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Fri, 25 Aug 1995
KLM's cargo information
KLM's cargo information JAKARTA (JP): KLM Cargo, the Dutch freight carrier, introduced yesterday a cargo information service which will allow agents in Indonesia electronic access to the company's Netherlands database.An executive of KLM Cargo's Jakarta office, Agnes C.S.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
TV today
TV todayTVRI 2:35 p.m. TV Series: Kabuto 3:05 Langka & Unik 3:30 Science Program 4:05 Student Quiz: Cerdas Cermat 4:30 Culture Program 5:00 Regional News 5:30 World of Literature 6:05 Nusantara, the Beloved Country 6:15 Village Program 6:45 Karya Nyata 7:00 Evening News 7:30 Dinamika 8:05...
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Stock Exchange
Stock ExchangeStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on Aug. 24, 1995: Shares Close Change Trading Volume -------------------------------------------------------------- Ades Alfindo 2,350 0 0 AHAP Insurance 3,200 0 0 Alumindo Perkasa 1,100 0 0 Andayani Megah 2,000 0 31,500 Aneka...
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Istiqlal Festival to begin next month
Istiqlal Festival to begin next month JAKARTA (JP): A number of provinces are preparing to take part in the upcoming one-month festival of Islamic art and culture at the Istiqlal mosque here.The event, called Festival Istiqlal, will be held from Sept. 23 to Oct.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
BI rejects devaluation rumors
BI rejects devaluation rumors JAKARTA (JP): Bank Indonesia's Governor J. Soedradjad Djiwandono rejected yesterday rumors of a devaluation and a free- float of the rupiah against the U.S. dollar."The banking and financial sector has always been prone to rumors and I cannot confirm things like that,"...
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Amoco to build PTA plant
Amoco to build PTA plant KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): U.S.-based Amoco Corp is investing 1.2 billion ringgit (US$480 million) to build its biggest purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant to manufacture the raw material for polyester here, a report said yesterday.Amoco Chemical (M) Sdn. Bhd.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
RI eyes 2nd place in HK chess tourney
RI eyes 2nd place in HK chess tourney JAKARTA (JP): A step up. That is the target of an Utut-led Indonesian team at the Asia-Pacific Intercity Club Chess Tournament in Hong Kong starting today."This time we should at least be able to finish second," Indonesia's number one chess player, Utut...
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Garuda Indonesia launches Singapore tour package
Garuda Indonesia launches Singapore tour package JAKARTA (JP): The country's flag carrier, Garuda Indonesia, launched here yesterday another tour package to increase the load factor on its international routes.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
REI to expel housing developers cheating buyers
REI to expel housing developers cheating buyers BEKASI (JP): The Association of Indonesian Realtors (REI) will oust and publicly announce any developers and their management staff who have been proved to have cheated consumers, the Association's chairman Enggartiasto Lukito said yesterday.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
ASEAN meet to liberalize farm trade, boost supplies
ASEAN meet to liberalize farm trade, boost supplies SINGAPORE (Reuter): ASEAN agriculture ministers opened talks here yesterday to include farm products in the region's free trade plan and design ways to ensure a stable food supply for the region's 500 million people.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Credits without collateral
Credits without collateral Finance Minister Mari'e Muhammad has disclosed part of a government plan to extend credits without the requirement of physical collateral for small businesses. The credits, to be referred to as Kredit Kelayakan Usaha (Business Viability Credits), will carry a ceiling of...
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Two Moroccans missing in Irian
Two Moroccans missing in Irian MERAUKE, Irian Jaya: Two tourists from Morocco who were visiting the Merauke regency have been missing since June.The head of the Merauke Immigration Office, Armili, said yesterday that Ouahi Rachid, 25, and Ouahi Said, 32, arrived in Merauke on June 5 from Jayapura...
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Protesters reject govt intervention
Protesters reject govt intervention SEMARANG, Central Java: About 100 students from various provinces demonstrated yesterday against government-sponsored Student Senates in their universities.They demanded that the senate be abolished and students be allowed to revive the once powerful Student...
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Dell to increase sales
Dell to increase sales JAKARTA (JP): The Dell Computer Corporation of the United States plans to increase its computer sales in Indonesia to 300,000 units by the end of this year, as compared with 240,000 units last year, a senior executive said yesterday."By that time, Dell will gain a 7.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Timorese resent flag burning
Timorese resent flag burning DILI, East Timor: Local figures expressed their anger yesterday at recent flag burning incidents involving supporters of independence for East Timor in Australia."As an Indonesian citizen, I cannot accept it," said Antonio Freitas Parada, chief of the provincial...
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
RI defends its record on women's rights
RI defends its record on women's rights JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia is likely to face criticism at the world conference on women's rights in Beijing next month over its record on women's rights, according to a senior official.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Rape suspects act out roles in reconstruction
Rape suspects act out roles in reconstruction JAKARTA (JP): Watched by dozens of press people, local prosecutors, police and military personnel, the reconstruction of last month's robbery and brutal rapes in Bekasi ran smoothly yesterday morning.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Home sweet home?
Home sweet home? Some 200 people, claiming to represent 3000 prospective buyers, staged a noisy demonstration last Monday at a local police precinct in East Jakarta. Unfortunately, they failed to catch up with the director of a housing developer who was being detained there.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Centralindo to install 150,000 new phone lines
Centralindo to install 150,000 new phone lines JAKARTA (JP): PT Centralindo Panca Sakti, the cellular telecommunications firm operating in Central and East Java, plans to invest Rp 400 billion (US$176.6 million) to install some 150,000 new lines over the next five years.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Students introduced to marine life
Students introduced to marine life JAKARTA: Seventy students, who have been selected from various high schools in Jakarta, are taking part in a four-day training course organized by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Constructive strategies vital to service trade
Constructive strategies vital to service trade JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia must start constructing strategies to meet the challenges and opportunities of free trade in services and to cope with the problems faced by developing countries, Minister of Finance Mar'ie Muhammad says.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
KL interested in S. Africa weapons
KL interested in S. Africa weapons JOHANNESBURG (UPI): Malaysia is interested in buying South African weapons and is particularly impressed by the Rooivalk attack helicopter, visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Wednesday.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
'Collateral-free loans won't raise inflation'
'Collateral-free loans won't raise inflation' JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Finance Mar'ie Muhammad assured skeptics yesterday that the planned collateral-free loans of up to Rp 50 million (US$22,000) for small-scale businesses would not raise inflation.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Foreign banks plan more loans to RI
Foreign banks plan more loans to RI SINGAPORE (JP): Foreign banks plan more commercial loans to Indonesia to tap the country's lending market.Ong Choon Hong of the Singapore branch of Japan's Daiwa Bank, said that his bank is ready to increase its lending portfolio to the Indonesian private sector,...
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Office boy gets 20 months in jail
Office boy gets 20 months in jail JAKARTA (JP): An office boy was sentenced yesterday to 20 months imprisonment, after the Central Jakarta District Court found him guilty of helping distribute a magazine that allegedly incited public hatred of the government.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
1,322 graves to be removed
1,322 graves to be removed JAKARTA (JP): City authorities will relocate 1,322 graves from the Karet Bivak public cemetery in Central Jakarta beginning next month to make way for the construction of public facilities.
Fri, 25 Aug 1995
Dynamic development in local television industry
Dynamic development in local television industryBy Marselli Sumarno JAKARTA (JP): The emergence of five private televisions in Indonesia over the past six years has triggered an explosion in local TV production houses and commercials.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Antique kris collections on view in Jakarta
Antique kris collections on view in JakartaBy Tobias Glucksman and Jason Tejasukmana JAKARTA (JP): Hidden amongst the lights, flags, fanfare and festivities of Indonesia's fifty years of independence, another equally solemn, relatively unheralded celebration of the kris (traditional dagger) is...
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Loan for Charoen Pokphand
Loan for Charoen Pokphand JAKARTA (JP): Citicorp International Limited announced yesterday that it has arranged a US$40 million revolving credit facility for PT Charoen Pokphand Indonesia and PT Charoen Pokphand Jaya Farm.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Two fishermen killed at sea
Two fishermen killed at sea JEMBER, East Java: Two fishermen were killed, six are missing and 19 are thought to have survived an accident involving seven boats off Puger beach early Monday.The bodies of the dead fishermen, 30-year-old Nurhadi and another who is yet to be identified, were found...
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Clove monopoly fails
Clove monopoly fails There was nothing really surprising about the fact that the seminar held by the Saraswati foundation on Tuesday came to the conclusion that the 58-month old semi-private monopoly, the Clove Stock Management Company (BPPC), has failed to accomplish its mission of ensuring better...
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Government urged to ratify agreement against torture
Government urged to ratify agreement against torture JAKARTA (JP): A local human rights institute is lobbying the government to ratify an international agreement against torture and other forms of cruelty.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Police deny torturing suspects in rape case
Police deny torturing suspects in rape case JAKARTA (JP): City police have denied allegations that the 11 suspects involved in last month's robbery and brutal rapes in Bekasi have been badly tortured by police investigators.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Thoughts along Jl. Sudirman
Thoughts along Jl. SudirmanBy Sabam Siagian The following article was written as an introduction to the book on the late Gen. Soedirman, the Supreme Commander of the Indonesian National Army (TNI) from December 1945 until he passed away in January 1950. The book was written by Lt. Gen.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Writer Pramoedya eligible for travel abroad: Oetojo
Writer Pramoedya eligible for travel abroad: Oetojo JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Justice Oetojo Oesman assured yesterday that the government has not banned writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer from traveling to Manila to accept his Magsaysay award later this month.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Stock Exchange
Stock ExchangeStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on Aug. 23, 1995: Shares Close Change Trading Volume ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ades Alfindo 2,350 0 0 AHAP Insurance 3,200 0 0 Alumindo Perkasa 1,100 0 0 Andayani Megah 2,000 -25 45,000...
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
'CNN', Indonesia
'CNN', IndonesiaFrom KompasI often wonder whether Indonesia is really as well-known as we have always imagined. On Aug. 10, 1995 I watched the CNN television network. As we know, CNN is an organization which is capable of presenting news items, sports and prestigious interviews from all over the...
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Small travel agents support savings plan
Small travel agents support savings plan JAKARTA (JP): A number of small and medium-scale travel agents said here yesterday that the Plan Save-5 savings scheme introduced by the Association of Indonesian Tour and Travel Agencies (Asita) has not affected their international air ticketing business.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Garuda Indonesia, KLM to boost cooperation
Garuda Indonesia, KLM to boost cooperation JAKARTA (JP): The national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia and the Dutch airline KLM agreed yesterday to expand their cooperation in commercial flight services, the presidents of the two companies announced.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Regine Velasques to come here
Regine Velasques to come here JAKARTA (JP): Singer Regine Velasques will arrive in Indonesia this week on a promotional tour for her new album My Love Emotion.Regine, who was born 25 years ago in Manila, started singing when she was four and entered numerous contests from the age of six.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Bahari Museum rearranged
Bahari Museum rearranged JAKARTA (JP): The marine collections at the Bahari Museum in downtown Kota, West Jakarta, were officially opened in a new display format yesterday by R.S. Museno, the deputy governor in charge of social welfare.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
New boutiques at Plaza Indonesia
New boutiques at Plaza Indonesia JAKARTA (JP): PT Plaza Indonesia Realty, the owner of Plaza Indonesia shopping center, is preparing a new shopping facility called Grand Hyatt Galeria.The company's corporate secretary, Sylvia S.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Indonesia becomes more mature
Indonesia becomes more matureFrom NeracaWith the passing of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the country's independence, we have become more mature. Indonesia's freedom was hard fought for. Our patriots were fighting without expecting any reward because they only had one motto: "be free...
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
'Hospitals must be prepared for AIDS'
'Hospitals must be prepared for AIDS' JAKARTA (JP): Hospitals should train their personnel and equip themselves to admit AIDS patients because the number of people infected by the deadly disease is rapidly increasing, an expert said yesterday.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Contribution
ContributionFrom KompasI was told by my parents in Surabaya, East Java, that the neighborhood authority collected contributions from the community for the Indonesian independence jubilee. My parents had to pay at least Rp 75,000 as a "voluntary" contribution.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
RI-Dutch painters show works of different directions
RI-Dutch painters show works of different directionsBy Carla Bianpoen JAKARTA (JP): Amidst Indonesia's golden jubilee celebrations, a group of Indonesian and Dutch artists are presenting their visions of today's realities and needs.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Unggul Indah get $120m in loans
Unggul Indah get $120m in loans SINGAPORE (JP): PT Unggul Indah Corporation (UIC), Indonesia's sole producer of alkylbenzene, yesterday secured US$120 million in loans from a syndication of 24 international banks to finance its expansion projects and debt repayment.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Basofi challenges George Foreman
Basofi challenges George Foreman SURABAYA: East Java Governor Basofi Soedirman challenged the world's oldest heavyweight champion, George Foreman, to a duel earlier this week.However, the gauntlet was thrown down during a banquet held on Tuesday in honor of the American boxer and involved singing.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
Tropical storm hovers east of RP
Tropical storm hovers east of RP MANILA (AFP): Tropical storm Janis was hovering east of the northern Philippines yesterday, but its 95 kilometers an hour winds do not immediately threaten the country, weathermen said.
Thu, 24 Aug 1995
ASEAN likely to exclude rice from free-trade plan
ASEAN likely to exclude rice from free-trade plan SINGAPORE (Reuter): ASEAN agriculture ministers meeting here for three days beginning today to liberalize farm trade will exclude key commodities, including rice, from tariff reductions, economists and agricultural officials said.