Jakarta,
Dec 20 , 2016(Antara) - As holiday season to celebrate Christmas and New Year
is approaching, many Indonesians are getting ready to spend the
holidays with their families in tourist resorts and parks, including
Bogor botanical garden.
To help beautify the botanical garden, members of the Presidential
security unit (Paspampres) on Dec 17 joined a clean-up activity for
Ciliwung River, which crosses the garden, located in Bogor City, West
Java.
President
Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and the First Lady live in the Bogor Presidential
Palace, located within the complex of the 87-hectare botanical garden,
against the backdrop of Mt. Salak.
Wearing a sport shirt, Jokowi came out of the Bogor palace at 10:30
a.m. local time on that day to watch his guards cleaning the river. He
also toured the botanical garden and greeted the garden's visitors.
"Ciliwung River is cleaner now. It's still dirty, but it is cleaner than it was in the past," the Head of State said.
The Commander of Paspampres Major General Bambang Suswanto noted the
clean-up was organized to commemorate the 71st anniversary of the unit.
The event drew participation from more than 200 people, including
police and military officers and members of the Ciliwung Care Community
(KPC), among others, who picked up trash in the Ciliwung River.
"We hope to see a cleaner Ciliwung River passing through the botanical
garden, but so far, we have seen garbage on both sides of the river," he
stressed.
