI), Azwar Anas, is urging Indonesian referees and match inspectors to "improve their morality".
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Court drops charges in forgery case
Court drops charges in forgery case JAKARTA (JP): The Supreme Court has decided to drop all charges against Iskandar Indra, 37, director of PT Inti Bhakti Multi Persada, in a case of forgery of land ownership documents for a plot of land on Jl. Jendral Sudirman, South Jakarta. The Supreme Court through its decision dated Dec.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Humpuss wants to export LNG
Humpuss wants to export LNG JAKARTA (JP): The chairman of Humpuss Group Indonesia Hutomo (Tommy) Mandala Putera, the youngest son of President Soeharto, has shown interest in exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced in the Natuna waters of Riau.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Enforcement of new labor rule checked
Enforcement of new labor rule checked JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Manpower Abdul Latief visited several labor-intensive companies in Tangerang and Bekasi on Saturday to monitor the enforcement of the government regulation on annual bonuses for workers. The minister visited shoe factory PT Eagle and tire factory PT Gajah Tunggal in Tangerang and PT Kibobuti Electronics Indonesia in Bekasi.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Ramadhan time for Jakarta
Ramadhan time for Jakarta Monday Maghrib 06.15 p.m. Tuesday Imsak 04.32 a.m. Subuh 04.42 a.m.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
RI gives concessions to KL on plane, car deal
RI gives concessions to KL on plane, car deal JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia agreed to give a number of concessions to Malaysia under last week's military aircraft and car deal between the two countries. Indonesian State Minister of Research and Technology B.J. Habibie and Malaysia's Defense Minister Najib Abdul Razak last Thursday signed a US$224 million deal, under which Malaysia will buy six Indonesian-made CN-235 military transport aircraft.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
New Zealander fights for Rp 64 million
New Zealander fights for Rp 64 million JAKARTA (JP): An expatriate from New Zealand is in dispute with the company he used to work for over a sum of money and the right to occupy a rented house in the elite Menteng area of Central Jakarta. The local property company, PT Arta Buana Sakti, reportedly sent security guards and a number of uniformed people to evict Christopher F.A. Mason from the house on Jl. Teluk Betung on Friday.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
UN details on Timor talks still vague
UN details on Timor talks still vague JAKARTA (JP): Officials would not confirm the date nor the venue scheduled by the United Nations Secretary General's office for a dialogue that will soon take place between opposing East Timorese factions. When asked about the proposed date, the director general of information at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Irawan Abidin, told The Jakarta Post on Saturday that nothing had been confirmed yet.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Ancol expects Idul Fitri influx
Ancol expects Idul Fitri influx JAKARTA (JP): Ancol Dreamland is expecting an influx of least 620,000 visitors daily during Idul Fitri and a few days after the Moslem holidays. "There will be various attractions featuring many popular Indonesian artists and entertainers," said Sapardjo Atmotenojo, the director of the PT Pembanguan Jaya Ancol, which manages the recreation center located on Jakarta Bay in North Jakarta.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Pramoedya's book banned in C. Java
Pramoedya's book banned in C. Java SEMARANG, Central Java: The government has ordered bookstores to remove all copies of the banned book, Cerita dari Blora, or Story from Blora, by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, from their shelves. The book, published by Hasta Mitra of Jakarta, was banned in 1976 but began reappearing in local bookstores last year, said Harry Moerdiyono, chief of the provincial prosecutors office.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Mangindaan to be sworn-in March
Mangindaan to be sworn-in March MANADO, North Sulawesi: Minister of Home Affairs Moch. Yogie S.M. is scheduled to install Maj. Gen. Evert Erenst Mangindaan as the new governor of the North Sulawesi province on March 1. Yogie will swear in Mangindaan on behalf of President Soeharto, a spokesman for the North Sulawesi administration, Nico Pesik, told Antara over the weekend.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Truck driver gets 2-year jail term
Truck driver gets 2-year jail term JAKARTA (JP): The North Jakarta District Court has sentenced Ali, alias Tohir, 30, to two years imprisonment for causing the death of a cyclist. Judge Tapi Harahap said in the verdict that the incident occurred because the defendant was driving a semitrailer truck at a high speed on Jl. Raya Cakung, North Jakarta, on Oct. 12 last year, Antara reported. The driver lost control at a crossroad on Jl.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
British firm wins acquisition of Satelindo stake
British firm wins acquisition of Satelindo stake JAKARTA (JP): Cable & Wireless of Britain is to sign an agreement tomorrow for the acquisition of a 25 percent stake of PT Satelit Palapa Indonesia (Satelindo), a telecommunications and satellite operator. "I don't think I have to confirm anything.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Evidence sought to prove corruption at parking office
Evidence sought to prove corruption at parking office JAKARTA (JP): The head of the City Parking Authority, Sumaryono, is demanding evidence to support the allegations of corruption at his office. Sumaryono said over the weekend that he wants to check the dates on the bank receipts and compare them to the records in the parking authority's files because there is a possibility that the dates are different.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Wardiman doubts plight of underpaid teachers
Wardiman doubts plight of underpaid teachers JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Education and Culture Wardiman Djojonegoro has expressed skepticism about recent press reports that teachers are being strangled by debt, incurred because of their low pay. Wardiman said on Friday that the assertion has yet to be confirmed by a thorough survey. "I don't know how many teachers are being strangled by debt," he told reporters on Friday, when asked to comment on the press reports, according to Antara.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Shareholders back OTC's merger with SSE
Shareholders back OTC's merger with SSE JAKARTA (JP): Shareholders of the over-the-counter (OTC) market company Bursa Paralel Indonesia (BPI) have given the green light for its merger with the Surabaya Stock Exchange (SSE). Bambang Subianto, BPI's chief commissioner, said that the shareholders agreed in a special meeting here on Friday evening to form a special team to prepare the merger plan.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Workers protest arbitrary firing
Workers protest arbitrary firing JAKARTA (JP): Ten employees of a company which produces Fuji cameras in Bogor went to the office of the National Commission on Human Rights over the weekend to complain that they had been arbitrarily fired by the firm's owner. The workers told the commission's secretary, Baharuddin Lopa, that the company's management had offered severance pay amounting to two months' wages, with another half month's salary to be given as an Idul Fitri bonus, Antara reported.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Thailand offers to mediate to end war
Thailand offers to mediate to end war BANGKOK (Reuter): Thailand has offered to act as mediator between the Myanmarese military government and minority rebel groups to try and end fighting in its neighbor, the Bangkok Post reported yesterday. Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai said it was always Thailand's intention to see the warring parties hold talks to restore peace, the Post reported. He made his offer at a political rally in southern Thailand late on Saturday.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Hotels refuse to hire students
Hotels refuse to hire students JAKARTA (JP): The chief of Jakarta office of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications Ministry, Pudjo Basuki, said luxurious hotels in Jakarta are reluctant to employ students during their school holidays. "From the 64 existing luxurious hotels in town there are only six which employ high school students during their holidays," he said.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Ticket scalpers victimize holidayers
Ticket scalpers victimize holidayers From Neraca Idul Fitri is around the corner. It has become a tradition for people to go to their hometowns for family get-togethers during the holidays. However, we always have a hard time buying tickets at the railway stations or bus terminals. Ticket scalpers operate freely. They jack up the prices of the tickets to their heart's content and we have no choice but to pay through the nose.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Malaysia ready for islands talks
Malaysia ready for islands talks KUALA LUMPUR (Reuter): Malaysia is prepared to hold top-level discussions with Indonesia to try to find a solution to a claims dispute over Sipadan and Ligitan islands, Malaysia's foreign minister said on Saturday. The national Bernama news agency quoted Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as saying that previous talks at the official and ministry levels had failed to solve the issue.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Developers shun low-cost apartments: REI
Developers shun low-cost apartments: REI JAKARTA (JP): Developers are not interested in investing in low-cost apartments as it is considered a money losing business, an executive of the Indonesian Real Estate Association (REI) says. Enggartiasto Lukito, chairman of REI, told reporters over the weekend that it is next to impossible to build low-cost apartments because the construction costs for low-cost apartments is the same as that of luxurious apartments.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Banyumas Islam sect banned
Banyumas Islam sect banned BANYUMAS, Central Java (JP): The local government has banned an Islamic sect that is believed responsible for the disappearance of 11 of its member families.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
E. Timorese get loans
E. Timorese get loans DILI, East Timor (JP): The state oil and gas company Pertamina is providing Rp 298.5 million (some US$135,374) in soft loans for small-scale businesses and cooperatives in this province to help improve their financial structures. Agreements on the loans were signed by Pertamina's head for production and procurement activities in the province, Mahdi A.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
The end of Lockheed affair
The end of Lockheed affair It took 19 years but the Lockheed Scandal in Japan has finally run its course. The Jakarta Post Asia correspondent Harvey Stockwin reports from Tokyo on the final verdict. TOKYO (JP): It is very hard to believe that at long last it is all over. After nineteen years wending its circuitous way through the slow-moving Japanese custom of justice, rokkiido mondai (the Lockheed Problem) has been legally resolved.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Pirated cassettes
Pirated cassettes From Bisnis Indonesia I am a client of Lippobank in its Lokasari Office and some time ago a teller there offered me a cassette. That the bank was selling cassettes came as a surprise to me. My surprise was even greater when I noticed the offered cassettes had labels in kanji (Japanese characters). The packaging had no sales tax labels to indicate the tax had been paid, which means the business is illegal.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
English broadcast
English broadcast I live in Indonesia by choice and have many, many things to say about it and its people, but its press policies baffle me. I'm not speaking here of last year's Tempo/DeTik/Editor debacle, but of couple of current, unrelated items. First, with such a large, and largely well educated, expatriate population in Jakarta, why is there such a teeny, tiny, minuscule amount of television news in English?
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Govt rejects palm oil brokerage offer
Govt rejects palm oil brokerage offer JAKARTA (JP): The Ministry of Agriculture has rejected an offer made by a private firm to become an intermediary in the marketing of crude palm oil (CPO) produced by state owned firms. "There is no reason for a private firm to become a broker to market CPO produced by state companies," Minister of Agriculture Sjarifudin Baharsjah was quoted Saturday as saying.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Ramadhan tradition
Ramadhan tradition There is an old tradition in my family. Every day during the Ramadhan month I remember my grandmother used to make ten paper bags out of old newspapers, poured one liter of uncooked rice into each one, placed a rubber band around each and distributed them to needy people she met on her way to the market. In those refrigerator-less days, housewives made daily trips to the market for fresh food.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Poll debate: The system or the process?
Poll debate: The system or the process? By Haryoso SEMARANG (JP): The problem with general elections in Indonesia has been the way they have been implemented, not the system itself, according to two scholars at Gadjah Mada university. Afan Gaffar and Riswandha Imawan both contended, in separate interviews, that there is nothing wrong with the proportional representation system that Indonesia has used for the past five elections under President Soeharto.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Enteos Club and the rent
Enteos Club and the rent From Media Indonesia The Enteos Club that groups private sector executives and high ranking government officials is becoming more popular. This organization often holds seminars, discussions and informal meetings on the top floor of BRI II. But, lately the name of the Enteos Club has become somewhat tarnished because the management, PT Ilmu Istiswadaya, has failed to pay the rent to the owner of BRI II. The case has been taken to court and is still being processed.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Idul Ftri exodus has peaked
Idul Ftri exodus has peaked JAKARTA (JP): Hundreds of thousands of travelers flocked to the city bus terminals and railway stations yesterday to get tickets to their hometowns for this Friday's Idul Fitri holiday. The dispersal of homeward bound travelers, which began early last week, reached its peak on Saturday and yesterday evening, causing heavy traffic along the roads and highways heading to Central and East Java as well as the island of Sumatra.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Weak position of the House criticized
Weak position of the House criticized JAKARTA (JP): Flaws in the implementation of the 1945 Constitution have deprived the House of Representatives of its role as a check and balance, political analysts say. Burhan Magenda, a lecturer at the University of Indonesia's School of Social and Political Sciences said in a discussion here yesterday that the Constitution, which he called "executive- heavy", had made it easy for irregularities to occur.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
PDI calls for amendments to electoral law
PDI calls for amendments to electoral law JAKARTA (JP): The minority Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) has called for fundamental political reforms, including amendments to the law governing general elections. Party chief Megawati Soekarnoputri told journalists last night that her party welcomed President Soeharto's recent commissioning of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) to study alternatives to Indonesia's current proportional representation electoral system.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
ABRI representatives in the legislature
ABRI representatives in the legislature Through its chief of social-political affairs, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ma'ruf, the Indonesian Armed Forces (ABRI) has shown its capability in reading the signs of the times and at the same time proven its chivalrous spirit.
Mon, 27 Feb 1995, 00:00 WIB
Where to go in Jakarta:
Where to go in Jakarta: Music * The Aryaduta Jakarta, Jl. Prapatan 44-48, Central Jakarta: - Ambiente Italian Restaurant: Bonauli vocal group, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Lost Morenitos, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. - Ambassador Lounge: Amir (pianist), Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.; Jakarta String Fantasy Trio, Monday to Saturday from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Sunday from 12:30 p.m.