Archive: 21 October 1996
42 articles found
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Pickpockets in public vehicles
Pickpockets in public vehiclesFrom KompasI am a daily commuter on public vehicles like PPD buses, Metromini, and Kopaja and feel that pickpocket operations have increased in buses and at bus stops.The condition on routes via Jl. Kuningan, Jl. Gatot Subroto, Jl. Jend. Sudirman and Jl.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
RI police skip Holland on European trip
RI police skip Holland on European trip JAKARTA (JP): An Indonesian police delegation, led by National Police Chief Lt. Gen. Dibyo Widodo, leaves today on a trip to Europe to improve cooperation but has abruptly dropped The Hague from the itinerary.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Father, two sons die in accident
Father, two sons die in accident SEMARANG: A man and two of his sons were killed and his wife was seriously injured when their car collided with a bus in a southern suburb on Saturday.Chief of the Smmarang police precinct Lt. Col.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Psychiatrist says law ignores rape victims
Psychiatrist says law ignores rape victims JAKARTA (JP): A noted psychiatrist charged over the weekend that law enforcers often fail to consider the psychological trauma suffered by rape victims and allow rapists to get away with light punishment.Dr.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
TV today
TV todayTVRI 2:35 p.m. TV Series: Buck Rogers 3:05 Children 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 6:15 Village Program 6:30 Religious Teachings 7:00 Evening News...
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
RI's industrialization faces serious obstacles
RI's industrialization faces serious obstacles JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia's industrialization process is facing serious obstacles due to uncertainties in cost fluctuations, machine quality variations, delayed delivery time, poor after- sales services and lack of trained operators, an analyst said.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Eight countries eye N-250 aircraft
Eight countries eye N-250 aircraft JAKARTA (JP): Eight countries, including Turkey, Argentina, the United States, Pakistan, Columbia, Saudi Arabia, Burkina Faso, and Sweden, have expressed interest in buying N-250 commuter aircraft produced domestically by Indonesia.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Student senates make plea for greater tolerance
Student senates make plea for greater tolerance JAKARTA (JP): Concerned over the recent religious violence in Situbondo, East Java, several prestigious Christian Protestant universities called Saturday for greater tolerance.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Rice shortage hits regency staff
Rice shortage hits regency staff BEKASI, West Java (JP): Dozens of Bekasi regency staff have complained that they did not get their monthly rice allowance over the weekend.The regency employees cooperative, which distributes the monthly rice allowance, began issuing the rice on Thursday.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
HK, S'pore sign repo deal
HK, S'pore sign repo deal HONG KONG (Reuter): The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the territory's de facto central bank, and its Singaporean counterpart, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, signed a bilateral repurchase agreement on Saturday, the HKMA said in a statement.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
RBI relaxes credit stance for the next six months
RBI relaxes credit stance for the next six months BOMBAY (Reuter): The Reserve Bank of India announced on Saturday a series of measures aimed at relaxing credit conditions in the second half of 1996/97 (April-March).
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Rights commission to help settle riot insurance claims
Rights commission to help settle riot insurance claims JAKARTA (JP): The National Commission on Human Rights says it is ready to support insurance claims from traders whose property and goods were damaged or lost during the July riots.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Situbondo slowly returning to normal
Situbondo slowly returning to normalBy Ainur R. Sophiaan SITUBONDO, East Java (JP): The town is breathing normally again. The marketplaces, schools and offices that were closed for days after the riots that killed five people here on Oct. 10 are now open again.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Magawati loyalists open secretariat
Magawati loyalists open secretariat YOGYAKARTA: Local loyalists of the deposed chief of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) Megawati Soekarnoputri opened a secretariat in a modest ceremony near here yesterday.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
PT LEN Industry expects profit to triple
PT LEN Industry expects profit to triple JAKARTA (JP): PT LEN Industry, the state-owned electronics manufacturing company, expects that its profit will triple to Rp 6 billion (US$2.55 million) this year from Rp 2 billion last year, Commercial Director Dody Hidayat Rivai said.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Truth and power
Truth and power The writing of history, and the news, depends on who has the power -- how they remember, what they forget, how they devise standards of truth -- threatening us all with the same patterns of remembering and forgetting.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
South Jakarta has 36 flood spots
South Jakarta has 36 flood spots JAKARTA (JP): About thirty-six spots in four districts of South Jakarta are vulnerable to flooding, a municipal official has said.The four districts are Kebayoran Lama, Pesanggrahan, Pancoran, and Tebet, South Jakarta Mayoralty Spokesman D.J. Siboro said on Friday.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Humpuss to build refinery
Humpuss to build refinery JAKARTA (JP): The Humpuss Group plans to establish an oil refinery in Blora, Central Java, with an investment of Rp 163 billion (US$69.45 million), the Investment Coordinating Board says.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Focus on BNI's offering may weaken the JSX
Focus on BNI's offering may weaken the JSX JAKARTA (JP): Several analysts are predicting that the concentration on the forthcoming initial public offering (IPO) of the state-owned Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) 1946 will cause a weak sentiment on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) this week.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Girls caught for 'robbing' taxi driver
Girls caught for 'robbing' taxi driver BEKASI, West Java (JP): Two teenage girls were caught in a rice field near a remote West Java village yesterday shortly after they had allegedly robbed a taxi driver.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
OIC businesses want more intra-Islamic trade
OIC businesses want more intra-Islamic trade JAKARTA (JP): The Islamic private sector meeting in Bandung, West Java, and Jakarta is expected to produce a declaration on Wednesday calling for concerted efforts to enhance trade and investment flows between Islamic countries.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Worker killed by lightning
Worker killed by lightning BEKASI, West Java (JP): A construction worker died here on Friday after being hit by lightning as he sheltered under a makeshift shanty during a downpour.Nurdin, 26, a resident of Kedawung village, Tambun, was working on a Puri Asri housing construction project.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Jakarta airport to expand passenger capacity
Jakarta airport to expand passenger capacity JAKARTA (JP): The government is planning to expand the passenger capacity of Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport by 150 percent to reach 55 million passengers a year by 2018, Minister of Transportation Haryanto Dhanutirto said.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Fire razes storehouse
Fire razes storehouse TANGERANG, West Java (JP): A chemical storehouse belonging to a South Korean glue factory was destroyed by fire on Friday.There were no fatalities but the fire is believed to have inflicted extensive financial losses on PT Dong Sung Indonesia.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Competition is normal in politics: Soeharto
Competition is normal in politics: Soeharto JAKARTA (JP): Competition in politics is normal so long as ethics and rules are observed, President Soeharto said yesterday."It is normal for every organization contesting the general election to want to grab as many seats as possible," Soeharto said,...
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
'Info infrastructure vital for competition'
'Info infrastructure vital for competition' JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia needs to build a national information infrastructure (NII) to help maintain high economic growth and to improve competitiveness on the global market, an expert said.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Traffic jams and the rains
Traffic jams and the rainsFrom PelitaEvery time it rains in Jakarta there are tremendous traffic jams. The afternoon of Tuesday Oct. 15 was a case in point.If nothing is done, nothing will change. Do we have to put up with traffic jams every time it rains? What a pointless waste of time and...
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Utut scores first win at Gunadarma tournament
Utut scores first win at Gunadarma tournament JAKARTA (JP): After three draws and one loss, Indonesia's number one chess player Utut Adianto notched up his first win at the Gunadarma International Grandmaster Chess Tournament on Saturday.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Bre-X in meetings to resolve Busang dispute
Bre-X in meetings to resolve Busang dispute TORONTO (Reuter): Bre-X Minerals Ltd executives have been meeting in Toronto in an attempt to clear up questions over the ownership of its spectacular Busang gold discovery in Indonesia, a Bre-X spokesman said.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Land agency order paves way for stricter flood control
Land agency order paves way for stricter flood control JAKARTA (JP): Weeks before the recent downpours, flood watchers questioned the commitment to preserve natural and man- made catchments near housing complexes.The government estimates that Rp 129.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
APEC forum to push for WTO accord on services
APEC forum to push for WTO accord on services MANILA (Agencies): Asia Pacific nations will back World Trade Organization efforts to liberalize the services sector, a senior APEC official said on Saturday.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
The environment's impact on our future
The environment's impact on our future The signals are becoming increasingly clear that Jakarta and its surrounding areas are no longer capable of supporting the growing populace. An imbalance has developed between the area's population size and the available infrastructure and the unfortunate fact...
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
French IDD code changed
French IDD code changed JAKARTA (JP): The international direct dialing code for France has been changed from 13 digits to 14 digits.The state-owned international telecommunications carrier PT Indosat said in a statement Saturday that the change was announced by France Telecom and took effect as of...
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Lessons in economics
Lessons in economics Teachers are more often than not the unsung heroes responsible for molding and guiding the morals and ethics that make up the social fabric of a community.I was dumbfounded to read Mr. Azwar Siri's comment in the Oct.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Bakrie Investindo permitted to produce vans next year
Bakrie Investindo permitted to produce vans next year JAKARTA (JP): PT Bakrie Investindo has received a permit from the Ministry of Industry and Trade to produce vans next year with an investment of about US$100 million, the company's president said.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
American colleges target Indonesian students
American colleges target Indonesian students JAKARTA (JP): Representatives from 100 American state and private universities took part in a one-day fair on Saturday to enroll Indonesians searching for academic excellence.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Detained activist protests investigators' approach
Detained activist protests investigators' approach JAKARTA (JP): A detained activist of the Democratic People's Party (PRD), Petrus Hariyanto, is protesting over what he calls the "unprofessional" investigation into his actions.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Jakarta fans welcome Muhammad Ali
Jakarta fans welcome Muhammad Ali JAKARTA (JP): Expressionless, the tall man shuffled to the door of the Soekarno-Hatta international airport amid astonished shouts of "Ali! Ali" and waving hands.The former world heavyweight champion then halted in the midst of the crowd, his hands trembling as he...
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Class action needed for environmental cases
Class action needed for environmental cases JAKARTA (JP): Experts are calling for the introduction of class action by individual victims of environmental degradation."That mechanism would effectively reduce the amount of work and costs involved in court proceeding, compared to the current system...
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
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,...
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
Casting light on Balibo incident
Casting light on Balibo incident New pieces of evidence about the killing of five journalists in East Timor in 1975 keep filtering through. H. W. Arndt ties together some to the threads. MELBOURNE: On Nov.
Mon, 21 Oct 1996
M-Klub disco closed down
M-Klub disco closed down JAKARTA (JP): Police have sealed the M Klub discotheque, a favorite hangout for young people in the Blok M Plaza shopping mall, South Jakarta, after seizing 46 Ecstasy pills and 12 pornographic films from the manager's office and its operations room.