saco-indonesia.com, Polda Metro Jaya telah berencana akan menutup Jalan Thamrin menuju Harmoni, Jakarta Pusat. Penutupan tersebut telah dilakukan terkait dalam Simulasi Sistem Pengamanan Pemilihan Umum 2014.

Awalnya, penutupan akan dilakukan mulai pukul 07.00 WIB. Kendati demikian hingga pukul 08.15 WIB jalan tersebut belum ditutup.

Petugas TMC Polda Metro Jaya, Brigadir Tata, juga menjelaskan, rencana penutupan jalan tersebut akan dilakukan bila kondisi lalu lintas padat. Penutupan yang dimaksud, lanjut dia, bukan permanen, melainkan buka-tutup.

“Tutupnya situasional, kalau kondisi kendaraan terlalu padat hingga menghalangi pelaksanaan simulasi maka akan diberlakukan sistem buka-tutup,” jelas Tata saat, Jumat (7/2/2014).

Selain itu, sistem contra flow juga akan diberlakukan dalam kondisi tertentu. Antisipasi lainnya kendaraan menuju Harmoni juga akan dialihkan melalui jalur alternatif seperti Jalan Imam Bonjol, Jakarta Pusat.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

BEIJING (AP) — The head of Taiwan's Nationalists reaffirmed the party's support for eventual unification with the mainland when he met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of continuing rapprochement between the former bitter enemies.

Nationalist Party Chairman Eric Chu, a likely presidential candidate next year, also affirmed Taiwan's desire to join the proposed Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank during the meeting in Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and doesn't want the island to join using a name that might imply it is an independent country.

Chu's comments during his meeting with Xi were carried live on Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix Television.

The Nationalists were driven to Taiwan by Mao Zedong's Communists during the Chinese civil war in 1949, leading to decades of hostility between the sides. Chu, who took over as party leader in January, is the third Nationalist chairman to visit the mainland and the first since 2009.

Relations between the communist-ruled mainland and the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan began to warm in the 1990s, partly out of their common opposition to Taiwan's formal independence from China, a position advocated by the island's Democratic Progressive Party.

Despite increasingly close economic ties, the prospect of political unification has grown increasingly unpopular on Taiwan, especially with younger voters. Opposition to the Nationalists' pro-China policies was seen as a driver behind heavy local electoral defeats for the party last year that led to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou resigning as party chairman.