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Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Recontruction body praises GAM's role in rebuilding Aceh

Recontruction body praises GAM's role in rebuilding AcehMuninggar Sri Saraswati, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta The head of the Aceh and Nias Reconstruction Agency (BRR) praised on Friday the role of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in the work being done to rebuild the tsunami-hit province.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/On fingerprints

On fingerprints The plan to fingerprint students at Islamic schools as part of the police strategy to fight terrorism will create new problems. The government should think carefully before making this decision. If such a step is taken, it should be applied to all citizens.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Life insurance books 31.8% growth

Life insurance books 31.8% growthAnissa S. Febrina, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta Boosted predominantly still by unit-linked products, the life insurance industry reported that it booked a 31.8 percent growth in premium during the first nine months of 2005.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/DEKOPIN protests minister's decree

DEKOPIN protests minister's decree The systematic takeover of the Indonesian Cooperatives Council (DEKOPIN) by the State Minister of Cooperatives and Small-Medium Enterprises (UKM) has culminated with the issuance of Decree No.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Forwarding company adds facilities

Forwarding company adds facilities JAKARTA: More warehousing facilities will be seen in Soewarna Business Park, as freight forwarding company PT Schenker Petrolog Utama began construction on an integrated warehousing system on Friday.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Nazarruddin deserves better treatment: Expert

Nazarruddin deserves better treatment: Expert The Anticorruption Court on Wednesday sentenced General Elections Commission (KPU) chairman Nazaruddin Sjamsuddin to seven years in prison for receiving billions of rupiah in kickbacks from an insurance company that won a contract to insure the ...

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Last call for JiFFest movies

Last call for JiFFest moviesEvi Mariani, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta Attention movie buffs! Lest you forget, today and tomorrow are your last chances to see JiFFest movies you may have targeted days before the 7th festival was unveiled.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Depok, Tangerang named 'dirtiest' cities

Depok, Tangerang named 'dirtiest' citiesTb. Arie Rukmantara, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta The government announced a list of the country's dirtiest cities for the first time on Friday in a bid to encourage municipal administrations to clean up their acts, and their heavily polluted urban areas.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/City budget deliberations deadlocked

City budget deliberations deadlockedBambang Nurbianto, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta The contentious issue over the city administration's bizarre programs in which trillions of rupiah of taxpayers' money will be handed out without a system of accountability, has dragged the deliberation of the draft ...

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/India's "flexible" approach at ASEAN

India's "flexible" approach at ASEANSiddharth Srivastava New Delhi The Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Kuala Lumpur last week, which was followed by the first East Asia summit, had made it apparent that the heat is on India to push through economic changes and reforms that are crucial ...

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Keep Australia ugly: No way

Keep Australia ugly: No wayS.P. Seth, Sydney The widely reported race riots in Sydney have, in some ways, shaken Australia.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/RI proposes int'l drive against graft

RI proposes int'l drive against graft JAKARTA: Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh has proposed international sanctions for countries that provide sanctuary for graft suspects, terrorists and other transnational criminals.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Government plans more polio drive

Government plans more polio driveTb. Arie Rukmantara, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta The government said on Friday that the third nationwide polio vaccinations were a success, and expressed optimism that the crippling disease could be completely eradicated by carrying out two additional mass ...

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Japanese filmmaker explores the roots of human nature

Japanese filmmaker explores the roots of human naturePaul F. Agusta, Contributor/Jakarta Among the many important guests at this year's JiFFest was Shinya Tsukamoto, a Japanese director cited as an inspiration by such renowned international filmmakers as Takashi Miike (Audition and Ichi the ...

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Science competition organized to search for Nobel material

Science competition organized to search for Nobel materialTb. Arie Rukmantara, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta Indonesia is organizing an international science competition called the "First Step to Nobel Prize in Chemistry" in the hopes of helping young local scientists to achieve a Nobel in the future.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Understanding racial violence

Understanding racial violence I'm writing in response to Lynna Van der-Zee Oehmke's letter on Dec. 14. First I do not wish to condone the vigilante/mob action that occurred in Sydney recently after a young lifesaver had been bashed at the beach by an Arabic youth gang the previous week.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Aceh needs more attention

Aceh needs more attention The Indonesian government leaders, especially the House of Representatives must remember that the nation is tired of waiting to see true progress in the improvement of the lives of the Acehnese.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Police probe sale of controversial atlas

Police probe sale of controversial atlasAntara/Banjarmasin A senior police officer has confirmed that Bali Police have confiscated 59 atlases depicting pictures of the outlawed Bintang Kejora flag, which symbolizes an independent Papuan state.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Panic button service

Panic button service I would like to comment on news that the Jakarta Police have teamed up with a private company to provide panic button services. Jakarta residents must be familiar with the phrase: "Nothing's free in Jakarta". Even to pee in public toilets we have to pay.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Software opens up new world for blind

Software opens up new world for blindTantri Yuliandini, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta "I love the Internet because it opens up new worlds for me, anything I want to know about is there, and thanks to screen reader I don't have to depend on others to understand," said 18- year-old M.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Condoms: Not just in brothels

Condoms: Not just in brothelsChristopher Purdy, Jakarta At night, the Klakahrejo brothel in Surabaya is alive with music, lights and the sound of men parking their motorcycles. Not long ago, I walked down the narrow alley that leads to the twenty or so houses which make up the Klakahrejo complex.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Press freedom -- so valuable it must not be curbed

Press freedom -- so valuable it must not be curbedArdimas Sasdi, Jakarta The government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has, time and again, promised to protect the country's recently acquired freedom of the press.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Santa Clauses invade the city

Santa Clauses invade the cityTantri Yuliandini, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta Jakarta may never see a "white Christmas" but that fact has never stopped Santa Claus from coming to town.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Court to promote Constitution

Court to promote Constitution JAKARTA: The Constitutional Court signed memorandums of understanding on Friday with the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights and the Ministry of National Education to teach children about the Constitution.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Criminal offense

Criminal offense In that former beacon of enlightened opinion, rights and tolerance, Ye Olde United Kingdome, it is now a criminal offense to read out in public within a mile of "Dowdy" Street and Parliament the names of those British young men who have died in foreign wars, especially ...

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Little has changed for workers in East Java

Little has changed for workers in East JavaID Nugroho, The Jakarta Post/Surabaya The cemetery was quiet in the afternoon, with only the sounds of birds chirping in tamarind trees and the bleat of grazing goats being audible.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Meet gives 'warm fuzzies', but use vague

Meet gives 'warm fuzzies', but use vagueTetsuya Suetsugu and Hiroshi Oyama, The Daily Yomiuri, Asia News Network/Tokyo The East Asia Summit meeting on Wednesday took the first step toward stronger political and economic cooperation in a region of three billion people, but failed to clarify a ...

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Environment conventions yet to be applied effectively

Environment conventions yet to be applied effectivelyTb. Arie Rukmantara, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta Indonesia has been unable to effectively implement three United Nations (UN) conventions relating to environment protection due to the classic problems of lack of information dissemination and weak ...

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Sumatran tiger under threat

Sumatran tiger under threatJon Afrizal, Muko Muko, Bengkulu The population of the Sumatran tiger (panthera tigris Sumatraensis) in the forest of Muko Muko regency, Bengkulu province, is progressively dwindling.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Cop, councillor nabbed for drugs

Cop, councillor nabbed for drugs DENPASAR, Bali: A police officer and a Tabanan regency councillor had been arrested while having a drug party in a hotel in Denpasar, Bali Police revealed on Friday.From the councillor, police confiscated 0.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/East meets West in cinematic flash-in-the-pan

East meets West in cinematic flash-in-the-panPaul Agusta, Contributor/Jakarta The title of the Korean release, Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War, directed by Kang Je-gyu, is a harbinger of what viewers can expect; lots of blood and gore with a mix of melodrama.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/EMP signs $1.9b in gas contracts

EMP signs $1.9b in gas contractsLeony Aurora, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta The second largest publicly listed domestic oil and gas company PT Energi Mega Persada (EMP) has signed a natural gas sales agreement worth US$1.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/240 toddlers malnourished

240 toddlers malnourished BOGOR: Head of the public health monitoring unit with the Bogor health agency, Camalia Wilayat, said that currently there were 240 children under five-years-old suffering from poor nutrition."Since January, we have found 240 malnourished children in 40 districts.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Speak and act before it is too late: Let go of CPT peace workers

Speak and act before it is too late: Let go of CPT peace workers in Iraq!Mohammed Abu-Nimer Common Ground News Service (CGNews) Washington, DC The Nov.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Supreme Court upholds PKS win in Depok poll

Supreme Court upholds PKS win in Depok pollThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta Members of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) were reveling on Friday after a victory in a protracted legal dispute over the coveted Depok mayoral post.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Expert claims 1.2m jobs lost this year

Expert claims 1.2m jobs lost this yearRidwan Max Sijabat, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta The true picture of the country's unemployment is much worse than is being acknowledged by the government, a prominent labor analyst said.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Lack of funds stalls Papua aid mission

Lack of funds stalls Papua aid missionNethy Dharma Somba, The Jakarta Post/Jayapura Food aid continued to pile up in Wamena, Dekai and Timika on Friday, as the local government said it did not have the money to transport the aid to the remote Yahukimo regency, where food shortages have reportedly ...

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/A breath of fresh air?

A breath of fresh air?Edward McMillan, Jakarta That Jakarta's air is polluted is no great secret. Tall buildings seem to be perpetually covered in a dirty-brown haze, while traffic policemen peer out from ominous filter-masks and trees wilt in the face of constant chemical attack.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Labor standards set for Aceh workers

Labor standards set for Aceh workers JAKARTA: The Aceh provincial labor office, domestic and foreign non-governmental organizations, and labor unions have established guidelines on the employment of construction workers in the tsunami-hit province.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Kyoto's destiny

Kyoto's destiny Jonatan Lassa Banda Aceh Indonesia ratified the Kyoto Accord on Oct. 19, 2004. A month later, Russia ratified the accord.Therefore, the "toothless" accord has become "stronger", because with Russia's 17.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Punk film director with a DIY attitude

Punk film director with a DIY attitudeM. Taufiqurrahman, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta Millions of people may have listened to punk music and claim to have been inspired, mostly politically, by the manic musical genre.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Sujono: Portrait of a manual worker

Sujono: Portrait of a manual workerID Nugroho, The Jakarta Post/Surabaya The first thing on Sujono's mind when he decided to move from his hometown of Pacitan to Sidoarjo city six years ago, was to improve the financial state of his family.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/'Alcohol ban a half-baked plan'

'Alcohol ban a half-baked plan' The city administration recently decided to enforce a bylaw banning supermarkets from selling drinks with more than 5 percent alcohol content, except for duty-free shops. The Jakarta Post interviewed some residents about the plan.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Ashmore Reef: Indonesia's or Australia's?

Ashmore Reef: Indonesia's or Australia's?I Made Andi Arsana Sydney Ashmore reef (a.k.a. Pulau Pasir) is currently being disputed by Indonesia and Australia. If we talk about an island/reef/islet, we are talking about sovereignty. In dealing with sovereignty we do not consider distance.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Churches told to dig holes to dispose of bombs

Churches told to dig holes to dispose of bombsEva C. Komandjaja, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta Police have told churches in Surakarta, Central Java, to dig holes to dispose of bombs and other suspicious objects in anticipation of possible terrorist attacks during the Christmas holiday.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Human rights in a 'So what, gitu loh' country

Human rights in a 'So what, gitu loh' countryTertiani ZB Simanjuntak JakartaLet me save you the suspense of having to look up the dictionary or Wikipedia as the Internet-savvy people usually do.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Malnutrition stalks children in Cirebon

Malnutrition stalks children in CirebonNana Rukmana, The Jakarta Post/Indramayu Food shortages and malnutrition are not problems confined to barren areas, but also to major rice-producing areas such as Cirebon and Indramayu.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Just press the button!

Just press the button! If you experience a break-in or have learned of a nearby robbery there are a number of things you could do. The Jakarta Police, however, suggest activating a panic button is the quickest way to get help. They will arrive within minutes to handle the situation.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Garuda to increase Aceh flights

Garuda to increase Aceh flights BANDA ACEH, Aceh: State-owned PT Garuda Indonesia plans to increase flights into Aceh due to rising demand ahead of first year anniversary of the tsunami disaster on Dec. 26.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Commission to summon Wiranto

Commission to summon WirantoTiarma Siboro, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta The Indonesia-Timor Leste Truth and Friendship Commission (CTF) plans to summon former Indonesian Military chief Gen.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Minimizing labor migration problems

Minimizing labor migration problemsCarunia Mulya Firdausy, Jakarta The Indonesian economy once again finds itself in trouble. In addition to the continuing unstable exchange rate, there are the problems of inflation and unemployment. Inflation reached 17.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005

JP/Where to go in Jakarta: Saturday, December 17, 2005

Where to go in Jakarta: Saturday, December 17, 2005Exhibitions* Painting by Riduan Thompkins at Bentara Budaya Jakarta, Jl. Palmerah Selatan no. 17, Central Jakarta (Tel. 5483008), 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., until Dec. 18 * Photo Zimbabwe - Permata Afrika by Deniek G.