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DATE: 24 October 2001
TO: US-Indonesia Business Committee Members FROM: Walter Lohman Director, Indonesia Affairs US-ASEAN Business Council Tel: (202) 416-6711 Fax: (202) 289-0519 E-Mail: wlohman@usasean.org David Hutagalung Representative, Jakarta, US-Indonesia Business Committee Tel: [6221] 573-0407 Fax: [6221] 574-4981 E-Mail: dhutagalung@usasean.org RE: Indonesia News Clippings ************************************************************************ ************************************************* Attached are the news clippings from Tuesday, 23 October 2001. The headlines are listed below. The attached link will connect you to the articles' source website where you can access original copies of the articles themselves. The US-Indonesia Business Committee is regularly distributing news clippings from the widest array of sources practical in an effort to create a fuller picture of developments in Indonesia. We hope you find them useful. Headlines: * The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday it would be possible for the heavily indebted Indonesia to receive interest rescheduling on top of principal rescheduling under a third Paris Club deal which the government hopes to secure to ease the country's massive debt burden. (Jakarta Post) www.thejakartapost.com. * Indonesian Vice President Hamzah Haz on Tuesday proposed a managed floating exchange rate for the rupiah, which has slipped again in recent weeks. (Agence France Presse) www.afp.com. * The House of Representatives finally approved on Tuesday a long-awaited new oil and gas law, which will end the decades-old lucrative monopoly of state oil and gas firm Pertamina. (Jakarta Post) www.thejakartapost.com * Speaker of the People's Consultativ e Assembly (MPR) Amien Rais expressed his support on Monday for several legislators' suggestions to set up a special committee at the House of Representatives to probe the alleged misuse of the State Logistics Agency's (Bulog) non-budgetary fund. (Jakarta Post) www.thejakartapost.com * Former Indonesian foreign minister Ali Alatas talks about regional security in the 21st century in the second article of a two part installment. (Jakarta Post) www.thejakartapost.com * Angry Muslim students Tuesday beat up four people in an Indonesian city after reports of the burning of an effigy of Osama bin Laden, the man Washington blames for the September 11 terror attacks. (Agence France Presse) www.afp.com * The 44 survivors of the sea disaster off Indonesia in which at least 350 Australia-bound refugees have drowned called for those responsible to be brought to justice. (Reuters) www.reuters.com
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