Watch the interview video with FOX NEWS here.

Bloody Hell, this morning when I went to my office I heard bad things happened. Again, they’re bombs (NOTE: BOMBS with ‘S’!!!) exploded in JW Marriott Hotel and Ritz Carlton Hotel. From many media went throughout this occasion, it was known that the bombs explode twice in JW Marriott Hotel and another in Ritz Carlton Hotel. AFAIK, there are ten victims; four of them are expatriates. Many things are related to this. First, JW Marriott Hotel is the hotel where Manchester United’s Players will spend the nights. Second, it’s about the political issue that Indonesian President’s Election is the trigger upon this occasion. Third, it’s pure (F*CK*N’) terrorism.

If it’s the MU tour that brings up this chaotic disaster, then maybe there are several people behind this who want to disgrace the LOC of MU Tour and make them take a big loss.

If it’s political issue; and just now Mr. President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, exposed intelligent database as he showed some pictures of undermasked men were having gun training using his picture as a shooting target; then it’ll affect every aspect that Indonesia stand for. Economic, Social, Bilateral, Business, Inrastructure, and Politic itself.

If it’s terrorist; I think this is world’s major issue. Fight back or we (read: PEOPLE OF WORLD) will enter the darker side of human race.

I pray for the victims and the family they left behind. May God guide them to where they belong and put judgement on who start this disaster. AMEN!

1. The first one to answer last clue on June 16th, 2009
2. The 97th person who delivers the answer on that last clue
3. The one who invites most friends to join this event

Yap, this is what I can tell now. If you had any question regarding this thing please refer to that link I gave above. Happy Hunting! :p

Atas pemikiran itulah maka teman-teman para pemerhati Sumber Daya Manusia umumnya dan generasi muda khususnya; ingin mengadakan Edu Fair di Bangka Belitung untuk membagikan informasi terkait minat dan bakat.

Apa sih yang ada di Edu Fair itu? Nih rinciannya:
LANGKAH KEGIATAN

1. Melaksanakan tes Minat dan Bakat bagi siswa SMP dan SMA kelas 2 ; yang bertujuan membantu menemukan arah pendidikan yang tepat untuk nantinya dapat terjun di masyarakat.
2. Melaksanakan Seminar Interaktif (TalkShow) EduFair antara Narasumber dengan siswa dan orangtua agar dapat mencapat Paradigma yang sama menghadapi masa depan karir dan profesi khususnya serta Belitung Timur umumnya.
3. Melaksanakan aktifitas konseling bagi siswa dan orangtua yang membutuhkan bantuan individual
4. Melaksanakan aktifitas rutin untuk menjaga semangat dan motivasi putra daerah bagi pembangunan sesuai arahan rencana kerja Pemerintah Daerah

PEMETAAN LANGKAH PENGEMBANGAN

1. Data Pemerintah Daerah mengenai potensi daerah Belitung Timur, diberikan dalam bentuk paparan saat talkshow juga dapat disiapkan booklet yang dibagikan agar menjadi sumber informasi bagi generasi muda.
2. Perencanaan Pemerintah Daerah berkenaan formasi Pegawai Negeri Sipil untuk setiap Dinas
3. Program Terpadu penataan Pendidikan Kejuruan Belitung Timur – terutama pengembangan Sekolah Kejuruan tingkat Menengah dan Lanjutan
4. Perencanaan Layanan Pendampingan Generasi Muda Belitung Timur sebagai upaya pencegahan Kenakalan Remaja dan Persiapan Sumber Daya Manusia
5. Rutin Deteksi Minat dan Bakat tiap angkatan
6. Pengarahan Minat dan Bakat melalui tim Konseling
7. Pendidikan berkesinambungan
8. Peningkatan kompetensi melalui Praktek Kerja Lapangan dan Kegiatan Ekstra kurikuler
   Contoh : Brain Gym rutin di sekolah

CONTOH AKTIFITAS RUTIN

1. Pelaksanaan Senam Otak (Brain Gym) di sekolah setiap pagi.
2. Guru mendata prestasi akademik dan motivasi serta konsentrasi siswa sebelum adanya aktifitas ini.
3. Brain Gym seminggu sekali saat jam olah raga dimulai
4. Brain gym konsentrasi di setiap awal pelajaran
5. Saat pembagian rapor akhir semester Ganjil 2009 – 2010 guru mendata prestasi akademik dan motivasi serta konsentrasi siswa

Kapan ya acara ini berlangsung? Nih infonya:

1. Tes diselenggarakan Tanggal 22 Juni 2009 dan 23 Juni 2009 di lokasi 4 Sekolah
2. Seminar Interaktif diselenggarakan tanggal 29 Juni 2009 di lokasi ukit Samak – A Satu
3. Dicanangkan Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat (LSM) Pemerhati Generasi Muda Belitung Timur pada tanggal 29 Juni 2009
4. Disediakan lokasi dan jadwal konseling yang dilayani oleh konselor lokal

Nah yang paling menarik, biaya untuk ikutin semua acara ini hanya Rp. 75.000,00 dan kalian bisa dapatkan:

1. Tes Minat – Bakat (donator)
   Paket Informasi EduFair
   Dokumentasi EduFair untuk disebar ke sekolah
2. Seminar Interaktif (dana Dinkes Kesga) 400 org
   • Sewa ruang + Audio Visual Aids
   • Honor Pembicara + transport + akomodasi

Nah, apalagi yang kurang? Yu bagi laskar pemuda di Belitung Timur! Jangan ketinggalan ya ikut acara ini. Belum tentu ada di lain kesempatan lho^^.

INFORMASI PENDAFTARAN
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H.M. Soeharto is the longest performed president of Indonesia. Thirty-two years governed Indonesia, he showed a stable country, good inflation control, low poverty, and security. But behind all of that, he was judged to be responsible of what he had done when he used his power of being president and held some tricks to corrupt the national fund. Local newspapers confirmed that at least 11 Foundation that he coordinates were in trouble when they were checked by Corruption Eradication Commission including Supersemar Foundation (last Foundation that was processed through law enforcement).

If you search through any seach engine out there, you can find that a lot of opinion about him. I don’t want to react so harsly to be pro or contra about this subject. I just want to show some facts as described below.

Not relying on Time magazine reports but using 2004 data from the anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International the list reads:

• 1. Suharto, 1967-98, Indonesia, $15-35 billion stolen, or 0.6%-1.3% of GDP.
• 2. Ferdinand Marcos, 1972-86, Philippines, $5-10 billion stolen, or 1.5%-4.5% of GDP.
• 3. Mobutu Sese Seko, 1965–97, Zaire, $5 billion stolen, or 1.8% of GDP.
• 4. Sani Abacha, 1993–98, Nigeria, $2-5 billion stolen, or 1.5%-3.7% of GDP.
• 5. Slobodan Milosevic, 1989–2000, Serbia/Yugoslavia, $1 billion stolen, or 0.7% of GDP.
• 6. Jean-Claude Duvalier, 1971–86, Haiti, $0.3-0.8 billion or 1.7%-4.5% of GDP.
• 7. Alberto Fujimori, 1990–2000, Peru, $0.6 billion, or 0.1% of GDP.
• 8. Pavlo Lazarenko, 1996–97, Ukraine, $0.1-0.2 billion, or 0.2%-0.4% of GDP.
• 9. Arnoldo Alemán, 1997–2002, Nicaragua, $0.1 billion, or 0.6% of GDP.
• 10. Joseph Estrada, 1998–2001, Philippines, $0.07-0.08 billion, or 0.04% of GDP.

The Independence

Freedom is hard to obtain but even harder to maintain. Our forefathers fought and died for more than three centuries to obtain freedom which culminated in the declaration of independence. Declaration of independence in 1945 is a proclamation that Indonesians are free and sovereign. Since then, Indonesians are unwilling to surrender their fate to anybody and are willingly responsible for actions toward Indonesian kinsmen and other nationals. We as Indonesians want to be free in determining our own fate and the future of the nation in our hand. It is our responsibility to maintain and cultivate this hard earned freedom for the betterment of all Indonesians and the nation.

Freedom can be maintained through equality. When freedom operates in chaos, the freedom will bare both negative and positive valuations. Freedom will be good only for the people that gain their own freedom by limiting others’. Respectively, it will be bad for the oppressed and the poor or those who have very limited freedom. Equality gives freedom a standard and boundary. This standards need to be defined, formulated, structured, and applied within the scope of a nation.

Like freedom, equality needs to be obtained and maintained. In other words, after the independence the focus of our fight has been: to achieve equality for maintaining our freedom as a nation and as individuals.

New Order Regime

Before the 1998 economic crisis, the new order regime had successfully reduced poverty. The number of people living under poverty decreased dramatically from 50 millions to below 10 millions people between the year of 1976 to 1996 1). To grasp the significant of this achievement, one needs to understand that within only 20 years the percentage of Indonesians living below the poverty line decreased from 40% to only 10%. The human development index also increased significantly from about 0.465 to 0.682 during this period. Higher human development index indicates higher life expectancy, better health and nutrition, and higher education level and literacy. The life expectance was only 41 in 1976 and it was raised to 66 years in 1996. UNDP (2003) 2) reported that 87% of Indonesians are literate.

New order regime has showed us that poverty can be reduced along with significant increase in the quality of life through policies that focused on providing the poor equal access to basic social needs such as: health, education, and access to economic activity. The regime provided free clinics specifically to increase mother and children nutrition, gave consultation to pregnant woman through KB program (planned family), and served basic health need to everybody. The regime also sought out labor intensive investment and provided easy access especially for the poor to get land, capital, specific skills, and infrastructure 3).

The poor were the early focus of the new order regime and they were identified as people living below certain income and nutrition levels. Because of these limitations, the poor are unable to gain equal access to the basic social needs. Without outside help, the poor will be trapped in poverty for generations. By focusing on providing job and basic social needs, the new order regime practically gave the poor households a social security. When a household has a social security through long term employment and good health, the household no longer dwells in poverty. The household now can focus on obtaining good education, increasing income, and generating saving for future needs. Overtime, the poor will be able to stand by their own foot, to fight for equal access by themselves, and to determine their own fate or freedom.

1998 Economic Crisis

The economic crisis has rapidly undone the new regime successful record on poverty. Overnight, the people living below the poverty line increased to the same number as pre-1970. There are more than 50 millions people living below the poverty line and this number will increase with the soaring prices of the basic staple needs 4). The economic crisis led to the collapse of the Indonesian financial, political, and social institutions. Although the situation is getting better, the impacts still can be felt and Indonesians still must work hard to restore and strengthen all these institutions.

The economic crisis revealed the failures of the new regime to respond to the credibility crisis and the limited extend of the regime development programs. The regime credibility crisis was sparked by shameful and selfish acts by Soeharto. For example, November 1, 1998 the regime announced to close 16 banks. However, a bank owned by Soeharto‘s son was still allowed to operate under a different name. 15 major projects under contract with companies owned by Soeharto‘s son were still funded while all other major government projects were halted. His daughter and cronies were included in the government economic reformed efforts although they are unbelievably incompetent and corrupt. Soeharto selfish actions diminished the credibility of government commitment to economic reform and in the end led to the evaporation of most foreign and liquid domestic capitals from Indonesia. Indonesians suffered to this very day because of his unbelievably selfish act.

The economic crisis also exposed the limited extend of the regime development programs. The facts that economic crisis hit the poor the most should validate the unequal development performed by the regime. Labor compensation can be singled out for having the largest set back. The labor wage decreased by almost 40% in 1998 and has seen very sluggish recovery since. The labor wage is still lower than the pre-crisis wage. Both education and health services to the poor have also experienced a major set back and have yet to recover to pre-crisis conditions.

The unequal development programs carried out by the regime can be clearly seen by the increase in percentage of poor people as the region is further away from the capital city. Less than 5% of Jakarta population is living under poverty, while more than 45% of Papua population is poor. Similarly, there is also a significant contrast in poverty level between the villages and cities. In general, more villagers are living under poverty line than those living in the city.

The limited reach of the development carried out by the new order regime was due to a more centralistic hold of power. The poor which concentrated in regions further away from the capital city did not able to voice their concerns neither in local nor in national arena due to limited access to the political process. Government legislation no. 5 1974 and the following legislation no. 45 1992 showed the unwillingness of the central government to divulge political power. The central government not only limited the political power but also circumvented massive administrative headache to the local government. On top of that, the central government vacuumed all local resources both their natural (oil and mines) and physical (land and tax) resources.

Comparing with its legislative predecessors, government legislation no. 22 1999 can be considered a breakthrough. Although the legislation still contains few administrative holes such as the role of governors and central government, the legislation divulges political power along with financial and administrative resources to the local government in county level (kabupaten). This legislation, when properly carried out, can really increase local participation in the political process and create more equal access to power, financial resources, and public services. More importantly this legislation can in fact build a more free and civil society through out the entire nation in the long run.

Lessons Learned

Looking back at the success and the failure of the new order regime in combating poverty, one can deduce three important lessons. First, the poverty can be dramatically reduced when right policies that focus on the poor are implemented. The new order regime in its early years was very dedicated in combating poverty by using two strategies. The regime first strategy was to utilize the main asset of the poor, which is their labor, by creating incentives for labor intensive businesses. The second strategy was to provide equal access to health, education, and economic systems. These two strategies were successful in reducing poverty.

Second, the new order regime basically set a standard definition of equality at least for the Indonesians. Equality means equal access to political power, health and education services, and economic systems. By giving equal access to power and basic public services, the social security is guaranteed and the poverty will be diminishing. Unfortunately, the new order regime did not hold true to its promises at the end. This betrayal caused the nation dearly and in 1998 pushed us to the lowest point of Indonesian history since 1966.

Third, without equality freedom will not be attainable. The centralistic policies carried out by the new order regime resulted in the limited access to people residing in region further away from the capital. This policy became more apparent during the last years of the regime. The segmentation of access was not only based on region but also based on race, religions, and relationship by Soeharto. Economic development and political aspirations of majority of the people were tightly controlled. The freedom was limited to the Soeharto‘s selected few.
Renewed Call

Soeharto ran the country with iron fist but he successfully maintained order, carried out economic liberalization, and secularized the country by oppressing the right wing (Islamic) movement. Not one national leader post Soeharto was able to match his accomplishments and to lay out a vision to lead Indonesia out from this slump. This is very alarming. People will reminisce the old days and would welcome a dictator and trade away their freedom. The dictator can come in many forms; let it be in the form of charismatic leader or extreme belief systems originated in radical Islamic movement.

Radical ideas breed faster especially among poor people. They are the ones who feel the urgency and want changes the most. With almost one-third of the population living below poverty line or in danger of poverty, radical ideas spread like fire in a field full of dry bushes. The situation is very urgent and alarming to this very republic, to our livelihood, and to our nation. Almost 30% of the country’s parliamentarians (DPR members) describe themselves as Islamic politicians. This tidal wave of Islamic movement will threaten the secular character and breed other movements that will produce horizontal conflicts and promote disunity.

1) BPS, “Data dan Informasi Kemiskinan: Propinsi”, 2003

2) BPS-Statistics Indonesia- UNDP: “Crisis, Poverty, and Human Development in Indonesia”, 1999

3) Irawan, P.B., “Dampak Krisis Ekonomi terhadap Kemiskinan and Pembangunan Manusia serta Proses Pemulihannya di Indonesia”, Prosiding Kongres Ilmu Pengetahuan Nasional VIII, LIPI, 2005

4) Aswicahyono, .,”Pengalaman Indonesia dalam Menghadapi Berbagai Krisis”, Prosiding Kongres Ilmu Pengetahuan Nasional VIII, LIPI, 2005

Economic After

So fragile had been the foundations of the economy left behind by Soeharto that growth deteriorated to a contraction of almost 14 percent in 1998 and the rupiah exchange rate plunged to as low as Rp 10,000 to the dollar from Rp 4,000 in late 1997.

Between that Indonesian’s economic growth showed degradation (Asia Economic Growth)

 Case on Time Mags

A three-judge panel of the Supreme Court, led by Army Major General German Hoediarto, along with M. Taufik and Bahauddin Qoudry, found on 31st August Time Asia Inc. guilty of tarnishing the good name of former president Suharto over a report in its May 1999 issue, and fined the magazine proprietors 1 trillion rupiah, or $106 million.

Well, that might be simple facts that is used to make a pro and contra state. I’ll add another new later on^^.

For sure, nothing is as excited as this one because after around 2 weeks of NO CONFIRMATION STATE, she got this call. Yeah, I’m happy to hear that too. Once again, congratz on your calling ^^ (sorry, I can’t help you out with the transport T_T)