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Sun, 08 Sep 2002
RECOMMENDATIONS AND ACTION PLAN
RECOMMENDATIONS AND ACTION PLAN At the conclusion of the Asian Youth Congress on Drug Abuse Prevention, held in Sanur, Bali, from Aug. 26 to Aug. 29, hundreds of young participants pledged to adopt and uphold the following recommendations and action plan:1.
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
Megawati lashes out at foreign trip critics
Megawati lashes out at foreign trip criticsThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta President Megawati Soekarnoputri, now in Algeria, defended her much-criticized foreign visit to several countries, saying that she would go ahead with the trip despite the controversy at home.
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
Catch the cultural vibes at WOMAD 2002
Catch the cultural vibes at WOMAD 2002Hera Diani, The Jakarta Post, Singapore It was damp and a bit hot sitting on the hill in Fort Canning Park, which is located at Cox Terrace, some two kilometers to the south of the oh-so-famous Orchard Road.
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
1. Nunukan -- 1x32
1. Nunukan -- 1x32 Dream becomes nightmare for workers2. Akbar ---- 2x28 Legislators object to convicted Akbar's travel to VietnamLegislators disappointed over convicted Akbar's Vietnam trip 3. Byway ---- 1x26 The logic of air travel security 4.
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
Legislators disappointed over convicted Akbar's Vietnam trip
Legislators disappointed over convicted Akbar's Vietnam tripThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta The nation's dignity is at stake as disgraced Akbar Tandjung has insisted on leading an Indonesian delegation of legislators to the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) conference in Hanoi, legislators have...
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
Mentawai offers a taste of Eden
Mentawai offers a taste of EdenChristina Schott, Contributor, Padang This must be how it looks in paradise. A perfect white sand beach and a transparent turquoise sea. The shadows of palm trees offer a shelter from the sun while waiting for fallen coconuts.
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
Newly opened Curves offers affordable Indian food
Newly opened Curves offers affordable Indian foodBill Blade, Contributor, Jakarta Not so many moons ago, Jl. Wahid Hasyim in Central Jakarta was a pretty dismal, nondescript sort of place, traversed mostly by backpackers on their way to and from McDonald's in Sarinah and their home-away-from-home...
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
Apartemen Golf : Advertorial
Apartemen Golf : Advertorial Focus Edition : Sunday -- Sept. 06 Approval : Monday -- Aug. 30 Apartemen Golf Pondok Indah's Tower 2 opens this month with special rates From the front gardens, inside the building to the back gardens, Apartemen Golf Pondok Indah in Jakarta provides the comforts of...
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
On the Shelves
On the Shelves Jejak Tanah (Traces on Soil) - 2002 Kompas Selected Short Stories; Edited by Kenedi Nurhan; Published by Kompas, 2002; xxiii + 165 pp.Since 1992, Kompas has made it a tradition to publish a number of the best short stories it has published in a year.
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
Colonial and modern flair combine at Hotel Batang Arau
Colonial and modern flair combine at Hotel Batang Arau Swallows' nests have long been known as sources of income, as they are part an ingredient in some Chinese soups. These little black oscine birds (family Hirundinidae) often productively make their nests in big, dark spaces with some cooling...
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
APEC unveils plan to sever terror funds
APEC unveils plan to sever terror fundsGlenn Somerville, Reuters, Los Cabos, Mexico Finance ministers from around the world unveiled a plan on Friday to cut off funds to extremists, pledging to boost efforts to investigate money launderers and the financing of terror.
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
IBS can be reduced by balanced diet and stress management
IBS can be reduced by balanced diet and stress managementMaria Endah Hulupi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Are you anxious, depressed or stressed out lately? Are you also experiencing an altered bowel movement to either diarrhea or constipation or both alternately?Such bowel irregularities, popularly...
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
1. Vannes --- 1x36
1. Vannes --- 1x36 Girls swoon over singer-actor Vanness Wu or Girls crazy about singer-actor Vanness Wu or Asian sensation Vanness Wu woos Jakarta fans 2. Score --- 2x21 Film scores of all time that ought to be remembered 3.
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
Vanness entertains girls, for sure
Vanness entertains girls, for sure Hera Diani The Jakarta Post JakartaNever before was covering a foreign artist as tiring or as irritating as it was on Wednesday, when Taiwanese Vanness Wu performed here in a charity concert.
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
More people love Taiwan's bubble tea
More people love Taiwan's bubble teaEmmy Fitri, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta It is spreading so quickly that it is resembling an epidemic, but this one is healthy and trendy. It is tea, but not the usual brown, plain-looking kind.
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
Some 300 students from 19 Asia Pacific countries gathered in Bali
Some 300 students from 19 Asia Pacific countries gathered in Bali recently to attend the first Asian Youth Congress on Drug Abuse Prevention. They strongly pledged to fight against drugs and move forward as proponents in their own communities to create a "clean, healthy and drug-free" society.
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
Denmark's bang-it-up Safri Duo entertains Jakarta clubbers
Denmark's bang-it-up Safri Duo entertains Jakarta clubbersJoseph Mangga, Contributor, Jakarta Surveying the massive array of lighting and musical equipment crowding Embassy's dance floor, it truly looked as if we were all in for one hell of a show.
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
Where to go in Jakarta: Sunday, September 8, 2002
Where to go in Jakarta: Sunday, September 8, 2002Exhibitions * Painting Excellence in Small by Mas Dibyo, lobby level, Club Rasuna Jl. H.R. Rasuna Said Kav. C22, Kuningan, South Jakarta, until Sept. 14. * Fine Arts Read! Exhibition, The British Council, S. Widjojo Center, Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav.
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
Surf-Aid provides health care for local people
Surf-Aid provides health care for local people Ben Gordon is the ultimate beach boy. He has shining bright eyes, an always smiling, tanned face, a muscular build and a beaded necklace hanging around his neck.But this sunny Australian boy is much more than just an ordinary surfer.
Sun, 08 Sep 2002
checked by Melinda[b]
checked by Melinda revised by agpi Apartemen Golf : Advertorial Focus Edition : Sunday -- Sept. 06 Approval : Monday -- Aug. 30 AGPI will soon open its 2nd tower offering spacious family rooms with fascinating viewFrom the front gardens, inside the building to the back gardens, Apartemen Golf...
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Voting with conscience
Voting with conscience Nothing, it seems, can stop Jakarta's incumbent governor, Sutiyoso, from winning the gubernatorial election next week. Nothing that is, unless there are enough members in the Jakarta Legislative Council who rediscover their conscience on time, and cast their votes...
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Defiant Akbar will travel to Vietnam
Defiant Akbar will travel to Vietnam Despite a conviction of embezzling Rp 40 billion (US$4.5 million) of state funds, House of Representatives Speaker Akbar Tandjung is defiantly flying to Hanoi on Saturday.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
U.S. House panel approves bill that provides military aid to RI
U.S. House panel approves bill that provides military aid to RIVicki Allen, Reuters, Washington A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee passed a foreign aid bill on Thursday that eases restrictions on military training aid to Indonesia and would bar U.S.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
What puts the `service' into serviced apartments?
What puts the `service' into serviced apartments?Gunawan Yonatan Associate Director, Property Management Department, PT Procon Indah When you think of serviced apartments perhaps the only real points of difference you associate with them, is a small kitchenette and a daily cleaning service.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Crime is all around
Crime is all aroundFrom Warta KotaCrime is everywhere now: murder, robbery, theft, fraud, corruption, etc. Everybody knows that neither religious teachings nor legal norms condone crime.Although Indonesia is a law-based state, the relevant authorities still cannot eradicate crime once and for all.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Govt, House review controversial labor bills
Govt, House review controversial labor billsThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta The government and the House of Representatives are being battered by a tidal wave of criticism over their stance during the continuing debate of two labor bills, and are being accused by some of favoritism in response to labor...
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Bulog defendant freed due to ambiguous indictment
Bulog defendant freed due to ambiguous indictmentMuninggar Sri Saraswati, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Due to ambiguities in the indictment, the South Jakarta District Court suspended on Thursday the corruption trial of businessman Hokiarto in a case involving convict Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra in a...
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
checked by Melinda[b]
checked by Melinda revised by agpi Apartemen Golf : Advertorial Focus Edition : Sunday -- Sept. 06 Approval : Monday -- Aug. 30 AGPI will soon open its 2nd tower offering spacious family rooms with fascinating viewFrom the front gardens, inside the building to the back gardens, Apartemen Golf...
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Schools must promote greater global understanding
Schools must promote greater global understandingSimon Marcus Gower Principal Harapan Bangsa High School Tangerang, Banten Globalization is something that has been spoken of and written of in many different contexts, but an area in which globalization has, perhaps, not been thought of enough is...
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
NGO criticizes govt over rights body
NGO criticizes govt over rights body JAKARTA: The presidential decree formalizing the election of 21 members of the National Commission on Human Rights is considered unlawful and too accommodating to political compromises, a non-governmental organization (NGO) lamented.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Aceh talks to be still-born
Aceh talks to be still-bornDamien Kingsbury Head, Philosophical, Political and International Studies Deakin University Melbourne Australia Negotiations between the government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), which are aimed at ending the northern province's protracted conflict, look set to fail,...
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
SMIT takes action against drugs
SMIT takes action against drugs TANGERANG: The Solidarity for the Tangerang Islamic Community (SMIT) urged the government to revoke the operational permit of Hotel Istana Nelayan on Jl. Gatot Subroto, Tangerang, because the hotel management had turned a blind eye to the rampant drug dealing taking...
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
People's Consultative Assembly chairman Amien Rais suggested
People's Consultative Assembly chairman Amien Rais suggested earlier this week that police stop efforts to bring the company's executives to court although he admitted that Ramli had misused public funds.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
1. Intro -- 2 cols, 3 lines, 36 pts, 39 counts
1. Intro -- 2 cols, 3 lines, 36 pts, 39 countsLampung, a melting pot surviving tests of reform 2. Profil -- 5 cols, 2 lines, 48 pts, 66 counts either is fine Lampung, so close to Jakarta, yet so farorLampung close to Jakarta but remains one of the poorest provinces 3.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Lampung unites diverse ethnic groups
Lampung unites diverse ethnic groupsThe Jakarta Post, Teluk Betung, Lampung An old man hovers around eight people who are busy building a ship in the coastal village of Cungkeng, Kota Karang, West Teluk Betung.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Steps needed to control labour flow in region
Steps needed to control labour flow in region P. Ramasamy professor of political science Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia The Straits Times Asia News Network Singapore There are reasons to believe that Malaysia's tough immigration law may not eliminate entirely the presence of illegal migrant workers...
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
On toll road
On toll road construction From Rakyat Merdeka We are really concerned about Minister of Resettlement and Regional Infrastructure Soenarno's tardiness in settling major problems within the scope of his job. There are two things that are worth questioning concerning his policies.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Talangsari still evokes terrible memories
Talangsari still evokes terrible memoriesThe Jakarta Post, Talangsari, Lampung "Talangsari? Will it cause any problems? Try another company," a man at a rent-a-car company in Bandarlampung said when we told him we wanted to rent a car and driver to take us to the remote village.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
People, govt must join hands to curb pollution
People, govt must join hands to curb pollution The public cannot deny the fact that water quality in the capital is deteriorating due to poor public and industry awareness on the environment. Some people shared with The Jakarta Post their concerns upon seeing the reality of our water condition that...
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Informal school dedicated to children of the impoverished
Informal school dedicated to children of the impoverishedLeo Wahyudi S, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta With plastic bags in their hands two shoe-shine boys starred at groups of people entering the theater in the Taman Ismail Marzuki arts center in Central Jakarta hoping that some of the cinema-goers...
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Moch. N. Kurniawan
Moch. N. Kurniawan and Adianto P. Simamora The Jakarta Post JakartaThe current prolonged dry season would not have a serious impact on this year's rice production target, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Friday.Director General of food production management at the ministry M.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Diarrhea attacks orangutan babies
Diarrhea attacks orangutan babies PALANGKARAYA, Central Kalimantan: At least 18 orangutan babies at the Nyaru Menteng Conservation in Arboretum, Central Kalimantan have been undergoing treatment for diarrhea at the Doris Sylvanus General Hospital in Palangkaraya since Thursday.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Villagers struggle with dark past
Villagers struggle with dark pastThe Jakarta Post, Talangsari, Lampung Talangsari was an ordinary village with ordinary people living an ordinary life.That was until 1989, before military troops stormed the village to crush a Muslim militant group led by Anwar Warsidi that had resided in Cihideung,...
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
[b]Stop election process
Stop election process of Jakarta governor 2. LA07 -- 1 X 30 The worrying new face of America 3. Star07 -- 1 X 30Foreign govts unfair to Malaysia
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Recovery trend continues amid increasing demand
Recovery trend continues amid increasing demand Rikza Abdullah Contributor Jakarta Jakarta's rental apartment market, severely hit by the economic crisis in 1997, continues its recovery amid a steady increase in new demand.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Prolonged dry season won't affect rice output target: Govt
Prolonged dry season won't affect rice output target: GovtMoch. N. Kurniawan and Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The current prolonged dry season would not have a serious impact on this year's rice production target, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Friday.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
IBRA to sell all SME debts before year-end
IBRA to sell all SME debts before year-endA'an Suryana, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) will auction off the remaining nonperforming loans (NPLs) owed by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) before the end of this year, an agency official said.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Govt says it's ready to cope with drought
Govt says it's ready to cope with droughtMoch. N. Kurniawan, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The government claimed on Friday it had prepared adequate precautionary measures to ensure that the longer-than-expected dry season would not trigger further forest fires and adversely affect rice output.
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
RI probes dumping allegations against four import products
RI probes dumping allegations against four import productsAdianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Indonesian Antidumping Committee (KADI) is currently conducting an investigation into four imported products allegedly being sold here through dumping practices, according to a top official...
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Timorese refugees to get 58 tons of rice
Timorese refugees to get 58 tons of rice KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: Some 5,000 East Timorese refugees sheltering in Naibonat, Taupukan, and Noelbaki camps in East Nusa Tenggara will receive a total of 58 tons of rice.