Maaf , duitnya dari mana?
Lha sekarang saja utaang ke mana2. Trus tetep melarat.
Padahal semua ada .
Jadi broker nampaknya kebih aman. (Belum niat dan ndak punya ilmunya).
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-----Original Message-----
From: "R.P.Koesoemadinata" <koeso...@melsa.net.id>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:14:07
To: <iagi-net@iagi.or.id>
Reply-To: <iagi-net@iagi.or.id>
Subject: Re: [iagi-net-l] No resource, become resourceful
Ini benar kalau kita menganut 'free market economy". Natural resources tidak
perlu dipunyai, yang perlu dipunyai adalah duit. Punya natural resources tapi
tidak punya duit untuk mengexploitasinya percuma saja, akhirnya di exploitasi
oleh orang lain yang punya duit.
Negara yang tidak punya natural resources, tetapi punya banyak duit seperti
jangan jauh-jauh Singapore saja, banyak keuntungannya, BBM dan gas dapat beli
dengan harga pasaran international, sama dengan negara penghasil BBM (kalau
tidak disubsidi, dan subisidi itu haram dalam free market economoy), tidak ada
kerusakan lingkungan, bebas dari masalah2 lingkungan, pembebasan lahan, demo
dsb.
Jadi yang penting dalam free market economy adalah punya duit yang banyak,
tidak perlu punya natural resources. Natural resources di seluruh dunia dapat
dibeli tanpa harus menanggung dampaknya.
Tentu lain kalau ini dalam economi kerakyatan, di mana rakyat harus langsung
menikmati natural resources itu dengan harga explorasi produksinya, tanpa
mempersoalkan "lost opportunity" mendapatkan keuntungan dengan menjualnya ke
luar negeri.
RPK
----- Original Message -----
From: o - musakti
To: iagi-net@iagi.or.id
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 2:17 AM
Subject: [iagi-net-l] No resource, become resourceful
Artikel menarik mengenai korelasi terbalik dari natural resources dan
tingkat pendidikan suatu negara.....
Skills not drill for survival
Illustration: michaelmucci.com
Every so often someone asks me: ''What's your favourite country, other
than your own?'' I've always had the same answer: Taiwan. ''Taiwan? Why
Taiwan?'' people ask.
Very simple: because Taiwan is a barren rock in a typhoon-laden sea
with no natural resources - it even has to import sand and gravel from China
for construction - yet it has the fourth-largest financial reserves in the
world.
Because rather than digging in the ground and mining whatever comes up,
Taiwan has mined its 23 million people, their talent, energy and intelligence.
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I always tell my friends in Taiwan: ''You're the luckiest people in the
world. How did you get so lucky? You have no oil, no iron ore, no forests, no
diamonds, no gold, just a few small deposits of coal and natural gas - and
because of that you developed the habits and culture of honing your people's
skills, which turns out to be the most valuable and only truly renewable
resource in the world today. How did you get so lucky?''
That, at least, was my gut instinct. But now we have proof.
A team from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) has just come out with a fascinating little study mapping the
correlation between performance on the program for international student
assessment (PISA) examination - which tests the maths, science and reading
comprehension skills of 15-year-olds in 65 countries, every two years - and the
total earnings on natural resources as a percentage of gross domestic product
for each participating country. In short, how well do your high school children
do compared with how much oil you pump or how many diamonds you dig?
The results indicated ''a significant negative relationship between the
money countries extract from national resources and the knowledge and skills of
their high school population,'' says Andreas Schleicher, who oversees the PISA
exams for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. ''This is
a global pattern that holds across 65 countries that took part in the latest
PISA assessment.'' Oil and PISA don't mix. As the Bible notes, Schleicher says,
''Moses arduously led the Jews for 40 years through the desert, just to bring
them to the only country in the Middle East that had no oil. But Moses may have
gotten it right, after all. Today, Israel has one of the most innovative
economies, and its population enjoys a standard of living most of the oil-rich
countries in the region are not able to offer.''
So hold the oil, and pass the books. In the latest PISA results,
students in Singapore, Finland, South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan stand out as
having high PISA scores and few natural resources, while Qatar and Kazakhstan
stand out as having the highest oil rents and the lowest PISA scores. (Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Algeria, Bahrain, Iran and Syria stood out in the same
way in a similar 2007 test, while, interestingly, students from Lebanon, Jordan
and Turkey, Middle East states with few natural resources, scored better.)
Also lagging in recent PISA scores, though, were students in many of
the resource-rich countries of Latin America, like Brazil, Mexico and
Argentina. Africa was not tested.
Canada, Australia and Norway, also countries with high levels of
natural resources, still score well on PISA, in large part, argues Schleicher,
because all three countries have established deliberate policies of saving and
investing these resource rents, and not just consuming them.
Add it all up and the numbers say that if you really want to know how a
country is going to do in the 21st century, don't count its oil reserves or
goldmines, count its highly effective teachers, involved parents and committed
students.
Economists have long known about the ''Dutch disease'', which happens
when a country becomes so dependent on exporting natural resources that its
currency soars in value and, as a result, its domestic manufacturing gets
crushed as cheap imports flood in and exports become too expensive.
What the PISA team is revealing is a related disease: societies that
get addicted to their natural resources seem to develop parents and young
people who lose some of the instincts, habits and incentives for doing homework
and honing skills. By contrast, says Schleicher, ''in countries with little in
the way of natural resources - Finland, Singapore or Japan - education has
strong outcomes and a high status … Every parent and child in these countries
knows that skills will decide the life chances of the child and nothing else is
going to rescue them, so they build a whole culture and education system around
it''.
Or as my Indian-American friend K.R. Sridhar, the founder of the
Silicon Valley fuel-cell company Bloom Energy, likes to say: ''When you don't
have resources, you become resourceful.''
That's why the foreign countries with the most companies listed on the
Nasdaq are Israel, China/Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, South Korea and Singapore -
none of which can live off natural resources.
But there is an important message for the industrialised world in this
study, too. In these difficult economic times, it is tempting to buttress our
own standards of living today by incurring even greater financial liabilities
for the future. To be sure, there is a role for stimulus in a prolonged
recession but ''the only sustainable way is to grow our way out by giving more
people the knowledge and skills to compete, collaborate and connect in a way
that drives our countries forward'', Schleicher argues.
In sum, he says, ''knowledge and skills have become the global currency
of 21st century economies, but there is no central bank that prints this
currency. Everyone has to decide on their own how much they will print.''
Sure, it's great to have oil, gas and diamonds; they can buy jobs. But
they'll weaken your society in the long run unless they're used to build
schools and a culture of lifelong learning.
This article was first published in The New York Times.
Read more:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/skills-not-drills-for-survival-20120311-1us9o.html#ixzz1opyxi3ig
