1. Pistol - 48 MM, 3 cols, 3 lines, 3x 15
1. Pistol - 48 MM, 3 cols, 3 lines, 3x 15
Gun proposal
gets severe
criticism
JAKARTA (JP): City administration's plan to buy 60 more guns
to equip its public order officers showed that it declared 'a
war' againts its own residents, especially disadvantaged people,
activists said on Saturday.
Interviewed separately by The Jakarta Post, both activists,
chairwoman of the non-governmental organization Urban Poor
Consortium (UPC), Wardah Hafids, and head of the urban division
of the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute Tubagus Karbyanto urged the
administration to stop the plan.
"The administration declares a war againts its own residents,
sadly, by using people's money to buy the guns. All people should
protest the plan," Wardah whose UPC grouped thousands of city's
disadvantaged people, including pedicab drivers, said.
She viewed that the plan to buy more guns showed that the
administration planned to increase its public order operations in
more repressive way.
However, he said the repressive operations which would be
conducted, believed againts becak (three-wheeled pedicab)
drivers, would not solve the problem, instead of gaining more
fights from the poor people.
2. Angkot - 28 HBC, 3 cols, 2 lines, 2x24
'Angkot', street vendors
cause Bogor traffic jam
BOGOR (JP): Thousands of public transportation minivans
(angkot) and street vendors are the main cause of traffic
congestions in the town as they crowd the roads and sidewalks.
There are only 2,422 minivans registered at the local Land
Transportation Agency (DLLAJ), but in fact there are about 10,000
angkot operating in the town, according to the agency's head of
the traffic unit, Ahmad Syarief.
He said that many of them were registered at DLLAJ office in
the municipalities outside Bogor's center, but he also
acknowledges that only "a few" roam the town center without a
license.
3. Mob - 36 NCSB, 3 cols, 2 lines, 2x16
Will vigilantism
change the police?
TANGERANG (JP): Angry residents in Tangerang have mobbed at
least 42 people to death during the last nine months, while
police turn a blind eye as they regard it an effective way to
curb crime.
Jaelani, a morgue assistant at Tangerang General Hospital told
The Jakarta Post that from January to early September this year,
the hospital morgue had received the bodies of 42 criminal
suspects delivered by 15 police subprecincts. Some 12 out of the
42 corpses could not be identified due to serious burns.
He said that last year there were no corpses of vigilante
victims delivered to the hospital.
According to Jaelani, Curug subdistrict was the area with the
most active vigilantism with eight criminals having been mobbed
to death, followed by Cipondoh and Batu Ceper subdistricts with
six cases respectively.
"We're sick of criminals who do not hesitate to hurt their
victims. Moreover, the criminals are usually lazy individuals who
just want to enjoy their lives without working hard," Agus
Mulyadi, a plant vendor who joined in beating up two criminals
last month.
4. Trash - 26 HBC, 3 cols, 1 line, 1x 27
City to process garbage
JAKARTA (JP): The City Administration will not just dump
garbage to dumping sites outside of here but will process it
instead into organic fertilizer, a official said over the
weekend.
City Sanitary Agency Head Saksono Husodo said that the step
was taken following Tangerang administration's opposition to its
plan to develop a 100-hectare landsite in Ciangir, Tangerang, as
a replacement for Bantar Gebang dumping site of garbage in
Bekasi.
Tangerang councillors feared that the area around the dump
would be contaminated as it happened in the city's other garbage
dumping site in Bantar Gebang, Bekasi regency.
Bekasi councillors repeatedly asked Jakarta to close the 65-
hectare dumping site since it caused environmental damages. The
City then decided to close the dump in 2003 according to permit
although it could be extended until 2006.
5. Prison - 36 HBC, 3 cols, 2 lines, 3x20
Three hospitalized
in jail house brawl
JAKARTA (JP): Two inmates were still hospitalized at the
Kramatjati Police Hospital on Saturday as they were wounded in a
brawl that hit the Cipinang penitentiary, East Jakarta, a day
earlier.
"They are still in the hospital due to the injuries. But
everything is under control here," City Police spokesman Snr.
Comr. Anton Bachrul Alam told reporters.
A fray among prisoners that broke Friday at 9 p.m. had left
six people were injured with cuts in their head and body. They
were sent to Kramatjati Hospital but three of them returned to
the penitentiary later in the evening after receiving medical
treatment.
In the past few months, Cipinang has seen a number of brawls
among prisoners and some of the inmates managed to escape.
Focus: 4 biji (blast, focus, focus2, demo)