Workers suffer burns due to careless conduct

A cleaning service worker at PT Mekar Armada Jaya, a car body maker, in Magelang, Central Java, Miftahudin, sustained burns to 95 percent of his body and has been rushed to Tidar General Hospital.

Miftahudin’s clothes caught fire when he neglected to remove a stove lighter from a hot oven. The lighter caught fire.

Also injured were Hidayah, 21, a female co-worker who was near him at the time.

PT Mekar Armada Jaya’s painting division section head, Sofyan, said the company had warned workers not to carry around flammable items while working within the compound.

“This could be considered pure human error,” he said as quoted by kompas.com on Wednesday.

However, he continued that the company would cover all healthcare costs for the two workers.(png/dic)

Lion Air plans to conduct IPO next year

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 02/10/2011 1:41 PM | Business

Private airline Lion Air is planning to issue a 30 percent stake in the company in an initial public offering (IPO) in 2012, and expects to raise US$1 billion in fresh funds.

The funds would be used as a reserve, with the company’s business expansion expected to continue to be supported by its internal cash reserves and bank loans, , Lion Air managing director Rusdi Kirana said Thursday.

Rusdi said the airline was targeting to conduct the IPO around the second semester of 2012.

“But, we're flexible with the time frame … so it would be in the first quarter of 2013 at the latest,” he said in Jakarta, as quoted by kontan.co.id.

Lion Air is presently 100 percent owned by the Kirana family.

SKorea to conduct firing drills from border island

The Associated Press, Seoul | Mon, 12/20/2010 8:52 AM | World

South Korea will go ahead with live firing drills Monday despite North Korea's threat to retaliate, the South's military said, sharply ramping up tensions as the U.N. failed to find a solution.

Marines will conduct the one-day artillery drills on Yeonpyeong Island - shelled by a North Korean artillery barrage last month - and the exact timing will be determined by weather conditions, an officer at the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

South Korea's military will "immediately and stenly" deal with any possible provocation by North Korea, the officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity citing department rules.

Residents, local officials and journalists on the island were ordered to evacuate to underground shelters because of possible attacks by North Korea, he said.

Yonhap nws agency, citing an unidentified military officer, said the firing may start as early as around 11 a.m. (0200 GMT). The Joint Chiefs of Staff officer said he couldn't confirm the report.

The orth has warned of a "catastrophe" if South Korea goes ahead with the drills.

The North has said it would strike back harder than it did last month, when two South Korean marines and two civilians were killed on the island.

The U.N. Security Council failed Sunday to agree on a statement to address rsing tensions on the Korean peninsula.

U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said the United States and other council members demanded that the council condemn North Korea for two deadly attacks this year that have helped send relations to their lowest point in decades. But diplomats said China strongly objected.

After eight hours of closed-door consultations Sunday, Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, who called the emergency council meeting, told reporters "we were not successful in bridging all the bridges."

Although some countries still need to consult capitals, Rice said "the gaps that remain are unliely to be bridged."