Good news: Jakarta's pollution problem is controllable (thanks ASEAN Summit), (But) bad news: Jakarta's pollution problem is controllable
Good news: Jakarta's pollution problem is controllable (thanks ASEAN Summit), (But) bad news: Jakarta's pollution problem is controllable
JAKARTA 1.37pm / WASHINGTON DC 2.37am
(no “RED” sign, at least Sept 6th, 9am Jakarta / Sept 5th, 10pm DC)
JAKARTA 1.37pm / WASHINGTON DC 2.37am
The ASEAN Summit brings a miracle. Jakarta is so me the way I only only clean my room when someone's visiting (read: ASEAN Summit). After 2 months of very bad air quality (get “HELPS” because only 4 days of rainfall in Jakarta between 2 months), in the last 29 hours, abruptly, Jakarta’s sky is very clear. Pollution in Jakarta is so crazy it looks like the mountain picture (Gunung Salak, Mount Salak) is buffering.
Good news: Jakarta's pollution problem is controllable.
(But) bad news: Jakarta's pollution problem is controllable.
If just, I assume, since Aug 30th, some “secret-but-big mission” executed to create a miracle (WITHOUT RAIN), making “clear of skies” in Jakarta and literally – and, abruptly, Jakarta’s skies very blue in the last 29 hours towards ASEAN Summit, what Jakartans or Jakartanians must suffered “worst air quality” at least since Week 3rd of June. A good, tricky question for entire Joko Widodo administration and also (Jakarta Mayor) Heru Budi administration. ASEAN Summit held 2x times annually. For this year, Indonesia as Chair, choose Labuan Bajo for 1st host city (May 2023), then today is Jakarta.
The “covered, abrupt miracle” from “a lot of trash, very pollutant” to being “very clean in entire roads, very clear of skies” in developed countries every time a Summit is held, is very normal in the last 5 decades.
Not only ASEAN Leader. So far U.S. VP Kamala Devi Harris, 8th Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang (Chinese: 李强; pinyin: Lǐ Qiáng), Canadian PM Justin Pierre James Trudeau, Australian PM Anthony Norman Albanese, South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol in Jakarta too.
(Minister Erick Thohir with Australia PM Anthony Norman Albanese. President Joko Widodo still giving a key speech for ASEAN Summit, so, around 10am - Sept 6th / 11pm - Sept 5h in DC, Erick replaces Pak Jokowi to meet PM Albanese)
Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin accompanies VP Kamala Devi Harris, around 3am Jakarta Sept. 6th / around 4pm DC Sept. 5th, after VP Kamala landed.
If rich countries have had a G7 Summit (annually) for decades, a long time ago the 2nd world or 3rd world has a Non Blok Summit / Non Alignment Summit and also G-15 Summit (but G-15 Summit no longer exists after the last Summit in Sri Lanka, 2012). Non-Aligned Movement Summit is the main meeting within the movement and is held every 3 years.
Last time in Azerbaijan Baku (25-26 Oct, 2019), but due to coronavirus, Summit was postponed not by 2022 but 2024, with the next host being Kampala, Uganda. In Foreign Minister level, the Non-Aligned Movement celebrated its 60th anniversary in Belgrade, on 11–12 October 2021.
Jakarta was the host of the 10th Non Alignment Summit, 1-6 September 1992. The Hilton Hotel (now: Sultan Hotel) - Jakarta Hilton Convention Center (now: Jakarta Convention Center) in 1988-1992 to be gargantuan project, and JHCC / JCC was top 5 largest usable space, sorted by volume, having a volume of at least 1,000,000 m3 after grand launching, months before Non Alignment Summit. According to INTISARI magazine, a product of Kompas-Gramedia Group (7th biggest publishing in Asia), only 1 worker was killed during construction of Hilton Hotel and Jakarta Hilton Convention Center.
Jakarta was also the host of the 11th G-15 Summit (30-31 May 2001), former President (the late) Abdurrahman Wahid or Gus Dur to be Chair.
G-15 is actually historic for Indonesia, because of another reason. Days after former (the late) President Soeharto attended 8th G-15 Summit (11-13 May 1998) in Cairo, Soeharto resigned. If you are amazed with fact: during a gigantic riot across Indonesia (not only Jakarta), 12-14 May 1998, Soeharto isn’t in Indonesia, but still in Egypt, extending his stay in Egypt, worried about mass-mob. Indonesian people angry because, in peak corrupt of Soeharto and Co., CENDANA Klan (Soeharto & Co.) owned 40% of entire Indonesia GDP. He landed in Jakarta May 17, and resigned May 21. Former President (the late) Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie replace Soeharto.
2 Capital cities to host a big event. Jakarta for ASEAN Summit (5-7 Sept, 2023). New Delhi for G20 Summit (9-10 September 2023).
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