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Indonesia’s new capital (IKN), Nusantara, will require comprehensive technology application in six sectors to become a smart city, deputy for green and digital transformation at the IKN Authority, Mohammed Ali Berawi, has said.

"There are six (important) sectors for a smart city: governance, transportation and mobility, living (or lifestyle), natural resources and energy, industry and human resources, as well as infrastructure," he informed here on Tuesday.

A smart city must be dynamic, inclusive, technologically savvy, and ready to face various changes in the future, he added.

"It concerns the application of technology, starting from development planning to city management; thus, it (technology) can increase the quality of life and productivity of the people (living in the city)," the deputy remarked.

He emphasized that the IKN is projected to be a zero-carbon city by 2045.

To achieve this end, in the governance sector, the administration, civil registration, and city management will be carried out digitally.

Advanced technology will also be applied in the transportation sector to develop autonomous minibuses, electric buses, and advanced air transport; automatically organize parking; as well as manage traffic.

"If there is an ambulance on the way, it will not need to queue at a red traffic light, it can just pass through because it (the traffic light) will be adjusted using technology (to let the ambulance pass)," Berawi informed.

In addition, air pollution will be controlled through a data center. There will also be safe public spaces, integrated health services, and proper disaster mitigation response.

According to Berawi, there are five main concepts for building a smart city, namely green, sustainable, savvy, resilient, and inclusive.

The sustainable and green concepts will be implemented to make IKN a forest city, where 65 percent of the city’s area will be a tropical forest, 10 percent will be a green and food production area, while the rest will be an urban area, he said.

The tropical forest will be used as a carbon sink, while the construction of the controlled urban area is aimed at minimizing emissions. (Antaranews)

PDI Perjuangan politician Rieke Diah Pitaloka said the fate of the people was at stake in state data. For this reason, she called for the State Data Syndicate Brush Movement.

She called for this at the same time as giving a public lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Sudan at the Widya Sabha Building, Udayana University. The event was attended by approximately 1,200 participants directly and live via Instagram. It took place, Sunday (27/11/2022).

The public lecture themed "Urgency of Ratifying Government Regulations on Implementation of Regional Government Based on Precision Village/Kelurahan Data". As well as "Government Regulations on Science and Technology-Based Development Policy Guided by Pancasila".

Apart from Rieke, there were also present as speakers Deputy Chairperson of LPPM IPB University, Dr Sofyan Sjaf and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Udayana University. Participants included lecturers, undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students, as well as representatives of district/city regional governments throughout Bali.

"It's time for the community to be made a subject, not an object. It's time for rural transformation to be carried out. It's time for the village to be recognized as a subject that has the authority to produce village data," said Sofyan.

According to him, the digital era of technological progress has become the momentum and instrument to create accurate data. This DDP, he continued, is in accordance with the mandate of the founding fathers, national development can only be carried out through 'democratic rural development' and accurate data.

"So DDP is here as a synthesis, improvement. From the existing data collection system," he said. (RRI)

A U.N.-appointed independent expert on Iran voiced concern on Tuesday that the repression of protesters was intensifying, with authorities launching a "campaign" of sentencing them to death.

The U.N. says more than 300 people have been killed so far and 14,000 arrested in protests which began after the Sept. 16 death in custody of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini.

"I'm afraid that the Iranian regime will react violently to the Human Rights Council resolution and this may trigger more violence and repression on their part," Javaid Rehman told Reuters, referring to a UN Human Rights Council vote to establish a probe into the crackdown last week.

Tehran has rejected the investigation and says it will not cooperate.

"Now (authorities) have started a campaign of sentencing (protesters) to death," he added, saying he expected more to be sentenced.

Already, 21 people arrested in the context of the protests face the death penalty, including a woman indicted on "vague and broadly formulated criminal offences", and six have been sentenced this month, Rehman said.

Iran has blamed foreign foes and their agents for the unrest. Its judiciary chief last month ordered judges to issue tough sentences for the "main elements of riots".

Even before the unrest, executions were rising and the U.N. human rights boss Volker Turk has said the number this year had reportedly surpassed 400 by September for the first time in five years.

The U.N. resolution is seen as being among the more strongly-worded in the body's 16-year history and urges the mission to "collect, consolidate and analyse evidence".

Past investigations launched by the council have led to war crimes cases, including the jailing of a Syrian ex-officer for state-backed torture in Germany this year.

Rehman said he expects the new Fact-Finding Mission to provide a list of perpetrators and share that with national and regional legal authorities.

"It will ensure accountability and it will provide evidence to the courts and tribunals," he said. A U.N. document showed the mission would have 15 staff members and a budget of $3.67 million. (Reuters)

The real estate unit of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's Adani Enterprises (ADEL.NS) has won the right to redevelop India's largest slum, Mumbai's Dharavi neighbourhood, with a 50 billion rupee ($612 million) bid, a state official said on Tuesday.

Believed to be the largest slum in Asia, Dharavi is a crowded area that houses thousands of poor families in cramped quarters in the center of India's financial capital. Many residents have no access to running water or clean toilets.

The redevelopment was first mooted in the 1980s as a way to develop valuable land while providing proper housing to those living there.

Adani's winning bid of 50 billion rupees was more than double that of real estate group DLF, which bid 20 billion rupees($244.87 million), said SVR Srinivas, CEO of the Dharavi Redevelopment Project, a government enterprise in the western state of Maharashtra.

"It will be a township - a city within a city, with mixed land use, both commercial and residential," Srinivas told Reuters, describing the redevelopment, which will cover 625 acres (253 hectares) as "the world's largest urban renewal scheme."

It is the latest mega-project taken on by ports-to-energy conglomerate Adani Enterprises, which already supplies electricity in Mumbai through listed unit Adani Transmission Ltd (ADAN.NS).

Another group project, a $900 million port redevelopment in Kerala state, has been stalled for months by protesters. There have been no major protests to date against the Dharavi redevelopment.

Adani Enterprises last week said it would raise 200 billion Indian rupees ($2.45 billion) in India's largest follow-on public offering of new shares as it aggressively expands into sectors such as cement and healthcare, amid some concerns about its elevated debt levels.

The redevelopment of Dharavi will be the fourth project Adani Realty has taken on in Mumbai and the 24th across four cities, according to its website.

Earlier this year, chairman Gautam Adani had said that the Adani Group would invest more than $100 billion over the next decade, most of it as part of a bid to transition to renewable energy.

A spokesperson for the Adani group did not respond to a request for comment on the Dharavi bid. (Reuters)