<p>Indonesia will not appear at SEA Games hockey</p><p> JAKARTA (JP): Poor preparation has dodged the national hockey team, preventing it from appearing at the 18th Southeast Asian Games in Chiang Mai next December, a top official of the National Sports Council (KONI) says.

<p>Guess What? Sofyan Wanandi</p><p> "I'm stressed. My blood pressure is going up," Sofyan Wanandi, the boss of the Gemala group, grumbled.</p><p>He told The Jakarta Post that leading a conglomerate put him under great pressure.

<p>Guess What? Siti Hardiyanti Hastuti Rukmana</p><p> The newest project of Mrs. Siti Hardiyanti Hastuti Rukmana, known as Mbak (Javanese for an older woman) Tutut, sounds very modest considering that the first daughter of President Soeharto is usually involved in million dollar...

<p>RP guerriallas have foreign links: Ramos</p><p> IPIL, Philippines (Reuter): President Fidel Ramos yesterday linked foreign extremist groups to Moslem guerrillas who massacred 53 people in a raid on this southern Philippines town.

<p>The River's Song</p><p>By Seno Gumira Ajidarma</p><p> Dawn was breaking beyond the forest. Still drowsy, I saw it from behind the awning of the boat whose motor roared like a hungry dragon. The journey still wasn't over.

<p>Debating paradigms</p><p> Having read with interest the article Indonesia still dreams of a new architectural paradigm by Bambang Eryudhawan in last Sunday's edition of The Jakarta Post, I offer a few thoughts for your readers.

<p>Funeral homes provide burial services</p><p> JAKARTA (JP): "Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the law of the land and their loyalty to...

<p>Balinese iconography turned into a commodity</p><p>By Kadek Adnyana</p><p> DENPASAR (JP): A few years ago, when coming down the steep road from Bukit to the village of Jimbaran, now the location of the Bali Intercontinental, I noticed a tree split in two in a...

<p>'Three-in-one' policy applied to cemeteries</p><p>By T. Sima Gunawan</p><p> JAKARTA (JP): More than 100 people die in Jakarta everyday. Between 80 and 90 of these deaths are officially reported to the City Cemetery Agency.

<p>Guess What? Tri Hanurita Sudwikatmono</p><p> Tri Hanurita Sudwikatmono, third child of Indonesian tycoon Sudwikatmono, plans to promote local musicians, who seem to be losing ground to competition from foreign artists, with profits from the scheduled Bon Jovi concert.

<p>Herawati Diah: A woman of all seasons</p><p>By Rita A. Widiadana</p><p> JAKARTA (JP): Herawati Diah is often called a woman of all seasons by her younger colleagues in the local media.</p><p>No wonder. She was born during the Dutch colonial period.

<p>Kuala Lumpur grows into a boom city</p><p>By Amy Haight</p><p> KUALA LUMPUR (Reuter): A hundred years ago, it was little more than a depot for tin miners and the fledgling capital of British Malaya.

<p>Missing Australian found dead</p><p> JAKARTA (JP): The body of Australian Sally Margaret Borgnis who has been missing since setting-off on a lone boat ride in Bali's north coast four days ago, was found in a decomposed state on Friday evening with a 10-kilogram weight tied...

<p>Feng Shui governs realm of the dead for Chinese</p><p>Text and photos by Mauro Rahardjo</p><p> BANDUNG (JP); The Encyclopedia Sinica defines Feng Shui as: "Feng Shui -- wind and water, the outward and visible signs of celestial yang and yin; the art of adapting...

<p>Guess What? Hamsad Rangkuti</p><p> Hamsad Rangkuti, a leading Indonesian short story writer and chief editor of Horison art magazine, is happy now. He and Ikranegara, a dramatist and editor at the same magazine, will journey this month to Mecca on a Haj pilgrimage sponsored by...

<p>Children's paintings on display</p><p> JAKARTA (JP): A total of 165 paintings are on display at Bentara Budaya, Jl. Palmerah Selatan, Central Jakarta.</p><p>The exhibition, organized jointly by PT Grasindo, a subsidiary of PT Gramedia publishing company, with...

<p>Swiss born Pierre documents Bali's rural areas</p><p>By Intan Petersen</p><p> DENPASAR (JP): Pierre Poretti, a Swiss born photographer now living in Bali, is one of many who has fallen under the spell of Bali.

<p>RI initiative on Bosnia gains more support</p><p> JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto's initiative for a comprehensive solution to end the war in former Yugoslavia has gained the support of virtually all the conflicting parties, according to a senior Indonesian diplomat.