Literary award for Mangunwijaya JAKARTA (JP): A noted novelist and architect, Y.B. Mangunwijaya, will receive a literary award this month. The Yogyakarta-based priest, whose works include Burung-burung Manyar, is scheduled to receive the Professor Teeuw award on May 15 at the Erasmus Huis Dutch Cultural Center. The Professor Teeuw Funds Foundation, after which the award is named, was set up in 1992 in honor of A. Teeuw, a Dutch scholar well known here for his studies on Indonesian literature.

Quality of secretarial courses execrable JAKARTA (JP): Secretarial courses are mushrooming around the city, but the quality of their graduates is often execrable, the head of the Indonesian Association of Secretaries (ISI) says. Many graduates claim to have graduated from good courses and institutes, "but some cannot even type addresses onto envelopes," Dewi Margono complained yesterday.

New drug against AIDS considered BANGKOK (AFP): Thailand, which may be home to as many as 800,000 people infected with HIV, is considering approval of a drug with a powerful record against the virus, a government AIDS expert said yesterday. "Abbot has studied this drug for years and the U.S. FDA approved it this year," said Chaiyos Kunanusont, a medical expert with the Public Health Ministry's AIDS Division, referring to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Where to go in Jakarta: Music * Hotel Dai-ichi, Jl. Senen Raya 135, Central Jakarta. - Mezzanine Lounge: The Praise Vocal Group, Nightly except Sundays, from 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 from 7:15 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Los Paraguas Vocal Group, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday from 7:15 p.m. to 11 p.m.