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Indonesian martial arts ( Pencak Silat )athlete Aji Bangkit Pamungkas advanced to the finals after beating Vietnamese rival Duy Tuyen Nguyen in the semifinals of the Asian Games 2018. Pamungkas won a landslide victory against Nguyen in the men`s 85 kg with a score of 5-0 during the bout held at the Taman Mini Martial Arts venue in East Jakarta on Sunday.

In the first round, Nguyen launched an aggressive attack and collected a higher point. However, in the run up to the end of the first round, Pamungkas succeeded in countering his rival`s attack and hit targets to collect points. The Indonesian athlete won the first round with a score of 6-8,7-4, 5-8,10-6 and 6-5.

In the second round, the fight went tough as the two rivals tried their respective strategies to attack each other for collecting points. Therefore, in the second round, they both collected points which are not far different, namely 8-8,2-1,4-3,4-5, and 5-5.

Yet, in the third round, the Vietnamese athlete directly launched a blindly attack that hit targets and happened to be victorious in first minutes. However, Pamungkas in the following several seconds, did his best to change and overcome the condition. He finally won the bout and advanced to the finals together with four other Indonesian martial arts athletes.

The Indonesian martial arts athletes who previously stepped into the finals are Komang Harik Adi Putra, Iqbal Candra Pratama, Abdul Malik and Wewey Wita. But other Indonesian fighter, Amri Rusdana, must surrendered to Mohd Fauzi Khalid after losing narrowly from the Malaysian fighter with a score of 2-3. Rusdana had to settle for winning the bronze medal, along with a Kyrgyzstan fighter, Daniiar Tokurov, who lost to a Vietnamese fighter, Dinh Nam Tran.

Director General of Immigration at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights Ronny F Sompie wants a Monitoring Team for Foreigners (Timpora) in each district/city to optimize the supervision of the existence of foreign citizens.

"Monitoring efforts must continue to be improved such as being able to follow the Regional Intelligence Community," said Ronny in Banjarmasin, recently.

However he reminded that the immigration officers only has the authority to process misuse of residence permits, not criminal acts. While the case related to working permit has become the authority of the relevant agency. In his direction at the Class I Immigration Office of Banjarmasin, Ronny expressed his appreciation for the office`s performance in serving the public. He inspected the immigration services including facilities for disabled persons, lactation room and children`s playground.

"Immigration officers should be more vigilant in issuing passports so that they are not misused for non-procedural migrant workers," he said.

The former Bali Police Chief has called on the South Kalimantan immigration office to work closely with the police considering both institutions` interrelated duties and functions, including supervision of foreigners, intellectual property rights and correctional issues.

"It is necessary to increase coordination between agencies so that the best solution is to provide services to the community," he said. (ant) 

Indonesia keep the position on the top 5 with 50 medals :  12 Gold medals, 13 Silver medals, and 25 Bronze medals. Number 1 is China with 174 medals in which, 78 Gold medals. Japan is still number 2 with 122 medals ; 40 Golds. Number 3 is Korea Republic with 94 medals; 27 Golds. Iran keeps the 4 position with 14 Golds from the total 40 medals. The others, from 6 to 10 are; DPR Korea 11 Golds, Thailand 9 Golds, Chinese Taipei 8 Golds, India 7 Golds and Usbekistan with 6 Gold medals.

Today at least 28 sports events will be held both in Jakarta and Jakabaring Sports City, Palembang. You can see the schedule on this link https://en.asiangames2018.id/schedule-results/  ( source Inasgoc- August 27 2018 ).

The government would start the post-earthquake reconstruction of damaged buildings in Lombok Island in West Nusa Tenggara in early September, Indonesia`s Public Works and Public Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono said.

"We will start it in September. We only have two weeks left to prepare," Basuki noted, after his scientific oration at the Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) in Jakarta, on Thursday.

On Monday (Aug 27), a group of 150 students from the Faculty of Engineering of Mataram University and Gadjah Mada University would be sent to the island to give training on the Simple Healthy Instant House (RISHA) construction. Basuki elaborated that the government would not build temporary settlement, but it would provide tents for victims of the earthquake. It would also speed up the building reconstruction process.

"Development of the houses would be accelerated. We will try to finish it within six months. People would build their own house under our mentoring," Basuki remarked.

The government has asked the Indonesian Chamber of Trade and Industry (Kadin) to open building material kiosks in each subdistricts in Lombok Island and its neighboring province of East Java.

"The logistical supply could be taken from Surabaya (in East Java). They have Semen Gresik (cement factory) and steel manufacturer," he revealed, adding that development of one RISHA would take a month.

Previously, President Joko Widodo noted that the government has provided Rp50 million and Rp25 million of aid for rehabilitation of severely damaged and light damaged houses, respectively. Eight state-owned enterprises have begun the reconstruction of hospitals, markets, and schools in the region.

"We have dispatched some equipment for reconstruction. We have set the target to finish the reconstruction process in December," Basuki pointed out. ( ant )