ANTARA - The Indonesian National News Agency articles from March 2009, page 8

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SYRIAN PARLIAMENT SUPPORTS BROTHERLY TIES WITH INDONESIA.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 6 (ANTARA) - Chairman of the Syria-Indonesia Parliamentary Relations Committee (KPPSI) Sheikh Zakaria Silwayah has said Syria is very proud of its close and extraordinary...

YOGA IS FOR HEALTH, PEACE : UIN PROFESSOR.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Denpasar, March 6 (ANTARA) - Yoga exercises are good for health, peace, serenity, and prosperity for mankind, Prof Salman Harun of Jakarta Islamic State University's (UIN) Faculty of Training...

PRESIDENT TO BE OFF EVERY FRIDAY DURING CAMPAIGN PERIOD.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 6 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will take a leave of absence every Friday for election campaign in accordance with legal provisions permitting state officials to...

PRESIDENT RECEIVES SOUTH KOREAN COUNTERPART.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 6 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono received visiting South Korean President Lee Myung-bak at Merdeka Palace here on Friday. The South Koran president and the...

RI TO MONITOR INVESTIGATION INTO STUDENT'S DEATH IN SINGAPORE.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 6 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government will monitor the official investigation into the recent death of an Indonesian student in Singapore while acknowledging the case will have...

FOREIGN MINISTRY UNAWARE POLICE MET HAMBALI IN GUANTANAMO.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 6 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian foreign affairs ministry has denied any knowledge about Indonesian police officers having reportedly met Hambali, an Indonesian terror suspect being...

OVER 150 INFECTED WITH DENGUE VIRUS IN PATI.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Pati, Central Java, March 6 (ANTARA) - Some 153 people were infected with the dengue fever virus until March 2009 in Pati district, Central Java, and three of them have died, a local health...

RI, S KOREA TO COOPERATE IN HELPING INDONESIAN WORKERS, KOREAN COMPANIES.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, Mar 6 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian and South Korean governments have agreed to cooperate in helping Indonesian workers in South Korea threatened by retrenchment, and in paying attenion to...

RI, CZECH REPUBLIC TO INTENSIFY DEFENSE COOPERATION.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 6 (ANTARA) - Indonesia and the Czech Republic will intensify their defense cooperation under an agreement signed on November 21, 2006, a Defense Ministry official said. To...

MINISTER ASKS BPOM TO RECHECK ALLEGED MELAMINE-TAINTED PRODUCTS.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 6 (ANTARA) - Health Minister Siti Fadila Supari said she had asked the Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) to check diary products suspected by the Indonesian Consumers...

REGISTERED FOOD PRODUCTS FREE FROM MELAMINE : BPOM.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 6 (ANTARA) - The Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) said dairy products, which it had registered, based on laboratory examinations, did not contain melamine. BPOM Head...

RI, S KOREA AGREE TO ENHANCE COOPERATION IN FOUR FIELDS.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 6 (ANTARA) - Indonesia and South Korea agreed on Friday to enhance cooperation in the fields of education, research and technology, forestry and defense. Memorandums of...

News Focus: CONSUMERS FINDING ON MELAMINE-TAINTED FOOD PRODUCTS DENIED.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 6 (ANTARA) - The Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) denied on Friday that five diary products registered with the agency were tainted with melamine but confirmed that two...

JAILING INDONESIAN FOR SMUGGLING PEOPLE SENDS STRONG MESSAGE.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 6 (ANTARA) - Australian Minister for Home Affairs Bob Debus and Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Senator Chris Evans said the six-year jail term handed down to an...

TAUFIK HIDAYAT ADVANCES INTO QUARTER FINALS.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Birmigham, March 6 (ANTARA) - Indonesia's badminton ace Taufik Hidayat managed to beat Britain's Andrew Smith in the second round encounters of Yonex All England in Birmingham on Thursday...

NAVY'S CORVETTE FROM NETHERLANDS DEDICATED SOON.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 6 (ANTARA) - The fourth Sigma corvette of the Indonesian navy built at the Schelde Naval Shipbuilding yard in the Netherlands, will soon be delivered and commissioned to...

RI PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE IN GENEVA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO UN SECRETARY.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency ENERAL London, March 6 (ANTARA) - Indonesian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and some other international organizations Ambassador Dian Triansyah...

KPU PROVIDES 13,404 GENERAL ELECTION AID FOR BLIND CONSTITUENTS.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Padang, W Sumatra, March 6 (ANTARA) - The West Sumatra chapter of the General Elections Commission (KPUD) has provided some 13,404 aid equipment for registered blind constituents who would cast...

CONSTITUTIONAL COURT FORESEES AT LEAST 1,000 ELECTORAL DISPUTES.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 6 (ANTARA) - The Constitutional Court (MK) foresees the occurrence of at least 1,000 disputes in the upcoming general elections and has drawn up five regulations to serve as...

EMIL SALIM : RI NEEDS TO HAVE ENERGY DIVERSIFICATION PROGRAM.
March 6, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 6 (ANTARA) - Indonesia's noted economist Prof Emil Salim has said Indonesia needs to design an energy diversification program soon for the sake of the country's economic future....

S OF MAJOR INDONESIAN DAILIES ON THURSDAY.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 5 (ANTARA) - Following are the headlines of major Indonesian dailies on Thursday: WORKERS IN 3 SECTORS RECEIVE TAX INCENTIVES Workers with a maximum monthly salary of Rp5 million...

CHINESE TOURISTS TO BALI UP 82 PCT.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Denpasar, Bali, March 5 (ANTARA) - A total of 23,111 Chinese tourists visited Bali in January 2009, accounting for 14.01 percent of the total number of foreign tourists visiting the resort...

FLOOD INUNDATES SAMPANG AGAIN.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Sampang, Madura, Mar 5 (ANTARA) - A flood inundated Sampang, Madura Island, East Java Province, again as Kalikemuning River overflowed on Thursday. The floodwaters reaching a height of...

RI INVITES INDIA TO HELP MAINTAIN MALACCA STRAIT SECURITY.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, Mar 5 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian National Defense Forces (TNI) has invited India's military to participate in efforts to optimize security in the Malacca Strait, a spokesman said. ...

ENVOY DENIES AUSTRALIAN DIARY PRODUCT CONTAINS MELAMINE.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakata, March 5, ANTARA) - Australian Ambassador to Indonesia Bill Farmer has denied recent claims by the Indonesia's consumer group YLKI that an Australian dairy brand produced in New Zealand...

VP HAILS COMPLETION OF KEMAYORAN HOUSING COMPLEX FOR WORKERS.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, Mar 5 (ANTARA) - Vice President M Jusuf Kalla here Thursday hailed the completion of a high-rise housing complex for workers at Bandar Kemayoran. "Finally it is completed," Kalla...

ARF MEMBER COUNTRIES DISCUSSING MARITIME SECURITY IN SURABAYA.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Surabaya, East Java Province, Mar 5 (ANTARA) - Member countries of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) are attending a meeting on maritime security here on March 5 and 6, 2009. The meeting is...

PRESIDENT OPENS MUHAMMADIYAH MEETING IN LAMPUNG.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Bandar Lampung, March 5 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the second day of his two-day working visit in Lampung province opened a meeting of the country's second largest Islamic...

PRESIDENT TO INAUGURATE RI'S DEFENSE UNIVERSITY.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, Mar 5 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will inaugurate Indonesia'a Defense University, the first of its kind in the country, on March 11, 2009. Defense Minister...

FOURTEEN MISSING IN BOAT COLLISION NORTH OF JAKARTA.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, Mar 5 (ANTARA) - A cargo boat, Rimba III, sank early Thursday after colliding with a tugboat, Harapan Indah VII, in Pulau Seribu Islands waters north of Jakarta, causing the...

RI ECONOMY STILL FACING HEAVY PRESSURES : PRESIDENT.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Bandar Lampung, March 5 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the government had made various efforts to reduce the impact of the world economic crisis but the country's economy...

THAILAND TO JOIN MALACCA STRAIT PATROLS STARTING MID-2009.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, Mar 5 (ANTARA) - Thailand will in mid 2009 formalize its involvement in the coordinated patrols in the Malacca Strait which are so far being conducted by Indonesia, Malaysia, and...

NESTLE DENIES ITS PRODUCTS CONTAIN MELAMINE.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 5 (ANTARA) - Diary product maker Nestle has denied an Indonesian Cunsumer Institute (YLKI) claim that one of the company's products contains melamine saying that all of its...

SIXTEEN MISSING AFTER BOAT COLLISION NORTH OF JAKARTA.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 5 (ANTARA) - A cargo vessel collided with a barge in Kepulauan Seribu waters north of Jakarta in the wee hours of Thursday causing the disapearance of 16 people. "A search...

OBSERVERS : RELIGION NOT TO CAUSE CONFLICTS IN ELECTIONS.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 5 (ANTARA) - Religion will not be a factor triggering conflict among people during the upcoming legislative elections in April, observers said here on Thursday. An associate...

NAVY CATCHES 10 AFGHANS ENTERING INDONESIA ILLEGALLY.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Pekanbaru, March 5 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Navy caught 10 Afghans who were trying to enter Indonesia illegally in Riau waters, a Navy spokesman said. The chief of the naval base in Dumai,...

YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS WORRY ABOUT FOREIGN PRESENCE IN ENERGY SECTOR.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 5 (ANTARA) - The general chairman of the Association of Indonesian Young Enterpreneurs (HIPMI), Erwin Aksa, expressed concern here on Thursday over increasing foreign presence in...

JAPAN PROMISES WIDER COOPERATION WITH PPHKI.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Bandarlampung, March 5 (ANTARA) - The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) promised to step up cooperation with Indonesia's intellectual rights violation eradication national teamin a...

News Focus: DOMESTIC FOOD STABILITY TO REMAIN UNPERTURBED AMIDST RI'S PLAN TO EXPORT RICE.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 5 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government's plan to export rice to some countries will not disrupt domestic food stability, as the volume of rice to be exported is small and...

TNI LAUNCHES SEA COMBAT READY OPERATIONS.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 5 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian military (TNI) again launched sea combat ready operations 2009 code-named "Sea Dragon Operation" to boost TNI's existence particularly the navy in...

BPPT-KOREA COOPERATION IN RESEARCH OF 300 TROPICAL WILD PLANT EXTRACTS.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, Mar 5 (ANTARA) - The National Agency for Assessment and Apolication of Technology (BPPT) and the Korea Research International Bioscience and Biotechnology Institute are conducting a...

PADANG CITY ADMINISTRATION ALLOCATES RP750 MILLION FOR SCOUTS.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Padang, W Sumatra, March 5 (ANTARA) - The Padang city administration, West Sumatra, has allocated some 750 million rupiah, drawn from the city's 2009 budget, in a bid to develop and boost...

UNESCO HOLDS REGIONAL SEMINAR IN PADANG ON ALERTNESS AGAINST TSUNAMIS.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Padang, Mar 5 (ANTARA) - Unesco and the Indonesian Tsunami Alert Community (Kogami) will hold an Asia-Pacific seminar to discuss the alertness of countries in tsunami-prone regions against the...

AGRICULTURE MINISTRY BECOMES GOOD EXAMPLE OF A CORRUPTION-FREE AGENCY.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, Marc 5 (ANTARA) - Declaring a certain area is corruption-free, the agricuture ministry can serve as an example for other government agencies. State Reforms Minister Taufik Effendi...

INDONESIAN HOUSEMAID DIES IN MALAYSIA.
March 5, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Karawang, Mar 5 (ANTARA) - An Indonesian domestic helper from Karawang regency, West Java, was reported to have passed away in Malaysia, after she ran away from her employer's home and sought...

S of Major Indonesian Newspapers on Wednesday
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, Mar 4 (ANTARA) - The following are headlines in major Indonesian newspapers published here on Wednesday. ANOTHER LAWMAKER ARRESTED FOR 'TAKING BRIBES' The recent arrests of several...

TERNATE JOLTED BY 5.1 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Bengkulu, Mar 4 (ANTARA) - A tectonic earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted Ternate, North Maluku, at 4:59 local time on Wednesday morning. According to information obtained...

FOREIGN YOGA INSTRUCTORS GIVE FREE TRAINING IN BALI.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Denpasar, March 4 (ANTARA) - More than 1,000 people on the island resort of Bali get free yoga training from foreign instructors in connection with "International Yoga Festival in Bali" from...

BBKSDA INVESTIGATES CONFLICT BETWEEN ELEPHANTS AND HUMAN IN RIAU.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Pekanbaru, Riau, Mar 4 (ANTARA) - The Natural Resource Conservation Agency (BBKSDA) of Riau Province is to send a team to investigate a conflict between elephants and humans in Bengkalis...

WILD ELEPHANT KILLS VILLAGER IN HORRIFYING WAY.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Pekanbaru, Riau Province, Mar 4 (ANTARA) - A wild Sumatran elephant early Wednesday morning killed a resident of Balai Makam village in Riau province in a horrifying way. The villager,...

RI, ITALY HOLD CONFERENCE ON COEXISTENCE AMONG DIFFERENT FAITHS.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency London, March 4 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian and Italian governments, in cooperation with Comunita di Sant-Egidio, held a conference themed "Unity in Diversity, the Culture of Coexistence in...

FOREIGN NGO ASKED TO ALWAYS OOORDINATE WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Banda Aceh, March 4 (ANTARA) - Central Aceh District Chief Nasaruddin has asked foreign non-governmental organization (NGO) Mercy Corps to carry out its humanitarian and developmental...

FLOODS DAMAGE 121 CLASS ROOMS IN GRESIK.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Gresik, East Java Province, Mar 4 (ANTARA) - Floods have damaged around 121 class rooms in a number of schools at Bungah and Dukun sub districts, Gresik District, East Java. The worst...

SINGAPORE INVESTOR TO CULTIVATE SIDAT FISH IN LAKE POSO.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Poso, C Sulawesi, March 4 (ANTARA)- PT Ina International, a foreign investor from Singapore, plans to cultivate Sidat fish - a kind of eel locally called Sogili - in Lake Poso , Central...

PRESIDENT PRESENTS RP366.8 BILLION IN PNPM FUNDS TO LAMPUNG.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Bandar Lampung, March 4 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono presented Rp366.76 billion worth of direct financial assistance under the government's National Self-reliant Community...

RI'S OIL RESERVES NOW ONLY ENOUGH FOR 23 YEARS.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Bandung, W Java, March 4 (ANTARA) - Indonesia's remaining petroleum reserves are now only enough for 23 years of exploitation, Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar said. "Besides oil,...

PNPM PROGRAM CONCRETE EFFORT TO REDUCE POVERTY: PRESIDENT.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Bandar Lampung, March 4 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhohono said the government's National Self-Reliant Community Empowerment Program (PNPM) was a concrete effort to reduce poverty...

FOUR FOREIGN PARTIES SUPPORT US$5.5 B STAND-BY LOAN FOR RI.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 4 (ANTARA) - Australia, Japan, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank have confirmed their intention to provide Indonesia with a stand-by loan facility worth US$5.5...

Feature - DESPERATE WILD SUMATRAN ANIMALS KILL PEOPLE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, Mar 4 (ANTARA) - In desperate need of living space, endangered Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus sumatrensis) and Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris Sumatrae) again killed several...

PRESIDENT TO ATTEND G-20 MEETING IN LONDON.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Bandar Lampung, March 4 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he would attend the meeting of the Group of Twenty (G-20) in London later this month. "I will leave later this...

AUSTRALIA CONSIDERS RI AS UNSAFE AS PAKISTAN, ANGOLA, ALGERIA.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Brisbane, March 4 (ANTARA) - The Australian government has put Indonesia in the same security risk category as Pakistan, East Timor, Angola, Algeria and 13 other countries. The assessment...

VEEP ORDERS DEVELOPMENT OF RENTED FLATS FOR WORKERS.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 4 (ANTARA) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla has ordered the immediate development of 350,000 units of flats in special industrial zones in the country for rent by workers. "We...

FIVE INDONESIAN SHUTTLERS TO PLAY IN CUBA.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 4 (ANTARA) - Five Indonesian badminton players plan to take part in the men's single event of a badminton tournament to be held by Pan Am Badminton in Havana, Cuba, on March...

TAUFIK HIDAYAT PASSES FIRST ROUND IN ALL ENGLAND.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Birmingham, March 4 (ANTARA) - Indonesian top shuttler Taufik Hidayat beat Yu Hsin Hsien in a rubber set in the first round of Yonex All England Badminton championship here on Wednesday. ...

FORESTRY MINISTER: TIGER VICTIMS TO GET INSURANCE COMPENSATION.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 4 (ANTARA) - Forestry Minister MS Kaban reaffirmed that the victims as well as losses suffered by residents attacked by wild annimals like tigers would get insurance compensation...

PRESIDENT NOT TO INTERFERE IN DEMOCRAT PARTY EXECUTIVE'S CORRUPTION CASE.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Bandar Lampung, March 4 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has given the assurance he will not interfere in Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigations into the suspected...

FOREIGN MINISTER RAISES BALI DEMOCRACY FORUM IN UN HUMAN RIGHTS MEETING.
March 4, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency London, March 4 (ANTARA) - Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda explained the success of the Bali Democracy Forum held in December last year as the first intergovernmental forum in Asia discussing...

S OF MAJOR INDONESIA NEWSPAPERS ON TUESDAY.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, Mar 3 (ANTARA) - The following are headlines in major Indonesian newspapers published here on Tuesday. EXPORT DROP TO LOWEST LEVEL IN 22 YEARS AS DEMAND DIVES Exports fell to...

THREE PROTEST RALLIES TO HIT JAKARTA.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 3 (ANTARA) - Three groups of protesters will stage peaceful rallies simultaneously at the same time on Tuesday at several points in Jakarta with the potential of causing traffic...

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGES OVER TEN BUILDINGS IN CENTRAL SULAWESI.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Palu, Central Sulawesi, Mar 3 (ANTARA) - A 5.7-magnitude earthquake, which jolted Sidondo village, Donggala District, Central Sulawesi, on Monday (Mar 2), damaged more than ten buildings at the...

FLOOD SWEEPS AWAY THREE HOUSES IN KANOR, BOJONEGORO.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Bojonegoro, East Java, Mar 3 (ANTARA) - A flood triggered by the overflowing of Bengawan Solo River, has swept away three houses and seriously damaged nine others at Kanor sub district,...

MALAYSIA UNRAVELS INDONESIAN PASSPORT FORGERY SYNDICATE.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Kuala Lumpur, March 3 (ANTARA) - The Malaysian immigration office succeeded in unraveling and crushing a syndicate falsifying Indonesian passports, Malaysian stamps and Indonesian sticker in a...

SINGAPORE'S FOREIGN MINISTER ON WORKING VISIT TO MAKASSAR.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Batam, Mar 3 (ANTARA) - Singaporean Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo is scheduled to be on a working visit to Makassar and Jakarta, from 3 - 5 March 2009. In Makassar, Minister Yeo...

A'LIAN TOURIST ARRIVAL NUMBER IN BALI IN JANUARY UP.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Denpasar, Bali, Mar 3 (ANTARA) - The number of Australian tourist arrivals in Bali was 27,961 in January 2009, up by 6.25 percent or 1,646 from 26,315 in December 2008, a local statistical...

PRESIDENT TO INSPECT CPI CONSTRUCTION SITE IN MAKASSAR.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Makassar, March 3 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is slated to inspect the construction site of the Center Point of Indonesia (CPI) in Makassar, South Sulawesi, on March 12, 2009,...

News Focus: GOVT WARNED OF 'TRAP' IN GLOBAL BONDS.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 3 (ANTARA) - The global bonds the government sold to foreign investors to help plug its budget deficit and increase its foreign exchange reserves might adversely entrap Indonesia...

GOVT POLICY REQUIRED ON FOREIGN OBSERVERS PRESENCE IN ACEH : MINISTER.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 3 (ANTARA) - If foreign observers are to be present in Aceh to monitor the legislative election , it should be based on a central government policy applicable to all provinces in...

A'LIAN IMMIGRATION MINISTER MEETING RI LAW MINISTER TUESDAY.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 3 (ANTARA) - Australia's Immigration and Citizenship Minister Chris Evans was to meet Indonesian Law and Human Rights Minister Andi Mattalatta here on Tuesday to discuss...

RI, AUSTRALIA AGREE TO EXCHANGE YOUNG PEOPLE'S VISITS.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 3 (ANTARA) - Indonesia and Australia have agreed to make mutual visa arrangements to allow their young people to travel to, work and holiday in each other's country for up to 12...

PRESIDENT TO MAKE WORKING VISIT IN LAMPUNG.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Bandar Lampung, March 3 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to make a working visit in Lampung Province on Wednesday and Thursday. The president during the visit in...

UNITED INDONESIA CABINET REMAINS SOLID: MINISTER.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 3 (ANTARA) - The United Indonesia Cabinet has remained solid although President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla are to compete in the presidential...

POLICE, MILITARY IN ACEH READY TO ENSURE SECURE ELECTIONS.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Banda Aceh, March 3 (ANTARA) - The police and military in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) are ready to maintain public order and security in the legislative and presidential elections in the...

News Focus: MALAYSIA MOVES BORDER POLES INTO RI'S LAND FOR OIL PALM.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency LANTATIONS by Eliswan Azly Jakarta, March 3 (ANTARA) - Border demarcation is always regarded as a source of conflict between one country including that on a 2,004 kilometers long borderline...

DEMOCRAT PARTY EXPECTS TO WIN 20 PERCENT OF VOTES.
March 3, 2009... from ANTARA, The Indonesian National News Agency Jakarta, March 3 (ANTARA) - The chairman of the Democrat Party faction in the House of Representatives, Syarif Hasan, said he was optimistic his party could garner 20 percent of votes in the...