Jakarta manpower office sets up employment information center JAKARTA (JP): The city office of the Ministry of Manpower has set up an employment information center to serve people who want to know about employment matters, including job opportunities in the city. Coordinating Minister for Security and Political Affairs Soesilo Soedarman, accompanied by Manpower Minister Abdul Latief, inaugurated the information center on Jl. Prapatan in Central Jakarta on Tuesday.

Water crisis hits Larantuka LARANTUKA, East Nusa Tenggara: A clean water crisis has affected about 25,000 residents on Solor Island, about 10 kilometers south of here. Residents said Tuesday that water shortages have occurred every dry season since 1986, when a major well built by the local Catholic church in the 1960s was devastated by a lack of maintenance.