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Jakarta, NU Online President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono received Eni Faleomavaega, chairperson of the US Congress`s Subcomittee on Asia and Pacific, at his office at 2 pm here on Thursday. Accompanied by several staffers, Faleomavaega came to the presidential office together with Foreign Affairs Minister Hassan Wirajuda and Papua Governor Barnabas Suebu.
Jakarta, NU Online The display of the separatist Papua Free Organization`s flag had no relation with the unferling of the banned Republic of South Maluku (RMS)`s flag on June 29, 2007, an official has said. "The meeting of the Papuan Customary Council (DAP) had been scheduled earlier and the activity should have received a permit from the local police," Secretary to the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Lt Gen Agustadi Sasongko Purnomo said here Wednesday.
Jakarta, NU Online General Chairman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) KH Hasyim Muzadi has regretted the attitude of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono over the House's interpellation on Iran nuclear. Hasyim asserted that the interpellation would have been perhaps overcome if President SBY could have attended the House's summon earlier.
Tehran, NU Online Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi said on Tuesday that the alleged defenders of women's rights in the West have betrayed women the most. Shahroudi made the remarks in a meeting with a number of female activists at universities, judiciary and Majlis.
Sidoarjo, NU Online The planned disbursement of the compensation advance payments to the Lapindo Brantas Inc mudflow victims on Monday afternoon had failed as the result of slow handing over of the case documents of the residents by the verification team of the Sidoarjo Mudflow Handling Agency (BPLS) to Lapindo. PT Minarak Lapindo Jaya as subsidiary of Lapindo Brantas, on Monday afternoon paid an accommodating fund of Rp 100 billion to Bank Mandiri and BNI to be used as advance compensation payments to the victims.
Tangerang, NU Online Amidst the continuous public protest to government's plan to build a nuclear power station in Jepara, Central Java, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on researchers to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. The president also asked the researchers to be innovative in developing nuclear technology and always use it properly in dealing with the world's various problems.
Jakarta, NU Online The legal commission of the House of Representatives should set a clear selection criteria for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) membership and members of the commission should be made accountable to the public, the Indonesian Corruption Watch Team said. A selection committee formed by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will soon shortlist 10 candidates for KPK and from there the House's Commission III will select five people via a "fit and proper test" to make up the next anticorruption commission.
Kupang, NU Online A local community figure here has called on the House of Representatives (DPR) in Jakarta to ask the government not only to cancel its Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) with Singapore but also its cooperation accord wiih Australia. "The House should not urge the government to cancel its agreement with Singapore only but also the one with Australia which only benefits Canberra," chairman of the Timor Gap Working Group Ferdi Tanoni said here on Friday.
Jakarta, NU Online PT Minarak Lapindo Jaya said it was making advance payments to all mudflow victims whose certificates had been verified, a spokesman of the company said on Wednesday. "Today the advance payments are being made. Thus, all the 507 verified certificates of the mudflow victims are in the hands of PT Minarak and have been paid for," Vice President of PT Minarak Lapindo Jaya, Andi Darussalam Tabusala, said.
Tehran, NU Online Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Tuesday the era of nuclear weapons has come to an end because it can neither bring about any changes nor settle any crisis. Mottaki made the remark in a meeting with Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Enlarged Foreign Affairs Committee of Norwegian parliament (Stortinget) Olav Akselsen.
Makkah, NU Online A high ranking delegation from the Makkah-based Muslim World League (MWL), headed by its Secretary General Dr. Abdullah Al Turki, has left for Thailand as part of a two-nation tour that will also take them to Indonesia. Dr. Al Turki and the accompanying delegation will take part in the function to celebrate granting of formal recognition for the Islamic University of Yala in the predominantly Muslim populated southern Thailand.
Jakarta, NU Online House Speaker Agung Laksono said that he appreciated President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono`s attention to settling the Lapindo mudflow victims` problems by visiting and taking office in the mudflow location for three days but the important thing for the victims was the settlement of the compensation problem. "The situation I saw there is really saddening," he said at the House of Representatives (DPR) building commenting on the protracted compensation problem for victims of the Lapindo mudflow which had been taking place for over one year.
