photo: Subtopia
According to the wikipedia:
The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the “sentiment of an invisible omniscience.”
Bentham himself described the Panopticon as “a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.”
from: The Jakarta Post
Police launch state-of-the-art station at HI
Sat, 09/26/2009 12:05 PM | City
JAKARTA: National Police Chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri officiated a high-tech police post at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle, Central Jakarta, on Friday.
The eight-by-four-meter post is equipped with CCTV cameras, three online computers with digital maps, and a 29-inch touch screen LCD display, and is therefore claimed to be the city’s most sophisticated police post.
“The CCTV cameras and the computers are linked with the City Police’s traffic management center *TMC* system. Duty officers will be able to direct the traffic during the gridlock,” Bambang said.
Governor Fauzi Bowo and City Police Chief Insp.Gen. Wahyono attended the launch.
Bambang said similar posts would be built in Matraman and Pasar Rumput to tackle rampant brawls in those areas. – JP
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Of course if this is not sufficient here comes PUNA…
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from: FOCUS Information Agency
Indonesia plans to launch surveillance drone
“Jakarta. Indonesia plans to launch a drone plane called “Puna” next year to support national defence and monitor extremist activity, an official said Sunday.
“Puna, an unmanned small aircraft, can safely observe hard-to-reach areas. It has been tested and we’ll launch it next year,” said Surjatin Wiriadidjaja, deputy chairman of the government’s Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology.
“We equipped Puna with a camera and the military and the police can use it for surveillance,” he told AFP.
Wiriadidjaja said Puna could be used “to observe terrorist activities” and for other tasks such as monitoring forest fires.”
Forest Fires are one thing and terrorists quite another.
photo: Air-Attack.com
Above a fully armed MQ-9 Reaper taxis down an Afghanistan runway.
It can easily, by its obvious appearance, handle any kind of brawl imaginable.
The problem is it can’t really distinguish a brawl from a boisterous wedding.
Hope you are not in the mandi if (or when) the “sentiment of an invisible omniscience” decides to pay a visit.
