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Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Australia's focus on Asia

Australia's focus on Asia MELBOURNE (JP): Jamie Mackie, retired professor of politics at Australia National University, believes that Australia's turn towards Asia did not start with former prime minister Paul Keating and his foreign affairs minister Gareth Evans.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Justice Adi wants fresh inquiry

Justice Adi wants fresh inquiry JAKARTA (JP): Deputy Chief Justice for General Crimes Adi Andojo Soetjipto said yesterday that the team investigating the alleged collusion and bribery at the Supreme Court has not been comprehensive and objective enough in its work.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Stock Exchange

Stock ExchangeStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on June 11, 1996: Shares Close Change Trading Volume ------------------------------------------------------------ Ades Alfindo ...

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/National football

National football I am disappointed that The Jakarta Post does not carry more sports news about our very exciting national football competitions. This is an unfortunate time to mention this since you did carry our Uber and Thomas triumphs in Hong Kong recently, and you reported on the Lazio game.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Evershine pays dividends

Evershine pays dividends JAKARTA (JP): PT Evershine Tex, a publicly-listed textile company, has won approval from its shareholders to allocate 52 percent of its net profits in 1995 to a final dividend.Its net profit increased slightly from Rp 22.3 billion in 1994 to Rp 24.2 billion last year.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Our court's image

Our court's image The Supreme Court finally announced the result of its own investigation into allegations of collusion among its members. That the probe over the way the court heard the case of Gandhi Seva Loka vs Ram Gulumal alias V.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Bakrie to enter Uzbekistan

Bakrie to enter Uzbekistan JAKARTA (JP): To strengthen its presence in Uzbekistan, the Bakrie Group of Indonesia will participate in the bidding for the reconstruction of the telecommunications network in Tashkent.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Higher costs hurt textile exporters

Higher costs hurt textile exporters JAKARTA (JP): Exports of Indonesia's textiles and textile- related products has steadily declined in the last five years, due to increasing production costs, the secretary-general of the Indonesian Textile Association said yesterday.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Car troubles

Car troubles We will soon have a national car, after almost 25 years as merely a car assembler. I am glad to know I will not have to pay three times the original value for the domestically assembled cars.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Ometraco revenues up

Ometraco revenues up JAKARTA (JP): Ometraco Corporation announced yesterday that it booked Rp 382 billion (US$162 million) in consolidated revenues during the first quarter of this year, surpassing the Rp 234 billion recorded in the same period of last year.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Workers not paid minimum wage

Workers not paid minimum wage PALANGKARAYA, Central Kalimantan: Some of the workers recruited for the clearing of one million hectares of farmland located in the forests of the Kapuas regency are being paid less than the official daily minimum wage, Antara reported.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Japanese hate filthy toilets

Japanese hate filthy toilets DENPASAR, Bali: Japanese tourists find the many filthy toilets located in Indonesia's airports and tourism sites repellent enough to make them cancel visits here, Antara reported yesterday.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Three questioned about gang rape and robberies

Three questioned about gang rape and robberies JAKARTA (JP): Three men are undergoing intensive police interrogation for their possible roles recently in a number of robberies and a gang rape in Bekasi, West Java.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Questionable commentary

Questionable commentary I videotaped the first NBA finals game between the Chicago Bulls and the Seattle Supersonics shown on SCTV. Let's face it, not everyone can take time to watch a basketball game at 7:30 a.m.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Govt should deregulate real sectors: Economist

Govt should deregulate real sectors: Economist JAKARTA (JP): An economist suggested yesterday that the government further deregulate the real sectors (of production and distribution) to adjust them to current macroeconomic policy.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Sarwono wants marine environment preserved

Sarwono wants marine environment preserved JAKARTA (JP): State Minister of Environment Sarwono Kusumaatmadja made a fresh call yesterday for greater efforts to preserve the coastal and marine environment.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Plans to bring body to DPR dropped

Plans to bring body to DPR dropped JAKARTA (JP): Friends of a hoodlum who was fatally shot by police on Friday have dropped their plans to carry the corpse to the House of Representatives.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Most vehicles fail standard emission tests

Most vehicles fail standard emission tests JAKARTA (JP): The first day of emission tests on 200 vehicles found that most produced high levels of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and smoke in comparison to permitted levels.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Quo vadis PDI?

Quo vadis PDI? The party of fusion has turned, temporarily at least, into a party of confusion. However, being an underdog, the Indonesian Democratic Party could win popular support and sympathy, not out of ideological persuasion (how could a fused party have an ideology of its own) but rather ...

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Beware, AIDS is stalking us

Beware, AIDS is stalking us HIV & AIDS: Interkoneksi Global By Elizabeth Reid Published by Yayasan Obor Indonesia Jakarta 1995 XXXIII + 237 pages KETAPANG, West Kalimantan (JP): Over the years many books have been written about the HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and AIDS itself.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Prickly issue

Prickly issue Piero Ronci (Lurking danger, The Jakarta Post, June 11, 1996) should be guided by the ancient Greek saying which, spelled phonetically, was mee laktidjei, meaning "Don't kick against the pricks" -- in other words, "Don't try to reverse the irreversible.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/GM freezes investment in Indonesia

GM freezes investment in Indonesia JAKARTA (JP): United States-based auto manufacturer General Motors Corp (GM) said yesterday it has suspended additional investment in Indonesia because of what it describes as the discriminatory privileges Jakarta has granted its national car project.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Tennis player Romana to undergo physical test

Tennis player Romana to undergo physical test JAKARTA (JP): Romana Tedjakusuma, Indonesia's second best tennis player, will undergo a fitness test today at the National Sports Council's laboratory as required for the Olympic Games.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Djakarta Lloyd to buy five ships from PT PAL

Djakarta Lloyd to buy five ships from PT PAL JAKARTA (JP): The state-owned international freighter service company PT Djakarta Lloyd has ordered five container ships worth US$118.71 million from the state-owned shipbuilder PT PAL in Surabaya.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Concorde to arrive at RI Show

Concorde to arrive at RI Show JAKARTA (JP): For a third time, the world's only supersonic passenger jet will arrive in the city for the Indonesia Air Show 1996.The manager of British Airways in Indonesia, David H.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Indonesia refuses to pressure Myanmar

Indonesia refuses to pressure Myanmar JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia yesterday reasserted its refusal to take a tougher line against Myanmar, saying that it would continue its "constructive engagement" with the ruling junta in Yangon.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/DHL responds

DHL responds With reference to Paul Charis' letter 'DHL charges twice' in The Jakarta Post, June 6, 1996, I would like to provide the writer with some background information.As DHL Indonesia does not accept collect charges, Mr. Charis was billed by the shipper in the U.S. and not by DHL.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/The Korean dilemma

The Korean dilemma American Republican nominee Bob Dole may have been indulging in campaign hyperbole when he accused President Bill Clinton of giving food aid to a North Korea "that devotes its own resources to the appetite of an insatiable military".

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/ASEAN hopes to reduce pollution emission by 4%

ASEAN hopes to reduce pollution emission by 4% BANDUNG (JP): Experts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are pushing for a massive reduction in pollutant emissions by reducing its growth to 4 percent per year.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/CSIS launches two economic journals

CSIS launches two economic journals JAKARTA (JP): Two economic journals featuring in-depth analyses of Indonesia will be issued by the Jakarta-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Inter-Continental Hotels and Resorts to enter RI

Inter-Continental Hotels and Resorts to enter RI JAKARTA (JP): Inter-Continental Hotels and Resorts, one of the world's largest privately owned hotel chains, plans to run a Forum Hotel in Surabaya, East Java, which will become its first hotel under the Forum brand and its third property in ...

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Women, children malnourished, Unicef reports

Women, children malnourished, Unicef reports JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian women and children's health is still poor, despite rapid economic progress over the past several years, a report reveals.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Administration to insure scavengers

Administration to insure scavengers YOGYAKARTA: The Sleman regency administration has decided to insure local scavengers, whose work exposes them to great health risks, Antara reported yesterday.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Grade school officials told no extra fees

Grade school officials told no extra fees JAKARTA (JP): State elementary schools in Jakarta are not allowed to charge new students for uniforms or books, an official says.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Bintang's challenges are also ours

Bintang's challenges are also ours Sacked legislator Sri Bintang Pamungkas who faces a four-year jail term for slandering President Soeharto shook the political landscape recently when he set up a new political party. Political scientist Mochtar Pabottingi examines the event.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Weal world

Weal world Reading the article 'Like husband, like wife' (The Jakarta Post, June 6, 1996) I could not help making the following comment.If the husband graduated in Germany as an architect, I do not see why he should kill himself just because he was fired from work.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Tax fraud defendants may get 14 years in jail

Tax fraud defendants may get 14 years in jail JAKARTA (JP): Prosecutors yesterday demanded that four men indicted of tax evasion each be sentenced to 14 years imprisonment at a court here.The prosecutors also demanded that each defendant compensate the state, with amounts ranging from Rp 10.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/PON organizers told to rethink athlete transportation plans

PON organizers told to rethink athlete transportation plans JAKARTA (JP): Members of the House of Representatives' Commission IX, which overseas youth affairs, sports, religion, education and culture, told the organizer of the upcoming National Games to consider the public's transportation ...

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Government won't change political system: Soeharto

Government won't change political system: Soeharto JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto yesterday reiterated that the government will not change the political system, as some people have demanded, to "suit their personal interests".

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/PDI breakaways may choose Medan for venue

PDI breakaways may choose Medan for venue JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) dissenters' plan to hold fresh elections for chairperson solidified yesterday with the tentative decision to choose Medan in North Sumatra as the venue for the gathering next week.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/No idea where Tansil could be: Government

No idea where Tansil could be: Government JAKARTA (JP): The government admitted yesterday it has no idea where Eddy Tansil, the business tycoon who escaped from prison more than one month ago, has gone.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Mayoralties get 'Adipura' award

Mayoralties get 'Adipura' award JAKARTA (JP): The city's five mayoralties, for the first time in history, have won the Adipura award for cleanliness. The trophies were handed over by President Soeharto in a ceremony at Merdeka Palace on Monday.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Where to go in Jakarta:

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.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Curriculum more than subject list

Curriculum more than subject listBy Mochtar Buchori JAKARTA (JP): Educating students about human rights became a topic of discussion recently. It was argued that students should receive instruction in human rights to make society more mindful towards problems of human dignity.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Ecstasy in East Java

Ecstasy in East Java SURABAYA, East Java: Provincial Police Chief Maj. Gen. Sumarsono said that the designer drug Ecstasy, now widely circulating throughout Indonesia, entered here through Bali from countries such as Australia and Germany, Antara reported yesterday.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/5,000 civil servants punished for 'errors'

5,000 civil servants punished for 'errors' JAKARTA (JP): Over 5,000 civil servants have been punished over the past two years for breaching rules, Minister for Administrative Reforms T.B. Silalahi said yesterday.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/Citra Marga expects Rp 500 toll fee hike

Citra Marga expects Rp 500 toll fee hike JAKARTA (JP): PT Citra Marga Nusaphala Persada, a toll road developer controlled by President Soeharto's eldest daughter, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, yesterday confirmed its proposal to the government for a Rp 500 (21 U.S.

Wed, 12 Jun 1996

JP/TV today

TV todayTVRI 2:30 p.m. Travel: My Country 2:35 Game Show: Fun House 3:00 News: Lintasan Berita 3:05 TV Drama: Lutung Kasarung 3:30 TV Series: Roseanne 4:05 TV Drama: Suasana Baru 4:30 Documentary: Tugutil at North Maluku 5:00 Evening News 5:30 Indonesian Lessons 6:00 News: ...