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PAGE 1-4 (HEADLINES)JP/Zul Trio AnggonoFree as a turtle: Conservation officials release 24 endangered green turtles back to the sea at Sanur, Bali on Thursday
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PAGE 1-4 (HEADLINES)
JP/Zul Trio Anggono
Free as a turtle: Conservation officials release 24 endangered green turtles back to the sea at Sanur, Bali on Thursday. Police seized 33 green turtles from alleged traders of endangered animals on Sunday and named one, Evaritus Sobi from Flores Island, as a suspect.
JP/Wendra Ajistyatama
Nurse! Nurse!: Nurses demonstrate outside the House of Representatives in Jakarta on Thursday, demanding the speedy passage of the nursing bill that will provide legal protection for their profession.
JP/Wendra Ajistyatama
Human Rights Champion: Tempo magazine chief editor Wahyu Muryadi (left) receives this year’s Yap Thiam Hien Human Rights Award in Jakarta on Thursday on behalf of the publication. The award was presented by Yap’s daughter, Yap Hong Ay, and chairman of the Yap Thiam Hien Foundation, Todung Mulya Lubis (center).
JP/R, Berto Wedhatama
Market bounce: A farmer taps a rubber tree in Bogor, West Java. The Indonesian Rubber Association (Gapkindo) said on Thursday it supported a proposal of the International Tripartite Rubber Council (ITRC) to set up a regional market for rubber contract spots and futures.
JP/R. Berto Wedhatama
Pump it up!: A PT Pertamina employee pumps gas in Jakarta. Subsidized fuel consumption in 2013 may reach 48 million kiloliters, 4.3 percent over the year’s quota.
PAGE 6 (NATIONAL)
JP/Ricky Yudhistira
Nice new uniform: Former top cop Insp. Gen. Djoko Susilo arrives at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in Jakarta for questioning on Thursday. Djoko, suspected of massive fraud in a driving simulator procurement scam, wore the standard KPK-issue uniform.
JP/Ricky Yudhistira
Best friends forever: Former Buol regent Amran Batalipu (right) testifies at the trial of suspected crook Siti Hartati Murdaya at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Thursday. Batalipu denied the Rp 3 billion he received from Hartati was a bribe, saying the money was a donation from Hartati for the regional election in Buol.
PAGE 10 (READERS FORUM)
JP/Wendra Ajistyatama
On the rise: High rise buildings dot Jakarta’s thoroughfare Jl. Sudirman. A recent survey revealed Jakarta is the most preferred destination of investment in real estate and office sectors, beating other big cities like Singapore.
Antara/Syaiful Arif
Education matters: A number of students of an Islamic boarding school in Jombang, East Java attend a class during Ramadhan in this file photo. The Religious Affairs Ministry plans to use Rp 35 trillion (US$3.9 trillion) of their total Rp 42 trillion budget to develop Islamic education in 2013.
PAGE 12 (CITY)
JP/Ricky Yudhistira
Lunch break: Students play in front of their school building, which is still under renovation, in East Jakarta on Wednesday.
JP/P.J. Leo
Painting over the cracks: Workers repair the roof and paint the walls of the Fatahillah Museum, also known as the Jakarta Historical Museum, in West Jakarta on Thursday. The work is part of the city administration’s embellishment of the Old Town to turn it into Jakarta’s premier tourism site.
PAGE 13-16 (WORLD)
Reuters/Anatolii Stepanov
Lawbreakers: Parliamentarians scuffle over voting rules on Thursday during the first session of the newly elected Ukrainian parliament in Kiev. The parliamentary session collapsed amid chaos when brawls erupted among opposition deputies and those of the ruling party over the electing of parliamentary officials.
Reuters/Chaiwat Subprasom
Calls for justice: Red shirt protesters hold pictures of some of those killed during crackdowns on various anti-government rallies outside the Department of Special Investigations (DSI) in Bangkok on Thursday. Former Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has been formally charged with murder in connection with the violent suppression of protesters in 2010, which left more than 90 people dead.
Courtesy of South Korean Embassy, Jakarta
Sharing practices: South Korean chief justice Yang Sung-tae (right) meets with his Indonesian counterpart Hatta Ali at the latter’s office in Jakarta on Wednesday.
AP/Christophe Ena
Monumental milestone: Religious dignitaries stand in front of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral as part of a ceremony for its 850th anniversary, Wednesday.
Reuters/William Gularte
Maya year-end: A Maya priest sounds a note on a conch shell horn during the Oxlajuj Batz ceremony to celebrate the end of the Maya calendar in the ceremonial center of Kaminal Juyu in Guatemala City Wednesday. The ceremony marks the meditational time before the beginning of a new calendar cycle, to be celebrated on Dec. 21.
REUTERS/KCNA
The ‘message’: A video grab from KCNA shows the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket launch at North Korea’s West Sea Satellite Launch Site, at the satellite control center in Cholsan county, North Pyongan province, in this video released by KCNA in Pyongyang on Thursday. KCNA said the video was taken on Wednesday.
PAGE 17-18 (BUSINESS)
Antara/Reza
Neighborly support: Grand Indonesia Shopping Town CEO Tessa Natalia Hartono (second left) and commissioner Grace Katuari (right) share a light moment with the Thailand-based Central Department Store’s director for international business, Alan Thomson (left) and its CEO, Khun Yuwadee Chirathivat (second right), during the opening of the Central Department Store in Grand Indonesia, Central Jakarta, on Thursday. The Thai company also announced its plan to invest at least Rp 180 billion in retail business in Indonesia by 2014.
Antara/Prasetyo Utomo
Online solutions: Ipaymu CEO Pikukuh PT (left) explains his company’s online transaction process during the launch of online transaction provider Ipaymu in Jakarta on Thursday. Also attending the launch was Ipaymu’s director of strategic partnerships, Turodrique Fuan (center) and PayPal’s head of indirect sales in Southeast Asia and India, Audrey Attevanger.
Swiss-Belhotel regains Indonesia’s leading global hotel chain award: Swiss-Belhotel International Indonesia has received Indonesia’s Leading Global Hotel Chain 2012/2013 in the Indonesia Travel and Tourism Awards 2012/2013 for the third consecutive year. The awards presentation was held on Dec. 10, 2012, in Jakarta and attended by Swiss-Belhotel International Executive Vice President Mr. James Tam, Senior Vice President of Operations and Development Mr. Emmanuel Guillard, and several other executives of the group and Indonesia Regional Office. The Hong Kong-based international hotel and resort management has offices and manages properties throughout the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
PAGE 23-24 (SPORTS)
Reuters/Murad Sezer
Swimming sirens: Winners Shannon Vreeland (from left), Megan Romano, Allison Schmitt and Chelsea Chenault of the US display their medals after the women’s 4x200m freestyle final during the FINA World Swimming Championships in Istanbul on Wednesday.
AP/Rick Bowmer
Streak stopped: Utah Jazz forward Paul Millsap (24) lays the ball up over San Antonio Spurs guard Gary Neal (14) in the second half of their NBA basketball game in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the US on Wednesday. The Jazz defeated the Spurs 99-96, ending the Texas team’s winning streak.
Reuters/Nacho Doce
Latin flavor: Brazil’s Sao Paulo goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni (left) and Lucas lead the celebration after the trophy ceremony after they won the Copa Sudamericana final soccer match against Argentina’s Tigre in Sao Paulo on Wednesday.
Reuters/Marcelo del Pozo
Group hug: Barcelona’s Lionel Messi (left) is congratulated by teammates after scoring against Cordoba during their Spanish King’s Cup soccer match at Nuevo Arcangel stadium in Cordoba, Spain, on Wednesday.
JP/R. Berto Wedhatama
Royal golfers: Team Europe captain José Maria Olazábal (right) shakes hands with Team Asia captain Naomichi Ozaki during a press conference of the sixth edition of the 2012 Royal Trophy golf tournament in Jerudong, Bandar Seri Begawan, on Thursday.
PAGE 25 (FEATURES)
Mixed media: A visitor watches a piece of video art created in a workshop designed to interpret the colonial photo archives of the sugar industry at the Kunstkring Art Gallery in Jakarta.
New shape: The “Sugar Town, Inc.” exhibition takes the form of a grocery store and coffee shop.
Sweet: Murals at the exhibition are derived from the colonial photo archives.
— Photos By Irma Chantily
Asia Calling
Reproduced: Homemade painted posters in Myanmar are making way for vinyl film posters that better weather the outdoors.
Asia Calling
Vanishing: Myanmarese poster artists say their once lively profession is dying.
