Archive: 1 March 2000
46 articles found
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Transvestite gets six months jail for theft
Transvestite gets six months jail for theft JAKARTA (JP): A judge at the Central Jakarta District Court sentenced on Tuesday defendant Amin Buchori, alias Ratna, to six months in jail for stealing Rp 50,000 (US$6.8) from witness R. Bagoes Trihono last December. "The defendant violated article 363 of the Criminal Code by committing a theft," said presiding judge Musa Simatupang in a hearing at the district court.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Gus Dur visits E. Timor
Gus Dur visits E. Timor DILI, East Timor (JP): President Abdurrahman Wahid became on Tuesday Indonesia's first head of state to set foot here since the majority of people in the territory voted for a breakaway from Indonesia last August.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
PASI targets world's top 16 for sprinters in 2000 Olympics
PASI targets world's top 16 for sprinters in 2000 Olympics JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Amateur Athletics Association (PASI) eyes the world's top 16 for women's and men's sprinters, and men's relay team at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. The Indonesian woman sprinter is Irene Truitje Joseph, male sprinter, Yanis Raubaba, and the men's relay team comprises Johannes Murray, Subakir, Mahmud Hamzah and Sukari. PASI Secretary-General Tigor M.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Conversion Rates
Conversion Rates Bank Indonesia's conversion rates on Feb. 29 2000: Bank notes rates Buying Selling Rp Rp U.S.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
House speaker could replace triumvirate, minister says
House speaker could replace triumvirate, minister says JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Law and Legislation Yusril Ihza Mahendra proposed on Tuesday that the House of Representatives speaker alone could be charged with executive authority should the president and vice president be incapacitated. "The House speaker is representative of the people and could be given authority to prepare the election of a president in two or three weeks," Yusril said.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
NGOs criticize poverty eradication program
NGOs criticize poverty eradication program JAKARTA (JP): A group of non-governmental organizations advocating better conditions for the poor suggested on Tuesday that the government intensify people's participation in its poverty eradication program in order to avoid past mistakes. Circle for Participatory Social Management (CPSM) chairman MM Billah told a discussion that instead of helping people escape poverty, past government programs prevented the poor from improving their lot.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
On course for fine dining at Gran Melia's Columbus
On course for fine dining at Gran Melia's Columbus JAKARTA (JP): Perched on one side on the 14th floor of the Gran Melia hotel is the Columbus restaurant. As you step in the doorway, there is a very high wall, perhaps one or two floors up, and the ceiling slopes down to waist level as it meets the wall on the opposite side. The sloping ceiling is almost entirely made of wood, save the last few meters which are glass that transform into one large window. At the window are cozy tables for two.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Mobs kill alleged shaman in Cilacap
Mobs kill alleged shaman in Cilacap CILACAP, Central Java: A mob of about 100 people went on a rampage and destroyed a house in Bantarpanjang village, Cimanggu district, belonging to Sukamto, 61, a suspected shaman late on Monday night. The old man survived the incident by fleeing before the mob reached his house. Eye witnesses Rubiyati, 30 and Sarwo, 31, said locals accused Sukamto of practicing sorcery which caused the illness of two of his neighbors.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Singaporean tried for smuggling
Singaporean tried for smuggling TANGERANG (JP): Singapore national Kow Muin Huat Al Gao Meifa, 34, went on trial at Tangerang District Court on Tuesday for allegedly trying to smuggle thousands of ecstasy pills to Australia last September. State prosecutor Siti Sahara said during the hearing that Meifa was arrested at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Sept. 26 last year with the pills packed in plastic bags attached to his back and thighs.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
E-commerce payment system
E-commerce payment system JAKARTA (JP): PT eSecure Indonesia is set to launch in April a payment system to support e-commerce transactions in Indonesia, the company announced here on Tuesday. The company said in a press release that its system, known as eSecure, would use the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) technology which has been designated by Visa and Mastercard and their technical partner to be used as the universal security standard for internet credit card transactions.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Civil servants to get 30 percent pay increase
Civil servants to get 30 percent pay increase JAKARTA (JP): The government reached agreement on Tuesday with the House of Representatives budget committee to raise the salary of government employees, police and the military by 30 percent in the April-December 2000 state budget, legislator Aberson Marle Sihaloho said. Aberson said that the salary increase would be made in two stages during the budget year because of the government's limited financial capability.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
E. Java councillors to get pay raise
E. Java councillors to get pay raise SURABAYA: Councillors in East Java are set to get a hefty 60 percent salary raise. The raise will come into effect on April 1. Councillors currently take home an average of about Rp 4.7 million. The decision was made during the closing session of the budget commission. Initially there were proposals to double the salaries, but it got such a negative reaction from the public that it was decided to reduce the increase.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Reforming Pertamina
Reforming Pertamina President Abdurrahman Wahid continues his cleanup campaign on state companies which, under former president Soeharto's rule, were exploited as cash cows for his family members and cronies. And the target this time is the biggest of them all. He appointed on Monday Baihaki Hakim, former president of PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia, as the new chief executive officer of state Pertamina oil and natural gas monopoly to replace Martiono Hadianto.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
RI signs UN protocol on women's rights
RI signs UN protocol on women's rights JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia signed the protocol of the United Nations Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (UN-CEDAW) on Monday. Representing the government of Indonesia was State Minister of the Empowerment of Women Khofifah Indar Parawansa, who signed the protocol along with representatives from 25 other countries at UN Headquarters in New York.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Autonomy 'nonsupportive' of democratization
Autonomy 'nonsupportive' of democratization JAKARTA (JP): The planned implementation of regional autonomy will not necessarily help democracy to flourish in regions due to centralized judicial and political systems, an observer said on Tuesday. Political analyst Arbi Sanit told a seminar on regional autonomy held by the Indonesian Muslim League at the Jakarta Hilton Hotel that there would be no division of power, the essence of democracy, in provinces.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Tanri files complaint against Manimaren
Tanri files complaint against Manimaren JAKARTA (JP): Former state minister of empowerment of state enterprises Tanri Abeng, a suspect in the Rp 546 billion (US$78 million) Bank Bali scandal, filed a complaint at National Police headquarters on Tuesday morning protesting business tycoon Marimutu Manimaren's alleged false testimony to police investigators last December. "I had to come here.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Prosecutors deny ignoring Attorney General's order
Prosecutors deny ignoring Attorney General's order JAKARTA (JP): Prosecutors denied on Tuesday reports that they were disobeying Attorney General Marzuki Darusman's order to send a medical team to examine former president Soeharto's health at his house on Monday. "There is no such thing as that because we all also want to carry out our duty and we also want to see some progress," the Attorney General's Office spokesman, Soehandoyo, told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
New ruling allows IBRA to provide debt reduction
New ruling allows IBRA to provide debt reduction JAKARTA (JP): The government issued a new ruling on Tuesday to help accelerate the massive debt restructuring work of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA), including an option for the agency to provide debt reduction. IBRA deputy chairman Eko S. Budianto said the debt haircut facility would be granted only after other restructuring alternatives failed to completely settle the debt of a debtor.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Tragedy of excess
Tragedy of excess The International Monetary Fund (IMF) director for Asia Pacific, Yusuke Horiguchi, has predicted that the Indonesian economy will grow by more than 4 percent this year while inflation will remain within a single digit. Arigato, Horiguchi, San, honto (Thank you, Mr. Horiguchi, really).
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
PSSI invites players for national team selection
PSSI invites players for national team selection JAKARTA (JP): The Soccer Association of Indonesia (PSSI) has invited 28 soccer players from the main division clubs who are now competing in the sixth Indonesian Soccer League (Ligina) to attend the selection for the national team's lineup.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Humanity above all
Humanity above all It might be a little late but, then again, it's never too late for one to show his or her sympathy and respect to others. I'd like to express my sympathy to Gen. Wiranto, who has gracefully responded to President Abdurrahman Wahid's final decision by stepping down wisely from his post as coordinating minister for political affairs and security. By coming to a wise solution in the end, both President Abdurrahman and Gen.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
DKI budget
DKI budget From Warta Kota Basically, the budget of a region explains the working program of the regional administration concerned for a one-year term. By looking at the scheme of the program the community can be made aware of the vision, perception, awareness and sensitivity of the regional functionaries toward the various societal issues that need to be addressed. In this context, the Jakarta administration has submitted the draft budget for the year 2000 to the regional council.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
DHL opens new office
DHL opens new office JAKARTA (JP): PT Birotika Semesta/DHL Worldwide Express officially opened on Tuesday a new service center in Tangerang to meet the rising demand from local export-oriented companies. The air express service company said the new office, located on Jalan Imam Bonjol in Karawaci, was also equipped with modern facilities, including optical scanners to monitor and track shipments.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Girl reports rape by stepfather
Girl reports rape by stepfather JAKARTA (JP): A high school student has reported to the police that her stepfather and stepbrother had repeatedly raped her in the family home. In a report she filed with the city police headquarters on Monday afternoon, the 17-year-old victim told the police that her stepfather Ibrahim, 48, and her stepbrother Rizal, 17, had raped her countless times at knifepoint over the past two months in the family home in Rawa Belong, West Jakarta.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Ernst & Young has new partner
Ernst & Young has new partner JAKARTA (JP): Ernst & Young, Hanadi, Sarwoko & Sandjaja consulting firm announced on Tuesday the appointment of Joseph (Jos) Luhukay as a partner of the firm's corporate finance division. The company said that Luhukay's admission would strengthen the firm's resources in the areas of debt restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and information technology.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Transportation owners seek reasonable fare hike
Transportation owners seek reasonable fare hike JAKARTA (JP): The government's recent decision to raise fuel prices by an average of 12 percent beginning in April has drawn strong criticism from public transportation owners who complain of skyrocketing expenses. The chairman of the Jakarta chapter of the Organization of Land Transportation Owners (Organda), Aip Syarifuddin, said the fuel hike would only create a burden for the owners.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Analyst doubts restart of Timor project
Analyst doubts restart of Timor project JAKARTA (JP): A leading automotive analyst expressed skepticism on Tuesday about a plan to revive the suspended national car project, despite a renewed commitment from the former South Korean partner. Suhari Sargo said the project was no longer viable given the considerable amount of outstanding bad debts of PT Timor Putra National (TPN).
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Becak drivers angry, burned two cars
Becak drivers angry, burned two cars JAKARTA (JP): Some 500 becak (pedicab) drivers and residents went on a rampage as city public order officials held a simultaneous becak-free operation in the city's five mayoralties on Tuesday evening. They turned one official car of the city public order agency and a truck of the city sanitary agency upside down before they set the two vehicles on fire.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Abdurrahman's subtle strategy
Abdurrahman's subtle strategy He may have begun as a frail and seemingly bumbling compromise choice in a politically divided country. But behind Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid's outwardly erratic actions a subtle, decisive strategy is gradually taking shape. His latest move in the taming of the once-powerful military puts his own supporters in key positions, and moves some remaining hardline generals to the sidelines.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Pertamina chief vows to rise company output
Pertamina chief vows to rise company output JAKARTA (JP): The new president of state oil and gas company Pertamina, Baihaki Hakim, vowed on Tuesday to increase the company's oil output to 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) in two or three years from 70,000 bpd at present. He said a large contribution to the output increase would come from the company's oil fields in South Sumatra.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Residents told to help cut aedes life cycle
Residents told to help cut aedes life cycle JAKARTA (JP): Officials called on city residents on Tuesday to actively participate in preventing the dengue hemorrhagic fever outbreak by cutting the life cycle of the aedes aegypty mosquito. "This is the responsibility of all of us," Governor Sutiyoso told reporters at City Hall. He said the city administration had allocated a special budget of Rp 1.3 billion (US$173,000) to overcome the recent dengue fever outbreak.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
One shot dead as police open fire in Irian violence
One shot dead as police open fire in Irian violence JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya (JP): One man was killed when police opened fire on mobs attacking a Mobile Brigade (Brimob) police headquarters in the easternmost province of Irian Jaya, police said on Tuesday. Some 50 residents of Nabire, 560 kilometers west of the provincial capital of Jayapura, many armed with arrows, swords and spears, attacked the headquarters late on Monday afternoon, Antara quoted local police chief Lt. Col. Faisal A.N. as saying.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Behind TNI's support for Gus Dur
Behind TNI's support for Gus Dur The public has been watching closely whether the Indonesian Military has reflected resistance or support to its recent changes. Jusuf Wanandi, the chairman of the supervisory board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta, takes a closer look at the issue. JAKARTA (JP): There was a lot of hype surrounding President Abdurrahman's decision to relieve Gen.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
President to open 1st PDI-P congress
President to open 1st PDI-P congress SEMARANG (JP): President Abdurrahman Wahid is slated to open the first congress of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) here on March 27, a party official said on Tuesday. The opening ceremony will be staged at the Recreation Fair Ground north of Semarang, Central Java.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Courth declares activists guilty of illegal rally
Courth declares activists guilty of illegal rally JAKARTA (JP): A judge at the Central Jakarta District Court declared on Tuesday that Wardah Hafidz and four other activists of the Urban Poor Consortium (UPC) were guilty for their failure to notify the police before organizing a rally the day before.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Sounds the same
Sounds the same Prof. Sudjoko in a letter to Kompas daily recently said that the development of the Indonesian language did not have any definite direction. I think that analysis of the language needs to be continued. The formation of Indonesian words derived from a foreign language is currently based on phonetics (as is the case in Malaysia) and not on the original meaning of the words.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Minister calls for Damura to be delayed
Minister calls for Damura to be delayed JAKARTA (JP): State Minister of Social Affairs Anak Agung Gde Agung urged the National Sports Council (KONI) and PT Mutiara Mandala Mahardhika (PT 3M) to delay their plan to launch the fund raising program Damura (the People's Fund for Sports).
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Djadja upset at Army chief over removal
Djadja upset at Army chief over removal JAKARTA (JP): Army Strategic Reserved Command (Kostrad) chief Lt. Gen. Djadja Suparman was fuming that he had not been told he was being removed from his post, and without even an encouraging word of "thanks" from his superiors. Djadja questioned on Tuesday his superiors' oversight in not informing him of their decision to remove him from the strategic post, despite news of it already making headlines.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Timor Gap gas deal signed
Timor Gap gas deal signed DILI (AFP): Australia and East Timor have signed a development contract to jointly exploit oil and gas from the Timor Gap offshore area between the two states, the United Nations said here Monday. The contract to develop the Bayu-Undan field was signed in the Australian city of Perth, said UN transitional Authority in East Timor spokesman, Manoel de Almeida e Silva. The project is expected to yield millions of dollars in revenue by 2003.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Conflict among political elites
Conflict among political elites From Pikiran Rakyat In developing countries like Indonesia conflicts among political elites are common place. Each group is striving for its own interests, even though they are in the same government. To achieve its goals, a political group always makes efforts and employs any method so that at one time it does not hesitate to make innocent people its victims.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Yahoo to invest in S. Korea
Yahoo to invest in S. Korea SEOUL (AFP): Yahoo! said Tuesday that it would invest US$60 million in its South Korean affiliate, Yahoo! Korea, to help it expand in the country's fast-growing e-business. "We have reached a critical stage in Yahoo! Korea's development," Jerry Yang, founder of the world's leading Internet portal, said here Tuesday. "We will invest about $60 million into Yahoo! Korea.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
University doctors join relief efforts in West Timor
University doctors join relief efforts in West Timor JAKARTA (JP): Diseases caused by undernourishment and a lack of sanitary conditions have swept through East Timor's refugee camps in West Timor, a media report says. Data released by Perdhaki, a nonprofit organization founded by the Atambua diocese to assist East Timorese refugees with health care, revealed that 2,811 refugees have respiratory infections, 1,896 have malaria and 1,023 have gastric diseases, the news agency Antara reported.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Government to raise income tax rate
Government to raise income tax rate JAKARTA (JP): The government will increase the income tax brackets for individual taxpayers from three to four and the highest bracket from 30 percent to 35 percent but will retain a three-bracket tax structure for institutional (corporate) taxpayers. The highest tax bracket will apply to individual taxpayers with earning over Rp 200 million (about US$28,000), according to a draft bill amending the 1994 income tax law.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Reforming the State Secretariat
Reforming the State Secretariat By Ati Nurbaiti JAKARTA (JP): It's lonely at the top, and even more so when one is no longer there, as former presidents will testify. The ones nearest to the top, identified by their "RI 1" presidential number plates, are also prone to bouts of post-power syndrome, including those from the State Secretariat. At the lucrative office, almost each employee used to have "his own field to cultivate," a reporter covering the office said.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Police question Bakin general over AK-47 rifle permit issuance
Police question Bakin general over AK-47 rifle permit issuance JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta Police have questioned a brigadier general and a retired colonel in connection with the arrest of Haryogi M. Maulani, who was caught red-handed with possession of an AK-47 (Avtomat Kalashnikova) rifle and a Walther Colt gun, an officer of the city police special crimes unit said. The major, who requested anonymity, identified the people questioned as Brig. Gen.
Wed, 01 Mar 2000, 00:00 WIB
Fears of govt control greet broadcasting directorate
Fears of govt control greet broadcasting directorate JAKARTA (JP): An alliance of radio and television associations protested on Tuesday the government's decision to establish a directorate general covering broadcasting affairs.