Districts With Dengue Alerts In Jakarta

The Following are the Districts with Dengue Alert :

Central Jakarta

Cempaka Putih, Johar Baru, Kemayoran, Menteng, and Senen

North Jakarta

Cilincing, Kelapa Gading, Koja, Tanjung Priok

West Jakarta

Kebon Jeruk

South Jakarta

Mampang Prapatan, Pancoran, Pasar Minggu, Setia Budi, and Tebet

East Jakarta

Cakung, Cipayung, Ciracas, Duren Sawit, Jatinegara, Kramat Jati, Makasar, and Matraman.

Green groups gather at Suropati Park for Earth Day Rally

Prodita Sabarini , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sat, 04/18/2009 3:07 PM | Jakarta

Green groups and communities are holding a rally Saturday, at Suropati Park, Menteng Central Jakarta, celebrating the upcoming earth day, with art performances and cyclist riding their antique bicycles in Jakarta thoroughfares.

Earth Day rally coordinator Suratno Kurniawan from Friends of the Earth (WALHI) said that more than 20 environmental groups and various communities would partake in the event. Earth Day falls in April 22. The event to celebrate will start in 3 p.m. and last to nighttime, he said.

A group of around 50 to 100 antique bicycle enthusiasts will ride their two-wheel vehicles to the HI roundabout from the Suropati Park and back. The rally will feature, poetry reading by artist Ine Febrianti, art performances from Sahid Theater Community, percussion performance from Jimbe Mumu group, and film screenings.

Suratno said that Director of Walhi Slamet Daryoni and head of Joint Committee for Leaded Gasoline Phaseout (KPBB) Ahmad Safrudin would give orations at the rally.

Some 500 people would be expected to come to the rally, Suratno said. “Each community will bring their members, so, we expect a lot of people will come,” he said.

Suratno said that Suropati Park was chosen as the location for the rally to remind Jakartans of their rights to open green areas.

“There are a lot of sites that should be open green areas become petroleum stations, hotels, or affluent houses. Those are areas in which the city administration should have transform them to open green areas,” Suratno said.

Saturday’s rally is part of a set of events to celebrate earth day. Suratno said that another rally was scheduled on April 22 and on the 26, volunteer-based Green Map group, with Institute for Development and Transportation Policy (ITDP) and Green Radio will hold a tour of Jakarta using TransJakarta busway to lesser-known interesting places in Jakarta.

Green Map volunteer Bayu Wardhana said that 100 people would be able to join the tour. Interested residents can register at Green Radio in Utan Kayu, East Jakarta.

Balinese student named best young researcher

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Fri, 09/01/2000 7:36 AM | National

JAKARTA (JP): A Balinese junior high school student who found a better way of preventing land erosion caused by wave action and tides won first prize at the Youth Scientific Research Contest on Thursday.
Thirteen-year old I Komang Adi Aswantara of state junior high school SLTPN 1 in Singaraja, Bali, beat 26 other finalists to claim the overall title and the Rp 3 million ($360) cash prize and a personal computer.
Komang's paper looked into the problem of land erosion caused by the sea in his home town. Walls built for the purpose were found wanting and had not stopped the process.
He concluded in his paper by suggesting that the most effective way wouldbe to build the wall in a ""zigzag"" manner with 30-degree angles.
The final round of the annual contest, organized by the Ministry of National Education, began on Wednesday at Hotel Wisata. Each of the 26 finalists were summoned to defend their paper before a 10-member jury.
The jury picked six winners from among the 27 finalists, shortlisted from561 contestants who submitted research papers. None of the winners came from Jakarta.
Cucun Rohedi of the state senior high school SMUN 13 in Subang, West Java, won first prize for the high school category.
His paper examined the history of the surrender of the Dutch colonial forces to the invading Japanese military in the 1940s at Kalijati airbase in his home town.
Cucun told The Jakarta Post his research was prompted by his love for thecountry and its history. The Dutch surrender at Kalijati airbase was a major international event, he said.
Prof. Andi Hakim Nasution of the Bogor Agriculture Institute, who headed the jury panel, praised the finalists for their efforts.
""I could not do what they have done,"" he said.
The other four winners were Bayu Yudistira of SMUN 2 Bandung, West Java; a joint project by students from SMUN 1 in Meulaboh, Aceh; Muhammad Faris from SLTP 1 Laren, Lamongan East Java; Yety Asriyanti from SLTPN 1, Selong,Lombok, East Nusa Tenggara. (01)

Successful election marks a decade of democracy

Robin McDowell , The Associated Press , Jakarta | Thu, 04/09/2009 9:27 PM | National

Indonesians flooded polling stations across the sprawling island nation Thursday, capping a decade of democracy in a parliamentary election that boosted the reform-minded president's chances of re-election.
Violence in the easternmost province of Papua, the scene of a decades-long insurgency, marred otherwise peaceful polls with five killed in a string of pre-dawn attacks by suspected rebels, said local police chief Maj. Gen. Bagus Ekodanto.
Millions lined up to cast ballots, choosing between 38 parties vying for seats in the new 560-member legislature.
The vote is being closely watched because it will determine who will qualify to run for president in July. Parties or coalitions that win a fifth of the seats - or 25 percent of the popular vote - can nominate a candidate for that race.
Early results showed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party quickly emerging as the front-runner, tripling its share of the popular vote to 21 percent from just 7 percent in 2004.
But if those tallies hold he will still need to form a coalition - probably again with Vice President Jusuf Kalla's Golkar Party - to govern.
They "have a really great chance to continue their mandate for a second term," said Ichlasul Amal, a political scientist at the University of Gadjah Mada in central Java. "It's a nice and easy choice."
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, emerged from 32 years of dictatorship when Gen. Suharto was swept from power in 1998, leading to reforms that freed the media, vastly improved the country's human rights record, and for the first time allowed citizens to vote for president.
Despite some concerns about polling irregularities, religious intolerance and an ongoing ban on left-wing political activities, Indonesia has surprised many by turning into to one of the most stable democracies in the region.
There were 171 million eligible voters, making it the world's third largest electorate behind India and the United States. They flocked to 500,000 polling stations spread out across thousands of islands.
"It's an enormous undertaking," said Paul Rowland of the U.S.-based National Democratic Institute, noting that hundreds of thousands also will be contesting legislative seats at the provincial, municipal and regency level.
"It's the world's largest single-day election this year. We'll see more people voting for more positions than any other country."
Many voters were baffled by the myriad of choices, with hundreds of candidates sometimes listed on a poster-sized ballot.
"It's more complicated than last time," said Rivaldi Aswin, a 25-year-old bank employee who turned out with 300 others at a station west of the capital, Jakarta.
"I barely recognized any of the faces," he said after having his pinky dabbed with purple ink to keep people from repeat voting. "But I'm glad to have this opportunity."
Last time around, Yudhoyono's party won only 7 percent of the popular vote and had to partner up with late dictator Suharto's Golkar party and a handful of Islamic parties that pushed through laws governing everything from the way women dressed to the types of magazines that could be hawked on street corners.
Though many analysts had predicted waning support for religious parties, the early returns indicated the conservative Islamic Prosperous Justice Party, which came from nowhere in 2004 to scoop up 7.3 percent of the popular vote, may have made small gains.
Campaigns across the board were largely personality driven and policies have been broad and ill-defined, focusing on issues like the effect the global slowdown has had on the economy or the need to root out pervasive corruption.
Unlike 2004, security is no longer a big issue, something many credit to Yudhoyono.
Indonesia was last hit by an al-Qaida-linked terrorist attack four years ago and, thanks to a 2005 peace deal, guns have largely fallen silent in formerly war-torn Aceh province, on the country's northwestern tip.
Early quick count results were trickling in Thursday.
With more than 75 percent of the vote counted, the Indonesian Survey Circle had Yudhoyono's Democratic Party in the lead with 20 percent; the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle headed by former President Megawati Sukarnoputri, 15 percent; and Suharto's former political machine, Golkar, 15 percent.
The religious-based Islamic Prosperous Justice Party had 8 percent

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Indonesians vote for new parliament

Robin McDowell , The Associated Press , Jakarta | Thu, 04/09/2009 7:46 AM | Election 2009

Legislative elections Thursday could determine if President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will have enough support to win a second five-year term needed to push through aggressive economic and institutional reforms.
Violence flared hours before the first polling stations opened in the easternmost province of Papua, the scene of a decades-long insurgency, killing at least six people, said local police chief Maj. Gen. Bagus Ekodanto.
But by midmorning, the situation appeared calm, with voters forming long lines to cast ballots.
The outcome of Thursday's election for a new 560-member legislature is being closely watched because it will determine who will qualify to run for president in July.
The party or coalition that wins a fifth of the seats - or 25 percent of the popular vote - can nominate a candidate for that race.
Yudhoyono's Democrat Party is expected to come out on top, but with more than 170 million people registered to vote and 38 parties to choose from, nothing is certain. Other front-runners are the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle headed by former President Megawati Sukarnoputri and the largest party, Golkar.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, emerged from 32 years of dictatorship under Gen. Suharto in 1998, leading to reforms that freed the media, struck down repressive laws and, in 200, allowed citizens to vote for president for the first time. It is often held up as a beacon of how Islam and democracy can go hand-in-hand.
If Yudhoyono's party wins 26 percent of the popular vote, as some opinion polls predict, he will not have to cobble together an alliance with others seen to be less willing to tackle corruption, overhaul the judiciary and streamline bureaucracy.
"At this moment it looks like he's going to make it," said Dede Oetomo, a political analyst from Airlangga University in the city of Surabaya.
Last time around, the Democrats won just 7 percent of the vote, forcing Yudhoono, eventually, to partner up with Golkar and a handful of Islamic parties that tried to push through laws governing everything from the way women dressed to the types of magazines that could be hawked on street corners.
Analysts say these elections could see the popularity of religious parties, which did well in 2004, waning. Most of the secular country's 210 million Muslims practice a moderate form of the faith.
"As long as these parties try to push through Islamic-based laws, they are going to keep losing support," said Syafiie Maarif, an Islamic scholar. "They need to come up with a broader, policy-based platform, like fighting poverty."
Campaigns across the board were largely personality driven and policies have been broad and ill-defined, focusing on issues like the effect the global slowdown has had on the economy or the need to root out pervasive corruption.
Unlike 2004, security is no longer a big issue, something many credit to Yudhoyono.
Indonesia was last hit by an al-Qaida-linked terrorist attack four years ago and, thanks to a 2005 peace deal, guns have largely fallen silent in formerly war-torn Aceh province, on the country's northwestern tip.
Aceh and Papua are the only places thathave been hit by pre-election violence, but it is not expected to spiral out of control.
Papuan police chief Maj. Gen. Bagus Ekodanto said more than 80 suspected rebels attacked a police post in the provincial capital, Jayapura, with machetes and spears at around 1 a.m. Thursday, leaving four dead in thelash that followed.
Elsewhere, he said, rebels who want Papua to break from Indonesia stabbed several motorcycle taxi drivers, burned an oil depot and property at a state university, leaving two others dead.
Voters, who had been told to boycott the vote, refused to be intimidated.
"I think everything should be solved in a peaceful way. That's why I'm out here today," said Leonard Tuilan.
In addition to a national parliament, elections were being held Thursday for a new provincial and local legislatures and councils.
The Indonesian Survey Institute poll showed the Democratic Party would win 26 percent of the popular vote; the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle 14 percent; and Golkar 13 percent. The four Islamic-based parties each came in at around 4 percent. The survey, based on interviews with 2,486 people, had a margin of error of 2.3 percent.
Associated Press Writers Zakki Hakim, Niniek Karmini and Ali Kotarumalos contributed to this report from Jakarta.
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Election Day

Today all Indonesian citizens who have right to vote will go to TPS. Indonesians will vote from 07-12.

Have A Party !!!!!!!!!!