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The National Police announced the arrest of suspected terrorist Eko Prasetyo on Friday. Police also released a list of terrorism suspects. On Monday, National Police Chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri said police would launch a terrorism crackdown in the near future. (Antara Photo) The National Police’s Detachment 88 counterterrorist unit has arrested suspected terrorist fugitive Eko Prasetyo in Lamongan, East Java. National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Edward Aritonang said on Friday that Eko, who goes by the aliases of Zubeir and Suheir,...
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Jakarta Globe, Putri Prameshwari, April 30, 2010Rodi Hartono is draped in a national flag after winning gold for his country at the Robogames in San Francisco with his robot, DU-114 . The robot had to maneuver through a labyrinth and put out flames. (JG Photo/Unikom) Amid a barrage of criticism of the national education system and the recent dismal exam results, a team of Bandung-based university students this week brought home a gold medal from a prestigious international robot competition. Team member Rodi Hartono, from the Indonesian...
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Jakarta Globe, Desi Anwar, April 30, 2010 According to an article in The New York Times, New York City is home to as many as 800 languages, many of them in danger of disappearing. This makes it a laboratory of world languages in decline. As official national languages tend to domi n ate because they are a country’s main tongue and English creeps into even the most remote corners of the world, many local languages are fast dying out. New York, on the other hand, finds itself a Tower of Babel for all sorts of exotic languages and dialects brought in by immigrants who keep their languages alive, at least while there are enough people around who remember how to speak them. Bukhari, a Persian...
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Jakarta Globe, Sylviana Hamdani, April 30, 2010A beach clean-up with Make a Change Bali draws a fair-sized crowd. Saturday’s concert will promote clean beaches and green living. (Photo courtesy of Gary Bencheghib) Over his two-week Easter break from school, 15-year-old Gary Bencheghib was hard at work. Set on a mission to save Bali’s beaches, he believes the only way to do this is to get more people involved, locals and tourists alike. “Balinese young people seem to be very influenced by famous Indonesian rock bands,” Bencheghib said. “So...
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The Jakarta Post, Fri, 04/30/2010 12:24 PM UBUD: Alila Manggis in East Bali and Alila Ubud in Gianyar received the ASEAN Green Hotel Award for their commitment to supporting responsible tourism. The ASEAN Green Hotel Award is one of six ASEAN Tourism Standards considered essential for supporting ASEAN to become a world-class destination. The award is presented to hotels that measure up to 11 environmental and energy conservation criteria. Among the criteria are environmental policies and actions for hotel operation, use of green and local products, collaboration with the local community on environmental protection, the hotel's steps to providing staff training programs on environmental...
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Tempo Interactive, Thursday, 29 April, 2010 | 19:18 WIB TEMPO Interactive, Yogyakarta: The Yogyakarta Cultural Office will include more cultural conservation areas in addition to 13 areas already listed by the office. This is in line with the Yogyakarta Regional Regulation no. 11/2005 on the Management of Cultural Conservation Areas. “There are some areas which we must prioritize,” said the office chief Djoko Dwiyanto, in a workshop titled Discussion on Recommendations for the Revision of the Cultural Conservation Law, yesterday. The regulation was seen as a step forward, considering the Law no. 5/1992 on Cultural Conservation Objects only regulate objects and sites, and not the areas themselves....
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Antara News, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 22:44 WIB Jayapura (ANTARA News) - Papua`s southern coastal areas are quite strategic for the entry and development of Austronesian culture. Researcher of the Jayapura Archeological Institute Hari Suroto said here Wednesday Papua is geographically the most western part of the Pacific connecting Southeast Asia and the Pacific. "This point is a strategic area for migration traffic from the west to the east," ujarnnya. Hari said many archeological factors and sustainable forms of culture found in Papua`s coastal areas indicated the presence of Austronesian culture in Indonesia`s most eastern parts. Austronesian culture, he added, is known and spread...
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Jakarta Globe, Markus Junianto Sihaloho, April 28, 2010A piece of porcelain from the Tek Sing shipwreck dating from 1822. Michael Hatcher, who discovered the historically important wreck, is again drawing the attention of government officials after a new discovery. (Photo courtesy of Artancient.com) The government said on Wednesday that it had launched an investigation into the activities of alleged treasure hunter Michael Hatcher, who has a lengthy history with Indonesia and is believed to again be operating on a new discovery. Aji Sularso,...
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Ni Komang Erviani and Wasti Atmodjo, The Jakarta Post, Kuta | Wed, 04/28/2010 9:37 AMBali's 'beach boys' are said to target foreign women on the resort island's beaches. Photo: AFP Balinese community leaders have voiced objections to the screening of what they call a misleading portrayal of Bali in the documentary film Cowboys in Paradise. Streamed on YouTube and other social networks, Cowboys in Paradise was directed by Singaporean Amit Virmani. The film documents Kuta Beach as a paradise for gigolos, male sex workers preying on rich foreign...
