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Thu, 26 Jan 1995
NEW DEPUTY:
NEW DEPUTY:JP/bsr Outgoing City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Mochammad Hindarto (foreground) installed Col. Hamami Nata (right) as the new deputy chief of the city police yesterday. Hamami, 48, still an adjutant to President Soeharto, replaces Brig. Gen.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
TV programs
TV programsFrom Media IndonesiaThe existence of several private television stations -- RCTI, SCTV, ANteve and quite recently Indosiar -- indicates that Indonesia has made considerable progress. This is possible thanks to the development progress in all sectors.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
OIC stresses need for coordinated propagation
OIC stresses need for coordinated propagation JAKARTA (JP): Religious leaders from 22 member nations of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) concluded their two-day meeting here yesterday, agreeing to coordinate their Islamic da'wah, or propagation, efforts.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
When RP 1st lady learns badminton
When RP 1st lady learns badminton JAKARTA (JP): Basketball is the most popular sport in the Philippines, but badminton may move up on the popularity list under first lady Amelita Ramos, the country's new chairman of badminton association.Mrs.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
PT Duta Anggada to issue bonds worth Rp 100 billion
PT Duta Anggada to issue bonds worth Rp 100 billion JAKARTA (JP): PT Duta Anggada Realty, a property company listed on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX), announced its plan here yesterday to issue bonds worth Rp 100 billion (US$46.5 million) to finance new property projects.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Mollusks polluted not fish
Mollusks polluted not fishFrom KompasI would like to make a correction to the article about Minamatabyo (Minamata disease) in Kompas on Jan. 8, 1995. The article states that the people of Minamata became ill after eating mercury polluted fish.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Launch of Proton in Manila
Launch of Proton in Manila KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is to launch in Manila this week the first of his country's Proton car imported by a Philippines' joint venture auto firm, officials said yesterday.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
New police chief for East Java
New police chief for East Java SURABAYA: Brig. Gen. Roesman Hadi was inducted yesterday as the new chief of the East Java police, taking charge of the province that has the third-highest crime rate in Indonesia.Roesman, formerly chief of the North Sumatra Police, replaced Maj. Gen.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
HK firm starts Jepara power plant project
HK firm starts Jepara power plant project JEPARA, Central Java (JP): PT Consolidated Electric Power Asia (CEPA) Indonesia, a subsidiary of CEPA Ltd. of Hong Kong, has begun construction of a US$2 billion coal-fired power plant in Tanjung Jati amidst a controversy on land appropriation.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Settlers refuse to be resettled
Settlers refuse to be resettled JAKARTA: A group of Javanese settlers, moved to Lampung under the government's transmigration program, visited the National Commission on Human Rights on Tuesday complaining that they were being harassed by the local authorities to move once again.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Soeharto may run again in 1998, Scholar says
Soeharto may run again in 1998, Scholar saysBy Pandaya KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara (JP): President Soeharto may opt to stay in power beyond 1998 if political conflicts among interest groups continue unabated, a political scientist said yesterday.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Telkom promises better service to customers
Telkom promises better service to customers JAKARTA (JP): Chief of the Jakarta office of the state-owned telecommunications company PT Telkom, John Welly, told a special gathering of customers yesterday that the company is always trying to give better service to its customers.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Hitachi products
Hitachi productsFrom Bisnis IndonesiaReferring to the report titled PT Mekardaya markets heavy equipment Halla-Hitachi to KTI we would like to make a correction. We, PT Hexindo Adiperkasa as an exclusive distributor of Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Seeking aid
Seeking aidFrom Bisnis IndonesiaOur child, 6 years-old, was born with male and female genitals. It is our intention to have this operated on so that our child can live a normal life. But we do not have the financial resources to help our child.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Packaging firm reports profit
Packaging firm reports profit JAKARTA (JP): PT Fajar Surya Wisesa, a paper board producer which listed its shares on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) last month, yesterday announced a 223 percent increase in its after- tax profit to Rp 37.2 billion (US$16.87 million) last year.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Rendra protests censorship
Rendra protests censorship BANDUNG, West Java: Rebel poet W.S. Rendra attended a poetry reading event at the Saparua Sports Hall on Tuesday but declined to take the stage after learning that police had forbidden him to read four of the 12 poems he had been scheduled to read.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Aussie-RI ties beyond just good neighbors
Aussie-RI ties beyond just good neighbors JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian-Australian relations are moving beyond being simply two good neighbors, and into a more pragmatic one, that promises to be mutually beneficial.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Kartika Plaza gets new GM
Kartika Plaza gets new GM JAKARTA (JP): The Kartika Plaza Beach Hotel in Bali said yesterday that it had appointed a new management team.The hotel, whose management was assumed by PT Jakarta International Hotel & Management this year, said in a statement made available that it appointed Paulo Fill...
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Lippo Village and surroundings
Lippo Village and surroundingsFrom Bisnis IndonesiaThe Lippo Village project in Tangerang has become a topic of discussion in the community. Lippo has succeeded in constructing high-rise buildings in a very short time.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Cambodian FM here for 3-day visit
Cambodian FM here for 3-day visit JAKARTA (JP): Cambodian foreign minister Ung Huot, who was scheduled to arrive here this morning, hastened the start of his three-day visit here and touched down at Soekarno-Hatta international airport yesterday evening.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Trainees demand jobs in Korea
Trainees demand jobs in Korea JAKARTA: Students of a vocational school in Cianjur, West Java, have turned to the National Commission on Human Rights for help in their dispute with the school's management, which they say has failed to keep its promise to place them in jobs in South Korea.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Telecom companies join up
Telecom companies join up SINGAPORE (Reuter): Four state-run Southeast Asian telecommunications companies said yesterday they had formed an alliance to offer "one-stop shopping" to multinational firms.Singapore Telecoms, Telekom Malaysia, PT Indosat of Indonesia and Philippines Long Distance...
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
RI, PNG sign coffee deal
RI, PNG sign coffee deal LONDON (AFP): Indonesia and Papua New Guinea have signed the new International Coffee Agreement, it was announced in London on Tuesday by Celsius Lodder, executive director of the International Coffee Organization.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
RI, Malaysia on border talks
RI, Malaysia on border talks DENPASAR, Bali: Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed on the delineation of some 39.33 kilometers of their common border in the northern part of Kalimantan.Suryatna Soebrata, the secretary general of the Ministry of Home Affairs who headed the Indonesian delegation to the...
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Judical autonomy guaranteed
Judical autonomy guaranteed JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto yesterday guaranteed that the courts of law will continue to have autonomy as mandated by the 1945 Constitution."As President of the Republic of Indonesia, I truly understand the ruling of the Constitution.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Trust in justice
Trust in justice Why, asked a tearful mother last week, was the rapist and murderer of her six-year-old daughter jailed for only 20 years? The South Sulawesi district court judge, a woman, replied: "Justice had been done." But for the bereaved mother it did not appear that this was so.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Extra supervision for high schools
Extra supervision for high schools JAKARTA (JP): City Security and Order chief Kusaeni has announced that the Jakarta section of the Agency for National Stability and Security (Bakorstanasda Jaya) will carry out extra surveillance at 50 high schools in Jakarta.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Pepsi declares 'cola' war in Indonesia
Pepsi declares 'cola' war in Indonesia JAKARTA (JP): After some years of absence in Indonesia, Pepsi- Cola International (PCI) yesterday declared cola war on the "real thing."Lance Tanaka, president of PCI for the Asia-Pacific region, told a press conference here yesterday that Pepsi was geared up...
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Oki trial vanue not yet decided: Surjono
Oki trial vanue not yet decided: Surjono JAKARTA (JP): Just where the Los Angeles triple murder case will be heard is yet to be decided and will depend on the findings of Jakarta police's current investigation, Chief Justice Surjono said yesterday.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Many government critics are undemocratic: Try
Many government critics are undemocratic: Try JAKARTA (JP): Vice President Try Sutrisno took a shot yesterday at government critics who complain of a lack of democracy under the present administration, saying that they are not democratic themselves.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Police parking lot closed
Police parking lot closed JAKARTA (JP): The parking lot in front of the City Traffic Police Directorate has been closed temporarily due to preparations for a ceremony on Friday for the inauguration of Jakarta's new police chief.According to city police spokesman Lt. Col.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
More traffic violators on toll roads ticketed
More traffic violators on toll roads ticketed JAKARTA (JP): Police ticketed a total of 358 traffic violators on toll roads in and around the city during a six-day operation beginning Jan. 14, says National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. IK Ratta.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Wismoyo new chairman of Sports Council
Wismoyo new chairman of Sports Council JAKARTA (JP): As had been expected, Army Chief of Staff Wismoyo Arismunandar was last night unanimously elected the chairman of the National Sports Council (KONI).
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Massive quake demonstrates why Japan is what it is (2)
Massive quake demonstrates why Japan is what it is (2) This is the second of two articles by The Jakarta Post Asia correspondent Harvey Stockwin who sets the Kansai Earthquake against the background of Japan's traditional psychology.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Indonesia shines in bridge meet
Indonesia shines in bridge meet JAKARTA (JP): A solid partnership of Hengky Lasut and Eddy Manoppo lifted Indonesia's pride at the world invitational bridge tournament in The Hague by finishing third.The American pair of Zia Mahmood-Rosenberg, who gave their country the world championship title...
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Hundreds of houses bulldozed
Hundreds of houses bulldozed JAKARTA (JP): Bogor city administration will summon a developer, identified only as PT FMP, for bulldozing hundreds of houses in the Citeureup district, Bogor without paying any compensation.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Mandela kicks off four-day visit to India
Mandela kicks off four-day visit to India NEW DELHI (AFP): South African President Nelson Mandela praised India for its staunch opposition to apartheid as he received a 21-gun salute and red carpet welcome at the start of a four-day visit here yesterday.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Stock Exchange
Stock ExchangeShare prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on Jan. 25, 1995: Trading Shares Close Change Volume ------------------------------------------------------ ADES ALFINDO 2,400 0 AHAP INSURANCE 3,350 0 ALUMINDO PERKASA 1,100 2,000 ANDAYANI MEGAH 2,350 -50 20,500 ANEKA KIMIA RAYA...
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
Where to go in Jakarta:
Where to go in Jakarta:Music * The Aryaduta Jakarta, Jl. Prapatan 44-48, Central Jakarta: - Ambiente Italian Restaurant: Bonauli vocal group, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Lost Morenitos, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Thu, 26 Jan 1995
2,043 nabbed in operation
2,043 nabbed in operation JAKARTA (JP): Law and order officers have arrested 2,043 people during Operation Yustisi (Operation Justice) in South Jakarta over the last two years for violating regulations on sanitation and peace and order.
Wed, 25 Jan 1995
Highway reopens after flood
Highway reopens after flood MANADO, North Sulawesi: The road between Manado and Gorontalo, closed due to flooding and landslides since last Friday, reopened on Tuesday after repair by the North Sulawesi Public Works Office.
Wed, 25 Jan 1995
Labor activists get stiffer terms
Labor activists get stiffer terms MEDAN, North Sumatra: The North Sumatra High Court has raised the jail term for labor activist Mochtar Pakpahan from three to four years for his role in a massive riot in April last year.
Wed, 25 Jan 1995
Indonesia to host world tourism conference
Indonesia to host world tourism conference JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia will host a large-scale international tourism conference in cooperation with the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) in the year 2000, says Joop Ave, Minister of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications.
Wed, 25 Jan 1995
Student activists want campus freedom restored
Student activists want campus freedom restored JAKARTA (JP): A discussion yesterday on student politics reached the widely expected conclusion: Restore campus freedom.Students taking part in the one-day discussion, organized by the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation, said they feel that the...
Wed, 25 Jan 1995
South Jakarta District Court starts trials of Unas students
South Jakarta District Court starts trials of Unas students JAKARTA (JP): Judge Moegihardjo of the South Jakarta District Court has opened two trials of 12 students of the National University charged with assaulting members of the university's Student Military Regiment (Menwa) last October.
Wed, 25 Jan 1995
City police to get new deputy chief
City police to get new deputy chief JAKARTA (JP): Outgoing City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Mochammad Hindarto is scheduled today to install Col. Hamami Nata, an adjutant to President Soeharto, as his new deputy.Hamami replaces Brig. Gen.
Wed, 25 Jan 1995
Students and politics
Students and politics Here and abroad history records the important role which students and youngsters play in bringing about change. The New Left movement which appeared in the United States in the 1960s, for, example, inspired student movements in many other countries.
Wed, 25 Jan 1995
Govt assures food supply
Govt assures food supply JAKARTA (JP): The government has reiterated its guarantee that the country will have adequate food supply prior to and during the Idul Fitri holidays in early March."We will have enough rice for both the Ramadhan fasting month in February and Idul Fitri," Minister of...
Wed, 25 Jan 1995
State's role too strong, scholars say
State's role too strong, scholars say KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara (JP): A number of political scholars said yesterday that Indonesia's government is domineering at the expense of the development of society itself.
Wed, 25 Jan 1995
Spotlight
SpotlightPhoto A: PajeroSetnegONE FOR THE ROAD: Minister of Industry Tungky Ariwibowo (third from right), the Director of Krama Yudha Motor, Eka Said (fourth from right) and other executives of the company raise their glasses at the launching of the new Mitsubishi Pajero at the Shangri-La Hotel on...