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		<title>Publish your freelance work abroad</title>
		<link>http://www.overseasthinktankforindonesia.com/2011/10/31/publish-your-freelance-work-abroad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beni Bevly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jennie S. Bev Today I write bi-weekly op-ed pieces for The Jakarta Post, an English print newspaper based in Jakarta, an Asian metropolis 9,400 miles away from New York. I also guest blog for Asia Blogging Network based in the same city. From time to time, I write articles for Asia Sentinel, an online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The truth about happiness</title>
		<link>http://www.overseasthinktankforindonesia.com/2011/09/08/the-truth-about-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beni Bevly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jennie S. Bev, Palo Alto An old adage goes, “Money doesn’t buy happiness.” Well, this has proven to be a fallacy. Economists Angus Deaton and Daniel Kahneman found in a survey of 450,000 Americans in 2008 and 2009 for the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index that those who earned at least US$75,000 annually had a better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian culture is thriving in America</title>
		<link>http://www.overseasthinktankforindonesia.com/2011/04/29/asian-culture-is-thriving-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beni Bevly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This article was previously published by USA Rise Up, November 16, 2009. It has been more than one year but it's still relevant.] by Jennie S. Bev, Northern California In today’s mainstream society, Americans illustrate a greater acceptance of Asian influences, values, and culture. Asian pop culture is thriving. From suburban noodle houses to Zen-style [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Islam: Between Images and reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beni Bevly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image source: asetow.wordpress.com By Dr. Muhamad Ali Globalization has made the world of Islam more heterogeneous than homogeneous. It continues to shape Islam identities and moralities, imagined or real, at both global and local levels. What is conceptually homogenous is Islam itself, but what it means differs. Globalization in its broadest sense is not new, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change can strain region’s security</title>
		<link>http://www.overseasthinktankforindonesia.com/2011/02/17/climate-change-can-strain-region%e2%80%99s-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beni Bevly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image source: dfg.ca.gov By Evan A. Laksmana FOLLOWING the recent ‘triple disaster’ in Indonesia – the flooding in Papua, the tsunami that hit the Mentawai islands, and the volcanic eruption in Central Java – some are wondering whether climate change will increase the intensity and frequency of similar events in the region. The Singapore-based Economy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developed Indonesia and third world America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beni Bevly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jennie S. Bev, Palo Alto Indonesia is enjoying a rosy economy with a 6.3 percent GDP growth predicted in 2011. The United States’ economy, however, is slowing down rapidly with a predicted 2011 GDP growth of 2.5 percent. Assuming optimized economic, political, and legislative environments at home and in Mexico, Australia, Vietnam, Nigeria and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tipping point, terrorism and crimes against humanity</title>
		<link>http://www.overseasthinktankforindonesia.com/2011/02/17/tipping-point-terrorism-and-crimes-against-humanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beni Bevly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jennie S. Bev It’s mind-boggling that the National Police have claimed they are one of the best police forces in the world in tackling terrorism and that the government has claimed it is an administration that governs a pluralistic country. Their claims are far from factual conditions. Otherwise many people wouldn’t be puzzled. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Indonesian Defence Forces: Strategic Changes and Implications</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beni Bevly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image source: oursurprisingworld.com by Evan A. Laksmana FOLLOWING PRESIDENT Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s re-election in November 2009, the Indonesian National Defence Forces (TNI) have undergone several structural changes, many of which escaped notice of a public distracted by the numerous political dramas unfolding in Jakarta. Many of these changes will have significant implications for the country’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death, midlife crisis and family life</title>
		<link>http://www.overseasthinktankforindonesia.com/2011/01/20/death-midlife-crisis-and-family-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beni Bevly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jennie S. Bev, Dublin We grow into multiple directions externally and internally, which we have been enduring and will continue to endure through the changes of inner weather and turmoil. As we age and grow a wee bit older every day, we take steps toward our final destination: death. David Shields said it well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doubt and why good people do bad things</title>
		<link>http://www.overseasthinktankforindonesia.com/2011/01/20/doubt-and-why-good-people-do-bad-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beni Bevly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image Source: Photobucket] by Jennie S. Bev Indonesia is renowned for its kind, smiling and warm-hearted people, beautiful culture, strong values, high morality and for being very religious. By the same token, Indonesia is also enigmatic, mind-boggling and paradoxical. Minorities have been persecuted. “Heretical” Islamic sects have been condemned, destructed and banned. Churches have been [...]]]></description>
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