RI to ratify international bill on human rightsMuninggar Sri Saraswati, The Jakarta Post, JakartaThe Indonesian government is expected soon to ratify the
international bill on human rights, a move that could improve the
country's image in the global community. More ...
SBY gets eggy on face as labor unions strike homeRidwan Max Sijabat, The Jakarta Post, JakartaA grouping representing 52 trade unions expressed disappointment
about what it said was the poor performance of President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono during his first 100 days in office,
particularly as ... More ...
Online plan needs substance to keep it from sinking
Fei Li
China Daily/Asia News Network
Beijing When the Government Online Initiative was launched in 1999
with great fanfare, hopes were high that the project would lead
to a more efficient information flow and interaction between the ... More ...
Foreign investment in Indonesia How will President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono invite new foreign
investors to Indonesia to strengthen the economy, as he promised?
No company will invest any money in Indonesia before the rules
for foreigners are changed. More ...
AGO to set up team to hunt graft suspects overseasEva C. Komandjaja
The Jakarta Post/Jakarta The Attorney General's Office (AGO) said it would soon form a
special team to hunt down graft suspects who have fled the
country as part of the effort to curb rampant corruption here. AGO spokesman R.J. More ...
City prepares for int'l seminar JAKARTA: The Jakarta administration will hold a two-day
international seminar on port management in March as part of its
effort to improve the competitiveness of Tanjung Priok Port. More ...
German FM to visit AcehINDONESIA: German Minister of Foreign Affairs Joschka Fisher will
visit Indonesia's tsunami-damaged northern province of Aceh on
Friday, the German Embassy in Jakarta said in a statement. More ...
Bravo airplane banned from flyingYOGYAKARTA: The Indonesian Air Force has banned all Bravo light
training aircraft from operating for the time being following a
Bravo plane crash in Sleman, Yogyakarta that claimed one's live. More ...
Security beefed up after riot in AtambuaYemris Fointuna, The Jakarta Post, AtambuaTension remained high in Atambua, Belu, on Thursday following a
religion-inspired riot a day earlier in the city, which left
several police vehicles and buildings severely damaged. More ...
Moody's rates Inco with stable outlook JAKARTA: Moody's Investor Service will assign a (P)Ba2 foreign
currency rating to publicly-listed PT International Nickel
Indonesia (Inco) with a stable outlook. More ...
AGO to pursue graft suspects in S'poreEva C. Komandjaja, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Attorney General's Office (AGO) said it would soon form a
special team to hunt down graft suspects who have fled the
country as part of the effort to curb rampant corruption here. AGO spokesman R.J. More ...
Rupiah Rates Feb. 8 Banknote rates Selling BuyingAustralian dollar 1 7,472.26 6,704.03
Brunei dollar 1 5,937.10 5,325.55
Canadian dollar 1 7,782.47 6,982.31
Swiss franc 1 7,973.86 7,155. More ...
Thai-Japanese FTA threatens RI exportsZakki P. Hakim, The Jakarta Post, JakartaIndonesia risks losing up to US$5 billion in non-oil and gas
exports to Japan per year, should Thailand succeed in ongoing
negotiations with Asia's largest economy for a free trade
agreement, says an expert. More ...
Foreign fishermen jailed in SumatraPADANG, West Sumatra: The Padang District Court sentenced to jail
on Tuesday 21 fishermen for operating large trawling nets in the
North Sumatra waters. More ...
National exam draws more oppositionThe Jakarta Post, JakartaTeachers and academics doubt the government's planned national
final exam will be able to narrow the gap in education between
schools across the country. More ...
Cipadu Market grows to become robust textile centerMulta Fidrus, The Jakarta Post, TangerangStarted as a traditional market, Cipadu Market on Jl. Raya Pondok
Aren in Larangan district, Tangerang municipality, has grown to
become a robust textile and garment center. More ...
RI to rely more on natural gas, coal to cut oil dependenceRendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, JakartaThe declining oil production in the past decade has prompted the
government to encourage local industrial plants to prepare to
start largely depending on natural gas and coal for energy needs
within ... More ...
Indonesians acquire New Hope's local assetsFabiola Desy Unidjaja, The Jakarta Post, JakartaFour Indonesian businessmen are in the process of acquiring
Australian-based New Hope Corp.'s assets in Indonesia, including
the largest coal mine in the country.Edwin Soeryadjaya, T.P. More ...
Mixed emotions as ethnic Chinese welcome the RoosterThe Jakarta Post, Medan/Surabaya/JambiChinese-Indonesians ushered in the Year of the Rooster with a
variety of festivities across the country. More ...
Immunization Key to Saving World's Poorest ChildrenYoweri Museveni
and Jens Stoltenberg
Yale Center for the Study of
Globalization As national leaders -- one in Scandinavia, the other in East
Africa -- we awaken each day to dramatically different realities. More ...
Millions in Iran stage anti-U.S. rallyMuhammad Nafik, The Jakarta Post, Tehran Braving the cold, around two million people marched to several
cities across Iran on Thursday, to show their support for the
government against the United States over the latter's repeated
threats to attack the country. More ...
Primary charge against Ba'asyir droppedThe Jakarta Post, JakartaProsecutors recommended that hard-line cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir
be sentenced to eight years in jail for his alleged role in a
string of terrorist acts. More ...
Pramoedya now lives peaceful, venerable lifeM. Taufiqurrahman, The Jakarta Post, JakartaIn a party held to celebrate his 80th birthday at the Taman
Ismail Marzuki (TIM) building Indonesia's most credible candidate
for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pramoedya Ananta Toer,
displayed a trait that was ... More ...
Mercedes, BMW to launch new cars to up salesThe Jakarta Post, JakartaTwo leading German carmakers -- Stuttgart-based DaimlerChrysler
through its flagship Mercedes-Benz and Munich-based BMW -- are to
launch new models this year in a bid to boost sales. More ...
RSCM morgue runs out of cooling unitThe Jakarta Post, JakartaWith a turnover of 400 bodies monthly, the fact that only three
out of seven body refrigerators in Cipto Mangunkusumo General
Hospital's morgue in Central Jakarta, are working, could be
problematic. More ...
Thousand Islands to build airstripDamar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, JakartaAs part of the effort to boost tourism in the Thousand Islands
regency of Jakarta, the administration has begun work on
expanding the existing 930-meter-long airstrip on Panjang isle to
1.4 kilometers. More ...
Unlicensed radio stations airwaves in E. JavaID Nugroho, The Jakarta Post, Surabaya"Suara Mitra listeners, tune in next to Newsline from Suara Mitra
91.7 FM," a disc jockey tells listeners from a broadcast studio
located at East Java Police Headquarters in Surabaya. More ...
TV Today: Friday, February 11, 2005
.TB.30" .90"TVRI
.tb .30" .90" 5:00 a.m. Religious Teachings6:00 News: Berita Pagi7:00 Cartoon: Maya The Bee8:30 Music: Asik-Asik 10:30 Religious Teachings1:00 p.m. More ...
Helping tsunami victims As someone who feels deeply connected to Indonesia and its
peoples, I am deeply saddened by the awful death and destruction
that the earthquake and tsunami has wreaked upon so many in North
Sumatra and in other parts of South and Southeast Asia. More ...
Searching the past for future peace in AcehBenny YP Siahaan, Jakarta Initially, many quarters have been pessimistic about the
prospects of any peace dialog between the Indonesian government
and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) after the collapse of cessation
of hostilities agreement (CoHA) in 2003, ... More ...
Two abandon car stashed with drugs JAKARTA: The Jakarta Police Highway Patrol confiscated 99
packages of marijuana from a jeep on Tuesday, but failed to
apprehend the driver and the passenger.The police narcotics division unit Comr. More ...
Govt gears up for MRP establishmentJAKARTA: As the September deadline draws near, the Papuan
provincial government has begun disseminating information to
public on the planned establishment of the Papuan People's
Assembly (MRP). More ...
PMI prepares for returning workers JAKARTA: The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) is preparing
activities and programs to help anticipate a massive influx of
Indonesian workers from Malaysia after the neighboring country
ended its amnesty period for the undocumented workers late last
month. More ...
Aceh students demand free tuitionFadli, The Jakarta Post, Banda AcehHundreds of Syiah Kuala University students protested on the
Banda Aceh campus on Thursday to demand that their tuition be
waived and that the rector resign for attempting to force them to
pay tuition beginning on Feb. 14. More ...
'Government should close tobacco factories'Although doubts still linger as to the effectiveness of the newly
endorsed bylaw banning smoking in public places, the Jakarta
administration has set up smoking rooms in some government
offices. More ...
9 SMEs shortlisted for Dji Sam Soe Awards JAKARTA: Nine small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been
selected as finalists in the Dji Sam Soe Awards, a contest
sponsored by giant cigarette producer PT HM Sampoerna. More ...
Legislators question revisions to Criminal CodeKurniawan Hari, The Jakarta Post, JakartaSome members of the House of Representatives have expressed
opposition to articles in the draft revision of the Criminal Code
that could threaten press freedom. More ...
Staff steals Rp 3.6b from Bank DKI: ProsecutorAbdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, JakartaThe Jakarta Prosecutor's Office said on Thursday it was
investigating the possible embezzlement of Rp 3.6 billion
(US$400,000) by a Bank DKI employee in the latest in a string of
alleged bank frauds. More ...
Revisiting Devlopment Goals,
how can ASEAN help?Romeo A. Reyes
Jakarta A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) was submitted to the UN Secretary General last month by
the UN Millennium Project, an independent advisory group
commissioned to recommend strategies for ... More ...
Rebuilding Aceh: A new towns with new hopeGordon G Benton, Jakarta It is more than likely that there will be an unholy battle
over the desolation in Aceh and North Sumatra on who is going to
rebuild the infrastructure, towns and villages. More ...
More foreign troops to pull out of Aceh soon, says AlwiMuninggar Sri Saraswati, The Jakarta Post, JakartaMore foreign troops are expected to be withdrawn from tsunami-
devastated Aceh sometime next week as the emergency phase there
has almost come to an end, according to a senior minister. More ...
JP/ /Susilo's 100 Days and the tsunamiThe first hundred days of President Susilo Bambang Yudhyono's
mandate have passed and the pundits, predictably, are
pontificating. More ...
Toying with democracy: Tha main challenge for Middle East leadersMai Yamani, Project Syndicate Democracy is supposedly on the march in the Middle East. More ...
How can ASEAN help achieve Millennium Devlopment Goals?Romeo A. Reyes, Jakarta A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) was submitted to the UN Secretary General last month by
the UN Millennium Project, an independent advisory group
commissioned to recommend strategies ... More ...
Minister urged to probe waste tradeJAKARTA: A local non-government organization (NGO) has urged
State Minister of the Environment Rachmat Witoelar to investigate
the illegal trade of toxic waste and bring the perpetrators to
court. More ...
Slippery runway caused Lion accident: Safety boardThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta In its report on last year's crash of a Lion Air MD-82 at Adi
Sumarmo International Airport in Surakarta, Central Java, the
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that the
accident was due to water accumulating ... More ...
AGO to set up team to hunt graft suspects overseasEva C. Komandjaja
The Jakarta Post/Jakarta The Attorney General's Office (AGO) said it would soon form a
special team to hunt down graft suspects who have fled the
country as part of the effort to curb rampant corruption here. AGO spokesman R.J. More ...
Bills place TNI, National Police under ministersTiarma Siboro, Jakarta The Ministry of Defense has finalized the first drafts on the
revision of legislation on security and defense, which aim, among
other things, to help create more professional military and
police forces. More ...
China stands firm at G7
It was a strategic decision on the part of China to stand firm
against strong pressure from American and European leaders to
untie the yuan from the U.S. dollar, arguing that it needed more
time to reform its financial system. More ...
Bumiputera targets premiums hike
JAKARTA: Asuransi Jiwa Bersama Bumiputera 1912 is targeting to
increase its insurance premiums by 10 percent to Rp 3.34 trillion
(US$363 million), according to the company's president director,
Madjdi Ali. More ...
Freedom in transitionNot too long ago there was a time when the public, and
journalists in particular, lived with a collective daily dose of
fear. A fear of speaking out about one's political opinion no
matter how benign this expression might be. More ...
KL haj system reflects poorly on RIRidwan Max Sijabat, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Indonesia should learn from Malaysia in its management of the
haj pilgrimage through the establishment of an autonomous body
accountable to the President and the House of Representatives to
reduce costs and improve ... More ...
Jakarta responds to dengue crisisThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta/Bekasi, West JavaThe Jakarta Health Agency is applying the extraordinary epidemic
procedures imposed by the central government on Monday in an
attempt to stem the spread of dengue fever in the capital. More ...
'China Youth Daily' and the 'Post' launch New Year donation driveThe Jakarta Post, JakartaOn the occasion of the Spring Festival (Lunar New Year) in China,
one of that country's leading newspapers, the China Youth Daily,
and The Jakarta Post have launched a joint fund-raising campaign
using text ... More ...
U.S. Dollar Rates Feb. 10 Latest %Change
Dollar Rates
Yen 105.87-91 +0.29
Euro* 1.2792-95 -0.13
Sterling* 1.8603-08 +0.05
Swiss franc 1.2165-68 +0.05
Canadian dollar 1. More ...
Minister cancels visit to PekanbaruPEKANBARU, Riau: The Minister of Sport and Youth, Adyaksa Dault,
canceled his plan to open the Journalist's National Sports
Competition in Pekanbaru on Thursday due to the haze problem. More ...
Papua calls foul over Freeport feesRendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, JakartaDissatisfied with the disbursement of its share of the royalties
paid by mining firm PT Freeport Indonesia, the Papua
administration has accused the central government of "dishonesty"
regarding the amount of royalties it ... More ...
Indonesian film feted at Rotterdam FilmFestPaolo Bertolin, Contributor, RotterdamThe resurgence in Indonesian filmmaking was feted recently at yet
another key international film event. More ...
Wrong place, wrong time Consider if you will that God, however you perceive him, had
absolutely nothing at all to do with the devastating tsunami of
Dec. 26. More ...
Global Stock Index Feb. 10 Latest %Change New York
DJ Indus 10664.11 -0.56 Feb 9
Nasdaq 2052.55 -1.64 Feb 9
S&P 500 1191.99 -0.86 Feb 9
Toronto
S&P/TSX 9402.63 +0. More ...
Prosecutors demand 20 year for studentTheresia Sufa, The Jakarta Post, BogorProsecutors are demanding a 20-year prison term for Trisakti
University student Ronald Johanes Posma Aroean, 24, for the
murder of his pregnant girlfriend Amanda Devina, 22, last July. More ...
Milkfish popular during 'Imlek' JAKARTA: As Chinese-Indonesians celebrated Lunar New Year on
Feb. 9, locally known as Imlek, fish mongers reported an increase
in the sales of bandeng (milkfish) in the week leading to the
festivities. More ...
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