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Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Gemini to lose concession
Gemini to lose concession JAKARTA (JP): The government is revoking PT Gemini Timber Joint Corp.'s exploitation rights over its forest concession in the Kolaka district of Southeast Sulawesi, the province's governor said.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Ministry attempts to boost efficiency
Ministry attempts to boost efficiency JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Industry and Trade Tunky Ariwibowo said yesterday that his ministry is trying to boost efficiency by providing better services to private sector businesses.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Police arrest marijuana farmer
Police arrest marijuana farmer MEDAN, North Sumatra: Police have arrested a farmer in the Tanah Karo regency and confiscated around 100 marijuana plants he had allegedly grown in his field, Antara reported yesterday.Police spokesman Lt. Col.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Driver stabbed to death
Driver stabbed to death JAKARTA (JP): A driver was stabbed to death on Saturday in a fight with four criminals who robbed his girlfriend in Cawang, East Jakarta.The brother of the driver, Malik, told The Jakarta Post at his house yesterday that Tulus, 23, was trying to catch one of the four thugs...
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Habitat II: Coping with looming issues of urbanized world
Habitat II: Coping with looming issues of urbanized world JAKARTA (JP): The world is steadily becoming more urban, as people move to cities and towns. They search for employment and educational opportunities and higher standards of living, migrating from rural lands that can no longer support them.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Bambang to lead SEAG consortium
Bambang to lead SEAG consortium JAKARTA (JP): The 19th Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee yesterday named President Soeharto's eldest son Bambang Trihatmodjo coordinator of an underwriting consortium for the biennial sporting event.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Where to go in Jakarta:
Where to go in Jakarta:Music * Hotel Dai-ichi, Jl. Senen Raya 135, Central Jakarta. - Mezzanine Lounge: Solo Pianist, daily from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., opening hours Monday to Sunday 11 a.m to 1 a.m. * Hotel Aryaduta, Jl.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Minority parties voice growing frustration
Minority parties voice growing frustration YOGYAKARTA (JP): The massive rallies held over the weekend by minority party supporters indicates a growing frustration with the ruling Golkar organization's political maneuvering, political observer Riswanda Imawan said yesterday.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
HK, Taiwan marts make slight gains
HK, Taiwan marts make slight gains HONG KONG (Reuter): Asian stock markets showed little movement yesterday with Taipei and Hong Kong shares closing slightly higher despite China's new round of war drills near Taiwan.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Ting Seen to set up fish processing plant
Ting Seen to set up fish processing plant JAKARTA (JP): PT Ting Seen Banda Sejahtera will establish canned fish and fish meal plants in Tual, in the southeastern part of Maluku province, with an investment of US$200 million."The construction of the plants will start this month.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
TV today
TV todayTVRI 2:30 p.m. Travel: My Country 2:35 TV Series: Kid's Songs 3:05 Music: Diletansia 3:30 Film: Road to Avonlea 4:00 News: Lintasan Berita 4:05 Film: Road to Avonlea (continued) 4:30 Science Film: The Great Day of Century 5:00 Regional News 5:30 English Lessons: Idiomatic Expression 6:05...
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Discipline
DisciplineFrom Media IndonesiaIn the effort to uphold discipline people should be encouraged, sometimes forced, to queue when asking for service in banks, offices and at bus stops, etc. Everyone should get equal treatment.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Crisis of Taiwan
Crisis of Taiwan At the time of the Tang dynasty, and later during the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the Indonesian empires of Sriwijaya and Majapahit covered a larger part of the archipelago, including Malaysia's peninsular.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Moving Bali
Moving BaliFrom Suara KaryaI read in the Kompas daily on March 3, 1996, that there is a Bali Village project in A Kung Tien, South Taiwan. It was built by Kung, whose mother comes from Surabaya, East Java. About 80 artists and craftsmen were recruited from Bali.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Feasibility studies key to small company's progress
Feasibility studies key to small company's progress JAKARTA (JP): Manpower Ministry and state-owned Bank Rakyat Indonesia started yesterday a one week-course on entrepreneurship feasibility for small and medium-scale businesspeople to help them obtain collateral free loans.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Murder case takes new twist
Murder case takes new twist JAKARTA (JP): The blood found in the house of the main murder suspect, Philipus, matches the three murder victims' blood types, a court was told yesterday.Forensic experts who took blood samples in the victims' house in the Bambu Apus subdistrict of East Jakarta, told...
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Police wage war on gambling
Police wage war on gambling SEMARANG: Police said yesterday that they will take firm measures against gambling in the Central Java capital city and those caught in red handed will be processed according to the.Maj. Gen.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Bank audit seminar
Bank audit seminar JAKARTA (JP): PT Auditsi Utama, which offers internal audit services for banks, will host a three-day seminar on the integrated auditing of banking applications at the Grand Hyatt hotel next month.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Youths learn trades in Japan
Youths learn trades in Japan PADANG, West Sumatra: Forty-six local youths left for Japan on Sunday to take part in an apprenticeship program in a number of companies, Antara reported yesterday.The head of the provincial manpower office, Fachri Thaharuddin, said each of the youths will get a monthly...
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Quest for victory drains national shuttlers: Icuk
Quest for victory drains national shuttlers: Icuk JAKARTA (JP): "Exploitation" and no freedom of expression could explain why Indonesian top shuttlers flopped in the just concluded All England, according to Icuk Sugiarto.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Australia may adopt pragmatic Asian policy
Australia may adopt pragmatic Asian policyBy Michael Perry SYDNEY (Reuter): Australia's new conservative government seems determined to quickly build bilateral bridges with Asia through a series of official visits and by using a special envoy to help with difficult relations.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Two people die as riots rock Jayapura
Two people die as riots rock Jayapura JAKARTA (JP): A market was torched and several cars and houses damaged as hundreds of students and youths ran riot in Jayapura yesterday, officials and residents in the Irian Jaya capital said.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Pasaraya near closing time
Pasaraya near closing time On March 16, 1996, my young daughter and I were shopping at the Pasaraya department store in Blok M, South Jakarta. At 9:00 p.m. we were asked to leave by the young floor manager, who stated that they wished to close 30 minutes early.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
DongNam joins Clemont
DongNam joins Clemont JAKARTA (JP): DongNam Bank of South Korea plans to acquire a 50 percent stake at PT Clemont Finance Indonesia Corp., a multi- finance firm affiliated to the Korindo Group of Indonesia.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Postal Internet service
Postal Internet service BANDUNG, West Java (JP): State-owned postal service company PT Pos Indonesia (Posindo) plans to expand the network of its Internet service to the capitals of the country's 27 provinces by the end of this year.
Tue, 19 Mar 1996
Robbers kill servant
Robbers kill servant TANGERANG (JP): A servant was killed in his employer's house in Ciledug, Tangerang yesterday afternoon.Police assume the murder was premeditated and conducted by acquaintances of the victim. No force seemed to have been used to enter the house.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Traffic in Ciputat
Traffic in CiputatFrom KompasI am complaining about the lack of sensitivity the Tangerang administration has shown to the problem of horrible roads around the Ciputat market. Since the market burned down over a year ago, the roads in the area have deteriorated and, as a result, the traffic has...
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Taiwan teenager abducted in RP
Taiwan teenager abducted in RP MANILA (Reuter): Kidnappers have seized a teenage son of an official of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in the Philippines and demanded a ransom of 15 million pesos (US$580,000), a Manila newspaper said yesterday.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
RP spending deficit falls
RP spending deficit falls MANILA (AFP): The Philippines' consolidated public-sector deficit dropped 70.6 percent over the previous year to 2.7 billion pesos (US$103.8 million) in calendar 1995, Finance Secretary Roberto de Ocampo said.The drop was attributed to a 10.2 billion-peso ($392.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Abdurrahman says dissenters can present defense
Abdurrahman says dissenters can present defense SEMARANG (JP): Members of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) who were expelled from their positions in the organization's central and regional boards for opposing the legitimate leadership will be given a chance to defend themselves, chairman Abdurrahman Wahid...
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
ABRI and Golkar
ABRI and Golkar In an address at the Sabilil Mutaqien Islamic boarding school in Takeran, Magetan, East Java, the Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. R. Hartono, repeated the statement he made earlier in Karanganyar, Surakarta, that all members of the Armed Forces (ABRI) are Golkar cadres and that...
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Robbery suspects still at large
Robbery suspects still at large JAKARTA (JP): Two armed robbers who made off with Rp 15.3 million belonging to the Ministry of Industry and Trade have yet to be captured, the police said.City Police Spokesman Lt. Col.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
SMA I alumni to hold reunion
SMA I alumni to hold reunion JAKARTA (JP): In commemoration of the golden anniversary of SMA 1 Budi Utomo high school, which fell on March 13, the alumni plan to hold a grand reunion.Kurie Alim, vice chairman of the reunion organizing committee, announced on Saturday that the event will take place...
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Da Costa replaces Belo at AETD II
Da Costa replaces Belo at AETD II DILI, East Timor: The United Nations has agreed to the participation of Jose Antonio da Costa, Vicar General of the Dili diocese, to replace Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo at tomorrow's All-Inclusive Inter-East Timor Dialog in Austria.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Govt undecided on utilizing nuclear power
Govt undecided on utilizing nuclear power JAKARTA (JP): State Minister of National Development Planning Ginandjar Kartasasmita said that the government is still undecided about developing a nuclear power plant and that it is waiting for the results of a feasibility study.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Why uranium?
Why uranium? Australian Minister for Mining Warwick Parer's announcement of Friday, March 15, 1996 to sell uranium to Indonesia is outrageous and appalling.Advanced Australia, an active and renowned antinuclear country, offering uranium for nuclear purposes to a developing nation is hypocritical...
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
PageScan Color: Sheet-fed scanner comes of age
PageScan Color: Sheet-fed scanner comes of ageBy Zatni Arbi JAKARTA (JP): The competition among small footprint scanners is obviously heating up. You must remember PaperPort from Visioneers, the first generation of this type of computer paraphernalia.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Mixed marriages made easy
Mixed marriages made easy JAKARTA (JP): Procedures for mixed marriages involving Moslems from Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia will be less tortuous in the future.The four neighboring countries have agreed to simplify legal and administrative procedures for such marriages, and...
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Bank fraud hits Vietnam
Bank fraud hits Vietnam HANOI (AFP): The governor of the State Bank of Vietnam told National Assembly members that the banking industry was plagued with problems of fraud and bad debts, according to a press report here.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Moslem leaders lobby to ban Russell's film
Moslem leaders lobby to ban Russell's film JAKARTA (JP): Moslem leaders here have begun discussing preparations to oppose the local screening of a newly-released Hollywood production Executive Decision which their counterparts in Malaysia and the United States say insult their religion.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Indonesia Open gives Fryatt first golf tour title
Indonesia Open gives Fryatt first golf tour title JAKARTA (JP): Briton Edward Fryatt finally secured his first victory as a pro golfer when he fired an impressive appregate score of 13-under par-271 (67 65 68 71) in the Indonesia Open golf championship and took away the US$41,650 first prize.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
ABRI aims to sustain Golkar's big majority
ABRI aims to sustain Golkar's big majority JAKARTA (JP): The Armed Forces (ABRI) yesterday defended its decision to choose Golkar as its partner in politics, saying that the country needs a political force dominant enough to maintain the momentum of national development.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Telkom's profit up 14%
Telkom's profit up 14% JAKARTA (JP): The state-owned domestic telecommunication provider PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) reported over the weekend a net profit of Rp 907 billion (US$389 million) in 1995, up 14 percent from Rp 795 billion in 1994.Telkom's president, Setyanto P.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Where to go in Jakarta:
Where to go in Jakarta:Music * Hotel Dai-ichi, Jl. Senen Raya 135, Central Jakarta. - Mezzanine Lounge: Solo Pianist, daily from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., opening hours Monday to Sunday 11 a.m to 1 a.m. * Hotel Aryaduta, Jl.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Nissan to enter Vietnam
Nissan to enter Vietnam TOKYO (AFP): Japan's Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. said it planned to launch motor vehicle production in Vietnam with Danang Automobile Mechanical Factory.Nissan said it will apply to the Vietnamese government with Danang Automobile for approval to form a joint venture to produce...
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
'Lebaran' traffic claims 23 lives
'Lebaran' traffic claims 23 lives SEMARANG, Central Java: Twenty-three people died in Central Java in the holiday traffic in the weeks surrounding the Idul Fitri celebrations last month.The head of Central Java's traffic office, Rasiswo, said that last year's figure was 38.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Asian rivalry sparks investment in ports
Asian rivalry sparks investment in ports SINGAPORE (AFP): Asian economies are pumping massive investments into port development in competition for rapidly- growing cargo traffic in the region, a transport expert said.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Administration asked to renovate damaged schools
Administration asked to renovate damaged schools JAKARTA (JP): The City Council's Commission E for public welfare and education is prompting the administration to repair state-owned elementary schools damaged by the recent floods.
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
Bogus traffic police
Bogus traffic policeFrom RepublikaI am referring to an article in Republika, Feb. 13, 1996, titled 'Nikmatnya jadi polantas gadungan' (It's enjoyable to be a bogus traffic police officer).I wonder just how deft AS, a resident of Sukamakmur village in Bekasi, West Java, is in playing the role of a...
Mon, 18 Mar 1996
The one-car race
The one-car race The Indonesian government, as anxiously predicted by car assemblers, has decided to close the national automobile program to new entrants, thereby allowing Hutomo (Tommy) Mandala Putra's PT Timor Putra Nasional to become the sole car company to enjoy the import tariff and luxury...