Archive for November, 2010
AS dan Kebebasan Beragama
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Oleh Dr. Muhamad Ali
Kontroversi pembangunan pusat Islam di dekat Ground Zero—tempat serangan teroris 11 September 2001— membuat Presiden Amerika Serikat Barack Obama yang beragama Protestan harus angkat bicara. Wali Kota New York Michael Bloomberg, yang beragama Yahudi, sebelumnya mendukung.
Meski awalnya low profile karena itu ia anggap urusan Kota New York, ikut campurnya Obama menunjukkan isu Islam dan Barat, Islam dan keamerikaan, serta agama dan kebebasan agama belum selesai di Amerika Serikat. Read the rest of this entry »
The Battle of Dragon Antaboga against Octopus Lapindo
By Patrisius Mutiara Andalas, SJ
The mud people have made use of traditional stories familiar to the people to share their sufferings to the public and resist against unjust corporation. They refer to Sang Hyang Antaboga in the epic of Mahabharata and with the help of local artists connect the Lapindo Corporation with gurita (octopus). Octopus with dexterous arms can shrink and expand coordinately, and its camouflage system survives octopus in critical situations. They see the need to raise public awareness of the camouflaging power by the corporation to justify its innocence in the mudflow. They performed the battle between dragon Antaboga against octopus Lapindo to commemorate the fourth year of the mudflow in Porong. Read the rest of this entry »
Time Management
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Oleh Dr. Beni Bevly
Sering kali kita bertanya mengapa seorang pebisnis besar memiliki waktu lebih banyak dari pada orang lain? Sebutlah Bill Gates yang berkeliling dunia di antaranya ke benua Afrika untuk kegiatan sosialnya, dan Warren Buffett yang masih sempat mengajar di Tanah Seberang.
Jawabannya tentu saja tidak. Saya perlu tekankan bahwa setiap orang mempunyai waktu yang sama, yaitu 60 menit per jam, 24 jam per hari, 7 hari per minggu dan seterusnya. Inti penggunaan waktu seseorang terletak pada pilihan jenis tugas atau kegiatan dan bagaimana melasanakannnya. Tindakan seperti ini saya artikan sebagai time management. Read the rest of this entry »
Outsourcing integrity and cultural transformation in fighting corruption
by Jennie S. Bev
Integrity is a rarity in Indonesia, which explains why it’s ranked the 111th in the corruption perception ranking according to Transparency International.
While many kinds of efforts have been undertaken to prevent and eradicate corruption, appropriate workable solutions haven’t been found.
Interestingly, other countries, such as Angola, Latvia, Kosovo, Nicaragua and Haiti have been able to collect state revenues in an efficient and proper manner. Read the rest of this entry »
Model dari Discovery Bay Hong Kong: Kembali ke Alam
Oleh Yunani Adam
Perlu diakui bahwa pembangunan di Indonesia banyak yang menghasilkan masalah. Misalnya, karena kurangnya perencanaan, maka banyak lokasi di Indonesia, termasuk di Jakarta, menjadi banjir , di samping musibah atau potensi musibah lain.
Dalam kaitan dengan model pembangunan dan tingkah laku masyarakat yang bersahabat dengan alam, saya mengajak anda untuk menelusuri pengalaman saya di Hong Kong dan kemungkinan penerapannya di Indonesia. Read the rest of this entry »
Re-engagement with Kopassus
By Evan A. Laksmana
The recent announcement by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates that the US will begin “a gradual, limited program of security cooperation activities” with the Indonesian Army’s Special Forces (Kopassus) sparked an immediate controversy.
While the ban restricting the Kopassus from training on US soil or receive funding for lethal combat training is still likely to be in place for a while, the symbolic statement of opening formal lines of communications — beginning with “staff level discussions”— speaks louder than the actual deed. Read the rest of this entry »
