--- RG Nur Rahmat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pak Raharjo Mustajab, > apa saran bapak agar Indonesia bisa melompat jauh ke > masa depan? > dari pengalaman bapak di India?
Begini, Mas Nur Rahmat. Intinya, saya percaya pada potensi positif manusia. Dan potensi terbesar bagi kemajuan adalah kecerdasan dan akal budi, dan ini dipunyai oleh orang Indonesia sebagian besar. Cuma, sayangnya belum terarah. Potensi ini harus diarahkan oleh orang tua, guru, lingkungan masyarakat, dan ... negara. Tidak boleh disia-siakan. Jarang saya lihat pemuda India yang santai, mereka kalau bisa ingin jadi nomor satu. Kenapa begitu? Rupanya kemelaratan disekitarnya yang memecut mereka. Kemauan mereka juga mendapat dorongan besar dari orang tua. Di Indonesia juga begitu, cuma derajatnya yang beda. Anak India bercita-cita jadi apa? Jauh sebelum jadi presiden, Abdul Kalam banyak berdialog dengan anak-anak. Kebanyakan mereka ingin jadi dokter, atau insinyur, atau ahli roket seperti Pak Kalam, jadi guru, jadi seniman besar. Tidak ada yang ingin jadi pegawai negeri, apalagi jadi politikus. Aspirasi anak-anak itu mencerminkan dorongan dari rumah. Di sini bedanya kita dan India, lihat saja judul diskusi di milis kita tercinta (maaf), yang tidak jauh berkisar dari hal yang itu-itu saja. Kemajuan India diberati oleh kemelaratan dan kesenjangan kasta yang luar biasa. Kita harus bersyukur karena kita tidak punya soal seberat ini. Masalahnya hanya karena kita banyak menyia-nyiakan waktu dan enerji untuk hal-hal yang kurang perlu. Salam, RM > > rahardjo mustadjab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Arun Shourie, sekarang anggota parlemen saja > sebelumnya menteri telekom dalam pemerintahan Atal > Behari Vajpayee, memberikan dana pork barrel sebesar > Rs 120 juta (24 milyard rupiah) kepada IIT (Indian > Institute of Technology) di Kanpur. Biaya itu > dipakai > untuk membangun lab lengkap bioengineering. Dalam > visi > Arun Shourie, bidang ini adalah teknologi masa > depan. > > Ada masalah prosedur/birokrasi. Berdasar ketentuan > parlemen, setiap anggota parlemen hanya berhak > memberi > Rs 1 juta (200 juta rupiah) per proyek. Biaya ini > hanya cukup untuk membangun sepotong jalan atau satu > taman kecil saja. Tidak cukup untuk proyek yang > berdampak lumayan. Untuk mewujudkan niatnya, jauh > hari Arun Shourie sudah meyakinkan bossnya waktu > itu, > PM Atal Behari Vajpayee, dan ia mendapat otorisasi. > Persoalan selanjutnya, kemana dana itu harus > dibelanjakan? > > Pilihannya jatuh pada IIT-K, sebagai salah satu > centres of excellence. Ada satu syarat yang harus > dipenuhi: gedung lab harus berperlengkapan modern > dan > hemat energi. Hasilnya adalah 16 ruang lab dengan > kwalifikasi demikian di departemen BSBE (Biological > Science and Biological Engineering) yang mampu > melakukan riset DNA, molecular biology dan > bio-informatics. > > Salam, > RM > > rediff.com > > Shourie gives Rs 12 crore to IIT-Kanpur! > > Smita Tripathi | October 18, 2004 > > > It's a problem of plenty for many members of > Parliament. How should they spend the Rs 12 crore > (Rs > 120 million) given to them as part of MPLADS -- the > Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme? > > Most spread it on a mix of roads, children's > playgrounds and other do-good projects. Former > minister and journalist and sitting Rajya Sabha > member > Arun Shourie, however, had a completely different > idea > about what should be done with the money. > > For starters, he wanted to spend all the money he > received over a five-year period on one multi-crore > mega project. The only question was identifying the > recipient. > > "People just spend Rs 10 lakh (Rs 1 million) or so, > on > each project and the money is just frittered away," > he > said. "I didn't want to do that." > > But the former telecom minister also had a few more > pre-conditions. Turning his eyes to the future, he > wanted to put the money into an area of frontier > research. He wanted to tie up with an 'institute of > excellence' and he wanted the money handed over > directly. > > "I didn't want to be involved in the handling and > distribution of the money. The institute had to be > one > which had such a clean reputation that it was above > question," Shourie said. > > Finally Shourie had one more condition -- he wanted > the building to be modern state-of-the-art > construction with energy saving features. "I was > very > clear that if a building was involved, then it > should > be an education by itself." > > The result is the new Biological Sciences and > Bioengineering (BSBE) department at the Indian > Institute of Technology in Kanpur. The 16-lab > department is housed in a 64,000 sq ft building > equipped with the latest research tools needed for > molecular biology and other types of > bio-engineering. > > Inside the BSBE's portals a faculty of eight and > about > 75 students are carrying out research in a range of > cutting-edge fields like DNA sequencing, tissue > restructuring (which involves creating artificial > human skin), bioinformatics and computational > biology. > > There have been hiccups along the way, from the time > that Shourie began confabulations with IIT-Kanpur. > For > a start, there was a problem of scale. > > When Shourie first approached the institute, the > dean > and the top professors assumed he would be writing a > cheque for around Rs 10 lakh. Accordingly, they put > forward a proposal to develop software for the > visually handicapped which would have cost around > that > much. > > But, once they understood what Shourie had in mind, > the top brains of IIT-Kanpur didn't find it tough to > come up with a proposal to fit the price tag. In > fact, > they already had one or two at the blueprint stage. > There was the bio-engineering department which was a > high priority and there was a proposal for a > management school. > > "Since Arun Shourie wanted to contribute towards > frontier research he selected the bio-engineering > project," says N Sathyamurthy, dean, faculty > affairs, > IIT-Kanpur, who was the coordinator of the National > Advisory Committee set up to respond to Shourie's > proposal. > > Shourie immediately okayed the bio-tech proposal. > After all, India has already firmly established > itself > in biotechnology and it is ranked 12th globally in > this field. And the statistics are encouraging: The > industry is growing at around 25 per cent annually. > > What's more, India should generate around $5 billion > from the field by 2010. Crucially, the biotech > sector > is expected to create more than 1 million jobs in > India in the next five years. Says Shourie: > "Pharmaceutical research and bio-engineering is the > future." > > Even after Shourie had given IIT-K the thumbs up, > there were other impediments. Under MPLADS rules, an > MP is allowed to spend only Rs 10 lakh per project. > > Shourie had to work around the government's red tape > and get special permission from the then prime > minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to spend all the money > on one project. Once he had Vajpayee's green signal > he > had to steer his proposal through committees in both > the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. > > Here a spot of artful jugglery became necessary. The > entire project was divided into eight sub-projects > in > order to fit the rules. While seven sub-projects > were > related to acquiring infrastructure, the building's > construction was the eighth sub-project. > > Construction started in April 2002. Nearly Rs 6 > crore > (Rs 60 million) or 50 per cent of the total Rs 12 > crore went towards putting up the 64,000 sq ft > building which was completed in 18 months. It has 16 > laboratories, a seminar hall, library, classrooms > and > teaching labs. Another Rs 6 crore was spent on > laboratory and other equipment. > > While the infrastructure was still being put in > place, > IIT recruited a faculty of eight professors and > assistant professors, each an expert in his field. > Interestingly, none were ex-IITians. In fact, all of > them were recruited abroad. > > Says Dr Pradip Sinha, head of the department, > Biological Sciences and Bioengineering: "These > people > were looking for an opportunity to return to India. > However, lack of infrastructure always comes in the > === 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.ppi-india.uni.cc *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. 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