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Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Forests could be key to curbing global warming
Forests could be key to curbing global warming Alister Doyle Reuters/Oslo Effective control of forest fires may prove crucial in the fight against global warming since blazes from Alaska to Indonesia spew out vast amounts of heat-trapping gases, Canadian foresters said on Thursday.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Yoga moves from spirituality to medication
Yoga moves from spirituality to medicationK. Doren Singh, Jakarta Yoga as we know it today is the product of thousands of years. It belongs to the earliest manifestations of India's cultural heritage. It refers to that enormous body of spiritual values, attitudes, precepts, and techniques that have...
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
JP;WYS;Cd;
JP;WYS;Cd; ANPAk..r.. ~Letter-poor people The fate of poor people JP/7/let The tragedy of the impoverished What is the fate of poor people in Indonesia? A friend of mine has the answer. According to him, grass in Indonesia is much more respected than poor people.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
If slimming not enough, get firm
If slimming not enough, get firmEmmy Fitri, The Jakarta Post, JakartaThe dark side to living a modern lifestyle is the growing demand for women to get slimmer.Fitness centers, body shaping parlors and "fat doctors" are mushrooming in the city, whose denizens are becoming increasingly image...
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Acehnese barracks
Acehnese barracks The letter by Peter Droege from Australia (The Jakarta Post, Feb. 24) raises a number of good points. I have just returned from Aceh after staying in a refugee camp at Lhoknga for a few nights that was adequate but not easy for everyone to live in.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Flood produces sinking feeling for Bekasi traders
Flood produces sinking feeling for Bekasi tradersThe Jakarta Post JakartaIt's was far from being business as usual at the Mal Mega Bekasi shopping complex on Tuesday with the flood waters that have been inundating the center since early on Sunday yet to subside.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Govt to issue Rp2t in T-bills next month
Govt to issue Rp2t in T-bills next monthUrip Hudiono The Jakarta Post/JakartaThe government plans to offer up to Rp 2 trillion (about US$215 million) in one-year treasury bills, or T-bills, next month, according to a finance ministry official.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Gender equality demand wins support
Gender equality demand wins supportHera Diani, The Jakarta Post, JakartaProminent Muslim scholars threw their weight behind a demand for the revival of the alternative draft Islamic law code, which they say will encourage gender equality in the country.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
JP/16/Airport
JP/16/AirportKL to build second terminal as it gears to receive more airlinesAssociated Press Kuala LumpurA second terminal will be built at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport to accommodate rapidly growing passenger traffic, as at least four more foreign airlines including two Indian carriers...
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Flood gives sinking feeling to traders
Flood gives sinking feeling to tradersThe Jakarta Post, JakartaIt was far from business as usual at Mal Mega Bekasi shopping complex on Tuesday, with floodwater inundating the center since early Sunday.Floodwater on the ground floor was still up to one meter deep.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Jimbaran Villas gets loan for Bvlgari
Jimbaran Villas gets loan for Bvlgari JAKARTA: PT Jimbaran Villas, a subsidiary of media company MRA Group, has received a syndicated loan from one international and four local banks to build a Bvlgari hotel in Bali.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
RI manufactures lagging behind neighbors
RI manufactures lagging behind neighborsZakki P. Hakim, The Jakarta Post, JakartaLack of investment in manpower skills, infrastructure and research and development in Indonesia's manufacturing industry over the past three decades have slowed down the country's industrialization process compared to...
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
India promotes CNG at technology expo
India promotes CNG at technology expoThe Jakarta Post, JakartaWith air pollution becoming a serious problem, especially in Jakarta and other big cities, Indonesia plans to adopt Indian compressed natural gas (CNG) technology.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
People applying for passports drops
People applying for passports dropsJAMBI, Jambi: The number of people applying for passports at the Jambi Immigration Office has decreased from 20 people per day to an average 10 people after the March 1 crackdown on illegal workers in Malaysia, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Kuwait moved to give aid
Kuwait moved to give aid After having read the two articles in your daily newspaper entitled Tsunami couple's cafe helps family cope on March 5, and Closer work needed to find Aceh children a home on March 6, I am greatly touched to donate a generator, which I hope would help the couple get over...
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Irene faces Corke in chess matchup
Irene faces Corke in chess matchup JAKARTA: Teenage FIDE Master (WFM) Irene Kharisma of Indonesia will take on Women's Grand Master (WGM) Anya Sun Corke of Hong Kong in a five-day chess matchup starting on Saturday.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Aceh fishermen to rebuild houses, refuse resettlement
Aceh fishermen to rebuild houses, refuse resettlementNani Afrida The Jakarta Post/Banda AcehHundreds of people from 14 villages in Aceh Besar regency and Banda Aceh municipality gathered in Lam Isiek village here on Tuesday to pledge to rebuild their homes, which were destroyed by the tsunami.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Flood produces sinking feeling for Bekasi traders
Flood produces sinking feeling for Bekasi tradersThe Jakarta Post JakartaIt was far from business as usual at Mal Mega Bekasi shopping complex on Tuesday, with floodwater inundating the center since early Sunday.Floodwater on the ground floor was still up to one meter deep.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Hungary vies for projects in Indonesia
Hungary vies for projects in IndonesiaEndy M. Bayuni, The Jakarta Post, JakartaHungary is vying for economic projects in Indonesia as a way of enhancing relations between the two countries, with sectors such as the construction of roads, bridges and railways, and information technology (IT) and...
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Fuel price rise keeps fishermen tied up
Fuel price rise keeps fishermen tied upMulta Fidrus, The Jakarta Post, TangerangFor almost one hour, Nano, 34, just sat silently in his boat. Looking straight out to sea, he completely ignored his fellow fishermen who had their boats tied up next to his on the Perancis River in Dadap village,...
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
KONI set to aid E. Timor athletes
KONI set to aid E. Timor athletes JAKARTA: The National Sports Council (KONI) said on Tuesday it would provide assistance to East Timor for sports development in the neighboring country.KONI secretary-general Djohar Arifin said the council would begin its assistance by donating athletic equipment,...
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Corruption at Pertamina looms over fuel price hikes
Corruption at Pertamina looms over fuel price hikesVincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, JakartaSo what! That may be the skeptical reaction of most people to the ruling by the Business Competition Supervisory Commission that state oil and gas company Pertamina and three of its business partners...
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
City announces fare increase of 9% to 19%
City announces fare increase of 9% to 19%Damar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, JakartaJakarta Governor Sutiyoso approved on Tuesday increases of between 9 percent and 19 percent for public transportation fares.Under Gubernatorial Decree No. 412/2005, the new fares came into effect on March 8.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Jazz fashionable again on Java in festival's wake
Jazz fashionable again on Java in festival's wakeM. Taufiqurrahman and Evi Mariani, The Jakarta Post, JakartaMarch 9 is National Music Day, as it marks the birth date (in 1903) of Wage Rudolph Supratman, composer of Indonesia Raya, the national anthem.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Indian traders feel at home in Pasar Baru
Indian traders feel at home in Pasar Baru The Jakarta Post, JakartaA sixty-year-old man of Indian descent sat behind the counter of his textile store in Pasar Baru, a 184-year-old market complex in Central Jakarta, waiting for customers to pay for the cloth they had selected.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Cops quiz Garuda staff again over Munir case
Cops quiz Garuda staff again over Munir caseEva C. Komandjaja, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Police investigators questioned four Garuda Indonesia stewardesses on Tuesday and were scheduled to question another airline employee, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, on Thursday as part of their investigation...
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
1. TANGGUH: 3 LINES, 15 COUNTS
1. TANGGUH: 3 LINES, 15 COUNTS Construction of Tangguh likely to start soon 2. JAZZ: 2 LINES, 24 COUNTS Jazz fashionable again on Java in festival's wake 3. CORRUPT: 1 LINE, 28 COUNTS RI most corrupt in Asia: Survey 4. TOTAL: 1 LINE, 36 COUNTS Court rejects Total bankruptcy petition 5.
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Indonesian jailed U.S. for slavery
Indonesian jailed U.S. for slaveryAgence France-Presse, Los Angeles, CaliforniaAn Indonesian woman was jailed for nearly four years on Monday for forcing a maid from her home country into virtual slavery in the United States.U.S.
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Pillars of RI economy
Pillars of RI economy I would like to add to Margarette Haskell's comments Foreign investment in Indonesia published in The Jakarta Post dated Feb. 28. In my 30 years of doing business in Indonesia, I have heard my share of complaints, criticisms and both horror and success stories from foreigners...
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
24 foreigners nabbed with forged passports
24 foreigners nabbed with forged passportsFadli, The Jakarta Post, BatamOver the past seven months, the Batam Immigration Office has apprehended 24 foreigners entering Indonesia with forged passports. "It has reached an alarming level," said I Gde Widiharta, chief of Batam Immigration Office.
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
1. Susilo --- 2x20
1. Susilo --- 2x20 Susilo, Badawi agree to settle rift peacefully 2. WEoemen --- 2x15 Revival of draft Islamic code sought 3. Cabinet -- 1x35 Fuel price hike effects under control: Govt 4. Aceh ---- 1x40 Acehnese demand greater public participation
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Prosecutors seek eight years for Abdullah Puteh
Prosecutors seek eight years for Abdullah PutehThe Jakarta Post, JakartaProsecutors have demanded an eight years term of imprisonment and a Rp 500 million (US$53,673) fine for Abdullah Puteh, the suspended Aceh governor, who is on trial on corruption charges related to the purchase of a...
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Fuel price hike effects under control: Govt
Fuel price hike effects under control: GovtMuninggar Sri Saraswati, The Jakarta Post, JakartaA week after the fuel price increases, the government says that the effects of the hikes on the public are still under control and plans to talk to the House of Representatives to further revise the 2005...
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Happy-go-lucky 'Spongebob' makes debut onboard SIA flights
Happy-go-lucky 'Spongebob' makes debut onboard SIA flightsThe Jakarta Post JakartaWho lives in a pineapple under the sea? (Spongebob Squarepants!) Absorbent and yellow and porous is he? (Spongebob Squarepants!)....
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Schools sow seeds of corruption: Expert
Schools sow seeds of corruption: ExpertBambang Nurbianto, The Jakarta Post, JakartaSchools are supposed to teach anticorruption attitudes to children from an early age, but in reality many of them often become fertile ground for children to learn how to be corrupt, an education expert laments.
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
SpongeBob makes SIA debut
SpongeBob makes SIA debutThe Jakarta Post, JakartaWho lives in a pineapple under the sea? (SpongeBob SquarePants!) Absorbent and yellow and porous is he? (SpongeBob SquarePants!)....Well, it's SpongeBob time!If you have trouble dragging your children away from your television while this much-hyped...
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Police paratroops deployed to Poso
Police paratroops deployed to PosoPALU, Central Sulawesi: About 600 Mobile Police Brigade officers have been deployed in Poso since Saturday to increase security in the area, a senior police officer said on Monday.Central Sulewesi Police spokesman Adj. Sr. Comr.
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Acehnese demand greater public participation
Acehnese demand greater public participationApriadi Gunawan, The Jakarta Post, MedanA group of people, claiming to be representatives of the Aceh people, stepped up pressure on the government on Monday to review its blueprint on post-tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction of Aceh.
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
City administration receives Rp 1t from fuel subsidies
City administration receives Rp 1t from fuel subsidiesThe Jakarta Post, JakartaThe Jakarta administration confirmed on Monday that it had received a total of Rp 1 trillion in fuel-subsidy compensation funds, of which around Rp 40 billion would be used to provide health services for the poor.
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
RI asked to appeal Ba'asyir sentence
RI asked to appeal Ba'asyir sentenceAUSTRALIA: Australia is urging Indonesian prosecutors to appeal to a high court in Jakarta to lengthen the 2 1/2-year prison sentence given to the alleged spiritual leader of an al-Qaeda- linked terror group, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told parliament on...
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Competition kills off private universities
Competition kills off private universities SURAKARTA, Central Java: Stiff competition has forced about 50 percent of the country's 2,300 private universities to close their doors, a rector says.Sultan Agung University rector Rofiq Anwar said many private universities had closed down now that the...
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
KL detains Myanmar refugee protesters
KL detains Myanmar refugee protestersMALAYSIA: Malaysian police detained about two dozen Myanmar refugees on Monday for protesting outside the office of the UN refugee agency to demand speedy resettlement, witnesses and officials said.
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Revival of draft Islamic code sought
Revival of draft Islamic code soughtHera Diani, The Jakarta Post, JakartaWomen activists are seeking to revive an alternative draft for an Islamic code of law (KHI), which they say would help reduce domestic violence cases.
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
JP/17/DAMAR
JP/17/DAMARForest conservation through resin, Krui styleOyos Saroso HN The Jakarta Post/LampungYati, 28, deftly climbed a 60-centimeter-in-diameter resin tree with a rattan rope tied around her back and the trunk, using notches on the tree stem, from which she scraped dry resin gum and put it in a...
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
'Worst flood' hits Bekasi, destroys infrastructure
'Worst flood' hits Bekasi, destroys infrastructureWahyuana and Bambang Nurbianto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta,BekasiMany residents of Bekasi had to take a day off work on Monday to clean thick mud from their houses following what is claimed to be the biggest ever flood in the municipality and...
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Seat belt law now extortion racket
Seat belt law now extortion racketFrom KompasWhen I was returning with my family to Jakarta from Bandung by minivan, a policeman stopped me on the road to examine my driver's license and registration while reprimanding me for not using my seat belt.
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Time line of Ambalat dispute
Time line of Ambalat dispute1979: Malaysia unilaterally draws up a map delineating its territorial limits, which the Indonesian government says includes parts of its territory in eastern Kalimantan and Sulawesi.Feb.
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Perodua to launch export model
Perodua to launch export modelKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's second national carmaker, Perodua, said on Monday it would launch a new export model in May, but called for further state protection as the auto market gradually liberalized under a regional free trade pact.
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
*Worst flood hits Bekasi, ruins infrastructure Page 2
*Worst flood hits Bekasi, ruins infrastructure Page 2 *More financiers of illegal logging put under arrest Page 4 *People skeptical about fuel compensation program Page 5 *Being a woman is a paradox Page 6 *Mahmud Abbas: It's time to walk the walk Page 7 *Schools sow seeds of corruption: Expert...
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Govt puts BKPM under Ministry of Trade
Govt puts BKPM under Ministry of TradeZakki P. Hakim and Muninggar Sri Saraswati The Jakarta Post/Jakarta The government has placed the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) under the coordination of the Ministry of Trade in a bid to boost investment in the country.Minister of Trade Mari E.