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Thu, 26 Nov 1998
Al Gore: A message for Indonesian students?
Al Gore: A message for Indonesian students?By David DeRosa NEW YORK (Bloomberg): Vice President Al Gore's controversial Kuala Lumpur speech last week on democracy and political freedom has Malaysia's powers that be doing back flips.
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
Rock paintings reveal deep history
Rock paintings reveal deep historyBy Bernard Estrade JAKARTA (AFP): The discovery of a series of rock paintings in lost caves along Kalimantan island has opened up new perspectives on the prehistoric era in the region between Southeast Asia and Australia.
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
Atako-Lindskog leads Matoa National Open by one stroke
Atako-Lindskog leads Matoa National Open by one stroke JAKARTA (JP): Nigerian Stephen Atako-Lindskog recouped from a shaky first day's play to card a course record of 63 on Wednesday and take the lead in the Rp 100 million (US$13,300) Matoa Nasional Open-Andersen Consulting Challenge golf...
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
Drivers attack high school
Drivers attack high school PURWOKERTO, Central Java (JP): Hundreds of public transportation drivers entered their second day of strikes Wednesday and rushed to a high school to seek revenge against a student who hit a driver.
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
RI stands at historical crossroads to democracy
RI stands at historical crossroads to democracy With wave after wave of violence rocking Indonesia and no end to antigovernment student protests in sight, prominent lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis takes a hard look at what's behind the unrest...
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
MasterCard expecting growth in use of debit cards in 1999
MasterCard expecting growth in use of debit cards in 1999 JAKARTA (JP): International credit and debit card issuer MasterCard International is predicting growth of between 20 percent and 40 percent in debit card use in Indonesia next year.
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
Two more killed by mobs
Two more killed by mobs SEMARANG, Central Java (JP): Police proved helpless to stop mob lynchings when two more were killed on Monday by people who suspected them of being murderers of religious teachers.Semarang regency police chief Lt. Col.
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
South China Sea workshop in Jakarta
South China Sea workshop in Jakarta JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia will host once again the annual workshop on managing potential conflicts in the South China Sea.The Dec. 1 to Dec. 3 workshop will be held in Jakarta for the first time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
Youth orchestra to play at TIM
Youth orchestra to play at TIM JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Youth Orchestra will hold its second annual concert at 8 p.m. on Thursday at Graha Bhakti Budaya in Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM), Central Jakarta.
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
Conversion Rates
Conversion Rates Bank Bali's conversion rates on Nov. 25, 1998: TT rates Bank notes rates Buying Selling Buying Selling Rp Rp Rp Rp U.S. dollar 1 7,300.00 7,500.00 7,300.00 7,575.00Austrian schilling 1 574.90 644.90 - -Australian dollar 1 4,622.40 4,882.40 4,595.00 4,945.00Belgian franc 1 192.
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
Any woman can become president: Scholars
Any woman can become president: Scholars JAKARTA (JP): The recent motion by a group of Moslem clerics to stipulate that the president of Indonesia be male and Moslem had political overtones to it, and discriminated against not only women, but also people of other faiths, scholars said.
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
Indonesian corporate golf league to resume
Indonesian corporate golf league to resume JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian corporate golf league is to resume next month with 17 companies having confirmed their participation.Tournament spokesperson Barbara Speirs said on Wednesday that this season's league would be played over six legs at different...
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
Rupiah volatility 'to subside in 1999'
Rupiah volatility 'to subside in 1999' JAKARTA (JP): Local and foreign economists predicted on Wednesday that the rupiah would be more stable next year despite lingering worries over the country's political instability.
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
Beijing to bid to organize 2008 Olympic Games
Beijing to bid to organize 2008 Olympic Games BEIJING (AFP): Beijing will bid to stage the 2008 Olympic Games, officials said Wednesday, launching a new campaign after China's humiliating defeat to Sydney in the contest for the 2000 Games.
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
Frightening student brawls
Frightening student brawlsFrom NeracaLast Friday I witnessed two (high school) student brawls. One was in the afternoon on Jl. Kramat Raya and another in the early evening on Jl. Pasar Minggu.The brawls caused huge traffic jams.
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
Con men target direct dial users
Con men target direct dial users JAKARTA (JP): Telecommunications company PT Indosat warned telephone owners on Wednesday about unidentified groups using the firm's name to cheat customers who use the 001 code for international calls.
Thu, 26 Nov 1998
Trade firms get ID in China
Trade firms get ID in China BEIJING (AFP): China will issue digital identity cards (ID) to foreign trade enterprises in a further move to control fraudulent foreign exchange transactions, the official China Daily reported Wednesday.The report said the ID cards, which would be issued from Jan.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Thai tourism booming
Thai tourism booming BANGKOK (AP): With tourist arrivals up by more than 6 percent, officials expect Thailand's crisis-ridden economy to be buoyed by 272 billion baht (US$7.5 billion) in foreign exchange earnings this year.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Stocks, rupiah tremble a little as student protests resume
Stocks, rupiah tremble a little as student protests resume JAKARTA (JP): The rupiah dipped to 7,600 against the U.S. dollar and stock prices lost 1.1 percent on Tuesday as students resumed large-scale antigovernment demonstrations in the capital.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Thailand on full alert for terrorists during Games
Thailand on full alert for terrorists during Games BANGKOK (AFP): Thailand has assembled a hard core of special forces, bomb detection units and riot squads to ensure the Asian Games live up to its "Friendship Games" billing.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Sri Indriyani tipped for silver in Bangkok
Sri Indriyani tipped for silver in Bangkok JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia is pinning its hopes of winning a silver medal at the 13th Asian Games weightlifting competition in Bangkok next month on Sri Indriyani.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Estrada adamant on execution
Estrada adamant on execution MANILA (AFP): Philippine President Joseph Estrada on Tuesday shrugged off calls from the European Union and the Vatican to call off the country's first execution in 22 years, saying the sentence would send a "lesson".
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Supreme Court turns down Amex bankruptcy appeal
Supreme Court turns down Amex bankruptcy appeal JAKARTA (JP): The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal by the Singapore office of the American Express Bank (Amex) to declare the publicly listed firm PT Ometraco Corporation bankrupt.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Help sought in curbing malnutrition
Help sought in curbing malnutrition JAKARTA (JP): President B.J. Habibie expressed on Tuesday deep concern over how the economic crisis had caused malnutrition levels to soar, particularly among infants and children under five, and appealed to the financially better-off to help the poor.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Premier finds RI oil, gas
Premier finds RI oil, gas LONDON (Bloomberg): Premier Oil Plc, a UK oil exploration company, said on Tuesday an exploration well it drilled with its partners in the Pangkah area, off the coast of Indonesia, tested successfully for both oil and natural gas.The Ujung Pangkah No.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Lee Kuan Yew leaves hospital
Lee Kuan Yew leaves hospital SINGAPORE (AFP): Singapore elder statesman Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew has been discharged from hospital after undergoing treatment for an infection, a government press statement said on Tuesday.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
ABRI gears up for continual demos
ABRI gears up for continual demos JAKARTA (JP): Armed Forces (ABRI) Commander Gen. Wiranto warned that campus activists would continue anti-government protests until general elections in mid-1999.Speaking on Tuesday in a hearing with the House Commission I on security and defense, Wiranto predicted...
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Debate rages on Pancasila as sole political party principle
Debate rages on Pancasila as sole political party principle JAKARTA (JP): Legislators discussing a draft bill on political parties were unable to resolve differences on Tuesday over the inflammatory issue of stipulating the Pancasila state ideology as the sole doctrine of political institutions.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Politicians warn of vested interests
Politicians warn of vested interests JAKARTA (JP): Politicians and youth activists warned on Tuesday that groups with political agendas were playing on people's mutual suspicions to divide and conquer.Since 1996, unsolved investigations into riots with religious overtones led the leaders to state...
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
ICMI's statement disappointing
ICMI's statement disappointingFrom Bisnis IndonesiaAs a member of the executive board of the Indonesian Association of Moslem Intellectuals (ICMI), I was very shocked to hear, and consequently lodged a strong protest against, the statement made by the acting general chairman of ICMI and reported in...
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Japan firms get nod for subway project
Japan firms get nod for subway project JAKARTA (JP): The government gave the nod on Tuesday for Japanese firms to build a subway system in the city and an electric railway connecting the capital to Surabaya, East Java, according to a business leader.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Clinic opens for business
Clinic opens for business JAKARTA (JP): The London Institute of Communications Jakarta in cooperation with the Pasundan University of Bandung will soon open a "business clinic" that will provide consultancy services to people intending to enter into food and food processing businesses using local...
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
TV today
TV todayTVRI 5:30 a.m. Religious Teachings: Hikmah Pagi 6:00 Morning News 6:30 News: Nuansa Reformasi 7:00 Children's Program: Lagu Anak Nusantara 7:30 Cartoon 8:00 Music 8:30 Documantary Film 9:00 Music 9:30 Interval 2:00 p.m.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Indonesia needs banking plan
Indonesia needs banking plan HONG KONG (Reuters): Indonesia is unlikely to emerge from its political and economic crisis without strong government leadership and proper implementation of a banking recapitalization plan, Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co said.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Narcotics officer found dead with gunshot wound
Narcotics officer found dead with gunshot wound TANGERANG (JP): A police narcotics detective was found dead with a gunshot wound to his stomach, at his rented house in the Legok district here on Monday night.His wife was also in critical condition with a similar wound.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Four-way tie in opening round of Matoa National
Four-way tie in opening round of Matoa National JAKARTA (JP): Four veteran golfers shared the lead after the first round of the Rp 100 million (US$13,300) Matoa Nasional Open-Andersen Consulting Challenge on Tuesday.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
'I love rupiah' gold auctioned
'I love rupiah' gold auctioned BANDUNG (JP): Gold contributions totaling 2,249 grams raised during the "I love rupiah" campaign were auctioned off by the state pawn house here Tuesday.The gold was raised in a campaign launched by former minister of social affairs Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, known as...
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Rights body sets up probe team on Semanggi tragedy
Rights body sets up probe team on Semanggi tragedy JAKARTA (JP): The National Commission on Human Rights has established its own team to investigate the Nov. 13 clash between students and security personnel at the Semanggi Cloverleaf junction.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Mine prospecting falls in economic, political crisis
Mine prospecting falls in economic, political crisis JAKARTA (JP): Mining explorations in the country have significantly dropped this year amid the monetary and political turbulence, the Indonesian Mining Services Association (Aspindo) said on Tuesday.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Computer problem may bring new crisis in the future: WB
Computer problem may bring new crisis in the future: WB JAKARTA (JP): The so-called Year 2000 computer problem has the potential to emerge as a serious crisis for Indonesia, even as the country might be on its way towards economic recovery, the World Bank has said.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
On ethnic Chinese again
On ethnic Chinese again On Nov. 16, Masli Arman accused me of declaring "... through The Jakarta Post last month that the Chinese in Indonesia were not really a minority but the third largest ethnic group in the country (after the Javanese and Sundanese), ...
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Demontrations spread in several big cities
Demontrations spread in several big cities JAKARTA (JP): Students continued on Tuesday with their demonstrations demanding that former president Soeharto be tried, and that recent riots be investigated thoroughly.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Obituary
Obituary JAKARTA (JP): Ahem Erningpraja, a former minister of manpower in the early 1960s, died on Monday of old age at 85. He was buried Tuesday at Tanah Kusir public cemetery.Born in 1912, he earned a medal for being an independence fighter.From 1959 to 1963 he served as a minister of manpower.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Govt scales down privatization plans to six state firms
Govt scales down privatization plans to six state firms JAKARTA (JP): The government has decided to privatize six state firms rather than the 12 originally planned in this fiscal year due to bearish conditions on the local stock market.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Golden Truly staff fight for rights
Golden Truly staff fight for rights JAKARTA (JP): One hundred twenty-three former employees of the Golden Truly supermarket outlet in the popular Blok M shopping area in South Jakarta are keeping up their fight for higher severance pay after the store was closed in August.
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Fighting violence against women
Fighting violence against womenBy Julia I. Suryakusuma Today is UN Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. JAKARTA (JP): On Nov. 25, 1989, 14 women, mostly engineering students from a technical university in Montreal, were gunned down by a male student, because "you're all a bunch of...
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Stock Exchange
Stock ExchangeStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on Nov. 24, 1998: Shares Close Change Trading Volume ------------------------------------------------------- Ades Alfindo 450 25 263,500 AHAP Insurance 400 0 0 Alter Abadi 325 25 6,152,000 Alumindo Light Metal 350 0 440,500...
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Canadians turn Christmas' ball into charity event
Canadians turn Christmas' ball into charity event JAKARTA (JP): It's almost Christmas, the most festive time of the year. It's time to have fun, but also to serve the needy.Responding to the ongoing crisis, the Canadian-Indonesian business community is turning its annual Christmas social events...
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Former minister of finance questioned over Freeport deal
Former minister of finance questioned over Freeport deal JAKARTA (JP): Prosecutors at the Attorney General's Office questioned on Tuesday former minister of finance J.B. Sumarlin as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in the 1991 extension of the mining contract of copper and gold...
Wed, 25 Nov 1998
Asian nations urged to protect workers
Asian nations urged to protect workers BANGKOK (Reuters): The United Nations' labor rights watchdog urged Asian governments on Tuesday not to forget workers' rights as they sorted out the region's economic crisis.