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Tue, 03 May 2005
Hypermart opened in Makassar
Hypermart opened in Makassar JAKARTA: Retailer PT Matahari Putra Prima Tbk has planned to expand by opening 10 Hypermart stores -- including its seventh one, which was opened last week in Makassar -- 11 Matahari department stores and between 20 and 25 Timezone game centers.
Tue, 03 May 2005
'I prefer a park in the middle of city'
'I prefer a park in the middle of city'Jakarta, home to around nine million people, has only five large sports stadiums open to the public. The city administration, however, has decided to convert the Menteng soccer stadium into a park that would include cafes and a jogging track.
Tue, 03 May 2005
TV Program: Tuesday, May 3, 2005
TV Program: Tuesday, May 3, 2005TVRI .TB.30" .90" 5:00 a.m. Religious Teachings6:00 News: Berita Pagi7:00 Cartoon: Tabaluga8:30 Music: Asik-asik10:00 Talk Show: Agribiz11:00 News: Berita Nusantara12:00 p.m.
Tue, 03 May 2005
Five RI men face piracy charges
Five RI men face piracy chargesTHAILAND: Five heavily armed Indonesian men who tried to take over a Thai fishing boat in the Andaman Sea have been arrested and are being held on suspicion of piracy and illegal possession of weapons, the Thai army said on Monday.
Tue, 03 May 2005
President, VP to go abroad
President, VP to go abroadMuninggar Sri Saraswati The Jakarta Post/JakartaPresident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is set to visit the United States, the European Union headquarters in Belgium, and Japan during his official trip later this month in a bid to boost ties with major countries.
Tue, 03 May 2005
Arpeni offers shares at Rp 700
Arpeni offers shares at Rp 700 JAKARTA: Shipping company PT Arpeni Pratama Ocean Line Tbk offered 500 million shares, or 33.3 percent of the company's total shares, worth between Rp 700 (7 U.S. cents) and Rp 1,200 each during its Initial Public Offering on Monday.
Tue, 03 May 2005
On-year inflation rate above 8% in April: BPS report
On-year inflation rate above 8% in April: BPS reportUrip Hudiono, The Jakarta Post, JakartaMonthly inflation began to ease in April from its sharp rise in March, but still leaves year-on-year inflation unchanged above the 8 percent level, official figures from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS)...
Tue, 03 May 2005
Foreign tourist arrivals rose by 12 percent in March: BPS
Foreign tourist arrivals rose by 12 percent in March: BPSThe Jakarta Post, JakartaThe number of foreign tourists arriving through Indonesia's 13 main entry points rose by nearly 12 percent in March from a month earlier, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) said on Monday.
Tue, 03 May 2005
U.S., Thai troops begin joint drills
U.S., Thai troops begin joint drillsTHAILAND: Some 6,300 U.S. and Thai troops began a two-week military drill in Thailand on Monday focusing on disaster relief, the U.S. Embassy said, four months after a tsunami devastated southern coastal areas.U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Ralph L.
Tue, 03 May 2005
Susilo slams schools that scrimp on 'idealism'
Susilo slams schools that scrimp on 'idealism'Rendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, JakartaPresident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expressed concern on Monday about the growing number of private schools, many of which allegedly put profit before quality of education for their students.
Tue, 03 May 2005
House to focus on budget revision
House to focus on budget revisionTony Hotland, The Jakarta Post, JakartaAfter a five-week recess, the House of Representatives kicked off on Monday its fourth sitting period, which will focus on the deliberation of the state budget revision and the bill on disaster management.
Tue, 03 May 2005
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~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.
Tue, 03 May 2005
Javanese culture
Javanese culture and democracy Although members of the Javanese community may claim they represent a "non-confrontational" culture (Javanese culture barrier to democracy: The Jakarta Post, April 30), it might be arrogant to not consider the experiences of young girls sold into prostitution...
Tue, 03 May 2005
Merpati resumes Bandung-S'pore route flights after seven years
Merpati resumes Bandung-S'pore route flights after seven yearsYuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, BandungAfter a hiatus of seven years, domestic airline company Merpati Nusantara has resumed servicing direct flights between the West Java city of Bandung and Singapore.
Tue, 03 May 2005
Flooding hits Konawe regency
Flooding hits Konawe regencyKENDARI, Southeast Sulawesi: Flooding has hit Konawe regency, Southeast Sulawesi over the past week, affecting some 700 families in the regency.The families, some of whom have taken refuge in safer places, have been in disarray for the past week, with their houses being...
Tue, 03 May 2005
Ex-Singapore president dies of cancer
Ex-Singapore president dies of cancerWee Sui Lee, Associated Press/SingaporeFormer Singapore President Wee Kim Wee has died from cancer at age 89, his family said on Monday.Bill Wee said his father's death on early Monday was from "secondary cancer" arising from complications from an earlier bout...
Tue, 03 May 2005
Indian food attracts wider market
Indian food attracts wider marketEvi Mariani The Jakarta Post/JakartaThanks partly to Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee and other Bollywood people, all things Indian are gaining popularity here, including its spicy and pungent cuisine.
Tue, 03 May 2005
Down with smugglers!
Down with smugglers! The recent Asian-African Summit concluded successfully. The hurly-burly of the golden jubilee commemoration of the Asia- Africa Conference may continue, but smugglers are operating like it's business as usual.
Tue, 03 May 2005
Big Brother, once again
Big Brother, once againIt takes a good ear and good counsel, as well as a degree of intelligence and conscience, for a leader to weigh all sorts of proposals, with coaxing and cajoling from all sides, and arrive at the best possible decision.
Mon, 02 May 2005
Open letter to Governor Sutiyoso
Open letter to Governor Sutiyoso I am writing to you about the disgraceful amount of public litter around. I have lived in Jakarta for five years, it has got worse in the past five years.I am disgusted with the fact that you have not figured it out in the five years gone.
Mon, 02 May 2005
Workers mark Labor Day with rallies
Workers mark Labor Day with ralliesThe Jakarta Post, JakartaThousands of people across the country took to the streets on Sunday to mark Labor Day with demands for better working conditions and the protection of workers' rights, as well as calling for the government to declare the day a public...
Mon, 02 May 2005
Bank Niaga's net income hit by higher taxes
Bank Niaga's net income hit by higher taxesThe Jakarta Post, JakartaDespite posting an unaudited record pretax profit of Rp 228.6 billion (US$23.89 million) in the first quarter of 2005, Bank Niaga's net income decreased by 6.2 percent from the same period last year due to a higher tax rate.
Mon, 02 May 2005
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~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.
Mon, 02 May 2005
War on corruption
War on corruptionFrom Bisnis Indonesia Some believe that the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) set up General Elections Commission (KPU) member Mulyana W. Kusumah, which led to his arrest on charges of bribery.
Mon, 02 May 2005
1. SPORT == 1 x 42
1. SPORT == 1 x 42 Jakarta needs more public sports facilities 2. PECINAN == 1 x 32 Chinese culture comes to town 3. RESTO == 1 x 32 Koreans jump into resto business 4. WASTE == 1 x 32 City told to revamp waste management OR Waste management needs revamping 5.
Mon, 02 May 2005
Dewantara's ideals tainted
Dewantara's ideals taintedMateus Yumarnamto, Surabaya Indonesians annually celebrate National Education Day on May 2. What we know about the day is that students partake in the flag ceremony, educational institutions have seminars on education and the mass media does special reports on education.
Mon, 02 May 2005
Blind children 'need equal opportunity' in regular schools
Blind children 'need equal opportunity' in regular schoolsEmmy Fitri, The Jakarta Post, JakartaAminah struggles to get a look inside the room from a window so she could watch her son, Muhammad Irfan. She was not the only one.
Mon, 02 May 2005
Down with smugglers!
Down with smugglers! The recent Asian-African Summit concluded successfully. The hurly-burly of the golden jubilee commemoration of the Asia- Africa Conference may continue, but smugglers are operating like it's business as usual.
Mon, 02 May 2005
Emancipating minds
Emancipating mindsToday, May 2, Indonesia commemorates National Education Day. The date was chosen in remembrance of Ki Hajar Dewantara who was born 106 years ago in Yogyakarta.It was he who pioneered the first truly Indonesian school with the intent of addressing the segregation experienced by the...
Mon, 02 May 2005
Mt Betung National Park on brink of destruction
Mt Betung National Park on brink of destructionOyos Saroso H.N., The Jakarta Post, BandarlampungThe Wan Abdurrahman forest preservation area in Mount Betung National Park, South Lampung, is in a sorry state, with 76 percent or 17,000 hectares of the 22,249-ha forest destroyed by illegal logging and...
Mon, 02 May 2005
Study shows decreasing level of lead in children's blood
Study shows decreasing level of lead in children's bloodBambang Nurbianto, The Jakarta Post, JakartaPhasing out leaded gasoline in Jakarta since 2001 has apparently satisfying results.A study held by a team of the University of Indonesia's (UI) Environmental Health Department from January to March...
Mon, 02 May 2005
Village takes stand against logging
Village takes stand against loggingSebastien Blanc, Agence France-Presse/SetulangThe Borneo village of Setulang was offered US$300,000 by loggers who wanted to hack down their trees. The villagers considered the offer, then in a rare stand against the illegal felling that has laid waste to...
Mon, 02 May 2005
Asian nations on piracy blacklist
Asian nations on piracy blacklistAgence France-Presse, WashingtonChina, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and the Philippines led a blacklist of Asian copyright violators released Friday by the United States, which sought tough action to combat piracy and counterfeiting of U.S. goods.
Mon, 02 May 2005
Kaban elected PBB leader
Kaban elected PBB leader SURABAYA: Minister of Forestry Malam Sambat Kaban won the leadership of the Crescent Star Party (PBB) by a landslide for the next five years during the party's second congress here on Sunday.
Mon, 02 May 2005
Better pay before antigraft drive
Better pay before antigraft driveFrom Warta KotaThe government should first promote the welfare of civil servants, soldiers and retired officials if it wishes to succeed in fighting corruption, collusion and nepotism, as former president Abdurrahman Wahid once pointed out.
Mon, 02 May 2005
Chinese culture comes to town
Chinese culture comes to townThe Jakarta Post, JakartaThe melodious sounds of traditional Chinese musical instruments saturated the auditorium in the School of Humanities at the University of Indonesia (UI) in Depok, West Java on Thursday.
Mon, 02 May 2005
Abolish democracy
Abolish democracy in RI, too costlyFrom Media Indonesia Democracy in Indonesia today tends to ruin nationhood and statehood because its implementation is high-cost and leads to a waste of public funds.The three elections held last year, for instance, cost a lot of money, and then we discover that...
Mon, 02 May 2005
*Internal split proves parties' immaturity Page 2
*Internal split proves parties' immaturity Page 2 *Tougher recruitment for police seen as positive move Page 4 *Low subsidy, conflict blamed for power crisis Page 5 *Quality teaching: Who is responsible? Page 7 *Jakarta needs more public sports facilities Page 8 *Jakarta 46 BNI scales twin peaks...
Mon, 02 May 2005
Low subsidy, conflict blamed for power crisis
Low subsidy, conflict blamed for power crisisM. Azis Tunny, The Jakarta Post, AmbonAmbon schools did not pay their electricity bills for years on end due to low power subsidies and the prolonged sectarian conflict, Ambon school executives said on Saturday.J.
Mon, 02 May 2005
Divestment of coal producer KPC near closing
Divestment of coal producer KPC near closingLeony Aurora, The Jakarta Post, JakartaThe Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources expects to wrap up its study into the divestment of a 32.4 percent stake in giant coal producer Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) this week, an official says.
Mon, 02 May 2005
Sutiyoso tells players to beware injury
Sutiyoso tells players to beware injuryThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta The country's chance of winning the Sudirman Cup mixed team championship for the first time in 15 years will depend on its top players staying free of injury, Badminton Association of Indonesia (PBSI) chief Sutiyoso says.
Mon, 02 May 2005
1 x 37
1 x 37 Tougher recruitment seen as positive JP/4/AWARD2 x 27 Glamor mall hosts exhibit on community development or Senayan Mall hosts exhibit on community development JP/2/FISIKA1 x 33 RI wins golds in Physics Olympiad JP/4/CHILD2 x 27 Discriminatory law spells trouble for mixed marriages
Mon, 02 May 2005
JP/5/FOCUS
JP/5/FOCUSAnti-logging operations extendedJAYAPURA: Massive anti-illegal logging operations in Papua, which were earlier set to wind down on May 6, will be extended to June 7, a senior police officer said on Friday.
Mon, 02 May 2005
Mobile work stations the new choice
Mobile work stations the new choiceThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta The efficient use of time and money is essential for Jakartans struggling to get to work amid notorious traffic congestion.With studies showing the average traveling speed in the capital is 14.
Mon, 02 May 2005
CORRECTION
CORRECTION In an article on Garuda Indonesia that appeared on page 13 in this newspapers on April 30, we mistakenly wrote in the heading Garuda suffers Rp 183t operational loss in Q1. It should have read Garuda suffers Rp 139 billion ... We apologize for the error. -- Editor
Mon, 02 May 2005
Jakarta needs more public sports facilities
Jakarta needs more public sports facilitiesThe Jakarta Post, JakartaInstead of converting the Menteng soccer field into a park, the city administration should build more public sporting facilities as existing stadiums and sports centers were inadequate to serve the growing population in the...
Mon, 02 May 2005
Theo to resign as BKPM chief
Theo to resign as BKPM chiefThe Jakarta Post, JakartaFollowing reports of his much-criticized assault on foreign residents at a children's sports event, Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) chief Theo Toemion announced on Sunday he would resign from his current post.
Mon, 02 May 2005
JP/5/ACROSS
JP/5/ACROSSUSNS Mercy winds up operationsJAKARTA: The U.S. Navy Hospital ship USNS Mercy will depart Nias waters on Saturday, concluding 25 days of humanitarian assistance to victims of the earthquake on the island, according to a release by the U.S. Embassy made available to the media on Friday.
Mon, 02 May 2005
Tougher recruitment seen as positive
Tougher recruitment seen as positiveEva C. Komandjaja, The Jakarta Post, JakartaThe National Police's decision to tighten their recruitment procedures following a fatal shooting incident involving two officers is seen as a positive move to help avoid a similar incident in the future, but some warn...
Mon, 02 May 2005
Labor conditions worsening: Union
Labor conditions worsening: UnionRidwan Max Sijabat, The Jakarta Post, JakartaLabor unions have blamed the government for the worsening labor conditions in Indonesia, which they say are a result of a bad investment climate, the absence of legal certainty and the high unemployment rate.