New Name for Malaysia, Malingsia

Indonesia - Malaysia relation is tend to hotter. Its because of some claim by Malaysia about some of Indonesia's traditional culture. A few years ago, Malaysia have win to claim Sipadan dan Ligitan Islands near Kalimantan. Then they try to claim Ambalat block, oil block, and have rise up ur relation.

recents days we hear and read from television and newspaper, Malaysia have claim "Rasa Sayange", a traditional song, as their promotion jignle for visit Malaysia. Malaysia have claim to, Batik, angklung, and curent news is Reog (tehy call barongan as their national culture).

This claim sure cause may people angry, they give new name for Malaysia: Malingsia, mean thief. So the slogan of Visit Malaysia, the truly Asia become Malingsia the thief of Asia.
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Jakarta in Crowd

Jakarta in crowd. Its a commmon looking when you travelling acrross jakarta. Traffic Jam. You will spent about 45 minutes to travell about 5 km, in normal you can travel in 12minutes. Its because of busway project. The Jakarta Mass Transportation Project.

Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) is employed by Jakarta Administration to is a New York-based non-governmental organization working to promote environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation policies and projects worldwide.



Project director from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) Budi Kuntjoro said Wednesday traffic congestion caused by the construction of busway corridors would be short term and would lead to long-term benefits.

This project is planned to reduce the number of private vehicles on the streets. Busway busses also run off gas, which is less harmful to the environment.

And Jakarta being cowded. Is this project have to stopped or continue?
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RI wants balance representation at UNSC

Indonesia wants reforms in the UN Security Council to reflect a balanced representation of the world's diverse cultures and civilizations rather than just the addition of more members, said Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda on Tuesday.

"Without ensuring balanced representation, the expansion of the Security Council may result in new gaps between developed and developing countries," he said.

Among the most anticipated items on the agenda at the UN's 62nd annual General Assembly that commenced last week is the expansion of the council's membership, both for its permanent and non-permanent members.

The grand expectation for a breakthrough in reforming the Security Council that came during the 2005 UN Summit has lost its momentum and needs a boost, Hassan said.

Simply adding members based on a region would not address the criticisms of the council that suggest it works in favor of its permanent members who possess veto power, he said

"For instance, 1.3 billion people in Islamic countries are not well represented in the Security Council.

"It's about time we have democracy at the international level," he said.

[from:Tony Hotland, The Jakarta Post, New York]
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Indonesia - Malaysia Relation and Psycology of The Losser

Temperature relation between Indonesia - Malaysia is raisen up. Protest anti-Malaysia is speaded up in many city in Indonesia, it is because the hitting of leader Karate coach from Indonesia Donald PL Colopita by Malaysian Police, some days ago.

Indonesia - Malaysia relation is have a long story, rais and down. In early Malaysia's history, in 1963, we have conflict and become confrontation, as Sukarno, the First President of the Republic of Indonesia says, Ganyang Malaysia. Both country send their mililtary or para-military force to line border in Kalimantan. Malaysia is hsuported by British, Australian, New Zealand and Commonwealth force by secret. Indonesia send paramilitary force to infiltrate the border line via Tawau, then Sebatik. Many people is dead in this confrontation.

Indonesia is changed, Sukarno, the Great Leader of Ravolution have to retreat.
This confrontation is ended on August 1966. Suharto became a president. Indonesia then have own conflict after 30 September tragedy, that killed 6 General. Indonesia and Malaysia met on conference in Bangkok on May 28, 1966 and signed a peace declaration on August 11, 1966.

I interest on article have writen by Azyumardi Azra, Kompas, Septenmber 5, 2007. He write, we have double standar, ambivalence attitude on seeing Malaysia. One side, we anger with Malaysia, other side we admired. This attitude, said Azyumardi, is tend to stright us as the losser, he called, Pshycology of the Losser.

Losser is Losser, we know all about the losser. The proof, thoug we know, many bad story about TKI in Malaysia, like sexual harashment, chastisement, hurted, many people is ready to go there. They need for higher money.

We have many problem that can trouble the relation of both, ones is labour problem (we call TKI). Malaysian call all Indonesian people that visited Malaysia with Indon, means kuli, labour. Its an unfair attitude, thoug, their goverment always say not to use that name on any publication or newspaper, but the use of indon is not stopping.

We are a great country, we have more people than Malaysia, so it is we have more problem, we have more resources to bring this country modern. So, its not professional if we always angry, moreover plan to sweep many malaysian who visited Indonesia. In This cases, Indonesia's Goverment have to force Malaysia to appreciate us. We have to stand up same with any other nation. Its our task. we have to study hard, work hard Read More..

Skycab, is it the Future Transport?

I found a strange form car named Skycab. You'll see the picture. An strange form, like car, like train. Actually it is a bit of both. I found at frostfireseeds.com, thanks publisher.

Technically speaking it is a personal rapid transport system, a new hybrid form of transport that some have already taken to calling the podcar. Similar systems have been proposed before and failed to make it into development, despite some less-personal versions built in the 1970s in the US. But with the current desire for low-carbon transit as keen as ever, has the time finally arrived for this kind of low-emission people mover?



"SkyCab is a new "green" intelligent transportation system. SkyCab has no drivers (automatic) and no pollution. The SkyCab Project is working in a network with international relations together with several cities, R&D institutions and an industrial group. "



its will be usefull to reduce air polution, and so less of carbon energy, because this machine is

The aim of the SkyCab Project is to supplement buses, (local) trains and undergrounds with a convenient, non-polluting and cost effective new innovative form of public transport, a personalized rapid transit system.

A SkyCab vehicle runs on guide ways 4 to 5 meters above ground level in a comprehensive network and it can accommodate up to four passengers on each individual journey. The system operates day and night in any weather (even snow and ice). It has no timetable restrictions and transports the passengers to their selected station without intermediate stops.

source:frostfireseeds.com.
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Jakarta Mass Transportation, Construction of Jakarta MRT to start in 2010

Jakarta will have a public transportion system name MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) soon. This transport is important to reduce the own car rider. With this transportation mode, more passenger can be travveling to their destination more quickly.

The trains planned for use in the MRT project will travel at an average cruising speed of 26 km per hour and will be able to carry 400,000 passengers a day from Lebak Bulus to Dukuh Atas within 32 minutes.

As a mass transportation system, this system is plan to integrated with other transportation mode such us bus way, city bus, monorail, waterway (watertaxi).

"This project will eventually integrate with other transportation modes,such as Jakarta's busway, monorail and waterway (taxi)," said steering committee vice chairman Fauzi Bowo, the incumbent Jakarta Deputy Governor and winner of the recent city gubernatorial election, ass written by tjejakartapost.com.



The central government and the city administration plann to start work in 2010 on an ambitious project to develop a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system for Jakarta.

Unveiling the time schedule for the project Monday, Transportation Ministry secretary general Wendy Aritenang, the chairman of the MRT steering committee, said construction was expected to complete by the end of 2014.



We should be happy with this plan. Its seem to late if we see malaysia, thailand, moreover singapore that have a mrt system earlier. but, late is better than nothing. We always to hope, have a mass transportation, that safe, comfortable, quick, cheap.

credit picture:metro from Formerspook blog
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Celebrating Indonesia, 62th Independence Day

17 agustus 2007, 62th Indonesia's Independence day. i'm not a girl,not yet a woman? is our country is to young to stand up same with other country in the world. Lets see, malaysia free on 1957, we are older. but we know, in some aspects malaysia is lead.

thousand of our worker work in malaysia, not as expert worker but as servent, a low class, untrainned worker. they call us Indon, means pembantu, worker. yes our country is called as exporter workers, women workers. i think its one of fact thats we have not yet reached our goal as writen on our constitution. toward the people justice and prosperous.

Indonesia as an exporter oil is have problem with oil for its citizen. goverment have programm to change oil to gas for poor people. the problem is, gas is not fully distributed , but oil is being dissapeared.

another problem is poverty, low level school, hight unemployee, foreign debt. thats all our proble as Indonesian, not only presiden SBY's burden. So we have always hope, the better Indonesia in the future.

Celeberating Independence Day:bike carnival

Like this childfen who celebrate the independence day with participate on the carnival of bike. let see their glad face, optimist. This is our next generation, whom will lead, work in the future.



This is a scream mask and ondel-ondel participate on this carnival.
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About DCA Indonesia - Singapore: comments

hi RedBean, Im very sorry for my emotional comment on your blog. Im not aware if my comments is became a discussion. i find this link from google with keyword my name sumedi.


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yes. its not your country fault, if this unfair agrrement is dsigened and ratified, i have to accused my goverment.

singapore is an independence country, have their own sovereignity. have own deal. so are we. and this is a must if singapore defence their interest on this agreement.

so, my comments is right my comment, i think that, right. but, i apreciate with you.

im very sorry.
no problem with your blog.

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its the original post from redbean: Indonesian parlemen reject DCA.

meds has left a new comment on your post "Indonesian Parliament rejects DCA":

We must reject this unfair agreement.
singapore, house of corruptor, feed form bastad money. we reject. unfair DCA

sumedi, indonesian

I received this post in the thread posted some time in May, deep inside the file. Many of you may not have read this reply so I decided to post it here.

Hi Sumedi, welcome to the blog.

I can appreciate your point. From the Indonesian perspective, they must see real benefits to go along with the DCA. And if they can't, then they should object to it or speak against it. It is the right of every citizen to talk and express their views on issues concerning their country. Otherwise the country will be run without the consent of the people.

As citizens, I must say that we do not know the details of the agreements. I believe that the govt representatives of both sides are intelligent people who negotiated the agreements based on the best interests of their respective countries. And that your ministers would not have agreed on the DCA if Indonesia is not getting a fair and justified returns for the agreements.

I would not simply run down the agreement without knowing the details. You may want to find out more from your ministers. There must be enough trade off for them to agree. They must have seen enough benefits in the agreements which the public may not know.

Cheers
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Jakarta Election, Image War

Politic atmosphere in jakarta is hot. Each candidate try to get more support from Jakarta citizen. Many ways are done. Advertise via Television, newspaper, poster, baliho, or visiting people. Both candidate is try to become more popular than the other.

At this time Fauzi Bowo dominate the space of advertising on TV, their advertising is displayed up to 5 time per one program. Today, Fauzi Bowo-Prijanto, buy 10 pages full color advertising on the largest national newspaper, Kompas. That adverstising content curiculum vitae, their activities, their vision and mision.

But Adang, may because only supporting one party, PKS, try onother way. PKS is popular with high militancy and bond net. It is have proven on 2004 general election, PKS become the winner of that election, defeat the old partay, golkar, PDIP or PKB, the 3 big party.

who will be the next governore of Jakarta?
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ASEAN, Southeast Asian ministers endorse former Thai minister as next ASEAN chief

Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have endorsed Thailand's nomination of its ex-foreign minister, Surin Pitsuwan, to become the group's next secretary-general, officials said Wednesday.

ASEAN's heads of state are expected to approve Surin's nomination at a summit in Singapore in November, Philippine diplomat Benito Valeriano said.

Surin will assume the post in January if his nomination is approved.

The post, which has a five-year term, is currently held by Ong Keng Yong of Singapore. The job is rotated among the 10 ASEAN members in alphabetical order.

ASEAN, founded in 1967, comprises Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar.

(THEJAKARTAPOST.COM)
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Jakarta Election, Campaign Begin

Celebration of politic in Jakarta is Began. Yesterday, (22/07), in paripurna meeting of DPRD DKI Jakarta, the two couples candidate explain their program, vision, mission on become the governore of the DKI Jakarta. Thoushand of their supporters fill up DPRD building to hear about their vision and mission.

The firts chance, the candidate number one, Adang Daradjataun exoplain their program such us, popular with slogan: ayo benahi jakarta, lets strigthen up jakarta. Toward save, modern, and prosperous Jakarta. "The future Jakarta need city paradigm from infractructure paraduigm to city development paradigm," Adang said as written by kompas (23/03).

then second chance, Fauzi Bowo explain his vision, with his popular slogan, "Jakarta untuk semua", Jakarta for all. To develop Jakarta become save, compfortable for all. Fauzi heighlight his experience as vice governore of DKI Jakarta as his plus poin. he said, experience is important to solve the problem of Jakarta more quickly.

it is the firts direct election, to vote governor of the DKI Jakarta province directed by voters not by DPRD.

this champaign periode will go on until one week before the election held, on august 8 2007.

and in many place arround the corner of jakarta, many poster, publication of each candidate full fil the sight. many organisation that support their candidate make and place their endorsement for their candidate.

so, jakarta become colourfull with any falg, any pamflet. the choice may be different, but the peace is always kept. toward peace election. toward clean and democratic election.

(jakarta election/ pilkada jakarta)
sumedi
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Jakarta, Mass Transportation, wee need

what time you always wake up then go to your office? how long you spend your waste time on your car, bus, stuff on traffic jam? do you feel tired when arrived on your office? do you arrived at home at night?

if the unswer dont make you happy, we need mass transportation. so, its a good attitude to wake at 4 am, but we have a more "lazy" time if not to hury about our travelling to work office. we can watch the tv, read the morning newspaper, play with our spouse, children. 30 minute is an god time we need to travel to our office. if this time more, what do you feel?

some people like to drive their car than by bus. This attitude, "car culture", is cause many negative aspects. road become crowded and busy, more people like that more car crowded the road.

jakarta is hot, too hot. its not comfortable to drive by bycycle, old bus, by city car. it is the main reason of many people to change attitude to city bus. the other reason, jakarta is not yet safe. they need feel safe. so many people is still use their own car than change to general mass bus like bus way.

but travel by our "new bus", bus way trans jakarta is conrortable. the other benefit traveling by mass trasportation, allows you to be more engaged with things because you are not responsible for the duty of driving. You can use your time to read a book or a magazine, listening to the music, filling cross puzle, etc.

so, its the burden of the goverment of the DKI Jakarta province, built a good macro transportation system. so, we are, the passenger can easily travel by bus, by train, with safe and confortable.

sutiyoso, current gonvernore of DKI Jakarta, is built a mass transportation system name bus way. bus that have its own track. on early launching, this mass transport is protestted by city car driver (pengemudi angkutan kota) who affraid this transport will reduce their income. but, this mass transport is being popular now. thousand passenger is delivered to their office more quick than by city bus.

now, more and more people use this bus to travel the city.

and so, not only busway, but mrt (mass rapid trasnport (train)), re new electric train (KRL). and the important thing is, macro transportation system, one unity in city management. its must done step-by-step. its the responsible of goverment of DKI Jakarta province, and the burden of the next governore.

the next, when monorail ready, when we have subway for MRT, is the busway program is a sutainable program, continouse?
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Shoutmix Blocked, Use Guestbook

due on my shoutmix hav been blocked by my office server, for everyone who visit my blog, medsblognow, paradesasketsa, medscript please fill my guestbook on GUESTBOOK

i hope our relation have been built is stronger and stronger in the future. keep writing, keep blogging.

sumedi

indonesia
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Jakarta Election, 1.17 Milion Voters not Registered

Are you the citizen of Jakarta, have you been registered to vote on the election?

If not, you are about 1,17 milion people in Jakarta that not registered. Its not strange, becaus ethis is Jakarta, the capital of the republic of Indonesia. dense City, city with most unofficially citizen.

Here, everything can be hold by money. Whos have money, he or she will hold many, law, civil administration, job, karier, project, etc. So, on registering ID (Kartu Tanda Penduduk). With give some money to office administrator, you can easily get an citizen ID card.

So, its not a strange if Jakarta have most gost citizen, or in this election Gost Voters, because of the easy of adminsitration bisnis, easy by money.

so, where the election will go? Do you concern about this?
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Jakarta Reject GAM's Party

Indonesia Goverment reject GAM's party name "Partai GAM", (Partai Gerakan Aceh Merdeka/ the Free Aceh Movement) include the use name, symbol and Flag of GAM.

Vice president Jusuf Kalla said, that party with use GAM siymbol is contradictory with Helsinki Agreement, peace agreement between Indonesia Goverment and GAM.

"We allways say no (using the name and symbol of GAM), due to the peace spirit between us," said Jusuf Kalla, as written by korantempo (10/06).

The establisment of that party mean, they try to life up GAM. whereas, by the Helshinki Agreement, there is no more organisation called GAM, or GAM is removed. So, none of the point of agreement contain the establishment of GAM's Party, but local party. And All must be under the constitution of The Republic of Indonesia.

Similar with Jusuf Kalla, former Chairman of MPR (Indonesia Assembly), Amin Rais ask to goverment to rejeck the GAM's party. He affraid, the use of GAM's name tend to threat our unity. "If local party is stronger, its proof NKRI in a danger," he said.




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East Timor Election, Next Goverment Will Be a Coalition

The Fretilin Party,has 28 percent of the vote counted, according to preliminary results posted on the electoral committee's Web site at 11 a.m. Dili time today. The National Congress for the Reconstruction of East Timor, (CNRT), formed by former president Xanana Gusmao, has 23 percent.


By no party has a majority vote, Next Goverment Will be a Coalition.

``They will have no other choice but to build a coalition,'' Martinho Gusmao, spokesman for the Southeast Asian nation's electoral committee said today from Dili, as writen by bloomber.com. ``No party has reached a single majority.''

According to East Timor constitution, to form a single majority government, a party must win at least 50.01 percent of vote, or 33 of the 65 seats in parliament.

The final results will probably be known later today, said Maria Sarmento, the electoral commissioner.


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East Timor Election, FRETILIN Takes Early Lead

FRETILIN leading in vote with 29.1% of the vote, followed by Xanana Gusmao's party, the National Congress of East Timor's Reconstruction (CNRT) with 22.5%, the Association of Timorese Democrats-Social Democrat Party (ASDT-PSD) coalition with 16.2%, and the Democratic Party (PD) with 11.6%.

On Saturday (30/06), voters chose between 14 parties competing for control of the 65-seat legislature. Its the first general election to vote parliament members of this country.

The latest news from the Timorese electoral commission (with around 75% of the vote counted) show FRETILIN leading with 29.1% of the vote, followed by Xanana Gusmao's National Congress of East Timor's Reconstruction (CNRT) on 22.5%, the Association of Timorese Democrats-Social Democrat Party (ASDT-PSD) coalition on 16.2%, and the Democratic Party (PD) on 11.6%.

Those numbers are only going to get worse for FRETILIN - their heartland has mostly been counted, while Dili, solid CNRT territory, is less than 50% complete. As for the eventual government, the three large non-FRETILIN parties had agreed before the election to form a united front, so unless there is a dramatic change in the direction of the count, they seem certain to form a coalition government with Gusmao as Prime Minister.

No party was expected to win enough votes to lead the government alone, and coalition negotiations were likely.

"I don't care who wins or loses in this election," said Santino Dare Matias, 62, after attending Sunday mass in this overwhelmingly Roman Catholic state. "Most important for common people like me is peace and security, so we can live our lives without intimidation," as writen by cnn.com.
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Jakarta Election, Two Couples Candidate Assigned

Province General Election Comission (KPUD) DKI Jakarta, have assigned two couples of official candidate of the next governor and vice gonernor of DKI Jakarta Province, on Sunday (1/06).
And last night(3/06), those have been quote for ordinal number, with tthe result, Candidate number one is Adang Daradjatun-Dani Anwar, and Fauzi Bowo - Prijanto become candidate number two.

Since Sunday, all of campagin material must be removed from any place. As we know, all candidate is spread rheir cmpaign material such us poster, spanduk, eventhough the campaign period is have been started. So, when the oficial candidate is assigned, all of material campaign have to wacth by election wacth comission (Panwas). The candidates and their campaign teams must now bow to a set of regulations that include a stop to all of the unofficial activities that have colored the city for the past few months.

"We will make an agreement with the poll commission and the campaign teams that they will pull down all of their campaign materials before the public order officers do it for us," said watchdog chief Suhartono, as writen by the jakartapost.com.

if you interest with this celebration, this is their profile and vision:

Adang Daradjatun - Dani Anwar

• Transportation : Improving poor transportation in Jakarta


• Health : Free medical treatment and free dengue fever


• Economic development : Simplifying permit system and bettering law enforcement


• Flood mitigation : Speeding up canal construction


• Education : Free public schools


• Wealth : Total wealth

Fauzi Bowo - Prijanto

• Flood mitigation : Finishing the construction of East Flood Canal and normalization of West Flood Canal


• Transportation : Bettering land, sea, and air transportation


• Education : Improvement of education access and quality


• Health : Adding and bettering health centers, providing health fund for outbreak victims


• Economic development : Improving public access to development planning, building more low cost apartments


• Wealth : Total Wealth

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My Dirty Jakarta

Jakarta is similar with dirty river, spread waste, crowded, traffic jam, air polution, criminal. Not so good city to live in. Jakarta only good for work, make competition. Jakarta is to design not for life but for work.

everyday, tons of carbondioxide, waste, is emited to the atmosphere of jakarta. we, as the citizen of jakarta, have to consume it all.

everyday, thousand of people have to fight with another on going office. its a hard struggle. by bus with dense passenger with bus with bad condition.

to solve the traffic jam, i think, jakarta need mass transportation to carry more people. mass transpotation like jakarta monorail, MRT (Mass Rapid Transport) train like in our neighbour malaysia. with this MRT trasport, going work is not a big problem. it can reduce traffic jam by inviting more people to use mass transsport than their own car.

the tansjakarta project is one choice to reduce traffic jam. the others is develop water transportation like that done at banjir kanal river. right, is dirty river with the a stink smell but slowly and slowly, if the goverment concern to develop this tranpostation, i think citizen will aware to keep river, environtment clean. if people bored with traffic jam, what they will do if there are other better choice?

its seem to late, if we look our neighbour, singapore, malaysia, or thailand, that have early have a mrt system. but, late is better than nothing. so, it a homework for the mext governor of the DKI Jakarta Province, to reduce criminal, traffic jam, make Jakarta Clean, make Jakarta good for living.
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Pilkada Jakarta, No Hope for independence Candidate

Jakarta election for vote the governor of DKI Jakarta Province will be held on 8 agustus 2007. now, two couple of candidates, Fauzi Bowo-Prijanto that supported by 19 coalition party, and Adang Darajatun - Dani Anwar who supported by PKS.

Sarwono Kusumaatmaja, thats hope to be alternative candidate have withdrawed from this competition because unable to give 15% vote party. PKB and PAN, that supported Sarwono, only have 13% vote in 2004 election.

Sarwono have one chance to become a candidat, be an independence candidate, without party supporting. This is like ggovernor of NAD, Irwandy Yusuf, that supported by GAM (FREE ACEH MOVEMENT) and win this election. Now Irwandi is Governor of NAD. The first indepence governor, this first time GAM participate legaly in the goverment of the Republic of Indonesia.

Then Sarwono requets MK (Mahkamah Konstitusi) for judicial revief for UU NO 32 tahun 2004 about Province and City Goverment (Pemerintahan Daerah). Senior researcher for Central Srategic for International Studies, J Kristiyadi said, therei is no hope for independence candidat. Though MK accept Judivial review the chance for independence candidates for Jakarta election is close.

Its a dilema, to participate on this election, by the law, candidates must have supporting from party. But, even its not eficien. Like, sarwono said, every candidates who want to participate on thi selection must give some money to houe of party. its not about milion, but bilion.

With independence candidates, citizen will vote by their choice, not separated by party or ideologi.

but, now, this chance isn't come. but, in the future, its have an important thing to discuss. and surely, party, that have many interest, will them whole-hearthed to make this process walk itself? Will party ready to disclaim their priviledge right: money, access, power.

NOW, PILKADA IS A BUSSINESS FOR PARTY, THE FUTURE..?
i hope.....

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Defence Cooperation Agreement Between Indonesia-Singapura. Is It Fair?

Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) have signed by Indonesia and singapura at Tampaksiring President Palace, April 2007. Its a long strugle. Our effort to catch coruptor who run to Singapura is barried by no extradition agreement between Indonesia-Singapura.

Its crucial, many coruptor of bilion rupiahs, is safe by stay at Singapore. Singapura take advantage from their capital that move form Indoneia to Singapura. They always full of capital. Many effort to discuss it is done. But Singapura with strong economic, confidence to avoid discuss that isue.

But, we have truf card, by stopping sand export form Riau to Singapura, Singapura affraid. Singapura need sand, stone, granite, for build many building, to expand their coastal by reclamation. By the year coastal large is bigger and bigger. Indonesia make this condition to push Singapura to discuss about extradition. But we all know, that agreement is certainly controversial.

Many says, this agreement is not fair for Indonesia, and only Singapura will get advantage.

The House of Representative of the Republic of Indonesia (DPR) earlier have declare will not signed or ratificated that agreemnet. So our senat (DPD) reject to. DPD argue, as this agreement, that make Batam, Riau Archipelago, as training area of Singapore Army, is tend to violate our soveregnity.

By signed this agrement, Indonesian Goverment is accused to sell the territory of Indonesia to neighbour, moreover, the third country, America should be.

Indonesia have to give a space area (called Alfa 1, Alfa 2, Bravo area) for Singapura army to held military training, this the hole for dangerous for our national scurity. Its more dangerous if Singapura join with third country, suh us America. With high technology, America can collect any information more close about our military power. And the important is, it is not good idea allowing foreign military power infiltrating us, by make our space for their training.

So, I think we must reject that agreement.

I interest with Amin Rais who say that Singapore have along time ago want to 'occupied' Indonesia. In many foreign policy, they always proud with technology, capital, skilled human resoursces, and international market. But Indonesia have to give space , natural resources, cheap labour. Its an insulting. Amin said more, we accept DCA if we allowed by them to held military training at hearth of Singapore, Orchad Road.

I think America have play a game in this case. By the hand Singapura, America try to entrance Indonesia territory by legal.

As Samuel Hutington tell in "Class of Civilization", though its still debatable, after the collapse of comunist country, the Soviet Union, Islam replaces Communism vis a vis West in conflict. Indonesia that have a moslem majority have a chance become future important enemy for America.

So, for DPR must listen and take a national scurity higher than their interest. Because its abut the life of 200 milion people of the Republic of Indonesia. We want our money back, but we dont want our scurity is infiltrated by foreign power. We are an indpendence country. Dont let other country hit aour sovereignity.
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Fact about Earth and universe

The order of the planets, starting closest to the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

The order of the planets, starting closest to the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

The one place where a flag flies all day, never goes up or comes down, and does not get saluted, is the moon.

Earth is not round; it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.

A green diamond is the rarest diamond.

The ozone layer averages about 3 millimeters (1/8 inch) thick.

A diamond will break if you hit it with a hammer.

The crawler, the machine that takes the Space Shuttle to the launching pad moves at 3km/h (2 mph).

Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years - but so does winter.

The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.

Oceanography, the study of oceans, is a mixture of biology, physics, geology and chemistry.

More than 70% of earth's dryland is affected by desertification.

The US has one of the highest fire death rates in the industrialised world, with more than 2 million fires reported each year.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

The largest iceberg ever recorded was 335km (208 miles) long and 97km (60 miles) wide.

Luke Howard used Latin words to categorize clouds in 1803.

Hurricanes, tornadoes and bigger bodies of water always go clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. This directional spinning has to do with the rotation of the earth and is called the Coriolis force.

Winds that blow toward the equator curve west.

Organist William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781 with the first reflecting telescope that he built. He named it Georgium Sidium in honour of King George III of England but in 1850 it was renamed Uranus in accordance with the tradition of naming planets for Roman gods.

Planets, meaning wanderers, are named after Roman deities: Mercury, messenger of the gods; Venus, the god of love and beauty; Mars, the god of war; Jupiter, king of the gods; and Saturn, father of Jupiter and god of agriculture; Neptune, god of the sea.

During a total solar eclipse the temperature can drop by 6 degrees Celsius (about 20 degrees Fahrenheit).

The tallest waterfalls in the world are Angel Falls in Venezuela. At 979 m (3,212 ft), they are 19 times taller than the Niagara Falls, or 3 times taller than the Empire State Building.

Although the Angel Falls are much taller than the Niagara Falls, the latter are much wider, and they both pour about the same amount of water over their edges - about 2,8 billion litres (748 million gallons) per second.

There are 1040 islands around Britain, one of which is the smallest island in the world: Bishop's Rock.

All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Earth is the densest planet in the solar system and the only one not named after a god.

Earth orbits the sun at an average speed of 29.79 km/s (18.51 miles/sec), or about 107 000 km/h (about 67,000 miles/hour).

One year on earth is 365.26 days long. One day is 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds long. The extra day in a leap year was introduced to compensate for the discrepancy in the Georgian calendar.

Plates carrying the continents migrate over the earth's surface a few centimetres (inches) per year, about the same speed that a fingernail grows.

On average, 13,000 earthquakes are located each year.

The magnetic north pole is near Ellef Ringes Island in northern Canada.

The magnetic south pole was discovered off the coast of Wilkes Land in Antarctica.

There is zero gravity at the centre of earth.

the deepest mine in the world is Western Deep Levels near Charletonville, South Africa. It is 4,2km (2.6 miles) deep.

The deepest point in the sea: the Mariana Trench off Guam in the Pacific Ocean; it is 10,9 km (6.77 miles) below sea level.

Earth is slowing down - in a few million years there won't be a leap year.

The tail of the Great Comet of 1843 was 330 million km long. (It will return in 2356.)

There are more than 326 million trillion gallons of water on Earth.

About 500 small meteorites fall to earth every year but most fall in the sea and in unpopulated areas.

There is no record of a person being killed by a meteorite but animals are occasionally hit.

The Dead Sea is 365 m (1,200 ft) below sea level.

A storm officially becomes a hurricane when cyclone winds reach 119 km/h (74 mph).


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Is India ready to be part of Southeast Asia again?

The evolving geo-strategic framework inexorably impels countries in Southeast Asia to accept China and India as major regional powers.In the first case it is a question of accommodating the inevitable. In the latter, it is a necessary consequence of the former.

China and India are not only the great powers of tomorrow but of yesteryear. Each represents ancestral cradles of Asian civilization.

China in recent years has been an example of diplomatic transformation in turning regional perceptions. Not long ago the rhetoric on China was one of "containment" and "threat".

Now, everyone in Southeast Asia can think of nothing but a full-blown engagement.

Beijing has also shown an unequaled zest in its economic diplomacy with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN.

Delhi on the other hand has been a late bloomer.

More than just friends, India and Indonesia are actually fraternal allies beyond the two following each other in country lists in the almanac or encyclopedia. The kinship sinks deep into the psyche -- China dominated our culinary regime, India underpins the customs which define our culture.

For Indonesia, culture plays an important role, particular in bilateral ties with India.

The Indian sub-continent is home of the bajaj, the rhythmic source of dangdut music, the land where Rama lost and regained Sinta, the plains of the great Mahabharata wars.

Our laymen are obsessed with Bollywood, as children learn of Gandhi and Nehru as they would Sukarno. India is the great, imperfect democracy Indonesia aspires to be.

Modernity may have sharpened distinctiveness between India and Indonesia, but the similarities more important than the differences.

Hence it is extraordinary that with its comparative softpower advantages India has not projected a stronger preponderance in this region.

Despite the initial activism of the Nehru era, India became self-preoccupied leading to a latent detachment from Southeast Asia.

It was not until the introduction of the "Look East" policy in 1992 that Delhi again began giving this region due importance in foreign policy.

While the policy suggests a strategy of global power, decades of disconnection from Southeast Asia has made alternating India's own self-perception from an Indian Ocean power to a regional one difficult.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described the Look East policy as "a strategic shift in India's vision of the world".

However Indians themselves seem hesitant as to their place in ASEAN's security architecture.

Rarely displayed is the enthusiasm within India towards this role the way Indonesia, for example, perceives its leadership of ASEAN as providence.

One reason seems to be the fear that an assertive India would be misconstrued by its neighbors, particularly China and Pakistan.

"If India takes the lead it will be seen as an Indian hegemony again," Sujit Dutta, Senior Fellow at India's Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, told The Jakarta Post recently in New Delhi.

"So it has to be done indirectly," he added.

With India-Pakistan relations entering a period of positivism and India-Sino ties also on an upward trend, perhaps there is now more room for Delhi to maneuver.

Dutta also points out that China was more prepared for engagement with Asia given its hastier and stronger economic rise, while India has only recently acquired the necessary economic clout.

Then there is the domestic debate within India that is common in many fast growing developing nations: That of the growing disparity between the prospering few and marginalized many.

In the words of one Indian politician, perhaps it is more important to address the inequities between "shining India" and "suffering India" before exerting itself beyond established frontiers.

Since becoming a full dialog partner to ASEAN in 1995 and joining the ASEAN Regional Forum in 1996, cooperation between India and the grouping has hastened, albeit with very moderate influence.

In 2003 India acceded to Treaty of Amity and Cooperation. It has also inked several arrangements to underscore its commitment with ASEAN. Among them is an economic cooperation agreement to establish an FTA and a Partnership for Peace, Progress and Shared Prosperity.

Nevertheless there is still lingering uncertainty on whether India truly acknowledges and accepts the kind of role Indonesia and ASEAN hopes it to play in the strategic environment.

Indian officials and analysts are reluctant to openly talk about "balance of power", cognizant that such rhetoric could pit them in adversarial terms with China. But in private, they acknowledge China has some ways to go before it proves to be a responsible regional power.

ASEAN's logic has been to strategically include major powers in regional security arrangements which then offset any single power from dominating. This in turn allows ASEAN to remain independent as the primary driving force in its own region.

India needs to be active here in a peaceful and productive manner to become a psychological deterrent to China's increasing influence and gradual domination of this region.

That is why Indonesia was so adamant three years ago about including India in the East Asia Summit process.

"Chindia" corresponds to the two wings of ASEAN's future flight into peace and prosperity.

Today's talk here between the foreign ministers of India and Indonesia, capping off a series of senior official meetings, is another opportunity for India to enhance bilateral relations and raise its comfort level in engaging ASEAN.

ASEAN wants India's presence as much as India needs to be active in the region.

To realize its role as a global power India requires the economic access points provided by ASEAN's network to the world's fastest growing region of East and Southeast Asia.

Furthermore ASEAN makes available a strategic framework and regulated forum with which India can bluntly interact with economic powers Japan and South Korea along with fellow regional power China.

This is an opportunity in which Delhi must not be hesitant. It cannot afford to miss the boat again.
[Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, The Jakarta Post, New Delhi]
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Indonesia plays down U.S. Congress talks on military assistance cut

Indonesia has branded calls to cut U.S. aid to the country's military as superficial because they only represent the interests of a few human rights groups.

Indonesian Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono said Monday the human rights groups and U.S. congresswoman who proposed the aid cut have not taken into account recent reform progress made by the Indonesian Military (TNI).

"We are not concerned because so far only one congresswoman has proposed an aid cut, and her case is based on input from non-governmental organizations which for the last eight years have been antagonistic toward the TNI," he told reporters.

He said Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First and the East Timor Alliance Network (ETAN) were groups to have constantly criticized Indonesia's human rights record.

Juwono said he clarified relevant issues with U.S. lawmakers and organizations when he visited the U.S. in April.

"I explained that the TNI is not the same as before, and that we have made progress in the area of reform. However, it seems they did not listen. They will not admit we have made progress because then they will lose their source of income," Juwono said.

The U.S. Congress began to discuss last week a proposal from Democratic Party Congresswoman Nita Lowey, the head of the powerful Appropriations Sub-committee, to cut 25 percent of military aid to Indonesia over alleged violations of human rights.

Details of the Congress' deliberations are yet to be made public and the new proposal still has several congressional rounds to go through before potentially being passed in September.

An Indonesian official said recently the country's embassy in Washington is lobbying lawmakers in the U.S. Congress in an effort to block the proposal.

Observers said Lowey has traditionally held a hostile view of the Indonesian Military, influenced by human rights activists who link aid to the issue.

Their main complaint is the lack of progress in prosecuting senior TNI officers, such as former military chief Gen. Wiranto for his alleged complicity in the violence that followed the 1999 independence referendum in East Timor (now Timor Leste).

Concerns were heightened after the murder of noted Indonesian human rights campaigner Munir last year and the recent incident in Pasuruan, East Java, in which Navy officers shot dead four civilians.

"The Pasuruan case was an accident and it has nothing to do with TNI reform. What they want is for the role of Gen. Wiranto and several others in the Timor Leste case to be clarified, as well as proof the TNI is on a path to reform," Juwono said.

On various occasions since the early 1990s, Washington has curtailed or completely cut off military training in Indonesia. Ties between the countries were scaled back further after the East Timor imbroglio, with the U.S. imposing a ban on weapons sales and aid to the TNI.

That ban was lifted in 2005 after intense lobbying by the Bush administration, which regarded Indonesia as a key ally in the war on terror.
[Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta]
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Bird Flu-Infected Chickens in Indonesia Showing No Symptoms

JAKARTA: Chickens infected by bird flu inIndonesia are now mostly symptom-free, confounding efforts to fight the virus in the world's hardest hit country, an Agriculture Ministry official said Monday.

"It's really giving us a headache," said Musni Suatmodjo, the director of animal health. "Chickens are testing positive for the H5N1 virus, but they are staying healthy" making it difficult to identify which are infected.

Bird flu has killed at least 189 people since it began ravaging Asian poultry stocks in 2003, 79 of them in Indonesia, according to the World Health Organization.

The virus remains difficult for people to catch, but experts fear it could eventually mutate to a form that spreads more easily between humans, sparking a global pandemic that could kill millions.

John Weaver, of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, noted that several researchers have said many infected chickens appear to be surviving in Indonesia, triggering questions about whether thevirus may have become less pathogenic.

"It's a very important question," he said on the sidelines of an international bird flu conference in the capital Jakarta. "But we haven't yet answered it."(***)
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