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Theft, illegal hunting continue in national park in Sumatra

Apriadi Gunawan, The Jakarta Post, Medan | Archipelago | Mon, March 09 2015, 6:28 AM

 Damaging activities and the illegal hunting of wild animals in Mount Leuser National Park (TNGL) have reportedly continued, posing a danger to the biggest conservation area in northern Sumatra.

Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program (WCSIP) data show that 230,000 hectares of the park’s total area of 1,095,592 hectares had been damaged.

At the same time, the population of rare animals, such as the Sumatra tiger, rhinos, elephants and orangutans, in the park has continued to decrease in the last 20 years.

“The decrease in the population of these rare animals is in accordance with the increase in the forest damage in Leuser National Park,” WCSIP’s conservation area specialist Munawar Kholis told The Jakarta Post in Medan, North Sumatra, on Sunday.

Munawar said the decreasing population of rare animals in the area was relatively high. Providing examples, he said that while in the 1980s the number of rhinos was 60, it was currently only 20 to 30.

The population of the Sumatra tiger, similarly, had decreased from 150 in the 1990s to 100 presently.

Munawar blamed the condition on the significant increase in deforestation and on illegal hunting and trading in rare animals.

He said the forest was being damaged mostly by illegal logging. While forest damage in the Aceh region was mostly caused by bad spatial planning.

“In North Sumatra, illegal logging has damaged 30,000 hectares of forest in the park,” Munawar said.

He called on people to help preserve forests and rare animals in Leuser by, among other things, not keeping, buying or trading in protected animals and illegal forest products, such as wood and rattan.

“Buying and making use of illegal forest products means a person is participating in speeding up damage to the ecosystem in the national park,” he said, calling on people to report to authorities anything they know about such activities.

He said the Natural Resources Conservation Agency and the North Sumatra and Aceh police had dealt with at least 11 cases of trading in protected animals within the last eight years.

The head of the Leuser park center, Andi Basrul, said his office had in the last two months handled four cases of the distribution of logs illegally taken from TNGL. The perpetrators had been arrested and were under investigation.

He said that in cooperation with various partners, his office had tightened security in the TNGL’s ecosystem region.

He said the park deserved to be preserved because it performed “environmental services” that were important to humanity. The park, he said, functions as an area to store water, as a controller of the micro climate and as a carbon absorber.

“People often do not realize this, that forests are supporters of life,” Andi said, calling on all stakeholders to put a stop to forest damage and the hunting of rare animals in the park for the sake of human survival.

 Pencurian, pemburuan liar berlajut di taman nasional Sumatra

Aktivitas yang merusak dan pemburuan hewan liar di Taman Nasional Gunung Leuser (TNGL) sudah dilaporkan lanjutan, sikap berbahaya terhadap perlindungan alam terbesar di daerah Sumatra Utara.

Program Perlindungan Lingkungan Kehidupan Alam Liar, data menunjukan bahwa 230,000 hektar dari total keseluruhan taman adalah 1,095,592 sudah rusak.

Pada waktu yang bersamaan, populasi hewan langka, seperti macan Sumatra, badak, gajah, dan orangutan, ditaman nasional terus berlanjut berkurang pada 20 tahun terakhir.

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Young-dae to play in Superliga
in Bali

Irawaty Wardany, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sports | Thu, January 22 2015, 10:10 AM

Held in Surabaya since its inception in 2007, this year’s star-studded Djarum Superliga badminton championship moves to Bali as the organizers are expanding efforts to lure badminton enthusiasts.

The tournament will be held at the Lila Bhuana Sports Hall in Denpasar on Jan. 25 to Feb. 1, with a number of the world’s top players expected to participate, including South Korean doubles star Lee Young-dae.

“This will be the fifth edition of Djarum Superliga and we’ve decided to move it from Surabaya to Bali. Aside from promoting badminton fever, this is also an opportunity to promote Indonesia as a tourist destination,” Bakti Olahraga Djarum Foundation promotions manager Budi Darmawan told journalists on Wednesday.

He said the event was important as it gave young local players the chance to boost their skills as they would be given the opportunity to play against world-class players. 

Young-dae expressed his excitement to participate in Superliga for the first time, particularly as the tournament would be held at a popular tourist destination. 

“I’m looking forward to participating in the tournament as Indonesia has many worthy competitors,” he said.

World number one men’s doubles shuttler Young-dae and Russian player Vladimir Ivanov will play for Musica Champion Kudus.

Musica’s team manager, Effendi Wijaya, said his club had always tried to bring the best players to the tournament. Last year, the club recruited then world number one Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, who is facing a provisional suspension from the Badminton World Federation (BWF) due to an apparent anti-doping regulation violation. 

Rising-star shuttlers Chou Tien Chen of Taiwan and Son Wan-ho of South Korea will also appear at Superliga for the first time.

Chen won his first super series tournament at the 2014 French Open. Wan-ho is currently in rank fifth in the world. They will play Musica Champion Kudus and Djarum Kudus, respectively.

The 2013 men’s doubles world champions Hendra Setiawan and Mohammad Ahsan will part ways in the tournament as they will defend their respective teams, Jaya Raya Jakarta and Djarum Kudus. 

Women’s division defending champion Jaya Raya Jakarta will get a boost with the addition of youngest world champion Ratchanok Intanon and Busanan Ongbumrungpan of Thailand to its lineup.

According to deputy secretary-general of the Indonesian Badminton Association Achmad Budiharto, the participation of foreign players was expected to boost the quality and prestige of the tournament.

The participating clubs in the men’s division are Jaya Raya Jakarta, defending champion Musica Champion Kudus, Djarum Kudus, Mutiara Cardinal Bandung, Suryanaga Surabaya, USM Blibli and Hi Qua Wima Surabaya, while the foreign clubs comprise of Tonami and Hitachi from Japan and Granular of Thailand.

In the women’s division, there are Djarum Kudus, Suryanaga Surabaya, Jaya Raya Jakarta, Mutiara Cardinal Bandung, USM Blibli, Jaya Raya New Star while the foreign clubs namely Hakuto Bank, Reneseas and Gifu Tricky Panders of Japan and Granular of Thailand.

Jaya Raya New Star is the newcomer club to the competition and showcases the talents of young players Ruselli Hartawan, Aurum Oktavia Winata and Jauza Fadhila Sugiarto. - See more at

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1.	PREPOSITION OF TIME	Held in Surabaya since its inception in 2007            The tournament will be held at the Lila Bhuana Sports Hall in Denpasar on Jan. 25 to Feb. 1,        Chen won his first super series tournament at the 2014 French Open	We use in for parts of the day, months, years, seasons, centuries and period. We use on for days of the week We use at for the exact time or yaer
2.	PREPOSITION OF PLACE	tournament would be held at a popular tourist destination.            Hendra Setiawan and Mohammad Ahsan will part ways in the tournament as they will defend their respective teams	use in for the names of land-areas (towns, counties, states, countries, and continents). We use at for specific addresses.

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Marquez: ‘Success can make you uncomfortable’


Having re-written the record books in 2014, sealing more pole positions and Grand Prix victories than any other rider had previously done in a single season of the premier class, Marquez was naturally the centre of attention in the majority of press conferences and media gatherings. Having won four World Championship titles in the last five years, some may say the 21-year-old Spaniard is becoming accustomed to such worldwide acclaim, but even he admits this can be a tough challenge at times.

"I remember how all of the questions to the other riders would continue to be the same," Marquez recalls. "It would be things like: ‘What do you need to do to beat Marquez?’ and ‘How can you stop Marquez?’ Somehow I was a bit uncomfortable about it because, as a rider, I know how it feels when they ask you about your rival and not about yourself. If it is only one or two questions it is okay, but when you get the same thing all the time, the same questions about the same competitor…I was worried that even riders I get on well with would end up hating me!

"It was a bit bizarre. In reality the more you win, the greater your advantage. So the pressure should be decreased because, each time you win, you are having to risk less on the following occasion in order to push for the championship. Instead, every time I won I was having more and more pressure because I felt like people were just waiting for me to make a mistake. I always felt that the day I failed would make big news. Finally, when I finished fourth at Brno, it actually came as a huge relief, as I was able to say to myself, ‘Okay, now people will stop talking about whether I can win all of the races…they will move on, so things will go back to normal and I will be able to concentrate more on myself.’"

In 2015, Marquez will be looking to become the first rider to win three consecutive premier class world titles since Valentino Rossi in the middle of the last decade.

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Military to help clean up Ciliwung

Dewanti A. Wardhani
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | November 29 2014 | 11:14 AM

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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.

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Watching TV shortens life span, study finds

Australian researchers find that each hour a day spent in front of television is linked with an 18% greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and an 11% greater risk of all causes of death.
January 12, 2010|By Jeannine Stein

A man working out at The Sports Club in Beverly Hills has the right idea about… (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los…)
Watching television for hour upon hour obviously isn't the best way to spend leisure time -- inactivity has been linked to obesity and heart disease. But a new study quantifies TV viewing's effect on risk of death.

Researchers found that each hour a day spent watching TV was linked with an 18% greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, an 11% greater risk of all causes of death, and a 9% increased risk of death from cancer.

FOR THE RECORD:
Effects of TV viewing: The headline on an article in Tuesday's Section A that said "Hours sitting in front of TV found to shorten life" overstated the results of a study. As the article stated, researchers found a statistical relationship between long hours of TV viewing and a shortened life span, but the study did not go so far as to find a direct cause. —
The study, released Monday in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Assn., looked at health data among 8,800 men and women older than 25 who were part of the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study. Participants recorded their television viewing hours for a week, and researchers separated the results by amount of viewing: those who watched less than two hours of TV a day, those who watched two to four hours a day, and those who watched more than four hours a day.



The subjects also had oral glucose tolerance tests to determine blood sugar and gave blood samples to establish cholesterol levels at the beginning of the study. People with a history of cardiovascular disease were not included. In a follow up about six years later, 87 people had died due to cardiovascular disease and 125 of cancer.

Researchers found a strong connection between TV hours and death from cardiovascular disease, not just among the overweight and obese, but among people who had a healthy weight and exercised.

People who watched more than four hours a day showed an 80% greater risk of death from cardiovascular disease and a 46% higher risk of all causes of death compared with those who watched fewer than two hours a day, suggesting that being sedentary could have general deleterious effects. The numbers were the same after the researchers controlled for smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, an unhealthy diet and leisure-time exercise.

"What we showed was that irrespective of a person's exercise level, sitting for four or more hours watching television was linked to a significant increase in risk of death compared to watching lower amounts of TV," said Dr. David Dunstan, lead author of the study and professor and head of the Physical Activity Laboratory at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Victoria, Australia. "The message here is that in addition to promoting regular exercise, we also need to promote avoiding long periods of sitting, such as spending long hours in front of the computer screen."

To him, the results weren't unexpected. "When we're in that sitting posture, we're not using our muscles, and we know from extensive evidence that muscle contractions are important for the body's regulatory processes, such as the ability to break down glucose and use it as energy." That can cause insulin resistance, which can trigger a spike in blood sugar levels, possibly leading to type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Prediman K. Shah, director of the cardiology division of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, agreed. He pointed out that muscles become deconditioned when not used, triggering harmful physiological changes. "If your activity is slowing down, you metabolize cholesterol less and synthesize it more," he said.

Even sporadic exercisers who sit for long periods need to increase their daily activity.

"The physical activity we do over a 24-hour period is important," says Dr. Gerald F. Fletcher, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., and a spokesman for the American Heart Assn.

That means taking the stairs instead of the elevator, gardening, walking the dog . . .

"For couch potatoes, sitting on your duff is hazardous to your health," Shah said. "The bottom line is keep moving."

Verb-ing as a verb

1.    some may say the 21-year-old Spaniard is becoming accustomed to such worldwide acclaim, but even he admits this can be a tough challenge at times.
2.  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.
3.  We will start cleaning up the river in December. The operation will go on for at least a year,” Ahok said on Friday.
4. 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.
5.   If your activity is slowing down, you metabolize cholesterol less and synthesize it more

5.     

These ing form is Present Progressive, and also showing and action. There is subject, to be and Verb-ing.

Verb-ing as a Noun

1. Watching TV shortens life span, study finds
2.  Watching television for hour upon hour obviously isn't the best way to spend leisure time

These Verb-ing form as Gerund or Noun. Because watching as subject in the sentence

Verb-ing as adjective 

1.   That means taking the stairs instead of the elevator

This sentence include to verb-in as adjective.

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http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/12/science/la-sci-tv12-2010jan12

Direct and Indirect Speech

DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH

Direct Speech

Quoting the exact words of the speaker is called “The Direct Speech”.

Indirect Speech

Reporting of what a speaker said without quoting his exact words is called ‘Indirect Speech’.

1.       Pronoun and Possesive Adjective

DIRECT	INDIRECT
I	He / She
You	Me / He / She / Them /I / Him / Her
My	His / Her
Our	Their / Our
Your	My / His / Her

2.       The Process of Changing Tenses in Direct and Indirect Speech

Direct Speech	Indirect Speech
Simple Present	Simple Past
Present Continuous	Past Continuous
Present  Perfect	Past Perfect
Present Perfect Continuous	Past Perfect Continuous
Future Simple	Past Future
Future Perfect	Past Future Perfect
Future Perfect Continous	Past Future Perfect Continuos
Simple Past	Past Perfect
Past Continuous	Past Perfect Continuous

Four racing greats greet Indonesian fans

Irawaty Wardany, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sports | Wed, October 22 2014, 12:48 PM

Let rip: MotoGP champion Marc Marquez of Spain listens to vice president of Honda Racing Corporation before a racing demo at the Sentul International Circuit in Bogor, West Java, on Tuesday. JP/Awo

The party is not yet over for some Indonesians, particularly MotoGP fans. 

After almost an entire day celebrating the newly installed President Joko Widodo on Monday, some Indonesians remained in a lively mood as four MotoGP riders undertook a promotional tour in Jakarta.

Two-time world champion Marc Marquez and his Repsol Honda teammate, Dani Pedrosa, attended an invitation from PT Astra Honda Motor, while 2006 MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden and 250 GP 2009 champion Hiroshi Aoyama appeared in a series of events prepared by their team’s new sponsor, Drive M7 energy drink.

Marquez and Pedrosa, who arrived in Jakarta on Monday, greeted hundreds of fans at the Sentul Circuit, West Java, on Tuesday, while Hayden and Aoyama attended a press conference at a hotel in Kuningan, South Jakarta.

Marquez won the MotoGP championship in his debut year in 2013, and took his back-to-back title this year in Japan when the races had three series to complete.

At the following race last week on Phillip Island, Australia, the 21-year-old Spaniard crashed during his attempt to equal Mick Doohan’s record of 12 premier-class GP wins in a single season. He was four seconds clear when he lost control of his front wheel on lap 19 of the 27-lap race on Phillip Island, where Valentino Rossi took the top podium spot.

He is now turning to the last two races in Sepang, Malaysia, and Valencia, Spain.

Commenting on Marquez’s domination during the last two seasons, Hayden said Marquez had set the bar high and raised everybody’s level at the race.

“He’s incredible for sure. He rides in a different way and has pushed the competition, the MotoGP to a new high,” the 33-year-old American rider said.

During the 16 MotoGP races this season, only three other names made it to the top position aside from Marquez. They are Marquez’s teammate, Pedrosa, together with Jorge Lorenzo and Rossi.

“There’s a lot of competition, a lot of good riders at the moment, but Marc [Marquez] able to win two consecutive titles is something really amazing,” Hayden said.

Hayden on the other hand has not been in good shape since undergoing a series of operations to heal a wrist injury he sustained after a fall during the French Grand Prix MotoGP in May. He only managed to finish 10th at Phillip Island.

“I’m not exactly thrilled with my performance this season. I had a wrist injury and I had to go through three operations in the last eight months. I missed a lot of races and I had not been on my best form, so I apologize to my fans and team.”

“I hope to be in the top 10 of the remaining races and have one more good result that I can be proud of,” Hayden added. 
Aoyama also said that this season had been a challenge for him since changing his team and bike at the start of the season. Aoyama previously raced for Avintia Blusens on an FTR before joining Drive M7 Aspar, riding a Honda RCV1000R.

“I changed my bike and my team and it wasn’t easy at the beginning but around mid-season, my bike was upgraded and we have made great places in the last couple of races. Now we are going ahead to Malaysia and I think we are in good shape,” said the 32-year-old Japanese rider. 
Aoyama finished eighth at last week’s Australian Grand Prix MotoGP.

Analysis of Direct and Indrect :

1. Statement

• ·         “He’s incredible for sure. He rides in a different way and has pushed the competition, the MotoGP to a new high,” the 33-year-old American rider said.

The 33 year-old- American rider said that, he was incredible for sure. He rides in a different way and had pushed the competition, the MotoGP to a new high.

This sentence is a direct speech (simple present) then we have to change the indirect speech as (simple past). Remove the quotation mark then the 33-year-old American moved into first sentence as a subject. And “He’s incredible” change into simple past form “He was incredible”. Also ‘has pushed’ (Present Perfect) changed into (Past Perfect).

• ·         “There’s a lot of competition, a lot of good riders at the moment, but Marc [Marquez] able to win two consecutive titles is something really amazing,” Hayden said.

Hayden said that, there was a lot of competition, a lot of good riders at the moment, but Marc (Marquez) able to win two consecutive titles is something really amazing.

This sentence is a direct speech (simple present). Remove the quotation and the word “there is a lot of competition” change into (simple past) form “there was a lot of competition”

      2. Question :

• Direct : She asked me, ‘what are you doing here now?’
• Indirect: she asked me what I was doing then?

This sentence is present continuous and changed into past continuous. The word ‘now’ changed into ‘then’ because it was written on rules to change the adverb of times for direct and indirect speech.

Direct: They asked Timi, ‘how do you get here?’

Indirect: They asked Time how she got there.

This sentence is simple present and changed into simple past.

      3. Imperative

• Direct: She told me ‘Clean your room now!’
• Indirect: she told me to clean my room then

This sentence is imperative simple present. and the word now change into 'then'

• The teacher told us, ‘don’t touch anything there!’
• The teacher told us not to touch anything there.

 If the sentence is negative dont forget to put 'not to'

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/10/22/four-racing-greats-greet-indonesian-fans.html

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