Four escapees recaptured

Four escapees recaptured

JAKARTA: The police managed to recapture on Tuesday another
four detainees out of the 17 who escaped on Monday morning from
Bekasi Police station.

The four have been identified as Matsani, Doli Simanjuntak,
Abdul Azis and Slamet, alias Bram, and were all apprehended in
Bekasi, a police source said.

Earlier on Monday, police arrested two escapees, Yoyok Utoyo
and Karnadi Usman.

The 17 inmates escaped from their police detention cell by
sawing through the steel bars in the ceiling.

Last Friday, two detainees held at Matraman Police station in
East Jakarta escaped, also after sawing through the steel bars of
their cell. Visiting relatives had smuggled the saw into the cell
by hiding it in a Bible. -- JP.

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Ex-drug addicts get training
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Ex-drug addicts get training

JAKARTA: Sixty-five former drug addicts are receiving free
training in Rawa Lumbu district to become motorcycle mechanics.

The training, which will cost Rp 38 million, is organized by
the Society Empowerment Board of the Bekasi mayoralty
administration and funded by the central government.

Kamaludin, 35, the training supervisor, said on Monday the
training started two weeks ago on a 1,000-square-meter plot of
land belonging to Adak, a local resident.

Adak has donated the use of his land, only requesting that the
participants of the training keep the area clean, Kamaludin said.

He said he hoped that after the training was completed, the
former drug addicts would be able to find jobs.

The deputy speaker of Commission E for public welfare at the
Bekasi council, Syafrudin, suggested that automotive company
Astra be involved in the program so the students could later find
work at its factory.

He also said that he hoped the program would be expanded in
the future to include the unemployed. About 39,000 people in
Bekasi are currently without work, he added. --Antara

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IPB holds Paddy Festival in Bogor
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IPB Paddy Festival celebrates food

JAKARTA: The Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB), in
cooperation with the Cultural Division of the French Foreign
Ministry and CIRAD, a French research center on tropical
agronomy, is holding the Paddy Festival at the IPB campus in
Dermaga, Bogor.

The event was opened on Tuesday by IPB deputy rector Asep
Saefuddin and Counselor for Cooperation and Cultural Affairs
Jacques de Croizant of the French Embassy in Indonesia, and is to
last until World Environment Day on June 5.

The theme of the festival is Food that Feeds the World.

The festival features various aspects of paddy, or unmilled
rice, including its history, cultivation and processing, as well
as economic and social discourses related to the scientific
innovation of paddy.

There are also 50 posters that are expected to raise public
awareness on problems in the development of paddy production.

"Gabah (paddy) and beras (milled rice) are two words that are
very close to us. Ironically, this closeness makes us take rice
for granted, as something unimportant," Asep said. "We never
thought about our knowledge of unmilled rice and the process
involved until the rice reaches our dinner table," he said. --
Antara