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Cowen_&_Co._estimated in 2019 that the U.S. marijuana sales could reach $80 billion by 2030 if the federal government legalized the plant. In Canada, legal recreational cannabis sales in 2019 could reach $4.34 billion, according to Deloitte. Big alcohol companies, after long fretting about how legal cannabis would affect sales, and other drink-makers are joining forces with the industry. Those companies hope people will drink to get high rather than drunk. Cannabis executives say the plant could eventually replace things like sleep aids and pain meds.

Indonesia flood, landslide death toll hits 70

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019 Asia12345Flood, Indonesia0 comment

JAKARTA (AFP) – Floods and landslides that battered Indonesia’s Sulawesi island have killed at least 70 people, the authorities said on Tuesday (Jan 29), as aerial footage underscored the scale of the disaster with whole villages wiped off the map. Lashed by heavy rain, rivers swelled and burst their banks, inundating dozens of communities across 12 districts as well as parts of the provincial capital Makassar. The bodies of 70 victims have been found, while six are still missing, Mr Syamsibar, head of South Sulawesi’s disaster mitigation agency, who like many Indonesians…

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Asian Games: Indonesia welcomes continent for 18th Asiad with spectacular opening ceremony

November 18, 2018November 26, 2018 Asia12345Asian Games, Jakarta0 comment

JAKARTA – The biggest Asian Games in history opened on Saturday (Aug 18) night as Indonesia welcomed the continent’s top athletes to Jakarta and Palembang. At the capital’s Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium, 40,000 spectators were entertained by an opening ceremony that featured cultural performances and pyrotechnics on a 120m-long stage, built manually by artists from Jakarta and Bandung, and in the shape of a towering mountain with a waterfall. The ceremony opened with a skit purportedly showing Indonesia President Joko Widodo doing stunts on a motorbike in Jakarta’s streets…

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JAKARTA SHOULD NOT TURN TO MASS EVICTIONS AS PART OF CITY PLANNING FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS

November 2, 2018 Asia12345Indoenisia, Jakarta0 comment

As a sociologist and media scholar with an interest in emerging forms of civic engagement, I initially came to Jakarta – the world’s Twitter capital – to research innovative social media uses. Instead, my first visits to an informal settlement near an estuary, Kampung Tongkol, in 2015 in North Jakarta, revealed something more hybrid: mixed-media participatory mapping of the settlement’s physical and socioeconomic infrastructure. They have also volunteered to partially remove their housing to make way for a road on the riverbank in the hope to avoid forced evictions, which usually happened…

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Online shopping scam on Facebook.

October 23, 2018October 24, 2018 Asia12345Drone shopping scam, Novads, Onlinje Scam, Singapore0 comment

A report from one of the staff at YourVoice Asia. Our staff member was taken in by a advert for a Drone on Facebook to which he ordered and awaited the delivery. This was the Video which is now been shown by several different companys on the internet. https://www.facebook.com/1138212613004831/videos/2030392770409123/?t=31 I recieved a email with the follow text the next day. You may contact us by simply replying to this email. Sincerely, Alex Smith Head Customer Support support@hyperstech.com After waiting 3 weeks I called and was told that it would take…

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Indonesia tsunami: crisis worsens as aid struggles to reach island

October 5, 2018October 4, 2018 Asia12345Indonesia, Tsunami0 comment

The humanitarian crisis in Sulawesi has continued to worsen as organisations struggle to bring the millions of dollars in international aid that has been pledged to the island devastated by last week’s earthquake. ‘I saw my neighbours get buried alive’: the mud-swamped Indonesian village At least 1,424 people are so far reported to have died from the 7.5 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit the Indonesian island on Friday. At least a further 2,500 have been injured and more than 100 are still missing. More than 70,000 houses are…

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Grab drivers stage rally at Jakarta office

September 12, 2018 Asia12345Grab taxi, Indonesia, Jakarta0 comment

Drivers of application-based ride-hailing company Grab staged a rally on Monday in front of the company’s office at the Lippo building in Kuningan, South Jakarta. The drivers said they were disappointed to not meet high-ranking officials from the company. “We are demanding to meet and convey our aspirations to Grab’s CEO, not representatives,” said Dedi Heryantoni, a representative of the drivers. They said the company had exploited the drivers and it was not transparent when penalizing them. The company sent Pandu from the external regulatory and government affairs division to…

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Thousands join anti-Jokowi walk in Surakarta

September 12, 2018September 12, 2018 Asia12345Ahmad Dhani, Batam islands, Central Java., Gladag area, Jakarta, Surakarta0 comment

Thousands of people participated in an anti-Jokowi walk on Sunday morning in the Gladag area in the city of Surakarta, Central Java. The event on Sunday was also attended by, among others, the Surakarta Sharia Council (DSKS) chairman Muinudinillah Basri, Muhammadiyah activist Mustofa B. Nahrawardaya and local figure Mudrick Sangidu. Earlier, the Surakarta Police said they did not permit the event because it had a potential to create altercations between President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo supporters and those who oppose him. In response, the event committee said they would prohibit the participants…

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Indonesia starts to punish violators of foreign banknotes regulation

September 3, 2018 Asia123450 comment

Bank Indonesia started on Monday to punish corporations or individuals who violate a Bank Indonesia regulation that limits the amount of of foreign banknotes that can be carried when crossing the Indonesian border. With the enforcement of Bank Indonesia Regulation (PBI) No. 20/2018 on the revision of PBI No. 19/7 2017, only licensed institutions – banks and money changing institutions – are allowed to carry more than US$1 million in banknotes. Violators of the regulation are required to pay a fine of up to 10 percent of the banknotes they carry, with the maximum fine set at Rp…

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Counter-protests and clashes at banned #2019GantiPresiden event, Ahmad Dhani’s hotel sieged

August 27, 2018 Asia123450 comment

Now that all the players are in place for Indonesia’s 2019 presidential election, the reaction to a protest movement to unseat incumbent President Joko Widodo seems to portend a very heated campaign season between now and when votes are cast in April. The controversial #2019GantiPresiden (Replace The President in 2019) opposition movement was meant to hold a declaration rally in the East Java capital of Surabaya on Sunday, but one of the movement’s most high-profile participants, musician-cum-politician Ahmad Dhani met fierce opposition the day before the event when counter-protesters arrived at…

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Police given license to kill in Jakarta to combat street crime

July 5, 2018July 5, 2018 Asia12345Argo Yuwono, Jakarta Police, Sudirman area0 comment

CCTV footage shows an app-based motorcycle taxi passenger being robbed in Cempaka Putih, Central Jakarta, on Sunday. The 37-year-old was killed in the incident. (Via kompas.com/Instagram) The Jakarta Police deployed on Tuesday night 1,000 personnel to combat street crimes in the capital. Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Argo Yuwono said the operation would last until Aug. 3, while the personnel were divided into 16 teams —13 of which comprised personnel from police precincts, while the remaining three teams were from the Jakarta Police. “If there is resistance [from the muggers and…