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A4 – Taking it’s predicate as one of developing country in Southeast Asia, Indonesia is never get too far from a single ‘word’ which representing much of the daily term inside a vast nation, that are ‘developing’ issues.

Emerging issues, started from economic, politics, national security, crime, social, welfare or even an escalated environment topics, quite ‘entertaining’ it’s people, as it became headlines, which are brought by an ink of daily morning paper into a digital fonts from world wide web.

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Tragically, a Traffic…

Posted: April 22, 2014 in NEW(e)S(t)
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A4 – Predicated as the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta is not only swarm by it’s political issues, but also surrounded by overwhelming problems as the largest main centralized city of the vast archipelago.

Offering all the luxury to be called as a world class metropolitan city in such an ‘instant’ way, Jakarta soon become disoriented by lack of adequate masterplan which arise not only a new building in every corner of it’s protocol street, but also the ‘skytall’ problems that lately ‘towering’ streets of the capital.

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A4- This ‘piece’ of post is much personal… It’s reflecting one of the best moment which happened during the best day of the author golden age.

A love story? Perhaps… but in fact, it won’t be broken as the spell casted… A timeless love that not selling it’s romantic stories nor a personal secret, but much more represent hundred faces that redefine back love as a universal language.

The stories had it root from Yogyakarta rural area. Back in 2006, a great earthquake tear down all the surrounding area, leaving nothing but grieves and sorrow for all the growns up, but hope is not lasted… Not with those children… And this were their stories…

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A4 – Just like it’s similar neighboring Southeast Asian countries, election day in Indonesia is much more colorful than just a ‘black or white’ prediction for this nation’s future. In this 5-years annual event, all is much exciting when viewed in a cultural perspective.

For a brief history, after finally gain it’s independence back in 1945, Indonesia later transforms as a new young republic which during it’s early years hoped to practicing democracy on it bests towards their vast background of thousand islands.

Such a large country, Indonesia which separated by three time zones, symbolizing various different culture, race or even religion background which later represent by numbers of political party that somehow ‘automatically’ also symbolized by… ‘colors’.

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A4 – Busted by the law, and handed over inside cold prison bars probably a ‘sentence’ that mark as a ‘bad luck’ for the bad guys. While most prisons across Indonesia blown up the local newspaper with their ‘bad scandal’, a good positive news finally emerged from behind the one of Indonesia’s well known prison, Rutan Salemba.

‘Hotel Prodeo’, that is the ‘nickname’ for the terms of prison in Bahasa. Now, instead yelling and screaming scrambling behind the prison bars, the convicts of Salemba has their own way to make their ‘voice’ to be heard throughout the country, by amazingly sang ‘bit by bit’ of their music melody.

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Sea Level ?!

Posted: January 18, 2014 in NEW(e)S(t)
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A4 – While New York and other North American cities was bitten hard by sub-zero Vortex ice assault, the other part of ‘time zones’ also shares the same invasion by mother nature, including Jakarta.

Well… Jakarta is well famous as one of controversial capital in the world. This vast urban jungle concrete megapolitan Southeast Asian city is well familiar not only because its traffic jam ‘disorder’ which last longer than any TV shows broadcasted, but also on its own annual ‘sick’ ritual, which is called… “Banjir”. (more…)

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A4 – While people across Indonesia storm the streets and landmarks for New Year 2014 final countdown, the national cops apparently has their own ‘party’ by unleashing their ‘firework’ towards terrorist’s hideout with bangs and bullets.

During the last countdown to a new January, a detachment of police’s special anti terrorist squad busting a group of terrorist whom residing inside their safe house in the outskirt of Jakarta.

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A4 – Every country in the world shares the same language during the countdown of last December, which is… Happy New Year!

Well… what’s (so) new about a new year? In terms of everybody pronounced “Happy” before the words ‘New Year’, we shares the same idea that everybody got a ‘second chance’…

But man… What is the point of new ‘thing’ if you don’t know what so special about it? For example… Dude, you got a new car, but you don’t know what to do with it…?!

Something sounds a far way out of it… While people strolling around and blew their horn ‘legally’ -cause this was an new year eve- , (probably) most of them don’t know what to do when they finally woke up on the next afternoon, in a very early start of new January.

So… Another new year? Zzz…. (more…)