[Kabar-indonesia] SBY cabinet meeting in Magelang; New Presidential Plane; 26 tent libraries....

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5 articles: 

- Yudhoyono leads cabinet meeting in Magelang

- 26 tent libraries to be established in quake-torn 
  areas 

- Govt to buy new presidential plane 

- Hundreds of govt migrants still waiting for plots of
  land after 3 years

- SBY rules out clemency for drug dealers

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The Jakarta Post 
Saturday, July 1, 2006

Yudhoyono leads cabinet meeting in Magelang

MAGELANG, Central Java (Antara): President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to chair a limited
cabinet meeting this weekend as part of his visit to
Central Java province on Saturday and Sunday.

A presidential schedule obtained by Antara news agency
indicated that the meeting would start Saturday at 7
p.m. and continue Sunday at 10 a.m. at Hotel Losari
Cafe Plantation Resort & Spa in Grabag village,
Magelang.

There is no immediate information available on the
topics to be discussed at the meeting.

Among those attending will be Coordinating Minister
for the People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie, Home Affairs
Minister Mohammad Ma'ruf, Energy and Mineral Resources
Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Agriculture Minister
Anton Apriyantono,Forestry Minister MS Kaban, State
Minister for Research and Technology Kusmayanto
Kadiman, State Minister for Cooperatives and Small and
Medium Enterprises Suryadharma Ali, and StateMinister
of National Development Planning Paskah Suzetta.

Yudhoyono is scheduled to visit Klaten regency to
officially mark the beginning of the rehabilitation
effort in earthquake-torn areas in Yogyakarta and
Central Java provinces on Monday.

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The Jakarta Post 
Saturday, July 1, 2006

26 tent libraries to be established in quake-torn
areas

YOGYAKARTA (Antara): As many as 26 tent libraries will
be established in earthquake-torn areas in Yogyakarta
province to provide residents, especially students,
with books.

An official of Yogyakarta's library office, Tulus
Widodo, said Saturday that the tent libraries would be
jointly established by the Yogyakarta administration
and the central government.

"Each library will cost from Rp 20 million (US$2,150)
to Rp 25 million," he was quoted by Antara as saying
during a hearing with Yogyakarta Legislative Council's
Commission E forEducation and the People's Welfare.

He did not say how many books each library would hold
and when the libraries would be available.

The magnitude 5.9 earthquake killed at least 5,800
people, displaced as many as 1.5 million and destroyed
150,000 houses in the Yogyakarta and Central Java
provinces on May 27.

Commission E Chairman Basuki A.R. welcomed the
establishment of the libraries, saying they would help
quake victims maintain their reading habits. 

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The Jakarta Post 
Saturday, July 1, 2006

Govt to buy new presidential plane

JAKARTA: The government plans to purchase a new
aircraft to replace the 30-year-old presidential
plane. The announcement comes after a cracked
windshield on the presidential plane forced Vice
President Jusuf Kalla to transfer to another aircraft
during a trip to Sumatra on Thursday.

"We plan to buy a new plane because the current one is
already 30 years old," Kalla said Friday. "We have
been too stingy to buy a new aircraft."

Kalla was forced to take a commercial flight from
Medan to Jakarta on Thursday after a crack was
discovered in the windshield of the presidential
plane. The Vice President flew aboard a B-737/200
aircraft operated by Batavia Air.

Transportation Minister Hatta Rajasa recently ordered
all B-737/200 aircraft grounded following a
government-commissioned report that found about 25 of
the 75 aircraft of this type used by local airlines
often had hydraulic problems. -- JP

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The Jakarta Post 
Saturday, July 1, 2006

Migrants waiting for plots of land

JAKARTA: Three years after they moved to South
Sumatra, some 700 migrant families from Central Java
are yet to receive plots of land to farm on.

Alimin Suseno of the provincial manpower and
transmigration office in South Sumatra said Thursday
most of the migrants were working as lowly paid
peasants in palm oil plantations to survive.

Under the resettlement program, the government is
supposed to provide plots of arable land for the
migrants and support their daily needs for the first
six months of resettlement.

Djoko Sidik Pramono, the director-general of
transmigration at the Manpower and Transmigration
Ministry, said he would look into the case.

"We will first meet the migrants and ask them why they
have not received farmland," he told Antara in
Sidoarjo, East Java.

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The Jakarta Post 
Saturday, July 1, 2006
    
President SBY rules out clemency for drug dealers

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono reiterated here Friday he would not grant 
clemency to those sentenced to death for drug trafficking, saying those 
involved in the narcotics trade did not deserve leniency.

"A lot of requests for clemency in drug-related crimes have been submitted to 
me. But I personally feel that I would prefer to ensure the safety of our 
younger generations rather than granting pardons to those who are destroying our 
nation's future," he said.

The President was speaking at a ceremony to mark the International Day 
Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which fell on June 26.

Because of its strategic location, Indonesia has become a meeting point for 
international drug rings, as well as a base of production.

The Attorney General's Office said Wednesday it was preparing to execute 16 
people who were sentenced to death for drug trafficking.

The 16 include seven Nigerians, six Indonesians and three foreign nationals 
from Nepal, Malawi and Thailand. Another 27 people on death row for 
drug-related offenses are still in the process of appealing their verdicts.

Three foreign drug traffickers -- two Thais and an Indian -- were executed in 
2004.

Yudhoyono also called on parents to spend more time with their children, to 
help protect them from falling victim to the drug trade.

Touching on the theme of this year's anti-drugs day, Drugs Are Not Child's 
Play, the President said it was important to educate people, particularly the 
young, about the dangers of drugs.

"Children are easily lured and fooled because they still don't know what is 
right and what is wrong. Parents must spend more time, particularly quality 
time, with their children to prevent them from falling into the drug trap," the 
President said.

Yudhoyono said not only families, but the entire community had to play a role 
in guiding children away from drugs.

"This way parents can always know what their children are doing ... Children 
have to be protected from harm," he said.

Yudhoyono said families affected by drug use should not be ashamed, but 
instead deal with the problem in an open and honest fashion so that treatment would 
be successful.

National Narcotics Agency head Insp. Gen. Made Pastika has said a study 
conducted in 10 major cities found four million Indonesians had used illegal drugs, 
while the country's drug trade was valued at nearly US$4 billion a year. 

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