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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Can GMO ensure food security amid the population growth?

Can GMO ensure food security amid the population growth?C. Any Sulistyowati, Institute of Development Studies and Technological Assistance, Bandung, anyapd@lead.or.id Food security has been a major issue throughout history.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Police confiscate electronic goods

Police confiscate electronic goods SEMARANG, Central Java: Semarang Police have confiscated hundreds of fake Philips electronics goods following a raid on several stores along Jl. M. T. Haryono and at Langgar market on Saturday.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Internet kiosks losing business

Internet kiosks losing businessFitri Wulandari, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta When twenty-five year old Suharta, and his family decided to open a warnet (Internet kiosk) in 1999, they hoped it would become a profitable family business.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Old hardware: Is it great bargain or minefield?

Old hardware: Is it great bargain or minefield?Vishnu K. Mahmud, Contributor, Jakarta In the market for a notebook computer, I've been browsing the Internet and local computer fairs for the latest prices.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/BUMN must benefit the public

BUMN must benefit the publicThe management of every company, including state-owned enterprises (BUMN), is obliged to endeavor to achieve its target and thereby obtain a favorable appraisal of its performance.Nevertheless, all BUMNs must accord the national interest top priority.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Acehnese pray for peace ahead of dialog

Acehnese pray for peace ahead of dialogNani Farida and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, The Jakarta Post, Banda Aceh/Jakarta Nearly 2,000 Acehnese gathered and prayed on Sunday for peace, ahead of the next set of talks between the government and the Aceh Separatist Movement (GAM).

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/'The 7% wage hike means nothing to me'

'The 7% wage hike means nothing to me' The city administration, employers and labor unions agreed last Monday to raise the provincial minimum wage by 7 percent, from Rp 590,000 to Rp 631,000, starting next January. Workers gave The Jakarta Post various responses to the issue.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/McGlynn has no regrets in life

McGlynn has no regrets in lifeTantri Yuliandini, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Nobody knows more about the frustrations of promoting Indonesian literature without support from the government more than John Hubert McGlynn, director of publication and co-founder of the Lontar Foundation based in ...

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Closures in manufacturing sector on the rise: BPS

Closures in manufacturing sector on the rise: BPSRendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta As many as 650 large and medium-size manufacturing companies closed down last year, while another 673 decided to downsize their activities or merge with other companies, to cope with the lingering ...

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Suspected car thief beaten

Suspected car thief beaten BEKASI: A man was beaten black and blue by a mob for allegedly attempting to steal a Kijang van belonging to a policeman on Friday.The vehicle was locked and parked in front of the policeman's house in Kampung Rawa Bebek, Kota Baru, West Bekasi.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/The Bali tragedy

The Bali tragedy The Bali tragedy did not only shock Bali as the country's most famous tourist destination, but also the whole world.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Clarification on the GEF grant

Clarification on the GEF grant The Mining policy may lead to lower grants article published on Oct. 22 was evidently based on discussions during and after the recent Country Dialogue Workshop on the Global Environment Facility (GEF) held in Jakarta.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Jakarta expects to boost exports

Jakarta expects to boost exports JAKARTA: The city administration expects to boost its exports through Tanjung Priok sea port and Soekarno-Hatta International Airport to Japan, Middle Eastern countries and the United States, an official has said.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Arms competition in S. Asia and recognition of India's hegemony

Arms competition in S. Asia and recognition of India's hegemonyHirak Choudhuri, The Statesman, Asia News Network, Calcutta India is one of Russia's most prominent customers for arms. Yet, sales are much more than an exchange of weapons or technology for cash.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/29,872 ecstasy pills seized in Medan

29,872 ecstasy pills seized in MedanApriadi Gunawan, The Jakarta Post, Medan Medan Police raided a two-story shop-house on Jl. Brig. Gen. Katamso, Medan, North Sumatra, and seized 29,872 ecstasy pills on Friday night.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Water company slammed for plan to hike charges

Water company slammed for plan to hike chargesAhmad Junaidi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The public urged city-owned tap water company PAM Jaya on Saturday to improve its services and water quality instead of raising water rates.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Timorese refugees receive more rice

Timorese refugees receive more rice KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: East Nusa Tenggara Social Affairs Office said on Saturday that it would distribute some 1.35 tons of rice to 72 East Timorese refugee families in Boneanak settlement, West Kupang.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Govt told to consult Muslim figures to avoid backlash

Govt told to consult Muslim figures to avoid backlashFabiola Desy Unidjaja, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta In the wake of the United Nations' decision to put Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) on its terrorist blacklist, the government needs to take an immediate approach to quell concerns in the Muslim community ...

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Batteries for your cell phone

Batteries for your cell phone What could be more annoying than finding out that your battery has run out of juice just as you need to make an urgent call? People stuck in hours of non-moving traffic will know how this feels, as well as those who forget to take their charger with them when they ...

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/'Gains in rupiah likely after bomb scare'

'Gains in rupiah likely after bomb scare'Berni K. Moestafa, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The battered rupiah might reclaim some of its lost territory in this week's trading on signs that the U.S.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/'US$180m new German trains won't solve transportation woes'

'US$180m new German trains won't solve transportation woes'Muninggar Sri Saraswati and Damar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Ministry of Transportation received sharp criticism on Saturday for its plan to purchase 50 new electric trains from Germany at US$180 million for operation in ...

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Bahasa Indonesia and its borrowing of foreign words

Bahasa Indonesia and its borrowing of foreign wordsSetiono, Lecturer, Atma Jaya Catholic University, Jakarta The existence of Western words in Bahasa Indonesia, particularly English, shows that language borrowing or language mixing has taken place.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Districts mobilized to improve nine-year basic education

Districts mobilized to improve nine-year basic educationDebbie A. Lubis, The Jakarta Post, Bogor, West Java For Theresia, 59, an elementary school teacher in Ende regency, East Nusa Tenggara, providing qualified basic education to her people is a great challenge.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Ba'asyir nearly fit for interogation, vows to rasist detention

Ba'asyir nearly fit for interogation, vows to rasist detentionTeam, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The police plan to detain and interrogate terrorist suspect Abu Bakar Ba'asyir as soon as he is declared fit, after a nearly two- week hospital stay apparently for respiratory problems.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Banggai experiences electricity cuts

Banggai experiences electricity cuts PALU, Central Sulawesi: Electricity in Banggai, the capital of Banggai island regency, only functions for six hours each day, starting at 6 p.m. in the evening, due to the inadequate capacity of the power plants.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Local Woodstock to be held Saturday

Local Woodstock to be held Saturday JAKARTA: With the ambition of becoming viewed as the Indonesian version of Woodstock, organizer A Mild Live Production will present on Saturday "Soundrenaline", a 25-hour, nonstop music festival featuring 25 artists.From 11 p.m.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/'WordWeb', another dictionary worth looking at

'WordWeb', another dictionary worth looking atZatni Arbi, Columnist, Jakarta, zatni@cbn.net.id As the bulk of my work requires a lot of writing in English, while my native tongue is not English, I naturally have to rely on a lot of dictionaries and thesauruses.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Disabled people call for better facilities, equality

Disabled people call for better facilities, equalityNovan Iman Santosa, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Hundreds of people with a variety of disabilities had their own day on Sunday in anticipation of International Day of the Disabled, while reminding the public of their presence and asking for ...

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/2 RI generals possible suspects in Bali probe

2 RI generals possible suspects in Bali probeTiarma Siboro and I Wayan Juniartha, The Jakarta Post, Denpasar, Bali The tedious investigation into the bomb attack on Bali has resulted in another bizarre twist following reports that linked the blast with two generals, one from the military and one ...

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Sukarno where

Sukarno where art thou? Call me a Sukarnoist if you will, but I can't help thinking that so much of what Indonesia is today grew from the mind of the first president and in particular the role of Indonesia as a leading light of the non-aligned nations of the world.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Blast hurts six Indonesians in E. Timor, military says

Blast hurts six Indonesians in E. Timor, military saysYemris Fointuna, The Jakarta Post, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara Six Indonesians were wounded when a homemade bomb exploded at a traditional market in an East Timorese town near the border with East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), the military here said on ...

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Reinventing Indonesia's civic community

Reinventing Indonesia's civic communityRochman Achwan, Sociologist, University of Indonesia, Rachwan@indo.net.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Nationalism plunges to lowest level: Youth activists

Nationalism plunges to lowest level: Youth activistsMoch. N. Kurniawan, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta In observance of the Youth Pledge Day on Oct.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Caning comes into effect in Aceh on 1st day of Ramadhan

Caning comes into effect in Aceh on 1st day of RamadhanThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Aceh provincial administration is to introduce caning as punishment in the upcoming fasting month Ramadhan for Muslims who do not carry out their religious obligations.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/McGlynn has no regrets in life

McGlynn has no regrets in life================= Tantri Yuliandini The Jakarta Post Jakarta -----------------Nobody knows more about the frustrations of promoting Indonesian literature without support from the government more than John Hubert McGlynn, director of publication and co-founder of the ...

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Street vendors need strategic locations

Street vendors need strategic locations JAKARTA: Most street vendors were able raise the funds necessary to start up business but lacked a strategic place to run it, according to the results of a recent study.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Japanese economy needs prompt rehabilitation

Japanese economy needs prompt rehabilitationThe Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo Even the dullest economic mind can clearly grasp the need for Japan to clear away its hulking mound of bank bad debt to rehabilitate the ailing banking system and give the economy the necessary financial lubrication to get the ...

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/On Bali's tolerance

On Bali's tolerance I am writing in response to Putu Yasa's letter of Oct. 23 entitled Disgusted by Bali's tolerance. Despite being confronted most mornings with letters written by the bigoted, the uninformed and the intolerant, I had not, until Putu's letter, been moved to respond.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Tangguh environmental study approved

Tangguh environmental study approvedThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Minister of Environment has approved an environmental impact study for the Tangguh LNG project, owned by a consortium led by London-based BP PLC, to be conducted in Papua.

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Youth Pledge Day

Youth Pledge Day It is probably not very far off the mark to say that few Indonesians remember, or even care about, the fact that today their nation marks the occasion, 74 years ago, when a handful of youthful leaders of the pre-independence nationalist movement proclaimed what has since become ...

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Mon, 28 Oct 2002

JP/Party joins call for probe into al-Faruq's extyradition to U.S.

Party joins call for probe into al-Faruq's extyradition to U.S.The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Reformed United Development Party (PPP Reformasi) has joined calls for a probe into the extradition of terror suspect Omar al-Faruq to the U.S. and demanded that he be returned to Indonesia.

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