Take It Easy

Residents explore the funnier side of being inundated in dirty flood water in Bukit Duri, South Jakarta. The Meteorology and Geophysics Agency has forecast many parts of Indonesia will continue to experience heavy rainfall until Saturday as tropical storm Charlotte makes its way a cross the archipelago.

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Golden Opportunity

A worker stamps the Antam brand on a newly molded solid gold ingot at a precious metals business workshop of the state-run mining company PT. Aneka Tambang (Antam) in Pulogadung, East Jakarta. The firm earned about Rp 105.8 billion (US$ 10 million) last year from processing precious metals, including producing gold, regarded as a safe haven investment by most Indonesians. A golden opportunity to save safely.

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Call Center Esia, Good Morning

That’s what Minister of Communication and Information Muhammad Nuh said when, accompanied by Erik Meijer, Deputy President Director of Bakrie Telecom, and the company’s Director Rakhmat Junaedi, he served esia’s first customer to call the brand new Contact Center he just officially opened in Surabaya (30/March).

The around-the-clock contact center is accessible by every esia, Wifone & Wimode customer through numbers *999 and 9100 9999. The new contact center completes the existing one in Jakarta, further improving 24/July customer service for all of Bakrie Telecom’s customers across Indonesia, through telephone, fax and email.

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Nobody’s Too Old

Justice Harifin A. Tumpa (center) speaks during a media briefing after he was elected new chief justice of the Supreme Court in Jakarta. The court assembly also elected Abdul Kadir Mappong (left) chief justice deputy for judicial affairs and Ahmad Kamil (right) as deputy for non-judicial affairs. The decision to elect the candidates was a defiance of public demand for a younger generation of justices to reform Supreme Court.

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Eat, Sing and Play

Children and their mothers join the Nutrition Post, or Pos Gizi, program in RW 8, Srengseng, in West Jakarta. During the program, mothers cook affordable, nutritious meals together and the children eat after singing and playing. In 2008, Jakarta saw 187 children hospitalized due to malnutrition.

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Sit Still, Dear

Mothers weigh their children at a local health post, or posyandu, in Ciangsana, Gunung Putri, West Java. A health post is located at every subdistrict across the archipelago. It mostly cares for children, whose health is monitored regularly by volunteers.

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Prime Variety

Ali Mukhtar, 42, a soybean farmer from Pulo Kulon village, Grobogan regency, Central Java, displays a Grobogan variety soybean seedling, which yields larger beans resembling those imported at high prices from the United States.

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Saw a Good Job

A worker saws part of a fishing vessel under construction in Sambas, West Kalimantan. These vessels, made entirely of wood, are sold for as much as Rp 500 million each, and it takes about three months to build one. Wooden vessels play a major role in fishing and freight in Indonesia, providing shipbuilding jobs for local artisans in seaside towns.

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Smelting Point

A worker pours the molten mix of gold, silver, copper, bronze and iron into earth molds to make kepeng, the Chinese coins used in Balinese Hindu ceremonies.

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Cleaning Up

A man and his two sons collect crude oil spilled along the coast near Belakang Padang, Batam. The local authority is investigating the source of the oil spill.

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Shared Burden

Wakidi, 74, and his wife, who was not identified, pull a cart full of straw to feed their cow in Wukirsari, Bantul, Yogyakarta. Economic circumstances have prevented the couple from retiring.

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Safe and Sound

Manpower Minister Erman Suparno (left) visits migrant workers Keni (center) and Suneni (left) at Dr. Sukanto Police Hospital in East Jakarta where they are being treated for injuries sustained at the hands of their bosses. Erman offered Rp 30 million worth of assistance to each of the workers.

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Well Done!

Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda speaks with his Dutch counterpart Maxime Verhagen following the signing of the Comprehensive Partnership Agreement (CPA) in Jakarta.

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Searching On Our Own

Relatives of passengers who were aboard the ill-fated KM Teratai Prima wait to set sail on one of three fishing vessels chartered from local fishermen in Majene, South Sulawesi. Unsatisfied with the performance of rescue workers’, nine relatives of the passengers set out on their own search on the fishing boats.

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BRI Markets Bancassurance

Bank Rakyat Indonesia signed a deal with Manulife Insurance on January 7, to market the bank’s Bancassurance products in the form of unit-linked products. BRI’s wealth management concept through unit linked products is aimed to compete with other banks’ consumer banking strategies, offering costumers additional value and satisfaction.

The unit-linked products marketed by Manulife Insurance will include Provest MaxLink-Unit Link Single, a financial planning program that offers the benefits of long-term investment in the stock market and Provestara PurnaLink-Unit Link Regular, an investment program designed to plan and manage +retirement funds. BRI available at almost every BRI branch in 14 big cities across Indonesia. Pictured are David Beynon, President Director of Manulife Indonesia (left) and A. Toni Soetirto, Director of Consumer Business BRI (right).

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A Taxing Task

Workers roll cigarettes at the Mardi Jaya cigarette company in Tulungagung, East Java. The government will increase the cigarette tax to 7 percent on Febryary 1.

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HSBC and WWF

Michael Geoghegan, Group CEO HSBC Indonesia (left), plants the first tree with Kemal Stamboel – Chairman WWF Indonesia to symbolically initiate the 5,000 trees planting program, which aims to combat global warming, covers 12.5 hectares at Rinjani, West Nusa Tenggara.

The global climate has become HSBC’s main concern everywhere HSBC operates in the world. With this program HSBC hopes to be a pioneer in environmental preservation in Indonesia.

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Peruvian Gift

Peruvian Embassy deputy head of mission Carlos Castillo Morales (second right) presents a gift to one of the students who won an art competition during a ceremony at the elementary school “SDN 02 Menteng Republic of Peru” in Central Jakarta recently. The embassy organized the competition at that school in order to stimulate students creativity and to disseminate similarities between Indonesian and Peruvian cultures.

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Show Of Solidarity

Muslims stage an anti-Israel rally in Jakarta. They called for Israel to immediately cease its strikes on the Gaza Strip.

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Don’t Look Back

Bapepam-LK chairman (left) speaks while IDX president director Erry Firmansyah looks aside in this file photo of the October stock market collapse.

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Vote For A Dream

A woman casts her vote for a development design project planned for the space beneath the Penjaringan turnpike bridge in North Jakarta. Residents from around the area took part in the project to map the area as part of a drive toward a more robust community and an improved quality of life.

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Opportunist

A bajaj driver, Ruslan, offers to take people to the Kemayoran Fairground, Central Jakarta, for the Jakarta Fair.

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Engdangered

Several vendors of Kerak Telor, a traditional Betawi dish, chat while waiting for customers in front of the Kemayoran Fairground, Central Java, where the annual Jakarta Fair takes place.

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Ferry Tight Squeeze

A file photo dated September 27, 2008 whows hundreds of motorcyclists scrambling to board a crowded passenger ferry at the Merak seaport in Banten province ahead of last year’s Idul Fitri celebrations.

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Chameleon Chase

A boy holds two chameleons he caught in Cilandak, South Jakarta. Chameleon catching is a favorite holiday activity for boys in the area.

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