Adam Air grounds six planes
Indonesian budget carrier Adam Air has grounded six
Boeing 737-300 planes for safety inspections after the
fuselage of one of its aircraft cracked during
a hard landing, an
airline official said on Thursday. Related, two weeks
old article:
Adam Air jet subject of pilot
complaints before crash (IHT)
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Human Rights Watch says Indonesia should release
political prisoners
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Former investigator: Indonesian
army ordered 1975 deaths of journalists in East Timor
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Indonesia to issue longer visas to draw more tourists
Six dead
in Indonesia ferry fire
At least six people died after fire broke out on an
Indonesian ferry carrying more than 350 passengers off
Jakarta Bay on Thursday, the navy said. The Levina I was
on its way to Bangka island when it caught fire soon
after dawn
50 miles from Jakarta's
Tanjung Priok port. (reuters)
Corby club trips denied
THE boss of Bali's notorious
Kerobokan Jail has denied
star inmate Schapelle Corby
is allowed out to
nightclubs. "Not
true," jail governor Ilham
Jaya said yesterday after
rumours that Australian
tourists had seen her at
Bali nightspots. "This is
very, very, very impossible.
It has never ever happened.
This is just a rumour, it is
not true." Mr Jaya said
Corby, serving a 20-year
sentence for drug
trafficking, is never
allowed outside the jail
walls. It is well
known inmates in many
Indonesia prisons
buy
time on the outside
from corrupt officials.
(Herald Sun)
 Concrete
balls plug mud volcano
Hundreds of concrete balls
will be dropped into a "mud
volcano" on Wednesday,
although experts warned it
is
unlikely to stop a
massive mud flow which has
swallowed villages and left
15 000 people homeless. (AP)
THE
JAKARTA PUB PROGRAM FOR THE
COMING DAYS...
ONE TREE BAR
- Tonight (Thursday) Wine Tasting in One Tree,
sponsored by Dos Hermanos. A wide variety of wine will
be on offer, as well as free complimentary cheeses.
Start at 19.00 Friday night is ladies night
at One Tree. One Tree offers free WI-FI and is open for
lunch. Specialty: Shoarma (kebab)
BUGILS
CAFE - On sexy Monday we offer
free flow of Bintang between 17.00 and 19.00. At 21.00 a
battery of sexy dancers will come on stage.
After some complaints that the BuGils staff is getting
too old, the staff decided to outfit themselves in
school uniforms for the occasion. Tuesday night is
Ladies night.
 CAZBAR
- Every
Saturday is
Ladies Night. An acoustic trio will play hits from
earlier years as well as modern tunes. Free wi-fi, large
screen with all SA channels. Open for breakfast from
7.00am onwards. Thursday March 1: Embassy Night. For
more details:
jasper@thecazbar.com
EASTERN PROMISE
-
Tonight the 2nd EP QUIZ night, presented by Jeroen Lezer.
4 players per team, start at 8.
This Friday: HALLO
MISTER, four expat guys from assorted countries will
play a wide range of rock and
pop songs spanning the sixties
 until
today. Saturday Gugun and his Blues Bug. EP offers free
wi-fi. Try a traditional Chieftains
Breakfast this weekend with Lorne Sausages, Potato
Scones and Black Pudding! More info: Lens at
081380630700
Where else does Bartele go.....?
Sunday Feb 25 I will visit the Jazz Afternoon in the
Oriental Bar in the Mandarin Hotel. There will be three
acts from the US performing. No cover charge. I have
been to this event before and enjoyed it thoroughly.
From 16.00 till 21.00
FROM
THE EDITOR:
 Today
not enough time to make an editorial, so instead I publish
an old one. Next Monday I will publish the next newsletter
with a new story. If you are interested in advertising,
please send me an email. This newsletter goes out to almost
10.000 subscribers.
SOLD OUT (published on Feb
18, 2005)
Although not a highly intellectual master piece (would you
expect that of a bar man?), I am nevertheless proud seeing
my little 'bar' book in the many bookstores displayed.
QB is the nearest book store from my home, but when I walked
in there last week I couldn't find the book. I asked the QB
staff. They informed me that they had received it but that
it was still in the store room. "Well, are you not going
to display it then?' I asked them. 'You want one? We
can get one for you from the storage if you want.' the
helpful staff replied. I lied that I would buy one as soon
as it was on the shelves.
The next day I came back but I still couldn't find my book!
The bookstore staff saw me searching and quickly came to
help. A young man pointed to the lowest shelve in the
darkest corner of the store. Hidden between some large
Kretek books I spotted five BULE GILA books. I am
normally not that aggressive in these kind of things but I
found this remarkable and wanted to know why a newly
published book was not promoted! I asked friendly if it
would be possible to move the books to a more visible spot.
'No, no mister! Then we sell them too quickly. Mind you,
we only have five!' I stood perplexed for a second,
trying to analyze the QB employee's motifs. Unsatisfied with
his explanation I unveiled my self as the writer and
explained the guy that I would really appreciate it if he
could put my books on a more prominent spot. Clearly
annoyed he picked up the five books and placed them on the
desk of the cashier without saying anything further. He
probably regarded me as an irritating and greedy author,
fooling the staff pretending to be a buyer.
Yesterday evening a guest in BuGils asked where he could buy
my book BULE GILA. I directed him to the QB Bookstore, in
confidence that the books were on display at the cashiers
desk. Two hours later he called me back. He was slightly
annoyed: the books were sold out.
I immediately went back to QB. Before I could ask anything
all five QB employees behind the counter stood up and
notified me happily that the book was sold out. 'Well,
did you order new stock already?' , I asked hopeful (or
greedy again?). The cashier pointed at her colleague
who was organizing some magazines. "You have to check
with him, he is placing the orders'. It was the same guy
who disliked me a day earlier. He didn't look up. He slowly
continued putting magazines in the shelves. 'Belum mister
(not yet)...', he spoke dryly and slow. Very calm he
repeated his words: 'Aku belum re-order lagi, mister....
Nanti ya....(later) Sabar ya....(be patient),
mister.....'.
He had won our little fight. He now had the power over my
book in that store. I am thinking of hiring him for BuGils.
But a pity it is a guy, we prefer girls in BuGils...
POSTSCRIPT: In the recent year QB bookstore was forced
to scale down its operation from 5 to 1 store, due to lack
of business. I wonder how many bestsellers they discovered
on the shelves in the storage room when they cleaned up.
Equinox Publishing is currently printing Bule Gila Volume 2
and it certainly will be available in the only QB store
left.
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Porn DVD screams prompt sword 'rescue' -
OCONOMOWOC, Wis. - A man says he broke into an apartment
with a cavalry sword because he thought he heard a woman
being raped, but the sound actually was from a
pornographic movie his upstairs neighbor was watching.
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Islamic spies to snoop on
lovers -
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A
Malaysian state plans to
recruit "spies" from the
public to snoop on unmarried
lovers and report them to
Islamic religious
authorities, a newspaper
said Tuesday.
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