[ppiindia] Senjata antimatter
Yin, yang. Up-quark, down-quark. Matter, antimatter. Sounds familiar? Tak salah lagi, Dan Brown dalam thriller Angels and Demons. Disitu dikisahkan ada Illuminati yang mencuri senjata antimatter yang diambil dari lab particle accelerator CERN di Geneva. Dipakai untuk menghancurkan kota Vatican. Tapi yang dibawah ini bukan fiksi. Mohon dibaca. Sambil menunggu waktu berbuka. Salam, RM Air Force pursuing antimatter weapons Program was touted publicly, then came official gag order - Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer Monday, October 4, 2004 The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power source -- antimatter, the eerie mirror of ordinary matter -- in future weapons. The most powerful potential energy source presently thought to be available to humanity, antimatter is a term normally heard in science-fiction films and TV shows, whose heroes fly antimatter-powered spaceships and do battle with antimatter guns. But antimatter itself isn't fiction; it actually exists and has been intensively studied by physicists since the 1930s. In a sense, matter and antimatter are the yin and yang of reality: Every type of subatomic particle has its antimatter counterpart. But when matter and antimatter collide, they annihilate each other in an immense burst of energy. During the Cold War, the Air Force funded numerous scientific studies of the basic physics of antimatter. With the knowledge gained, some Air Force insiders are beginning to think seriously about potential military uses -- for example, antimatter bombs small enough to hold in one's hand, and antimatter engines for 24/7 surveillance aircraft. More cataclysmic possible uses include a new generation of super weapons -- either pure antimatter bombs or antimatter-triggered nuclear weapons; the former wouldn't emit radioactive fallout. Another possibility is antimatter- powered electromagnetic pulse weapons that could fry an enemy's electric power grid and communications networks, leaving him literally in the dark and unable to operate his society and armed forces. Following an initial inquiry from The Chronicle this summer, the Air Force forbade its employees from publicly discussing the antimatter research program. Still, details on the program appear in numerous Air Force documents distributed over the Internet prior to the ban. These include an outline of a March 2004 speech by an Air Force official who, in effect, spilled the beans about the Air Force's high hopes for antimatter weapons. On March 24, Kenneth Edwards, director of the revolutionary munitions team at the Munitions Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida was keynote speaker at the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) conference in Arlington, Va. In that talk, Edwards discussed the potential uses of a type of antimatter called positrons. Physicists have known about positrons or antielectrons since the early 1930s, when Caltech scientist Carl Anderson discovered a positron flying through a detector in his laboratory. That discovery, and the later discovery of antiprotons by Berkeley scientists in the 1950s, upheld a 1920s theory of antimatter proposed by physicist Paul Dirac. In 1929, Dirac suggested that the building blocks of atoms -- electrons (negatively charged particles) and protons (positively charged particles) -- have antimatter counterparts: antielectrons and antiprotons. One fundamental difference between matter and antimatter is that their subatomic building blocks carry opposite electric charges. Thus, while an ordinary electron is negatively charged, an antielectron is positively charged (hence the term positrons, which means positive electrons); and while an ordinary proton is positively charged, an antiproton is negative. The real excitement, though, is this: If electrons or protons collide with their antimatter counterparts, they annihilate each other. In so doing, they unleash more energy than any other known energy source, even thermonuclear bombs. The energy from colliding positrons and antielectrons is 10 billion times ... that of high explosive, Edwards explained in his March speech. Moreover, 1 gram of antimatter, about 1/25th of an ounce, would equal 23 space shuttle fuel tanks of energy. Thus positron energy conversion, as he called it, would be a revolutionary energy source of interest to those who wage war. It almost defies belief, the amount of explosive force available in a speck of antimatter -- even a speck that is too small to see. For example: One millionth of a gram of positrons contain as much energy as 37.8 kilograms (83 pounds) of TNT, according to Edwards' March speech. A simple calculation, then, shows that about 50-millionths of a gram could generate a blast equal to the explosion (roughly 4,000 pounds of TNT, according to the FBI) at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. Unlike regular nuclear bombs, positron bombs
Re: [ppiindia] Re: Ada harapan dengan GMO
Eropa menolak GMO dengan alasan environment (kaum Greens) dan etika (gereja) saya kira ada benarnya. Tapi ada alasan lain, yaitu greed (kerakusan). Mereka ingin petaninya tidak terdesak, buktinya? Mereka sudah membuka GMO bagi jagung dan kedelai, dua jenis crops yang tidak ditanam petani Eropa. Jagung memang ditanam di Hongaria dan Croatia, dua negara yang petani Perancis begitu tega mengorbankan mereka. Salam, RM --- rm_danardono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maaf, maksud saya: mas Rahardjo. Kecepatan mengetik, keluar huruf kecil (rahardjo). Salam RMD Hadinoto --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], rm_danardono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Betul,mas rahardjo, harapan manusia, terutama rakyat sangat kelaparan di Afrika yang selalu didera serangan hama, sangat mengulurkan tangan menanti hasil penterapan GMO ini dalam industri pertanian. Disini ada dua golongan, yang masih sangat menentang, pertama golongan Greens yang mengkhawatirkan penularan dampak negatif dari bahan makanan yang dimodifikasi ke manusia dan turunannya. Dalam pemberlakuan methoda ini untuk manusia, juga fihak gereja keras menentangnya. Disini akidah Kristiani bertabrakan dengan perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan. Dilain fihak, perkembangan jumlah penduduk yang mengerikan ini, hanya dapat dihadapi dengan pelipatan industri pangan sesuai dengan perkembangan itu. Secara stapak demi setapak, Uni Europa membuka pintu untuk pemberlakuan methoda ini , misalnya untuk tanaman jagung dan kedelai. Mudah2an ini dibaktikan bagi kebaikan manusia, yang seperti mas katakan, anugerah Allah bagi kita. Akal. Salam RM D Hadinoto --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], rahardjo mustadjab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seandainya GMO (genetically modified organisms) terbukti aman, dunia akan kecukupan pangan. Dan tanah yang semula ladang, dapat ditanami pohon banyak, sehingga erosi top soil dapat dihambat. Daun pohon akan makan CO2 dalam proses photosynthesis dan menghasilkan O2 yang dihirup oleh manusia. Lebih jauh, berkurangnya CO2 diudara akan mengurangi efek rumah kaca yang menyulut global warming. Saya percaya pada potensi manusia, yang salah satunya adalah intelegensia, dan itu dipunyai oleh manusia Indonesia termasuk Anda-anda. Selamat menunaikan ibadah Ramadhan besok atau lusa. Slam, RM GM seeds make their way into 25% of farmland NIDHI NATH SRINIVAS TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 09, 2004 01:32:38 AM ] NEW DELHI: It's been a creeping acquisition. Genetically modified seeds are slowly but surely taking over larger chunks of farm land across the globe. For the first time, one out of every four hectares in the world growing food, feed and fibre crops is now using transgenic seeds. To put that milestone in perspective, around 750 million acres, or one-third the total land area of China, is now under GM crops. In India itself, the area under Bt cotton has doubled within a year. By next year, the world is expected to grow GM oilseeds, cotton and maize on a whopping 100 million hectares. For GM seed companies, that would mean a cool $5 billion or more in sales. And with an average annual growth rate of 10%, GM usage is set to only increase further as large food and feed processing companies find they are meeting less resistance from consumers and law-makers world-wide. In 2003, 55% of the 76 million hectares of soyabean planted globally were transgenic, up from 51% in 2002. Twenty-one percent of the 34 million hectares of cotton were GM, up from 20% last year. The area planted to transgenic canola in 2003 was 16%, up from 12% in 2002. Finally, of the 140 million hectares of maize grown globally, 11% was GM in 2003 equivalent to 15.5 million hectares, up substantially from 9% or 12.4 million hectares in 2002. If the global areas (conventional and transgenic) of these four principal GM crops are aggregated, the total area is 272 million hectares of which 25%, up from 22% in 2002, was transgenic in 2003. Thus, for the first time one quarter of the aggregate area of the four crops, totalling over one quarter billion hectares is GM. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppi-india.uni.cc
[ppiindia] Ditemukan vaksin mencegah penyakit malaria
Beberapa tahun terakhir malaria menjadi penyakit masyarakat lagi di Indonesia. Padahal dulunya negara kita sudah dinyatakan bebas, kecuali beberapa tempat misalnya Irja. Rupanya penyebab malaria tidak lagi mempan dengan kinine. Tapi sayang, vaksin yang ampuh sukar ditemukan, maklum penyakit ini hanya ada di tempat tropis, yang penduduknya belum mampu membeli obat mahal. Jadi usaha farmasi multinasional enggan mengadakan riset untuk memperoleh vaksin ampuh. Untung ada dermawan Bill Gates dan isterinya yang adalah orang terkaya di dunia saat ini. Mereka keluar dana untuk mencari vaksin malaria, seperti mereka mendanai pemberantasan penyakit masyarakat yang lebih ganas, yaitu HIV/AIDS. Salam, RM (The New York Times) October 15, 2004 Malaria Vaccine Proves Effective By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. For the first time, researchers say, a vaccine against malaria has shown that it can save children from infection or death. The vaccine, tested on thousands of children in Mozambique, was hardly perfect: It protected them from catching the disease only about 30 percent of the time and prevented it from becoming life-threatening only about 58 percent of the time. But because malaria kills more than a million people a year, 700,000 of them children, even partial protection would be a public health victory. The disease, caused by a parasite carried by mosquitoes, is found in 90 countries, and drug-resistant strains are spreading. Dr. Allan Schapira, strategy coordinator for the Roll Back Malaria campaign at the World Health Organization, said the trial was good news, and definitely of great interest for malaria control. The director of the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which is underwriting tests on 15 experimental vaccines with money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said the GlaxoSmithKline product tried in Mozambique was now its leading candidate and had proved that the concept worked. We'd all like to see the numbers be higher, absolutely, said Dr. Melinda Moree, director of the initiative. But these are still very significant findings. The results - to be published tomorrow in the British medical journal The Lancet - were comparable to or better than other methods of preventing infection in African villages, like distributing mosquito nets and insecticides, she said. A malaria expert not connected with the study, Dr. Dyann Wirth, director of the Harvard Malaria Initiative, a program at the Harvard School of Public Health that is also seeking cures, was more cautious. She said the findings opened a fruitful area for further investigation, but needed larger trials. Glaxo and the Malaria Vaccine Initiative are planning such trials. But experts said it would be several years before the vaccine could be adopted as a childhood inoculation like those for diphtheria or measles. It is not yet known how long the vaccine's protection lasts, whether it is safe for infants and whether it is compatible with other vaccines. A trial of the same vaccine among adults in Gambia six years ago showed that it protected about 35 percent of them from infection, but that the protection waned after about two months. Still, experts noted that children stand to benefit more from a vaccine. In rural Africa, people can be infected several times a year. Children who survive to adulthood become immune. Newborns inherit some protection from their mothers, but it wears off in a few months. Young children are the hardest hit, and many who survive are brain-damaged. The most recent vaccine test, conducted in two rural districts in southern Mozambique, where malaria is endemic during the six-month rainy season, involved 2,022 children ages 1 to 4. Half of them were given the malaria vaccine; rather than placebos, the other half got vaccines against hepatitis or bacteria that cause meningitis. To ensure that the results were not skewed by other factors, the control and vaccine groups had roughly equal numbers of children who slept under mosquito nets at home and who lived near a clinic. The children were followed for six months and had home visits with blood and temperature checks at least once a month. Those who developed malaria were given immediate medical attention; the disease can kill in as little as 48 hours, but it can be cured if it is caught in time. To test the vaccine's ability to prevent new infections, two subgroups of about 180 children each were given drugs to clear any parasites they might have had before the trial began. In both subgroups, most children developed new parasites. But the number was considerably smaller among those who had received the vaccine: 123 children in the vaccine group, compared with 159 in the control group. Over all, 11 vaccinated children developed severe malaria while 26 in the control group did. Fifteen children died of various causes. None in the vaccine group died of malaria, while four in the control group did. Those numbers are too small to have any statistical meaning.
[ppiindia] Asian Innovation Awards 2004
(Far Eastern Economic Review) ASIAN INNOVATION AWARDS: THE WINNERS 2004: GLOBAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] AWARD Bank On This A home-grown Indian banking solution is keeping tabs on global financial transactions By John Larkin/NEW DELHI Issue cover-dated October 21, 2004 WANT TO START your own bank? You'll need money and an appetite for hard work. Chances are you'll also need Rajesh Hukku, the chairman and managing director of Mumbai-based i-flex solutions. This software company sells to banks the part of their operations that account holders never see. Every bank transaction sets off ripples of other transactions, like reporting obligations to regulatory authorities and fee calculations, which must be handled down the line by the bank's information-technology set-up. These back-office requirements vary from country to country, and more often than not have been in place for decades. Many have become a patchwork of IT add-ons over the years as new services cropped up, resulting in efficiency losses and millions of dollars in foregone savings. Some of these packages have been around since I was in kindergarten, says 46-year-old Hukku. It's like you have a beautiful body for your car, but the engine is 20 or 30 years old. That's where i-flex comes in. Its award-winning Flexcube software suite does the heavy lifting to help banks and other financial-services companies streamline everything from core banking to mortgages, investment banking, capital markets and mutual funds. It integrates all this data, enabling banks to monitor their risk exposure, regardless of location, to customers in real time across their entire range of products. That's often not possible at most banks with less-efficient systems. Flexcube also allows a banker with no programming expertise to create a new product within a week, rather than the months of reprogramming it would otherwise take. It can crunch nearly 7,500 transactions a second according to an audit by Ernst Young. For banks, that means a less-expensive way to deliver better services. For the past two years, Flexcube has been ranked the top-selling core banking-software package by the British International Banking System. It is used at financial institutions in 88 countries, 15 of which were added in the financial year 2003-04. Now it can add to its list of accolades the Global [EMAIL PROTECTED] Award for 2004, awarded by the REVIEW, in association with Singapore's Economic Development Board in recognition of the best application of technology to a strong business model. Hukku puts Flexcube's success down to the ease with which it can be tailored to requirements in different countries. Nothing is hard-coded, allowing the customer to fine-tune the software to its own needs. Hukku even built that concept into the product's name--Flex stands for flexible. The last three letters of the name, ube, stand for universal banking environment. It's a bank in a box, proclaims Hukku. If you ran into a lot of money and wanted to start your own bank, you could literally open our package and start the bank in a few months. Flexcube has 185 customers, and the number is rising. Its biggest contract is with Citibank, where Flexcube is being used to standardize its corporate-banking operations around the world. That means slashing the 59 existing patchwork versions of Citibank's in-house IT system down to just one--the biggest such conversion package ever undertaken, according to Hukku. Another client is Japan's resurgent Shinsei Bank, which uses Flexcube as its core system for retail and corporate banking. WHAT'S NEXT? The company has come a long way since its relatively humble beginnings in a small Mumbai office in 1992, ironically as a venture partly funded by Citibank. Now Hukku's mission is to keep the numbers healthy and eventually turn Flexcube into India's first global IT brand. It's already the top software-product company in India. Net income from operations rose from 1.14 billion rupees ($24.87 million) to 2.09 billion rupees between the financial years 2001-02 and 2003-04. It's one of the few Indian IT companies to build a business model based on its own home-grown product. The success of that endeavour will largely depend on the key United States market. Hukku is optimistic. Over the next several years it could be great for Flexcube when [U.S.] banks decide to change their systems, he says. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg
[ppiindia] Infosys cashes in on outsourcing
Sekedar pengantar untuk kawan-kawan yang belum tahu. Infosys adalah perusahaan software berpusat di Bangalore, sudah masuk Nasdaq, omzetnya tahun lalu lebih dari satu milyard dollar. Didirikan oleh Narayana Narayana Murthi dengan modal hanya $ 600 dollar, sepulang dia dari Perancis tahun 1960an. Sekarang Infosys menjadi perusahaan software 3 besar India yang sudah mendunia bersama Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) dan Wipro. Mengenai Wipro dengan Azim Premji-nya akan saya singgung kalau ada topik yang cocok. Sukses Infosys adalah sukses new economy, yang bersandar pada frontier technologies (sofware, biotechnology, genetic engineering, robotics, nanti bisa ditambah lagi). Narayana Murthi mulanya sama sekali bukan orang kaya, tapi dengan ide dan otak cemerlang dia kini jadi milyarder dalam dollar, jadi orang no.4 terkaya di India. Menyalib orang yang punya pabrik. Salam, RM Infosys cashes in on outsourcing India's Infosys has turned in sharply higher quarterly profits, helped by new contracts to run other companies' technical support services. The company said net profits for the second quarter came in at 4.5 billion rupees ($97.1m;£54m), a 49% increase on the same period last year. Sales also rose, climbing 52% on the year to 17.5 billion rupees. Chief executive Nandan Nilekani said the firm had benefited from a mega-trend towards outsourcing. Offshore Outsourcing - where firms contract out functions such as computer support to outside companies - has become an increasingly popular way for major multinationals to keep costs under control. Indian companies - drawing on a highly-educated and comparatively cheap labour force - have become the chief beneficiaries of the trend. Infosys, which exports software as well as offering outsourcing services, said it had signed up 32 new customers during the second quarter. Chief operating officer Kris Gopalakrishnan said public controversy in the US over the jobs impact of outsourcing appeared to have faded. It seems to be behind us, he told the Reuters news agency. There seems to be less concerns coming close to the (US Presidential) elections. Infosys said it now expected to make full-year profits of 71.3 - 71.6 billion rupees, up from its previous forecast of 67.3 - 67.7 rupees. It added that it had taken on 5,010 new employees over the second quarter, lifting its total workforce to 32,949. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/business/3735394.stm Published: 2004/10/12 06:41:17 GMT Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Translator Rashid careful with words
Membuat subtitle film bukan pekerjaan mudah. Sebab si penterjemah memberi alih bahasa dari dialog, seringkali bahasa gaul (colloquial), dialognya cepat pula, mana mungkin ditulis longhand (tulisan biasa) harus short hand (steno). Maka itu sering subtitle jadi janggal, tidak nyambung dengan adegan. Apalagi kalau si penterjemah tidak menguasai suatu subject, jadinya carrier diterjemahkan kapal pengangkut padahal seharusnya kapal induk. Atau tidak jarang acre menjadi are padahal sungguh lain. Memberi subtitle film Indonesia lebih sulit lagi, karena perlu kemampuan colloquial English yang lumayan. Dari sedikit film Indonesia yang beredar diluar, saya acungkan jempol pada film Ada apa dengan Cinta, itu film remaja SMA yang penuh bahasa gaul anak ABG. Salam, RM Print October 14, 2004 Translator Rashid careful with words A. Junaidi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Local movie viewers will never see the Indonesian translation of words such as Arab terrorists used in subtitles for Hollywood films because Rashid Rachman translates it into kelompok teroris (terrorist group), instead. The viewers will also not read the proper translation of make love, f... or have sex along the bottom of the big screen as Rashid will translate the words as bercinta (make love). He translates other words such as penis and vagina as kemaluan (genitals). Many viewers may grumble at what they perceive to be Rashid's frequent translation errors. Not many people know about Rashid. As soon as a film ends people usually make a mad dash for the exit. Probably, only a few cinema goers have noticed his name at the end of films in the credits: ... diterjermahkan (translated by) Rashid Rahman. The 68-year-old Rashid is the most senior among three translators working for the only film importer, PT Subtan Film, of the Twenty-One Group. They translate the dialog from colloquial English into colloquial Bahasa Indonesia, as far as is possible, within the limits that cultural differences allow. Rashid acknowledged that he also personally imposes a restriction on sensitive words covered by the Indonesian acronym SARA (ethnic affiliation, religion, race and societal groups). The sensitivities behind these issues are often been deemed to have led to conflict in Indonesia. If I didn't exercise censorship, the film censorship authority would do it. If they miss something, people will protest, he said in an interview with The Jakarta Post recently. He said many movie goers might complain that he did not translate the dialog properly as he simply translates the film from a copy of the script, without actually seeing the film. He said the scripts arrived often only a week before the film was due to be screened and he had two or three days to translate the dialog, which could reach 1,000 pages. A film is translated by a translator. It's different to the translation of television shows, which are usually done by four people, including an editor. It's really stressful, he said. He added that a film translator had only one day to edit the translation while listening to the film soundtrack before it was played in a cinema. We just guess the precise words from listening. We make mistakes sometimes, he said, adding that not many people are interested in the job because of the hard work it entailed. Besides Rashid, the two other film translators are Yusuf Adi, 60, and D. Hery R., 54. Many applications come in for the job. But many people quit after trying it. Now it's only three of us, Rashid complained. He declined to discuss the payment he received from the company, saying that it was based on the number of films he translated. Sometimes, if there are no new films, we have nothing to do. Some of us even resort to translating films for video, he said, adding that before the economic crisis in 1997, he could translate 30 films a month. Rashid's interest in watching films started when he was a young boy. He often spent his pocket money to watch films together with his younger sister Rachmini, who is known also as Mien Uno, the director of the John Robert Powers finishing schools in Indonesia. His interest in film translation was prompted after seeing Desiree starring Marlon Brando, which was translated by noted artist Asrul Sani in 1962. I still remember the film. The translation was very good; it was beautiful, said Rashid, who is still single and considers his colleague Hery as his adopted son. Rashid now lives alone in a modest house in Baranangsiang, Bogor. Rashid's first film translation was I Passed for White which was produced by Allied Artists in 1963. Born the fourth of eight children, Rashid never planned to become a film translator. I once dreamed of being a movie actor, he said. His educational background is not connected with his job. He dropped out in the second year of his studies at the department of agriculture of
[ppiindia] India shows the world the path to prosperity
[EMAIL PROTECTED] India shows the world the path to prosperity! HCL Technologies creates fastest growing call centers in the UK! Sujan Sen, Special Correspondent October 05, 2004 HCL is creating magic! Even UKs Financial Times agreed on the fact! The Apollo Road call center in Belfast has an Indian outsourcing company to thank for its status as one of the fastest-growing call centers in the UK. New Delhi-based HCL Technologies acquired a 90 per cent stake in the site in 2001 from BT and has since more than tripled the workforce to 1,100 people by broadening the range of industries it services beyond telecoms. In a trend-bucking move, Indian IT company HCL Technologies Ltd said on Monday it was creating 250 jobs with the expansion of a call centre in Northern Ireland. India's fifth-biggest software services exporter is receiving 920,000 pounds ($1.64 million) in state aid through Invest NI for the 1.9 million pounds investment in its HCL BPO call centre operation in Belfast. This investment is especially significant as it reverses the trend, said Barry Gardiner, a junior minister in Britain's Northern Ireland Office. As Northern Ireland's first inward investment from India, HCL has become a successful role model for other Indian technology-driven companies seeking an attractive location to develop business within the newly-enlarged European Union. In recent years the trend has been in the opposite direction, with more than 50,000 British jobs, particularly in call centers, moving to India as companies cut costs. The jobs boost for Belfast will partially offset last week's announcement from textile firm Fruit of the Loom that it was cutting 650 jobs on both sides of the Irish border over the next four to five years as it switches operations to Morocco. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppi-india.uni.cc *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Love Thy education
The Economic Times Thursday, October 14, 2004| Updated at 01:26 hrs UK seems ready to go quite a distance in shoring up its educational equations with India. This is quite evident with the recent £200-m grant to bolster Indias Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). The SSA has been incorporated in the Constitution to ensure eight years of elementary education for every child. UKs minister of schools, David Miliband, has also thrown open the doors to foster partnerships between Indian and British schools. This move has been initiated across Delhi, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal to begin with. The £200-m funding is a completely fresh grant towards backing up the SSA and will spread over four years. We have also opened a global educational gateway on the internet to trigger tie-ups between the UK and international schools. We would like India as a strategic partner in this global exercise, Mr Miliband said. He was interacting with the media in Kolkata on Friday. The purpose of going the whole hog to build bridges between the school education systems of India and the UK are largely two-fold. The first is to create the platform so that both countries have access to each others knowledge base. This could help infuse the necessary improvements in the two systems. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppi-india.uni.cc *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] IITan shows how to make locally and sell globally
[EMAIL PROTECTED] IITian shows how to make locally and sell globally Oct. 9, 2004 For any IITian, working in MNCs for a handsome pay is the safest and smartest bet. But V Sasi Kumar's ingenuity was operating on a different plane. Heeding his own intuition, he started Phoenix Medical Systems Private Ltd. to make medical equipment for mother and baby care. Today, in less than two decades, not only hospitals in India and some Third World countries, but also medical establishments in Switzerland and the US have begun to import the Phoenix baby-warmers and photo therapy units. The product has recently been approved by the FDI. The company expects the same response to its other products. At the local level, many doctors and hospitals have been consulting Sasi Kumar to set up comfortable ICUs, labour rooms and other wards. ``I never thought I was going to make it. It was not easy at all, says Sasi Kumar. He Phoenix project was inspired by his prototype baby incubators he had made during his final-year in IIT. ±``Senior paediatricians were thrilled. They encouraged me to pursue further research in the area. Nevertheless, when I told my parents and relatives about it, they thought I was crazy to reject offers from world's best manufacturing companies, recalls Sasi Kumar. A determined Sasi Kumar was not ready to leave anything to chance. He spent several days and nights in different wards of hospitals to understand the needs of a child, a doctor, paramedical staff and attenders. He looked for drawbacks in the existing products, the difficulties and the comforts they gave. That was his first RD work for the company. In 1993, the company came out with an incubator with the world's first oval-shaped single-mould bed. Most raw material and spare parts, barring a few electronic gadgets, were indigenous. Hospitals and many senior paediatricians found the equipment at least 50 percent cheaper than the imported ones. ``What's more important was we signed annual maintenance contracts with our customers. We were available round-the-clock and the hospitals found our value-added services like import of allied equipment attractive, says Sasi Kumar. At present, Pheonix's customers include Governments of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, Escorts (Delhi), Apollo Hospitals Group and Kanchi Kamakoti Child Trust Hospital. ``They did not want an equipment with wires jutting out as it can horrify the patient. Instead, they asked for one that could be hidden inside cupboards. A family suite that would double up as labour ward or a paediatric ICU that is child-friendly and also a sterile zone. Sasi Kumar is still aiming higher. He says his dream is to be a part of the hospital planning team. ``We will do it some day, he says. Despite the success, Sasi Kumar is rattled by the lack of legislation to check the quality of medical equipment. ``A drug has to go through several rounds of animal and clinical trials. In contrast, even a tin box can be marketed as an ECG machine and no authority questions the manufacturer. In the absence of proper rules, we will end up playing with more lives, he regrets. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppi-india.uni.cc *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [ppiindia] Gutten Morgen...
Nggak mau kalah saya. Sekarang saya kasih teka-teki: cari bilangan kalau dikalikan dengan bilangan itu sendiri hasilnya; 12345678987654321 Saya tunggu jawabnya 30 menit lagi. Salam, RM --- Listy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wah , bener2 keren dech nih angka -Original Message- Amazing Math... 0 x 9 + 0 = 0 1 x 9 + 1 = 10 12 x 9 + 2 = 110 123 x 9 + 3 = 1110 1234 x 9 + 4 = 0 12345 x 9 + 5 = 10 123456 x 9 + 6 = 110 1234567 x 9 + 7 = 1110 12345678 x 9 + 8 = 0 123456789 x 9 + 9 = 10 1 x 1 = 1 11 x 11 = 121 111 x 111 = 12321 x = 1234321 1 x 1 = 123454321 11 x 11 = 12345654321 111 x 111 = 1234567654321 x = 123456787654321 1 x 1 = 12345678987654321 Another Magic of Math 1 x 8 + 1 = 9 12 x 8 + 2 = 98 123 x 8 + 3 = 987 1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876 12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765 123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654 1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543 12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432 123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321 Then... Check this out 1 x 18 + 1 = 19 12 x 18 + 2 = 218 123 x 18 + 3 = 2217 1234 x 18 + 4 = 22216 12345 x 18 + 5 = 15 123456 x 18 + 6 = 214 1234567 x 18 + 7 = 2213 12345678 x 18 + 8 = 22212 123456789 x 18 + 9 = 11 Coba yg ini 123456789 + 987654321 = 10 1 x 142857 = 142857 (angka sama) 2 x 142857 = 285714 (angka sama beda urutan ) 3 x 142857 = 428571 (angka sama beda ururan) 4 x 142857 = 571428 (angka sama beda urutan ) 5 x 142857 = 714285 (angka sama beda urutan) 6 x 142857 = 857142 (angka sama beda urutan) 7 x 142857 = 99 ( waw..suatu hasil yang Fantastis ) ada lagi lho... bilangan sembarang jika dikalikan 9 maka jumlah hasilnya = 9 kita buktikan. 1 x 9 = 9 2 x 9 = 18, jumlah 1 + 8 = 9 3 x 9 = 27, jumlah 2 + 7 = 9 4 x 9 = 36, jumlah 3 + 6 = 9 dst. sampai tak terhingga ..Ok khan ... ada lagi 22 x 9 = 198, .cara cepatnya 2 x 9 = 18, lalu selipkan angka 9 ditengah, jadi 198ok buktikan sendiri cara cepatnya berikut ini... 33 x 9 = 297, cara cepat 3 x 9, selipkan 9 ditengah 44 x 9 = 396 55 x 9 = 495 66 x 9 = 594 77 x 9 = 693 88 x 9 = 792 99 x 9 = 891 lalu bagaimana dengan 3 angka kembar yach ??? sama aja tuch tinggal selipkan 99 ditengahnya gak percaya kita buktikan yach... 222 x 9 = 1998, cara cepat 2 x 9= 18, selipkan 99 ditengah 333 x 9 = 2997 444 x 9 = 3996 555 x 9 = 4995 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppi-india.uni.cc *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Militer menarik manfaat dari program ISRO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Defense must gain from Indias civilian space program4 By NK Pant, Freelance Contributor October 13, 2004 Indian Space Research Organisations (ISRO) flawless lift off of power packed three-stage GSLV rocket with the EDUSAT satellite as its sophisticated payload in the later half of September 2002 heralds a new eventful chapter in Indias outer space exploration efforts. EDUSTAT was later successfully placed in geo-stationary orbit at the height of 36,000 kilometres for beaming educational programs to thousands of Indian students residing in inaccessible areas yet keen on continuing with their schooling through the process of distant learning. Justifiably termed as a turning point in Indias space efforts, the invaluable satellite, after the accompanying ground based software and hardware is fully in place, should prove to be immensely beneficial to a large section of student community. The previous successful launch of indigenously developed GSLV-D2 was carried out nearly a year back from Sriharikota Space Center when the launch vehicle had placed nearly a two-ton GSAT-2 satellite in the orbit. The accomplishment proved a clear betterment over the first GSLV that had soared into the space in April 2001. The Indian space scientists have also perfected another smaller workhorse carrier Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) to facilitate launching of remote sensing and other scientific payloads into lower sun-synchronous orbits with conceivable strategic applications. In October 2003 PSLV rocket had injected Resource Sat-1 into predetermined orbit 817 km above earth. These successful launches prove beyond doubt ISROs capability to design, fabricate and successfully hurtle satellites into outer space for a variety of applications ranging from development to nations defense and security. However, from defense point of view, remote sensing satellites carry important dual use functions. Equipped with sophisticated powerful cameras having a resolution of one meter, the latest remote sensing space vehicles send clear imageries for accurately mapping the country in the field of natural resources providing the planners vital inputs for development activity. These not only transmit scientific data to varied fields like forestry, mines, water resources, agriculture, fisheries, weather forecasting, disaster management so on and so forth but in addition also provide much needed reconnaissance system and operational planning assistance to our armed forces. Nevertheless, the real importance of these civilian satellites lies in their military applications capability to take high-resolution pictures of enemys strategic and tactical positions across the international borders thus helping the defense forces to plan their moves. The satellite will help in linking classrooms across India. India has launched its first satellite to be used for expanding the country's educational network. It is indeed creditable to note that ISROs remote sensing satellites have of late kept a close watch over Tibet where recent land slides have created a huge artificial lake in the Sutlej basin which if breached could have caused unprecedented floods in Himachal Pradesh. The possible alternate function of these satellites can also be to keep an eye on surreptitious Chinese troop, aircraft and missile deployment in the Tibetan Autonomous Region enabling our forces to take timely appropriate counter measures. A well-entrenched civilian space program also carries another strategic fringe benefit for Indias security, as experts feel that a satellite launch rockets can easily be adapted for military purposes. Once the country fully develops proven and dependable launchers like PSLV or GSLV to place various kinds of satellites in near or distant space orbits, these if needed, can also be easily modified into intermediate or intercontinental range ballistic missiles (IRBM or ICBM) to act as deterrents. For a country like ours where funds are hard to come by, this is the only way through which exorbitantly high cost of the military missile system can be absorbed by development of satellite launchers for civilian applications. Incidentally India spends only $400 million yearly on its space program compared to Chinas $2.5 billion. Presently GSLV is using cryogenic engines imported from Russia as the indigenous engine is still under development. Till India does not have its own cryogenic engines and more powerful booster rockets, it may not be able to place heavier communication satellites in outer space. Incidentally, Indias biggest rocket payload happens to be 3 tons as against Chinas 9.2 tons and hence the country apparently has a long gap to cover. However, in medium launch capability ISRO is doing quite well. That it has reportedly secured a $10 million contract to launch a satellite for the European Union using PSLV suggests emergence of a gainful market for space launches. The coming years
Re: [ppiindia] mobil PM india,...
Mungkin anda maksudkan mobil Ambassador, ya. FYI, di India yang disebut leader itu bukan cuma pemimpin politik/pemerintahan saja. Tapi juga dari kalangan bisnis/industri. Nah, dari captains of the industri ini mau saya sebut saja dua orang yang memberi teladan untuk menghargai isi daripada kulit. Azim Premji, boss Wipro, adalah orang terkaya no.1, tapi naik pesawat selalu pilih kelas ekonomi. Kalau nginap di hotel, dia tinggal di kamar standard, bukan suite, itupun hotel bisnis, bukan hotel kelas satu. Kalau tiba di bandara, dia naik taksi buat ke kantor, bukan minta dijemput mobil perusahaan. Di kantornya, dia menolak disediakan tempat parkir khusus. Mobilnya hanya Ford Escort bikinan 1995. FYI, di India sekarang berseliweran mobil Daimler-Chrysler, Mercedes series S, Infiniti, Lexus, dsb. Narayana Murthy, boss Infosys, adalah orang kaya no.4. Infosys bersama Wipro dan TCS, sudah tercatat di Nasdaq, dan omzet masing-masing tahun lalu diatas 1 juta dollar. Narayana Murthy juga punya mobil sedang, bukan mewah, tapi saya tak tahu merk apa. Di rumahnya di Bangalore, dia tidak punya pembantu, jadi yang masak dan ngepel rumah, ya isterinya, yang sama-sama insinyur. Anaknya, waktu SMA (sekarang mahasiswa MIT) naik bus ke sekolah. Salam, RM --- Aminta Ginting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: betul sekali bung NIzami,... saya jadi inget artikel di KOMPAS tentang PM India yeng menolak mobil BMW yang sudah terlanjur diorder. dia prefer pada mobil merk apa tuh,.yang banyak berseliweran di India itu, lho,.. yang kalau di Indonesia sering kita bilang mobil tuan takur ,.. body agak kecil dan ada bonnet depan serta ekor belakang,.. basic_nya kayaknya dari Fiat 1100 dech, di tahun 60-an,.. mobil yang sama juga dipakai sebagai mobil yang dipukuli, ditabrakkan dan diduduki gajah, terakhir menjelam menjadi peugeot 206 itu,.. jabat erat jangan hemat, AG == Message: 24 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:03:34 -0700 (PDT) From: A Nizami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: Pimpinan MPR Tolak Volvo Bung Leo, mobil Volvo pimpinan MPR yang akan diberikan itu adalah mobil baru yang harganya bisa di atas Rp 1 milyar. Bukan mobil Volvo bekas tahun 1995...:). Tiap 5 tahun, meski sudah pernah diberi mobil Volvo (contoh AM Fatwa sudah punya Volvo yang sekarang juga menolak Volvo baru), nanti dapat lagi... Kalau yang diberi mobil bekas, biar Volvo juga akan sering mogoknya dan biaya servicenya besar...:) Sebaiknya mobil untuk para pejabat, Kijang juga sudah cukup. Harganya tidak lebih dari Rp 200 juta. Irit dan bisa memuat banyak orang serta cukup nyaman dipakai. Ayolah kita hargai sikap para pimpinan MPR sekarang yang benar2 mewujudkan sikap hidup sederhana dengan contoh nyata. Bukan ceramah meminta rakyat hidup sederhana, tapi dia sendiri menikmati mobil mewah dengan fasilitas uang negara/rakyat. Sejahterakan dulu rakyat, baru boleh foya2. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppi-india.uni.cc *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Lee Kuan Yew bicara
Jangan bilang LKY pro-Amerika. Kalau sudah mengenai prinsip, dia sering berlawanan dengan Amerika, contohnya segudang. Nyatanya, dia hanya pro-Singapura. Dalam rohnya, dia seorang Anglo-fili sejati, dan bicara Inggris dengan aksen Cambridge yang pas. Yang jelas, dia musuh dan memusuhi komunis. Lawan komunis adalah orang yang paham Marxisme seperti LKY. Waktu di Cambridge, dimana ia selesai dengan magna cum laude, dia debater ulung di debating club. Waktu itu dia jadi kader Labour Party yang waktu itu beraliran Marxist. Makanya sekembalinya ke Malaya, dia keras terhadap kaum komunis yang waktu itu mendominasi kehidupan politik dan sosial di pulau Singapura. Tak jarang dia bicara langsung di Congress, seperti ketika dia mendobrak Jenkins Bill yang mau membatasi import tekstil. Menghadapi Congress mudah untuk orang sekelas LKY dan Abba Eban (sekarang almarhum), tokoh Israel yang juga sama-sama keluaran Cambridge, juga dengan summa cum laude. Mendengar LKY bicara di Congress atau Abba Eban di PBB, audience mengira Aldous Huxley yang bicara, karena bicaranya forceful tapi persuasive. Seperti saya pernah posting disini, Muslim di Singapura adalah Muslim yang positif dan konstruktif. Di tulisan bawah, LKY mengingatkan apa yang musti diperbuat menghadapi teroris yang berlomba-lomba satu sama lain dalam kekejian mereka. Silahkan baca dengan cermat. Salam, RM OCT 13, 2004 Terrorists outdoing one another in savagery By Lee Kuan Yew THIS year's presidential election in the United States has special significance for East Asia. A Pacific Ocean diminished in size by technology has linked East Asia's economic future with America's. Any slowdown in the US spells problems for Asia. Although intra-East Asian trade has grown by double digits yearly since the 1990s, the end destination for about 25 per cent of the region's manufactured products is still the US. Asia needs a US administration that supports free trade and is able to restrain domestic pressures to protect American jobs by restricting outsourcing. AMERICA'S FRIENDS TARGETED OF EVEN greater concern to Asia, however, is the Islamist terror threat. Because globalisation has brought about a planet-wide focus, suicide bombers now target Americans and America's friends in Asia. In Iraq, besides Americans and Britons, terrorists have taken Italians, Egyptians, Turks, Nepalese, Indians, Pakistanis and many others hostage. When the Italian government refused to withdraw its troops from Iraq, terrorists killed the Italian journalist they were holding. They had expected the Italian government to yield in the same way that the Philippines had in order to save its countryman. Terrorists in Iraq have also beheaded one Nepali, two Bulgarians, one South Korean and three Americans, besides killing many others. The 'Islamic Army in Iraq' went beyond demanding the withdrawal of foreign forces; it threatened to kill two French journalists if France didn't rescind its ban on the wearing of headscarves by Muslim girls attending French state schools. Some believe that if the US had not attacked Iraq, the terrorists would not have become so numerous and so barbaric. Escalating terrorist outrages both inside and outside Iraq show a dynamic independent of what's going on there. Every new horror is quickly copied, including coordinated suicide bombings, hostage-takings and intimidation through the posting of videos of beheadings on the Internet. Disparate terrorist groups outdo one another in extremes of savagery. They are eager to die and take with them as many victims as possible. Islamists consider an attack on Muslims anywhere as a crime against all Muslims. Their websites tabulate massacres of Muslims in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Kashmir, Mindanao, Ambon, Poso and Palestine, citing all as atrocities against the Muslim ummah (community). To influence Indonesia's presidential elections on Sept 20 and Australia's elections on Oct 9, Islamic jihadists exploded a huge car bomb on Sept 9 at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, killing nine and injuring 182. To their credit, Indonesians and Australians have not allowed this attack to influence their elections. Al-Qaeda has supported disparate Muslim insurgencies all over the world, providing funds, training and expertise in the art of mass killing. Chechen terrorists have bombed a subway station in Moscow, blown up two Russian planes using suicide bombers and, in concert with other terrorists, taken more than 1,000 Russian parents, children and teachers hostage in a school in Beslan. They killed more than 330 in cold blood at that school - more than half of them, children. Extensive preparations and perfect coordination, as well as the use of suicide bombers, heavy surveillance and possible rehearsals were the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda's 9/11 attacks, as noted in the US 9/11 Commission Report. The Beslan terrorists had studied the 2002 Moscow theatre siege, avoiding mistakes made there. Windows at the
[ppiindia] Neither fools, nor crooks
Print October 13, 2004 (Editorial Jakarta Post) Neither fools, nor crooks Not so long ago, around the time of the year when governments are formed, many among our political elite would be inflicted with a temporary case of AIDS. No, not that dreadful disease ravaging the world's population, but a sudden case of vanity while awaiting the telephone call to confirm their exalted appointment as Cabinet minister. An Indonesian acronym for Aku Ingin Ditelpon Soeharto (I want to be telephoned by Soeharto), AIDS poignantly described the conceited regard for high appointment -- a get rich scheme which bestowed power and all the indulgences of political patrimony. There was little semblance of the awareness that Cabinet posts are positions of high service, not high privilege. In theory, at least, president-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has begun to put a stop to it. That is not to say that undesirables are not camping out at Cikeas -- Susilo's residence -- trying to grab his attention. But at the very least the president-elect has introduced a new screening process by personally interviewing a short list of ministerial candidates for a particular post. For the moment the process has created a media frenzy. Even SMS (short Message Service) polling is encouraged by television stations on the respective ministerial candidates as if it were some hollow reality show. Watching the circus unfold the public is treated to a who dunit? mystery, only this time the premise being who'll get it? The way in which a government is selected, organized and managed will have implications on the procedural legitimacy that stake holders like the House of Representatives and the general public, will grant in policy making. Thus in principle, Susilo's selection process deserves support. We hope that he will remain faithful to his idea that job interviews will serve as a means to examine not only the candidates personal competence, but his or her loyalty to the new president's vision. We understand that the interviews may also serve as a sieve to remove politically sensitive candidates from the final selection. Susilo at the very least can now make his choice under the guise of appraising the interview, and not merely his personal inclination. We welcome this move and wholly endorse the selection of competence over political favor. However, we would also like to remind our president-elect that in an age of direct democracy and parliamentary rambunctiousness, technical competence and scholarly flair are not the sole proprieties in making a good Cabinet. Wit and political congeniality are no less important for an administration likely to be the most scrutinized in four decades. We urge Susilo to define in his own mind the positions needed to govern and the people he needs to fill them. He is not bound by stifling bureaucratic traditions in this case because simply, there are none preceding. Susilo should proceed with whatever experiments he may feel necessary for this process without wasting time. His goal should be toward forming a team. Each appointment demarcated by distinctly separate assignments, yet able to work collegially with one another. Lone rangers are not welcome. The selection should include people who cede to a democratically elected president, but always those who are also ever ready to sharpen issues and raise concerns over dubious policy ambitions. Yes men are not wanted. Finally, and most importantly, it is most desirable for the Cabinet to include only individuals whose personal traits protect them from the clamor of the mob, the allure of power and the charm of riches. We seek not a Cabinet of fools at the price of gaining a Cabinet of crooks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Flaws are normal in development cycle
Penjelas: DRDO = Defense Research and Development Organization. Anggaran DRDO tahun lalu Rs 4000 crore atau Rs 40 milyard (rupiahnya kalikan 200). Punya 51 lab yang hitech. Trishul, Akash dan Nag = rudal Arjun = tank Lakshya = pesawat jet tempur Kapal selam tidak masuk dalam wawancara ini. Salam, RM (outlook.com) Magazine | Oct 18, 2004 INTERVIEW 'Flaws Are Normal In Development Cycle' The Arjun project's architect M. Natarajan took over as DRDO chief in September. He calls the Arjun battle-ready but the army refuses to operationalise it. Excerpts from an interview: A court of inquiry investigating a Jaguar crash has faulted the FBRN-4I fuse. The existing fuse design was reviewed by two independent teams and both deemed it safe. However, modifications have been proposed to improve reliability. Since the impact ballistic mode of operations fuse FBN-2I already exists with the IAF, the use of FBRN 4I will be restricted to RTU (Retarded Tail Unit or a bomb with parachute which explodes shortly after release) mode. The existing explosive-filled fuses will be modified to convert the fuses into retarder mode. Production of the fuses will be taken up with the modifications. Is Arjun induction-ready? Yes. The tanks are being made ready for operational induction. Certain residual mandatory quality checks are being carried out by the DRDO and the army now. They say Arjun can't be deployed in areas like Suratgarh and Hanumangarh, that the bridges can't bear its weight. The Arjuns are designed as per tactical requirements of the army. These tanks have been fully 'exploited' during the user's evaluation in the subject terrain extensively, even in several declared not-tankable areas such as the Gurdaspur areas. The Trishul, Akash and Nag missiles have been delayed. Akash and Nag are nearing developmental trials to be fielded for evaluation. Serious problems are cited with the Kaveri engine. This comprises its core engine, that is, high-pressure compressor, combustor and turbine, afterburner and exhaust system. During the 'resting' of the core engine for its performance, certain problems were observed in the fuel control systemcommon in the development cycle of aero engines. They are not expected to affect overall schedules. What about the Lakshya? The ADE has supplied five Lakshyas to IAF. They've done over 32 flights. Two were lost due to malfunctioning of the parachute recovery systems; the problem is being rectified. The hal has orders for more. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [ppiindia] KTT ASEM usulkan reformasi PBB
--- Sandy Dwiyono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 11.10.2004 (Mudah-mudahan Indonesia terpilih sebagai anggota tetap DK PBB) Hehe. Orang Deplu pasti senang mendengar harapan Mas Sandy. Soalnya . Salam, RM Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Peasants bloom
Di China, banyak petani yang semula miskin, sekarang punya mobil dan jalan-jalan keluar negeri. Buah China menggeser buah dari California, Australia dan New Zealand di super market di Tokyo dan Singapura. Di Jakarta sudah lama terjadi. Tidak semua suku China kepintarannya hanya dagang saja. Ada suku yang bakatnya tani, dan tidak pintar dagang. Ada suku yang bakatnya tukang kayu dan segala jenis tukang lainnya, dan tidak pintar dagang. Ada suku yang bakatnya jadi pegawai, dokter, guru dan semacamnya, dan tidak pintar dagang. Dengan adanya kekhususan itulah, maka China menjadi naga dunia. Cerita di FEER kali ini khusus mengenai orang yang hebat di hortikultura. Salam, RM (Far Eastern Economic Review) FOOD POLICY Peasants Bloom A revolution in farming practices is bringing wealth to the Chinese countryside. It is also bringing China into fierce competition with the world's biggest food producers, among them the United States By Andrew Browne/LAI YANG, SHANDONG PROVINCE Issue cover-dated October 14, 2004 AT AN AGE when many men in China have eased into retirement, Song Jiejun, 57, is starting all over again. The former village police chief has set up home with an attractive new wife 25 years his junior, he's become a father again and he's bought his first car. THE WORLD'S BIGGEST FARM China's growers now produce half the world's vegetables and melons Export opportunities have been opened by WTO membership Diminishing state control over food production has allowed Chinese farmers to play to their strengths And to support this new lifestyle Song has made a late career change: he's now a vegetable farmer. Daybreak finds a tanned and sprightly Song at his fields in coastal Shandong province supervising peasants as they pluck okra, a vegetable seldom eaten locally but a pricey delicacy across the sea in Japan, where most of the slender pods end up. In many ways, Song's new lease on life mirrors the rejuvenation of large parts of China's rural economy. There's money in farming these days. China has turned into a market stand for much of Asia, and the upshot for the world's food exporters could be just as profound as the impact of China's transformation into the manufacturing workshop of the world. We've taken on the Japanese market, boasts Song, with his keys jangling from one hip and a mobile phone from the other. In time we'll take on the Americans too. Across large swaths of coastal China, traditional plots for grain are giving way to orchards and greenhouses. The shimmering light under aircraft approaching Shanghai's airport, often mistaken by travellers for the sea, is in fact miles of clear plastic swaddling rows of vegetables. The crops feed a swelling population of wealthy city dwellers. And while only a fraction is exported, it is enough to challenge major growers in markets they once owned. Fresh Chinese broccoli now finds its way into Tokyo lunch boxes, replacing Californian varieties. Apples from the United States are being shut out of Singapore and Hong Kong by Chinese exports. So far, the threat to the world's producers has been mainly in export markets. China has a long way to go before it can match international standards for quality. Its agricultural technology lags badly; cooling and storage facilities are primitive; farmers too often saturate crops with harmful pesticides and overload the exhausted soil with chemical fertilizer. Yet, as in manufacturing, China is learning fast. Part of the impetus is coming from export opportunities opened by China's membership of the World Trade Organization. Chinese farming is getting better very quickly, says Richard Herzfelder, executive vice-president of China Food and Agricultural Services Inc., a Shanghai-based consultancy. Many assumed it would take 10 years from WTO accession in 2001 before China could match the quality of U.S. fruit. The best farms already can. They're progressing twice as fast as people thought, Herzfelder says. In the 1980s, the U.S. was the world's biggest producer of apples. Now China produces four times as many. American apple sales to Singapore have halved in the past five years while Chinese exports have doubled, giving China almost 60% of the market in the prosperous city state. Chinese broccoli sales to Japan have tripled since 1995, while American exports are down by a third. We're being hammered in certain markets, says Tracy King, export director of the Washington Apple Commission. Much is riding on a struggle among Chinese policymakers. The traditionalists, obsessed with food security, want the focus of agricultural policy to remain on grain self-sufficiency. But those who favour free trade support the shift toward higher-value horticulture as a way to raise rural incomes and play to China's
[ppiindia] Asia's Pure Genius
(Far Eastern Economic Review) ASIAN INNOVATION AWARDS: 2004 FINALISTS: ASIA'S INVENTORS Pure Genius Who says Asia fails to innovate? The region's inventors are hitting back at the critics with sheer ingenuity and outlandish ideas By Simon Burns/TAIPEI Issue cover-dated October 14, 2004 IT'S A POPULAR STEREOTYPE in the West: Asians are not creative; Asia duplicates, it doesn't innovate. It's a view usually expressed with a large helping of condescension, arrogance even, but studies of creativity have consistently shown Asians lagging their Western counterparts. An August survey by a United States-based business organization, the Conference Board, showed lack of innovation amongst staff to be the top concern of CEOs in Asia. Asian employers need to reward innovation, and not penalize if they are unsuccessful, says Dr. Tony Buss, chief executive of Singapore-based MerLion Pharmaceuticals and one of the judges of this year's Asian Innovation Awards. Trying and failing, or making mistakes, is better than not trying to be innovative, he says. The REVIEW's Asian Innovation Awards are all about recognizing and rewarding great ideas. This year we received 84 nominations from around the region. They run the gamut from cutting-edge creations, such as nanotechnology fingerprints to prove a product's authenticity and micro-flying robots for use in disaster recovery, to the wacky-sounding process of turning bananas into electricity, all the way through to sheer ingenuity, such as using a computer program and a bar-code scanner to speed up a test for eye disease. With ideas like these, it's clear to see that Asia is becoming more creative. Indeed, Lim Kok Wing, president of the Malaysian Design Technology Centre and an AIA judge remarked that this year's finalists reflect more varied use of technology . . . representing increasing recognition of the value of technology in Asia. Forward-looking Asian business and political leaders have long been aware of the value of innovation. They have always had Japan's post-war economic resurgence as a testament to the benefits of rapid industrial innovation--and rusting shipyards and steelworks in the West as a monument to the dangers of stagnation. After the financial crisis in 1997, Asian governments announced a variety of new schemes to encourage creative thinking in education and industry. Meanwhile, in the struggle for corporate survival, companies were coming up with their own ideas. Taiwan-based Shuttle Technology, a medium-sized computer manufacturer, was one. By 2001 its share price was sliding and market share crumbling under an onslaught from larger competitors. Shuttle's senior executives realized the company had to change. Hence the pressure for new ideas. Shuttle's research and development team knew that personal computers contained a lot of something that nobody really wanted: empty space. PC components had become a lot smaller, but the big metal cases that contained them had hardly changed. At the same time, consumers were becoming more concerned about appearances; they were putting PCs in their living rooms, using them to watch videos or play music. Shuttle's engineers shrank the PC down to a tiny, stylish silver cube. Alongside the average PC--a staid and sturdy beige box--it looked like a Porsche next to a dumper truck. They dubbed it the Spacewalker; it was underpowered, it ran hot and noisy, and it was more expensive than other PCs. Consumers had never seen anything like it--it sold so fast the company had trouble keeping up with orders. Almost single-handedly, Shuttle had created a new market for compact PCs, seized the lion's share of it, and today, continues to hold on in the face of competition. Shuttle's success came from seeing a need, and inventing the product to meet it. Similarly, one of the finalists in this years Asian Innovation Awards, the Inké ink-jet printer refilling system, is one of those products that seems so obvious--once somebody else has thought of it. The Inké system automatically refills expensive ink-jet cartridges with a minimum of mess, saving users plenty of cash in the process. While Inké offers a perfect solution to reusing ink-jet cartridges, Toshiba of Japan offers a solution to reusing paper. The company's e-blue disappearing ink allows paper to be returned to pristine condition and reused repeatedly. The ink is erased by a heating process. The product, launched in Japan at the end of 2003, is a contender for the Global [EMAIL PROTECTED] award, which is running concurrently with the Asian Innovation Awards. Anil Gupta, a professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and one of the judges, described it as a revolutionary idea. While many researchers and engineers, like Inké creator Tan Kong Cheok, invent products for
[ppiindia] World Bank akan memutar film dokumenter India keseluruh dunia
Film dokumenter ini tentang pelaksanaan otonomi daerah. Konon akan diputar di Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mongolia dan Paris. Salam, RM Deccan Herald October 12, 2004 World Bank picks up Indian film for world-wide screening The Smithsonian Institution in the US is also planning to screen the film which deals with decentralisation of power. The World Bank has evinced keen interest in screening director Anwar Jamals debut feature film Swaraaj: The Little Republic across the world for its message of decentralisation of power. After a recent screening of the film, the Bank has said it was interested in taking the much-awarded film to Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mongolia and Paris for wider dissemination of the subject. The Cambodia office of the World Bank, it is understood, has also sought to dub the film into Khmer language. If the project takes off, Swaraaj will probably be the first Indian film to be taken by the global institution as a tool to educate people about the concept of decentralisation of power, which in India is symbolised by the Panchayati Raj System. The 90-minute film, which is being commercially released in several cities starting with Kolkata on October 15, deals with dalit womens experience in grass roots democracy. Till now it has been shown in 27 international film festivals, winning the Audience Award at Palm Springs (US), Special Jury Commendation in Munich and Best Director and NETPAC (Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema) Awards in Dhaka. Produced by the Institute of Social Sciences, it also won the National Award for the Best Film on Social Issues last year. The Smithsonian Institution in the United States is also planning to screen the film at its premises, highlighting its concept about decentralisation of power. The film, written by noted documentary filmmaker Sehjo Singh, has been able to draw the attention because of its storyline drawn from a true incident, talking about power to the grass roots even as the protagonists search for elusive water in Rajasthans deserts has been compared with the great battle of Karbala. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Tenaga listrik di India Selatan
Power equations Business Standard / New Delhi October 8, 2004 Foreigners can be forgiven for wondering at the wonder that is India. One of the first sectors that the government sought to reform was the power sector, way back in 1993. But the entire effort, which was quite huge, bombed because the government tried to pump up generating capacity without reforming transmission and distribution. The Maharashtra State Electricity Boards agreement with Enron was a perfect testimony to that. Everyone got into a jam. The problem was eventually diagnosed correctly and amends made via the new Electricity Bill of 2003, which allowed independent power producers (IPPs) to sell to whomsoever they likedretail consumers, trading companies like Power Trading Corporation or bulk consumersand not be tied down to a particular electricity board. The results appear to have been dramatic. Financial closures have been achieved for nearly 5,000 MW of additional generating capacityin nine months. In the previous 10 years, the private sector had added only 7,000 MW. The latest closure has been in respect of the Mangalore Power Companys 1,000 MW project in Karnataka, the twelfth this calendar year. The target for private sector additions to capacity for the Tenth Plan is only 7,121 MW. So we are almost there, and may well surpass the target by a handsome margin. Indeed, by the end of the Plan, it should surprise no one if total private sector capacity is around 20,000 MW. What next? The government needs to seize the opportunity that it now has to fix the emerging market for electricity. The key, as is now well established, lies in a highly competitive market that is also well regulated. India has done well in the last few years to introduce competition in many industriesand then it has botched things up by not allowing it to be free and fair. The telecommunications sector is a shining example of this. This must be avoided in the power sector, where there are state and central regulators and who between them have a pretty sorry record so far. In some states, the government simply ignores the regulator! The first step therefore has to be de-politicising electricity, which in turn requires genuinely independent power regulators, not ex-bureaucrats seeking to please the political class by, in the final analysis, conniving to stifle competition. It is also necessary to learn from the mistakes of others. Should a trading pool emergeand, given the nature of the business, it will care has to be taken that the pool itself is properly managed. International experience shows that this is easier said than done. To quote out of context, the price of cheap and efficient power is eternal vigilance. The fundamental problem, it has been seen internationally, is lack of transparency on the part of the major players, be they the producers or the traders. Indeed, the two usually get together to gyp the customer. Also, as in any form of trading, attention tends to be firmly focused on maximising short-term profits and this can interfere hugely with the market in the long run. In sum, all this adds up to the need to make procedures flexible by not tying the hands of the regulator through an excess of legal provisions seeking to cope with as many contingencies as possible. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Stem cells to the rescue
Kita belum sempat memikirkan soal stem cells. Konon, di Amerika sendiri stem cells terhalang oleh Presiden Bush, maklum karena dia berasal dari Bible belt. Sekarang orang sudah menduga, nantinya stem cells bukan saja mengganti sel yang cacat, tapi dapat mereparasi yang sakit, yang nantinya bakal berkembang jadi sakit jantung misalnya. Salam, RM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stem Cells to the Rescue By Kristen Philipkoski | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 1 11:00 AM Oct. 07, 2004 PT For years, researchers have touted stem cells as potential replacements for cells damaged by disease. Now, they're finding that stem cells may not only replace defective cells, but rescue them. The results of a study published in the Oct. 8 issue of Science show stem cells have special properties that allow them to rescue, or repair, heart cells. Scientists injected the stem cells into very young mouse embryos that had been engineered to develop a lethal heart disorder. While these pregnancies would normally spontaneously abort midway through gestation, half of the approximately 75 offspring were born with healthy heart. Fraidenraich and his team merely hoped to extend the pregnancies, but didn't expect them to result in healthy births. We were expecting to prolong development for two to three more days by injection of embryonic stem cells, Fraidenraich said. But we were surprised that these mice were born, with 50 percent of those becoming adults. Stem cells have the ability to become every cell in the human body, and researchers hope to harness this ability to cure or treat various diseases. This latest discovery could provide a new approach to stem-cell research focusing on cell rescue rather than replacement. A companion article to Fraidenraich's study published in the same issue of Science suggests that by using the modern tools of bioinformatics, genomic databases and microarrays, researchers could discover what factors are leading to cell rescue. Those factors, whatever they may be, could be used directly as treatments, circumventing the need to use stem cells. This discovery suggests that embryonic stem cells can be used to find factors that can rescue lethal birth defects, and this could also have relevance to a variety of other defects as well, said Ken Chien, a stem cell researcher at the University of California at San Diego, and one of the authors of the companion article. This does not mean that embryonic stem cells themselves will have to be the therapy, but rather since they release many different kinds of factors, they can be used to identify proteins that themselves could have therapeutic effects. Other researchers have also begun to look at stem cells as rescuers rather than replacements. In 2001, John Gearhart, a stem cell researcher at Johns Hopkins University, led a group that injected stem cells (taken from voluntarily aborted fetuses) into rats engineered to exhibit symptoms of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, rendering their back legs useless. The treated mice regained some, but not all, movement in their hind legs. At the time, Gearhart thought the stem cells might have turned into replacement cells that took over for motor neurons damaged by the disease. But at a stem cell conference in San Diego on Saturday, Gearhart said he now thinks differently. Now we believe the improvement is due to rescue of the animals' own motor neurons, he said. Fraidenraich said he believes both replacement and rescue are likely important. To learn more about the stem-cell rescue phenomenon, some researchers would like to use therapeutic cloning technology, also known as somatic cell nuclear transfer. They'd like to create a clone of, say, an ALS patient in a petri dish. After the cloned embryo develops for a few days, they would remove stem cells from it. Then they would grow the stem cells into motor neurons, study them to find out exactly what goes wrong as they develop, and experiment with ways to interfere with the cell malfunction. We would certainly like to use cells derived from humans with ALS, Gearhart said. But research using human embryonic cells in the United States is limited by President Bush's executive order that states that the National Institute of Health -- the benefactor of most basic research in the United States -- can only fund the study of embryonic stem cells derived before Aug. 9, 2001, the day Bush declared his plan. Ian Wilmut, the researcher who cloned Dolly the sheep at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, has applied for a license to perform therapeutic cloning experiment to study ALS. The United Kingdom has outlined a plan that allows therapeutic cloning and study of embryonic stem cells under certain regulations. The new study is a boon for embryonic stem cell research as a whole, and in particular for the treatment of heart disease. In my opinion, said UC San Diego's Chien, this is one of the most significant papers in
[ppiindia] Reuters akan pindahkan karyawannya dari UK, New York, Singapura ke Bangalore
NYTimes: Welcome, bapakjewel Reuters Plans to Triple Jobs at Site in India By HEATHER TIMMONS Published: October 8, 2004 LONDON, Oct. 7 - Reuters, the news service and data company, which is trying to meet stringent cost-cutting targets, said Thursday it would triple the number of employees it has in India by the end of next year. As many as 1,500 employees, or a tenth of the company's total, will be in Bangalore by 2006, company executives said during a ceremony to open a building in southern India. Reuters already has 340 employees in Bangalore, including about 13 journalists. The company said it planned to move mainly data and technical jobs to Bangalore. The editorial staff in Bangalore is expected to increase to 50 by early next year, Reuters told union representatives. The company's chief executive, Tom Glocer, is embracing outsourcing to reduce costs. He foreshadowed Thursday's announcement in September at an investor conference. The amazing thing - and this is the dirty little secret about outsourcing that people need to talk about publicly a bit more - not only is the cost conflation amazing at four, five or even six to one, but the quality and productivity is better too, Mr. Glocer said in September. We are flooded. We have 100 qualified applications for every data input person and these people have qualified accounting degrees. The company, which now employs 1,000 data-processing workers at about 40 sites worldwide, plans to shift 450 jobs to Bangalore initially, mainly from Tiverton, England; White Plains, N.Y.; and Singapore. Analysts said that action fits into the company's greater strategy. This doesn't surprise me at all, given the targets they have set for themselves, said Paul Sullivan, a media analyst at Merrill Lynch in London. Reuters has pledged to cut costs by £440 million ($782 million) by the end of 2006, and Mr. Sullivan said the number was considered sacrosanct. Reuters said Thursday that costs in Bangalore were about 40 percent lower than in New York or London. The Bangalore office supplies information on companies and debt and equity issues. Later, it will also provide information on mergers, acquisitions and equity pricing. Union leaders expressed concern about the move, which they said could impair the quality of news and data Reuters offers. We're talking about people halfway around the world from where the news is happening, in a different continent and time zone, said Peter Szekely, chairman of the Reuters unit of the Newspaper Guild of New York. Reuters executives said that the plan would not result in job losses in the editorial division. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Bahan bakar kendaraan dari sugarbeet
(The Hindu) Ethanol production from sugarbeet SUGARBEET (BETA vulgaris) is a biennial sugar producing tuber crop, grown in temperate countries. It is a promising alternative energy crop for the production of ethanol. It has now emerged as a commercial field crop in Tamil Nadu because of favourable characteristics like shorter duration of 5 to 6 months, moderate water requirement of 80-100cm, higher sugar content of 12 to 15 per cent, improvement of soil conditioning because of tuber crop and suitability for saline and alkaline soil. Variety and duration The tropical sugar beet varieties are suitable for cultivation in Tamil Nadu. (Pasoda, H1 0064 and Doratea). The duration of these tropical varieties is 5 to 6 months depending on variety and climatic conditions prevailing during crop growth period. Favourable season Sugar beet is a cold weather crop (Rabi). Hence, sugarbeet is sown from October to November and harvested during April-May. Deep ploughing followed by 2 to 3 ploughings to obtain a good soil tilth condition is necessary for favourable seed germination and tuber development. Seeds and sowing To maintain the required plant population of 40,000/acre, use 2 pockets designer seeds. One pocket contains 20,000 seeds weighing 600g. The recommended spacing is 50 x 20 cm. The designer seed is dipped at 2 cm depth on the top of the ridges at 20 cm apart at one seed per hole. The crops should be maintained weed free up to 75 days. Pendimethalin at 1.5 lit/acre can be dissolved in 300 litres of water and sprayed with hand-operated sprayer on 3rd day after sowing, followed by hand weeding on 25th and 50th day after sowing. Irrigation Water stagnation at all stages of the plant growth should be avoided. Irrigation should be based on soil type and climatic conditions. First irrigation is crucial for the early establishment of the crop. For light textured sandy loam soil, irrigation once in 5-7 days and for heavy textured clay loam soil irrigation once in 8-10 days is recommended. Light and frequent irrigation is recommended for maintaining optimum soil moisture. Irrigation may be stopped at least 2 to 3 weeks before harvest. Pests and diseases Major insect pests that affect the sugarbeet crop are aphids, tobacco caterpillar, and diamond backmoth. Integrated pest management programmes have to be adopted to control these insect pests. To control aphids, spray neem oil at 3 per cent or dimethorate at 2ml/lit with teepol at 0.5 ml/lit, for tobacco caterpillar, spray endosulfon at 2 ml/lit or carbaryl at 2g/lit of water. Major diseases that affect the crop are rhizoctonia wilt, powdery mildew, cercospora leaf spot, and fusarium yellow. To control rhizoctonia wilt, spot drench with bordeaux mixture at 1 per cent and for fusarium wilt, drench the soil with carbendazim at 1 per cent. To control powdery mildew, spray of wettable powder at 0.3 per cent, and for cercospora leaf spot, apply mancozeb at 0.25 per cent on 10-14 days schedule. Dr. O.S. Kandasamy, Dr. A. Balakrishnan Dr. V. Murugappan Centre for Soil and Crop Management Studies Coimbatore Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Telpon murah meriah dari Mumbai ke Amerika (hanya Rs 1.60 per menit)
Berarti ambo dapek ngecek samo anak ambo di Dallas salamo satangah jam, kalua pitih hanyo Rs 48 (limo ribu rupiah sae). Rancak bana. Salam, RM Rediff.com Mumbai-US call to cost Rs 1.60/min BS Corporate Bureau in Mumbai | October 06, 2004 11:15 IST World Phone Internet Services Pvt Ltd launched its World Phone Premium international calling card in Mumbai on Tuesday that will allow Mumbaites to talk in the US for Rs 1.60 per minute. The cards are available in denominations of Rs 100, Rs 250, Rs 500 and Rs 1000 and. It will be available at 600 retail outlets in the city. The calls to countries in the Western Europe or the Far East are priced in the range of Rs 2 and Rs 8. The card was also launched in Goa on Tuesday. How to call US at Rs 1.60 per minute Aditya Ahluwalia, chairman WPISPL said, With an encouraging response in the cities of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal, we are confident that residents of Maharashtra and Goa would also appreciate the benefits of a low priced calling card to the US. The company's offer is one third of what operators like Sify, Bharat Sanchar Nigam or Mahanagar Telephone Nigam offer for calls made to the US. According to Ahluwalia, This is possible because we follow a cost plus basis unlike competitors who adopt the market based pricing. Ahluwalia assured that low price did not mean a compromise on voice quality. The company claims to have a robust back-end support from its US partner GO2call that provides voice over service to over 200 countries in the world. The company is also launching the card in the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The marketing strategy includes a distribution network with over 2000 channel partners and resellers within the next six months. The cards would be sold at strategic places like the malls and outlets such as Archies Gallery. They would be available online too on websites such as Rediff. The user has to download the dialer from World Phones's website -- www.worldphone.co.in and then by using the card can place an international call, anywhere from India, from his personal computer. Alternately, one can also install a branded Internet Protocol phone or an Analog Telephone Adapter and place an international call using his account ID number. The ATAs are priced between Rs 4,000-Rs 5,000. The company is negotiating with companies in Korea and China to manufacture the Analog Telephone Adapters and sell it for a competitive price of around Rs 2,000. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Teknik pembudidayaan casuarina (pohon sumbangan dari Thailand)
Kemarin di ruang serba guna KJRI Mumbai, Pak Rustam Effendi, yang setelah pensiun dari Kadin dan APKINDO, masih aktif membaktikan dirinya untuk masyarakat, mengadakan pertemuan dengan pegiat terkait di Mumbai dengan tema afforestation dan reforestation sebagai usaha masyarakat tanpa mengharapkan dana dari APBN. Fakta dibawah ini tidak menjadi singgungan. Salam, RM http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/seta/2004/09/30/stories/2004093000131700.htm Sci Tech Micro-propagation technique for casuarina By Our Agriculture Correspondent Plants developed through the low-cost micro-propagation methods have deep rooting systems. A LOW-cost micro-propagation technique for mass multiplication of Casuriana junghuhniana, a fast growing hybrid, has been successfully developed by a farmer-scientist, Mr. T. Vengadapathy Reddiar. The innovative farmer used a combination of growth promoting and root initiating substances to get higher percentage of rooting in sprigs and tender shoot tips. Working in a simple, ingeniously designed laboratory and mist chambers in his Lakshmi Narayana's Crossandra Innovation Centre, Koodapakkam village in Pondicherry, Mr. Reddiar has developed quality, disease-free plants with long roots within three months. I select the mother plants and spray them with a micro-nutrient spray a week before extracting sprigs and tender shoots. Then I place them in small plastic cups containing vermiculite, after dipping the lower portion in 500 ppm (parts per million) Indole Butyric Acid (IBA), a growth promoting compound. Conditioning They are kept inside a mist chamber to maintain a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and a relative humidity of 70 to 90 per cent, explains Mr. Reddiar. In about fifteen days, rooting is noticed in the young sprigs and tender shoot tips. They are then gradually conditioned to stand field conditions in the next three months. Further multiplication can be done from the selected mother plants from this lot. To encourage development of more laterals (side shoots), maleic hydroxide is sprayed after 30 days of establishment of the young plants, according to him. The cost of each plant developed through this method works out to Rs.0.50, and after field conditioning for three months the vigorous and healthy plants with deep roots can be sold at Rs. 3 each, according to Mr. Reddiar. Casuarina junghuhniana is a fast growing and highly drought-tolerant species, and it is mainly propagated by vegetative means. The hybrid was introduced in India in1951. About 100 air-layers of this hybrid were received from the Royal Thai Forest Department, Thailand, and as the trees bore only male flowers, they could be propagated only vegetatively, according Mr. S. Kondas, former Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Tamil Nadu, who had done extensive work on Casuarinas. Two techniques Air-layering using twigs of pencil-thickness during the monsoon, and sprig planting in mist chambers were the two techniques adopted by the forest department to multiply this fast growing species. The robust saplings with good straight stems and symmetric conical crowns establish quickly in sandy tracts. The hybrid Casuarina is a heavy yielder of biomass, and it also has symbiotic association with the nitrogen-fixing organism, Frankia sp. The hybrid grows tall and is endowed with graceful needles closely resembling pine. © Copyright 2000 - 2004 The Hindu Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] PM Howard terpilih lagi
Agaknya orang luar yang kurang sreg, harus kecewa dulu. Salam, RM (Straits Times interactive on Sunday) OCT 10, 2004 TOP OF THE NEWS Aussie PM Howard wins fourth term By Stephanie Gartelmann AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard, buoyed by a booming economy, won a historic fourth term in office yesterday with a strong showing at the polls. With more than 70 per cent of the 13 million votes counted last night, the official Australian Electoral Commission gave his Liberal-National coalition 52.4 per cent support to Labor's 47.6 per cent. This was an improvement over the 2001 election results for the ruling coalition, which won 51 per cent of the votes then to Labor's 49. Mr Howard told cheering supporters here last night: 'I am truly humbled by this extraordinary expression of confidence in the leadership of...the coalition.' His rival, Mr Mark Latham, conceded defeat as he told downcast party members in western Sydney that while they fought hard, 'tonight is not our night'. The ruling coalition held 82 seats in the 150-seat Parliament, but an Australian Broadcasting Corp forecast put its likely new majority as high as 87 seats, with Labor down by four to 60. Both parties had promised tax cuts for high-income earners, increased medical and education spending and US$1 billion (S$1.7 billion) child-care packages. Mr Howard's coalition offered a stronger emphasis on supporting private education and small business, while Labor promised to increase support for low-income individuals and families. The essential similarities saw many voters undecided until election day. But Mr Howard's record, particularly his stewardship of the economy, appeared to be the deciding factor for many voters. 'In the end the Australian people have recognised the economic and security benefits the Howard government has brought them,' Industry and Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane told Reuters. Many Australians are enjoying gains from a buoyant stock market and a hot property market; interest rates are relatively low and jobs are plentiful. Mr Howard, 65, is seen by voters as bland but safe. The 43-year-old Mr Latham is lively on the stump but, with just 10 months into the job as Labor leader, is considered to be lacking in experience. His criticism of Mr Howard's Iraq policy and his push for closer ties with Asia failed to sway voters. Said Mr Alan Murphy, a 58-year-old transport contractor: 'Liberal means stability.' A record 1,421 candidates competed for 150 seats nationwide. Among the winners last night was millionaire Malcolm Turnbull, often mentioned as a potential successor to Mr Howard. Anti-immigrant politician Pauline Hanson failed in her bid for a Senate seat. Another loser was Greens candidate Andrew Wilkie, a government analyst who quit in protest against Australia's involvement in the Iraq war. He lost to Mr Howard in the Sydney seat of Bennelong. Mr Howard's victory ensures that Australian troops will remain in Iraq. Mr Latham wanted Australia's 850 troops serving there home by Christmas. US President George W. Bush, facing a ballot next month, yesterday congratulated Mr Howard on having 'won a great victory'. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Soal pabrik pupuk joint venture ASEAN di Aceh yang mau ditutup
Pabrik pupuk ASEAN di Aceh tidak dapat ditutup begitu saja, dengan terburu-buru. Soalnya ada prosedur yang harus ditempuh untuk membentuk atau membubarkan usaha patungan itu. Soalnya, menurut keputusan yang disepakati di Manila tanggal 15 Desember 1987, COIME (Committee on Industry, Minerals, and Energy) harus rapat dan sepakat dulu, kalau sudah kesepakatannya dibawa ke sidang menteri ekonomi ASEAN dibahas dan belum tentu disepakati. Jalannya panjang, dan putusan Kabinet Mega yang sudah demisioner ini jelas akan meninggalkan PR pada pemerintahan SBY. Tentang pasokan gas yang tidak menentu, itu memang betul. Tapi ini kan terkait dengan keamanan, atau tepatnya ngawurnya pengacau keamanan. Gerombolan Aceh itu sungguh ngawur banget, masak pesawat Mobil Oil yang mau mendarat disana ditembaki, dan ini terjadi sampai dua kali. Jelas, Mobil Oil tidak mau ambil resiko mengorbankan orangnya untuk mati sia-sia. FYI, sumur minyak atau gas sifatnya agak lucu. Jangan harap sumur sementara ditutup, nanti dibuka lagi. Oh, tidak. Setelah dibuka lagi, minyak/gas keluarnya tersendat-sendat bahkan paling sering, tidak keluar sama sekali. Ini menurut cerita orang perminyakan yang saya kenal. Salam, RM (Editorial Jakarta Post) Print October 08, 2004 The ASEAN urea plant A mouse dying in a rice barn is perhaps the most suitable adage to describe the dire condition of PT Asean Aceh Fertilizer (AAF), after the decision early this week by the outgoing administration of President Megawati Soekarnoputri to close down the 570,000-ton capacity urea factory due to an acute shortage of natural gas feedstock. The Cabinet's decision is not yet a death sentence for the fertilizer plant, as the government must first consult all of the AAF shareholders -- the Indonesian government has a 60 percent share of the company, with the other founding members of ASEAN (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines) holding the remaining 40 percent. The condition of AAF is nevertheless absurd as it is located near the Arun gas field in Aceh, one of the world's single largest reservoirs of natural gas, the main feedstock for making urea fertilizer. ExxonMobil, the government-appointed operator of the Arun gas field, has stopped supplying gas to AAF due to dwindling gas production. The government apparently decided to give top priority to two state-owned urea fertilizer plants (PT Iskandar Muda I and II) located near AAF, and PT Arun NGL, the government-controlled producer of LNG for export to Japan and South Korea. The decision might make economic sense, because the two Iskandar Muda plants are much newer than AAF, which is already more than 23 years old. More importantly, Indonesia's reputation as one of the world's largest and most reliable exporters of LNG since the late 1970s must be protected. Hence, gas supplies to the Arun NGL plant must receive top priority to enable it to honor its long-term contracts with power companies in Japan and South Korea. Some may also argue that shutting down the AAF plant will not cause big losses because the shareholders have likely already recouped their investment. At the least, after more than 23 years of operation, in terms of capital costs AAF should have been written off by now. However, AAF is not an ordinary factory. It was the largest and the first of only two joint industrial projects ever undertaken by the governments of ASEAN member countries. Simply closing down the plant would be damaging to the spirit of ASEAN cooperation, even more so because the condition of AAF could be partly blamed on the Indonesian government's natural-gas policy of focusing on exports of raw gas at the expense of domestic industries such as AAF, which create added value and jobs. The proven reserves in the Arun field have been known since as far back as 1971, when the reservoir was discovered by Mobil Oil. Hence, the development of natural gas-based industries such as the NGL plant and urea factories near Arun should have been designed according to the supply capacity of the feedstock. However, the government allowed the further expansion of the gas liquefaction and urea plants, accelerating the depletion of reserves in the Arun field. In fact, the establishment of the Iskandar Muda II urea plant, which was completed only this year, shows that the government, as the majority shareholder, is no longer interested in maintaining AAF's operations. The protracted negotiations between ExxonMobil and AAF over the pricing of gas for their new sale and purchase agreement last year, and the subsequent deadlock that led to the abrupt stoppage of the gas supply to AAF, further hinted at the government's intention to simply let AAF die off naturally. The government should have intervened in the negotiations if it was serious about sustaining the company. The government should have realized that pricing and
[ppiindia] Solely for science -- Bose Institute in Kolkata
(The Hindu) Solely for science Formed in 1917, the Bose Institute in Kolkata is a fitting reminder of the work of Sir J.C. Bose, writes NEHA PRASAD. SUSHANTA PATRONOBISH First of its kind ... the Bose Institute in Kolkata. ON March 29, 1904, Sir J.C. Bose accomplished the enviable a U.S. patent on the first semi-conductor the world saw. In his application of September 30, 1901, Bose explained, ... With a glass lens, the instrument will detect and record lights not only some way beyond the violet, but also in the regions of infra-red in the invisible regions of electric radiation. We may thus style this apparatus a `tejometer' ... or universal radiometer. Symposium To celebrate the centenary of Sir J.C. Bose's patent on the Detector for Electrical Disturbance the discovery of lead sulphide (Galena) as the most efficient wideband semiconductor diode the Bose Institute held a symposium this year where eminent names in science participated. Among them were Prof. M.G.K. Menon, Prof. V.S. Ramamurthy, S. Krishnan, V.A. Sheperd from University of New South Wales, R.K. Mitra from AIIMS, K. Shelgfel from Lindau, Germany. The Bose Institute was the first of its kind to be started by an Indian (Sir J.C. Bose) in 1917 to further scientific knowledge. With its competent and seasoned workforce and diverse departments like Microbiology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, the institute has carved out a niche of its own in the scientific community. It also encompasses research sections dealing exclusively with Plant Molecular and Cellular Genetics, Animal Physiology, Immunotechnology and Environment Science. In 1988, the Bioinformatics Centre was formed to research genetic engineering and molecular remodelling. The library provides state-of-the-art infrastructure to aid everyday research and development. Sophisticated analytical instrumentation facilities make available a range of unique apparatus to researchers. Additional service units such as the Central Instrumentation Facility, Distributed Information Centres and scientific workshops help knit together the Institute's comprehensive web of facilities. The Institute plans to establish Centres of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Plant Molecular and Structural Biology, Myobacterium Research and Astro-particle Physics and Space Sciences along with a National Facility in Genomics and Proteomics hoping to extend the limits of scientific knowledge in keeping with the traditions of Sir J.C. Bose. Twin ideals He envisaged the Institution to be not merely a laboratory but a temple. Eighty-seven years ago, he set twin ideals for the institution to follow advancement of knowledge and comprehensive diffusion of the fruits of its labour. We are proud inheritors of his immeasurable scientific vision and foresight, says Prof. M. Siddiqi, Director, Bose Institute. Bose is famous for revolutionising the world of wireless communication. Within six years, he had done away with the cumbersome, inaccurate laboratory equipment of the 1890s and ushered in the 20th Century with a range of delicate, reliable and easy working devices in miniature. Although his instruments were financial and technological marvels, Bose seems unable to exploit their commercial potential. A man of science, Bose was solely occupied with posing a unique catechism to Nature. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [ppiindia] Perdebatan Soal Agama di milis ppiindia
--- Satrio Arismunandar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dahsyat! Selama beberapa hari terakhir, inbox e-mail saya penuh oleh perdebatan soal agama dari milis ppiindia. Jadi, yang menonjol di milis ini ternyata bukan soal pendidikan, ekonomi, politik, budaya, atau masalah-masalah besar bangsa kita yang sedang terpuruk tsb. Saya juga heran, mas Rio. Masak jauh-jauh datang ke India perhatiannya masih ke agama melulu. Mengapa tidak mau melihat bidang dimana India menonjol, yaitu sains dan teknologi. Tak heran, karena mahasiswa datang kesini maunya dapat S-2 dan S-3 saja, tak peduli nanti berisi betul atau tidak, bahasa Inggrisnya masih bahasa Inggris Tarzanpun tidak malu. Maaf kawan-kawan, saya sebenarnya berat mengeluarkan kata-kata itu. Tapi saya merasa sayang kalau kalian menyia-nyiakan kesempatan emas. Kalian lebih beruntung dari saya yang umurnya sekian puluh tahun lebih tua dari anda-anda. Salam, RM Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [ppiindia] Indonesia Impor BBM dari Singapura Rp 20 Trilyun Per Tahun!
--- A Nizami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dari Data Statistika BPS, Indonesia impor BBM dari Singapura sebesar Rp 20 trilyun per tahun. Aneh bukan? Bagaimana mungkin Indonesia yang kaya minyak, bisa mengimpor minyak setiap tahun sebesar Rp 20 trilyun dari Singapura? Ini jelas pemborosan devisa. Jika Indonesia hanya mengekspor minyak mentah dengan harga murah, kemudian mengimpor kembali dalam bentuk BBM dengan harga yang lebih mahal, itu adalah tindakan yang bodoh. Bukankah lebih baik kita mengekspor dalam bentuk BBM? Toh Indonesia sudah bisa membangun dan mengoperasikan kilang minyak. Disinyalir BBM yang ada di Indonesia yang harganya murah diselundupkan ke Singapura untuk kemudian dijual kembali ke Indonesia dengan harga Internasional. Oleh karena itu, impor BBM dari Singapura sebesar Rp 20 trilyun setiap tahun sangat mencurigakan. Mudah2an pemerintah SBY bisa menghentikan hal ini. Terpaksa buru-buru menjelaskan, sebelum timbul kesalah pahaman lebih lanjut. Begini: 1. Berapa crude (minyak mentah) dan jenisnya apa saja? Indonesia hari ini menghasilkan crude 1.02 bbl/d, pada puncaknya dulu 1.5 bbl/d. Kebanyakan minyak Minas yang dihasilkan Caltex di Riau, yang berkwalitas baik (artinya sedikit belerang, sedikit lilin) tapi mahal, dan ini disukai di Jepang dan pantai barat Amerika karenanya di eksport kesana, menghasilkan deviza. 2. Selebihnya dikonsumsi sendiri, karena di Indonesia kita belum memikirkan minyak yang beroktan tinggi dan kurang berpolusi. Kekurangannya kita import dari Kuwait, yang memang murah. Sebagian kita suling di Cilacap, di Pangkalan Brandan dan di Balongan (sering ngadat, ada cerita tersendiri terkait KKN). Sisanya lagi kita import dari kilang Shell di Singapura. 3. Mengapa kita beli minyak sulingan dari Shell di Singapura? Selain refinery sendiri belum mencukupi kebutuhan dalam negeri, rupanya (hehe) harganya juga lebih rendah dari hasil sulingan dalam negeri. Begitu dulu komentar cepat-cepatan dari saya. Salam, RM Import From Ten Major Countries Confined to Five Principal Commodities, Indonesia, 2002-2003 Country/Commodity 2002 2003 Growth (%) Quantity (000 Ton) Value (Million USD) Quantity (000 Ton) Value (Million USD) Quantity Value JAPAN : Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles 73.7 575.7 81.9 673.5 11.13 16.99 Internal combustion piston engines and parts 34.5 307.9 29.1 311.7 -15.65 1.23 Motorcycles, scooters , and other cycles motorized/not 12.6 265.3 8.6 165.4 -31.75 -37.66 Flat rolled products not clad 370.6 134.0 329.4 147.3 -11.12 9.93 Civil engineering and contractor plants 41.9 133.9 35.4 132.9 -15.51 -0.75 SINGAPORE : Petroleum products refined 9,316.3 2,037.5 8,751.0 2,291.5 -6.07 12.47 Ships, boats, and floating structures 605.0 242.6 457.8 246.6 -24.33 1.65 Hydrocarbon and their halogenated, nitrated derivatives 129.6 280.2 68.1 209.4 -47.45 -25.27 Additive for mineral oils 89.1 69.4 87.0 76.5 -2.36 10.23 Alcohols, phenols, phenol-alcohols and their halogenated 169.5 82.3 === message truncated === Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Three Americans win Nobel for particle physics
Tadinya saya mengira fisikawan di Tata Institute for Fundamental Research yang mau dapat hadiah ini. Mereka kerja serupa, yaitu unified theory of everything. Tapi apa masih ada istilah lain kali, ya? Salam, RM Three Americans Win Nobel for Particle Physics Work By DENNIS OVERBYE Published: October 6, 2004 Three Americans who helped describe the force that binds together the atomic nucleus were named winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday. They are Dr. David J. Gross of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara; Dr. Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Dr. H. David Politzer of the California Institute of Technology. In two papers published in 1973, one by Drd. Gross and Wilczek and the other by Dr. Politzer, they explained why quarks, the theoretical constituents of the neutrons and protons that make up the nucleus, could never be seen apart from one another. Their work paved the way for a theory known by the fanciful-sounding name quantum chromodynamics, part of a suite of theories known as the Standard Model that explains all the forces of nature except gravity. It also raised hopes that physicists might yet find a single unified theory of nature. They will each get a third of the $1.3 million prize. The award had long been anticipated by the scientific community. Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss, an astrophysicist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, said it was long overdue, adding, How often do you get to explain one of the four fundamental forces of nature? In a press conference at M.I.T., Dr. Wilczek said the award was welcome recognition for the endeavor of trying to understand nature. It is one of the real gems of our culture, he said, that we can understand nature in this way and that you find beautiful things. The award harks back to what now seems like a golden age of particle physics that lasted from the end of World War II to the 1980's. In a spurt of feverish activity at particle accelerators and at the blackboards of theorists, physics arrived at an understanding of the three fundamental forces in nature besides gravity: electromagnetism, which is responsible for light and chemistry; the so-called weak force, responsible for some kinds of radioactive decay; and the strong force, which holds together atomic nuclei. According to quantum mechanics, the paradoxical lingua franca of the atomic world, the forces between particles are transmitted in a kind of game of catch by little bundles of energy. For electromagnetism, the force carriers are bits of light known as photons. For the weak force, they are the W and Z bosons, which are brothers, of a sort, of the photon. By the 1970's, the situation with regard to the strong force was considerably murkier than for the other forces. In 1964, the theorists Dr. Murray Gell-Mann of Caltech and Dr. George Zweig of Harvard each independently suggested that protons and neutrons, the constituents of atomic nuclei, were not elementary but were themselves composites, made up of smaller particles that Dr. Gell-Mann called quarks. But quarks were never seen in isolation, suggesting that the force binding them together was extremely powerful. Meanwhile, experiments at particle accelerators indicated that quarks inside protons seemed to act as if there was no force on them at all. How could that be? At first, it seemed like a contradiction, said Dr. Wilczek. Or as Dr. Robert L. Jaffe of M.I.T. put it: It was just viewed as absurd that nature was made of something that was never seen. How could the quarks not get out? It was upside down to everything we had seen before. The 1973 papers, Dr. Jaffe said, translated absurdity into order, using the theory of quantum chromodynamics. In the modern version of this theory, quarks come in six types - fancifully named up, down, strange, charmed, top and bottom - and three colors, named red, green and blue. The colors are like electrical charges that interact by exchanging bundles of energy called gluons, just as electrical charges attract or repel by exchanging photons. In contrast to electromagnetism, however, the gluons themselves have a color charge - thus the name chromodynamics - and interact with one another. In a breakthrough calculation, Dr. Gross, then an assistant professor at Princeton, and Dr. Wilczek, his graduate student, found that the force between two quarks would increase with distance and turn off as they grew closer. It would be as if the quarks were tied together by a rubber band that pulled tauter and tauter as they separated, but went slack when they came together, a notion known as asymptotic freedom. They soon learned that Dr. Politzer, then a graduate student at Harvard, had done the same thing. Dr. Gross, 63, was born in Washington. Dr. Politzer, 55, and Dr. Wilczek, 53, were both born in New York City. Noting that several Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work on
[ppiindia] Bill Gates tenang-tenang saja menghadapi outsourcing
Gates too casual about outsourcing ECONOMICTIMES.COM[ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 06, 2004 01:59:29 AM ] NEW DELHI: Debates over outsourcing have evoked mixed responses across the globe. Recently after Bill Gates' visit to the US universities, students were thoroughly disappointed and disgruntled. Reason? Gates was silent about US losing hi-tech jobs to India. It is a little scary for me to see people thinking of this as a zero-sum game, said he while speaking to www.computerweekly.com. Students were by and large disturbed with his responses to questions about increasing competition from China and India. Perhaps they expected some words of consolation from the chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft. They felt Gates was too casual about the outsourcing issue as he said, It is not like a war where you have one winner and one loser. China and India are the big change engines for the years ahead, and we should embrace that and understand our new role in that. So what do we get to assume from his statements? Well, as the Microsoft man himself puts it across, jobs will continue to move overseas and salaries for computer engineers will fall as a result of great competition with countries offering cheap, yet skilled labour. The US will have to compete with China and India on merit and not through protectionism. Gates' comments brought in good news for India, but not so good news for those living in the States. Needless to mention, not all Americans were happy about his concerns over the growing number of engineers in lower-wage countries. A student from one of the leading US University expressed his surprise and said, does he actually care from where he hires his employees? Several others expressed equal displeasure over his statements. Talking about computer science on www.computerweeklyc.com , Gates said there is plenty of work that still needs to be done. He also pitched a double major of computer science and biology as a ticket for a great future career. If we look at the PC today, it is certainly a glass half-full in terms of the ease of use, Gates was quoted saying on the same Website. According to him, advances in storing data and in user interfaces, such as unified storage and speech, will make PCs better in the future. Also, artificial intelligence and graphics are major areas of innovation. So instead of paying attention to the number of jobs shifting to India, Americans should buck up and rightfully improve their skills on the upcoming fields. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Dibawah Manmohan Singh dan Chidambaram, ekonomi tumbuh pesat
India's economy continues to grow India's economy has grown by 7.4% in the first quarter of the financial year - April to June. The performance, which is better than expected, is said to have been driven by a good showing in manufacturing and service industries. That has helped offset a relatively poor performance in the agricultural sector of the economy. Analysts say an improvement in agriculture is crucial to sustaining the momentum for growth. Agriculture accounts for nearly a quarter of India's economy with more than half its one billion population engaged in it. The downside is mainly on the agriculture front, while the good part of the growth story, which is manufacturing and services, is going strong, Rajeev Malik, economist at JP Morgan Singapore, told Reuters. So we believe India's growth story is still on track for achieving our full-year target of six per cent. Manufacturing boom The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Indusry (Ficci) says it will herald a good beginning for the current fiscal year. Ficci expects that well designed policy interventions to restrain the impact of oil prices and the rolling out of the promised reforms will help sustain the growth momentum into the year, it said in a statement. Last year, India's economy grew at over eight per cent, one of the highest in the world and just a shade lower than its rival Asian economic giant, China. Economists had projected a first quarter growth rate of 6.9% but the latest figures have topped that forecast. While agriculture grew at 3.4% compared to 10.5% in the previous quarter, manufacturing grew at eight per cent. Growth in the financial and real estate services sector was seven per cent. Analysts say lower interest rates have meant that more people are buying cars and houses. The strong figures appear to have spurred on the stock markets with the index of the benchmark 30-share Bombay Stock Exchange rising to 5581 points at noon, an increase of more than 60 points. (Story from BBC NEWS) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Orang IT pada pulang ke kandang
ZDNet India IT pros pursue dreams in India By Prerna K. Mishra, HT Correspondent, October 05, 2004 India beckons and Indian professionals living abroad are returning the call like never before. The promise of a good job and a good life that the west once held out is beginning to dissipate. Sample this: In July last, 1,000 professionals of Indian origin attended a job fair held in Santa Clara by a magazine and offered their resumes to companies planning to begin operations in India. A job fair organised by Wipro Technologies in the same city witnessed similar enthusiasm. In fact, Bangalore alone has seen over 35,000 nonresident Indians return so far. But what is making the flock fly back to their nest? Booming economy, a stress-free lifestyle, good salaries to buy comfort, job challenges somewhat similar to what America offered 20 years ago - the reasons are varied. Ask Ittiam chairman CEO Srini Rajam who left Texas Instruments with six of his colleagues to form Ittiam Systems in Bangalore in 2001. My decision to leave TI was driven by the passion to build a world class technology company from India. Rajam's conviction that India having done exceptionally well as a leading software services country can achieve a world class reputation for technology and products drove him to form a product company focused on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Systems. Today the company is already profitable, has 18 patents filed, and has Sony, TI, ST Microelectronics on its client list. In some cases, it was also the fire to rewrite personal aspirations that goaded professionals to take up unprecedented challenges back home. Says Avtar Saini, who left Intel as director-South Asia to join Topspin Communications - a US-based technology startup - to set up its research and development centre in Bangalore. It's all part of growing up and living a full life. Intel provided challenge, exciting projects, fame and financial freedom. Topspin is providing a new leaf of excitement, opportunity to implement ideas and management beliefs which were yet unfulfilled. Most of these professionals returning to the roots are leaving behind a legacy of excellence. Meet Sanjay Sarma, whose role at MIT's Auto-ID Centre in Boston has earned him the title of father of RFID. He has worked with early RFID adopters such as Wal-Mart, Gillette and US Department of Defence. But he gave it all up to join Bangalore-based Oat Systems as chief technology officer. He is assisted by a team of ex-IITians who have globe-trotted for the better parts of their lives to build radio-frequency identification-related software. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Megawati's long goobye
Kedengaran kubu Mega ada niat untuk menggugat hasil pilpres, melalui Mahkamah Konstitusi. Serius, nggak sih? Sudah baca editorial koran The Jakarta Post hari ini? Memang perlu ada jumpa muka SBY-Mega untuk menjamin lancarnya kontinuitas pemerintahan. Juga untuk menjadi pelajaran publik tentang praktek demokrasi/pemerintahan yang benar. Dan jangan pada saat demisioner ini pemerintah masih memutuskan hal berdampak jangka panjang, seperti rencana menutup pabrik pupuk ASEAN di Aceh. Yang terasa nylekit adalah alinea penutupnya yang saya quote: It would be a shame if the memory of Megawati's famous last words before leaving office were of giving herself and her vice president a Rp 20 billion (US$ 2.2 million) stipend to buy houses. Even Soeharto, in 1998, had the decency to return the housing allowance that was given to him. Salam, RM Print October 07, 2004 Megawati's long goodbye The official results of the presidential election may only have been announced by the General Elections Commission on Tuesday, but the outcome has been known for a fortnight. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is the president-elect, there can be no doubt about that. Outgoing President Megawati Soekarnoputri certainly has the right to challenge suspected ballot improprieties with the Constitutional Court, but we doubt, given the large margin of her defeat, that it will influence the final outcome. While the letter of the law provides for such a petition, we do not believe that it was designed to delay the outcome of such a decisive election. We hope that the losing camp will not tarnish the accomplishment of the Indonesian people in holding a fair, free and safe election by exploiting judicial loopholes to force what is effectively a moot argument. A concession speech from the incumbent would be welcome, but more importantly it is Megawati and her administration's cooperation that should be sought to ensure a smooth change in leadership. Megawati and Susilo will set the precedent for future changes of president. They are not the followers of fashion, but makers of a new tradition, setting the norms and standards for all future administrations. Never before in our history have we seen this. It is imperative for Megawati to help establish conditions that will ensure procedural legitimacy during the transition. A meeting between Megawati and Susilo should be set up by the outgoing administration. If not, then Susilo should exhort such a meeting from the incumbent. The significance of such a meeting cannot be underscored enough. First, it would publicly signify an amiable handover of power from one administration to the next. Second, it would present a mood of continuity, promising that there will be no disconnect in key policies. Third, it would be a public lesson for the nation in the discipline of democracy. Apart from the symbolic significance, there are substantial issues that would have to be discussed during such a meeting, and the president-elect would have to ensure that he received a full briefing from Megawati on key matters of state. It would also be wise for him to gain access to government intelligence sources, so that on Oct. 20 he would already be aware of the big picture of the potential threats and challenges facing the country. Most importantly, he should extract assurances of consultations between outgoing and incoming senior officials. These procedures, if faithfully carried out, would set the tone for future transitions. It would be a pattern that was hard to break. During the short two weeks before his confirmation as president, Susilo would be well advised to work out a strategy to fully exploit his brief honeymoon period. Susilo needs to hit the ground running. Hopefully, an orderly transition will facilitate Susilo's desire to expedite a swift move into office. For her part, Megawati has an opportunity to solidify her legacy. It would be prudent to refrain from making further decisions that can only be perceived as opportunist or that upset the policy plans of the incoming government. It is with some skepticism that we were informed of the government's intention to close PT ASEAN Aceh Fertilizer at a time when the decision-makers are the outgoing authority. Such a long-term decision probably should have been left to the charge of the new administration. The public has a very short memory, and like her or not we should all concede that Megawati did bring about certain positive aspects during her reign, not least of which were political stability and an improved macroeconomic outlook. Nevertheless, it is usually the last dying breaths that linger the longest. It would be a shame if the memory of Megawati's famous last words before leaving office were of her giving herself and her vice president a Rp 20 billion (US$2.22 million) stipend to buy houses. Even Soeharto, in 1998, had the decency to
[ppiindia] Two Israelis and an American won Nobel for chemistry 2004
Tadi malam diumumkan siapa-siapa pemenang Hadiah Nobel untuk kimia tahun 2004 ini. Nama-nama mereka adalah Aaron Ciechnova, Avram Hershko dan Irwin Rose. Dua orang yang disebut pertama, yaitu Aaron Ciechnova dan Avram Hershko sama-sama mengajar di Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) di Haifa. Sedang Irwin Rose mengajar di University of California Irvine. Salam, RM Science Daily Source: The Nobel Foundation Date: 2004-10-06 Nobel Prize In Chemistry: Proteins Labelled For Destruction Proteins build up all living things: plants, animals and therefore us humans. In the past few decades biochemistry has come a long way towards explaining how the cell produces all its various proteins. But as to the breaking down of proteins, not so many researchers were interested. Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose went against the stream and at the beginning of the 1980s discovered one of the cell's most important cyclical processes, regulated protein degradation. For this, they are being rewarded with this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose have brought us to realise that the cell functions as a highly-efficient checking station where proteins are built up and broken down at a furious rate. The degradation is not indiscriminate but takes place through a process that is controlled in detail so that the proteins to be broken down at any given moment are given a molecular label, a kiss of death', to be dramatic. The labelled proteins are then fed into the cells' waste disposers, the so called proteasomes, where they are chopped into small pieces and destroyed. The label consists of a molecule called ubiquitin. This fastens to the protein to be destroyed, accompanies it to the proteasome where it is recognised as the key in a lock, and signals that a protein is on the way for disassembly. Shortly before the protein is squeezed into the proteasome, its ubiquitin label is disconnected for re-use. Thanks to the work of the three Laureates it is now possible to understand at molecular level how the cell controls a number of central processes by breaking down certain proteins and not others. Examples of processes governed by ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation are cell division, DNA repair, quality control of newly-produced proteins, and important parts of the immune defence. When the degradation does not work correctly, we fall ill. Cervical cancer and cystic fibrosis are two examples. Knowledge of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation offers an opportunity to develop drugs against these diseases and others. Aaron Ciechanover, born 1947 (57 years) in Haifa, Israel (Israeli citizen). Doctor's degree in medicine in 1981 at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa. Professor at the Unit of Biochemistry and Director of the Rappaport Family Institute for Research in Medical Sciences at the Technion, Haifa, Israel. Avram Hershko, born 1937 (67 years) in Karcag, Hungary (Israeli citizen). Doctor's degree in medicine in 1969 at the Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Distinguished Professor at the Rappaport Family Institute for Research in Medical Sciences at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa, Israel. Irwin Rose, born 1926 (78 years) in New York, USA (American citizen). Doctor's degree in 1952 at the University of Chicago, USA. Specialist at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, USA. Prize amount: SEK 10 million, will be shared equally among the Laureates. This story has been adapted from a news release issued by The Nobel Foundation. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Secrets of smell land Nobel Prize
Secrets of smell land Nobel Prize Two US scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for uncovering the secrets of the human sense of smell. The way the brain recognises and remembers thousands of different odours has long baffled scientists. Professor Richard Axel, of Columbia University, and Professor Linda Buck, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, cracked the problem. The Nobel Prize, the most prestigious in medicine, is worth $1.3m. Until Axel and Buck's studies the sense of smell was a mystery. Professor Sten Grillner The scientists discovered a large gene family, made up of 1,000 different genes that control production of specialised protein receptors. These receptors are found on cells which line a small area of the upper part of the nose and detect odour molecules when they are breathed in. However, each cell possesses only one type of receptor, and each receptor can detect only a limited number of substances. Therefore each cell is highly specialised for a few odours. The cells each send signals along tiny strands of nerve tissue directly into the area of the brain that controls the sense of smell - the olfactory bulb. However, each type of cell connects to a different area - or glomerulus - within this tissue. From here the information is relayed to other parts of the brain, where the information from several olfactory receptors is combined, forming a pattern which is recognised as a distinct odour. Professor Axel and Buck first published a joint paper identifying the key genes in 1991. Since then they have worked on a number of studies to pin down the organisation of the olfactory system from molecular to cellular level. Professor Buck, during a lecture to the Karolinksa Institute, which decides who should get the Nobel Prize, said it was thought that humans can differentiate between up to 10,000 different odours. She said: The discriminatory power of the olfactory system is immense. Even closely related molecules have different smells. Well deserved Professor Sten Grillner, one of the panel of experts who judged the prize, said: Until Axel and Buck's studies the sense of smell was a mystery. Dr Peter Brennan, an expert in smell and behaviour at the University of Cambridge, said: The discovery of this large family of genes has revolutionized our understanding of this major sense. Although this work is not directly related to any major human diseases, it has opened new windows on the way the brain interprets the world around us and how this effects behaviour. Smell is different from the other senses in that the sensory cells are continually dying and being replaced by new cells that have to be wired up correctly in the brain. Their work, and that of their co-workers, has increased our knowledge of how the complex patterns of connections in the brain are formed during development. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/health/3713134. Published: 2004/10/04 10:16:07 GMT © BBC MMIV Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [ppiindia] Permohonan Turki di UE
--- Suhiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pada waktu presiden amrik-roosevelt membujuk raja saudi untuk mendukung negara israel, dia mengajukan alasan. pembantaian nazi di eropa...raja saudi (Faisal?) bilang, beri israel tanah di eropa bukan di arab, eropa yang menganiaya yahudi bukan arab. yang wajib memberi belas kasihan adalah yang berbuat, bukan orang yang tidak bersalah. sewaktu diberi alasan, teknologi israel yang maju bisa menghijaukan gurun, king faisal bilang, pengembangan teknologi itu perlu dana besar, dengan dana yang besar itu (dari amrik dan eropa) orang arab juga bisa menguasainya teknologi pertanian tsb, maka beri saja dana itu ke orang arab unutuk menghijaukan gurun :-) Negeri Israel tanah Arab? Check again your history book, Mas Suhiro. True, but not until the Khalifah setelah Kanjeng Nabi s.a.w. wafat bukan? Sebelumnya tanah siapa? Para petani perintis Israel dapat dana dari Barat? Check again your history books. Dananya bukan dari mana-mana, tapi dari Jewish Agency (mainly dari dua bersaudara Jewish yang dari kekayaan dan cintanya pada budaya jadi bangsawan di Inggris dan Perancis, Sir Rotschild dan Compte de Rotschild). Jewish Agency hanya mampu membeli tanah rawa dan gurun di Negev, karena landed Ottoman Arabs, ogah menjual tanah yang subur. Hehehe, ada isitlah Ottoman (Bani Utsmaniyah) jadi obrolan ini belum menyimpang jauh dari topik aslinya, yah. Para pionir yang hidup spartan banyak yang mati karena malaria di rawa-rawa Ashkelon, Ashdod dan Jaffa. Yang digurun Negev terpaksa melambari top soil dengan terpal agar air tidak merembes ke pasir, lahirlah pertanian plastik sampai sekarang. seperti sekelompok orang yang tiba di kampungkmu dan merampas tanahmu dan mendirikan kampung baru diatas tanah kampungmu...what do you feel? Ya geram tentunya. But wait, tanah Palestina itu bukan 100% milik Arab, ada claim dan counter-claim. Lihat komentar saya diatas. Salam, RM (orang Indonesia asli) Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: === message truncated === Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [ppiindia] STUDI BANDING MARAK LAGI
Ooops. 60 kali sebulan, berarti rata-rata KBRI Kuala Lumpur harus melayani 2 studi banding tiap harinya. Tiap delegasi hampir selalu disertai isteri/suami bahkan tidak jarang anak. Berapa banyak uang negara keluar untuk mengongkosi wisatawan itu? Sayang yang berani jadi whistle blower, adalah diplomat non-career seperti Dubes Rusdihardjo ini. Sebab diplomat karier takut nanti dihadang DPR waktu test fit-and-proper waktu diajukan jadi Dubes. Para mahasiswa, harap jangan meniru ulah pejabat, DPR, DPRD dan Pemda, lho. Salam, RM --- Tangkisan Letug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KBRI Malaysia Kerepotan Terima Tim Studi Banding Indonesia Senin, 04 Oktober 2004 | 11:27 WIB TEMPO Interaktif, Jakarta:Duta Besar Indonesia untuk Malaysia, Rusdiharjo mengungkapkan jumlah kunjungan tim studi banding Indonesia ke Malaysia mencapai 60 kali perbulannya. Menurutnya, mereka adalah para pejabat dan anggota DPR dari tingkat pusat hingga daerah, yang diongkosi negara. Karena banyaknya kunjungan, KBRI di Kuala Lumpur kerap kerepotan menjamu dan menemani mereka 'berdinas'. Mereka sering minta dijemput, kadang-kadang mereka baru menelepon setelah sampai di bandara, kata Rusdiharjo ketika mengikuti Diskusi Kebijakan Agribisnis Kelapa Sawit di Jakarta, Senin (4/10). Rusdiharjo mengatakan walaupun mereka bertugas melakukan studi banding, mereka lebih banyak minta diantar ke tempat-tempat wisata. Ia menyatakan, tim studi banding itu merupakan bagian dari sekitar 600.000 wisatawan Indonesia ke Malaysia. Total wisatawan asing yang berkunjung ke Malaysia, sepanjang 2003 lalu, mencapai 10 juta orang. Mawar Kusuma - Tempo http://www.tempointeraktif.com/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Dari green revolution ke gene revolution
Catatan: Green revolution = revolusi pertanian, yang menjadikan India kecukupan produksi makanan (gandum, beras, kacang-kacangan, gula); White revolution = gerakan koperasi susu yang dicetuskan Dr. Kurien, sehingga India sekarang produsen susu terbesar didunia; Software revolution = ini istilahnya Thomas Friedman, manjadikan Bangalore sebagai Silicon Valley kedua, dengan Wipro, TCS dan Infosys. Dan Azim Premji dan Narayana Murthy jadi Bill Gates kecil-kecilan Gene revolution = hehe, orang India ini ada-ada saja bikin istilah. Itu adalah kemajuan di bidang genetic engineering atawa molecular biology. Salam, RM Hyderabad , Oct. 4 THE Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is moving forward in functional genomics and has already formulated a Rs 32-crore project that would initially focus on the production of transgenic rice variety, which would be resistant to yellow stem borer, according to ICAR Director-General, Dr Mangala Rai. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an international symposium, Rice from Green Revolution to Gene Revolution, on Monday, Dr Rai said the project would subsequently focus on other aspects of transgenic rice like salinity, development of drought-resistant varieties, improvement of yield and quality, reduction of crop duration and efficient use of inputs like water and fertilisers. Our endeavour is to enhance productivity, reduce input costs and increase the profit margins of the producers so that we are competitive in cost as well as quality, locally and globally. Dr Rai said ICAR research trends on rice were currently associated with genetic improvement with a special focus on conservation technology. The three-day symposium is being held by ICAR with the participation of the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR), Hyderabad and the Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack on the occasion of the International Year of Rice. Stating that ICAR has also initiated work on organic farming, Dr Rai said there was a need to conduct a mass campaign for the production of vermicompost. Whether it is organic or inorganic farming, the plant will accept nutrients only in ionic form. Hence, there is a need to check the source of the organic matter. Dr Gurdev S. Khush, Professor at the University of California and former Head of Planting Breeding at the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute, said organic farming could be adopted in limited areas for production of small quantity of agricultural products for the purpose of export. We can't think of feeding the entire population of India with organic agriculture. He added that several new technologies were coming up for increasing productivity and improving the nutritional quality of rice. Currently, research is being conducted for enhancing photosynthesis process in rice plants. In this regard, genes from maize and sorghum - which have higher photosynthesis - are being injected into rice. This is expected to increase the rice yields by nearly 35 per cent. He said the `Golden Rice' genes have been now put into commercially grown rice varieties like IR 20 and Suvarna in India. Meanwhile, tests are being made on the digestive capability, food safety and environmental safety aspects of the transgenic `Golden Rice' that contains betacarotene and thus, would be useful in eliminating Vitamin A deficiency problems among rice consumers. A humanitarian board comprising several scientists and organisations is also looking into aspect of whether people who are used to consuming white rice would prefer to eat `Golden Rice'. On the other hand, Dr Khush said, research was also being conducted through conventional methods for production of high-yielding rice varieties that would have high iron content. These varieties are non-transgenic and may be available for commercialisation in 2-3 years. Earlier, inaugurating the symposium, Dr Rai said rice was probably the only crop in the world that was grown in most fragile ecosystems, adding that a `Gene Revolution' was possible if pursued persistently. (The Hindu Group) - Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus,
[ppiindia] Bahan formalin di tahu
Hehe. Anak SMA swasta Gandhi Memorial ini jelas tidak tahu bahwa soal formalin dalam tahu ini sudah dipersoalkan oleh Lembaga Konsumen Indonesia tahun 1980-an. Tapi setelah heboh sebentar, soal ini tidak ada kelanjutannya. Bagaimanapun juga, anak sekolah tadi mengungkapkan soal ini ke koran Jakarta Post bukan atas dasar katanya-katanya, tapi dari PR yang dilakukannya sendiri. Yang menarik adalah sarannya, agar tahu diawetkan dengan tumeric (ketumbar?) dan lain-lain bahan alami. Dia belum tahu soal tahu Kediri dan tahu Sumedang yang dikasih kunyit sehingga baunya wangi dan rasanya itu lho, enak. Bukan soal tahu saja bermasalah, tapi juga bola bakso yang diawetkan dengan formalin. Makin banyak kita makan bakso dan tahu, makin banyak formalin mengumpul dalam tubuh kita, padahal formalin sifatnya carcinogenic atau pemicu kanker. Bahan pewarna tekstil yang dipakai mewarnai kue, siroop, dan permen juga pernah dihebohkan. Seperti diketahui, bahan-bahan itu dalam jangka panjang merusak lever dan mengakibatkan gagal ginjal. Kita tidak usah menunggu sampai kita punya lembaga seperti FDA. Dengan perangkat hukum dan lembaga yang adapun semestinya kita dapat bertindak segera untuk melindungi kesehatan masyarakat kita. Salam, RM (Jakarta Post October 06, 2004) Formaldehyde in 'tahu' I am a student in my final year at Gandhi Memorial International School. Tahu (soya cake), a basic part of the Indonesian diet, is said to be the healthiest protein source for our bodies. However, recently while doing research on the use of harmful chemical preservatives, I came across very disturbing information on the Internet that in some cases, formaldehyde is used to preserve various type of foods, and that this practice is prevalent in Indonesia, especially in the preservation of tahu. Formaldehyde (formalin) is a preservative that is normally used for preserving tissue/biological specimens, with various other industrial uses, and is carcinogenic. Taking a lead from this, I conducted a few experiments by myself, with the help of my teacher, and I found a few alarming results. I took some tahu samples from markets and supermarkets and did find traces of formaldehyde in some of the samples, though in very minute quantities ranging from 0.1 percent to 0.3 percent. Tahu samples that had formaldehyde had a very nice smell, unlike the usual fermented smell that regular tahu (without formaldehyde) has. Taking direct samples from a tahu factory in Jakarta, my teacher and I discovered that during the process of adding gypsum, they add very minute quantities of formaldehyde. They add this harmful chemical, already diluted thoroughly in water, into the soymilk, just before it is to be molded. This soymilk is boiled at high temperatures and the gypsum helps in the curdling of the soymilk. However, it needs to be mentioned here that since the formaldehyde is very diluted and the soymilk is boiled at high temperatures, the hazardous effects of the chemical is marginalized. The most surprising element is the lack of awareness concerning this issue. And it is purely for commercial reasons that formaldehyde is used in the process, as the chemical can preserve the product (tahu) for a longer period of time. Some of the market vendors accepted the fact that formaldehyde is used as a preservative and most of the vendors were ignorant of the side effects that can be caused by this chemical. Since it is being added in such minute quantities, I feel that the harmful effects are neutralized once cooked in boiling water at high temperature. But the fact still remains that few people are aware of the harmful effects of using this chemical as a preservative. I personally feel that traditional and safer preservatives, such as turmeric, vinegar and ascorbic acid, can be applied in the production process to preserve food. ARAVIND BALAGI G. PRASAD, Jakarta Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group
[ppiindia] Sektor IT harus kerja keras, kata Narayana Murthy (Infosys)
Monday, October 4, 2004 (Press Trust of India) IT sector must work harder : Murthy Press Trust Of India / Bangalore October 4, 2004 Infosys chairman warns against complacency. As the Indian Information Technology (IT) juggernaut rolls on, Infosys chairman N R Narayana Murthy has cautioned home-grown companies against complacency, telling them to take up high-end work, maintain cost efficiency and protect margins with China and emerging East- Asian IT players vying for a larger share of the global IT pie. With the Indian it industry basking in the glory of high growth even in a low tech spend last year, Murthy has given a five-point prescription for India to hit the $50 billion software exports target and the $80 billion revenue mark by 2008. Today, the Indian IT industry has scripted an outstanding success story and changed our standing in the comity of nations. At the same time, however, we cannot let ourselves become complacent, Murthy said. India is facing competition from East-Asian countries such as China and the Philippines added to which in this globalised world, customers have access to the best services anywhere, he said, emphasising, In this context, the IT industry in India must work to stay competitive. We need to ensure that our IT companies move up the value chain by taking the benefits of the global delivery model to high-end activities like equity research and consulting, Murthy, whose Nasdaq-listed company was the third to join Indias billion dollar IT club last fiscal, said. While we continue to scale up and meet growing demands, we must maintain cost efficiency and protect margins. Further, we must build brand equity for this industry globally, he added. The chief mentor of Infosys said, a number of steps need to be taken (by both state and central governments) to meet this target and remain globally competitive. Indias software exports grew by 30.5 per cent to touch $12.5 billion in 2003-04 and aims to match the same growth to cross $16 billion this year. India, Murthy said, needs to increase penetration in terms of PCs and communication lines, noting that high cost of ownership is a barrier towards proliferation of devices. Citing a forecast by Nasscom, the apex body of software companies, he said the number of Internet subscribers would increase from 2.46 million now to 7.18 million in 2005, which called for additional investments in bandwidth. He said, the availability of a robust communication infrastructure is essential for Indian companies to effectively implement the offshore business model. Murthy said, if the level of education in our colleges is to be improved, an impetus must be given to improving the level of RD. We need to ensure an adequate pipeline of English-speaking graduates, he said. The software industry also requires good infrastructure and facilities in terms of airports, roads and electricity supply. He said as India moves towards a knowledge-based economy, protection of knowledge capital becomes essential. He was also concerned that the software piracy rates were around 70 per cent. I have always maintained that the role of government needs to be limited to areas like defence, external affairs, internal security., etc. Asked what measures india should take to stay ahead of china, which he recently said lagged just three years behind india, murthy said the competition came not only from china but also from other emerging east asian it players. Murthy said one of the advantages for india over china was its large english-speaking population but he stressed that achieving proficiency in english was now gaining priority in china. In beijing alone, there were over a thousand language-training centres. Additionally, we must invest further in our supply of knowledge professionals, our basic infrastructure and our levels of connectivity. Observing that while portfolio investments were good as they leverage the power of the indian enterpreneur, he said, we need that, but more important is foreign direct investment, which comes as equity or long-term goals. If you want to let fdi into india in a significant way, our people will have to create visible signs of progress to create confidence in our foreign investors, something that china is doing. Keyword Search Search This Section TIPS: Type in the Keywords or search by entering the company name. Advanced Search Sensex 5760 (85) Nifty 1805 (30) Rs-$ 45.93 Nikkei 11196 (211) Nasdaq 1942 (45) Last Updated : 04-October -2004 10:48 hrs IST --Select Fund Manager BS Billionaires Banking Annual BS 1000 About Us Partner with Us [EMAIL PROTECTED] Advertise
[ppiindia] Nila beribu titik merusak susu sebelanga
Saya kehilangan kata-kata untuk mengungkap jengkel saya. He !!! Salam, RM (The Jakarta Post) Print October 05, 2004 To protect and serve? On Wednesday, Sept. 29, as we rode our Vespa in the Blok M area at around 6 p.m., we were stopped by a policeman who said we were traveling in the wrong lane (though we later discovered we were not in violation of any traffic rules). No doubt, he saw two young foreign women and decided to take advantage of us. When he stopped us, he asked for all appropriate documentation, including the vehicle registration (STNK) and drivers license, which we gave to him. He took the documents and locked them in a box on his motorbike. At that stage, we tried to solve the problem by apologizing and asking for clarification about what we had done wrong. He asked us for Rp 250,000 for processing costs. We knew this was a hugely exaggerated amount and refused. He then made us follow him to a quieter location. We tried to resist and asked why we couldn't deal with the issue then and there, as we saw no need to move to a quieter location. But as he had all of our documents, we had no choice but to follow him. When we arrived at the front of Blok M Mall, he again asked for money, again Rp 250,000 or Australian dollars. We explained that, as we worked for local non-governmental organizations, we didn't earn dollars but rupiah, and offered him Rp 50,000. He refused this amount. He then became very inappropriate, saying, Kamu cantik sekali, saya suka sekali sama kamu (You are very pretty, I really like you). He then asked us about our marital status and said he wanted to marry an Australian. At this stage, we began to feel rather frightened and nervous. A senior policeman came over, but then quickly left. Once his superior had left, the inappropriate policeman asked us for Rp 100,000 and a kiss! In Australia, behavior such as this would constitute sexual harassment and the policeman would be punished severely. We were thus left in a very weak position and unsure of how to deal with the situation. We debated the issue back and forth, with the policeman becoming increasingly sleazy. When one of us threatened to call our husband to come and assist us, the policeman quickly resolved the issue, accepted the Rp 50,000 and returned our documents. Unfortunately, he was not wearing a name tag or any form of identification, and as we were shocked and scared, we did not ask him for this information. In the words of this particular policeman, the police are here to serve the people. Yet, how can we be expected to trust the people with power when this power is abused? K.A. SHANAHAN, Jakarta Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Western-educated fundamentalists
(Dari Straits Times interactive) OCT 4, 2004 Western-educated fundamentalists British and US nationals of Pakistani origin spearhead push for puritanical Islamic state KARACHI - A new breed of Islamic fundamentalists who study at top British and American schools yet abhor Western values has emerged in Pakistan. The radicals advocate a pan-Islamic state and favour the removal of the country's pro-US government. Militancy and violence are not part of their agenda as they want to achieve their 'lofty goals' through a peaceful and non-violent struggle. But analysts say such men, fired by the passion of an Islamic renaissance, stand on a thin line dividing political and violent struggles. Hizb ut-Tahrir (Liberation Party), an international Islamic group with roots from England to Central Asia, is a recent addition to myriad radical organisations striving to enforce 'true Islam' in Pakistan, a poor South Asian nation. The group was outlawed in Pakistan in November last year, just three years after it started operations, but its members continue undeterred, distributing party literature and holding small meetings in efforts to expand their base. Pakistan, an ally of the US in the war on terror, banned several militant Islamic groups but most of them re-emerged under new names. Hizb ut-Tahrir has refused to change its identity despite the closure of its offices and the arrests of several members. British and US nationals of Pakistani origin make up the backbone of this secretive group formed in Jerusalem in 1953. It wants to establish a supra-Islamic state on the model of the caliphate as it existed in the early days of Islam. The group came to Pakistan through second-generation Pakistanis living in the West, Chaudhry, an Interior Ministry spokesman. 'Its members incite people against the government through their writings and leaflets.' But Hizb ut-Tahrir's spokesman Naveed Butt said to bring about a change, one needed political - not militant - action. 'We are being associated with militancy because we preach an alternative ideology,' said Mr Butt, an engineer from Chicago, where he was first introduced to the group in the mid-1980s. 'The best barometer of our success is that we were banned within three years of our activities here.' \-- Reuters PIONEER MEMBER MR ISMAIL Sheikh abandoned his career as a dentist in London and moved to Karachi in 1999 to become one of Hizb ut-Tahrir's pioneer members. 'We advocate unity of Muslims,' said the frail 34-year-old British national of Pakistani origin who was arrested for distributing pamphlets outside a Karachi mosque in July. An anti-terrorism court acquitted him on lack of evidence last month and he was back doing the group's work the same day, saying the arrest only strengthened his resolve. 'They questioned me whether I had links to Al-Qaeda or I visited Afghanistan,' he said. NON-MILITANT STANCE MR AHMED Rashid, the author of a book on the Taleban, said Hizb ut-Tahrir is a movement based in Europe. 'Young Muslims living in the West get exposure to their culture through religion. I don't think they have any real popular support. 'Given the enormous number of Islamic schools and parties, it is difficult for someone like Hizb, which is seen as an import from England, to come in the field and make room for itself,' he said. He said that despite its radical ideas, there were no indications that Hizb was involved in militancy. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Buyat lagi: test terpercaya membuktikan bahwa tingkat Hg normal
Bakal mendulang badai kalau saya ungkit lagi soal ini, saya sadar itu. Maklum, pendapat yang mengatakan bahwa Newmont kerjanya bukan sembarangan, itu melawan arus. Tapi, apakah yang benar itu, yang sementara ini politically-correct? Salam, RM Print October 04, 2004 (Jakarta Post) Int'l tests show normal mercury level in Buyat Bay Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta A laboratory test by Japan's Minamata institute and the World Health Organization (WHO) shows the mercury levels in hair samples taken from residents living at Buyat Bay in North Sulawesi were normal, the Ministry of Health said on Sunday. Ministry director general of communicable disease Umar Fahmi said the level of mercury in the residents' hair was 2.65 micro grams per gram (æ/g) or around one-twentieth of the dangerous level of 50 æ/g set by WHO. It indicates a normal level of mercury content in human body. The level is equivalent with the mercury content found in healthy Japanese citizens, Umar told The Jakarta Post. Earlier, the results of a laboratory test last July by the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Indonesia found that the mercury levels in the blood of Buyat Bay residents was between 8 micrograms a liter (æ/L), to 21 æ/L. Normal mercury levels in the blood of people that do not eat large amounts of fish are 8 æ/L and studies show that people do not suffer symptoms of mercury poisoning until their blood-mercury reaches levels as high as 200 æ/L, information from the U.S. Food and Drug Agency says. Meanwhile, the Jakarta health office's laboratory test released on July 28, revealed the same residents had blood-mercury levels of between 33.75 æ/L and 52.50 æ/L. The test, however, didn't show a significant content of mercury in the residents' hair and nails. Umar said the tests by the Minamata institute and WHO also examined the levels of other heavy metals in the human body and in the environment -- in fish, water and sediment around the bay, which police said was polluted by U.S-based mining firm PT Newmont Minahasa Raya. My competence is to only inform you about (mercury) content in the human body. All I can tell you is that the levels of heavy metals are higher in Totok Bay than in Buyat Bay. We will release complete details on Monday. We will be very careful about this as it is a sensitive issue, Umar said. Buyat Bay and Totok Bay are separated by a two-kilometer cape. a number of people living in Buyat Pante village along the Buyat Bay have come to Jakarta, complaining about pollution-related diseases. However, none of residents from Ratatotok village along the Totok Bay have made similar complaints. An expert from Japan's National Institute for Minamata Disease, Mineshi Sakamoto, and a WHO environmental expert, Jan Speets, conducted research in Buyat Pante and Ratatotok villages in mid-August. They took samples of fish and water, as well as samples of blood, hair, and finger nail clippings of residents from the two villages which was tested in Japan. At the end of August, the National Police charged PT Newmont Minahasa Raya, the only mining company that operated there, with contaminating Buyat Bay. The charges were based on the results of a police laboratory test on samples of water, fish, soil and sediments taken from the bay. The test concluded that the level of mercury in the Buyat Bay water was 5.5 æ/L, 4 æ/L, and 3.9 æ/L respectively in three different locations where those samples were taken, police said. They added that the tested mercury level exceeded the standard of 1 æ/L set by Ministerial Decree No. 51/2004 on seawater pollution standards, the same minimum safety standard as set by WHO. The police are detaining five six Newmont executives as suspects in the Buyat Bay pollution case but are not holding the company's president director, Richard Ness, citing health concerns. Newmont has repeatedly denied all charges, while U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia Ralph L. Boyce has called for the release of the detainees because they were cooperating investigation. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya,
[ppiindia] Seeds of invention (Newsweek)
Sudah saya saksikan sendiri, lab Wockhardt perusahaan fammasi India di Aurangabad. Lab ini menghasilkan obat yang sama sekali baru, dengan molekul baru, memakai prosedur molecular biology yang in-house. Setelah test pada tikus, dan terakhir pada pasien sukarela, sampel dikirim ke FDA untuk pengesahan. Juga BASF industri chemicals terbesar didunia punya RD di Thane, dekat Mumbai, satu-satunya RD BASF yang diluar Jerman. Tenaganya semua Ph.D dari India. Salam, RM Seeds of Invention Research: These are boom times for Asian RD. But can Chinese and Indian scientists get their ideas into the marketplace? By Sudip Mazumdar and Melinda Liu Newsweek InternationalOct. 11 issue - The only thing a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science did for Amit Nanavati was make him overqualified for most of the available jobs in his hometown of New Delhi. So he did what many ambitious Indians did in the late 1980s: he went to the United States for graduate school. The move worked wonders on his career. As soon as he finished his Ph.D. at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1996, a fast-rising start-up called Netscape snapped him up. Nanavati would have preferred to go back home to India, but figured he'd have an even tougher time marketing himself. He was mistaken. In the time it took him to get his degree, career prospects for engineers and scientists in India had brightened considerably. By 1998 he found himself back in New Delhi, as a researcher at IBM's new lab, where he's been ever since. India is the right place and this is the right time, he says. These are indeed boom times for research in Asia. U.S. and European corporations, in an effort to get closer to their overseas markets, are pouring money into the bigger Asian countries like China and India. And governments are falling over themselves to entice them, investing billions in their own universities and big corporate-research parks, like Singapore's Biopolis. The burning question, though, is to what extent Asia will be able to turn this unprecedented investment in intellectual resources into a true engine of innovation. So far, the rise of Asian RD is only skin-deep. Asia may boast some topflight talent, but the best Ph.D. s are still trained in the United States, say corporate-research executives. It's difficult to say who will emerge as big winners. China's rapid growth allows it to attract more investment from foreign firms, but its researchers struggle under a Soviet-style autocratic culture that doesn't lend itself to the freewheeling exchange of ideas. In this regard, India's British influence may have served it well, but scientists often face red tape. Asians are getting a strong dose of market-driven research priorities from the influx of American firms. In the past five years more than 100 companies, including General Motors, Boeing and Mobil, have set up RD centers in India. General Electric has put its largest non-U.S. lab in Bangalore, where the company employs 1,600 mostly Indian researchers. Johnson Johnson, DuPont, Procter Gamble and other firms are also considering setting up their own labs. The world has realized that if you don't have an India address [in RD], you are in trouble, says R. A. Mashelkar, head of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. India has had some luck in turning this influx into homegrown success, particularly in pharmaceuticals and information technology. Start-up firms are beginning to appear in Hyderabad and Bangalore because of their talent pool and the many scientific institutions located there. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, a zoologist, became the richest woman in India in April when she floated her biotech company, Biocon, which makes a cholesterol-lowering drug. But stories like hers are few and far between. India needs to break away from imitative to more inventive RD, says Mazumdar-Shaw (interview). In China, scientists have begun to publish their research in the best Western journals, and each week brings news of some new research project or investment. Last week Cisco Systems said it would spend $32 million on an RD center in Shanghai to develop new voice technologies. China has targeted biotechnology (for both agriculture and medicine), energy and nanotechnology as areas of opportunity. Scientists, though, are laboring under a political system that is antithetical to a healthy research culture. Chinese officials still tend to favor state-run enterprises, which get first dibs on new technology, capital and access to markets. The problems of science and technology in China are not so much scientific as they are problems of management, economics and politics, concluded a report by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. The challenge for both India and China in the next few years is to bolster research at universities and bring industry into the mix. There's great skills in both places, says Paul Horn, head of research at IBM, which has labs in both countries. At the Ph.D.
Re: [ppiindia] Fruits of science
GMC (generically modified crops) memang dilarang masuk oleh pemerintah-pemerintah di Eropa. Sedang di Amerika, bukan pemerintah yang melarang tapi para ethicists. Mengapa Eropa mati-matian tidak mau menerima GMC? Satu, mungkin mereka takut GMC membahayakan kesehatan dan merusak lingkungan hidup. Kalau hanya itu sebabnya, tunggu saja beberapa tahun lagi setelah terbukti bahwa kekhawatiran itu tidak terbukti, mereka akan mengijinkan GMC. Kedua, mungkin Eropa ingin melindungi petaninya, yang sekalipun prosentasenya secara demografis kecil tapi sangat berpengaruh dalam politik. Seperti diketahui, perselisihan antara Inggris dan Perancis/Jerman di UE dari dulu sampai sekarang menyangkut CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) yang menyedot dana besar-besaran untuk menjamin harga pangan (gandum, buah dan susu) tetap amat tinggi. Tanpa subsidi besar-besaran, petani Jerman dan Perancis dijamin collapsed. Lain halnya petani di Inggris, Irlandia dan Belanda. Itulah yang dimaksud dengan kebijakan yang politically-motivated, bukan kebijakan berdasarkan hard science. Roma adalah tempat kedudukan FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization). Jadi sudah tepat kalau dubes Amerika bicara mempromote penerimaan GMC disana. Dengan GMC, food defisit tidak perlu ada dan jutaan orang lapar di Afrika dapat kenyang. Dengan GMC, lahan pertanian di Amerika dan Eropa dapat diciutkan dan jadi hutan kembali dan effect pemanasan bumi jadi berkurang. Tapi sayang, tujuan yang indah dan mulia saat ini masih dihambat oleh orang yang greed-motivated. Salam, RM --- Ambon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Biotech food for the hungry Jim Nicholson IHT Saturday, October 2, 2004 Fruits of science VATICAN CITY The number of people who die of starvation dwarfs the number who die from terrorism. Last year, 625 people died from terrorism; 10 million from starvation. Every five seconds someone dies for lack of food; 25,000 people will die of hunger today. So just as we must explore every means to defeat terrorism, we must also explore every means to meet the most basic need of every human being - food. . As the largest provider of food aid in the world, the United States is just as committed to the struggle to feed the hungry as it is to the struggle against terrorism. But we want to do more than provide handouts. We want countries to be able to feed themselves. . With this in mind, the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See recently sponsored an international conference in Rome to examine the potential of biotechnology to help meet this challenge of hunger. Scientists, farmers from developing countries, senior government officials and theologians spoke in broad agreement that biotechnology is an indispensable tool to meet the world's growing demand for more food. The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pope's scientific advisory board, joined with us in trying to seek the truth and dispel myths about biotech foods. . Dr. C.S. Prakash, an Indian-born scientist whose research has increased the nutritional value of the sweet potato fourfold, told the conference that half of sub-Saharan Africans are malnourished today, a figure that is expected to increase to 70 percent by 2010. He said that world population growth has reduced the amount of arable land, making greater agricultural productivity a necessity: We must produce more food with less land, less water and less chemicals. . Biotechnology can do this. . The best assessment of biotechnology's potential came from farmers themselves. Sabina Khoza, a South African maize farmer, and Edwin Paraluman, a corn farmer in the Philippines, told us that their yields and incomes are up, and their use of harmful pesticides is down. . Unfortunately, the ability of farmers such as Khoza and Paraluman to take advantage of this new tool has been severely restricted in many countries by widespread resistance based upon misinformation about biotechnology safety - misinformation sown by ideologically motivated groups and nurtured by EU trade protectionists. . These critics continue to claim that biotech foods are unsafe despite the fact that millions of Americans, Canadians, Australians, Argentines and other people have been eating genetically modified food for nearly a decade - without one proven case of an illness, allergic reaction or even the hiccups. . Activists even convinced African governments facing drought-induced famine in late 2002 to return tons of World Food Program corn because it was produced in America using biotechnology. Better to die than eat the food that Americans eat every day. . For those who question the morality of biotechnology, suggesting that it is unnatural, the scientists pointed out that mankind has been genetically altering food throughout human history. In fact, almost none of the foods we consider natural today exist in nature; all have been genetically modified for human use. . In
[ppiindia] Hi-tech humanitarian
(Dari Technology Review) High-tech Humanitarian Physician and entrepreneur Vikram Kumar founded a company that makes software to help patients and doctors manage chronic disease. By Erika Jonietz September 30, 2004 Vikram Kumar, president and CEO of Dimagi, received Technology Reviews annual Technology in the Service of Humanity award Wednesday at the magazines Emerging Technologies Conference. Kumar, 28, was honored for the small healthcare informatics companys work in developing computer software that helps health workers and patients manage chronic diseases such as HIV and diabetes. He was chosen from among the TR100a group of 100 innovators under age 35 that the magazine selected for the potential of their work to transform the world. A resident physician training in clinical pathology at Bostons Brigham and Womens Hospital, Kumar started Dimagi while still in medical school. His goal: to make health information more useful to patients so that they could be more centrally involved with their own care. One of our biggest problems in medicine is to motivate patients to take a medication, exercise, improve their dietsvery straightforward things, Kumar says. He believes that simple, intuitive, portable, and fun-to-use computer programs can improve adherence to such regimens. We are looking at ways we can give patients data on their conditions, and trying to create techniques that will get patients to actually use that information in their own care, he says. The problems that Dr. Kumar solves seem intractable, said Technology Review editor in chief Jason Pontin. We were excited to see someone come up with elegant, simple, cheap technical solutions that have made a huge difference to people whose lives are very, very difficult. One such solution is HIV Confidant, a PDA-based system being used in South Africa to encourage people to be tested for HIV/AIDS. Confidentiality is a big barrier to testing in Africa, Kumar says, because patients dont trust their data is secure. Using standard encryption methods, HIV Confidant allows anonymous testing in the most remote locations. Healthcare workers can go into villages and administer HIV tests, giving patients a card with a unique ID afterwards. They return later with the results; only after the patient enters his or her ID does the data become visible. Dimagi is now working on software to help AIDS patients manage their disease by monitoring blood counts confidentially. Kumar also helped design a mobile electronic medical record system that mobile outreach workers are using in rural India. Working with researchers at Media Lab Asia and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Dimagi developed the handheld software application to help standardize healthcare across villages; adoption of the software has improved data collection, scheduling of immunizations, and recording of routine demographic changes in the community. The program has a special emphasis on care for children and pregnant women. The software was designed to be easy to use by someone who has never seen a computer before, Kumar says. The nurses trained themselves to use it inside an hour, he adds. Healthcare workers now use the system to record and manage data from more than 70,000 patients. In the long run, Kumar hopes his management systems will help keep people healthy. Diagnostic tests are becoming smaller and better, giving doctors unprecedented amounts of data about patients. What were lacking, Kumar says, is ways to tie all this new technology into interaction with the patient. Dimagis software is designed to do just that. And combined with cheap, easy-to-access diagnostics and computer models that predict how diseases will develop, Kumars programs may help patients and doctors achieve his ultimate goal: keeping people out of hospitals altogether. Were going to be a millionaire of a different sort, Kumar said, accepting the award. Were going to try to affect the lives of a million people. Erika Jonietz is a contributing editor to Technology Review. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL
[ppiindia] Except in India and China, globalization slows growth, according to ILO
(Dari koran The Hindu) Except India, globalisation slows growth in many countries:ILO New Delhi, Oct. 1 (PTI): With the major exceptions of India and China, globalisation has not been associated with a dramatic increase in economic growth, says a latest ILO report. Globalisation has not been associated with a dramatic increase in economic growth, as its advocates claimed it would, and indeed has been associated with a slowing of growth in many countries, with the major exceptions of China and India, according to the report Economic Security for a Better World. The 450-page report pointed out that more crucially, globalisation has been associated with an increase in economic instability and a greater incidence of economic crises. Observing that social security systems have become less universal, less solidaristic, less protective and more differentiated, it said these factors contribute to the growth of inequality and economic insecurity. A major form of income insecurity and impoverishment is income instability, with large number of people receiving income irregularly, often after extensive delay, the document said. Referring to work security vis-a-vis occupational health and safety, the report said risks of injuries and accidents remained very high, having grown in many places because of the weakening of institutional safeguards. Stress has become a major form of work insecurity, affecting millions of workers, many of whom are in affluent countries where labour intensity has increased, and where time squeeze has become a modern hazard for many more occupational groups, the report said. The chapter on work security also mentions harassment in and around the workplace in very many countries. About human capital, the report said although many workers feel they lack the skills they need, many possess skills that are not used in their work. Finding an inverse correlation between economic security and income inequality, the report said that countries with a highly unequal distribution of income did significantly worse in terms of providing their populations with adequate economic security. Observing that economic security was only weakly correlated with economic growth, the report cautioned that opening up the economy hastily might lead to social instability and added that economic security was positively correlated with a national Happiness Index. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Except in India and China, globalization slows growth, according to ILO
(Dari koran The Hindu) Except India, globalisation slows growth in many countries:ILO New Delhi, Oct. 1 (PTI): With the major exceptions of India and China, globalisation has not been associated with a dramatic increase in economic growth, says a latest ILO report. Globalisation has not been associated with a dramatic increase in economic growth, as its advocates claimed it would, and indeed has been associated with a slowing of growth in many countries, with the major exceptions of China and India, according to the report Economic Security for a Better World. The 450-page report pointed out that more crucially, globalisation has been associated with an increase in economic instability and a greater incidence of economic crises. Observing that social security systems have become less universal, less solidaristic, less protective and more differentiated, it said these factors contribute to the growth of inequality and economic insecurity. A major form of income insecurity and impoverishment is income instability, with large number of people receiving income irregularly, often after extensive delay, the document said. Referring to work security vis-a-vis occupational health and safety, the report said risks of injuries and accidents remained very high, having grown in many places because of the weakening of institutional safeguards. Stress has become a major form of work insecurity, affecting millions of workers, many of whom are in affluent countries where labour intensity has increased, and where time squeeze has become a modern hazard for many more occupational groups, the report said. The chapter on work security also mentions harassment in and around the workplace in very many countries. About human capital, the report said although many workers feel they lack the skills they need, many possess skills that are not used in their work. Finding an inverse correlation between economic security and income inequality, the report said that countries with a highly unequal distribution of income did significantly worse in terms of providing their populations with adequate economic security. Observing that economic security was only weakly correlated with economic growth, the report cautioned that opening up the economy hastily might lead to social instability and added that economic security was positively correlated with a national Happiness Index. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Despite India's potential being recognized worldwide, it has a long way to go
Search NewsAdvanced Search GROUP SITES The Indian Express The Financial Express Latest News Screen Kashmir Live Express Cricket Loksatta Lokprabha North American Edition [Print] COLUMNISTS The Indian Express The Financial Express CITY NEWSLINES Choose City Ahmedabad Chandigarh Delhi Lucknow Ludhiana Mumbai Pune Cities Home SERVICES Send Gifts, Sweets Flowers to India. Express Travel The 99 Store - Just for you !! Matrimonials Online Shopping Mall from to Search SUBSCRIPTIONS Free Newsletter Wireless Express SYNDICATIONS RSS Feeds BIZ PUBLICATIONS Express Computer Network Magazine Express Hotelier Caterer Express Travel Tourism Express Business Traveller Express Pharma Pulse Express Healthcare Management Express Textile Express IT People Home Top Stories Business Saturday, October 02, 2004 | Nation | World | Business | Sport | Entertainment | Infotech | Business (Dari Indian Express) Indias potential being recognised worldwide Vivek Bharati Posted online: Friday, October 01, 2004 at 1636 hours IST Updated: Saturday, October 02, 2004 at 1036 hours IST As I settled down in the flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong last week, I was drawn to a front-page report in the Asian Wall Street Journal describing how China and, on a much lower scale, India are pulling away jobs from advanced countries. Another report in the same paper compared levels of internet penetration in Asian markets. Despite the fact that India was at the bottom of the table, I was pleased that we figured in the story. Why feel good about small mercies, one may argue. But just a few years ago while the world was busy taking a hard look at the Asian economic story, particularly the amazing transformation of China, we found no mention in newspaper reports. The fact that media has now begun to take notice is proof of the fact that Indias economic potential is now being recognised. Some weeks ago, Newsweek ran a cover story on how India is emerging as one of the worlds best investment destination. This view is being echoed in other credible global investor meets across the world. A decade ago, businessmen abroad would cast a condescending glance as I exchanged my visiting card with them. Today, they treat Indians with respect even though they may not want to be part of Indias cumbersome business environment. Yet as one travels around Asia, the gap between what has been achieved by even small countries in the region and India hits you like a tornado and one gets that sinking feeling that we continue to be not years but decades behind. The sheer scale at which these countries have conceived and built projects makes one feel small and insignificant. The Changi airport at Singapore, built over two decades ago handles more passengers than all our airports put together. The 70 km expressway that connects the international airport at Kuala Lumpur to the city and built years ago, is as good as one gets anywhere in the world. The Hong Kong airport is connected to the city by the worlds longest suspension bridge, bigger than the Golden Gate. Within the city, there is a web of quality double-carriage roads at times crossing each other at three or four different levels. Hong Kong and Singapore have two of the busiest ports with perhaps the largest container terminals in the world. Far more trade is conducted through these two ports than all our ports put together. The tourist handling capacity of Bangkok, Singapore, KL and Hong Kong outstrips that of our entire country by a multiple of twenty or more. The sad part of the story is that we have not begun thinking on that scale. The highways, ports, airports that we are building now are not a patch on what you see in Southeast or East Asia. The fact that we cannot even build 500 metre flyovers or bridges on time speaks of our abysmal project management abilities. The skylines of our cities look puny compared to what one sees in this region. The Petronas towers in Kuala Lumpur makes one desperately look for one symbol of modern urban India that can attract tourists and make them carry tales of our construction capabilities. Yes, India is now being recognised as an important investment destination Yet, theres a feeling that we are far behind other smaller countries PMs statement on his governments first priority needs to be implemented We have not one convention centre that can seat 5,000 delegates while China and its neighbours have these in good number. There is not one city in the country that can boast of a taxi service for tourists at par with our competitors in Asia. One can go on and on. The short point is that we have a long way to go. The
[ppiindia] Despite India's potential being recognized worldwide, it has a long way to go
Search NewsAdvanced Search GROUP SITES The Indian Express The Financial Express Latest News Screen Kashmir Live Express Cricket Loksatta Lokprabha North American Edition [Print] COLUMNISTS The Indian Express The Financial Express CITY NEWSLINES Choose City Ahmedabad Chandigarh Delhi Lucknow Ludhiana Mumbai Pune Cities Home SERVICES Send Gifts, Sweets Flowers to India. Express Travel The 99 Store - Just for you !! Matrimonials Online Shopping Mall from to Search SUBSCRIPTIONS Free Newsletter Wireless Express SYNDICATIONS RSS Feeds BIZ PUBLICATIONS Express Computer Network Magazine Express Hotelier Caterer Express Travel Tourism Express Business Traveller Express Pharma Pulse Express Healthcare Management Express Textile Express IT People Home Top Stories Business Saturday, October 02, 2004 | Nation | World | Business | Sport | Entertainment | Infotech | Business (Dari Indian Express) Indias potential being recognised worldwide Vivek Bharati Posted online: Friday, October 01, 2004 at 1636 hours IST Updated: Saturday, October 02, 2004 at 1036 hours IST As I settled down in the flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong last week, I was drawn to a front-page report in the Asian Wall Street Journal describing how China and, on a much lower scale, India are pulling away jobs from advanced countries. Another report in the same paper compared levels of internet penetration in Asian markets. Despite the fact that India was at the bottom of the table, I was pleased that we figured in the story. Why feel good about small mercies, one may argue. But just a few years ago while the world was busy taking a hard look at the Asian economic story, particularly the amazing transformation of China, we found no mention in newspaper reports. The fact that media has now begun to take notice is proof of the fact that Indias economic potential is now being recognised. Some weeks ago, Newsweek ran a cover story on how India is emerging as one of the worlds best investment destination. This view is being echoed in other credible global investor meets across the world. A decade ago, businessmen abroad would cast a condescending glance as I exchanged my visiting card with them. Today, they treat Indians with respect even though they may not want to be part of Indias cumbersome business environment. Yet as one travels around Asia, the gap between what has been achieved by even small countries in the region and India hits you like a tornado and one gets that sinking feeling that we continue to be not years but decades behind. The sheer scale at which these countries have conceived and built projects makes one feel small and insignificant. The Changi airport at Singapore, built over two decades ago handles more passengers than all our airports put together. The 70 km expressway that connects the international airport at Kuala Lumpur to the city and built years ago, is as good as one gets anywhere in the world. The Hong Kong airport is connected to the city by the worlds longest suspension bridge, bigger than the Golden Gate. Within the city, there is a web of quality double-carriage roads at times crossing each other at three or four different levels. Hong Kong and Singapore have two of the busiest ports with perhaps the largest container terminals in the world. Far more trade is conducted through these two ports than all our ports put together. The tourist handling capacity of Bangkok, Singapore, KL and Hong Kong outstrips that of our entire country by a multiple of twenty or more. The sad part of the story is that we have not begun thinking on that scale. The highways, ports, airports that we are building now are not a patch on what you see in Southeast or East Asia. The fact that we cannot even build 500 metre flyovers or bridges on time speaks of our abysmal project management abilities. The skylines of our cities look puny compared to what one sees in this region. The Petronas towers in Kuala Lumpur makes one desperately look for one symbol of modern urban India that can attract tourists and make them carry tales of our construction capabilities. Yes, India is now being recognised as an important investment destination Yet, theres a feeling that we are far behind other smaller countries PMs statement on his governments first priority needs to be implemented We have not one convention centre that can seat 5,000 delegates while China and its neighbours have these in good number. There is not one city in the country that can boast of a taxi service for tourists at par with our competitors in Asia. One can go on and on. The short point is that we have a long way to go. The
[ppiindia] Peluncuran satelit pendidikan Edusat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Textbook precision launching of Educational Satellite brings India to the forefront of commercial space technology ready to compete with Europe, Russia and America! Prabash Sachdev, Special Correspondent September 22, 2004 India is now ready to compete with Americans. Russians and Europeans in commercial Space Missions! The GSLV (F-01) rocket successfully launched the education satellite, Edusat, into the geosynchronous transfer orbit from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here on Monday. Launched with 'textbook precision', the first operational flight of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle took to the skies against a blue background at exactly 16.01 pm. A little over 17 minutes after the lift-off, Edusat was injected into the GTO, which in addition to drawing loud rounds of applause also brought a sigh of relief amongst the ISRO's top brass. The first reports have shown that there is practically no deviation from the set trajectory,'' said ISRO Director G Madhavan Nair. India had shown to the world that it was capable of doing a complete job with thoroughness and precision,'' he said. The tenth consecutive successful launch for ISRO and the third for GSLV, the event marks a new era in the nation's quest for dissemination of knowledge. When fully operational, Edusat would provide connectivity to schools and colleges, and also support non-formal education and promote a nation-wide interactive e-learning initiative. The satellite has multiple regional beams and each can cover between 50 to 200 classrooms. This would be used for teachers training, to demonstrate costly science and technology experiments, for adult literacy programmes and also for an interactive, multi-media, multi-casting system,'' Nair said. FINAL DECISION AT 9.30 AM: But for all the success of the day, the launch had very nearly been called off. With heavy rains and high winds over the last two days, especially in the early hours of this morning, the mission was very nearly aborted,'' Nair said. However, with the skies lighting up, the final decision to go ahead with the launch was taken only around 9.30 am. Added to this was a new problem. The new programme called Day of the Launch Wind Scheme', where a balloon is sent about 20 km into the atmosphere to measure wind velocity, was delayed. The balloon burst while it was being sent into the atmosphere, but we got a replacement in time,'' said G Ravindranath, GSLV project director at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. INDIGENOUS ENGINE ON TRACK: Talking to the media after the launch, Madhavan Nair said that the development of the indigenous cryogenic engine was on track as the ground tests have been completed, and it was expected to be in the flight-worthy stage in a year's time. Nair said that the second launch pad at Sriharikota would be operational for the launch of the next of the PSLV series scheduled for February next year. This is expected to be functional for launches of GSLV class satellites by mid 2005,'' he added. Regarding the committee report on the mishap here early this year, he said that it was a freak incident where a leakage during the process of casting the solid propellant led to the accident. Nair said Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of the Department of Space, had achieved a turnover of Rs 300 crore last year, which is a three-fold increase compared to the previous year. The company had also earned a net profit of Rs 30 crore. Close Window Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [ppiindia] Permohonan Turki di UE
Meskipun bukan saya yang ditanya, saya pikir tidak ada salahnya saya sedikit membantu. Penerimaan anggota baru (dalam hal ini Turki), ada aturannya atau mekanismenya, lihat saja di UE constitution. Selama ini masyarakat UE keberatan kalau Turki masuk UE, sebab utamanya ialah: 1. Belum jadi anggota saja, UE sudah kebanjiran orang Turki (sebagiannya orang Kurdi) baik sebagai pekerja (Gast Arbeiter), pedagang kecil, dll. Jadi isunya adalah soal imigrasi. 2. Masyarakat punya gambaran bahwa Turki ekspansionis. Ganjalan utamanya adalah apa yang disebut negara Republik Turki Utara atau TRNC (Turkish Republic in Northern Cyprus) yang hanya diakui oleh Turki doang. Ceritanya, tahun 1974 dengan dalih adanya junta militer di Yunani, maka Turki mengirim 70,000 tentara ke Cyprus. Ribuan orang Cyprus asli terpaksa mengungsi ke sebelah selatan. Sampai sekarang, puluhan ribu tentara Turki masih ada di Cyprus sebelah utara. UN Peace Keeping Forces terpaksa mengamankan jalur hijau yang memisahkan kedua masyarakat. Sekjen PBB membikin prakarsa untuk menyatukan kedua masyarakat, tapi belum berhasil sampai sekarang. Cyprus ingin masuk UE, tapi EU mensyaratkan agar Cyprus bersatu dulu, lagi-lagi gagal karena Rauf Denktash, presiden TRNC ogah. Rujukan kepustakaan mengenai ini cukup banyak. Yang paling anyar adalah tulisan di majalah Economist tanggal 1 Oktober 2004 berjudul How Terrorism Trampled Federation. Juga majalah Euro Business tanggal 28 September 2004 berjudul Majority of French opposed Turkey on EU. Dan jangan lupa mengunjungi kantor perwakilan EU di Jakarta, pasti mereka membantu Anda dengan baik. Nah, selamat berskripsi ria. Salam, RM --- Bapao Fazriansyah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: salam Hormat, Nama saya fazri saat ini sedang menulis skripsi tentang keanggotaan Turki di UE sejak 1987- Mei 2004. sebelumnya, saya telah membaca artikel tentang Vatikan minta Turki tidak bergabung dengan Eropa, yang mana ada sedikit tanya jawab antara Mas Danardono HADINOTO dan Mas Satrio pada tanggal 16 Aug 2004 mengenai artikel tersebut. oleh karena itu, saya yang kini sedang membahas hubungan Turki dengan UE tersebut sangat mengharapkan bantuan dan informasi yang dimiliki oleh Mas Danardono dan Mas Satrio apabila bersedia. regards fazri - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [ppiindia] Where's the outrage?
--- amartien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The outrage goes not to the torturer, but to PM Tony Blair. That is Stockholm syndrome, friends. Salam, RM http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3-13229873,00.html BIGLEY CAGED AND CHAINED British hostage Ken Bigley has appeared caged, chained and pleading for his life in new video footage. In the harrowing recording, shown on the Arab TV channel al Jazeera, Mr Bigley renews his appeal for Tony Blair to meet the kidnappers' demands and save his life. He then breaks down in tears as he accuses Mr Blair of ignoring his plight. He doesn't care about me. I'm just one... he says before holding his head in his hands and sobbing. He said his captors did not want to kill him. The family have thanked the captors for allowing them the opportunity to see him alive and again pleaded with them to show him mercy. In a statement, the family said: We, as a family, feel that the ultimate decision to release him rests with you, the people who are holding him. We once again ask you, please show mercy to my father and release him. Brother Paul said he was relieved that Mr Bigley was alive - but was distressed by the images. Ken is alive, that is a good thing, he said. It does not look good with him caged like a hound but he is alive. He went on to say a message he had received on Tuesday night, claiming that Mr Bigley would be released, was 100% genuine. The report said the Tawhid and Jihad group, headed by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi, would release him. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said he was concerned about the conditions Mr Bigley was being kept in, which appeared to be a gross parody of the cages used to hold the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Mr Bigley is chained and caged But he added that it was also a great relief to the Bigley family that the engineer was alive. The chairman of the Liverpool Mosque and Islamic Institute, Mohammad Akbar Ali, said he was delighted at the news. He said: This would seem to offer some further hope that he will be released alive. Let's hope that it is true. We look forward to his release with great delight. Mr Bigley was kidnapped in Baghdad on September 16 with two Americans, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley, both of whom were murdered. But the website message claimed the terrorists were going to free the 62-year-old in order to humiliate the British Government. However, analysts urged caution over the report, pointing out that other claims made on Islamic websites had turned out to be completely false. One report said two Italian aid workers had been slaughtered - but it emeged last night that they had been freed. There has been no firm news of his fate since his abductors, led by Abu Musab al Zarqawi, released a distressing video of him pleading for Prime Minister Tony Blair to save his life last week. ___ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] After call centres, now IT departments are off to India
Kawan-kawan, Daripada bertengkar soal politik kekuasaan dan dakwah melulu, mari membahas soal kemajuan. Salam, RM Outsourcing to India The latest in remote control Sep 9th 2004 | BANGALORE AND NOIDA From The Economist print edition Reuters After the call-centre, now the IT department is off to India IN A shiny new building in the drab construction site that is Noida, a Delhi suburb, teams of young Indian engineers are, in a manner of speaking, managing the world. A number of America's best-known companies have entrusted the remote running of part of their global computing networks to HCL Comnet. This information-technology services firm is at the crest of what Gartner, a consultancy, has called the next big wave of Indian outsourcing deals, covering remote infrastructure-management services. India's outsourcing boom started with software development and has expanded into a whole range of business services that can be handled a continent away, of which the country's hundreds of call-centres are just the most prominent examples. This takes that trend one stage further, and shifts offshore much of the administration and maintenance of a firm's IT systems. Gartner's Partha Iyengar divides remote IMS work into three categories: monitoring global network operations; providing helpdesk support and maintenance; and administering databases. It is as yet a small part of India's IT business. According to NASSCOM, the Indian industry's lobby, the country's exports from the software, other IT services and business-process-outsourcing industries grew by more than 25% to $12 billion last year, of which infrastructure services accounted for just over $300m. But the potential is huge. A report by Deutsche Bank puts the entire size of the global infrastructure-management market at $86 billion. Firms have been outsourcing infrastructure management for years. Arno Franz, of TPI, an outsourcing consultancy, describes it as an industry created in the 1970s and 1980s by EDS, an American giant that came out of efforts by General Motors to automate its car plants. Along with IBM, EDS still dominates the business. Often these firms would actually buy their clients' computer systems. Or they would have annual maintenance contracts. Either way, their customer had fixed their information-technology costs and were free to concentrate on their core competencies. Vineet Nayar, HCL Comnet's chief executive, says this model was disrupted by three trends that converged in 2001. The recession in the information-technology industry left many customers locked into fixed-price contracts and unable to take advantage of falling costs. Second, information-technology departments, having invested fortunes over the previous few years, suddenly found their budgets frozen. And third, the growth of e-business accustomed firms to dealing with distant server farms. India's chance So there was a move away from the total outsourcing of computer systems, to the discrete outsourcing of parts of it, including those functions that can be handled remotely. That is where the opportunity lies for Indian firms, with the telecommunications links built for their software businesses and the outsourcing of other business processes. Gartner estimates that between 60% and 70% of the services surrounding a data centre can be executed at a distance. Mr Nayar sees the outsourcing of that work to India as a megatrend. As evidence, he cites his firm's client list, which includes some of the biggest names in American business, in fields ranging from investment banking to software to engines to sporting goods. The big American firms also offer services out of India, and other local firms are competing for a share of the market, notably Wipro. G.K. Prasanna, who runs Wipro's technology-infrastructure services division, says he has been preaching for the past five years that this is the next big thing. A recent survey by the firm of 145 executives in a range of industries found that about a third had plans to manage some of their computerinfrastructure offshore. Like Mr Nayar, Mr Prasanna argues that the advantages for the client go beyond mere cost savings, offering higher levels of servicebecause problem solving is remote, so is identification. A glitch can be fixed before it is reported. This is a business, unlike call-centres, where time differences with America and Europe work in India's favour. Cost, however, remains the big factor. One HCL Comnet client is Extreme Networks, a California-based switching-technology firm. Paul Hooper, one of its vice-presidents, estimates that outsourcing the management of part of his computer infrastructure has cut the total cost of ownership of it by an average of 40%. That is incentive enough to live with the risks and drawbacks that come with any type of outsourcing to India: the country's high rates of staff attrition and poor civil infrastructure being the most
[ppiindia] Indian American wins $500,000 research grant
Thursday, September 30, 2004 Advertise Magazine Events Bookstore Newsletter Immigration Classifieds Charity Tech Jobs Jobs In India Contribute Community Search (Siliconindia, Inc) Indian American wins $500,000 research grant IANS Wednesday, September 29, 2004 WASHINGTON: Indian American Vamsi Mootha is among 23 people who have won do-what-you-want-with-it grants of $500,000 each from the MacArthur Foundation. Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh-born Mootha, an assistant professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, is still trying to come to terms with winning the prestigious annual grant for which awardees are nominated without their knowledge. The grants are considered the pinnacle of achievement in mainly academic fields and are aimed at enabling awardees to carry out research or creative work without any constraints. I wasn't having a particularly good day, recalls Mootha of the day last week when he found out $500,000 was going to be thrown into his lap, in annual instalments of $100,000 each. I was walking in a parking lot when I got a call on my cell phone from a number I didn't recognise. I initially thought it was a sales person or a peddler. Or that someone was playing a prank on me. When I realised who the person on the other side of the line was, my first instinct was that of shock and bewilderment, Mootha told IANS in a telephonic interview. After being given the good news, 33-year-old Mootha was sworn to secrecy till Tuesday, when the awards were announced here. I told my parents this morning. They aren't in the academic circles so they hadn't heard much about the foundation. But now they are finding out about it and are obviously very proud of my achievements, recounts Mootha. A release from the foundation says, Fellows are selected for their originality, creativity, and the potential to do more in the future... The stipend carries no restrictions. While the process may sound simple enough, there is a catch. No one may apply for the awards, nor are any interviews conducted, and those who nominate the awardees are kept confidential (to protect them from unsolicited nomination requests, says the foundation). I have no clue who nominated me but it was obviously someone who was familiar with my work and I am grateful for their acknowledgement, says Mootha. His interests lie in tapping new data from molecular biology, genetics, and protein chemistry to identify the cause of, and possible treatment for, metabolic diseases such as diabetes. He says he is very interested in energy metabolism and its research potential. Mootha, who left Indian shores along with his family when he was six months old, intends on first using some of the money to take his parents on a vacation. I haven't really decided yet what to do with all the money but I am hoping to channel funds into high-risk research projects that I would have been unable to undertake earlier. I may also use some of the funds as seed money for initiatives to back study in my field, he says. The youngest of four children, Mootha, a bachelor, says only his immediate family is in the US. My extended family is still in Andhra Pradesh and I have very close links to home. I last visited India a year and a half ago and intend on going back this winter. The MacArthur Foundation has assets of around $4 billion. It was named after John D. MacArthur (1897-1978), who developed and owned Bankers Life and Casualty Company and other businesses, as well as considerable property in Florida and New York. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Amar Bose (orang India) in Fortune's Famous Five
Thursday, September 30, 2004 Advertise Magazine Events Bookstore Newsletter Immigration Classifieds Charity Tech Jobs Jobs In India Contribute Community Search Print this article Email this article Write to editor Amar Bose in Fortune's Famous Five IANS Wednesday, September 29, 2004 NEW YORK: Amar Bose, chairman of acoustics major Bose Corp., has been featured by Fortune magazine in its annual roundup of five visionaries, giving a rare, personal insight on how he created his name-brand company. A former professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Bose has been featured along with Jim Koch of Boston Beer, Catherine Hughes of Radio One, Anthony Maglica of Mag Instrument and Andy Taylor of Enterprise Rent-a-Car. Bose, who still owns most of the $1.7-billion company, reinvests all earnings into RD. That approach has created cult-like fans and innovative products - its wildly successful 'Wave Radio' took 14 years to create, says Fortune. The only Indian American to figure in the latest Forbes issue of 400 richest Americans, Bose recalls how he bought a radio kit when he was all of 12 in 1943 and, in building it, learnt how to read schematic diagrams and repair radios. My father, an immigrant from India who used to sell imported mats and rugs, would go around to the hardware stores where he used to sell them and talk them into letting me repair the radios that their customers would bring in, he says. It was a good business - no one was making new radios because of the war effort, and many of the radio repairmen had been drafted, he says, and adds, I even hired a couple of employees. But it was in 1956, when he was finishing his doctorate at MIT, that he bought his first hi-fi system, played some violin records and found that the sound wasn't right. Either the manufacturer was cheating on the specs, or the specs were not meaningful. It turned out it was both, by the way. So I started working in the MIT Acoustics Lab to find a solution, he recalls. He says his first product did not come out until 1965 - a speaker in the shape of an eighth of a sphere that could fit into a corner and reflect sound around the room. It eventually evolved three years later into the company's 901 system. It was much different from anything that existed - I was able to patent it, but it was a hard sell at first. The 901 had no woofers and no tweeters, he says. The product went on to do well after he made a seven-minute audio presentation. Bose, nevertheless, says that the biggest crisis he ever faced was in the early 1980s, when interest rates rose to 22 percent, technology companies were going down, and banks put all sorts of restrictions on loans. We were in the thick of developing our new car audio system for General Motors. The situation was pretty scary because it could have forced us to go public to raise capital, something I vowed I would never do, he says. Recalling how he managed to hang on, Bose says he got a call to visit Detroit when he told GM that his bank, which had given Bose Corp. a $14-million loan, was trying to constrain the company. The chief financial officer, who loved Bose's product, said: 'You've been working with us for almost a year now, and you've never asked for a cent... you've gone your mile a long time ago; it's time we go our mile'. The GM executive called a bank in Boston and asked them to assume a loan to Bose Corp. without constraints, recalls Bose. That's what saved us. People just would not believe that a company as large as GM would do such a thing, he says. GM also sent equipment worth $700,000 without expecting Bose Corp. to pay for it. What is next from Bose's stable? Our latest product is a new car suspension system, Says Bose. We've worked on this system and tested it for 24 years now, and are finally ready to show it to the auto companies. The 73-year-old professor-entrepreneur, however, says he has no clue about its market potential. We just know that we have a technology that's so different and so much better that many people will want it. Today's News Computer Associates to cut 800 jobs US lifts sanctions against ISRO centers Kyocera sets up design unit in Bangalore MS launches XP lite for Indian market Convergys to acquire its Indian arm Indian American wins $500,000 research grant Technology Hutchison Telecom to spin off India unit 2 more IT parks to dot W Bengal ShareLogic to invest in Hyd center CA slashes ex-CEO Kumar's perks i2 Technologies' new facility beams high-innovation Business Indian economy grows 7.4 percent first quarter Rules eased for issue of fresh equity to foreign investors Gulf Air launches 'Indian Experience' tourist package India's dairy equipment finds growing market overseas Ramco launches operations in Dubai Copyright 2004 siliconindia, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
[ppiindia] Pasar IT dalam negeri --- bangkit
Search Asia Times (Asia Times) India's domestic IT market wakes up By Indrajit Basu KOLKATA - For India's money-spinning information-technology (IT) industry, the fact that in 2003-04 the performance of its software and IT-services sector surpassed expectations yet again and emerged unscathed against a globally challenging economic backdrop, static IT budgets, and a backlash against offshoring, is certainly reason to feel optimistic. But an even more notable feature in the IT sector is that for the first time in 10 years, ever since Indian IT started creating a sensation globally for its software-services exports, the country's domestic IT market made gains in catching up. Revenues from the domestic IT sector leapfrogged by 24% to reach US$7.25 billion from a relatively modest growth rate of 9% in the previous year (ending March 2003), which almost equaled the 25% growth figure of its software-services exports. Indeed, India's IT industry had always been apologetic about the fact that despite being considered an IT superpower in terms of software-services exports, its domestic market - or internal use of IT - had never been worth talking about. For that matter, barring the few smaller and less economically developed countries (Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, etc), India's domestic IT use has been among the lowest in Asia. But now, says Sunil Mehta, vice president and head of research of industry lobby the National Association of Software Services Companies, or NASSCOM, demand for IT is also growing within the domestic IT industry, which until recently was dominated by software-services exports. Consumption of IT has moved on to the higher growth trajectory. For the record, though, even as global IT just managed to inch ahead (growing at an estimated 4%) in 2003-04, India's IT industry as a whole recorded a growth of 24% to cross $20 billion. India's software, services and business process outsourcing exports, the mainstay of the industry, grossed $12.5 billion, up from $9.6 billion in 2002-03, indicating a growth of 30.5% for the year, higher than the 26-28% projections and significantly more than the 25% in 2002-03. Incidentally, this was the highest growth in the software and services sector since 2001, says Mehta. And according to Partha Iyengar, vice president of research for Gartner India, Indian IT emerged as the world's fastest-growing IT sector. Meanwhile, there were several contributors to the turnaround of the domestic IT industry, and according to NASSCOM, the increasing trend of Indian states toward e-governance is an important one. Already 14 Indian states have launched an aggressive e-governance plan. If earlier the software-services sector wanted the government to hard-sell software exports, now it is counting on it to spend more on e-governance projects and develop the domestic IT market, says Kiran Karnik, president of NASSCOM. Another interesting trend in the Indian IT landscape is that Indian companies have definitely started adoption of using IT as a competitive differentiator for business, says Radha Basu, chief executive officer of US-based SupportSoft. This is evident from the growing trend of IT outsourcing by Indian companies. In a somersault of sorts, Indian companies have also started outsourcing to US multinationals and, as reports suggest, while US companies outsource non-core activities to India, India Inc's outsourcing includes core area functions such as finance, supply-chain management and even procurement. Over the past few months, a slew of Indian companies including Bharti Telecom, Bank of India, Tata Steel, ITC, HDFC Bank, Colgate Palmolive, HLL Ltd and the like have awarded outsourcing contracts to IT multinationals such as IBM, Accenture and HP. The value of these contracts range between $2 million and $750 million over periods extending up to 10 years. But the biggest reason for the increased adoption of IT domestically has been the steep fall of hardware prices, along with an improving IT infrastructure. The decline in hardware prices, which have fallen by 20% to 45% over the past 18 months, has enabled IT to penetrate into small and middle level enterprises, says Sunil Mehta. Also the growth in non-PC [personal computer] devices like handheld phones, cable Internet etc has helped, along with improving infrastructure like broadband connections. A burgeoning domestic market overall, say experts, is also yielding some direct benefits for the IT industry. Because the consumption in the domestic market has started to assume global scales, we are finding significant interest from major multinational manufacturing companies such as Elcotek, Flextronics, Solectron, etc to set up manufacturing bases here, says Vinnie Mehta of the Manufacturers Association of Information Technology. India has become important not only because the country consumes close to 2
[ppiindia] Hukuman yang fair untuk PRT Indonesia
Kita tahu, Singapura strict menjalankan hukum. Jaman konfrontasi, dua anggota KKO tetap dihukum gantung karena melakukan sabotase di negara orang. Wanita Inggris pengedar narkoba tetap dihukum mati, padahal ada permohonan ampun dari Ratu Elizabeth. Tahun 1995, PRT Filipina, Flor Contemplacion, tetap dihukum gantung karena membunuh sesama PRT dan anak majikannya, tidak peduli dengan huru hara anti Singapura di Filipina. Dibanding itu semua, hukuman seumur hidup bagi Purwanti dan Sundarti sangat lumayan. Kita sudah seharusnya berterima kasih kepada pengadilan Singapura (pemerintahnya dari dulu beralasan tidak bisa mempengaruhi pengadilan). Terima kasih juga kepada KBRI Singapura yang telah jungkir balik membela sesama warga negara. Tapi kita harus ingat timbal baliknya nanti. Salam, RM (Straits Times Asia interactive) SEPT 30, 2004 Maid who strangled woman Jailed for life After killing mum-in-law of employer, she slit her wrist to make it look like suicide By Elena Chong AN INDONESIAN maid was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for killing her employer's mother-in-law, who had been harsh with her. Purwanti Parji, 19, had strangled Madam Har Chit Heang, 57, in her Tai Keng Gardens home on Aug 4 last year, then slit her wrist to make it look like a suicide. She is the second maid in a week to be given a life sentence. In his judgment, Judicial Commissioner V.K. Rajah said that the callous and heinous crime could not be justified or condoned on the pretext of 'maid abuse'. It was clear, he said, that she had not acted because of some grave and sudden or physical provocation. Instead, she had tried systematically to cover up her involvement in the killing, which showed that she had thought through the consequences of her 'diabolical act', he said. Like violent and abusive employers, domestic workers who resort to violence in retaliation should expect harsh sentences. Though initially charged with murder, Purwanti pleaded guilty on Monday to a reduced charge of manslaughter. As she was below 18 at the time of the crime, she would not, in any case, have been given the death penalty if convicted of murder. Last Friday, another maid, Sundarti Supriyanto, 25, who killed her employer and razed her office to cover up the crime in 2002, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice M.P.H. Rubin. The judge said he had convicted her of a lesser charge of culpable homicide because she had been abused. Like Sundarti, Purwanti apologised in court yesterday to the victim's family, saying she was very remorseful for what she had done. But the family refused to accept it. Madam Har's older son, Mr Leong Meng Wei, 33, said that the killing was a 'stupid act'. Madam Har's husband, Mr Michael Leong Kit Heng, 58, a businessman, said that while Purwanti may have escaped the death penalty, the sentence was a firm and fair one. 'She's a dangerous person,' he said. Purwanti is appealing against the sentence. In mitigation, her assigned lawyer, Mr Subhas Anandan, together with Mr Mohamed Nasser Mohamed Ismail, said that Madam Har had constantly nagged and cursed at Purwanti. She made Purwanti wash and rewash soya sauce bottles if they were not cleaned to her satisfaction. Purwanti, who has had to care for her three step-brothers from the age of nine, found herself working for two households, in Tai Keng Gardens and at Madam Har's daughter-in-law's home in Woodlands, when she came to Singapore to work in November 2002. Madam Har also deprived her of food and would scold her for eating more than she should, said the lawyer. She was often given bread to eat by the maid next door. That morning, Madam Har had scolded Purwanti for not cleaning the toilet properly and tried to slap her. That was the final straw, said Mr Anandan. Purwanti snapped and decided to kill her tormentor. 'If maids are not treated well, unexpected and unpleasant consequences may arise,' said Mr Anandan who urged the court not to impose life imprison- ment on Purwanti, a first offender. However, the judge said that she was 'no shrinking violet unable to fend for herself' or to communicate her difficulties or distress to the world at large. She had killed Madam Har because of longstanding resentment. It was, he said, a 'disturbing case' with a number of aggravating features. Arguing for a life sentence, Deputy Public Prosecutor Jaswant Singh said the killing was deliberate and calculated, not due to any momentary loss of self-control or sudden rage but motivated by ill-feeling. Purwanti was no simpleton and had tried to cover up her act by setting up the scene to make it appear as if Madam Har had committed suicide. She even cut her fingernails when she saw the marks left on the neck of the deceased, he said. Copyright @ 2004 Singapore Press Holdings. All rights reserved. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
Re: [ppiindia] Allawi-Shalom handshake
--- Faruq Saniyasnain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mr mustadjab, i think, as far political event goes, it's leo-imanov right to express and to agree/disagree with what he sees in the global arena. Quite right. And is it not my right to tell Indonesian students to think again about political events, is it? and so far as israeli behaviour and cruelty against palestinians are concerned it's widely known that many muslims as well as nonmuslims people and countries condemn what israeli governments has been doing against palestinians with its excessive use of forces, illegal settlements, unjustified occupations, and dominations of extreme right in the israeli administration. Sir, in 1978 as I accompanied an injured Indonesian soldier member of the UN peacekeeping forces, I saw with my own eyes in Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem, next to his ward was a Palestinian child. The doctors and nurses tended the poor Arab child as humanely as they did to other patients. I saw no cruelty there. And if you think Israel grapped Arab lands in 1948 (after Israel's independence from the British), in 1967 (after the Six Day War) and again in 1973 (after the Yom Kippur War or the Ramadhan War as the Egyptians call it), think again, who started those wars? Where did you pick up your general statements, from misled politicians? Or from Arab nationalists? you know what, the cricket team of england refuses to play with and in zimbabwe based on moral ground just because zimbabwe president does wrong things to his white subjects and his undemocratic rule. the 'moral ground' done by england cricket team regarded highly by english media. now, what's wrong by agreeing to hizbullah opinion condemning the handshake of allawi-shalom? is it not based on moral ground, the cause that widely praised by english media towards england cricket team? is it not what israeli gov. doing much more attrocious, cruel, unjustified, outrageous, immoral than zimbabwean president has done to his people? Governments come and go, that's the way in a democracy like Indonesia's. I have a simple question to ask you. What will you do if you were a soldier, when you face a stone throwing mob? Or worse, to those who told others to become a walking bomb? come on, just open our both eyes and look at the world with more objective and unbias and not-double-standard perspective. not to be afraid to anything. it's just discourses. we dont discuss or debate religion here. it's just about politic not about religion or something like that. and in politic, we agree to disagree. in political matters we agree to express more freely than, for example, religious matters where self-restrain is required to avoid unnecessary prolong conflict among ourselves. cheers and peace, Peace be upon you too, my friend. Salam, RM --- rahardjo mustadjab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Teman-teman yang mahasiswa, kita sebagai orang yang katanya pintar, apa mau menelan begitu saja kebencian yang dihembuskan oleh kelompok Hizbullah? Meskipun Leo hanya forward tanpa mengatakan apa pendapat dia, dengan menyebarkan tulisan berbisa kemana-mana, berarti dia sepaham. Kalaupun PM Allawi tidak ikhlas, dengan tidak bersalaman dengan Wakil Tetap Israel di PBB, maka sikapnya sangat memalukan orang Islam dan itu bakal dilihat orang seluruh dunia secara real time yang diulang-ulang. Jadi Leo, bersikaplah seperti mahasiswa, yang kritis sambil tetap menjunjung tinggi agama Islam. Orang Arab ada yang keliru, jangan diamini kalau keliru. Salam, RM - Leo Imanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1CBA7353-AFE0-411F-850F-BAB04B867F47.htm Hizb Allah blasts Allawi-Shalom handshake = Faruq Saniyasnain ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg
[ppiindia] Malaysia pledges moderate Islamic government
(Straitstimes Asia interactive) SEPT 23, 2004 Abdullah pledges moderate Islamic government KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi promised on Thursday to implement a moderate Islamic administration, undercutting the fundamentalist opposition, and took a swipe at his one-time rival, former deputy leader Anwar Ibrahim. Datuk Seri Abdullah asserted his control over the ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) in a keynote speech to his first party congress since taking office a year ago from long-time leader Mahathir Mohamad and adopting a less confrontational style. The five-day congress comes six months after Datuk Seri Abdullah won his own mandate in general elections where he promised to implement a moderate form of Islamic administration for the ethnic Malay Muslim majority, including mandatory Arabic studies for school children. The delegates endorsed Datuk Seri Abdullah as party president and Datuk Seri Najib Razak as deputy president. Both were unopposed. The delegates will also choose three vice presidents and a new supreme council. Datuk Seri Abdullah briefly addressed the Anwar issue in his speech - intercut with images of riot police in the streets six years ago as Anwar led huge anti-Mahathir protests - and vowed to 'bring the full force of the law against anyone or any group' using 'violence or rioting'. He said his programme for Islamic administration, first floated in the election campaign, would emphasise economic development and quality of life - essentially, the party's long-standing programme for the betterment of Malays wrapped in Islamic packaging. The programme urges Muslims to acquire knowledge and be competitive in the global economy -- a far cry from the harsh brand of Islamic law backed by the fundamentalist opposition, which advocates cutting the hands off thieves and stoning adulterers to death. Umno boasts 3 million members. It has produced every Malaysian prime minister since independence from Britain in 1957. -- AP Read Datuk Seri Abdullah's full speech from The Star Online. Copyright @ 2004 Singapore Press Holdings. All rights reserved. ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [ppiindia] Yang Abadi?---Re: Neraka itu tidak kekal dan ada akhirnya (2)
Seandainya, seandainya lho, mBah Soel jadi penerjemah (penafsir Al-Qur'an) beliau akan memberi tafsiran yang santun, runut (coherent) dan disertai footnotes (catatan dari kitab sebelumnya) dan dibelakang buku ada index. mBah, saya ingin bertanya apa betul neraka itu panas? Bukankah ruh kita nanti tidak punya wujud fisik, dus tidak punya indera. Jangan-jangan penggambaran surga-neraka itu metafora saja. Dan cara ampuh untuk mengatakan neraka tidak enak kepada manusia padang pasir adalah menggambarkan neraka itu lebih panas dari api. Panas, sebaliknya untuk orang Eskimo, adalah menyenangkan. Jangan-jangan memang akhir dunia dingin absolut (nol derajat Kelvin atau -273 derajat Celsius) dimana tidak ada lagi pergerakan elektron mengelilingi inti atom. Ah, iya ya, tataran metafisik kok mau diterangkan secara fisik. Salam, RM --- mBah Soeloyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], djunaedi sahrawi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neraka itu tidak kekal dan ada akhirnya (2) --- Lalu bagaimana dengan satu saja contoh isi rangkaian 2 ayat berikut dari bagian awal Qur'an?: QS 2:80-82 Dan mereka berkata: Kami sekali-kali tidak akan disentuh oleh api neraka, kecuali selama beberapa hari saja. Katakanlah: Sudahkah kamu menerima janji dari Allah sehingga Allah tidak akan memungkiri janji-Nya ataukah kamu hanya mengatakan terhadap Allah apa yang tidak kamu ketahui?. (Bukan demikian), yang benar, barang siapa berbuat dosa dan ia telah diliputi oleh dosanya, mereka itulah penghuni neraka, mereka kekal di dalamnya. - Dan orang-orang yang beriman serta beramal saleh, mereka itu penghuni surga; mereka kekal di dalamnya. - Nah jadi ada dua hal yang bertolak belakang dengan hasil 2 hal pula. Orang yang sudah diliputi dosa, menjadi penghuni neraka dan orang beriman menjadi penghuni surga. Dua-duanya tanpa kesudahan, alias kekal di pemukiman terakhir masim-masing, bukan? Wacana ini mirip dengan yang membicarakan keabadian agama itu sendiri. Lebih sepesifik, misalnya ke- abadian Qur'an. Padahal yang abadi di alam raya ini tidak ada. Semua ada akhirnya. Semua yang menempati ruang dan mengenal waktu (terpajan pada waktu) akan melenyap. Yang abadi hanyalah pemilik ruang dan waktu itu. Dalam bahasa jawanya: Gusti kang tan kena kinayangapa. Tan papan, tan prenah, tan wayah -[tidak terkenai papan (ruang), arah dan waktu]. Dalam jagad kecil (dunia manusia selengkapnya) yang hampir bersifat itu adalah jiwa atau suksma atau nyawa (bahasa arabnya mungkin setara dengan ruh) yang menjadi bagian dari atma (sankritnya atman). Atman di ajaran Hindu (Vedic) karena terpengaruh paradigma maskulinitas bangsa Arya, memperoleh per- sonifikasi sebagai BRAHMAN di faham-faham lain, memperoleh personifikasi macem-macem lagi. Ada Zeus, Deo, Tuhan, God dan juga Allah (meskipun ini diakui dikenalkan sendiri oleh yang Empunya Nama). Ini menarik sebetulnya untuk ditelusuri lebih jauh agar tercapai ketenteraman. Dapat mengenali dunia kewajaran. Karena dapat dikatakan semua agama pada intinya serupa. Pembedanya hanya budaya dan bahasa serta alam lingkungan masing-masing. Dan di ajaran agama saya, peringatan tentang yang ini salah satunya diikat dalam 2 ayat di surat yang diletakkan di nomor 103 berjudul Masa: 1. Demi masa. 2. Sesungguhnya manusia itu benar-benar berada dalam kerugian, 3. kecuali orang-orang yang beriman dan mengerjakan amal saleh dan nasihat menasihati supaya menaati kebenaran dan nasihat menasihati supaya menetapi kesabaran. Semua manusia merugi... artinya tidak abadi salam, mbahsoel ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:
Re: [ppiindia] Allawi-Shalom handshake
Teman-teman yang mahasiswa, kita sebagai orang yang katanya pintar, apa mau menelan begitu saja kebencian yang dihembuskan oleh kelompok Hizbullah? Meskipun Leo hanya forward tanpa mengatakan apa pendapat dia, dengan menyebarkan tulisan berbisa kemana-mana, berarti dia sepaham. Kalaupun PM Allawi tidak ikhlas, dengan tidak bersalaman dengan Wakil Tetap Israel di PBB, maka sikapnya sangat memalukan orang Islam dan itu bakal dilihat orang seluruh dunia secara real time yang diulang-ulang. Jadi Leo, bersikaplah seperti mahasiswa, yang kritis sambil tetap menjunjung tinggi agama Islam. Orang Arab ada yang keliru, jangan diamini kalau keliru. Salam, RM - Leo Imanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1CBA7353-AFE0-411F-850F-BAB04B867F47.htm Hizb Allah blasts Allawi-Shalom handshake Thursday 23 September 2004, 16:14 Makka Time, 13:14 GMT The group sees the handshake as an 'insult' to the Iraqi people Lebanon's Hizb Allah movement has heaped scorn on Iraq's prime minister for shaking hands with an Israeli delegate at the United Nations. Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi shook hands with Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom on Tuesday at the UN General Assembly, where alphabetical order put them side by side. (It) is a sign of one of the most dangerous goals of the American war on Iraq, yanking Iraq from its place in the Arab and Muslim worlds and sticking it in the US-Zionist political cosmos, Hizb Allah said in a statement on Thursday. This unacceptable handshake is at once a true insult to the Iraqi people, their history, culture and Islamic and national commitment; and flagrant scorn for the suffering of Palestinian people and the sentiments of Arabs and Muslims, it said. Shalom said the incident was the first official contact between Israel and Baghdad since the US invasion of Iraq, which Israel attacked in 1981 claiming it was to destroy a nuclear reactor. Iraq fired missiles at Israel during the 1991 Gulf war, when Saddam Hussein answered demands to pull his army out of Kuwait by saying Israel must in turn end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. = Leo Imanov Abdu-lLah AllahsSlave Does your mail provider give you a free online calendar? Yahoo! does. Get Yahoo! Mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [ppiindia] Bagaimana Cara Mandiri ? Re: Negara Agraris Tanpa Komoditas Andalan?
--- mBah Soeloyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yaah, itu kalau gov-nya tetap seperti sekarang atau yang dulu. Maka dari itu, mumpung GOV-nya bakalan baru, apalagi (meski ada protes, ada pujian, ada macem-macem) presidennya pernah kuliah program khusus di IPB... ehehehe. Memang sudah banyak fakta bahwa GOV ya begitu itu. Jangankan gov, lha para WARAK (wakil rakyat) gimana? WOng mreka juga sudah jadi angguta JK (Jama'ah Korupsiyah...) Ideal memang rakyat langsung digerakkan. Tapi rakyat kerja sendiri juga membuat pesimis. Parnah ada proyek cukup berhasil, pelaksananya (aku yakin) bersih wong sahabat dekat yang sama-sama kere hehehe, toh tak bisa menarik rakyat. Karena komoditasnya bukan makanan pokok atau bahan yang lumrah dikonsumsi di daerah pelaksana proyek. Bagi saya asal ada kemauan politik, lalu dilakukan efisiensi... misalnya berani membubarkan MENRISTEK dan BBPT... hehehe, membubarkan Bappenas yang malah kebanyakan jadi penilai Proposal berimbalan. terus menghindarkan dumpyuk (overlap) pekerjaan dan wewenang orang-orang LITBANG dan PENYUL berbaik-baik dengan LSM-LSM hijau (maksudnya yang bergerak untuk KLH dan pengentasan petani dari kemiskinan ke yang layak) saya masih punya harapan besar pada negeri saya untuk bisa bangkit. Jadi harus menyeluruh. (Wong sekarang ini para peneliti itu tiap tahun seperti sedang main sayembara hehehe... bikin proposal, lalu diadu di Bappenas kek BPPT kek, DRN kek, Dikti Kek... lalu dapat dana... lalu melak- sanakannya lalu potong-potongan hahahaha. Menurut saya, Mbah Soel, birokrasi harus mengadakan revolusi internal dulu. Para menteri memelototi unit irjen dulu. Tindak tegas inspektur dan auditor yang menerima amplop, oleh-oleh, dan dibayari hotelnya oleh unit yang diperiksa. Menkeu juga menindak tegas Dirjen Anggaran dan aparatnya yang memotong proyek fisik/nonfisik. Bappenas idem ditto. BPPT apa perlu dibubarkan, ya, itu kan tempatnya orang disekolahkan mahal-mahal lalu dapat Dip. Ing, Ph.D. lalu dolanan (main-main) akhirnya main politik. Coba dana-dana utangan itu langsung diimplementasikan ke p[ertanian, kehutanan atau perikanan barangkali sudah berdiri puluhan pabrik kilang sawit, pabrik gula baru, dan PABRIK BERAS NASIONAL. hehe, ini yang saya angan-angankan sejak masalah Ketahanan Pangan Mengemuka, sementara Pak Kwik Kian Gie malah mimpi memborong saham BCA yang kalau tak salah itungannya nilai yang diimpikan Pak Kwik itu setara dengan pangan manusia Indonesia selama 1 tahun penuh! Yang kalau dijadikan PABRIK BERAS NASIONAL di sentra- sentra padi, akan menjamin negeri ini tidak bakalan impor, malah ekspor PRODUK OLAHAN BERAS... dari rice brand sampai Arak Putih saking melim- pahnya beras yang diproduksi. Saking bosennya rakyat Indonesia makan nasi, bubur, rempeyek dan lain-lain. Tapi? Yaaa, itu semua hanya otak-atik angka-angka menakjubkan yang beredar di media masa tetapi menjadi kancah bancakan dan manipulasi. Sedih. --mbabsoel-- Ehm. Ppiindia ini kan tempatnya mahasiswa kebanyakannya. Tentu harapan Mbah Soel dan kita yang sudah terlanjur jadi pegawai negeri ini, maksud kita dengan mengungkapkan kebobrokan birokrasi ini adalah agar yang muda-muda bersemangat untuk memperbaiki. Bukan untuk dicontoh dan dikembang biakkan, lho. Salam, RM ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [ppiindia] Bagaimana Cara Mandiri ? Re: Negara Agraris Tanpa Komoditas Andalan?
--- rm_danardono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mas Rahardjo: Ehm. Ppiindia ini kan tempatnya mahasiswa kebanyakannya. Tentu harapan Mbah Soel dan kita yang sudah terlanjur jadi pegawai negeri ini, maksud kita dengan mengungkapkan kebobrokan birokrasi ini adalah agar yang muda-muda bersemangat untuk memperbaiki. Bukan untuk dicontoh dan dikembang biakkan, lho Kalau kita perhatikan, mas, struktur di-negara2 maju di Uni Europa, maka kita lihat suatu lapisan kelas menengah yang tebal sekali (bukan konglo atau koruptor), yang terdiri dari pengusaha2 menengah/kecil: tukang roti, tukang kayu, plummers, perusahaan2 kulit, toko2, perusahaan meubel, dll. Mereka yang menyumbangkan porsi terbesar dari pajak, lapangan kerja, juga - inikhas Europa - lapangan pendidikan (internship, 3 tahun, mulai 15 tahun sampai 18 tahun). Jarang yang mendambakan menjadi pegawai negeri, anggauta tentara atau polisi. Dengan demikian, beban negara agak proportional, tidak menjadi pemberi nafkah for the nation. Birokrasi disorot terus menerus baik dalam media atau oleh lembaga kontrol negara. pelayanan yang tak memuaskan langsung disumpah serapah, atau di media cetak atau di TV. Juga adanya trend membandingkan diri dengan perusahaan2 jasa swasta (misalnya jawatan kereta api atau angkutan umum, pos dan telkom, perusahaan listerik, dll). Mungkin kita dapat mengarahkan generasi muda, untuk mandiri, menjadi wiraswasta (consultant, perusahaan jasa, kantor arsitektur, dll) ketimbang menunggu karir sebagai pegawai negeri. Salam RM D Hadinoto Setuju. Sayangnya di ppi-india ini belum pernah saya katakan begitu. Tapi di kehidupan nyata, pada anak saya yang semata wayang, dan kepada keponakan saya dengan tegas saya katakan: kalau mau hebat jangan jadi pegawai negeri, termasuk jangan jadi diplomat. Sekolahlah yang baik, kalau anda bisa kerja sendiri sebagai professional (dokter, insinyur, akuntan) itu tandanya anda hebat. Atau diterima di swasta. Kemarin dulu, kepada mahasiswa2 dari Pune yang datang kesini untuk nyoblos di pilpres, saya katakan: kunci sukses adalah menekuni karier yang kita suka. Contohnya: Iwan Tirta adalah SH cukup brillian, tapi memilih membatik yang dia suka dan tidak jadi berangkat ke Harvard padahal sudah dapat beasiswa buat kesana. Kak Seto memilih menggeluti dunia anak-anak, tak dinyana sekarang dia punya TK unggulan di beberapa tempat, dan jadi milyarder padahal bukan itu tujuannya semula. Sistem kita memang beda jauh dari sistem Perancis dan Jerman dimana yang dihargai bukan orang bergelar melulu. Disana, tukang ahli upahnya bisa jauh lebih tinggi dari Herr Doctor, betul nggak? Sama-sama lulusan sekolah tinggi, yang lebih dihargai adalah sekolah tinggi khusus. Lulusan les grands ecoles lebih dihargai dari lulusan l'universite, bukan begitu? Salam, RM --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], rahardjo mustadjab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- mBah Soeloyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yaah, itu kalau gov-nya tetap seperti sekarang atau yang dulu. Maka dari itu, mumpung GOV-nya bakalan baru, apalagi (meski ada protes, ada pujian, ada macem-macem) presidennya pernah kuliah program khusus di IPB... ehehehe. Memang sudah banyak fakta bahwa GOV ya begitu itu. Jangankan gov, lha para WARAK (wakil rakyat) gimana? WOng mreka juga sudah jadi angguta JK (Jama'ah Korupsiyah...) Ideal memang rakyat langsung digerakkan. Tapi rakyat kerja sendiri juga membuat pesimis. Parnah ada proyek cukup berhasil, pelaksananya (aku yakin) bersih wong sahabat dekat yang sama-sama kere hehehe, toh tak bisa menarik rakyat. Karena komoditasnya bukan makanan pokok atau bahan yang lumrah dikonsumsi di daerah pelaksana proyek. Bagi saya asal ada kemauan politik, lalu dilakukan efisiensi... misalnya berani membubarkan MENRISTEK dan BBPT... hehehe, membubarkan Bappenas yang malah kebanyakan jadi penilai Proposal berimbalan. terus menghindarkan dumpyuk (overlap) pekerjaan dan wewenang orang-orang LITBANG dan PENYUL berbaik-baik dengan LSM-LSM hijau (maksudnya yang bergerak untuk KLH dan pengentasan petani dari kemiskinan ke yang layak) saya masih punya harapan besar pada negeri saya untuk bisa bangkit. Jadi harus menyeluruh. (Wong sekarang ini para peneliti itu tiap tahun seperti sedang main sayembara hehehe... bikin proposal, lalu diadu di Bappenas kek BPPT kek, DRN kek, Dikti Kek... lalu dapat dana... lalu melak- sanakannya lalu potong-potongan hahahaha. Menurut saya, Mbah Soel, birokrasi harus mengadakan revolusi internal dulu. Para menteri memelototi unit irjen dulu. Tindak tegas inspektur dan auditor yang menerima amplop, oleh-oleh, dan dibayari hotelnya oleh unit yang diperiksa. Menkeu juga menindak tegas Dirjen Anggaran dan aparatnya yang memotong proyek fisik/nonfisik. Bappenas idem
Re: [ppiindia] Kereta MagLev di China
Sdr. Temie Iswanto dan rekan semilis lainnya, Saya juga sedikit kesal dengan perangai kita sebangsa setanah air, yang terlalu banyak ribut soal politik dan agama melulu. Kalau begini terus, jangan-jangan negara kita yang subur makmur ini jadi mandeg atau malahan mundur karena orang lain maju. Kembali ke soal Maglev di China itu, sayang komputer saya gagal menanyangkan link yang Anda sebut itu. Tapi kalau saya tidak salah, Maglev (magnetically levitated trains) yaitu kereta api yang mengapung diatas medan magnit dan digerakkan oleh motor induksi linear itu, belum terbukti mendatangkan uang, termasuk dinegara asalnya, yaitu Jerman. Jadi peluncurannya di China kalau berhasil secara ekonomis, merupakan sukses Maglev yang pertama didunia. Salam, RM --- Temie Iswanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, FYI -Original Message- From: Budi Santoso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 17 September 2004 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [polman] Balik Lagi Dear All, Bbrp hari yl karena krn tugas ke China Jpn saya harus un-subcribe dari grup ini. Sekarang saya gabung lagi .. Mungkin dari rekan-rekan yg pernah berkunjung ke China akan sependapat dengan saya bahwa dalam hal industri dan infrastruktur Indonesia ketinggalan sangat jauh dibanding China. Kita ribut-ribut soal Trans Jakarta, dari bandara Shanghai ke pusat kota sudah ada kereta MagLev ( http://www.shanghaiguide.com/gallery/maglevopening/IMG_0516). Di komplek industri XuZhou (seperti Cikarang dll) jalan utamanya 8 jalur (4+4), tertata rapi dan ga ada macet sama sekali. Bingung and prihatin... kalo di dalam negri aja masih banyak rebutan kursi + bom..kapan kita bisa setaraf mereka ya... Thx Budi MM80-83 To be alone is better than (to have) a bad companion but a good companion is better than being alone; and speaking the good is better than keeping silence but silence is better than speaking evil. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Globalisasi -- sebuah lamunan sebelum Pilpres besok
Kita yang datang berduyun-duyun ke TPS besok, akan menyadari betapa kecilnya dunia ini. Karena pemilihan presiden Indonesia secara langsung itu akan diliput oleh televisi BBC dan CNN secara real time dan akan dilihat oleh orang biasa di Mongolia sampai Timbuktou. Itulah wujud globalisasi. Untuk meminjam Thomas L. Friedman, dunia telah menyusut tiga kali. Globalisasi 1.0 terjadi dari tahun 1492 ketika Christopher Colombus menginjakkan kaki di Amerika sampai tahun 1914 yaitu ketika terbunuhnya pangeran Austria-Hongaria oleh seorang gila di Sarajevo (Bosnia) menyulut Perang Dunia I -- sebenarnya perang Eropa. Dunia menyusut dari ukuran L (large) menjadi ukuran M (medium). Dunia menyusut lagi dari ukuran M menjadi S (small) dari Perang Dunia II sampai hebohnya Y2K menjelang berakhirnya abad ke-20 kemarin, semoga Anda masih ingat. Mengecilnya dunia dari ukuran M ke ukuran S itu sebut saja Globalisasi 2.0. Sekarang, pada abad ke-21 terjadi lagi Globalisasi 3.0, yaitu ketika proses penggantian health insurance di rumah-rumah sakit Amerika dikerjakan di oleh orang-orang muda India di Tydal Park di Madras, yang telah saya saksikan. DPR dan senat hasil pemilihan legislatif 5 April 2004 dan Presiden/Wapres hasil pilpres 20 September 2004 besok mempunyai kedaulatan penuh untuk menentukan arah perjalanan bangsa lima tahun kedepan. Mereka bebas untuk memilih jalan seperti India, yang swastanya mengembangkan call centers dimana anak muda melayani pertanyaan dari seluruh dunia dengan aksen Amerika atau aksen Inggris menurut kebutuhan. Atau, terserah mau memilih jalan Saudi Arabia yang mengembangkan pesantren model Ngruki dengan bahasa yang para santripun tidak mengerti. Sebenarnya manusia Indonesia dan manusia Singapura atau Malaysia atau India sama dan punya potensi yang sama untuk maju. Yang membuat kemajuan berbeda adalah karena sistem yang dipilih. Menyaksikan Wagah border dari sisi Pakistan bulan lalu, saya jadi bertanya dalam hati apa yang menyebabkan beda orang Pakistan dengan orang India. Orang Sindhinya sama satu bahasa dan satu bangsa, boleh dikata DNA-nya pun mirip-mirip barangkali. Mereka sama cerdas atau sama tidak cerdas dengan orang Marathi di Bombay. Apa mungkin, ya, yang menyebabkan mereka jadi beda karena tatanan politik dan sosial dimana mereka dibesarkan? Sejelek-jeleknya demokrasi di India, ya, di kabinet ada 8 menteri yang tidak patut, tapi India ada demokrasi. Memang ada ganjalan untuk berdagang dengan India, tapi ekonomi India terbuka sejak tahun 1991. Memang mahkamah agung kerjanya lambat, tapi setidaknya di India ada rule of law. Dan seandainya Manmohan Singh gagal, dia bisa dijatuhkan dalam pemilu. Itu semua yang tidak ada di Pakistan. Sistem di Pakistan tidak memungkinkan munculnya tokoh swasta inovatif seperti Azim Premji, Narayana Murthi dan Nanda Nilekani. Kalau saja Pakistan memilih sistem yang sama dengan India, niscaya di Pakistan ada juga swasta setaraf TCS, Wipro dan Infosys. Anak Indonesia tidak kalah cerdasnya, terbukti mereka mampu menggondol beberapa medali emas dalam Olimpiade Fisika di Beijing. Coba seandainya semenjak 17 Agustus 1945 pucuk pimpinan Indonesia tidak melakukan avonturisme politik, dan lebih menitik beratkan pada pendidikan yang sebenarnya adalah inti dari nation building, maka anak-anak kita jauh lebih beruntung dari sekarang ini. Manusia India dapat berjaya dimana-mana, karena mereka punya beberapa IIT yang setara dengan MIT, budaya mereka sangat menghargai pendidikan utamanya matematika dan sains, dan lulusan sekolah semuanya lancar berbahasa Inggris. Tapi mereka tidak dapat lagi mengaku sebagai satu-satunya penganut demokrasi di Asia, karena sudah ada Indonesia. Ah, tahu-tahu sudah jam 10 malam. Selamat menetapkan pilihan Anda. Salam, RM ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links *
Re: [ppiindia] Berbahasa yang Tepat dengan Orang Lain
Wah, salut saya. Kakak Leni ini jurusan komunikasi, ya. Tulisan Anda layak menjadi panduan bagi siapa saja yang berkomunikasi, presiden kita mendatang atau diplomat misalnya. Seperti Anda katakan, dia harus menguasai bahasa budaya dan pemikiran. Seorang diplomat yang ditempatkan di Perancis akan lebih ampuh melakukan diplomasi Indonesia disana, kalau dia paling tidak tahu mengenai Balzac, Franz Kafka dan Descartes. Karena orang yang tidak punya apresiasi pada budaya dan pemikiran, dipandang bukan equal di Perancis. Dia juga harus paham bahasa diplomasi politik. Tanpa menyadari bahwa sekarang ini orang tidak bisa dikibuli dengan kata-kata tanpa fakta, dia akan dianggap corong pemerintah semata dan diacuhkan saja oleh orang. Bahasa ekonomi juga penting oleh capres atau diplomat. Bukankah ekonomi mendasari polah laku negara atau individu? Dus, bicara politik melulu adalah kering tanpa disertai wacana ekonomi. Bahasa militer juga idem ditto, imperatif untuk dikuasai oleh capres atau diplomat. Menyamakan rudal yang dibeli AU Australia dengan WMD adalah kesalahan fatal, dan bakal menjadikan kita jadi bahan ketawa. Saya mau tambahkan satu, Leni, yaitu bahasa science dan teknologi. Jaman sekarang, kita dianggap kuper (kurang pergaulan) kalau kita belum pernah mendengat hal yang bersangkutan dengan sofware, bioteknologi dan nanoteknologi. Untuk tahu semuanya, kita tidak perlu harus lulusan ITB dulu seperti Pak Anton John Hartomo di milis ini. Bravo, Leni. Salam, RM --- Leni Harahap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Komunikasi Kemampuan memahami orang lain dibangun dari kekayaan sumber informasi tentang orang lain, analisa yang komprehensif dan integral atas informasi-informasi itu, dan akhirnya penyikapan yang obyektif terhadap mereka: tidak terlalu meremehkan dan tidak terlalu membesarkan mereka. Sekarang coba kita banding: berapa banyak pakar Indonesia yang ahli tentang Amerika, dan berapa banyak pakar Amerika yang ahli tentang Indonesia? Bukankah Indonesianis asal Amerika bahkan sering jadi referensi kita dalam memahami masalah-masalah Indonesia? Itu karena mereka lebih mengerti tentang Indonesia ketimbang kita sendiri. Karena itu, reaksi mereka terhadap kita jauh lebih akurat dan efektif. Untuk kasus yang lebih kecil, sekarang ada banyak tesis magister dan disertasi doktor tentang perkembangan politik di Indonesia --sejak era reformasi tahun 1998 sampai sekarang-- yang digarap oleh beberapa universitas di Amerika, Inggris, Australia dan Jepang. Amerika, misalnya lagi, telah mengerahkan lebih dari 100 doktor untuk mempelajari China secara komprehensif dan integral untuk dapat menentukan sikap secara akurat terhadap kompetitor baru mereka. Kemampuan mengekspresikan diri secara tepat dibangun dari pemahaman yang mendalam tentang diri sendiri, tahapan kerja membangun peradaban sendiri dan kemampuan menggunakan semua bahasa terhadap orang lain: bahasa budaya dan pemikiran, bahasa diplomasi politik, bahasa ekonomi dan bahasa militer. Sekarang lihatlah, berapa banyak bahasa yang digunakan Amerika dalam kasus Afghanistan dan Irak? Ada bahasa budaya melalui isu terorisme. Ada bahasa diplomasi politik melalui penggalangan dukungan perang melawan terorisme dan dibuktikan melalui undang-undang anti terorisme yang dibuat semua negara serta pengaktifan intelijen anti teror di negera-negara itu. Ada bahasa ekonomi melalui bantuan finansial untuk negara-negara yang mendukung perang melawan terorisme. Dan akhirnya ada bahasa militer dalam invasi atas Afghanistan dan Iraq. Sempurna. Makin banyak variasi bahasa yang dapat anda gunakan, makin efektif pula komunikasi Anda. Pesan Anda akan sampai secara utuh dan sempurna. Bertanyalah, berapa variasi bahasa yang biasa kita gunakan untuk menyampaikan pesan kita? Komunikasi adalah gabungan antara kekayaan informasi, variasi bahasa, akurasi pesan dan efektivitas. Hasilnya adalah pengaruh dan kendali atas orang lain. Jika kita tidak punya pengaruh dan kendali atas orang lain, carilah sebabnya pada fakta tadi. Komunikasi kita dengan mereka --biasanya-- jelek sehingga tidak efektif. Artinya, ada komponen pembentuk efektivitas komunikasi yang belum kita penuhi. Mungkin informasi yang terlalu seadanya, atau tidak akurat, atau tidak memadai. Mungkin juga sumberdaya kita sangat terbatas, sehingga bahasa kita selalu tunggal: demo, doa dan sedikit dana. Bahasa budaya kita mungkin tidak atraktif. Atau kita tidak handal menggunakan bahasa diplomasi politik. Atau tidak punya bahasa ekonomi. Dan juga tidak mampu membangun bahasa militer. Mungkin juga pesan kita selama ini tidak jelas, tidak akurat dan tidak tepat sasaran. Pada akhirnya, output komunikasi berupa pengaruh dan kendali hanya mungkin terlihat kalau input berupa sumber daya yang memadai. Informasi adalah
RE: [ppiindia] Re: Dari Moderator: Seputar Debat Kusir dan Debat \saintifik\
--- Mohammad-Riyadi Tampubolon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mmmhh... Saya kok kurang setuju lho Pak.. kenapa milis ini memilih sekuler (krn saya gabung jg atas undangan?!) Karena sangat tidak netral sikap seperti itu.. Kenapa orang-orang yang beragama; baik Protestan, Katolik, Hindu, Budha Islam,Kong Hu Chu dan lain-lain dipinggirkan kecuali hanya orang yang tidak memeluk agama saja yang diberi kesempatan?? Ehm. Bang Tampubolon ini salah rupanya menangkap arti sekuler. Bang, sekularisme bukan berarti anti agama. Sekularisme hanya mendudukkan agama ditempat semestinya. Jangan ditempatkan sejajar dengan kekuasaan politik. Itu saja, Bang. Horas, RM Bagaimana kita akan dapat saling menghargai kalo tidak saling mengenal? Mungkin tata kramanya aja yang kurang santun bukan perbedaannya yang bermasalah.. Tidak perlu saling melecehkan karena akan memancing emosi dan mengeruhkan pikiran aja..akhirnya inbox kita dipenuhin sampah aja.. -Original Message- From: rm_danardono [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 3:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ppiindia] Re: Dari Moderator: Seputar Debat Kusir dan Debat saintifik Kita sering menyebut diri kita sekuler tapi -- as a matter of fact -- ternyata kita tidak. Ini berbeda dg umumnya orang barat... That's absolutely true! Makin sadar kita akan ke-sekular-an bangsa kita yang multibudaya dan multietnis ini, makin sedikit benturan yang timbul. Dalam berdiskusi nalar, orang Austria dan Jerman sering memakai kata pepatah Lassen wir doch die Kirche im Dorf - arti harfiahnya, Tinggalin kek tu gereja di desa (jangan di-gotong2). Arti maknanya adalah, tinggalkanlah masalah keimanan kita dirumah (dan dihati sanubari). Ini masalah pribadi. Makin sedikit artikel bernuansa dakwah disini, ataupun argumentasi2 yang me-nyeret2 agama (langsung atau tak langsung), makin damai dan rational diskusi2 yang digelar. Bravo mas Mario. Salam hangat dari Vienna RM Danardono HADINOTO --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mario Gagho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sdri Fauziah dan rekan-rekan milis, 1. Apa yg dikatakan oleh Anda benar,bahwa kita hendaknya berusaha sekuat mungkin untuk tidak terjerumus dalam debat kusir. Ketika kita khilaf melakukan hal ini, tentu natural kalau kita kemudian menyadarinya dan menghentikan sendiri perdebatan itu tanpa harus diingatkan. Namun, mengingatkan juga lebih bagus, karena waktu yg dipilih oleh setiap member untuk menyadari kekhilafan tidak sama. Jadi fungsi 'peringatan' di sini adalah untuk menyeragamkan momen kesadaran kita. Dalam hal ini, Sdr. Fauziah telah melakukan hal yg terbaik. 2. Soal posting agama, kami sudah ingatkan agar itu tidak dilakukan di sini mengingat status milis ini sebagai milis umum, milis nasional. Dg kata lain, ini milis inklusif Indonesia. Terutama yg menyangkut postingan berbau dogma/doktrin agama tertentu. Di sini adalah kesempatan kita untuk berdialog antar-rakyat,antar-suku, antar-pemeluk agama yg terbungkus dalam negara bernama Indonesia. Namun demikian, harus diakui, bangsa Indonesia -- sebagaimana bangsa Timur yg lain-- bersifat religius whatever it means. Dalam artian, kita selalu merasa kesulitan untuk tidak mencampuradukkan segala permasalahan dan fenomena yg terjadi dg agama. Kita sering menyebut diri kita sekuler tapi -- as a matter of fact -- ternyata kita tidak. Ini berbeda dg umumnya orang barat. Untuk itu kita bisa belajar dg cara terus berdiskusi dan saling mengingatkan apabila ada kekhilafan. Visi dan fungsi dari milis ini salah satunya adalah menjembatani proses pembelajaran itu. Pembelajaran untuk hidup dan berpikir dalam konteks keanekaragaman bukan dalam konteks who's-holier-than-whom. :) Buat rekan-rekan milis semua, mohon maaf apabila ada salah kata. Please, ingatkan saya dan rekan-rekan moderator yg lain juga. salam, a.n. Moderator *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppiindia.shyper.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ___ALL-NEW
Re: [ppiindia] Mata uang logam satu dan dua Sen-Euro pelan-pelan dihapuskan di Belanda
--- Sandy Dwiyono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 09.09.2004 Mata uang logam satu dan dua Sen-Euro pelan-pelan dihapuskan di Belanda Ketika mata uang Euro resmi mulai diberlakukan pada tanggal 1 Januari 2002, masyarakat di Eropa berebut mendapatkan uang logam Euro, yang terdiri atas pecahan satu Sen, dua Sen, lima Sen, 10 Sen, 20 Sen , 50 Sen, 1 Euro dan 2 Euro. Yang rupanya kini menjadi masalah adalah mata uang logam satu dan dua Sen. Anda pernah dengar peri bahasa: Siapa yang tidak menghargai yang kecil, tidak patut mendapatkan yang besar. Di Belanda orang juga mengenal pepatah itu. Ya. Zij die geen klein geld waarderen, vadienen om geen groot geld te klijgen. Atau, orang yang tidak menghargai uang pecahan satu ribu rupiah, tidak patut dia mendapat uang lima ribu rupiah. Orang Belanda dan Swiss, Inggris, Amerika sangat berhitung dengan uang kecil. Orang India juga begitu. Tidak heran kalau mereka bisa sukses dan kaya. Namun dalam kehidupan sehari-hari tidak demikian halnya, demikian kata Bart Bartels, manajer supermarket Albert Heijn di Woerden, Belanda. Bart Bartels telah melakukan eksperimen dengan uang logam satu dan dua Euro-Sen. Uang recehan itu disebar di lantai di supermarket tsb. Ternyata tidak satu pun pengunjung atau pembeli memungut uang satu dan dua Sen itu. Jadi, tampaknya uang recehan itu diremehkan sebagai alat pembayaran dan dianggap hanya memberatkan dompet. Belum tentu begitu kesimpulannya. Coba Meneer Albert Heijn tebarkan uang kertas denominasi paling kecil ditokonya. Kalau tidak ada yang mengambilnya juga, jangan-jangan itu berarti orang enggan mengambil yang bukan haknya. Jadi mulai 1 September lalu di Belanda uang recehan satu dan dua Sen pelan-pelan mulai dihapuskan. Harga-harga ganjil dibulatkan . Misalnya, 4,99 Euro menjadi 5 Euro dan 4,97 Euro menjadi 4,95 Euro. Bank-bank di Jerman juga ingin meniru contoh di Belanda. Sebab, bila uang satu dan dua Sen dihapuskan, akan mempermudah apa yang dinamakan pembayaran dengan uang tunai. Jadi, keputusan tersebut demi memudahkan para konsumen ? Ternyata ada alasan lain yaitu sejak satu tahun terakhir, banyak toko di Jerman kekurangan uang recehan sementara Bank Sentral Jerman tidak mampu mencetak uang logam secepat itu. Setiap minggunya beredar sekitar 40 juta uang logam baru. Sampai akhir tahun ini jumlahnya akan mencapai 1,7 milyar sehingga diperlukan banyak uang logam. Dan membuat uang logam itu tidaklah murah. Mengingat harga baja meningkat, produksi uang logam lebih mahal dari pada nilai nominalnya. Nah, alasan inilah yang lebih cocok. Uang logam (amalgam logam mengandung perak) intrinsic valuenya lebih tinggi ketimbang face valuenya. Yang rugi bank sentral atau apa yang menerbitkan uang itu. Karena itu Bank Sentral Jerman mengimbau kepada para warga agar jangan menyimpan uang logamnya di dompet atau dirumah. Kalau bisa uang recehan itu digunakan untuk membayar di kasir. Rupanya belum banyak warga yang mengikuti imbauan itu. Memang kalau sedang antre di kasir untuk membayar, lebih mudah mengeluarkan uang lembaran kertas dari pada mencari dan menghitung uang recehan satu dan dua Sen di dompet, sementara antrean di belakang kita tidak sabar menunggu. Dalam hal ini, benar juga pepatah: Time is Money. Sementara para pedagang eceran di Jerman juga tidak mendukung gagasan untuk menghapuskan mata uang logam satu dan dua Sen. Adalah tugas pemerintah untuk menyediakan uang recehan dalam jumlah yang cukup. Apa lagi tidak disetujui bila negara atau pemerintah turun campur mengatur harga di toko. Kekurangan uang recehan di Jerman hanya dapat diatasi dengan mencetak lebih banyak uang logam satu, dua dan lima Sen. Tampaknya, keputusan akhir belum diambil. Apakah di masa depan masih akan beredar uang logam satu dan dua Sen di Jerman ? Apakah kita masih dapat menemukan uang logam satu dan dua Sen di jalan, yang di Jerman dijuluki sebagai Glückspfennig, alias Sen-Keberuntungan? Waktu saya masih anak-anak, waktu bakdo lebaran saya selalu sungkem ke mbah-de, sambil jalan kaki ke Jalan Oro-oro Dowo pinggir kali Brantas Malang. Karena, setelah bilang ngger dadio kowe mengko uwong mukti (jadilah kamu nanti orang disegani/kecukupan), dia memberi dua uang benggol logam. Bagi saya uang logam tebal itu lebih berharga dari uang kertas, dan saya simpan. Bagi saya, uang logam itu uang keberuntungan juga (Gluckspfennig, barangkali, maaf tanpa Umlautt). Salam, RM __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~-
Re: [ppiindia] Re: [ITB74] Fwd: YAHUDI SEBAGAI SIMBOL DALAM WACANA ISLAM INDONESIA MASA KINI
--- antonhartomo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fyi only --- In ... Artikel ini sangat bagus dan baik untuk disimpan sebagai referensi. Aku pribadi pernah membaca kiri kanan masalah ini sewaktu ke USA awal- awal 1980an, dan konklusiku waktu itu persis seperti yang diungkap sipenulis ini. Ada beberapa koreksi dan penekanan yang ingin saya tambahkan: Freemasonry dibeberapa tempat di USA sudah terbuka. Sebetulnya kelompok ini mirip dengan kebatinan ala Eropa (tidak heran kalau Gereja Katholik menentang sangat kuatnya). Bandingkan saja dengan masalah kebatinan di Indonesia dan penentangnya. Zionisme dan Agama Jahudi tidak identik. Einstein adalah pendukung Zionisme, begitu pula ilmuwan ilmuwan terkenal lain (padahal mereka sekular dan tidak pernah mempraktekkan Agama Jahudi secara taat). Bahkan Ben Gurion pernah mendatangi Einstein di Princeton, membujuk agar ilmuwan ini mau jadi presiden pertama, sekedar sebagai father figure (macam Presiden Abdul Kalam kali ya). Tapi Einstein menolak tawaran itu. Bahkan di New York City sekarang ini ada kelompok Agama Yahudi Orthodoks yang menentang Zionisme! Alasannya kitah Zionisme yang sekuler itu tidak sesuai dengan Ajaran Yahudi. Dan, di kota Jerusalem di quarter Mea Shearim tinggal Jahudi orthodox yang tidak mengakui negara Israel dan mengaku jadi kawula negara Jordan. opo tumon? Mengapa? Karena mereka percaya bahwa negara Israel yang terbentuk 14 Mei 1948, premature, belum saatnya, sebagai janji Eloihim. Apalagi, Zionisme adalah, seperti kata Pak Anton, ideologi SEKULER. Ideologi yang dibawakan oleh Theodor Herzl dkk itu adalah cita-cita nation-state cum sosialisme. Sosialisme? Ya. Salah satu buktinya, di Israel tidak ada pemilikan tanah pertanian pribadi; semua tanah pertanian sebagian besar kibbutz (kolektif) dan sedikit yang moshav (koperasi). Disana, kaum buruh mendominasi politik (Partai Buruh), punya bank, angkutan bus kota, bahkan Palang Merah (Magen David Adom). Yang anda lihat di TV ambulans meraung-raung setiap kali habis terjadi pemboman bunuh diri adalah ambulans Magen David Adom. Begitu curiganya para rabbi (ulama jahudi) pada para zionist, sehingga pada masa genting-gentingnya pada masa perjuangan membebaskan diri dari mandat Inggris, sehingga para rabbi tidak mengijinkan santrinya, apalagi anaknya, untuk menyandang bedil bersama Palmah dan Hagannah. Jadi kalau orang Indonesia asal 'ngomong', ini menunjukkan ketidak-tahuan dan 'anut- grubjug'. Dalam hal ini Gereja Kristen dan Katholik berperanan besar menyebarkan isu-isu anti-Jahudi ke seluruh dunia. Maaf bagi yang kristen dan Katholik, ini (dulu) benar. Pernah, anak boss saya dulu Pak Sudammanto Kadarisman, waktu nonton film Ben Hur di video, nyeletuk: Pak, itu orang yang membunuh Tuhan kita, ya Pak. Maklum anak kecil, tapi itu tentunya didikan dari rumah, bukan? Memang, Jahudi dulu didzolimi di Eropa. Dibunuh dan dibakar dijaman inkuisisi di Spanyol. Jutaan jadi korban amuk masa (pogrom) di Rusia, Polandia dan kerajaan kristen lainnya. Meskipun kemudian Gereja menarik kembali isu-isu tersebut (berubah cara pandangnya dan lebih positip terhadap agama Yahudi) kotak Pandora sudah terlanjur terbuka. Baru Paus Johannus Paulus yang sekarang, yang secara terbuka meminta maaf atas nama Vatikan kepada pemeluk agama Yudaisme. Meskipun, sebelumnya juga ada pribadi-pribadi yang menentang tindakan Nazi, seperti kisah nyata dalam film Schindlers List. Memang benar kata penulis tsb, Islam lebih toleran terhadap Jahudi dibandingkan Kristen terhadap Jahudi. Banyak sekali sarjana Jahudi yang bermukim di Bagdad pada jaman keemasannya. Benar. Pada saat Eropa berada pada abad-abad kegelapan, di Al-Andalus dan Baghdad (pada masa Abbasiyah) ilmuwan Jahudi dan Islam bahu membahu memajukan ilmu, menggali dan menterjemahkan karya ilmu filsafat dan logika dari Yunani (misalnya trigonometri). Eropa waktu itu belum kenal ilmu Yunani, wong namanya saja Jaman Kegelapan. Adalah Padri Santo Thomas dari Italia yang mengenalkan budaya Yunani ke Eropa yang kemudian jadi Renaissance berkat perkenalannya surat menyurat dengan dengan Averroes (Ibnu Rus). Abbassiyah tidak saja terbuka kepada Yunani masa silam, tetapi juga mengambil ilmu dari Persia (Zoroaster) dan Hindu (algorithm dan bilangan nol dari Nalanda). Jadi kebesaran Islam masa lalu itu terjadi pada waktu Abbasiyah yang terbuka. Sayang kemudian keterbukaan itu ditutup lagi, sampai sekarang. Jahudi merasa aman-aman saja dengan Islam. Maimonides justru besar pada masa kebesaran Islam. Untuk mengenang Maimonides, Konggres Yahudi Sedunia sampai masa sekarang ini sering diselenggarakan di MAROKO !!!. Kebencian Islam terhadap Jahudi adalah fenomena baru abad 20. Kritik terhadap Jahudi pada awal Islam, Jaman Medinah, saya melihatnya dari kacamata ekonomis, bukan eskatologis. Lobbi Jahudi di USA memang kuat, juga peranannya di media masa USA. Tetapi ini tidak
[ppiindia] JI claims responsibility
(The Straits Times interactive) SEPT 10, 2004 JI claims responsibility for Jakarta attack CAIRO (Egypt) - Jemaah Islamiah has claimed responsibility for Thursday's deadly car bomb attack outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, saying it was aimed at punishing Australia for supporting the US-led war in Iraq. An Internet site known for carrying extremist Islamic content carried statement purported to have been written by JI in South-east Asia, but its authenticity could not be immediately verified. 'We decided to call Australia to account, which we consider one of the worst enemies of God, and God's religion of Islam,' the statement said. 'Here we were able to call it to account today in Jakarta, where one of the mujahideen (holy warriors) was able to execute a martyrdom operation with a car bomb in front of the embassy.' The attack killed nine people and wounded 180 and came ahead of next month's general elections in Australia, whose conservative prime minister has angered many in the region for running on a pro-American, anti-terror platform. -- AP Copyright @ 2004 Singapore Press Holdings. All rights reserved. ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppi.4t.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] Bantuan Amerika
Surat pembaca ini self-explanatory. Harap dijawab dalam hati masing-masing. Salam, RM Print September 03, 2004 (The Jakarta Post) U.S. aid for Indonesia I just read the news about the US$468 million aid package that Indonesia received for education, health, water, nutrition and the environment from the U.S., a country some Indonesians hate the most. I only have one question: Is there any other country -- including those rich Middle Eastern countries -- in this world willing to give such an aid package? The U.S. also sends funds to some Asian countries to help stop human trafficking -- is there any other country doing the same thing? This is a better question: Is there any country in this world that does not receive any help from the U.S. in any way? Please name one. So please stop bashing the U.S. while, at the same time, accepting the U.S.' money -- it's my money too -- and start appreciating what the U.S. does and has done for the world. S. SAMADHANA San Mateo, CA ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppi.4t.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ppiindia] A Show of Unity in France
Petunjuk terakhir mengatakan, bahwa wartawan Perancis, Georges Malbrunot (Le Figaro) dan Christian Chesnot (Radio France International) bakal dilepaskan hari ini, Jum'at waktu Iraq. Demikian penjelasan menlu Dominique de Villepin. Semula mereka disandra gerombolan dari luar Iraq. Diplomat Perancis telah mengadakan pembicaraan di Iraq dan Jordan. Gerombolan penyandera semula menuntut pemerintah Perancis untuk membatalkan UU yang mulai berlaku hari Kamis kemarin, yang melarang anak perempuan memakai jilbab di sekolah negeri. Ultimatum gerombolan itu untuk menggorok leher wartawan jatuh Senin lalu tanpa insiden, ultimatum kedua jatuh hari Selasa juga tanpa insiden. Pemerintah Perancis akhirnya menang karena benar, dan tidak tunduk begitu saja pada ancaman terroris di Iraq. Sikap Perancis yang tegas menolak tuntutan teroris untuk mencabut larangan mengenakan jilbab disekolah negara atau 2 wartawannya dieksekusi, membuahkan dua hasil sekaligus. Bukan saja wartawan yang diculik dibebaskan, tapi juga dukungan dari ormas Islam di Perancis terhadap larangan itu. Salam, RM -- September 1, 2004 A Show of Unity in France (The New York Times) Major French Islamic groups and the political opposition have rallied behind the government's defiance of Iraqi kidnappers who seized two French journalists last month and demanded that France revoke its ban on the wearing of Islamic head scarves in state schools. The display of unity was encouraging. The head-scarf ban may be ill conceived and discriminatory, but French education policy should not be set by terrorists. Islamic leaders in France are forcefully making that point, too. The journalists, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, disappeared on Aug. 20 on the road from Baghdad to Najaf. On Saturday, the Islamic Army in Iraq, a previously unknown militant group, said it had kidnapped them and demanded that France revoke the head-scarf ban. A group with a similar name is believed to have killed an Italian journalist, Enzo Baldoni, last week. Kidnappers have gone after citizens of several countries in post-Saddam Iraq, but until now their demands have almost always been linked to the withdrawal of troops, as was the case with Mr. Baldoni. In response to the demand, the French government said the head-scarf ban would be strictly applied when classes resume on Thursday, after the summer vacation. And Fouad Alami, secretary general of the Union of French Islamic Organizations, recommended that students observe the ban, which the group opposes. This response undercuts the Iraqi militants' attempt to divide French society and the continent's reactionary fears about its immigrant populations. We hope it awakens French society to just how baseless the widespread anti-Muslim prejudices really are. Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company | Home | Privacy Policy | Search | Corrections | RSS | Help | Back to Top ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppi.4t.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [ppiindia] Kontrak operasi Exxon di Cepu tak diperpanjang
Mas Listy, Pada jaman Belanda dulu boleh dikata produksi minyak di Cepu yang ditangani oleh BPM/Shell paling besar di Indonesia. Setelah dinyatakan sumur Cepu tidak menguntungkan lagi, Pertamina menggunakan tempat itu untuk sekolah tenaga ahli perminyakan. Sedang penduduk dibiarkan mengusahakan ladang minyak di hutan jati, minyak disana banyak kandungan air, lilin (wax) dan belerangnya. Setelah cukup lama ladang Cepu dinyatakan kering, pada tahun 1980an Pertamina menerima penawaran Tommy Suharto yang bertindak sebagai calo, yang katanya akan mengelola pengusahaan secondary recovery. Lantas Tommy menjual konsesi ke Exxon. Tahu-tahu, pada tahun 2001 Exxon membikin kejutan. Mereka menemukan sumur lagi, dibawah sumur yang disedot oleh BPM dulu. Deposit minyaknya bukan main-main, 600 juta barrel minyak mentah, atau senilai US $ 20 milyard (kalau dengan harga minyak mentah yang melonjak sekarang sampai US 46 per barrel, nilainya jauh lebih besar lagi). Kalau sumur Cepu diusahakan, bakal mendongkrak pendapatan negara dari minyak sekitar 15%. Indonesia tidak perlu ikutan dengan seruan OPEC tanggal 11 Februari 2004 untuk mengurangi produksi minyak. Soalnya, produksi minyak Indonesia sudah dibawah quota yang disetujui bersama oleh OPEC. Kalau investasi untuk kegiatan mencari ladang baru tidak ada lagi, dikuatirkan Indonesia tidak lama lagi akan menjadi net-importer minyak. Tahun ini, pendapatan negara dari minyak diperkirakan akan turun 25%. tahun lalu, Indonesia menghasilkan 1.1 juta barrel crude per hari, padahal di APBN dianggarkan 1.27 juta barrel crude per hari. Perlu diketahui, bahwa menurut kontrak bagi hasil (production sharing) yang berlaku selama ini, pemerintah tidak ikut menanggung biaya eksplorasi. Artinya, kalau sebuah perusahaan minyak gagal menemukan sumur (dry well) perusahaan itu yang akan rugi atau bangkrut. Kalau berhasil, yang dibagi adalah hasilnya antara negara dengan perusahaan minyak (dulu jaman Ibnu Sutowo pelit sekali untuk perusahan asing 85/15 sekarang 65/35). Aneh, dulu perusahaan minyak asing dipeliti, tapi mereka senang berusaha disini, sekarang ketentuan dilonggarkan mereka pada ogah-ogahan. Mari kita kaji, mengapa perusahaan minyak asing yang masih bercokol disini berpikir dua tiga kali sebelum mengeluarkan biaya untuk eksplorasi. Bahkan ada 3 perusahaan minyak Amerika yang angkat kaki dari Indonesia: Devon Energy, Kerr-McGee dan Occidental petroleum. Pertama, otonomi daerah telah menyebabkan dua lapis perundingan dan biaya untuk pusat dan daerah. Diatas bagi hasil yang telah disepakati, perusahaan akan memberikan lagi 15% hasil minyak kepada daerah, Riau misalnya. Kedua, Pemda dan masyarakat daerah semakin nekad sekarang. Mereka menuntut agar perusahaan mempekerjakan putra daerah. Bahkan penduduk Riau nekad membakar kendaraan Caltex dan membakar sumur minyak mereka yang sebenarnya milik Indonesia juga. Caltex, yang menghasilkan separuh minyak Indonesia, sering kehilangan alat-alat yang mahal ditempat terpencil. Ketiga, dan ini tak kalah pentingnya, modal asing khawatir dengan tidak menentunya kepastian hukum. Misalnya, Caltex yang berpegang pada kontrak yang lama, tiba-tiba pada tahun 2001 diberitahu bahwa untuk selanjutnya kontrak diserahkan kepada Pertamina dan Pemda. Kontrak Exxon sendiri di Cepu berdasar kesepakatan lama akan berlaku sampai tahun 2010, tapi tahu-tahu sudah diputuskan. Untung Mobil, Caltex dan Exxon cukup mengelus dada saja, kalau mereka menuntut Indonesia di pengadilan arbitrase seperti Karaha Bodas, bagaimana? Terpaksa Indonesia akan rugi, bukan? Jadi Mas, kita jangan terlalu terbawa arus semangat para pseudo-nasionalis yang sebenarnya ada udang di balik batunya. Mereka, para birokrat dan politisi yang akan untung, tapi Indonesia jadi buntung. Salam, RM --- Listy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alhamdulillah.. berita bagus.. mudah2an menular ke tambang2 yg lain.. untuk dikelola oleh putra-putri ibu pertiwi.. bangkitlah bangsaku.. jayalah negeriku.. insya Allah.. http://www.bisnis.com/servlet/page?_pageid=477 http://www.bisnis.com/servlet/page?_pageid=477_dad=portal30_schema=PORTAL30pared_id=316170patop_id=W16 _dad=portal30_schema=PORTAL30pared_id=316170patop_id=W16 http://www.bisnis.com/ Rabu, 25/08/2004 14:56 WIB Kontrak operasi Exxon di Cepu tak diperpanjang oleh : Diena Lestari JAKARTA (Bisnis): Direktur Pertamina Widya Purnama menegaskan BUMN itu tidak akan memperpanjang kontrak operasi ladang Cepu, Jateng, yang saat ini dioperasikan Exxon Mobile. Keputusan ini sangat penting karena justru akan menguntungkan republik ini,ujarnya dalam rapat dengar pendapat dengan Komisi VIII DPR hari ini. Menurut dia, kontrak yang dilakukan Pertamina harus memuat tiga hal. Pertamina harus mendapat untung; negara harus untung dan mitra juga harus untung. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [ppiindia] JERUSALEM, SATU KOTA TIGA IMAN Karen Armstrong
Terus\terang, saya belum pernah baca buku Karen Armstrong itu. Tapi judul Jerusalem Satu Kota Tiga Iman mengingatkan saya ke perjalanan saya ke kota suci itu bulan Februari 1978, jadi 26 tahun yang lalu. Disana, saya lihat toko-toko souvenir milik orang Arab (agamanya bisa Islam bisa katholik atau kristen ortodoks) menjual cinderamata khas Yahudi (bintang David dan menorah). Disana juga dijual buku yang brisi informasi mengenai Via Dolorosa (jalan penyaliban) dan The Wailing Wall (dinding ratapan). Bukan itu saja pertanda kerukunan beragama. Di gereja Holy Sepulchre, sebelum kebaktian tiap sore, para imam Kristen Ortodoks (Rusia, Yunani, Koptik Mesir, Ethiopia), dan Katholik Roma berbaris untuk mengambil kunci gereja Holy Sepulchre yang disimpan oleh .. mufti besar Islam dirumahnya !!! Dan saya yang beragama Islam boleh masuk kegereja itu dan menyaksikan segalanya. Salam, RM --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CORDOVA Bookstore Online Jl. Akses UI No. 40 (sebelah barat Gunadarma) Kelapa Dua, DEPOK Telp. 021-70142299; 021-8004760; Mobile: 0815-9168232 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] == BARU! Dapatkan buku karya besar Karen Armstrong: JERUSALEM, SATU KOTA TIGA IMAN Penulis : Dr. Karen Armstrong Ph.D Sangat Mengagumkan. (The New York Times) Isi : 644 halaman; Soft cover Penerbit: Risalah Gusti Harga Toko: Rp 75.000 Harga Cordova Online: Rp 60.000,- (disc. 20%). ONGKOS KIRIM: Rp 5.000,- per buku, untuk seluruh Jabotabek dan Jabar Pesan buku ini melalui kami CORDOVA Bookstore Online di email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ATAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telp. 021-8004760 ATAU 0815-9168232 Pembayaran bisa melalui ATM BCA (No. Rek. 375-1202600) atau Bank Mandiri (No. Rek. 006-0004262501), atas nama MANSYUR Lihat katalog lengkap di: www.geocities.com/cordovabookstore -- SINOPSIS: JERUSALEM, SATU KOTA TIGA IMAN Mengesankan... begitu jernih dan penuh kesabaran... wacana yang sama-sama penting bagi penganut Yahudi, Kristen, dan Muslim. (The Washington Post) Dipuja sepanjang millenium oleh tiga sistem keimanan, tercabik-cabik oleh konflik yang tak berkesudahan, ditaklukkan, dibangun kembali, dan diratapi sekali dan sekali lagi. Jerusalem adalah kota yang sakral yang kekudusannya melahirkan tragedi yang mengerikan. Dalam karya tulis yang mengagumkan ini, KAREN ARMSTRONG melacak sejarah bagaimana umat Yahudi, Kristen, dan kaum muslimin melandasi klaim atas Jerusalem sebagai kota suci mereka, dan bagaimana ketiga konsep yang berbeda secara radikal tentang yang kudus telah membentuk dan memberi trauma ke kota itu selama ribuan tahun. Sejarah tentang kota yang paling penting secara spiritual di dunia yang paling serius dan paling gamblang. (The Baltimore Sun) Mahakarya yang benar-benar tuntas dan luar biasa. (Los Angeles Times Book Review) DAPATKAN PULA BUKU-BUKU BERMUTU LAINNYA DI CORDOVA Bookstore Online: 1. MUHAMMAD SANG NABI (Karen Armstrong) Isi: 409 hal. Cover: Soft Cover Penerbit: Risalah Gusti Harga: Rp 45.000,- 2. BERPERANG DEMI TUHAN, Fundamentalisme dalam Islam, Kristen, dan Yahudi. Penulis: Karen Armstrong Isi: 662 hal. (15 x 23,5 cm) Penerbit: Serambi Harga: Rp 84.900 HC HVS, dan Rp 69.900 SC HVS 3. SEJARAH TUHAN, Kisah Pencarian Tuhan yang Dilakukan Oleh Orang-orang Yahudi, Kristen, dan Islam Selama 4.000 Tahun. Penulis: Karen Armstrong Penerbit: Mizan Harga: Rp 93.400 HC HVS 4. ISLAM: A SHORT HISTORY (Karen Armstrong) Rp 38.000 HC HVS Penerbit: Risalah Gusti 5. MALCOLM X, Sebuah Otobiografi (Alex Hailey) Harga: Rp 58.000,- Penerbit: IKON 6. ATAS NAMA TUHAN, Dari Fikih Otoriter ke Fikih Otoritatif Oleh: Khaled M. Abou el Fadl Isi: 640 hal. Hard cover, kertas HVS (15 x 23,5 cm) Harga Rp 99.900,- Penerbit: Serambi 7. MELAWAN TENTARA TUHAN, Yang Berwenang dan Yang Sewenang-wenang dalam Wacana Islam Oleh: Khaled M. Abou el Fadl Isi: 288 hal. Penerbit: Serambi Harga: Rp 34.900,- 8. MUHAMMAD (Martin Lings) Rp 74.900,-Serambi Dlll ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppi.4t.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1.
[ppiindia] It's national day, today
Afternoon Daily, Mumbai INDONESIATuesday, August 17, 2004 11:15:22 IST Its national day, today IT'S the Indonesian national day today and our good wishes go out to Rahardjo Mustadjab, the consul general of the Republic of Indonesia, a genial man with a talent for solving the Mensa puzzles that appear on this page every Monday. He visited us last week for a cup of coffee. We were conscious that Rahardjo came from Java in Indonesia which is known for its good coffee. And we offered him South Indian filter coffee with trepidation which he readily accepted. Two-and-half years in Mumbai has made Rahardjo adapt quickly to most things Indian.He talked about Java, his Java, clearing our doubt about the motorcycle with the same name that he said came from Czechoslovakia and not Indonesia. He's been in the foreign service for 27 years and came to Mumbai from Jakarta. This, sadly, will be his last posting. Rahardjo is due for retirement at the end of the year. He has no idea what he will do after this. He did give some thought to a consultancy for trade fairs. But there is still time. And he intends to enjoy Mumbai until then.He is in love with Mumbai, this happy Indonesian diplomat, he likes the secure feel of the city. Me and the wife can go about Mumbai at night unafraid, Rahardjo explained. The wife is Teti, a woman of Sumatra origin, and she is an Indus member in Mumbai and active in social work. Their only daughter, an industrial engineer named Niken, is married and settled down in Dallas. Life is good to Rahardjo. He is enjoying his work at the Indonesian mission in Mumbai. Trade, cultural relations are growing between India and Indonesia, he rattled off figures to show. And he is learning so much about India from here.He likes travelling around the country, he has been all over Gujarat, Pune, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Goa. He is a Muslim, a practising Muslim, and he goes every Friday to a mosque for the namaz. Rahardjo wracked his brain to think of the name of the mosque. It is near the railway tracks, near Opera House, is the nearest he came to it. And he is going to celebrate another Ramadhan here this year. But before that, is the Indonesian national day celebrations. The reception is on Monday, August 23, at the Regal Room. But today at the consulate on Altamount Road, Rahardjo Mustadjab will raise the Indonesian national flag for the last time in his diplomatic career. , INDONESIATuesday, August 17, 2004 11:15:22 IST Its national day, today IT'S the Indonesian national day today and our good wishes go out to Rahardjo Mustadjab, the consul general of the Republic of Indonesia, a genial man with a talent for solving the Mensa puzzles that appear on this page every Monday. He visited us last week for a cup of coffee. We were conscious that Rahardjo came from Java in Indonesia which is known for its good coffee. And we offered him South Indian filter coffee with trepidation which he readily accepted. Two-and-half years in Mumbai has made Rahardjo adapt quickly to most things Indian.He talked about Java, his Java, clearing our doubt about the motorcycle with the same name that he said came from Czechoslovakia and not Indonesia. He's been in the foreign service for 27 years and came to Mumbai from Jakarta. This, sadly, will be his last posting. Rahardjo is due for retirement at the end of the year. He has no idea what he will do after this. He did give some thought to a consultancy for trade fairs. But there is still time. And he intends to enjoy Mumbai until then.He is in love with Mumbai, this happy Indonesian diplomat, he likes the secure feel of the city. Me and the wife can go about Mumbai at night unafraid, Rahardjo explained. The wife is Teti, a woman of Sumatra origin, and she is an Indus member in Mumbai and active in social work. Their only daughter, an industrial engineer named Niken, is married and settled down in Dallas. Life is good to Rahardjo. He is enjoying his work at the Indonesian mission in Mumbai. Trade, cultural relations are growing between India and Indonesia, he rattled off figures to show. And he is learning so much about India from here.He likes travelling around the country, he has been all over Gujarat, Pune, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Goa. He is a Muslim, a practising Muslim, and he goes every Friday to a mosque for the namaz. Rahardjo wracked his brain to think of the name of the mosque. It is near the railway tracks, near Opera House, is the nearest he came to it. And he is going to celebrate another Ramadhan here this year. But before that, is the Indonesian national day celebrations. The reception is on Monday, August 23, at the Regal Room. But today at the consulate on Altamount Road, Rahardjo Mustadjab will raise the Indonesian national flag for the last time in his diplomatic career. ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun
[ppiindia] Seluruh Asia ingin menguasai Bahasa Inggris
Dari Indonesia, laporan menggemberikan adalah para remaja yang memenangkan berbagai hadiah di Olimpiade Fisika di Beijing bahasa Inggrisnya joss. Demikian dilaporkan Anton John Hartomo. Bukan itu saja, juga sekolah-sekolah swasta Indonesia-plus ada yang menggunakan Inggris sebagai bahasa pengantar di kelas. Dan .. ehm, SBY kalau jadi presiden bakalan tidak ada hambatan bahasa di pertemuan-pertemuan ASEAN utamanya. Malaysia juga menyadari bahwa daya saingnya terkorbankan setelah menggalakkan Bahasa Kebangsaan. Tahun lalu, negara jiran ini mulai lagi menggunakan bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa pengantar untuk mata pelajaran sains dan matematika di kelas. Vietnam, Laos dan Kamboja juga sejak beberapa tahun yang lalu menggalakkan penguasaan bahasa Inggris, dan hasilnya mulai kelihatan sekarang. Salam, RM (The Straits Times Asia interactive) AUG 16, 2004 Asia goes back to school to learn English By John Newland From students to civil servants, English has become the language of choice among many Asians. The Straits Times correspondents look at how the trend of learning the language of global commerce is hotting up in the region. SOUTH Korean high school student Ko Seo Yong rarely goes home right after classes. Instead, the 18-year-old, who will sit for the year-end university entrance examination, heads for a private institute, known as hakwon, for extra lessons in English. And she does that five times a week. 'I must excel in English as a good grade is needed to get into a university, especially a prestigious one,' she said. Such determination is not unique to students in South Korea. Children and adults throughout Asia are putting their heads down in class and paying big money to acquire and hone English-language skills. In a globalised world, governments and individuals in the region realise the key to prosperity - in fact, survival - depends in large part on communicating in English. A lead player in this drive is Malaysia, where language is a political powder keg. Any push for English is seen as a bid to sweep aside the importance of Malay as the national language and, consequently, an affront to the Malay community. Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed, a Member of Parliament from Johor, typifies the trend towards English. 'I speak to all my children in English at home. I also emphasise to them that not only must they master the language, they must speak it well,' he tells The Straits Times. But, unlike Datuk Nur Jazlan's children, many Malaysians still cannot speak English correctly - this despite the fact that all school examinations and lessons were in English 20 years ago and the language is still taught in primary and secondary schools. The government realised a few years ago that the drastic slide in English standards would affect the country's business competitiveness. It also noticed that many people with poor command of the language were Malays, and that that prevented them from getting rewarding jobs. But last week, Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz, Umno's women's wing chief and long-serving Cabinet minister, underscored the obstacles faced by the government when she said that mastering English 'does not make one less Malay or less Malaysian'. Education Minister Datuk Hishammuddin Hussein also pushed the case. 'I don't want to hear excuses. As a trading nation, our children's competence in English is a survival skill,' he said recently. English tuition is now a major money spinner in Malaysia and is estimated to be a multi-million-ringgit industry, especially in the Malay heartland states, where English language centres are mushrooming. The renewed emphasis on English began last year, when schools started using it for science and mathematics lessons despite criticisms from many Malay nationalists. The government in Taiwan, where English proficiency of adults still trails most Asia-Pacific nations, is encouraging its 260,000 civil servants to get in the game. 'Civil servants aged under 40 will be given extra credits helpful to their job promotions if they pass a special English proficiency test,' said Mr Lee Yi-yang, chief of the Central Personnel Administration (CPA). Under the CPA's plan, especially targeting some 130,000 civil servants under the age of 40, employees will be given three years to improve their English. Those passing the elementary level of the General English Proficiency Test will be awarded two extra points in annual performance appraisals. The move is in line with the government project of 'cultivating e-generation talents' under the Cabinet's Challenge 2008 National Development Programme. Those passing the intermediate level test will earn four extra points, said Mr Lee, but anyone who fails will not be demoted. But in the world's second-largest economy, English-language education has been a flop. Japan's Education Ministry basically conceded this two years ago, after millions of
[ppiindia] Friday the 13th !!!
Kalau ada orang yang takut pada Friday the 13th, sayalah salah satunya. Waktu lalu Ny. Lakadia mengundang saya dan istri untuk makan malam dengan dokter Udwadia di Radio Club, Colaba, Bombay. Hari yang direncanakan mestinya hari ini, Friday the 13th. Saya tolak, jadinya acara diajukan jadi tanggal 10 Agustus yang lalu. Ya, saya ingat kejadian Semanggi II yang kejam itu terjadinya juga Friday the 13th. Takhayul atau tidak, pokoknya saya menjauhi Friday the 13th. Orang Yunani nekad, membuka Olimpiade pada hari ini Jum'at, tanggal 13 Agustus 2004. Salam, RM Home SA News Football Olympics News Other Sports Team Sports Track and Field Water Sports Have Your Say Greece not bothered about Friday the 13th Henri du Plessis August 12 2004 at 10:08AM If you suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia, you should stay in bed on Friday. And if that's all Greek to you, don't worry - the term has its origin in their ancient tongue and refers to fear of the date Friday the 13th. Fortunately, while they might know its meaning, the Greeks do not harbour such fears, and that's why they're quite happy for the Athens Olympics to start on Friday. It is simple really, said a source at the Greek consulate in Cape Town. 'It was a very clever plot' While all other countries fear Friday the 13th, we don't. So if we start the Olympic Games on Friday, that is the day when we can win all the medals, she said. It was a very clever plot. The Greeks do have a problem with Tuesday 13th, however - a superstition said to stem from the fact that the city of Constantinople officially fell to the Turks on a Tuesday the 13th in 1453. According to folklorist David Emery of the United States, writing on the website urbanlegends.com, the fear of Friday the 13th is the most widespread superstition in the world. In the US, sufferers of paraskevidekatriaphobia may number as many as 21 million. 'Some people won't go to work on that day' Some people won't go to work on that day, some won't eat in restaurants, many wouldn't even consider setting a wedding on the date, he said. He also referred to a study in the British Medical Journal which said people reported finding themselves in hospital due to accidents significantly more often on Friday the 13th than on any other day. The fear of Friday the 13th is said to have originated in medieval times, with superstitions surrounding the last supper of Christ and witchery at its roots. Paraskevidekatriaphobia is fear of the date Friday 13th, while triskidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia is a term coined by US psychotherapist Dr Donald Dossey, who said if you could pronounce it you would be cured of it. This article was originally published on page 1 of Cape Argus on August 12, 2004 More Olympics 2004 Stories Mulaudzi to carry the SA flag Olympic secret out - thanks to taxi driver A first Olympics for Martina, at 47 Schoeman feels like a loner Greece not bothered about Friday the 13th Back to IOLSearchFront Page NewsSportBusiness ReportPersonal FinanceTonight.co.zaTravelWeatherMotoringCareersClassifiedsNews I Can UseCellphone FunGamesHoroscopesAbout IOLNewspapersSpecial Features © 2004 Independent Online. All rights strictly reserved. IOL is not associated in any way whatsoever to the National Olympic committee of South Africa and is not a sponsor of the Olympic games, official or otherwise. The purpose of this website is to disseminate information regarding the events occurring at the Olympic games and to report the results thereof. Independent Online is a wholly owned subsidiary of Independent News Media. Reliance on the information this site contains is at your own risk. Please read the user agreement and privacy policy. Write to feedback. Tel: +27 21 481 6200, Fax: +27 21 481 6292 Click here for more information on IOL ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM ~- *** Berdikusi dg Santun Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality Shared Destiny. www.ppi.4t.com *** __ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari:
Re: [ppiindia] Google siap masuk bursa
Saya yakin para warga milis ppiindia paham apa makna Google bagi kita. Google bagaikan professor kita yang gratis. Coba ketik what is bitumen, klik search, dan kita diberi definisi baku tentang senyawa itu serta konteksnya. Coba ketik berapa prosentase pajak pendapatan dalam apbn, dan kita disuguhi artike; terpilih tentang APBN. Coba ketik who wrote darkness at noon, dan kita dapat jawaban bukan saja tentang Arthur Koesler tapi juga beberapa literary criticisms tentang novel sejarah itu. Pokoknya, bagi mahasiswa sekarang, Google sangat membantu untuk menyelesaikan assignment, pembuatan paper, bahkan thesis. Salam, RM --- Sandy Dwiyono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 10.08.2004 Google siap masuk bursa ( Google adalah mesin pencari di Internet yang paling populer ) Bulan Agustus ini, Google, akan masuk ke bursa teknologi New York, Nasdaq dan dengan langkah itu, Google berharap menjaring dana miliaran Dollar. Langkah masuk bursa atau yang didunia saham dikenal dengan istilah Initial Public Offering (IPO) yaitu penawaran perdana saham, memang sudah lama diharapkan banyak investor. Dengan langkah itu, tidak hanya pendiri Google, Sergey Brin yang akan menjadi kaya raya melainkan juga banyak pegawai Google sendiri. Langkah spektakuler Google masuk ke bursa, diiringi dengan penawaran sekitar 24,6 juta saham yang sekarang dilelang melalui koran-koran utama di Amerika Serikat. Di dalam sebuah presentasi video, pendiri Google Sergey Brin sekali lagi memaparkan dasar dan tujuan perusahaannya yang sudah sangat populer di kalangan masyarakat Amerika Serikat. Istilah ¨google¨ sekarang sudah menjadi sinonim untuk pencarian di Internet. Sergey Brin mengatakan bahwa misi google adalah meng-organisasi informasi dari seluruh dunia dan membuatnya mudah diakses dari mana saja. Ketika kami mulai tahun 1998, kami hanya memeriksa sekitar 30 juta situs internet. Sekarang., kami memeriksa miliaran situs Internet Langkah google masuk ke bursa ternama NASDAQ, juga menerapkan strategi baru untuk kalangan bisnis di Amerika Serikat. Sekitar 24,6 juta saham pertama-tama akan dilelang melalui internet. Dengan demikian para investor kecilpun akan mendapat peluang yang sama seperti investor-investor besar dari institusi keuangan internasional. Sergey Brin menjelaskan satu hal yang jadi tujuan mereka adalah membuat proses ini lebih demokratis. Jadi jalan yang terbaik adalah dengan melelang saham. Kami berharap semuanya berjalan lancar dan sesuai dengan kepentingan baik perusahaan maupun para investor. Sayangnya, yang bisa ikut dalam pelelangan ini hanya mereka yang berada di Amerika Serikat. Sebab siapa yang tidak tinggal di Amerika Serikat atau sedikitnya tidak punya rekening bank di negara itu, tidak bisa ikut pelelangan. Editor senior dari majalah ekonomi terkenal Fortune -Daniel Roth, yakin langkah Google masuk bursa akan berhasil baik. Daniel Roth berpendapat bahwa hal Ini akan jadi emisi besar-besar-an, lebih besar dari apa yang pernah dilakukan sebuah perusahaan teknologi sebelumnya. Google menjadi semacam pertanda bahwa musim dingin panjang di sektor teknologi sudah berlalu. Namun ada juga kritik yang muncul dengan rencana Google terutama berkaitan dengan harapan antusias mengenai keuntungan perusahaan itu. Google, perusahaan yang baru berusia 6 tahun sekarang ditaksir seharga 30 sampai 36 miliar Dollar, artinya masih lebih tinggi daripada misalnya McDonald. Banyak pengamat yang mengingatkan kembali harga terlalu mahal pada awal boom perusahaan internet yang kemudian diikuti dengan ambruknya pasar. Walaupun Google masih merupakan mesin pencari Internet yang paling populer yang setiap hari situsnya diakses sekitar 200 juta kali, persaingan di masa depan diperkirakan bakal semakin ketat. Mesin pencari lain yang lebih kecil mulai menawarkan produk-produk inovatif. Juga pesaing terbesar Yahoo mulai meningkatkan investasinya, sementara perusahaan Software raksasa Microsoft juga mulai melirik pasar mesin pencari internet. Jadi, investasi di perusahaan Google bukannya tanpa resiko. Google sendiri menyadari hal itu dan memperingatkan para peminat sahamnya tentang resiko ini. Salah seorang pendiri Google yang lain, Larry Page mengatakan dirinya ingin memastikan, bahwa Anda benar-benar menyadari resiko investasi ini, sebelum Anda membeli saham Google. Jadi, mohon Anda mempertimbangkannya dengan hati-hati. Larry Page memang pebisnis sejati yang tidak ingin melihat calon investornya mengambil keputusan sebelum mempertimbangkannya secara seksama. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM
[ppiindia] Gawat, pencurian/penyelundupan kayu dari Indonesia
Gawat, pencurian/penyelundupan kayu Indonesia bukan saja merusak lingkungan tapi sudah menimbulkan kerugian ekonomi tiada tara. Kayu jenis bagus, besar dan lurus diselundupkan terang-terangan ke Malaysia. Sisanya yang jelek, kecil-kecil dan tidak lurus menjadi bagian kita. Akibatnya, para pengusaha mebel kita kekurangan bahan baku yang baik dan banyak yang terancam tutup usaha, buruhnya mau kemana. Kadin mencak-mencak. Departemen Kehutanan sendiri sudah angkat tangan, karena pencoleng-pencoleng itu ada yang melindungi. Rupanya departemen ini tidak melihat cara lain, kecuali mengeluarkan siaran pers No: 5/450/II/PIK-1/2004 tertanggal 5 Agustus 2004 yang berjudul PENYELUNDUPAN KAYU DARI INDONESIA SANGAT MEMPRIHATINKAN. Intinya, jumlah kayu yang dicatat negara pengimport berbeda sangat jauh, lebih dari 16 kali lipat dari jumlah kayu yang dieksport secara resmi. Laporan investigatif yang ditulis oleh Leslie Lopez dan dimuat di FEER (berita dibawah) menyebutkan bahwa tengkulak Malaysia mengirimkan hasil curian itu ke China (sebagian besar), Singapura dan Korea. Tidak sukar bagi pemerintah Indonesia hasil pemilu 20 September, untuk membuat gebrakan besar disini. Salam, RM (FEER) MALAYSIA Save-the-Trees Savvy Environmental activists, after mapping the trade route taken by Indonesian timber, are trying to curb illegal logging by taking aim at Malaysia By Leslie Lopez/KUALA LUMPUR Issue cover-dated August 05, 2004 POSING AS A TIMBER BUYER for European furniture makers, Sam Lawson, a researcher for the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency, approached several Malaysian traders last year hoping to gain insight into the smuggling of hardwood from Indonesia's fast-depleting forests. Eager to please a potential customer, the traders gave Lawson the lowdown on an estimated $500 million-a-year timber-laundering business that moves smuggled Indonesian hardwood to manufacturers in China. They were actually proud of how cunning and sly they were in getting around the rules, says Lawson of the Malaysian and Singaporean timber dealers he met. The traders described how they easily exploited loopholes in Malaysian export rules. These middlemen buy logs and sawn timber shipped from Indonesia and then organize the necessary documentation from local Malaysian port authorities before shipping the processed lumber to Chinese buyers. In some circumstances, particularly in trades involving protected hardwoods such as ramin, Lawson was told that the contraband timber would arrive in boats at little-policed barter-trade centres that dot the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia, across the Strait of Malacca from Indonesia. To get around an Indonesian ban on ramin exports, the traders said, they arranged for documentation to show that the ramin was harvested in Malaysia. The ramin would then be shipped to China, where the timber is in huge demand because its warp-resistant nature makes it ideal for making pool cues, baby furniture and other products for export to the United States and Europe. China, which imposed a nationwide ban on domestic logging in 1998, is the world's fastest-growing market for tropical timber, with imports soaring 75% last year to $11.2 billion. Now the EIA is trying to curb international log-laundering by pressing retailers and consumers in Europe and the U.S. to boycott wood products from Malaysia. The EIA's campaign highlights how environmental groups, including the U.S.-based Nature Conservancy, are becoming increasingly aggressive and innovative in their campaign to promote sustainable forest-management practices in Indonesia, home to about 10% of the world's remaining tropical-forest cover and some of the most diverse ecosystems. Some Indonesian officials have gone so far as to call for the death penalty for illegal logging, but enforcing the law hasn't been easy. Says Greg Clough, communications specialist with the Centre for International Forestry Research, One of the main factors underpinning illegal logging is that the timber-processing capacity is more than 10 times greater than the Ministry of Forestry's allowable cut, which is 5.7 million cubic metres in 2004. The EIA estimates that 5.2 million acres are lost each year to illegal logging in Indonesia alone. Given Jakarta's apparent difficulty in dealing with the problem, the EIA decided to devote its efforts to Malaysia and force it to clamp down on trade in illegally sourced timber. Lim Keng Yaik, a senior Malaysian cabinet minister with nearly 20 years' experience managing the country's rich commodity and resource-based economy, says that Malaysia is being unfairly burdened by all this finger-pointing. Still, Kuala Lumpur is taking the boycott campaign
Re: [ppiindia] Profil: Azim Premji, pebisnis IT yg sukses
Azim Premji adalah role model bagi semua orang, khususnya mahasiswa Indonesia di India. Nomor satu, dia pintar tapi juga memintarkan orang lain. Ditengah kesibukannya, dia merelakan waktu untuk pertemuan bisnis/management. Tanpa bosan dia menjawab setiap pertanyaan sehingga sang penanya puas. Nomor dua, keserhanaanya dan kejujurannya legendaris. Meskipun dia orang terkaya di India, kendaraannya tetap Ford Escort 1995. Tiba di bandara Mumbai dari Bangalore, dia langsung kekantor cabang Wipro naik taksi, bukan minta dijemput mobil perusahaan. Di kantor pusat Wipro di Bangalore dia menolak disediakan tempat parkir khusus buat dia. Kalau mau dapat parkir ditempat strategis, ya datanglah pagi-pagi, katanya. Nomor tiga, atasi persoalan segera sebelum jadi besar. Penggelembungan biaya perjalanan oleh staffnya dilihat dari omzet Wipro tidak seberapa, tapi dia merasa perlu untuk memanggil rapat direksi khusus untuk itu, karena baginya itu menyangkut soal prinsip. Salam, RM --- Khairur Razi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pengantar: Azim Premji di india ibarat liem sio liong di indonesia. sama2 orang terkaya di negaranya. bedanya, Azim masuk dalam 200 orang terkaya dunia versi majalah FORTUNE karena bisnisnya yg global dan kompetitif dan tanpa KKN dan proteksi dari siapapun. Yg berminat mengetahui bisnisnya, silahkan buka di sini: www.transnationale.org/fiches/1240342537.htm Dia juga membuka yayasan sosial dg nama Azim Premji Foundation. silahkan buka situsnya di sini: www.azimpremjifoundation.org salam, Razi Aligarh --- Azim H. Premji, Chairman, Wipro Corporation In a world where integrity purportedly counts for naught, Azim Hasham Premji symbolizes just that. The 55-year-old Wipro chairman made international waves in 2000 ever since his group became a Rs 3,500-crore empire with a market capitalization exceeding Rs 500,000 million! If any stargazer had been foolish enough to predict in 1966 that a 21-year-old Indian at Stanford University would one day achieve all this, he'd have been laughed out of business. At that juncture, Premji was forced to discontinue his engineering studies in the States due to the untimely death of his father. Returning to India to take charge of a cooking oil company, the youth infused new life into the family's traditional mindset and trade. Over the years, Premji diversified into sectors like computer hardware and lighting, disregarding marketing laws that extolled the virtues of core competence and frowned on brand extensions into unrelated segments. Despite all the success, the media-shy Premji maintained a low profile, letting his work do all the talking. Until early last year the media broke the story that Azim Premji had become the second-richest man in the world In spite of his billions, however, he still travels economy class and stays in budget hotels. When the man was recently honored with the Businessman of the Year 2000 award, he attributed his stupendous success to the 12,000 people who work for Wipro Corporation. Nor did he forget to mention his family. The great man then shared some tips for success: Have the courage to think big. Never compromise on fundamental values, no matter what the situation. Build up self-confidence, always look ahead. Always have the best around you, even if they are better than you are. Have an obsessive commitment to quality. Play to win. Leave the rest to the force beyond. Premji the businessman practices what he preaches. When it comes to upholding personal values, there's no margin for error. Wipro managers speak in awe of the time they received a terse message that their chairman was flying down to Bangalore for a meeting. It was clear that something major was in the offing. Premji came straight to the point. A senior general manager of the company had been given marching orders-because he'd inflated a travel bill. The man's contribution to the company was significant; the bill's amount was not. Yet he had to go for this solitary lapse. It was, Premji stressed, a matter of principles. Wipro's code of conduct for employees says it all: Don't do anything that you're unwilling to have published in tomorrow's newspaper with your photograph next to it. It's that kind of integrity that has catapulted Premji and Wipro to unprecedented heights. sumber: http://www.lifepositive.com/Mind/work/corporate-management/azim-premji.asp Khairurrazi Aligarh Muslim University Uttar Pradesh, India -- India.com free e-mail - www.india.com. Check out our value-added Premium features, such as an extra 20MB for mail storage, POP3, e-mail forwarding, and ads-free mailboxes! Powered by Outblaze ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
Re: [ppiindia] Re: Profil: Azim Premji, pebisnis IT yg sukses
--- Rizqon Khamami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Satu lagi, yang membanggakan, Azim Premji ini adalah seorang Muslim. Di tengah mayoritas Hindu yang masih menganggap sebelah mata kaum minoritas Muslim, Premji tampil meyakinkan: menjadi salah satu orang terkaya di India. Benar sekali. Sekalipun tidak pernah menyebut dirinya Islam, Azim Premji sebenarnya Muslim Ismailiah (sumber: The Financial Express, 5 Maret 2004). Bagi yang sama sekali pernah dengar apa itu sekte Ismailia, sebut saja Agha Khan, nah itulah Ismailia. Suatu kali wartawan Amerika bertanya kepada Azim Premji: bagaimana rasanya jadi Muslim di India? Jawab Azim Premji: I am an Indian first. If it was\so difficult being a muslim in India, I wouldn't have been where I am today (sumber: Indiainfo.com). Sebagaimana Agha Khan Award yang sudah mendunia itu, Azim Premji dengan Azim Premji Foundation ingin mengamalkan apa yang umumnya orang Islam belum amalkan: bahwa Islam adalah RAHMATAN LIL ALAMIN. Salam, RM === --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], rahardjo mustadjab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Azim Premji adalah role model bagi semua orang, khususnya mahasiswa Indonesia di India. Nomor satu, dia pintar tapi juga memintarkan orang lain. Ditengah kesibukannya, dia merelakan waktu untuk pertemuan bisnis/management. Tanpa bosan dia menjawab setiap pertanyaan sehingga sang penanya puas. Nomor dua, keserhanaanya dan kejujurannya legendaris. Meskipun dia orang terkaya di India, kendaraannya tetap Ford Escort 1995. Tiba di bandara Mumbai dari Bangalore, dia langsung kekantor cabang Wipro naik taksi, bukan minta dijemput mobil perusahaan. Di kantor pusat Wipro di Bangalore dia menolak disediakan tempat parkir khusus buat dia. Kalau mau dapat parkir ditempat strategis, ya datanglah pagi-pagi, katanya. Nomor tiga, atasi persoalan segera sebelum jadi besar. Penggelembungan biaya perjalanan oleh staffnya dilihat dari omzet Wipro tidak seberapa, tapi dia merasa perlu untuk memanggil rapat direksi khusus untuk itu, karena baginya itu menyangkut soal prinsip. Salam, RM --- Khairur Razi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pengantar: Azim Premji di india ibarat liem sio liong di indonesia. sama2 orang terkaya di negaranya. bedanya, Azim masuk dalam 200 orang terkaya dunia versi majalah FORTUNE karena bisnisnya yg global dan kompetitif dan tanpa KKN dan proteksi dari siapapun. Yg berminat mengetahui bisnisnya, silahkan buka di sini: www.transnationale.org/fiches/1240342537.htm Dia juga membuka yayasan sosial dg nama Azim Premji Foundation. silahkan buka situsnya di sini: www.azimpremjifoundation.org salam, Razi Aligarh --- Azim H. Premji, Chairman, Wipro Corporation In a world where integrity purportedly counts for naught, Azim Hasham Premji symbolizes just that. The 55-year-old Wipro chairman made international waves in 2000 ever since his group became a Rs 3,500-crore empire with a market capitalization exceeding Rs 500,000 million! If any stargazer had been foolish enough to predict in 1966 that a 21-year-old Indian at Stanford University would one day achieve all this, he'd have been laughed out of business. At that juncture, Premji was forced to discontinue his engineering studies in the States due to the untimely death of his father. Returning to India to take charge of a cooking oil company, the youth infused new life into the family's traditional mindset and trade. Over the years, Premji diversified into sectors like computer hardware and lighting, disregarding marketing laws that extolled the virtues of core competence and frowned on brand extensions into unrelated segments. Despite all the success, the media-shy Premji maintained a low profile, letting his work do all the talking. Until early last year the media broke the story that Azim Premji had become the second-richest man in the world In spite of his billions, however, he still travels economy class and stays in budget hotels. When the man was recently honored with the Businessman of the Year 2000 award, he attributed his stupendous success to the 12,000 people who work for Wipro Corporation. Nor did he forget to mention his family. The great man then shared some tips for success: Have the courage to think big. Never compromise on fundamental values, no matter what the situation. Build up self-confidence, always look ahead. Always have the best around you, even if they are better than you are. Have an obsessive commitment to quality. Play to win. Leave the rest to the force beyond. Premji the businessman practices what he preaches. When it comes to upholding personal values, there's no margin for error. Wipro managers speak in awe of the time they received a terse
