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Wed, 15 Jun 1994
TV Today
TV TodayTVRI 2:30 p.m. TV Series: Prince Valiant 3:05 Children's Fantasy: Panji Sakti 3:30 Science World 4:05 Comedy: Nasib 4:30 Documentary Film 5:00 Regional News 5:30 Indonesian Lessons 6:05 Nusantara the Beloved Country: West Nusa Tenggara 6:15 Village Program 6:45 Langka Tapi Nyata 7:00...
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Religious tolerance crucial to maintance peace: Minister
Religious tolerance crucial to maintance peace: Minister JAKARTA (JP): Tolerance between the various religious communities in Indonesia has played a major role in dampening the potential for religious conflicts here, Minister of Religious Affairs Tarmizi Taher said yesterday.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Bank Bali introduces debit card
Bank Bali introduces debit card JAKARTA (JP): Bank Bali introduced yesterday a card that allows its holders to purchase goods in designated stores while their spending is deducted directly from their accounts.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Job replacement at City Police
Job replacement at City Police A number of top officers at the City Police Headquarters will formally assume new jobs in a ceremony Thursday.The replacement will include heads of the financial affairs, traffic directorate, crime investigation directorate and information affairs agency.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Streamline bureaucracy
Streamline bureaucracy The World Bank has predicted that Indonesia's economic growth during the sixth five-year development plan will reach at least eight percent annually if bureaucratic constraints on the economy are eliminated.This sounds promising indeed.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Voyage to Kalimantan's rivers to start today
Voyage to Kalimantan's rivers to start today JAKARTA (JP): A 40-day expedition to explore the natural and cultural richness of the regions along the Kapuas and Mahakam rivers which cut across Kalimantan from west to east will start today.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
22 hydrocarbon areas remain untapped
22 hydrocarbon areas remain untapped JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia has yet to explore 22 of its sedimentary basins which are believed to hold hydrocarbon resources, the state oil company, Pertamina, said yesterday"The 60 sedimentary basins are estimated to hold 71.86 billion barrels of oil and 212.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Political parties are becoming more independent
Political parties are becoming more independent JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian political organizations are becoming independent despite the bureaucracy's reluctance to loosen its grip, a political analyst said yesterday.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
On the right track
On the right track Early this week, when it was announced that Foreign Minister Ali Alatas would undergo heart bypass surgery in Melbourne, Australia, some people joked that it was further evidence of the sound relations between the two countries.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Indofood offers shares
Indofood offers shares JAKARTA (JP): PT Indofood Sukses Makmur, one of Indonesia's largest food processing companies and the largest producer of instant noodles, launches today a public offering of 21 million shares at a price of Rp 6,200 (US$2.8) apiece.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
RP protests transplant ads
RP protests transplant ads MANILA (AFP): The Philippines has asked Japan to put a stop to advertisements promoting cheap kidney transplants in the Philippines on ethical grounds, the Foreign Affairs Department here said yesterday.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Women' conference issues `Jakarta Declaration'
Women' conference issues `Jakarta Declaration' JAKARTA (JP): The following is the text of the Jakarta Declaration adopted by the Second Asian and Pacific Ministerial Conference on Women and Development on June 14:The participants in the Second Asian and Pacific Ministerial Conference on Women in...
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Bekasi police nab and shoot four thieves
Bekasi police nab and shoot four thieves JAKARTA (JP): Bekasi police arrested four suspected burglars after shooting them in the legs as the five-member group tried to escape.The group was being pursued for their alleged involvement in a robbery in Serang.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Lousy taxis
Lousy taxisFrom KompasOn June 4, 1994, at about 7 p.m. I took a President Taxi from Melawai Plaza, Kebayoran Baru to Pondok Karya, Jl. Mampang Prapatan, South Jakarta. But I did not look at the taxi plate number.Taking Jl.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Police promise not to release alleged gamblers
Police promise not to release alleged gamblers JAKARTA (JP): City police officers assured reporters here yesterday that none of the 235 people arrested during a recent raid on gambling dens have been released."We hope that all of them will be charged in court soon.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Indonesia to cut log output to 37.67m cubic meters
Indonesia to cut log output to 37.67m cubic meters JAKARTA (JP): Amid growing international concern over rain forest preservation, Indonesia plans to harvest 37.67 million cubic meters of logs a year during the next five years.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Councilor questions private management of city property
Councilor questions private management of city property JAKARTA (JP): A city councilor raised objections, yesterday, to private management of public facilities at a housing complex in North Jakarta.Ismunandar, a deputy city council speaker, told reporters that according to existing regulations,...
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Controversial issue of land compensation
Controversial issue of land compensationFrom DetikA controversial issue of land compensation in South Lampung which was reported by Detik weekly recently shocked me.I fail to understand why the company could hurt the farmers by paying only Rp 5 per square meter.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Conference on women concluded with reservations
Conference on women concluded with reservations JAKARTA (JP): Ministers attending the Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Women formally adopted the Jakarta Declaration and Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women, yesterday, though not wholeheartedly.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Gembong -- man endowed with supernatural powers
Gembong -- man endowed with supernatural powersBy Sudibyo M. Wiradji YOGYAKARTA (JP): For R.M. Gembong Danudiningrat, being a man with paranormal abilities means dedicating his life to humanity.Gembong, that's what locals call him , is well recognized as a man endowed with certain supernatural...
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Palestinian TV goes on the air
Palestinian TV goes on the airBy Khalad Ammar JERICHO, West Bank, (Reuter): Palestinians took to the airwaves for the first time, flying the national flag on television from the lowest point on earth.Viewers in the self-rule area of Jericho, who tuned to channel 13 from 3 p.m.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Thugs make off with Rp 15 million
Thugs make off with Rp 15 million Three men armed with sickles and daggers robbed a man on Jl. Tubagus Angke, West Jakarta, on Monday, making off with Rp 15 million in cash and a host of valuables.Hermansyah, 26, an employee of PT Mudori Garment, was riding his motorbike en route to the West...
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
City said to be in acute excess of carrying capacity
City said to be in acute excess of carrying capacity JAKARTA (JP): As Jakarta celebrates its 267th anniversary, the growing demands of over 8 million people deplete the city's over extended resources, prompting a prominent resident to declare the city is in dire straits.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Defamation 21 won't be going home on schedule
Defamation 21 won't be going home on schedule JAKARTA (JP): A planned home coming reception for 21 jailed student activists ended in disappointment yesterday as a last minute high court ruling extended their six month sentences.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Why were police in the theater
Why were police in the theaterFrom Media IndonesiaLast June 7, after office hours I saw the movie Philadelphia at the Empire-21 in Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta. But to my surprise, while the audience was watching the film, suddenly the screen flashed the message: "Sorry, policemen will inspect this room.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Indonesia, Australia forge ties in manpower sector
Indonesia, Australia forge ties in manpower sector JAKARTA (JP): Australia will help Indonesia develop a labor market information system in the first bilateral cooperation effort in the field of manpower between the two countries.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Chinese firm to set up steel mill in Malaysia
Chinese firm to set up steel mill in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): A major company in China wants to set up a 15 billion ringgit (US$6 billion) steel mill in Sarawak state that could emerge as Malaysia's biggest steel operation, officials said yesterday.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Inventory of state assets completed
Inventory of state assets completed JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Finance Mar'ie Muhammad said yesterday that state assets are estimated at Rp 53.7 trillion (US$24.8 billion at the current rate) as of April, 1994.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Project assessment board told not to collude with contractors
Project assessment board told not to collude with contractors JAKARTA (JP): Provincial Secretary Harun Al Rasyid has called on the acting members of the municipal committee in charge of pre-qualification assessments of projects not to collude with contractors and to shun bribery.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
Young man plunges to his death
Young man plunges to his death The Central Jakarta police remain without a clue as to whether a young man who fell to his death from the second floor of the Atrium Plaza shopping center in Senen on Monday evening jumped or was pushed.
Wed, 15 Jun 1994
PPP and its congress
PPP and its congressFrom DetikThe second largest political party in Indonesia, the United Development Party (PPP), will hold a congress in August to elect its leader for the next five-year term.Since early March, some popular candidates such as the intellectual Gus Dur, singer Rhoma Irama, ulema KH...
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Australia wants to join East ASEAN Growth Area
Australia wants to join East ASEAN Growth Area MANILA (AFP): Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans said yesterday that he hoped Australia's Northern Territory could become part of the East ASEAN Growth Area (EAGA) envisioned between Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Population control realm for international effort
Population control realm for international effort JAKARTA (JP): Cooperation in population control will showcase the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)'s concept of cooperation between developing countries with the assistance of developed countries.
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
RI to take heed to girls' education
RI to take heed to girls' education JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto opened the Second Asia- Pacific Ministerial Meeting on Women in Development yesterday, pledging to pay greater attention to the education of young women.
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Cheaper local AIDS test method studied
Cheaper local AIDS test method studied JAKARTA (JP): The government is currently studying whether a new, cheaper method of testing AIDS meets international standards.Minister of Health Sujudi said yesterday that the government will move cautiously before endorsing the locally-developed "entebe...
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Ciputra to build luxurious apartment complex soon
Ciputra to build luxurious apartment complex soon JAKARTA (JP): PT CitraLand Liang Court, a joint venture between PT Ciputra Development, a national property company, and Liang Court, a Singapore property company, will start the construction of a posh apartment complex, CitraLand Regency Apartment,...
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Kalpataru winners -- `lone rangers' of environments
Kalpataru winners -- `lone rangers' of environmentsBy Ati Nurbaiti JAKARTA (JP): For over 50 years, villager Bahuddin Hi Pabbite of Donggala regency, Palu, Central Sulawesi, has been collecting bird's eggs.
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Disappointed by Bouraq
Disappointed by BouraqFrom Media IndonesiaI bought a ticket on Bouraq Airlines for a June 1 flight form Yogyakarta to Bandung. On May 31, 1994 I reconfirmed the flight at their office in Denpasar, Bali, and it was okayed.
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Danish firms seek RI partners
Danish firms seek RI partners JAKARTA (JP): A Danish mission of private energy developers arrived here last Saturday espousing a strong desire to get a piece of the booming Indonesian private power industry.
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
A season of Australian films on SCTV
A season of Australian films on SCTVBy Jane Freebury JAKARTA (JP): Beginning tonight at 9:30 a season of contemporary Australian feature films on SCTV will be screened as follows: * The Man from Snowy River (George Miller, 1982) tonight * No Worries (David Elfick, 1994) June 21 * Strictly Ballroom...
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Warsito tipped for C. Kalimantan governor
Warsito tipped for C. Kalimantan governor JAKARTA (JP): The Central Executive Board of Golkar yesterday gave its wholehearted endorsement of the government's candidate in the upcoming election for Central Kalimantan governor.
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Where to go in Jakarta:
Where to go in Jakarta:Music * The Aryaduta Jakarta, Jl. Prapatan 44-48, Central Jakarta: - Ambassador Lounge: Amir (pianist) Monday to Friday 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.; Boece (pianist) & Rima Monday to Thursday 7 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., Friday & Saturday 7 p.m. to 00:30 a.m.
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Wash your hands before, after meals
Wash your hands before, after meals JAKARTA (JP): Washing your hands before and after each meal may sound basic, but a leading doctor says the practice has been largely neglected.Most people only wash theirs after meal, said Kartono Muhammad, chairman of the Indonesian Medical Doctors Association...
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Power crisis remains stumbling block for RP
Power crisis remains stumbling block for RP MANILA (AFP): The Philippines' nearly three-year-long power crisis remains an obstacle to economic growth despite the government's claims to the contrary, the World Bank said in a statement released yesterday.
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
House urges the government to improve record in East Timor
House urges the government to improve record in East Timor JAKARTA (JP): A committee of the House of Representatives (DPR) urged the government yesterday to improve the human rights condition in East Timor in order to find a comprehensive solution to the problems in the country's youngest province.
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Concert in aid of Kalimantan's forest
Concert in aid of Kalimantan's forest JAKARTA (JP): Still fresh in the memories of many are the fires in the early 1980's which raged through Kalimantan's virgin forests.The damage caused by the calamity may perhaps not be totally irreparable, but in launching efforts to bring about the recovery of...
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Four thieves arrested
Four thieves arrested The North Jakarta police arrested four suspected vehicle thieves and confiscated six cars and a motorcycle from them on Sunday.The four are Odang, Enjang, Yudhi, and Hartono aged between 25 and 35 years old.
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Women's economic contribution still unappreciated
Women's economic contribution still unappreciated JAKARTA (JP): The poorer the family, the more important a woman's contribution becomes, according to a participant in the ongoing Asian Pacific women conference.
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Any Betawi sports?
Any Betawi sports?From NeracaIn the context of the anniversary of Jakarta, June 22, 1994, the committee must have planned a number of programs to mark the event. But I have never witnessed a sport typical to the Betawi (the indigenous Jakarta inhabitants) community played during the event.
Tue, 14 Jun 1994
Military send 235 `gamblers' to police
Military send 235 `gamblers' to police JAKARTA (JP): A total of 235 of the 238 people arrested during a recent raid on gambling dens have been handed over by the military office (POM) to the police, police sources revealed yesterday.They also said no policeman took part in the raid on Saturday.