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Mortar causes deadly explosion in Garut

Mortar causes deadly explosion in Garut GARUT, West Java: A mortar shell of an F-90 Commando was found to be the explosive material that caused an explosion at Simpang village in Cikijing district of Garut regency on Friday, which had claimed three lives.

1. FTA (1 x 28)

1. FTA (1 x 28) Asia must adjust to giant China 2. Taiwan (1 x 32) JP/ECONOMIC NEWS Economics Chen's Achilles' heal 3. Timor (2 x 20) E.Timor protestors lash Australia, World Bank JP/

Roadblocks coming down in Ambon

Roadblocks coming down in Ambon AMBON, Maluku: Security officers in the troubled Maluku capital of Ambon began on Friday evening to remove roadblocks in the Nania area of Teluk Baguala district.However, they were still waiting for assistance from the Regional Office for Public Services to remove...

Police detain thug Basri Sangaji

Police detain thug Basri Sangaji JAKARTA: The city police officially detained last Saturday a thug, identified as Basri Sangaji, following a brawl in the Kemang area, South Jakarta, between the suspect's gang and another, led by notorious hoodlum Hercules.City police spokesman Sr. Comr.

Asia must adjust to China: Experts

Asia must adjust to China: ExpertsFrancoise Kadri, Agence France-Presse, Tokyo East Asian countries including Japan must face the reality that China is a world power and learn to co-exist with their giant neighbor by developing a network of free trade agreements (FTAs), according to experts in...

Self reflections on National Awakening Day

Self reflections on National Awakening DayMochtar Buchori, Legislator, Jakarta, mbuchori@indo.net.id May 20 is National Awakening Day for us Indonesians, and May 2 is our National Education Day. Every year, on these two dates in May, we try to renew our understanding about the significance of the...

Papua tribes need Rp 47b

Papua tribes need Rp 47b JAYAPURA, Papua: The Papua Regional Office for Community Development (BPMD) hopes to secure Rp 47 billion in funds from the government to develop isolated tribes in 14 remote areas in the province, an official said on Saturday.

U.S. Congress to evaluate military embargo on Indonesia

U.S. Congress to evaluate military embargo on IndonesiaTiarma Siboro, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The U.S. Congress will evaluate the embargo imposed on the Indonesian Military (TNI) in July, pending the completion of the ongoing Human Rights Tribunal in the country against military and civilian...

Ambon Muslims surrender weapons

Ambon Muslims surrender weaponsOktianus Pinontoan, The Jakarta Post, Ambon A group of Muslims in the Maluku provincial capital of Ambon on Sunday surrendered a large quantity of weapons and explosives to the security authorities in what they called a gesture of goodwill to end the prolonged...

Clinton: World can learn from stoical Timor Lorosae

Clinton: World can learn from stoical Timor LorosaeAgencies, Dili, Timor Lorosae Former U.S. president Bill Clinton on Sunday praised the people of tiny Timor Lorosae (the official name of newly declared independent East Timor) for winning their freedom after years of hardship.

Ambon Muslims surrender weapons

Ambon Muslims surrender weapons Oktianus Pinontoan The Jakarta Post AmbonA group of Muslims in the Maluku provincial capital of Ambon on Sunday surrendered a large quantity of weapons and explosives to the security authorities in what they called a gesture of goodwill to end the prolonged conflict...

Reflections on national awakening day

Reflections on national awakening dayMochtar Buchori Legislator Jakarta mbuchori@indo.net.id May 20 is National Awakening Day for us Indonesians, and May 2 is our National Education Day. Every year, on these two dates in May, we try to renew our understanding about the significance of the two...

30,000 Timorese refugees vow to continue fighting

30,000 Timorese refugees vow to continue fightingYemris Fointuna, The Jakarta Post, Atambua, West Timor As East Timorese proclaimed their hard-fought independence at midnight on May 19 and changed the name of their country to Timor Lorosae, some 30,000 refugees originally hailing from the new...

Sex toys, pornography top list of seized items

Sex toys, pornography top list of seized itemsRendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Sex toys and pornography dominated the list of goods confiscated by the directorate of customs and excise in the first quarter of the year.

Advantage of power liberalization questioned

Advantage of power liberalization questionedMoch. N. Kurniawan, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Debates on the electricity bill, which aims to lift the monopoly of the state electricity company PT PLN in the country's power sector, could heat up considerably, as many legislators now have begun to...

Minister to launch ILO report

Minister to launch ILO report JAKARTA: Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Jacob Nuwa Wea was scheduled to launch the ILO global report on child labor at the Mandarin Hotel here on Monday.According to the global report, titled A Future without Child Labor, some 179 million children worldwide...

Save secondary forests too

Save secondary forests tooCesar Sabogal, CIFOR scientist, Bogor, West Java "Save our forests" has been a familiar catchphrase in the media for the past 20 years. And the message has been pretty much the same during that time: More effort is needed to save the pristine rainforests in South America,...

Indofood says Q1 net profit soars 102%

Indofood says Q1 net profit soars 102%Reuters, Jakarta The world's largest instant noodle maker PT Indofood Sukses Makmur said on Sunday its net income soared by 102 percent in the first quarter of 2002 to Rp308.6 billion (US$33.99 million) from an adjusted figure of Rp152.5 billion booked in 2001.

Semen Padang, PSM register opening wins

Semen Padang, PSM register opening winsKasparman, The Jakarta Post, Padang Semen Padang and PSM Makassar chalked up wins in their opening matches of the top-eight round of the Indonesian soccer league in Padang, West Sumatra, on Sunday.

Probosutedjo's case set for court

Probosutedjo's case set for court JAKARTA: The alleged Rp 38 billion (around US$3.8 million) fraud case involving businessman Probosutedjo, half brother of former president Soeharto, is close to prosecution, Attorney General's Office spokesman Barman Zahir said.

'Historic car' enters Yogyakarta museum

'Historic car' enters Yogyakarta museumTarko Sudiarno, Yogyakarta, The Jakarta Post The provincial government of Yogyakarta has decided to put one of its cars in a museum as a historical item.The car was used by Yogyakarta Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X to pacify protesters during the reformation...

JSX to become profit-oriented bourse

JSX to become profit-oriented bourseThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta The capital market authorities are setting up a foundation to gradually turn the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) into a credible bourse in Asia under a restructuring plan which will not only change fundamentally the way the stock market is...

Divide between nationalism and Islam must be avoided: Syafii

Divide between nationalism and Islam must be avoided: SyafiiKurniawan Hari, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The controversy over the establishment of an Islamic caucus continued with Muslim figures warning that it would not necessarily contradict nationalist mass organizations and parties.

JAKARTA: Indonesia's central bank said on Saturday its

JAKARTA: Indonesia's central bank said on Saturday its international reserves fell to US$28.14 billion as of the second week of May from $28.58 billion the previous week. International reserves are calculated using gross foreign exchange reserves and only include liquid assets.

'Drug abuse needs serious attention'

'Drug abuse needs serious attention' Drug use and addiction is an increasing problem in Jakarta. And while the impact of drugs on society is extremely serious, efforts to fight the distribution, sale and use of narcotics in the capital have never seemed to match this seriousness.

National Awakening Day

National Awakening Day National Awakening Day, May 20, is commemorated every year to pay homage to those Indonesians who rose as the untied nation of Indonesia, which was still under Dutch colonial domination in the 1920s.

[b]Please leave this as "color trading" as trading on the stock

Please leave this as "color trading" as trading on the stock exchange may actually be negatively affected rather than spured 1. Market (1 x 30) Indosat share sale to color trading this week JP/14/Stocks2.TV (2 x 24) World Cup to boost TV sales by 20-30% 3.

Indonesian or English best for Timor Lorosae

Indonesian or English best for Timor LorosaeChristina Schott, Contributor, Jakarta The new Timorese Lorosae government, formerly known as East Timor, has chosen Portuguese and Tetun as the official national languages. English and Indonesian shall only be used as "working languages" in the future.

Gusmao, a symbol of peace

Gusmao, a symbol of peaceAnnastashya Emmanuelle, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Freedom is apparently not the end of the struggle for a man like Xanana Gusmao, who has battled to remain free from thoughts of vengeance since his release from an Indonesian prison."I realize that we lost everything...

Timor Lorosae people pray that independence will bring peace

Timor Lorosae people pray that independence will bring peaceAgencies, Dili, Timor Lorosae The people of Timor Lorosae (which until Sunday evening known as East Timor) walked to church on Sunday for the last time as a people ruled by outsiders.

M2400, another ultra-sleek notebook on the market

M2400, another ultra-sleek notebook on the marketZatni Arbi, Columnist, Jakarta, zatni@cbn.net.id First, here's a little tip about the importance of power supply for our desktop computers. My PC is a Pentium III machine that I assembled myself.

Timor Lorosae becomes world's newest nation

Timor Lorosae becomes world's newest nationSteven Guikin, Associated, Dili, Timor Lorosae Timor Lorosae, a land long brutalized by foreign occupiers which until Sunday evening still known as East Timor, was declared independent Monday in a joyous ceremony, in which its red, black and gold flag...

Get CD-quality sound with your own TV

Get CD-quality sound with your own TVL. Gatot S., Contributor, Jakarta At present, Indonesian television viewers have one state-owned station and 10 private stations to choose from, following the launch of several private TV stations early last year.

Taman Mini invites new provinces to establish their own pavilions

Taman Mini invites new provinces to establish their own pavilionsBambang Nurbianto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The management of Taman Mini Indonesia Indah has invited newly established provinces to set up pavilions in the park so that all the country's provinces are represented there.

1. Custom (2x25)

1. Custom (2x25) Sex toys, porn top list of confiscated items by Customs 2. Indosa (3x28) Government sells 8.1 percent of Indosat stake for Rp 1t 3. JSX (1x38) JSX to become profit-oriented bourse

Government sells 8.1 percent of Indosat stake for Rp 1 trillion

Government sells 8.1 percent of Indosat stake for Rp 1 trillionDadan Wijaksana, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The government has sold some 83.5 million of its shares in state telecommunications firm PT Indosat, or 8.

Indonesia stuns Malaysia to retain Thomas Cup

Indonesia stuns Malaysia to retain Thomas CupNovan Iman Santosa, The Jakarta Post, Guangzhou, China Indonesia's men's shuttlers achieved their dream of being the first team ever to win the men's team Thomas Cup five times in a row after beating archrival Malaysia 3-2 in a tight match at the Tianhe...

New book says Sukarno behind Sept. 30 movement

New book says Sukarno behind Sept. 30 movementHarry Bhaskara, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta, hbkc@centrin.net.id A lot has been said openly about the 1965 "Sept. 30 Movement" -- the attempted putcsh and assassination of seven top military leaders which led to then president Sukarno's demise -- in the...

Ambon Muslims surrender weapons

Ambon Muslims surrender weaponsAgence France Presse, Ambon Muslims in the riot-hit Maluku on Sunday surrendered hundreds of weapons and explosives to the security authorities.The Forum for Muslim Brotherhood of Maluku, which also includes members of the extreme group Lasykar Jihad, surrendered one...

Int'l court for Trisakti case possible but not soon

Int'l court for Trisakti case possible but not soonTertiani ZB Simanjuntak, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Human rights activists have set an early deadline for the government to open an ad hoc court to try military and police officers for alleged gross human rights violations in May 1998.

Catholic adherents establish solidarity forum

Catholic adherents establish solidarity forumTertiani ZB Simanjuntak, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Indonesian Catholic society declared on Saturday the establishment of the Democratic Solidarity of Indonesian Catholics, a social organization which will serve as an alternative medium to channel...

Wake up and smell the rot

Wake up and smell the rot The National Awakening Day, commemorated today, comes at a time when Indonesia is at a crucial juncture which could determine our existence as a nation. Given the current state of affairs, it is no exaggeration to suggest that the nation- building process is already...

World Cup to boost TV sales by 20-30 percent

World Cup to boost TV sales by 20-30 percentAdianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The World Cup soccer tournament, coupled with the strengthening of the rupiah against the U.S. dollar, will increase television sales in the first half of this year by between 20 percent and 30 percent,...

ASEAN ministers gather to explore antiterror pact

ASEAN ministers gather to explore antiterror pactAgence France-Presse, Kuala Lumpur Southeast Asian security ministers began arriving here on Sunday for a special meeting to discuss the terror scare and to explore a regional pact to combat the scourge.

McDonald's gifts

McDonald's giftsFrom Bisnis IndonesiaI have attended birthday parties a few times at McDonald's and got the impression that it does not seem to care much about the quality of its gifts.In July 2001, my child had a birthday party at McDonald's Pondok Bambu and got a small backpack with a picture of...

Eastern canal project to start soon

Eastern canal project to start soon JAKARTA: The construction project for the East Flood Canal, delayed for 30 years, will commence in Marunda and Rorotan subdistricts, Cilincing, North Jakarta.According to head of the city public works agency IGKG Suena, some 80 percent of the land for the...

To amend or not to amend

To amend or not to amendFrom Rakyat MerdekaThe debate over amending the 1945 Constitution has become increasingly heated among politicians, political observers and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Explosion in Garut, three die: An explosion, believed to have

Explosion in Garut, three die: An explosion, believed to have been caused by a bomb, occurred in Cipuluh plantation area in South Garut district, West Jawa at 4:45 p.m. on Friday, killing three people and injuring several others, said Ade Karyana, a duty officer at the Garut Police precinct.

Rapists must be

Rapists must be severely punishedFrom Media Indonesia It is really heart-rending for me to read and watch newspaper and TV reports about the rape and torture of a teenage girl, Lestari (16), by four youths in Klaten, Central Java. Their treatment of the victim was so barbaric and inhuman.

State budget 101

State budget 101 From Republika The good intention of the government, in this case President Megawati Soekarnoputri, to provide aid for the repair of Indonesian Military/National Police barracks has prompted legislator Djamal Doa, a member of the United Development Party (PPP) faction in the House...