Archive: 4 January 1998
22 articles found
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Moslems see this year's fasting month a challenge
Moslems see this year's fasting month a challenge JAKARTA (JP): Ramadhan is here. Moslems spend this holy month by abstaining from life's worldly temptations -- eating, drinking, smoking and sexual relations -- from dawn until dusk. It is a purification of body and soul.
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Waldjinah's stardom is a road well-traveled
Waldjinah's stardom is a road well-traveledText and photos by Tarko Sudarno SURAKARTA, Central Java (JP): Tune in to the many music programs on television, and cross a musical assortment of pop, rock, jazz and the Arab-influenced beat of dangdut.Some local music is left out of this musical medley.
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Fasting's best lesson virtue of self-restraint
Fasting's best lesson virtue of self-restraintBy K. Basrie JAKARTA (JP): Practicing fasting during the holy Ramadhan month is always spiritually enriching.Abstaining from eating, drinking and sexual intercourse between dawn and dusk is simply the means to attain the spiritual experience, but it is...
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Govt must make hard choices in new budget
Govt must make hard choices in new budgetBy Rikza Abdullah President Soeharto is scheduled to present the government's draft budget to the House of Representatives on Tuesday. Saddled with its worst economic crisis in 30 years, the government confronts an unenviable choice between cutting spending...
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Joko to compete in Japan Open for Thomas Cup selection
Joko to compete in Japan Open for Thomas Cup selection JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia's veteran shuttler Joko Suprianto will compete in the Japan Open tournament in Tokyo from Jan. 13 to Jan. 18.National Badminton Center director Christian Hadinata said Friday that Joko's participation in the first part...
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Curtain to fall on Kemang nightlife
Curtain to fall on Kemang nightlifeText and photos by Arif Suhardiman JAKARTA (JP): It's almost midnight on Saturday in Kemang. As most of Jakarta is calling it a day, this district in South Jakarta is just getting going.
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Pop culture reexamined at Kedai Kebun Gallery
Pop culture reexamined at Kedai Kebun GalleryText and photos by R. Fadjri YOGYAKARTA (JP): Plazas, malls, pubs and superstores are not just popular places in urban communities.They have become the substance of city-dwellers, in the form of Coca-Cola, Hollywood, MTV, Batman and other pop culture...
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Contamination of the Jakarta Bay
Contamination of the Jakarta BayFrom NeracaThe central governing board of the Indonesian Environmental Management (BLHI) has called on the government and the Jakarta administration to pay attention to reports drawn up by non- governmental organizations on the contamination of the Jakarta Bay by...
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
'She's So Lovely' in cinematic testimony to Penns' love
'She's So Lovely' in cinematic testimony to Penns' loveBy Dini S. Djalal JAKARTA (JP): The new film by Nick Cassavetes, She's So Lovely, opens with a bird's-eye view of an average industrial town. Mediocrity more than smog obscures the unexceptional skyline.
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Budget must promote growth: Businesspeople
Budget must promote growth: Businesspeople JAKARTA (JP): The nation's business leaders are still hopeful the government will find ways of reviving the embattled economy through its 1998/1999 budget.The Jakarta Post polled several of them on what they expect and hope to hear when President Soeharto...
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Ramadhan welcomed amid monetary crisis
Ramadhan welcomed amid monetary crisis Ramadhan began at the most inopportune time. Escalating prices have dampened the joy that normally comes with the arrival of Ramadhan. The Jakarta Post reporters -- Lukman Natanegara, K.
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Jiang's visit a start in confidence-building
Jiang's visit a start in confidence-buildingBy Wang Jisi Probably most diplomatic specialists in Beijing and Washington, for different reasons, judged the recent state visit by Chinese President Jiang Zemin to the United States as a great success.
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Power cut hits RP
Power cut hits RP MANILA (AFP): A power cut left most of the main Philippine island of Luzon without electricity yesterday, the state-run National Power Corp. (NPC) said.NPC president Alfredo Delgado said the outage occurred when a transformer in Laguna province, just outside Manila, overloaded.
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
'Becak' still riding high far from Jakarta's congestion
'Becak' still riding high far from Jakarta's congestionBy Jonathan Agranoff GARUT, West Java (JP): Midnight, in a west Javan highland town. All is peaceful. The shops which, during the day were a hive of frenetic activity, have now long shut their doors to the darkness of the night.
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Ramadhan ultimate equalizer for rich and poor Moslems
Ramadhan ultimate equalizer for rich and poor MoslemsBy Yogita Tahil Ramani, Sylvia Gratia M. Nirang and Ida Indawati Khouw JAKARTA (JP): In a troubling 1997 marked by forest fires, the economic crisis and starvation, the opening of the Ramadhan fasting month on its final day came as a sobering...
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Next budget may look familiar
Next budget may look familiarBy Rikza Abdullah JAKARTA (JP): The composition of the government's budget for the 1998/1999 financial year will be drastically changed because of the economic crisis, yet it may have some familiar rings.
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Laborers keep faith, hope amid hard times
Laborers keep faith, hope amid hard timesBy Sugianto Tandra and Prismatuti Handayani JAKARTA (JP): Many blue-collar workers may find it harder to follow the disciplined tenets of fasting this month.Most are bewildered by the sudden economic downturn, and at a loss to understand how it happened.
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Doing your bit to save the environment
Doing your bit to save the environment JAKARTA (JP): What exactly do we mean when we talk about an ecological conscience? Is it that we cherish the beauty of nature when we take our families out for a ride on a sunny weekend?Or that we despise those companies making headlines because of their...
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
A hike for the hardy along Mt. Merapi
A hike for the hardy along Mt. MerapiBy Ahmad Solikhan KALIURANG, Yogyakarta (JP): The sun is not out yet and dark bathes the pine forest. Flashlights point the way along the footpath.A local guide is at the helm as six foreign tourists, wearing warm clothing and sneakers and carrying backpacks,...
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Malaysia may send foreign workers home
Malaysia may send foreign workers home KUALA LUMPUR (Agencies): Malaysia is considering expelling its foreign workers as the "cost" of the country's economic downturn, as an estimated one million people are threatened with unemployment, AFP reported yesterday.
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Ramadhan time for Jakarta
Ramadhan time for JakartaSundayMaghrib 6.14 p.m.MondayImsak 4:11 a.m.Subuh 4.21 a.m.
Sun, 04 Jan 1998
Sports body gets only Rp 2b for Asiad
Sports body gets only Rp 2b for Asiad JAKARTA (JP): National Sports Council chairman Wismoyo Arismunandar said the National Development Planning Board only allocated Rp 2 billion (US$350,880) for the country's 13th Asian Games from its original budget of Rp 10 billion.