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"It's regrettable that the Lion management keeps on blaming the accident on the weather, the pilot or the passengers for not using seat belts. Like it or not, Lion is part of the flaws (in the system) that led to the accident," Y
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“I’m still getting used to being a minister and having to watch my words instead of being an academic who can say anything she wants,”
Trade Minister Mari Pangestu"
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Mari Pangestu: Less Bureaucracy
Trade Minister Mari Pangestu has promised less bureaucracy and says a review of regulations is underway that aims to cut opportunities for corruption and reduce the cost of doing business.
The new government would concentrate on boosting infrastructure and would arrange a major conference on the country’s needs toward the end of January, she told the Jakarta Foreign Correspondent’s Club Wednesday (10/11/04). The power sector was the most urgent area to be addressed, she said.
Pangestu presented a cerebral view of the task ahead of her appropriate to her background as a specialist in international trade. “I’m still getting used to being a minister and having to watch my words instead of being an academic who can say anything she wants,” she said.
The government fully accepted the need for private investment in developing infrastructure and it was essential that the regulatory framework be appropriate. It would also work to create a more flexible labor market, another factor in the current high-cost economy.
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STUPID HEADLINES ( From the Jakarta Post, where else?
Aceh governor thrown in slammer
Giants cough as poor smokers swith brands
Police reach out to residents to wind hearts and minds
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ANALYSIS
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The Power of the Media
Bill Guerin for AsiaMad
Indonesia comes with a number of built-in problems in terms of making it into the news agenda. Nick Nugent, a BBC journalism trainer, while noting Indonesia should be more important than it is, highlights the problem:
“For any journalist it is a really hard sell to get Indonesia into the British press. It really is, take it from me. I’ve worked at BBC News for long enough to be convinced of the cynicism that ‘can the British public be interested in more than one significant foreign story at a time.’ You know, the rule of thumb at BBC News is they can’t, frankly. So the focus has shifted to the Middle East, or now to the Americas - forget Indonesia.”
Few would disagree that the media is the most powerful force for social and political change in the world today. Radio, television, newspapers and magazines, as well as the Internet, are information channels through which readers or audiences from every country form their opinions of the world and its people.
Where these borderless channels, whether deliberately or not, are used to propagate misinformation, misperceptions and erroneous or unbalanced reporting, it becomes all too easy to stereotype a people and their country according to long-held ethnic or religious prejudices.
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POLITICS
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COMING SOON - "FACE to FACE"
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The time bomb that is Papua
Indonesia's wealthiest province, Papua, is often the victim of manipulation, power-grabbing and political opportunism by Jakarta. Now, with militarization, human-rights abuses and persistent demands for independence increasing, Papua has become a "time bomb waiting to go off". - Bill Guerin
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West Papuan independence day commemorated
December 1, West Papuan Independence Day, was commemorated by solidarity activists across the world.
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BUSINESS
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APP declares overwhelming support of restructuring proposal by creditors
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Court verdict blow for Indonesia
A recent court ruling against state-controlled energy major Pertamina has come as a booster for US-based power company KBC. But it also exposes the hostile business atmosphere in Indonesia and puts a question mark over new foreign investments in the country. -
Bill Guerin
(Nov 29, '04)
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Indonesia runs with free trade
Indonesia, not wanting to be left behind in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' latest trade deal with China, has declared it will take "full advantage" of free trade. But ASEAN's biggest economy has been burnt before, and with the intense competition likely to be unleashed by China, that's not about to change. - Bill Guerin
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NGO'S undermining democracy
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Indonesian Food Giant Undergoes a Transformation as the Political Winds Shift
The company Anthony Salim heads, Indofood Sukses Makmur, might be the world's largest instant noodle manufacturer.
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Goodyear sells its last plantation
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GENERAL
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Earthquake strikes Indonesia again
A magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck Papua, Indonesia, on Friday morning at 11:25 a.m. local time, according to reports by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) .
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Violence flares in West Papua
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East Timor charges militia commanders
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Papa Ron's Pizza goes int'l
Indonesian-based Italian restaurant chain Papa Ron's Pizza will go international next year with the opening of three outlets in Singapore, China and the United Arab Emirates, a company executive said on Monday.
Publicly listed PT Eatertainment International, the franchiser of the restaurant chain, said three investors from the three countries had signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) to purchase franchise rights and open outlets in the countries.
Company director Ronald Mullers said the three outlets were among 20 new restaurants expected to open across Indonesia and abroad next year.
"The investors showed interest when they visited our stand at a Franchise Expo in Singapore last year. We followed it up and it ended with the signing of the MOUs," he said in Bandung during the opening of Papa Ron's 43rd outlet in the country.
According to the company, Papa Ron's franchise fee is US$25,000 for 10 years, during which the franchisee has to pay a profit share of 5 percent of sales value.
Papa Ron's, which first opened in 2000 and began franchising in 2002, now has 43 outlets in 15 cities across Indonesia, including 17 in Greater Jakarta, Mullers said.
He estimated that Indonesians spent an average of Rp 10 billion ($1.1 million) every month for pizza sold by six major restaurant chains in the country.
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Sex and the Village
By Bill Guerin, AsiaMad.Com
Most Javanese villages worthy of the name have countless occasions to celebrate, either a wedding, a circumcision ceremony, or even just a special gathering to ask for Allah's blessings on a house and its occupants. These special days are preceded, like very other day in village life, with matters of the inner soul.
Well before the dawn the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer or, cynics might say, wakes them up ready for the day's events. As dawn breaks, dangdut rhythms- a blend of Indian, Malaysian and Arabic melodies - flood the air as neighboring houses strive to churn out the latest hit at the highest volume.
Throughout the hot and steamy day and long into the night the recorded melodies go on. It is the sound of kampung Indonesia. Ainul Rokhimah, aka Inul Daratista, was born in 1979 in such a village, Kejapanan, in dangdut's East Java heartland.
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