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Fri, 08 Apr 2005
TV Today: Saturday, April 9, 2005
TV Today: Saturday, April 9, 2005TVRI 5:00 a.m. Religious Teachings6:00 News: Berita Pagi7:00 Cartoon: Maya the Bee7:30 Religious Teachings8:00 Talk Show: Hembing10:00 Sports11:30 TV Drama1:00 p.m. News: Berita Siang1:30 Documentary2:00 Music3:00 English News Service4:30 Comedy5:00 Children...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
WB, IMF warn of slower growth
WB, IMF warn of slower growthAgence France-Presse, WashingtonEconomic growth in developing Asia is expected to slow down through 2006 after the fastest expansion in a decade in 2004, the World Bank said on Wednesday with a warning that tightening global conditions could test the region's resilience.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Open dumping system hazardous
Open dumping system hazardousFrom KompasThe recent landslide at the Leuwigajah municipal dump in Cimahi, West Java, buried several settlements, with 103 victims so far reported and 40 others missing.The slide was caused by a lack of response from the municipal administration to a study of the...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Budget for Aceh reconstruction raised
Budget for Aceh reconstruction raisedThe government announced on Thursday its decision to increase the budget for the five-year reconstruction of tsunami-ravaged Aceh and North Sumatra to Rp 46.1 trillion (US$4.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
ITCB pursues tariff cuts, anticipates non-tariff barriers
ITCB pursues tariff cuts, anticipates non-tariff barriersZakki P. Hakim, The Jakarta Post, JakartaThe International Textiles and Clothing Bureau (ITCB), a powerful lobby group at the World Trade Organization (WTO), is vowing to proactively seek ways to deal with existing trade barriers posed by...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Govt to put forward tax law revisions soon
Govt to put forward tax law revisions soonRendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, WellingtonThe government is to put forward draft revisions on tax, excise and customs laws to the House of Representatives this semester, as part of a scheme to revitalize the nation's taxation system, thereby bolstering...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Cops cleared of blame in jailbreak
Cops cleared of blame in jailbreakAbdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, JakartaJust a day the East Jakarta police precinct came under scrutiny after a daring daytime escape by three detainees, the city police all but exonerated the officers in charge on Thursday.City police spokesman Sr. Comr.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
NNT eyes $300m profit in 2005 on high prices
NNT eyes $300m profit in 2005 on high pricesLeony Aurora, The Jakarta Post, West SumbawaCopper and gold miner PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (NNT) aims to book a profit of US$300 million this year after its net income more than doubled in 2004 boosted by high commodity prices.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Soepra gamelan has a Western sound
Soepra gamelan has a Western soundYuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, BandungMy Way, which is usually associated with singer Frank Sinatra, sounded quite different when Indonesian tenor Christopher Abimanyu, also known as Abbi, sang it at Istana Muara, Bandung.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
The rules of the diplomatic game in Southeast Asia go
The rules of the diplomatic game in Southeast Asia go something like this. Whatever a government, despotic or otherwise, chooses to do within the privacy of its borders is its business. Specifically, the key neighborhood club -- the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -- lists as a core...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Music-gamelan-diatonic
Music-gamelan-diatonicJP/17/CHROMSoepra gamelan sounds as Western as it does JavaneseYuli Tri Suwarni The Jakarta Post/BandungMy Way, which is usually associated with singer Frank Sinatra, sounded quite different when Indonesia's tenor Christopher Abimanyu, a.k.a.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
New protest sparks up in Kampar
New protest sparks up in KamparPuji Santoso, The Jakarta Post, KamparNew rounds of protests have broken out in Kampar regency on Thursday following a report that a minister had given his approval for ousted Kampar Regent Jefri Noer to resume office.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
More witnesses identify Adiguna as Rudy's shooter
More witnesses identify Adiguna as Rudy's shooter The Jakarta Post Jakarta Two more witnesses have identified businessman Adiguna Sutowo as the killer of waiter Yohannes "Rudy" Berchmans Haerudy Natong at the Hilton Hotel's Fluid Bar on Jan. 1.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
RI, Thailand urged to foster greater ASEAN role
RI, Thailand urged to foster greater ASEAN roleNovan Iman Santosa, The Jakarta Post, BangkokWhile acknowledging that in general both Indonesia and Thailand have enjoyed good relations in the past 55 years, scholars urged both countries to ensure a more integrated Association of Southeast Asian...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Women players want to go international
Women players want to go internationalMoch. N. Kurniawan, The Jakarta Post, Kuta, Bali Mutiara Sasini Bunga and Sadra Q had no choice but to take on male opponents in qualifying for the A Mild Billiard Bali International Open.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Tsunami aid spent for villa?
Tsunami aid spent for villa? I read in your April 5 paper an article titled RI denies tsunami aid spent on Geneva villa. What I read in the article truly made me sad. So far I have given the new government of Indonesia the benefit of doubt for the sake of supporting change, even it is in small...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
School ousts girl bullies
School ousts girl bullies JAKARTA: Seven female students at Budi Utomo High School in Central Jakarta were expelled on Wednesday for bullying, Tempointeraktif.com reported on Thursday.Headmaster Ratiyono announced that the school had asked the seven girl students to leave the school following...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
West Jakarta to hold 'barongsai' festival
West Jakarta to hold 'barongsai' festival JAKARTA: The West Jakarta municipal administration will hold a 2005 Barongsai (Lion Dance) Festival on Sunday at the Matahari- Puri Daan Mogot shopping mall.Twelve teams will compete for trophies in the free-style and pole categories of the Chinese...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Ambon Police beef up security
Ambon Police beef up securityAMBON, Maluku: Ambon and Lease Islands Police are beefing security across the Maluku group of islands ahead of the separatist South Maluku Republic Anniversary on April 25.Chief of Ambon and Lease Islands Police Adj. Sr. Comr.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
NGOs demand accountability from donors
NGOs demand accountability from donorsUrip Hudiono, The Jakarta Post, JakartaThe government should scrutinize local and international donor agencies to make sure they are not abusing the millions of dollars in funds channeled to them after the tsunami tragedy, a corruption watchdog says.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Susilo questioned over Geneva villa controversy
Susilo questioned over Geneva villa controversyRendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, WellingtonControversy over the US$8 million villa bought by the government in Geneva, Switzerland, for the Indonesian permanent representative to the United Nations marked President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's visit...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
WFP to provide food for quake survivors
WFP to provide food for quake survivors JAKARTA: The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) plans to deliver some 1,000 tons of food soon to earthquake survivors in Nias, North Sumatra, and Simeuleu island, Aceh.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
RI needs to work harder to save mothers, children
RI needs to work harder to save mothers, childrenThe Jakarta Post, JakartaDespite a promising decrease in the maternal and infant mortality rates in the country, the targets set for Indonesia by a United Nations program are still far away, the experts say.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Don't demolish
Don't demolish Puncak kiosks, please The Bogor Police have ordered the removal of kiosks, stalls and workshops along the road in Puncak, Cisarua/Megamendung district, as well as those in the parking lot of the Atta'Awun Mosque in Cisarua, by no later than April 9.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Australia and Malaysia agree to consider free-trade agreement
Australia and Malaysia agree to consider free-trade agreementBloomberg, CanberraAustralia and Malaysia agreed to consider a free-trade agreement, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said during a visit by Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Shares end up on buying in Inco, Aneka Tambang
Shares end up on buying in Inco, Aneka TambangAgencies, JakartaIndonesian shares ended higher on Thursday, led by gains in export-driven companies like International Nickel Indonesia and Aneka Tambang, on expectations of higher first-quarter earnings due to the weak rupiah against the U.S.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Locust plague sweeps across South Sulawesi
Locust plague sweeps across South SulawesiAndi Hajramurni, The Jakarta Post, MakassarVast swarms of locusts have swept over South Sulawesi in the past few days, destroying rice and secondary crops. The plague has devastated thousands of hectares of crops in Jeneponto, Gowa and Maros regencies.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Aussie lobbies RI over drug suspect
Aussie lobbies RI over drug suspectAgencies, JakartaAustralia's justice minister lobbied his Indonesian counterpart on Thursday over the case of an Australian drug suspect facing a possible death sentence, but denied his government was intervening in the high-profile prosecution.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Myanmar ends silence on ASEAN leadership concern
Myanmar ends silence on ASEAN leadership concernBrian Williams, Reuters/HanoiMyanmar broke a silence on Thursday about concern that its human rights record would tarnish its leadership of ASEAN next year, forecasting a solution would be found in time to satisfy all.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Remote villages to have better access to health services
Remote villages to have better access to health servicesThe Jakarta Post/Jakarta Manling, short for mantri keliling, or mobile male nurses, will soon color the local vernacular in villages in Lebak regency, Banten, and later on throughout Indonesia, as the Ministry of Health plans to make them...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Nias schoolchildren forced to work amid uncertainty
Nias schoolchildren forced to work amid uncertaintyEvi Mariani, The Jakarta Post, Gunung SitoliYeniria Telemanua, 12, and her brother Natalius, 9, started off on the two-hour, 10-kilometer journey from the hilly area where their parents grow water spinach and cassava leaves to Beringin market in...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Warm Turkish bread for the Acehnese
Warm Turkish bread for the Acehnese Nani Afrida The Jakarta Post/Banda Aceh Muhammad smiled brightly, showing off a plastic bag with 10 warm flat breads in his hand as if they were precious stones.Every afternoon, the 45-year-old resident of Kuta Alam district has a new routine -- queuing up in...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Two people finger Adiguna as shooter
Two people finger Adiguna as shooterThe Jakarta Post, JakartaTwo more witnesses have identified businessman Adiguna Sutowo as the killer of waiter Yohannes "Rudy" Berchmans Haerudy Natong at the Hilton Hotel's Fluid Bar on Jan. 1.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Challenges of new strategic partnership for Asia-Africa
Challenges of new strategic partnership for Asia-AfricaAnak Agung Banyu Perwita, Bandung The values rooted in the Bandung Ten Principles (Dasa Sila Bandung) as the strategic output of the Asia-Africa Conference in 1955 continues to have a crucial and contextual meaning in regional and global...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Cikokol market catches fire
Cikokol market catches fire TANGERANG: Fire razed nearly 80 kiosks on the eastern side of Cikokol market in Tangerang regency on Thursday afternoon.No fatalities were reported in the incident, which was immediately blamed on a short circuit, according to the head of the market's security detail.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Police to punish violent gangs
Police to punish violent gangsFollowing continued clashes between the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) with the Big Banten Family Development Committee (BPPKB), the Jakarta Police announced on Thursday that they were planning to dismantle all of the non-governmental paramilitary command posts.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
1. RIGHT: 1 LINE, 35 COUNTS
1. RIGHT: 1 LINE, 35 COUNTS Rights issues get `sanitized' in Geneva 2, VILLA: 2 LINES, 21 COUNTS Susilo questioned over Geneva villa controversy 3. CANBERA: 1 LINE, 35 COUNTS KL, Aussie leaders play down tensions 4. NEWMONT: 3 LINES, 16 COUNTS U.S. comptroller upset over Newmont ruling 5.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
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;JP; ANPAf..r.. Rupiah-conversion-rates Rupiah Rates April 7 JP/13/RupiahRupiah Rates April 7 Bank notes rates Selling Buying Rp Rp Australian dollar 1 7,659.65 6,887.66 Brunei dollar 1 6,024.39 5,417.47 Canadian dollar 1 8,179.66 7,357.04 Swiss franc 1 8,287.66 7,455.38 Danish krone 1 1,726.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
PetroChina shuts well after fire, leak
PetroChina shuts well after fire, leak JAKARTA: PetroChina Co., Asia's biggest oil company, has shut a gas well it operates in Indonesia's Jabung field in Sumatra after a fire and a leak but there has been no damage or injuries, Budi Setiadi, vice-president of PetroChina's Indonesian unit, said.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Gus Dur rejects Syaifullah's bid
Gus Dur rejects Syaifullah's bidTiarma Siboro, The Jakarta Post, JakartaAhead of the National Awakening Party (PKB) congress in Semarang next week, its influential founder Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid has refused to endorse the bid of State Minister for the Development of Disadvantaged Regions...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Quo vadis a new strategic partnership for Asia-Africa
Quo vadis a new strategic partnership for Asia-Africa JP/6/ANAKQuo vadis a new strategic partnership for Asia-AfricaAnak Agung Banyu Perwita Bandung The values rooted in the Bandung Ten Principles (Dasa Sila Bandung) as the strategic output of the Asia-Africa Conference in 1955 continues to have a...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Govt, Pertamina, PGN to sign MOU on gas supply
Govt, Pertamina, PGN to sign MOU on gas supplyBambang Nurbianto, The Jakarta Post, JakartaThe city administration, state-owned oil company PT Pertamina, and gas distributor PT PGN will sign on Friday a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the supply of compressed natural gas (CNG) for public...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
ADB commits $81.2m to Indonesia
ADB commits $81.2m to IndonesiaIndonesia will get US$81.2 million in loans and grants for clean water access and sanitation facilities, the Asian Development Bank said on Thursday in an e-mailed statement.The Manila-based bank said $64.7 million will be in low- interest loans and another $16.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
PAN must change image, Amien tells supporters
PAN must change image, Amien tells supportersSuherdjoko, The Jakarta Post, SemarangEntering its second national congress, the National Mandate Party (PAN) has to renew its image as a nationalist party which is open to people of different backgrounds to maintain its existence and to improve its luck...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
1. INSIGHT: 1 X 49
1. INSIGHT: 1 X 49 Principle of informed consent unquestionably important 2. WHO: 3 X 15 RI needs to work harder to save mothers, children 3. NIAS: 1 X 32 Nias struggles to oil trading wheel 4. HEALTH: 2 X 24 Govt records show more poor entitled to health subsidy
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Govt records show more poor entitled to health subsidy
Govt records show more poor entitled to health subsidyThe Jakarta Post, JakartaA new survey shows that the amount of poor people in the country was 66 percent higher than was earlier predicted. Why? It emerges that the country's poor couldn't afford to be counted in the last survey -- because it...
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
Timber bosses challenge logging discrimination
Timber bosses challenge logging discriminationNethy Dharma Somba and Puji Santoso, The Jakarta Post, Jayapura/PekanbaruIrritated by inconsistency on the part of security officers, timber businesspeople have taken the law into their own hands, seizing timber being transported into Jayapura city.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
1. PAN (1x36)
1. PAN (1x36) PAN must change image, Amien says 2. PKB (2x24) Gus Dur rejects bid by Syaifullah for top PKB post ORSyaifullah's bid for top PKB post rejected by Gus Dur ORSyaifullah's bid for top PKB post shot down ORSyaifullah's bid for PKB leadership rejected 3.
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
1. Retail --- 2x20
1. Retail --- 2x20 RI retailers attempting to modernize, branch out 2. Pope ----- 3x13 Leaders create safety headaches for papal funeral 3. Adiguna -- 1x30 Two people finger Adiguna as shooter 4. Iraq ---- 1x44 Jaafari named Iraqi PM, president sworn in
Fri, 08 Apr 2005
BIN assigns senior agents to assist Munir investigation
BIN assigns senior agents to assist Munir investigationMuninggar Sri Saraswati and Eva. C. Komandjaja, The Jakarta Post, JakartaNational Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief Syamsir Siregar announced on Thursday that he has assigned three senior officers to assist the government-sponsored fact-finding...