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Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Telkom going on
Telkom going on a spending spree?From Rakyat MerdekaAmid the various difficulties the population has to face as a result of the protracted economic crisis, including the soaring price of necessities, such as fuel, electricity and telephone rates, state-owned Telecommunication Company (Telkom)...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
U.S. not perfect, but willing to improve
U.S. not perfect, but willing to improveRalph L. Boyce, Ambassador, U.S. Embassy to Indonesia, Jakarta We live in an increasingly interconnected world with more and more barriers between people falling each day.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
South mulling whether to fly North flag during Asiad
South mulling whether to fly North flag during AsiadYoo Jae-suk, Associated Press, Seoul South Korean officials are jubilant that North Korea will send athletes to the Asian Games. But they're nonplussed about whether games organizers should fly the North Korean flag, a crime in the South.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Minister rapped over dredgers
Minister rapped over dredgers JAKARTA: The House of Representatives criticized maritime affairs and fisheries minister Rochmin Dahuri on Thursday for releasing seven foreign dredgers impounded in Riau waters last month, which had illegally taken sand from Indonesian maritime territory.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Protesting cigarette ads
Protesting cigarette adsFrom Pikiran Rakyat It is really ironical that while the government has issued a warning about the dangers of smoking, billboards advertising tobacco products proudly stand erect in many major cities across the country.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Japan to aid RI over environment
Japan to aid RI over environment JAKARTA: Japan will offer an aid package to help Indonesia and six other Asian countries lower greenhouse gas emissions and stem global warming over the next few years.Environment ministry official Soichiro Seki said Tokyo's proposal would mostly consist of training...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Govt must reduce dependency on donors
Govt must reduce dependency on donorsAhmad Junaidi and Fitri Wulandari, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Commission B asserted on Thursday that it was not seeking to terminate Indonesia's relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but for the...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Illegal workers kidnapped on way home
Illegal workers kidnapped on way homeMoch. N. Kurniawan, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The blackmailing and kidnapping of illegal Indonesian workers returning from Malaysia is widespread, the Consortium of Indonesian Migrant Workers Advocacy (Kopbumi) revealed on Thursday.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Unlawful clinics
Unlawful clinics mushroomingFrom Kompas In his article titled Family-oriented service (The Jakarta Post, July 11), Dr. H. Anies suggested that physicians who had already completed their compulsory civic-mission assignment could practice independently.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Tobing, survives with consistency
Tobing, survives with consistencyTertiani ZB Simanjuntak, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Many say the difference between a statesman and a politician lies in how they treat life. The statesman defines it as a breeze, whereas the politician just goes with the flow, while sometimes fueling it into a...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Protesting cigarette ads
Protesting cigarette adsFrom Pikiran Rakyat It is really ironical that while the government has issued a warning about the dangers of smoking, billboards advertising tobacco products proudly stand erect in many major cities across the country.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Plot thickens as factions prepare for election
Plot thickens as factions prepare for electionBambang Nurbianto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The tension in gubernatorial election process was turned up another notch on Thursday as the disappointed United Development Party (PPP) faction, which has 12 of the 85 seats in the Council, rejected a decree...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
1. AMBON: 1 LINE, 35 COUNTS
1. AMBON: 1 LINE, 35 COUNTS Ambonese keep on partying despite tension 2. TROOP: A LINE, 32 COUNTS Forces' sweetheart, tonic for the troops
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Protesting cigarette ads
Protesting cigarette adsFrom Pikiran Rakyat It is really ironical that while the government has issued a warning about the dangers of smoking, billboards advertising tobacco products proudly stand erect in many major cities across the country.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Protesting cigarette ads
Protesting cigarette adsFrom Pikiran Rakyat It is really ironical that while the government has issued a warning about the dangers of smoking, billboards advertising tobacco products proudly stand erect in many major cities across the country.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Independent body for customs office annulled
Independent body for customs office annulledThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Ministry of Finance has rejected calls for the establishment of an independent supervisory committee to monitor the country's customs office, raising doubts about whether measures to reform the customs office can be...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
MPR blasted for delay in establishment of commission
MPR blasted for delay in establishment of commissionTertiani ZB Simanjuntak, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Experts and activists blasted the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) on Thursday for putting off the establishment of a constitutional commission until 2003.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Australia, Indonesia win multibillion Chinese LNG contracts
Australia, Indonesia win multibillion Chinese LNG contractsThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta China has awarded multi-billion-dollar contracts to Australian and Indonesian consortiums to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the country.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Tommy a special murderer
Tommy a special murderer The verdict in the case of Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra has disappointed most people here and lacked respect for the law.Three weeks ago the District Court handed down only a 15-year sentence to him for several serious offenses, most notably of which was the mastermind of...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Rupiah Rates Aug 8
Rupiah Rates Aug 8 JP/13/ConverRupiah Rates Aug 8 Banknote rates TT rates Selling Buying Selling Buying Rp Rp Rp Rp Australian dollar 1 5,090.76 4,550.81 4,847.01 4,794.32 Brunei dollar 1 5,381.09 4,812.11 5,123.44 5,069.61 Canadian dollar 1 6,023.33 5,386.08 5,734.93 5,674.29 Swiss franc 1 6,358.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Rubber producing nations set up consortium to lift price
Rubber producing nations set up consortium to lift priceThe Jakarta Post, Gianyar, Bali The world's largest rubber producers -- Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand -- signed on Thursday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to set up a consortium called International Tripartite Rubber Companies...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Constitutional commission put off till 2003
Constitutional commission put off till 2003Kurniawan Hari, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Despite disagreement on two contentious articles, the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) is expected to endorse the final phase of the current constitutional amendment process during a plenary session on Friday,...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Second round of Poso peace talks set for Sunday
Second round of Poso peace talks set for SundayMuhammad Nafik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Signatories of a peace deal to cease the two years of sectarian conflict in Poso, Central Sulawesi, will hold a two-day meeting beginning on Sunday after a spate of recent attacks has shattered the historic...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Jacob blames Hassan over illegal workers
Jacob blames Hassan over illegal workersThe Jakarta Post, Tampak Siring, Bali Malaysia's refusal to sign a deal on Indonesian illegal workers has left unfinished business between two ministers from the Cabinet of President Megawati Soekarnoputri.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Pertamina guarantees fuel supply in Jakarta
Pertamina guarantees fuel supply in JakartaThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta The state oil and gas company Pertamina guaranteed on Thursday that the supply of fuel in Greater Jakarta would not be disrupted despite a massive 2-day strike by thousands of fuel truck drivers at the fuel depot in Plumpang,...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
N. Maluku violence leaves one dead
N. Maluku violence leaves one deadOktovianus Pinontoan, The Jakarta Post, Ambon Two bomb explosions in North Maluku's Tobelo district and fresh clashes between two villages on Wednesday left one dead and several houses burned, military reports said.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Inaplas asks govt to rise import duty on polypropylene
Inaplas asks govt to rise import duty on polypropyleneAdianto P Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Indonesian Olefin and Plastic Industry Association (Inaplas) called on the government to raise the import duty on polypropylene to 10 percent in order to protect local producers from cheaper...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Protesting cigarette ads
Protesting cigarette adsFrom Pikiran Rakyat It is really ironical that while the government has issued a warning about the dangers of smoking, billboards advertising tobacco products proudly stand erect in many major cities across the country.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
FOR ADVERTORIAL
FOR ADVERTORIAL SUNDAY AUGUST 11 SURYACIPTA OFFERS INDUSTRIAL LOTS READY FOR CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION PT Suryacipta Swadaya, a subsidiary of publicly listed PT Surya Semesta Internusa Tbk., is offering easy-to-implement industrial sites at its strategically located 1,400-hectare industrial estate...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Police find large explosives warehouse
Police find large explosives warehouse Police said on Thursday that they had found a large warehouse storing explosives that were linked to the blast in the basement of the four-story Graha Cijantung building in East Jakarta early last month.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
'Annual Session is waste of time'
'Annual Session is waste of time' Amendments to the Constitution being debated at the Annual Session continue to bore the average person who say it has no consequence to their daily lives.Damer, 50, is a street tailor in Jatinegara, East Jakarta.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Chinese deported from Bandung
Chinese deported from Bandung BANDUNG, West Java: The immigration office here deported on Wednesday at least 15 Chinese nationals, including six women, for misusing their visas."They obtained visas for business or sociocultural visits, but in reality they were engaged in trading activities in...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Protesting cigarette ads
Protesting cigarette adsFrom Pikiran Rakyat It is really ironical that while the government has issued a warning about the dangers of smoking, billboards advertising tobacco products proudly stand erect in many major cities across the country.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Malaysia turns down Indonesian requests on workers
Malaysia turns down Indonesian requests on workersFabiola Desy Unidjaja, The Jakarta Post, Tampak Siring, Bali Indonesia asked two things from Malaysia about illegal workers: give them another one month to leave Malaysia and give them assurances that they could return to the country.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Protesting cigarette ads
Protesting cigarette adsFrom Pikiran Rakyat It is really ironical that while the government has issued a warning about the dangers of smoking, billboards advertising tobacco products proudly stand erect in many major cities across the country.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
'Military did nothing to prevent attack on Carrascalao's house'
'Military did nothing to prevent attack on Carrascalao's house'Tiarma Siboro, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta A pro-Jakarta East Timorese leader told the Rights Tribunal on Thursday that the Indonesian Military (TNI) did nothing to stop armed militias from attacking the residence of proindependence...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Houses unlawfully used as businesses
Houses unlawfully used as businesses TANGERANG: Many house owners in the Citra Raya residential complex in Cikupa, Tangerang have illegally turned their property into business sites.Many houses there have been turned into stores, home industries and small factories to produce various goods,...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
'Attempts at terrorist crackdown could backfire'
'Attempts at terrorist crackdown could backfire'Ian Timberlake, Agence France-Presse, Jakarta Repressive attempts to crack down on terrorists in Indonesia could backfire and lead to a rise in militancy, a report released Thursday said.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Asian currencies mixed late; Brazil deal helps sentiment
Asian currencies mixed late; Brazil deal helps sentimentAlan Yonan Jr., Dow Jones, Singapore Asian currencies were mixed Thursday as a late-session slump in the yen caused the New Taiwan dollar, South Korean won and Philippine peso to reverse course and close weaker.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Jakarta gets Rp 46b from central government
Jakarta gets Rp 46b from central governmentNovan Iman Santosa, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Central Government has doubled the funds for Jakarta, to compensate for the phased-out fuel subsidy, from Rp 23.66 billion last year to Rp 46.73 billion (US$5.19 million) this year.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Unlawful clinics mushrooming
Unlawful clinics mushroomingFrom KompasIn his article titled Family-oriented service (The Jakarta Post, July 11), Dr. H. Anies suggested that physicians who had already completed their compulsory civic-mission assignment could practice independently.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
A fearful political symptom is rapidly emerging.
A fearful political symptom is rapidly emerging. The pro and antiamendment (of the 1945 Constitution) movements, which have developed at the Senayan legislative complex in Jakarta, have spread to other towns.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
1. Gas (4x10)
1. Gas (4x10)RI seeking for other gas deal with KL 2. CNOOC (2x26)China CNOOC Winner in LNG deals to Australia, RI3. Survey (1x25) RI most pessimistic nation 4. Custom (2x23) Independent body for customs office annulled
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
False accusation
False accusationFrom KompasWhile shopping at the Citraland branch of Gunung Agung bookstore in West Jakarta with my sister on July 20, a security guard said to me: "Sorry ma'am, you have just put something into your handbag".
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Accelerating recovery
Accelerating recovery Despite the tumultuous debate about the proposed amendments to the Constitution that are the main focus of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Annual Session, it is a relief to know it has still spent some time reviewing economic issues.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Dozens join race for regent post
Dozens join race for regent post CILACAP, Central Java: Since 1998 there has been more public participation in politics here as a record 42 people have nominated themselves for the top executive post in the regency since the registration began on Monday.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Prices in Papua shock Garin
Prices in Papua shock Garin JAKARTA: Coming back from a recent visit to Irian Jaya, the renowned Jakarta-based film-maker Garin Nugroho complained about the high cost of living in the eastern-most province.A non star-rated hotel costs Rp 350,000 (about US$35) per night.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Unlawful clinics
Unlawful clinics mushroomingFrom Kompas In his article titled Family-oriented service (The Jakarta Post, July 11), Dr. H. Anies suggested that physicians who had already completed their compulsory civic-mission assignment could practice independently.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Zinni urges govt to revive talks with GAM
Zinni urges govt to revive talks with GAMTiarma Siboro, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Adding to the what the local people and observers have suggested, a visiting retired U.S. general and conflict mediator asked the Indonesian government and the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) on Thursday to pursue...
Fri, 09 Aug 2002
New cancer treatment is now on the way, DIGM tells patients
New cancer treatment is now on the way, DIGM tells patientsDebbie A. Lubis, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Patients diagnosed with cancer can enjoy their life longer as a new cancer treatment called antiangiogenesis will be released soon, a doctor said on Thursday.