Police, land agency sign MOU

Police, land agency sign MOU

JAKARTA: National Land Agency (BPN) head Luthfi I. Nasution
and National Police chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar agreed to further
cooperation in investigating agrarian disputes on Friday.

Luthfi said BPN expected the cooperation would settle civil
land disputes across the country, particularly on land ownership
document forgery.

"This kind of forgery has caused huge economic losses,
particularly if the fake documents are submitted to a bank as
collateral to get loans," he said.

Currently, Luthfi said, there are more than 3,600 land
disputes across the country. -- JP

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Universities to promote safe motherhood
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Maternal mortality rate investigation

JAKARTA: An international organization has agreed to research
Indonesia's high maternal mortality rate to help formulate a
strategy to reduce the death rate.

The research will be conduced by the Initiative for Maternal
Mortality Program Assessment (IMMPACT) in cooperation with the
University of Indonesia.

Minister of Health Achmad Sujudi, during the launch of the
program, said efforts to curb the death rate since 1988 had
failed to live up to expectations.

Figures released in 1997 show that every year 17,000 mothers
die during or after delivering a baby. The figure is triple the
average rate in Southeast Asia and 50 times the rate in developed
countries.

IMMPACT consists of researchers from the University of
Aberdeen in Scotland, England's London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine and the University of York, John Hopkins
University in the United States, and the Institute of Tropical
Medicine in Belgium. -JP

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UNICEF gives RI children awards
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UNICEF awards RI children

JAKARTA: Sixteen children have been nominated by non-
governmental organizations and the government for the inaugural
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Award for Youth
Leadership in East Asia and the Pacific.

The winners will be announced on May 6, during the 6th East
Asia and Pacific Ministerial Consultation on Children, to take
place in Bali from May 5 to May 7.

"Unicef wants to ensure Indonesian children have a voice in
the decisions affecting them. And this is one way of
demonstrating that the work and actions of children have made a
contribution," UNICEF's representative to Indonesia Steve Allen
said in a press release.

The regional director of UNICEF, Mehr Khan, said the award
would become a regular event in the region to correspond with
each ministerial consultation, the next to be held in two years.
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Govt releases new map
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Indonesia, minus East Timor

JAKARTA: The government has released a new map of Indonesia,
which scraps now independent East Timor and the Malaysian-owned
islands of Sipadan and Ligitan.

The map, to a 1:5,000,000 scale, was launched in conjunction
with National Education Day on Friday.

Head of the Coordinating Body for Survey and National Mapping,
Rudolf W. Matindas, said it in cooperation with and the Ministry
of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs had completed the map.

Rudolf said the territorial borders and the Exclusive Economic
Zone were drawn according to international law and bilateral
agreements with neighboring countries. --JP