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Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Centralization major threat to unity
Centralization major threat to unity With the 70th Anniversary of the nation's Youth Pledge coming up on Wednesday in the midst of a severe crisis threatening national unity, The Jakarta Post asked H.S. Dillon to comment on the current state of the Indonesian nation-state.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
DXN to open Indonesian plant
DXN to open Indonesian plant JAKARTA (JP): Herbal medicine producer DXN International of Malaysia is to set up a plant in Cikarang, West Java, to strengthen its business in Indonesia.DXN Indonesia, the Malaysian company's official distributor, said on Saturday that work on the plant costing Rp 4...
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Utut in tough group at int'l rapid chess tournament
Utut in tough group at int'l rapid chess tournament JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia's top chess player Utut Adianto faces a tough draw at the Intercontinental Cup rapid chess tournament in Cap d'Agde, France this week.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
TV today
TV todayTVRI 2:00 p.m. News: Berita 14 2:35 TV Series: The Big Valley 3:05 Environment Program: Pemanfaatan Lahan 3:30 TV Drama: Komitmen 4:00 Regional News 4:30 Creative Program: Karya Kita 5:00 Indonesian Lessons 5:30 Educational Quiz: Tangkas Cermat 6:00 News: Lintasan Berita 6:05 Documentary:...
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Exporters' greed and hypocrisy
Exporters' greed and hypocrisy Why has the strengthening of the rupiah against the U.S. dollar to about Rp 7,000 worried our exporters? Is it because the profit they reaped was not enough when the value of rupiah against the U.S.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Singapore cannot risk 'imposing capital controls'
Singapore cannot risk 'imposing capital controls' SINGAPORE (AFP): Singapore is not in favor of capital controls, such as those imposed in neighboring Malaysia, and such controls can only give brief respite from economic turmoil, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew was quoted as saying in news reports...
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
How far can RI credit crunch go?
How far can RI credit crunch go?By Eddy Soeparno JAKARTA (JP): For Indonesia's growing middle class, owning a private means of transportation, be it a motorcycle or a Kijang van, was not so much of a dream when consumer financing became available to a large number of them.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Indonesia export expo ends with $59m in deals
Indonesia export expo ends with $59m in deals JAKARTA (JP): The 1998 Indonesian Export Products exhibition at the Jakarta Fairground ended on Sunday without fanfare but with deals signed worth US$58.9 million.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Reckless driver kills two people
Reckless driver kills two people JAKARTA (JP): Two people were killed and 15 others were injured when a speeding Kijang van smashed into a group of people standing in front of Pasar Minggu railway station in South Jakarta late on Friday.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Parents of shot Trisakti students to meet Wiranto
Parents of shot Trisakti students to meet Wiranto JAKARTA (JP): The parents of four Trisakti University students who were shot dead during a campus rally on May 12, are to meet Minister of Defense and Security/Armed Forces (ABRI) Commander Gen.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Balinese urged to curb anger over Hindu slur
Balinese urged to curb anger over Hindu slur JAKARTA (JP): Religious and community leaders have called for peace among the Balinese following outbursts of anger over a cabinet minister's remarks about their Hindu religion, citing that certain parties might manipulate the situation to raise the...
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Matahari holds social activities
Matahari holds social activities JAKARTA (JP): Matahari Department Stores, one of the country's major retail business companies, is holding a series of social activities, ranging from providing scholarships to students of poor families to giving used clothes to street children, in conjunction with...
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
PBSI to improve training discipline
PBSI to improve training discipline BANDUNG, West Java (JP): The Badminton Association of Indonesian (PBSI) plans to enforce stricter discipline on shuttlers at the national training camp in Cipayung, East Jakarta, chairman Gen. Subagyo Hadisiswoyo said on Sunday.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Police fire on glove protesters
Police fire on glove protesters MEDAN, North Sumatra: Police fired rubber bullets at factory workers and beat them with batons after strike in North Sumatra on Friday turned violent, leaving nine workers and two riot officers wounded.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Firms drop PLN tender
Firms drop PLN tender JAKARTA (JP): Several suppliers of electricity equipment in North Sulawesi have pulled out of a state electricity company tender due to the low price ceiling offered.Nurdin, a company executive from PLN's Manado office, said on Saturday that the suppliers had in fact won the...
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Aid too slow in reaching the poor
Aid too slow in reaching the poor JAKARTA (JP): The government will meet with the House of Representatives (DPR) soon to report over the slow realization of a multibillion-dollar social safety net program designed to help the poor in surviving the economic crisis, said the National Development...
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Bulls gather in Bali
Bulls gather in Bali It was agonizingly close to the 11th hour, so to speak, that the Mother of all Bulls (bull being the symbol of the splintered Indonesian Democratic Party) was permitted to speak to her off- spring in a congress in Bali recently.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Soeharto 'corroded' Indonesian language
Soeharto 'corroded' Indonesian language JAKARTA (JP): Political oppression under Soeharto's New Order regime destroyed the function of the Indonesian language -- which was to tell the truth -- and impoverished the people's systematic and creative thinking, according to an expert.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Govt to buy rice and corn
Govt to buy rice and corn JAKARTA (JP): The government has allocated Rp 20 trillion (US$2.6 billion) to buy unhusked rice, corn and soybean during the main harvest in February and April next year, agriculture minister Soleh Solahuddin said on Friday.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Legislator hopes wounds from military action can be healed
Legislator hopes wounds from military action can be healed JAKARTA (JP): A noted legislator said on Saturday during a visit to Aceh that feelings of vengeance caused by the military operations in the province could hopefully be healed.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
ABRI dual role no longer needed, observers say
ABRI dual role no longer needed, observers say JAKARTA (JP): A previous "national consensus" on the Armed Forces' (ABRI) representation at the House of Representatives (DPR) was obsolete and also in violation of the 1945 Constitution, political observers Marsilam Simanjuntak and Johannes Kristiadi...
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Latief defends business accords with Freeport
Latief defends business accords with Freeport JAKARTA (JP): PT ALatief Corporation (ALC) defended on Saturday its business deals with PT Freeport Indonesia, saying that such transactions are normal and fair.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Military Police has yet to file abductors' dossiers
Military Police has yet to file abductors' dossiers BANDUNG (JP): Military investigators have failed to meet their promise of submitting to the military tribunal, by the end of last week, the dossiers of 11 Army's Special Force (Kopassus) soldiers suspected of involvement in the abductions of...
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Proper media organizations needed
Proper media organizations needed JAKARTA (JP): The registration of around 300 new newspapers, weeklies and tabloids at the Ministry of Information has heightened the need for professional associations and unions, journalists and newspaper proprietors said here on Saturday.
Mon, 26 Oct 1998
Asian crisis weighing on China trade
Asian crisis weighing on China trade BEIJING (AP): The Asian financial crisis will slash China's export growth rate this year from a projected 10 percent target to as little as 4 percent, an official newspaper reported Sunday.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Environmentalists lament ruin of the 'lungs of the world'
Environmentalists lament ruin of the 'lungs of the world' Leuser Development Project invited journalists and environmental activists to Soraya, one of its research centers, in the Leuser National Park from Sept. 21 to Sept. 27. The following are The Jakarta Post's Wiratmadinata's reports.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Female film characters skirt with stereotypes
Female film characters skirt with stereotypesBy Bruce Emond JAKARTA (JP): Scrubbed of the canvas of makeup she uses in performances, the protagonist in Penari (Dancer) presses her face against the glass of an aquarium.Sila is both lusciously ingenuous and forlorn.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Charity vital to beat the crisis
Charity vital to beat the crisis In this time of crisis, more and more people are crying out for help. What is the country doing to cope with the problems? The Jakarta Post's team of Ahmad Junaidi, Arief Suhardiman, Edith Hartanto, Dwi Atmanta, Kornelius Purba, Kosasih Deradjat, Sylvia Gratia M.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Crisis forces many to beg on the streets
Crisis forces many to beg on the streetsBy Brigid O'Halloran and Ahmad Junaidi JAKARTA (JP): In the shadow of the Kebayoran Lama overpass in South Jakarta, six-year-old Kukur zigzags through the traffic, rattling bottletops nailed to a piece of wood and singing a hackneyed tune.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Supangkat wooden parody of society
Supangkat wooden parody of societyBy Text and photo by Chandra Johan JAKARTA (JP): Five tigers were once licking water from a basin on the outskirts of a town. The water in the basin looked more like sewage but the five tigers seemed to enjoy it, while at the same time keeping a watchful eye on...
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Children express love in any language
Children express love in any languageBy Angela Romano BRISBANE, Australia (JP): Forty-five Indonesian schoolchildren came to Australia on a singing tour with a mission to promote international understanding.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Is Indonesia really suffering from 'krismon'?
Is Indonesia really suffering from 'krismon'? JAKARTA (JP): A friend of mine recently remarked that he didn't really believe that Indonesia is at present undergoing its worst-ever crisis in history. "Why do you think so?" I asked him.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Kingship clashes determine male Leuser monkeys' fate
Kingship clashes determine male Leuser monkeys' fate BANDA ACEH, Aceh (JP): If you happen to be in Soraya in the Leuser jungle, don't think you are surrounded by vampires when you hear loud laughs sounding just like human laughter.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Dynamic Asmat auctions surpass Christie's and Sotheby's
Dynamic Asmat auctions surpass Christie's and Sotheby'sBy Amir Sidharta JAKARTA (JP): Christie's and Sotheby's, eat your hearts out. The New York and London auctions of these two houses may fetch astronomical prices, but they would certainly seem tame and boring compared to the auctions at Agats.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
EMA offers quality services at competitive rates
EMA offers quality services at competitive rates In an increasingly tough and competitive Greater Jakarta apartment market, people can still find the best choice, at Executive Menteng Apartments (EMA).Located on Jl.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Spotlight
SpotlightPhoto A: ExhibitionHotel Sari Pan PacificJUST JOKING: Japanese ambassador Takao Kawakami (second right) and Hotel Sari Pan Pacific Hotel general manager Ken Ide are ceremonially crowned with Wayang Theater Bharata.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Expatriate charity groups help out in economic crisis
Expatriate charity groups help out in economic crisisBy Brigid O'Halloran JAKARTA (JP): Expatriate living in Indonesia is not just about large dollar salaries, mansions with swimming pools and having dozens of servants to answer every beck and call.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
The Photo
The PhotoBy William Chen One morning in 1975, I went to see the Le Mayeur museum in Sanur, Bali. It was still early. The museum had just opened its doors to the public. I walked into a quiet empty courtyard. A lone gardener was piling up dead leaves and fallen Cempaka flowers into small heaps.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Rooms with a view: Apartment living in Jakarta
Rooms with a view: Apartment living in Jakarta Toto finally made a break from his parents and moved into a serviced apartment building in August.The 31-year-old real estate broker and antique shop owner had lived with his family all his life in South Jakarta.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Guess What? Marzuki Usman
Guess What? Marzuki Usman Could Indonesia one day lose its famed cultural heritage of Javanese shadow puppetry (wayang) and learn the art from Westerners?Minister of Tourism, Art and Culture Marzuki Usman says he is afraid it could happen.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Have Indonesians found their national identity?
Have Indonesians found their national identity? Mencari Makna Kebangsaan (In Search of the Meaning of Nationality); Franz Magnis Suseno; Kanisius, Yogyakarta (1st edition, 1998); 193 pp. As a nation, the Indonesian people are used to brandishing their strongly held nationalism to respond to all...
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Chainsaws imperil the lovely Soraya
Chainsaws imperil the lovely Soraya BANDA ACEH, Aceh (JP): To meet the beautiful Soraya, we had to travel 1,000 kilometers, going along the northern coasts down to Medan where a four-wheeler took us to Brastagi, Bukit Barisan and Simpangkiri in southern Aceh.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Activist encourages the poor to be self-reliant
Activist encourages the poor to be self-reliantBy Dwi Atmanta JAKARTA (JP): Poor people are not so much the "have-nots" but the "have little" who need to join forces and stick together to overcome their hardships.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Guess What? J.E. Sahetapy
Guess What? J.E. Sahetapy A killing spree of more than 150 people in East Java, including many suspected practitioners of black magic, has drawn worldwide concern and is definitely not a laughing matter.But criminologist J.E.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
S'pore denies infringement
S'pore denies infringement SINGAPORE (Reuters): Singapore said on Saturday it was puzzled by Malaysia's latest allegations the island state's aircraft had intruded into its airspace."MINDEF (Ministry of Defense) is puzzled by these latest allegations of intrusion and wishes to reiterate that there...
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Hindus threaten massive strike
Hindus threaten massive strike JAKARTA (JP): A Balinese activist who coordinated this week's series of protests against a cabinet minister on Bali said on Saturday that he planned to call a general strike among all Hindus in Indonesia unless their demands were met.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Indonesia's unity in diversity: Fact or Fiction?
Indonesia's unity in diversity: Fact or Fiction? JAKARTA (JP): Seventy years ago, on Oct. 28, 1928, a group of youths from various ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds assembled and pledged loyalty to One Country, One Nation and One Language: Indonesia.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Jakarta offers more choices in apartments
Jakarta offers more choices in apartments As the ravaged rupiah starts to gradually recoup its losses and nudge its way back to strength, the choice of apartments in the capital, and their affordability, are now probably greater than ever.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Japanese animated films eye the international market
Japanese animated films eye the international marketBy Gotot Prakosa JAKARTA (JP): On Oct. 19 and Oct. 20, a workshop on animation featuring Yashuo Yamaguchi, 62, and Koichi Tsunoda, 59, was held at the Japanese Cultural Center.
Sun, 25 Oct 1998
Auctions preserve Asmat tribal traditions
Auctions preserve Asmat tribal traditionsBy Amir Sidharta JAKARTA (JP): The Asmat Art Festival and auctions have been held since 1981. They are organized jointly by the Diocese of Agats-Asmat and the regional administration.