OPM and hostages may be in cohorts: ABRI JAKARTA (JP): A senior Armed Forces (ABRI) official says he suspects that the hostages kidnapped by the separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM) in Irian Jaya are in cohorts with their captors. ABRI Chief of General Affairs Lt. Gen.

Navy nabs boat from Sabah ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (UPI): The Philippine navy has nabbed in southern Philippine waters a motor boat carrying 117 passengers and alleged contraband goods believed to come from Sabah, Malaysia, officials said yesterday. Commodore Edilberto Varona said the boat was sailing on Thursday afternoon on the Pearl Bank group of islands in southernmost Tawi-Tawi province, 1,200 kilometers from Manila, when it was intercepted by a navy patrol craft.

Lonsum firms set loans HONG KONG (Reuter): A two-facility syndicated term loan of US$132 million for PT PP London Sumatra Indonesia (Lonsum) and US$65 million for its parent PT Pan London Sumatra Plantation was launched yesterday, the arrangers said. Arrangers and joint bookrunners are HSBC Investment Bank Asia, Singapore branch, and Union Bank of Switzerland, Hong Kong.

Flooding With more sunny days, most Jakartans seem to have forgotten the huge floods in January and February. There is now a strong drive by the government to restore Jakarta's outskirts -- the mountains stretching from Cianjur over Puncak down to Bogor -- which in the past two decades has been converted into housing and recreation facilities, thus sizably reducing its role as a water catchment.

Three killed in head-on collision SALATIGA (JP): Three people were killed when a minivan they were in collided head-on with a truck in the Central Javan village of Wujil on Wednesday night, police said. All three victims, including the driver of the ill-fated van, were local residents. The police said the accident took place when the van driver was trying to overtake a bus and failed to avoid a crash with a truck loaded with sand, coming from the opposite direction.

Church Services * Catholic Church, University of Atmajaya, Jl. Jend. Sudirman: Saturday 5:30 p.m., Sunday, 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. (with songs) and 5:30 p.m. * First Church of Christ, Scientist, Jl. Teuku Cik Ditiro 48, Menteng, Central Jakarta: Services on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. (in Indonesian) and 8 a.m. (in English). * All Saints' Anglican Church (opposite The Aryaduta Jakarta), Jl. Arif Rahman Hakim No. 5, Central Jakarta: Services on Sunday at 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m. with Sunday School.

300 evicted Kedoya families refuse to leave JAKARTA (JP): Approximately 300 families squatting on the banks of the Angke river in Kedoya, West Jakarta, are refusing to leave the site without adequate compensation from the authorities. According to a city official the families have been offered up to Rp 300,000 each to leave their plywood shanties built close to the river and due for destruction under the government's "clean river" program.

Soesilo's son dies JAKARTA (JP): One of the sons of Coordinating Minister for Political Affairs and Security Soesilo Soedarman died yesterday, a ministry staff member reported yesterday. Carono Indrokusumo Soesilo, also known as Sonny, died of a liver complication at the Kasih Ibu hospital in Semarang, Central Java. His body was brought to the minister's private residence in Jakarta yesterday and was to be buried at the Tanah Kusir cemetery in South Jakarta later.

Port suspends taxation JAKARTA (JP): Jakarta's Tanjung Priok port authority has suspended a ruling which required international shipping lines using the port to pay a 10 percent value-added tax on stevedoring activities.

Police shoot robber JAKARTA (JP): A suspected thief has been shot by a North Jakarta police officer who wanted to arrest him for a street robbery. Sukarmin, a 24-year-old jobless man, was shot in the left leg for trying to resist arrest hours after he was reported robbing Abdul Matalit, a passerby, of Rp 100,000 and other belongings in Pela-Pela, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, on Thursday. Maj.