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...Urban planner Janice Perlman recalls the skepticism she encountered in the mid-1980s when she first proposed Mega-Cities, a project to promote the exchange of ideas and innovations among the world's biggest urban areas. She was told that her proposal was futile because such cities as Jakarta and Mexico City would be torn apart by disease and disorder within a few years...
...World Bank, which generally finances giant projects, increasingly supports small community-based initiatives. One such project is the Kampung Improvement Program in Jakarta. Its success grew out of a decision to give squatters title to plots of land. In return, the new landowners agreed to help build footpaths, improve drainage and reduce garbage. "Instead of thinking of themselves as temporary boarders, the poor began to look at their community as their home," says Josef Leitmann, a World Bank urban planner. "A simple change in psychology produced a change in physical surroundings...
...interested Indonesian religious rites, don't go to Jakarta. Try Eliot House instead...
Furthermore, the U.S. government accepted the official Indonesian account of the massacre, minimizing the political damage to Jakarta from the massacre...
...East Timor because it sanctioned and encouraged their 16-year occupation by Indonesia. Our government even supported Indonesia's occupation of East Timor even before it happened. The invasion of East Timor occurred on December 7, 1975, the day after President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger visited Jakarta and were informed of the planned invasion. Despite the fact that 90 percent of Indonesia's arms came from the U.S., they raised no objection to the plan...