Bogor mayor warns of starvation

Bogor mayor warns of starvation

BOGOR (JP): Bogor Mayor Eddy Gunardi underlined the importance
of paying more attention to the possibility of starvation in the
city on Wednesday.

Speaking at a ceremony to appoint 18 new village heads for the
1998/2006 term at the mayoralty office, Eddy urged all village
heads here to be proactive in fighting the possibility of
starvation, which has arisen because of the scarcity of staple
foods.

"You have to be more active in gathering information on
conditions in your village, both from the heads of neighborhood
units and community leaders. If necessary, you yourselves should
visit the houses of people facing starvation directly," he said.

He said that if they found any indication of starvation they
should take immediate action to get rid of it.

On Monday, dozens of residents of Kencana village visited the
mayoralty office and demanded that the mayor overturn the
appointment of Diding A. Mukri as village head on the grounds
that his education certificate from an Islamic High School was
fake.

This accusation was strongly denied by the head of
administrative affairs in the village, Edgar Suratman.

"The certificate is authentic and has been verified by the
West Java office of the Ministry of Religious Affairs," Edgar
said. (24/jun)