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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