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Article: INDONESIAN NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - AUG 16, 2000.
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- August 16, 2000
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JAKARTA, Aug 16 Asia Pulse - Highlights of today's newspapers:
THE JAKARTA POST
- President Abdurrachman Wahid said on Tuesday that the decision-making power in the upcoming cabinet would reside in a group of four comprising the president, vice president and two coordinating ministers.
- Oil prices stampeded to their highest for a decade on Tuesday on fears about low petroleum stockpiles and a frank admission by Venezuela about OPEC's perennial thirst for petrodollars.
- Asian currency traders had one eye on a shaky Japanese yen and the other on the Indonesian rupiah and regional politics as most major currencies lost ground Tuesday ...