Riau Bulletin
Issue 11 (16 October 2009)
The Riau Bulletin is a fortnightly analysis of the politics, economy and society of Riau, Indonesia. The Bulletin is produced by the Indonesia Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
The Bulletin would benefit leaders in the business, policy making, media, and research community in Singapore and beyond.
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Below is a sample of the 'Feature Article' in the Riau Bulletin:
“Facing disaster, earthquakes, tsunamis: We know they're coming; why won't we prepare?"
by Oakley Brooks for The Los Angeles Times, 8 October 2009.
Writing From Padang, Indonesia – I went to a flattened college on Saturday. The names of the dead were scrawled on a sliver of salvaged dry-erase board. A crowd of gawking teenagers hovered near an excavator working the rubble, along with the dowdy, fidgeting headmistress. Periodically sobbing parents were hanging about in the background. When the searchers reached five students crushed below a staircase, and soldiers emerged from the rubble bearing black body bags, a grim practice followed: A rescue worker would bring a student's putrid backpack or purse to a shocked mother or father to confirm whom they'd found. And the waiting youngsters with camcorders and cellphone cameras flocked around the scene like moths to a light.
"It's Indonesian culture," said a young social worker from Jakarta, watching the scrambling crowds.
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Latest Event on Riau
“Political and Economic Developments in the Riau Province” - 31 July 2008
drh. Chaidir, M.M.,
Former Speaker, Regional House of Representatives of the Province of Riau
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