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Thu, 08 Sep 1994
Five-day school week
Five-day school weekFrom RepublikaThe plan to introduce a five-day week for educational institutions in Indonesia requires attention to a number of aspects involving the interests of students and teachers.First: the ability to concentrate on lessons.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
UN official visits slums
UN official visits slums JAKARTA: The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Resident Representative C. Jan Kamp visited two slum projects in Tambora, West Jakarta, and Cipinang, East Jakarta, to monitor the activities of the UN Volunteers deployed to help improve the environment and living...
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Metro Mini drivers stage protests against new fines
Metro Mini drivers stage protests against new fines JAKARTA (JP): Hundreds of drivers of the 30-seat Metro Mini buses staged sit-in strikes in East and South Jakarta protesting the new ticketing fine scale, which is much higher than the one previous imposed.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Official at RI embassy in Canberra `move'
Official at RI embassy in Canberra `move' JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Alatas said the government has reassigned a staff member of the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra before he was asked to leave by the Australian government for threatening East Timor protesters with a knife.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Criminologist deplores arson against buses
Criminologist deplores arson against buses JAKARTA (JP): The habit of the public to express its anger by setting city buses on fire recently shows that many members of the society have been influenced by the culture of violence, a criminologist has said.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Red light area to be closed
Red light area to be closed JAKARTA (JP): The West Jakarta administration will close down 26 brothels, comprising some 110 rooms, in the notorious Kalijodo red light district over the next week.Karsidin, an administration official, said on Monday that the government is still preparing a decree to...
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Missing `ojek' driver murdered
Missing `ojek' driver murdered A team from the Criminology Laboratory of the University of Indonesia unearthed the body of an ojek (motorcycle taxi) driver in a gruesome end to an investigation into the man's whereabouts.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
RP embassy probes Japan recruiters
RP embassy probes Japan recruiters TOKYO (Reuter): The Philippine Embassy in Tokyo has conducted its own investigation into suspected unlawful activities by Japanese employers of Filipino entertainers, a newspaper reported yesterday.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Rival claimants show coolness to UN-brokered solution for Spratlys
Rival claimants show coolness to UN-brokered solution for SpratlysBy Martin Abbugao MANILA (AFP): Coolness shown by rival claimants to South China Sea territories towards a proposal for a UN-brokered solution has one foreign policy expert warning that a prolonged stalemate could increase the...
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Stock Exchange
Stock Exchange JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX), after gaining ground over the past three weeks, yesterday continued strengthening with the broad-based Composite Index recording a five-point increase to close at 524.50 yesterday from 519.41 on Monday.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
German musicians contribute to Jakarta's music scene
German musicians contribute to Jakarta's music scene JAKARTA (JP): It has been a while since German classical musicians performed in Jakarta. Quite a noticeable gap when you consider that up to about four years ago they frequently visited Jakarta.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Garuda wants daily flights to Kansai
Garuda wants daily flights to Kansai JAKARTA (JP): The national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia is urging the Japanese government to allow it to expand its flights from Indonesia to the newly-established Kansai International Airport in Osaka from three times to seven times weekly.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
LIA Foundation promote cultural/sport activities
LIA Foundation promote cultural/sport activitiesBy Lenah Susianty JAKARTA (JP): "What a glorious weekend it was in Jakarta for lovers of music and art!" wrote Judith Butler Fravel, an expatriate living in Jakarta.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Former employees of `Tempo' plan new magazine
Former employees of `Tempo' plan new magazine JAKARTA (JP): Former journalists and employees of the defunct Tempo weekly yesterday formally applied for a new publishing license, or SIUPP, for a weekly they plan to call Opini.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Bus drivers on strike
Bus drivers on strike SEMARANG, Central Java: Dozens of bus drivers plying the Solo-Semarang route went on strike to protest a bus company's operating outside of the designated hours.They parked the vehicles in front of the Central Java Highway and Transportation Office, located on the outskirts of...
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
High added value key to competition
High added value key to competition JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia has to systematically improve its industrial technology to enable it to compete with its main rivals, China and India, in the world markets, says an executive of a noted multinational company.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
APEC forum seen as model of partnership
APEC forum seen as model of partnership JAKARTA (JP): The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is expected to become a laboratory for the envisioned global partnership between North and South as well as provide leadership to rectify the imbalances in the international economic order.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Experts study Timor history
Experts study Timor history DILI, East Timor: Australian historian Peter G. Spillet will be conducting a study on the history of Timor island together with the University of East Timor next month.Jorge da Conceicao Teme, a university staff member involved in the project, said the team is currently...
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Regeneration of party cadres
Regeneration of party cadresFrom NeracaI hope the United Development Party (PPP), which has just concluded its congress, will deploy its younger generation in the House of Representatives both at the central as well as the provincial level in the 1997 general elections.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
First English language center celebrates 35th anniversary
First English language center celebrates 35th anniversaryBy Ati Nurbaiti JAKARTA (JP): Someone's heartstrings must have beaten faster when this message appeared in the August edition of Contact magazine, "Galuh, I think I love you and I swear I will love you with every beat of my heart!"Relations...
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Immigration centers planned to deter illegal workers
Immigration centers planned to deter illegal workers JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Manpower Abdul Latief says he is considering the establishment of immigration centers along Indonesian border points to help process Indonesians intending to work in Malaysia.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
NU plans to harmonize its position on PPP
NU plans to harmonize its position on PPP JAKARTA (JP): Leaders of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), licking their wounds at the way United Development Party (PPP) treated them at a congress last week, plan to take a common stand on their ties with the party which they helped found 21 years ago.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Golkar issues restrained comments on Kanindo case
Golkar issues restrained comments on Kanindo case JAKARTA (JP): The ruling Golkar political group yesterday issued restrained comments regarding the scandal at the giant Kanindo Success Textile company which is owned by one of its major donors, the controversial businessman Robby Tjahjadi.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Third round of talks on Sipadan and Ligitan Isles begin today
Third round of talks on Sipadan and Ligitan Isles begin today JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia and Malaysia will begin the third round of talks on the disputed islands of Sipadan and Ligitan this morning.During the two-day meeting, the joint working groups are expected to discuss their findings based on the...
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Shortage, new demands boil Asian coffee prices
Shortage, new demands boil Asian coffee prices KUALA LUMPUR (Reuter): Asian coffee bean prices are on the boil again as domestic demand in Indonesia heats up, world supply of robusta beans tightens and the market awaits the arrival of the new Vietnamese crop, regional traders and analysts said this...
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Swords for two governors
Swords for two governors JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya: The local Trikora Military Command has decided to bestow the Trikora Swords to the governors of Irian Jaya and Maluku Jacob Pattipi and Akib Latuconsina for their commitment to the development of the two provinces.Trikora Chief Maj. Gen.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Lou Rawls shines at the Blue Note
Lou Rawls shines at the Blue NoteBy Paul W. Blair JAKARTA (JP): Lou Rawls, now midway through a week-long engagement at Jakarta's new Blue Note club, possesses what is surely one of the world's easiest-to-recognize singing voices.It is, in turn, mellow and throaty, then pleasingly raspy.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Buddhist charity for the poor
Buddhist charity for the poor The Nimmala Buddhist monastery foundation has donated 40 tons of rice, noodles, cloth and school equipment to the poor and disabled people in several areas here, as well as Serang and West Jakarta.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Manggarai bus station project needs Rp 7b
Manggarai bus station project needs Rp 7b JAKARTA (JP): The government will spend some Rp 7 billion (US$3.2 million) to develop the small bus station at Manggarai in South Jakarta into the largest integrated terminal in Indonesia over the next 10 years, an official said.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Sports council meets set budget for Asiad
Sports council meets set budget for Asiad JAKARTA (JP): Financial constraints no longer threaten Indonesia's preparations for the 12th Asian Games in Hiroshima next month, a top official of the national sports controlling body (KONI) says.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Developing East Timor
Developing East Timor We support the ideas of Joao Mariano de Sousa Saldanha in his newly launched book entitled Political Economic Development of East Timor (Ekonomi Politik Pembangunan Timor Timur).Also suggestions from experts like Dr.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Restaurants need `halal' label: Tourism office
Restaurants need `halal' label: Tourism office JAKARTA (JP): The head of Jakarta Chapter of the Tourism Office, Pudjo Basuki, said yesterday that all restaurants in the city should ready themselves for the plan to place the halal label on their doors or windows.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Unsafe pedestrian overpass
Unsafe pedestrian overpassFrom PelitaA couple of days ago an acquaintance of mine told me of how, while waiting at the Baturaja bus shelter in front of the Kartika Plaza Hotel in Central Jakarta, he witnessed a gang of people crowding a foreigner.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Music and dance will dominate JIFPA
Music and dance will dominate JIFPABy Gus Kairupan JAKARTA (JP): JIFPA, a cultural event that shows every sign of being here to stay. Spelled out in full, JIFPA stands for Jakarta International Festival of the Performing Arts.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
RP, France to sign defense pact
RP, France to sign defense pact MANILA (AFP): The Philippines and France will sign a defense cooperation agreement when President Fidel Ramos visits Paris as part of a European tour this week, Foreign Secretary Roberto Romulo said yesterday.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Eight Indonesian illegals drown
Eight Indonesian illegals drown KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Eight Indonesian illegal immigrants drowned and nine others went missing when they panicked and jumped into the sea after Malaysian customs officers opened fire at their speedboat, police said yesterday.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Two missing in boat accident
Two missing in boat accident JEPARA, Central Java: Two people are missing since a motorboat with 16 passengers capsized during a storm in Karimunjawa waters.Fishermen rescued 14 passengers and sent them to the Karimunjawa health center. The two others are feared dead.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Councilors not united about higher bus fare
Councilors not united about higher bus fare JAKARTA (JP): City councilors have voiced different opinions about the proposal endorsed by the Organization of Owners of City Land Transportation (Organda) to raise bus fares by up to 20 percent for night transportation.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
RI bourse rating raised
RI bourse rating raised SINGAPORE (AFP): US securities firm Merrill Lynch raised its rating yesterday of Malaysian stocks for the next three-to-six months, recommending investors take a slightly more aggressive stance on Asian markets.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Vendor jailed for extortion
Vendor jailed for extortion A 22-year-old vendor was sentenced to eight months in jail on Monday after he was found guilty of pointing a knife at a couple visiting the National Monument (Monas) in Central Jakarta.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Medan workers' riots provoked by 3rd party: Activists
Medan workers' riots provoked by 3rd party: Activists JAKARTA (JP): The riots in Medan last April, which had their origins in a workers' protest, were the result of a provocation by a third party and not the trade union which organized the march, according to a group of labor advocates.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Merpati is striving to improve performance
Merpati is striving to improve performance JAKARTA (JP): As the tariff war among the country's scheduled airlines ends, competition in domestic air service is currently focusing on the quality of services and human resources, an executive says.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Sun Chlorella debate
Sun Chlorella debateFrom Bisnis IndonesiaI recently came across a report of two conflicting research findings concerning the product Sun Chlorella.For me, who happens to be a biologist who graduated from the Bandung Institute of Technology and has an American Ph.D.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Ministry stay idle on brawls
Ministry stay idle on brawlsFrom NeracaStudent brawls have broken out again lately and the Jakarta office of the Ministry of Education and Culture has taken no action on the matter.The regularity of the brawls is so alarming that beaten up or stabbed school students are no longer in the news unless...
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
`Arisan' savings fraud
`Arisan' savings fraudFrom RepublikaI have received chain letters from the arisan savings enterprise a few times. I have also received material from people calling themselves Danasonic, arisan and finally arisan ukhuwah Islamiah.Essentially they are all the same.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Asiad runners enter Indonesia Open
Asiad runners enter Indonesia Open JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Open track and field championships due to start today will be the country's proving ground for its national relay team prior to their departure for the Asian Games in Hiroshima next month.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Out of order during `Telekuis'
Out of order during `Telekuis'From Suara KaryaOn Aug. 24, Wednesday evening, a private television station which was celebrating its fifth anniversary was airing a quiz program titled "Knowing Our Country," promising most attractive prizes.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
RI, Australia set ties
RI, Australia set ties JAKARTA (JP): Australia and Indonesia are developing cooperation in a widening range of industrial and technological areas.Australian Charge d'Affairs Tony Hely said here yesterday that Indonesia's Agency for Strategic Industries (BPIS) has formed a "framework agreement" to...
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
RI seeks to become SE Asia's largest stock mart by 2000
RI seeks to become SE Asia's largest stock mart by 2000 JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian capital market can become the largest in Southeast Asia by the year 2000, given the present upward trend in stock exchange activities, says an official.
Wed, 07 Sep 1994
Japan's Murayama steps into Asian Games dispute
Japan's Murayama steps into Asian Games dispute TOKYO (Reuter): Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama for the first time yesterday stepped into the diplomatic row which threatens the Asian Games clearly advising Taiwan not to send its president to the event.