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Wed, 29 Oct 1997
RI says no to conditioned aid
RI says no to conditioned aid JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Alatas stressed again yesterday that Indonesia would not accept other countries' attempts to make human rights records a condition for development cooperation.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Be sure you know what you write
Be sure you know what you write Sometimes, I wonder why the editor of a prestigious paper, as The Jakarta Post is, decides to submit to its readers nonsense masked as articles written by pseudo-columnists.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Soeharto to propose APEC response to financial turmoil
Soeharto to propose APEC response to financial turmoil SINGAPORE (AFP): President Soeharto is to propose at an upcoming APEC summit an action plan to avert financial turmoil caused by excessive currency fluctuations which have damaged Southeast Asian economies, an official said yesterday.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Inovax postpones PT Ponco purchase
Inovax postpones PT Ponco purchase PERTH (Reuters): Australian drug developer and distributor Inovax Ltd said it would postpone the purchase of Indonesian drug maker PT Ponco for A$94.6 million due to Southeast Asia's economic turmoil.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Analysts doubt polling on next president
Analysts doubt polling on next president JAKARTA (JP): Two senior military analysts welcomed yesterday the idea of a national poll on President Soeharto's acceptability, but expressed doubts that it could be carried out successfully.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Beachfront residents to be evicted
Beachfront residents to be evicted PALU, Central Sulawesi: As many as 112 low-income families dwelling along the beachfront area here are in danger of being evicted because their homes violate the city's spatial plan.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Howard arrives on working visit
Howard arrives on working visit JAKARTA (JP): Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who arrived here yesterday for a two-day working visit, will hold a discussion with President Soeharto at Merdeka Palace this morning.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Cahyo Budiono breaks record as longest-playing drummer
Cahyo Budiono breaks record as longest-playing drummer YOGYAKARTA (JP): Cahyo Budiono of the Purwokerto-based Zaragoza Band broke on Monday Indonesia's record for the longest- playing drummer, playing his drum set for 12 hours and 40 minutes straight.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Thai cabinet must make tough decisions
Thai cabinet must make tough decisions Thailand's new cabinet cobbled together by Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh in the hope of staving off public demands for his resignation, held its first working meeting Monday.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Safe distance in driving
Safe distance in drivingFrom Media IndonesiaWe are still concerned with the low quality of drivers in our country. I once witnessed a chain of collisions which later resulted in a long-winded debate as the driver who rammed his car into the car in front of him blamed the driver of this car for...
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Smog-hit SE Asia could become tourist no-go zone
Smog-hit SE Asia could become tourist no-go zoneBy Chris Johnson SINGAPORE (Reuters): Choking yellow-gray smog over Southeast Asia has already closed factories, canceled flights and lengthened queues in doctors' waiting-rooms.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Shares prices fall worldwide
Shares prices fall worldwide JAKARTA (JP): Shares prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) plunged sharply by 8.59 percent or 42.12 points to a new low of 447.99 points yesterday as billions of dollars were wiped off stock exchanges worldwide.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
First Hard Rock hotel in Bali
First Hard Rock hotel in Bali JAKARTA (JP): The island of Bali, one of the world's leading tourist destinations, has been chosen for the first Hard Rock Beach Club.The property, scheduled to open next May, will be located near busy Kuta beach and will combine hotel, resort, musical and recreation...
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
AMP Panin Life sold to Dharmala Manulife
AMP Panin Life sold to Dharmala Manulife JAKARTA (JP): Publicly listed PT Panin Life and Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP Society) have sold their stakes in PT AMP Panin Life to PT Dharmala Manulife for Rp 22.8 billion (US$6.33 million).
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Man found dead at boarding house
Man found dead at boarding house JAKARTA (JP): A man was found dead in his room at a boarding house on Jl. Kirai, North Cipete, in South Jakarta yesterday.The victim, identified as Budi Santoso, 25, was an employee of Mie Gunting restaurant in Senayan.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Security officer hit by train
Security officer hit by train JAKARTA (JP): A security guard was crushed to death by an express train, plying the Jakarta-Bandung route yesterday.The victim, identified as Tubagus Benny Umar Atmakusumah, 42, was a resident of Paseban Timur, Central Jakarta.He was crushed near Jl.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Six foreign contractors bid for Padang airport
Six foreign contractors bid for Padang airport JAKARTA (JP): The government will announce in December the winning developers of the Ketaping International Airport project in Padang, West Sumatra, an official said yesterday.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Four SEA Games athletes fail doping tests
Four SEA Games athletes fail doping tests JAKARTA (JP): The 19th SEA Games organizing committee announced yesterday that four medalists had tested positive for banned substances.Secretary-general Rudolf S.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Discipline movement hits Jakarta streets
Discipline movement hits Jakarta streets JAKARTA (JP): Governor Sutiyoso has urged members of the National Discipline Movement to act responsibly as they carry out their public-order tasks.Sutiyoso asked them Monday to make themselves role models for the public and not to overact.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Spotlight
SpotlightPhoto A: ISOJP/msaWIRED FOR SUCCESS: R.A. Barkhuis (right), head of PT KEMA Registered Quality Indonesia, an affiliate of the Netherlands- based Kema company, presents the ISO 9002 certificate to the Vice President Director of PT Siemens Kabel Optik, G. Schoeber.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Limits on Chinese business supported
Limits on Chinese business supported JAKARTA (JP): Prominent businessman Sofyan Wanandi supported yesterday a controversial notion that legislation be established to preserve the businesses of indigenous Indonesians by barring Chinese traders from entering certain sectors.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
AIDS threatens Asia with grave economic crisis
AIDS threatens Asia with grave economic crisis MANILA (AFP): Asia faces potentially grave economic problems from the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and must be willing to challenge religious and cultural norms to mitigate them, experts said yesterday.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
300 allowed to sit civil service test
300 allowed to sit civil service test JAKARTA (JP): Three hundred civil servant applicants, who did not receive a notification letter from the municipality, were allowed to join yesterday's test despite earlier plans to fail them.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
PLN urged to negotiate private power prices
PLN urged to negotiate private power prices JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Mines and Energy I.B. Sudjana ordered state-owned electricity company PLN to renegotiate with private power companies over prices following the rupiah's sharp depreciation against the U.S.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
APEC adopts plan for early trade liberalization
APEC adopts plan for early trade liberalization SINGAPORE (AFP): APEC senior officials wound up talks here yesterday by adopting a set of guidelines to identify priority sectors for early trade liberalization at the group's summit in Vancouver, Canada, next month.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Greed, complacency at play in drought, forest fires
Greed, complacency at play in drought, forest fires We have been closely following the effect of the prolonged drought, causing both record crop failures and an unprecedented smog which has enveloped the region. We recently asked Dr. H.S.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Asian crisis needs fast solution: Rubin
Asian crisis needs fast solution: Rubin NEW YORK (Reuters): U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said there is "clearly a serious issue" with respect to financial instability in Southeast Asia that needs to be resolved as soon as possible.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Changwon industries seek investment opportunities
Changwon industries seek investment opportunities JAKARTA (JP): A trade mission from South Korea's industrial city of Changwon has arrived here for a three-day visit to explore investment opportunities.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Qiao purged but still visible
Qiao purged but still visible As Chinese President Jiang Zemin meets President Bill Clinton at the summit in Washington DC, The Jakarta Post Asia correspondent Harvey Stockwin explores the way in which power politics within the Chinese Communist Party is having an unexpected result at home -- and...
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Hopes for next year's coffee crop fading
Hopes for next year's coffee crop fading SINGAPORE (Reuters): No rain fell on Indonesia's parched coffee belt over the past 24 hours and hopes for the 1998 crop are fading fast, dealers said yesterday."There were no rains overnight," a veteran coffee dealer said. "I think the crop's beyond saving.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Asian crisis curbs U.S. growth, analysts say
Asian crisis curbs U.S. growth, analysts say NEW YORK (Reuters): An ongoing financial crisis in southeast Asia will probably curb U.S. economic growth, and possibly influence how the Federal Reserve handles monetary policy in the near future, Fed sources and analysts said.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Stock Exchange
Stock ExchangeStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on Oct. 28, 1997: Shares Close Change Trading Volume ------------------------------------------------------------ Ades Alfindo 850 -50 89,500 AHAP Insurance 2,500 0 0 Alter Abadi 600 -75 5,000 Alumindo Light Metal 500 -75 37,500...
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Three men tried for trafficking Ecstasy
Three men tried for trafficking Ecstasy JAKARTA (JP): Three men were indicted in the West Jakarta District Court yesterday for trafficking 800 Ecstasy pills with a street value of Rp 23 million (US$6,388).
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Shameful culture
Shameful culture During the recent SEA Games in Jakarta I enjoyed watching several sport events on TV. What attracted me most was the spectators' attitude (of course not all of them) in supporting their country's sportsmen and sportswomen in their struggle to win the games.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Where to go in Jakarta:
Where to go in Jakarta:Exhibitions * Ceramics Exhibition, Golekan at Bentara Budaya, Jl. Palmerah Selatan No. 17, Jakarta, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., until Oct. 31. * Painting Exhibition, by Laila Dempster, at Shangri-La, Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav.1, Central Jakarta, until Nov. 2.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Klender traders protest management
Klender traders protest management JAKARTA (JP): Eleven legume traders from Klender market in East Jakarta went to the City Council yesterday to complain about the city-owned market management company PD Pasar Jaya's inconsistency in space allotment.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Asian fund not remedy for currency crisis: LGT
Asian fund not remedy for currency crisis: LGT SINGAPORE (Reuters): Setting up an Asian fund to help economies in trouble is not the best solution to the crisis facing the region's financial markets, LGT Asset Management chief economist John Greenwood said yesterday.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Parents plead to rights body to help free Nasiroh
Parents plead to rights body to help free Nasiroh JAKARTA (JP): A tearful Soleha, the mother of an Indonesian housemaid facing possible execution in Saudi Arabia, pleaded yesterday to the National Commission on Human Rights to help release her daughter.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
SEA Games stickers
SEA Games stickersFrom Sinar PagiThe protests voiced on the extension of imposed sales of SEA Games stickers are well founded. After the rejection by the Indonesian Consumers Institute (YLKI), Jakarta's Regional Legislative Council has also objected to the fund raising.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Hyundai breaks monopoly
Hyundai breaks monopoly SEOUL (AFP): South Korean industrial giant Hyundai Group yesterday obtained approval from a provincial government to jump into the country's monopolized and state-controlled steel industry, the group said.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
S'pore forests to get wild beasts
S'pore forests to get wild beasts SINGAPORE (AFP): Singapore announced yesterday a plan to release indigenous wild animals into its forest reserves to try to revive a natural-born animal population."The exercise will see the release of some leopard cats, mousedeer and civets at various locations,"...
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Growth Area to spur development
Growth Area to spur development BALIKPAPAN, East Kalimantan: East Kalimantan Deputy Governor Suwarna hopes that the Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines - East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) will spur further development in the area and create stronger regional cooperation.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Malaysia offers to RI a standby fund: Anwar
Malaysia offers to RI a standby fund: Anwar KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): The US$1 billion which Malaysia has offered to Indonesia is a standby facility to help its neighbor revive its ailing economy, Deputy Premier Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday."It is not aid," Anwar told reporters.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Waiting for IMF aid
Waiting for IMF aid We will not be surprised to find out sometime later this week or early next month that the reform measures to be prescribed by the International Monetary Fund-led team as the condition for its financial aid to Indonesia, will not differ greatly from what domestic private-sector...
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Assembly campaigns for guidelines drafts
Assembly campaigns for guidelines drafts JAKARTA (JP): All five factions in the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) began yesterday campaigns for their respective drafts of state policy guidelines.Given its majority position in the legislative body, Golkar appears to have the upper hand in its...
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Public pressure needed for democratization
Public pressure needed for democratization JAKARTA (JP): The ongoing currency crisis may have many adverse impacts, but it also serves as an impetus for greater democratization, a political observer says.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
TV today
TV todayTVRI 2:00 p.m. News: Berita 14 2:30 My Country 2:35 TV Series: Big Brother Jake 3:10 Indonesian Children 3:35 Talk Show: Kotak Pos 4:00 Regional News 4:30 Education Quiz: Cepat Tepat 5:10 TV Series: Road to Avonlea 5:55 Music 6:00 News: Lintasan Berita 6:05 The Rainbow 6:15 Village Program...
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
Support looms for human rights decree
Support looms for human rights decree JAKARTA (JP): Deputy chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights Marzuki Darusman suggested yesterday that the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) establish a decree on human rights promotion in response to global demands.
Wed, 29 Oct 1997
16 local golfers to play in Tugu Pratama c'ship
16 local golfers to play in Tugu Pratama c'ship JAKARTA (JP): Sixteen Indonesian pro golfers are eligible to play next month in the US$300,000 Tugu Pratama PGA Championship 1997.The Indonesia Golf Association's secretary-general, Taufik Azis, told a press conference yesterday that Kasiadi, Maan...
Tue, 28 Oct 1997
Where to go in Jakarta: Tuesday, Oct. 28, 1997
Where to go in Jakarta: Tuesday, Oct. 28, 1997Exhibitions * Ceramics Exhibition, Golekan at Bentara Budaya, Jl. Palmerah Selatan No. 17, Jakarta, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., until Oct. 31. * Painting and Ceramics Exhibition: Manusia dan Alam Pikirannya, works of Firman, Tisna Sanjaya, Agus Suwage and...