Tya Eka Yulianti - detikBandung
Bandung - Kepala Dinas Perhubungan Kota Bandung Timbul Butarbutar mengakui Rambu Pendahulu Penunjuk Jalan (RPPJ) masih minim. Dari jumlah ideal 300 RPPJ, saat ini Bandung baru memiliki 60 RPPJ.
“Kita akui RPPJ di Bandung masih kurang, hal itu karena kurangnya anggaran. Tahun ini kita baru akan menambah sebanyak 24 buah, empat dari [...]
September 6, 2007, Kompas
Predikat Bandung sebagai salah satu kota yang sejuk di republik ini kini terancam. Banyak pembangunan perumahan baru yang tidak terkendali di kota ini merupakan salah satu penyebab utama cuaca Bandung semakin panas. Kerusakan hutan di sekeliling Bandung dan minimnya ruang terbuka hijau atau RTH kota juga menjadi penyebab terbesar lainnya.
Berdasarkan data tahun [...]
Oleh: Dipl.-Ing (TU). Muhammar Khamdevi, ST
Telah banyak berita-berita yang dikabarkan di media-media mengenai banyaknya permasalahan lingkungan Kota Bandung, terutama di koran-koran. Tersebut masalah sampah, air sungai dan hutan kota, yang cukup sering diangkat menjadi headline-headline penting. Berita-berita tersebut tak jarang membuat kita miris, dan sering tersimpul kekecewaan atas kinerja pihak-pihak terkait, terutama pemerintah kota.
Namun sayangnya, [...]
Yuli Tri Suwarni , The Jakarta Post , Bandung | Sat, 03/29/2008 11:12 AM | The Archipelago
The Bandung municipal administration will go ahead with its plan to build a waste-based power generation plant despite strong opposition by local residents and the absence of an environment impact analysis.
A soft launch for [...]
Yuli Tri Suwarni , The Jakarta Post , Bandung | Fri, 02/15/2008 10:11 AM | Java Brew
Bandung Heritage activists were recently outraged watching the demolition works on parts of Hotel Surabaya, a structure that witnessed the early development of the West Java capital of Bandung.
Located on Jl. Kebonjati near the [...]
The Jakarta Post
Tue, 12/23/2008 10:59 AM | Headlines
More than 1,000 bus drivers in Bandung staged a rally on Monday to protest the launch of the Trans Metro Bandung (TMB) service, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded along Jl. Sukarno-Hatta, the longest street in the West Java capital (see photo).
The rally was marred by violence, as angry [...]
Fri, 02/27/2009 2:28 PM | Reader’s Forum
The Jakarta Post, Hans Gruberr, Citizen Journalist/Bandung
Drivers of public transportation minivans, locally-known as angkot rule the roads in West Java’s capital of Bandung.
They drive without taking any notice of traffic regulations.
It is not unusual to see these minivans parking two or three abreast, completely blocking [...]
by: Emma Kwee
Streetdirectory Indonesia
Bandung is the capital of the Sundanese and of West Java . Its population today is about 3 million, and that makes Bandung the fourth largest city in Indonesia . It is located at a relatively high altitude, about 800 meters above sea level, and it has a comfortably cool climate. This [...]
Archipelago - September 17, 2008
Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung
Some 100 students from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) staged a rally Tuesday to protest the swearing-in ceremony of newly elected Mayor Dada Rosada and Vice Mayor Ayi Vivananda.
The students, from the ITB Students’ Body (KM-ITB), were protesting the conversion of Babakan [...]
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Mon, 12/11/2006 1:36 PM
Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung
State Minister for the Environment Rachmat Witoelar launched Saturday a “”reduce-reuse-recycle”” campaign in Bandung, West Java’s capital city, once notorious for its trash problem.
Rachmat marked the occasion by donating two simple machines to process organic waste for Ciroyom market, where he [...]