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Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Prosecutors in Soeharto trial to be protected
Prosecutors in Soeharto trial to be protected JAKARTA (JP): With the South Jakarta District Court yet to decide on a venue for the trial of former president Soeharto, the Attorney General's Office took significant measures on Monday for the safety of prosecutors in the alleged corruption case.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
More NU-affiliated civilian militiamen head to Jakarta
More NU-affiliated civilian militiamen head to Jakarta SURABAYA (JP): At least 2,000 Banser civilian militiamen are leaving for Jakarta from Surabaya over the next two days, despite pleas by police for them to stay at home.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Five injured in Suratin semifinals
Five injured in Suratin semifinals BOGOR (JP): At least five people were seriously injured during a clash between supporters of Semen Padang and Persijatim (East Jakarta Persija) during the Suratin Cup soccer semifinals at Pajajaran Stadium here on Monday.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Mobs loot 8,000 hectare forest
Mobs loot 8,000 hectare forest SEMARANG: About 8,000 hectares of teakwood forest in Blora regency of Central Java have been looted by local residents so far this year, an official said Monday."The groups usually brandish weapons during their operation and they do not hesitate to resist arrest if...
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Tax not for the people
Tax not for the peopleFrom Jurnal IndonesiaThe lower-class people are always being pushed aside. In this ruining of the country they always become the victims, while as citizens they have performed their duties well.I can give an example.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Legislators dissatisfied with President's progress report
Legislators dissatisfied with President's progress report JAKARTA (JP): Many legislators said they were less than satisfied with the President's progress report on Monday, saying it was being too general and lacked depth and factual data.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
PABBSI makes one-sided decision to expel Supeni
PABBSI makes one-sided decision to expel Supeni JAKARTA (JP): New officials of the Indonesian Weightlifting, Powerlifting and Bodybuilding Association (PABBSI) one-sidedly expelled women's weightlifter Supeni from its Olympic Games training program on Monday just two days prior to its final...
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Sabotage suspected in Pertamina refinery blast
Sabotage suspected in Pertamina refinery blast JAKARTA (JP): The Pertamina refinery in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan was damaged by an explosion on Monday morning, raising suspicions of a plot to disrupt the country's fuel supply system during the Annual Session of the People's Consultative Assembly...
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Government told not to worry about House's criticism
Government told not to worry about House's criticism JAKARTA (JP): The House of Representatives called on the administration not to be averse to criticism from the legislative body, saying such censure was a normal democratic process aimed at ensuring a system of checks and balances which was...
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
ALRI helping build a just Indonesia
ALRI helping build a just IndonesiaBy Marcus Einfeld SYDNEY, Australia (JP): On July 25 this newspaper published an article by Bob Burton, editor of the Mining Monitor published in Australia by the Mineral Policy Institute under the heading "Small donation for big payoff?"The principal target of...
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Cabinet reshuffle crucial to improving performance
Cabinet reshuffle crucial to improving performance JAKARTA (JP): President Abdurrahman Wahid must reshuffle his discredited Cabinet to improve the performance of his administration, particularly on the economic front, economists said.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
S. Arabian found dead in hotel
S. Arabian found dead in hotel JAKARTA (JP): A 29-year-old man with a Saudi Arabian passport was found dead in a hotel room on Jl. Pramuka, Central Jakarta on Monday, a police officer said.The victim, identified as Shaker M.S.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Asian currencies weaken as rupiah recoups early losses
Asian currencies weaken as rupiah recoups early losses SINGAPORE (Dow Jones): Asian currencies weakened late Monday, as the Thai baht's steep decline overshadowed the market's relief that the meeting of Indonesia's top legislative body started smoothly, currency watchers said.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Open your trunk, please: Security
Open your trunk, please: Security JAKARTA (JP): There was tight security for anyone entering the People's Consultative Assembly compound during the opening day of the Annual Session on Monday.Everyone's identity was carefully checked and non-Assembly members required a special pass to get in.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Jakarta traffic
Jakarta trafficFrom Media IndonesiaConsidering the increasing number of traffic regulation violations, as well as traffic accidents in Jakarta, more serious and effective measures must be taken by the officials or agencies involved in curbing the current extremely disorganized traffic conditions in...
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
What's wrong with the reform process?
What's wrong with the reform process? What should we expect from the Annual Session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR)? Political analyst J. Soedjati Djiwandono shares his views. JAKARTA (JP): At the end of the Yogyakarta meeting on Aug.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Stock Exchange
Stock ExchangeStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on Aug. 7, 2000: Shares Close Change Trading Volume ------------------------------------------------------------- Ades Alfindo 655 -25 25,500 Adindo Foresta Indonesia 305 -5 20,000 Alakasa Industrindo 900 0 0 Alfa Retailindo 895 0...
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Dharma Jaya proposes a meat center
Dharma Jaya proposes a meat center JAKARTA (JP): In response to growing public concern over the selling of wild boar meat as cheap beef, city-owned slaughterhouse firm PD Dharma Jaya proposed the establishment of a pork center to control the quality and distribution of meat, an official said on...
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Gus Dur pledges to work harder
Gus Dur pledges to work harder JAKARTA (JP): President Abdurrahman Wahid apologized to the nation on Monday for the shortcomings of his first 10 months in office and pledged to work harder to lift the country out of its current predicament.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Bali has new Denpasar Bishop
Bali has new Denpasar Bishop DENPASAR, Bali: Mgr. Benyamin Y. Bria Pr was consecrated as the new bishop of Denpasar in a modest ceremony here on Sunday.Benyamin filled the vacant position left by the late Mgr. Vitalis Djebarus SVD, who passed away on Sept. 22, 1998.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
President confirms plan to reshuffle his Cabinet
President confirms plan to reshuffle his Cabinet JAKARTA (JP): President Abdurrahman Wahid gave his strongest signal yet on Monday that he plans to take a backseat role after he reshuffles his Cabinet in the not too distant future.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Picturesque MPR to educate public
Picturesque MPR to educate public JAKARTA (JP): Is there anybody who doesn't know who People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Amien Rais is?Apparently, the National Information Agency believes many still do not.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Four Taiwanese ships detained
Four Taiwanese ships detained MAUMERE, East Nusa Tenggara: Four fishing boats from Taiwan with 48 crew, all Taiwanese nationals, on boards have been netted by Navy officers for illegally entering Indonesian waters, acting regent of Lembata Piter Boliama Keraf said on Monday.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Religious message
Religious messageFrom Media IndonesiaReligious leaders consisting of KH. Ali Yafie, Rev. Natan Setiabudi, Fr. Ismantoro, Oka Adiputra, and Ali Suripto have issued ten joint moral messages. Similarly, the Popular Social Inter Exchange Agency (BISMA), with distinguished figures representing several...
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Indonesia against antidumping rules
Indonesia against antidumping rules BANDUNG (JP): Indonesia called on Monday for a review of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) antidumping regulations, saying that these regulations have been manipulated by industrialized countries to become protectionist measures.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Cambodia calls on ASEAN unity
Cambodia calls on ASEAN unity PHNOM PENH (AFP): Just over a year after joining the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Cambodia says its membership has yielded benefits but urges the group to unify its approach to globalization."The outcome is positive.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
MPR chauffeurs have their day
MPR chauffeurs have their day JAKARTA (JP): What do chauffeurs of members of the Cabinet or People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) do when their bosses are busy attending the proceedings?They watch them together on television.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
400,000 students fail to get into state universities
400,000 students fail to get into state universities JAKARTA (JP): Around 400,000 high school graduates, or around 85 percent of the students who took this year's state university entrance examinations (UMPTN), have failed to get places at the universities of their choice.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Renun River dilemma brought about by deforestation
Renun River dilemma brought about by deforestationBy Benget Simbolon Tnb. JAKARTA (JP): The government's plan to divert the Renun River into Lake Toba in North Sumatra to raise the lake's water level has been received with skepticism.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Abdurrahman's account
Abdurrahman's account Indonesians all over the country can draw a breath of relief. President Abdurrahman Wahid's progress report of his first year in office appeared to be received well enough, if not enthusiastically, by the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR).
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
RI sovereign debt a laggard in Asia: S&P
RI sovereign debt a laggard in Asia: S&P SINGAPORE (Dow Jones): Indonesia's political turmoil, weak currency, and lagging reform make its sovereign debt the "weakest credit story" in Asia, Standard & Poor's Managing Director for Sovereign Ratings David Beers said Monday.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
UN patrol captures East Timor militiamen
UN patrol captures East Timor militiamen CANBERRA (Agencies): An Australian army patrol has shot and captured an armed East Timorese militiaman in one of two gunfights near the border with Indonesian West Timor, defense officials said on Monday.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
KL, Finland consider aid for RP rebels
KL, Finland consider aid for RP rebels JOLO, Philippines (AFP): Finland and Malaysia are considering aid projects in the southern Philippines to coax Muslim extremists to free more than a dozen hostages held for over three months, officials said on Monday.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Peace and calm as MPR begins Annual Session
Peace and calm as MPR begins Annual Session JAKARTA (JP): Peace and calm prevailed in the capital on Monday as some 700 legislators gathered for the opening of the 12-day Annual Session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR).A similar mood also prevailed in the country's other major cities.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Will the nation's top leaders stick to their pledges?
Will the nation's top leaders stick to their pledges? The following is an excerpt from an interview with Cornelis Lay, a political observer in Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, where President Abdurrahman Wahid, Vice President Megawati Soekarnoputri, Speaker of the House of Representatives Akbar...
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Tenaga eyes RI power plants
Tenaga eyes RI power plants KUALA LUMPUR (Dow Jones): Malaysia's dominant power company Tenaga Nasional Bhd. will develop and implement two power projects in Indonesia, national news agency Bernama reported late Friday.Tenaga's wholly-owned subsidiary TNB Engineering & Consultancy Sdn. Bhd.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Reenactment of bomb blast set for Tuesday
Reenactment of bomb blast set for Tuesday JAKARTA (JP): In an effort to refresh the chronology of the last week bomb blast outside the residence of Philippine Ambassador Leonides T. Caday in Central Jakarta, City Police would reenact the bombing on Tuesday, an officer said.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Ruben tops Hamdani, Edhi ties Danny
Ruben tops Hamdani, Edhi ties Danny JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian Grand Master (GM) Ruben Gunawan beat FIDE Master Hamdani Rubin in the 56th move using the Sicilian defense in the semifinal of the 34th Chess Olympic Games national selection tournament here on Monday.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Fate of regional faction still unclear
Fate of regional faction still unclear JAKARTA (JP): The plenary meeting of the People's Consultative Assembly's Annual Session skirted controversy on the issue of a regional representatives faction when it referred to the issue to be discussed in a commission.
Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Mujahiddin congress calls for Islamic law
Mujahiddin congress calls for Islamic law YOGYAKARTA (JP): A three-day Mujahiddin Congress ended here on Monday after recommending that the Criminal Code (KUHP) be replaced with Syariah Islamic law and the National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) be disbanded.
Mon, 07 Aug 2000
Fire in Pasar Baru
Fire in Pasar Baru JAKARTA (JP): At least 40 stores were burned on Sunday morning on the third and fourth floors of Metro supermarket on Jl. Samanhudi in Pasar Baru, Central Jakarta."We spotted the fire at about 3:15 a.m.
Mon, 07 Aug 2000
ASEAN still a valuable regional forum for dialog
ASEAN still a valuable regional forum for dialogBy Lee Kim Chew SINGAPORE: ASEAN, aged 33, suffers from post-crisis trauma, but is it ageing prematurely as a sunset organisation?A rhetorical question, perhaps, but it sounds pretty downbeat, given the perceptions, as Foreign Minister S.
Mon, 07 Aug 2000
Anton, Ismu capture Indocement Cup title
Anton, Ismu capture Indocement Cup title JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia's best hope in the Olympic Games men's doubles Anton Suseno and Ismu Harinto met expectations of winning the fourth Indocement Cup table tennis open tournament in Simpruk, South Jakarta, Sunday.
Mon, 07 Aug 2000
PKB pledges to fight against special session
PKB pledges to fight against special session JAKARTA (JP): The National Awakening Party (PKB) pledged it would employ any and every possible measure to ensure the People's Consultative Assembly's Annual Session, which begins on Monday, does not evolve into a special session which could impeach...
Mon, 07 Aug 2000
Judges reported over verdicts
Judges reported over verdicts JAKARTA (JP): City police detectives are investigating a complaint lodged on Thursday at the city police headquarters by a woman against judges of the Bekasi District Court, a police officer said on Sunday.
Mon, 07 Aug 2000
RI's problems to affect SE Asia
RI's problems to affect SE Asia SINGAPORE (AFP): Political unrest in Indonesia will have a major security impact on Southeast Asia, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong predicted at the weekend.
Mon, 07 Aug 2000
Tapping energy from plants, why don't we?
Tapping energy from plants, why don't we?By Edhi Martono YOGYAKARTA (JP): Every time an oil crisis occurs (which is what will continue to happen, covering anything from distribution, scarcity or price), it shows one thing: that fossil fuel is nonrenewable, and, inevitably, there will be more and...
Mon, 07 Aug 2000
Nearly 1 ton of discarded wild boar meat discovered
Nearly 1 ton of discarded wild boar meat discovered JAKARTA (JP): Nearly one ton of wild boar meat packed in 10 white gunny sacks was found in a dry sewer in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, on Sunday morning.Kemayoran Police chief Maj.
Mon, 07 Aug 2000
Koreans to build Irian road
Koreans to build Irian road JAKARTA (JP): Four South Korean companies signed a memorandum of understanding with Irian Jaya authorities on Friday for the construction of a US$1.7 billion road stretching 11,280 kilometers from Jayapura to Wamena.
Mon, 07 Aug 2000
First Lady, children plan to channel aid to Maluku
First Lady, children plan to channel aid to Maluku JAKARTA (JP): First Lady Sinta Nuriyah and her daughters have offered to channel humanitarian assistance to Maluku, where thousands of children, women and the elderly are facing starvation and severe medical problems in the riot-torn provinces.