Authorities closed Thursday the main road to the General Elections Commission (KPU) office on Jl. Imam Bonjol amid the vote counting of the July 8 presidential election.
Dozens of police officers were posted at both end of Jl. Imam Bonjol, forcing all guests to walk along the road to reach the KPU office, Kompas.com reported.
The heightened security measure is taken because the vote counting process will finish either today or Friday.
The KPU has said it would announce the result of the presidential election on July 25.
Nara Sumber : thejakartapost.com
It still has not hit me. It feels so strange. Michael Jackson is dead. He was only 50 years old, a milestone age. He just celebrated the 25th anniversary of "Thriller," the best-selling album of all time, and re-released it in February.
He was scheduled to start his show run in London in a few weeks
Maybe Michael's career had reached its peak, but I was not convinced that he was done with music. When he turned 50 last August, I did a series of interviews with radio stations. All of the DJs asked me if I thought Michael Jackson could make a comeback. They wanted to know if he could get past the controversies that dominated his news coverage over the last 10-plus years. My answer was a matter-of-fact "yes."
People often underestimate the power of music, and the effect that it has on us. We sometimes forget how a great song with a feel-good message lifts us up, and makes us smile and remember the place we had the most fun dancing to it and with whom.
Michael Jackson is one of the few artists in the history of the art form to be able to take one song, like "Billie Jean," and reach people of all age groups, races, and nationalities
Michael has done this time and time again for decades, as both a solo artist and member of The Jackson 5.
This type of legacy cannot be erased by even the most horrible of charges and allegations. His music and performances are historic and forever engrained in our hearts.
Rick Sanchez, a floor manager at the popular Amoeba Music in Hollywood, says that his staff was "equally shocked" when they heard the news of Jackson's passing. "A lot of people are buying his music which usually happens in these situations," Sanchez says, referring to the breaking news of a musician's death.
Sanchez adds that all of Jackson's music always sells well at his location.
Rosemary Jean-Louis, a Michael Jackson fan and blogger from Atlanta, is nervous, hoping the news reports that Jackson has died are not true. "I don't want to believe it because it's Michael Jackson," Jean-Louis says. "He has been the guy considered invincible who always seems to come back. He is only 50. He was on the verge of such a big comeback with his concerts. No matter what he's gone through or what the crazy circumstances and dark period of his life with that poor trial-that taken aside-he is one of the musical geniuses of our times, truly the King of Pop."
I never learned to do his moonwalk dance move, but like everyone else, I was blown away when I saw him unveil it on Motown's famous 25th anniversary TV special in 1984.
I was too shy of a kid to get one of the red-and-black stripped jackets like the one he wore in the "Thriller" video, but I thought it was cool.
I did, however, have an afro Jheri curl in 1979, when Jackson released his album "Off the Wall," which included jams like "Don't Stop ‘til You Get Enough" and "Workin' Day and Night." I was 10, and whenever the high school girls on my block told me that I was cute and looked like Michael Jackson, I blushed and took it as a huge compliment.
My 6 1/2-year-old twins know and love his music as do the rest of us. This will never change.
I know he had been dealing with a lot these last few years. I hope that at the time of his passing he was in a happy place. Reportedly, he had been rehearsing in Los Angeles for the last two months, preparing for his London dates. His 50-year-old life may have been short, but it was impactful. His accomplishments are tremendous.
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Indonesian model success to escaped from ''abused'' Malaysian Prince
Indonesian Model Manohara Odelia Pinot after waiting for more than two months, in the end is a successfully to escaped from her Malaysian Prince husband Tengku Temenggong Muhammad Fakhry, and arrived in Jakarta, Sunday, May 31, 2009.
She has a change to escaped from her husband when Manohara and her husband Tengku Fakhry went to visit his Royal family who has hospitalized in Singapore hospitals. Daisy Fajarina, Manohara mothers who get the info from Manohara on Saturaday, May 30, 2009, that she and her husband had a plan to visit Singapore, immediately rush to fly to Singapore to pick her doughtier two days a go.
When Manohara know that her Mother arrived in her Hotel, She went immediately to see her Mother in the hotel lobby. But, when Manohara enter to the elevator, the Tengku Fakhry bodyguard try to stop and follow the Manohara. In the level of three inside the elevator, the Tengku bodyguard had tried to hold Manohara, but She knock the elevator bell, and a view second later, Hotel body guard, local police, and Indonesian diplomat base in Singapore rush to save Manohara, and bring Manohara out of Hotel to her Mother Hotel. Manohara and her Mother Daisy Fajarina and Manohara older sister went to fly to Indonesia, and arrived in Jakarta, Sunday, May 31, 2009.
''The Royal family and my husband treated me like a toys. He did not love me like a wife. Some times he bite me. When I went out to attend any ceremonial occasion, I must show my face to smile, if he know that I am not smile, he hit me,'' said Manohara. Manohara’s mother, Daisy Fajarina, in many occasion in Jakarta said that her daughter Manohara Odelia Pinot has being abused and other harrashment from her husband Tengku Temenggong Muhammad Fakhry in Malaysia.
Daisy said, the Malaysian royalty had forcefully taken her daughter away in a private jet from Saudi Arabia, where the family had gone to perform the umrah (pilgrimage) three months ago. Fajarina added that She had also tried to come to Malaysia to track down her daughter but alleged that she was denied entry at the “request of the Kelantan palace.
Daisy, who claims to have evidence of her daughter being abused, had also sought the help of the Indonesian Foreign Ministry. “My child has been tortured; her chest has been cut with a razor. This is what people in the palace who were sympathetic with our plight have told me,” Daisy said. Malaysian Prince Muhammad Fakhry (The Tengku Temenggong) married pretty Indonesian girl, Manohara on August 26, 2008.
Before the marriage, on New Year’s Eve of December 2007, Muhammad Fakhry had forcefully raped her. The marriage took place in August 2008. This marriage, in the opinion of The Mighty Pen, was forced upon Muhammad Fakhry, who earlier consented only to an informal marriage called ‘nikah siri’. This is the standard practice of Muslim men wanting to marry more than one wife (or even for first timers), not wanting to attract too much publicity. Or you may want to call it a ‘secret marriage’. This is quite common in Indonesia. Many wealthy Malaysians keep mistresses in Bandung, Surabaya, etc under this secret marriage practice, without the knowledge of their wives in Malaysia.
In 2008, the young Manohara Pinot, mix Indonesian and French, adopted two children - one with special needs - to be taken care of at her house. She calls Cannes her home and Jakarta her ‘new’ home but ended up in Kelantan as the wife of a prince who is said to be keeping her locked in the palace.
One story goes that she was involved with the Kelantan Prince at the age of 15 and was promised to be married to the prince who kept his promise last year when Manohara reached the age of 16.5. It is also said that she wanted to be involved with the son of the Bakri family but had found out that the boy in question was involved with an Indonesian actress. This made her return to Kelantan where she got married and is said to have been living a sad life. It is also said that she was introduced to the prince during a party where Najib Tun Razak was present. In December 2006, Daisy and Manohara were invited to attend a dinner with the then Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and this was where the model had met her husband. The invitation was made through a close friend.
Nara Sumber : http://www.allvoices.com
