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Tue, 24 Jun 1997
Dividends reflect rises in profits of Texmaco units
Dividends reflect rises in profits of Texmaco units JAKARTA (JP): Publicly listed PT Texmaco Perkasa Engineering, PT Polysindo Eka Perkasa and PT Texmaco Jaya, -- all under the Texmaco group -- will pay cash dividends of Rp 90 (4 U.S.
Tue, 24 Jun 1997
Is our society orderly or disorderly?
Is our society orderly or disorderly?By Mochtar Buchori JAKARTA (JP): Prof. Hans Christian von Baeyer's article on "Disorderly Conduct" in the May/June edition of Sciences has changed my old notions on order and disorder.
Tue, 24 Jun 1997
Chairman rules, says councilor
Chairman rules, says councilor JAKARTA (JP): A chairman of a party faction at the city council, or the party's chairman, are the ones authorized to request a councilor to leave a council meeting, a councilor said yesterday.M.
Tue, 24 Jun 1997
SE Asian rubber prices may plunge this week
SE Asian rubber prices may plunge this week SINGAPORE (Reuter): Southeast Asian rubber prices are seen falling this week, traders said yesterday, and demand is expected to remain sluggish as the market focuses on the Tokyo futures' spot contract expiry today.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Street kids hold 'Kampore' camp in Cibubur
Street kids hold 'Kampore' camp in Cibubur JAKARTA (JP): About 400 street children, beggars and vendors from throughout the nation gathered for a three-day summer break that ends today at a scout camping ground in Cibubur.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
RI may join world's 20 largest economies
RI may join world's 20 largest economies JAKARTA (JP): Sustained annual economic growth of 7.5 percent would place Indonesia among the 20 largest economies with per capita income of US$2,300 in 2005, the World Bank says in its 1997 report on the country.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Putting the battle against AIDS epidemic back on track
Putting the battle against AIDS epidemic back on trackBy Nona Pooroe Utomo JAKARTA (JP): More than a decade ago, the world discovered a new worldwide epidemic. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) shocked a public accustomed to biomedical triumph, and the industrialized world, shorn of its...
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Asia Telecom 97: Convergence of telecoms and the Internet
Asia Telecom 97: Convergence of telecoms and the InternetBy Zatni Arbi SINGAPORE (JP): Could there ever be a better place to hold international telecommunication exhibitions and symposiums than Singapore?I don't think one would be easy to find one.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
ASEAN told to boost democracy
ASEAN told to boost democracy DENVER, Colorado (Reuter): The world's leading industrial countries urged on Saturday southeast Asian nations which recently accepted Myanmar into the ASEAN economic group to pressure Yangon's military rulers to restore democracy.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Beware of mobile robbers
Beware of mobile robbersFrom KompasPeople from Tulungagung, East Java, should be extremely careful. My 69-year-old mother was robbed in a minivan on May 30, 1997. She was waiting for a bus from Trenggalek, at the crossroads of Jetakan Kalangbret, to the Tulungagung bus terminal when a minivan Colt...
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Merger of state banks
Merger of state banks We had almost disregarded Presidential Instruction No.5/1988 concerning the reform of state enterprises as another government program which had petered out for lack of political will when Minister of Finance Mar'ie Muhammad confirmed last week a plan to merge the seven state...
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Driver reluctant to join bus strike
Driver reluctant to join bus strike JAKARTA (JP): A few days after the recent strike by bus drivers, Yusuf, 39, plying a route which begins in Tanah Abang, reflects: "I'm too old for this."He was reluctant to strike but, as an elderly local Betawi who other drivers look up to, felt it would not...
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
18 arrested for stealing diesel fuel
18 arrested for stealing diesel fuel JAKARTA (JP): Military police have arrested 18 people in Tanjung Priok harbor, North Jakarta, for alleged involvement in a conspiracy to steal diesel fuel.Military Police Chief Maj. Gen. Syamsu D. said Saturday they were believed to have stolen fuel since 1993.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Kadin buys Menara-2000
Kadin buys Menara-2000 JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) has purchased the Menara-2000 building in South Jakarta through its newly established PT Menara Kadin Indonesia.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Electronic mailing service
Electronic mailing service JAKARTA (JP): State-owned PT Pos Indonesia will launch an electronic mailing service in industrial estates and new satellite towns in Greater Jakarta next month.Bekasi's post office head, Bambang Irian, said Saturday that Pos Indonesia would launch a pilot project in...
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Redtape and tax on raw materials hurt shoe exports
Redtape and tax on raw materials hurt shoe exports JAKARTA (JP): Foreign investors see the prospects of Indonesia's shoe industry as gloomy unless the government takes immediate action to improve the investment climate.Patrick K.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Asian stock prices seen to remain mixed this week
Asian stock prices seen to remain mixed this week HONG KONG (Reuter): Asian shares are expected to remain mixed in the coming week, with Bangkok's bourse on tenterhooks waiting for economic policy direction from a new finance minister while Hong Kong grapples with China's move to control red chips.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Funds shifted away from Asian marts
Funds shifted away from Asian marts TOKYO (AFP): Institutional investors from industrialized countries have begun shifting funds out of Asian stock markets to other regions as Asian economic growth slows, a report said over the weekend.European and U.S.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Media sensitivity urged for AIDS information
Media sensitivity urged for AIDS informationBy Wirasti Wiryono YOGYAKARTA (JP): "They should ask God for forgiveness," a resident said here recently, offering his perceptions on people affected by HIV, the virus which causes the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Urbanites walk line between two cultures
Urbanites walk line between two culturesBy Solita Sarwono WASSENAR, The Netherlands (JP): The development process has brought change to the lifestyle of many people in Indonesia. Exposure to modern and Western lifestyles and to imported consumer goods has resulted in a change in the consumption...
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Defining the new middle class
Defining the new middle classBy Silvia Werner JAKARTA (JP): As many analysts have already stated, the development toward modernization in Indonesia is accompanied by the evolvement of the middle class.It is hoped this steadily growing middle class will bridge the increasing gap between the rich and...
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Jakarta's 470th anniversary celebrated in style
Jakarta's 470th anniversary celebrated in style JAKARTA (JP): Traffic was particularly heavy on roads leading out of the city and around recreation sites Saturday night as thousands of Jakartans celebrated the city's 470th anniversary.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Where to go in Jakarta:
Where to go in Jakarta:Music * Hotel Horison, Jl. Pantai Indah, Taman Impian Jaya Ancol, North Jakarta: - The Anging Mamiri Garden: Fantastic Group from Philippines, Ever Green Hawaiian Band/Orkes Keroncong, Hula-hula Dances, every Saturday Night, 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Governor Surjadi reflects on 'humanitarian mission'
Governor Surjadi reflects on 'humanitarian mission' JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto's message for the Jakarta governor to improve Jakartan's welfare is a humanitarian mission, Governor Surjadi Soedirdja said yesterday.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
BPPT plans to develop 12 projects in Irian Jaya
BPPT plans to develop 12 projects in Irian Jaya JAKARTA (JP): The Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) will develop 12 industrial megaprojects along Irian Jaya's Mamberamo River to speed up development in eastern Indonesia.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Shaman's house set ablaze
Shaman's house set ablaze MEDAN, North Sumatra: The house of a notorious shaman who allegedly killed 42 women was set ablaze early Friday morning by a group of unidentified people, only a day after police conducted a reconstruction of the crime.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Local coal demand may hit 50m tons by 2002
Local coal demand may hit 50m tons by 2002 NUSA DUA, Bali (JP): Indonesian demand for coal is projected to increase drastically to 50 million tons in 2002 from 11 million tons last year.Vice president of the Indonesian Coal Mining Association, Graeme Robertson, said here last week that by 2002, a...
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Internet-beeper service launched
Internet-beeper service launched JAKARTA (JP): PT Selarasindo Mulia and PT Bitnet Komunikasindo have launched a new service called Metronet, which allows Internet users to send direct message to radio-pager (beeper) users in Indonesia without dialing the pager operator.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Shadow puppets
Shadow puppetsFrom KompasThe wayang kulit (shadow puppet) performances broadcast on TV Sunday are interesting, even if they do not carry subtitles. But it's a shame there is no explanation of the dialog between the characters, including the jokes and verbal arguments, which would be beneficial to...
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Robber shot in Central Jakarta
Robber shot in Central Jakarta JAKARTA (JP): Police shot a man dead for allegedly robbing a bajaj (three wheeled taxi) driver in the Banteng field, Central Jakarta Friday on night.Central Jakarta Police Chief Lt. Col. M.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Law on Bepeka needs revision: Prof. Arifin
Law on Bepeka needs revision: Prof. Arifin JAKARTA (JP): The 1973 Law on the Supreme Audit Agency (Bepeka) needs revising because it places the agency under the government's authority, a new law professor said.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Six burgle house in Tangerang
Six burgle house in Tangerang JAKARTA (JP): Six burglars broke into a house on Jl. Ciputat Baru, in Ciputat, Tangerang, on Saturday, threatening a businessman at knife point.A source at the South Jakarta Police precinct said the unidentified men drove to the house in a Kijang van about 3 a.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
RI has slim chance against Italy in Fed Cup: Sarwono
RI has slim chance against Italy in Fed Cup: Sarwono JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Tennis Association chairman Sarwono Kusumaatmadja said the country has a slim chance in the Federation Cup match against Italy next month.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Komatsu leads RI excavator market
Komatsu leads RI excavator market JAKARTA (JP): Japan's Komatsu led the Indonesian excavators market in 1996, followed by Japan's Hitachi and the United States' Caterpillar, a heavy equipment company said.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
The East Timor talks at the UN
The East Timor talks at the UN The ninth round of talks are taking place at the United Nations headquarters in New York to resolve the East Timor problem. In our observation, the dialog has been given greater weight because of the fact that -- unlike Boutros Ghali before him -- (UN...
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Thieves trick maid in S. Jakarta
Thieves trick maid in S. Jakarta JAKARTA (JP): Three men stole electronic goods from a house on Jl. Kalibata Selatan, South Jakarta Friday after they pretended to book a room for rent.A source at South Jakarta Police precinct said the three men arrived at the house on two motorcycles and told a...
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
IPMI offers the professional way to an MBA
IPMI offers the professional way to an MBA The 40 students leaned keenly over their desks at the Indonesian Institute for Management Development (IPMI) business school and listened to Roy Budidharma talk about his experience as national sales manager for DHL and as a marketing director for Citibank.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Adam was not the first man, claims expert
Adam was not the first man, claims expert JAKARTA (JP): Adam could not have been the first man in the world, nor Eve the first woman, a medical scientist has said, disputing the prevailing thought on the genesis of the first human species.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
'Bernas' journalist gets award posthumously
'Bernas' journalist gets award posthumously JAKARTA (JP): A slain journalist and a detained printer accused of defaming President Soeharto won the Suardi Tasrif Award Saturday for promoting the freedom of the press.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Games at Mal Puri Indah
Games at Mal Puri IndahFrom KompasWe visited Mal Puri Indah with our children on Sunday June 15. After shopping, our children went to play in the mall's games section on the ground floor (in front of the information counter). At about 4.30 p.m.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Lippo Pacific on profit
Lippo Pacific on profit JAKARTA (JP): PT Lippo Pacific Finance expects a 6 percent increase in its net profit to Rp 7 billion (US$2.86 million) this year, a company director said over the weekend.Roberto Feliciano said the company earned a net profit of about Rp 1.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Emotional intelligence key to children's success
Emotional intelligence key to children's success JAKARTA (JP): "Emotional intelligence", rather than the previously much-touted intellectual quotient (IQ), determines 80 percent of a person's success in life, an expert has said.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Going, going, gone
Going, going, gone The Jakarta Municipal Administration (DKI), the Ministry of Environment, and the Ministry of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications apparently have no control over Indonesia's premier National Marine Park in the Thousand Islands.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Civil aircraft crashes in Bandung
Civil aircraft crashes in Bandung BANDUNG: A training aircraft owned by the West Java chapter of the Indonesian Aerosports Federation crashed in a yard on Jl. Pasir Kaliki, Bandung yesterday afternoon, injuring its pilot.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Baht devaluation inevitable after Thai political turmoil
Baht devaluation inevitable after Thai political turmoil HONG KONG (Reuter): A devaluation of the baht has become virtually inevitable following last week's market mayhem and political turmoil in Thailand, analysts and investors say.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Businessmen urge cut in red tape
Businessmen urge cut in red tape JAKARTA (JP): Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Aburizal Bakrie said yesterday businesses were hoping the government's upcoming economic reforms would slash red tape and ease licensing procedures.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
'Open skies' deal signed
'Open skies' deal signed WASHINGTON (AFP): The United States and Malaysia signed an "open skies" agreement Saturday, eliminating restrictions on airlines from each other's countries, officials said."The economic and consumer benefits demonstrated by the success of open skies in Europe, as well as...
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Stock trading activities expected steady this week
Stock trading activities expected steady this week JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta stock market is expected to remain strong this week on strong economic fundamentals, analysts and brokers said over the weekend.
Mon, 23 Jun 1997
Asian middle-class gets travel habit
Asian middle-class gets travel habitBy Johnny Erling BEIJING (DPA): A young Chinese couple are poring over the state travel agency's holiday brochures. Liu Zhang knows what he wants: to honeymoon abroad with his wife. That is the trendy thing to do, and as a restaurant owner he can afford it.
Sun, 22 Jun 1997
Till tiaras do us part: Kim Thong's bridal gowns don't die
Till tiaras do us part: Kim Thong's bridal gowns don't dieBy Dini S. Djalal JAKARTA (JP): Three things happened at the Kim Thong Exclusive Bridal House Bridal show last weekend: a lot of wedding gowns were modeled by pretty girls on the arms of even prettier boys, a lot of salespeople tried to sell...