'Lifestyle' guide to be launched soon

JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta Post daily and Integrated Information Pte Ltd of Singapore are preparing to launch the second edition of their English-language lifestyle guide titled The Jakarta Post Lifestyle 1997.

Irna Permanasari, a coordinator for the guide, said here yesterday that the first edition, The Jakarta Post Lifestyle 1996, which was launched in January, was well received.

Interested parties may contact PT Media Dutaservisindo to place advertisements in the new edition until Oct. 25, she said.

Like the first edition, The Jakarta Post Lifestyle 1997 will contain informative and entertaining articles on all aspects of middle-upper class lifestyles in Jakarta.

Besides the copies to be sold in bookstores throughout Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, about 30,000 copies of the guide will be distributed free of charge to subscribers of The Jakarta Post, leading hotels, travel agents, key businesses, government offices and embassies, she said. (jsk)