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Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Where to go in Bandung:
Where to go in Bandung:Performances* Theater: Les Porteurs D'Eau, organized by CCF - French Cultural Center (Phone 4212417), at Taman Budaya Jawa Barat, 8 p.m., June 22.* Theater: Ura-Ura Ngudarasa, by Studio Taksu Solo, at CCF - French Cultural Center, Jl. Purnawarman 32 (Phone 4212417), 8 p.m.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Qatar-RI friendly match postponed
Qatar-RI friendly match postponed JAKARTA (JP): The Qatar soccer team put off a friendly match with the Indonesian team which was scheduled for Friday as part of the training program for the upcoming Asian Cup in Beirut, Lebanon, from Oct. 12 to Oct. 29.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
PDI-P councillor killed in Aceh
PDI-P councillor killed in Aceh BANDA ACEH, Aceh: A member of the South Aceh council and head of the local chapter of PDI Perjuangan, Harun Aldy, has been found dead in South Aceh from gunshot and stab wounds.Local police chief Maj.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Bogor minivan drivers launch sudden strike
Bogor minivan drivers launch sudden strike BOGOR (JP): Hundreds of minivan drivers went on strike on Monday along Jl. Semeru, leaving thousands of commuters stranded.The drivers of the minivans were reportedly angry as they were told other minivans would take over their routes and many passengers...
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Indonesian Axis aiming at middle classes: Eros
Indonesian Axis aiming at middle classes: Eros The following is an excerpt of an interview with Eros Djarot, a member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) and a founder of the new Indonesian Axis (Poros Indonesia) group: Question: What do you think about the changes in...
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Stock Exchange
Stock ExchangeStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on June. 12, 2000: Shares Close Change Trading Volume ---------------------------------------------------------- Ades Alfindo 625 0 0 Adindo Foresta Indonesia 325 25 4,245,500 Alakasa Industrindo 1,025 0 0 Alfa Retailindo 825 0...
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Farmers seek return of land
Farmers seek return of land BANDUNG: Claiming they feared "tough" action from their wives, about 15 Lengkong villagers, from Sukabumi regency, demanded on Monday that they get a written assurance from the West Java provincial council about getting their land back.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Rupiah weakness is 'incomprehensible': Kwik
Rupiah weakness is 'incomprehensible': Kwik JAKARTA (JP): Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry Kwik Kian Gie said on Monday that the current weakness of the rupiah was "incomprehensible" because it contradicted the improvement in the country's macroeconomic indicators.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Portuguese cartography expo
Portuguese cartography expo JAKARTA (JP): The Embassy of Portugal, in cooperation with the Jakarta Historical Museum, will hold an exhibition of ancient Portuguese nautical cartography next Thursday, the embassy announced on Saturday.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
'Sinful' business plagues Bandung mosque
'Sinful' business plagues Bandung mosqueBy Kafil Yamin BANDUNG (JP): The Bandung grand mosque (Mesjid Agung) has just been renovated, providing more convenience to regular worshipers and passersby. A Muslim who happens to pass through Bandung's main city park at prayer time can drop in the grand...
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
RP, U.S. to conduct naval exercise
RP, U.S. to conduct naval exercise MANILA (AFP): Some 4,000 Filipino and U.S. servicemen are to participate in two weeks of joint naval exercises this month, the second large-scale maneuvers between the allies this year, officials said on Monday.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Aprilia, Bayu train overseas
Aprilia, Bayu train overseas JAKARTA (JP): Women's judoka Aprilia Marzuki and men's judoka Kresna Bayu will go to either Europe or Japan for six weeks training prior to the Olympic Games in Sydney in September, said the Indonesian Judo Association (PJSI) official in charge of athletes development,...
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
House proposes bills to start up two new provinces
House proposes bills to start up two new provinces JAKARTA (JP): The House of Representatives proposed on Monday two bills to establish two new provinces -- Bangka and Belitung Islands in South Sumatra and the Riau Archipelago off Riau mainland -- to prepare for economic development in the two...
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Counterfeit seized in C. Java raids
Counterfeit seized in C. Java raids MAGELANG, Central Java: Police here said they have seized some Rp 200 million in fake bills and arrested 51 people for laundering counterfeit money in the province in separate raids over the past two months.Magelang Police chief Col. Buchoding A.M.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
TV broadcast in Papua
TV broadcast in PapuaFrom KompasWe, the Papuans, are very unfortunate. Since Feb. 1, 2000, we have no longer been able to receive RCTI , the only private television station to broadcast here, despite the use of an ordinary satellite dish, which we bought with our hard-earned money.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Postpone PTPN firms' privatization plan, House says
Postpone PTPN firms' privatization plan, House says JAKARTA (JP): The House of Representatives (DPR) has asked the government to delay the privatization of state-owned plantation companies PT Perkebunan Nusantara III (PTPN III) and PT Perkebunan Nusantara IV (PTPN IV).
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Megawati vows significant improvements for next year
Megawati vows significant improvements for next year JAKARTA (JP): Vice President Megawati Soekarnoputri asked on Monday the public to be patient, saying it would take time to solve the complex problems inherited from the past regime.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
NGOs protest nepotism in Bali
NGOs protest nepotism in Bali DENPASAR (JP): About 30 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) marched on Monday to the Bali provincial council to protest the suspected recruitment of new civil servants in the province.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Donation from Brunei questioned
Donation from Brunei questioned JAKARTA (JP): Legislators and observers on Monday censured President Abdurrahman Wahid's acceptance of millions of dollars in personal donations saying that while it is currently not unlawful, it is ethically questionable.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Journalists get life insurance
Journalists get life insurance JAKARTA (JP): Sports journalists received a life insurance policy worth Rp 50 million (US$5,800) from the National Sports Council (KONI) and the state-owned PT Jasaraharja Putera insurance company.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Domestic helper drowned
Domestic helper drowned JAKARTA (JP): North Jakarta police are still investigating the death of a domestic helper, who is said to have been drowned on Sunday while trying to swim in the swimming pool of the house while her employers were out.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Clarification of fake money
Clarification of fake moneyFrom RepublikaThe plastic Rp 100,000 banknote, which is considered counterfeit money by the public is indeed genuine money, which, unfortunately, is defective.This banknote is considered "counterfeit money" because it has been found that in a certain part of the banknote...
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Defendant tries to commit suicide
Defendant tries to commit suicide JAKARTA (JP): A defendant tried to jump off the second floor of the Central Jakarta District Court on Monday upon hearing the prosecutor's demand that the court sentence her to nine years in jail for her alleged attempt to smuggle 20 kilograms of marijuana into the...
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Plenty of unfinished business after Asian crisis eases
Plenty of unfinished business after Asian crisis easesBy Eileen Ng SINGAPORE (AFP): Regional policymakers and development specialists are warning there is no guarantee Asia's financial crisis will not recur despite the return of growth, and are calling for intensified action on poverty, corruption...
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Gus Dur's intervention in BI justified
Gus Dur's intervention in BI justified President Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid's conflict with Bank Indonesia Governor Sjahril Sabirin is another blow to the battered economy. Secretary of the National Economic Council (DEN) Sri Mulyani Indrawati thinks the conflict is a zero-sum game.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Police to question Rudini, Mahadi over scam
Police to question Rudini, Mahadi over scam JAKARTA (JP): Police will question State Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Mahadi Sinambela and Rudini, the former chairman of the General Election Commission (KPU), over an alleged malfeasance in the purchase of flags for political parties during last...
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Message from the Ambassador
Message from the Ambassador Today will be the fourth time that I and my family have celebrated The Queen's Birthday in Jakarta. It will also be the last, since we shall be leaving Indonesia at the end of our assignment next month.We feel very privileged.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
5,000 new firms in Vietnam
5,000 new firms in Vietnam HANOI (DPA): Vietnam registered 5,000 new enterprises in the first five months of the year, officials and media said on Monday, as the communist leadership continued to talk up an economic turnaround.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
More people killed in Ambon clash
More people killed in Ambon clash AMBON, Maluku (JP): At least eight people, including two Police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) officers, were killed during three, likely related, raids by armed men on Monday.The attacks began when speedboats sped by shooting at Galala port in Ambon.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Constitutional change on equality urgent: Activist
Constitutional change on equality urgent: Activist JAKARTA (JP): A special section on human rights must be included in planned changes to the 1945 Constitution to enable the replacement of many discriminative laws, advocates for women's equality said.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
New axis a force to be reckoned with: Observers
New axis a force to be reckoned with: Observers YOGYAKARTA (JP): Political observers predicted the newly born "Indonesian Axis" could become a dominant political force in the future as long it constrains itself and avoids direct confrontation with the political elite until after the next general...
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Subarjo resigns from BI
Subarjo resigns from BI JAKARTA (JP): Bank Indonesia deputy governor Subarjo Joyosumarto will resign from the central bank as of next month to head a Kuala Lumpur-based training department owned by the central banks of the Southeast Asian nations.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
KL to cut palm oil output
KL to cut palm oil output KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): Malaysia is considering cutting palm oil output by 450,000 tons a year to help support prices by replanting aging trees, Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik said on Monday.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Two killed in bus accident
Two killed in bus accident PACITAN, East Java: Two female teenagers were killed and several passengers suffered injuries when their bus hit a coconut tree near Sedeng hill, Pacitan regency on Sunday night.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
A bad precedent
A bad precedent How to read Gus Dur? This question has become a frequent topic of conversation around the country since President Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid became Indonesia's first democratically elected president in October last year.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Soeharto's 'poor memory' hampers questioning
Soeharto's 'poor memory' hampers questioning JAKARTA (JP): They say the first thing to go with age is memory. That, according to Soeharto's lawyers, is what is happening to the former president as Monday's questioning yielded only incoherent answers and a series of "I can't remembers".
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Irregularities found in Bulog's funds
Irregularities found in Bulog's funds JAKARTA (JP): The Development Finance Comptroller (BPKP) has found irregularities of about Rp 166 billion (US$19.5 million) in the nonbudgetary funds belonging to the State Logistics Agency (Bulog), a member of the House of Representatives said on Monday.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
KL palm oil closes lower
KL palm oil closes lower KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): Malaysian palm oil futures closed lower, dragged down by a sharp drop in soybean futures on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) Project A screen trading amid forecasts for more rain this week in the U.S. Midwest.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Police name no suspects in street justice killing
Police name no suspects in street justice killing JAKARTA (JP): Like many other bloody street justice murders, police are still unable to name suspects in Saturday's fatal mobbing and burning of five alleged thieves near Kampung Rambutan inter-city bus terminal in East Jakarta.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Decentralization not a better bet for environment
Decentralization not a better bet for environment JAKARTA (JP): Years of relentless exploitation of the country's rich natural resources have taken a terrible toll.Forests are gone, many species of flora and fauna are threatened or endangered and the archipelago's pristine coral reefs are dying.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Alcatel awaits telecom reforms to unleash RI's potential
Alcatel awaits telecom reforms to unleash RI's potentialBy Berni K. Moestafa SINGAPORE (JP): French-based telecommunications company PT Alcatel Indonesia expects solid growth in the next two years after the Indonesian government completes its reform program in the telecommunications sector.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Rates for tax payment, valid from June 12 to June 18
Rates for tax payment, valid from June 12 to June 18 U.S. dollar 1 Rp 8,460.00Austrian schilling 1 582.66Australian dollar 1 4,921.18Belgian franc 1 198.75Canadian dollar 1 5,720.08Swiss franc 1 5,097.92Deutschemark 1 4,101.42Danish krone 1 1,081.69French franc 1 1,222.26Poundsterling 1 12,764.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Gus Dur to meet with Clinton
Gus Dur to meet with Clinton BALTIMORE, Maryland (JP): President Abdurrahman Wahid is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Bill Clinton at the White House, Washington D.C., on Monday (local time), officials said.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
National census moves at a snail's pace in capital
National census moves at a snail's pace in capital JAKARTA (JP): As the month-long national census entered its 12th day on Monday, a census official suggested it possible that data on only 20 percent of the city's residents had been collected.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
United and cohesive TNI
United and cohesive TNI Viewing the Indonesian Military (TNI) as a political enemy and thus trying to undermine and weaken it could create disaster at a time when a strong united military is needed. The role TNI played during the New Order era is a strong reason for this attitude taken by...
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
PAL books first profit
PAL books first profit MANILA (AFP): Debt-saddled Philippine Airlines (PAL) on Monday reported a net profit of 44.2 million pesos (US$1.052 million) for the fiscal year ended March, its first profit in seven years.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Conversion Rates
Conversion Rates Bank Indonesia's conversion rates on June 12, 2000: Bank notes rates TT rates Buying Selling Buying Selling Rp Rp Rp Rp U.S. dollar 1 8,150.00 9,150.00 8,607.00 8,693.00Australian dollar 1 4,784.87 5,381.12 5,053.17 5,112.35Austrian schilling 1 562.67 632.04 594.22 600.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
BP Amoco says Tangguh project to benefit locals
BP Amoco says Tangguh project to benefit locals BALTIMORE, United States (JP): Oil and gas company BP Amoco promised that its planned Tangguh liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Irian Jaya would bring benefits to the locals.
Tue, 13 Jun 2000
Valuing BCA objectively
Valuing BCA objectively The two recent articles by Melville S. Brown on BCA's initial public offering certainly made for amusing reading (The Jakarta Post, May 29, 2000 and May 30, 2000). Although he raises some interesting points, it is obvious from the tone of his writing that he seems to bear...
Mon, 12 Jun 2000
TV today
TV todayTVRI 5:30 a.m. Religious Teachings 6:00 News 8:00 Children's Songs 9:00 Interval 2:00 p.m. News 2:30 Children's Program 3:00 Teen Program 4:00 Regional News 4:30 Music 5:30 TVRI News (in English) 6:00 TV Series: Hotel 7:00 Evening News 7:30 TV Drama 8:00 Sports 8:30 Talk Show 9:00 World...