But once it was built, family members of the dead, Vietnam veterans, and the general public accepted its beauty and strong emotion.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Adang Surahman, an earthquake engineering expert at Indonesia's Bandung Institute of Technology,says most of Jakarta's high-rises have been built to withstand what scientists refer to as the once in 500-year quake.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07