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Standard Chartered, Shell teaming up
2008-05-29 08:51:00
Standard Chartered Bank signed an agreement Wednesday with PT Shell Indonesia to offer clients gasoline price reductions at all 20 Shell gasoline stations in Greater Jakarta.The discount is only eligible for platinum and gold credit card holders, with 10 and 5 percent reductions respectively."This discount program will only be available every Tuesday and Thursday," Standard Chartered credit card business manager Yongkie Cendana said, adding that the program would be valid until the end of the year.He said Standard Chartered was targeting 200,000 to 250,000 gasoline credit card purchases during the period, with an average of 30 liters per transaction.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Two years on, Indonesia mud volcano still flowing
2008-05-29 08:48:00
Two years after a mud volcano started erupting on Indonesia 's Java island, thousands of people who lost their homes are still living in squalid makeshift shelters with no signs the flow of sludge is about to stop soon.The mud has now displaced more than 50,000 people and submerged homes, factories and schools and is now flowing at a rate of more than 100,000 cubic-meters a day."We don't sleep well at night. We hardly have anything to eat," said Widariana, one of more than 2,000 people who have lived in a market converted into shelters for the displaced.The government has ordered Lapindo to pay 3.8 trillion rupiah in compensation to the victims and to cover the damage.Lapindo has agreed to compensate the victims in two stages and has so far disbursed 20 percent of the compensation cash, with the rest to be paid this month."Dozens of us are begging on the streets of Porong. Four groups take turns begging day and night," said Sunarto, who led a group of displaced people from one vill...
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Jakarta-Cikampek toll fee up to 15 percent
2008-05-29 04:44:00
The Indonesian government has decided to raise the tariffs for a 72-kilometer toll road operated by state-run PT Jasa Marga by 11.7 percent to 15.0 percent, depending on the type of vehicles, Investor Daily reported on Thursday. The highest tariff hike for the toll road which links the capital Jakarta to Cikampek in West Java will be imposed on passenger vehicles with the fee raised to 11,500 rupiah ($1.23) from 10,000 rupiah previously. The increase will take effect on Friday, according to Nurdin Manurung, the head of Indonesia's toll regulatory body. Manurung said his office is also planning to raise the tariff on the toll road linking Jakarta to Soekarno-Hatta airport, which is also operated by Jasa Marga.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Dutchman crushed between two vessels off Bawean coast, Gresik
2008-05-29 03:08:00
Holderman Jan George, an employee of PT. Lancar Rejeki Berkat Jaya of Dutch nationality, was crushed between two vessels off the Bawean coast in Gresik on Wednesday.Information obtained in the field said the accident happened when the ill-fated Dutchman was jumping from his "Pelangi Escort" tugboat to a barge.But when he was jumping, a big wave suddenly came, the Dutchman slipped and crushed between the tugboat and the barge.In a critical condition, he was given an intensive emergency treatment by a medical team of South Korean company PT. Kodeco. But he later succumbed when being carried by the ship to land for intensive treatment.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Indonesia to quit OPEC, not happy with costly oil
2008-05-28 13:53:00
Indonesia will quit the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries because as a net oil importer it is not happy with high global crude prices, the energy minister said on Wednesday.The country, an OPEC member since 1962, has seen its influence within the cartel wane as its production declines, even as the producer group gains more global clout with the admission of Angola and the rejoining of Ecuador last year.On Saturday Jakarta was forced to make an unpopular fuel price hike as it struggled to bear the cost of importing gasoline and diesel at record high prices and selling it at heavily subsidized prices, one legacy of being a major oil producer for over a century and OPEC's only Asian member."Actually there is also one rationale -- that we are not happy with the high oil prices. Because we are an oil producer and we are an oil consumer," energy minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Former Thai PM Thaksin expresses interest in investing in Indonesian ports
2008-05-28 13:47:00
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Sinawatra said here Wednesday that he is interested in investing in sea port infrastructure in Indonesia. Thaksin made the statement during a meeting with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday, according to the Indonesian state spokesman, Dino Patti Djalal. The spokesman told reporters after the meeting that Thaksin was impressed by the economic growth and political stability in Indonesia. Sea transport is a favorite cheapest means in the archipelago country Indonesia, which is homed by over 17,500 islands. Indonesia needs a massive infrastructure development, including the building of the sea ports, to support the achievement of the high economic growth target. Huge funds are mostly expected from foreign investors to build the facilities.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Indonesia To Offer 50 Oil and Gas Blocks This Year: Official
2008-05-28 13:46:00
Indonesian government will offer total 50 new oil and gas blocks later this year to help boost the country's dwindling crude oil and gas output in the future, a government official said Wednesday."The first 25 blocks will be offered Thursday and the remaining 25 blocks will be in October," said Luluk Sumiarso, director general of oil and gas at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry told reporters.Sumiarso, however, didn't give details of the new blocks to be offered.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Sunda Kelapa ideal for world-class port
2008-05-28 08:54:00
Architect Martono Yuwono has proposed the city establish a waterfront at Sunda Kelapa, North Jakarta, as a main port for the country. In his book Palapa Nusantara 2015: Kebangkitan Semangat Wawasan Bahari Jakarta (Palapa Nusantara 2015: The Awakening of Jakarta's Maritime Vision), Martono's vision of the waterfront includes an art academy, riverside shops, apartments and an office park. "Indonesia is known as the biggest maritime country in the world. Because of that, I'm offering a project called the Sunda Kelapa Waterfront to the government, especially to the Jakarta administration, to be the country's future main port," said Martono, also an official at the Jakarta Tourism Agency, at the book's launch Sunday. Martono said a number of major cities in the world, including Sydney, New York, Honolulu, Barcelona and Singapore, had turned their coastal areas into main gateways. Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Rio Tinto says Sulawesi nickel project has 162 million tonnes inferred reso
2008-05-28 08:53:00
Rio Tinto said on Wednesday drilling at its Sulawesi nickel project in Indonesia has resulted in 162 million tonnes of ore being classified as an inferred resource. The resource estimate comes as the world's third-largest miner continues to highlight its pipeline of growth projects as its fends off a hostile 3.4-for-1 scrip offer from the world's top miner BHP Billiton. "Sulawesi Nickel has been confirmed as a tier one opportunity for our group," said Rio Tinto Copper Chief Executive Bret Clayton in a statement. "This project will provide an attractive entry for Rio Tinto into a new metal and in 10 years' time, Rio Tinto could rank among the top 10 nickel producers globally."Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Briton commits suicide by jumping from crane tower in Kuta, Bali
2008-05-28 03:43:00
A British national was found dead at the site of an apartment building project on Jalan Dewi Sri here on Tuesday after jumping from the top of a 35-meter-high crane tower in what police believe was a suicide.The foreigner, identified as Philip Pocklington (35), had apparently ended his own life after suffering from extreme mental depression, a Kuta police officer who had come to the scene of the incident at the Grand Kuta Apartment construction site said.The police`s belief was supported by statements from Sandra Ela (27), an Indonesian woman who claimed to be the deceased`s girl-friend.She said Pocklington who had lived in Bali for the past four years running a tourism-related business had during the past few days often talked about wishing to commit suicide.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Time for Goldman to Add Indonesia to the BRICs
2008-05-28 03:40:00
The head of the Indonesia n Investment Coordination Board still scratches his head over why more money isn't rushing into Southeast Asia's biggest economy. Why, he asks, do Brazil, Russia, India and China, the so-called BRICs, get more attention?``I was shocked a few years back to see that Indonesia was not a BRIC,'' Lutfi said on May 22 at a EuroMoney conference in Bali. ``It should be.''Lutfi's views have a rose-colored-glasses feel that can seem excessive, yet the point is worth considering.Economist Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. created a sensation when he coined the acronym in 2001. It referred to the four countries that would join the U.S. and Japan as the biggest economies by 2050. Another widely cited report, ``Dreaming With BRICs,'' followed in 2003.Indonesia's PromiseO'Neill says that if he were to sit down tomorrow and revise the BRICs, Indonesia would fare reasonably well. ``Of them, we would rate Mexico as closer to a BRIC status than Indonesia, but...
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World needs to see Indonesia as normal country-report
2008-05-27 10:10:00
The world needs to update its image of Indonesia and start treating it as a "normal" country, similar to middle-income developing nations Brazil, India and Mexico, an Australian strategic think-tank said on Tuesday.The influential Australian Strategic Policy Institute said in the 10 years since the end of former President Suharto's authoritarian rule, Indonesia had become a strong democracy, with solid economic growth and competent leadership."Indonesia today is a stable, competitive democracy, playing a constructive role in world affairs. It is no longer in a state of profound flux and turmoil," analysts Andrew MacIntyre and Douglas Ramage said.Their report on Indonesia, titled "Seeing Indonesia as a Normal Country ", said concerns Indonesia would be engulfed by radical Islam after the 2002 bomb attacks in Bali, or the nation would break up under democracy, had proven unfounded.Instead, Indonesia has emerged as the world's third-largest democracy behind the United States and India...
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Megawati wants 'cool boyfriend' for poll bid
2008-05-27 09:08:00
INDONESIAN ex-president Megawati Sukarnoputri said on Tuesday she is looking for a 'cool boyfriend' as her running mate in her comeback bid for the presidency next year, a report said. 'As a presidential candidate I've been asked who I'm going to team up with. I say it's hard to look for the most appropriate candidate,' Mr Sukarnoputri was quoted by the Detikcom news website as telling supporters. 'I'm a woman so I want a cool boyfriend. So I'll wait first and look for the appropriate person. If the guy is ugly I don't want him,' she joked. Ms Megawati was president from 2001 to 2004 when she lost to ex-general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the country's first direct presidential vote. Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Indonesia plans $2.5 bln cash aid for poor families in 2009 - report
2008-05-27 03:58:00
The Indonesia n government will allocate 23.5 trillion rupiah ($2.5 billion) in cash aid for poor families in 2009, Bisnis Indonesia reported on Tuesday, citing a presentation by Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati.For this year, the government will pay 100,00 rupiah per month to each poor family or a total of 14 trillion rupiah for 19.1 million poor families from June to December.The cash aid is to help poor families cope with the government's decision to hike subsidised fuel prices by an average 28.7 percent from last Saturday. It will be funded by savings from the cut in subsidies as a result of the fuel price hike.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Indonesia gains support for virus sharing proposal
2008-05-26 09:12:00
Indonesia's proposal for a virus-sharing mechanism to benefit developing nations has gained a major boost, with 112 countries throwing their weight behind the idea.The support was expressed at the first Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Health Ministers Meeting in Geneva on Wednesday. The event is being attended by representatives of 193 countries, Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said Saturday.The meeting was held in conjunction with the World Health Assembly, which concluded on Saturday.Speaking at a media conference on her arrival at Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta, Minister Siti said the supporting participants praised Indonesia's Responsible Virus Sharing and Benefits Sharing proposal as "more transparent, fair and equal" for developing countries."We received moral and political support from health ministers from England, Russia, Iran and Australia," Siti said."Russia, for example, offered cooperation in the field of healthcare, such as by providing training for medi...
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Indonesian economy more resilient than expected, says IMF
2008-05-26 09:07:00
The International Monetary Fund says Indonesia's economy has performed above expectations in weathering pressure from soaring global oil prices and a weakening U.S. economy.The government held an annual consultation meeting with IMF lead economist Milan Brahmbhatt and country director Stephen Schwartz in Jakarta on Friday, to discuss recent developments with the country's economy and future challenges."The IMF was a bit surprised by the fact that Indonesia was able to secure 6.3 percent year-on-year growth in March, higher than its estimate of 6.1 percent," Syahrial Loetan, secretary to the state minister for national development planning, said Sunday.Citing the IMF's assessment of the economy, Syahrial said the country's economy would continue to benefit from soaring commodity prices and that macroeconomic fundamentals would remain healthy as long as the government maintained fiscal sustainability."They said the decision to raise fuel prices was a bold move, considering its sen...
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Indonesian president defends fuel price hike
2008-05-26 09:06:00
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday defended his unpopular fuel price hike as necessary to avoid an economic meltdown similar to the 1997 financial crisis.Yudhoyono told a forum of regional investors the government had to act to save the budget from collapsing under the weight of runaway subsidy bills linked to soaring global oil prices."The decision on Friday to further reduce oil subsidies was the best, necessary and most responsible solution to save our national economy from crumbling and protect our people from harm," he said."The alternative would be a possible financial and economic crash similar to that of 1997 and the real loser here would be our own people."Analysts applauded the price rise, saying it was vital to prevent a deficit blowout and demonstrated the government's fiscal responsibility despite the threat of protests leading up to general elections in April.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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US lifts travel warning for Indonesia: embassy
2008-05-26 06:04:00
The United States has lifted a travel warning for Indonesia issued more than seven years ago, saying there had been "objective improvements" in the security situation, the US embassy announced.The warning had been in effect since November 2000, following a series of bombings in the Indonesian capital Jakarta."The US Department of State has lifted its travel warning for Indonesia after determining the security climate in the country no longer warrants such a warning," the embassy was quoted by AFP as saying, adding that the move went into effect on Friday."The US has lifted the warning due to objective improvements made by Indonesia in its current security situation."Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Garuda to reopen Bali-Nagoya route
2008-05-26 06:03:00
Indonesian flag carrier Garuda will reopen a route linking the resort island of Bali with the Japanese city of Nagoya next month, a spokesman for the airline said Monday.The route will be served three times a week using a 293-seater Airbus 330-300 starting on June 2, Pujobroto told AFP. The flights would be on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.The flight to Japan's fourth-largest city from Bali's capital city of Denpasar had been closed down by Garuda in mid-January 2007.New market research showing strong demand for the route convinced the company to reopen the flight, Pujobroto said.Garuda currently flies a daily Tokyo-Jakarta-Denpasar route and five weekly flights from Osaka to Denpasar.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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140 students arrested in Jakarta fuel protest riot
2008-05-24 15:35:00
The Indonesian Police on Saturday arrested 140 students during a raid into Jakarta ' s National University to control violent protests against fuel price hikes. "We have arrested 140 students and investigation is underway to learn who really get involved (in the protests), "Jakarta Police chief Adang Firman was quoted by leading news website Detikcom as saying. Riot police reportedly seized knives, marijuana and liquor from the students. Students took to the Jakarta streets shortly after the government announced the average fuel price hike of 28.7 percent Friday evening. They burned tires, threw cocktail explosives and blockaded major streets in the capital, prompting immediate response from the riot police. Just after dawn Saturday, the police raided the campus of National University which was believed to be the gathering point of the students.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Cash transfer program distribution runs smoothly
2008-05-24 15:34:00
Vice President Jusuf Kalla and Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo monitored the distribution of cash transfer program (BLT) at several post offices in Jakarta Saturday afternoon.Speaking before recipients at the Serdang Kemayoran post office in Central Jakarta, Kalla said the cash assistance initiative was a means to increasing people?s welfare. Fuel prices have increased by 28.7 per cent as of Saturday. According to Kalla, the assistance distribution was in response to the government?s recent decision to cut down fuel oil subsidies, a previous initiative that had weighed heavily on the state budget and thought to have only benefited the haves.The distribution of the cash program took place relatively smoothly elsewhere in the archipelago, such as in Medan, North Sumatra, and Bandung in West Java. Despite the common sight of long winding queues, the eligible recipients were complacent and cooperative.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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New DNA evidence overturns population migration theory in Island Southeast
2008-05-24 01:23:00
The researchers show that population dispersals came earlier, from within the region, and probably resulted from flooding.The conventional theory, or the ?out of Taiwan? model, suggests that the current day populations of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) originate in a Neolithic expansion from Taiwan, driven by rice agriculturalists about 4,000 years ago. This theory was contested 10 years ago by Oxford University scientist, Dr Stephen Oppenheimer, in his book Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia, when he suggested the migrations came from within ISEA and resulted from flooding in the region.This latest study, led by Leeds University and published in this month?s Molecular Biology and Evolution, shows that a substantial fraction of the mitochondrial DNA lines (inherited by female descendants) have been evolving within ISEA for a much longer period, some since modern humans arrived about 50,000 years ago. The DNA lineages show population dispersals at the same time a...
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Indonesia plans drastic emissions cuts by 2025
2008-05-24 01:20:00
Indonesia outlined a plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 17 per cent by 2025 yesterday, a potentially bold move which could shame wealthier nations into announcing tougher targets of their own. The country, with a population of 235 million people, has one of the largest carbon footprints outside of the developed world. Environment ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrialised countries, as well as from emerging economies such as China and India, begin talks in Kobe, Japan, today to pave the way for a G8 summit in Hokkaido in July. Speaking ahead of today's meeting, the Indonesian Environment Minister, Rachmat Witoelar, said. "I'd like to voice my concerns that if the issue is not carefully managed, it will threaten the existence of humanity in Asia in particular, and the world in general.However, it is still unclear how Indonesia would deliver such radical cuts. Mr Witoelar claimed that the goal could be achieved with reductions in forest burni...
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Government finally increase fuel oil prices
2008-05-24 01:14:00
The Indonesian government finally announced an increase in fuel oil prices despite strong protests from different organizations in the country. On the occasion, the government also announced its decision to provide direct cash assistance to low-income families who will be affected by consequences of the government`s measure to raise fuel oil prices.Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro announced here Friday evening the increase in fuel oil prices starting at midnight today.The minister said the government increased the price of premium gasoline from Rp4,500 to Rp6,000 per liter, diesel oil from Rp4,300 tp Rp5,500 and kerosene from Rp2,000 to Rp2,500. With regard to the direct cash assistance, Social Affairs Minister Bachtiar Chamsyah said the government would start distributing cash assistance to 844,130 poor families in the first 10 areas in Indonesia on Saturday (May 24), 2008.As a logical consequence of the government`s announcement on the fuel oil price ...
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Indonesia to issue Castro, Che Guevara stamps
2008-05-23 12:16:00
Indonesia will issue stamps depicting revolutionaries Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to commemorate a visit made by the Southeast Asian nation's founding president to Cuba 48 years ago. One edition of the stamps, which will be released next week, shows then president Castro holding a traditional Indonesian dagger as his visiting counterpart, Sukarno, looked on during a meeting in 1960 in Havana. Another features Argentine-born Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who in 1956 joined Castro in Cuba to overthrow the government of General Fulgencio Batista, sitting next to Sukarno. "This is part of the celebration of good relations between Indonesia and Cuba," said Gatot Dewa Broto, a spokesman at Indonesia's directorate general of post and telecommunications.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Indonesia monorail scheme 'implausible' - World Bank
2008-05-23 12:14:00
A long-delayed plan to privately fund a monorail to ease congestion in Indonesia 's traffic-choked capital is "completely implausible", the World Bank said here Friday.The plan to build the 27-kilometre (17 miles) network entirely with private sector money would be impossible, with the costs of running the scheme meaning heavy losses, the Bank's infrastructure specialist Hongjoo Hahm told Agence France-Presse.Hahm said a revised Bank study completed this week based on figures supplied by private firm PT Jakarta Monorail found that major government investment would be needed for the scheme to be feasible."We're saying (to the Jakarta city government) don't get your eyes glazed over by private sector guys that are trying to sell you something completely implausible," Hahm said.The Bank's findings, which were passed to Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo Thursday, are the latest major blow to the beleaguered scheme, which has been delayed amid uncertainty over funding.Indonesia News Blog: ...
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Malnutrition in eastern Indonesia 'higher than in Africa'
2008-05-23 09:12:00
Climate change has helped push malnutrition in the Indonesia n half-island of West Timor to levels "higher than in Africa ," aid group Church World Service said Friday.A survey of 4,800 households by the group found 61.1 percent of children under five in the region were stunted due to chronic malnutrition, while 13.1 percent of children were acutely malnourished."The prevalence of stunting and underweight children in West Timor is higher than in Africa," Julia Suryantan, the lead author of the report, told AFP.About 50 percent of West Timorese children -- out of a total population of up to two million -- were moderately or severely underweight, compared to a figure of 21.9 percent in Africa overall, according to the report."It's a complex situation in West Timor, they have a food security problem there and also limited access to health services," she said.Suryantan said the half-island in the country's east, which is drier than much of the tropical archipelago, was suffering as subs...
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Indonesian bureaucrats 'bribed' over fraud case
2008-05-23 03:30:00
NEW evidence links the most senior officials in Indonesia's Attorney-General's Office to the dropping of a $3 billion fraud charge, allegedly in return for a $700,000 bribe.Despite revelations the businesswoman accused of handing over the bribe met junior Attorney-General Kemas Yahya Rahman and Director of Special Crime s Muhammad Salim, the Attorney-General's Office is refusing to re-examine their decision to drop the case.A court order to reopen the investigation into how $3 billion in public funds were lost in a loan to tycoon Sjamsul Nursalim will be appealed, said the Attorney-General's spokesman, Bonaventura Nainggolan.Indonesia's Anti-Corruption Commission revealed the new evidence while outlining its case against state prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan and businesswoman Artalyta Suryani. Gunawan was arrested at a house owned by Mr Nursalim in March with a box containing $700,000 in cash, two days after the Attorney-General's Office announced the fraud charges would be abandon...
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Indosat introduces HSPA downlink speed of 14.4 MBPS
2008-05-23 03:26:00
State telecommunication operator PT Indosat Tbk has introduced access to HSPA (High Speed Packet Access), namely Phase 2 HSDPA and HSUPA for a downlink speed of up to 14.4 Mbps , and an uplink speed of up to 1.4 Mbps. "Indosat introduced the 3.5G Broadband service, a higher data access speed for downlink and uplink data, saving a great deal of time in data communications and Internet browsing," Indosat marketing diretor Guntur S. Siboro said in Jakarta on Thursday. The 3.5G Broadband service of Indosat which previously used access to HSDPA gives a downlink maximum speed of 3.6 Mbps, and uplink speed of 384 kbps, which were later increased to HSPA for downlink to 14.4 Mbps and uplink to 1.4 Mbps, which is the fastest access for a mobile broadband in Indonesia at the present time, Guntur saidIndonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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Saudi court ruling over abused maid slammed
2008-05-23 01:53:00
A rights group has voiced outrage at a Saudi court for failing to punish the employers of an Indonesian housemaid who abused her so much she had to have her toes and fingers amputated.New York-based Human Rights Watch called for an appeals court to "impose stiff penalties on the employers, including imprisonment, and payment of significant financial compensation" to the woman, Nour Miyati.HRW said on Wednesday that Miyati, who was awarded just $670 in compensation by a Riyadh court, told the organisation her "employers beat her daily and that she had to work long hours without rest or pay."They withheld her passport, knocked out a tooth and caused damage to one of her eyes. The abuse escalated after she tried to escape; her employers locked her in the workplace and denied her adequate food."HRW said Miyati was eventually treated at a Riyadh hospital in March 2005 for "gangrene, malnourishment and other injuries" and that delays in treatment resulted in her losing her toes and finger...
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