Jakarta

Foreign tourist youtube: Indonesian crooked police

By kurnia at 1 December, 2007, 7:30 pm

This illegal practice by police is common in my country. It’s an open secret. This video is quite interesting as it is claimed to be taken by a foreign tourist. Well when you break law and our police arrest you, basically you could be fined legally but you would go numerous and time wasting procedures. […]

Miss World Update:”Number eight was Indonesia, beautifully singing Alicia Key’s ‘If I Ain’t Got You’ which went down very well with the enthusiastic audience.”

By kurnia at 1 December, 2007, 6:40 am

Last update: Miss China Zi Lin Zhang crowned Miss World 2007.
The results so far from Miss World 2007 in China:
At least I found one sentence about Indonesian contestant there.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC IS CROWNED BEACH BEAUTY!
TALENT SHOW IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE WORLD FAMILY PARTY
Number eight was Indonesia, beautifully singing Alicia Key’s ‘If I Ain’t Got […]

First 10,000 hits

By kurnia at 29 November, 2007, 8:12 pm

Just take a look at my awstat hits counter at my server after almost two weeks launching this blog. Not quite bad as the hits reached 10,987 with 338 unique visitors, 754 number of visits and 3,994 pageviews. If you see the free mapstat in my homepage, the unique visitors have reached 446 and pageviews […]

Sop buntut at Cup & Cino Coffee House, Plasa Semanggi

By kurnia at 28 November, 2007, 11:14 pm

Just had a dinner with a friend in Cup & Cino Coffee House. I had no plan to go there actually but it looked to be a nice restaurant. Well nothing wrong to try. I ordered sup buntut and just a diet coke. A friend of mine chose others, sorry I forgot. […]

Public ignorance triggers flood in North Jakarta coast

By kurnia at 27 November, 2007, 6:27 pm

At first, I thought the flood was due to an unpredictable weather. But then one of the writers of the story below told me, it was because of public ignorance of the flood warning. The flood has reportedly claimed several lives, forcing the city government took necessary measures. If there is no death toll, perhaps […]

Three main global warming-related problems in Indonesia

By kurnia at 27 November, 2007, 3:37 pm

I have been thinking about this problems over the weekend. I finished the draft, but I still need to write a short paper on this.
Three main global warming-related problems in Indonesia
1. Forest destruction: illegal logging and forest conversion into plantation
2. Air pollution: transportation and industrial sources
3. Unclean energy: oil, coal fired power plants.
Highlights
1.Illegal Logging. -Deforestation […]

Satay Djono Jogja in Pejompongan, Central Jakarta

By kurnia at 25 November, 2007, 3:22 am

Sebenarnya rencana mau makan di restoran Lotus di Pondok Indah cuma macetnya gara-gara pembangunan busway, akhirnya kubatalin. Putar arah, akhirnya menuju ke sate Djono Jogja di Pejompongan, dekat pom bensin Rusun Pejompongan.