The Jakarta Post

SMS: Smoking is haram?

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:56:50 +0700

Your comments on a fatwa issued by Muhammadiyah, the country’s second-largest Islamic organization, saying that smoking is haram

IssuesOfTheDay: Letter: Looking across Papua’s border

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:53:14 +0700

March 10, p. 8

Letter: Debate on anti-tobacco edict

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:43:41 +0700

Former Muhammadiyah chairman Amien Rais is right to be skeptical about this edict (www.thejakartapost.com, March 13).

Letter: Situ Gintung reconstruction

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:49:45 +0700

With a seemingly endless supply of negative things to say about the Jakarta government and administration, I would actually like to report what appears to be good news.

Letter: Jatropha oil less competitive

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:47:44 +0700

It’s a very ambitious project to have 48,000 metric tons of jatropha per month (the Post, March 15) as feedstock for biofuel production. According to current realistic and practical productivit

Letter: Excelling on domestic, foreign fronts

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:43:56 +0700

This is a comment on the article “Debating Indonesia’s global role,” (The Jakarta Post, March 10, p. 3).

Indonesia, President Obama and tobacco

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:14:06 +0700

The controversy over smoking in Indonesia is heating up coincidentally with the visit of US President Barack Obama. He couldn’t possibly have learnt that in school in Jakarta!

Is oil palm plantation forest?

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:09:56 +0700

The Jakarta Post (Feb. 16) reported that the Forestry Ministry is planning to include oil palm estates to the forestry sector.

(No) Right to secede for indigenous people

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:06:39 +0700

There was an interesting issue in The Jakarta Post in the last few weeks regarding the peace effort in Papua, particularly the issue around the struggle of the Free Papua Movement (OPM).

Editorial: A blast from the past

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:19:43 +0700

Indonesia is one step closer to having its military cooperation, particularly the Army’s Special Forces (Kopassus), with the United States.