JAKARTA: The last annual session of the People's Consultative
JAKARTA: The last annual session of the People's Consultative
Assembly (MPR) for the 1999-2004 period is scheduled to take
place from Sept. 23 to Sept. 26.
An Assembly working committee member, Baharuddin Aritonang,
said on Thursday that during the session the body would hear
progress reports from President Megawati Soekarnoputri, the
speaker of the House of Representatives and the heads of other
state institutions.
The conclusion of the annual session will mark the end of the
five-year term for the 700 members of the Assembly.
The 550 House members and 128 members of the Regional
Representative Council who were elected in the April 5 general
election will begin their terms on Oct. 1.
The two legislative bodies will form the new Assembly, which
will convene to appoint its leaders and prepare for the
inauguration of the elected president and vice president. --
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Muhammadiyah launches book
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Muhammadiyah
launches book
YOGYAKARTA: In a bid to help accelerate democratization in
Indonesia, the country's second largest Muslim organization,
Muhammadiyah, launched on Thursday a civics textbook.
The book, titled Civic Education, will be mandatory for
students at Muhammadiyah universities across the nation. It was
launched by Muhammadiyah chairman Ahmad Syafii Maarif here.
The head of Muhammadiyah's education and research body,
Zamroni, said the book would fill the gap in civic education for
university students that was created when the government scrapped
in 1999 the Pancasila state ideology course, which had been
compulsory for new students.
One of the book's writers, Said Tuhuleley, said the textbook
presented students with a dynamic learning process that would
encourage them to uphold democratic values.
It took the writers three years to complete the textbook,
during which time they held a series of workshops and conducted
comparative studies to get input from experts in Indonesia and
overseas. -- JP
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Dossiers of bank scandal completed
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Files on fraud
suspects finished
JAKARTA: The National Police said on Thursday the case files
on the eight suspects in the Rp 1.7 trillion Bank Dagang Bali
(BDB) and Asiatic Bank scandal had been submitted to the Jakarta
Prosecutor's Office.
The director of the National Police's fraud unit, Brig. Gen.
Samuel Ismoko, said prosecutors were now preparing charges
against the suspects, who include FB Surendro and Made Budiana of
Asiatic Bank, and I Gusti Ngurah Oka Budiana, I Gede Wibawa and I
Nengah Suwardhana of BDB.
"The prosecutor's office has confirmed that the case files are
sufficient enough to be presented to the court. We are just
waiting for the trial to open," Ismoko said. -- JP