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On This Day - October 23, 2000
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Suspected vehicle thieves arrested
Suspected vehicle thieves arrested DENPASAR, Bali: Badung Police apprehended separately on Saturday three people who are allegedly responsible for at least 15 motorcycle thefts in the area over the past three months.Police detective chief Sr. Insp.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Indonesia suffers from leadership crisis: Arbi
Indonesia suffers from leadership crisis: Arbi JAKARTA (JP): National leaders should shed their narrow political interests and start working together to bring Indonesia out of the present endless crisis, noted political commentator Arbi Sanit said on Saturday.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
PKB sets up team to probe money politics
PKB sets up team to probe money politics JAKARTA (JP): The National Awakening Party (PKB) has established a team to investigate chapters which have allegedly been involved in "money politics" during recent regency elections.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Golkar celebrates with harsh critique on government
Golkar celebrates with harsh critique on government JAKARTA (JP): The Golkar party celebrated its 34th anniversary on Sunday with a stinging critique of the government's failure to stamp out corruption and collusion and charged that the executive body was no better than the past highly criticized...
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Batam fate in locals' hands
Batam fate in locals' hands JAKARTA (JP): The government will not have a say in determining the future status of the industrial-bonded zone of Batam island, Riau, when the autonomy law goes into effect next year, former finance minister Mar'ie Muhammad has said.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
RI putters form associations
RI putters form associations JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia will soon establish the Junior Putters Association (JPA) and the Professional Putters Association (PPA) as a way to popularize the games, an official said on Sunday.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Man mobbed to death for theft attempt
Man mobbed to death for theft attempt JAKARTA (JP): A 28-year-old resident of Pasar Rumput in Manggarai, South Jakarta, was mobbed to death by locals on Jl. Manunggal in Condet Balekambang, East Jakarta on Friday evening after he was caught stealing a motorbike.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Aircraft manufacturers stake out Asia-Pacific battleground
Aircraft manufacturers stake out Asia-Pacific battleground SINGAPORE (AFP): The Asia-Pacific skies are emerging as the crucial battleground for aircraft manufacturing giants desperate to cash in on an estimated US$500-billion market, industry players said.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
City to initiate two new bus routes
City to initiate two new bus routes JAKARTA (JP): The city administration has expressed its hope that the new bus routes along the capital's main thoroughfares, which are going to be put on offer to bus operators, will support its unpopular three-in-one traffic restriction policy.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Service, efficiency and size key to Garuda privatization
Service, efficiency and size key to Garuda privatizationBy Berni K. Moestafa JAKARTA (JP): Three more stages comprising better service, efficiency and bigger size await national airline PT Garuda Indonesia ahead of its privatization plans in 2003.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
President Abdurrahman meets Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew
President Abdurrahman meets Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew JAKARTA (JP): President Abdurrahman Wahid and former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew met for 45 minutes during a stopover to the island-state late Saturday night, conferring on various bilateral issues including plans to hold a meeting of...
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Estrada's gambling scam: A RP battle of principles
Estrada's gambling scam: A RP battle of principlesBy Chua Huck Cheng SINGAPORE: There is a strange, twilight-zone quality to the goings-on in the Philippines these past few days.True to the macho image he has of himself, President Joseph Estrada is fending off the US$11-million pay-off allegations...
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Mutilated baby found in W. Java
Mutilated baby found in W. Java BANDUNG: Tasikmalaya police chief Supt. Makmun Saleh said on Sunday that residents of Sukamaju village in Manonjaya district found on Friday evening the mutilated remains of a three-day-old baby.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Recruitment ads
Recruitment adsFrom Media IndonesiaAn advertisement recently published in a newspaper said a commission fee of Rp 1,200,000 would be given to a PL/sponsor for recruiting migrant workers and this fee would be deposited to PT BL, a migrant worker exporting company.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
City to hire 300 Kamra members
City to hire 300 Kamra members JAKARTA (JP): The city administration has agreed to hire 300 People's Security (Kamra) members to as additional members of the Jakarta Public Order Agency.National Police Spokesman Brig. Gen.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Theater groups strive to save Sundanese
Theater groups strive to save Sundanese BANDUNG (JP): The latest effort to preserve the Sundanese language is to perform traditional plays.And the most recent theater group to perform these plays is Kiwari, a Sundanese theatrical group combining traditional and modern elements.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Rivalries freeze S. Asian group
Rivalries freeze S. Asian group DHAKA (Reuters): Regional rivalries and the military takeover in Pakistan have virtually frozen the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), which is in deep crisis, experts told a seminar in Bangladesh on Sunday.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Copyright pirates caught in KL
Copyright pirates caught in KL KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): A collapsing ceiling trapped two Malaysian copyright pirates when enforcement officers raided a storeroom, reports said Sunday.The Star newspaper said the officers noticed a ceiling panel bulging and about to cave in.
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Welcoming PLN's new policy
Welcoming PLN's new policyFrom Pos KotaWe gladly welcome the policy of state-owned electricity company PLN to introduce a new method of paying electricity bills (Pos Kota, Oct. 16, 2000). To be honest, we have been waiting for this new method for a long time because the old method has always been...
Mon, 23 Oct 2000
Japan, Singapore agree to forge free trade accord
Japan, Singapore agree to forge free trade accord TOKYO (AFP): Japan agreed to its first free trade accord Sunday, when it decided to forge a bilateral pact with Singapore by the end of next year.The agreement was reached between Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and his Singapore counterpart...
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