ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia) articles from October 2005

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PREMIUM GASOLINE PRICE NOW RP 4.500 PER LITER.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - The government finally announced new fuel oil prices nationwide on Saturday at 00.00 hours, including Rp4,500 per liter of premium gasoline, Rp4,300 per liter of diesel oil, and Rp2,000 per liter of kerosene. The...

SATURDAY'S NEWSPAPERS HEADLINES.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Following are headlines in some major Indonesian dailies: The Jakarta Post, Kompas and Bisnis Indonesia FUEL PRICES LEAP 126.6 PERCENT The government rang in October with a very steep fuel price hike by an...

PROVINCIAL GOVTS DECIDE NEW TRANSPORTATION FARES.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Transportation Minister Hatta Radjasa said he had asked the provincial governments to soon decide the new transportation fares in their respective regions following the new fuel oil prices the central government...

PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO LEADS PANCASILA DAY.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono led the Pancasila (state ideology) Day in the Pancasila Sakti Monument, Lubang Buaya, in East Jakarta but he did not visit the diorama describing the so-called September 30 tragedy....

A BOY IN E JAVA SUSPECTEDLY INFECTED WITH BIRD FLU.
October 1, 2005... Madiun, E Java, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Arifin Mulya, a five year-old boy from Wonogondo village, Kebonagung sub district, Madiun, East Java, was rushed to Dr Soedono Hospital on Friday night after being treated at the Pacitan Regional Hospital since...

POOR FAMILIES RESPOND POSITIVELY TO COMPENSATION FUNDS : MINISTER.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Aburizal Bakrie said poor families have responded positively to the government's policy to provide them with fuel oil price hike compensation funds starting on Saturday. ...

GOVT TO RAISE CIVIL SERVANTS' SALARIES BY 15-20 PCT.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - The government will raise the salaries of civil servants, including teachers, by 15- 20 percent in January 2006, following Friday's increase in fuel oil prices, Vice President Jusuf Kalla said here Saturday. He...

MINISTER ASKS REGIONS TO ADJUST PUBLIC TRANSPORT RATES.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Sep 1 (ANTARA) - Transportation Minister Hatta Radjasa said regional governments should take emergency measures to adjust public transport rates in their respective jurisdictions to the fuel oil price increases announced by the central...

GOVT RAISES UNHUSKED RICE PURCHASING PRICE.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - The government has raised its unhusked rice purchasing price from Rp1,330 per kg to Rp1,700 per kg effective January 1, 2006, following Friday's increase in domestic fuel oil prices. Coordinating Minister for...

THREE BLASTS ROCK INDONESIA'S TOURIST RESORT OF BALI.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - At least three bombs exploded at two tourism spots of Jimbaran and Kuta Town Square in Indonesian tourist resort province of Bali, sources said. The first and second explosions occurred at 6.50 p. M local time at a...

PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO CONDEMNS BOMB BLASTS IN BALI.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono condemned bomb blasts in Indonesia's tourist destination of Bali which reportedly killed some people on Saturday, a presidential spokesman said. "The President condemned the terror...

TWO KILLED, 40 INJURED IN BALI BOMB BLASTS.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Two dead victims were found in the bomb blast site of Tebah coffeeshop in Bali's Jimbaran tourist resort, police who refused to be named said. "The blast that killed the two victims took place around the Tebah...

AT LEAST 40 PEOPLE INJURED IN BALI BOMB BLASTS.
October 1, 2005... Denpasar, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - At least 40 peopple were hurt in three blasts in Bali and a foreign tourist was killed, sources said. Officials of the Sanglah general hospital here said that it had received at least 40 injured people, sent from...

PKS TO EVALUATE YUDHOYONO ADMINISTRATION'S PERFORMANCE.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) will evaluate the performance of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla during their first year in office in light of the fuel oil price hikes which show a...

BULOG INSTRUCTED TO DISTRIBUTE RICE FOR POOR PEOPLE.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Aburizal Bakrie has instructed state logistics agency Bulog to accelerate distribution of rice for poor people to reduce rising tension following the fuel oil price hikes. ...

GOVT URGED TO SPEED UP INCENTIVES FOR INDUSTRY.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) chairman MS Hidayat has called on the government to speed up the granting of incentives to industry saying it cannot wait until January 2006 as planned. "The...

PRESIDENT TO VISIT BOMB ROCKED BALI.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will leave on first occasion for Bali to inspect scenes of bomb blasts that rocked the Indonesian tourist resort island of Bali on Saturday, Presidential Spokesman Andi...

AT LEAST SIX BOMB BLASTS ROCK BALI.
October 1, 2005... Denpasar, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - At least six bomb blasts occurred in three different areas in Indonesia's tourist destination of Bali province on Saturday night injuring an unconfirmed number of people, but 32 of them were treated in the Sanglah...

DOMESTIC OIL PRICES TO BE LOWERED IF WORLD CRUDE PRICE DROPS.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla said the government would lower the fuel oil prices in the domestic market if the world crude oil price drops. The issue has been clearly stated in the Presidential Decree No. 55/2005 on...

FIVE PEOEPLE KILLED IN BALI'S BOMB BLASTS.
October 1, 2005... Denpasar, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Six bomb blasts which rocked different areas in Indonesia's tourist destination of Bali province on Saturday night killed at least five people, one of them is a foreign tourists, sources said. But they had yet to...

POLICE UNABLE TO GIVE IMMEDIATE EXPLANATIONS ON BALI BOMBINGS: SPOKESMAN.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Indonesian Police Spokesman Inspector Genereal Aryanto B Hardjo said he was not yet able to give comprehensive explanations on the bombings in several locations that killed at least five people in Bali on Saturday. ...

PRESIDENT: 11 KILLED, 27 INJURED IN BALI BOMBINGS.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that eleven people were killed and 27 others injured in the bombings that took place in two different places in Bali on Saturday. Speaking at press conference at...

BALI'S BOMB BLASTS COULD HAVE LINKS WITH FUEL OIL PRICE HIKES.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - The Saturday night's bomb blasts in Bali could have link with fuel oil price hikes which were felt by the people as a very heavy burden, a political observer said. "I think groups who are unsatisfied with the fuel...

DEAD VICTIMS IN BALI BOMBINGS RISE TO 21 PEOPLE, SIX IDENTIFIED.
October 1, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 1 (ANTARA) - The number of people killed in bomb blasts on Saturday rose to 21 people by Saturday midnight, six of them have been identified, sources said. Those who had been indetified are Aiko Kawasaki of Japan, Brandon...

JAPAN SENDS CONDOLENCE TO INDONESIA OVER SECOND BALI BOMB BLASTS.
October 2, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - Japanese Ambassador Yutaka Imura expressed condolence to Indonesian government following deadly bomb blasts in popular island resort on Bali Saturday night, killing at least 26 people including a Japanese and injuring...

JAKARTANS ASKED TO RAISE USE OF BIKE.
October 2, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - Jakarta vice governor Fauzi Bowo asked Jakartans here Sunday to increase the use of bicycle instead of motor vehicle following the government's decision to increase fuel prices by an average of 126.6 percent beginning...

NIKKEI REPORTER LOSSES PARENTS IN SUNDAY'S BALI BOMB BLASTS.
October 2, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - Indonesian reporter working for Japan-based Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) Bobby Nugroho Darmawan (27) lost his parents when bomb blasts ripped through a restaurant in Jimbaran tourist resort in Bali Saturday night. ...

PRESIDENT TO VISIT BALI BOMBING SITES.
October 2, 2005... Denpasar, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to visit locations where bombs ripped through popular district resorts in Bali on Sunday. Presidential office's information and press bureau said here Sunday the...

AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR VISITS VICTIMS OF SATURDAY'S BALI BOMBING.
October 2, 2005... Denpasar, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - Australian Ambassador David Ritchie visited the Sanglah general hospital here on Sunday where several Australians were treated for their injuries following deadly bomb blasts at tourist resorts in Jimbaran and Kuta...

PRESIDENT HAS CLOSE LOOK AT BLAST SITES IN BALI.
October 3, 2005... Jimbaran, Bali, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the company of his wife, Madame Ani Yudhoyono, on Sunday afternoon had a close look at the bomb blast sites in Jimbaran and Kuta, Bali. The president and an entourage...

URGE FOR REALIZATION OF MEDAN-BINJAI TOLL ROAD.
October 3, 2005... Medan, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The Golkar party faction in the North Sumatra legislative assembly has called for the provincial administration's attention to the rather neglected realization of the Medan-Binjai toll road. Traffic on the roads of...

PLN STILL HAVING NEGOTIATIONS ON NEW PRICE OF COAL FOR SURALAYA POWER PLANT.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - Director of Power Generation and Primary Energy of PT PLN, Ali Herman Ibrahim, said the state power firm is still having negotiations with state coal producer PT Bukit Asam (BA) on a proposed new price of coal for the...

POLICE CONTINUES INTERROGATING CHILD ABDUCTOR.
October 3, 2005... Semarang, C Java, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - Grobogan police on Monday is still interrogating Didik Sulistyo alias Roni Wijaya, 46, for allegedly kidnapping Yulianti, six-year-old Tawanharjo elementary school student. The suspect, resident of Wadal...

POLICE STILL UNABLE TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER RECENT BALI BOMBING SUICIDE ACTION.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Police is still unable to ascertain whether the recent bomb blasts rocking two tourist resorts in Bali on Saturday evening were committed by suicide bombers. "Our forensic team is still combing the...

SPREADING OF AIDS MOST SERIOUS THREAT TO TIMIKA RESIDENTS.
October 3, 2005... Timika, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The spread of HIV/AIDS is still posing a serious threat to Timika residents as the local population still have very low understanding and knowledge on the danger and spread of the fatal disease. "Due to very limited...

MPR SPEAKER: BALI BOMBERS ATHEISTS.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - People's Consultative Council (MPR) Speaker Hidayat Nurwahid does not rule out the possibility that the bomb attacks in two tourist resorts in Bali that killed dozens of people and wounded more than 100 others were...

BALI ADMINISTRATION PAYS ALL COST OF TREATMENT FOR BOMBING VICTIMS.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The Bali provincial administration will pay the whole cost of medical treatment for the bombing victims who treated in all hospitals in the province. Sanglah hospital in Denpasar has sufficient devices and medicines...

MEGAWATI VISITS BALI BOMBING VICTIMS.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - Megawati Soekarnoputri, former Indonesian President, visited Bali on Sunday to visit the bombing victims on the tourist island in her capacity as chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP). ...

DEATH TOLL OF BALI BOMB BLASTS RISES TO 26.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The number of victims killed in the bomb blasts in Jimbaran and Kuta on Saturday evening had reached 26, while the injured totalled 122. The latest data obtained from the Sanglah hospital in Bali on Sunday said that...

BALI BOMB BLASTS AIMED AT TOPPLING YUDHOYONO'S GOVERNMENT, PARTY CHIEF SAYS.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - The bomb blasts in Jimbaran and Kuta, Bali on Saturday evening, might have been designed to topple the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a party leader said. Speaking to the press here on Sunday,...

PREMIER HOWARD CONDEMNS BALI BOMBING.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - Australia's Prime Minister John Howard has condemned bomb blasts in Bali, which killed dozens of people, including two Australian citizens, and suspected Jemaah Islamiah of masterminding the bomb blasts which rocked...

GARUDA PROVIDES FREE FLIGHTS FOR BALI TRAGEDY DEAD VICTIMS.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - PT Garuda Indonesia (Garuda) provides free flights for the dead victims of last Saturday evening's bomb blasts in Bali for domestic and overseas destinations of the flag carrier. "This is one form of Garuda's...

GOVT PROMISES TO WORK SWIFTLY TO FIND PERPETRATORS OF BALI BOMB BLASTS.
October 3, 2005... Kuta, Oct 2 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono reaffirmed that the government will launch a swift action to find the perpetrators of the bomb blasts in Kuta and Jimbaran, Bali, on Saturday evening which had killed around 26 people....

PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO TO MEET SINGAPORE'S PREMIER IN BALI.
October 3, 2005... Denpasar, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will meet with his Singaporean counterpart, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Tampak Siring Palace, Bali, at 3 pm on Monday. Based on the itinerary of the visit made available...

MONDAY'S NEWSPAPER HEADLINES.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Following are headlines in major Indonesian dailes on Monday. Kompas, Media Indonesia, Republika, the Jakarta Post BOMB BLASTS IN BALI CARRIED OUT BY THREE SUICIDE BOMBERS President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono...

PRESIDENT LEADS LIMITED CABINET SESSION IN BALI.
October 3, 2005... Denpasar, Bali, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono led a limited closed-door cabinet session at Wisma Merdeka, Tampak Siring palace here on Monday before receiving Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong later in the...

MINISTER ASKS OTHER COUNTRIES NOT TO ISSUE TRAVEL WARNINGS ON RI.
October 3, 2005... Gianyar, Bali, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik said he had requested other countries via the foreign ministry to refrain from issuing travel warnings to their citizens wishing to visit Indonesia, Bali in particular. ...

BALI POLICE QUESTIONING ONE BOMBING SUSPECT.
October 3, 2005... Denpasar, Bali, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Police are currently intensively questioning a man whose identity and face resemble those of a suspect in Saturday's terror bombing who had been apprehended while he was about to leave Gilimanuk Port for...

US TO ASSIST RI IN FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISTS.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The United States will continue to work closely with Indonesia in the fight against terrorist, the US Embassy said in a statement made available to ANTARA here on Monday. "We will continue to work closely with our...

BALI BOMBERS POSSIBLY RELATED WITH PERPETRATORS OF PAST ATTACKS.
October 3, 2005... Gianyar, Bali, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - National Police Chief Gen. Sutanto said it was possible the perpetrators of Saturday's bombings in Bali belonged to the same network as those who carried out previous terror bombing attacks in the country as...

HIZBUT TAHRIR INDONESIA CONDEMNS SECOND BALI BOMBINGS.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), an organization Western media have often categorized as "radical Islamist", has condemned the October 1 terrorist attacks in Bali saying Islam absolutely prohibits the murder of innocent...

POLICE PUT BALI BOMBINGS' DEATH TOLL AT 22.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The National Police Headquarters has clarified that the number of deaths in Saturday's bombings in Bali has reached 22 and that of injured people 104. Previously, the police had reported the bombings had killed 26...

PERTAMINA DEPOT IN BANDUNG RECEIVES BOMB THREAT.
October 3, 2005... Bandung, W Java, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - State oil and gas company Pertamina's depot in Ujungberung, Gedebage village, Rancasari subdistrict, here Monday received a bomb threat from an anonymous phone caller. The bomb scare that halted the fuel...

DISTRICT HEAD INSTALLATION CEREMONY TAKES PLACE UNDER BOMB THREAT.
October 3, 2005... Trenggalek, E Java, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - A few hundred policemen here Monday guarded the installation of newly-elected head and deputy head of Trenggalek district after an unidentified phone caller on Sunday threatened to blow up the ceremony's...

RI, S'PORE NOT TO SIGN EXTRADITION TREATY SOON.
October 3, 2005... Bali, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Indonesia and Singapore will not sign a long-awaited extradition treaty soon because the two countries still have to settle a number of problems especially the differences in the two countries' legal systems. ...

BALI BOMBINGS POSSIBLY RELATED TO INT'L TOURISM COMPETITION ; MPR CHIEF.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA)- People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Chairman Hidayat Nurwahid said Saturday's terrorist attacks in Bali may be related to inter-state competition in the tourism industry. Speaking to reporters here Monday, he said he...

PRAYERS FOR QUAKE, TSUNAMI VICTIMS AT THEIR MASS GRAVES.
October 3, 2005... Banda Aceh, NAD, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Crowds of people in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar on Monday flocked the mass graves of the quake and tsunami victims to pray for them ahead to the fasting month of Ramadhan to begin on Wednesday. ANTARA learned...

TELKOM PROVIDES TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES FOR BALI BOMBING VICTIMS.
October 3, 2005... Surabaya, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - State-owned telecommunications operator PT Telkom provides free information service for those duty-bound to investigate the bombing tragedy in Bali and for families of the victims, Vice President of PT Telkom M....

BALI BOMBINGS MAY CUT RI'S GDP BY 0.6 PCT : MINISTER.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The bomb blasts in Bali that killed 22 people last Saturday could cut the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 0.6 percent due to a decline in tourist arrivals, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Aburizal...

PLN UNCOVERS ELECTRICITY THEFTS OF SOME 55.1 MILION KWH.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The state-owned electricity company PLN and the Indonesian Police have uncovered electricity thefts of about 55.1 million kWh mostly committed by industrial and business consumers. Delinquent consumers have...

GOVT REMAINS IN CONTROL OF FUEL PRICES.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Purnomo Yusgiantoro said here on Monday that the government would still control the prices of fuel oils even after the prices were let to be determined by the market namely...

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OFFER ASSISTANCE.
October 3, 2005... Gianyar, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Australia and New Zealand have offered assistance to Indonesia in tackling the recent bombing tragedy in Bali, including finding clues to the culprits behind the bomb blasts in Jimbaran and Kuta and providing medical...

THAI KING BHUMIBOL EXTENDS CONDOLENCES TO INDONESIA.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadei conveyed a message of condolences to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the occasion of the deadly bomb blasts in Bali on October 1, 2005 which claimed a number of innocent...

JAKARTA GOVERNOR URGES PEOPLE TO INTENSIFY NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso urged the residents in the national capital city on Monday to intensify control of their neihgborhoods to prevent terrorits from entering the city. "I have asked the people, including...

FOUR KOREAN AND SIX INDONESIAN VICTIMS EVACUATED.
October 3, 2005... Denpasar, Oct 3 (ANTARA)- Four Koreans and six Indonesians who have been wounded in the recent bomb blasts in Bali were evacuated from Sanglah general hospital here through Ngurah Rai airport Monday morning. The four victims from South...

FRANCE SENDS SYMPAHTHY TO INDONESIA OVER BALI BOMBING FATALITIES.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - French President Jacques Chirac has sent a letter of sympathy to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as a friend and head of state following the second bombings in Bali on Saturday. In the letter, distributed both...

MEGAWATI: SECOND BALI BOMB BLASTS SIGN OF GOVT'S LOW ALERTNESS.
October 3, 2005... Blitar, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The second tragic bomb blasts in Jimbaran and Kuta, Bali, were seen as proof of the government's poor alertness in anticipating possible terrorist acts in the country, former President Megawati said. She voiced her...

OCT 5, 2005 FIRST DAY OF RAMADHAN FASTING MONTH, SAYS GOVT.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The government in a meeting at the office of the religious affairs minister here on Monday to ascertain the start of the Ramadhan fasting month this year, issued an announcement that the first day of fasting month...

NAVY FOILS SMUGGLING OF 1,110 TONS OF DIESEL OIL.
October 3, 2005... Surabaya, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Naval patrol ship KRI Kakap-811 of the Eastern Fleet had foiled the smuggling of 1,110 tons of diesel oil out of the country in the Arafuru sea, Papua. "Many smuggling attempts had been frustrated with the capture...

INFLATION RATE PREDICTED AT LESS THAN 10 PCT.
October 3, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Finance Minister Jusuf Anwar predicted, inflation rate by the end of 2005 would be less than 10 percent although fuel oil price hike would bring a wide impact. "The impact of fuel oil price increase is significant,...

GOVT LOWERS FOREIGN LOANS TO RP30.5 TRILLION.
October 4, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government will reduce the obtainment of foreign loans in 2006 to only Rp30.5 trillion (one pct of the Gross Domestic Product) compared to this year's Rp35.54 trillion (1.5 pct of the GDP). "For...

INDONESIA'S DIRECT CASH SUBSIDY CRITICIZED BY CREDITORS.
October 4, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Coordinating Minister for the Economy Aburizal Bakrie said he had received critical questions from some creditor countries and institutions grouped in the Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI) on the implementation of...

TUESDAY'S INDONESIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES.
October 4, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 3 (ANTARA) - Following are Tuesday's headlines of some major Indonesian dailies: The Jakarta Post HUNT ON TO IDENTIFY BOMBERS As the beleaguered Balinese tried to put the Oct 1 bomb attack behind them, gearing up for a...

S'POREAN PREMIER, INDONESIAN PRESIDENT VISIT BALI BOMBING' WOUNDED VICTIMS.
October 4, 2005... Denpasar, Bali, Oct 4 (ANTARA) - Singaporean Premier Lee Hsien Loong here Tuesday visited the survivors of the last Saturday's suicide bombing attacks being hospitalized at Sanglah General Hospital. Accompanied by Indonesian President Susilo...

News Focus: 'FESTIVAL INDONESIA' PROMOTES RI'S TRADE, TOURISM AND CULTURE IN AUSTRALIA.
October 4, 2005... Melbourne, Oct 4 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Consulate General in Melbourne, capital of the Australian state of Victoria, held the first 'Festival Indonesia 2005', from September 29 to October 1, in an effort to promote the archipelagic country's...

RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY LEADERS PRAY FOR BALI BOMBING VICTIMS.
October 4, 2005... Denpasar, Bali, Oct 4 (ANTARA) - Leaders of different religious communnities came together here Tuesday to offer prayers for the victims of the October 1 Bali bombings, condemn the terrorist acts and the masterminds of the incident that has...

STRONG QUAKE ROCKS BANDA ACEH'.
October 4, 2005... Banda Aceh, Oct 4 (ANTARA) - An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale jolted Banda Aceh on Tuesday morning, frightening residents who were making preparations for the Islamic fasting month beginning Wednesday. Aceh Besar district...

RI ASKED TO MAKE OPTIMUM USE OF S'POREAN MEDICAL TEAM.
October 4, 2005... Denpasar, Bali, Oct 4 (ANTARA) - Visiting Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong here Tuesday said he hoped Indonesia would make optimum use of an advanced Singaporean medical team in treating wounded victims of the October 1 blasts in...

POLICE PROBING POSSIBLE LINK BETWEEM OCT 1 BOMBERS, C JAVA GROUPS.
October 4, 2005... Semarang, C Java, Oct 4 (ANTARA) - Police intelligence and anti-terror detachment 88 units are investigating the possibility of a link between certain groups in Central Java and the October 1 Bali bombing perpetrators, a spokesman said. ...

PAN URGES M'SIA TO HELP CAPTURE AZAHARI, NOORDIN M. TOP.
October 4, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 4 (ANTARA) - The National Mandate Party (PAN) faction in the House of Representatives (DPR) urged Malaysia here Tuesday to assist Indonesia in capturing Dr. Azahari Husin and Noordin M. Top, Malaysian nationals who are believed to...

PRESIDENT CALLS ON PUBLIC TO OPTIMIZE NEIGHBOURHOOD SECURITY.
October 4, 2005... Denpasar, Oct 4 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono here Tueday called on the Indonesian public, including people in Bali, to step up their sensitiveness toward their immediate surroundings and to optimize voluntary neighbourhood...

INDONESIAN MINISTER DENIES BALI BOMBINGS RESULT OF BUSINESS COMPETITION.
October 4, 2005... Kuta, Oct 4 (ANTARA) - The deadly bomb blasts at three tourist locations in Bali island have nothing to do with international tourism business competition, Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik said Tuesday. "There is no such thing....

EU CONTINUES TO SUPPORT ACEH PEACE PROCESS.
October 4, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 4 (ANTARA) - The European Union (EU) remains committed to participating in and fully supporting the peace process in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, a spokesman said. The EU's director general of international relations, Eneko...

REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIONS URGED TO IMMEDIATELY INCREASE TRANSPORTATION TARIFFS.
October 4, 2005... Jakarta, Oct 4 (ANTARA) - Transportation Minister Hatta Radjasa said here on Tuesday he had already ordered regional administrations to immediately increase public transportation tariffs by 23 to 28 percent to avoid speculation by transport...