Archive: 29 April 1996
42 articles found
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Cataract surgery still too costly
Cataract surgery still too costly JAKARTA (JP): "Doctor, is there a discount for a retired-woman like me wanting to have a cataract operation?," an old woman asks a doctor at a cataract stand at the Jakarta Eye Center. The doctor laughed and told her there was no discount. Such a question is understandable for those who need cataract operations, a relatively expensive activity for most people. Dr.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Pig problems
Pig problems I am writing about the issue of permitting the relocation of a pig husbandry site in West Java (Merdeka, April 12, 16 and 23, 1996). The government should think twice before consenting to the relocation plan. I, a Moslem, respect the decision made by local governments of Bogor, Karawang, Bekasi and Tangerang in categorically rejecting the establishment of pig farms in West Java.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Two arrested over riot
Two arrested over riot UJUNGPANDANG, South Sulawesi: Two men are currently under military detention for their role in last week's massive students' riots over bus fare hikes. Brig. Gen. Fachrul Razi, the chief of staff at the Wirabuana Military Command, said one man was arrested for carrying a knife while another was caught setting fire to a car, Antara reported.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Road worries
Road worries From Neraca I don't totally understand why the Bojong Gede road is so easily damaged. I think it is because there is no culvert on either side of the road so when it rains the water remains on the road. The other cause is the low quality of the road. I call on the Bogor administration to quickly repair the road. The road also needs widening because the volume of traffic has increased. TITIK HANDOKO Bogor, West Java
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Apartments too costly for Benhil residents
Apartments too costly for Benhil residents JAKARTA (JP): Most of the 373 residents of Benhil, Central Jakarta, whose shanties burned last year, have sold their rights to city administration allocated apartments to other people. Several residents, who asked that their names be withheld, told The Jakarta Post on Saturday that they had to sell their rights to the apartments because they could not afford the down payment and monthly installments.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Ibu Tien passes away
Ibu Tien passes away JAKARTA (JP): First Lady Mrs. Siti Fatimah Hartinah Soeharto, popularly known as Ibu Tien, died of a heart attack at the Army Gatot Subroto Hospital at dawn yesterday. She was 72. Her sudden death was announced by the State Secretariat in a short statement broadcast on television nationwide. Minister of Religious Affairs Tarmizi Taher also gave the news before a congregation of Moslems ahead of the Idul Adha (Day of Sacrifice) prayers at the State Istiqlal Grand Mosque.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
PDI complains of official pressure
PDI complains of official pressure JAKARTA (JP): The Central Executive Board of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) said party members in the provinces are under pressure from local government officials to attend an extraordinary congress organized by opponents of chairperson Megawati Soekarnoputri.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Yayuk loses, giving Belgium Fed Cup victory
Yayuk loses, giving Belgium Fed Cup victory JAKARTA (JP): Yayuk Basuki contributed to Indonesia's day of mourning yesterday as she slipped to a straight-set defeat that gave Belgium a convincing 5-0 Fed Cup win. Making her 12nd yearly appearance in the Federation Cup, Indonesia's number one women's player simply failed to match the power game of the Belgian world number 20, who wrapped up a 7-5, 6-4 win to give her side an unbeatable 3-0 lead.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Demonstration
Demonstration From Merdeka Demonstrations are a reflection that people are concerned about what they see or feel. Are demonstrations illegal? I think demonstrations are an appropriate means of expressing aspirations as long as they do not disturb security and order. A demonstration is held when consultation channels are blocked. They are staged because the House of Representatives fails to translate the aspirations of the people.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Fire guts dozens of houses
Fire guts dozens of houses BANJARMASIN, South Kalimantan: Fire gutted 47 houses, a number of shops and some food stalls in Paliwara village, Hulusungai Utara regency, some 205 km north of here, Antara has reported. No fatalities occurred. Police were still investigating the fire which was said to have started on Jalan Pambalah Batung, according to regency police chief Lt. Col. Ambaryono.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Ometraco's profits surge
Ometraco's profits surge JAKARTA (JP): Ometraco Corporation stated that its consolidated net profits rose 40 percent to Rp 54 billion (US$23.2 million) last year. The company said in a statement over the weekend that its financial division booked Rp 41 billion in before-tax profits due mainly to the strong growth in the multifinance portfolio and the acquisition of Bank Tiara. Net profits from the infrastructure division were up 26 percent, the statement said. (08)
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
On Indonesians of Chinese descent
On Indonesians of Chinese descent I find Mr. Masli Arman's statement in his letter Racism revisited (The Jakarta Post, April 23, 1996) confusing when he says that (to quote from his letter) "The great majority of indigenous Indonesians do not object to seeing Indonesian Chinese becoming wealthy as long as they think, feel and act like Indonesians." What should be construed as "thinking, feeling and acting like Indonesians?" What standard yardstick is to be employed?
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Activists attack green campaign as 'lip service'
Activists attack green campaign as 'lip service' JAKARTA (JP): Activists are labeling some local companies' campaigns for environmental preservation as mere "lip service" and a ploy to escape government penalties. In a discussion on green consumerism here on Saturday, environmentalists from a number of organizations described how some companies launched so-called "environmental preservation campaigns" with the sole purpose of appeasing regulations.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Praise comes pouring in for the late First Lady
Praise comes pouring in for the late First Lady JAKARTA (JP): News of the death of Mrs. Tien Soeharto brought forth a massive outpouring of praise for Indonesia's First Lady by people who knew her personally, as well as from those who knew her only from what they read in newspapers or saw in television. Tarmizi Taher, Minister of Religious Affairs: Inna Illahi wa Inna Ilahi Roji'un. (To Allah we belong, and to Him we return) God has executed His will for the First Lady.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Train hits truck, injuring four
Train hits truck, injuring four PASURUAN, East Java: The Argopuro train serving Yogyakarta- Banyuwangi route hit a truck in Gerongan village, and carried it about 100 meters down the tracks, Antara reported on Saturday. Deputy police chief Maj. Adisuyono said four people were injured when the seven-cars train with some 400 people on board hit the truck which was stuck in the middle of the railway crossing due to some engine troubles. The accident took place on Friday.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Tight security at Trisakti graduation
Tight security at Trisakti graduation JAKARTA (JP): Hordes of police officers guarded the Jakarta Convention Center on Saturday during the Trisakti University graduation ceremony after rumors circulated that technical high- school students would disrupt the convocation.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Shares likely to gain ground on consolidation
Shares likely to gain ground on consolidation JAKARTA (JP): Analysts are predicting that share prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) will rise slightly this week on profit taking and consolidation. "Share prices have gone up too much without stopping this year, so I think investors need time for consolidation because the prices are no longer cheap," Rolan Has from Lippo Investment told The Jakarta Post.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Africa tops AIDS list with Asia set to overtake
Africa tops AIDS list with Asia set to overtake NAIROBI (Reuter): Nearly 13 million men and women in sub- Saharan Africa have the killer disease AIDS, a UN agency said yesterday. Africa is the continent most highly affected by AIDS but Asia is set to overtake it, the agency said. UNAIDS, in a briefing to Kenyan government officials and heads of UN agencies, said sub-Saharan Africa had more than 12.9 million adults infected with the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
NATO braces for refugee clashes in N. Bosnia
NATO braces for refugee clashes in N. Bosnia SARAJEVO (AFP): Bosnian Serb and Moslem leaders told the NATO- led peacekeeping force (IFOR) yesterday they would act to prevent violent clashes as groups of Bosnian refugees try to return to their former homes in Serb-held territory. NATO troops are braced for further violence in northern Bosnia following recent clashes between groups of largely Bosnian refugees and mainly Serb civilians. IFOR spokesman, Lt. Col.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Japanese tourist stabbed dead
Japanese tourist stabbed dead MANILA (AFP): A Japanese tourist was stabbed dead inside his rented apartment in Manila, police said yesterday. Iwamoto Tomoyo, 58, of Aichi prefecture in central Japan, was found dead on Saturday in the bathroom of an apartment in Manila's Santa Ana district, Police Officer Ronald Hernandez said. Tomoyo had been stabbed 10 times and also possibly strangled, Hernandez added.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Bomb kills two, hurts one in RP
Bomb kills two, hurts one in RP ILIGAN, Philippines (Reuter): Two children were killed and 11 wounded when a bomb exploded on a mini-bus in the 11th bombing incident in the southern Philippines in the past month, the army said yesterday. The bus was about to leave a terminal in Tubod town, Lanao del Norte province, on Saturday night when a home-made bomb exploded inside the vehicle, army spokesman Lt. Jerry Cabatan said.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Idul Adha passes peacefully
Idul Adha passes peacefully DUBAI (Reuter): Huge crowds of Moslem pilgrims slaughtered sheep and cows and symbolically stoned the devil yesterday to mark Idul Adha at the end of the pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. The rituals were free of trouble, officials said. At dawn, pilgrims in white robes hurled stones at a pillar symbolizing the devil on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca, site of a stampede which killed 270 people in 1994.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Late paper
Late paper Due to some technical problems in our news department, readers in the southern part of West Java and the western part of Central Java received their copies of The Jakarta Post late on Saturday. We apologize for the inconvenience. -- The Publisher
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Police probe model Bella's complaints
Police probe model Bella's complaints JAKARTA (JP): Police are investigating local model Bella Esperance Lee's charges that a former boyfriend has stolen valuable documents. City Police Spokesman Lt. Col. Iman Haryatna said on Saturday they could conclude anything yet because they had only her report to go on. "I cannot give any details about the artist's report.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
RI says UN statement on E. Timor acceptable
RI says UN statement on E. Timor acceptable JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia says a statement by the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) about human rights in East Timor acknowledged progress made by Jakarta in the territory, although it also expressed some concerns. A senior official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Indonesia find the statement issued at the end of the commission conference in Geneva last Wednesday "acceptable".
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Popeyes Chicken enters Indonesia
Popeyes Chicken enters Indonesia JAKARTA (JP): American franchised restaurant Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits is pecking its way into Indonesia through PT Cipta Selera Murni, the franchisee of Church's Texas Fried Chicken (TFC) restaurant. Executives of Cipta Selera and America's Favorite Chicken Company Ltd., the franchiser for both TFC and Popeyes, signed contracts for the extension of TFC franchising and the new franchising of Popeyes to Cipta Selera here on Saturday.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Solo honors its top daughter
Solo honors its top daughter SURAKARTA, Central Java (JP): Thousands of residents from Surakarta (Solo) and surrounding areas gathered at Adisumarmo airport and lined up along the city streets yesterday to catch a glimpse of the procession carrying Mrs. Tien Soeharto's coffin. The military transport Hercules C-130 plane carrying Ibu Tien, as she was popularly known, landed at 4 p.m. The airport had been closed off to all commercial air traffic since noon.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Heart disease threatens infants
Heart disease threatens infants TANGERANG, West Java (JP): An expert said that congenital heart disease is the biggest killer among congenital diseases, which claim the lives of thousands of children here and worldwide. Sukman Tulus Putra, a lecturer at the University of Indonesia's School of Medicine, said in a seminar here Saturday that about 40,000 babies are born with congenital heart disease every year. The figure is calculated on a birth rate of 2.5 percent.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Police to train students
Police to train students JAKARTA (JP): In an effort to curb student brawls, the South Jakarta Police will start a week-long policing course today for high school students, the first course of its kind in Jakarta. South Jakarta Police Chief Lt. Col. Sisno Adiwinoto told The Jakarta Post that 40 high school students, including students from the SMU 70 state high school, the aviation technical high school STM Penerbangan, and Purnama and PGRI technical high schools will join the program.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
All 40-meter deep wells are polluted by domestic waste
All 40-meter deep wells are polluted by domestic waste JAKARTA (JP): The city's mine and energy agency has asked Jakartans not to drink water straight from wells as most 40-meter deep wells in the city are polluted. The head of the agency, Arifin Akbar, said over the weekend that the well water has been contaminated by domestic waste, resulting from residents' poor awareness of the proper construction of septic tanks.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Jakarta shines in the pool
Jakarta shines in the pool JAKARTA (JP): Elsa Manora Nasution of Jambi took her gold medal tally to 11, but this was still not enough to stop Jakarta's domination of the national age group invitational championships which ended on Saturday. The gold medals gave Indonesia's Southeast Asian Games mainstay Elsa the title of best swimmer in addition to her victories in the 200-meter butterfly and 800-meter freestyle in the final day of the three-day meet.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
TV today
TV today TVRI 2:30 p.m. Travel: My Country 2:35 TV Series: Saber Rider and The Star Sheriff 3:05 Children Program: Anak Anak Indonesia 3:30 TV Series: Major Dad 4:00 News: Lintasan Berita 4:05 Science: Heart of Courage 4:30 Quiz: Cepat Tepat 5:00 Regional News 5:30 Family Health 6:05 Nusantara, the Beloved Country 6:15 Village Program 7:00 Evening News 7:25 Garuda Pancasila/Filler/Trailer 7:30 TV Drama: Keluarga Selamat 8:05 Religion: Mozaik 9:00 World News 9:30 Music: Nada dan Irama 10:30 Late...
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Two questioned in LBH case
Two questioned in LBH case MEDAN, North Sumatra: City police are currently interrogating two youths in connection with the destruction of the Medan office of the Legal Aid Institute (LBH) this month, Antara reported. Medan Police Chief Lt. Col. Primanto said on Saturday that the two men were believed to have taken part in pelting the institute with rocks on April 28. The building was also set on fire that same night. No-one has been arrested in connection with the later incident.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Better PAM service
Better PAM service JAKARTA (JP): The city-owned water company, PAM Jaya, began operating a 24-hour computer information service early this month. Through the service, consumers can ask about their monthly bills, find the nearest payment center to them, get the latest information on areas being repaired, and file a complaint. The needed information can be printed out and sent by fax. Dial 3920188 to get the voice/fax response service.(yns)
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Islets off Sulawesi to be declared national park
Islets off Sulawesi to be declared national park JAKARTA (JP): The government plans to declare the Wakatobi Islands off southeast Sulawesi a national marine park, effectively barring fishing in the waters around it. Minister of Forestry Djamaloedin Soeryohadikoesoemo on Friday night promptly responded to a request made during a fund-raising dinner by the Wallacea Development Institute, an organization concerned with the protection of biodiversity in Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara and Maluku.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Garuda, Silk Air sign deal
Garuda, Silk Air sign deal JAKARTA (JP): The Garuda Maintenance Facility, owned by Indonesia's flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, has agreed to help maintain Silk Air's B-737 aircraft flying to Jakarta, Ujungpandang and Manado.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Ibu Tien -- a very determined First Lady
Ibu Tien -- a very determined First Lady JAKARTA (JP): "I'm nothing," First Lady Tien Soeharto said earlier this month, only weeks before her death yesterday. She attributed what people described as her great achievements to the fact she worked hard, not her personal wealth. "I'm just the wife of a civil servant. Once I was wife of a soldier. That's why I'm nothing.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Multipolar profits slump
Multipolar profits slump JAKARTA (JP): The publicly-listed PT Multipolar Corporation announced last week that its net profits in the July-December period of 1995 decreased marginally to Rp 2.4 billion (US$1 million) from Rp 4.8 billion in the same period of 1994. The company expected that its new investment in the retail and family entertainment sectors will start to contribute to its earnings in the 1996/1997 financial year. (08)
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
ASEAN makes token progress in industrial ties
ASEAN makes token progress in industrial ties By Vincent Lingga SINGAPORE (JP): Industrial products manufactured under a new ASEAN industrial cooperation scheme will immediately see import tariffs of zero to 5 percent and other non-tariff incentives granted by member countries.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
In memory of Mrs. Tien
In memory of Mrs. Tien Wise men say a wife is not only a husband's companion, a friend in joy and sorrow, nor only a mother of one's children. She is also the pillar of the family and a source of love and kindness. Many believe that the late Mrs. Tien Soeharto, who passed away yesterday because of a heart attack, was more than that. She was Indonesia's first lady for almost three decades, and the wife of Bapak Soeharto for almost 50 years.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
Asia believes Australia's new govt committed to Asia
Asia believes Australia's new govt committed to Asia SYDNEY (AFP): Trade Minister Tim Fischer acknowledged yesterday that former prime minister Paul Keating was well regarded by Asian governments which he said now accepted Australia's new coalition government was fully engaged in Asia. Fischer, who is also deputy prime minister in the new conservative administration, also promised not to create difficulties for Keating as he seeks to find a new life after politics -- in Asia.
Mon, 29 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB
ING to assist Jasa Marga
ING to assist Jasa Marga JAKARTA (JP): ING Baring Securities Indonesia is interested in becoming a financial advisor for state-owned toll road operator PT Jasa Marga, which plans to offer shares to the public this year. ING Baring's president, John. E. Marshall, said that his company had been officially invited by Jasa Marga to join in a "beauty contest" to become the latter's financial advisor.