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Thousands of city officials to celebrate Independence Day on reclaimed islet
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Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan visits islet D of the controversial land reclamation project in the Jakarta Bay on June 7, 2018, as his administration sealed off more than 900 buildings on islets C and D over an alleged lack of construction permits. (Antara/Dhemas Reviyanto)
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ome 4,000 Jakarta civil servants will attend a ceremony to commemorate Indonesia’s 74th Independence Day on Maju Beach, an artificial island that was known as islet D of the Jakarta Bay land reclamation project.
Jakarta Gubernatorial and Foreign Affairs Bureau head Muhammad Mawardi said the city would provide 75 buses to take city officials to the venue.
On Aug. 17, the buses will depart from 12 pickup points at several administration offices.
“The 4,000 city officials are from all of the city’s working units,” he told the press on Wednesday.
“Nothing [about the ceremony] will be different; just the venue,” he added.
The Independence Day ceremony usually takes place at the National Monument (Monas) area in Central Jakarta, but Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan announced that he wanted to hold it on the reclaimed islet.
“The reclaimed islets are known to be closed areas, even the media could not go there. [The islets are] closely guarded, as if they were privately owned. We want to change that. This belongs to the Republic of Indonesia,” he said.
