Friday, May 24 2013, 09:52 AM

Jakarta

Traffic control unit still not running at full tilt

With a shoestring budget, the Jakarta Transportation Agency is developing a fully-automated intelligent traffic system (ITS) that is as sophisticated…

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  • Mall security guard fatally mobbed

    JAKARTA (JP): West Jakarta Police detectives are looking for four men who they believe mobbed to death a mall security guard after dragging him from his house in Rawa Buaya,…

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  • Alleged con artist nabbed in Yogyakarta

    JAKARTA (JP): Central Jakarta Police detectives are awaiting the arrival oftheir counterparts from Yogyakarta who are expected to hand over a 55-year-old woman accused of having collected Rp 470 milli

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  • Most private parking firms ignore the official rate

    JAKARTA (JP): Despite the recent ruling that parking fees must be adjusted in line with the official rates set by the city administration, some private parking operators still charged higher…

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  • Police arrest two, seize drugs

    JAKARTA (JP): City Police detectives apprehended a married couple on Tuesday for possession of 1,863 ecstasy pills, 590 grams of shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine), some marijuana, a pistol

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  • KAI shifts collision blame to device theft

    JAKARTA (JP): While human error was blamed as the main cause of the head-oncollision between two trains last Monday, state railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) has shifted the…

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  • Migrant ditch diggers wait it out on street corners

    JAKARTA (JP): Many people may not believe that seasonal ditch diggers in the city could survive without a single penny in their pockets.

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  • Private parking operators threaten to sue government

    JAKARTA (JP): Operators of privately owned shopping centers warned on Wednesday that they would sue the city administration if it went ahead withits plan to close down the city's private…

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  • Pakistani Embassy car stolen

    JAKARTA (JP): A driver at the Pakistani Embassy allegedly stole on Friday afternoon a Toyota Corolla sedan belonging to the embassy, the embassy saidon Monday.

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  • Robbery in DPR/MPR complex

    JAKARTA (JP): Police are investigating the Tuesday morning robbery of computers worth hundreds of millions of rupiah from the House of Representatives/People's Consultative Assembly (DPR/MPR) complex

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  • Minivan fares on the rise

    BOGOR (JP): Bogor administration has decided to increase public minivan fares from Rp 400 to Rp 600 soon, an official said on Tuesday.

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