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Kisah Islamnya Abu Dzar Al-Ghifari r.a. Abu Dzar Al-Ghifari r.a. adalah seorang sahabat Nabi saw. Yang terkenal. Di kemudian hari, ia termasuk golongan ahli zuhud dan ulama besar pada zamannya. Ali r.a. berkata,`Abu Dzar memiliki ilmu yang tidak dimiliki oleh orang lain, namun ia menyimpannya.` Ketika pertama kali mendengar kabar kenabian Muhammad saw., Abu Dzar mengirim saudaranya ke Makkah untuk memastikan berita itu. Ia berkata kepada saudaranya,`Apa bila ada orang yang mengaku,`Telah datang wahyu kepadaku dari langit,` maka selidikilah ia dan dengarkan dengan baik kata-katanya.`Saudaranya pun pergi ke Makkah. Dan setelah menyelidiki di sana, ia pun kembali dan melaporkan,` Aku melihat ia memerintahkan agar melaksanakan kebiasaan baik dan berakhlak mulia. Dan aku mendengar ucapannya yang sangat indah, namun bukan ucapan syair atau ucapan ahli sihir. Abu Dzar r.a. tidak puas dengan berita saudaranya itu, sehingga ia memutuskan untuk pergi sendiri ke Makkah. Setibanya di sana, ia langsung menuju Masjidil-Haram. Pada saat itu ia belum mengenal wajah Nabi saw., dan ia menduga tidak aman baginya jika menanyakan tentang Nabi kepada orang-orang. Hingga petang ia masih menyelidikinya. Ketika itu, Ali r.a. melihat seorang musafir asing. Pada masa itu, menjadi kebiasaan para sahabat untuk memperhatikan para musfir, orang-orang miskin, orang-orang asing, lalu memenuhi hajat mereka. Ali r.a. pun mengajaknya kerumahnya dan melayaninya. Ali r.a. merasa belum perlu bertanya mengenai siapa dan apa maksud kedatangannya. Dan musafir tersebut juga tidak mengemukakan maksudnya kepada tuan rumah. Pada pagi harinya, ia kembali ke mesjid dan menyelidiki lagi tanpa mengetahui apa pun dan tidak bertanya kepada siapapun. Mungkin hal ini disebabkan berita permusuhan terhadap Nabi saw. Telah tersebar luas. Nabi saw. Dan siapa saja yang berani menemui beliau akan diganggu oleh mereka. Mungkin ia berpikir bahwa ia tidak akan mengetahui keadaan yang sebenarnya, karena gangguan yang mungkin tiba-tiba menimpanya, sehingga ia tetap menyendiri. Pada sore hari kedua, Ali r.a. berpikir,`Musafir yang terlantar ini pasti ada tujuannya datang kemari, mungkin tujuannya belum terpenuhi,`maka ia mengajak kembali tamunya menginap di rumahnya. Malam telah berlalu. Ali r.a. masih belum sempat bertanya kepadanya. Malam ketiga pun sama seperti malam sebelumnya,` Apakah tujuan mu datang kemari?` setelah meminta ali bersumpah dan berjanji akan menjawab jujur setiap pertanyaanya, barulah Abu Dzar menutarakan maksudnya. Ali r.a. berkata,` Sungguh, beliau adalah utusan Allah. Jika esok pagi aku pergi, ikutilah aku. Aku akan mengantarmu kepada beliau. Namun, jika para penentang mengetahui hubungan kita, jumlah mereka sangat banyak dan berbahaya. Agar tidak dicurigai, jika ada bahaya yang mengancam, aku akan pura-pura buang air atau memperbaiki sepatu. Hendaknya engkau terus berjalan, jangan menungguku agar perjalanan kita tidak diketahui orang.` Keesokan paginya, Ali r.a. dan musafir itu tiba di rumah Rasulullah saw. Dengan sembunyi-sembunyi. Mereka berbincang-bincang dengan beliau. Dan pada saat itulah Abu Dzar r.a. masuk Islam. Selanjutnya, karena Rasulullah saw. Sangat mencemaskan gangguan yang akan menimpa Abu Dzar r.a. beliau melarangnya agar tidak menunjukan ke islaman nya di muka umum. Beliau bersabda,` Pulanglah ke kaummu dengan sembunyi-sembunyi, dan kamu boleh kembali kesini jika kami telah menang.`Jawab Abu Dazar r.a., ` Ya Rasulullah, demi Dzat Yang nyawaku ada di tangan-Nya, aku akan mengucapkan kalimat tauhid ini di hadapan orang-orang yang tidak beriman itu.` lalu ia segera pergi ke Masjidil-haram, dan dengan suara lantang ia berteriak, `Aku bersaksi bahwa tiada tuhan selain Allah, dan aku bersaksi bahwa Muhammad adalah utusan Allah.` Begitu selesai mengucapkan kata-kata tersebut, orang-orang menyerangnya dari segala arah. Tubuhnya terluka hebat, bahkan ia hampir menemui ajalnya. Untunglah paman Nabi saw. Abbas r.a. yang ketika itu belum masuk islam, melindungi Abu Dzar dengan tubuhnya sambil berteriak, `Kalian sungguh zhalim, orang ini orang Ghifar, Kabilah ini tinggal diantara jlan menuju Syam. Perniagaan kalian dan segala urusannya adalah dengan negeri syam. Jika ia mati, jalan lalu lintas ke Syam akan tertutup bagi kita. Memang benar bahwa semua keperluan mereka datang dari Syam. Jika jalur itu tertutup, itu adlah bencana bagi mereka. Akhirnya, mereka meninggalkan Abu Dzar r.a. Pada hari kedua. Abu Dzar r.a. mengulangi perbuatan yang sama. Ia pergi ke Masjidil-Haram dan meneriakkan kalimat tauhid di hadapan orang banyak.orang-orang yang membenci ucapan itu pun kembali memukulinya. Dan pada hari itu, Abbas r.a. jugalah yang mengingatkan kaumnya bahwa jika ia mati, maka jalur perdagangan mereka akan tertutup. Faedah Walaupun Rasulullah saw. Menasihati Abu Dzar agar tidak menunjukan keislamannya, semangatnya yang tinggi untuk memperlihatkan yang hak telah
[ppiindia] CHARACTER BUILDING TELAT SELEPAS SEKOLAH MENENGAH (the BungKarno's case)
CONTOH : sebagian alumni itb melupakan pesan wisuda Bung Karno. - Forwarded Message MEMANG DIMANAPUN KAPANPUN SELAYAKNYA KITA INTROSPEKTIF SELALU.. NILA SETITIK RUSAK SUSU SEBELANGA SALAM GANESH getar klik koleseloyola.com 10 March 2006 #1 eqock * View Profile * View Forum Posts * Visit Homepage * View Articles Koordinator Keamanan Eko Ariesta KEKL 2005 Join Date 23 September 2005 Location Birmingham Posts 6,301 Cukuplah Kampus (ITB) Mencetak Garong ALUMNI pulang ke kampus punya banyak cerita. Tapi yang muncul bukan melulucerita kesuksesan, malah kesan miris melihat almamaternya melempem.Setidaknya lontaran-lontaran miris itu terjadi saat Keluarga Mahasiswa ITBmengajak alumni membagi cerita kepada anak-anak baru angkatan 2004 dan 2005. Cardiyan HIS, jebolan Teknik Geodesi ITB tahun 1973, tidak ragu menyebutkampusnya sebagai penyokong keterpurukan bangsa Indonesia. PernyataanCardiyan memang bukan tudingan, jika melihat berapa besar kasus yang melibatkan jebolan-jebolan ITB. Seperti Deputi Direktur Pembangkit PLN,yangmesti menginap di Bareskrim Polda Metro Jaya. Entah berapa banyak alumni ITB yang menjadi preman, garong, penipu dankoruptor, yang masih berkeliaran ataupun tidak, dengan bangga mengklaimsebagai lulusan ITB! katanya di hadapan puluhan mahasiswa angkatan 2004 dan2005 di Aula Timur ITB, Minggu (5/3). Contoh itu, kata President CEO PT SWI Group, setidaknya menutupi kesanpositif jebolan ITB lainnya. Macam penemuan Dr. Dicky Rezadi Munaf tentangkonstruksi bulan dan Dr. I Gede Wenten untuk proses pembuatan bir tanpalimbah. Keduanya berturut-turut telah mengantongi pengakuan dari BadanAntariksa Amerika Serikat (NASA) dan penemuan terbaik dari peneliti-penelitiEropa. Contoh garong itu, sebut Lendo Nevo, alumni ITB dari Departemen Perminyakan,sebagai wujud karakteristik manusia yang tidak memiliki kejujuran. ITB,katanya, selama ini hanya melakukan transfer ilmu pengetahuan tanpa melihatpentingnya pembangunan karakter manusianya itu sendiri. Fenomena itu tidakhanya di ITB, tapi menjadi momok serius di perguruan tinggi di Indonesia. Pendidikan adalah instrumen strategis dalam proses pembangunan karakternasional. Proses pendidikan harus mengondisikan perilaku normatif yangmembentuk karakteristik dan sikap politik yang mengapresiasi nilai dantradisi serta budaya bangsa, menghormati kedaulatan rakyat, taat terhadaphukum, dan bersikap patriotisme. Tapi jangan dulu bicara membangun karakter jujur seperti itu, jika parahadirin di Aula Timur itu hanya kurang dari lima orang yang mengaku belumpernah mencontek ujian atau tugas kuliah. Padahal, integritas itu muncul tidak sekonyong-konyong lewat mata kuliah tiga SKS, tapi pada prinsip yangdibangun pribadi orang perorang. Demikian yang ditekankan oleh Hotasi Nababan, alumni Teknik Sipil ITB yangsekarang Dirut PT Merpati Airlines. Hotasi yang mengaku tidak pernahmencontek selama kuliah, mengatakan integritas seperti kejujuran itulah yangsaat ini menjadi modal lulusan saat mencari kerja. *Nggak* usah mikir IPdan jebolan dari mana, kalau terbukti integritasnya jelek, tetap susah carikerja, katanya bersungut-sungut. Seperti pula yang dikatakan oleh Rektor Magnificius Technische HoogeschoolBandung (sekarang ITB), Prof. G. Klopper, M.E. saat mewisuda Soekarno. Iaberpesan, Insinyur Soekarno, ijazah ini dapat robek dan hancur menjadi abusuatu saat. Ia tidak kekal. Ingatlah, bahwa satu-satunya kekuatan yang biashidup terus dan kekal adalah karakter dari seseorang. Ia akan tetap hidupdalam hari rakyat, sekalipun sudah mati. Tidak cukup ijazah ITB yang secara fisik berdiri sejak 1920 merupakan kampus teknologi pertama,mendahului Universitas Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), dan Universitas TeknologiMalaysia (UTM). Tapi apakah Indonesia lebih maju dibandingkan Malaysia danSingapura? Jawabannya, kata Cardiyan, tentu saja belum. Persoalannya bukan ijazahsarjana terlalu sedikit, tapi minim karya-karya universitas yang dipakaioleh dunia industri.Karena itu, katanya, ITB harus mulai menerapkan model seperti ini kepada para mahasiswanya. Harus lebih banyak proses latihanmerealisasikan ide menjadi suatu karya. Nantinya akan lahir manusia ITByang berani ambil keputusan, inovatif, dengan keputusan yang tidakbiasa-biasa saja, ujarnya. Cardiyan menyadari bahwa tidak semua pada akhirnya menjadi seorang entrepreneur.Bisa menjadi birokrat, politikus, dosen, peneliti, militer,pendakwah dan lain sebagainya. Namun, baik *enterprenuer* atau bukan, iatetap bergerak dalam ranah kepentingan rakyat benyak, jujur, dan tanpa adakonflik kepentingan. Alangkah cemerlang, lanjutnya, manusia ITB yang berdarah sains teknologijuga berinteraksi dengan masyarakat, umum atau industri, dengan memilikiintegritas kejujuran dan taat terhadap hukum.Menurut pemimpin majalah Gatra yang juga jebolan Teknik Fisika ITB, Budiono Kartohadiprojo, hal
[ppiindia] Embrio 98-an itu Telah Ada
Membaca kisah ‘bandeng-telur’-nya Deasy Arien yang ditulis oleh Ingki Rinaldi, seakan melemparkan kenangan ke masa silam. Kenangan lawas di tumpukan memori yang telah lewat lebih dari satu dasawarsa yang telah silam, saat Senayan dikepung lautan massa. Saat itu, siapa yang menyangka, kumpulan bocah-bocah ingusan itu akhirnya mampu menumbangkan kekuasaan yang telah menggurita selama 30 tahunan ?. Namun akhirnya, kenyataan membalikkan prediksi banyak orang. Lembaran sejarah pun mencatat, Presiden Soeharto harus lengser keprabon. Kembali ke tulisan kisah ‘bandeng-telur’-nya Deasy Arien, seakan memberikan isyarat, embrio kembalinya kedigdayaan ‘bocah-bocah ingusan’ itu telah ada lagi, telah menjelma lagi. Adakah embrio itu terpicu muncul lantaran sebab juga telah munculnya embrio dari reinkarnasinya gurita yang serupa ?. Entahlah, masih banyak yang merasa yakin bahwa cengkeraman dan hujaman pilar-pilar penyangga kursi tahta kekuasaan masih terlampau kuat jika hanya dibongkar oleh tangan-tangan lemah si bocah-bocah ingusan. Namun tulisan Sunardi Rinakit yang mengisahkan tentang bocah-bocah ingusan yang bergerombol menjadi kumpulanfenomena politiknya si ‘bocah-bocah nakal’, memperingatkan bahwa Presiden SBY akan semakin merana karena diganggu oleh bocah-bocah bandel tersebut. ‘…Nasution ketuk palu, Soekarno jatuh. Harmoko ketuk palu, Soeharto jatuh. Amien Rais ketuk palu, Gus Dur jatuh. Taufiq Kiemas ketuk palu, siapa jatuh…’ , begitu lantunan lagunya kumpulan si ‘bocah-bocah nakal’ yang telah membuat hatinya yang ditulis oleh Ingki Rinaldi menjadi miris dan kecut. Kecut dan miris jugakah hatinya Presiden SBY ?. Terlepas dari merasa miris dan kecut ataupun tidak, yang jelas, Ingki Rinaldi dalam tulisannya secara tersirat telah mengisyaratkan bahwa telah ada diantara anggota masyarakat Indonesia yang menyesalkan bahwa SBY-Boediono itu tidak satu hati, kata dan tindakan. “Seperti demontrasi ini saja, katanya boleh dan silahkan, tetapi teman-teman kami dari luar Jakarta, malah dilarang masuk Jakarta”, kata mereka. Jadilah Deasy Arien dan seluruh anggota keluarganya bergabung dengan demontrasi itu, tanpa bayaran. Malahan mereka berswadana dan berswadaya membikin nasi bungkus lauk bandeng dan telur sebagai bekal makanan si anak-anak ingusan. “Kami ikut berdemontrasi lebih karena sudah capek dengan keadaan saat ini. Apalagi, berbagai skandal yang mulai terungkap, seperti kebijakan penalangan Bank Century dan perseteruan antara KPK dan Polri, makin bikin capek. Tetapi, Presiden malah rekaman lagu, terus beli pesawat kepresidenan”. Ya, itulah ungkapan yang mewakili suara hati dari sebagian kalangan masyarakat yang tak tersuarakan. Mereka sudah capek, mereka ingin ada perubahan, mereka sudah tak puas dengan keadaan saat ini. “Saya ingin anak-cucu saya bisa hidup lebih baik, itu saja. Jika itu sudah tercapai, saya mau tinggal di gunung, atau mati saja. Karena saya tak mau menyusahkan orang di usia tua”, kata seorang pensiunan pegawai Bank Indonesiayang turut menghantarkan si bocah-bocah ingusan menggerudug Senayan dan Istana pada hari Kamis kemarin, 28 Januari 2010. Inikah pertanda embrio itu akan membesar menjadi janin, lalu lahir menjadi si jabang bayi ?. Ataukah, embrio itu akan teraborsi lantaran si Penguasa akan segera menyumbat aliran gizi dari ibu rahimnya?. Akhirulkalam, kita yang disini hanya bisa turut menggumam ‘Gusti Ora Nate Sare’. Wallahualambishshawab. * Catatan Kaki : * Artikel ‘Bandeng-Telur versus Penguasa’ yang ditulis oleh Inki Rinaldi dan dimuat di Koran Kompas pada hari Jumat tanggal 29 Januari 2010, dapat dibaca dengan mengklik di sini. * Artikel ‘Bocah-Bocah Nakal’ yang ditulis oleh Sunardi Rinakit dan dimuat di Koran Kompas pada hari Kamis tanggal 28 Januari 2010, dapat dibaca dengan mengklik di sini. * Embrio 98-an itu Telah Ada http://polhukam.kompasiana.com/2010/01/29/embrio-98-an-itu-telah-ada/ * [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] MERAH HIJAU Harapan Rakyat Kecil Terabai
- Forwarded Message Subject: MERAH HIJAU NATAL NAKAL - Forwarded Message Natal adalah Cerita Nakal NATAL MEMANG CERITA NAKAL MERAH DAN HIJAU ADALAH HARAPAN BAGI KAUM LEMAH. klik saja google : A S J I Pengutusan seorang bayi mungil yang ringkih untuk menyelamatkan dunia merupakan cerita utama Natal. Narasi ini senantiasa berdenyut hidup pada bulan terakhir tahun Masehi. Ia bertutur dan mengalirkan semangat bahwa dunia ini tidak boleh tumpas musnah oleh kekumuhan dosa. Tetapi, kenapa seorang bayi lemah tanpa daya? Kenapa bukan seorang panglima perang yang kuat dan gagah perkasa? Kenapa bukan seorang politisi yang pandai bicara? Kenapa bukan akademisi atau cendekiawan yang bijaksana? Paling tidak, seorang aktivis yang penuh dengan daya dan dinamika? Natal adalah cerita nakal. Sejak awal dituturkan, ia menggugat kemapanan berpikir kita. Maria perawan desa mengandung oleh Roh El Qudus. Kemudian melahirkan Yesus Kristus yang konon akan menjadi Penebus. Ia dilahirkan bukan di tempat praktik bidan atau rumah sakit bersalin, tetapi di kandang domba. Kemudian ia menjadi tukang kayu. Apakah dia mau menyelamatkan dunia dengan gergaji, palu, dan paku? Tak dapat disanggah, terlalu banyak manusia jelata di sekitar kita yang tidak berdaya saat berhadapan dengan penguasa, pemodal, pengusaha, polisi, hakim, atau jaksa. Mereka terpental saat mencoba berlomba dengan ekonomi yang melaju gila. Harga barang yang membubung tinggi memaksa mereka tinggal dalam ceruk kehidupan yang hina-dina. Berteman dengan penderitaan, kesakitan, dan kekalahan. Dosa-dosa sosial, politik, ekonomi, dan budaya membuat kehidupan mereka dekil, suram, dan kelam. Dalam keperihan hidup yang nista, cerita Natal menjadi cerita nakal. Cerita tentang Tuhan Yang Maha Mulia, yang berkenosis atau mengosongkan diri menjadi serupa dengan hamba sahaya. Ia berpihak pada kaum jelata, budak belian yang hina-dina. Dalam sosok seorang bayi, Ia mengkritik para pemegang kuasa yang dengan rakus melipatgandakan nafsu pemangsanya. Kandang, palungan, jerami kering, kain lampin, gembala, tukang nujum dari Timur adalah simbol-simbol rakyat yang dipakai-Nya. Ia hadir bersama dengan kekurangan dan keterbatasan rakyat jelata. Sedangkan istana dan tentara adalah simbol Herodes, kaisar kejam yang pemarah dan jauh dari rakyat jelata. Pada masa kini, simbol-simbol perlawanan itu muncul dalam warna hijau (green) yang beroposisi dengan warna kelabu atau kelam.Bukan perlawanan cengeng, tetapi perlawanan berdarah. Gergaji gemeretak ketika dipakai memotong kayu salib-Nya, palu berdentam saat dipakai memukul paku untuk menghunjam daging kaki dan tangan- Nya. Darah segar berwarna merah pun mengalir.Inilah merah (red) simbol pengorbanan sekaligus perlawanan. Jadi, sejatinya hijau dan merah Natal bukanlah warna-warna cantik nan romantis, tetapi warna subversif, warna perlawanan atas kekumuhan dan kedekilan dosa. Hijau dan merah Natal adalah warna harapan bagi kaum yang lemah, tak berdaya dan tertindas, kesepian, dan merasa dirinya hampa. Warna kehidupan bagi mereka berbeban berat. Semangat yang dilambangkan dengan lilin menyala, yang rela hancur luluh untuk menghadirkan terang dan kehangatan. MARKO MAHIN Antropolog dan Teolog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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rakyat masih banyak yg melata di lumpur kemiskinan, masih banyak luntang lantung tak punya pendapatan, tak ada nasi di dandangnya, yg ada hanya mimpi, menghayal betapa enaknya para pejabat rezim hutang ini, kerjaannya santai dan gajinya aduhai. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] Taliban discuss money-for-peace offer
http://www.theage.com.au/world/taliban-discuss-moneyforpeace-offer-20100129-n45x.html Taliban discuss money-for-peace offer PAOLA TOTARO, LONDON January 30, 2010 TALIBAN commanders have had secret talks with a special envoy from the United Nations under an international peace plan to pay fighters to lay down their arms. News of the exploratory talks emerged after an international conference held in London on the future of Afghanistan, convened by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The Reuters news agency reported that a meeting between the UN special representative in Afghanistan and regional commanders of the Taliban's leadership council took place in Dubai on January 8. The Guardian confirmed the meeting. Reuters said regional commanders of the Taliban's leadership council, the Quetta Shura, sought a meeting with UN special envoy Kai Eide. ''They requested a meeting to talk about talks,'' a UN official told the news agency. ''They want protection, to be able to come out in public. They don't want to vanish into places like Bagram [a detention centre inside a US air base north of Kabul].'' The talks are the first such interaction between the UN and leading Taliban officials, and in London the news was being interpreted as a significant breakthrough, suggesting that some senior Taliban may be prepared to trust an international organisation to broker a deal. The London conference was aimed at thrashing out a blueprint to guide the transition from a NATO military campaign to an Afghan-led program to end the war and rebuild the nation and its educational, economic and political structures. Australia has become one of the first nations to contribute million of dollars to the global plan to pay Taliban fighters who lay down their arms. More than $25 million has been earmarked as part of a $100 million Australian package pledged at the conference overnight. Foreign affairs ministers from 70 nations converged on the British capital for the one-day meeting. A final communique suggested that the time frame for Afghanistan to take responsibility for security in insecure areas of the country was within three years. For this to occur, supporting nations will have to fund 171,600 Afghan soldiers and 134,000 policemen by October next year. Afghan President Hamid Karzai told the conference that foreign troops would have to remain in Afghanistan for many more years. ''With regard to training and equipping the Afghan security forces, five to 10 years will be enough,'' he told the BBC. At the conference, Mr Karzai made a clear peace overture to the Taliban. ''We must reach out to all of our countrymen, especially our disenchanted brothers who are not part of al-Qaeda or other terrorist networks, who accept the Afghan constitution,'' the President said. To do that, Mr Karzai announced the creation of a national peace council to oversee the reintegration of the Taliban rank and file, 75 per cent of whom are thought to fight within a few kilometres of their villages for principally local reasons. Afghan Foreign Affairs Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta said that as a first step, a grand peace council, or loya jirga, would be convened ''in the next few weeks''. The peace council would be open to tribal elders from across the country, including those tribes that took no part in the 2001 Bonn peace conference because of their links with the Taliban. They were thus excluded from the post-Taliban Afghan state, a decision that European and US officials now concede was a serious mistake. With GUARDIAN [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] Afghan talks offer not for Mullah Omar: US
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/12-afghan-talks-offer-not-for-mullah-omar%2C-says-us-010--bi-07 Afghan talks offer not for Mullah Omar: US By Anwar Iqbal Saturday, 30 Jan, 2010 WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday that while the United States backed the Taliban integration programme, the offer did not include the group's top leadership. Earlier, the Pentagon had expressed similar sentiments about the integration plan approved at a meeting of more than 60 nations in London on Thursday. Secretary Clinton, who also attended the conference, told America's National Public Radio network that she understood the military action alone was not enough to win the war in Afghanistan but the London peace proposal was not meant for senior Taliban leaders. In her interview to NPR, Mrs Clinton acknowledged that most modern conflicts don't end with a victory on the field of battle and therefore political and development work was essential. I think everyone has realised, as we did in Iraq, that you have to begin to go right at the insurgents and peel those off who are willing to renounce violence, renounce Al Qaeda, agree to live by the laws and constitution of Afghanistan and re-enter society, Mrs Clinton said. That is not going to happen with (Taliban chief) Mullah Omar and the like, she added. But there are so many fighters in the Taliban that are there, frankly, because it's a way to make a living in a country where the Taliban pay them more than they can make as a farmer or in some other line of work out in the countryside. Earlier, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told a briefing in Washington that the US government was still working to figure out which mid-level Taliban officials it might be possible to integrate into the current Afghan political structure. He said that top Taliban figures, like the country's former leader Mullah Omar, would probably be what he called a bridge too far. Omar is probably the extreme, said Mr Morrell. The foot-soldiers are probably the other extreme. The question is what happens to the others. Can they be won over? Can they become a part of the political fabric? And that's, I think, what we're all trying to figure out. And I don't know that we have an answer yet. Secretary Clinton's remarks came a day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai told the London conference that he planned to convene a grand Jirga and invite low-level Taliban militants and disenchanted brothers who are not part of Al Qaeda or other terrorist networks. Secretary Clinton claimed that there had already been some progress on reintegration. There already have been Taliban who have left, she said, adding that how the reconciliation process evolved will be a little bit like jazz . we can't lay it out completely. The secretary, however, insisted that the shift in policy towards accommodation of some fighters did not constitute an exit strategy; instead, it was one element of a comprehensive plan. You have to have a very tough-minded attitude about this. This is not sweetness and light, the secretary of state said. You're dealing with a very difficult, complex phenomenon. In response to a recent remark by Mr Karzai that he expected western troops to be in Afghanistan for the next decade, Mrs Clinton said she did not think most western troops will be in a combat role. It won't be like today, where we are putting in thousands more troops, 30,000 from our own and from other countries, she said. In Washington, other US officials told the media that it was up to the Afghan government to decide which Taliban leaders could be integrated. But the Pentagon spokesman said he expected officials in Kabul to make their decisions in consultation with US President Barack Obama. Mr Morrell indicated that senior Taliban leaders like Mullah Omar who, in his words, has the blood of thousands of Americans on his hands, would likely not be acceptable candidates for reintegration. On Tuesday, the United Nations announced it had removed five former Taliban officials, including a former foreign minister, from its list of terrorists, ending restrictions on their travel and bank accounts. That could be a first step toward involving them in a reconciliation process. Tags: US,clinton,mullah omar,taliban,afghan talks,london conference [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] Kadhafi says Libya no place for 'civil society'
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/04-libya-civil-society-qs-02 Kadhafi says Libya no place for 'civil society' Friday, 29 Jan, 2010 Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi. - AP Photo TRIPOLI: Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said on Thursday the concept of civil society has no place in his country, just as a panel headed by his son Seif al-Islam was about to propose a law permitting the creation of non-governmental organisations. In a televised address to the General People's Congress (GPC), Kadhafi said the idea of a civil society is a bourgeois culture and an imitation of the West that has no place here. In the West, a distinction is made between an official governmental society and a civil society (made up of) non governmental institutions, he said, while in Libya society is entirely civil. After he headed a coup that overthrew the monarchy, Kadhafi introduced in 1977 the state of the masses (Al-Jamahiriya), built on people's congresses whose representatives sit in the GPC. This body, in theory, takes all political decisions, passes legislation and names ministers. Does a lawyer need a union to defend himself? Kadhafi asked, after saying that unions were created for the weak. However, he did encourage the creation of charitable organisations to help the neediest in society, such as orphans, abandoned women or even diabetics. Kadhafi was speaking as a committee headed by his son was about the issue a bill that would set out a new penal code, which would no longer criminalise the creation of independent associations of a non-political character. That would be a drastic change from current law, which mandates capital punishment for any person who creates, joins, supports or finances an organisation proscribed by law. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] From hero to villain
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\30\story_30-1-2010_pg3_4 PURPLE PATCH: From hero to villain -Ernest Mandel In Primitive Rebels and Bandits, Eric Hobsbawm has shown that 'social bandits' are robbers of a special type, whom the state (and the oppressor classes) regard as outlaws but who remain within the bounds of the moral order of the peasant community. It is significant that Spain, the country that gave the bandit story its name as a literary genre - the picaresque novel - was where the decay of feudalism was deepest and where the process of its decline was more protracted, leaving society in an impasse for centuries. Interestingly, Sigmund Freud showed great preference for good bandit stories, and, according to Peter Bruckner, drew a parallel between psychoanalysis and the picaresque novel which was like a mirror of society from below, dragged along the streets. The tradition of social protest and rebellion expressed in the bandit stories emerged from a mythified history and lingered on in folk tales, songs and forms of oral lore. But it was welded into literature by authors of middle class, bourgeois, or even aristocratic origin: Cervantes, Fielding, Le Sage, Defoe, Schiller, Byron, Shelley. Their works were written essentially for an upper class public - quite naturally, since they were the only ones apt to buy books at the time. A society like this can still deal with its malefactors without specialists - or at least its ideologues think it can. There is no need for a police or detective hero in these yarns, only a good lesson in Christian piety at the end. By the 18th century, of course, this was fast becoming anachronistic, and some of the Newgate Calendar stories are already showing the first deviations from the rules. But this evaporation of a sense of security had occurred among the petty bourgeoisie and the literate layers of the working class well before it did among the upper classes and high society. By the beginning of the 19th century, professional criminals, unknown in the 18th century, had become a reality. Balzac related the rise of professional criminals to the rise of capitalism and the consequent emergence of unemployment. Each morning, he wrote in his Code des Gens Honnetes, more than twenty thousand people (in Paris) awake with no idea of how they will eat at noon. It was hardly surprising, he added, that such circumstances led to the emergence of a class of professional criminals. The new popular theatre and popular press were, after all, businesses, and why should they not try to increase their profits and accumulate capital by catering to the public's taste for nerve tingling stories about murders, real or imagined? The rising preoccupation with crime is best exemplified by Thomas De Quincey's On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts, which appeared in 1827. De Quincey had been editor of the Westmoreland Gazette in 1818 and 1819, and had filled its columns with stories about murders and murder trials. In his 1827 essay he actually insisted upon the delectation with murder and speculation about whodunit among 'amateurs and dilettantes,' thereby opening the way to Edgar Allen Poe, Gaboriau and Conan Doyle. He also initiated the link between popular journalism and writing about murder, which would involve Dickens, Poe, Conan Doyle and so many other crime story writers, up to Dashiell Hammett, E Stanley Gardner and other contemporaries. To be sure, these are no longer 'good bandits' in the old sense. Their criminal acts are treated as the deeds of scoundrels. But they have hearts of gold nonetheless, and redeem themselves through parental devotion to more or less innocent young victims of upper-class cruelty or police persecution. They are figures of transition: no longer the noble bandits of yesteryear, but not yet the heartless villains of the 20th-century detective story. To understand why this evolution continued, why this literary genre did not stop at that transitional phase but instead went all the way in the transformation of the noble bandit into the evil criminal, we must examine both the objective function of popular literature and its ideological metamorphosis during the last half of the 19th century. It answers a need to overcome the growing monotony and standardisation of labour and consumption in bourgeois society through a harmless (since vicarious) reintroduction of adventure and drama into daily life. The romantic, bucolic setting of the old bandit stories becomes increasingly meaningless in this context. Revolt against private property becomes individualised. With motivation no longer social, the rebel becomes a thief and murderer. It is thus perfectly possible for socially critical and even socially revolutionary readers to enjoy detective stories without altering their views. But the mass of readers will not be led to seek to change the social status
[ppiindia] INTERMEZZO
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012901621.html?wpisrc=nl_pmheadline Body in backyard is missing Fla. lottery winner's By TAMARA LUSH The Associated Press Friday, January 29, 2010; 7:46 PM PLANT CITY, Fla. -- Winning $30 million in the Florida Lottery should have been the best thing that ever happened to Abraham Shakespeare. But with his newfound wealth came a string of bad choices and hangers-on who constantly hit him up for money. Nine months ago, he vanished. Friends and family hoped he was on a beach somewhere in the Caribbean. On Friday, detectives confirmed that a body buried under a concrete slab in a rural backyard was his. The home Shakespeare was found behind belongs to the boyfriend of a woman who befriended him in 2007, the year after he won the lottery. Authorities believe he was murdered and the woman may know something about it, but they do not yet know how he died and have not arrested anyone. Shakespeare's brother, Robert Brown, said Friday that Shakespeare often wished he had never bought the winning ticket. 'I'd have been better off broke.' He said that to me all the time, Brown said. Hillsborough County Sheriff's detectives used fingerprints to identify Shakespeare's body, which they found buried 5 feet deep and covered by a 30-by-30 concrete slab in the backyard of a two-story ranch house. There are no neighbors, save for an empty trailer next door and an orange grove across the street. When Shakespeare won the lottery, he was an assistant truck driver who lived with his mother in a rural county east of Tampa. He was barely literate, had a criminal record and was extremely generous with his newly acquired wealth. He really didn't understand it at all, said Samuel Jones, who has known Shakespeare since both were 12. It was moving so fast. It changed his life in a bad way. Jones said Friday that Abraham told him in March that he wanted to get out of Lakeland, where he had bought a million-dollar home. After he chose a lump sum payment of nearly $17 million, people gathered outside his mother's home, clamoring for cash. Jones said Abraham would tell him, I thought all these people were my friends, but then I realized all they want is just money. Among those new friends was Dorice Donegan DeeDee Moore. Shakespeare met her in 2007, shortly after he bought his home. She told him she was interested in writing a book about his life. But officials said she was interested in his money. DeeDee Moore is a con artist, and if she tried to sell me anything, I certainly wouldn't buy it, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a news release earlier this month. DeeDee Moore has cheated Abraham Shakespeare out of his money, and possibly his life. Moore - whose known phone numbers were all disconnected Friday - became something of a financial adviser to Shakespeare. Property records show her company, American Medical Professionals, bought his home for $655,000 in January 2009. In February, she helped him open a company and gave herself the ability to sign for money, detectives said, including a $1 million withdrawal. Moore told detectives Shakespeare gave her the cash as a gift. She bought a Hummer, a Corvette and a truck, and went on vacation. Three months later, 26-year-old Shar Krasniqi - identified by Judd as Moore's boyfriend - bought the home in Plant City that Shakespeare's body was found behind. A tip led detectives there this week. Howard Stitzel, who happened to be Shakespeare's lawyer in a child support case, started working out Krasniqi's home after Shakespeare disappeared. Stitzel said he could not comment when reached by The Associated Press on Friday. His lawyer, Glenn Lansky, said Stitzel rented space in the home in mid-2009. The landlord was DeeDee Moore, Lansky said. If the police have any questions, we'll answer them. A phone number listed in public records for Krasniqi rang to Stitzel's law firm Friday. Shakespeare was last seen in April. Moore, who spoke several times to the Lakeland Ledger newspaper last year about his disappearance, said he was laying low because people constantly tried to get money out of him. She also told the paper she helped Shakespeare disappear. But Polk detectives say she tried to make it appear that he was alive for several months, at one point using his phone to text his relatives and friends. Detectives say Moore also paid one of Shakespeare's relatives $5,000 to deliver a birthday card with cash to Shakespeare's mother, suggesting it was from her son. So far, only one person has faced charges in the case, but not for Shakespeare's disappearance or death. Troy McKay Young, 42, a Lakeland police officer, was charged with unlawful compensation and misuse of confidential information after detectives said he provided Moore with information he obtained through law enforcement databases. Meanwhile, friends and family
[ppiindia] Indonesian maid raped in Qatif
Refleksi : Mesir sekalipun negeri berkebangsaan Arab menghentikan TKWnya ke Arab Saudia, tetapi rezim Kleptokratik Jakarta senang mengirim tenaga kerja wanita ke Arab Saudia. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1section=0article=132077d=30m=1y=2010pix=kingdom.jpgcategory=Kingdom Saturday 30 January 2010 (14 Safar 1431) Indonesian maid raped in Qatif Arab News JEDDAH: Nine days after her arrival to Qatif, Eastern Province, to work as a housemaid, the 21-year-old Indonesian woman identified as Leni says she was abducted and gang-raped by eight masked men. Police are searching for suspects after the maid was kicked out of a vehicle in front of a hospital. They took me in a car to an unknown place, she told Al-Yaum Arabic daily in a report published on Friday. She said two men grabbed her and three other men were in the vehicle that had windows tinted. Leni says the men took her to a place about 10 minutes from the home where she works. She was forced into a building where she encountered three other men. They took me to a room and beat me up with their hands and threatened me with a knife that they will kill me if I resisted, she said. Those criminals then started raping me, one after another, and they did not listen to my cries and call for mercy. She said criminals also took mobile phone pictures of her naked. Afterward, she was driven to a hospital and dumped. Leni said she approached two Saudi women nearby and told them what had happened. The women contacted police, who escorted Leni into the hospital. The maid's sponsor thanked police for their quick action and hoped that police would soon capture the criminals so they could be punished severely. A number of Saudi women have expressed their solidarity with the maid. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] Brutality against women continues
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1section=0article=132086d=30m=1y=2010pix=kingdom.jpgcategory=Kingdom Saturday 30 January 2010 (14 Safar 1431) Brutality against women continues Badea Abu Al-Naja | Arab News MAKKAH: Incidents of Saudi husbands mistreating their wives continue to occur, causing much anguish to the women involved. The mistreatment is usually of a worse kind when the wife is non-Saudi. We were married for 17 years. My marriage was full of all sorts of miseries and pain, said a woman from a neighboring Arab country who was married to a Saudi man 23 years older than her. Narrating her story, the woman who married when she was 16 said problems began four years after her marriage. It was then that my ex-husband began humiliating me, beating me and kicking me out of the apartment. I had no where to go but stand in the corridors of our apartment block in my nightgown, she said, adding that some of her neighbors would let her come into their homes until her husband would let her back in. After pressure from his relatives and friends, the woman's husband finally agreed to process paperwork for her to become a Saudi. After that my suffering took a new turn. He began to cheat on me in our own apartment. I caught him with other ladies. The most painful was when I caught him in compromising position with the housemaid who had been working with us for six years, she said. The woman, who asked her name not be published, said the mental torture she suffered was intolerable and that her husband then deserted her. After some time, he rented an apartment in the same building to trouble me more. He would disconnect electricity and water from my apartment and when he failed to get a reaction from me, he tried forcing me to return to my home country. He exerted all types of pressure on me until I finally gave in and left my children to return to my homeland, she said. She added that after eight months abroad she could no longer bear staying away from her children. I complained to the Saudi Embassy in my country. The ambassador was surprised that a Saudi was complaining against her Saudi husband outside the Kingdom and advised me to go back to the Kingdom and file a lawsuit against him in the courts there, she said. So she returned to the Kingdom and filed a complaint at a court asking for a divorce and access to her children. When my husband came to know about this, he reported the case to the police accusing me of running away. During this time I was staying with a woman friend. He called the friend and told her that she would be held responsible for harboring me. As a result my friend politely asked me to leave, she said. The woman said after all her friends declined to put her up, she had nowhere to go except the Grand Mosque. I stayed there for six months without money or clothes. I kept my passport and ID tightly tied around my waist and do-gooders would give me money to buy food and clothes, she said. It was during her stay in the Grand Mosque that she became acquainted with a woman who took her to a welfare building where she is still staying. She added that last month, a judge ruled that the couple should reconcile. But we failed to do so. My husband told the judge that I wanted a divorce in order to get the delayed dowry. I replied that I did not want his money or the gold he bought for me. I abandoned my right to child custody in exchange for a khula (legal separation) which I finally got, she said. The woman said she has not seen her children for seven months and would do anything to see them. My ex-husband does not want me to live in peace. He becomes happy by torturing me and has even complained to the police that I came to his house when he was not there and took my children's mobile phones and cameras, she added. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] Iran hard-liner demands more executions
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4section=0article=132098d=30m=1y=2010 Saturday 30 January 2010 (14 Safar 1431) Iran hard-liner demands more executions Agencies TEHRAN: A powerful hard-line Iranian cleric on Friday called for the execution of more opposition activists to silence anti-government protests, praising the hanging a day earlier of two men caught up in the leadership's postelection crackdown. Speaking in a Friday prayer sermon, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said the wave of street demonstrations sparked by the disputed June presidential election would not have lasted until now if protesters had been executed early on. Whatever we suffered was because of our weakness. How many did the judiciary execute on July 9? he said, referring to one of the particularly large protest days. We showed weakness, so then we had Ashura, he said, referring to a major protest on Dec. 27. Iran's judiciary is stepping up death sentences as the leadership intensifies its campaign to eliminate the challenge from the pro-reform opposition movement. Authorities announced Thursday that nine people accused of involvement in protests have been sentenced to death - including five who allegedly had a role in the Dec. 27 protests. The two men executed Thursday were arrested before the June 12 election on charges of belonging to an armed group aiming to topple the government. But authorities lumped them in with opposition activists arrested during the postelection crackdown. In his sermon, Jannati thanked Iran's judiciary chief, Sadeq Larijani, for Thursday's executions and urged more, saying: Stand up courageously for the sake of God, the same way you executed these two persons very quickly. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [ppiindia] Indonesian maid raped in Qatif
Tolong yg berwenang mengusut sampai tuntas.. --- On Fri, 1/29/10, sunny am...@tele2.se wrote: From: sunny am...@tele2.se Subject: [ppiindia] Indonesian maid raped in Qatif To: undisclosed-recipi...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 7:41 PM Refleksi : Mesir sekalipun negeri berkebangsaan Arab menghentikan TKWnya ke Arab Saudia, tetapi rezim Kleptokratik Jakarta senang mengirim tenaga kerja wanita ke Arab Saudia. http://www.arabnews .com/?page= 1section= 0article= 132077d= 30m=1y= 2010pix= kingdom.jpg category= Kingdom Saturday 30 January 2010 (14 Safar 1431) Indonesian maid raped in Qatif Arab News JEDDAH: Nine days after her arrival to Qatif, Eastern Province, to work as a housemaid, the 21-year-old Indonesian woman identified as Leni says she was abducted and gang-raped by eight masked men. Police are searching for suspects after the maid was kicked out of a vehicle in front of a hospital. They took me in a car to an unknown place, she told Al-Yaum Arabic daily in a report published on Friday. She said two men grabbed her and three other men were in the vehicle that had windows tinted. Leni says the men took her to a place about 10 minutes from the home where she works. She was forced into a building where she encountered three other men. They took me to a room and beat me up with their hands and threatened me with a knife that they will kill me if I resisted, she said. Those criminals then started raping me, one after another, and they did not listen to my cries and call for mercy. She said criminals also took mobile phone pictures of her naked. Afterward, she was driven to a hospital and dumped. Leni said she approached two Saudi women nearby and told them what had happened. The women contacted police, who escorted Leni into the hospital. The maid's sponsor thanked police for their quick action and hoped that police would soon capture the criminals so they could be punished severely. A number of Saudi women have expressed their solidarity with the maid. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] Hamas Official Murdered in Dubai Hotel
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/world/middleeast/30dubai.html?ref=global-home Hamas Official Murdered in Dubai Hotel By ROBERT F. WORTH and ISABEL KERSHNER Published: January 29, 2010 SANA, Yemen - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said Friday that one of its senior officials was murdered in a Dubai hotel room last week. Hamas accused Israel of the killing and vowed to retaliate. The official, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, lived in Syria and was a founder of Hamas's military wing, which has carried out hundreds of deadly attacks against Israel since the 1980s, Hamas officials said. He had survived several previous assassination attempts, relatives said, including one three months ago that left him in a coma for 24 hours. The Dubai police issued a statement saying that Mr. Mabhouh was killed hours after arriving in the city on Jan. 19 by a professional criminal gang that left Dubai before the body was discovered. The killers had been tracking him since before his arrival in Dubai, and most of them traveled on European passports, the statement said. There were conflicting reports about how Mr. Mabhouh was killed, with some relatives saying Hamas officials told them he was electrocuted and others saying he suffocated or was poisoned. Osama Hamdan, a Hamas spokesman in Lebanon, said, We will not talk about the details until we have put all the pieces of the puzzle together. Israeli officials declined to comment. Assassinations are rare in Dubai, a polyglot business hub on the Persian Gulf where deposed foreign leaders sometimes sought shelter. But that began to change last year after a former Chechen rebel was shot dead in an underground Dubai parking lot. The myth that Dubai is the eye of the storm, and no one will touch it because everyone has an interest, is being blown apart, said Christopher Davidson, the author of two books on the United Arab Emirates, to which Dubai belongs. Mr. Mabhouh is said to have organized the capture of two Israeli soldiers during a Palestinian uprising in the 1980s. He was imprisoned several times by Israel. Hamas has ruled Gaza since 2006, but its political leaders are also based in Damascus, Syria. There have been a number of attempts on the lives of Hamas members. Last month two Hamas officials were killed in a mysterious explosion in southern Beirut, near the headquarters of Hezbollah. In 1997, Khaled Meshaal, the leader of the group's Damascus politburo, survived an Israeli assassination attempt in Amman, Jordan. Mr. Mabhouh was buried in Al Yarmouk, a Palestinian camp, near the Syrian capital, on Friday afternoon. Television images showed large crowds of Palestinians in attendance, as pallbearers carried his coffin, draped in a green Hamas flag. Hamas officials visited the Mabhouh family home in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza and vowed to avenge his death. Ismail Haniya, the leader of the Hamas government in Gaza, kissed Mr. Mabhouh's father on the forehead and described his son as a hero. Another Hamas leader, Khalil al-Hayya, told reporters that Mr. Mabhouh was not the first one the Mossad's hand has reached. We reserve our right to respond to this crime in a suitable time and place, Mr. Hayya said. But, he added, We in Hamas emphasize that our battlefield is the land of Palestine and our battle with the enemy is in Palestine, and not on foreign soil. Mohammed Abdel Raouf al-Mabhouh, the brother of Mahmoud, said in an interview that he had last seen his brother in May 1989. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh escaped Gaza without telling his family where he was going. Mohammed said he had not been back in Gaza since, but that his wife and children had visited there in 2007. On Jan. 20, according to Mohammed, Mahmoud's wife called from Syria to say that Mahmoud had been found dead in his hotel room in Dubai, hours after his arrival there. Robert F. Worth reported from Sana, and Isabel Kershner from Jerusalem [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] New Fighter Makes Maiden Flight
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/new-fighter-makes-maiden-flight/398556.html New Fighter Makes Maiden Flight 29 January 2010 Reuters A new jet fighter seen as Russia's response to U.S. advances in military aviation made a successful first test flight on Friday, plane maker Sukhoi said Friday. The fifth-generation fighter - Russia's first all-new warplane since Soviet times - flew for about 45 minutes, Sukhoi spokeswoman Olga Kayukova said on Rossia television. The plane performed very well. All our expectations for this first flight were met, Kayukova said. The premiere was a success. Analysts have said it would probably be five to seven years before Russia's military gets to fly the first of the new fighters. The plane took off from Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Far East, Kayukova said. Authorities had initially promised the maiden flight last year. The fighter, which Rossia said has been tentatively dubbed the T-50 by its makers, is crucial to demonstrating that Russia can hold its own and even challenge U.S. technology. It is seen as Moscow's answer to the U.S.-built F-22 Raptor stealth fighter, which first flew in 1997. Fifth-generation jets are invisible to radar, have advanced onboard flight and weapons control systems and can cruise at supersonic speeds. The Soviet collapse plunged Russia's military into a cash-strapped time of troubles, and its plane makers have been building military aircraft based on Soviet-era designs. Several failed tests of the submarine-launched Buklava (Mace), an intercontinental ballistic missile touted by the Kremlin as able to pierce any air defense, have embarrassed Moscow. The new plane is also important for Russian arms sales. Sukhoi is Russia's largest exporter of military planes and accounts for about a quarter of the country's annual arms sales, which it said were worth $7.4 billion last year. Its biggest client is India. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] Tentera Indonesia terbabit
Refleksi: Tidak mengeherankan, kalau para petinggi tentara kaya raya, yang sial ialah prajurit krocok. http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010dt=0130pub=Utusan_Malaysiasec=Luar_Negarapg=lu_01.htm Tentera Indonesia terbabit JAKARTA 29 Jan. - Tentera Indonesia didakwa mempunyai pembabitan besar dalam perdagangan pembalakan haram yang memusnahkan hutan hijau negara ini yang seterusnya menyumbang kepada masalah pemanasan global. Laporan oleh sekumpulan penyelidik itu dikeluarkan beberapa hari selepas kerajaan menyatakan rancangan untuk meminta kerajaan-kerajaan asing untuk menyalurkan AS$1 bilion (RM3.4 bilion) dalam 'dana pelaburan hijau' untuk membantu mengurangkan gas hijau melalui projek infrastruktur mapan. Penyokong alam sekitar mempersoalkan, kerajaan akan dapat mencapai sasaran mengurangkan pencemaran sebanyak 26 peratus dari paras tahun 2005 menjelang 2020 dengan menghentikan pembalakan haram yang berleluasa. Namun kajian terbaru oleh Pusat Kerjasama Kajian Asia Timur (CEACoS) di Universiti Indonesia mendedahkan ia adalah perkara yang sukar dilaksanakan kerana pembabitan pihak tentera dalam perdagangan balak haram. Pengarah Eksekutif CEACoS, Tirta N. Mursitama yang mengetuai projek tersebut menyatakan, pihak tentera bertindak sebagai pengendali, pelabur, pelancar kerja dan orang tengah kepada pembalak haram di hutan bersempadan dengan Malaysia. Anggota tentera dari prebet hinggalah komander kawasan terlibat dalam pembalakan haram kawasan sempadan, katanya kepada pemberita. Kajian itu meliputi tempoh masa dari 1999 hingga 2006 di Kalimantan Timur, kawasan Indonesia di Kepulauan Borneo yang hutannya diratakan untuk produk balak dan penanaman kelapa sawit, kehilangan kawasan hijau yang paling cepat di dunia. Mursitama berkata, pegawai tinggi tentera menerima hasil daripada orang bawahan yang terlibat dalam pembalakan haram, sementara sebilangan lagi mempunyai hubungan rapat dengan 'cukong' atau ketua sindiket pembalakan haram. Penglibatan lain termasuk pelaburan dalam syarikat balak dan menerima rasuah untuk menguruskan permit pembalakan dari Kementerian Perhutanan. Seorang jurucakap tentera berkata, dia tidak melihat laporan itu dan tidak dapat mengulas mengenainya namun berjanji membuat tindakan susulan mengenainya. - AFP [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] Suspek pengebom pasar Sulawesi ditahan
http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010dt=0130pub=Utusan_Malaysiasec=Luar_Negarapg=lu_02.htm Suspek pengebom pasar Sulawesi ditahan JAKARTA 29 Jan. - Seorang suspek ekstremis yang didakwa membunuh 22 orang dalam satu pengeboman di sebuah pasar di Sulawesi pada tahun 2005 telah ditangkap. Polis Indonesia berkata, Eko Budi Wardoyo atau dikenali sebagai mun...@amin, ditahan minggu lalu di Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur. Polis memberkas suspek yang dipercayai terlibat dalam pengeboman di Tentena, Poso di Sulawesi pada 2005. Dia juga disyaki terlibat dalam kes menembak mati seorang paderi, Susianti Tinulele dan pengeboman pasar Tual di Palu, kata kata jurucakap polis, Edward Aritonang. Pada 28 Mei 2005, dua letupan bom menggegarkan pasar daging di bandar Tentena, Sulawesi Tengah, dalam serangan yang didakwa dilakukan oleh rangkaian Jemaah Islamiah (JI). Polis enggan mengulas sama ada Wardoyo menganggotai kumpulan itu atau tidak. - AFP [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] A Difference of Timing Between Two Societies
http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2id=19692 A Difference of Timing Between Two Societies 29/01/2010 By Mshari Al-Zaydi The social scenes in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are highly paradoxical. In Kuwait, where parliament, democracy, political groups, loud voices and theatrical history and arts all exist, a group of MPs and a host of Islamic sheikhs have called on the public to support the Saudi cleric, Sheikh Mohammed al Oraifi. This sheikh was denied entry to Kuwait for fear of stirring up sectarian conflict after he launched a verbal attack on the Shia religious scholar and Marja, Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, according to the government's latest version of the story. I read the statement published by the Kuwaitis in their press. The majority of them are not well known but their statement aims to serve one purpose: to rally support for Sheikh al Oraifi from a sectarian standpoint. This religious backing was further strengthened by verbal political manoeuvres made by Islamist MPs like Walid al Tabtabaei who said that the whole issue is between the Iraqis and the Saudi cleric, so what has it got to do with Kuwait? Meanwhile, other Islamist MPs are sharpening their tongues to grill the government about the ban on Sheikh al Oraifi's entry. Firstly, every country has the right to deny entry to anyone it thinks will cause problems in the country and could harm its security. That is why the Kuwaiti government, in the past, denied entry to Iranian Shia cleric Mohammed al Fali on grounds of inciting conflict between the two sects and delivering heated anti-Sunni speeches in a small-sized country that is already brimming with sectarian fanaticism particularly in recent years. The ban on al Fali entering the country had Kuwaiti Shia circles fuming with rage but now al Fali's supporters are celebrating the equalizer in this sectarian match with their rivals. This is quite worrying, and the government, any government in the world, cannot just sit and watch a bloody match between fanatics take place without taking action as this is likely to tear the country apart. The easiest solution would be to prevent both sides from colliding as a kind of temporary disengagement. But this is not enough by any means and will most probably cause further mobilization in both camps to strike back and score the decisive goal before the referee blows the whistle indicating the end of the match and the end of social harmony as well. Rioting spectators who were not satisfied with the final scores would then fly off the handle and go around burning and breaking things, hitting people and acting mad, as custom has it with football hooligans. Unfortunately, Shia and Sunni masses, in Kuwait and elsewhere, are busy settling historical scores and trying to show which out of the two camps is more rightly-guided. They are trying to demonstrate what happened over 1400 years ago despite the fact that our problem is to do with today and with issues related to building nations, the creation of collective intellectual and social apparatus and restoring the concepts of patriotism and citizenship. These concepts have been ripped to shreds because of sectarian, tribal, regional and ethnic tensions. Talking about a common national bond in countries like Iraq, Yemen, Somalia or Afghanistan today has become an object of ridicule and sometimes even of bitter resentment. Back to the case of Kuwait, what can we understand from students seeking to outmanoeuvre their mentors? Many potential theologians in Kuwait take pride in gaining knowledge from Saudi scholars, and this signifies the validity of the methodology. However, they did not stop at disputing the ban on allowing Sheikh al Oraifi to enter Kuwait, as this is an issue that could be understood within the context of Shia-Sunni exchanges, very much like the situation in neighbouring Iraq; rather, those theologians have now started to debate a far more important issue that is not related to sectarian violence in any way, and that is the issue of women. First of all I would like to say that I am totally aware that a large part of Saudi Islamist potential theologians support every strict hard-line proposal and oppose every new tolerant one. However, this is clear within the Saudi situation. What is unclear here is the vehement response from Kuwaiti Islamists to the concept of independent interpretation by Saudi sheikhs. It is very odd. Everyone in Saudi Arabia has observed the positive and exciting interaction within the ranks of top sheikhs and theology students over the issue of women, their role in society and the lifting of restrictions imposed upon them. This reached its peak with the statements made by Sheikh Ahmed Bin Qassem al Ghamdi, Director of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, Mecca Province (CPVPV). Not only did he make statements about the issue of women, but he
[ppiindia] Perencanaan Keuangan Perusahaan Pembiayaan Bank Syariah
By : Alihozi Pada akhir tahun 2008 s/d masuk tahun 2009, seorang pengusaha rumah sakit Dr.Budi namanya (nama samaran red) , dipusingkan dengan cash flow perusahaannya yang mendadak berubah drastis dari yang direncanakan karena pos pengeluaran biaya bunga pinjaman ke salah satu bank konvensional tiba tiba mengalami kenaikan cukup signifikan dari 11% pa menjadi 16%-18%pa karena pengaruh krisis global pada saat itu yang berimbas kepada kenaikan tingkat suku bunga pinjaman di tanah air. Apa yang dialami oleh perusahaan Dr.Budi tsb juga dialami oleh perusahaan perusahaan lain di Indonesia kecuali oleh perusahaan perusahaan yang sudah melakukan pembiayaan dengan bank syariah sebelum terjadinya krisis global, karena perusahaan-perusahaan yang sudah melakukan pembiayaan dengan bank syariah akadnya adalah murabahah/mudharabah yang bebas dari fluktuasi suku bunga, yang mana bank syariah tidak boleh melakukan perubahan pricingnya yang tercantum pada saat akad walaupun fluktuasi tingkat suku bunga pasar sedang mengalami kenaikan yang tinggi. Di negara kapitalis besar seperti AS , banyak Ekonom yang diperkerjakan untuk memprediksi suku bunga (kadang-kadang ada yang bergaji tinggi). Hal ini karena berbisnis perlu mengetahui tingkat suku bunga yang akan berpengaruh pada rencana pengeluaran di masa mendatang. Selain itu bank dan investor membutuhkan perkiraan suku bunga untuk memutuskan jenis asset yang dibeli dan melakukan investasi. Menurut Prof. Frederic S.Mishkin dalam bukunya The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets profesi memprediksi tingkat suku bunga merupakan bisnis yang membahayakan, karena ahli ekonom yang paling top sekalipun sering ramalannya terhadap tingkat suku bunga meleset. Berdasarkan uraian di atas volatilitas tingkat suku bunga memang sangat tinggi dan sulit sekali diprediksi oleh para ahli ekonom yang paling top sekalipun, karena banyak sekali faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi perubahan tingkat suku bunga tsb secara tiba tiba., seperti kondisi ekonomi makro, dampak pendapatan dari peningkatan penawaran uang, dampak tingkat harga dari peningkatan penawaran uang , dan dampak dari perkiraan inflasi dan lain sebagainya. Oleh karena itu alangkah bagusnya kalau perusahaan perusahaan nasional yang menginginkan perencanaan pengeluaran keuangan perusahaannya menjadi lebih baik yang tidak terpengaruh oleh volatilitas tingkat suku bunga tsb untuk beralih melakukan pembiayaan dari system bank konvensional ke system bank syariah, dengan system bank syariah kemampuan perusahaan untuk membayar semua kewajibannya ke bank bisa lebih terukur sejak awal. Salam http://alihozi77.blogspot.com Nb : Artikel ini ditulis untuk menjawab keraguan banyak kalangan yang masih meragukan konsep pembiayaan dg bank syariah lebih baik dari system bank konvensional dan bagi Anda yang ingin lebih mengetahui pembiayaan untuk perusahaan dengan system bank syariah bisa menghubungi alihozi hp:0813-882-364-05 atau email ali.h...@yahoo.co.id
