Specialists in International Law University of Indonesia, Hikmahanto Juwana rate, the government's diplomacy in conflict resolution with Malaysia is "half-hearted". The Government was impressed hesitate in taking a more assertive diplomatic steps.
Very half-hearted diplomacy. We are so difficult to distinguish whether we are too friendly or stupid.
- Hikmahanto Juwana
"Diplomacy is very half-hearted. We are so difficult to distinguish whether we are too friendly or stupid," said Hikmahanto in the discussion "The fate of migrant workers and Diplomacy Half a Heart", in Jakarta, Saturday (28/08/2010). Hikmahanto exposed, the government apparently began to waver on Indonesia's current position.
On 18 August, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said that the arrests made by the Policy Kings Marin Malaysian Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries officers occurred in the territory of Indonesia. However, this belief is judged began to weaken after the testimony of three employees NOA stating that the GPS was dead. "So, when amid the sea, they use a map. After this statement, the government began to doubt whether this is happening in our region," said Hikmahanto.
Supposedly, the government of Indonesia and Malaysia, sit at a table to discuss the incident to determine where the arrest occurred. If it occurs in parts of Indonesia, then Malaysia should apologize.
"Conversely, if it's in the territory of Malaysia, we are sorry. If it happens in the area overlapping the border, which is still claimed by both countries, the government explained to the public that we can not claim it happened in Indonesia," he said. However, Hikmahanto regrets, weak coordination between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and related agencies.
"The government should be able to analyze where the strong position of Indonesia. If you can position stronger, then the diplomacy will not be half-hearted," said Hikmahanto.
He also suggested a meeting between Indonesia and Malaysia which will be held 6 September to come to not only discuss the border. But, also discusses issues that sticking due to expansion of the incident. Member of Commission I of the origin fraction Democrat, Roy Suryo rate, the steps taken by the government is clear and precise, to keep the situation is not more pointed.
Source: www.kompas.com
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Total population of Indonesia is estimated that 475 Million in 2057
Preliminary results of Population Census figures in 2010 that exceeds previous estimates of government needs to addressed seriously. Otherwise, the swelling number of residents will complicate development.
Chairman of the Institute of Demography, University of Indonesia Sonny Harry B Harmadi in Review 2010 National Family Planning Program in Jakarta, Thursday (26 / 8), said with the population growth rate 1.49 per cent according to the census, the population of Indonesia which is currently 237.6 million soul will be a two-time, 475 million people, in 2057.
If population growth can be suppressed up to 1 percent, double the amount of explosive population may be delayed until 2080.
"The population growth was 1.49 percent, including a big worry because," he said. With that much growth, Indonesia became the fifth largest contributor to the growth of population in the world after India, China, Brazil, and Nigeria.
If the population growth rate fixed, the distribution of estimated population in 2050 was marked by high fixed group of boys below 15 years and the increasingly high number of elderly group to above 80 million people. This condition will cause serious problems for the nation because of the swelling number of unproductive groups who need a high cost from the state to manage them.
Deputy Director General for Social Statistics Arizal Ahnaf Statistics reveal, growth above the national average occurs in many areas become centers of economic growth, such as West Java, Banten, Riau, Kepulauan Riau, and East Kalimantan. However, high growth also occurred in areas that are considered construction is lagging, such as Papua, West Papua, Maluku, North Maluku, and West Sulawesi.
Dealing with high population growth, the Head of the National Population and Family Planning Sugiri Syarief recalled the importance of the various parties-the central and local government-for more care in controlling the population explosion and carry out more intensive family planning program.
Population of Indonesia each year will increase by 3.5 million-4 million inhabitants. This amount would cost the state, especially in the provision of food, housing, education, health, nutrition, electricity, or employment.
Ironically, the large population was not accompanied with high quality.
Human Development Index (HDI) Indonesia in 2009 ranked seventh of the 10 ASEAN countries or ranking 111th of 182 countries. Indonesia is under the HDI HDI Palestine.
Former Head of National Family Planning Coordinating Board Haryono Suyono said the implementation of family planning programs during the last 10 years was less intensive with a decade earlier. Implementation of regional autonomy led to the management of field extension agents or officers KB (PLKB) submitted to the area. As a result, a number PLKB just not empowered. They functioned for another job.
"To turn the KB, the number PLKB need to be augmented, strengthened community assistance, and need a new image for the family planning program," he said. (MZW)
Source: www.kompas.com
Chairman of the Institute of Demography, University of Indonesia Sonny Harry B Harmadi in Review 2010 National Family Planning Program in Jakarta, Thursday (26 / 8), said with the population growth rate 1.49 per cent according to the census, the population of Indonesia which is currently 237.6 million soul will be a two-time, 475 million people, in 2057.
If population growth can be suppressed up to 1 percent, double the amount of explosive population may be delayed until 2080.
"The population growth was 1.49 percent, including a big worry because," he said. With that much growth, Indonesia became the fifth largest contributor to the growth of population in the world after India, China, Brazil, and Nigeria.
If the population growth rate fixed, the distribution of estimated population in 2050 was marked by high fixed group of boys below 15 years and the increasingly high number of elderly group to above 80 million people. This condition will cause serious problems for the nation because of the swelling number of unproductive groups who need a high cost from the state to manage them.
Deputy Director General for Social Statistics Arizal Ahnaf Statistics reveal, growth above the national average occurs in many areas become centers of economic growth, such as West Java, Banten, Riau, Kepulauan Riau, and East Kalimantan. However, high growth also occurred in areas that are considered construction is lagging, such as Papua, West Papua, Maluku, North Maluku, and West Sulawesi.
Dealing with high population growth, the Head of the National Population and Family Planning Sugiri Syarief recalled the importance of the various parties-the central and local government-for more care in controlling the population explosion and carry out more intensive family planning program.
Population of Indonesia each year will increase by 3.5 million-4 million inhabitants. This amount would cost the state, especially in the provision of food, housing, education, health, nutrition, electricity, or employment.
Ironically, the large population was not accompanied with high quality.
Human Development Index (HDI) Indonesia in 2009 ranked seventh of the 10 ASEAN countries or ranking 111th of 182 countries. Indonesia is under the HDI HDI Palestine.
Former Head of National Family Planning Coordinating Board Haryono Suyono said the implementation of family planning programs during the last 10 years was less intensive with a decade earlier. Implementation of regional autonomy led to the management of field extension agents or officers KB (PLKB) submitted to the area. As a result, a number PLKB just not empowered. They functioned for another job.
"To turn the KB, the number PLKB need to be augmented, strengthened community assistance, and need a new image for the family planning program," he said. (MZW)
Source: www.kompas.com
Indonesia - Malaysia: The Government should give Shock Therapy
Decisive and courageous step in facing Malaysia's attitude and treatment should be immediately realized. If not in the form of severance of diplomatic relations, it can be done with a decline in diplomatic relations. This is important as a shock therapy for that country.
Opinion was expressed by a lecturer in International Relations from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia, Andi Widjojanto, and researchers Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Ikrar Nusa Bhakti, Thursday (26 / 8).
Both commented on issues related to seepage of fish theft case by Malaysian fishermen in Indonesian territory.
Malaysian Foreign Minister Dato 'Sri Hj Aman Anifah expressed readiness to negotiate with Indonesia to resolve the problem the two countries, both aquatic and terrestrial, although the process is determined to be a long and complicated.
This statement came during a visit and dialogue with Indonesia at least 24 Young Ambassador 2010 in the Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, Putra Jaya, Malaysia.
Anifah believes issues happened between the two countries are now quite accomplished and discussed between the two foreign ministers without the need to involve the respective heads of state.
Responding to anger the Indonesian people, who even demanded the Indonesian government broke off diplomatic relations with Malaysia, Anifah said that in principle the Government of Malaysia difficulties withdraw its representative in Indonesia (Embassy of Malaysia to Indonesia in Jakarta) because these kedubesnya including 22 embassies in Malaysia who has immunity. Anyone who can not pull out.
That way, more Anifah suggested that the Indonesian Government are working hard to protect the representatives of Malaysia and its assets in Jakarta from possible damage due to chaos caused by protests of Indonesian society.
Marty criticized
From within the country, pressure on the government to act more firmly kept popping up. "Now this little problem while the issue is about the technical nature. However, we should be able to be assertive. The goal is to make the tension as a therapeutic shock. So that all are aware, our relationship with Malaysia for this is not without problems. He said allied, but why a lot of problems? "Said Andi Widjojanto.
Andi also criticized Foreign Minister answers Marty Natalegawa in front of a hearing with House Commission I on Wednesday (25 / 8). Marty Secretary concerned termination of diplomatic relations, such as the proposed Commission I will only complicate matters.
Marty worry severance of diplomatic relations can be very difficult for Indonesian workers who work in their countries.
"If his way of thinking is still so, It means the ability of our diplomacy is still raw. Do not every problem is always removed and hidden away under the carpet. Ideally, finish the course directly. Conflict did not have to be enemies. Besides the two countries must both have common interests, "said Andi.
Pledge judge stern measures decrease the status of diplomatic relations could be the right step. Indonesia has never pulled its ambassador from another country such as Australia pascalepasnya Timor-Leste.
Urging President
Pressure also continues voiced by some circles of society to the government, especially President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who according to them is not firm and is also slow in addressing the serious problems this time.
Member of Regional Representative Council (DPD) from North Sumatra, Parlindungan Purba, asked President Yudhoyono to communicate directly with the Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak. "In order for such cases is not prolonged and the more pointed as it is now happening, which is believed will only hurt both sides," he said.
Prosperous Peace Party Chairman Denny Tewu asked President Yudhoyono had taken the decision to revise the related issues. He also claimed to be sent a letter to the President that the government should review diplomatic relations with that country. The attitude and statements of government during this he just does not evoke feelings of nationalism.
Lecturer of International Relations University of Technology, First Base Susilo, said the Indonesian diplomatic ambiguity is reflected in the relationship with Malaysia today.
According to the Base, the form of bilateral friendly relations should be mutually beneficial. To that end, the government must show readiness broke off diplomatic relations with Malaysia, which in turn would increase the prestige of Indonesia in the eyes of other countries and make it as a country that has self-esteem and can not be toyed with. (DWA / Nik / Raz / WHO / WSI / TRA / NIT / MKN / CHE)
Source: www.kompas.com
Opinion was expressed by a lecturer in International Relations from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia, Andi Widjojanto, and researchers Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Ikrar Nusa Bhakti, Thursday (26 / 8).
Both commented on issues related to seepage of fish theft case by Malaysian fishermen in Indonesian territory.
Malaysian Foreign Minister Dato 'Sri Hj Aman Anifah expressed readiness to negotiate with Indonesia to resolve the problem the two countries, both aquatic and terrestrial, although the process is determined to be a long and complicated.
This statement came during a visit and dialogue with Indonesia at least 24 Young Ambassador 2010 in the Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, Putra Jaya, Malaysia.
Anifah believes issues happened between the two countries are now quite accomplished and discussed between the two foreign ministers without the need to involve the respective heads of state.
Responding to anger the Indonesian people, who even demanded the Indonesian government broke off diplomatic relations with Malaysia, Anifah said that in principle the Government of Malaysia difficulties withdraw its representative in Indonesia (Embassy of Malaysia to Indonesia in Jakarta) because these kedubesnya including 22 embassies in Malaysia who has immunity. Anyone who can not pull out.
That way, more Anifah suggested that the Indonesian Government are working hard to protect the representatives of Malaysia and its assets in Jakarta from possible damage due to chaos caused by protests of Indonesian society.
Marty criticized
From within the country, pressure on the government to act more firmly kept popping up. "Now this little problem while the issue is about the technical nature. However, we should be able to be assertive. The goal is to make the tension as a therapeutic shock. So that all are aware, our relationship with Malaysia for this is not without problems. He said allied, but why a lot of problems? "Said Andi Widjojanto.
Andi also criticized Foreign Minister answers Marty Natalegawa in front of a hearing with House Commission I on Wednesday (25 / 8). Marty Secretary concerned termination of diplomatic relations, such as the proposed Commission I will only complicate matters.
Marty worry severance of diplomatic relations can be very difficult for Indonesian workers who work in their countries.
"If his way of thinking is still so, It means the ability of our diplomacy is still raw. Do not every problem is always removed and hidden away under the carpet. Ideally, finish the course directly. Conflict did not have to be enemies. Besides the two countries must both have common interests, "said Andi.
Pledge judge stern measures decrease the status of diplomatic relations could be the right step. Indonesia has never pulled its ambassador from another country such as Australia pascalepasnya Timor-Leste.
Urging President
Pressure also continues voiced by some circles of society to the government, especially President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who according to them is not firm and is also slow in addressing the serious problems this time.
Member of Regional Representative Council (DPD) from North Sumatra, Parlindungan Purba, asked President Yudhoyono to communicate directly with the Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak. "In order for such cases is not prolonged and the more pointed as it is now happening, which is believed will only hurt both sides," he said.
Prosperous Peace Party Chairman Denny Tewu asked President Yudhoyono had taken the decision to revise the related issues. He also claimed to be sent a letter to the President that the government should review diplomatic relations with that country. The attitude and statements of government during this he just does not evoke feelings of nationalism.
Lecturer of International Relations University of Technology, First Base Susilo, said the Indonesian diplomatic ambiguity is reflected in the relationship with Malaysia today.
According to the Base, the form of bilateral friendly relations should be mutually beneficial. To that end, the government must show readiness broke off diplomatic relations with Malaysia, which in turn would increase the prestige of Indonesia in the eyes of other countries and make it as a country that has self-esteem and can not be toyed with. (DWA / Nik / Raz / WHO / WSI / TRA / NIT / MKN / CHE)
Source: www.kompas.com
Deep-Sea Images Reveal Colorful Life off Indonesia
Scientists using cutting-edge technology to explore waters off Indonesia were wowed by colorful and diverse images of marine life on the ocean floor — including plate-sized sea spiders and flower-like sponges that appear to be carnivorous. They predicted Thursday that as many as 40 new plant and animal species may have been discovered during the three-week expedition that ended Aug. 14.
More than 100 hours of video and 100,000 photographs, captured using a robotic vehicle with high-definition cameras, were piped to shore in real-time by satellite and high-speed Internet. Verena Tunnicliffe, a professor at the University of Victoria in Canada, said the images provided an extraordinary glimpse into one of the globe’s most complex and little-known marine ecosystems.
“Stalked sea lilies once covered the ocean, shallow and deep, but now are rare,” she said in a written statement. “I’ve only seen a few in my career. But on this expedition, I was amazed to see them in great diversity.”
Likewise, Tunnicliffe has also seen sea spiders before, but those were tiny in comparison, all around one-inch (2.5 centimeters) long: “The sea spiders ... on this mission were huge. Eight-inches (20-centimeters) or more across.”
One animal captured on video looks like a flower, covered with glasslike needles, but scientists think it is probably a carnivorous sponge. The spikes, covered with sticky tissue, appear to capture food as it passes by.
Scientists used powerful sonar mapping system and the robotic vehicle to explore nearly 21,000 square miles (54,000 sq. kilometers) of sea floor off northern Indonesia, at depths ranging from 800 feet (240 meters) to over two miles (1.6 kilometers).
The mission was carried out by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s ship, the Okeanos Explorer. An Indonesian vessel, the Baruna Jaya IV, also took part, collecting specimens that, together with all rights for future use, will remain in the country. Confirmation that a species is new involves a scientific peer review and other steps and can take years.
source: www.kompas.com
More than 100 hours of video and 100,000 photographs, captured using a robotic vehicle with high-definition cameras, were piped to shore in real-time by satellite and high-speed Internet. Verena Tunnicliffe, a professor at the University of Victoria in Canada, said the images provided an extraordinary glimpse into one of the globe’s most complex and little-known marine ecosystems.
“Stalked sea lilies once covered the ocean, shallow and deep, but now are rare,” she said in a written statement. “I’ve only seen a few in my career. But on this expedition, I was amazed to see them in great diversity.”
Likewise, Tunnicliffe has also seen sea spiders before, but those were tiny in comparison, all around one-inch (2.5 centimeters) long: “The sea spiders ... on this mission were huge. Eight-inches (20-centimeters) or more across.”
One animal captured on video looks like a flower, covered with glasslike needles, but scientists think it is probably a carnivorous sponge. The spikes, covered with sticky tissue, appear to capture food as it passes by.
Scientists used powerful sonar mapping system and the robotic vehicle to explore nearly 21,000 square miles (54,000 sq. kilometers) of sea floor off northern Indonesia, at depths ranging from 800 feet (240 meters) to over two miles (1.6 kilometers).
The mission was carried out by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s ship, the Okeanos Explorer. An Indonesian vessel, the Baruna Jaya IV, also took part, collecting specimens that, together with all rights for future use, will remain in the country. Confirmation that a species is new involves a scientific peer review and other steps and can take years.
source: www.kompas.com
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Indonesia, Country that can lose
Almost a thousand years ago, a major figure during the Song Dynasty in China, Wang An Shih (1021-1086), warned, there are two sources of corruption that always repeats itself, that is bad law and bad people.
History proves impossible to save the government by just leaning on the law to control officials, while they were not the right man for the job, "said Wang.
That statement bothered us when combating corruption meet the test. A few days ago, a number of corruption convicts get remission, pardon, and free. Of the 58 400 prisoners granted clemency, 341 of them convicted of corruption. Some of them are former Bank Indonesia officials, such as T Aulia Pohan, Bunbunan Hutapea, Aslim Tadjuddin, and Maman Soemantri, and former regent of Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan, Syaukani HR.
Despite whatever the reason, the exemption is considered to injure people's sense of justice. Chairman of the Indonesian Rectors Forum Advisory Council Edy Suandi Hamid said the granting of pardon and remission was the paradox with various attitudes or statements by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono that the corruptor as the great enemy of the nation. "It injures the conscience of the people who are victims of corrupt practices," said Edy.
Liberation was hampering efforts to eradicate corruption. In fact, the government is always touting the war against corruption. In fact, in a joint session of the DPR and DPD, 16 August, the President said had been carrying out anti-corruption programs in a systemic, continuous, starting from the top, and indiscriminately.
However, the forgiveness of convicted of corruption are perceived conflict with the war against corruption (corrupt, corruptie, corruptio) a significant decay, ugliness, depravity. "It's a bad precedent for the eradication of corruption in the future," said Syarifuddin Sudding, member of Commission III of the House of People's Conscience Party (Hanura).
Runyamnya, in corruption cases, most convicts may be regarded as a mild punishment. For example, the proven corruption Syaukani USD 49.367 billion, serving only three years of six-year sentence. Nurdin Halid, General Chairman of Indonesian Distribution Cooperative, was sentenced to two years in prison (an appeal) for a total corruption of Rp 169.7 billion. Recently a former prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan, who allegedly received bribes worth Rp 6.1 billion, which was sentenced to 20 years.
More severe when compared to the punishment received little thief. Corrupter of public money to dredge a better fate than the small thief who stolen. It's unfair to compare with the punishment of the little people who steal because of "forced" due to entanglement of poverty, not because of greed. For example, a case that struck Manisih (40) and Sri Suratmi (19), who was sentenced to one month in jail in the District Court of Batang, Central Java, in January last, because it proved to be stealing a sack of cotton fruit (weight 14 kg) for Rp 12,000.
Although can not be measured mathematically, let's make the comparison just for fun. For stolen USD 12 000, must be punished Manisih 30 days. This means that daily penalty equal to the value of the stolen USD 400. Compare with Syaukani. If the value of USD 49.367 billion to corruption sentence served three years, equivalent to the daily punishment of corruption around Rp 45 million. If compared with the case of Nurdin Halid, more is not fair anymore. If the value of USD 169.7 billion convicted of corruption for two years (approximately 730 days), the corruption of Rp 232 million a day just punished.
The comparison was not part of the legal material. However, we can get a picture, who stole a dime Manisih USD 400 sentenced to 24 hours. The same punishment received Syaukani which USD 45 million, or draining the dredge Nurdin USD 232 million. Only the sharp sword of the law on the little guy, but dull on the people in power?
Law enforcement
In this context, the role of law enforcement is essential. They are afraid of hurting justice instead reluctantly holding that heavy responsibility. Acts rejection magistracy (qazi) in the time of the Abbasid dynasty in Iraq, especially during the Caliph Abu Jafar al-Mansur and Al-Mahdi, maybe could be an important record. Jurists, such as Sofyan Tsauri (715-778) or the Abu Hanifa (669-767), are equally rejected magistracy. According to Syed Hussein Alatas in the book Sociology of Corruption, it reflects an attitude against corruption is most obvious.
However, in this country just the opposite. In the case of tax officials, Gaius HP Tambunan, for example, law enforcement instead agreed that "corruption in congregation." In fact, the same time, this nation energy poured out to fight corruption. There should be no tolerance towards corruption.
Corruption is an extraordinary crime (extra ordinary crimes) and crimes against humanity (crimes against humanity). Many people tangled in poverty because money that should be dripped into them eaten by people in power.
Warning Wang An Shih provide an opportunity for us to be fair in enforcing the law and improve its human morals. If the half-hearted, this country can really be rotten.
By: Subhan SD
Source: www.kompas.com
History proves impossible to save the government by just leaning on the law to control officials, while they were not the right man for the job, "said Wang.
That statement bothered us when combating corruption meet the test. A few days ago, a number of corruption convicts get remission, pardon, and free. Of the 58 400 prisoners granted clemency, 341 of them convicted of corruption. Some of them are former Bank Indonesia officials, such as T Aulia Pohan, Bunbunan Hutapea, Aslim Tadjuddin, and Maman Soemantri, and former regent of Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan, Syaukani HR.
Despite whatever the reason, the exemption is considered to injure people's sense of justice. Chairman of the Indonesian Rectors Forum Advisory Council Edy Suandi Hamid said the granting of pardon and remission was the paradox with various attitudes or statements by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono that the corruptor as the great enemy of the nation. "It injures the conscience of the people who are victims of corrupt practices," said Edy.
Liberation was hampering efforts to eradicate corruption. In fact, the government is always touting the war against corruption. In fact, in a joint session of the DPR and DPD, 16 August, the President said had been carrying out anti-corruption programs in a systemic, continuous, starting from the top, and indiscriminately.
However, the forgiveness of convicted of corruption are perceived conflict with the war against corruption (corrupt, corruptie, corruptio) a significant decay, ugliness, depravity. "It's a bad precedent for the eradication of corruption in the future," said Syarifuddin Sudding, member of Commission III of the House of People's Conscience Party (Hanura).
Runyamnya, in corruption cases, most convicts may be regarded as a mild punishment. For example, the proven corruption Syaukani USD 49.367 billion, serving only three years of six-year sentence. Nurdin Halid, General Chairman of Indonesian Distribution Cooperative, was sentenced to two years in prison (an appeal) for a total corruption of Rp 169.7 billion. Recently a former prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan, who allegedly received bribes worth Rp 6.1 billion, which was sentenced to 20 years.
More severe when compared to the punishment received little thief. Corrupter of public money to dredge a better fate than the small thief who stolen. It's unfair to compare with the punishment of the little people who steal because of "forced" due to entanglement of poverty, not because of greed. For example, a case that struck Manisih (40) and Sri Suratmi (19), who was sentenced to one month in jail in the District Court of Batang, Central Java, in January last, because it proved to be stealing a sack of cotton fruit (weight 14 kg) for Rp 12,000.
Although can not be measured mathematically, let's make the comparison just for fun. For stolen USD 12 000, must be punished Manisih 30 days. This means that daily penalty equal to the value of the stolen USD 400. Compare with Syaukani. If the value of USD 49.367 billion to corruption sentence served three years, equivalent to the daily punishment of corruption around Rp 45 million. If compared with the case of Nurdin Halid, more is not fair anymore. If the value of USD 169.7 billion convicted of corruption for two years (approximately 730 days), the corruption of Rp 232 million a day just punished.
The comparison was not part of the legal material. However, we can get a picture, who stole a dime Manisih USD 400 sentenced to 24 hours. The same punishment received Syaukani which USD 45 million, or draining the dredge Nurdin USD 232 million. Only the sharp sword of the law on the little guy, but dull on the people in power?
Law enforcement
In this context, the role of law enforcement is essential. They are afraid of hurting justice instead reluctantly holding that heavy responsibility. Acts rejection magistracy (qazi) in the time of the Abbasid dynasty in Iraq, especially during the Caliph Abu Jafar al-Mansur and Al-Mahdi, maybe could be an important record. Jurists, such as Sofyan Tsauri (715-778) or the Abu Hanifa (669-767), are equally rejected magistracy. According to Syed Hussein Alatas in the book Sociology of Corruption, it reflects an attitude against corruption is most obvious.
However, in this country just the opposite. In the case of tax officials, Gaius HP Tambunan, for example, law enforcement instead agreed that "corruption in congregation." In fact, the same time, this nation energy poured out to fight corruption. There should be no tolerance towards corruption.
Corruption is an extraordinary crime (extra ordinary crimes) and crimes against humanity (crimes against humanity). Many people tangled in poverty because money that should be dripped into them eaten by people in power.
Warning Wang An Shih provide an opportunity for us to be fair in enforcing the law and improve its human morals. If the half-hearted, this country can really be rotten.
By: Subhan SD
Source: www.kompas.com
Finding Peace in Sabang
End of the sky in contact with the sea leaving only the orange tinge, signs of the day changed that night in Love Beach. Echo loud call to prayer sounded from the tip of the country was quiet and peaceful.
Just stopped at my house, it's late. Stay where? "Asked the woman who introduced herself named Rusmi (49). We chose to continue the journey because the inn is only 300 meters from the beach Love, Sabang, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam.
Rusmi attitude that is the mirror of Sabang in general friendliness of people. Those who knew the true citizen immigrants, who are citizens of the original Sabang. "Population Sabang only 27,000 people. If there are strangers, we know very well, "said Habsa (43), villagers Meulee Ie, Sukajaya District, City of Sabang.
Disturbances or crime in the village of Meulee Ie, the east end of Sabang, will arrive Iboih Village, District Sukakarya, the other end of the west, in just minutes. So let ordinary citizens Sabang motorcycle or car parked on the street with the keys attached.
Central Bureau of Statistics data in 2008 recorded Sabang, theft only happened five years.
Sabang town friendliness and comfort is what makes Luca Aldrovandi fell in love. The Italian man was married to Eva, the girl Sabang, and settled there. "The air is clean, beautiful scenery. It is suitable for raising her, "said Luca Salsabila stroking Aldrovandi (8 months), children simply wayang. It is also a compelling Marwan Nasution (69) to spend his old age in Sabang, also Teuku Syahrul (63), the owner of an inn.
Calm
Sabang we know from kindergarten through the song "From Sabang to Merauke" R Suharjo creation. Through song, we can imagine the limit and the tip of our country. Tugu Kilometer 0 (read: zero) initial marker distance and area measurement of the archipelago from Sabang to Merauke. Each visitor is entitled to get a certificate that he had visited the monument Kilometer 0 by replacing the administrative costs of Rp 20 000 per certificate.
Consisting of Sub Sukajaya and Sukakarya, Sabang surrounded by the Strait of Malacca to the north and east and the Indonesian Ocean in the south and west. Its land area is no more than 153 square kilometers with a mountainous topography. Several small islands around it: Klah, Rubiah, Seulako, and Rondo.
Sabang can achieve through Banda Aceh by riding a ferry or fast boat with travel times of one to two hours. First can be reached directly from the field, with the aircraft. Now no longer a direct flight.
Momentarily set foot in Port Balohan, Sabang, dozens of public transport drivers to tour guides offer competing services. For around Sabang, a rental car is offered with a tariff of Rp 300,000 to Rp 500,000 per day. In town, there is no public transportation. Only a motor rickshaw fare of Rp 5,000 or Rp 10,000 antartujuan. When renting a day, the tariff is Rp 100,000 to Rp 150,000.
Shops and businesses open from dawn until about 13:00 o'clock. At 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. all closed for siesta tradition. Stores, shops, and places of business open again at 18:00 to 23:00. 23.00 Remove, Sabang quiet again.
The tradition of nationalism
Sabang history ever written Teuku Teuku Djohan Balohan bin Sulaiman, the fourth generation of army commanders Sabang, in Teuku Po Miruk Abdul Wahid (Commander-Balohan Weh Island). Described, at the time of Sultan Alaiddin Mansursyah, Sabang was known as one of the largest pepper producer in Indonesia.
The seunebok (leader) gather pepper pepper plantations for export and the results to build armed forces and made a stockade.
Solomon describes, in 1861 the Dutch attacked the island of Weh. Despite losing a lot of fighters, residents can dispel Weh Dutch troops to the Rice Island. Resistance to the occupation of the Netherlands in the mainland as intense.
Teuku Umar Cut Nyak Dien and led a revolt against the Dutch occupation of the Acehnese. Unilaterally, although the Dutch claim to conquer Aceh in the field had never happened.
Then at the time of independence, donations of tens of kilograms of gold from the people of Aceh to buy a DC-3 Dakota airplane (RI-001 Dakota Seulawah) proves to the Indonesian Aceh nationalism. The same was donated Radio Rimba Raya in buckle Elephant, Bener Meriah.
Sabang attraction lies in its natural beauty. Almost all the tourists, especially backpackers, storming the beaches in the west island. West coast of Weh Island, 22 kilometers from the city center and Iboih Gapang-ie, is the location of diving, with coral reef marine park and beautiful.
Inns and hotels is available at the rate of Rp 75,000-Rp 250,000 per night.
Local tourists usually come on weekends. Sunday afternoon or Monday morning they returned to Banda Aceh to work. However, foreign tourists usually stay longer and they are like timeless ....
By: Mohammad Faiq and Mahdi Muhammad Hilmi
source: www.kompas.com
Just stopped at my house, it's late. Stay where? "Asked the woman who introduced herself named Rusmi (49). We chose to continue the journey because the inn is only 300 meters from the beach Love, Sabang, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam.
Rusmi attitude that is the mirror of Sabang in general friendliness of people. Those who knew the true citizen immigrants, who are citizens of the original Sabang. "Population Sabang only 27,000 people. If there are strangers, we know very well, "said Habsa (43), villagers Meulee Ie, Sukajaya District, City of Sabang.
Disturbances or crime in the village of Meulee Ie, the east end of Sabang, will arrive Iboih Village, District Sukakarya, the other end of the west, in just minutes. So let ordinary citizens Sabang motorcycle or car parked on the street with the keys attached.
Central Bureau of Statistics data in 2008 recorded Sabang, theft only happened five years.
Sabang town friendliness and comfort is what makes Luca Aldrovandi fell in love. The Italian man was married to Eva, the girl Sabang, and settled there. "The air is clean, beautiful scenery. It is suitable for raising her, "said Luca Salsabila stroking Aldrovandi (8 months), children simply wayang. It is also a compelling Marwan Nasution (69) to spend his old age in Sabang, also Teuku Syahrul (63), the owner of an inn.
Calm
Sabang we know from kindergarten through the song "From Sabang to Merauke" R Suharjo creation. Through song, we can imagine the limit and the tip of our country. Tugu Kilometer 0 (read: zero) initial marker distance and area measurement of the archipelago from Sabang to Merauke. Each visitor is entitled to get a certificate that he had visited the monument Kilometer 0 by replacing the administrative costs of Rp 20 000 per certificate.
Consisting of Sub Sukajaya and Sukakarya, Sabang surrounded by the Strait of Malacca to the north and east and the Indonesian Ocean in the south and west. Its land area is no more than 153 square kilometers with a mountainous topography. Several small islands around it: Klah, Rubiah, Seulako, and Rondo.
Sabang can achieve through Banda Aceh by riding a ferry or fast boat with travel times of one to two hours. First can be reached directly from the field, with the aircraft. Now no longer a direct flight.
Momentarily set foot in Port Balohan, Sabang, dozens of public transport drivers to tour guides offer competing services. For around Sabang, a rental car is offered with a tariff of Rp 300,000 to Rp 500,000 per day. In town, there is no public transportation. Only a motor rickshaw fare of Rp 5,000 or Rp 10,000 antartujuan. When renting a day, the tariff is Rp 100,000 to Rp 150,000.
Shops and businesses open from dawn until about 13:00 o'clock. At 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. all closed for siesta tradition. Stores, shops, and places of business open again at 18:00 to 23:00. 23.00 Remove, Sabang quiet again.
The tradition of nationalism
Sabang history ever written Teuku Teuku Djohan Balohan bin Sulaiman, the fourth generation of army commanders Sabang, in Teuku Po Miruk Abdul Wahid (Commander-Balohan Weh Island). Described, at the time of Sultan Alaiddin Mansursyah, Sabang was known as one of the largest pepper producer in Indonesia.
The seunebok (leader) gather pepper pepper plantations for export and the results to build armed forces and made a stockade.
Solomon describes, in 1861 the Dutch attacked the island of Weh. Despite losing a lot of fighters, residents can dispel Weh Dutch troops to the Rice Island. Resistance to the occupation of the Netherlands in the mainland as intense.
Teuku Umar Cut Nyak Dien and led a revolt against the Dutch occupation of the Acehnese. Unilaterally, although the Dutch claim to conquer Aceh in the field had never happened.
Then at the time of independence, donations of tens of kilograms of gold from the people of Aceh to buy a DC-3 Dakota airplane (RI-001 Dakota Seulawah) proves to the Indonesian Aceh nationalism. The same was donated Radio Rimba Raya in buckle Elephant, Bener Meriah.
Sabang attraction lies in its natural beauty. Almost all the tourists, especially backpackers, storming the beaches in the west island. West coast of Weh Island, 22 kilometers from the city center and Iboih Gapang-ie, is the location of diving, with coral reef marine park and beautiful.
Inns and hotels is available at the rate of Rp 75,000-Rp 250,000 per night.
Local tourists usually come on weekends. Sunday afternoon or Monday morning they returned to Banda Aceh to work. However, foreign tourists usually stay longer and they are like timeless ....
By: Mohammad Faiq and Mahdi Muhammad Hilmi
source: www.kompas.com
SUTAJI, Saviour of Forests in Slope Willis
Looting of timber in 1998 led to tens of hectares of critical land in the forest slopes of Mount Wilis, Nganjuk, East Java. This became a source of flood and landslide and the death of water resources and economic resources of society. However, thanks to hard work SUTAJI, disasters were driven back, and even verdant jungle.
In a period of approximately 10 years, at least 61 hectares of barren forest areas due to the euphoria of the lumberjacks went too far in the area of productive forest or protected forests have become overgrown again. In fact, tens of hectares of unirrigated land and the yard was transformed into productive land that serves as a buffer conservation forest existence.
Prosperity is not just any terlimpah for communities surrounding the forest, but flows away up to a radius of hundreds of kilometers along the river flow Widas and culminated in the Brantas River. It crossed half the area of East Java Province.
More than 40 water sources resulting from rescue activities of the forest. Water from these springs can irrigate thousands of hectares of rice fields in the vicinity. Water sources that also produces beautiful tourist travel water Roro Kuning whose beauty attracted tourists.
Environmental rescue effort was started by a farmer from the village of Bajulan, District Loceret, Nganjuk, the only elementary school mengenyam it. Without the help and just having a bit of science, he tried to stop forest clearing.
SUTAJI must deal directly with the forest that no other browser neighbors and his own brother. In the eyes SUTAJI, residents only victim of the lure of money and jobs promised by the bosses of wood from out of town.
Giving examples
SUTAJI sad when he imagined how the villagers if the forest area has been cleared? Not only lost jobs, their neighborhood immediately adjacent to the forest must have also been damaged by floods or landslides cliff.
Because of concerns that is, children of this village peasant guerrilla from one person to another, from one house to another to campaign for cessation of logging and wood boss coordinate expel residents who only utilize personnel and the public for their own stupidity.
SUTAJI initially received strong disapproval. He was ridiculed. "Is your son can be given to eat wood?" Said his uncle own greeting SUTAJI mimicked.
However, he did not give up. He actually tercambuk to speak on every occasion, from events in the rice fields until farmers gathered at the confluence of the village.
The result is not disappointing. Gradually people started waking consciousness. Without wanting to lose the incredible momentum moving, the real sample with SUTAJI replant forest containing bald.
Farmers who own life when it was still hard, willing to take time, effort and cost by providing thousands of plant seeds to be planted in the forest. There are teak trees, falcataria, Mindi, cloves, tamarind, mango, rambutan, and avocado.
In 2000, SUTAJI time to ask for help seeds to Perum Perhutani as forest managers. However, his request was rejected.
On the way back green forests, not all plants are planted SUTAJI maximum growth. Some of them even die. He was later realized that the need of knowledge about plants that are suitable for forest areas that are in Kediri Forest Unitary Pemangkuan it.
Improve welfare
Chairman of Farmers Group Sidodadi, Bajulan Village, this is then lobbied a number of government agencies that included the training of the plant. From that training, SUTAJI gain knowledge about the types of crops and cultivation methods in the forest area.
SUTAJI then asked the farmers to make rice cultivation system of terracing on the slopes of steep mountains to withstand a very heavy flow of water during the rainy season.
After saving the forest, the father of two children and then think how to improve the welfare of local forest communities that have no productive agricultural land. How, among others, by exploiting the forests for agriculture, without change, let alone destroy, the function of the forest itself.
For example, plant economically valuable plantations under the stands of the plant nucleus. They must carefully select the type of plants because not all of them can be developed under exposure to sunlight are less than 100 percent.
So far this is a plant that already produces coffee, cocoa, tubers porang, and essential tree. Plantation crop that's taken the community to support their families. While the result of forests into plantations owned Perum Perhutani.
In addition to farming, some people also get value-added economic value of tourism that relies on charm Roro Kuning forest and waterfall. There is a guard booth, street vendors, and other managing officers.
The opening of jobs for the community have prevented the exodus of young people looking for work to the big city, even overseas. Social welfare has increased, in which one views the indicator housing conditions and level of education of the children.
Like the forests should be preserved, the spirit to preserve the forests also need to be nurtured and passed on to younger generations. For this one issue, SUTAJI merintisnya through extension activities in schools.
By: Runik Sri Astuti
source: www.kompas.com
In a period of approximately 10 years, at least 61 hectares of barren forest areas due to the euphoria of the lumberjacks went too far in the area of productive forest or protected forests have become overgrown again. In fact, tens of hectares of unirrigated land and the yard was transformed into productive land that serves as a buffer conservation forest existence.
Prosperity is not just any terlimpah for communities surrounding the forest, but flows away up to a radius of hundreds of kilometers along the river flow Widas and culminated in the Brantas River. It crossed half the area of East Java Province.
More than 40 water sources resulting from rescue activities of the forest. Water from these springs can irrigate thousands of hectares of rice fields in the vicinity. Water sources that also produces beautiful tourist travel water Roro Kuning whose beauty attracted tourists.
Environmental rescue effort was started by a farmer from the village of Bajulan, District Loceret, Nganjuk, the only elementary school mengenyam it. Without the help and just having a bit of science, he tried to stop forest clearing.
SUTAJI must deal directly with the forest that no other browser neighbors and his own brother. In the eyes SUTAJI, residents only victim of the lure of money and jobs promised by the bosses of wood from out of town.
Giving examples
SUTAJI sad when he imagined how the villagers if the forest area has been cleared? Not only lost jobs, their neighborhood immediately adjacent to the forest must have also been damaged by floods or landslides cliff.
Because of concerns that is, children of this village peasant guerrilla from one person to another, from one house to another to campaign for cessation of logging and wood boss coordinate expel residents who only utilize personnel and the public for their own stupidity.
SUTAJI initially received strong disapproval. He was ridiculed. "Is your son can be given to eat wood?" Said his uncle own greeting SUTAJI mimicked.
However, he did not give up. He actually tercambuk to speak on every occasion, from events in the rice fields until farmers gathered at the confluence of the village.
The result is not disappointing. Gradually people started waking consciousness. Without wanting to lose the incredible momentum moving, the real sample with SUTAJI replant forest containing bald.
Farmers who own life when it was still hard, willing to take time, effort and cost by providing thousands of plant seeds to be planted in the forest. There are teak trees, falcataria, Mindi, cloves, tamarind, mango, rambutan, and avocado.
In 2000, SUTAJI time to ask for help seeds to Perum Perhutani as forest managers. However, his request was rejected.
On the way back green forests, not all plants are planted SUTAJI maximum growth. Some of them even die. He was later realized that the need of knowledge about plants that are suitable for forest areas that are in Kediri Forest Unitary Pemangkuan it.
Improve welfare
Chairman of Farmers Group Sidodadi, Bajulan Village, this is then lobbied a number of government agencies that included the training of the plant. From that training, SUTAJI gain knowledge about the types of crops and cultivation methods in the forest area.
SUTAJI then asked the farmers to make rice cultivation system of terracing on the slopes of steep mountains to withstand a very heavy flow of water during the rainy season.
After saving the forest, the father of two children and then think how to improve the welfare of local forest communities that have no productive agricultural land. How, among others, by exploiting the forests for agriculture, without change, let alone destroy, the function of the forest itself.
For example, plant economically valuable plantations under the stands of the plant nucleus. They must carefully select the type of plants because not all of them can be developed under exposure to sunlight are less than 100 percent.
So far this is a plant that already produces coffee, cocoa, tubers porang, and essential tree. Plantation crop that's taken the community to support their families. While the result of forests into plantations owned Perum Perhutani.
In addition to farming, some people also get value-added economic value of tourism that relies on charm Roro Kuning forest and waterfall. There is a guard booth, street vendors, and other managing officers.
The opening of jobs for the community have prevented the exodus of young people looking for work to the big city, even overseas. Social welfare has increased, in which one views the indicator housing conditions and level of education of the children.
Like the forests should be preserved, the spirit to preserve the forests also need to be nurtured and passed on to younger generations. For this one issue, SUTAJI merintisnya through extension activities in schools.
By: Runik Sri Astuti
source: www.kompas.com
Tana Toraja Develop 8 Tourism
Tana Toraja, a well-known tourist area, has eight top tourist attraction that will be developed.
Secretary of Culture and Tourism of Tana Toraja, Toraja Yosiade, Monday (08/16/2010) says, each of these attractions have unique characteristics and charm. "The eight top tourist attraction is the panoramic Buntu Burake, Tongkonan tumbles Datu-Bebo, Agro-Pango Pango, waterfalls Sarambu Assing, wall chisel Lemo, tour Sirope, Tilangnga natural baths, and custom residential Sillanan," he explained.
Most of the tourist objects are natural tourist attraction, and some of them already known by tourists, both domestic and foreign.
Basically, the area attractions listed in Tana Toraja is a tour that has traditionally characterized and nuanced. "Although the traditional nuances, but this is what the main attraction as a tourist attraction," he said.
According Yosiade, eighth object of this tour must be getting serious attention because Tanatoraja nominated as one of 23 sites in the list of World Heritage Culture by Uesco.
Currently, the Government of Tana Toraja is still conducted a survey of a number of areas which are potential tourist attraction. The presence of this superior tourist attraction can also be a locomotive for the opening of business opportunities surrounding communities such as handicrafts. "It's just that, access road to enter the tourist area is still a big obstacle," he said.
source: www.kompas.com
Secretary of Culture and Tourism of Tana Toraja, Toraja Yosiade, Monday (08/16/2010) says, each of these attractions have unique characteristics and charm. "The eight top tourist attraction is the panoramic Buntu Burake, Tongkonan tumbles Datu-Bebo, Agro-Pango Pango, waterfalls Sarambu Assing, wall chisel Lemo, tour Sirope, Tilangnga natural baths, and custom residential Sillanan," he explained.
Most of the tourist objects are natural tourist attraction, and some of them already known by tourists, both domestic and foreign.
Basically, the area attractions listed in Tana Toraja is a tour that has traditionally characterized and nuanced. "Although the traditional nuances, but this is what the main attraction as a tourist attraction," he said.
According Yosiade, eighth object of this tour must be getting serious attention because Tanatoraja nominated as one of 23 sites in the list of World Heritage Culture by Uesco.
Currently, the Government of Tana Toraja is still conducted a survey of a number of areas which are potential tourist attraction. The presence of this superior tourist attraction can also be a locomotive for the opening of business opportunities surrounding communities such as handicrafts. "It's just that, access road to enter the tourist area is still a big obstacle," he said.
source: www.kompas.com
Spiritual Tours
Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Karangasem will discuss the concept of spiritual tourism, as a breakthrough development of tourism in Karangasem regency. "The other breakthrough to attract tourists to the Karangasem district must continue to be done. Dealing with the problem, in the near future will host a meeting to discuss spiritual tourism," said Chairman PHRI Karangasem, I Wayan Tama, Wednesday (08/25/2010).
He said the current tour concept was already there, but needs to be discussed with the involvement of a number of experts so that no one communication about the concept of spiritual tourism. "All this is recognized, interpreted the wrong spiritual tourism, spiritual tourism is defined as taking tourists to pray," he said.
In fact, said Tama, the concept of spiritual tourism is not invite foreign tourists to do prayers. But further highlight the concept that tourists can enjoy the peace of the spiritual aura as a spiritual tour to follow. "One of the concepts set out in the absence of spiritual tourist cafes such as those found in other tourist areas," he said.
Tama explained, currently the foreign tourist visits to the Karangasem Regency is relatively high, so it is very important when it discussed the concept of spiritual tourism. "Rather than just talking about cruise pier, but in fact not finished and can not be operated, is not it better to discuss spiritual tours cost less but the result is pretty good," he said.
Mention tourism area Sukasada Edge Park to be one of spiritual tourism in Karangasem regency, Tama said, the region needs to be managed more interesting. "In the future, other supporting facilities such as restaurants is necessary, so that guests can come home," he said.
He said the current tour concept was already there, but needs to be discussed with the involvement of a number of experts so that no one communication about the concept of spiritual tourism. "All this is recognized, interpreted the wrong spiritual tourism, spiritual tourism is defined as taking tourists to pray," he said.
In fact, said Tama, the concept of spiritual tourism is not invite foreign tourists to do prayers. But further highlight the concept that tourists can enjoy the peace of the spiritual aura as a spiritual tour to follow. "One of the concepts set out in the absence of spiritual tourist cafes such as those found in other tourist areas," he said.
Tama explained, currently the foreign tourist visits to the Karangasem Regency is relatively high, so it is very important when it discussed the concept of spiritual tourism. "Rather than just talking about cruise pier, but in fact not finished and can not be operated, is not it better to discuss spiritual tours cost less but the result is pretty good," he said.
Mention tourism area Sukasada Edge Park to be one of spiritual tourism in Karangasem regency, Tama said, the region needs to be managed more interesting. "In the future, other supporting facilities such as restaurants is necessary, so that guests can come home," he said.
Malaysia tripe Indonesian forest
Minister for the Environment (Environment Minister) Mohammad Gusti Hatta suspects, one Malaysian company to forest clearing in West Kalimantan's border with the neighbor country.
Conclusions were based on the results of inspections and air monitoring was doing about three months ago. Former University Provost Gastric Mangkurat, Banjarmasin was astonished to see the road winding through the forest with the status of the protected forest.
"We also wonder, why is protected forest, really, there are illegal activities. The information we collect, Malaysian logging companies had done," he said after a keynote speaker socialization of Law No. 32 Year 2009 at the Hotel Arum Kalimantan, Wednesday (25/8/2010 ).
Unfortunately, he did not want to call the company that we had cleared the forest. Because detailed data about the company being hunted ranks of the Ministry of Forestry.
In fact, Hatta was also suspected of forest destruction in some border areas, especially in the East Kalimantan and West Kalimantan, conducted foreign companies from neighboring countries.
Alluded to the involvement of local police officers in the border region, Hatta replied diplomatically. According to him, if there is no entry permit from the officer, the company can not get into that area.
"Logically, how could foreign companies could enter if there is no permission from the officers," he said.
Meanwhile, Deputy V Kemeneg settlement areas LH, Ilyas Asad added that forest clearing in West Kalimantan border areas and conducted large-scale companies.
Because, the road is created inside the forest is very far away. Thus, these lines may not be made with a manual device owned by the local community.
In addition, he continued, tree felling amount also done a lot. Reinforce it, encroachment of forests is conducted large-scale companies.
"If the public about the most just cut them down three trees, and it is impossible to make a pretty good road in the woods," he explained.
source: www.kompas.com
Conclusions were based on the results of inspections and air monitoring was doing about three months ago. Former University Provost Gastric Mangkurat, Banjarmasin was astonished to see the road winding through the forest with the status of the protected forest.
"We also wonder, why is protected forest, really, there are illegal activities. The information we collect, Malaysian logging companies had done," he said after a keynote speaker socialization of Law No. 32 Year 2009 at the Hotel Arum Kalimantan, Wednesday (25/8/2010 ).
Unfortunately, he did not want to call the company that we had cleared the forest. Because detailed data about the company being hunted ranks of the Ministry of Forestry.
In fact, Hatta was also suspected of forest destruction in some border areas, especially in the East Kalimantan and West Kalimantan, conducted foreign companies from neighboring countries.
Alluded to the involvement of local police officers in the border region, Hatta replied diplomatically. According to him, if there is no entry permit from the officer, the company can not get into that area.
"Logically, how could foreign companies could enter if there is no permission from the officers," he said.
Meanwhile, Deputy V Kemeneg settlement areas LH, Ilyas Asad added that forest clearing in West Kalimantan border areas and conducted large-scale companies.
Because, the road is created inside the forest is very far away. Thus, these lines may not be made with a manual device owned by the local community.
In addition, he continued, tree felling amount also done a lot. Reinforce it, encroachment of forests is conducted large-scale companies.
"If the public about the most just cut them down three trees, and it is impossible to make a pretty good road in the woods," he explained.
source: www.kompas.com
How to start writing?
"Write what you see, you hear and you feel alone. Do not write the occult-supernatural. "Pramudya Ananta Toer.
I've been feeling depressed and anxious. This is when it comes to actualizing his ideas and thoughts into written form. Often brilliant ideas floated and could not catch it again. Usually, these ideas appear in an unexpected time, whenever and wherever. We would like to write these ideas, I found I could not string up word by word sentence that forms a string of slick. I thought "it was very difficult to write, not everyone can write." This goes on for very long, even now sometimes I can not put ideas and thoughts into writing.
Once there was a couple of friends say if you want to be able to write, then you can start learning how to write a diary book. This has been done since long and many years, but this does not also make me able to write. Finally I was frustrated and stop the habit of writing diaries. But there's one thing I am thankful that during my habit to write diary was still active, the couple plans to live and my little thoughts can be written and recorded so as not to lose scattered.
But writing is not just fill the diary notes, writing requires more complex skills. Writing requires a broad perspective, a lot of references and frequent practice. That so my problem is how to get started writing? Due to a lot of practice means been able to write, although only simple text. Until finally I found the words Pramudya Ananta Toer "write what you see-see, you hear and you feel alone, do not write the occult-supernatural."
Write down what you see, you hear and you feel alone.
The words spoken by the great writers, historians, and cultural this coutry. I had agree what at suggested by him, that if we want to learn to write then we should write according to what we see, hear and feel. This is useful in helping reasoning imagination, narrative, and stringing groove deskribsi we will pour in writing. Whatever the form of an existing theme idea in our heads, let us try to set forth in writing.
Like reporters, every day they are required to always write stories in a certain amount. In fact they were able to meet these obligations, because the journalists had been formed in his mind to write all the events that already exist. The reporters do not have concocted a series of events in accordance with grooves hayalnya. But they are just stringing fragments of stories that have occurred and are summarized into a written order.
Sometimes we see an article in a written media, which contained a very simple idea. But because the methods of good writing, then it becomes very interesting article. Like if we listen to the song. There is a song whose title single, jealous, TTM, male instinct, love, wake up, pedicab, water, nights a week, and many songs with simple ideas and lyrics that are not complicated. All these songs are the result of an imagination of seeing, hearing and feeling. When what has been on the see, hear and feel it is able to set forth in written form then stayed further processing into a work of good.
As an example of an idea, we can start writing about what is all around us. Suppose we want to write about furniture, we can be more focused on "seat."
The chair is one of the furniture which is very important in the home. In a set of tables will always be equipped with seats. Because without the seat means less furniture is complete. With the seats we can sit back while doing the activity. If we want to choose a chair, staying suit the needs, tastes, budget and quality.
Almost every day we come across a chair, at home, dining room, front porch, back yard, shops, workplaces, in buses, recreational places, offices, hospitals, waiting rooms, etc.. We often do not realize that this life can not be separated from the chair. Have we ever realized how important the seat of our life's journey? Since childhood we are accustomed to living with a chair. Start sitting hall, school, eat, learn, kogkow-kongkow, nongkrongin TV, and many other activities.
Chairs generally have four legs, with a flat plate on top to put the butt and there is a vertical plate as backrest backs. Chair-making raw materials can vary from wood, rattan, iron, bamboo and even made out of cement. In the selection of these materials are usually adjusted by many factors. Beginning initially created to serve as the chair put the tool to comfortably seat bottoms. For that it creates a wide variety of cushions all aimed at making people comfortable, who sits on the seat.
Craftsman furniture with a swift and agile processing raw timber into a form such that the saw seat. Sawed off, pivoted, sanded, painted, and treat others. When finished, the chairs are transported into the show room until later sold, and came in our houses. In the manufacture of chairs, involving many people and factors. Starting from cutting wood, fetching wood, timber transport services, timber craftsmen, courier of furniture, chairs buyer seller hinggal own chair. Everyone has their own roles that are not aware they have linked a common thread.
Along with increased appetite and development of human ideas, current chair is not only used as a means of seating only. Today we can find many accessories that nuanced chair. Accessories makers saw that the chair made a mini can decorate the corners of a particular space. Even now it is not rare to find luxury hotels to put in place a chair decoration business. Accessories with the nuances of the chair can also be in the form of painting a chair, key chains, toys, and many other ideas.
Today, we are preoccupied by the dilapidated state of the other seats. With more and disrupted structure of the administration, the politicians fight each other seats. The chair in question is the status and position. Starting from the seat parliament, the Assembly, the President, ministers, regional head until the head of the village. All elements of society abuzz graced the chair seizure, although people only spectator chair. In the sense of office chairs are also available in the corporate structure. The employees work hard to get the position better. This position is so important because it can provide enjoyment for those who possess it.
The above writing is a form of small theme from a small idea as well. If we can focus on one idea and has a good reference, it is very likely produced a very insightful article. If we look at the example above, the actual writing is still very possible for us to develop further. Starting from the definition, ingredients, benefits, and others.
I am always interested in articles in the daily work of Samuel Aulia compass every week. If I read, almost all of his writings is explained about what he saw, he heard and he's feeling. Or can we call all these factors are the fruit of his experience. There he is like someone who was talking endlessly about one blurted out the theme on a regular basis to form a slick script. With extensive knowledge and maturity to analyze the writings of samuel make Aulia is always fresh and relevant to read until whenever.
Once upon a time I send via e-mail an article results in aceh enjoy a trip to my friend, kojenk. a reply comment on your writing is good writing, gado-gado, deskribtif, but unfortunately there is no coherent path (serial and regular). "Shit, you're talented mpret" he said. He also stressed that more often I read a lot.
An analysis of a genius, he can immediately give a comment what he saw (read) by pouring it in written form. Kojenk also give suggestions so that I often read to give "a sense" that a writing is not "crisp." In addition kojenk also give praise as arising from his feelings with the words "wacky, you're talented mpret". Glad I also got praise.
Actually I feel is still very poor comment given kojenk, he did not give a few examples of writing, writing tips, methods to explor the imagination, and a few other tricks of writing. Hopefully someday he's willing to give science and journalism in all of us, so we are able to put ideas and thoughts in written form.
It's no secret that many young people are incompetent writing. They were only able to koar-koar without being able to translate in the form of a structured article. I was no exception .. We never tried to compile a small idea into something big. Actually if I look, my friends have good ideas and thoughts. Sometimes even a very smart idea, but unfortunately those ideas are not recorded in written form so that it knows where the idea was evaporated.
As experienced by my friend, Andri widiyatmanto (30th), Salatiga men drop out of chemical engineering UGM is an intelligent person. He was able to absorb knowledge quickly, often cast brilliant ideas. Often, too, he wrote poetry, poems, short articles, words of pearls in the sheets. Because the sheets of paper are not well documented, then eventually fly somewhere where the work is ...? very fond of truth, whereas if the sheets are summarized well, do not close the possibility to become a book.
I also experienced this phenomenon. Since college, already there are countless songs that are created from personal ideas with each guitar in my hands. But because his lyrics are not the rhythm of the music I write and I did not record, so now I do not have anything works. Yet if all these songs I write and record, perhaps I already have the album (although the record with the recorder usually). With these experiences then I recommend my friends to try out ideas and thoughts in written form.
Anything as bad as our writing, it is a personal work. No copying, such as plagiarism, do not cheat from other people's work. Maybe sometimes we got the idea after reading or seeing other people's work. It was not a crime, because the ideas and inspiration can come from anywhere. Able from a crowded place to a quiet place, could the terminal until the funeral, could from the mountains to the ocean floor. What is important is the authenticity of these works can we be held accountable.
Everything, if genuine, is worth a fortune in this country, because a false high value aja. He he .. we realize that today we live in a country full of falsehoods? All aspects of joint life and this country has more false aja. Very difficult to find something original. From the start fake handbags, fake books, fake songs, coffee fake, fake stamps, fake diploma, fake ID cards to any minister-signatures forged. While other states vying with each other to make something original, this country was busy with the race even falsehoods.
The government of this country are not happy with the man who had ugemi authenticity. Even the government with different policies instead often "forcing" people to lie. For example, ID cards should be listed in the writing of religion, even though I do not have a religion (cult penghayat). In this case I felt compelled by the government to lie, forced to confess to something I do not true. In this country, there are millions of people who have a case like mine. How the government continues to bear to tell its citizens why lie?
Every individual has a responsibility to always keep the authenticity. Dayak language if some yourself, yes ... being yourself is the key to it all. Why are we always stuck with the flow? Why we do not ever try to make the flow and vortex itself? We should indeed have a truly genuine self to his own personal citrakan. If Samuel Aulia describe people trapped in the flow is a human chameleon, they do not know who she was, always changing, they have no identity, no badge, yes .. they do not have ID cards.
Once again my friends, let us about the currents that sweep over these small works. We turn the flow of these falsehoods with a flow of authenticity ...
Please do not write the supernatural-occult.
A phrase that is very intriguing to understand, "do not write the occult-supernatural." Why Pramudya advised not to write the occult-supernatural? Basically, the idea is something that is supernatural. We can not escape from everything supernatural, even we still breathe-even is something supernatural. Ah, the more confused I made by Prammudya. All of this life cycle, from wake to sleep, bathe, walk, eat, mingle, to go back to sleep is part of the occult. So why are we advised not to write the unseen-unseen?
If the definition is meant by Pramudya supernatural is anything that is illogical and strange as ghosts, witches, demons, mystical, Kyai against ghosts like in soap operas, heaven, hell, and the like. I fully support that statement. Through the reflection in the "maybe" Pramudya want to say that something supernatural is not necessarily true. Do not relate everything that is not clear and not real, then we menjustisfikasi about heaven and hell, right and wrong, black and white.
This country now has become unorganized, unclear, no vision, where focus somehow blurred. Currently a lot of books smelled mystical, from the theme of the body to heaven-hell (they ever witnessed heaven / hell?). Starting from the occult to occult political salvation. Began his magical remote Dayak until his magical middle eastern community. Began his magical group of fine lines up to his magical hawks. Oalah .. increasingly clear that lack of clarity.
Every day we are treated to soap opera with the theme of the body. There are charred bodies, the bodies are not received by the ground, dihanyutkan corpse in the river, the bodies could not be buried, and other bodies. Sometimes there is also a story with the idea of witches, supernatural creatures watchman wingit caves, until the story tuyul friendly with humans.
Indonesia Raya why can not produce great works?
Indonesia Raya Why can not become a great country?
We can not become a great country because we never pay attention to small and always magical thinking, we can never appreciate something small and always connect with the supernatural. We never use the ratio with all my soul.
We often see a little trivial, little had to be marginalized, who have trampled let that little broken, which is much smaller they should be discarded. Yes ... we always marginalize small things. We never pay attention to small, we are always reluctant to treat small, our nation is not painstaking. We can not cultivate a little in order to grow up through a long process. We just want to big with instant street.
We often see the unseen things that seemed real and the real is not real. We often treat the lack of reality as something that must be ugemi and trusted, while all the real fact we marginalized. We often justify things supernatural and instead blame that can be seen and heard. It's no secret if there is news of an official request this kyai blessing or a shaman to ask this and ask for it, let me be like this, let me be so. A minister looking for treasure with damaging archaeological sites. Wow, crazy pancen this country ..
This country was never great because we are always selfish and interest groups. Indonesian people always want to win themselves, always want to control between one another. Indonesian people always insist on with his own affairs without regard to the feelings of others. BILL desperately mengegolkan certain edges to dominate and oppress minorities. Community of this country never see the history and culture and understanding of the existence and diversity the country but wanted to make everything uniform, without any exception.
We may now forget about the goals of reform championed since the beginning. We may now have forgotten how to make this country a cleaner and not a corrupt country. Yes ... we have forgotten about the main purpose of reform is because we have been complacent with things occult-supernatural.
We often hear news about the green party demanding the closure and raided gambling, when in reality they're actually backing of such gambling. Each day the green party get inputs tribute from the gambling sites and thus the amanlah gambling. In the governance environment is also no less ridiculous. We should also observe that the department of religion is the most corrupt department in this country, but they have always argued that the moral of the cleanest and most noble character. Wah wah .. Christianity bad-mbalik mbolak reality ...
Another institution which always is never silent, Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) is often criticized certain companies with product labels forbidden (read the java sank, like a sinking ship) but the edges are due to the MUI does not get paid tributes from the company . MUI is also frequently condemned, condemned it. Yes .. MUI stands for Business Condemn Indonesia. MUI always condemned any attempts intelligent children of the country. Not a day without blasphemy, insults, protests, legal opinions, and the like.
Do not we could do the wise?
Do not we respect each other?
Should not we can respect each other?
Ah .. damn, why I can not do anything about it ....
Population of Indonesia Raya is a big number, but a very small step thinking. Almost every day we will always hear and see the behavior of people who always talk about other people. We are pleased with the show gossip, infotainment programs that do not educate. We love to talk about other people's behavior, sometimes with feelings and cynical outlook. Our society does not realize that what they are doing is something that is not good. Do they ever think if that happens is their own? How we feel if the talk of the whole Indonesian people? What they do can interfere with a person's privacy that would cause new problems.
We often forget their own behavior, but rather cool by giving the stamp and stamp on other people. Can not we all start from ourselves each to do some little things better and not magical? Little things that let us always diligent in cleaning the rooms, cleaning house, cleaning up the environment. This is a small thing and not supernatural. Tahukan effects resulting from this activity if done regularly? In accordance with the theory of "buterfly effect" which says that "disebuah island in the pacific ocean, the little flutter of a butterfly can produce storms in the pacific ocean." Flutter of a butterfly is very small indeed, but if there are millions of butterflies the pacific ocean storm could sink the titanic ship.
Taking this theory, if the culture of clean living can we apply to everyday life, and this is transmitted to us in every environment, clean country is not just a dream. If we truly live up to these principles, then we will not trash a bad stomach. Even the ash and cigarette butts, trash, we are considering. One thing is for sure we can if we consistently do this well is to shape the character and mentality better.
In the workplace, in society, and in friendships. We can also start a clean life with no corruption and mark-ups. Doing this is not an easy thing. Often times we hear the voice that speaks eradicated corrupt, corrupt brush, eradicate corruption and similar jargon. Have we ever tried to restore these sentences into ourselves? These jargon Have we toss in front of our dresser mirror? Because sesugguhnya not participate corruption is not easy. We can shout no corruption because we do not have the opportunity for corruption.
Once upon a time in the year 2005, when I was still active in the NGO Borneo Coruption Watch (BCW). An NGO job ngurusin corruption in East Kalimantan. We handle a corruption case a regional leader. After all the data needed to bring the accused to the green table, we were off to jakarta-to submit all documents to the attorney general file, Police Headquarters, the KPK, the presidential office, ICW, and the Blora Center. In the Blora Center (SBY formation institutions) we do a press release this news so the media exposed. Our hope is that if this case appears the surface the more law enforcement agencies to act quickly.
After all processes are completed, we intend to return to no matter Kaltim. But not long ago, we heard that the head of Blora Center has come to our founding to report that data corruption has been obtained and are ready to print media. Thus the leadership of Blora Center is getting a wad of cash. Damn ... Thus we all detraction from BCW team, we are working fatigue kok Blora Center, which can be even money. And that's not the result of this work ..
Thus the ins and outs of per-korupsian in this country. Even an institution formed by a president who proclaimed himself as an independent institution, free from corruption and able to be a bridge between society and the presidency, has carried on the tide. After that we also do not believe anymore with all kinds of anti-corruption agency said. after that bubarlah Borneo Coruption Watch ....
Corruption in congregation, so the term gado-gadonya now. This is an expression to describe that this country has become a nest of criminals. corruption is a mentality, corruption is a character. It is formed and structured a very long time. Since time immemorial, since the days of empire. Currently almost all Indonesian people had extensive corruption. maybe only 10% (including infants and children, innocent) Just the Indonesian population who are not involved in this insane action. But if one day you are in a position to have the opportunity for corruption, and it turns out you can maintain to remain was not corruption, then you get a reward worth of this country. .Well .. most certainly will not praise you get from me
Honestly, I myself have extensive corruption. Whether on a large scale or small scale. And this to me is a big sin. This is an improper act, an action that can hurt yourself and can also be detrimental to the country (a republic of Indonesia). Fortunately this bad action is not last long, during the process of living, about june 2005 I met a nationalist in Samarinda. His name Sugeng Haryadi, a lecturer and researcher. One time when my discussions with him (more precisely ngangsu kawruh), no words were spoken "iso kowe Sinau Games ora money (corruption) iso awakmu yen began to sing cornerstone little things during limang taon." A phrase that was so flat but really get in the memory.
We can begin to learn to not corrupt the simple things. We do not take bolpoint, erasers, scissors, just the goods of little value anywhere for five years. We do not use office hours to read the newspaper, ngerumpi, playing chess, hanging out in the canteen (like civil servants). We do not use the office phone for personal purposes. Imagine, for forming an anti-corruption mentality and character we have to start living life like that for five years, starting now. If during that time we can not take care of mental hygiene, then someday, if there is a chance, we'd corruption.
With the talents of young-talena revolutionary and has a vision far ahead, maybe we can give color to slightly improve the country who have "reot" this. With each work in their field professionally, let us tune this country with ideas, thoughts and work of the independent ...
Ok, guys. This is a form of graffiti from me. It may be true what they say that my writing has flavor kojenk gado-gado, not coherent, and crisp. But this is the work itself, not njiplak and not supernatural. For the friends who have journalistic skills, please dong given input in the future so that my writing is more flavor and crunchy. Hopefully kojenk not remain silent after reading my writing on this one. Maybe he was inspired to continue to provide ideas and input on all of us in journalism ...
Meulaboh, 28 April'06
Supriyanto kampret
Original text: Bahasa Indonesia,
Translated by: Google translate
I've been feeling depressed and anxious. This is when it comes to actualizing his ideas and thoughts into written form. Often brilliant ideas floated and could not catch it again. Usually, these ideas appear in an unexpected time, whenever and wherever. We would like to write these ideas, I found I could not string up word by word sentence that forms a string of slick. I thought "it was very difficult to write, not everyone can write." This goes on for very long, even now sometimes I can not put ideas and thoughts into writing.
Once there was a couple of friends say if you want to be able to write, then you can start learning how to write a diary book. This has been done since long and many years, but this does not also make me able to write. Finally I was frustrated and stop the habit of writing diaries. But there's one thing I am thankful that during my habit to write diary was still active, the couple plans to live and my little thoughts can be written and recorded so as not to lose scattered.
But writing is not just fill the diary notes, writing requires more complex skills. Writing requires a broad perspective, a lot of references and frequent practice. That so my problem is how to get started writing? Due to a lot of practice means been able to write, although only simple text. Until finally I found the words Pramudya Ananta Toer "write what you see-see, you hear and you feel alone, do not write the occult-supernatural."
Write down what you see, you hear and you feel alone.
The words spoken by the great writers, historians, and cultural this coutry. I had agree what at suggested by him, that if we want to learn to write then we should write according to what we see, hear and feel. This is useful in helping reasoning imagination, narrative, and stringing groove deskribsi we will pour in writing. Whatever the form of an existing theme idea in our heads, let us try to set forth in writing.
Like reporters, every day they are required to always write stories in a certain amount. In fact they were able to meet these obligations, because the journalists had been formed in his mind to write all the events that already exist. The reporters do not have concocted a series of events in accordance with grooves hayalnya. But they are just stringing fragments of stories that have occurred and are summarized into a written order.
Sometimes we see an article in a written media, which contained a very simple idea. But because the methods of good writing, then it becomes very interesting article. Like if we listen to the song. There is a song whose title single, jealous, TTM, male instinct, love, wake up, pedicab, water, nights a week, and many songs with simple ideas and lyrics that are not complicated. All these songs are the result of an imagination of seeing, hearing and feeling. When what has been on the see, hear and feel it is able to set forth in written form then stayed further processing into a work of good.
As an example of an idea, we can start writing about what is all around us. Suppose we want to write about furniture, we can be more focused on "seat."
The chair is one of the furniture which is very important in the home. In a set of tables will always be equipped with seats. Because without the seat means less furniture is complete. With the seats we can sit back while doing the activity. If we want to choose a chair, staying suit the needs, tastes, budget and quality.
Almost every day we come across a chair, at home, dining room, front porch, back yard, shops, workplaces, in buses, recreational places, offices, hospitals, waiting rooms, etc.. We often do not realize that this life can not be separated from the chair. Have we ever realized how important the seat of our life's journey? Since childhood we are accustomed to living with a chair. Start sitting hall, school, eat, learn, kogkow-kongkow, nongkrongin TV, and many other activities.
Chairs generally have four legs, with a flat plate on top to put the butt and there is a vertical plate as backrest backs. Chair-making raw materials can vary from wood, rattan, iron, bamboo and even made out of cement. In the selection of these materials are usually adjusted by many factors. Beginning initially created to serve as the chair put the tool to comfortably seat bottoms. For that it creates a wide variety of cushions all aimed at making people comfortable, who sits on the seat.
Craftsman furniture with a swift and agile processing raw timber into a form such that the saw seat. Sawed off, pivoted, sanded, painted, and treat others. When finished, the chairs are transported into the show room until later sold, and came in our houses. In the manufacture of chairs, involving many people and factors. Starting from cutting wood, fetching wood, timber transport services, timber craftsmen, courier of furniture, chairs buyer seller hinggal own chair. Everyone has their own roles that are not aware they have linked a common thread.
Along with increased appetite and development of human ideas, current chair is not only used as a means of seating only. Today we can find many accessories that nuanced chair. Accessories makers saw that the chair made a mini can decorate the corners of a particular space. Even now it is not rare to find luxury hotels to put in place a chair decoration business. Accessories with the nuances of the chair can also be in the form of painting a chair, key chains, toys, and many other ideas.
Today, we are preoccupied by the dilapidated state of the other seats. With more and disrupted structure of the administration, the politicians fight each other seats. The chair in question is the status and position. Starting from the seat parliament, the Assembly, the President, ministers, regional head until the head of the village. All elements of society abuzz graced the chair seizure, although people only spectator chair. In the sense of office chairs are also available in the corporate structure. The employees work hard to get the position better. This position is so important because it can provide enjoyment for those who possess it.
The above writing is a form of small theme from a small idea as well. If we can focus on one idea and has a good reference, it is very likely produced a very insightful article. If we look at the example above, the actual writing is still very possible for us to develop further. Starting from the definition, ingredients, benefits, and others.
I am always interested in articles in the daily work of Samuel Aulia compass every week. If I read, almost all of his writings is explained about what he saw, he heard and he's feeling. Or can we call all these factors are the fruit of his experience. There he is like someone who was talking endlessly about one blurted out the theme on a regular basis to form a slick script. With extensive knowledge and maturity to analyze the writings of samuel make Aulia is always fresh and relevant to read until whenever.
Once upon a time I send via e-mail an article results in aceh enjoy a trip to my friend, kojenk. a reply comment on your writing is good writing, gado-gado, deskribtif, but unfortunately there is no coherent path (serial and regular). "Shit, you're talented mpret" he said. He also stressed that more often I read a lot.
An analysis of a genius, he can immediately give a comment what he saw (read) by pouring it in written form. Kojenk also give suggestions so that I often read to give "a sense" that a writing is not "crisp." In addition kojenk also give praise as arising from his feelings with the words "wacky, you're talented mpret". Glad I also got praise.
Actually I feel is still very poor comment given kojenk, he did not give a few examples of writing, writing tips, methods to explor the imagination, and a few other tricks of writing. Hopefully someday he's willing to give science and journalism in all of us, so we are able to put ideas and thoughts in written form.
It's no secret that many young people are incompetent writing. They were only able to koar-koar without being able to translate in the form of a structured article. I was no exception .. We never tried to compile a small idea into something big. Actually if I look, my friends have good ideas and thoughts. Sometimes even a very smart idea, but unfortunately those ideas are not recorded in written form so that it knows where the idea was evaporated.
As experienced by my friend, Andri widiyatmanto (30th), Salatiga men drop out of chemical engineering UGM is an intelligent person. He was able to absorb knowledge quickly, often cast brilliant ideas. Often, too, he wrote poetry, poems, short articles, words of pearls in the sheets. Because the sheets of paper are not well documented, then eventually fly somewhere where the work is ...? very fond of truth, whereas if the sheets are summarized well, do not close the possibility to become a book.
I also experienced this phenomenon. Since college, already there are countless songs that are created from personal ideas with each guitar in my hands. But because his lyrics are not the rhythm of the music I write and I did not record, so now I do not have anything works. Yet if all these songs I write and record, perhaps I already have the album (although the record with the recorder usually). With these experiences then I recommend my friends to try out ideas and thoughts in written form.
Anything as bad as our writing, it is a personal work. No copying, such as plagiarism, do not cheat from other people's work. Maybe sometimes we got the idea after reading or seeing other people's work. It was not a crime, because the ideas and inspiration can come from anywhere. Able from a crowded place to a quiet place, could the terminal until the funeral, could from the mountains to the ocean floor. What is important is the authenticity of these works can we be held accountable.
Everything, if genuine, is worth a fortune in this country, because a false high value aja. He he .. we realize that today we live in a country full of falsehoods? All aspects of joint life and this country has more false aja. Very difficult to find something original. From the start fake handbags, fake books, fake songs, coffee fake, fake stamps, fake diploma, fake ID cards to any minister-signatures forged. While other states vying with each other to make something original, this country was busy with the race even falsehoods.
The government of this country are not happy with the man who had ugemi authenticity. Even the government with different policies instead often "forcing" people to lie. For example, ID cards should be listed in the writing of religion, even though I do not have a religion (cult penghayat). In this case I felt compelled by the government to lie, forced to confess to something I do not true. In this country, there are millions of people who have a case like mine. How the government continues to bear to tell its citizens why lie?
Every individual has a responsibility to always keep the authenticity. Dayak language if some yourself, yes ... being yourself is the key to it all. Why are we always stuck with the flow? Why we do not ever try to make the flow and vortex itself? We should indeed have a truly genuine self to his own personal citrakan. If Samuel Aulia describe people trapped in the flow is a human chameleon, they do not know who she was, always changing, they have no identity, no badge, yes .. they do not have ID cards.
Once again my friends, let us about the currents that sweep over these small works. We turn the flow of these falsehoods with a flow of authenticity ...
Please do not write the supernatural-occult.
A phrase that is very intriguing to understand, "do not write the occult-supernatural." Why Pramudya advised not to write the occult-supernatural? Basically, the idea is something that is supernatural. We can not escape from everything supernatural, even we still breathe-even is something supernatural. Ah, the more confused I made by Prammudya. All of this life cycle, from wake to sleep, bathe, walk, eat, mingle, to go back to sleep is part of the occult. So why are we advised not to write the unseen-unseen?
If the definition is meant by Pramudya supernatural is anything that is illogical and strange as ghosts, witches, demons, mystical, Kyai against ghosts like in soap operas, heaven, hell, and the like. I fully support that statement. Through the reflection in the "maybe" Pramudya want to say that something supernatural is not necessarily true. Do not relate everything that is not clear and not real, then we menjustisfikasi about heaven and hell, right and wrong, black and white.
This country now has become unorganized, unclear, no vision, where focus somehow blurred. Currently a lot of books smelled mystical, from the theme of the body to heaven-hell (they ever witnessed heaven / hell?). Starting from the occult to occult political salvation. Began his magical remote Dayak until his magical middle eastern community. Began his magical group of fine lines up to his magical hawks. Oalah .. increasingly clear that lack of clarity.
Every day we are treated to soap opera with the theme of the body. There are charred bodies, the bodies are not received by the ground, dihanyutkan corpse in the river, the bodies could not be buried, and other bodies. Sometimes there is also a story with the idea of witches, supernatural creatures watchman wingit caves, until the story tuyul friendly with humans.
Indonesia Raya why can not produce great works?
Indonesia Raya Why can not become a great country?
We can not become a great country because we never pay attention to small and always magical thinking, we can never appreciate something small and always connect with the supernatural. We never use the ratio with all my soul.
We often see a little trivial, little had to be marginalized, who have trampled let that little broken, which is much smaller they should be discarded. Yes ... we always marginalize small things. We never pay attention to small, we are always reluctant to treat small, our nation is not painstaking. We can not cultivate a little in order to grow up through a long process. We just want to big with instant street.
We often see the unseen things that seemed real and the real is not real. We often treat the lack of reality as something that must be ugemi and trusted, while all the real fact we marginalized. We often justify things supernatural and instead blame that can be seen and heard. It's no secret if there is news of an official request this kyai blessing or a shaman to ask this and ask for it, let me be like this, let me be so. A minister looking for treasure with damaging archaeological sites. Wow, crazy pancen this country ..
This country was never great because we are always selfish and interest groups. Indonesian people always want to win themselves, always want to control between one another. Indonesian people always insist on with his own affairs without regard to the feelings of others. BILL desperately mengegolkan certain edges to dominate and oppress minorities. Community of this country never see the history and culture and understanding of the existence and diversity the country but wanted to make everything uniform, without any exception.
We may now forget about the goals of reform championed since the beginning. We may now have forgotten how to make this country a cleaner and not a corrupt country. Yes ... we have forgotten about the main purpose of reform is because we have been complacent with things occult-supernatural.
We often hear news about the green party demanding the closure and raided gambling, when in reality they're actually backing of such gambling. Each day the green party get inputs tribute from the gambling sites and thus the amanlah gambling. In the governance environment is also no less ridiculous. We should also observe that the department of religion is the most corrupt department in this country, but they have always argued that the moral of the cleanest and most noble character. Wah wah .. Christianity bad-mbalik mbolak reality ...
Another institution which always is never silent, Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) is often criticized certain companies with product labels forbidden (read the java sank, like a sinking ship) but the edges are due to the MUI does not get paid tributes from the company . MUI is also frequently condemned, condemned it. Yes .. MUI stands for Business Condemn Indonesia. MUI always condemned any attempts intelligent children of the country. Not a day without blasphemy, insults, protests, legal opinions, and the like.
Do not we could do the wise?
Do not we respect each other?
Should not we can respect each other?
Ah .. damn, why I can not do anything about it ....
Population of Indonesia Raya is a big number, but a very small step thinking. Almost every day we will always hear and see the behavior of people who always talk about other people. We are pleased with the show gossip, infotainment programs that do not educate. We love to talk about other people's behavior, sometimes with feelings and cynical outlook. Our society does not realize that what they are doing is something that is not good. Do they ever think if that happens is their own? How we feel if the talk of the whole Indonesian people? What they do can interfere with a person's privacy that would cause new problems.
We often forget their own behavior, but rather cool by giving the stamp and stamp on other people. Can not we all start from ourselves each to do some little things better and not magical? Little things that let us always diligent in cleaning the rooms, cleaning house, cleaning up the environment. This is a small thing and not supernatural. Tahukan effects resulting from this activity if done regularly? In accordance with the theory of "buterfly effect" which says that "disebuah island in the pacific ocean, the little flutter of a butterfly can produce storms in the pacific ocean." Flutter of a butterfly is very small indeed, but if there are millions of butterflies the pacific ocean storm could sink the titanic ship.
Taking this theory, if the culture of clean living can we apply to everyday life, and this is transmitted to us in every environment, clean country is not just a dream. If we truly live up to these principles, then we will not trash a bad stomach. Even the ash and cigarette butts, trash, we are considering. One thing is for sure we can if we consistently do this well is to shape the character and mentality better.
In the workplace, in society, and in friendships. We can also start a clean life with no corruption and mark-ups. Doing this is not an easy thing. Often times we hear the voice that speaks eradicated corrupt, corrupt brush, eradicate corruption and similar jargon. Have we ever tried to restore these sentences into ourselves? These jargon Have we toss in front of our dresser mirror? Because sesugguhnya not participate corruption is not easy. We can shout no corruption because we do not have the opportunity for corruption.
Once upon a time in the year 2005, when I was still active in the NGO Borneo Coruption Watch (BCW). An NGO job ngurusin corruption in East Kalimantan. We handle a corruption case a regional leader. After all the data needed to bring the accused to the green table, we were off to jakarta-to submit all documents to the attorney general file, Police Headquarters, the KPK, the presidential office, ICW, and the Blora Center. In the Blora Center (SBY formation institutions) we do a press release this news so the media exposed. Our hope is that if this case appears the surface the more law enforcement agencies to act quickly.
After all processes are completed, we intend to return to no matter Kaltim. But not long ago, we heard that the head of Blora Center has come to our founding to report that data corruption has been obtained and are ready to print media. Thus the leadership of Blora Center is getting a wad of cash. Damn ... Thus we all detraction from BCW team, we are working fatigue kok Blora Center, which can be even money. And that's not the result of this work ..
Thus the ins and outs of per-korupsian in this country. Even an institution formed by a president who proclaimed himself as an independent institution, free from corruption and able to be a bridge between society and the presidency, has carried on the tide. After that we also do not believe anymore with all kinds of anti-corruption agency said. after that bubarlah Borneo Coruption Watch ....
Corruption in congregation, so the term gado-gadonya now. This is an expression to describe that this country has become a nest of criminals. corruption is a mentality, corruption is a character. It is formed and structured a very long time. Since time immemorial, since the days of empire. Currently almost all Indonesian people had extensive corruption. maybe only 10% (including infants and children, innocent) Just the Indonesian population who are not involved in this insane action. But if one day you are in a position to have the opportunity for corruption, and it turns out you can maintain to remain was not corruption, then you get a reward worth of this country. .Well .. most certainly will not praise you get from me
Honestly, I myself have extensive corruption. Whether on a large scale or small scale. And this to me is a big sin. This is an improper act, an action that can hurt yourself and can also be detrimental to the country (a republic of Indonesia). Fortunately this bad action is not last long, during the process of living, about june 2005 I met a nationalist in Samarinda. His name Sugeng Haryadi, a lecturer and researcher. One time when my discussions with him (more precisely ngangsu kawruh), no words were spoken "iso kowe Sinau Games ora money (corruption) iso awakmu yen began to sing cornerstone little things during limang taon." A phrase that was so flat but really get in the memory.
We can begin to learn to not corrupt the simple things. We do not take bolpoint, erasers, scissors, just the goods of little value anywhere for five years. We do not use office hours to read the newspaper, ngerumpi, playing chess, hanging out in the canteen (like civil servants). We do not use the office phone for personal purposes. Imagine, for forming an anti-corruption mentality and character we have to start living life like that for five years, starting now. If during that time we can not take care of mental hygiene, then someday, if there is a chance, we'd corruption.
With the talents of young-talena revolutionary and has a vision far ahead, maybe we can give color to slightly improve the country who have "reot" this. With each work in their field professionally, let us tune this country with ideas, thoughts and work of the independent ...
Ok, guys. This is a form of graffiti from me. It may be true what they say that my writing has flavor kojenk gado-gado, not coherent, and crisp. But this is the work itself, not njiplak and not supernatural. For the friends who have journalistic skills, please dong given input in the future so that my writing is more flavor and crunchy. Hopefully kojenk not remain silent after reading my writing on this one. Maybe he was inspired to continue to provide ideas and input on all of us in journalism ...
Meulaboh, 28 April'06
Supriyanto kampret
Original text: Bahasa Indonesia,
Translated by: Google translate
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Hundreds of Indonesian migrant workers face death sentence in Malaysia
Three hundred and forty five Indonesian migrant workers are facing the death sentence in Malaysia, according to the Sabang-Merauke Circle.
“They seek jobs for a better life in Malaysia. Therefore, it is important for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to express his concern,” Sabang-Merauke Circle director Syahganda Nainggolan said Sunday, as quoted by kompas.com.
Yudhoyono has not shown any good intention on settling the matter, Syahganda said.
“The Indonesian government must use diplomacy to defend the rights of Indonesians who face the death sentence,” he added.
“They seek jobs for a better life in Malaysia. Therefore, it is important for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to express his concern,” Sabang-Merauke Circle director Syahganda Nainggolan said Sunday, as quoted by kompas.com.
Yudhoyono has not shown any good intention on settling the matter, Syahganda said.
“The Indonesian government must use diplomacy to defend the rights of Indonesians who face the death sentence,” he added.
Indonesia Tops Asia List of Copyright Pirate Centres
SINGAPORE, KOMPAS.com - Indonesia has the worst record when it comes to protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in Asia and Singapore the best, a survey of expatriate business people showed Wednesday.
“Indonesia seems to have lost its momentum for cracking down on IPR abuses and making the system more compliant with international standards,” Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) said.
Indonesia “has passed new laws that should improve protection of intellectual property, but those rules are not enforced effectively at all, and piracy levels in Indonesia remain among the highest in the world.”
Indonesia was given the worst score of 8.5 out of a maximum 10 points compared to 11 other Asian economies in the PERC survey of 1,285 expatriate managers condcucted between June and mid-August. Zero is the best possible score. More advanced economies fared better, with Singapore heading the list with 1.5, followed by Japan (2.1), Hong Kong (2.8), Taiwan (3.8) and South Korea (4.1).
At the other end of the scale, Vietnam was second worst at 8.4, China scored 7.9, the Philippines 6.84, India 6.5, Thailand 6.17 and Malaysia 5.8. The rankings largely reflect studies by the global software industry, which is alarmed by the easy availability of pirated movies and software in Asian cities despite governments’ pledges to crack down.
“Of the emerging Asian countries, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines are all poorly rated not only for their low level of IPR protection but also for such criteria as physical infrastructure, bureaucratic inefficiency and labour limitations,” PERC said.
China also came under strong scrutiny because of the sheer size of its economy and the presence of large companies “capable of using pirated technology to compete in foreign markets,” said PERC.
“Countries like Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia do not have this same ability to inflict global damage through IPR piracy as Chinese companies do.”
While China has made strides in clamping down on IPR infringement, its goal of securing transfers of foreign know-how to Chinese firms, using access to its huge market as leverage, remains problematic, it said.
“So far many of the world’s largest multinationals have been convinced that it is worth the risk of transferring key technology to China in order to develop business there,” PERC said.
“This policy is not illegal, but it could become a growing source of friction.... The more China consolidates its position as a global economic power, the more other governments will be willing to take off the gloves and fight to protect their interests.”
“Indonesia seems to have lost its momentum for cracking down on IPR abuses and making the system more compliant with international standards,” Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) said.
Indonesia “has passed new laws that should improve protection of intellectual property, but those rules are not enforced effectively at all, and piracy levels in Indonesia remain among the highest in the world.”
Indonesia was given the worst score of 8.5 out of a maximum 10 points compared to 11 other Asian economies in the PERC survey of 1,285 expatriate managers condcucted between June and mid-August. Zero is the best possible score. More advanced economies fared better, with Singapore heading the list with 1.5, followed by Japan (2.1), Hong Kong (2.8), Taiwan (3.8) and South Korea (4.1).
At the other end of the scale, Vietnam was second worst at 8.4, China scored 7.9, the Philippines 6.84, India 6.5, Thailand 6.17 and Malaysia 5.8. The rankings largely reflect studies by the global software industry, which is alarmed by the easy availability of pirated movies and software in Asian cities despite governments’ pledges to crack down.
“Of the emerging Asian countries, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines are all poorly rated not only for their low level of IPR protection but also for such criteria as physical infrastructure, bureaucratic inefficiency and labour limitations,” PERC said.
China also came under strong scrutiny because of the sheer size of its economy and the presence of large companies “capable of using pirated technology to compete in foreign markets,” said PERC.
“Countries like Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia do not have this same ability to inflict global damage through IPR piracy as Chinese companies do.”
While China has made strides in clamping down on IPR infringement, its goal of securing transfers of foreign know-how to Chinese firms, using access to its huge market as leverage, remains problematic, it said.
“So far many of the world’s largest multinationals have been convinced that it is worth the risk of transferring key technology to China in order to develop business there,” PERC said.
“This policy is not illegal, but it could become a growing source of friction.... The more China consolidates its position as a global economic power, the more other governments will be willing to take off the gloves and fight to protect their interests.”
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Brad Pitt 'Willing to Look at Death Penalty'
The actor made the extraordinary comments in a documentary film on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Pitt, 46, is asked about the people responsible for the oil rig explosion, which killed 11 workers and triggered the worst environmental disaster in American history.
"I was never for the death penalty before – I am willing to look at it again," the actor said, London's Daily Mail reported.
The documentary, entitled If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise, has been timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005.
Pitt has been heavily involved with a project called Make it Right, which is building 150 affordable and sustainable homes in an area of New Orleans worst hit by Katrina.
Director Spike Lee said he had hoped to end the film on a positive note but was forced to rethink the conclusion when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April.
"This would have been a much more upbeat documentary for sure," Lee said yesterday.
The director said he was confident residents would overcome their difficulties.
"Their wills are not going to be broken," he said.
"They are going to keep moving on."
The documentary is due to premiere in the US on Tuesday night.
source: www.kompas.com
Monday, August 23, 2010
Why Lying is Good for You
We all do it, often without even thinking about it, and sometimes several times a day. But new thinkers are trying to persuade us that telling lies - even little white ones - is bad for our relationships.
According to psychotherapist Brad Blanton, pioneer of the much talked about 'radical honesty movement', truthtelling is the essential foundation for psychological health and we can only transform our lives for the better by being completely honest.
Lies, he believes, leave an 'emotional stain' on our relationships. Instead of hiding the truth, we should concentrate on expressing 'every underlying thought and emotion - even anger, resentment and outright loathing'.
But just how feasible is it to live a life of uncompromising truthfulness? I began thinking about truth and lies while staying with friends some time ago. One evening, the husband, my host, was watching yet another politician on the news denying he had been deceitful about some scandal or other.
Suddenly he was on his feet, yelling at the television in absolute fury. 'Liar, Liar!', he shouted, apoplectic with rage, his ear tips a colour I'd never seen on skin before. I was tremendously impressed with his integrity.
But, an hour or so later, there came a phonecall from a mutual friend who lives nearby. This person was not someone we greatly liked, but she invited us to dinner the following evening.
Smooth as a silk, my friend's husband said: 'Oh, we'd love to, but we've got tickets to go to the theatre.' I was amazed. We hadn't. He was lying. One minute he was leaping up and down in a fury at someone else apparently telling lies, and the next he was doing it himself.
This episode led to me thinking, and eventually writing a novel, about the way we use lies in our daily life. My heroine, Nina, an ordinary mother-of-two married to a nice husband and a pleasant life, decides to tell the truth for a week - with mixed results.
Before I began writing, I thought I should put this kind of radical honesty to the test myself and attempt to live a week without lies. Of course, I failed on the first day. It was too easy to lie.
I said I was doing something else when invited out, because I didn't want to go, and it was just easier to pretend I was busy. And there I was, transformed from a truthful woman one minute to a brazen liar the next.
But which would have been more detrimental to our friendship: to tell a lie and avoid confrontation or to have told her bluntly that I didn't fancy her company?
According to social scientist Bella DePaulo, author of Behind The Door Of Deceit, we experience a 'twinge of distress' every time we lie, that leaves an ' emotional smudge' on our relationship.
But somehow I doubt my friend would have thanked me if I'd been brutally honest: massaging the truth felt the kinder thing to do. If you succeed where I failed, I promise you that if you tell the truth for just a week you will leave a trail of mayhem in your wake.
Broken friendships, broken hearts, broken dreams. Imagine how the mutual friend I mentioned earlier would have felt had my host said: 'Sorry, we don't really like you, so we'll pass on the dinner invite, thanks'?
Devastation. These lies, told out of kindness, are the commonest, according to Professor DePaulo, who found that most people lie like this at least once a day. She calls them the 'sweet little lies'.
Then there are the bigger lies that we tell to make ourselves seem more appealing, more interesting, younger. When I did a bit of dating on the internet, I discovered the lies about physical appearance were legion.
I met more men who appeared to have shrunk in the wash than any single woman should. And several whose hair, so luxuriant in their photos, miraculously, had fallen out overnight. I expect they looked upon me in much the same way.
They expected 'slim', but they got a sensible size 12/14. OK, I lie. A 14. Men do lie differently from women, though. Research by the University of Virginia shows that, on a night out, men tend to tell around eight lies - all about making themselves look better.
Women, in a similar group, tend to tell protective lies about, or for, those closest to them. How often do you find a man meeting another man and admiring his suit straight away? Rarely. Whereas, a woman meeting another woman will often say something complimentary.
It's not necessary for us to believe that her handbag is gorgeous; more that if we say so, then she'll like or even trust us. Self-help guru Dorothy Rowe suggests surrounding ourselves with comforting lies means we never face up to the realities of the world - be they unpleasant or not.
But, as my heroine Nina discovers, these comforting lies are our social cement. Truth, she learns, sometimes has the capacity to be cruel and to blow your world apart. Without our sweet little lies, we'd all be sitting in the dark with the curtains drawn hoping the cruel world would go away.
According to psychotherapist Brad Blanton, pioneer of the much talked about 'radical honesty movement', truthtelling is the essential foundation for psychological health and we can only transform our lives for the better by being completely honest.
Lies, he believes, leave an 'emotional stain' on our relationships. Instead of hiding the truth, we should concentrate on expressing 'every underlying thought and emotion - even anger, resentment and outright loathing'.
But just how feasible is it to live a life of uncompromising truthfulness? I began thinking about truth and lies while staying with friends some time ago. One evening, the husband, my host, was watching yet another politician on the news denying he had been deceitful about some scandal or other.
Suddenly he was on his feet, yelling at the television in absolute fury. 'Liar, Liar!', he shouted, apoplectic with rage, his ear tips a colour I'd never seen on skin before. I was tremendously impressed with his integrity.
But, an hour or so later, there came a phonecall from a mutual friend who lives nearby. This person was not someone we greatly liked, but she invited us to dinner the following evening.
Smooth as a silk, my friend's husband said: 'Oh, we'd love to, but we've got tickets to go to the theatre.' I was amazed. We hadn't. He was lying. One minute he was leaping up and down in a fury at someone else apparently telling lies, and the next he was doing it himself.
This episode led to me thinking, and eventually writing a novel, about the way we use lies in our daily life. My heroine, Nina, an ordinary mother-of-two married to a nice husband and a pleasant life, decides to tell the truth for a week - with mixed results.
Before I began writing, I thought I should put this kind of radical honesty to the test myself and attempt to live a week without lies. Of course, I failed on the first day. It was too easy to lie.
I said I was doing something else when invited out, because I didn't want to go, and it was just easier to pretend I was busy. And there I was, transformed from a truthful woman one minute to a brazen liar the next.
But which would have been more detrimental to our friendship: to tell a lie and avoid confrontation or to have told her bluntly that I didn't fancy her company?
According to social scientist Bella DePaulo, author of Behind The Door Of Deceit, we experience a 'twinge of distress' every time we lie, that leaves an ' emotional smudge' on our relationship.
But somehow I doubt my friend would have thanked me if I'd been brutally honest: massaging the truth felt the kinder thing to do. If you succeed where I failed, I promise you that if you tell the truth for just a week you will leave a trail of mayhem in your wake.
Broken friendships, broken hearts, broken dreams. Imagine how the mutual friend I mentioned earlier would have felt had my host said: 'Sorry, we don't really like you, so we'll pass on the dinner invite, thanks'?
Devastation. These lies, told out of kindness, are the commonest, according to Professor DePaulo, who found that most people lie like this at least once a day. She calls them the 'sweet little lies'.
Then there are the bigger lies that we tell to make ourselves seem more appealing, more interesting, younger. When I did a bit of dating on the internet, I discovered the lies about physical appearance were legion.
I met more men who appeared to have shrunk in the wash than any single woman should. And several whose hair, so luxuriant in their photos, miraculously, had fallen out overnight. I expect they looked upon me in much the same way.
They expected 'slim', but they got a sensible size 12/14. OK, I lie. A 14. Men do lie differently from women, though. Research by the University of Virginia shows that, on a night out, men tend to tell around eight lies - all about making themselves look better.
Women, in a similar group, tend to tell protective lies about, or for, those closest to them. How often do you find a man meeting another man and admiring his suit straight away? Rarely. Whereas, a woman meeting another woman will often say something complimentary.
It's not necessary for us to believe that her handbag is gorgeous; more that if we say so, then she'll like or even trust us. Self-help guru Dorothy Rowe suggests surrounding ourselves with comforting lies means we never face up to the realities of the world - be they unpleasant or not.
But, as my heroine Nina discovers, these comforting lies are our social cement. Truth, she learns, sometimes has the capacity to be cruel and to blow your world apart. Without our sweet little lies, we'd all be sitting in the dark with the curtains drawn hoping the cruel world would go away.
Kostrad ready to protect border with Malaysia
The Army Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad) is out to protect the border shared by Indonesia and Malaysia in Kalimantan for the sake of territorial integrity.
"Currently we are maintaining security in the border zone. If needed, we will mobilize our troops there," Kostrad chief Lt. Gen Burhanudin Amin told Antara state news agency on Monday as he inspected a combined free fall exercise attended by hundreds of soldiers at the Kalijati airbase in the West Java regency of Subang.
Burhanuddin said he found no security threat along the border with Malaysia, but a battalion was ready to be deployed for border operations any time.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked for acceleration of talks on the maritime boundary between Indonesia and Malaysia to avoid future disputes, following a recent incident in Tanjung Berakit waters in Riau recently.
"Currently we are maintaining security in the border zone. If needed, we will mobilize our troops there," Kostrad chief Lt. Gen Burhanudin Amin told Antara state news agency on Monday as he inspected a combined free fall exercise attended by hundreds of soldiers at the Kalijati airbase in the West Java regency of Subang.
Burhanuddin said he found no security threat along the border with Malaysia, but a battalion was ready to be deployed for border operations any time.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked for acceleration of talks on the maritime boundary between Indonesia and Malaysia to avoid future disputes, following a recent incident in Tanjung Berakit waters in Riau recently.
How to Treat Indonesian Corruptors When They Die
The Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) executive board had never issued a legal pronouncement (fatwa), which prohibited prayers for deceased corruptors but it had indeed suggested its ulemas be absent in the prayers.
The NU’s stance on this controversial matter was expressed by this largest Islamic organization’s chairman, KH Said Aqil Siradj, in his press statement made available to ANTARA here Sunday.
Siradj said praying a deceased Muslim was the Islamic community members’ collective obligation but NU had indeed issued a "fatwa", suggesting that its ulemas be absent in praying corruptors’ bodies.
The absence of NU ulemas was part of social sanctions for corruptors, he said. This NU’s stance needed to be reiterated to enable various elements in the society to have a comprehensive understanding about a fatwa issued at Muslim scholars’ national meeting here in 2002, he said.
Siradj said the fatwa that suggested the absence of ulemas in the deceased corruptor prayer was issued by referring to Prophet Muhammad’s hadist (sayings and actions).
During Prophet Muhammad’s life, one of his companions was killed in "Khaibar" war but Prophet Muhammad was absent in his deceased companion’s prayer.
Instead Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) ordered his other companions to pray the deceased one, Siradj said.
After the prayer, Prophet Muhammad was then asked by his companions about his reason for not being with them to pray the deceased.
Prophet Muhammad replied: "Your friend has indeed done corruption in the road of Allah (almighty God)," Siradj said.
Hearing Prophet Muhammad’s explanation, his companions then checked and investigated into the dead friend’s life.
They found that he had concealed "two Dhirhams" (coins) of the enemy’s seized properties in war (Ghanimah) before they were officially given, K.H.Said Aqil Siradj said.
"So NU just follows Prophet Muhammad’s hadist that suggests ulemas not take part in praying the deceased corruptors. But the prayer is a collective obligation of the Muslim community."
"Therefore, let other Muslims or the deceased corruptors’ family members do that," he said. The 2002 fatwa was expected to be a deterrence and social sanction for Muslims to enable them to get rid of corruption which had become an acute and extraordinary crime in Indonesia, he said
Pertamina Geothermal in Need of Rp18 Trillion
Photo taken on March 8, 2010 shows a local worker gathering sulphur deposits at the crater of Ijen Volcano in Banyuwangi, East Java as it is enveloped by sulphur steam. Indonesia has launched an ambitious plan to tap the vast power of its volcanoes and become a world leader in geothermal energy, while trimming greenhouse gas emissions. The sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands stretching from the Indian to the Pacific Oceans contains hundreds of volcanoes, estimated to hold around 40 percent of the worlds geothermal energy potential. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged on April 26, 2010 before the World Geothermal Conference in Bali to make Indonesia the worlds biggest user of clean, renewable geothermal energy, and urged private investors to back him.
PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE), a subsidiary of state oil and gas company PT Pertamina, needed US$2 billion, the equivalent of Rp18 trillion, to build a geothermal power plant with an installed capacity of 1,000 megawatts.
"They money is expected as loan from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, and the World Bank, and the project completed in 2014," PGE President Director Abadi Poernomo said after providing Pertamina with an assistance for people in Ibun subdistrict, Bandung regency, on Sunday afternoon.
He said building of the geothermal power plant which will be built soon, Karaha Bodas with a capacity of 30 megawatts (MW), will be followed by the building of similar projects, including in Lahendong in North Sulawesi, Sibayak, Ulubelu, in Lampung, Lumutbalai, Hululais, Kotamubagu, and Sungai Penuh in Jambi. According to him, under decision of Energy and Mineral Resources Minister no 32/2010, as the price of geothermal power (PLTP) for state electricity company PT PLN had been set at 9.7 cents per KWH, the construction of the project is quite reasonable.
The problem, he said, is the reach of the network from PLN to the points of the PLTP, which is actually not too far from the existing geothermal resources, and the still non-existing interconnections in Sumatra and in other islands, and the Java-Sumatra power grid. Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE) established in 2006 had already used by the government to develop 15 geothermal concessions in Indonesia. Some 90 percent of the shares of the company which provides pollution-free energy, is owned by PT Pertamina, and 10 percent by PT Pertamina Dana Ventura.
Right now Pertamina has the right of managing 15 geothermal concessions with a total potential of 8,480 MW, which is equal to 4,392 MMBOE. Of 15 concessions, 10 are being run by PT PGE itself, namely, Kamojang with 200 MW, Lahendong 60 MW, Sibayak 12 MW, Ulubelu, Lumutbalai, Hululais, Kotamubagu, Sungai Penuh and Iyang Argopuro, and Karahabodas. Three of the areas have already been producing with a total capacity of 272 MW, or 12,900 BOEPD, and the rest run jointly by a partner producing a total of 922 MW.
"They money is expected as loan from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, and the World Bank, and the project completed in 2014," PGE President Director Abadi Poernomo said after providing Pertamina with an assistance for people in Ibun subdistrict, Bandung regency, on Sunday afternoon.
He said building of the geothermal power plant which will be built soon, Karaha Bodas with a capacity of 30 megawatts (MW), will be followed by the building of similar projects, including in Lahendong in North Sulawesi, Sibayak, Ulubelu, in Lampung, Lumutbalai, Hululais, Kotamubagu, and Sungai Penuh in Jambi. According to him, under decision of Energy and Mineral Resources Minister no 32/2010, as the price of geothermal power (PLTP) for state electricity company PT PLN had been set at 9.7 cents per KWH, the construction of the project is quite reasonable.
The problem, he said, is the reach of the network from PLN to the points of the PLTP, which is actually not too far from the existing geothermal resources, and the still non-existing interconnections in Sumatra and in other islands, and the Java-Sumatra power grid. Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE) established in 2006 had already used by the government to develop 15 geothermal concessions in Indonesia. Some 90 percent of the shares of the company which provides pollution-free energy, is owned by PT Pertamina, and 10 percent by PT Pertamina Dana Ventura.
Right now Pertamina has the right of managing 15 geothermal concessions with a total potential of 8,480 MW, which is equal to 4,392 MMBOE. Of 15 concessions, 10 are being run by PT PGE itself, namely, Kamojang with 200 MW, Lahendong 60 MW, Sibayak 12 MW, Ulubelu, Lumutbalai, Hululais, Kotamubagu, Sungai Penuh and Iyang Argopuro, and Karahabodas. Three of the areas have already been producing with a total capacity of 272 MW, or 12,900 BOEPD, and the rest run jointly by a partner producing a total of 922 MW.
The Facial Recognition Software
It means detailed profiles of individuals can be built up purely from online photographs and critics have said it could lead to exploitation by employers. The software works be creating an algorithim of the face - a measurement of the arrangement of features including the eyes, nose and mouth.
The company says it is 90 per cent accurate when scanning typical images which appear on social networking sites. Face.com has previously limited the availability of the software over concerns about invasion of privacy.
But it has now released the Photo Finder software to developers building applications allowing people to search for anyone on the internet.
Gil Hirsch, chief executive of Face.com, told The Sunday Times: 'We have launched a service that allows developers to take our facial recognition technology and apply it immediately to their own applications.
'The technology is already being used by 5,000 developers. You can basically search for people in any photo.
'You could search for family members on Flickr, in newspapers, or in videos on YouTube - but it would take a lot of processing power.'
The use of facial detection technology has only been used by the UK Border Agency. Google has a tool - Picasa - which allows users to organise their photos by tagging matching faces and Facebook uses Photo Finder.
Supporters of the software, including the Red Cross, have said it could be used to track people lost in humanitarian disasters. But there are strong concerns over the accuracy of the technology and its impact on privacy.
Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, said: 'I think this will make many people very uneasy.
'The regulators have been hugely behind the curve of protecting people's privacy on the internet. We need to push for much tighter international rules.'
Monday, August 16, 2010
Raja Ampat - Papua, the lost paradise
The Raja Ampat, or “Four Kings,” archipelago encompasses more than 9.8 million acres of land and sea off the northwestern tip of Indonesia’s West Papua Province. Located in the Coral Triangle, the heart of the world’s coral reef biodiversity, the seas around Raja Ampat possibly hold the richest variety of species in the world.
If you had watched The Beach movie starring Leonardo Di Caprio, you will find the same impression when visiting Raja Ampat. The lost paradise deserved to be named for this place because in fact Indonesians personally often didnt know about this place. The beautiful coast, white sand and underwater scenery that were beautiful became the attraction of Raja Ampat.
The area’s massive coral colonies show that its reefs are resistant to threats like coral bleaching and disease —threats that now jeopardize the survival of corals around the world. In addition, Raja Ampat’s strong ocean currents sweep coral larvae across the Indian and Pacific Oceans to replenish other reef ecosystems. Raja Ampat’s coral diversity, resilience to threats, and ability to replenish reefs make it a global priority for marine protection.
Many international underwater photographers captured the attraction of sea Raja Ampat. Moreover there are those that came repeatedly and made the book special about beauty of the coral reef and this biota of region sea. Last mid 2006, the special team from the foremost scientific adventure magazine the world, National Geographic, made coverage in Raja Ampat that will become the main report in 2007.
The trip to Raja Ampat was expensive enough, you must prepare around 15k-30k USD /person. From Jakarta you would transit in Menado, afterwards it was continued to Sorong, will take up time around 6 hours. From Sorong the trip was continued by leasing the ship boat or yacht. In Raja Ampat you could choose sleep above yacht or at the resort, both are expensive enough.
source: amazingindonesia.net
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer (EYD: Pramudya Ananta Tur) (6 February 1925 – 30 April 2006) was an Indonesian author of novels, short stories, essays, polemic and histories of his homeland and its people. His works span the colonial period, Indonesia's struggle for independence, the occupation by Japan during WWII, as well as the post-colonial authoritarian regimes of Sukarno and Suharto and are infused with personal and national history.
Pramoedya's writings sometimes fell out of favor with the colonial and later the authoritarian native governments in power. Pramoedya faced censorship in Indonesia during the pre-reformation era despite the fact that he was well known outside Indonesia. During the changeover to the Suharto regime Pramoedya was caught up in the shifting tides of political change and power struggles in Indonesia. He was seen as a holdover from the previous regime (even though he had struggled with the former regime as well) and was banished for years to Buru island where political prisoners were kept. It was there that he composed his most famous work, the Buru Quartet. Not permitted access to writing materials, he recited the story orally to other prisoners before it was written down and smuggled out. Pramoedya opposed some policies of founding President Sukarno as well as the New Order regime of Suharto, Sukarno's successor. Political criticisms were often subtle in his writing, although he was outspoken against colonialism and racism. During the many years in which he suffered imprisonment and house arrest, he became a cause célèbre for advocates of human rights and freedom of expression.
During World War II, Pramoedya (like many Indonesian Nationalists, Sukarno and Suharto among them) at first supported the occupying forces of Imperial Japan. He believed the Japanese to be the lesser of two evils, compared to the Dutch. He worked as a typist for a Japanese newspaper in Jakarta. As the war went on, however, Indonesians were dismayed by the austerity of wartime rationing and by increasingly harsh measures taken by the Japanese military. The Nationalist forces loyal to Sukarno switched their support to the incoming Allies against Japan; all indications are that Pramoedya did as well.
On August 17, 1945, after the news of Allied victory over Japan reached Indonesia, Sukarno proclaimed Indonesian independence. This touched off the Indonesian National Revolution against the forces of the British and Dutch. In this war, Pramoedya joined a paramilitary group in Karawang, Kranji (West Java) and eventually was stationed in Jakarta. During this time he wrote short stories and books, as well as propaganda for the Nationalist cause. He was eventually imprisoned by the Dutch in Jakarta in 1947 and remained there until 1949, the year the Netherlands recognized Indonesian independence. While imprisoned in Bukit Duri from 1947 to 1949 for his role in the Indonesian Revolution, he wrote his first major novel The Fugitive.
In Indonesia, Pramoedya built up a reputation as a literary and social critic, joining the left-wing writers' group Lekra and writing in various newspapers and literary journals. His writing style became more politically charged, as evidenced in his story Korupsi (Corruption), a critical fiction of a civil servant who falls into the trap of corruption. This created friction between him and the government of Sukarno.
From the late 1950s, Pramoedya began teaching literary history at the left-wing Universitas Res Publica. As he prepared material, he began to realise that the study of Indonesian language and literature had been distorted by the Dutch colonial authorities. He sought out materials that had been ignored by colonial educational institutions, and which had continued to be ignored after independence.
Having spent time in China, he became greatly sympathetic to the Indonesian Chinese over the persecutions they faced in postcolonial Indonesia. Most notably, he published a series of letters addressed to an imaginary Chinese correspondent discussing the history of the Indonesian Chinese, called Hoakiau di Indonesia (History of the Overseas Chinese in Indonesia). He criticized the government for being too Java-centric and insensitive to the needs and desires of the other regions and peoples of Indonesia. As a result, he was arrested by the Indonesian military and jailed at Cipinang prison for nine months.
He was banned from writing during his imprisonment on the island of Buru, but still managed to compose - orally - his best-known series of work to date, the Buru Quartet, a series of four historical fiction novels chronicling the development of Indonesian nationalism and based in part on his own experiences growing up. The English titles of the books in the quartet are This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps, and House of Glass. The main character of the series, Minke, a Javanese minor royal, was based in part on an Indonesian journalist active in the nationalist movement, Tirto Adhi Surjo.
The quartet includes strong female characters of Indonesian and Chinese ethnicity, and address the discriminations and indignities of living under colonial rule, the struggle for personal and national political independence. Like much of Pramoedya's work they tell personal stories and focus on individuals caught up in the tide of a nation's history.
Pramoedya had done research for the books before his imprisonment in the Buru prison camp. When he was arrested his library was burned and much of his collection and early writings were lost. On the prison colony island of Buru he was not permitted even to have a pencil. Doubting that he would ever be able to write the novels down himself, he narrated them to his fellow prisoners. With the support of the other prisoners who took on extra labor to reduce his workload, Pramoedya was eventually able to write the novels down, and the published works derive their name "Buru Quartet" from the prison where he produced them. They have been collected and published in English (translated by Max Lane) and Indonesian, as well as many other languages. Though the work is considered a classic by many outside of Indonesia, publication was banned in Indonesia causing one of the most famous of Indonesia's literary works to be largely unavailable to the country's people whose history it addressed. Copies were scanned by Indonesians abroad and distributed via the Internet to people inside the country.
Pramoedya's works on colonial Indonesia recognised the importance of Islam as a vehicle for popular opposition to the Dutch, but his works are not overtly religious. He rejected those who used religion to deny critical thinking, and on occasion wrote with considerable negativity to the religiously pious. One author has speculated this may have resulted from a low number of Hajjis in his native Blora and resentment of his Haji grandfather's divorce and abandonment of his grandmother.[1]
He wrote many columns and short articles criticizing the Indonesian government. He wrote a book Perawan Remaja dalam Cengkraman Militer (Young Virgins in the Military's Grip), a documentary written in the style of a novel showcasing the plight of Javanese women who were forced to become comfort women during the Japanese occupation. They were brought to the island of Buru where they were sexually abused, and ended up staying there instead of returning to Java. Pramoedya made their acquaintance when he himself was a political prisoner on the Buru island in the 1970s.
Pramoedya was hospitalized on April 27, 2006, for complications brought on by diabetes and heart disease. He was also a heavy smoker of clove cigarettes and had endured years of abuse while in detention. He died on April 30, 2006 at the age of 81. Pramoedya earned several accolades, and was frequently discussed as Indonesia's and Southeast Asia's best candidate for a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Pramoedya's writings on Indonesia are not unlike those of Salman Rushdie's on India in addressing the international and regional currents caused by political events in history and how these events flowed through his homeland and buffeted its people. Pramoedya also shares a personal history of hardship and detention for his efforts of self-expression and the political aspects of his writings, and struggled against the censorship of his work by the leaders of his own people.
Pramoedya's writings sometimes fell out of favor with the colonial and later the authoritarian native governments in power. Pramoedya faced censorship in Indonesia during the pre-reformation era despite the fact that he was well known outside Indonesia. During the changeover to the Suharto regime Pramoedya was caught up in the shifting tides of political change and power struggles in Indonesia. He was seen as a holdover from the previous regime (even though he had struggled with the former regime as well) and was banished for years to Buru island where political prisoners were kept. It was there that he composed his most famous work, the Buru Quartet. Not permitted access to writing materials, he recited the story orally to other prisoners before it was written down and smuggled out. Pramoedya opposed some policies of founding President Sukarno as well as the New Order regime of Suharto, Sukarno's successor. Political criticisms were often subtle in his writing, although he was outspoken against colonialism and racism. During the many years in which he suffered imprisonment and house arrest, he became a cause célèbre for advocates of human rights and freedom of expression.
Early years
Pramoedya was born on February 6, 1925, in the town of Blora in the heartland of Java, then a part of the Dutch East Indies. He was the firstborn son in his family; his father was a teacher, who was also active in Boedi Oetomo (the first recognized indigenous national organization in Indonesia) and his mother was a rice trader. His maternal grandfather had taken the pilgrimage to Mecca.[1] As it is written in his semi-autobiographical collection of short stories "Cerita Dari Blora", his name was originally Pramoedya Ananta Mastoer. But he felt that the family name Mastoer (his father's name) seemed too aristocratic. The Javanese prefix "Mas" refers to a man of the lowest rank in a noble family. Consequently he omitted "Mas" and kept Toer as his family name. He went on to the Radio Vocational School in Surabaya but had barely graduated from the school when Japan invaded Surabaya (1942).During World War II, Pramoedya (like many Indonesian Nationalists, Sukarno and Suharto among them) at first supported the occupying forces of Imperial Japan. He believed the Japanese to be the lesser of two evils, compared to the Dutch. He worked as a typist for a Japanese newspaper in Jakarta. As the war went on, however, Indonesians were dismayed by the austerity of wartime rationing and by increasingly harsh measures taken by the Japanese military. The Nationalist forces loyal to Sukarno switched their support to the incoming Allies against Japan; all indications are that Pramoedya did as well.
On August 17, 1945, after the news of Allied victory over Japan reached Indonesia, Sukarno proclaimed Indonesian independence. This touched off the Indonesian National Revolution against the forces of the British and Dutch. In this war, Pramoedya joined a paramilitary group in Karawang, Kranji (West Java) and eventually was stationed in Jakarta. During this time he wrote short stories and books, as well as propaganda for the Nationalist cause. He was eventually imprisoned by the Dutch in Jakarta in 1947 and remained there until 1949, the year the Netherlands recognized Indonesian independence. While imprisoned in Bukit Duri from 1947 to 1949 for his role in the Indonesian Revolution, he wrote his first major novel The Fugitive.
[edit] Post-Independence prominence
In the first years after the struggle for independence, Pramoedya wrote several works of fiction dealing with the problems of the newly founded nation, as well as semi-autobiographical works based on his wartime memoirs. He was soon able to live in the Netherlands as part of a cultural exchange program. In the years that followed, he took an interest in several other cultural exchanges, including trips to the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, as well as translations of Russian writers Maxim Gorky and Leo Tolstoy.In Indonesia, Pramoedya built up a reputation as a literary and social critic, joining the left-wing writers' group Lekra and writing in various newspapers and literary journals. His writing style became more politically charged, as evidenced in his story Korupsi (Corruption), a critical fiction of a civil servant who falls into the trap of corruption. This created friction between him and the government of Sukarno.
From the late 1950s, Pramoedya began teaching literary history at the left-wing Universitas Res Publica. As he prepared material, he began to realise that the study of Indonesian language and literature had been distorted by the Dutch colonial authorities. He sought out materials that had been ignored by colonial educational institutions, and which had continued to be ignored after independence.
Having spent time in China, he became greatly sympathetic to the Indonesian Chinese over the persecutions they faced in postcolonial Indonesia. Most notably, he published a series of letters addressed to an imaginary Chinese correspondent discussing the history of the Indonesian Chinese, called Hoakiau di Indonesia (History of the Overseas Chinese in Indonesia). He criticized the government for being too Java-centric and insensitive to the needs and desires of the other regions and peoples of Indonesia. As a result, he was arrested by the Indonesian military and jailed at Cipinang prison for nine months.
[edit] Imprisonment under Suharto
In October 1965 there was a coup and the army took power after alleging that the assassination of several senior generals was masterminded by the Communist Party of Indonesia. The transition to Suharto's New Order followed, and Pramoedya's position as the head of People's Cultural Organisation, a literary wing of the Indonesian Communist Party caused him to be considered a communist and enemy of the "New Order" regime. During the violent anti-Communist purge, he was arrested, beaten, and imprisoned by Suharto's government and named a tapol ("political prisoner"). His books were banned from circulation, and he was imprisoned without trial, first in Nusa Kambangan off the southern coast of Java, and then in the penal colony of Buru in the eastern islands of the Indonesian archipelago.He was banned from writing during his imprisonment on the island of Buru, but still managed to compose - orally - his best-known series of work to date, the Buru Quartet, a series of four historical fiction novels chronicling the development of Indonesian nationalism and based in part on his own experiences growing up. The English titles of the books in the quartet are This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps, and House of Glass. The main character of the series, Minke, a Javanese minor royal, was based in part on an Indonesian journalist active in the nationalist movement, Tirto Adhi Surjo.
The quartet includes strong female characters of Indonesian and Chinese ethnicity, and address the discriminations and indignities of living under colonial rule, the struggle for personal and national political independence. Like much of Pramoedya's work they tell personal stories and focus on individuals caught up in the tide of a nation's history.
Pramoedya had done research for the books before his imprisonment in the Buru prison camp. When he was arrested his library was burned and much of his collection and early writings were lost. On the prison colony island of Buru he was not permitted even to have a pencil. Doubting that he would ever be able to write the novels down himself, he narrated them to his fellow prisoners. With the support of the other prisoners who took on extra labor to reduce his workload, Pramoedya was eventually able to write the novels down, and the published works derive their name "Buru Quartet" from the prison where he produced them. They have been collected and published in English (translated by Max Lane) and Indonesian, as well as many other languages. Though the work is considered a classic by many outside of Indonesia, publication was banned in Indonesia causing one of the most famous of Indonesia's literary works to be largely unavailable to the country's people whose history it addressed. Copies were scanned by Indonesians abroad and distributed via the Internet to people inside the country.
Pramoedya's works on colonial Indonesia recognised the importance of Islam as a vehicle for popular opposition to the Dutch, but his works are not overtly religious. He rejected those who used religion to deny critical thinking, and on occasion wrote with considerable negativity to the religiously pious. One author has speculated this may have resulted from a low number of Hajjis in his native Blora and resentment of his Haji grandfather's divorce and abandonment of his grandmother.[1]
[edit] Release and subsequent works
Pramoedya was released from imprisonment in 1979, but remained under house arrest in Jakarta until 1992. During this time he released The Girl From the Coast, another semi-fictional novel based on his grandmother's own experience (volumes 2 and 3 of this work were destroyed along with his library in 1965). He also wrote Nyanyi Sunyi Seorang Bisu (1995); A Mute's Soliloquy, an autobiography based on the letters that he wrote for his daughter from imprisonment in Buru but were not allowed to be sent, and Arus Balik (1995).He wrote many columns and short articles criticizing the Indonesian government. He wrote a book Perawan Remaja dalam Cengkraman Militer (Young Virgins in the Military's Grip), a documentary written in the style of a novel showcasing the plight of Javanese women who were forced to become comfort women during the Japanese occupation. They were brought to the island of Buru where they were sexually abused, and ended up staying there instead of returning to Java. Pramoedya made their acquaintance when he himself was a political prisoner on the Buru island in the 1970s.
Pramoedya was hospitalized on April 27, 2006, for complications brought on by diabetes and heart disease. He was also a heavy smoker of clove cigarettes and had endured years of abuse while in detention. He died on April 30, 2006 at the age of 81. Pramoedya earned several accolades, and was frequently discussed as Indonesia's and Southeast Asia's best candidate for a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Pramoedya's writings on Indonesia are not unlike those of Salman Rushdie's on India in addressing the international and regional currents caused by political events in history and how these events flowed through his homeland and buffeted its people. Pramoedya also shares a personal history of hardship and detention for his efforts of self-expression and the political aspects of his writings, and struggled against the censorship of his work by the leaders of his own people.
[edit] Awards
- 1988 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award.
- 1989 The Fund for Free Expression Award, New York, USA.
- 1992 English P.E.N Centre Award, Great Britain.
- 1992 Stichting Wertheim Award, Netherland.
- 1995 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts.
- 1999 Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Michigan.
- 1999 Chancellor's Distinguished Honor Award from the University of California, Berkeley.
- 2000 Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Republic of France.
- 2000 11th Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize.
- 2004 Norwegian Authors' Union award for his contribution to world literature and his continuous struggle for the right to freedom of expression.
- 2004 Pablo Neruda Award, Chile
- 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll by the Prospect.
[edit] Major works
- Kranji-Bekasi Jatuh (1947)
- Perburuan (The Fugitive) (1950)
- Keluarga Gerilya (1950)
- Bukan Pasar Malam (1951)
- Cerita dari Blora (1952)
- Gulat di Jakarta (1953)
- Korupsi (Corruption) (1954)
- Midah - Si Manis Bergigi Emas (1954)
- Cerita Calon Arang (The King, the Witch, and the Priest) (1957)
- Hoakiau di Indonesia (1960)
- Panggil Aku Kartini Saja I & II (1962)
- The Buru Quartet
- Bumi Manusia (This Earth of Mankind) (1980)
- Anak Semua Bangsa (Child of All Nations) (1980)
- Jejak Langkah (Footsteps) (1985)
- Rumah Kaca (House of Glass) (1988)
- Gadis Pantai (The Girl from the Coast) (1982)
- Nyanyi Sunyi Seorang Bisu (A Mute's Soliloquy) (1995)
- Arus Balik (1995)
- Arok Dedes (1999)
- Mangir (1999)
- Larasati (2000)
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