Govt ups logging quota to meet demandRendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, JakartaThe country's ailing forestry-based industry is likely to revive
following the government's plan to increase its logging quota
this year, to meet the local industry's capacity and help create
employment opportunities. More ...
Call in the reservesHarold James, Project Syndicate The People's Bank of China and the Bank of Japan -- as well as
other central banks in Asia -- are in trouble. They have
accumulated vast foreign exchange reserves, estimated at more
than US$2 trillion. More ...
Carrying guns into bars 'commonplace'Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, JakartaArmed people can walk into hotels and bars in Jakarta almost
without restriction, with most gun-toters ignoring the
requirement to turn in their weapons at the door. More ...
EU: The halo effectGwynne Dyer, London "The Islamic world, the Islamic extremists, even bin Laden,
rejoice for the entrance of Turkey into the European Union. This
is their Trojan horse," warned Libyan Moammar Gadafy on Dec. 17. More ...
Kupang in need of more kerosene KUPANG: After a quota reduction and price hike, long queues
for kerosene were observed in Kupang on Thursday.
Some people said they had been forced to cook over wood fires,
the old-fashioned way. More ...
TNI intensifies deployment in AcehRuslan Sangadji, The Jakarta Post, Banda AcehThe Indonesian Military (TNI) is continuing to reinforce its
capacity in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, deploying additional
personnel and transportation to accelerate relief efforts. More ...
Council approves Rp 14t budgetBambang Nurbianto, The Jakarta Post, JakartaAlthough rejected by two factions, the City Council on Thursday
finally approved the Rp 14 trillion (US$1.5 billion) budget for
2005 after the Jakarta administration pledged to make periodic
reports about the use of the money. More ...
Globalization and Westernization Referring to Professor Christopher Lingle's article entitled
RI and globalization debate: Embracing 'contract culture', which
appeared at The Jakarta Post on Dec. More ...
Total may be less than the sum of its partsLee Hsien Loong, Jakarta We have all been shaken by the horrific television images of
waters crashing in, terrified people being swept away, towns and
villages reduced to rubble, and piles of corpses bloated beyond
recognition. More ...
Bio Farma sends anti cholera vaccine BANDUNG: Bio Farma drug company will start sending
anticholera vaccines to Aceh as well as opening on Thursday an
immunization and vaccination clinic in Banda Aceh. More ...
Indonesia tea exporters face tough yearLeony Aurora, The Jakarta Post, JakartaIt is ironic that Indonesia, despite being the world's fifth
largest tea exporter, consumes only 280 grams of tea per person
per year -- one-third of that sipped by Indians and a paltry one-
fifth of what the British ... More ...
Adiguna's blood contained trace of illicit drugsAbdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, JakartaPolice announced on Thursday that samples of urine and blood of
Adiguna Sutowo, taken a day after the shooting incident that
killed Yohannes Berchmans Haerudy Natong alias Rudy, contained
methamphetamine and ... More ...
Securing a more secure worldJoseph S. Nye
Project SyndicateCommittee reports are usually deadly dull, and UN committee
reports are among the dullest. But the recent report of the UN
Secretary General's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and
Change broke that rule. More ...
Economic ramifications of the Aceh disasterDavid E. Sumual, Jakarta Aceh has again become the center of global attention in recent
days. Yet this time, the province has not grabbed the headlines
because of the separatist rebellion. More ...
Meeting point of Busway moved from Monas to HarmoniDamar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, JakartaThe Jakarta administration will move the meeting point of the
three busway corridors from the National Monument (Monas) park to
Harmoni, right above the Mookervart River between Jl. Gajah Mada
and Jl. More ...
City moves busway meeting point to Harmoni from MonasDamar Harsanto
The Jakarta Post/JakartaThe Jakarta administration will move the meeting point of the
three busway corridors from the National Monument (Monas) park to
Harmoni, right above the Mookervart River between Jl. Gajah Mada
and Jl. More ...
Call rises for Aceh relief fund monitoring bodyTony Hotland, The Jakarta Post, JakartaObservers are demanding that the government set up an independent
body to manage humanitarian relief funds for Nanggroe Aceh
Darussalam and North Sumatra, citing a potential for abuse of the
badly needed funds. More ...
Batam rejects Aceh refugeesFadli
The Jakarta Post/BatamDozens of survivors of the quake-triggered tsunami have found
they cannot even enter Batam to find their relatives. Authorities
denied them entry because they failed to meet requirements as
stated in the city's regulations. More ...
Globalization and westernization Referring to Professor Christopher Lingle's article entitled
RI and globalization debate: Embracing 'contract culture', which
appeared in The Jakarta Post on Dec. More ...
Residents demand land compensation TANGERANG: Residents whose lands were affected by the ring
road project linking the Tangerang capital of Tigaraksa with
Ciputat, on Thursday demanded that the regency administration pay
them compensation. More ...
Agian wakes up from comaThe Jakarta Post, JakartaA woman, whose husband persistently sought legal approval for
doctors to euthanize her, is finally able to speak coherently. More ...
18,000 children malnourished TANGERANG: At least 18,000 of 280,000 children under two years
old, or 6.5 percent, in Tangerang, Banten are suffering from
malnutrition, a local health official says. More ...
Driving in Jakarta Regarding The Jakarta Post's article --Driving in Jakarta to
slow to snail's pace by 2020 on Dec. 17 -- I take the liberty to
send my opinion as follows:The cheap partial solution to traffic in Jakarta is to enforce
the "intersection blocking rule". More ...
Merpati threatens to end Palu service PALU, Central Sulawesi: Domestic airline company Merpati
Nusantara has threatened to stop its flights to Palu due to the
imposition of various fees at the city's Mutiara airport. More ...
NGOs sacrifice personal interest to help AcehSari P. Setiogi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta For many humanitarian organizations, the tsunami tragedy that
hit Aceh on the last Sunday of 2004 was a call for them to
dedicate their work to the victims. More ...
Translate commitment into realitySusilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Jakarta Because we are all vulnerable as human beings, we must reach
out to one another and join hands in tackling the miseries of the
human condition today as well as the challenges of our common,
long-term survival. More ...
No place for bribes at congress: PAN execKurniawan Hari, The Jakarta Post, JakartaA senior executive of the National Mandate Party (PAN) has
expressed concern over vote-buying allegations to garner support
ahead of the party's congress to replace current leader Amien
Rais, who said he will not seek ... More ...
Terrorism and Middle East oil American foreign policy in the Middle East is allegedly
motivated by oil interests. Why? It is well-known that in line
with the high standard of living, the U.S. More ...
Unrecoverable bank loans in Aceh may reach Rp 1.6t: Bank IndonesiaRendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, JakartaPotential lending losses suffered by local banks as a result of
the earthquake and tsunami in Aceh and North Sumatra may reach up
to 50 percent of the total lending channeled in the areas, ... More ...
S'pore tries to turn blind eye to local fans' anticsMoch. N. Kurniawan, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Singapore's national soccer team is concentrating on winning
the first match of the Tiger Cup final on Saturday, while
striving to ignore the histrionics of host fans. More ...
To seek a homeThe damage that humans can do to one another is no match for
Mother Nature -- as everyone can see along Asia's shorelines. A
third of the 150,000 people killed across the region in the
earthquake and tsunamis were children. More ...
Key points of the emergency summit's joint declaration* 1. Emergency relief a. Mobilize additional resources to meet emergency relief needs. b. Convene international pledging conference and explore "standby arrangements" for immediate humanitarian relief efforts. c. More ...
Asia's post-Tsunami futureFan Gang, Michael Garrett and Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Project SyndicateThere can be no underestimating the scale of the human
devastation wrought by Asia's horrific tsunamis. Family members
have been lost, homes destroyed, and livelihoods ruined. More ...
Wealthy, arrogant, armed and above the lawMeydiatama Suryodiningrat, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta A waiter returns a rejected credit card to a feisty damsel at
a table. She responds by complaining to her boyfriend. Coolly he
pulls out a revolver then "pops" the waiter in the head -- what a
scene. More ...
PTDI president faces trialBANDUNG, West Java: Edwin Soedarmo, president director of ailing
state-owned aircraft maker PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI), will
go on trial on Friday for failing to pay compensation to more
than 6,500 dismissed employees in early 2004. More ...
Candy as change This is in response to the letter from Wendy (of Freiburg,
Germany) who complains of getting candy in lieu of Rp 100 change
at Balinese stores (Cheating in Bali, The Jakarta Post, Dec. 16). More ...
Tsunami-hit countries agree on early warning system at emergency summitThe Jakarta Post, JakartaIn the wake of a massive tidal wave that killed more than 150,000
people in Asia, countries bordering the Indian Ocean agreed on
Tuesday to a proposal for the setting up of an early warning
system to ... More ...
'Early warning system badly needed'United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and world leaders met
in a special summit on tsunami relief in Jakarta, harnessing
efforts to cope with the disaster that has left at least 150,000
people dead across Asia. More ...
Aceh bureaucracy back in action less 900 employessRuslan Sangaji, The Jakarta Post, Banda AcehNearly two weeks after an earthquake and ensuing tsunamis hit
Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam on Dec. 26, the Aceh gubernatorial
office recommenced its activities on Thursday. More ...
Lampung fishermen fear tsunami BANDARLAMPUNG: Hundreds of traditional fishermen in Lampung
decided to stay at home on Thursday amid widespread rumors of
corpse-eating fish and fears of another tsunami. More ...
Promo center to help boost Indonesian exports to AustraliaUrip Hudiono, The Jakarta Post, JakartaIndonesian exporters must improve their way of doing business and
promoting their products if they want to grab a larger share of
the Australian market, the National Export Development Agency
(BPEN) ... More ...
U.S. gives RI credit facility for Hercules spare partsTiarma Siboro, The Jakarta Post, JakartaThe United States has granted Indonesia a credit facility to
procure spare parts for its Hercules aircraft to be used for
relief efforts in tsunami-hit Aceh province, a defense official
said on Thursday. More ...
Market management insist on demolishing Tanah AbangDamar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, JakartaCity-owned market management company PD Pasar Jaya said it was
set on demolishing the Tanah Abang textile market for renovation,
saying explicitly that it would ignore a court-issue asset
preservation order ... More ...
Organic farming could have healthy future in RIZakki P. Hakim, The Jakarta Post, JakartaWhen a neighboring poultry farm complained that water from her
farm had killed its chickens, Entik Kusnadi learned that the
accumulation of pesticides, chemical fertilizers and other
substances she used on her ... More ...
ABC gives $30,000 to tsunami victimsMusthofid and Moh. N. Kurniawan, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta In another gesture of support from the sporting world to
victims of the Dec. More ...
Agian talks, smiles againThe Jakarta Post
JakartaAgian Isna Naili, 33, greeted her visitors and chatted with
Minister of Health Siti Fadilah Supari on Thursday, while lying
on her bed at Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital (RSCM) where
she had been in a coma for the past five months. More ...
Batam rejects Aceh refugee
Fadli
The Jakarta Post/Batam
After surviving the quake-triggered tsunami, dozens of Acehnese
refugees are now having to endure another kind of pain. More ...
Batam rejects Aceh refugeesFadli, The Jakarta Post, BatamDozens of survivors of the quake-triggered tsunami have found
they cannot even enter Batam to find their relatives. Authorities
denied them entry because they failed to meet requirements as
stated in the city's regulations. More ...
JP/4/MILITARYRI to get credit facility to buy U.S. Hercules hardwareTiarma Siboro
The Jakarta Post/JakartaThe United States has granted Indonesia a credit facility to
procure spare parts for its Hercules aircraft to be used for
relief efforts in tsunami-hit Aceh province, a defense official
said ... More ...
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