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Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Takenaka, C-Cure sign deal
Takenaka, C-Cure sign deal JAKARTA (JP): Japanese property-contractor Takenaka Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding with U.S. firm C-Cure Corporation yesterday for the supply of building materials for a residential tower building project.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Stock Exchange
Stock ExchangeStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on April 15, 1997: Shares Close Change Trading Volume -------------------------------------------------------- Ades Alfindo 1,025 0 0 AHAP Insurance 2,675 0 0 Alter Abadi 1,175 0 0 Alumindo Light Metal 1,025 0 184,500 Alumindo...
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Gold mining pollutes environment around national park
Gold mining pollutes environment around national park Jakarta Post contributor Rebecca Mowbray visited Tanjung Puting National Park on a recent journey through Kalimantan. The following are her articles and photos of the environmental condition in the area.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
BI to ban banks from investing in mutual funds
BI to ban banks from investing in mutual funds JAKARTA (JP): Bank Indonesia (BI), the central bank, will ban banks from investing in mutual funds.The central bank's governor, J. Soedradjad Djiwandono, said Monday night the central bank would continue to ban banks from buying stocks, lending for...
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Palm oil prices rise slightly
Palm oil prices rise slightly LONDON (Reuter): Palm oil prices in Europe were barely changed yesterday morning from the previous day's close following the release of the latest Malaysian output, stocks and export data.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Nasution backs seminar on Sukarno's speech
Nasution backs seminar on Sukarno's speech JAKARTA (JP): A ministerial plan to hold a seminar about the impeachment of the nation's first president, Sukarno, received a boost yesterday from Gen. (ret) Abdul Haris Nasution, who said that it was necessary to "straighten up history.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Old soldiers never die
Old soldiers never die The alumni reunion of the Army's Staff and Command School in Bandung last weekend was an anticlimax when set against the huge media publicity that it had drawn. The absence of big names, particularly of President Soeharto and former defense chief Abdul Haris Nasution, took...
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Frustrating blackout
Frustrating blackout If -- as Minister I.B. Sudjana now tells us, in contradiction to his earlier statement -- the big blackout had been planned four days in advance, why on earth couldn't PLN (the state-owned electricity company) forewarn the public by announcing it on TV, on radio and in the...
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Moslem scholar turns his notes into humorous poems
Moslem scholar turns his notes into humorous poems In a gathering in Jakarta last month, a man mesmerized an audience of 1,000 people with his bitter and humorous poems about social issues.The audience, who called themselves "lovers of democracy" was listening to Mustofa Bisri, who come from...
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Airport tax included
Airport tax included I would like to question the practices of Sempati Air with regards to their round-trip airfares to Singapore. I bought a ticket from a travel agent who charged me airport tax. According to them it was normal practice with Sempati Air.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Immigration arrests nine foreigners
Immigration arrests nine foreigners JAKARTA (JP): Seven foreigners with Korean passports, and two with Nigerian passports, were arrested in South Jakarta this week by immigration officials.The immigration department's director of control and supervision Zaiman Nurmatias, said yesterday the Koreans...
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Police's assistant program ends
Police's assistant program ends JAKARTA (JP): About 50 house foundations were laid and hundreds of people received free medical treatment during the police's two-week civic mission which ended yesterday.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Intikeramik to sell shares
Intikeramik to sell shares JAKARTA (JP): Intikeramik Alamasri Industri, one of Indonesia's major porcelain tile makers, will issue 100 million shares or 29.5 percent of its equity in an initial public offering.The company said yesterday it expected to raise about Rp 85 billion (US$36.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
15 more NGOs voice objection to new labor bill
15 more NGOs voice objection to new labor bill JAKARTA (JP): Fifteen non-governmental organizations from around Java are opposed to the controversial bill on manpower because it neglects the rights of migrant workers.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Bank Pikko trade does not violate trading rule: JSX
Bank Pikko trade does not violate trading rule: JSX JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) said yesterday that trade in Bank Pikko shares on April 8 did not violate any trading rules despite the stock's astronomical 207 percent rise from Rp 1,300 to Rp 4,000.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Indonesia to host agribusiness meet
Indonesia to host agribusiness meet JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia will be the first Asian country to host the annual congress of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IAMA).The chairman of the congress' planning committee, Bungaran Saragih, said yesterday the four-day convention...
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Singgih welcomes aid team for electioneering victims
Singgih welcomes aid team for electioneering victims JAKARTA (JP): A group planning to provide legal aid and other support to victims of election campaigning was welcomed by Attorney General Singgih yesterday.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Local shuttlers under pressure
Local shuttlers under pressure JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian shuttlers can't handle the pressure in critical points, the Indonesian Badminton Association's chief, Soerjadi, said yesterday."Look at our players during deuce or rubber sets.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Fences-free on Jl. Thamrin
Fences-free on Jl. ThamrinFrom Media IndonesiaAs a lover of open spaces in beautiful settings, I emphatically support the Jakarta Administration's policy of making the Jalan Thamrin area free from fences.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Workers ask for dismissal
Workers ask for dismissal UJUNGPANDANG, South Sulawesi: Nineteen workers at PT Rotan Sulawesi, a subsidiary of the Poleko group of companies owned by business tycoon and human rights campaigner A.A. Baramuli, have asked to be sacked and demanded compensation.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Soeharto signs nuclear power law
Soeharto signs nuclear power law JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto has signed into law a bill on nuclear power which allows studies to begin on the country's first nuclear power plant, Minister of Research and Technology B.J. Habibie said yesterday.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Four people killed in separate incidents
Four people killed in separate incidents JAKARTA (JP): Four men were killed in four separate incidents Monday morning in West Jakarta, South Jakarta and North Jakarta.City Police Spokesman Lt. Col. E. Aritonang said Monday that in the first incident on Jl.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Deforestation shrinks animal habitat
Deforestation shrinks animal habitat TANJUNG PUTING, Central Kalimantan (JP): From the window of the noisy twin-propeller plane, the most striking feature of the land below was not the legendary virgin forests of Kalimantan, but the lack of them.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Jakarta's Gapensi wants jobs on Manggarai project
Jakarta's Gapensi wants jobs on Manggarai project JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta chapter of the Indonesian Builders' Association (Gapensi) wants to be involved in the planned Manggarai Integrated Terminal project.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
NatSteel-LKN tie up
NatSteel-LKN tie up SINGAPORE (Reuter): NatSteel Ltd and construction based Lim Kah Ngam (LKN) and two other partners have set up a marketing and management company, Unimar Marketing Pte Ltd, a NatSteel statement said yesterday.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Seminar on 'Nawaksara'
Seminar on 'Nawaksara'From JayakartaOn March 31, 1997, the city media published a news item that Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Hayono Isman was planning to hold a seminar on Nawaksara, a speech delivered by Bung Karno in April 1966, as an accountability of his government, which was rejected...
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Preachers urged not to incite violence
Preachers urged not to incite violence JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Religious Affairs Tamizi Taher called on religious leaders yesterday to refrain from delivering inflammatory sermons that may incite violence.
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
National park project involves locals
National park project involves locals TANJUNG PUTING, Central Kalimantan (JP): Even after the orangutans have arrived at Tanjung Puting, they are not entirely beyond the reach of human need or greed.Recognizing that the park's borders are threatened by the lack of economic development in the...
Wed, 16 Apr 1997
Denada and her orangutan
Denada and her orangutanFrom Media IndonesiaA news item in Media Indonesia, on March 25, informed readers that Denada is keeping an orangutan as a pet, which goes by the name of Bejo. The article did not explain, though, if Denada has a license to keep an orangutan.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
Yemen satisfied with 0-0 draw against RI
Yemen satisfied with 0-0 draw against RI JAKARTA (JP): Yemeni soccer coach Hazim Jassam said he was satisfied with his team's 0-0 draw against Indonesia in Sunday's World Cup Asian zone qualifier at the Senayan stadium.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
PT Amsteel to launch two mutual funds
PT Amsteel to launch two mutual funds JAKARTA (JP): PT Amsteel Securities Indonesia will launch two mutual funds by the end of the year.Amsteel's director, Eric Y Nasution, said yesterday the company aimed to collect about Rp 200 billion (US$84.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
New flood controls for N. Jakarta
New flood controls for N. Jakarta JAKARTA (JP): Residents in North Jakarta can look forward to an end to the constant flooding in their area thanks to three new flood control projects to begin this week.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
Workers' burnt bodies arrive
Workers' burnt bodies arrive SURABAYA: The charred bodies of two Indonesian women workers arrived here last night from Hong Kong, Antara reported yesterday.Sunarlik, 29, was a resident of Trenyang village in Sumber Pucung, Malang, while Rukayah Dul Basir was from Sumber Rejo village in Sanan Kulon,...
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
Golkar to spend Rp 1.5b for artists
Golkar to spend Rp 1.5b for artists JAKARTA (JP): The city-chapter of the ruling Golkar estimates it will spend Rp 1.5 billion (US$652,173) to pay the 300 artists participating in Golkar's nine campaign rounds.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
President delays contract of work for Busang mine
President delays contract of work for Busang mine JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto has delayed the issue of the contracts of work (COW) for Bre-X and its partners to develop its Busang gold mine in Kalimantan, the minister of mines and energy, I.B. Sudjana, said yesterday.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
7,500 trees planted in Jember
7,500 trees planted in Jember JEMBER, East Java: Hundreds of youth organizations, teachers, musicians and other members of the community worked together Sunday to plant 7,500 trees along the Bedadung River.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
KL to use spies to curb corruption
KL to use spies to curb corruption KUALA LUMPUR (DPA): Malaysia's Home Ministry will appoint "spies" in several of its departments in a bid to curb corruption especially among police and immigration officials, news reports said yesterday.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
Stock Exchange
Stock ExchangeStock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on April 14, 1997: Shares Close Change Trading Volume -------------------------------------------------------- Ades Alfindo 1,025 0 0 AHAP Insurance 2,675 0 0 Alter Abadi 1,175 0 0 Alumindo Light Metal 1,025 -25 1,014,000 Alumindo...
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
The Jagorawi robbery and murder trial begins
The Jagorawi robbery and murder trial begins BOGOR (JP): The trial of two men charged with being accessories to robbery and murder on the Jagorawi toll road last October began yesterday.The trial is being conducted at the Bogor District Court in two separate rooms with the same prosecution teams.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
Sugar plant in Sulawesi
Sugar plant in Sulawesi JAKARTA (JP): PT Sumber Madu Bukari will build a Rp 200 billion (US$82.6 million) sugar plant in Southeast Sulawesi later this month.The head of the provincial administration's plantation agency, Soewondo, was quoted yesterday by Antara as saying the company had secured...
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
Rp 4.6t for mutual fund
Rp 4.6t for mutual fund JAKARTA (JP): PT Astek, the state-owned social worker insurance company under Ministry of Manpower supervision, will invest about Rp 4.6 trillion (US$1.93 billion) in mutual funds.The company has assets of Rp 7 trillion.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
FAST FACT FILE
FAST FACT FILE Name of golf club : Finna Golf and Country ClubAddress : Jl. Raya Barsari Prigen, Pandaan 67156, Ja-Tim, IndonesiaTelephone : 62 343 632153-5 Fax: 62 343 632156Developer : Pacific GolfCourse Designer : Peter Thomson, Michael Wolveridge, Ross PerrettDate Opened : 12 December 1993Total...
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
Tight security urged for election campaigns
Tight security urged for election campaigns JAKARTA (JP): The United Development Party (PPP), which has denied triggering recent unrest in Central Java, urged the Armed Forces yesterday to secure the April 27 to May 23 election campaigns.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
Kalimantan Madurese may be resettled
Kalimantan Madurese may be resettled JAKARTA (JP): Thousands of Madurese migrants may be moved to another province in the wake of the recent ethnic clashes in West Kalimantan, a cabinet minister said yesterday.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
Government mulls tax incentives for timber estates
Government mulls tax incentives for timber estates JAKARTA (JP): The minister of forestry, Djamaluddin Suryohadikusumo, said yesterday he was looking at tax incentives to encourage investors to develop industrial timber estates.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
Few rescued orangutans go back to natural wild
Few rescued orangutans go back to natural wild TANJUNG PUTING, Central Kalimantan (JP): Before Gistok was brought to Tanjung Puting National Park and orangutan rehabilitation center, he wore clothing over his long red hair and ate tea and cakes with the children of a family in Central Kalimantan.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
Holidays, weak demand to hit SE Asia rubber prices
Holidays, weak demand to hit SE Asia rubber prices SINGAPORE (Reuter): A string of holidays in Southeast Asia along with soft demand will keep rubber prices in the doldrums this week, regional traders said yesterday."It's going to be a terrible week.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
200,000 welcome victorious team
200,000 welcome victorious team DHAKA (AFP): About 200,000 people packed central Dhaka yesterday to welcome the Bangladesh cricket team that produced the country's greatest sporting moment by winning the ICC Trophy.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
Death knell sounded for Asia's only coffee contract
Death knell sounded for Asia's only coffee contract SINGAPORE (AFP): Two years after its high-profile launch, Asia's sole coffee futures contract is on its death bed amid poor support from traders whose links with liquidity driven Western exchanges are firmly rooted.
Tue, 15 Apr 1997
TV today
TV todayTVRI 2:30 p.m. News: Lintas Nusantara 2:40 Travel: My Country 2:45 Children's Film: Berenstain Bears 3:00 News: Lintasan Berita 3:10 Teenagers' Program: Remaja Indonesia 3:35 Music: Lagu Pop Daerah 4:00 Regional News 4:30 Science and Technology Program 5:00 English Lessons 5:25 Variety Show...