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  • Alternative art space reflects on its humble beginnings

    Alternative art space reflects on its humble beginnings

    Thu, 11/05/2009 - 12:05 PM
    Established in 2000 as a small not-profit organization with a mere start-up budget of Rp 600,000 (US$60), the artists' initiative ruangrupa has evolved into an established art space, supporting art...

  • Police, govt yet to set penalties for polluting vehicles

    Thu, 11/05/2009 - 12:05 PM
    Despite its previous plan, the Jakarta Environmental Management Agency (BPLHD) has not begun targeting owners of polluting vehicles, amid unclear sanctions and a lack of coordination with law...

  • Jakarta to host World Town Planning Day

    Thu, 11/05/2009 - 12:05 PM
    As the Jakarta administration finalizes its deliberations on new city spatial plans, the capital will host the second national celebration of World Town Planning Day 2009 this weekend with...

  • Something is rotten in the state of our sewage

    Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:25 AM
    In the summer of 1858, London was invaded, not by insurgents or bandits, but by a pungent stench that oozed from its ditches, the river Thames, and even from beneath the fanciest of floorings.

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