CiKEAS :Lomba Puisi Hari Kasih Sayang 2010
Menyambut Hari Kasih Sayang (Valentine Day) 2010 yang akan datang ini, Harian Online KabarIndonesia (HOKI) menyelenggarakan lomba puisi Valentine Day. Memang benar adanya, lomba ini memanfaatkan momentum strategis perayaan Hari Kasih Sayang Valentine Day yang jatuh pada 14 Pebruari 2010. Bila mau mencermati lebih seksama lagi, perayaan Valentine Day di belahan dunia Barat menjadi masa-masa teristimewa. Para kekasih yang sedang dimabuk cinta mengungkapkan cinta mereka. Ada yang mengungkapkan rasa cintanya dengan membeli sekuntum bunga mawar merekah berona merah marun teruntuk sang pujaan, kekasih. Sebagian lain mengkadokan secincin emas atau liontin pada pasangan setianya. Bahkan ada juga yang merayakan hari itu sembari menyantuni anak-anak yatim piatu di berbagai penjuru kota. Substansialitas hari kasih sayang itu bukan lagi sebatas mencurahkan kasih sayang (original love, tresno, liebe, aimer) pada kekasih semata, melainkan juga kepada semua makhluk ciptaan Tuhan; orang tua, guru, rekan, tetangga dekat-jauh, karib kerabat, bahkan tanah, air, udara, bintang serta lingkungan dan all every thing over this world. Kendati pada kesempatan kali ini, HOKI tidak memberikan hadiah berupa materi (uang) pada jawara-jawara lomba ini; namun bagi para pemenang akan dinobatkan sebagai Penyair Kasih 2010 versi HOKI lengkap dengan Piagam Penghargaan paling istimewa. Bagi siapa pun yang memiliki bakat jempolan dalam menulis puisi, gemar pada dunia sastra dan tulis-menulis; jangan lewatkan kesempatan emas ini. Segera saja kirimkan karya puisi anda. Semua karya puisi peserta yang diikutsertakan dalam lomba ini akan ditayangkan secara online di situs kesayangan kita, yaitu http://www.kabarindonesia.com. Persyaratan khusus dan ketentuan Lomba Menulis Puisi Valentine Day 2010 ini amat sederhana saja, yakni: - Panitia lomba tak membatasi panjang puisi (tak terikat kuantitas maupun panjang-pendeknya puisi); - Setiap peserta lomba hanya diperkenankan mengirimkan karya puisi maksimal tiga terhitung mulai tanggal 11 Januari-10 Pebruari 2010 (pukul 24.00 WIB-WITA-WIT); - Judul dan tema puisi amat bebas, selama ini berkaitan dengan kasih sayang, entah rasa kasih terhadap Tuhan, orang tua, guru, rekan, karib, kerabat, bahkan terhadap lingkungan; - Puisi yang dikirimkan ke pihak panitia wajib dan hukumnya belum/ tidak pernah dipublikasikan di media massa cetak (koran, majalah, buletin, dan lain-lain), media elektronik (internet); bahkan blog sekalipun. Atau karya puisi yang dimaksud juga belum/ tak pernah diikutsertakan dalam lomba sejenis dan atau dikirimkan bersamaan pengiriman waktunya dengan lomba sejenis; - Apabila ada peserta yang melanggar protap itu, baik secara sengaja atau tidak sengaja, pihak panitia berhak secara mutlak mem-blacklist karya bersangkutan. Implikasinya, karya milik peserta dianggap gugur tak saja satu karya bermasalah itu, melainkan juga karya lain yang dikirimkan apabila yang bersangkutan mengirimkan karya puisinya lebih dari satu; - Dewan juri lomba ini terdiri dari para Dewan Redaksi HOKI; - Keputusan dewan juri tak dapat diganggu gugat dengan dalih apapun dan tidak akan diadakan surat-menyurat; - Lomba ini terbuka bagi siapa pun tanpa melihat latar belakang profesi, perbedaan SARA, genjer, usia, dan lain-lain. Bagi anda yang belum bergabung menjadi penulis/pewarta di HOKI, silakan segera klik Daftar Jadi Penulis di http://www.kabarindonesia.com; - Anda bisa langsung menulis puisi atau meng-copy paste karya puisi anda di Kolom Kirim/ Edit Berita dan pilih Rubrik Puisi pada Pilihan Kategori Berita; - Jangan lupa mencantumkan 'LOMBA PUISI di judul Puisi - Para pemenang lomba ini akan diumumkan di http://www.kabarindonesia.com ada tanggal 14 Pebruari 2010 dan akan dihubungi via e-mail; - Naskah Lomba Puisi yang tidak diedit dengan benar akan segera ditolak dan dinyatakan gugur. Kami akan menunggu karya-karya fenomenal puisi terbaik Anda. Dijamin akan kecewa bila tidak ikutan segera! Selamat Berlomba!! Blog: http://www.pewarta-kabarindonesia.blogspot.com/ Alamat ratron (surat elektronik): reda...@kabarindonesia.com Berita besar hari ini...!!! Kunjungi segera: www.kabarindonesia.com
CiKEAS Churches firebombed in Malaysia
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/01/20101106245977872.html Sunday, January 10, 2010 14:42 Mecca time, 11:42 GMT Churches firebombed in Malaysia Two more churches and a Catholic convent school in Malaysia have been targeted by arsonists, amid a row over the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims. Police said there were no reports of injuries in Sunday's incidents, which brought the total number of churches attacked since Friday to six. Molotov cocktails were hurled at the All Saints church and the school in Taiping in Perak state. There were black marks on the wall [of All Saints]. We believed there was a small fire earlier but there was no damage as the wall was intact, Zulkifli Abdullah, the state police chief, said. He said a broken bottle filled with the inflammable liquid paraffin was found inside the compound of St Louis Catholic Church. Muslims protesting Muslim groups have staged protests in response to a court ruling last week that gave a Catholic newspaper the Herald the right to print the Arabic word for God, Allah, following a long-running dispute with the government over the issue. Thousands of Malaysian Christians turned up to Sunday services, despite the recent tensions. Four churches in the Kuala Lumpur area have been hit by firebombs since Friday, leaving one badly damaged with its ground floor gutted, and prompting Najib Razak, the prime minister, to promise to crack down on race crime. Hermen Shastri, secretary-general of the Council of Churches, said officials had stepped up security in the wake of the attacks. The attacks show they are more just a prank as it does not appear to be a major [attack], someone is trying to send a signal that they are unhappy, he said. The word Allah has been used by Malay-speaking Christians for centuries, as well as by Christians in Arabic-speaking countries and in Indonesia. Rev Lawrence Andrew, editor of the Herald, has said there is no other appropriate term for God in Malay. About 10 per cent of Malaysians are Christians, including about 850,000 Catholics. Around 60 per cent of the population are Muslims.
CiKEAS Copts link killings to politics
Untuk lihat video footage click : http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/01/201011075839924573.html News Middle East Copts link killings to politics Egyptian police have said the three suspects arrested over a mass shooting outside a Coptic Christian church on January 6 have denied involvement. It was the worst attack against Christians in Egypt in nearly a decade. Some of the victims' families have told Al Jazeera that politicians may have been behind the shooting. Amr El-Kahky reports from the town of Nagaa Hammady.
CiKEAS Ahmadiah Mempersatukan Islam Yang Terpecah Belah
Ahmadiah Mempersatukan Islam Yang Terpecah Belah Meskipun kenyataannya Islam terpecah belah menjadi ribuan firqoh atau aliran, tapi masing2 aliran ini masih saja merasakan bahwa Islam itu hanya satu yaitu hanya alirannya saja yang benar2 Islam seperti aselinya yang dibawakan oleh Nabi Muhammad SAW dulunya. Kesalahannya terletak pada umatnya yang menggunakan tafsir dalam pemahaman Islamnya bukan menggunakan rational. Padahal tafsir itu artinya tebak2an dimana jarang ada tebak2an yang betul. Kalimat Syahadah yang merupakan jantung keimanan Islam justru ditafsirkan secara ber-beda2. Misalnya, Islam di Indonesia menafsirkan: Tiada Tuhan selain Allah.. Ditafsirkan sebagai ada Tuhan yang bernama Allah Padahal di Arab sekarang dan dulu sewaktu nabi Muhammad dilahirkan, penafsiran ini justru bertolak belakang, umat Arab dulunya sudah menyatakan tegas yaitu: Tiada Tuhan yang artinya, Tuhan itu tidak ada. Yang Ada Hanya Allah. yang artinya cuma ada Allah, tidak ada Tuhan, dan muslimin menyembah Allah bukan menyembah Tuhan. Tidak demikian dengan Islam di Indonesia yang menyembah Tuhan yang bernama Allah. Akibat perbedaan tafsir inilah, akhirnya terjadi pembakaran2 gereja di Malaysia karena umat Islam di Malaysia marah karena Bible dari umat Kristen yang tadinya menggunakan nama Tuhan kemudian diganti dengan nama Allah. Islam di Malaysia sejalan dengan Islam di Arab Saudia yang cuma menyembah Allah bukan menyembah Tuhan. Sesuai dengan yang tertulis dalam Syahadat di Quran, hanya Allah yang disembah bukan Tuhan. Lain lagi dengan Islam Indonesia, dulu percetakan Bible dipaksakan untuk menyebutkan nama Allah sebagai pengganti kata Tuhan yang maksudnya agar secara perlahan2 umat Nasrani di Indonesia mau menyembah Allah katimbang Tuhan. Jadi kalo di Malaysia dilarang penggunaan kata Allah untuk menggantikan kata Tuhan, maka sebaiknya juga di Indonesia juga larangan ini berlaku atau diberlakukan sehingga Islam diekspresikan dengan gambaran yang sebenarnya, yaitu tidak menyembah Tuhan, tapi menyembah Allah, dan Allah bukanlah Tuhan. Allah cuma satu, sedangkan Tuhan bisa satu dan juga bisa banyak, misalnya Tuhan Yesus, Tuhan Bapak, Tuhan Anak, dan Tuhan Rohul Kudus. Allah bukan Tuhan. Allah bukan God. Allah sama dalam semua bahasa. God adalah Tuhan dalam bahasa Inggrisnya. *Alexander* alexander.edb...@... wrote: Tdk lama sblm Rasulullah Saw wafat, turunlah firman Allah yg menyatakan bhw agama Islam telah sempurna. waktu itu khan yang diturunkan hanya firman saja bukan Ahmadiah, barulah setelah terjadi berbagai penyesatan Islam, perpecahan antara Islam Syiah dan Islam sunny, maka Allah menurunkan Ghulam Ahmad untuk mempersatukan umat Islam sedunia agar kembali kepada agama Islam yang sempurna dimasa Muhammad. Jd, dgn turunnya ayat suci tsb, maka agama Islam sdh sempurna, final. Artinya bila ada Islam Plus, berarti itu bukan Islam, atau hny mengaku sbg Islam, atau hny mendompleng nama Islam. Betul, waktu itu agama Islam sudah sempurna, tapi kemudian terpecah belah dalam ribuan aliran2 yang berbeda yang saling membunuh. Naaah... untuk mengakhiri dan mempersatukan perpecahan inilah dibutuhkan kembali utusan lain yang bukan untuk mengubah firman melainkan untuk meluruskan firman yang sudah bengkak bengkok oleh aliran2 seperti Sunny, Syiah, baaht, Kurdi, dan lain2 aliran yang belum saya sebutkan disini. Ayat suci tsb jg menegaskan kenabian Rasulullah Saw dan sklgus menunjukkan bhw Al-Qur'an bkn buatan Rasulullah Saw. Ghulam Ahmad bukan untuk menegaskan kenabian dirinya, melainkan beliau menegaskan bahwa kenabian Rasulullah SAW harus diluruskan sesuai aselinya dan AlQuran itu harus sesuai yang diajarkan oleh Rasulullah SAW bukan yang digunakan Islam Sunni, bukan AlQuran Islam Syiah, dan bukan AlQuran Islam MUI. Islam ibaratnya sebuah mobil yang sudah ringsek akibat berulang kali ditabrak macam2 hingga ditabrak panser. Ghulam Ahmad bukanlah nabi dan belum pernah mengaku sebagai nabi, dia diibaratkan sebagai tukang las ketok yang memperbaiki mobil ringsek ini agar kembali seperti bentuk barunya semula. Demikianlah, kalo Islam diibaratkan sebagai mobil, maka Ghulam Ahmad bukan makelar atau salesman-nya tapi tukang las ketoknya. Hanya nabi Muhammad saja yang menjadi makelar atau salesman yang diutus Allah untuk menyampaikan wahyunya, sedangkan Ghulam Ahmad justru cuma mengembalikan bagian2 yang ringsek ditubruk sana sini oleh aliran2 Islam yang memecah belah itu. Jadi beliau bukan memerangi Islam2 pecah belah, melainkan mempersatukan pecah belah ini sehingga menjadi kembali Islam yang utuh yang dibawakan oleh Nabi Muhammad dulu2nya. Ny. Muslim binti Muskitawati.
CiKEAS Ahmadiah Dilarang Sebut Islam Non-Islam Dilarang Sebut Allah
Ahmadiah Dilarang Sebut Islam Non-Islam Dilarang Sebut Allah Jemaah Islam aliran Ahmadiah dibakar mesjidnya, dijarah harta benda umatnya karena mereka menamakan agama mereka sebagai Islam, karena mereka menyebut nama agama mereka sebagai Agama Islam. Gereja2 non-Islam di Malaysia dibakari kaum muslimin karena mereka menyembah Allah, mereka menyebut Tuhan mereka sebagai Allah. Mereka kaum muslimin menuntut pengadilan untuk melarang siapapun yang bukan Islam untuk menyembah Allah atau menyebut Tuhan yang disembahnya sebagai Allah. Jelasnya, perbuatan pembakaran dan penjarahan adalah pelanggaran HAM berat yang dikutuk dan terkutuk diseluruh dunia. Mungkin kita sebagai umat Islam harus juga menyebut para pelakunyaitu bukan umat Islam tapi mereka yang hanya ngaku2 Islam saja. Tapi juga merupakan peringatan bagi orang2 kafir untuk jangan me-nyebut2 nama Allah karena nama Allah hanyalah cuma kaum muslimin saja yang boleh menyebutnya. Padahal nama Allah sendiri asalnya dari nama dewa berhala matahari yang disebut sebagai: Al-Lhah yang berasal dari kata dewa matahari di Mesir yang disebut sebagai dewa Ra atau Rhah yaitu dewa matahari yang menjadi sang pencipta semesta yang juga pemberi kehidupan seluruh jagad ini. Islam mewajibkan muslimin berSyahadat, yang isinya: Tiada Tuhan selain Allah, yang artinya: hanya Allah yang ada dan tidak ada Tuhan. Berbeda Islam di Indonesia, yang menafsirkan atau me-nebak2 artinya sebagai: ada Tuhan yang bernama Allah. Ny. Muslim binti Muskitawati.
CiKEAS Malaysian Muslims Should Follow the Prophet's Lead in Reli gious Harmony
http://thejakartaglobe.com/opinion/malaysian-muslims-should-follow-the-prophets-lead-in-religious-harmony/351843 January 10, 2010 Marina Mahathir Malaysian Muslims Should Follow the Prophet's Lead in Religious Harmony Muslims and Christians together constitute over 50 percent of the world population and if they live in peace, we will be halfway to world peace. One small step that we can take toward fostering Muslim-Christian harmony is to tell and retell positive stories and abstain from mutual demonization. In this article, I propose to remind both Muslims and Christians about a promise that Muhammad made to Christians. The knowledge of this promise can have enormous impact on Muslim conduct toward Christians. Muslims generally respect the precedent of their prophet and try to practice it in their lives. In A.D. 628, a delegation from St. Catherine's Monastery came to Muhammad and requested his protection. He responded by granting them a charter of rights, which I reproduce below in its entirety. St. Catherine's is located at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt and is the world's oldest monastery. It possesses a huge collection of Christian manuscripts, second only to the Vatican, and is a world heritage site. It also boasts the oldest collection of Christian icons. It is a treasure house of Christian history that has remained safe for 1,400 years under Muslim protection. The Promise to St. Catherine: This is a message from Muhammad ibn Abdullah, as a covenant to those who adopt Christianity, near and far, we are with them. Verily I, the servants, the helpers and my followers defend them, because Christians are my citizens; and by God! I hold out against anything that displeases them. No compulsion is to be on them. Neither are their judges to be removed from their jobs nor their monks from their monasteries. No one is to destroy a house of their religion, to damage it, or to carry anything from it to the Muslims' houses. Should anyone take any of these, he would spoil God's covenant and disobey His Prophet. Verily, they are my allies and have my secure charter against all that they hate. No one is to force them to travel or to oblige them to fight. The Muslims are to fight for them. If a female Christian is married to a Muslim, it is not to take place without her approval. She is not to be prevented from visiting her church to pray. Their churches are to be respected. They are neither to be prevented from repairing them nor the sacredness of their covenants. No one of the nation [Muslims] is to disobey the covenant till the Last Day, the end of the world. The first and the final sentence of the charter are critical. They make the promise eternal and universal. The prophet asserts that Muslims are with Christians near and far, straightaway rejecting any future attempts to limit the promise to St. Catherine alone. By ordering Muslims to obey it until Judgment Day, the charter again undermines any future attempts to revoke the privileges. These rights are inalienable. Muhammad declared Christians, all of them, as his allies and he equated ill treatment of Christians with violating God's covenant. The document is not a modern human rights treaty, but even though it was penned in the seventh century it clearly protects the right to property, freedom of religion, freedom of work and security of the person. I know most readers must be thinking, so what? Well the answer is simple. Those who seek to foster discord among Muslims and Christians focus on issues that divide and emphasize areas of conflict. But when resources such as Muhammad's promise to Christians are invoked and highlighted it builds bridges. It inspires Muslims to rise above communal intolerance and engenders goodwill in Christians who might be nursing fear of Islam or Muslims. When I look at Islamic sources, I find in them unprecedented examples of religious tolerance and inclusiveness. They make me want to become a better person. I think the capacity to seek good and do good inheres in all of us. When we subdue this predisposition towards the good, we deny our fundamental humanity. As the holiday season gives way to a new year, I hope all of us can find time to look for something positive and worthy of appreciation in the values, cultures and histories of other peoples. Now, when that delegation from St. Catherine's came to meet the Prophet, I suppose it's fair to assume that they spoke Arabic to one another. And when they were conversing, surely the word God must have come up. As in May God be with you and such like. What word did the prophet use for God I wonder? And what did the Catherinians use in return? For monotheists like them, was there a your God and my God type of situation, or did they understand that they were both talking about the same one? While some idiots are mourning over the loss of the word Allah and therefore basically telling the world
CiKEAS Somali Islamists: A potential ally?
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/01/201016102343505552.html Sunday, January 10, 2010 17:20 Mecca time, 14:20 GMT Somali Islamists: A potential ally? By Dr Afyare Abdi Elmi There are some huge misunderstandings within the international community about the role that Islam and Somalia's Islamists should play in the governance of Somali society and the de-radicalisation efforts. I believe that the presence of a large number of Islamists is not bad in itself. To the contrary, this provides a great opportunity as most of Somalia's Islamists are neither extremists nor international jihadists and they should be seen as the best ally in defeating piracy and extremism. Islam has deep roots in Somalia. Most Somalis believe that the message of Islam was spread to Somalia peacefully before it even reached Medina, Islam's first capital city. Moreover, Somali clans took part in the religious wars that raged throughout history between Muslims and Christians in the Horn of Africa. Islamic identity and Somali identity cannot be separated. Indeed, the guerrilla war fought against British imperialism from 1899 to 1920 was led by a nationalist, Sayid Mohamed Abdulle Hassan, known in the West as the Mad Mullah. He combined nationalist imagery with Islamic devotion. Political Islam That said, political Islam in today's Somalia - or what it is often called Sahwa Islamiya (Islamic awakening) - is relatively new and poorly understood by the international community. The phenomenon of political Islam is as divided as the country's clan structure and there are competing narratives on how it began, although most believe that Somali students who went to the Middle East to pursue their education came back with the message of Islamic awakening and started propagating it in the 1960s. As in other parts of the Muslim world, the two main orientations of Sunni political Islam - the Salafi and Ikhwan schools - are present in Somalia. To complicate this further, each orientation has several competing groups within it. Several movements that have ties to the Salafi school of thought have emerged and dissolved. The most well-known movement was al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI) which was established in 1982. The al-Itisam movement, Hizbul-Islam, al-Shabab and Salafiya Jadida (new Salafis) are the four main Salafi groups and they are largely off-shoots of AIAI. Those from the Ikhwan school - connected historically to the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and with a more political orientation that the Salafis - are also divided. Al-Islah is the largest Ikhwani orientated organisation, although it has splintered into two groups, often referred to as the New Blood and the Old Guard. There is also Tajamu al-Islami and Wuhda. At the heart of the disintegration of these schools into several groups was the question of the method of affecting and achieving power. The political ambitions of individual leaders and clan politics - although Islamists in general and al-Shabab in particular have limited the impact of tribalism - in Somalia also contributed to the problem. Similarities and differences Somalia's Islamic movements have many similarities. Chief among them is the fact that they all call for the creation of an Islamic state. They believe that Islam is a comprehensive way of life that forms both a religion and a state. Moreover, depending on the conditions, they all believe that da'wa (preaching) is the best way to spread Islam. However, they also have their differences. The most telling are in their understanding of the compatibility between Islam and the West and how they want to achieve an Islamic state. Some of these groups oppose violence completely. Al-Islah is the leader in this regard, although Salafiya Jadida also rejects the use of force in Somalia, arguing that jihad is not relevant within a Muslim society. At the other extreme is al-Shabab which is basically an international jihadist movement. This group believes that, historically, Muslims have been humiliated by their enemies whenever they have abandoned jihad and, therefore, that if Muslims are to be respected, jihad must be ongoing. While Hizbul Islam as an organisation does not currently have a clear policy on the use of violence, its actions suggest that it sides with al-Shabab on this question and both groups believe in violence as a way to attain power. Between these two extremes are the groups who say that the strategy employed depends on the prevailing conditions. While da'wa and peaceful political activism are preferable, they do not rule out the use of force if, for instance, it is aimed at clan-based warlords or Ethiopian occupiers. Members of Tajamu al-Islami, the New Blood faction of al-Islah, and some members of al-Itisam movement
CiKEAS How to protest
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/980/op4.htm 7 - 13 January 2010 Issue No. 980 Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 How to protest By Salama A Salama European protesters took over our streets last week. In a show of solidarity with Gaza's inhabitants and to protest against all sorts of injustices and blockades, European demonstrators marched through our streets, picketed our public squares and told us what they thought of the wall we're building on Gaza's borders. Several hundred protesters came from 42 European countries to take part in pro-Gaza protests. So what did we do? We sent our security forces to contain them. We also prevented them from going to Gaza. Interestingly, the protesters refused to be intimidated. Instead, they picketed the French Embassy, they marched around the Giza Zoo, and they even stood guard at the famous steps of the Press Syndicate. Curiously enough, the police did not prevent them from demonstrating in front of the Israeli Embassy. But clashes took place, and in some instances the Europeans had a taste of what Egyptians regularly experience at the hands of the police and their karate- trained auxiliaries. During the past few days, Egyptians had proof that our police can act humanely, but only with foreigners. In front of the French Embassy, I saw a foreign man standing alone, surrounded by three circles of policemen. He was carrying a picket sign, but the police refrained from harming him in any way. The Europeans came all the way to express their views, peacefully and orderly. In doing so, they gave us a rare glimpse into the working of peaceful resistance. And they stood for what they believe in. They vented their anger at a policy of blockade into which some Arab countries have become actively involved, either out of fear or desire to placate the Israelis. The demonstrators slept in the streets and the squares. They occasionally obstructed traffic. And they sent to the Egyptians, Arabs, and the world a clear message, one which television stations relayed without delay across the world. In this country, we don't have a culture of protest. In this country, protest is treated as an act of sabotage, as a challenge to law and order. This is why we missed a rare opportunity to expose Israel's crimes. How hard would it have been to let the European demonstrators walk into Gaza? Why did we fail to give them the chance to come face to face with an Arab nation living under occupation? In Egypt, we don't know how to encourage protest marches against Israel. But we know how to come up with lame excuses for building a controversial wall on our borders with Israel. Are we really worried about our own security, or are we protecting Israel? In this country, it is wrong to protest. It is even wrong to be different. This is why our government gets so angry when opposition parliamentarians demand an explanation for the wall. Even in a parliament that prides itself on being a leader of all Arab parliaments, the opposition is demonised and abused for asking the right questions. Worse still, our Islamic Research Council found itself pressured into issuing a statement in support of the wall. You would think that Sharia has nothing to do with security walls, but no. Our leading clergymen have decided to call anyone who opposes the wall an apostate. Don't ask me why. Many may ask what's the point of it all. Did the Europeans achieve anything by marching in our streets? If you ask me, they achieved a lot. For starters, they sounded the alarm bells for the entire world, which is more than what our governments and nations have done so far. The protesters not only put Israeli actions on the line, but also underlined our own failings.
CiKEAS Six churches attacked in Muslim protests
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/six-churches-attacked-in-muslim-protests/story-e6frg6so-1225817854306 Six churches attacked in Muslim protests a.. From: The Australian b.. January 11, 2010 12:00AM KUALA LUMPUR: Another two churches were firebombed yesterday, taking to six the total of attacks in three days of unrest following a court decision allowing Christians and other non-Muslims to use Allah to refer to God. Hundreds of worshippers whose parish church was partly gutted in a firebomb attack last week gathered at a makeshift prayer hall for their Sunday service and called for national unity and an end to violence. A Molotov cocktail was hurled at the All Saints Church in Taiping town in central Perak state early yesterday before it had opened, said state police chief Zulkifli Abdullah. He said the building was not damaged. Also yesterday, a bottle of kerosene was thrown into St Louis Catholic Church, which wasn't damaged. Four churches were hit by petrol bombs on Friday and Saturday. All except the Metro Tabernacle, whose parishioners moved their services, suffered little damage, and no one was hurt. The other three held normal services yesterday. The unprecedented attacks have set off a wave of disquiet among Malaysia's minority Christians and strained their ties with the majority Muslims. The dispute is over a December 31 High Court decision that overturned a government order banning non-Muslims from using the word Allah in their prayers and literature. The court was ruling on a petition by Malaysia's Catholic Church, whose main publication, the Herald, uses Allah in its Malay-language edition. The government has appealed against the verdict. The government contends that making Allah synonymous with God may confuse Muslims and ultimately mislead them into converting to Christianity. Prime Minister Najib Razak visited the Metro Tabernacle church late on Saturday and announced a grant of 500,000 ringgit ($160,323) for rebuilding it at a new location. AP Related Coverage a.. Two more churches attacked in 'Allah' row Adelaide Now, 15 hours ago b.. Malaysia churches burnt The Australian, 2 days ago c.. Churches attacked as Allah row worsens Adelaide Now, 2 days ago d.. 'Allah' again banned for non-Muslims Adelaide Now, 4 days ago e.. Fort Hood suspect wakes from coma Herald Sun, 10 Nov 2009
CiKEAS The consciousness
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\10\story_10-1-2010_pg3_6 Sunday, January 10, 2010 PURPLE PATCH: The consciousness -Alfred Binet It has often been said that the role of intelligence consists in uniting or grasping the relations of things. An important question, therefore, to put, is, if we know whereof these relations consist, and what is the role of the mind in the establishment of a relation? It now and then happens to us to perceive an isolated object, without comparing it with any other, or endeavouring to find out whether it differs from or resembles another, or presents with any other a relation of cause to effect, or of sign to thing signified, or of co-existence in time and space. Thus, I may see a red colour, and occupy all the intellect at my disposal in the perception of this colour, seeing nothing but it, and thinking of nothing but it. Theoretically, this is not impossible to conceive, and, practically, I ask myself if these isolated and solitary acts of consciousness do not sometimes occur. It certainly seems to me that I have noticed in myself moments of intellectual tonelessness, when in the country, during the vacation, I look at the ground, or the grass, without thinking of anything - or at least, of anything but what I am looking at, and without comparing my sensation with anything. I do not think we should admit in principle, as do many philosophers, that we take no cognisance save of relations. This is the principle of relativity, to which so much attention has been given. Taken in this narrow sense, it seems to me in no way imperative for our thoughts. We admit that it is very often applied, but without feeling obliged to admit that it is of perpetual and necessary application. These reserves once made, it remains to remark, that the objects we perceive very rarely present themselves in a state of perfect isolation. On the contrary, they are brought near to other objects by manifold relations of resemblance, of difference, or of connection in time or space; and, further, they are compared with the ideas which define them best. We do not have consciousness of an object, but of the relations existing between several objects. Relation is the new state produced by the fact that one perceives a plurality of objects, and perceives them in a group. Show me two colours in juxtaposition, and I do not see two colours only, but, in addition, their resemblance in colour or value. Show me two lines, and I do not see only their respective lengths but their difference in length. Show me two points marked on a white sheet of paper, and I do not see only the colour, form, and dimension of the points, but their distance from each other. In our perceptions, as in our conceptions, we have perpetually to do with the relations between things. The more we reflect, the more we understand things, the more clearly we see their relations; the multiplication of relations is the measure of the depth of cognition. The nature of these relations is more difficult to ascertain than that of objects. It seems to be more subtle. When two sounds make themselves heard in succession, there is less difficulty in making the nature of these two sounds understood than the nature of the fact that one occurs before the other. It would appear that, in the perception of objects, our mind is passive and reduced to the state of reception, working like a registering machine or a sensitive surface, while in the perception of relations it assumes a more important part. Two principal theories have been advanced, of which one puts the relations in the things perceived, and the other makes them a work of the mind. Let us begin with this last opinion. It consists in supposing that the relations are given to things by the mind itself. These relations have been termed categories. The question of categories plays an important part in the history of philosophy. Three great philosophers, Aristotle, Kant, and Renouvier have drawn up a list, or, as it is called, a table of them, and this table is very long. To give a slight idea of it, I will quote a few examples, such as time, space, being, resemblance, difference, causality, becoming, finality, etc. By making the categories the peculiar possession of the mind, we attribute to these cognitions the essential characteristic of being anterior to sensation, or, as it is also termed, of existing a priori: we are taught that not only are they not derived from experience, nor taught us by observation, but further that they are presupposed by all observation, for they set up, in scholastic jargon, the conditions which make experience possible. They represent the personal contribution of the mind to the knowledge of nature, and, consequently, to admit them is to admit that the mind is not, in the presence of the world, reduced to the passive state of a tabula rasa, and that the faculties of the mind are not a
CiKEAS Rakyat perlu bijak tangani isu agama
http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010dt=0111pub=Utusan_Malaysiasec=Dalam_Negeripg=dn_10.htm 11 Januari 2010 / 25 Muharam 1431 Rakyat perlu bijak tangani isu agama KANGAR 10 Jan. - Raja Muda Perlis Tuanku Syed Faizuddin Putra Jamalullail mahu rakyat berbilang kaum lebih bijak menangani isu-isu sensitif terutama yang berkaitan dengan kesucian agama Islam. Baginda bertitah sekiranya rakyat bertindak melulu dan mengikut nafsu, ia akan merosakkan keharmonian antara kaum yang menjadi resepi kepada keindahan gagasan 1Malaysia yang menjadi slogan nasional. Bertitah melancarkan projek Beverage Vending Machine untuk golongan miskin di Pauh dekat sini hari ini, baginda berharap keharmonian hidup masyarakat majmuk di negara ini tidak tercalar dengan isu-isu yang berkaitan dengan agama. Rakyat negara ini perlu mengekalkan keharmonian antara kaum dan agama sejajar dengan gagasan 1Malaysia yang begitu indah, titah baginda. Tuanku Syed Faizuddin, yang juga Yang Dipertua Majlis Agama Islam dan Adat Istiadat Melayu Perlis (MAIPs) berharap rakyat tidak bertindak secara melulu sehingga merosakkan hubungan baik sesama rakyat selain merosakkan harta benda. Kerugian harta benda boleh diganti namun kerugian kepada hubungan baik rakyat berbilang agama akan lebih merosakkan keharmonian, titah baginda. Raja Muda bertitah keindahan negara ini bukan sekadar kepada landskap alamnya tetapi sejak sekian lama ia dilihat daripada hubungan baik masyarakat berbilang kaum dan agama yang amat harmonis. Baginda turut menasihati ibu bapa supaya memastikan anak-anak mereka yang menuntut di institusi pengajian tinggi di dalam dan luar negara supaya mengelak diri daripada terbabit dalam kegiatan yang merugikan masa depan mereka. Bagi para pelajar di luar negara, baginda berharap mereka menghormati undang-undang negara berkenaan dan tidak menimbulkan kekacauan termasuk menyertai kegiatan demonstrasi. Baginda turut berharap projek Beverage Vending Machine yang dilancarkan itu akan membantu golongan miskin di negeri ini meningkatkan taraf hidup mereka. Melalui mesin itu, para pengendalinya akan dapat menjual minuman panas secara lebih mudah dan menguntungkan. - Bernama
CiKEAS People across Iraq protest against Saudi cleric's insults
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=211889 January 11, 2010 People across Iraq protest against Saudi cleric's insults People across Iraq have taken to streets to protest a Saudi cleric's comments regarding the country's most influential cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. Leading Wahhabi cleric Mohammad al-Ureifi in a Friday sermon had termed the Shia cleric an atheist and debauched. He also launched an attack on Iraq's Shias, accusing 65 percent of the country's population of conspiring with Yemen's Houthis against Saudi Arabia. During demonstrations condemning the remarks, protestors called on the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to take a tough stance on the remarks. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has responded to the verbal attack on the Grand Ayatollah, who has played an increasingly prominent role in Iraq since 2003, when the US in led an invasion of the country. Talabani has appealed directly to the Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz to intervene and stop insults against Iraq's revered Shia scholar. Insult to Sistani causes division and quarrels that spark the flames in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and other countries, he wrote in a letter to the monarch. Holding considerable influence over Iraqi political developments, the Grand Ayatollah is consulted on major political matters within the country. Prime Minister al-Maliki last week traveled to the holy city of Najaf to discuss preparations for the March parliamentary elections with Grand Ayatollah. (Source: Press TV) -
CiKEAS Are Taliban descendants of Israelites?
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1262339436797pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Jan 9, 2010 22:22 | Updated Jan 10, 2010 9:59 Are Taliban descendants of Israelites? By AMIR MIZROCH Are the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan descendants of an Israelite tribe that migrated across Asia after it was exiled over 2,700 years ago? A former Taliban militant covers his face during a ceremony in which weapons were handed over to the Afghan government in the city of Herat province west of Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo: AP [file] This intriguing question has been asked by a variety of scholars, theologians, anthropologists and pundits over the years, but has remained somewhere between the realms of amateur speculation and serious academic research. But now, for the first time, the government has shown official interest, with the Foreign Ministry providing a scholarship to an Indian scientist to come to the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and determine whether or not the tribe that provides the hard core of today's Taliban has a blood link to any of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and specifically to the tribe of Efraim. Shahnaz Ali, a senior research fellow at the National Institute of Immunohaematology, Mumbai, has joined the Technion to study the blood samples that she collected from Afridi Pathans in Malihabad, in the Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh state, India, to check their putative Israelite origin. Shahnaz, an expert in DNA profiling and population genetics, will be supervised by Prof. Karl Skorecki, director of Nephrology and Molecular Medicine at the Technion Faculty of Medicine. Skorecki is famous for his breakthrough work on Jewish genetic research. Shahnaz's research, which is expected to last anywhere between three months and a year, will be supported by a scholarship from the Foreign Ministry for the 2009-2010 academic year. Shahnaz, who is staying in Haifa for the duration of her research, earlier worked at the prestigious Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). While the scholarship only provides her with $600 per month (excluding travel to and from India), her work will be followed closely by many here and abroad. While the vast majority of Afghan Taliban are Pashtun, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, the theory that they are descendants of the Afridi Pathans is widespread in the area. The theory is based on a variety of ancient historical texts and oral traditions of the Pashtun people themselves, but no scientific studies by any accredited organizations have upheld the claim. It continues to be believed by many Pashtuns, and has found advocates among some contemporary Muslim and (to a lesser extent) Jewish scholars. Official confirmation of the link by the Technion would lend immense weight to the argument. Afridi Pathans have an age-old tradition of Israelite origin, which finds mention in texts dating from the 10th century to the present day, written by Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars. According to some researchers, members of the tribe still observe many Israelite customs in their native places in eastern Afghanistan and in the federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, though they have lost all these traditions of theirs in India. In Afghanistan and Pakistan they are all Muslim today and form the core of the Taliban. In his 1957 The Exiled and the Redeemed, Itzhak Ben-Zvi, Israel's second president, wrote that Hebrew migrations into Afghanistan began with a sprinkling of exiles from Samaria who had been transplanted there by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria (719 BC). Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan, when asked about his ancestors, claimed that the royal family descended from the tribe of Benjamin. On the academic level, British researcher Dr. Theodore Parfitt has been conducting research on genetic effects and chromosome Y among numerous tribes around the world. In India he is assisted by a young researcher from the University of Lucknow - Dr. Navras Afreedi - who claims that his ancestors were Afreedi, descendants of the tribe of Efraim, and that many of the Pathans and other tribes are descendants of the Ten Tribes. Afreedi did his post-doctoral work at Tel Aviv University, titled Indian Jewry and the Self-professed Lost Tribes of Israel in India. Shahnaz's genetic research would examine Navras's theory that Afridi Pathans are descendants of the tribe of Ephraim, which was exiled in 721 BCE. The research uses DNA analysis to trace shared ancestries and origins of certain populations of interest in the eastern provinces of India, to map the cause of a certain disorder that is very frequent in the large populations of those provinces, and to see if the DNA mutations originate in a certain founder event. Shahnaz traveled to Malihabad and collected blood samples from the tribal population there. It is
CiKEAS ILUMINASI - Siapakah dirimu? Untuk Apa kau lahir di dunia ini?
Mengundang semua peminat sastra pecinta buku di Surabaya utk datang ke acara Talk Show Interaktif ILUMINASI, Minggu 10 Januari 2010, di Gramedia Expo Jl. Basuki Rahmat 93-105 Surabaya, Pkl. 14.00-16.00 WIB. Acara : Performance Art, Musikalisasi Pembacaan Puisi Bincang2 ringan Novel ILUMINASI. (undangan terbuka utk umum). Acara ini rencana akan dihadiri oleh Walikota Surabaya Bpk Bambang DH Sastrawan Bpk Budi Darma, sebagai wujud apresiasi beliau pada karya yang dilahirkan oleh Arek Soeroboyo... CP ; Icha 087878766339 Yoko 083856008282 Surabaya, How ILUMINASI are you? Sinopsis; Manusia dengan kode genetik yang terus mengalami perkembangan unik dalam tubuhnya, berderap selangkah dengan pencarian makna kehidupan dan jati diri yang lebih mendalam. Kekuatan itu didapat dari penyatuan energi tubuh dengan energi alam. Novel ini bercerita tentang sekumpulan manusia yang memiliki beragam kekuatan. Ardhanareswari, perempuan introvert menyimpan kekuatan yang diteruskan dari generasi ke generasi dalam keluarganya, terbenam dalam jejak DNA dan dikekalkan dalam sebuah pendulum warisan. Ia tak pernah tahu kekuatannya itu karena keluarga yang merawatnya tak pernah memberitahunya. Hingga ia bertemu Shaman, pemuda yang mengajaknya berkenalan dengan kelompok White Light (perkumpulan manusia yang memiliki kekuatan diritelepati, pyrokinesis, menguasai mesin, meniupkan angin dingin, hingga bergerak sangat cepat). Mereka berkelindan dan terkoneksi untuk menjawab pertanyaan tentang makna hidup di balik kekuatan yang mereka miliki. Ardhanareswari, ditakdirkan sebagai manusia istimewa yang mampu memberikan jawaban itu Ardhanareswari, White Light, dan Pure Black bertemu dalam konflik panjang yang tidak pernah berhenti. Tetapi takdir tetap harus dijalani. Apa kata mereka tentang ILUMINASI? 1. Novel ini bukan hanya sanggup mengeksplor realitas cerita yang begitu liat gamit-menggamit antara konflik tokoh, ketegangan suasana, kerumitan motif, dan penjelajahan-liar spiritual; namun juga memberi wadah olah imaji bagi pembacanya. Membahasakan persoalan fisika-metafisika, lompatan kuantum, linga sarira, pecat-sukma yang lazimnya rumit sulit dideskripsikan dalam bahasa awam (ordinary), namun dengan tangkas dan cerdas (didukung kekayaan terminologi, perlambangan dan tuturan bahasa Indonesia yang cantik) penulis mampu menjerat rasa penasaran pembaca dari awal hingga akhir cerita. Menurut saya, novel ini tak cukup berhenti di Iluminasi saja, masih diperlukan eksplorasi-eksplorasi berikutnya. (Darminto M. Sudarmo, penulis, wartawan dan peminat seni humor). 2. Iluminasi akan membawa Anda pada sebuah penjelajahan dan perenungan tentang dimensi lain dari eksistensi manusia lewat sebuah kisah seru manusia-manusia unordinary. Mungkin saja Anda sendiri adalah bagian dari mereka. Who knows? Temukan jawabnya dalam novel ini. (FX Rudy Gunawan Novelis) 3. I really love and value this novel. Iluminasi adalah bukti kekuatan imajinasi dalam menembus batas ruang dan waktu. (Syafruddin Azhar, penikmat sastra) 4. Di era materialisme sekarang ini, pesan tentang spiritualistas adalah oasis yang mengademkan, yang menjadi objek pencarian oleh para Ordinary. Lisa telah sukses menuliskan kegelisahan spiritualnya ke dalam sebuah novel new age yang renyah, dan tetap penuh dengan pesan yang mendalam tentang masa depan kemanusiaan. Membuat saya jadi ingin menulis novel untuk mengupas satu demi satu pesan-pesan yang disampaikan dalam novel ini. (ES Noorsabri, peminat new age) 5. Novel yang seru dengan adegan pertempuran dari masing-masing karakter yang begitu dahsyat. Membaca naskah novel ini seolah-olah melihat visual-visual yang nyata pada panel-panel komik. (Erwin Prima Arya, Montir Komik) http://ladangkata.com/2009/12/04/telah-lahir-iluminasi/ Btw, mnrt Gerson Sumolang, acaranya barengan dgn Launching T-Shirt LONTAR?
CiKEAS [Konsultasi Hukum Gratis] PHK karena Pengusaha Meninggal Dunia
Yth Pak Wahyu, Ayah saya memiliki sebuah klinik atas namanya pribadi dan baru-baru ini meninggal dunia. Karyawan yang sudah bekerja selama 34 tahun akhirnya oleh pihak keluarga diberhentikan dan diberi pesangon atas dasar negoasiasi. Setelah beberapa saat, karyawan kembali meminta pesangon lebih banyak lagi dengan alasan yang diberikan sebelumnya tidak cukup. Pertanyaan saya: 1. Apa ketentuan pesangon bagi karyawan yang telah bekerja selama 34 tahun, bekerja part-time selama 3-4 jam /hari? 2. Apakah ada kewajiban pemilik klinik untuk membayar pesangon bila pemilik meninggal dunia dan klinik kemungkinan akan ditutup selamanya? (Saat ini masih ada dokter pengganti yang menjalankan, namun belum ada pergantian nama kepemilikan klinik) 3. Apabila karyawan menuntut secara hukum, apakah tuntutan bisa ditujukan terhadap ibu saya ataupun dokter pengganti (nama ibu saya ataupun dokter pengganti tidak ada dalam kepemilikan klinik)? 4. Karyawan dimaksud tidak memiliki kontrak kerja secara tertulis (hanya secara verbal), apakah ada kekuatan hukum untuk karyawan menuntut?Atas jawabannya saya ucapkan terima kasih. CH JAWAB : Terima kasih telah menghubungi saya Pasal 50 jo. Pasal 51 ayat (1) UU No. 13 Tahun 2003 menegaskan : Hubungan kerja terjadi karena adanya perjanjian kerja antara pengusaha dan pekerja/buruh. Perjanjian kerja dibuat secara tertulis atau lisan. Artinya, berdasarkan ketentuan pasal di atas, dalam hubungan kerja, Pada prinsipnya perjanjian kerja dibuat secara tertulis, namun melihat kondisi masyarakat yang beragam dimungkinkan perjanjian kerja secara lisan. Jadi, kekuatan pembuktian adanya hubungan kerja bukan pada perjanjian kerja tertulis, hubungan kerja yang didasarkan verbal pun bisa menunjukkan adanya hubungan kerja antara pengusaha dengan pekerja. Pembuktiannya, tentu banyak macamnya, seperti adanya slip gaji, keterangan kerja dsb. Pasal 61 ayat (2) UU No. 13 Tahun 2003 tentang ketenagakerjaan menyatakan bahwasanya Perjanjian kerja tidak berakhir karena meninggalnya pengusaha atau beralihnya hak atas perusahaan yang disebabkan penjualan, pewarisan, atau hibah. Dalam ayat (4)-nya, dijelaskan bahwasanya, dalam hal pengusaha, orang perseorangan, meninggal dunia, ahli waris pengusaha dapat mengakhiri per-janjian kerja setelah merundingkan dengan pekerja/buruh. Berdasarkan uraian masalah dimana ahli waris dari pengusaha telah melakukan perundingan dengan pekerja sebagaimana diatur Pasal 61 ayat (4) UU No. 13 Tahun 2003, maka hasil perundingan tersebutlah yang menjadi acuan/ dasar hukum pesangon bagi pekerja yang mengalami PHK karena si pengusaha (perorangan) meninggal dunia. Bahwa kemudian pekerja meminta haknya secara lebih dari hasil perundingan yang dilakukan, itu bisa saja dilakukan, tentunya dengan mengajukan permasalahan ini kepada dinas ketenagakerjaan setempat. Tentunya dalam hal ini, tuntutan si karyawan tersebut harus ditujukan kepada ahli waris si pengusaha bukan kepada dokter klinik. -- Posting oleh NM. WAHYU KUNCORO, SH ke Konsultasi Hukum Gratis pada 1/10/2010 09:24:00 PM
CiKEAS Memacu Industri Strategis
= = = = = THE WAHANA DHARMA NUSA CENTER [WDN_Center] Seri : Membangun spirit, demokrasi, konservasi sumber daya, nasionalisme, kebangsaan dan pluralisme Indonesia. = = = = = [Spiritualism, Nationalism, Resources, Democration Pluralism Indonesia Quotient] Menyambut TAHUN BARU 2010 dengan semangat baru bagi produktifitas. Belajar menyelamatkan sumberdaya negara untuk kebaikan rakyat Indonesia. Memacu Industri Strategis Senin, 11 Januari 2010 | 02:52 WIB Oleh : Cyrillus Harinowo Hadiwerdoyo Kesibukan kerja PT PAL sangat tinggi pada saat saya berkunjung ke perusahaan tersebut. Galangan kapal yang besar sedang mengerjakan dua kapal: satu kapal kargo berukuran 50.000 ton pesanan perusahaan pelayaran Jerman dan satu lagi kapal tanker bahan kimia pesanan perusahaan Italia yang berbobot mati 24.500 ton. Sebelumnya, beberapa kapal dengan ukuran besar itu sudah diselesaikan dan diserahkan kepada pemesan dari Jerman, Turki, dan Italia. Di dok lainnya sedang dibuat landing platform dock yang kedua pesanan dari Kementerian Pertahanan. Pesanan itu sebetulnya terdiri atas empat kapal dan dilakukan oleh Dae Sun Shipyard, Korea, yang dibiayai fasilitas kredit ekspor dari lembaga keuangan di Korea. Dae Sun kemudian meminta PT PAL mengerjakan dua kapal, satu sudah diserahterimakan kepada Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Menteri Pertahanan, pada awal Desember 2009. Direktorat Jenderal Bea dan Cukai juga memesan tiga kapal patroli cepat dengan bahan aluminium yang pada saat kunjungan itu satu sudah diselesaikan dan dua sedang mengejar tenggat yang ditetapkan. Sementara itu, beberapa kapal perang juga sedang diperbaiki di galangan kapal mereka. Bangkitnya PT PAL kebetulan sekali juga bersamaan dengan bangkitnya kembali PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI) yang mengalami metamorfosis dari PT IPTN sebelumnya. Pemerintah Korea baru saja memesan pesawat CN 235-110 MPA, kapal patroli laut yang memang dibuat perusahaan tersebut. Sementara itu, Kementerian Pertahanan Indonesia juga baru saja memesan tiga pesawat CN 2354-220 MPA untuk menggantikan pesawat Nomad. Pesanan ini menambah panjang daftar pesanan. Sebelumnya, PT DI menerima pesanan helikopter Bell 412 SP dari TNI dan Basarnas. Dengan kebangkitan kembali industri dirgantara Indonesia tersebut, rencana yang dikembangkan sepuluh tahun yang lalu bukan tidak mungkin akan diangkat kembali. PT DI sudah membangun beberapa pesawat N-250 buatan Indonesia. Malah, penerbangan percobaan sudah pula dilakukan oleh perusahaan tersebut. Terakhir bahkan sudah pula dikembangkan pesawat jet N-2130 yang dulu menuai banyak perdebatan. Sayang, berbagai rencana itu terkubur oleh krisis moneter tahun 1998. Yang menarik, PT Pindad juga unjuk gigi dengan kemampuannya mengembangkan kendaraan panser (armored personnel carrier) dengan kualitas yang tidak kalah dari Perancis. Strategi memacu industri strategis Kemampuan teknologi berbagai industri strategis itu sungguh tidak perlu dipertanyakan lagi. PT PAL bahkan mungkin merupakan galangan kapal terbesar di Asia Tenggara saat ini. Dalam pemenuhan alat utama sistem persenjataan, PT PAL juga memiliki kemampuan membangun kapal kawal rudal dan korvet (kelas sigma). Dengan teknologi yang telah mereka kuasai dalam membangun kapal 50.000 ton (Star 50), mereka juga memiliki kemampuan membangun kapal induk helikopter yang mampu mengangkut 16 helikopter. Sementara itu, kemampuan yang dimiliki PT DI sebetulnya juga langka untuk ukuran ASEAN. Ini menempatkan PT DI memiliki kemampuan seperti Embraer, perusahaan pesawat terbang dari Brasil yang produknya sangat banyak dipakai oleh perusahaan penerbangan Amerika Serikat. Sementara kemampuan baru yang dimiliki PT Pindad sangat mungkin dikembangkan lebih lanjut untuk pembuatan tank misalnya sehingga kebutuhan akan alutsista TNI bisa sebagian dipenuhi dari dalam negeri. Apa yang bisa kita lakukan untuk lebih mendorong industri strategis tersebut? Yang terpenting adalah berbagai perusahaan itu harus mampu hidup secara komersial sebagaimana perusahaan lainnya. Sebagaimana PT PAL yang mampu mengerjakan dua kapal LPD dengan harga yang sangat kompetitif, serta masuknya pesanan kapal lainnya dari Jerman, Italia, Turki, dan negara lain karena harga yang bersaing, persyaratan ini harus dikembangkan dan dimiliki industri strategis lainnya. Pemerintah perlu memiliki keberpihakan untuk mendorong industri strategis tersebut. Secara finansial, keuangan pemerintah kita mampu mendorong industri tersebut. PT PAL, misalnya, dengan suntikan modal beberapa ratus miliar rupiah saja akan membuat perusahaan tersebut semakin bankable. Demikian juga dengan PT DI. Dengan kemampuan teknologi yang mereka miliki, restrukturisasi perusahaan tersebut akan memungkinkan PT DI menjadi lebih mampu secara komersial sehingga layak untuk didorong lebih lanjut. Sementara itu, kepercayaan yang ditunjukkan Jerman,
