Palestina Hargai Dukungan Setia Indonesia: Dubes Awad

    Jakarta, 13/3/2006 (ANTARA) - Indonesia merupakan pendukung paling setia bagi perjuangan rakyat Palestina dalam mendapatkan kembali hak-hak politik dan kemerdekaan dari penjajahan Israel, kata Dubes Palestina untuk Indonesia Ribhi Y Awad.
        "Rakyat Palestina menghargai komitmen rakyat dan Pemerintah Indonesia yang tetap menjadi pendukung paling setia terhadap perjuangan Palestina dari duluh hingga kini. Saya yakin, komitmen itu akan terus berlanjut sampai Palestina mendapatkan kedaulatannya sebagai negara merdeka," kata Dubes Awad kepada ANTARA di Jakarta, Senin.

MESTINYA KEDUBES PALESTINA DI JAKARTA TUTUP 12 TAHUN LALU

     Jakarta, 13/3/2006 - Pada suatu hari pada tahun 1993, Dubes Palestina untuk Indonesia Ribhi Y Awad menerima informasi dari pejabat PLO (Organisasi Pembebasan Palestina) pimpinan Yasser Arafat bahwa Kedubes Palestina di Jakarta akan ditutup karena PLO bangkrut.
        PLO, yang ketika itu merupakan otoritas Palestina, akan menutup 26 kedubes Palestina di negara-negara Afrika dan Asia, termasuk Indonesia, karena kesulitan keuangan.

INDONESIA INTENSIFYING FIGHT AGIANST ILLICIT DRUGS TO SAVE YOUNGER GENERATION by Fardah Assegaf

      Jakarta, Feb 28, 2006  (ANTARA News) - Eddy, a security guard, still mourns the death of his only son. His son was only 23 year-old when he died two years ago due to a narcotic overdoze.

      He could not believe that his son, a good boy from a modest family, was a drug addict given the fact that the family was not rich and certainly could not afford "the luxury" of consuming narcotics or other illicit drugs.

      Thousands of young men have wasted their lives because of illicit drugs in Indonesia. They were mostly victims of a "cruel" environment, a broken home, poverty, ignorance, curiosity, or particularly of the illegal drug mafia.

SYRIAN ENVOY MEETS WITH MPR CHAIRMAN, HOUSE SPEAKER

       Jakarta, Nov. 16/2005 (ANTARA) - Syrian Ambassador to Indonesia Mohamad Darwish Baladi held meetings consecutively with Chairman of the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Hidayat Nurwahid, and House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Agung Laksono to discuss bilateral and regional issues here at the Parliament Building, Tuesday.

        "We talked on bilateral relations, especially the political ties between Syria and Indonesia. We particularly emphasized on how to strengthen the cooperation between the People's Consultative Assemblies and Parliaments of the two countries," Ambassador Baladi told ANTARA following the two meetings.

WSIS TO DEVELOP COMMON VISION OF INFORMATION OF TOMORROW

    Jakarta, Nov. 15/2005 (ANTARA) - Tunisia is hosting the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) whose process was launched in Geneva in December 2003, under the auspices of the United Nations, from November 16 to 18, 2005.
      "The call for a Summit was made by Tunisia at the Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication Union in Minneapolis (USA) in 1998," said Sadok Boudguiga, First Secretary in charge of the Press of the Tunisian embassy in Jakarta, in a statement here, Wednesday.

Seminar to Discuss Youth Pledge, Indonesia Future

     Jakarta, Oct 18/2005 (ANTARA) - A national seminar themed "Youth Pledge and Indonesia in the Future" will be organized in Jakarta on Thursday, October 20, 2005, to observe the 77th anniversary of Indoensia's Youth Pledge.
        President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to officially open the seminar, which will be participated in by speakers and deelgates from Indonesia and overseas at the State Palace, according to a press release of the seminar's organizing committee, received by ANTARA here Tuesday.