Dear Mr Budi Rahardjo, and all,
I feel the need to retell the story of how things has come to how it is now.
On April 1, 2005, I, Linga Hanawati and Devi Dimitra were present in Teddy
office on Tulodong street, Jakarta.
During the "briefing" given in what was meant to be a meetup session, after
several minutes of showing off his new office, and babble how the office
will become ISOCID office, he made the following statements:
"As Chairman of ISOCID, I have sent official letter of support for APJII to
take over management of ccTLD .id by means of establishing a new
organization called Yayasan ID-NIC. Also, APJII has elected me as the first
Chairman for this foundation, and I am currently in the process of obtaining
blessing from Minister of Communication and Information Technology."
And for the reason, he stated that
"Budi Rahardjo is such an egocentric man, APJII has helped him many years in
running the management of ccTLD .id and suddenly, he decided that want to
take all the money for himself by cancelling contract with APJII and
establish a new institution, thus we have decided that we should take over
the management and create a new organization"
(this statement has just been refuted on August 24, 2005 by Mr Sammy
Pangabean, supervisor of APJII by stating that APJII has no interest in
managing that new organization, and that APJII has no quarrel with Mr Budi
Rahardjo)
When I asked him, in my capacity as secretary, as to why he has been doing
this without informing the members, his answer were
"members do not understand about this stuff, it is useless to get them
involved. even in APJII, everytime I ask people to discuss about
infrastructure, they directly shake their head, uninterested"
Therefore, I re-clarify the condition by asking "Is the person elected as
the first chairman for the new foundation Teddy as a person or as chairman
of ISOCID? Also, can you be assured that there won't be any problem in this
matter? We should not make ISOCID involved in these kind of action.
His answer were:
"of course, the chairman will be me as person, and you are wrong about
ISOCID involvement, we should be more involved in these kind of actions.
Look at your education programs, how much money have you produced for
ISOCID? Small stuff like that is not profitable and will never make it big.
Right now I am busy with this matter, but as soon as it is done, we will
have to sit and discuss which programs should ISOCID do and we will discard
those unprofitable programs. Anyway, why don't you just become officer for
education, seeing that your concern is only in the area of education?"
I responded "Devi is officer for education, don't you even have the courtesy
to recognize that ?"
After that, all three of us make some excuses and we left.
Now, Mr Budi, after that, I discuss this with Vice President for Chapter
(James Galvin) and James Galvin made it clear that as chairman, he is
entitled to do many things using Chapter's name, but it is also not
unreasonable for members to expect discussions, meetings, and even vote,
before he made any important decisions in Chapter's name. In this matter, I
would like to quote Mr Robby's statement that "it is the means that glorify
the end" and in this and many other cases, Teddy has obviously skipped the
"means" part and goes directly to the "end" part.
I am not aware of the IIX issue compared to the ccTLD .id issue, but the
existence of such activity is proof that there are many things Teddy kept
hidden from members, and this means he have violated the rights of members
and behave as if Indonesia Chapter belongst to him alone.
As for Mr Robby Gura, we know that he is a lawyer from Haeys group, and that
he is also Teddy's personal retainer, therefore, we hope that he can provide
good counsel to Teddy and advise him that being a chairman of an not for
profit organization is totally different from being the chairman of the
board of a private company. We all know that Mr Robby was the one who
assisted Teddy in drafting ISOCID bylaws (even in haeys.com we can read that
ISOCID is a client) and thus, we are sure that Mr Robby will admit and
recognize that the fact that Teddy has not held any General Meetings during
his three years of terms, and has refused to do so when asked upon, give the
right to any member to hold that meeting. Furthermore, the meeting was held
virtually, using a web program hosted in a computer located in Jakarta, the
same town as the domicile of the chapter, and attended by 51,87 percent of
members, thus this meeting was valid by all aspects, and it would be a
gentlemanly conduct for Teddy to accept the result and agree to it. Keep in
mind that the chairman position is currently vacant, and if he choose to
accept the result, he will be able to nominate himself as chairman again in
the next meeting (after answering some important questions, of course).
James informed me that his decisions regarding ccTLD fall into grey area,
while unsubscribing members without due process is considered a violation. I
guess we have to agree with the grey area thing, because so far, nothing
really bad have happened, yet. Hopefully, Teddy's technical support is as
powerful as his ego because once the transition took place, he will
definitely need that.
Now, we are waiting for his final answer, and keep in mind that if the
transfer of ccTLD .id domain management does take place on August 31, 2005,
and something wrong happens that disrupt the service, and cause even only as
much as a single complain, Teddy will hold personal responsibility for it,
NOT ISOCID
and certainly NOT ISOC.
Sincerely,
Irwan Effendi
Secretary - ISOCID
>
> As still the current .ID Country Code Top Level Domain manager,
> I have to comment on Robby Gura's email:
>
> 1. It is NOT true that ISOC Indonesia involved in the redelegation
> of the .ID domain management. However, it is true that Teddy Purwadi
> is involved in the re-delegation of .ID domain.
> The process of re-delegation is a push from APJII (Association
> of Indonesian ISPs), of which Teddy Purwadi is the secretary.
> Teddy is acting as the secretary of APJII, not as an ISOC chairman.
>
> I have the first hand information on this. It could be proven
> by the meetings' attendance lists.
>
> I have never met Robby Gura's during any meeting regarding the
> .ID domain management fiasco. Perhaps Mr. Gura could enlighten me?
> (Maybe, I was asleep during the meetings?)
>
> 2. There is NO ISOC involvement in in Indonesia's Internet Exchange
> (IIX). In fact, there is a big debate right now with the move/plan
> to make a commercial entity out of this IIX by APJII, as mandated
> by the latest APJII's General Assembly.
> The Indonesian Internet Exchange is in APJII's teritory.
> No ISOC involvement at all.
> (You can get the information from APJII's web site, which
> unfortunately is in Bahasa Indonesia. You can also contact APJII to
> get their formal response.)
>
> Perhaps Mr. Gura has more information on this?
>
>
> So, other than activities that were carried out by Irwan Effendi and
> other volunteers, I didn't (and don't) see any real activities from ISOC.
>
>
> ...
> > > > 3. We did trust Mr. Efendi personally to act as an acting secretary,
> > > > however it seems that he used official ISOC-ID members database to
> > > > create his own unofficial ISOC mailing list. We tried to urge
> > > > him to use the existing official mailing list to no avail. As a
> > > > result, our admin de-list him from the official mailing list. So as
> > > > you may see, the de-listing of Irwan and his friends is a way of us
> > > > to react from his action.
>
> As one of the founders of Indonesia ISOC, I did nothing wrong, but I was
> delisted from the list too.
> I was (mostly) just a passive reader in both mailing lists until my
address
> was removed from the local mailing list. No explanation was given.
> (Perhaps it is a good thing? I have too many emails anyway.)
>
> I could only speculate that the removal of my email address is due to
> the conflict in the domain management dispute.
>
> As a note, at one point, I expressed my intention on leaving ISOC.
> I think I should do it. But, I felt obliged to stay a while to nurture
> these young people. Argh. Moral dilemma. (Should I even care?)
>
> I am getting tired of all these (lies?). It has to stop!
>
> I guess, the Internet has changed.
> It's not based on trust and cooperation anymore.
> People are more concerned with power (position?).
> Oh well, live goes on.
>
> PS: In the next few weeks, I am going to resign as the .ID domain
> manager. Again, the same backstabbing (power struggle) happened there.
> I don't want to be part of it. I am getting too old for this.
>
> Cheers.
>
> -- budi rahardjo
> -- http://budi.insan.co.id
> -- http://gbt.blogspot.com
>
>
>
