Danareksa gets award JAKARTA (JP): State-owned Danareksa Sekuritas has been named the country's investment bank of 1997 by Asiamoney magazine. The Hong Kong-based magazine said in a statement yesterday that it selected Danareksa as the investment bank of the year because it performed strongly in terms of brokerage volume.

Actress suffers from fever in cell JAKARTA (JP): Actress and playwright Ratna Sarumpaet, currently detained at the Jakarta Police Headquarters on charges of holding an illegal political meeting, is sick, her lawyer said yesterday. Ratna, who was arrested with seven other people in a North Jakarta hotel on March 10, has a fever, Johnson Panjaitan said. "The police should let her relatives take her out for medical treatment," Johnson told The Jakarta Post.

Massive operation against dengue JAKARTA (JP): The city administration will launch a massive anti-dengue fever operation on April 26 in a bid to fight the disease which this year has killed 43 people and hospitalized 3,993 as of yesterday. City Health Agency spokeswoman Maryani said the operation would include the scrubbing of household water tanks, buckets, pets' drinking bowls, vases and water reservoirs and the burial of used cans.

Activists move to cleanse Earth through solidarity JAKARTA (JP): Earth Mother is crying. Her agony is manifested in a series of natural disasters, economic and political turmoil and other catastrophes that befall Earth. Poet Darmanto Jatman sees Indonesia and its people as the children of Bumi Pertiwi (Earth Mother), and he lays some of the blame for the nation's problems at their feet.

Soeharto concerned by inaccurate media reports JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto expressed concern yesterday over media reports on the country's situation which he believed to be inaccurate and misleading. The President said such imbalanced reports, in both the print and electronic media, could hinder government efforts to restore the country's economy as they had tarnished Indonesia's image abroad.

Streamlined learning load works best By Hendra Gunawan BANDUNG (JP): It is often said that you can do anything as long as you have the motivation and the ability to do it. But actually there is another thing you must also have, namely the opportunity. You might have the motivation and the ability to do something, but if you do not have the opportunity, you may never get the chance to accomplish it.

KL tears down Spratly buildings MANILA (AP): Malaysia has dismantled structures its navy erected on a shoal claimed by the Philippines in the South China Sea's disputed Spratly Islands, the Department of Foreign Affairs said yesterday. The structures were removed from the shoal earlier this month after Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon and Malaysian Foreign Minister Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi discussed the matter, a department statement said.