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46 articles.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/43 timber firms seek licenses to export logs

43 timber firms seek licenses to export logs JAKARTA (JP): Forty three timber companies have applied to the Ministry of Forestry and Plantations for licenses to export logs as a result of weak demand on the domestic market, an official said on Tuesday.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Riot police halt protest at DPR

Riot police halt protest at DPR JAKARTA (JP): Hundreds of riot troops ringed the House of Representatives (DPR) compound on Tuesday and surrounding streets were blocked off to ensure that students demonstrators would not return after at least two were bayoneted in a predawn clash with security ...

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/RI, Germany plan training project

RI, Germany plan training project JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia and Germany are considering possible cooperation on a training project designed to meet the demand for skills required in local industries.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Gus Dur refuses to help mediate in PDI dispute

Gus Dur refuses to help mediate in PDI dispute JAKARTA (JP): Budi Hardjono, the new chief of the government- recognized faction of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI), failed on Tuesday to enlist Moslem scholar Abdurrahman Wahid to mediate in the party's protracted leadership dispute.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Lt. Gen. Agum takes over PSSI chairmanship from Azwar

Lt. Gen. Agum takes over PSSI chairmanship from Azwar JAKARTA (JP): Lt. Gen. Agum Gumelar will take over from Azwar Anas as chairman of the All Indonesian Soccer Federation (PSSI) on Wednesday, the federation announced on Tuesday.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Military to sue 'Tajuk' for defamation

Military to sue 'Tajuk' for defamation JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta Military Command will sue Tajuk biweekly for defamation over a Sept. 3 report alleging complicity of the command and its former chief in the mid-May riots, an officer said on Tuesday.Command spokesman Lt. Col. DJ.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Hediati quits sports job

Hediati quits sports job JAKARTA (JP): Siti Hediati Prabowo has resigned as chairwoman of the Indonesian Table Tennis Association, the organization's secretary-general, Johny Woworuntu, said on Tuesday.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Ex-king can do no wrong

Ex-king can do no wrong Perhaps very few people capable of rational thought believe what ousted president Soeharto said in his speech broadcast by the private TPI television station on Sunday night.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Some ethnic Chinese ponder migration

Some ethnic Chinese ponder migrationBy Sri Lestari JAKARTA (JP): The current economic crisis and the May riots has motivated many Chinese-Indonesians to migrate.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Customers protest at BI

Customers protest at BI SURABAYA: A demonstration of hundreds of customers of the Cipta Arta Lestari secondary bank entered its second day on Tuesday when the protesters marched to the provincial branch of the central bank, Bank Indonesia (BI).Demonstrators who crowded the Bank's grounds on Jl.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Canberra's mistakes not good example for RI

Canberra's mistakes not good example for RI Dealing with the possibility of newly owned government assets presents a number of dilemmas in balancing equity and benefit to the overall community. Following on from Kwik Kian Gie's "Insight" analysis in The Jakarta Post on Tuesday, Sept.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Confusion over Group ownership

Confusion over Group ownership JAKARTA (JP): Bambang Sutrisno sold his entire equity share in Golden Truly Group, which owns 84 percent of the now defunct Bank Surya, to Sudwikatmono on Sept.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/ABRI's dual function: Interference or assistance?

ABRI's dual function: Interference or assistance?By J. Soedjati Djiwandono This is the second of three articles in a series on the dual- function concept of the Indonesian Armed Forces (ABRI).

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Govt's Bank Exim loan converted into equity

Govt's Bank Exim loan converted into equity JAKARTA (JP): The government has converted Rp 20 trillion in liquidity support given to the state Bank Expor Impor Indonesia (Bank Exim) into additional equity in the bank.The decision was contained in Government Regulation No. 60/1998.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Soeharto's explanation

Soeharto's explanation Soeharto's attestation that he never amassed any wealth during his years as president surely surprised no one. He used the largest part of his 30-minute account on a television network owned by (his eldest daughter) Tutut to explain why he set up his various foundations.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Muladi warns of death penalty for rice hoarders

Muladi warns of death penalty for rice hoarders JAKARTA (JP): Anyone caught disrupting government efforts to beat the food shortage could face execution, Minister of Justice Muladi warned on Tuesday.Muladi cited Law No.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Hundreds of troops remain deployed in riot-hit Kebumen

Hundreds of troops remain deployed in riot-hit Kebumen KEBUMEN, Central Java (JP): Hundreds of armed troops stood guard over closed shops and burned buildings still billowing smoke on Tuesday following rioting on Monday by thousands of residents.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Midas Kapiti software

Midas Kapiti software JAKARTA (JP): Computer software producer PT Midas Kapiti International has said the Indonesian market for banking software remains promising despite the country's ailing banking industry.Company president K.K.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Long simmering resentment behind Cilacap's unrest

Long simmering resentment behind Cilacap's unrestBy Agus Maryono CILACAP, Central Java (JP): Sarwono has worked for 15 years on a trawler owned by a man from Bagansiapi-api, Riau, and complains he has nothing to show for his toil.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Team to look into starvation reports

Team to look into starvation reports BOGOR (JP): A fact-finding team of local councilors has been assigned to look into reports that a number of villagers in Parung subdistrict are facing starvation due to soaring food prices."Our team started visiting some villages today.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Stock Exchange

Stock ExchangeStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on Sept. 8, 1998: Shares Close Change Trading Volume -------------------------------------------------------------- Ades Alfindo ...

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Ciamis bamboo 'artist' tries his luck in Jakarta's tough streets

Ciamis bamboo 'artist' tries his luck in Jakarta's tough streetsText and photos by P.J. Leo JAKARTA (JP): Piles of grayish brown bamboo poles are stacked on a railroad located at the side of JL. RE Martadinata, North Jakarta.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/More turn to Bazis for help as economic crisis worsens

More turn to Bazis for help as economic crisis worsens JAKARTA (JP): Increasing numbers of people are asking for financial assistance from the Jakarta office of Bazis, the board in charge of overseeing the collection of Islamic alms, to finance their children's education, an executive said on ...

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/RI to import 3.42 tons of rice in next fiscal year

RI to import 3.42 tons of rice in next fiscal year JAKARTA (JP): After sucking a projected 4.1 million metric tons of rice from the international market this fiscal year, Indonesia plans to import another 3.42 million tons in 1999/2000.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Reconciliation idea dubious

Reconciliation idea dubious The Jakarta Post reported on Sept. 5 that the government and the National Commission on Human Rights will establish a National Reconciliation Team. Its aim is to preserve the country's unity.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Police homes destroyed in fire

Police homes destroyed in fire JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya: Ten homes belonging to Jayapura Police officers were destroyed by fire on Tuesday at about 8:45 p.m., Antara reported.Firefighters only managed to extinguish the fire on Jl. Klofkamp after it had gutted the buildings.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Man gets seven months in jail for bomb blast

Man gets seven months in jail for bomb blast JAKARTA (JP): Central Jakarta District Court sentenced a man to seven months and 24 days in prison on Tuesday for failing to report the presence of a homemade bomb, which exploded at a low- cost apartment in Tanah Tinggi last January.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Team questions Prabowo over mid-May riots

Team questions Prabowo over mid-May riots JAKARTA (JP): The government-sponsored fact-finding team investigating the May riots questioned Lt. Gen. (ret) Prabowo Subianto on Monday over the unrest which left 1,200 people dead and led to the downfall of his father-in-law, former president Soeharto.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/The Russian crisis

The Russian crisis The Russian economy is on the point of collapse. The shaky structure of a pseudo market economy with super-rich tycoons, an impoverished population, an oligarchy instead of competition and ubiquitous corruption where rules of law should have been, has been shaken to its ...

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Corruption

Corruption Graft and corruption are contemporarily popular topics. But while much is being written and published, little of what one finds printed has much impact on the senses -- not much new is added to what is already bantered about. And, although most of Ms. Donna K.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Taiwan's NGOs protest

Taiwan's NGOs protest We, the Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation. The Garden of Hope Foundation, ECPAT Taiwan, Taiwanese Association for Human Rights and the Mission in Support of Women Victims of the Assaults and Rapes in Indonesia headed by attorney Wang Ching-Feng, hereby issue the following ...

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Officials deem protest 'harmful'

Officials deem protest 'harmful' JAKARTA (JP): Government officials have expressed fears the resurgence of student demonstrations on Monday and Tuesday may do more harm than good for the nation's shaken morale.Armed Forces (ABRI) Commander Gen.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Battling cancer of corruption

Battling cancer of corruptionBy Dennis de Tray and Jean-Michel Severino JAKARTA (JP): The vigorous debate taking place in Indonesia on the emotionally charged issue of corruption is certain to raise awkward questions for government, for international agencies, for foreign and local businesses, ...

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Labor law enforcement to be deferred: Govt

Labor law enforcement to be deferred: Govt JAKARTA (JP): The government decided on Tuesday to defer the enforcement of a controversial labor law for one year in order to make some revisions.Minister of Manpower Fahmi Idris said President B.J.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Conversion Rates

Conversion Rates JAKARTA (JP): Bank Ekspor Impor Indonesia's (Bank Exim) indicative conversion rates on Sept. 8, 1998: Buying Selling Rp Rp U.S. dollar 1 11,400.00 11,900.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Rupiah falls on reports of unrest and massive rally

Rupiah falls on reports of unrest and massive rally JAKARTA (JP): The rupiah nose-dived on Tuesday on reports of unrest and student demonstrators demanding President B.J. Habibie resign.The volatile currency, which opened weaker at 11,500 against the U.S.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Govt prepares land ownership guideline rules

Govt prepares land ownership guideline rules JAKARTA (JP): The government is working on guidelines to regulate land ownership and the location of housing complexes and industrial estates, a minister said here Tuesday.State Minister of Housing and Settlement Theo L.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/TV today

TV todayTVRI 2:00 p.m. News: Berita 14 2:30 Music 2:35 Children's Film: Silverhawks 3:05 TV Series: Daktari 4:00 Regional News 4:30 Teen Program: Remaja Indonesia 5:00 Science and Technology Film 5:30 Education Quiz: Cepat Tepat 6:05 Documentary: Rona Nusantara 6:15 Sports 6:30 ...

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/National reconciliation

National reconciliation I fully subscribe to Minister of Justice Muladi's statement reported by the media, "...we try to forget past grudges, without reducing the possibility of law enforcement..." which he made in response to the wishes of various sides to reach national reconciliation.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Villagers find money-spinner in tires

Villagers find money-spinner in tiresBy Agus Maryono and Ngudi Utomo PURWOKERTO, Central Java (JP): To most people in Central Java, Kebanaran village, which is located along the Purwokerto-Tegal highway in Banyumas district, is better known as Bandol village.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Two die in Lahat typhoon

Two die in Lahat typhoon LAHAT, South Sumatra: Two people died, three sustained minor injuries and five houses were destroyed during a typhoon here early on Sunday when most residents were asleep.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Japan eases travel warning for RI

Japan eases travel warning for RI JAKARTA (JP): Japan has downgraded a three-month travel warning for Indonesia, saying the security situation had improved and that it was safer to visit the country.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/One crisis settled as Malta shakes off curse of Mintoff

One crisis settled as Malta shakes off curse of MintoffBy Gwynne Dyer LONDON (JP): Markets crash around the world, North Korean rockets fly over Japan, and Russia stumbles towards the abyss, but at least one crisis has been settled. Malta has shaken off the curse of Mintoff.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Jakartans grumble about student rally at the House

Jakartans grumble about student rally at the House JAKARTA (JP): Unlike the student rallies staged early this year that led to the resignation of president Soeharto, Monday's demonstration by some 1,000 students in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) complex received a cold response from ...

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Probe into Sukarno decree furor starts

Probe into Sukarno decree furor starts JAKARTA (JP): The National Police launched on Tuesday an unprecedented investigation into the March 11, 1966 document which effectively transferred power from founding president Sukarno to then Army minister Soeharto.

Wed, 09 Sep 1998

JP/Govt policies 'have human rights base'

Govt policies 'have human rights base' JAKARTA (JP): The current administration has developed all of its policies based on the promotion and protection of human rights, President B.J. Habibie claimed on Tuesday.