PREPOSITION

Jakartans suffer from floods
after incessant rain

The heavy rain that inundated Greater Jakarta from Thursday night into Friday morning triggered chaos across the capital as floods hit dozens of spots and the infrastructure in several key locations.

The commuter line serving Depok -Jatinegara was disrupted Friday morning as water inundated several railway stations, including Kampung Bandan and Rajawali. Meanwhile trains serving Bekasi-Kota were forced to stop at Manggarai station due to flooding. Commuter line operator PT KCJ later provided a feeder service to transport stranded commuters from Jatinegara to Kemayoran station.

The commuter line official Twitter account, @CommuterLine, was busy from early morning providing updates on commuter line services, as well as answering commuters’ questions about disruptions. Taufan SD, who works in BSD City, was among commuters affected by the chaos.“I departed from Duri station, but my train stopped at Kampung Bandan. I had to wait for an hour to continue my journey to my office,” he told The Jakarta Post on Friday. Other office workers preferred to avoid being trapped in congestion and the unpredictable state of public transportation. “On a day like this, all I want to do is to text my boss and say I can’t make it to the office because of flooding and stay at home,” complained one commuter, Ade Nurhayati.

An employee of Intel Indonesia, Fauzy Herliansyah, decided to take the day off after floodwater came into his house in Bendungan Melayu, Koja, North Jakarta.“It’s been more than five years since my house was flooded. Water overflowed as the authorities demolished an embankment at a nearby river for a dredging project, so floodwater started to come into the houses in the neighborhood at about 3 a.m.,” he said.  Fauzy and other residents later moved their cars to Artha Gading shopping mall in anticipation of worsening floods, during which Fauzy witnessed dozens of motorcycles trapped in a flooded section of road near Kelapa Gading bus shelter at 6 a.m.

Antonius Djatmiko, the principal of St. Peter elementary school in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta, decided to close the school for the day as access was almost impossible.“The school compound was fine but the access roads to the school were inundated with water reaching between 20 and 40 centimeters,” he said, pointing out that 341 students were affected.  The Jakarta Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) reported that North Jakarta suffered the largest number of floods.

Thirty-six areas in five municipalities were inundated, comprising 25 spots in North Jakarta, three in East Jakarta, three in South Jakarta, four in West Jakarta and one in Central Jakarta. “The floodwater ranged from 10 to 100 centimeters deep,” BPBD spokesman Bambang Suryaputra said. The worst flooding, he said, occurred in North Jakarta’s Rawa Binangun in Rawa Badak Utara, as floodwater reached 1 meter in depth. Meanwhile, Kampung Pulo in East Jakarta was also hit by a 1-meter deep flood. Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama blamed narrowing rivers as the cause of flooding in North Jakarta.

NO	KINDS OF PREPOSITION	EXAMPLE	DESCRIPTION
1.	PREPOSITION OF TIME	1.     The Jakarta Post on Friday.     2.    bus shelter at 6 a.m.	We use at to designate specific times. We use on to designate days and dates.
2.	PREPOSITION OF PLACE AND POSITION	1.     who works in BSD City     2.       the infrastructure in several key locations.     3.    embankment at a nearby river for a dredging project     4.    was among commuters affected by the chaos.	use in for the names of land-areas (towns, counties, states, countries, and continents). We use at for specific addresses.
3.	PREPOSITION OF   MOVEMENT	1.     the access roads to the school were inundated     2.    Jatinegara to Kemayoran station.	We use to in order to express movement toward a place.

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1,085 motorists ticketed
on second day of ‘Operation
Zebra’

The Jakarta Traffic Police announced they had ticketed 1,085 motorists for driving against the traffic flow on Thursday, the second day of “Operation Zebra”. The Jakarta Traffic Police's traffic enforcement head, Adj. Sr. Comr. Hindarsono, added that they also ticketed 501 public transportation vehicles that stopped arbitrarily to pick up and drop off passengers. “We ticketed 4,764 motorists in total today for all kinds of traffic violations,” he said.

The traffic police officers ticketed 3,418 motorcyclists, 443 cars and 389 public minivans. On the first day of the operation, the police ticketed 790 motorcyclists for driving against traffic and 411 public transportation vehicles for picking up or dropping off passengers arbitrarily.  The "Operation Zebra" traffic inspection will last until Dec. 9 and is aimed at reducing traffic violations.

Military to help clean
up Ciliwung

The Jakarta administration is planning to conduct a massive clean-up of the degraded and dirty Ciliwung River starting in December, in order to mitigate the flooding that plagues the city annually. Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama claimed that the city would be relentless in cleaning up the Ciliwung and its banks. “We will start cleaning up the river in December. The operation will go on for at least a year,” Ahok said on Friday.

The governor explained that the city would cooperate with soldiers from the Jakarta Military Command (Kodam) in cleaning up the river, adding that the soldiers would not only help to clean up the river, but also make sure that residents stopped throwing their waste into it. He went on to say that the city would also hire scavengers to help with the operation.
The Ciliwung River is 120 kilometers long with a 387-square kilometer watershed. The river runs through South and East Jakarta and also through Depok, Bekasi and Bogor in West Java. Thousands of squatters have built homes on the banks of the Ciliwung, decreasing the river’s water-catchment area when it overflows. The river is also filled with trash.

The city administration has on numerous occasions made efforts to clean up the river and widen its water-catchment area. For example, the city administration plans to“normalize” the river by dredging and widening it where it runs through Kampung Pulo and Condet in East Jakarta. The city is currently building a rusunawa (low-cost apartment building) to house relocated Kampung Pulo residents. The city is also developing a 1.27-kilometer underground tunnel connecting the Ciliwung to the East Flood Canal (KBT) in order to lighten the river’s load. However, the city’s efforts have been hampered by the issue of land acquisition, with many residents refusing to be relocated, causing efforts to be delayed. Meanwhile, the city’s most indigent continue to squat on the banks of the Ciliwung and residents continue to dispose of their waste in the river. “We must stop this habit of disposing of trash in the river. This is what degrades our rivers and causes annual flooding,” Ahok said. Meanwhile, Kodam Jakarta chief of staff Brig. Gen. Teddy Laksmana said that more than 1,100 soldiers were ready to help the city administration to clean up the Ciliwung. “As a regional military command, we must help the city administration. We will help the city to clean up the Ciliwung River starting in December,” Teddy said.  He added that the military command headquarters would deploy 1,155 soldiers in the operation and also enlist 2,000 residents to help them.

Ahok explained that once the river was clean, the city administration intended to develop it as an ecotourism destination.“We will build piers along the river and procure boats so people can tour or travel on the river. We will also develop jogging tracks along the Ciliwung, like on the KBT in East Jakarta. These projects will be included in the 2015 city budget,” he said.

 

      1.    –ing form as noun

·         They had ticketed 1,085 motorists for driving against the traffic flow on Thursday. (the –ing form in the word “driving” is called noun, because it stands after preposition “for”)

·         Residents stopped throwing their waste into it.

(the –ing form in the word “throwing” is called noun, because it’s position as object in the sentence)

      2.   –ing form as verb

·         The city is currently building a rusunawa.

(the –ing form in the word “building” is called verb, because it is present participle (continous form))

·         The Jakarta administration is planning to conduct a massive clean-up.

(the –ing form in the word “planning” is called verb, because it is present participle)

      3.   –ing form as adjective

·         We will also develop jogging tracks along the Ciliwung.

(the –ing form in the word “jogging” is called adjective, because it modifies noun “tracks”)

·         causing efforts to be delayed.

(the –ing form in the word “causing” is called adjective, because it modifies noun “efforts”)

Indonesia president says Islamic State 'embarrassing' Muslims

The president of the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, Indonesia, on Thursday called the actions of Islamic State militants "embarrassing" to the religion and urged Islamic leaders to unite in tackling extremism.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the scale of the slaughter wrought by the extremists in overrunning large swathes of Iraq and Syria and the level of violence being used was appalling.
"It is shocking. It is becoming out of control," he said in an interview with The Australian, a day after IS released a video showing a masked militant beheading US reporter James Foley, provoking worldwide revulsion.
"We do not tolerate it, we forbid ISIS in Indonesia," he added, referring to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, as IS was formerly known. "Indonesia is not an Islamic state. We respect all religions."
He urged international leaders to work together to combat radicalisation. "This is a new wake-up call to international leaders all over the world, including Islamic leaders," he said, adding that the actions of IS were not only "embarrassing" to Islam but "humiliating", the newspaper reported.
"All leaders must review how to combat extremism. Changing paradigms on both sides are needed -- how the West perceives Islam and how Islam perceives the West."
Indonesia is home to the world's biggest Muslim population of about 225 million and has long struggled with terrorism. But a successful clampdown in recent years has seen the end of major deadly attacks.
Jakarta has estimated that dozens of Indonesians have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight and Yudhoyono said he was concerned about their return, adding that he had tasked agencies to oppose the spread of extremist ideology in the sprawling nation.
"Our citizens here in Indonesia are picking up recruitment messages from ISIS containing extremist ideas," said the president, whose decade in office comes to an end in October.
"The philosophy of ISIS stands against the fundamental values we embrace in Indonesia. Last Friday, in my state of the union address to the nation, I called on all Indonesians to reject ISIS and to stop the spread of its radical ideology.
"My government and security agencies have taken decisive steps to curtail the spread of ISIS in Indonesia, including by prohibiting Indonesians to join ISIS or to fight for ISIS, and also by blocking Internet sites that promote this idea." (***)

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/08/21/indonesia-president-says-islamic-state-embarrassing-muslims.html