Tuesday, 02 October 2012
Jakarta Post BANDUNG: Bandung City's legislative council elected on Tuesday bureaucrat Dada Rosada as the new mayor of Bandung, West Java, for a five-year term. Paired with Jusep Purwasuganda from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan), he garnered 26 of the 45 votes needed to defeat his...(size: 6.3Kb)
Jakarta Post Wawan Hussein, Contributor, Bandung California has Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bandung has Iwan "Abah" Abdulrachman, who hopes to become the city's next mayor. They are both entertainers, Arnold a film star and Iwan a musician and composer. And both are eager to enter the "busy world of...(size: 4.4Kb)
Jakarta Post BANDUNG, West Java: Hundreds of people from the Forum of Struggle for the Disabled (Forpadi) marked National Awakening Day with a rally here on Monday. They marched through the city carrying banners and posters demanding the public, the government and state institutions stop discriminating against...(size: 4.4Kb)
Jakarta Post The Jakarta Post, Jakarta A mass strike by public minibus drivers receded in most parts of the country on Tuesday, but commuters had to pay the price as the drivers unilaterally increased the fares. Albeit far smaller in magnitude, the strike continued in Yogyakarta, the Central Java town of Batang...(size: 6.4Kb)