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Sat, 15 Jul 2000
Conversion Rates
Conversion Rates Bank Indonesia's conversion rates on July 14, 2000: Bank notes rates TT rates Buying Selling Buying Selling Rp Rp Rp Rp U.S. dollar 1 8,995.00 9,995.00 9,448.00 9,542.00Australian dollar 1 5,273.77 5,865.07 5,539.36 5,599.25Austrian schilling 1 611.27 679.59 642.05 648.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
RP ship sinks, 92 rescued
RP ship sinks, 92 rescued CEBU, Philippines (Reuters): Passing vessels and the coastguard rescued 92 passengers and crew of a Philippine ship that sank in bad weather on Friday but officials said four people were missing, including a five-year-old boy.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
Telkom plans to enter cell phone market in 2001
Telkom plans to enter cell phone market in 2001 JAKARTA (JP): State-owned, listed telecommunications monopoly PT Telkom says it will maintain its position as an operator of fixed-line telephones while at the same time developing new business in the mobile telephony market.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
Focusing on SE Asia's foreign exchange wooers
Focusing on SE Asia's foreign exchange wooersBy Sonali Desai SINGAPORE (Reuters): The gloom shrouding Southeast Asia's currencies in the wake of the rupiah's steep drop has spurred talk in the markets of a contagion effect, but analysts are quick to dismiss the notion.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
ASEAN urged to tighten environmental laws
ASEAN urged to tighten environmental laws SINGAPORE (AFP): Less developed ASEAN countries were urged on Friday to strengthen their environmental laws to prevent the dumping of hazardous waste in the region or its transfer across borders.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
$1.1 billion in nonbudgetary funds goes into state coffers
$1.1 billion in nonbudgetary funds goes into state coffers JAKARTA (JP): The director general of the state budget reported on Friday government ministries and state agencies had transferred about US$1.1 billion in nonbudgetary funds into a special state revenue account.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
National Museum home to precious artifacts
National Museum home to precious artifactsBy Ida Indawati Khow The National Museum is a landmark of advanced researches on ethnography, anthropology and the languages of the Indonesian archipelago in the 18th century.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
Hendrawan, Budi advance to semis in Thailand Open
Hendrawan, Budi advance to semis in Thailand Open JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian men's singles shuttlers put in extraordinary performances against their young Chinese opponents Friday and cleared their way to the semifinals of the three-star Thailand Open in Bangkok.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
SEAG volleyball training starts this year
SEAG volleyball training starts this year JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Volleyball Association (PBVSI) plans to start its women's and men's indoor team training program this year for the September 2001 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Kuala Lumpur.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
Flying high in Bali
Flying high in Bali SANUR, Bali (JP): A total of 581 contestants are taking part in the three-day Bali Kite Festival 2000, which began on Friday."This year's event is bigger than the previous one. Apart from local participants, foreigners from the United States, Canada, Europe, China, Taiwan,...
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
S. Korea narrows hopefuls for reunion
S. Korea narrows hopefuls for reunion SEOUL (AP): South Korea's Red Cross narrowed to 200 the number of candidates on Friday for possible reunions with relatives in communist North Korea after half a century of separation.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
Activists protest death of farmer
Activists protest death of farmer MEDAN, North Sumatra: A horde of rights activists marched to the North Sumatra Legislative Council building on Friday to protest the death of a farmer who was allegedly shot by police during a demonstration on Wednesday.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
Governor tells residents of Matraman to grow up
Governor tells residents of Matraman to grow up JAKARTA (JP): Governor Sutiyoso told Matraman residents, who were involved in their latest clash on Thursday, to settle their disputes and grow up for the benefit of themselves, their neighborhoods and the country."Stop being childish.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
Juwono speaks on Maluku tragedy
Juwono speaks on Maluku tragedy The military has been censured for its inability to stop the violence in the Maluku islands. Minister of Defense Juwono Sudarsono candidly spoke to The Jakarta Post's reporter Fabiola Desy Unidjadja about this and the political situation as a whole.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
Surya Semesta launches ESOP
Surya Semesta launches ESOP JAKARTA (JP): An extraordinary shareholders meeting of publicly-listed PT Surya Semesta Internusa real estate and hotel developer on Friday decided to launch an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) covering 36.98 million shares or 5 percent of the company's issued shares.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
Persija's Leandro shows leniency
Persija's Leandro shows leniency JAKARTA (JP): The appeal commission of the Soccer Association of Indonesia (PSSI) showed leniency to Persija's midfielder, Luciano Leandro, on Thursday, allowing the Brazilian to play in the final of Bank Mandiri national soccer league if Persija manages to get that...
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
Garment workers get salary hike
Garment workers get salary hike PHNOM PENH (Reuters): Cambodian garment worker unions and factory owners have agreed an increase in the industry's monthly minimum wage from US$40 to $45, ending weeks of mass walkouts and at times violent demonstrations.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
Don't be pessimistic
Don't be pessimisticFrom Media IndonesiaI often read pessimistic statements made by Minister of Defense Prof. Juwono Sudarsono in the newspaper. For example, after attending a program at the Jakarta International Energy Conference (JIEC), the minister said that until now the government had not been...
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
Six alleged criminals killed by mobs in a week
Six alleged criminals killed by mobs in a week JAKARTA (JP): Six alleged criminals have been brutally killed by mobs, who decided to take the law into their own hands, at six separate locations in Jakarta, Tangerang, Bekasi and Bogor in the past seven days.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
Brunei arrests 20 KL cultists
Brunei arrests 20 KL cultists BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Reuters): Brunei said it has arrested 20 people, including foreigners, believed to be members of a shadowy Muslim cult which staged a daring arms heist in neighboring Malaysia early this month.
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
MAS to fly Japan's Okayama
MAS to fly Japan's Okayama TOKYO (DPA): Malaysia Airlines will begin regular flights to Okayama airport in western Japan in April next year, Okayama Governor Masahiro Ishii said on Friday.Ishii told a news conference that he was told by Malaysia Airlines executives when he made a recent visit to...
Sat, 15 Jul 2000
RI imposes antidumping duty on Japan, Singaporean steel pipes
RI imposes antidumping duty on Japan, Singaporean steel pipes JAKARTA (JP): The government has decided to impose temporary antidumping duties of between five percent and 81 percent on welded steel pipe imports from Japan and Singapore.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Taxi stolen, driver tied to tree
Taxi stolen, driver tied to tree BOGOR (JP): Bogor Police detectives are on the lookout for three armed men, who rode off in a stolen Jakarta-based taxi after tying the driver to a tree in the Gebluk village of Palasari, Cijeruk district, early Wednesday morning.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
ABN AMRO-BNI alliance
ABN AMRO-BNI alliance JAKARTA (JP): ABN AMRO Bank of the Netherlands and state-owned Bank BNI have entered into a nation-wide cash management network to give their customers in Indonesia access to their combined networks, the Dutch bank said here on Thursday.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
'K@belvision' gives Olympic coverage
'K@belvision' gives Olympic coverage JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian sports fans will be able to witness the most complete coverage of the Olympic Games in Sydney from Sept. 15 to Oct. 1 through the K@belvision channel."WE are very proud to be able to broadcast the Olympics.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Siblings arrested for drug possession
Siblings arrested for drug possession BANDUNG, West Java: Police arrested a man and his 17-year-old brother here early on Thursday for possessing 235 kilograms of marijuana.Local police chief Supt. H. Gultom said that the police made the arrest after they were tipped off by the siblings' neighbors,...
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Indonesian Hendrawan, Budi survive in Thailand Open
Indonesian Hendrawan, Budi survive in Thailand Open JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian top seed Hendrawan and compatriot Budi Santoso survived in their quarterfinals tests at the Thailand Open in Bangkok on Thursday.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
11,886 public phones damaged by vandals: Official
11,886 public phones damaged by vandals: Official JAKARTA (JP): About one-third, or nearly 12,000, of all coin- operated pay phones in the capital and its surrounding areas are vandalized each month, an official with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom)'s Greater Jakarta office revealed on Thursday.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
French-Indonesian economic and trade relations
French-Indonesian economic and trade relations Indonesia has been a major Asian trading partner for France for a long time, and despite a deep economic and monetary crisis affecting Indonesia since mid-1997, French companies have confirmed their commitment to the Indonesian market.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
ASEAN development must be green
ASEAN development must be green SINGAPORE (AFP): Industrial and economic development in Southeast Asia should not be carried out at the expense of the environment, Singapore's Speaker of Parliament Tan Soo Khoon said on Thursday.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Why this delay of trials?
Why this delay of trials? East Timor trial in three months. So ran the main headline of The Jakarta Post on Feb. 17, 2000. Attorney General Marzuki Darusman was quoted as saying that trials of those accused of involvement in the campaign of terror and destruction in East Timor last year would begin...
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Gen. Tyasno denies involvement in fake money case
Gen. Tyasno denies involvement in fake money case BANDUNG (JP): Army Chief of Staff Gen. Tyasno Sudarto flatly denied on Thursday his alleged involvement in the case of production and distribution of fake rupiah notes totaling up to Rp 19.2 billion."It (the accusation) is not true.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Police quiz man believed to know about bomb blast
Police quiz man believed to know about bomb blast JAKARTA (JP): Police have finally found and questioned a man tipped earlier by witnesses as the one who could possibly have information about the blast that rocked the attorney general's office last week, a senior officer said on Thursday.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Ellipse offers digital service
Ellipse offers digital service JAKARTA (JP): PT Ellipse Indonesia announced on Thursday the launch of a new service called Ellipse Digital, which will offer integrated Internet and multimedia marketing strategies for companies.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Moody's reviews, upgrades RI banks
Moody's reviews, upgrades RI banks JAKARTA (Dow Jones): Moody's Investors Service Inc. has placed Bank Danamon Indonesia's Caa3 rating for long-term deposits and senior debt, and its E financial strength rating on review for possible upgrade.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Bomb found at shopping mall
Bomb found at shopping mall SEMARANG, Central Java: Police found a small unexploded bomb at a shopping mall here on Wednesday night.Police sent a bomb-squad after being alerted by a shop attendant at the Citraland shopping mall who had, some 30 minutes earlier, been called by an unidentified man...
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Opposition attacks use of draconian law on Islamic cult
Opposition attacks use of draconian law on Islamic cult KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): A Malaysian opposition party hit out at Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's government on Thursday for using a powerful security law to detain people suspected of having links with an Islamic cult that looted an armory.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Ambassador certain of growth
Ambassador certain of growthBy William Furney In an interview at the French Embassy on Jl. Thamrin, Central Jakarta, French Ambassador to Indonesia Gerard Cros spoke of the relations between Indonesia and France, how his country is helping Indonesia in this time of continuing crisis and whether...
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Conversion Rates
Conversion Rates Bank Indonesia's conversion rates on July 13, 2000: Bank notes rates TT rates Buying Selling Buying Selling Rp Rp Rp Rp U.S. dollar 1 8,945.00 9,945.00 9,398.00 9,492.00Australian dollar 1 5,283.81 5,879.48 5,551.40 5,611.67Austrian schilling 1 611.84 680.60 642.82 649.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Seribu Islands faces 'seribu' problems
Seribu Islands faces 'seribu' problemsBy Novan Iman Santosa PUTRI ISLAND, Seribu Islands (JP): Nobody knows for sure how or why the chain of 110 islands (including six already washed away by the sea) is called the Seribu (thousand) Islands.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Alwi senses U.S. uneasiness at RI internal conflicts
Alwi senses U.S. uneasiness at RI internal conflicts JAKARTA (JP): Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab revealed that in his meetings with United States officials, he detected a sense of uneasiness from Washington at the continuing troubles besetting Indonesia.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
TV today
TV todayTVRI 5:30 a.m. Religious Teachings 6:00 News 8:00 Children's Program 8:30 Music 9:30 Sports 11:30 Interval 2:00 p.m. News 2:30 Cartoon 3:00 Documentary 4:00 News 5:30 TVRI News (in English) 6:30 Music 7:00 Evening News 7:30 TV Drama 8:00 Sports 9:00 World News 9:35 Music 10:30 NewsProgram 2...
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Mob attack police station
Mob attack police station CILACAP, Central Java: Police fired warning shots here on Thursday to disperse an angry mob which attacked a police station, a local police chief said.Cilacap Police chief Supt.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Search effort extended for missing ferry passengers
Search effort extended for missing ferry passengers JAKARTA (JP): Despite apparent hopelessness, the National Search and Rescue Agency decided on Thursday to extend for another week the search for the missing Cahaya Bahari ferry and its hundreds of passengers fleeing strife-torn Tobelo district in...
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Thoughts on Indonesia after MPR session
Thoughts on Indonesia after MPR sessionBy Bahtiar Effendy JAKARTA (JP): The new administration of President Abdurrahman Wahid has been in a roller-coaster situation since its formation in October 1999. A honeymoon period was hardly in sight before the new government encountered predicaments.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Support grows for Matori's PKB chief bid
Support grows for Matori's PKB chief bid JAKARTA (JP): Support is growing for incumbent National Awakening Party (PKB) chairman Matori Abdul Djalil to retain his post.The party's Jakarta chapter was the latest to nominate Matori, who is also the deputy speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly...
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Reform needed for legal supremacy
Reform needed for legal supremacy The public has so little trust in the country's legal system because law enforcement has been marred by corruption, violence and government intervention. Lawyer Abdul Hakim Garuda Nusantara says one way to resolve this situation is to ensure the current process of...
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Pertamina and Indian Oil to discuss LNG sale deal
Pertamina and Indian Oil to discuss LNG sale deal JAKARTA (JP): India and Indonesia have agreed to start discussing the details of the sales of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina to India.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
RP governor offers trade opportunities
RP governor offers trade opportunities JAKARTA (JP): Visiting governor of Nueva Ecija in the central Luzon region of the Philippines, Tomas N. Joson, has invited Jakarta's entrepreneurs to invest their money in his province.
Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Indonesians are not Americans
Indonesians are not AmericansFrom Mimbar UmmatOn Oct. 28, 1928,young people from several ethnic groups signed an oath known as the Youth Pledge. This is a national "bridge" that is historically undeniable.A group of people wanted to be united under the umbrella of Indonesia.