Taiwan Changed So Prison Museum

TAIPEI, KOMPAS.com - long in Chiayi Prison which was built nearly 100 years ago, along with prison Abashiri in Hokkaido Japan, is now a prison that has the architectural style of Pennsylvania.
Taiwan Ministry of Home Affairs in 2005 announced this prison as a national historic building. After more than two years of renovation is expected to be completed in early September 2011.
Taiwan Ministry of Justice is planning a "Museum of jail" Taiwan first to exhibit artifacts related and plans will be unveiled in late September 2011, in the future the Museum will become an important tourist destination in southern Taiwan to mainland Chinese tourists.

 Several years ago the youth organization had to borrow the old Chiayi prison for organizing "prison camp". This activity attracted many young people. They flocked to register to try out how it feels to live in prison. Unfettered life in a room of less than 8 square meters with minimal equipment.
In addition to toilets and a small lamp, no other completion. If you sleep here overnight, guaranteed to make you really understand how precious freedom that you dare not make a bad thing.
Chiayi prison warden Chen Jinfeng proudly say "long Chiayi Prison is the only remaining prison built in the Japanese colonial era, he was nearly a hundred years."
Many Taiwanese films like "Childhood Memories" or the film series "Taiwan Lily" ever made here. Fujian Straits TV station even while making the documentary "Shelter to Taiwan" is also never take this prison as a background shot.
Chiayi old jail was built in the Japanese colonial era in 1919. The prison was completed and used immediately in 1922. This prison was originally known as the "Institute for Criminal Affairs Chiayi Tainan branch".
After the national government moved to Taiwan, renamed "Taiwan Chiayi Prison." At the same time also building a prison Taipei, Taichung, Tainan. In 1994 a new prison is located in Chiayi county Lucao completed and official use, the old prison in the city became no longer functioning.
Because the prison Chiayi has important historical significance, Chiayi city government originally planned to build the international conference room, the historian and author of the Chiayi area along the old prison employee Chiayi forming "Chiayi Old Prison Preserver Group".
Then pemeritintah advised to maintain the jail and make it as a prison museum. Chiayi city government in 2002 set as Chiayi city's historic buildings. Three years later the interior ministry announced as a national historic building. (JOE)

Adira Launches Tourism Site

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - financing company, PT Adira Dinamika Multi Finance (Adira Finance), has launched a website to promote tourism in various regions in Indonesia.

The site can be accessed at the address http://www.adirafacesofindonesia.com/ called "Faces of Indonesia".

"We invite the community to fill the portal so they can share info tourist attraction in Indonesia," said President Director and CEO of PT Adira Dinamika Multi Finance, Stanley Setia Atmadja, Friday (29.07.2011) in a press release.

Stanley said it inspired the popular social networking site communities, so it looks too similar. Only, the discussion in it more to the tourism sector.

Central Bureau of Statistics data released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Indonesia recorded the number of tourists / domestic as much as 119.9 million people in 2009 and increased to 122.3 million in 2010.

While the number of foreign tourists visiting Indonesia from January to December period of 2010 reached around 7 million people, up 10.74 percent compared to the number of foreign tourists in the same period in 2009 that as many as 6.3 million people.

The portal can also be used as a platform to exchange information from the blogger who often writes her experiences traveling from one place to another. Besides the treveller who already have experience can be poured stories, experiences, tips until the photos inside, merekaberbagi experience and provide benefits for other treveller. Write and Photo Competition According to Stanley, as a form of concern the company also opened opportunities for the traveler who enjoys sharing travel experiences in Indonesia through Adira Best 100 Faces of Indonesia which was the event's race to write about tourist attractions in Indonesia.

The competition was open to all people with a fairly easy way is by becoming a member of Adira Faces of Indonesia. Participants can win prizes worth millions of dollars just by publishing a series of strings of words and images of tourist experiences in Indonesia on this web site.

The entire work of writing and photos sent by the members of Adira Faces of Indonesia, s During a period from July to December 2011, are automatically included in the event of Adira Best 100 Faces of Indones it.

Jury will select 100 winners with the work of the best writing and photos, to obtain prizes each worth Rp2 million (tax borne by the winner).

The work of the winners are directly involved in the Faces of Indonesia Adira next stage. The winner will be selected by the Jury and announced on January 19, 2012

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