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Jakarta Celebrates Half Century History

June 22, 2011 By 1 Comment

The Indonesian capital city is almost 500 years old.

The city of Jakarta is exactly 484 years old and it fares well with its inhabitants. Every city of the world has a history behind it. And Jakarta is no exception. In the words of the Governor, Fauzi Bowo “the face of Jakarta is not too bad seeing that the city is celebrating its 484th anniversary.” More than half of Jakartans were fully satisfied with their city and the amenities it provided them.

As for the remaining minority the only thing which could be rightfully said is that you can’t satisfy them all. The celebrations for the 484th anniversary took place at the National Monument Complex on Wednesday. People enjoyed the occasion with gusto and delight. The Governor further reiterated that improvements will be made in the city’s working. Traffic bottlenecks and floods are two of the major problems that remain to be solved.

Cities are signs of civilization. Jakarta too will take its place among the modern cities of the globe as the world progresses towards the 22nd century.

Filed Under: Featured, World News Tagged With: anniversary, feature, Indonesia, jakarta

Indonesia Witnesses Parkour

June 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Agile, slim and fit Indonesians deal with an urban environment.

You may have seen them and have been puzzled as to what exactly they seek to accomplish by their acts. Highly flexible and speedy people go whizzing past you and jump, bounce and roll over objects and obstacles in the environment. Welcome to Parkour, a new game and whole different philosophy of life. Its practitioners have the skills of their feline counterparts and they often jump off buildings onto other buildings and literally use the urban landscape for their own ends.

Indonesia too has its fair share of Parkour experts. And they are very good at what they do. Parkour is basically a French art in which the urban landscape is thought of as a jungle where people can practice their physical skills. In large cities such as Jakarta this exciting practice is very common. Just looking around one can notice so many devotees of this thrilling and at the same time dangerous sport.

With increasingly sedentary habits spreading on a global level it only makes sense to beat the obesity epidemic. Parkour is an excellent as well as fun way to do this without a gym or special equipment.

Filed Under: Featured, Lifestyle Tagged With: feature, fitness, Indonesia, parkour

Liverpool Enters Asian Arena

May 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Football makes inroads into Indonesia.

The renowned football club which goes by the name of Liverpool has sent out feelers in the Asian market. They have sent their favorite player, Phil Neal, to Jakarta, Indonesia in an effort to introduce the ins and outs of football to the Muslim country whose team has yet to succeed on an international level.

This is a golden opportunity for the children of Indonesia to get to participate in a game whose players are famed for their fitness. Liverpool already has a sizable following in Asia and this is just one of its many projects in the pipeline.

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: football, Indonesia, liverpool

Indonesia: Mount Merapi volcano still shooting ash

November 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

On Thursday, Indonesia’s most active volcano Mount Merapi was shooting clouds of ash high into the sky after a series of major eruptions, & an alert status stays in force, an official said.

Government volcanologist Raden Sukhyar said,”Merapi’s intensity has slowed down, but small eruptions still occur and its status is still alert,”

He said, “The volcano still belches volcanic ash. It just shot ash up to 1,000 metres high at 6:00 am today (2300 GMT Wednesday), but the ash had no potential to reach anywhere other than the slope of Merapi”.

Since volcano started erupting in late October, a total of 194 people have died & more than 360,000 people have been pushed to live in improvised camps outside the danger area.

Filed Under: Featured, World News Tagged With: Indonesia, Indonesia news, Mount Merapi, Volcano

Jakarta: US-Muslim mistrust must end, says Obama

November 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

On Wednesday, giving a keynote speech in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, the US president Barack Obama has said that a lot more requires to be done to restore frayed US relations with the Muslim world. He was addressing a 6,000-strong audience, mainly students, at the national university in the capital, Jakarta.

US president said, “Just as individuals are not defined solely by their faith, Indonesia is defined by more than its Muslim population,”

“But we also know that relations between the United States and Muslim communities have frayed over many years. As president, I have made it a priority to begin to repair these relations.” he said

Obama, who spent 4 years in Indonesia as a young boy, praised Indonesia as an good example of successful religious co-existence.

He said, “Even as this land of my youth has changed in so many ways, those things that I learned to love about Indonesia – that spirit of tolerance that is written into your constitution, symbolised in your mosques and churches and temples, and embodied in your people – still lives on”.

His speech was an updated version of a most importent address he gave seventeen months ago in Cairo, where he announced a “new beginning” in US-Muslim relations after the tensions over the 9/11 attacks on the US & the former US administration’s response to them.

Obama said, “In the 17 months that have passed we have made some progress, but much more work remains to be done”.

“I said then, and I will repeat now, that no single speech can eradicate years of mistrust. But I believed then, and I believe today, that we have a choice. We can choose to be defined by our differences, and give into a future of suspicion and mistrust. Or we can choose to do the hard work of forging common ground, and commit ourselves to the steady pursuit of progress” he said.

Filed Under: Featured, World News Tagged With: Indonesia, muslims, obama, us

Indonesia: Volcano death toll rises to138

November 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

On Saturday hospital officials said, the number of people killed by Mount Merapi volcano that erupted back to life 2 weeks ago climbed to 138.

An employee at Sardjito hospital, Sigit Priohutomo, said the toll rose by twenty after patients caught up in a blistery fireball on Friday succumbed to their injuries.

The small hospital at the base of Mount Merapi is struggling to deal with victims brought in after the Mount Merapi volcano’s most powerful eruption in a century – some with burns covering 95 percent of their body.

Filed Under: Featured, World News Tagged With: Indonesia, Indonesia news, Mount Merapi, Volcano

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