Firm to extract gas from garbage JAKARTA (JP): A private firm has submitted a proposal to
municipal authorities which, if approved, could see gas being
extracted at the 108-hectare Bantargebang rubbish dump in Bekasi,
40 kilometers west of Jakarta. More ...
Police seal three warehouses full of foodstuffs TANGERANG (JP): Tangerang police and military district
personnel have sealed three warehouses here suspected to be
housing stockpiles of basic commodities withheld from the market. More ...
30 city schools prone to flooding: Councilor JAKARTA (JP): At least 30 schools in the city are prone to
flooding, a city councilor said yesterday. More ...
Three Fretilin rebels found dead DILI (JP): The military said yesterday three Fretilin
separatist rebels were found dead in a river in Viqueque, about
300 kilometers east of here.East Timor military chief Col. More ...
President confident of CBS therapy JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto expressed confidence
yesterday that a currency board system (CBS) would be Indonesia's
best and least-risky option to stabilize the rupiah exchange
rate, an American economist said. More ...
U.S. human rights report misses the markBy Dino Patti Djalal JAKARTA (JP): The annual human rights report published
recently by the U.S. Department of State has, as usual, drawn a
sharp response from many of the 194 foreign governments reviewed
in the text. More ...
Public advised not to told mass meetings during MPR session JAKARTA (JP): The police are advising people not to hold
meetings, conferences, gatherings or parties involving a large
number of people from Feb. More ...
Harmoko says he won't refuse VP nomination JAKARTA (JP): Golkar vice presidential candidate Harmoko
asserted yesterday his intention to remain in the race until
Golkar's chief patron, President Soeharto, decided otherwise. More ...
Rp 12b of projects to be officiated MAUMERE, East Nusa Tenggara: President Soeharto is due to
inaugurate three government projects worth over Rp 12 billion
($1.5 million) in the near future, an official said yesterday. More ...
TV todayTVRI 2:00 p.m. News: Berita 14
2:30 My Country
2:35 TV Series: The Crystal Maze
3:10 Sundanese Traditional Perfomances
3:35 Tour and Travel: Wisata Nasional
4:00 Regional News
4:30 Sports
5:30 TV Series: Full House
6:00 News: Lintasan Berita
6:05 Nusantara, The Beloved ... More ...
Mohamad Sadli, BIS warn of great risks of CBS JAKARTA (JP): Former minister Mohamad Sadli warned the
Indonesian government yesterday against adopting a currency board
system (CBS) without IMF endorsement and support. More ...
International call rates to rise due to rupiah's fall JAKARTA (JP): International telephone calls will soon be 25
percent more expensive when the government adjusts the rates to a
new lower rupiah exchange rate against the dollar. More ...
Govt to reduce medicine prices to affordable levels JAKARTA (JP): The government moved yesterday to alleviate
public outcry over the soaring prices of generic drugs, promising
to gradually reduce them to an affordable rate. More ...
Sudjana defends PT Artha Daya JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Mines and Energy I.B. Sudjana has
defended the designation of PT Artha Daya Coalindo to handle the
sale of coal received by the government from private coal mining
contractors. More ...
Jusuf Wanandi meets authorities' summons JAKARTA (JP): Jusuf Wanandi was questioned for almost five
hours by the city branch of the Agency for the Coordinating of
Support for National Stability (Bakorstanasda Jaya) yesterday, in
connection with an explosion in a cheap apartment in Tanah ... More ...
Movies for sweethearts this Valentine's Day JAKARTA (JP): Plans to spend Valentine's with your significant
other today? A candlelit dinner at a star-rated hotel restaurant
or dancing the night away to romantic music may tickle your
fancy. More ...
Conversion Rates Jakarta (JP): Bank Ekspor Impor Indonesia's (Bank Exim)
indicative conversion rates on Feb. 13, 1998: Buying Selling Rp Rp U.S dollar 1 7,000.00 10,000. More ...
Salim and Telkom head lists of largest taxpayers JAKARTA (JP): Tycoon Soedono Salim of the widely diversified
Salim Group and PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia have topped the lists
of largest individual and corporate taxpayers respectively for
1996. More ...
Porsche profit STUTTGART: Porsche AG announced a group profit of about $51
million for the first six months of the company's present fiscal
year (Aug. 1, 1997 through Jan. 31, 1988).In the same period of the previous fiscal year, profits were
$30.2 million. More ...
Psychiatrists busy as many Jakartans seek help JAKARTA (JP): Ongoing economic difficulties have brought
Jakartans, rich and poor alike, flocking to the psychiatrist's
couch, according to experts. More ...
Dancer twirls crockery in homage to motherBy Sirikit Syah SURABAYA (JP): Parmin Ras broke dozens of plates during the
painstaking creative process for refining his dance number, The
Empty Plates. More ...
Prabowo sad to leave Kopassus for new post JAKARTA (JP): Commandant of the Army's special force
(Kopassus), Maj. Gen. Prabowo Subianto, said he was sad he had to
leave the elite force to assume his new post as commander of the
Army's Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad). More ...
Kijang production cut JAKARTA: Astra will sharply cut Toyota production in Indonesia
due to the worsening economic crisis, company officials said. More ...
Islam strives for peace: Farrakhan JAKARTA (JP): Visiting American Nation in Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan said yesterday the Western world's fear of Islam
stemmed from a smear campaign by anti-Islamic bodies, including
industrialized countries' intelligence services and their mass
media. More ...
Edy promoted to major general JAKARTA (JP): Edy Waluyo, the City Council Speaker, will be
promoted to major general, an employee of the council said
yesterday. An official announcement is expected from the Ministry
of Security and Defense on Monday. More ...
The perplexity of a 'sate' vendorFrom NeracaThe current economic turmoil is affecting not only the higher
layers of the community. It turns out that the whole of society
is suffering from severe headaches as a result of the crisis.That was my impression when I chatted with a roadside sate
vendor. More ...
Three teenagers detained for attempted robbery JAKARTA (JP): Three teenagers were arrested for attempting to
rob taxi drivers in two separate incidents in Central and South
Jakarta, a police officer said yesterday.City police spokesman Lt. Col. E. More ...
More food protests grip W. Java towns, military in controlBy M.M.I. Ahyani LOSARI, West Java (JP): More than 1,000 people, desperate in
the face of dramatic price hikes, ran riot here yesterday,
smashing, burning and looting shops. More ...
Peg useless without political change Indonesia is gearing up to establish a currency board system
aimed at stabilizing the beleaguered rupiah. This would mean
pegging the Indonesian rupiah to the United States dollar. Sounds
familiar? It should. More ...
Perspective on Asian crisis (2) This is the second of two articles based on a paper presented
by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the
Netherlands Hans van Mierlo before the Indonesian-Netherlands
Association and the Forum Indonesia-Netherlands on Feb. 11, 1998
in Jakarta. More ...
Give Wiranto a chance Even before the presidential decree was made public, military
observers predicted that Gen. Wiranto would be appointed
commander of the Army. A 1968 graduate of the National Military
Academy, Gen. More ...
'Jakarta Post' wins photography awards JAKARTA (JP): The organizer of badminton's Lipton World Grand
Prix final judged two photographs from The Jakarta Post as the
winning images from the four-day meet in December last year. More ...
Film description On Nov. 8, 1997, The Jakarta Post printed a letter written by
Branimir Salevic (TV programs) in which attention was drawn to an
ongoing deficiency in the Post's daily TV program guide. More ...
The currency board system President Soeharto's fast, bold move on a fixed exchange rate
system under currency board arrangements, to arrest the wild
volatility and downward spiral of the rupiah, is founded strongly
on both economic and political rationale. More ...
Quake jolts Bandarlampung BANDARLAMPUNG, Lampung: Thousands of people here rushed out
of their homes in panic late Wednesday night as a strong quake
jolted the municipality for a few seconds. More ...
New Deans Former minister of mines and energy M. Sadli
(left), new dean of the University of Indonesia's School of
Economics Anwar Nasution (right) and new dean of the School of
Social and Political Sciences Kamanto Sunarto. More ...
Deadline for bank capital requirement rescheduled JAKARTA (JP): Bank Indonesia (BI) has agreed to postpone
introducing a requirement that commercial banks hold a minimum
capital of Rp 2 trillion for one year, until the end of 2000,
following a request from the Private National Banking ... More ...
Snake smuggling attempt foiled SURABAYA: Customs and excise officials here foiled a company's
attempt to smuggle 1,500 protected snakes out to China on
Thursday, a press report said yesterday. More ...
Stock ExchangeStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on Feb. 13, 1998: Shares Close Change Trading Volume
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Activists oppose police phone tapping plan JAKARTA (JP): A police plan to access cellular phones and stop
political calls were met with strong criticism yesterday from a
human right campaigner and a legal activist. More ...
Nokia 6110 Nokia keeps advertising its new product, Nokia 6110, which
costs Rp 3,299,000. I assume I will get a handset with a battery
and a charger for that price. It is not clear whether the price
already includes tax.I called the Nokia distributors printed in the ad. More ...
Precocious child in book of record JAKARTA (JP): She is only four-year-old, but she writes Roman
numerals up to 2,000, calculates the cotangent, cosine and sine
of a triangle and the roots of numbers of up to 225,000. More ...
Overseas trip prohibited MEDAN, North Sumatra: Governor Raja Inal Siregar has
prohibited regents and mayors from traveling overseas until after
the upcoming meetings of People's Consultative Assembly in
Jakarta scheduled for March 1 to March 11. More ...
RI corporate debtors set up contact committee JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia's private corporate debtors
established a contact committee yesterday to move forward on
negotiations with their foreign creditors. More ...
Trading course for newly unemployed JAKARTA (JP): Central Jakarta mayoralty has been selected for
a pilot project designed to return people recently made redundant
to work, Mayor Andi Subur Abdullah said yesterday. More ...
Winter Olympics out in the cold As far as I know, Indonesia is not participating in the
ongoing Winter Olympics in Japan, but I still feel it is a great
pity local TV stations are completely ignoring this important
event, which people around the world are following with
enthusiasm. More ...
On your bike TOKYO: Yamaha has received permission from the Vietnamese
government to establish a joint venture to produce and market
motorcycles in that country, the company announced. More ...
W. Sumatra to host 2nd leg Gudang Garam motocross JAKARTA (JP): The province of West Sumatra has been chosen to
host the second leg of the Gudang Garam international motocross
championships, from March 11 to March 12.West Sumatra capital Bukittinggi will probably be the venue
for the event. More ...
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