Japan gives Indonesia 100 billion in cheap loans JAKARTA (JP): The Japanese government is giving Indonesia 100
billion (US$870 million) in long-term, low-interest loans to help
the country cope with its worst-ever crisis. More ...
Bankruptcy petition against Hutama Karya rejected JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta Commercial Court turned down a
bankruptcy petition on Wednesday against state-owned builder PT
Hutama Karya brought by private construction firms PT Jaya
Readymix and PT Primacout Lestari. More ...
By Rita A. Widiadana JAKARTA (JP): Expressions of agony, anger and disappointment
imbued the themes of most performing art works staged throughout
l998. More ...
Golkar's felonious ploy Every time Indonesians, whose sense of humanitarianism remains
intact, speak about civil servants, they do so with strong
emotion. More ...
Silent Indovision! I would like to join in the ongoing correspondence published
in your paper regarding Indovision, to which the company has not
seen fit to reply. I agree with what all your other writers have said and find
Indovision's service nothing short of appalling. More ...
Six banks
may change
status INI JUDUL DIPAKAI JAKARTA (JP): Six commercial banks have applied to change
their status into interest-free Islamic banks, Bank Indonesia
director Soebardjo said here on Thursday. More ...
TV Today: Saturday, Dec. 26, l998TVRI 5:30 a.m. Religious Teachings: Hikmah Pagi 6:00 Morning News6:30 News: Nuansa Reformasi7:00 Children's Program: Lagu Anak Nusantara7:30 Cartoon8:00 Music8:30 My Country9:00 TV Drama: Gelas Retak10:00 Interval2:00 p.m. More ...
Columnist confesses about his tradeBy Gwynne Dyer LONDON (JP): It was 25 years ago, and I was fulminating about
how stupid journalists are. You know how it is: if you know
anything about a subject yourself, then what the journalists
write about it always seems slightly wrong. More ...
Rupiah slips to 7,850 as stocks slightly up JAKARTA (JP): The rupiah slipped further to close at 7,850
against the U.S. dollar in extremely quiet dealings on Thursday,
with most banks closing their dealing rooms earlier than usual,
currency dealers said. More ...
Stock quotations on JSX.rm
.plStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on Dec.24, 1998:
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Govt hands knock off special HK imageBy Edward Neilan HONG KONG (JP): The thought had never before crossed my mind
to write that Hong Kong is becoming "just another Chinese city. More ...
3 million ha of forests will be auctioned to the public JAKARTA (JP): The government will auction to the public next
month a number of concession rights to carry out logging
activities in three million hectares of the country's forests, a
senior official of the ministry of forestry and ... More ...
Bankruptcy petition against Hutama Karya rejected JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta Commercial Court turned down a
bankruptcy petition on Wednesday against state-owned builder PT
Hutama Karya brought by private construction firms PT Jaya
Readymix and PT Primacout Lestari. More ...
Bankruptcy petition against Hutama Karya rejected JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta Commercial Court turned down a
bankruptcy petition on Wednesday against state-owned builder PT
Hutama Karya brought by private construction firms PT Jaya
Readymix and PT Primacout Lestari. More ...
Being modern without being westernized
By Daniel Lindgren and Rob Goodfellow------------------------------------------------------------------The following is an excerpt of a paper presented at a seminar
at the Faculty of Economics of the Islamic University of
Indonesia, the International ... More ...
Where to go in Jakarta: Saturday, Dec. 26, 1998Exhibitions * Photo Exhibition: World Press Photo 1998, at Erasmus Huis, Jl.
H.R. Rasuna Said, Kav S-3, Kuningan, South Jakarta (Phone:
5252321), Dec. 27 to Feb. 11. More ...
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