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Jakarta Corners: February 2011
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011. Jakarta Youngster's Creativity and Music Bands. The musical life in Indonesia has experienced up and down cycles. When musical groups started to establish and develop in early 1960s, at the same time when the Beatles reached its peak, the musical groups in Indonesia faced. A bleak situation as the political life became very intense. For the young generation that dark period was just history. Although the movement of anti-piracy continued, the piracy remained rampant. The...
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Jakarta Corners: December 2011
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Will North Jakarta Subside below Sea Level? It is alarming that the level of sea water inundating Jakarta coastal area is getting higher and higher. Today we can notice that at certain spots in Jakarta coastal area the sea water level invading the land could reach up to 2 meters during high tide. Some people think that Jakarta coastal area is in the process of submerging below the sea level. Does such phenomenon really happen in Jakarta? There are, indeed, certain spots in th...
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Jakarta Corners: Enhancing the Railway Transportation, Better Late than Never
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Monday, July 8, 2013. Enhancing the Railway Transportation, Better Late than Never. Looking at the railway transportation in Indonesia always gives us a negative perception of poor undertaking. People always associate this mode of transportation with the bad image of illegal ragged shelters covering the railway banks and semi-legal stalls occupy. The problem is so eye-catching and persistent. Why? And what consequences we get from this misleading belief? The railway situations in the country become degra...
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Jakarta Corners: July 2013
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Monday, July 8, 2013. Enhancing the Railway Transportation, Better Late than Never. Looking at the railway transportation in Indonesia always gives us a negative perception of poor undertaking. People always associate this mode of transportation with the bad image of illegal ragged shelters covering the railway banks and semi-legal stalls occupy. The problem is so eye-catching and persistent. Why? And what consequences we get from this misleading belief? The railway situations in the country become degra...
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Jakarta Corners: July 2011
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Thursday, July 21, 2011. Can the Road Crossers be Disciplined? Everybody knows that traffic jams in Jakarta are acute. The standard explanations for that are too many cars and too many motorcycles as compared to the roads available. The situation is worsened by the non-disciplinary drivers, merchandizes put at the side of the road by unconcerned traders, the cars parked at the side of busy roads, and last but not least people cross the road at will. After this try-out period the police will impose a fine...
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Jakarta Corners: February 2013
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013. Monorail, an Ever Changing Project. Jakarta people are tired with the daily traffic jams that they have to face. The number of cars and motorcycles which crowd the roads are increasing significantly from time to time. Meanwhile, the length of the roads and public transportation armada are stagnant. The city government seems helpless unless they find some innovative ways to develop a revolutionary mode of transportation. Jakarta Monorail and Omnico. After it halted for years, J...
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Jakarta Corners: May 2011
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011. Is It Possible Jakarta to Become [Cigarette] Smokeless? Anywhere you go, either it is a remote place in the frozen climate close to the Arctic, an arid desert in the middle of Sahara or a humid tropical rain-forest in Indonesia, and not to mention dense populated cities everywhere in the world, you will find people smoke cigarette. Jakarta is no exception. From America to Europe. From the WHO data it is clear that tobacco is a major cause of death. Is the first area. Within that ...
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Jakarta Corners: February 2012
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012. Don't Forget to Remember Pedestrians. Jakarta Metropolitan is not for pedestrians. Certainly Jakarta has not been designed for it. The city seems to be prioritized for the cars’ mobility. No comfortable sidewalks. Are available nor zebra-cross. Es are enough for people to stroll around enjoying the metropolitan life . The city government seems to be indifferent by the misuse of the sidewalks. The city government may claim that they have a modern management but fail to reco...
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Jakarta Corners: September 2013
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Thursday, September 19, 2013. Unpopular Jokowi’s Letter on Cheap Car to Vice President. Jokowi, the popular Jakarta Governor, sent a letter to Vice President calling for the postponement for the sales of low cost green car (LCGC) in Jakarta. E.E. Mangindaan,. Low and middle class people are eager to buy such cars as they cannot afford to buy normal car which price beyond their purchasing power and buy motorcycles instead. Now having such a low price car available, some of them may convert from riding...
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Jakarta Corners: Jokowi, the Jakarta Controversial Governor
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Thursday, February 14, 2013. Jokowi, the Jakarta Controversial Governor. Who is now the top news-maker in Indonesia? Many people will answer almost unanimously: “Jokowi”. Joko Widodo, the full name of Jokowi now the Jakarta governor, does indeed attract so many people, not only in Jakarta but the whole country. He was awarded as the world third best mayor by the England-based City Mayors Foundation. To implement his working program, Jokowi is very firm, as he doesn’t like his subordinates to have b...
