The Lights Are So Pretty
Monday morning, Bulungan intersection near RSPP. I am waiting for the red light, and the roads are comparitively empty. Suddenly, a dark green late-model Mitsubishi passes me on the left, runs the red...
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Repost: Too Obvious To Miss
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View ArticleBut We Were Just Making Some Cash On The Side!
Two police officers were arrested for selling ecstasy; they claim they were instructed by three prosecutors to sell the contraband. Apparently, the pills sold were part of confiscated evidence in an...
View ArticleTangerang: The New Land Of Trash
Tangerang has agreed to allocate land for construction of a garbage processing site for Jakarta's trash. So Tangerang will turn away couples looking for a place to have premarital sex and even women...
View ArticlePark At Your Own Risk
So the city regulators have found an unlicensed, over-charging parking area smack in the middle of the city, for years somehow overlooked by everyone - the police headquarters. Hey, give those guys a...
View ArticlePersistent Chaps, Eh?
Three men were arrested for trespassing Muhammadiyah chairman Din Syamsuddin's home on Friday. These men claimed they were asking for donations for the victims of Situ Gintung, and insisted to enter...
View ArticleBut Now More People Know About Corruption!
The government has set up five anticorruption centers in various places in Jakarta. They say that the centers are used to give information on how to fight corruption, and as a preventive measure to...
View ArticleMissing: Lakes. Call Tangerang If You See Them
The Tangerang municipality is apparently so busy with other stuff they actually have lost things as large as lakes. Blaming the law that does not give authority to the muncipalilty to manage the lakes...
View ArticleEcstasy Raid At Police Housing Complex
Oh my, oh my. Talk about 'right under their noses'. Two ecstasy labs were raided, where one was in a Brimob (police elite) housing complex, and the other one was in a Kopassus (special forces) housing...
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Some People Just Can't Be Told What To Do
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="512" caption="A man puffs on his cigarette at Gatot Subroto Army Hospital in Central Jakarta, Monday. Amid the lack of officers to enforce the bylaw, many...
View ArticleTrying To Smoke 'Em Out Again
So tomorrow, the city government will attempt to restart the smoking ban that supposedly is already in effect, yet ignored by many Jakartans. In light of the recent alleged ban on Facebook, perhaps it...
View ArticleSo What Will They Steal Next?
A bus shelter was reportedly stolen Friday night - it was last seen still standing at 8 pm Friday, yet was already gone by Saturday morning. A local government officer reacted to this by saying 'all...
View ArticlePolice Chief Busted By... Police
A subdistrict police chief was among the several officers arrested by a police raid aimed at 'bad cops'. After a few police members routinely failed to show up at morning briefing sessions, they did a...
View ArticleWanted: Defamation Law Specialists
Similar to the much-hyped Bu Prita versus RS Omni International case, there is another case where somebody bought a shophouse (ruko) from ITC Mangga Dua, in which he was apparently led to believe that...
View ArticleWe'll Take Just The Cash, Please
So you think those ATMs are built like mini bank-vaults, eh? That's true, actually; it's very hard to break in an ATM machine and get all the money out, at least in the amount of time the authorities...
View ArticleFree Helmets = Safety Awareness?
This is smart! Rather than hounding motorcyclists at every corner, the police simply distributed free helmets. Well, it sort of feels like handing our condoms without sex education, but at least it's...
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But We Practice This Circus Act Every day
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="A family of four on a motorcycle whizzing through the streets of Jakarta on Thursday. (Photo: Afriadi Hikmal, JG)"] [/caption] There is a new...
View ArticleSo Do You Wonder Where The Extra 2 Pills Went?
An ojek driver was caught carrying 998 ecstasy pills by the police in a spot check in North Jakarta. Perhaps he wasn't riding in a straight line? No, that can't be it, since most motorcyclists in...
View ArticleSafety versus Profit Conspiracies
Reader comments on an article reporting on the new rules and fines being imposed to motorcycle riders cover a range of reactions; from the usual: - it's about time there was a crackdown on the...
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FPI: The New Guardian Of The Law, And Curator Of Art, As Well
So the statue above is apparently so offensive or something that it has to go, well at least according to FPI, and despite the protests from the artist, I Nyoman Nuarta. The Bekasi mayor has bowed...
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