Preconditions attached to emergency loans JAKARTA (JP): Poor city residents hoping to get a portion of
the Rp 109.52 billion emergency aid fund must first meet certain
requirements, heads of the Village Resilience Board (LKMD) said
Tuesday. More ...
Net forex reserves rise again to $15b JAKARTA (JP): Bank Indonesia's (BI) net foreign exchange
reserves rose by US$731.6 million to $15.05 billion on Jan. 22,
up from the previous week's level of $14.32 billion. More ...
Six wounded during intervillage brawl PEMALANG, Central Java: Security forces firing into a mob
during a fight between residents from two villages in Central
Java wounded six people. More ...
Low-cost apartment project abandoned TANGERANG (JP): The development of low-cost apartments for
factory workers in the Jatiuwung industrial district here has
come to a halt because of the prolonged economic crisis, an
official said on Monday. More ...
TV Program: Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1999TVRI 5:30 a.m. Religious Teachings: Hikmah Pagi
6:00 Morning News
7:00 Children's Program: Lagu Anak Nusantara
7:30 TV Series
8:30 Tour and Travel
9:00 Music: Hiburan Keluarga
10:00 Interval
2:00 p.m. More ...
Stock ExchangeStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on Jan. 26, 1999:
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Moral bankruptcy Indeed, it is the shame of the nation that the public does not
trust the political parties and the Armed Forces. It is quite
clear the people judge these entities by past performance.What did they do in the past to protect the destiny and
interests of the people?
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Hotel Borobudur enters new era JAKARTA (JP): The transformed Hotel Borobudur Jakarta entered
a new era on Tuesday when the infant Discovery Hotels & Resorts
officially replaced Inter-Continental Hotels & Resorts as manager
of the five-star hotel. More ...
Int'l auditors get bitter welcomeBy Andy Budiman JAKARTA (JP): International auditors assigned by Bank
Indonesia (BI) and the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency
(IBRA) to carry out the due diligence of banks in the country
have been assailed with so many unkind remarks. More ...
Bank PDFCI to become export funding agency JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Trade and Industry Rahardi Ramelan
has confirmed that Bank PDFCI, one of the private banks
nationalized last year, will be transformed into a government-
sponsored export financing agency. More ...
Vietnam's communists move to conservatismBy Frederik Balfour HANOI (AFP): The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) could see a
significant reshuffle in top personnel this week that would mark
a shift towards greater conservatism, diplomats say. More ...
Students deny planning major protest rallies JAKARTA (JP): Jakarta students grouped in the City Forum
(Forkot) and Salemba Forum (Forsal) have strongly denied rumors
that they plan to stage massive anti-government street rallies
over a three-day period starting on Wednesday. More ...
Witness recognizes one defendants in kidnapping case JAKARTA (JP): A member of the East Jakarta Military Command
told a military tribunal on Tuesday that he believed he
recognized one of the 11 Army Special Forces (Kopassus) soldiers
on trial as one of the kidnappers of three activists. More ...
Man shot dead by group of armed men DILI, East Timor: A Carabau villager in the Bonobaro regency
was shot dead in the village of Wababa, Covalima, by a group of
armed men on Sunday. More ...
40-year-old minivan driver commits suicide JAKARTA (JP): After three failed attempts to commit suicide,
40-year-old minivan driver Junaedi was finally found dead on
Tuesday hanging from the rail of a double bunk bed at a
relative's house in South Jakarta. More ...
Effective education calls for critical, intellectual teachersBy Mochtar Buchori JAKARTA (JP): Joko Kusmanto's article in the Jan. 9 edition of
The Jakarta Post stirred ambivalent feelings in me. More ...
Businessmen call for restoration of order, security JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian business community urged
President B.J. Habibie on Tuesday to immediately restore order
and security in the country as a prerequisite for businesses to
resume normal operations. More ...
'Comfort women' seek compensation JAKARTA (JP): About 300 former soldiers, workers and sex
slaves who worked for the Japanese occupation forces during World
War II tried again on Tuesday to press the Japanese government
for compensation and unpaid wages. More ...
Col. Soenarko gets new posting JAKARTA (JP): City police chief Maj. Gen. Noegroho Djajoesman
installed Col. Soenarko D.A. on Monday as the new chief of the
center of operations and control, replacing Col. Faizal Arwien. More ...
Wiranto says ABRI is having 'credibility test' JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Defense and Security/Armed Forces
(ABRI) Commander Gen. Wiranto has acknowledged that prolonged
social unrest in parts of the country has put the Armed Forces'
credibility at stake. More ...
Kadin suggests 10% export tax on CPO JAKARTA (JP): A planned cut of the export tax imposed on crude
palm oil (CPO) and its by-products would not be enough to help
farmers and plantation companies cope with the current economic
crisis, the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin)
said ... More ...
More trouble ahead Law and order is irretrievably breaking down in Indonesia.
Even the most casual observer of the Indonesian scene will agree
that there has not been a time like this when the slightest
provocation is enough for wanton destruction and bloodshed. More ...
Garuda eyes $31m in profits this year JAKARTA (JP): National flagship carrier Garuda Indonesia said
on Tuesday it expects Rp 280 billion (US$31 million) in net
profit this year, a drastic rise from the estimated Rp 400
billion net loss incurred last year. More ...
Student dies of drugs overdose JAKARTA (JP): A 20-year-old university student was found dead
at his home at Gandul village in Bogor late Monday after
allegedly taking an overdose of drugs, a local officer has said.Second Lt. More ...
Singapore group to shell stake in Indorayon JAKARTA (JP): Shareholders of the Singapore-registered Asia
Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd. (APRIL) have voted
to divest the group's 62 percent stake in the publicly listed
pulp and rayon producer PT Inti Indorayon Utama. More ...
Domestic airfares raised after polls JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian National Air Carriers Association
(INACA) plans to raise domestic airfares after the general
election in June to adjust to increasing operational costs that
have been driven up by a weakening rupiah. More ...
Gus Dur meets with Soeharto JAKARTA (JP): Muslim leader Abdurrahman Wahid visited former
president Soeharto at the latter's residence on Jl. Cendana in
Central Jakarta on Tuesday afternoon for a belated Idul Fitri
get-together. More ...
'Stop violence against women migrant workers' JAKARTA (JP): State Minister of Women's Affairs Tutty Alawiyah
said on Monday that she regretted violence toward migrant
workers, particularly women, and said it must be stopped. More ...
22% of pregnancies end in abortion JAKARTA (JP): Each year about 35 out of every 1,000 women of
childbearing age in the world have an induced abortion. More ...
Flooding in Ende claims two lives MAUMERE, East Nusa Tenggara: Three-days of heavy rains that
began last Wednesday caused flooding in the Detusoko and Maurole
districts of Ende, claiming two lives.As of Monday, dozens of bridges and hundreds of hectares of
fields were still underwater. More ...
Deal struck on civil servants JAKARTA (JP): The House of Representatives and the government
struck an eleventh hour agreement on Tuesday over the question of
civil servants' political rights, as pressures mounted to
finalize the new legislation for the June general election. More ...
House remains deadlocked over military's presence JAKARTA (JP): Faction leaders lobbied intensively until late
Tuesday night but failed to decide whether to satisfy the Armed
Forces (ABRI) proposal of 38 unelected House of Representatives
seats, or 15 as the United Development Party (PPP) ... More ...
Two generals asked to testify in trial YOGYAKARTA: Gen. (ret) M. Panggabean and Gen. (ret) M. Yusuf
are obliged to testify in the trial of Soekardjo Wilardjito, a
former guard of founding president Sukarno, a lawyer said on
Tuesday. More ...
ARCO says PLN is after all a good customer JAKARTA (JP): The president of Atlantic Richfield Indonesia
Inc. (ARII), Leon Codron, has termed state electricity company PT
PLN a good customer despite the latter's failure to meet its
financial obligations. More ...
It's 'only a brick' at 'RRI' JAKARTA (JP): The National Police bomb squad revealed Tuesday
that the object originally believed to have been an explosive
device at the state-run Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) building
in Central Jakarta was "merely a brick", an officer has said. More ...
Democracy, feudalism clash in South African provinceBy Alister Bull RICHMOND, South Africa (Reuters): Democracy and African
feudalism are uncomfortable partners in South Africa's KwaZulu-
Natal province, where murders and massacres stain the lush green
hills of rural villages. More ...
Local financial market perks up as yuan fears abate JAKARTA (JP): The local financial market regained some of its
recent losses on Tuesday, calmed after tremors subsided from a
rumored devaluation of the Chinese yuan.The rupiah strengthened to close at 9,100 against the U.S. More ...
Pertamina faces land seizure TANGERANG (JP): Tangerang property tax office has threatened
to seize a 33.2 hectare plot of land belonging to state oil and
gas company Pertamina in Pondok Cabe Udik, Pamulang, if the firm
fails to pay tax arrears of Rp 6. More ...
China holds secret experiment on democracy in remote townBy Renee Schoof BUYUN, China (AP): In cypress-dotted hills, near a crossing of
a few red dirt roads, a farmer smoothes timbers for his house and
tells how he and other villagers did something never tried in
Communist China: Elect their own ... More ...
Rope jumpingCorrection: American Ashrita Furman set a record 130,000 turns of
rope jumping in his room at the Chedy Bandung Hotel, not the
Hotel Sheraton as written in our photo caption on Tuesday. We
also mistakenly identified IOC member Pirjo Hagmann as Basir
Attarabulsi, and vice versa. More ...
What a gas I would like to thank D. Chandramouli for his entertaining
letter On acronyms in the Jan. 21 The Jakarta Post.However, he missed one of the best acronyms ever created by
the San Francisco Transport Authority: Fresno Area Rapid
Transport, affectionately known as FART. More ...
Official warns of dengue fever threat JAKARTA (JP): The irregular rainfall this wet season will pose
the danger of a dengue fever epidemic in the capital, a health
official said Tuesday. More ...
Four soldiers admit to torturing detainees JAKARTA (JP): Four defendants in a court-martial in Banda Aceh
on Tuesday admitted to having tortured detainees and causing the
deaths of four of them.Their confessions were heard in the second session of the
trial, D&R reported Tuesday from Banda Aceh. More ...
Monas cafe owners seek return of levies JAKARTA (JP): Owners of street cafes located in National
Monument (Monas) Park in Central Jakarta which were looted and
damaged by security guards last week want the site operator to
return their levies and security fees immediately. More ...
Pakistan balks Islamic banking riddleBy Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD (Reuters): More than seven years after judges
ordered it to adopt Islamic banking, Pakistan has yet to solve
the riddle of how to mix modern finance with a Moslem ban on
charging interest. More ...
Dharmala Sakti taken to bankruptcy court JAKARTA (JP): PT Hanil Bakrie Finance, a multifinance arm of
widely diversified Bakrie & Brothers, lodged a bankruptcy
petition against publicly listed PT Dharmala Sakti Sejahtera at
the Jakarta Commercial Court on Tuesday. More ...
Jakarta's backpackers paradise no longer so EdenicBy Juliane Gunardono JAKARTA (JP): "Hello Mister, need a room, some food, a cold
drink?" This was how foreign tourists on Jalan Jaksa, the center
for backpackers in Jakarta, used to be greeted. More ...
House to decide on Caltex's oil contract in two weeks JAKARTA (JP): The House of Representatives promised on Tuesday
to make a decision in two weeks on the status of the development
of the Coastal Plains Pekanbaru (CPP) oil block in Riau after the
contract of PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia expires ... More ...
Man jailed for forging money TANGERANG (JP): Tangerang District Court sentenced a man to
three years and four months in jail on Monday for forging Rp
50,000 bank notes worth nearly Rp 5 billion (US$588,235). More ...
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