Fire razes slum area: Two people were injured and over a thousand

Fire razes slum area: Two people were injured and over a thousand
were left homeless when a fire swept through 195 houses in the
early morning hours of Monday in the Karet Tengsin area of
Central Jakarta.
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MPR faction: Regional representatives in the People's
Consultative Assembly (MPR) will finally be permitted to form
their own faction when the assembly gathers for its belated
Annual Session next month.
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Semen Padang: The government should go all out to prevent the
spin-off of Semen Padang from the publicly listed Semen Gresik
Group (SGG), as demanded by a group with vested interests led by
Semen Padang management, which claims to represent the
aspirations of the West Sumatra people.
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Tiger cubs' deaths: City inspector Hendarin Ono Saleh denied on
Monday reports that the three white tiger cubs at Ragunan Zoo
died from rotten meat, saying that the deaths were caused by a
type of hookworm.
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Health spending: West Java administration spends very little on
its residents' health, well below the standard set by the World
Health Organization (WHO), a health official said in Bandung on
Monday.
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Howard under fire: Prime Minister John Howard returned to the
Australian election campaign on Monday under fire over his
failure to meet Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri at
the APEC summit in Shanghai.
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Masters Cup: Former world No. 1 Patrick Rafter has qualified for
the season-ending Masters Cup tennis tournament despite pulling
out of the European indoors events at Stuttgart, Stockholm and
Paris.
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Damar Flycatcher: After 103 years Damar Flycatcher, one of
Indonesia's 381 endemic birds, is rediscovered in Damar island in
the Banda Sea in North Maluku Province.
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