Jakarta Post articles from March 2007, page 4

Jakarta Post archives from March 2007

Language constraints.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 7 My friend Mark arrived in Jakarta during the mid 1980's. His stay here was the result of his father working with an NGO-established company in Jakarta....

The Australia-Japan agreement: Between a rock and a hard place?
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 7 Australia and Japan have just signed an historic security agreement This new pact formalizes the security cooperation that began in secret between...

Kediri archeological discovery offers clues on ancient kingdom.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 8 Recent archeological discoveries at a Tondowongso excavation site in the East Java town of Kediri have opened the possibility that the once- glorious...

Korean detained for smuggling.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 8 BANDUNG, West Java: The Bandung Customs and Excise Office has held a Korean national since March 2 for allegedly attempting to smuggle a container of...

Flores slide costs Rp 411b.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 8 KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: Recent landslides and floods in Manggarai regency on Flores Island, East Nusa Tenggara province, caused an estimated Rp 411...

Toward Japan, Australia and U.S. security triangle.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 7 Australia and Japan entered a new phase in their relationship, having signed a joint declaration on security in Tokyo during Prime Minister John Howard's...

Power plant trials leave Lampung in dark.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 8 The state electricity company began rotating blackouts in several areas of Lampung on Friday as part of trial runs for two new power plants that...

Wrongly jailed, young maid seeks justice.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 8 While most teenage girls have relatively carefree lives, Sukanti Binti Atmo Wiyono, 16, worked as a maid at the house of the Lubuk Linggau mayor in West...

Parts of quake-hit W. Sumatra still in emergency phase.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 8 The emergency period in the wake of the devastating quake that hit West Sumatra almost three weeks ago has been extended for another month in five of the...

SBY warns of climate change fallout.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 9 President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Friday warned Indonesians to brace for the adverse impacts of global climate change Addressing the...

Aceh, ICW fight graft side by side.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 9 The Nanggroe Aceh Darussalem administration and the Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) announced their partnership Friday in an all-out battle against...

House to procure 550 laptops.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 9 Despite strong criticism, the House of Representatives will go ahead with its plan to procure laptops for all of its 550 legislators Speaker Agung...

Guard a suspect in Bulog rice theft.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 9 PURWOKERTO: Officials now say 112 tons or rice, or 5,600 sacks, were stolen earlier this week from the State Logistics Agency (Bulog)'s warehouse in...

Govt, NGOs to battle human trafficking.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 9 The newly-passed law on human trafficking has government officials and NGOs alike raring to wage an all-out war on the crime "We have been dependent...

Attorney General defends capital punishment.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 9 Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh has defended the government's decision to keep capital punishment in the country's legal system, saying it was a...

9.7 million bank accounts closed or emptied in three months, says official.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 13 Some 9.7 million bank accounts have in the past three months been closed or been emptied of funds, the National Development Agency (Bappenas) has found,...

Mandom expands production capacity to meet sales target.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 13 Publicly listed cosmetics manufacturer PT Mandom Indonesia Tbk. is targeting a 5 percent increase in net sales this year to Rp 1 trillion (US$110...

PLN set to sign five more power deals next month.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 13 State-owned electricity firm PT PLN will sign contracts next month for the construction of five coal-fired power plants that will have a total output...

Indonesia Air plans to expand, launch scheduled, cargo services.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 14 Publicly listed charter airline operator PT Indonesia Air Transport (IATA) is expanding its business into scheduled passenger and cargo services ...

'Sesame Street' goes Indonesian.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 21 The award-winning U.S.-based children's program, Sesame Street, unveiled on Thursday its Indonesian name Jalan Sesama (street for all) and four new main...

Dave Koz delivers cinematic experience.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 21 Does the world need another album covering songs from classic films? We've already seen Van Morrison's effort this year, and several years back, Sting...

Dave Koz plays to 'home' crowd at Citos.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 21 Indonesia should be proud that it adopted saxophonist Dave Koz and nurtured him well. Ever since his first visit to Jakarta in the mid- 1990s, the...

Acappella pokes fun at politicians.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 21 Satire may be an expression of free speech in a democracy, but it's a slightly sensitive issue in Indonesia at present. Cutting public officials down to...

Three divas: Sopranos wow Erasmus crowd.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 21 The pop version of the Three Divas is already well known. But have you heard the classical version? The three divas are Rozana Unsulangi, Aning Katamsi...

Diana Ina: Keeping Malang morally clean.
March 24, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -- PAGE 24 You've probably seen them on TV news, big burly blokes pouring out of pick-ups and getting stuck into petty lawbreakers The villains -- often rural...

Governor gets 18 months in Kalimantan illegal logging case.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 1 The Anticorruption Court sentenced suspended East Kalimantan Governor Suwarna Abdul Fatah on Thursday to 18 months in prison for land concession permits he...

No airlines meet safety standards.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 1 None of the 20 airlines it has audited are completely complying with safety regulations, the Transportation Ministry announced Thursday "No airline...

RI seen to become 5th largest economy.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 1 A strategic group consisting of businesspeople, academics and government officials has set an ambitious target of transforming Indonesia into one of the...

Is central bank really monitoring foreign exchange?
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 2 We now worryingly doubt Bank Indonesia's capability to monitor foreign exchange (forex) flows to and from the country This doubt arose after the recent...

House agrees on investment bill with major changes.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 2 A working committee of the House Representative has finally concluded the prolonged debate on the investment bill, which is now expected to be endorsed by...

Govt mulls cash compensation for mud victims.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 2 The government will consider meeting the demand for cash compensation by victims of a mud-flooded housing complex in Sidoarjo, East Java, a minister said...

The need to learn from Japan.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 4 Indonesia has been afflicted by a string of natural disasters over the past three years, putting the country into the league of the most- disaster-prone...

Fighting market distortions.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 4 The strong united stance adopted by the 46 developing countries of the Group-33 at the end of their two-day meeting here on Wednesday on two instruments --...

Islam should change prayers standard prayers.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 4 My comment is about the practice of Islam in Indonesia and what I perceive as a potential improvement to it I have not written to this paper before...

Spiritualizing disaster management.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 4 It is long been common that when facing difficult problems, like droughts and natural disasters, many Muslim organizations turn to dzikir bersama (mass...

Villagers demand recycling rights.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 5 BEKASI: Hundreds of Jati Mulya villagers in Tambun Selatan district, Bekasi, rallied Thursday at car assembly company PT IndoMobil Suzuki International to...

Betawi group blocks buses.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 5 TANGERANG: Approximately 300 members of the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) in Tangerang prevented No. 613 public buses traveling from Blok M in South...

Busway relief expected in April.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 5 JAKARTA: Relief is expected for the long queues on the four newest busway corridors, with additional buses expected to arrive in April Sixty-one new...

Analysts predict low voter turnout.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 5 Analysts on Wednesday warned of voter apathy in the lead up to the gubernatorial election in August considering there may only be two candidates They...

Kill not the goose, owner threatens.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 5 Agus Hidayat, an animal husbandry officer in Duren Sawit, East Jakarta, thought the only life-threatening thing about doing bird flu work was coming into...

'We can't rely on groundwater forever'.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 5 World Water Day, which fell on March 22, was guided by the theme "Coping with Water Scarcity". While tap water customers complain of poor service and...

Jakartans encouraged to 'test the water'.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 5 Ever wondered what is lurking in your backyard well? The Jakarta Environmental Management Agency (BPLHD) has invited residents to get their water tested in...

Bali sees increase in demand for property.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 6 Past visitors to Bali are familiar with the sight and sound of hawkers on the streets who eagerly approach tourists and ask:mister, want to buy sunglasses...

Developers embark on new projects.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 6 Despite the recent floods in several parts of Jakarta and the growing popularity of living in an apartment among upscale families, several residential...

Loft concept blends residential and workplace functions.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 6 Two or three years ago, the loft concept was yet to become popular in Indonesia. A loft is a residential style adopted from a room model for warehouses...

Concept of environmentally friendly housing.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 7 The floods that swept through Jakarta, Semarang and several other major cities in Indonesia last month have left bitter memories for those affected. In...

Northern Bandung suffers development woes.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 8 Northern Bandung residents are becoming increasingly worried about floods and water shortages hitting their area, blaming deforestation and rising urban...

Rumbling mount leads to alert.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 8 KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: The Central Volcanology and Disaster Mitigation Agency in Bandung, West Java, has raised the status of Mount Batubara in East...

Teachers walk out to protest dismissal.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 8 Educational activities in schools came to a standstill in Takalar, South Sulawesi, over the last two days following a strike by thousands of teachers over...

Vote peaceful despite glitches.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 8 Direct elections in Sorong regency and city in Papua went peacefully Thursday, despite protests in the Aimas and Salawati districts in the regency on...

AGO searches for evidence at Widjanarko's home, offices.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 9 Investigators raided the house and offices of graft suspect former State Logistics Agency (Bulog) chief Widjanarko Puspoyo, hoping to find supporting...

Govt plans minimum service levels.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 9 The government has announced it will set minimum public service standards to ensure good governance and improve public welfare in an effort to accelerate...

Graft verdict sets bad precedent: Activists.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 9 Anti-corruption activists and experts have said a decision to acquit former councilors from graft charges in a case review will set a bad precedent in...

Indonesia honors AMM deputy chief.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 9 JAKARTA: The Indonesian government conferred the Bintang Jasa Utama (Main Service Medal) on the former deputy chief of the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM),...

Young leaders demand better representation for youths.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 9 Young politicians are demanding a greater role for themselves in political parties to better represent their younger constituents The calls for...

Most of Southeast Asian youth still in the dark about what ASEAN does.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 12 Although Abu, 35, is a lecturer at a private university in West Kalimantan, he knows little about the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ...

Subsidized fuel fraud may cost state Rp 1t.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 13 The country could suffer Rp 1 trillion (US$111.1 million) in losses this year due to smuggling and the diversion of subsidized kerosene to unauthorized...

Govt may exempt power projects from tendering.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 13 The government is considering exempting a number of planned power plant projects from lengthy tender processes by applying the much faster direct...

High-powered Korean delegation to visit RI.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 13 A high-powered South Korean delegation will meet Indonesian government and business representatives next month to follow up on an economic cooperation...

Granite miners seek help from Trade Ministry.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 14 Frustrated by a lack of consistency in the application of export rules, 17 companies grouped in the Riau Granite Miners Association (APGR) are seeking...

Indofood books record sales growth in 2006.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 14 The world's largest instant noodle producer, PT Indofood Sukses Makmur, reported record sales growth in 2006, which the company attributed in part to...

Japex, Mitsubishi plan to spend $400m in Kangean.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 14 The Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. (Japex) and Mitsubishi Corp. will invest US$400 million to boost production from the Kangean oil and gas field in East...

English, high Javanese spoken fluently at 'Desa Bahasa'.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 21 Desa Bahasa, or Language Village, is the name given to the rural hamlet of Parakan by its surrounding communities. The hamlet is located in Ngargogondo...

Mangkunegaran celebrates 250th anniversary.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 21 Laid out in the abandoned backyard of an old abandoned house in Kalicacing village in the heart of Salatiga, Central Java, were five offerings that had...

Kebumen to hold mass village election.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 21 KEBUMEN: To reduce various negative impacts of a village election, the regental government of Kebumen has decided to hold elections in its 103 villages...

Qatar provides teacher training.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 21 KLATEN: In its effort to help improve the quality of teachers and students in earthquake-affected regions, the government Qatar has established a training...

Sports minister takes over fine imposed by ITF.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 22 The Indonesian Tennis Association (Pelti) is to continue sending its athletes to International Tennis Federation (ITF) events following a pledge from the...

RI likely to send small team to SEAG.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 23 The cash-strapped Indonesian Sports Council (KONI) has forced its Southeast Asian Games task force to slash the number of athletes competing at December's...

Siti Musdah Mulia stands up for her convictions.
March 23, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -- PAGE 24 Does wearing a veil reflect the degree of piousness of Muslim women? Muslim scholar and women's activist Siti Musdah Mulia's experience may help answer...

Mustafa Abu Bakar tapped to head up graft-ridden Bulog.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 1 Former acting governor of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Mustafa Abu Bakar, was installed Wednesday as the new head of state logistics agency Bulog, replacing...

Regulator cooks up team to fry hackers.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 1 They say the Internet knows no boundaries. Unfortunately, neither do the hackers, as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono discovered after a presidential...

Court upholds Daan verdict.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 1 The Supreme Court upheld Wednesday the verdict issued by the Jakarta High Court against former member of the General Elections Commission Daan Dimara in...

Suspected terrorist killed, cache found.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 1 Antiterror Detachment 88 police shot dead a suspected member of a regional terror group in Yogyakarta Tuesday night, wounding one of the victim's...

House to give lawmakers their own computers.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 2 Each of the nation's 550 legislators will soon get a pricey notebook computer to help improve their performance, funded by the House of Representatives...

Indonesia key to forming East Asian community.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 2 The East Asian Community is a strategic idea to enable East Asia to cope with its future problems. Among these is the issue of how to cope with the...

20 years for mastermind of beheadings in Poso.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 2 A panel of judges at a Jakarta court has found three militants guilty of masterminding and carrying out the beheading of three Christian schoolgirls in...

House aims to pass bill before election.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 4 House of Representatives factions are racing against time to have the bill on the government of Jakarta ready before the gubernatorial election in August...

The usual suspect.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 4 The administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono took another bold step in its war on corruption with Tuesday's arrest of the chief of the State...

A threat to humanity.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 4 Just two days after U.S. President George W. Bush and his allies invaded Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein -- to destroy the dictator's suspected stash of...

Drivers sick of plying 'dead' routes.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 4 BOGOR: Dozens of public minivan drivers protested near the Bogor heroes cemetery Wednesday against the introduction of new routes, which they say are...

Govt to manage fiber-optic system.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 4 JAKARTA: The city administration plans to issue a regulation defining the rules for infrastructure sharing among participants in the telecommunications...

Support pours in amid calls for Fauzi's resignation.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 4 Residents of Sungai Bambu in North Jakarta gave Deputy Governor Fauzi Bowo a warm welcome Wednesday when he came to inspect flood recovery efforts in the...

Local banks may invest in monorail.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 4 Finance Minister Sri Mulyani has recommended the city administration open up investment opportunities in the long-delayed monorail project to local banks...

Things change, but stay the same.
March 22, 2007... (From The Jakarta Post) from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -- PAGE 4 According to the most recent Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) survey, Indonesia is no longer the most corrupt country in Southeast Asia....