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Wed, 04 Oct 2000
Autonomy won't affect debt repayment: Experts
Autonomy won't affect debt repayment: Experts JAKARTA (JP): The implementation of regional autonomy next year would not affect the central government's capacity to repay its existing foreign debts, according to experts on Tuesday.
Wed, 04 Oct 2000
Ferro-Sinar Mas plastic tie-up
Ferro-Sinar Mas plastic tie-up JAKARTA (JP): PT Ferro Mas Dinamika, a joint venture between American firm Ferro Corporation and Indonesia's Sinar Mas Group, opened its new US$5.1 million plastics factory in Bekasi, West Java on Tuesday.
Wed, 04 Oct 2000
NGO files lawsuit against DPRD members
NGO files lawsuit against DPRD members SURABAYA (JP): A prominent non-governmental organization (NGO) filed a class action lawsuit here on Tuesday against 18 members of the provincial legislature over recent foreign travel.
Wed, 04 Oct 2000
Asia to hold nuclear meeting
Asia to hold nuclear meeting BANGKOK (Reuters): Ministers from nine Asian countries will meet in Bangkok in November to discuss closer co-operation on atomic energy, Thailand said on Tuesday.The government said in a statement ministers and officials from Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, South...
Wed, 04 Oct 2000
Doctors playing politics: Gus Dur
Doctors playing politics: Gus Dur JAKARTA (JP): President Abdurrahman Wahid in another seeming outburst suggested that the independent medical team who declared former president Soeharto physically and mentally unfit to stand trial was "playing politics".
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Government told to protect nonsmokers
Government told to protect nonsmokers JAKARTA (JP): A health official proposed on Monday that the government slice at least 5 percent of tax revenues from cigarettes to promote protection for nonsmokers.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Speaker defends Sutiyoso's 'bonus' to councillors
Speaker defends Sutiyoso's 'bonus' to councillors JAKARTA (JP): In order to end the on-going controversy over Governor Sutiyoso's alleged bribery attempt on the 85-member city council, Council Speaker Edi Waluyo on Monday defended the action saying that the Rp 850 million (US$95,000) fund from the...
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Pertamina, Sietco sign deal
Pertamina, Sietco sign deal JAKARTA (JP): State oil and gas company Pertamina signed on Monday a crude refining deal with Shell International Eastern Trading Company (Sietco) allowing the latter to refine the former's crude oil.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Police net teen prostitutes
Police net teen prostitutes PURWOKERTO, Central Java: At least 20 teen prostitutes have been nabbed for operating in a housing complex near Baturraden tourist resort.Chief of Baturraden Police First Insp.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
PBHI accuse police of framing suspects
PBHI accuse police of framing suspects JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI) has expressed its suspicion that the police have framed the suspects of the fatal bombing at the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) building using false evidence.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Protests against fuel price hike continue
Protests against fuel price hike continue JAKARTA (JP): Student protests against the fuel hike continued on Monday with demonstrations in several cities turning violent.In Jakarta, some 300 university students from different groups rallied in front of the Presidential Palace to hold a joint protest...
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Stock Exchange
Stock ExchangeStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on Oct. 2, 2000: Shares Close Change Trading Volume ------------------------------------------------------------- Ades Alfindo 1,270 330 3,301,000 Adindo Foresta Indonesia 130 0 203,500 Alakasa Industrindo 430 0 0 Alfa Retailindo...
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Airport customs officers foil snake smuggling
Airport customs officers foil snake smuggling TANGERANG (JP): Customs officers at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport have foiled an attempt to smuggle 789 jali snakes to Singapore.Director General for Customs and Excise Permana Agung said the snakes were packed among 62 boxes labeled "chili"...
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Gunungkidul villagers face water shortage
Gunungkidul villagers face water shortageBy Bambang M. YOGYAKARTA (JP): Whenever the dry season starts, villagers in Wonosari, Gunungkidul regency, would prefer a pail of water to almost anything else.The rich, however, have no problems since they can simply buy water.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Smoking mad at Persahabatan
Smoking mad at Persahabatan I am enraged by the number of smokers loitering about and fouling the air in the hallways and corners of Persahabatan Hospital in East Jakarta. It appears to me that not much has been done to enforce the "no smoking" signs scattered everywhere on the premises, maybe...
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
IBRA to sell Salim assets to meet 2001 target
IBRA to sell Salim assets to meet 2001 target JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) said on Monday it planned to sell assets of the giant Salim Group to meet the agency's 2001 budget sales target of Rp 27 trillion (US$3.1 billion).
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Suspected robbers shot on train
Suspected robbers shot on train SURABAYA: Police have shot two alleged robbers for resisting arrest on Argobromo Anggrek executive train heading for Surabaya from Jakarta.Surabaya Police chief Sr. Supt.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Inflation down in September as food prices drop
Inflation down in September as food prices drop JAKARTA (JP): The Consumer Price Index (CPI), the important measure in calculating inflation, fell by 0.06 percent in September compared to the previous month thanks to falling food prices, the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said on Monday.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Bakrie units receive ISOs
Bakrie units receive ISOs JAKARTA (JP): Two affiliates of publicly-listed PT Bakrie & Brothers, PT Bakrie Building Industries (BBI) and PT Bakrie Corrugated Metal Industry (BCMI) received ISO 9002 certificates on Monday from Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Asian currencies mixed late, renewed weakness in won
Asian currencies mixed late, renewed weakness in won SINGAPORE (Dow Jones): Asian currencies were mixed late Monday, with the South Korean won and the New Taiwan dollar feeling the brunt of a selloff on their respective local bourses, dealers said.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Six Maluku men seek PBHI help for political asylum
Six Maluku men seek PBHI help for political asylum JAKARTA (JP): Six Maluku men who climbed over the gate of the Swiss Embassy in South Jakarta last Wednesday have sought help from the Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI) to urge the embassy to grant them political asylum.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Land of miracles?
Land of miracles? To call this land under the tropical sun full of miracles surely is an exaggeration. Yet there have been a number of, I would say, "miracle-like" developments recently.The first miracle is the inability, due to a certain conspiracy or not, of the South Jakarta Court, to start...
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Armed rebels kidnap and shoot councillor
Armed rebels kidnap and shoot councillor BANDA ACEH, Aceh (JP): Two armed separatist rebels abducted a North Aceh councillor on Sunday evening and left him in critical condition with seven gunshot wounds in Tanah Luas district, Lhokseumawe, North Aceh, an officer said on Monday.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Government pledges to give emphasis on education
Government pledges to give emphasis on education JAKARTA (JP): In an effort to improve the quality of Indonesia's human resources, the government will place more emphasis on the development of national education in the next fiscal year, Vice President Megawati Soekarnoputri said on Monday.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Greetings by the German Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia,
Greetings by the German Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, Dr. Gerhard Fulda, on the occasion of the German National Day On 3 October 2000 we will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of German unity.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
200 local and foreign firms join telecom expo
200 local and foreign firms join telecom expo JAKARTA (JP): Some 200 domestic and international companies are participating in the wireless telecommunications and networking conference and exhibition, Techno Pre-Eminence (TPE) Connectivity 2000, which opened on Monday.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
City authorities sets new retail price for kerosene
City authorities sets new retail price for kerosene JAKARTA (JP): The city administration announced on Monday a maximum retail price for kerosene of Rp 430 (5 U.S. cents) per liter, an increase of about 25 percent.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Who wins from privatization?
Who wins from privatization?By Abdurrahman Binsyeh BOGOR, West Java (JP): One of the short-cuts to raise revenue during economic turmoil is through privatization of state-owned enterprises.All this has been highlighted with recommendations, if not pressures, from the International Monetary Fund...
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Enactment of labor law postponed further
Enactment of labor law postponed further JAKARTA (JP): The government has issued a regulation which further postpones the enactment of Law No. 25/1997 on Labor to allow more time for the House of Representatives to revise the controversial law.The new regulation, No. 3/2000 was issued Sept. 25.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Where to go in Bandung:
Where to go in Bandung: Exhibitions * Painting Exhibition: by Soegeng Toekio, at Galeri Bandung, Jl. Siliwangi 16 (Phone: 022 2036515), 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., until Oct. 14. * Japanese Pottery: Wadah features 71 works of Japanese contemporary ceramics artists, at Galeri Soemardja ITB, until Oct. 15.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Megawati unveils 2001 draft budget
Megawati unveils 2001 draft budget JAKARTA (JP): Vice President Megawati Soekarnoputri unveiled on Monday the draft 2001 state budget which will be unlikely to provide any stimulus to the economy because quite a large portion of the spending will go on servicing government debt and financing...
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Rates for tax payment, valid from Oct. 2 to Oct. 8
Rates for tax payment, valid from Oct. 2 to Oct. 8U.S. dollar 1 Rp 8,730.00Austrian schilling 1 554.62Australian dollar 1 4,749.12Belgian franc 1 189.18Canadian dollar 1 5,816.12Swiss franc 1 5,033.44Deutschemark 1 3,905.17Danish krone 1 1,030.19French franc 1 1,163.45Poundsterling 1 12,678.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
NGO tells government to pay greater attention to refugees' plight
NGO tells government to pay greater attention to refugees' plight JAKARTA (JP): Activists called on the government on Monday to pay greater attention to the plight of refugees in the country, saying that their neglect could be a source of further violence.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Students demand police apology
Students demand police apology YOGYAKARTA: Hundreds of Muhammadiyah I private high school students and teachers here rallied at the provincial legislature to protest the police shooting of one of the school students Kahfi Hasan Alfi.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Budget realistic, except rupiah assumption: Experts
Budget realistic, except rupiah assumption: Experts JAKARTA (JP): Experts said that the government's 2001 budget proposal was generally quite realistic although legislators expressed skepticism on the exchange rate assumption.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Government must guarantee food, fare prices unchanged
Government must guarantee food, fare prices unchanged JAKARTA (JP): Five prominent non-governmental organizations, grouped in the Civil Society Coalition on Public Policy, asked the government on Monday to guarantee that there will be no subsequent increase in the prices of basic commodities and...
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Tommy given two days to choose his own fate
Tommy given two days to choose his own fate JAKARTA (JP): The South Jakarta Prosecutors' Office has given former president Soeharto's youngest son Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra less than 48 hours to decide whether to ask for clemency or a review of the Supreme Court's verdict against him.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Sony Corporation boosts Malaysian investment to move upmarket
Sony Corporation boosts Malaysian investment to move upmarket KAJANG, Malaysia (AFP): Japan's Sony Corp. on Monday announced plans to invest more than US$10 million in research and development at its color television plant here as part of a move to introduce more sophisticated products.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Outlook on RI long-term ratings stable, S&P says
Outlook on RI long-term ratings stable, S&P says SINGAPORE (Dow Jones): Standard & Poor's Corp. Monday raised its long-term and short-term foreign currency ratings on Indonesia to single-B-minus and C, respectively.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Eurico included in list of East Timor violence suspects
Eurico included in list of East Timor violence suspects JAKARTA (JP): Four more people, including notorious militia leader Eurico Guterres, joined on Monday the list of 19 suspects responsible for last year's violence in East Timor.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Indonesia's contingent greeted in modest ceremony
Indonesia's contingent greeted in modest ceremony JAKARTA (JP): A modest welcoming ceremony greeted the return home of Indonesia's contingent after its three-week campaign at the just-concluded Olympics in Sydney.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
House to debate ten bills during current session
House to debate ten bills during current session JAKARTA (JP): The House of Representatives is due to debate 10 bills during its current session which lasts till mid-December.House Speaker Akbar Tandjung in his official address at the opening of the House's second session on Monday, said that...
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Conversion Rates
Conversion Rates Bank Indonesia's conversion rates on Oct. 2, 2000: Bank notes rates TT rates Buying Selling Buying Selling Rp Rp Rp Rp U.S. dollar 1 8,280.00 9,280.00 8,736.00 8,824.00Australian dollar 1 4,503.49 5,052.03 4,751.51 4,803.79Austrian schilling 1 531.09 595.50 560.34 566.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Rice prices trending lower
Rice prices trending lower JAKARTA (JP): In spite of Sunday's fuel price hikes, the price of rice in Jakarta held steady on Monday with indications it will fall next week because of plentiful of stocks, Antara reported.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Oops! You did it again, Gandhi!
Oops! You did it again, Gandhi! Reading between the lines is an art indeed. Most of our fellow Indonesians don't have that sense of distinction of what you mean seriously, half seriously or just as humor. In most cases they feel offended over what you intended to mean as humor.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Tight security around Holyfield
Tight security around Holyfield JAKARTA (JP): World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield arrived at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Monday and was quickly whisked away from journalists.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
The bare-bones budget
The bare-bones budget The draft 2001 state budget will impose contractive pressures on the economy in the fiscal year beginning in January despite deficit spending of Rp 52.11 trillion (US$5.9 billion) because more than 78 percent of the Rp 295.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Bank Arta goes public
Bank Arta goes public JAKARTA (JP): East Java-based PT Bank Arta Niaga Kencana will sell about 500 million new shares to the public this month to raise funds to finance its expansion program.The bank said that the new shares would be sold for about Rp 500 (about 0.6 U.S.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Indonesia's balance of payments 1999/2000-2001 (in million of U.S. dollars)
Indonesia's balance of payments 1999/2000-2001 (in million of U.S. dollars) Description 1999-2000 2000-(April-Dec) 2001 (Jan-Dec) (realized) (estimate) (projection) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Exports of goods, fob 55,545 45,966 63,853 a.
Tue, 03 Oct 2000
Pande defends loan disbursement
Pande defends loan disbursement JAKARTA (JP): A former top official of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) said in court on Monday that the agency's decision to pay Rp 904 billion (US$103.9 million) to Bank Bali last year had followed proper procedures.