Thursday, May 23 2013, 06:13 AM
Old and new: Newly installed Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Moeldoko (right) clasps the hand of his predecessor, Gen. Pramono Edhie Wibowo, after the installation ceremony at the State Palace on Wednesday. Pramono officially retired today.(JP/Jerry Adiguna)
Old and new
Voice of the voiceless: Two former North Korean political prisoners,Hye-Sook Kim (left) and Myung-Sook Lee (right) display sketches thatillustrate the ferocious conditions of the North Korean prison forpolitical prisoners at the Commission for Missing Persons and ViolenceVictims (Kontras) in Jakarta on Wednesday. The testimonies were part ofthe familiarization program of the Citizen Alliance for North KoreaHuman Rights that pushed the international community to immediatelyact and halt the inhumane treatment that still occurs today.Indonesia is represented by former attorney general Marzuki Darusman in this alliance.(JP/Jerry Adiguna)
Voice of the voiceless
Safety first: Students dress as pocong (shrouded ghosts) in a campaign on traffic safety in Medan, North Sumatra, on Wednesday. The campaign aimed to encourage motorists to abide by traffic regulations and reduce the high number of accidents. (Antara/Septianda Perdana)
Safety first
Set off on the right foot: Sumedang resident Maulana Yaksa (right) walks with friends near the Bandung Military District headquarters on Wednesday. They have decided to walk from Sumedang to the Presidential Palace in Jakarta to tell President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono that there has been serious problem with the compensation package for land acquired from them for the Jatigede Dam by the government.(JP/Arya Dipa)
Set off on the right foot
Search for survivors: A rescuer searches a neighborhood near Telephone Road in Moore, Okla., Tuesday. Rescue workers neared the end of the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children. (AP/The Oklahoman, Sarah Phipps)
Search for survivors
RIP Indonesian justice: University of Indonesia students commemorate 15 years of reform in front of Merdeka Palace in Jakarta on Tuesday. The Student executive body urge the government to resolve past human rights violations and complete bureaucratic reform to eradicate corruption. (JP/Jerry Adiguna)
RIP Indonesian justice
Thanksgiving: A man throws ketupat (rice cake wrapped in a coconut leaf) at an “opponent” in the Mesantalan tradition or ketupat war in Apityeh village, Karangasem regency, Bali, on Tuesday. The event, which is held every year, is aimed atthanking God for a good harvest. (JP/Agung Parameswara)
Thanksgiving
Warm welcome: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (right) welcomes Developing-8 (D-8) Secretary General, Seyed Ali-Mohammad Mousavi (left), to the Presidential Office in Jakarta, on Tuesday. The D-8 secretary general is consult with his Indonesian counterparts to improve cooperation between D-8 members. (JP/Jerry Adiguna)
Warm welcome
Go girls!: Transgendered group the Alliance of Anticorruption Transgenders (AWAK) visits The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) headquarters in Kuningan, Jakarta, on Tuesday. They called on the antigraft body to solve many neglected graft cases such as that of trains from Japan in 2006 and 2007. (JP/Hans Nicholas Jong)
Go girls!
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World
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Anchorage police say a young man who didn’t want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant.
A funeral home offers natural burials where the ride to the person’s final resting place is on the back of a three-wheeled bicycle.
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