Archive: 14 October 1996
40 articles found
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Gus Dur begs forgiveness for raids on churches
Gus Dur begs forgiveness for raids on churches JAKARTA (JP): The chairman of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Moslem organization, Abdurrahman Wahid, asked yesterday for the nation's forgiveness for the attacks on churches on Thursday perpetrated mostly by NU members. "Considering that many of the rioters in Situbondo were members of the NU, it's the moral responsibility of NU leaders...I bow my head and ask for forgiveness for the loss inflicted on the government and the public.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
ASEAN to jointly lease Intelsat transponders
ASEAN to jointly lease Intelsat transponders JAKARTA (JP): Telecommunications operators in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to unite in leasing satellite transponders of Intelsat, the world's leading provider of satellite services, to improve efficiency.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
New DeskJets, LaserJet and DesignJets on offer
New DeskJets, LaserJet and DesignJets on offer By Zatni Arbi JAKARTA (JP): Not unlike your other peripheral devices, printers nowadays get old as fast as the lettuce on the supermarket shelves. Printers become old not because their parts wear out or their print quality deteriorates, but because their successors arrive with new features and new capabilities that make them pale in comparison.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Soldiers involved in U. Pandang deaths sentenced to jail
Soldiers involved in U. Pandang deaths sentenced to jail UJUNGPANDANG, South Sulawesi (JP): A military tribunal sentenced six soldiers to between 90 days and 105 days in prison for using excessive force in handling the demonstrations here in April, which resulted in the death of three students. Col. Susanto, head of the military tribunal's panel of judges, said soldiers had been found guilty of the charges filed against them as stipulated in Article 103 of the military criminal code.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Gambling rife in Dili
Gambling rife in Dili DILI, East Timor: Townspeople have called on the government to do something to stop the widespread gambling in the youngest province. They raised the issue in their meeting Saturday with the visiting Minister of Justice Oetojo Oesman. Oetojo assured them that the government is against gambling because it is banned by law. "The government's stand is clear: It is does not tolerate gambling.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Youth Pledge Day commemoration
Youth Pledge Day commemoration JAKARTA (JP): The office of the minister for youth affairs and sports will hold a three-day event to commemorate the 68th anniversary of Youth Pledge Day at the Graha Pemuda building in Senayan, Central Jakarta. Zulkifli Akbar, chairman of the organizing committee, said that the traditional commemoration, which usually runs for a week, has to be reduced to three weeks because of a lack of interest among young people.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Dutch firms fund restoration of archives museum
Dutch firms fund restoration of archives museum JAKARTA (JP): A group of Dutch companies has raised US$3 million to finance the restoration of the 18th century building that now houses the Museum of National Archives. The money was raised by the Indonesian Gift Foundation, an organization founded last year with the intention of presenting a gift to mark Indonesia's 50th independence anniversary.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
National Library warns publishers
National Library warns publishers JAKARTA (JP): The National Library promised Saturday to get tough with publishers and recording companies that failed to submit copies of their products as required by law. The library promised to reward those who complied with the regulations and take punitive action against companies which failed to abide by the them.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
'Nobel prize a hurdle in East Timor diplomacy'
'Nobel prize a hurdle in East Timor diplomacy' JAKARTA (JP): East Timor has been described as the pebble in Indonesia's shoe, but the recent Nobel peace prize for separatist leader Jose Ramos Horta may well be the boulder blocking an international settlement on the territory, according to political scientists.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Economist links poverty remedy to freedom
Economist links poverty remedy to freedom MEDAN, N. Sumatra (JP): Indonesian development economist Sjahrir says the government's attack on poverty should do more than reduce the number of people living below the poverty line by improving people's basic capabilities and freedom.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
The Nobel decision
The Nobel decision The decision to award this year's Nobel peace prize to East Timor Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo and exiled separatist leader Ramos Horta came as something of a shock. Few in Indonesia question the selection of Bishop Belo who, in spite of his often scathing criticisms of the government's policy, has tirelessly worked towards the promotion of peace in the territory. However, the selection of Horta is controversial and represents a major blow to Indonesia.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Where to go in Jakarta:
Where to go in Jakarta: Music * Hotel Dai-ichi, Jl. Senen Raya 135, Central Jakarta. - Mezzanine Lounge: The Praise Vocal Group, nightly except Sunday, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. * Hotel Aryaduta, Jl. Prapatan 44-48, Central Jakarta: - Ambiente Italian Restaurant: Los Morenitos Vocal Group, Monday, Thursday, Sunday, 7:15 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Los Paraguas Vocal Group, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 7:15 p.m. to 11 p.m. - Ambassador Lounge: Pianist Sudarmadi, Monday through Saturday, 7:30 a.m to 9:30 a.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Rights body praised for its findings
Rights body praised for its findings JAKARTA (JP): Observers say the National Commission on Human Rights proved its independence when it announced its findings on the July 27 riots by clearly identifying rights violations committed by the authorities and others. Chairman of the Foundation of the Indonesian Legal Aid Institute (YLBHI) Bambang Widjojanto welcomed the findings, but claimed there were some inaccuracies in the report.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
White House defends RI's ties to Clinton
White House defends RI's ties to Clinton WASHINGTON (Reuter): The White House on Friday defended the propriety of President Bill Clinton's ties to a wealthy Indonesian family that has made big contributions to the Democratic Party and Clinton's inaugural committee. Several U.S. news organisations have raised questions about the United States business operations of the billionaire Riady family, its connections with the Clinton administration and its contributions to Clinton's political causes.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Indonesia gets World Bank loan to fight poverty
Indonesia gets World Bank loan to fight poverty JAKARTA (JP): The World Bank has approved a loan worth US$140 million to support Indonesia's poverty reduction program. The bank said the program, called the Second Village Infrastructure Project, will accelerate poverty reduction efforts through investments in the rural infrastructure of 2,600 villages in Java and Sumatra.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
100 grade schools to be renovated
100 grade schools to be renovated JAKARTA (JP): The East Jakarta mayoralty will renovate more than one hundred state-owned elementary school buildings in this fiscal year, Mayor Sudarsono says. "Seventy-one of the school buildings have already been renovated since April with costs ranging between Rp 50 million (US$21,331) and Rp 170 million each, depending on their condition," the mayor told the press at his office recently.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Freeport gets payment
Freeport gets payment NEW ORLEANS (Reuter): Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc said the RTZ-CRA mining group has made a US$184 million payment for exploration and expansion spending under joint venture programs announced in 1995. Freeport said the definitive documentation for those programs was signed Friday, resulting in the payment to Freeport Copper and 82 percent owned PT Freeport Indonesia Co. The two companies will use the funds to reduce bank debt, Freeport said.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
RI woman climber honored in Nepal
RI woman climber honored in Nepal JAKARTA (JP): Clara Sumarwati, the first Indonesian and Southeast Asian to reach the 8,848-meter summit of Mt. Everest, was congratulated by Nepal's Minister of Sports and Culture Bai Bahadur in a ceremony in Kathmandu on Oct. 10. Sumarwati was quoted by The Kathmandu Post on Oct. 11 as saying that her success was the success of all Indonesian people. She said this during a ceremony in which Nepal's Pasang Lahmu Mountaineering Foundation presented her an award.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
PT Telkom has problems providing new lines
PT Telkom has problems providing new lines JAKARTA (JP): The state-owned telecommunications company, PT Telkom, has asked prospective customers in West Jakarta who have applied for new telephone connections for unoccupied buildings to immediately inform its West Jakarta office. Head of the West Jakarta Telkom office Kiskenda Suriahardja said over the weekend his office faced various problems in installing new telephone lines in the area.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
RI-Germany maritime cooperation on the rice
RI-Germany maritime cooperation on the rice JAKARTA (JP): The maritime cooperation between Germany and Indonesia has increased significantly and will bring mutual benefits to both countries as the Asia-Pacific region leads toward being the center of global economic growth, an ambassador says. Indonesian Ambassador to Germany Hartono M.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Office space demand buoys Jakarta,s property market
Office space demand buoys Jakarta,s property market JAKARTA (JP): The great need for office space has driven up the overall demand in most sectors of the Jakarta property market, an international property consultant said. PT Procon Indah, in association with Jones Lang Wooton, said in its Property Market Outlook report issued here last week, that demand in most sectors of the Jakarta property market remained buoyant during the third quarter of this year.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Former activists for Soeharto's reelection
Former activists for Soeharto's reelection SEMARANG (JP): An organization of former student activists, Keluarga Besar Laskar Arief Rachman Hakim, vowed last week to back the renomination of President Soeharto for a seventh term in 1998, but the group said it had not yet considered candidates for vice president. "Wait and see.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Sinar Mas sets up venture
Sinar Mas sets up venture JAKARTA (JP): Publicly-listed PT Sinar Mas Multiartha, the holder of financial firms in the Sinar Mas Group, said over the weekend that it has set up a joint venture with Asian Banking Corporation and Daehan Investment Trust Co. Ltd. of South Korea. Sinar Mas stated that it holds a 30 percent stake in the venture, called PT AB Sinar Mas Multifinance, while Daehan controls a stake of 30 percent and Asian Banking 40 percent.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Exodus of tangerine growers
Exodus of tangerine growers From Forum Keadilan I became very depressed when I read a feature entitled Exodus of Pontianak tangerine growers: spirits sag at commercial order, in Forum No. 12/V/23 September 1996. Moreover, this has happened as a wave of foreign fruit like apples from the USA, Australian pears, Mandarin oranges, New Zealand apples, red grapes, and more, are hitting the local market. The spirits of these tangerine growers are low.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Police grill reporters
Police grill reporters KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: Police made preparations for the visit of President Soeharto today and tomorrow to the province by subjecting local reporters to hours of "clearance tests". Antara reported last week that reporters wishing to cover Soeharto's visit had been interviewed thoroughly by police, to the point where they had to reveal certain confidential matters.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
'Press must help maintain security before elections'
'Press must help maintain security before elections' BOGOR, West Java (JP): Jakarta Police Chief Maj. Gen. Hamami Nata called on reporters yesterday to help create a favorable atmosphere in Jakarta for next year's general election. "You all may know that there are always certain people of groups that plan to do something to disturb the public prior to election day for their own personal or group's benefits," the two-star general told a press gathering here.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
TV today
TV today TVRI 2:35 p.m. TV Series: Buck Rogers 3:05 Children's Program: Anak Anak Indonesia 3:30 TV Series: Major Dad 4:05 Science Film 4:30 Education Quiz: Cepat Tepat 5:00 Evening News 5:25 Travel 6:00 News: Lintasan Berita 6:05 Travel: Bali 6:15 Village Program 6:30 Development Program 7:00 Evening News 7:30 TV Series: Sketsa Asa Kanvas 8:00 News: Lintasan Berita 8:05 Talk Show: Mozaik 9:00 World News 9:30 Music: Nada dan Irama 10:30 Late News 10:40 TV Series: Santa Barbara Program 2 4:30...
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Viewing culture from the bottom up
Viewing culture from the bottom up By Ignas Kleden JAKARTA (JP): Vertical dimension seems to have beset the general thinking on economical and political management. Keywords such as "top-down approach" and "bottom-up approach" are frequently reiterated by a great number of people, including state ministers, NGO activists, executives and village officials.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
A record 85 restaurants take part in food festival
A record 85 restaurants take part in food festival JAKARTA (JP): Ten Indonesian-food restaurants and 75 restaurants offering foreign cuisine are participating in this year's Jakarta Food Festival, which opened yesterday. The number of restaurants offering local food in the six-week festival has increased significantly compared to that of the previous years. Seven restaurants offered local food last year.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
A drift towards violence?
A drift towards violence? Less than three months after the authorities put down the July 27 riots in Jakarta, reports of mass violence are again jolting the nation. This time, the rampage took place in the East Java town of Situbondo, 160 kilometers east of Surabaya. According to reports, five people were killed in the riots and an undisclosed number of churches and Christian schools were burned and damaged.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Govt to focus on high-tech industries for free trade
Govt to focus on high-tech industries for free trade BANDUNG, West Java (JP): The government will focus its policy on the development of certain high-tech industries to prepare the country to compete in regional free trade, which will start in 2000, a senior minister said.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Hindu ritual in Palangkaraya
Hindu ritual in Palangkaraya PALANGKARAYA, Central Kalimantan: Hindu religious leaders have started a ritual called Tiwah, which is aimed at helping the spirits of their ancestors ascend to heaven. The 18-day ceremony, worth Rp 50 million (US$21,276), is being financed by the families of 27 dead people in Palangkaraya. The ceremony started Saturday and the peak of the event, called Tabuh, will take place from Oct. 27 to Oct. 31. The ceremonies will be open to the public. (ste)
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Stock prices become difficult to predict
Stock prices become difficult to predict JAKARTA (JP): Several analysts said they were uncertain as to which direction the stock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) are likely to move this week, while investors' attention will focus on an Astra "takeover" and several new initial public offerings (IPO).
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Teenagers netted in disco raids
Teenagers netted in disco raids JAKARTA (JP): Thirty-eight people, 36 of whom are teenagers, were arrested during raids by a special security task force on four night spots in Central Jakarta over the weekend. On Friday night and early Saturday police raided the Rio Dangdut Discotheque and Joy Karaoke on Jl. Hasyim Ashari, the Domino Discotheque on Jl. Batu Ceper and the Exotic Discotheque in the Mangga Besar shopping complex.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Papua-backed premier assassinated
Papua-backed premier assassinated SYDNEY (Agencies): The premier of the violence-torn Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville has been assassinated, robbing the province of one of its strongest voices for peace, the PNG government said yesterday. Theodore Miriung, head of the government-backed Bougainville Transitional Government, was shot on Saturday in front of his family by at least two gunmen at his wife's village in the south of the copper-rich island, the government said in a statement.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
Students brawl in Ciputat
Students brawl in Ciputat JAKARTA (JP): Dozens of students pelted each other and buses full of passengers with stones in Ciputat, on the border of South Jakarta and Tangerang, West Java, on Saturday. Junior high school students, in scout uniforms, were among the battling students from at least three private schools. The fierce fighting, in which some students sustained injuries, took place on Jl. H. Juanda.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
ICJ best arbitrator on islands rift: Experts
ICJ best arbitrator on islands rift: Experts UJUNGPANDANG, S. Sulawesi (JP): Two legal experts agree that Indonesia's and Malaysia's decision to take their overlapping claims on the Sipadan and Ligitan islands to the International Court of Justice (IJC) may yield the best solution. International law experts Said Nizar and Frans Likadja of Hasanuddin University also agreed that the row had dragged on too long, and that the court could give the most objective ruling.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
RI tanker fined for pollution
RI tanker fined for pollution KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): An Indonesian oil tanker had been fined for causing the worst case of sea pollution in Malaysian waters so far this year, Malaysia's environment minister said yesterday. The owners of the M.T. Permaisuri paid a fine of 150,000 ringgit (US$60,000) for leaving behind an oil patch of about 1,500 square meters in the Malaysian side of the narrow Strait of Malacca.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
On student brawls
On student brawls The article by Mr. Jack West in "Your Letters" of The Jakarta Post, Oct. 10, caught my attention. I thought: "At least there is an expatriate who has a genuine interest in the problems of this city." With their hundreds of years of experience in urban problems they might offer a grandiose plan to solve this problem. But I became disappointed. He does not know anything about the cause and the solution of the student brawls.
Mon, 14 Oct 1996, 00:00 WIB
AIDS information for students
AIDS information for students I would like to make some comments on your article Activists welcome proposal to include AIDS in curriculum (The Jakarta Post, Sept. 28). I think it is a good idea for the government to introduce the subject of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in schools, but teachers should be careful in conveying the information. Students should also be taught moral values and ethics.