Foreigners held over RI passports

Foreigners held over RI passports

TANGERANG (JP): Tangerang Police arrested a Briton and two
other unidentified foreigners at Soekarno-Hatta International
Airport late on Sunday for holding Indonesian passports.

Police chief of detectives Insp. Chandra Sukma Kumara said the
Briton, Siddal John Arthur, was accompanying the other two
foreigners, who had Indonesian names and addresses in their
passport. The two foreigners were to be employed in the United
States.

Chandra said the two foreigners, who had Korean and Taiwanese
accents, were identified by their passport as Taufik Teguh, 25, a
resident of Jl. Margahayu Raya, Margacinta district, Bandung,
West Java and Alif Sumantri, 48, a resident of Jl. Warung,
Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta.

"Taufik, holding passport No. F784469, and Alif, holding
passport No. G669698, were about to leave for the States at 11
p.m. along with Mr. Siddal. But when an immigration officer
checked their passports, both Taufik and Alif could not speak
Indonesian nor English," he said.

He added that the officers handed the three men over to
police. They were transferred to the city police headquarters on
Monday morning for further questioning. (41)

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TPJ to reduce water supply
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Repairs to disrupt
water supply

JAKARTA (JP): PT Thames PAM Jaya has announced that it will
disrupt the supply of water to certain areas around Jakarta from
Sept. 18 to Sept. 25, due to its second phase of repairs.

The company announced in a news statement received by The
Jakarta Post on Monday, that during repairs, areas of Kwitang,
Kenari, Kelapa Gading, Pegangsaan Dua, Cakung, Ujung Menteng and
parts of Sungai Bambu and Kebon Bawang will receive less water.

The areas of Rawa Badak Utara, Tugu Utara, Lagoa, Tanjung
Priok, Warakas, Sunter Jaya and parts of Sungai Bambu and Kebon
Bawang will not receive any water.

The statement said Thames PAM Jaya apologized to all its
customers for the inconvenience caused. For those who need
further details, please contact the company's 24-hour service
center at 577-2010, it said.

The company, which is a subsidiary of the British Thames Water
International, first conducted repairs from Sept. 1 to Sept. 8.

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Focus-Fire
Teachers' houses razed by fire
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Teachers' houses
razed by fire

BOGOR (JP): Nine houses in a teacher housing complex were
destroyed by fire on Monday afternoon, but no one was killed or
injured.

A resident of the complex, Iyan Kusyana, said the fire started
at about 12:30 p.m. at the house of the Kurdi family, which was
occupied by the owner's grandchildren. "The fire is still under
investigation," he said.

Iyan speculated that the fire was caused by a cigarette, while
an occupant of the house, seventeen-year-old Wita, said the fire
was likely caused by a short circuit.

"I heard an explosion while I was eating with my friends
downstairs. It was probably caused by a short circuit," Wita
said.

Some of the destroyed homes belonged to teachers of state
junior high school 5, while others belonged to retired teachers.
(06)

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Rp 8 billion fund questioned
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Rp 8 billion fund questioned

JAKARTA (JP): City Council questioned on Monday Rp 8 billion
(US$888,888) fund which was reportedly to be used by the North
Jakarta Mayoralty for land clearance of 12 brothels in the Kramat
Tunggak red-light area, North Jakarta.

Councillor Tubagus Sofyan of the council commission E for
social welfare affairs said some councillors visited the location
and could not find the 12 brothels.

"We only find the other four former brothels which we knew
since earlier," Tubagus of the Indonesian Democratic Party of
Struggle (PDIP) said.

He suspected that the mayoralty used the fund for other
purpose.

He said the administration earlier allocated Rp 74 billion for
clearance of 240 brothels in the prostitution complex which was
officially closed two years ago.

He said the mayoralty earlier demanded an additional fund of
Rp 8 billion for clearance of the 12 brothels.

The 10-hectare Kramat Tunggak brothel complex will be
developed into an Islamic center which is expected to change the
so-called "black area" into "white area."

The administration earlier said that Kuwait, Bahrain and
Brunei Darussalam will help the development of the center. (jun)

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1,000 graves to be relocated
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Grave move to give
city lung transplant

JAKARTA (JP): Over 1,000 graves in Menteng Pulo public
cemetery in Setiabudi, South Jakarta, will be relocated to the
Kampung Kandang cemetery in the same mayoralty next month, as the
city's cemetery agency plans to develop the area into a public
park.

Hariono Seno, head of the agency, said that the project to
turn the 4,500 square-meter Menteng Pulo cemetery into a park
would cost nearly Rp 280 million, according to the city's
official website BeritaKota.com.

Descendants of the dead buried there are required to register
the graves between Sept. 8 and Sept. 21, while the process of
moving them will begin on Oct.11.

Out of 1,003 graves in the Menteng Pulo cemetery, only 147
still have a land use permit.

A park will be developed in the area due to its location in a
strategic area at the heart of the city.

It will be one of 30 parks to be built by the city
administration.

Head of the city landscape agency, Dadang Ruskandar, said that
statues of national heroes will be erected in the parks, which
are expected to be the lungs of the city.