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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Pick of the Flicks (for Friday, June 23, 2000)Hollywood KC Mission Impossible 2 14:15 16:55 19:05 21:15 Candyman 3 14:55 17:35 19:45 21:55 Hide and Seek 14:15 16:55 19:05 21:15 Gen X Cops 14:55 17:35 19:45 ...
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Indonesia: How to restore confidence This is the second article on restoring confidence by Laksamana Sukardi, former state minister of investment and state enterprises development. JAKARTA (JP): Transparency is obviously a key component of good governance.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

TV todayTVRI 5:30 a.m. Religious Teachings 6:00 News 8:00 Children's Program 8:30 Music 9:30 Sport News 11:30 Interval 2:00 p.m.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Pupuk Kaltim outgrows its yearly profit targetBy Berni K. Moestafa BONTANG, East Kalimantan (JP): Scheduled for privatization this year, the country's largest state-owned fertilizer company, PT Pupuk Kaltim, is upbeat that this year's profits will exceed last year's despite the sluggish market.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Nokia opens new center JAKARTA (JP): Cell phone producer Nokia Mobile Phones Indonesia opened on Thursday a new sales and service center at the Sudirman Central Business District (SCBD) office complex.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Heri Dono genetically engineers 'wayang'By Prasetyohadi and Pandaya JAKARTA (JP): Lovers of the arts streamed out of Teater Utan Kayu giggling, grinning and even laughing out loud when discussing the bizarre shadow puppet show they had just seen.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Supremacy of law vital to rebuild nation JAKARTA (JP): Respect and improvement of judicial principles and individual and collective political freedom based on the supremacy of law are needed to rebuild the battered nation, a political scientist said.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Bulog puts nonbudgetary funds onto balance sheet JAKARTA (JP): The State Logistics Agency (Bulog) has shifted its controversial Rp 383 billion (US$45 million) nonbudgetary funds onto the agency's balance sheet, the agency's chairman Rizal Ramli said here on Thursday.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Free certificates for residents TANGERANG (JP): The Tangerang office of the National Land Agency (BPN) is offering free and simple processing of land certificate applications for residents in four villages of Kosambi district, an official said here on Wednesday.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Residents called on to help rebuild Jakarta JAKARTA (JP): Governor Sutiyoso urged city residents on Thursday to use Jakarta's 473rd anniversary as the momentum to rebuild the city after the unrest of past years had left so much destruction.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Factories offer free schooling for workers TANGERANG (JP): Enlightened by the awareness that education is a valuable investment in order to earn a decent living, many casual workers at factories -- with strong support from their employers -- have proudly begun to take part in classes at ...
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Disappointment leads to birth of new moral movement JAKARTA (JP): A new moral movement made up of some 33 public figures is emerging out of the growing disappointment at the slow pace of reform under the administration of President Abdurrahman Wahid.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Students support Islamic customs MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: Hundreds of students rallied at the provincial legislature here on Thursday demanding the adoption of Islamic principles in the province when the regional autonomy law takes effect next year.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Presidential control of police backed by legal experts JAKARTA (JP): In search of an independent and professional police force, legal experts and a sociologist supported on Friday a proposal to put the National Police under the direct supervision of the president.Legal experts J.E.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Stock quotations on JSXStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on June 22, 2000: Shares Close Change Trading Volume --------------------------------------------------------- Ades Alfindo ...
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Military officers role in Poso riots investigated MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi (JP): Wirabuana Military Police are investigating the alleged involvement of 28 soldiers in the Poso riots which began on May 23, regional military commander Maj. Gen. Slamet Kirbiantoro disclosed on Thursday.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

On Pancasila Dr. Hj. Nina Herlina Lubis, M.S., historian at Padjadjaran University (Unpad) Research Institute and lecturer at the History Department of the School of Letters of Unpad, wrote in the Pikiran Rakyat daily on June 5, 2000 an article titled Straightening out the history of the birth of ...
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Russian judges 'still bow to authority'By Marina Lapenkova MOSCOW (AFP): The reform of Russian justice, trumpeted to be very liberal, is making slow progress, nine years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, human rights groups say.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Rosena chooses family over Sydney Olympics SURABAYA (JP): Most athletes in the world dream of competing in the Olympic Games. But not so with Indonesian women's archer Rosena Gelanteh, who prefers to live a happy life with her family and concentrate on her job rather than the Olympics.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

IBRA raises about Rp 2.8t as of mid-June JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) has raised about Rp 2.8 trillion (US$324.07 million) in cash as of June 16, less than 15 percent of the Rp 18.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Conversion RatesBank Indonesia's conversion rates on June 22 Bank notes rates TT rates Buying Selling Buying Selling Rp Rp Rp Rp U.S. dollar 1 8,200.00 9,200.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Govt comes under fire over Sjahril JAKARTA (JP): The government came under strong attack from top politicians on Thursday for detaining Bank Indonesia (BI) Governor Sjahril Sabirin on corruption charges.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Olympic-trained swimmers undergo selection at PONBy Ivy Susanti SURABAYA (JP): The performance at the 15th National Games (PON) of swimmers who attended the Olympic training program will help determine who will be selected to represent Indonesia at the quadrennial event being held in Sydney in ...
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Future of Tenda Semanggi hangs in the balance JAKARTA (JP): The administration will put Tenda Semanggi, a popular hangout among Jakarta's young elite in South Jakarta, in order because it has violated the building code.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Promised land death ride to Britain NEW DELHI: Britain's worst tragedy involving illegal immigrants occurred a couple of days ago when 58 bodies of men and women were found crammed into a vegetable truck at Dover. The Chinese stowaways died of suffocation.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Indocopper pays dividends JAKARTA (JP): PT Indocopper Investama Corporation announced on Thursday it would distribute a cash dividend of Rp 702.86 per share for the 1999 financial year, a decrease from the Rp 2,146.16 dividend per share the previous financial year.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

No autonomy without reform!By Donna K. Woodward MEDAN (JP): There is a lust in some quarters for the consummation of regional autonomy.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Ministers accept Cabinet shake-up JAKARTA (JP): With the Cabinet revamp countdown ticking on, ministers expressed no resistance to their destiny on Thursday.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Tension grips Maluku as violence continues AMBON, Maluku (JP): Violence persisted in restive Maluku province on Thursday after overnight clashes here left at least 11 people, including five security personnel, dead.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Asia-EU links on the brink of a new eraBy Shada Islam BRUSSELS (DPA): Often-strained relations between the European Union and Asian nations are set to enter a more dynamic phase at a series of meetings in Lisbon next week.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Seeking Israel's help Unlike many other ministerial visits abroad, the Home Minister, Mr. L. K. Advani's mission to Israel was clearly focussed. The very composition of his delegation gave a clear message.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Where to go in Jakarta: Friday, June 23, 2000Exhibitions* Irian Jaya (Papua) Art and Culture Care Exhibition at Arkadia Plaza, Arkadia Office Building, Jl. T.B. Simatupang kav. 88, South Jakarta, until June 24.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Where's the aid? ask quake victims BENGKULU, Bengkulu: People affected by the recent earthquake here have demanded to see the Rp 700 million aid package Vice President Megawati Soekarnoputri gave to Governor Hasan Zen when she visited the province on June 15.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Iraq saddled with Gulf war reparationsBy Brian Whitaker LONDON: Iraq faces a series of gigantic claims for Gulf war damage -- so large that there is almost no way to recover the money, short of extending sanctions for well over 100 years.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Tragedy of the commons in RI archipelagoBy Roger Michael Johnson and Daniel Rosyid SURABAYA (JP): In a project here focusing on the sustainable technological development of traditional fishing vessels, an almost identical set of conclusions have been found to the comments of Mark V.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

On racism Having read Rosaline's article in The Jakarta Post on June...., 2000 titled Expat racism, I find she seems to be a bit racist herself by what she writes.I sympathize if someone has treated her unfairly.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Strike brings work at KPC to a halt JAKARTA (JP): A strike by around 150 workers of coal mining company PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) has forced the company to halt its mining operations in East Kalimantan, a senior government official said on Thursday.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Politics, religion behind rise of Islam in NigeriaBy Peter Cunliffe-Jones KANO, Nigeria (AFP): Both politics and religion lie behind the revival of Islam in northern Nigeria, analysts say here, where authorities in Wednesday were to introduce strict Islamic law.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Tanamur marks Jakarta's anniversary in its own way JAKARTA (JP): Tanamur, the oldest discotheque in the country, celebrated the capital's 473rd anniversary with transvestites wearing overmodified Betawi costumes and seemingly never-ending house music, giving the term 'cross-cultured' an extra ...
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Bambang threatens stubborn debtors JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Finance Bambang Sudibyo warned indebted businesspeople on Thursday to cooperate in settling their debts to domestic banks or risk the seizure of their assets and legal prosecution.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Man gets 10 months for theft JAKARTA (JP): The Central Jakarta District Court sentenced on Tuesday a man to 10 months in jail after it found him guilty of stealing office furniture and kitchenware from a building owned by his parents in June last year.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Syahril's resistance The animosity between the President and Bank Indonesia Governor Syahril Sabirin has escalated into open warfare in the media.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Govt to control price of medicine JAKARTA (JP): In anticipation of higher medicine prices the government is planning to control prices for branded-generic and patented medicines.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Agus receives discharge, 4-year sentence JAKARTA (JP): Army Second Lt. Agus Isrok stood motionless when a military court discharged him from the Army on Thursday in addition to sentencing him to four years in prison and fining him Rp 10 million (US$1,176).
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Leave the rupiah alone For better or for worse, the government's decision to detain Bank Indonesia Governor Sjahril Sabirin on corruption charges on Wednesday may have removed one major element of political uncertainty that has bugged the rupiah over these past few months.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Roche clarifies I am writing in response to an article published on June 22, 2000 in The Jakarta Post entitled Roche rules out withdrawal from RI despite legal fiasco.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

More youths turn street singing as crisis drags onBy Prabandari YOGYAKARTA (JP): For bus passengers and commuters from Solo (Surakarta) to Yogyakarta, pengamen (street singers) are very familiar. They get on the bus at every major bus stop and get off at the next one.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Balongan refinery shut down JAKARTA (JP): State oil and gas company Pertamina said on Thursday its Balongan refinery in West Java had been shut down on Tuesday for ten days of maintenance."There were some problems that prevented the refinery from operating at full capacity.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Swiss firm to control PT Semen Cibinong JAKARTA (JP): Swiss cement giant Holderbank Financiere Glarus AG has agreed to increase its stake in publicly listed cement producer PT Semen Cibinong to become a controlling shareholder of the company.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

Bulogate criminal category I observed with interest remarks made by police chief Alex Bambang and Attorney General Marzuki Darusman, that the Rp 35 billion drain is a criminal offense.
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000

'Illegal' polling on Irian's fate underway JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya (JP): Biak Military chief Lt. Col. Bayu Purwiyono confirmed on Thursday reports that residents of at least 10 villages in the regency had been asked to respond to a poll checking their attitude toward a campaign to set up ...
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