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Friday, September 16, 2011
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16 Pages Number 191 3st Year
Half-heartedly
Endeavor to create Bali Clean and Green
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People fishing at one of rivers that polluted with garbage and debris in Denpasar. Bali Clean and Green is a spectacular program. However, the extent of the program implementation in the field still needs to be questioned.
Bali Post MANGUPURA - Bali Clean and Green is a spectacular program. However, the extent of the program implementation in the field still needs to be questioned. In reality, the measures to realize the Bali Clean and Green seem to have been carried out half-heartedly, including the many obstacles faced.
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YOGYAKARTA
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A legislator of Badung House, I Wayan Puspa Negara, stated on Wednesday (Sep 14) that to realize the programs should be accompanied with a spectacular movement, too. It could not be attained by standard or ordinary measures. “We need more movement. To realize a clean or cleaner Bali, one of the actions that can be taken is to change the behavior of society against the plastic waste. Changing behavior is far more effective and
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The program referring to the Badung Clean, Green and Flowering was purely the directive of Badung Regent interpreted through relevant agencies, especially the Badung Sanitation and Landscaping Services. The reference was clear. Even, in 2012, it had been set in order the appearance of Badung had changed in accordance with the concept mentioned. For the matter of sanitation, the Badung Regency provided a longterm directive, where Badung should have been free from plastic waste in 2014. A total fund of IDR 100 million would be allocated this year for Gelatik or Anti-Plastic Waste Movement. More funds would be allocated in the following year. Continued on page 6
Activists hail decision over 1947 Indonesia executions Agence France-Presse
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gives a long-term benefit,” he said. Realizing the green Bali, in reality, did not only relate to planting trees as many as possible, but also to maintenance of the existing ones. Currently, said Puspa, Bali or chiefly Badung, required a lot of green open spaces. Protection against the green open spaces, especially in urban areas should be given priority, moreover, in the midst of the increased opening of residential area. “A c c o r d i n g t o L aw N o .
26/2007, a quota of 30 percent for green area has not been properly fulfilled. We’ll see that green land conversion into building has become a major obstacle. It happens considering the tendency of land use is not comparable to the planting of trees,” he said. How did the implementation of Bali Clean and Green program work in Badung? The Head of Badung Sanitation and Landscaping Services (DKP), I Putu Eka Merthawan, revealed that Badung Regency indeed had referred to the program. However, Badung actually had its own concept and program denoting a directive of Badung Regent AA Gde Agung. It was known as the Badung Clean, Green and Flowering.
JAKARTA - Indonesian activists on Thursday welcomed an international court’s finding that the Dutch state was responsible for a massacre in Indonesia in 1947 and that victims’ families should be compensated. The Commission for Disappearances and Victims of Violence (Kontras) said the decision shows that there is no statute of limita-
tions on human rights cases. “This happened more than 60 years ago. It will send a message to our government that they should take responsibility for their own abuses in Indonesia,” Kontras deputy coordinator Haris Azhar told AFP. Eight widows and one survivor from the town of Rawagede, east of Jakarta, took the Netherlands to court in 2008 to claim compensation for the execution of more than 400 men and boys on December
9, 1947, by colonial troops during Indonesia’s war of independence. An eighth widow died before the court papers were lodged. A three-judge bench at The Hague civil court ruled Wednesday that seven of the eight widows claiming compensation should receive it, while the family of a survivor of the massacre should also be compensated. The survivor, named as Saih Bin Sakam, died at age 88 in May.
The Netherlands has in the past admitted that the execution did indeed take place, but argued that no claim could be lodged because of an expiry in the statute of limitations in Dutch law of five years, the court heard. The Dutch government in 2009 decided to donate 850,000 euros ($1.15 million) to the area, but has avoided using the term “compensation”, Dutch daily newspaper De Volkskrant reported. Continued on page 6