PRESS DIGEST-Indonesian General news - March 25

Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:36pm EDT
 
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Following are the leading stories in the main Indonesian newspapers on March 25. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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JAKARTA POST

- HOUSE SET TO PASS BILL BANNING ONLINE PORN

Indonesia's House of Representatives is expected to pass a bill on Tuesday that would jail users and providers of pornographic Web sites despite concerns that the law could victimise receivers of unsolicited email containing adult content.

- DOZENS DIE OF RESPIRATORY DISEASE IN PAPUA HIGHLANDS

Nearly two dozen people from four different villages in Papua province have died of acute respiratory infections since January, local health officials said.

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KORAN TEMPO

- BOMBING SUSPECT DULMATIN STILL ALIVE

A body exhumed in the Philippines was not Dulmatin, an Indonesian militant wanted over the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people, an Indonesian police spokesman said ahead of the official release of a DNA test.

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