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Tale of two discos

Tale of two discos CIREBON, West Java: The Cirebon Regency Office gave its blessing to the opening of the Papillon Discotheque and Billiard in Indramayu, 65 kilometers southwest of the city, just a week after a similar club was ransacked by a mob.

Haj registration in S. Jakarta

Haj registration in S. Jakarta JAKARTA (JP): The number of Jakartans registering at South Jakarta's haj affairs office for next year's pilgrimage to Mecca has so far reached 1,900.Zachrudin Zen, head of the haj affairs office, said on Wednesday that the registrants are expected to join pilgrimage...

Environmental conscience

Environmental conscience I am writing this letter to you because I am deeply troubled. As an American citizen who has lived and worked in Indonesia, I too, am concerned about preserving the beauty and overall majesty of your country of more than 13,640 islands.

S'pore regional strategy

S'pore regional strategy BANGKOK (Reuter): Thailand is a priority in Singapore's bid to go regional by expanding business abroad and investing overseas, Singapore Trade and Industry Minister Yeo Cheow Tong says.

President's daughter chosen as RI Red Cross chief

President's daughter chosen as RI Red Cross chief JAKARTA (JP): Businesswoman Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, the eldest daughter of President Soeharto, was elected chief of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) yesterday, replacing Ibnu Sutowo.

$2b port projects proposed

$2b port projects proposed JAKARTA (JP): The state-owned port management firm PT Pelabuhan Indonesia II plans to propose a number of projects worth Rp 4.4 trillion (US$2.01 billion) and involving private companies to the Ministry of Transportation.

Sarwono ready to work with responsible NGOs

Sarwono ready to work with responsible NGOsBy Prapti Widinugraheni BANDA, Maluku: State Minister of Environment Sarwono Kusumaatmadja challenges non-governmental organizations to speak out on what they believe is true, but with accurate data.

Keep Monas area green

Keep Monas area greenFrom MerdekaThe Monas Park with the National Monument in the center means a lot to the capital city and the community. This park has attracted both domestic and foreign tourists.It is absolutely necessary for the government to manage and preserve the area professionally, so as...

Fire razes in 5-story building

Fire razes in 5-story building PALEMBANG, South Sumatra: Fire razed in a five-story building in Palembang Tuesday though no casualties have been reported.The fire was put out four hours after it broke out at 7:30 p.m. The building on Jl.

PPD to renovate 1,200 aged buses

PPD to renovate 1,200 aged buses JAKARTA (JP): The state-owned bus company PPD will refurbish 1,200 buses next year in cooperation with selected private companies to help improve services to the public.

RI territory 4.9 million sq. km.

RI territory 4.9 million sq. km. JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia has complete sovereignty over a total area of 4.9 million square kilometers and "economic rights" over an additional three million square kilometers, Indonesia's top marine law expert says.

Garlic smugglers captured

Garlic smugglers captured SAMARINDA, East Kalimantan: Marine patrol in Tarakan captured a boat carrying nine tons of garlic thought to be smuggled from Malaysia to Indonesia last week, a military official said yesterday.Commanding officer First Lt.

City-owned firm builds modest apartments

City-owned firm builds modest apartments JAKARTA (JP): Another middle class apartment building for young married couples has been put on the market by PT Saranawisesa Properindo, a joint venture between Wijayawisesa Group and city-owned property company PD Sarana Jaya.

Teaching languages

Teaching languagesFrom KompasThe government has sent a lot of civil servants to foreign countries to study. Many other candidates failed in the English test. Even those with university degrees often lose the chance of going abroad because of their poor English.

Teachers in remote village stretch the meaning of dedication

Teachers in remote village stretch the meaning of dedicationBy Prapti Widinugraheni JAKARTA (JP): From school books and electricity to motor boats and female teachers, desperate teachers living in isolated places can come up with the most unusual, but logical, requests -- especially when they have...

Industry told to spearhead green campaign

Industry told to spearhead green campaign JAKARTA (JP): Given the still low environmental consciousness among consumers in Indonesia, the industrial community in the country should spearhead the environmental campaign, an expert said yesterday.

Residents complain over house damages

Residents complain over house damages JAKARTA (JP): Six residents of the Mangga Dua Selatan subdistrict, Central Jakarta, filed a complaint with the City Council yesterday over damages to their houses caused by a construction project.

Violist Luluk Purwanto back in town for Jak Jazz '94

Violist Luluk Purwanto back in town for Jak Jazz '94By Paul W. Blair JAKARTA (JP): Jakarta is much more than just another tour stop for violinist Luluk Purwanto. Although she is now the best-known Indonesian jazz musician abroad, her greatest pleasure is to come home to play for, and with, friends.

Canal France International

Canal France International Mr. Webber from Jayapura, thank you for your letter to the Editor published in The Jakarta Post on November 21, 1994, about the "newly found satellite treasure," Canal France International (CFI).

Small-scale developers invited

Small-scale developers invited JAKARTA (JP): The city administration is opening registration for small-scale developers intending to take part in tenders for the construction of the city's projects valued below Rp 200 million (US$90,900) each.

Red Cross warned of complacency

Red Cross warned of complacency JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto warned the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) yesterday against being complacent after achieving so much in its work in recent years."We never know when a disaster will happen and how damaging it might be," Soeharto said during a meeting at...

SE Asia's future ties with West (2)

SE Asia's future ties with West (2) This is the second of two articles based on a paper presented by Indonesian Ambassador to the European Union, Adrianus Mooy at the Fuji-Wolfensohn European Advisory Board Meeting in London on Nov. 18.

Gold design winners awarded

Gold design winners awarded JAKARTA (JP): Lecturer of architecture Hendra Dharmawan Hutama was announced as the winner of the first gold contest at the Shangri-La Hotel on Wednesday.Hutama's design titled Dari Hati ke Hati (heart to heart) caught the attention of judges for its beauty and...

Taiwan-China trade grows

Taiwan-China trade grows TAIPEI (AFP): Indirect trade between Taiwan and China in the first nine months of 1994 rose 15.7 percent from a year earlier to US$11.68 billion, the Board of Foreign Trade (BOFT) said yesterday.

Two students drowned at sea

Two students drowned at sea DENPASAR, Bali: Two junior high school students in the Karangasem regency in eastern Bali were presumed drowned after being engulfed by high waves while swimming at sea last week, an official said yesterday.

Military information to be shared

Military information to be shared MANILA (AFP): The Philippines has expressed willingness to share non-classified military information with other nations in the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), Foreign Undersecretary Rodolfo Severino said here yesterday.

Insanity is grave issue

Insanity is grave issueFrom Sinar PagiAbout two weeks ago a city newspaper published a report that there are 300 thousand insane persons in Surabaya, East Java. Only 1900 of them are treated in the psychiatric hospital. The rest only get on-going treatment.

SGS assigned to assess timber companies

SGS assigned to assess timber companies JAKARTA (JP): The government has assigned the Geneva-based Societe Generale de Surveillance (SGS) to assess the sustainability of the forest concessions of timber companies which intend to go public.

Ciledug residents outraged by high voltage cables

Ciledug residents outraged by high voltage cables JAKARTA (JP): Eighty people representing 120 residents from the Ciledug Indah housing estate in Tangerang went to the office of the National Commission on Human Rights yesterday morning to complain about the bad effects of high voltage electrical...

Mt. Merapi calms as death toll reaches 50

Mt. Merapi calms as death toll reaches 50 YOGYAKARTA (JP): Mount Merapi grew calmer yesterday while 11 nearby hamlets remained closed indefinitely as the death toll of last week's eruption reached 50.The continued closure of the worst-stricken villages dashed several thousand evacuees' hopes of an...

Soeharto to visit South Sumatra this month

Soeharto to visit South Sumatra this month JAKARTA (JP): Women, archeology and fertilizer do not really have anything in common but they will when President Soeharto travels to South Sumatra's capital of Palembang on Dec. 22.

Traffic laws to be strictly enforced

Traffic laws to be strictly enforced JAKARTA (JP): City police announced yesterday that they will strictly enforce traffic regulations on selected roads in and around the city beginning January.Traffic offenders ticketed in the selected areas are required to attend trials for their offenses.

Teenage players set up Masters final showdown

Teenage players set up Masters final showdown JAKARTA (JP): Teenage players highlighted the Indonesia Masters tennis championships yesterday as Enny Sulistyowati and Wukirasih Sawondari set up the women's singles final, a reminder of their clash in the Indonesia Junior Masters final last year.

TV today

TV todayTVRI 2:30 p.m. TV Series: Wide World of Kids 3:05 Children's Program 3:30 TV Series: Emergency Call 4:30 Bina Pramuka 5:00 Regional News 5:30 Arabic Lessons 6:05 Nusantara, the Beloved Country 6:15 Village Program 6:25 Koran Recital 6:35 Religious Teachings: Islam 7:00 Evening News 7:30 TV...

Vietnam to join ASEAN in July

Vietnam to join ASEAN in July HONG KONG (AFP): Vietnam will be officially admitted into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on July 22, 1995, a Hong Kong-based weekly magazine said yesterday.

GATT urges Indonesia to maintain reform

GATT urges Indonesia to maintain reform GENEVA (Reuter): The GATT world trade body yesterday urged Indonesia to maintain the pace of economic reform to improve efficiency and overcome its anti-export bias.

The NU congress

The NU congress Today, the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is scheduled to start its congress in Tasikmalaya, West Java. Without a doubt, it is one of the year's most important political events and one of the most interesting to watch.

Two ex-Bapindo bosses face 11, 9 years in jail

Two ex-Bapindo bosses face 11, 9 years in jail JAKARTA (JP): State prosecutors at the Central Jakarta district court sought a total of 20 years imprisonment for two former executives of Bank Pembangunan Indonesia (Bapindo) for their role in a huge loan scam.

Oetojo blasts court for freeing alleged killer of Marsinah

Oetojo blasts court for freeing alleged killer of Marsinah JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Justice Oetojo Oesman criticized the East Java high court's controversial decision to release businessman Judi Susanto, the main suspect in the murder case of labor activist Marsinah.

EAGA free trade gets big boost

EAGA free trade gets big boostBy Hendarsyah Tarmizi MANADO, North Sulawesi (JP): Senior ministers of Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines agreed at a meeting here yesterday to speed up the creation of a free trade zone in the eastern part of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...

MNLF-govt talks end with optimism

MNLF-govt talks end with optimism ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AFP): Three days of talks between ad hoc panels representing the government and the Moslem insurgent Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) ended with optimism yesterday in this southern city.

Stock Exchange

Stock Exchange JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) yesterday continued seeing declines in the prices of shares, particularly blue-chip stocks Astra Int'l, Barito Pacific Timber, Indah Kiat Paper & Pulp and Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa.

Wiranto to replace Hendro

Wiranto to replace Hendro JAKARTA (JP): After being assigned as the City Military commander for a year and seven months, Maj. Gen. Hendropriyono will be replaced by his Chief of Staff, Brig. Gen. Wiranto, says Indonesian Armed Forces (ABRI) spokesman Brig. Gen. Syarwan Hamid.

Chuan seeks motive behind massacre

Chuan seeks motive behind massacre BANGKOK (AFP): Thailand's Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai has ordered his government to find out why 17 Thai loggers were killed in Cambodia last week, and officials said the company that sent the workers across the border may face criminal charges.

Brutal attack on UKI campus

Brutal attack on UKI campus JAKARTA (JP): A group of students of the privately-owned Academy of Maritime Indonesia brutally attacked students and destroyed property of the University of Catholic Indonesia (UKI) yesterday.The afternoon attack at the UKI campus on Jl.

Tangerang needs pedestrian bridges

Tangerang needs pedestrian bridges TANGERANG (JP): Deputy chairman of the Tangerang township council said that, because of the hectic traffic, it is high time pedestrian bridges over main streets were built.

W. Jakarta needs garbage trucks

W. Jakarta needs garbage trucks JAKARTA (JP): The West Jakarta mayoralty badly needs new garbage trucks as its existing fleets are in bad condition.West Jakarta Mayor Sutardiyanto said the number of garbage trucks currently operated by the mayoralty's sanitation office was 123, 29 of which are out...

Passive smoking

Passive smokingFrom Bisnis IndonesiaMy partner works for PT UI, a company of multinational consumer goods. As a senior employee my partner has to attend several meetings daily, two to three hours per day. For the past three months my partner coughs a lot.

WB to inject $400m into state electricity

WB to inject $400m into state electricity JAKARTA (JP): The World Bank has pledged US$400 million in aid to the state electricity company PT PLN for the electrification of 7,000 villages in the country during the next two fiscal years.

RP awards power projects

RP awards power projects MANILA (AFP): Thirteen foreign companies have been contracted by the Philippine government to implement power interconnection projects costing more than US$318 million, the state-owned National Power Corp. (NPC) said here yesterday.