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Fri, 21 May 2004
RI firms face QC, promotion problems
RI firms face QC, promotion problemsTony Hotland, Jakarta Most of Indonesia's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) cannot enter the United States market, the world's largest, due to weak quality control and a dearth of opportunities for promoting their products.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Megawati to open antiterrorist school
Megawati to open antiterrorist school SEMARANG: President Megawati Soekarnoputri is scheduled on July 3 to inaugurate an international antiterrorist school being developed in Semarang, Central Java, by the National Police.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Police arrest 4 suspects for illegal firearms possession
Police arrest 4 suspects for illegal firearms possessionLeony Aurora , Jakarta The Jakarta Police apprehended four suspects for illegal possession of firearms during a drugs operation last week.A number of firearms were also recovered from the suspectsCity police spokesman Sr. Comr.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Candidates to spend billions in election
Candidates to spend billions in electionSlamet Susanto and M. Taufiqurrahman, Yogyakarta/Jakarta Presidential candidates are set to spend billions of rupiah in the one-month campaign period slated to begin on June 1, seeking financing from supporters and the business community, with some willing to...
Fri, 21 May 2004
No more rights activists?
No more rights activists?From Koran TempoHuman rights activists are apparently nowhere to be found anymore, while rights violators are not held accountable for their actions. Why is the struggle to uphold human rights suffering such a setback now?In the early 1990s, a lot of rights activists...
Fri, 21 May 2004
Vote for whom?
Vote for whom? It is already clear that six pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates will compete in the July 5 election -- Megawati Soekarnoputri-Hasyim Muzadi, Wiranto-Solahuddin Wahid, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono-Jusuf Kalla, Amien Rais-Siswono Yudohusodo, Hamzah Haz-Agum Gumelar, and...
Fri, 21 May 2004
1. PKB: 1 LINE, 30 COUNTS
1. PKB: 1 LINE, 30 COUNTS PKB leaks parties' past political deal 2. INDIA: 2 LINS, 14 COUNTS Singh vows to foster reform and peace 3. SOLAHUDIN: 1 LINE, 32 COUNTS Wiranto clear of rights abuse: Solahuddin 4. SOEHARTO: 1 LINE, 28 COUNTS Soeharto still beyond the law
Fri, 21 May 2004
Independent candidates may contest local elections
Independent candidates may contest local electionsKurniawan Hari, Jakarta Independent candidates may soon be allowed to contest local elections to choose governors, regents, or mayors, according to proposed revisions to autonomy laws.The revised draft of Law No.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Bulog wants more money for controversial program
Bulog wants more money for controversial programFitri Wulandari, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Commodity regulator, the State Logistics Agency (Bulog), has proposed a higher budget next year to provide a greater amount of inexpensive rice for tens of millions of poor families nationwide.
Fri, 21 May 2004
KL needs more Indonesian workers
KL needs more Indonesian workers BANDUNG: The Malaysian state of Selangor needs about one million more workers from Indonesia for its construction and domestic service sectors due to a housing boom there.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Rupiah Rates May 19
Rupiah Rates May 19 Banknote rates TT rates Selling Buying Selling Buying Australian dollar 1 6,599.60 5,901.75 6,284.02 6,217.11 Brunei dollar 1 5,529.73 4,945.69 5,265.30 5,209.97 Canadian dollar 1 6,858.65 6,135.61 6,530.67 6,463.47 Swiss franc 1 7,418.52 6,636.79 7,063.78 6,991.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Soeharto's legal journey
Soeharto's legal journeyMay 21, 1998: Soeharto steps down Sept. 25, 1998: Soeharto authorizes prosecutors to search for his alleged overseas deposits and assetsNov. 22, 1998: Soeharto hands over his seven tax-free charity foundations to the stateDec. 2, 1998: President B.J.
Fri, 21 May 2004
New oil and gas law enhances income sharing
New oil and gas law enhances income sharingUntung Suryanto, Surabaya It was very interesting to read the opinion piece by T.N. Mahmud, a former CEO of Arco Indonesia, in The Jakarta Post on May 5. His comments and proposals indeed represent the opinions of a highly regarded oilman who spent years...
Fri, 21 May 2004
Air Asia to increase flights from Bandung
Air Asia to increase flights from Bandung BANDUNG: Malaysia's Air Asia plans to increase flights from Kuala Lumpur to Bandung, West Java, to meet rising demands for more planes serving the route.Air Asia Country Manager Nasser Abu Kasim said his company would provide two flights every day between...
Fri, 21 May 2004
Soeharto still beyond the law
Soeharto still beyond the lawKurniawan Hari, Jakarta The country will mark on Friday the sixth anniversary of president Soeharto's resignation -- and the failure to bring him to court for his alleged involvement in a number of graft cases.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Govt plans to write off farmers' bad debts
Govt plans to write off farmers' bad debtsThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta The government plans to write off some Rp 5.7 trillion (US$633 million)-worth of bad debts owed by farmers, according to Minister of Finance Boediono.He said the amount was part of a total Rp 7.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Police committee orders detention of 18 officers over Flores shooting
Police committee orders detention of 18 officers over Flores shootingYemris Fointuna KupangA police disciplinary committee in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, ordered 18 officers to be detained on Thursday for only six days for their role in a shooting incident last March on Flores island that killed...
Fri, 21 May 2004
Residents attack officials' homes
Residents attack officials' homes TANGERANG: Hundreds of residents attacked on Thursday the houses of Lontar village officials, who they accused of taking bribes to allow offshore sand mining to resume in the area.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Applying the three Cs
Applying the three Cs While observing recent political events leading up to the most democratic event ever to be held, the upcoming presidential election, we could evaluate political aspirants through all kinds of management theories, from the very basic, applying local principles or the proven and...
Fri, 21 May 2004
HIV/AIDS ctivists icollaborate with police
HIV/AIDS ctivists icollaborate with policeDewi Santoso, Jakarta Activists introduced a harm reduction program to police on Wednesday to avoid misperceptions that could prompt police personnel to arrest HIV/AIDS activists in the field.
Fri, 21 May 2004
City to construct new busway corridors in June
City to construct new busway corridors in JuneDamar Harsanto, Jakarta The Jakarta administration will start in June the construction of facilities for two new busway corridors from Kalideres bus terminal in West Jakarta to the National Monument (Monas) in Central Jakarta and from Monas to...
Fri, 21 May 2004
RI maid burnt in worst abuse case in Malaysia
RI maid burnt in worst abuse case in MalaysiaAgence France-Presse Kuala LumpurA 19-year-old Indonesian maid was repeatedly burnt with an iron and scalded with boiling water by a wealthy Malaysian housewife in the worst case of abuse ever seen in the country, reports said on Thursday.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Militias to join TNI course after martial law
Militias to join TNI course after martial lawTiarma Siboro and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta More than 100 Acehnese claiming to be local people and members of various anti-separatist movements met with officials of the Ministry of Defense here on Wednesday as part of what seemed to be a...
Fri, 21 May 2004
Researcher urges food testing
Researcher urges food testingJAKARTA: A researcher underlined the need for clinical trials of all food and beverage products before they are put on the market."The results of clinical trials on humans should be announced for all products, and this should also apply to traditional products," a...
Fri, 21 May 2004
1. AUTONOMY: 48 pt, 2 cols, 4 x 12
1. AUTONOMY: 48 pt, 2 cols, 4 x 12 Independent candidates may contest local elections 2. FUND: 36 pt, 4 cols, 2 x 28 PDI-P, Golkar quarrel over anti-Wiranto rally 3. CAMPAIGN: 28 pt, 1 cols, 4 x 9 Candidates to spend billions in campaign 4.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Public participation up, women marginalized: Study
Public participation up, women marginalized: StudyA. Junaidi, Jakarta While public participation in the fight for good governance has increased in the current regional autonomy era, the role of women in public affairs remains marginalized, research by The Asia Foundation (TAF) says.
Fri, 21 May 2004
National leaders united to save country from collapse
National leaders united to save country from collapseM. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta Over 100 key national figures, including state officials from the New Order administration, called on the nation to take necessary measures to "save" the country, which they said was on the brink of collapse.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Indonesia makes steady economic recovery
Indonesia makes steady economic recoveryBoediono, Jeju Island, South Korea Among countries in this region, Indonesia has been hit by the 1997 crisis hardest and longest. In the past three years or so, however, the country has been slowly but steadily pulling itself out of the crisis.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Poor Jakartans say free health care still denied them
Poor Jakartans say free health care still denied themLeony Aurora, Jakarta More than 40 percent of poor Jakartans, whose health care services are supposed to be covered by the government, claim they still have to pay part of their hospital medical bills.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Banks to help Indonesians work obroad
Banks to help Indonesians work obroadRidwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta Frustrated by complicated problems in labor export, Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Jacob Nuwa Wea has sought the support of several private and state-owned banks to provide credit schemes for Indonesians working overseas.
Fri, 21 May 2004
NGO blasts shrimp farming
NGO blasts shrimp farmingAgence France-Presse London The explosive growth of shrimp farming in developing nations, many in Asia, has caused a "shocking environmental crisis" of deforestation and pollution, a campaign group charged on Wednesday.
Fri, 21 May 2004
PDI-P, Golkar quarrel over anti-Wiranto rally
PDI-P, Golkar quarrel over anti-Wiranto rallyRidwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta The renewed rivalry between the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and its old nemesis the Golkar Party has taken on a new twist with Golkar leaders accusing PDI-P of funding a negative campaign against its...
Fri, 21 May 2004
BPOM told to audit drug sales
BPOM told to audit drug salesJAKARTA: The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) should have all data reported by pharmaceutical companies and distributors audited, which is the only way to control the illegal distribution of drugs, an observer says.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Irene leads RI against S'pore in chess meet
Irene leads RI against S'pore in chess meetThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta Irene Kharisma, who finished ninth in the girls' U-12 category at the 2003 World Chess Championships, will lead Indonesia's youth team in a three-way chess matchup against Singapore starting on Saturday.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Aceh to have 10 additional police precincts this year
Aceh to have 10 additional police precincts this yearP.C. Naommy, Jakarta The National Police will establish 10 new precincts in the restive province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) to improve security following the imposition of a state of civil emergency.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Chen avoids showdown with China
Chen avoids showdown with ChinaAgencies Taipei/Jakarta/BeijingTaiwan President Chen Shui-bian ruled out any immediate steps toward independence as he began a fresh four-year term, calling for better ties with China in remarks aimed at placating his giant communist neighbor and key ally the United...
Fri, 21 May 2004
Medco Q1 profit falls 54 percent
Medco Q1 profit falls 54 percentJAKARTA: PT Medco Energi International, Indonesia's largest publicly traded oil company, said first-quarter profit fell 54 percent on higher costs.Net income fell to US$13 million, or 0.4 cent a share, in the three months ended March 31, from $28.2 million, or 0.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Pythons released to kill rats
Pythons released to kill rats YOGYAKARTA: Sleman Regent Ibnu Subiyanto has released at least 100 pythons in rice fields in Argomulyo village, Cangkringan subdistrict, in an effort to fight a rat plague there.
Fri, 21 May 2004
The parrot and Soeharto's loyalists
The parrot and Soeharto's loyalistsKornelius Purba, Staff Writer, The Jakarta Post purba@thejakartapost.com When Soeharto celebrated his 77th birthday on June 8, 1998 -- or just 18 days after he decided to end his 32-year rule -- a reporter of The Jakarta Post wrongly concluded in his article on...
Fri, 21 May 2004
Convicts grilled over Ba'asyir
Convicts grilled over Ba'asyirEvi Mariani and P.C. Naommy, Jakarta Police have questioned all convicts in the Bali bombing in connection with terrorism charges leveled at Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir.National Police antiterrorist division head Brig. Gen.
Fri, 21 May 2004
* Independent candidates may contest local elections Page 2
* Independent candidates may contest local elections Page 2 * Banks to help Indonesians work overseas Page 4 * Acehnese join nationalism defense course Page 5 * Legislative elections and Indonesia's future Page 6 * Underground cyber community demands hacker's release Page 8 * Wolves advance to...
Fri, 21 May 2004
S&P raises Indosat, Telkom ratings
S&P raises Indosat, Telkom ratingsJAKARTA: PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom), the country's biggest telephone company, and rival PT Indonesian Satellite Corp. (Indosat) had their credit rating outlook raised to positive from stable by Standard & Poor's (S&P), which cited improving economic...
Fri, 21 May 2004
3 x 15
3 x 15 Public roles up, but women still marginalized: Study JP/8/baasyi21 x 27 Convicts grilled over Ba'asyir JP/4/4Jacob1 x 37 Banks to help Indonesians work abroad JP/4/HARM1 x 35 AIDS activists collaborate with police JP/04/AWAKE2 x 25 National leaders unite to save country from collapse
Fri, 21 May 2004
Fishermen protest pollution in sea
Fishermen protest pollution in sea JAKARTA: Fishermen in Cilincing, North Jakarta, demanded the city administration close factories located on the northern coast, which they said were polluting the sea with unprocessed waste.
Fri, 21 May 2004
1 x 43
1 x 43 Militias to join TNI course after martial law JP/4/aceh2 x 26 Aceh to have 10 additional police precincts this year 2 x 33 Community-based national park to curb illegal logging in Sumatra JP/5/MEDAN2 x 27 Sierra Leone citizen gets death for drug dealing 1 x 42 Trading of smuggled clothes...
Fri, 21 May 2004
Sofyan Tan, doctor who works for education
Sofyan Tan, doctor who works for educationApriadi Gunawan, The Jakarta PostMedan He is probably one of a few graduates, among the millions that hold a degree in medicine, who has veered away from the noble profession of general practitioner.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Borobudur to host Waisak event
Borobudur to host Waisak eventJAKARTA: The Indonesian Buddhist Association (Walubi) will celebrate Waisak, the birth of Buddha Sidharta Gautama, at Borobudur Temple in Central Java on June 3.The organizing committee said the event at Borobudur would be attended by Minister of Religious Affair Said...
Fri, 21 May 2004
Legislative elections and Indonesia's future
Legislative elections and Indonesia's futureJusuf Wanandi, JakartaWhat is the impact of the 2004 legislative elections on Indonesia's two most important assets, a maturing democracy and moderate Islam?A maturing democracy is not only democracy as a formality, such as having elections regularly or...
Fri, 21 May 2004
JP/5/focus
JP/5/focusKPUD members to be firedMANADO, North Sulawesi: The province's Regional General Elections Commission (KPUD) will hold a plenary meeting this week to replace a number of members in the regencies, who are guilty of taking bribes and manipulating votes.
Fri, 21 May 2004
Siswono to focus on SMEs, agroindustry
Siswono to focus on SMEs, agroindustryZakki P. Hakim, Jakarta Siswono Yudohusodo, the running mate of presidential candidate Amien Rais, said on Wednesday "their" administration would focus on the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), should they emerge the winner in July's polls.