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Sat, 07 May 2005
European community to liven up local TV
European community to liven up local TV JAKARTA: Representatives from embassies, associations and educational institutes will participate in Siapa Berani, or Who Dares live quiz show on Monday at 9:30 a.m.The program, on Indosiar TV, is part of the station's Europe Day specials.
Sat, 07 May 2005
Officials hail anti-illegal logging operation
Officials hail anti-illegal logging operationEva C. Komandjaja, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta A two-month joint operation against illegal logging in Papua has ended with "satisfying" results, the National Police and the Ministry of Forestry said on Friday.The head of the operation, Comr. Gen.
Sat, 07 May 2005
Sugar industry deserves our support
Sugar industry deserves our supportAgus Pakpahan, Jakarta If we assume that the average annual growth of the Indonesian economy is 5 percent, Indonesia will reach the level of Malaysia's 2002 per capita income in 2035.
Sat, 07 May 2005
1. Blair --- 3x13
1. Blair --- 3x13 Blair remains Prime Minister, but weakened 2. KPU ----- 1x25 All KPU officials 'got kickbacks' 3. Polio --- 1x32 Government admits to more polio cases 4. Military -- 1x25 U.S. 'may revive military ties with RI'
Sat, 07 May 2005
Export tax bill on the works
Export tax bill on the worksDow Jones, Jakarta The Ministry of Finance has drafted a bill aimed at taxing raw or semifinished industrial and agricultural products exported out of the country, a senior government official said on Friday.
Sat, 07 May 2005
Activities return to normal after flooding
Activities return to normal after flooding KENDARI, Southeast Sulawesi: Activities in Konawe regency have started to return to normal over the past few days following flooding that hit the area last month.
Sat, 07 May 2005
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Sat, 07 May 2005
AirAsia to miss profit goal due to plane shortage
AirAsia to miss profit goal due to plane shortageKhoo Hsu Chuang Bloomberg/Kuala LumpurAirAsia Bhd., Southeast Asia's biggest discount airline, may miss its profit target for the year ending June because it lacks the aircraft needed to meet rising demand for low-fare air travel, analysts said.
Sat, 07 May 2005
Hotels offer high-speed Internet access
Hotels offer high-speed Internet access YOGYAKARTA: Star-rated hotels in Yogyakarta are competing to offer wireless, high-speed Internet connections to meet customers' demands for rapid access to information.
Sat, 07 May 2005
Be proud of yourself
Be proud of yourself I refer to the letter of Fenty Ang (an Indonesian student in Singapore) that appeared in The Jakarta Post on April 23 and felt sorry for her having such a low opinion about her country and its people.
Sat, 07 May 2005
Bimantara Q1 revenue up 65.6%
Bimantara Q1 revenue up 65.6%The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Publicly listed media and telecommunications company PT Bimantara Citra Tbk recorded a decline in profit during this year's first quarter, however its revenue increased significantly.
Sat, 07 May 2005
*Overlapping jobs await antigraft teams: Observers Page 2
*Overlapping jobs await antigraft teams: Observers Page 2 *Islam and state relations suffer setback: Scholars Page 4 *Ambon separatist arrested for treason Page 5 *Casuarina can protect our coasts from tsunami Page 6 *Thousand Islands to have new hospital Page 8 *Air Asia to miss profit target due...
Sat, 07 May 2005
UN helps build houses in Aceh
UN helps build houses in Aceh JAKARTA: The United Nations Human Resettlements Program (UN- Habitat) has agreed to help rebuild homes and safe shelters for people in Aceh and Nias affected by the Dec. 26 tsunami and the March 28 earthquake.
Sat, 07 May 2005
Pertamina could face fuel scarcity
Pertamina could face fuel scarcityUrip Hudiono, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta With the year's fuel subsidy already spent and the House of Representatives only starting to deliberate the 2005 state budget revision next week, the nation risks jeopardizing its fuel supplies if PT Pertamina fails to get...
Sat, 07 May 2005
Soekarno-Hatta International
Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and the communityFrom KompasSince its operation, the Soekarno-Hatta airport in Cengkareng has financially benefited Perum Angkasa Pura II as the airport management company and the city administration of Tangerang, while its negative impact has to be experienced...
Sat, 07 May 2005
PKB won't recall dissenting lawmakers
PKB won't recall dissenting lawmakersTony Hotland, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta Chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB) Muhaimin Iskandar asserted on Friday he would not dismiss or recall any dissenting PKB legislators who had opposed the party's national congress last month.
Sat, 07 May 2005
All KPU officials 'got kickbacks'
All KPU officials 'got kickbacks'Tony Hotland, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta Apparently not wanting to go down alone, General Elections Commission (KPU) treasurer Hamdani Amin, who has recently been declared a graft suspect, told investigators on Friday that all the KPU officials had received money from...
Sat, 07 May 2005
The number of schools offering international programs
The number of schools offering international programs continues to grow in the country's major cities, particularly in Jakarta. The increase in the number of these world-class schools not only offers parents a wide range of options to provide high- quality education for their children, but also...
Sat, 07 May 2005
AirAsia to miss profit goal due to plane shortage
AirAsia to miss profit goal due to plane shortageKhoo Hsu Chuang Bloomberg/Kuala LumpurAirAsia Bhd., Southeast Asia's biggest discount airline, may miss its profit target for the year ending June because it lacks the aircraft needed to meet rising demand for low-fare air travel, analysts said.
Sat, 07 May 2005
RI Chinese fight to position themselves in media industry
RI Chinese fight to position themselves in media industryID Nugroho, The Jakarta Post/Surabaya As if enthralled, a crowd of people attending an event in a field in Madura suddenly turn their heads toward a fair-skinned female walking past them on the edge of the field.
Sat, 07 May 2005
These young people write their own history
These young people write their own historyEvi Mariani The Jakarta Post/YogyakartaFor Nona Yoani Sara, 12, history is no longer a boring subject full of irrelevant events taking place years even before her father was born, that have to be memorized in order to pass a test in school.
Sat, 07 May 2005
$270m spent in transshipment costs
$270m spent in transshipment costsZakki P. Hakim, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta Indonesia could have saved US$270 million in transshipment costs every year if its exporters and importers did not use Singapore as a hub for exports and imports, an Indonesian Exporters Association (GPEI) official says.
Sat, 07 May 2005
Antigraft teams may overlap
Antigraft teams may overlapEva C. Komandjaja and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta The antigraft team set up recently by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono may overlap with the duties of other existing anticorruption bodies, thus could put efforts to eradicate the crime in disarray,...
Sat, 07 May 2005
Tension rises after village clash
Tension rises after village clash AMBON, Maluku: Tension prevailed on Friday in Haruku island, Maluku, following a clash a day earlier between Kabauw and Rohomoni subdistrict residents.The sound of homemade bombs and gunfire was heard on Thursday night and Friday morning in both neighboring...
Sat, 07 May 2005
Govt to give names to 9,000 islets
Govt to give names to 9,000 islets JAKARTA: The government is expected to name some 9,000 islets across the archipelago before submitting them to the United Nations in 2009, in a bid to affirm the country's sovereignty.
Sat, 07 May 2005
Europe-Indonesia, building stronger relations
Europe-Indonesia, building stronger relations Message from the Head of the European Commission DelegationEvery May we commemorate the end of the last great European war. The European dream of unity emerged out of that horrific experience.
Sat, 07 May 2005
Message from the EuroCham Chairman
Message from the EuroCham ChairmanThis month marks the first anniversary of EuroCham, the European Business Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia. Funded by a number of major European companies, the national European Business Associations in Indonesia and including Indonesian partners with links to...
Sat, 07 May 2005
Over 300 vehicles ticketed in Bekasi
Over 300 vehicles ticketed in Bekasi BEKASI: Police ticketed around 300 vehicles for violating various traffic regulations in an operation on Jl. Achmad Yani, Bekasi municipality, on Wednesday.The majority of motorists ignored traffic lights, traffic signs or did not have complete documents for...
Sat, 07 May 2005
Casuarinas can protect our coasts fron tsunamis
Casuarinas can protect our coasts fron tsunamisSuhardi, Yogyakarta Sukristijono Sukardjo was correct when he wrote in his article published in The Jakarta Post of April 28, that planting mangroves and casuarinas (Casuarinas equisetifolia) can prevent damage to coastal areas and help absorb the...
Sat, 07 May 2005
Our style is May and then the date, May 12, etc. Thanks.
Our style is May and then the date, May 12, etc. Thanks. Recent Events* EU Days -- A series of EU events held in Yogyakarta from May 2 until May 4, includes seminars, exhibitions and film screenings. The events are organised by the Delegation of the European Commission in cooperation with the...
Sat, 07 May 2005
Giving access to world's top universities
Giving access to world's top universitiesMost international schools in Indonesia, particularly in Jakarta, have designed their programs to give students access to the world's top universities.The schools not only adopt their national curriculum but also offer internationally respected curriculums...
Sat, 07 May 2005
Gas pipeline bids to end in November
Gas pipeline bids to end in NovemberLeony Aurora, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta The government expects the bidding for two gas pipeline projects in Java to be completed in November, with the construction to start early next year, a top official says.
Sat, 07 May 2005
Local media vows to keep fighting graft
Local media vows to keep fighting graftOyos Saroso H.N., The Jakarta Post/Bandarlampung Local journalists say the nine-month imprisonment of two of their colleagues over a report on alleged corruption will not discourage them from unveiling more graft cases.
Sat, 07 May 2005
Police raid gambling den
Police raid gambling den BEKASI: The police raided a gambling den on Thursday after two journalists from Indopos newspaper reported an alleged assault perpetrated by the establishment's security guards last week.
Fri, 06 May 2005
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;JP;DAN; ANPAf..r.. Rupiah-conversion-ratesRupiah Rates MAy 4 JP/13/ConverRupiah Rates May 4 Bank notes rates TT rates Selling Buying Selling Buying Rp Rp Rp Rp Australian dollar 1 7,781.21 7,003.50 7,430.09 7,354.57Brunei dollar 1 6,117.63 5,503.54 5,841.58 5,779.42Canadian dollar 1 8,009.76 7,207.
Fri, 06 May 2005
KPU's graft exposure
KPU's graft exposureFrom RepublikaWith the arrest of Mulyana W. Kusumah, a rights campaigner and member of the General Elections Commission (KPU), as a non- governmental organization activist I feel concerned over Mulyana's alleged bribery involvement.
Fri, 06 May 2005
Polio sufferers in dire need of help
Polio sufferers in dire need of helpYuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, SukabumiFikri Ramdani, just 19-months-old, has lost a toddler's joy since contracting polio two months ago. He cries all the time as he suffers from recurring bouts of high fever and frustratingly hits his legs that have become...
Fri, 06 May 2005
Side-by-side refrigerator: A hot status symbol for riche
Side-by-side refrigerator: A hot status symbol for richeThe Jakarta Post, JakartaIf a fire strikes Rina's home, irreplaceable valuables such as photo albums and family heirlooms will not be on top of her priority of what-should-be-saved-first list.
Fri, 06 May 2005
RI scores largest scholarship batch
RI scores largest scholarship batchJAKARTA: Seventy Indonesian scholars and students have been granted Fulbright scholarships to study in the United States, the American Indonesian Exchange Foundation announced on Thursday.
Fri, 06 May 2005
Media freedom under attack as newsmen jailed
Media freedom under attack as newsmen jailedOyos Saroso H.N, The Jakarta Post, BandarlampungMedia freedom in Indonesia is on the brink of ruin, with two senior journalists in Lampung being sentenced to nine months in jail for defamation.
Fri, 06 May 2005
Syafii Maarif, moderation and the future of Muhammadiyah
Syafii Maarif, moderation and the future of MuhammadiyahHilman Latief, Kalamazoo, Michigan At the next Muhammadiyah Congress from July 3-8 in Malang, East Java, the issue of the organization's leadership will feature prominently.
Fri, 06 May 2005
Man dies after communal clash
Man dies after communal clash AMBON, Maluku: Sayuti Roroa, a victim of a recent communal conflict in Kei Kecil district, Southeast Maluku regency, died on Thursday afternoon as a result of gunshot wounds.
Fri, 06 May 2005
~CD:
~CD: Dewa must bow to Islamists From Koran TempoA number of Islamic organizations have reported the Dewa pop rock band to the Jakarta police for failing to change the group's newest album cover, which bears a logo resembling the word Allah.
Fri, 06 May 2005
Govt sets up tsunami early warning system
Govt sets up tsunami early warning system JAKARTA: Following the Dec. 26 tsunami in Aceh and North Sumatra, the government is setting up a tsunami early warning system it claims will be able to predict incoming killer waves only five minutes after an initial earthquake.
Fri, 06 May 2005
Poso blast suspects arrested, linked to Mamasa riot
Poso blast suspects arrested, linked to Mamasa riotThe Jakarta Post, JakartaCentral Sulawesi Police have confirmed that three suspects arrested recently in connection with two Poso bomb attacks were also on the police wanted list for allegedly sparking an April 24 riot in Mamasa, West Sulawesi.
Fri, 06 May 2005
Drivers make way for dead, not the living
Drivers make way for dead, not the livingEvi Mariani, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta"My ambulance, in which I was transporting a three-day-old baby with breathing difficulties, was caught in traffic. Other vehicles wouldn't give way even though I had the siren and the flashing light on," Asti...
Fri, 06 May 2005
Polish pianist toasts human spirit in calamity's wake
Polish pianist toasts human spirit in calamity's wakeM. Taufiqurrahman, The Jakarta Post, JakartaLike the main character portrayed in Roman Polanski's award- winning film The Pianist, who seeks solace in music while the world crumbles around him, Polish piano player Janusz Olejniczak performed on...
Fri, 06 May 2005
Headings
HeadingsPage 81. MONORAIL -- 3x18 Jakarta Monorail struggles to reach deal before deadline 2. THEO -- 2x20 Theo may be declared suspect in assault case 3. TIGER -- 1x28 (cutline) Taman Safari gets 4 new tiger cubs 4. SPEAK -- 1x30 'Menteng stadium is an historical site'
Fri, 06 May 2005
Bekasi scraps budget for old folks' home
Bekasi scraps budget for old folks' home BEKASI: The Bekasi regental administration has decided to scrap the budget for 19 elderly men and women living in Siti Sarifah old people's home in Kampung Serang Baru subdistrict.
Fri, 06 May 2005
Getting more polluted
Getting more polluted When Director General for Land Transportation Iskandar Abubakar launched the idea of having all private vehicles undergo a roadworthiness test in 2003, he was met with strong resistance from the public.