JAKARTA (JP): The City Council will likely endorse the draft 2000 fiscal year budget of Rp 3.29 trillion (US$438 million) as none of the council's five commissions are opposed to…

JAKARTA (JP): Two senior lawyers have condemned the growing trend of lawyers carrying firearms, saying this would only lead to more violence.

JAKARTA (JP): City police detectives arrested four men at two separate locations on Thursday for possession of counterfeit American dollars totaling $15,000, a police source said.

JAKARTA (JP): The city administration announced on Friday it would increaseparking fees beginning Thursday, instead of April 1 as originally planned.

JAKARTA (JP): While indicating that city officials were implicated in the wrongdoing, Governor Sutiyoso called on the city police on Friday to followup on the results of a recent raid…

JAKARTA (JP): A central government team met with Governor Sutiyoso on Wednesday to ask that the City administration to open a bureau to deal withempowering women in the capital.

TANGERANG (JP): The Tangerang District Court sentenced Munawar, 32, on Tuesday to 14 years in jail for possessing 111.5 kilograms of marijuana.

JAKARTA (JP): Fire razed more than 50 shanties and injured four people on Wednesday evening on Jl. Mangga Besar, Central Jakarta, local residents said on Thursday.

JAKARTA (JP): The National Police burned on Wednesday 21 kgs of pure heroin, four kgs of cocaine, some 550 kgs of marijuana and 75 kgs of shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine).

JAKARTA (JP): Six-month-old Siamese twin boys who have successfully undergone surgery for their separation are expected to leave Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital within a week, their doctors said.