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Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Indonesia's inflation culprits
Indonesia's inflation culpritsBy Mohammad Sadli JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian economy is growing well. The official figure last year was 7.3 percent, but the Central Bureau of Statistics has recalculated the time series for the 1988 to 1993 five year development plan with respect to real economic...
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Western thoughts are 'anti-Islam': Scholars
Western thoughts are 'anti-Islam': Scholars JAKARTA (JP): Modern and post-modern Western thought, which dominates international literature and art, is against tradition and religion, including Islam, a leading Malaysian scholar said yesterday.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Govt permits joint venture in timber, pulp industry
Govt permits joint venture in timber, pulp industry JAKARTA (JP): The Ministry of Forestry has licensed a joint venture between the Bumi Raya Utama Group and the state-owned PT Inhutani II to establish an industrial timber estate for the pulp industry.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Cambodia licenses Panin Group to fell logs over large area
Cambodia licenses Panin Group to fell logs over large area PHNOM PENH (AFP): The Cambodian government has approved a massive logging deal with an Indonesian timber company that gives the firm access to a large part of the remote, northeastern province of Ratanakkiri, government officials said...
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
More than 500 homeless kids get polio vaccination
More than 500 homeless kids get polio vaccination JAKARTA (JP): As many as 528 children from homeless families in Central Jakarta were vaccinated against polio yesterday.In the second round of the National Immunization Program the city administration made a mobile vaccination unit available for...
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Major oil firms eye Asian power industry
Major oil firms eye Asian power industry SINGAPORE (Reuter): As Western players intensified the competition for Asia's potentially huge power generation business, major oil companies were likely to join the market battle, industry sources said yesterday.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
AAA inducts Vietnam
AAA inducts Vietnam JAKARTA (JP): The ASEAN International Airport Association (AAA) completed its 14th annual meeting here yesterday and agreed to incorporate Vietnam into the association in the next meeting slated here next year.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Garlic crushed and buried
Garlic crushed and buried SEMARANG: Some 60 tons of garlic, the subject of a legal wrangle for the past six years, were finally crushed and buried on Tuesday in the Tanjung Emas port compound.The Semarang District Court ordered that the garlic be destroyed after the Supreme Court upheld its ruling...
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Telkom building catches fire
Telkom building catches fire SEMARANG: The three-story building housing the Central Java headquarters of state-owned telecommunications company PT Telkom was gutted by fire yesterday.Six fire brigades were sent to the blaze on Jl. Pahlawan in the provincial capital, Antara reported.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
City authorities told to impose new taxes
City authorities told to impose new taxes JAKARTA (JP): A city councilor says that the city administration should find more things to tax in order to raise regional revenues.Helmy AR Syihab, the chairman of the City Council's commission for financial affairs, said yesterday that new taxes could be...
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Train collides with oil truck
Train collides with oil truck PEMALANG, Central Java: One person was killed and three others suffered severe burns when an express train collided with a tanker truck at an unguarded railway crossing on Tuesday.There was a huge explosion after the collision, Antara reported, quoting witnesses.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Woman killed for asking suspect to marry her
Woman killed for asking suspect to marry her JAKARTA (JP): Police say a Malaysian suspected of killing of a local woman in a five-star hotel here on Monday has confessed that he committed the crime because she insisted he marry her.City Police Spokesman Lt. Col.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Colombian meet to decide the future of NAM
Colombian meet to decide the future of NAMBy Rajesh Kumar JAKARTA (JP): The ongoing 11th Non-Aligned Movement summit at Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, will be crucial for deciding the fate of NAM. Depending on the outcome of the summit is whether NAM remains just a relevant organization or whether...
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Driving license
Driving license I'm referring to your article on introducing new driving licenses in Jakarta and its outskirts (The Jakarta Post, Oct. 3, 1995).It is ridiculous that the National Police is again busy issuing new licenses despite introducing the present fancy but expensive driving license just...
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Jungle has gone
Jungle has gone I read with dismay and disappointment the letter in the Oct. 7, 1995 issue of The Jakarta Post about the rolling, grassy hills in the area between Samarinda and Sanggata in East Kalimantan.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
U.S. offers aid to RI
U.S. offers aid to RI WASHINGTON (Reuter): The Agriculture Department said it offered Indonesia US$10 million in U.S. backed loan guarantees under the Intermediate Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM 103) for fiscal 1996.The food credits will be used for breeder livestock, USDA said.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Modern enters tourism business
Modern enters tourism business JAKARTA (JP): The Modern Group, one of the country's leading business conglomerates, officially launched yesterday a new subsidiary, PT Awani Modern Hotels, which is to carry out medium- scale tourist projects worth US$300 million.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
RI, S'pore cooperate on human resources
RI, S'pore cooperate on human resources JAKARTA (JP): Singaporean and Indonesian experts, identifying a number of common problems in their human resource management, suggested cooperation at all layers of society in the two countries.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Two thieves arrested at city police headquarters
Two thieves arrested at city police headquarters JAKARTA (JP): Two men were arrested yesterday morning while allegedly trying to steal valuable items from cars parked at the city police headquarters.The two men were apprehended by city military police personnel, led by Capt.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Workers not aware of new insurance scheme
Workers not aware of new insurance scheme JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Manpower Abdul Latief found yesterday during snap inspections at two companies in East Jakarta that the workers were unaware of the newly-introduced insurance program, Jamsostek.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
W. Sumatra to import 25,000 tons of rice
W. Sumatra to import 25,000 tons of rice JAKARTA (JP): The West Sumatra provincial office of the National Logistics Agency will import 25,000 tons of rice from Thailand, Taiwan, and India to anticipate a shortage, an official says."The imported rice will arrive by the end of this month," M.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
One killed in ship fire
One killed in ship fire DENPASAR, Bali: A man was killed when a fishing boat caught fire shortly after it departed from Benoa port in Bali last Sunday, Antara reported.The boat, Samudera 11, was heading for the open sea when it caught fire. Its other 19 crew members were saved.S.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Perspektif
Perspektif I read Wimar Witoelar's letter which appeared in The Jakarta Post on Oct. 9, 1995 entitled Perspektif banning. On the same day I read in Kompas that there will be a new program called Perspektif Life.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Citra Group moves into the iron smelting
Citra Group moves into the iron smelting JAKARTA (JP): The Citra Group, controlled by President Soeharto's eldest daughter, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, has moved into the pig iron industry through its subsidiary PT Citra Industri Logam Mesin Persada.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Soeharto opens NAM summit
Soeharto opens NAM summitBy Rikza Abdullah CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, Colombia (JP): President Soeharto ended his chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) yesterday with a strong appeal to all 113 members to continue the group's present efforts to strive for a new world order.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Telkom, private firms to sign KSO contracts
Telkom, private firms to sign KSO contracts JAKARTA (JP): PT Telkom, which plans to float its shares in London and New York, will sign joint operation (KSO) contracts tomorrow with private firms for the installation of two million telephone lines in various provinces.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Where to go in Jakarta:
Where to go in Jakarta:Music * Hotel Aryaduta Jl. Prapatan 44-48, Central Jakarta: - Ambiente Italian Restaurant: Bonauli vocal group, Monday and Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Los Morenitos, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Los Paraguas, Friday and Saturday from 7:15 p.m.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Bandung of today
Bandung of today After reading the editorial of The Jakarta Post on Oct. 14, 1995, I pondered for a while the Post's motive for such profound concern about the grievous fate of Bandung, since the editorial dubbed the city as No longer (the) Paris of Java.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Prices of tuna drop by up to 50 percent
Prices of tuna drop by up to 50 percent JAKARTA (JP): The price of tuna on the export market has dropped by about 50 percent in the last couple of months due to a decline in demand and fierce competition from China, an official says.The Ministry of Agriculture's Director General of Fisheries, F.X.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
1,000 dogs slaughtered
1,000 dogs slaughtered MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara (JP): The city administration killed about 1,000 stray dogs between Oct. 9 and Oct. 14.H.L. Musa, spokesman of the city administration, said that there were an estimated 5,000 stray dogs roaming Mataram's streets at night.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Relations with Australia
Relations with Australia Good news but also not-so-good news has come from Australia. Last week, on Oct. 10, Prime Minister Paul Keating made it clear that Australia would not grant political asylum to people fleeing the province of East Timor.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Businessman faces tax evasion trial
Businessman faces tax evasion trial JAKARTA (JP): The South Jakarta District Court began the trial of a private company director charged with tax evasion yesterday.Prosecutor EM Simandjuntak told the court presided over by Judge Hasan Mahyudin that Awad Ahmad Yuslan Martak, 54, Director of PT Mila...
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Yogie to discuss issue of Maluku repatriation
Yogie to discuss issue of Maluku repatriation JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Home Affairs Moch. Yogie S.M. will visit the Netherlands next week to discuss the repatriation to Indonesia of thousands of people of Maluku descent living there.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Warning to amusement centers
Warning to amusement centers TANGERANG (JP): The Tangerang authorities vow to take stern action against the managements of amusement centers found violating their operation permits.Nurhayat, spokesman for the Tangerang mayoralty said yesterday that a team has been set up to raid amusement centers...
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
No breakthrough at NAM over Bosnian membership
No breakthrough at NAM over Bosnian membershipBy Meidyatama Suryodiningrat CARTAGENA DE INDIA, Colombia (JP): Despite an eleventh-hour effort by Indonesia and Malaysia, ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) failed yesterday to break an impasse over whether or not to admit Bosnia-Herzegovina...
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Jasarevic seeks support
Jasarevic seeks support JAKARTA (JP): A visiting leader from Bosnia-Herzegovina is calling on Indonesians not to let up on their concern and support for Moslems in the war-torn Balkans.Nermina Jasarevic, the secretary-general of the Union of Women's Association of Bosnia-Herzegovina, is here for a...
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Indonesia expects two golds at SEAG equestrian events
Indonesia expects two golds at SEAG equestrian events JAKARTA (JP): Setting a target of bringing home two gold medals, the Indonesian Equestrian Association has decided to send nine riders to the 18th Southeast Asian Games in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Thu, 19 Oct 1995
Merpati sets example
Merpati sets example The board of directors of the state-owned Merpati Nusantara Airlines should be commended for having the courage to hold firmly to common business sense. Despite pressure from the Ministry of Transportation and a politically well-connected company, Merpati's refusal to lease 16...
Wed, 18 Oct 1995
S'pore concerned about RI ties post-Soeharto era
S'pore concerned about RI ties post-Soeharto era JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia-Singapore relations have reached a peak, but future ties will hinge on whether Indonesia can promise political stability after President Soeharto is no longer at the national helm, according to a discussion.
Wed, 18 Oct 1995
Council defends reclamation bill amid criticism
Council defends reclamation bill amid criticism JAKARTA (JP): The city council has defended its decision to approve a bill on a land-reclamation project in North Jakarta, saying that the bill is designed to prevent damage to the environment, including flooding.
Wed, 18 Oct 1995
Toyota's 2nd plant in Jakarta
Toyota's 2nd plant in Jakarta TOKYO (AFP): Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it will construct a second plant for its Indonesian unit, PT Toyota Astra Motor, raising annual output to 130,000-150,000 units from the current 80,000 by the end of 1998.
Wed, 18 Oct 1995
RI firm to acquire Goldtron
RI firm to acquire Goldtron SINGAPORE (Reuter): SESDAQ-listed electronics group Goldtron Ltd topped the volume in Singapore at mid-morning on renewed rumors of takeover by unidentified Indonesian parties, brokers said.Goldtron shares topped the volume with over 11.
Wed, 18 Oct 1995
Tambang Timah to open gold mine in N. Sumatra
Tambang Timah to open gold mine in N. Sumatra JAKARTA (JP): The state-owned tin mining company PT Tambang Timah will list 25 percent, or 125.8 million, of its shares on the London Stock Exchange on Oct. 19.
Wed, 18 Oct 1995
Construction worker plunges to death
Construction worker plunges to death JAKARTA (JP): A laborer at an apartment building still under construction fell to his death yesterday while installing outdoor wall panels on the 12th floor.Maryono, a 24-year-old resident of Serang, West Java, fell to his death at around 10:00 a.m.
Wed, 18 Oct 1995
Garuda employee suspected in Rp. 2.7b scam
Garuda employee suspected in Rp. 2.7b scam JAKARTA (JP): Jakarta's Prosecutor's Office has named three suspects in a Rp 2.7 billion land scam involving an employee of PT Garuda Indonesia.Petrus Sambara, spokesman of the Prosecutor's Office told The Jakarta Post yesterday that one of the three,...
Wed, 18 Oct 1995
Merpati decides not to lease CN-235 planes
Merpati decides not to lease CN-235 planes JAKARTA (JP): Merpati Nusantara, the state-owned domestic air carrier, has decided not to lease 16 CN-235 aircraft due to unusually high operation costs which make IPTN's airplanes commercially unviable.
Wed, 18 Oct 1995
Villagers protest over land dispute
Villagers protest over land dispute KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: Residents of Kuanhem village, about 20 kilometers west of Kupang, protested yesterday against the alleged appropriation of their land by PT Lopo Indah Permai.
Wed, 18 Oct 1995
Civil society not alien to RI: Scholar
Civil society not alien to RI: Scholar JAKARTA (JP): Civil society is not an alien concept to Indonesia because Pancasila, the state ideology, embraces the idea of equality before God, a renowned Indonesia scholar said yesterday.
Wed, 18 Oct 1995
More Aussie property marketed here
More Aussie property marketed here JAKARTA (JP): PT SuryaPrapta Indah, a real estate consultant and agent, will hold Australian property exhibitions here and in Bali to tap what it considers to be a large number of potential buyers among high-income Indonesians.
Wed, 18 Oct 1995
Student climbers 'inexperienced'
Student climbers 'inexperienced' TIMIKA, Irian Jaya: The two students who died after being caught in a snowstorm last week while climbing the Cartenz Peak of Mt. Jayawijaya were inexperienced and poorly equipped.Bona Venture, 26, and Herman C.R.