Whats going on in Jakarta ?!
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These drugs are readily available in all major urban areas, including schools, karaoke lounges, bars, cafes, discotheques, nightclubs, and they even foun their way into remote villages. Therefore, it is not surprising that drug users continue to increase from year to year.


On April 8, 2005, the Police found an ecstasy factory having a production capacity of 504,00 pills daily in Bogor (West Java) ; on November 11, 2005, an ecstasy and shabu-shabu factory with capacity of producing 100 kg per week in Cemplang Cekande (Banten); on November 23, 2005, esctasy factories with production capacity of 8,000 pills per hour in Banyuwangi and Malang (East Java) on November 23, 2005, which were owned by Indonesian, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysian citizens.

The Indonesina police, and the people in general, should rejoice and be proud of last year's discovery of shabu-shabu and ecstasy factories which ranked as the world's third biggest.

The big busts are hopefully a sign of the beginning of the prevalence of clean governance in Indonesia and a sign of the governments strong commitment to save the country's younger generation.


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Smoking Banned in Public Places in Jakarta
The Weekend Australian reports (4 February 2005) that legislators in the Indonesian capital have passed a law banning smoking in public places as part of efforts to combat pollution in one of the world's most polluted cities.

According to the new law, a person caught smoking in public places such as restaurants, parks and public transport will be fined 50 million rupiah ($7000) or jailed for six months.


Some Jakartans expressed doubts the ban would be enforced strictly, arguing that other laws aimed at making the capital more orderly had been ignored.

"People refuse to use pedestrian bridges to cross even though there are officers around. Do you expect the same officers to stop people from smoking?" one resident wrote to the Detikcom news website.

Smoking comes close to being a national pastime in Indonesia.

Some 70 per cent of the country's 213 million people smoke, its cigarette firms are stock market leaders and 57,000 deaths a year are blamed on tobacco.

In another move to curb pollution in Jakarta, city councillors this week agreed to set limits on vehicle emissions but dropped plans to ban ageing cars and buses from roads despite pressure from officials and environmentalists.

Aging buses, packed so tightly that passengers are forced to hang from the doors, are one of the more unattractive features of city life.

Unlike most other major Asian cities, Jakarta has no subway or light railway.

The Asian Development Bank last year said hazardous urban pollution levels in Indonesia costs the country 400 million dollars a year.

It said the figure could increase tenfold by 2010 without environmental improvements.

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Designer drug cocktails on the menu
The Herald Sun reports (21 March 2005) that young Victorians are increasingly popping, injecting and smoking a dangerous cocktail mix of drugs. Speed, ice, cannabis, ecstasy, GHB, ketamine, cocaine, heroin and LSD are all on the menu for young people in a world of ever-increasing choice. And the list of ecstasy pills making their way on to the market is rising all the time. Blue DVDs, red and green Mitsubishis, orange butterflies, red/pink Russians and white VWs are just a handful of the designer drugs available in Melbourne recently.


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