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Sun, 28 Sep 1997
How Dayaks manage their resources
How Dayaks manage their resourcesBy John Bamba PONTIANAK, West Kalimantan (JP): There are shrimps on the leaves sunk on riverbeds. There are fish in the waters. There are animals in the forests.This saying of Dayak Jelai living in Ketapang district, West Kalimantan, describes succinctly their...
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
Legislators' monthly pay and allowances
Legislators' monthly pay and allowancesA. Basic salary1. Speaker Rp 2.5 million2. Deputy speaker Rp 2.29 million3. Member Rp 2.1 millionB. Member's actual income:Salary Rp 2,100,000Spouse allowance 10 percent Rp 210,000Child allowance,2 children x 2 percent Rp 84,000 Rp 2,394,000Cost adjustment 20...
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
Doohan betters own lap record in Indonesian GP practice
Doohan betters own lap record in Indonesian GP practice JAKARTA (JP): World 500cc champion Michael Doohan of Australia demonstrated his supremacy by bettering his own speed record during the second practice session yesterday prior to today's Indonesian motorcycle Grand Prix at Sentul, near Bogor.
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
Choking haze shows nature can still teach us lessons
Choking haze shows nature can still teach us lessonsBy S. Djuweng and Edi Petebang The country is under fire. The government declared Thursday that the smoldering forest fires and the resulting haze blanketing Sumatra and Kalimantan was a natural calamity.
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
Belo stands as voice for peace, justice
Belo stands as voice for peace, justice Voice of the VoicelessEditors: Frans Sihol Siagian and Peter TukanPenerbit Obor, Jakarta, 1997279 pages Demi Keadilan dan Perdamaian (For Peace and Justice)By Peter Tukan and Domingos de SousaCommittee of Peace and Justice Dili, Dili, 1997474 pages JAKARTA...
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
Van Roost, Nemeckova to fight for Wismilak title
Van Roost, Nemeckova to fight for Wismilak title SURABAYA (JP): Top seeded Dominique van Roost reached her appointed place in the final of the 1997 Wismilak International women's tennis tournament by beating Australia's Rachel McQuillan in straight sets here yesterday.
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
Legislators settle in at plush new building
Legislators settle in at plush new buildingBy Emmy Fitri JAKARTA (JP): When inaugurating the new building for the House of Representatives (DPR) here earlier this year, outgoing speaker Wahono made a point of stating that the Rp 116,07 billion (US$48.4 million) facility was "not an ivory tower".
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
RI targets five shooting golds
RI targets five shooting golds JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia has targeted winning only five of 42 gold medals for shooting at the 19th SEA Games next month."Two golds are expected to come from the double trap and three for running target events.
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
The freshest seafood satay at Bali's Kedonganan beach
The freshest seafood satay at Bali's Kedonganan beach Think Bali, and its famed sandy beaches and hallowed temples spring to mind. But the island's little-known cuisine includes a mean satay cooked fresh on Kedonganan beach. The Ritz-Carlton invited The Jakarta Post reporter Christiani S.
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
Victims' identification painfully slow
Victims' identification painfully slow MEDAN, North Sumatra (JP): Relatives of the 234 victims of the Garuda Indonesia plane which crashed near here Friday began the painful task of identifying their loved ones yesterday.
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
TV today
TV todayTVRI 6:00 a.m. TVRI News 6:25 Morning News 6:45 Religious Teachings: Hikmah Pagi 7:15 Healthy and Fit 7:30 Children's Program: Arena Kami 8:00 Brudy and Family 8:30 Cartoon Film 9:00 People and Event 9:30 TV Drama: Di sekitar Kita 10:00 TVRI News 10:30 Music: Album Minggu Ini 11:30...
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
What they people say about House members
What they people say about House members JAKARTA (JP): The general election we all celebrated, feared and avoided will run its full course with installment of new legislators on Wednesday.Most of us know House members merely by the list of names printed in the media, but many of us feel we know...
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
Victoria's serves up fish and fowl dishes
Victoria's serves up fish and fowl dishes JAKARTA (JP): Some food masters place quality and taste as the main course, with thoughts of preparation as a mere side dish.But Victoria's Char-grill Steakhouse and Cafe knows that sophistication comes with the right attitude toward food and its...
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
The choices facing our legislators
The choices facing our legislators New legislators will be sworn in Wednesday and begin the job of realizing the political aspirations of the country's 200 million citizens. They will have to toe the fine line between serving the people and serving vested interests.
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
Ferdi Hendarman wins designer award
Ferdi Hendarman wins designer award JAKARTA (JP): Ferdi Hendarman, of Bandung, West Java, won the best new designer award here Friday evening, beating nine other finalists in the 19th Fashion Designer Competition.The 26-year-old's designs won him Rp 7.
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
Distraught relatives mourn tragic deaths of loved ones
Distraught relatives mourn tragic deaths of loved ones JAKARTA (JP): Emotions ran high yesterday as families of the passengers and crew aboard the fateful GA-152 airplane were left to ponder their loss.
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
Making a success of 'wrong' profession
Making a success of 'wrong' profession JAKARTA (JP): A university student's entry in the letter's column of Kompas daily earlier this month is a lament about thwarted career ambitions.Intent on going in to advertising, she joined a special course at a private university.
Sun, 28 Sep 1997
Iwa-K is local answer to rap music
Iwa-K is local answer to rap musicBy Damon Adeoquine JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian rap music does not come from the mean streets of Jakarta, Bandung or Yogyakarta. The closest Indonesia has to a rap ghetto is the small, one-story home of Guest Music Production in the quiet Blok K of Cinere, South...
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Number of jobless college graduate rising: Wardiman
Number of jobless college graduate rising: Wardiman JAKARTA (JP): More and more college graduates in Indonesia are becoming unemployed despite a growing demand for skilled workers in the job market, Minister of Education and Culture Wardiman Djojonegoro said yesterday.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
ABRI vehicles netted in operation
ABRI vehicles netted in operation JAKARTA (JP): Four cars and two motorcycles bearing Armed Forces (ABRI) number plates have been caught in a City Military Police law and order operation.Jakarta Military Command Spokesman Lt. Col. DJ.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Public services under scrutiny
Public services under scrutiny JAKARTA (JP): Abdul Kahfi, the new deputy governor for administrative affairs, said yesterday that he was in the process of evaluating procedures regarding the provision of public services by city officials.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Kelian gets safety rating
Kelian gets safety rating JAKARTA (JP): The National Occupational Safety Association (NOSA) of Australia has assigned a three-star safety rating to PT Kelian Equatorial Mining, a member of Rio Tinto group in Kutai, East Kalimantan.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Observers suggest presidential term limitation
Observers suggest presidential term limitation JAKARTA (JP): Members of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) should issue a decree that would limit the presidential tenure to only two terms when they convene in March, observers recommended at a seminar yesterday.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
More flyovers to be completed
More flyovers to be completed JAKARTA (JP): Two more flyovers are expected to be completed next month, Governor Surjadi Soedirdja said.The projects, which are part of the city's 1992-1997 plan, are badly needed to help ease the city's severe traffic congestion.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Foreign loan problems to haunts Malaysia
Foreign loan problems to haunts Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Malaysia may face problems raising loans as its troubled economy is hit by a downgrade in its long term credit ratings outlook, analysts warned yesterday.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Up to 3 die on city's roads daily
Up to 3 die on city's roads daily JAKARTA (JP): The capital's traffic police chief said yesterday that so far this year between two and three people had died every day in traffic accidents in Greater Jakarta.Col. Fachrudin Bakar said so far this month 35 people had died in traffic accidents.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Many tourist resources still unexplored
Many tourist resources still unexplored JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia has not fully explored its resources in developing the country's tourist industry, an international economist says.The founder and director of the Zero Emission Research Initiative (Zeri Foundation), Gunter Pauli, said Thursday most of...
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Haze adds to RI's tourist industry woes
Haze adds to RI's tourist industry woes JAKARTA (JP): The haze problem poses another blow to the country's tourism industry, a senior official of the Ministry of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications said here yesterday.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Feisal happy with ABRI's riot response
Feisal happy with ABRI's riot response UJUNGPANDANG (JP): Minister of Home Affairs Moch. Yogie S.M. and Armed Forces (ABRI) Chief Gen. Feisal Tanjung defended yesterday security members' tough approach in handling ethnically colored riots in the city last week.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Government policies open to correction: Soeharto
Government policies open to correction: Soeharto JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto said yesterday government policies were open to correction but improvement efforts could only be conducted gradually.Soeharto said in a farewell party for House of Representatives legislators that the nation was in...
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
14 firms suspected violating govt ban on land clearing
14 firms suspected violating govt ban on land clearing JAKARTA (JP): The government accused yesterday 14 plantation companies of violating a recent ban and continuing with land clearing activities that have caused forest fires.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Cattle die of starvation
Cattle die of starvation KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: More than 20 head of cattle have died of starvation in Belu regency bordering East Timor, Antara said yesterday.Deputy Governor Piet Alexander Tallo could not confirm the report but promised to look into it, the news agency said.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Indorayon president among victims
Indorayon president among victims JAKARTA (JP): Businessman Polar Yanto Tanoto, who just a day earlier had received an award from President Soeharto, is one of the tragic stories in yesterday's crash which claimed 234 lives including two children and several foreigners.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Lambert ups Mashill stake
Lambert ups Mashill stake JAKARTA (JP): Belgium's Bank Brussels Lambert SA has bought another 3.20 million shares of publicly listed Bank Mashill Utama to increase its stake in the Indonesian bank.Bank Mashill's president A.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Taiwan firms eye Medan
Taiwan firms eye Medan JAKARTA (JP): At least 15 Taiwanese companies plan to invest in the property sector in North Sumatra by the end of the year, Antara reported yesterday.President of Taiwan's Honban Investment and Development, Lin Hui, told the news agency after his meeting with the province's...
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
New mid-sized Jaguar may purr on Jakarta's streets
New mid-sized Jaguar may purr on Jakarta's streetsBy Alastair Doak JAGUAR's new midsize car, the X200, is expected to open up the Indonesian market for the British-based luxury carmaker.X200, a BMW 5-Series and Mercedes E-Class competitor, will be designed for completely knocked down (CKD) export,...
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Palm and coconut oil end firm on RI smog
Palm and coconut oil end firm on RI smog LONDON (Reuter): Palm and coconut oil closed firm on the European vegetable oil market on Thursday on concerns over the effect of the smog covering large areas of Southeast Asia and El Nino.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Local market likely to recover in 3 months
Local market likely to recover in 3 months JAKARTA (JP): Securities analysts expect the domestic stock market will recover in the next three months if Bank Indonesia, the central bank, further eases the tight monetary policy.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
PT Nestle to move
PT Nestle to move JAKARTA (JP): Food producer PT Nestle Indonesia is to move its office headquarters from the Metropolitan II building in Central Jakarta to Arcadia Office Park in South Jakarta in January 1999.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Hotel staff needs not anticipated
Hotel staff needs not anticipated DENPASAR, Bali: Most hotels and other tourist companies in Bali rarely report their staff needs to the authorities, head of the Bali Manpower Office I Gusti Ngurah Mayoen said yesterday.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
SE Asian currencies plunge to new lows
SE Asian currencies plunge to new lows SINGAPORE (Reuter): The Indonesian rupiah slumped to new lows yesterday, raising questions about the central bank's easy monetary policy and casting a fresh pall over Southeast Asian currency markets.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Land development needs reform
Land development needs reformBy Tommy Firman BANDUNG (JP): One of the main issues that will emerge with urban development is the need to design an effective, efficient and equitable expansion of urban land resources.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Obituary
Obituary Edward Janner Sinaga, a former director general of press and graphics at the Ministry of Information, died of a heart attack at Mitra Hospital in Jakarta on Thursday evening.Sinaga, who founded Economic & Business Review Indonesia after retiring from public life in 1991, was 67.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Worker falls to his death
Worker falls to his death JAKARTA (JP): A 20-year-old construction worker died yesterday after falling 10 meters off a lift at the PT Pulo Gadung Steel complex in East Jakarta.It is thought Edi Santoso, from near Cilacap in Central Java, slipped while in the lift used to carry construction...
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Municipality told to submit liquor evaluation
Municipality told to submit liquor evaluation JAKARTA (JP): The City Council has asked the municipality to hand over its final evaluation of the central government's regulations regarding the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages in the city.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Singapore cracks down on abuse
Singapore cracks down on abuse SINGAPORE (AFP): Singapore vowed yesterday to crack down swiftly on employers abusing foreign maids after Indonesia imposed a freeze on sending its nationals to work as domestics to the country.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Garuda plane crashes, 234 killed
Garuda plane crashes, 234 killed MEDAN, North Sumatra (JP): A Garuda Indonesia Airbus-300-B4 airplane, with 234 people on board, crashed shortly before landing in Medan yesterday.Search and rescue workers found the burned wreckage in a 500- meter deep ravine in the Barisan Range about 30 kilometers...
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Sixty arrested in E. Java for alleged subversion
Sixty arrested in E. Java for alleged subversion SURABAYA (JP): At least 60 people suspected of subversive activities were arrested Thursday in the towns of Malang and Kediri, East Java Police Chief Maj. Gen. M. Dayat said yesterday.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Merpati cancels Jambi flights
Merpati cancels Jambi flights JAKARTA (JP): State-owned Merpati Nusantara Airlines will extend the cancellation of its Jambi-Jakarta flights until Sept. 30, due to the thick haze shrouding Jambi's Sultan Thaha airport, Antara reported yesterday.
Sat, 27 Sep 1997
Petrindo ties up with BP Chemical to make solvents
Petrindo ties up with BP Chemical to make solvents JAKARTA (JP): PT Inter Petrindo Inti Citra and Britain's BP Chemicals signed yesterday a joint venture agreement to develop a US$20 million esterification plant in Cilegon, West Java.Inter Petrindo president Peter F.