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.
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