Latest figures on infection rates in Indonesia released.
At least 258 people in Indonesia have been found infected with HIV, the official Antara news agency said.  It quoted Health Minister Sujudi as saying 40% of the virus carriers were foreigners.  Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, has established HIV centers in all of the country's 27 provinces in efforts to check the disease's spread.  A report earlier in 1994 by U.S. Representative Jim McDermott's Congressional Task Force on HIV and AIDS estimated that up to three million of Indonesia's 185 million people might be infected with HIV in six years.  It put the total cost for treatment and lost earnings at more than 16 billion dollars by the end of the century.  Sujudi said the best way to prevent the spread of HIV is through education in schools and a strengthening of religious and moral values.
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