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Article: Roundup: Indonesia to greatly reduce air pollution in big cities
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- April 19, 2007
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Roundup: Indonesia to greatly reduce air pollution in big cities
JAKARTA, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian State Minister for the
Environment Rachmat Witoelar warned on Wednesday that the government
may impose a ban on new cars, as part of a national program to start
reducing air pollution in the country's ever- growing urban areas.
"If there is no progress in restoring air quality, we will ( stop
car sales completely)," the minister said when explaining the new
initiative which will at first include only 11 cities and
municipalities that already have installed air monitoring devices.
Data from the capital city Jakarta administration show the city
now has more than 2.5 million private ...