Japan replants trees in N. Sumatra<\/p>\n
MEDAN, North Sumatra: Japanese parliament members pledged more
\nassistance on Tuesday to the reforestation program in North
\nSumatra through the planting of tens of thousands of trees over
\nthe next five years.<\/p>\n
The pledge was made during a meeting between 35 members of the
\nTokyo Metropolitan Assembly, Mizuha Mayor Ishisuka Koueman and
\nNorth Sumatra Governor T. Rizal Nurdin at the latter's office,
\nMedan.<\/p>\n
Chairman of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Mita Toshiya
\ndeclined to mention the amount of the assistance, saying the
\nfunds were collected voluntarily from each of the Japanese
\nparliamentarians.<\/p>\n
This year, they will plant thousands of pinus and macadamia
\ntrees on four hectares of land in the area of Sipiso-piso, Karo
\nregency, and in Parapat district, Simalungun regency.<\/p>\n
Similar trees were planted by them last year on a three-
\nhectare plot of land also in Sipiso-piso.<\/p>\n
\"We will assist reforestation in North Sumatra. It is an
\ninternational issue. We should be aware of this to protect
\nnature. It's our problem jointly,\" Toshiya told Tuesday's
\nmeeting. --JP<\/p>\n
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\nAcross-Party
\nPDI-P, Golkar, PAN in mayoralty race
\nJP\/5\/Pary<\/p>\n
PDI-P, Golkar, PAN in mayoralty race<\/p>\n
BANDUNG: The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI
\nPerjuangan), the Golkar Party and the National Mandate Party
\n(PAN) have coalesced to support the nomination of Dada Rosada as
\nthe new mayor of Bandung, West Java.<\/p>\n
Dada, a former secretary of the Bandung administration, is to
\npair with PDI Perjuangan councillor Jusep Purwasuganda to contest
\nthe mayoralty election in October.<\/p>\n
Iqbal Abdulkarim, a spokesman for the PAN faction in the
\nBandung legislative council, said the coalition between his
\nparty, PDI Perjuangan and Golkar was officially agreed on Aug.
\n15.<\/p>\n
\"We are sure that the pairing of Dada and Jusep will win the
\nelection,\" he said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The coalition is expected to win at least 28 votes for Dada.
\nThe council comprises 45 seats.<\/p>\n
Incumbent Bandung Mayor Aa Taraman, a retired army officer
\nwhose five-year term ends on Oct. 16, is backed by the four-
\nmember faction of the United Development Party and the one-seat
\nJustice and Unity faction.<\/p>\n
Other candidates include the pairing of academic
\nTaufiqqurahman and Ujang Sachruddin, plus Sugih Wiramikarta and
\nIwan Abdurrahman. --JP<\/p>\n
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\nAcross-Ambonese
\nSuspect bags force Ambonese to flee
\nJP\/5\/Ambon<\/p>\n
Suspect bags force Ambonese to flee<\/p>\n
AMBON, Maluku: Police secured on Tuesday two plastic bags
\nsuspected of containing homemade bombs and firearms in the Jl.
\nTulukabessy area near downtown Ambon, Maluku province.<\/p>\n
The bags -- one red and another black -- were first found
\nhanging on a fence by local residents at 10:30 a.m. The
\ndiscovery forced vendors, pedestrians, and ojek (motorbike taxi)
\nand public car drivers to vacate the area.<\/p>\n
A police bomb squad team, which arrived around 35 minutes
\nlater at the scene, said the two suspicious bags contained used
\ncans and blue and black cables, without bomb timers.<\/p>\n
The police later took it to their Mobile Brigade headquarters
\nfor further investigation, and reopened the area to the public.<\/p>\n
The police said the discovery showed that certain people had
\nattempted to spread terror in Maluku, once wracked by three years
\nof religious fighting since 1999.<\/p>\n
Local Muslim and Christian leaders signed a peace accord in
\nFebruary 2002 to end the conflict, but sporadic violence
\ncontinued to break out occasionally.--Antara<\/p>",
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