PALEMBANG A plane that is owned by Air Asia, with flight number QZ 7661, has made an emergency landing at the airport of Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II in Palembang, on Sumatra island. The emergency landing was made around 17:30 local time on Tuesday. The Boeing 737-300 with 99 passengers and crew on board was traveling from Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) when they had to make an emergency landing because of a broken window.

According to Rudi Rums, engineering staff at Air Asia, one window broke when the plane was flying at 35,000 feet. The pilot, Farid Iskandar, decided directly to put the plane on the ground in an emergency landing. At this moment engineers from Air Asia together with people from the airport are still working on the broken front window of the plane.

JAKARTA  The number of Indonesia’s young smokers continues to increase and more than 80 percent of cigarette smokers in 2007 were less than 19 years old, Antara news agency quoted an expert as saying on Tuesday.

Prof Veni made the remarks on the sidelines of a “Leadership and Management for Tobacco Control” evaluation which was conducted by the Indonesian Tobacco Impact Control Networks in Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi province. Another contradictive phenomenon is that the smoking cost of poor people is higher than those of rich ones, Veni said, adding that based on ITCN’S survey, poor people spent 11 percent of their monthly earnings on smoking, while the rich ones have only 9.7 percent.

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