Jakarta (assignment)
March 8, 2008 — tbelfield
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This morning as I was reading through the news I came across the two articles below published by Xinhua News. I have posted each of the articles here in full. Both articles appear to be wire stories orignating from The Jakarta Post.
Jakarta is always mentioned and written about as a city of contrasts.
Violence against women rises in Indonesia …>go to site
JAKARTA, March 8 (Xinhua) — Violence against women in Indonesia has steadily increased after nearly a decade of political reform, the Jakarta Post quoted the National Commission for Women’s Protection as saying here Saturday.
State institutions both in central and regional governments were among the main perpetrators through their discriminatory regulations, the report said.
Violence has increased despite the fact that the government has enacted 10 laws and signed three regional treaties to eliminate all forms of violence against women.
In a report on the state of women’s protection issued in conjunction with tje International Women’s Day, the commission highlighted 27 regional bylaws which it says discriminate against women, either through the criminalization of women or seeking to control women’s bodies.
“For example, there’s a regulation that forbids women from going out at night or others that determine how women should dress,” commissioner Arimbi Heroepoetri said.
She said that under these regulations women could easily be labeled, and punished, as “immoral” women simply because they went home late at night or wore tight clothes.
Tangerang municipality near Jakarta last year issued an ordinance banning women from going outside of their homes after 10p.m.
According to Arimbi, there has been a significant increase in the number of cases of domestic violence reported thanks to the law, which categorizes all acts of violence against women as criminal.
She said the sharpest increase in the number of reported cases of domestic violence occurred in 2005, with 16,615 reported cases, or almost four times the 4,310 cases reported in 2004.
The second article is:
5 Indonesians on Forbes’ list of richest …>go to site
JAKARTA, March 8 (Xinhua) — Five Indonesian businessmen are among the 1,125 wealthiest people in the world listed by Forbes magazine.
The 58-year-old Sukanto Tanoto, owner of the Raja Garuda Mas group, is ranked 284th on the list with estimated assets of some 3.8 billion U.S. dollars, local English newspaper the Jakarta Post reported on Saturday.
Raja Garuda Mas group and its subsidiaries operate in a range of industries, including pulp and paper, palm oil plantations and construction.
Also on the Forbes list are Michael Hartono and Budi Hartono, owners of tobacco company PT Djarum. Their fortunes were estimatedat 2 billion dollars each.
Other Indonesians to make the list are Martua Sitorus, the owner of palm oil producer Wilmar International Holding, who is ranked at 652nd with 1.9 billion dollars, and Peter Sondakh, the owner of Rajawali Group, at 962nd with 1.2 billion dollars.
This year’s list includes 1,125 people with a total net worth of 4.4 trillion dollars.
There are 211 Asians on this year’s Forbes list, up from 160 the previous year. Apart from the five Indonesians, India has 53 people on the list, including four in the top 10, the Chinese Mainland has 42, China’s Hong Kong has 26 and Japan has 27.
Your assignment is to think of how and in what ways these two articles are connected.
