Cast Out from the Garden

Over 1,000 vendors will not be allowed to sell their products, public bus routes are to be rerouted, and cell phone networks will be shut down during the visit of the US President next week. Bogor will be paralyzed for 10 hours.

November 14, 2006

ALMOST every day, Bee Maylan takes a walk for her health in the Bogor Botanical Gardens. She and the 300 or so members of the Tjentjung walkers association can go there at all hourseven before the sun rises. Her Tjentung member card functions as an entry pass to the 87-hectare grounds. We usually walk there from 7am to 8am, she said to Tempo last week.

The usefulness of her associations member card will shortly be curtailed. Maylan, 46, and her fr

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