ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia) back issues from October 2006:
POLITICS - PRESIDENT LEADS CEREMONY TO MARK G-30-S TRAGEDY.
Oct 01, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono led a ceremony at Lubang Buaya Monument in East Jakarta to mark the September 30, 1965 tragedy sparked by failed coup attempt by then communiist party PKI. The president accompanied by wife Mrs Ani Yudhoyono arrived at the ...
POLITICS - SECURITY TIGHTENED ON ANNIVERSARY OF 2ND BALI BOMBING.
Oct 01, 2006 ... Denpasar, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Police in Bali rightened security on the first anniversary of the second bombing incident on the island on Sunday.Hundreds of police officers in uniform and in plain clothes were ...
POLITICS - POLICE SEND REINFROCEMENTS TO POSO.
Oct 01, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Police have sent reinforcements to Poso, Central Sulawesi, to maintain security there following three bomb explosions at dawn on Sunday. "Eight more companies of police personnel from neighbouring regional police commands and the national headquarters have ...
FOUR DEPOK LEGISLATIVE FACTIONS REJECT REPLACEMENT OF REGIONAL SECRETARY.
Oct 01, 2006 ... Depok, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Depok city councillor of the Prosperious Justice Party (PKS) Muttaqin referring to the replacement of the Depok regional administration secretary said the Golkar, PB, PAN and PDIP factions of the local legislative assembly had expressed rejection to the replacement ....
THICK SMOG BECOMES INCREASINGLY UNCONTROLLABLE, SAYS JAMBI DEPUTY GOVERNOR.
Oct 01, 2006 ... Jambi, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Jambi deputy governor Antony Zeidra Abidin held an impromptu meeting with a number of the heads of agencies and related authorities under his administration on Sunday to deal with the increasingly thickening fog over Jambi, as the result of forest and oil palm ...
POLITIK - KALLA BERDOA UNTUK BANGSA INDONESIA DI DEPAN KABAH.
Oct 01, 2006 ... Mekah, 1/10 (ANTARA) - Setelah menyelesaikan diplomasi ke Amerika Serikat (AS) dan Spanyol untuk membeberkan kiat-kiat penyelesaian damai Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) dan Poso kepada para juru runding pemerintah yang negerinya masih dilanda konflik dan perang saudara, Wakil Presiden ...
GOVT URGED TO POST MORE POLICE LIAISON OFFICERS ABROAD.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The National Police (Polri) Headquarters has asked the government to post more police liaison officers abroad as the frequeny of inter-state crimes in the past few years has increased, a spokeman said. "Dozens of foreign countries have police liaison officers ...
SE SULAWESI MANPOWER OFFICE RECRUITING MORE AD HOC INDUSTRIAL COURT JUDGES.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Kendari, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The Southeast Sulawesi Transmigration and Manpower Office has reopened the opportunity for interested candidates to work as ad hoc judges at industrial relations courts (PHI) at provincial level, a spokeksmn said. The candidates must be Indonesian citizens who ...
MUHAMMADIYAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENT TO REPRESENT RI AT MATH OLYMPIAD.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jember, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - Achmad Mutafakkir, a student at Muhammadiyah Eelementry School I here together with other members of an Indonesian team, will participate in the 3rd International Mathematics and Science Olympiad (IMSO) November 12-17, 2007. Drs Siami Astutiningsih, head of ...
DA SILVA'S FAMILY DO NOT WANT HIS BODY EXHUMED FOR AUTOPSY.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Kupang, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The extended family of Dominggus da Silva in the Sikka district town of Maumere, East Nusa Tenggara, do not want his body exhumed for an autopsy, Sikka police chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner Endang Syafruddin told ANTARA here by phone on Monday....
POLITICS - TNI DENIES LINK WITH ADMIRAL HELD IN U. S.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Military (TNI) has denied any links with a retired admiral arrested in the United States last week for allegedly conspiring to sell arms and equipment to Sri Lanka rebels and Indonesian customers, the Jakarta Post reported here on Monday. TNI ...
POLITICS - PALESTINE ASKS FOR POLITICAL SUPPORT FROM INDONESIA.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Octo 2 (ANTARA) - The Imam of Palestine's Al Aqsa mosque, Syeikh Mohd Siyyam, said Palestine does not yet need volunteers from Indonesia but does need political, material and spiritual support."We have a surplus of Mujahidin volunteers support," Siyyam said in his ...
VIETNAMESE RICE BELIEVED IMPORTED ILLEGALLY INTO INDONESIA.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Semarang, C Java, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The chairman of the Central Java Legislative Council (DPDR)'s Commission B, Khafid Shirotudin, said he believed that imported rice had entered Central Java and low-qualty rice from Vietnam had even been imported into Indonesia illegally....
GENERAL ELECTIONS ORGANIZER BILL SHOULD BE ADJUSTABLE TO FOLLOW-UP POLITICAL COMPROMISES : PAN.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The various political understandings reached in discussions on the Bill on the General Elections Organizer should still be adjustable to follow-up political compromises achieved in delberations on other political bills , National Mandate Party (PNA) chairman Hakam ...
GOVT SHOULD NOT WORRY ABOUT CAPITAL FLIGHT, SAYS OBSERVER.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government should not worry about foreign capital flight as many factors in Inonesia were still attractive to foreign investors, an observer said. "Both local and foreign investors will not easily move their money to other countries because they ...
SEPTEMBER INFLATION RATE RECORDED AT 0.38 PCT.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The inflation rate in Indonesia last September was recorded at 0.38 percent or slightly up from 0.33 percent in August, the Central bureau of Statistics (BPS) said here Monday. The inflation rate in the January-September period was 4.06 percent and the ...
HUMPUS INTERMODA MADE NET PROFIT OF US$9.3 MILLION IN FIRST SEMESTER 2006.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - Publicly-listed sea transportation service company PT Humpus Intermoda (HITS) reported here Monday that it made a net profit of Rp93.03 billion (US$9.3 million) in the first semester of this year. The figure represenetd an increase by 21.48 percent from ...
FOREIGN ELEMENTS TO HELP SCHOOL DROPOUTS IN WEST NUSA TENGGARA.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Mataram, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - A number of elements in the United Nations will help school dropouts in some districts of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) province, a reliable source said. Speaking to the press here on Monday, the chairwoman of the NTB chapter of the Civil Servants' Wives ...
BANK NIAGA CHIEF TO RESIGN LATE THIS YEAR.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - Bank Niaga President Director Peter B. Stock has expressed his intention to resign from his post at the bank at the end of 2006, a bank spokeman said. "Mr Stock has made known his intention to resign as Bank Niaga president director late this year to the ...
FINANCE MINISTER TO ISSUE DECREE TO FOLLOW UP ON GOVT REGULATION.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) -- The Finance Ministry would soon issue a regulation on state bank credit restructuring procedures and mechanism following the approval of amended government regulation No. 14/2005 on state/province credit hair-cut procedures. The credit restructuring which ...
FORMER RI DIPLOMAT IN PENANG CONVICTED FOR CORRUPTION.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The Corruption Court here Monday sentenced former head of the Immigration Subsection at the Indonesian Consulate General in Penang, Malaysia, Muhammad Chusnul Yakin Payapo, to two years and five months in jail for corruption. The court found the defendant ...
TWO PEOPLE MISSING IN DEADLY BOAT COLLISION IN MAHAKAM RIVER.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Samarinda, E. Kalimantan, Oct 2 (ANTARA)- Two people from Kutai Kartanegara district, East Kalimantan province were reportedly missing in a deadly collision between a speedboat and "Ketinting" canoe in Sanga-Sanga Estuary of Mahakam river here on Sunday evening, police said. The two ...
POLITICS - ERIC IS NOT TNI'S PARTNER FOR ARMS PURCHASE: DEFENSE MINISTRY.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The Defense Ministry said here on Monday that Eric Wotulo, a retired navy officer who was arrested by the United States authorities for alleged arms smuggling was not its partner for weaponry purchase. "He is a retired officer and we have no link with him, ...
HOUSE SPEAKER WORRIED ABOUT CASE OF EX-SOLDIER'S INVOLVEMENT IN ARMS SMUGGLING.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - Speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR) Agung Laksono expressed concern here on Monday over the recurrence of arms smuggling allegedly involving an ex-military member. "We regretted it and are ashamed of it," he said. Agung hoped the case of Eric Watulo ...
SMOG DISRUPTS ROAD TRAFFICK IN WEST KALIMANTAN.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Singkawang, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The thick smog which for the past week had been blanketing West Kalimantan, has starting posing a serious nuisance to road traffic from and to Pontianak. Indra, a resident of Pontianak said in Singkawang on Monday that he could not ride on his motorcycle in ...
IMMIGRATION PROBLEM IS LARGELY OF SECURITY: MINISTER.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA)- Legal and Human Rights Minister Hamid Awaluddin said the problem facinc the immigration office was largely on security rather than administration because it concerned the flow of human traffic into or out of the country. "Therefore, the problem of human flow ...
OFFICIALS NOT ALLOWED TO RECEIVE PARCELS.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) reiterated that state officials were not allowed to receive parcels as it was against the law on state officials, KPK's deputy chief for preventive affairs, Waluyo, said here Monday. "Corruption must be eradicated from ...
BPS; INFLATION IN OCTOBER TO DROP BELOW TWO DIGITS.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) predicts year-on-year inflation in October will drop below two digits after reaching 14.55 percent in September. "God willing, year-on-year inflation next month will be below ten percent unless there is no eventuality," ...
HEADLINES OF INDONESIAN MAJOR NEWSPAPERS ON TUESDAY.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct. 3 (ANTARA) - Following are headlines of Indonesian major newspapers on Tuesday.The Jakarta PostLAPINDO TOLD TO FIND JOBS FOR 3,000 Manpower and Transmigration Minister Erman Suparno asked PT Lapindo Brantas on Monday to find jobs for more than 3,000 people ...
AG OFFICE INVESTIGATES ISSUANCE OF HISTORY BOOK FOR 2004 CURRICULUM.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The Attorney General Office will continue to investigate the issuance of the History Textbook for the 2004 Curriculum up on the request of the Minister for National Education Bambang Sudibyo, a junior attorney said on Monday. "The control of the printed goods ...
114 INDONESIANS LEAVE FOR JAPAN FOR SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Some 114 Indonesians students will leave for Japan to continue their education in a several fields of study under a scholarship from Japanese government, a press statement from the Japanese Embassy said on Tuesday. The 114 comprise of 85 research students, 17 ...
FIRST COURT SESSION OPENED FOR HILTON CORRUPTION CASE.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The Central Jakarta District Court on Tuesday began trying four people for their alleged part in a corruption case over the unlawful extension of Hilton Hotel's building construction right. The four are the president director of PT Indobuild Co. Pontjo Sutowo ...
TRUCKS, CONTAINERS BANNED FROM OPERATING IN JAVA DURING IDUL FITRI FESTIVITY.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The Transportation Ministry banned the operation of trucks and containers in populous Java beginning Oct 20 or four days before the Idul Fitri festivity, an official has said. "The prohibition was made every year to avoid traffic congestion in time of the Islamic ...
MANDALA AIRPLANE SKIDS RUNWAYS IN TARAKAN, KALIMANTAN.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Tarakan, E Kalimantan, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - A Boeing 373-200 of PT Mandala Airlines skidded the runway when it landed at Tarakan's Juata International airport at 11 a. M local time here on Tuesday. The Mandala aircraft was flying from Balikpapan's Sepinggan International airport and skidded at ...
LEGISLATOR ASKS EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON TO ASSIST ERIC WOTULO.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - House of Represetatives (DPR) Commission I member Suripto has asked the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Indonesian Embassy in Washington DC to provide consular assistance to retired Indonesian serviceman Eric Wotulo who was arrested by US authorities recently....
EXAMINATIONS ON EX-DETECTIVE CHIEF HAMPERED BY HEALTH.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The questioning process of former chief of Police's Detective and Crimes Department retired Com. Gen. Erwin Mappaseng who was linked to the Bank BNI success fee amounting to Rp2.25 billion was hampared by his health condition. "Police doctors have consulated ...
POLICE YET TO NAME SUSPECTS IN POSO BOMB BLASTS.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Central Sulawesi police have yet to name any suspect in the series of bomb blasts and destruction of the Pamona Timor police station in Poso over the weekend, National Police spokesman Brig Gen Anton Bachrul Alam said here on Tuesday. "Police will continue to ...
PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO SHOULD ASK US TO RESPECT RI'S SOVEREIGNTY: LEGISLATOR.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono shoul ask the US to respect Indonesia's sovereignty amd intyegrity in his meeting with US President George W Bush here after the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November, a legislator said here Tuesday. ...
MILY SENDS TWO PLATOONS OF TROOPS TO POSO.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The National Defence Force (TNI) has sent two platoons of troops to help police keep peace and order in the eastern Indonesian town of Poso as tension is escalating in the wake of the execution on Sept 22 of three death row convicts. "We have sent two platoons ...
SAMARITAN'S PURSE ASKED TO LEAVE NORTH SUMATRA.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Medan, North Sumatra, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Indonesia's social affairs minister has issued an instruction asking a foreign non-governmental organization (NGO), Samaritan's Purse, to immediately leave North Sumatra, for illegal practice of converting people's faith in the province. "The ...
BALINESE HINDUS TO JOIN RELIGIOUS TOUR TO INDIA AND NEPAL.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Denpasar, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Some 21 Balinese Hindus will join a religious journey to India and Nepal, from October 13 to 24, 2006. "The group will be the fourth this year and another group will leave next November, " Director of "Krisnanda Gita Jaya" tour and travel bureau Gde Sara Sastra, ...
HAZE BLAMED FOR MANDALA PLANE ACCIDENT IN KALIMANTAN.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Short range of visibility due to thick haze has caused a Mandala aircraft to skid the runway of Tarakan's Juata International airport, East Kalimantan at 11.30 a. M local time on Tuesday, PT Mandala Airlines Spokesman Alex Widjojo said. A Mandala airplane ...
RI NAVY TO BUY TWO CORVETTES FROM NETHERLANDS.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Slamet Soebijanto said the Navy would continue with its plan to purchase two corvettes of the Sigma II-IV Class from the Netherlands as provided for in its strategic plan (Renstra) for the 2002-2013 period. "We will continue with ...
PRESIDENT ISSUES PERMISSION FOR QUESTIONING OF 9 DISTRICT HEADS.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has issued a written statement permiting the questioning of nine district heads and deputy district heads for their alleged involvement in corruption and defamation cases, presidential spokesman Andi Malarangeng said here on ...
BANKS READY TO DISBURSE YOGYAKARTA RECONSTRUCTION FUND.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Yogyakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Some banks in Yogyakarta special province were ready to channel the first batch of reconstruction program fund to Seloharjo village in Pundong subdistrict in Bantul district which was severely hit by earthquake last May 27, an official said. "The reconstruction ...
PANINBANK NAMED BEST DOMESTIC PROVIDER OF FX SERVICES.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Indonesia's Panin Bank was named the best domestic provider of FX services by Hong Kong-based Asia Money magazine, a spokesperson said here Tuesday. More than 1,000 respondents comprised of senior Asia-Pacific treasurers and financial executives chose ...
TNI RESPECTS US LEGAL PROCESS AGAINST ERIC WOTULO.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian National Defence Forces (TNI) Headquartes respects the United States legal process against retired Indonesian serviceman Brig Gen Eric Wotulo who was allegedly involved in arms smuggling from the US, TNI Chief Marshal Djoko Suyanto said here on ...
SOME 120 COUNTRIES SUPPORT RI'S BID FOR UNSC NON-PERMANENT MEMBERSHIP.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - At least 120 countries or two-thirds of the UN membership have expressed support for Indonesia's bid to get elected as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. "Indonesia is optimistic about its ...
GOVT LOWERS PRICES OF GENERIC DRUGS AGAIN.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The government has once again lowered the prices of generic drugs with the aim of putting them within the finacial reach of all segments of the Indonesian public, a senior health minsitry official said. "The prices of generic drugs have been lowered ...
BJ HABIBIE'S BOOK TO BE TRANSLATED INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Former Preident BJ Habibie's best-salling book "Detik-Detik Yang Menentukan: Jalan Panjang Indonesia Menuju Demokrasi" (The Decisive Moments : Indonsia's Long Path toward Democracy) will be published into several foreign languages to meet ovrseas demand, a ...
PAPUA COOPERATIVES OFFICE TO BUILD MARKETS IN AREAS BORDERING PNG.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jayapura, Irian Jaya, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Papua province's cooperatives and small-scale enterprises office (UKM) will this year start building markets in a number of subdistricts bordering Papua New Guinea (PNG), a spokesman said. "The first market will be built in Lereh village, Kaerom ...
STOP VIOLENCE IN POSO, MPR CHAIRMAN SAYS.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Chairman of the People's Consultative Assemby (MPR) Hidayat Nurwahid said violence and acts of terrorism in Poso should be stopped. Speaking to reporters at the MPR building here on Tuesday, Nurwahid said the vicious circle of terrorism in the form of ...
MASSIVE FLOOD INUNDATES 166 HOUSES IN SOUTH ACEH.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Banda Aceh, Aceh, Oct 3 (ANTARA)- A massive flood inundated at least 166 houses in South Aceh, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) province, on Monday (Oct.2) due to the overflowing of the Singkil River after incessant rains in the past two days, an official said. The flood waters which ...
THICK HAZE DELAYS JAKARTA-PONTIANAK MORNING FLIGHTS.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Pontianak, W Kalimantan, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Commerial morning flihts from Jakarta to Pontianak, West Kalimantan, and vice versa were delayed on Tuesday due to thick haze which greatly reduced visibility at Pontanak's Supadio airport, the head of airport operator company PT Angkasa Pura II, ...
BENGKULU ADMINISTRATION ASKED TO REPORT PROVINCE'S SEVEN ISLANDS TO CENTRAL GOVT.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Bengkulu, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The Bengkulu legislative assembly (DPRD) has asked the provincial administration to soon report on seven islands located in the province's waters to the Ministry of Home Affairs so that they would be put on the provincial map. "In a map issued by ...
IMPORTED RICE CASE SEEMED TO BE FORCED, SAYS ACTIVIST.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The judges at the North Jakarta district court was told to be prudent in dealing with three defendants in the case of 60,000 tons of rice imported from Vietnam because the issue seemed to have been forcedly switched from the question of customs to that of ...
COMMUNITY GIVEN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN FOREST CONSERVATION.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) -- The Forestry Ministry will give an opportunity to the community living in or near forests on Java island to actively participate in forest conservation as part of efforts to revitalize the forestry sector. According to data presented by the ministry, the ...
MUD FROM LAPINDO USEFUL FOR FISH BREEDING.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Surabaya, E Java, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The mud from Lapindo which had flowed into Porong, Sidorjo district, East Java, can be used not only as building material and for land reclamation, but also for fish breeding, a senior official said. "It is possible that the mud can be used in wetland ...
MUI: DECAPITATION NOT A MUST IN ISLAM'S WAYS OF EXECUTION.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Chairman of the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) KH Ma'ruf Amin has said that capital punishment exists in Islam, but it did not specify the methods of execution like decapitation or any other forms. "In the olden days, the people only recognized decapitation ...
HUNDREDS OF HOMES BADLY INUNDATED BY FLASH FLOOD IN ACEH SELATAN.
Oct 03, 2006 ... Tapaktuan, Aceh, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Hundreds of houses in Kapai Sesak and Krueng Luah villages, Trumon Timur subdistrict, Aceh Selatan regency, were badly inundated by the overflow of the river in the area on Tuesday, but that had been no immediate reports on fatalities or material damage. ...
HEADLINES OF INDONESIAN NEWSPAPERS ON WEDNESDAY.
Oct 04, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct. 4 (ANTARA) Following are headlines of Indonesian major newspapers on Wednesday.The Jakarta Post PAPUA KAMPONGS TO GET FUNDING Papua Governor Barnabas Suebu has earmarked Rp100 million (US$10,852) in special autonomy funding to be disbursed to each ...
INDON VEEP HOLDS MEETING WITH OIC SECRETARY GENERAL.
Oct 04, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct. 4 (ANTARA) - The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), Prof Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, held a fruitful meeting with Indonesian Vice President Yusuf Kalla, at the OIC Headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday. Kalla and Ihsanoglu discussed ...
JAPAN DONATES RP3 BILLION FOR ARMED-CONFLICT VICTIMS IN ACEH.
Oct 04, 2006 ... Banda Aceh, Oct 4 (ANTARA) - The Japanese government has supported the peace process in Naggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) by contributing Rp3 billion in funds to help armed-conflict victims in the province develop small-scale businesses, Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Shin Ebihara said here ....
US OFFERING NEW SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES TO INDONESIAN STUDENTS.
Oct 04, 2006 ... Jakarta, Oct. 4 (ANTARA) - The United States is offering Indonesian students new opportunities to study with US scholarships under its Community College Summit Initiative Program, an official report said.Administered by the American Indonesian Exchange Foundation ...
SOME 570 HOT SPOTS DETECTED IN SUMATRA.
Oct 04, 2006 ... Batam, Kepri, Oct 4 (ANTARA) - Some 570 hot spots were recently detected on Sumatra Island, especially in Riau, Jambi and South Sumatra provinces, Channel News Asia (CNA) reported on Tuesday. Indonesia's neighbor Singapore recorded 62 in the pollutant standard index (PSI), a decrease from ...