[wanita-muslimah] Terrorist recruiters leverage the Web
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/12/AR2009121201598.html?wpisrc=newsletter Terrorist recruiters leverage the Web From YouTube to Pakistan: N.Va. men allegedly drafted to fight U.S. troops abroad By Griff Witte, Jerry Markon and Shaiq Hussain Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 13, 2009 Pakistani authorities on Saturday were searching for an insurgent figure believed to have aided five Northern Virginia men who allegedly tried to join al-Qaeda, saying the case could help unravel a growing network of terrorist recruiters who scour the Internet for radicalized young men. Investigators have identified the man, known as Saifullah, as a recruiter for the Pakistani Taliban and said he contacted one of the American men on YouTube, exchanged coded e-mails with the group, invited them to Pakistan and guided them once they arrived. But the men, all Muslims from the Alexandria area, failed to reach the remote tribal zone that is al-Qaeda's home because the terrorist network's commanders thought they were sent by the CIA to infiltrate al-Qaeda -- and Saifullah could not convince them otherwise, a Pakistani intelligence official said Saturday. They were regarded as a sting operation. That's why they were rejected, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation. The five men disappeared just after Thanksgiving and were arrested near Lahore on Tuesday. They have not been charged with any crime. The developments point to the dangers posed by an extensive and sophisticated network of online terrorist recruiters, but also its limitations. Investigators and terrorism experts say recruitment worldwide has become far more Web-based, with recruiters playing a critical role in identifying potential radicals and determining whether they can be trusted. Yet Saifullah's endorsement, secured through months of online contact with the five men, apparently did not carry much weight with Osama bin Laden's organization: It wanted someone who knew them better. As a result, the five men wound up marooned in the eastern city of Sargodha, far from the terrorist haven in the forbidding mountains of northwest Pakistan that they were apparently trying to reach. Pakistani officials said the men were undeterred and kept trying to acquire the endorsements to gain access to al-Qaeda training camps -- with the ultimate goal of fighting U.S. troops in Afghanistan -- when they were arrested. The men, ages 18 to 24, traveled overseas without telling their families, triggering an international manhunt after concerned relatives contacted the FBI. The five -- Ramy Zamzam, 22; Ahmad A. Minni, 20; Umar Chaudhry, 24; Waqar Khan, 22; and Aman Hassan Yemer, 18 -- were transferred Saturday from Sargodha to Lahore, where they were questioned by the FBI. The U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W. Patterson, met with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday to discuss the men and the timing of what officials said will be their eventual handover to the United States. But Pakistani officials said they want more time to question the men in an effort to learn more about Saifullah and other radicals they may know. U.S. law enforcement officials are considering criminal charges against the men, but they said that no charges are imminent and that a decision on whether to file them could take weeks. The young men's friends and spiritual advisers have said they never saw any sign of radical activity or beliefs. The men's family members in Northern Virginia have declined to comment. If the emerging case, as outlined by Pakistan officials, shows the difficulties online recruiters can encounter, it was also clear that the growth of online recruiting poses unique challenges for U.S. criminal investigators. Federal officials said they were aware of the threat and concerned about its potential to radicalize Americans who might meet recruiters online, both Muslims and non-Muslims Online recruiting has exponentially increased, with Facebook, YouTube and the increasing sophistication of people online, a high-ranking Department of Homeland Security official said Saturday on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. But criminal investigators said the explosion of online communication made it extraordinarily difficult to monitor, and they indicated that their tracking abilities were limited by constitutional and privacy considerations. Other countries may have different capabilities, and those are capabilities we don't have, said one federal law enforcement official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the issue. Ironically, terrorism experts said one reason for the growth of online recruiting is the success of efforts by the United States and other nations to penetrate Islamist terrorist networks and Muslim communities since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
[wanita-muslimah] Koalisi Perempuan Maluku Kumpulkan Koin untuk Prita
http://www.mediaindonesia.com/read/2009/12/12/111083/130/101/Koalisi-Perempuan-Maluku-Kumpulkan-Koin-untuk-Prita Koalisi Perempuan Maluku Kumpulkan Koin untuk Prita Sabtu, 12 Desember 2009 07:27 WIB AMBON-MI: Puluhan aktivis perempuan yang tergabung dalam Koalisi Perempuan Maluku (KPM) menggelar aksi solidaritas mengumpulkan koin untuk Prita Mulyasari, yang terjerat kasus hukum, di Ambon, Jumat (11/12). Para aktivis itu berasal dari berbagai organisasi termasuk Kohati Himpunan Mahasiswa Islam (HMI) Cabang Ambon, Gerakan Mahasiswa Kristen Indonesia (GMKI), Komite Nasional Pemuda Indonesia (KNPI), LSM Walang Perempuan Maluku serta Yayasan Pelangi. Aksi pengumpulan koin untuk Prita dilakukan di beberapa kawasan, di antaranya perempatan Masjid Raya Al Fatah, Ambon Plasa (Amplaz), perempatan Pos Polisi Kota, Kantor Gubernur Maluku, dan sejumlah kedai minum kopi. Di Kantor Gubernur Maluku, para aktivis yang membawa kotak sumbangan dari karton mendatangi setiap pengawai termasuk para Kepala Dinas yang kebetulan sedang berada di kantor tersebut. Mohon bantuan koin untuk Prita Pak Kadis, kata Siti Malawat, salah seorang aktivis, kepada Kepala Dinas Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral (ESDM) Maluku Bram Tomasoa, yang langsung merogoh saku dan memberikan uang Rp100 ribu. Para pegawai yang didatangi para aktivis pun dengan sukarela menyumbangkan uang logam, beberapa di antaranya bahkan menyumbangkan lembaran uang kertas Rp10.000 hingga Rp50.000. Wakil Gubernur Maluku Said Assagaff juga dihampiri para aktivis. Ia langsung menyumbang Rp100 ribu karena tidak memiliki uang koin. Nilai koin lebih besar dari apa yang saya berikan, ini bukan kesengajaan tetapi memang tidak ada koin dalam kantong saya, kata Assagaff. Wagub menyambut baik gerakan pengumpulan koin oleh aktivis sebagai simbol ketidakberpihakan hukum terhadap rakyat kecil di negeri ini.Walaupun nilainya berupa koin recehan tetapi manfaat yang dilakukan oleh aktivis sangat besar, sebagai bagian dari rasa solidaritas terhadap matinya hukum di negeri ini, katanya. Beberapa Anggota DPRD Provinsi Maluku, yang akan mengikuti pertemuan dengan Pemrov, juga turut merogoh saku dan memasukkan sumbangannya ke dalam kotak. Aksi pengumpulan koin itu berhasil mengumpulkan dana Rp1.720.900, yang nantinya dikirim ke Jakarta dengan bantuan salah satu perusahaan jasa pengiriman barang tanpa dipungut biaya. Salah satu perusahaan jasa pengiriman barang siap membantu kami secara sukarela untuk mengirimkan koin tersebut ke pos komando (posko) salah satu stasiun televisi di Jakarta, kata koordinator aksi Fitrih Nurfaizah. Dia mengatakan aksi pengumpulan koin masih akan dilakukan hingga beberapa hari mendatang. Aksi ini akan dilakukan hingga beberapa hari mendatang dan kami masih memberi kesempatan kepada masyarakat untuk ikut meyumbang, ujarnya. Para aktivitas juga membuka posko di kantor HMI Cabang Ambon guna mempermudah koordinasi aksi solidaritas itu. (Ant/OL-7) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[wanita-muslimah] Perangkat Hukum Indonesia Kedodoran Hadapi China-ASEAN FTA
http://www.mediaindonesia.com/read/2009/12/13/111224/4/2/Perangkat-Hukum-Indonesia-Kedodoran-Hadapi-China-ASEAN-FTA Perangkat Hukum Indonesia Kedodoran Hadapi China-ASEAN FTA Minggu, 13 Desember 2009 02:55 WIB Penulis : Anindityo Wicaksono JAKARTA--MI: Indonesia dinilai belum siap menghadapi perdagangan bebas Cina-ASEAN (China-ASEAN Free Trade Area/CFTA) di 2010 dalam hal kesiapan perangkat hukum. Kekurangan itu seperti adanya lembaga antidumping, safeguard, dan orang-orang yang bisa melaksanakan standar-standar tersebut dalam rangka menjaga fair trade (perdagangan berkeadilan). Saya rasa kalau dari segi kapasitas, pengusaha Indonesia mempunyai daya saing yang memadai. Tapi pengusaha nasional akan tertinggal kalau dibiarkan bersaing dengan tidak berkeadilan tanpa adanya perangkat hukum perlindungan oleh pemerintah, ujar Direktur PT Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk Fransiscus Welirang seusai sebuah diskusi tentang UMKM di Jakarta, Sabtu (12/12). Menurut dia, dalam setiap perjanjian, baik multilateral ataupun bilateral, akan selalu ada pengaman yang diterapkan masing-masing negara. Bentuknya bisa dalam safeguard, fleksibilitas, atau pengecualian yang mengamankan adanya potensi kerugian. Untuk itu, semestinya pemerintah menyiapkan terlebih dahulu safeguard dan instrumen lainnya dengan baik. Sebelum masa pemberlakuan CAFTA berlaku, pemerintah seharusnya sudah memetakan sektor-sektor yang perlu dilindungi dan yang bisa dibiarkan bersaing bebas. Instrumen-instrumen ini bisa digunakan jika terjadi sesuatu yang berpotensi merugikan mayarakat, ujarnya. Belum adanya perangkat hukum keberpihakan terhadap produk dalam negeri itulah yang membuat pengusaha bersikap maju-mundur dalam menghadapi CAFTA. Padahal, pemberlakuan CAFTA di 2010 sudah tidak bisa dihindari lantaran sudah menjadi komitmen dalam kerja sama multilateral Indonesia. Apalagi, ujarnya, dalam skema FTA, perjanjian bilateral antarnegara dapat berimbas dengan negara tetangganya di organisasi regional yang sama. (*/OL-04) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[wanita-muslimah] Presiden Bertolak ke Eropa
Refleksi : Akan dikatakan di Copenhagen bahwa hutan di berbagai daerah digundulkan dengan restu pemerintah? Sebgai contoh di Papua : Sekitar 8,5 juta hektare hutan di Papua telah berubah menjadi lahan kritis. Semula hutan di provinsi itu pada awal 2000 luasnya tercatat 31,5 juta hektar, namun kini tinggal 23 juta hektare (MI 10 Dec 2009) http://www.mediaindonesia.com/read/2009/12/13/111247/15/1/Presiden-Bertolak-ke-Eropa Presiden Bertolak ke Eropa Minggu, 13 Desember 2009 10:09 WIB ANTARA/Widodo S. Jusuf JAKARTA--MI: Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono memulai kunjungan kerja selama delapan hari ke empat negara di Benua Eropa. Presiden yang didampingi Ibu Ani Yudhoyono bertolak menuju Eropa dari Bandara Internasional Halim Perdanakusuma, Jakarta, Minggu (13/12) pukul 08.10 WIB. Keberangkatan Presiden menuju Eropa dilepas oleh Wakil Presiden Boediono, Menko Perekonomian Hatta Radjasa, Menko Kesejahteraan Rakyat Agung Laksono, Menko Polhukam Djoko Suyanto,dan Panglima TNI Djoko Santoso. Kepala Negara dijadwalkan mendatangi tiga negara, yaitu Belgia, Prancis, dan Jerman untuk melakukan kunjungan kehormatan, serta menghadiri Konferensi Tingkat Tinggi Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa (PBB) tentang Perubahan Iklim di Denmark. Presiden beserta rombongan dijadwalkan tiba di Brussels, Belgia, pada 14 Desember 2009. Pada 15 Desember 2009, Presiden dan rombongan yang berjumlah 145 orang dijadwalkan berada di Paris, Prancis, dan pada 16 Desember 2009 sudah berada di Berlin, Jerman. Pada 17 Desember 2009, Presiden berada di Copenhagen, Denmark, untuk menghadiri KTT PBB tentang perubahan iklim hingga 19 Desember 2009 yang dihadiri oleh lebih dari 100 kepala negara/pemerintahan. Di Belgia, Prancis, dan Jerman, Presiden hanya melakukan diplomasi singkat bertemu dengan kepala negara/pemerintahan masing-masing negara guna meningkatkan hubungan bilateral dan juga berdiskusi untuk mengupayakan keberhasilan KTT PBB tentang perubahan iklim. Turut serta dalam rombongan Presiden beberapa menteri Kabinet Indonesia Bersatu II, di antaranya adalah Menteri Sekretaris Negara Sudi Silalahi, Menteri Pertahanan Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Menteri Perdagangan Mari Pangestu, Menteri Negara Lingkungan Hidup Gusti Muhammad Hatta, Menteri Perindustrian MS Hidayat, dan Menteri Pertanian Suswono. Selain itu, juga turut tujuh gubernur dalam rombongan Presiden, antara lain Gubernur Sulawesi Utara Sarun Dayang, Gubernur DKI Jakarta Fauzi Bowo, Gubernur Papua Barnabas Suebu, Gubernur Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Irwandi Jusuf, dan Gubernur Kalimantan Tengah Teras Narang. Menurut Juru Bicara Kepresidenan Dino Patti Djalal, kehadiran para gubernur dalam rombongan Kepala Negara untuk menunjukkan kepada dunia bahwa Indonesia serius dalam bidang konservasi hutan baik pada tingkat pusat maupun daerah demi mengurangi tingkat pemanasan global. Dino juga mengatakan kehadiran Presiden pada KTT PBB Perubahan Iklim di Copenhagen untuk memastikan bahwa konferensi tersebut melahirkan konsensus global untuk mengurangi emisi karbon serta memastikan implementasi Bali Roadmap yang telah susah payah dicapai dalam konferensi serupa di Bali dua tahun lalu. Presiden Yudhoyono beserta rombongan dijadwalkan tiba kembali di Tanah Air pada 20 Desember 2009. (Ant/OL-02) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[wanita-muslimah] Hurdles remain even if climate deal is reached
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/goinggreen/2009/December/goinggreen_December94.xmlsection=goinggreen Hurdles remain even if climate deal is reached (AP) photo: EFE/Vasco Celio 12 December 2009, 6:44 AM JAKARTA - For Indonesian farmers, burning down rain forests is the cheapest and fastest way to clear land for palm oil and pulp and paper plantations. The millions of acres (hectares) they burn every year has made their Southeast Asian nation the world's third-largest producer of greenhouse gases. And, environmentalists warn, the powerful forestry and agricultural industry will likely stymie any efforts to crack down. As difficult as it may be to hammer out a global climate deal in Copenhagen, implementing one could prove even harder. From New Delhi to Washington, domestic political opposition, corruption, grass-roots intransigence and sheer bureaucratic incompetence stand as significant roadblocks to any agreement on emissions curbs. Many across the globe are hoping Indonesia, with 10 percent of the worlds' forests, can be a leader in rain-forest preservation. But I think everybody has yet to realize how difficult this is going to be, said Frances Seymour, director-general of the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research. Using fire to clear land is illegal in Indonesia, but prosecutions are rare, said Greenpeace spokesman Brian Martin. Almost 18 million acres (7.2 million hectares) of land was burned during the last dry season from January to mid-October, said Ali Akbar, an activist from the Indonesian Forum on Environment. While reducing emissions has broad political support here, activists question whether the government has the political will to take on mismanagement and corruption in the regulation of the forestry industry, which costs the country an estimated $2 billion a year. It will take strong action at the top levels of Indonesian government and international trading partners to halt the corruption in the timber industry, Human Rights Watch deputy program director Joe Saunders said. The challenges are great across the world. In the U.S., getting the treaty ratified, even by a Democrat-controlled Senate, will be a battle. Republicans have charged that the emissions cuts President Barack Obama plans to offer at Copenhagen would cost jobs, making moderate Democrats nervous. Some have urged Obama to be cautious about what he agrees to, knowing full well that the last time a U.S. administration signed an international climate treaty in the late 1990s in Kyoto, the Senate balked at ratifying it. The concern then - and now - was exceptions in the deal for developing countries, among the fastest-growing emitters of greenhouse gases. Developing countries face their own dilemmas. South Africa, facing severe domestic pressure to resolve energy shortages, is committed to building more coal-powered plants, angering activists. If (President Jacob) Zuma is in Copenhagen, he should have first cleaned his house, said Makoma Lekalakala, a South African environmentalist. Renewable energy is an option and at the moment that is not exploited. The government needs to have political will to invest in renewable technologies. In India, failed efforts to clean up its rivers are instructive of how difficult it could be to clean up the air. Despite a 2001 Supreme Court ruling ordering the cleanup of the Yamuna River, despite billions in government spending to do just that, the waterway that supplies 70 percent of New Delhi's water remains a frothy, putrid sewer. Twenty-five years ago, I used to drink from here, said Om Prakash, a 72-year-old priest sitting near a canal dumping sewage into the river. Nobody is taking care of Mother Yamuna. A report from the New Delhi-based Center for Science and Environment blamed in part the improper placement of treatment plants, along with fights between water-starved states over managing the river water. The corruption and bureaucracy that derails many public initiatives in India are factors too. In the industrial town of Kanpur, along the Ganges, officials say factories are ignoring regulations and dumping untreated sewage and industrial pollution, turning the holy river into a toxic wasteland. Laws are there to prevent industries from pouring their waste into the Ganges, but we need their implementation in letter and spirit, said Alok Ranjan, a local urban development official. Still, many activists expressed optimism that India would have an easier time raising fuel efficiency standards for cars, reducing emissions from new power plants and establishing more efficient building codes than it had in trying to clean up the rivers. India, which ranks fifth in the world in carbon dioxide emissions, pledged last week to slow the growth of its emissions significantly over the next decade. We are a country in a mess, but I think we have the
[wanita-muslimah] File - Tata Tertib dan Peraturan
TATA TERTIB DAN PERATURAN MAILING LIST WANITA MUSLIMAH A. SIFAT 1. Mailing list ini dikelola dan dikordinir oleh Lembaga Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Keluarga Sakinah - Badan Komunikasi Pemuda Remaja Masjid Indonesia (LPPKS-BKPRMI) Wilayah Jawa Barat. 2. Keanggotaan mailing list ini bersifat terbuka untuk umum dan semua lapisan 3. Diskusi yang dilakukan bersifat bebas , terbuka dan terkendali 4. Topik utama yang dibicarakan di mailing list adalah segala aspek yang berhubungan dengan permasalahan kaum perempuan pada umumnya dan muslimah pada khususnya seperti fiqh perempuan , pergerakan perempuan , kesehatan reproduksi , isu gender , kebijaksanaan pemerintah dalam hukum , peraturan ataupun perundang-undangan yang menyangkut masalah perempuan serta hal-hal lainnya yang berhubungan dengan perempuan . 5. Topik-topik selain topik diatas akan diatur dibagian Tata tertib dan Peraturan Diskusi. B. TATA TERTIB DAN PERATURAN DISKUSI 1. Tata cara diskusi menggunakan aturan netiket standar yang berlaku pada diskusi milis pada umumnya. 2. Usahakan untuk selalu menggunakan emoticon untuk menandai ekspresi bicara anda. Ini juga penting untuk menghindari kesalah pahaman. 3. Usahakan untuk tidak menjadi one-liner alias hanya menanggapi sebuah email dengan pernyataan yang terlalu singkat. 4. Anda diminta untuk SELALU membuang bagian email yang tidak perlu bila anda ingin menanggapi sebuah email yang panjang. Akan lebih baik bila anda memfokuskan tanggapan anda pada beberapa baris kalimat atau alinea dari email yang anda tanggapi, sementara bagian-bagian lain yang tidak akan anda tanggapi bisa anda hapus. Footer email yang tidak perlu, juga tolong dihapus setiap kali anda membalas email ke forum. 5. Usahakan untuk menghindari mengirimkan email yang isinya hanya tertuju pada seseorang tertentu. Hingga batas yang wajar hal ini masih bisa diterima, tapi bila isinya sudah tidak relevan lagi dengan tujuan milis, maka sebaiknya anda mengirimkan email langsung (japri) ke orang yang bersangkutan. 6. Semua bentuk attachment tidak diperbolehkan di milis ini dan akan difilter secara otomatis , bagi anda yang hendak sharing file kepada member yang lain bisa dilakukan lewat JAPRI (Jalur Pribadi) atau bisa di upload di groups.yahoo.com/group/keluarga-islami/files sehinggga mereka yang membutuhkannya bisa mendownloadnya dari sana. 7. Mengenai topik selain yang ditetapkan pada bagian A-4 diatas dibagi menjadi dua yaitu a. Topik yang ditoleransi Meliputi topik-topik yang berkaitan dengan praktek ibadah seperti Sholat , puasa , haji , zakat , qurban dll b. Topik yang dilarang , meliputi : - Topik mengenai politik , organisasi politik ataupun tokoh politik tertentu , kecuali apabila menyangkut masalah kebijakan yang berhubungan ataupun mempunyai implikasi terhadap topik utama milis - Topik mengenai diskusi ataupun konsep mazhab tertentu kecuali apabila berkaitan dengan topik yang dibicarakan di milis ini ataupun topik yang ditoleransi - Segala bentuk spam atau jualan di milis , arisan , bagi-bagi dollar gratis , MLM dll 8 . Pelanggaran terhadap pasal 7 b diatas dikenai sanksi berupa perubahan seting pengiriman e-mail menjadi bermoderasi , jadi semua posting dari yang bersangkutan harus melalui persetujuan moderator 9 . Member yang melakukan pelanggaran serius seperti berkata kotor , jorok ataupun mengirimkan posting yang menjurus pornografi dan sejenisnya atau melakukan kejahatan internet berat maka akan langsung dikeluarkan (dibanned) dari milis. 10. Seluruh member baru postingnya akan dimoderasi , moderasi akan dicabut setelah member yang bersangkutan ikut aktif berdiskusi 11. Masukan-masukan yang konstruktif bagi perkembangan milis ini akan diterima dengan senang hati. TATA CARA ADMINISTRASI POSTING 1. Untuk subscribe / berpartisipasi : Kirimkan email kosong ke : wanita-muslimah-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Atau bisa juga melalui http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wanita-muslimah/join 2. Untuk mengirim email ke forum (setelah ada approve untuk request anda) alamatkan ke : wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com 3. Untuk keluar dari forum : Kirimkan email kosong ke : wanita-muslimah-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com 4. Alamat email administrator : wanita-muslimah-ow...@yahoogroups.com 5. Arsip diskusi dapat dilihat di http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wanita-muslimah/messages 6. Modus penerimaan posting a. Default penerimaan posting adalah individual mail b. Untuk member yang hendak merubah modus penerimaan mail menjadi No Mail/Web Only bisa mengirim
[wanita-muslimah] Reporter's notebook: Palm oil production devastating Sumatran forests
Bisa dilihat video footage-nya dengan click pada situs dibawah ini : http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/11/damon.sumatra.climate.notebook/index.html Reporter's notebook: Palm oil production devastating Sumatran forests By Arwa Damon, CNN December 11, 2009 -- Updated 1436 GMT (2236 HKT) Sumatra, Indonesia (CNN) -- As we drive through central Sumatra, what looks like a scene from some apocalyptic movie where an unknown force has obliterated all life on earth unfolds before us. The land is tinted a sick gray. Some parts still smolder. Twisted hulks of tree trunks take on abnormal shapes. A dark black canal cuts perfectly through. It's nearly impossible to imagine that this was once lush tropical rainforest. In other parts as far as the eye can see, a sea of emerald green. But the rolling hills are not covered in natural forest -- instead they're covered in palm plantations. Their emerald green color splashed across rolling hills give the impression that this is untouched nature. But the deafening silence inside the plantations are a clear indication that they are lifeless ecosystems, part of a global factory churning out one of the most in-demand products out there -- palm oil. We are running out of time here, we are at the end of the tunnel --Peter Pratje In supermarkets across the world products containing palm oil regularly fly off the shelves -- soaps, chocolates, margarine, cosmetics. Most consumers have no idea that they contain palm oil which often hides behind the label of vegetable oil and even less of a clue that conservationists are singling it out as being one of the main driving forces behind deforestation. Clearing forests for agriculture isn't exactly new, but palm is quickly becoming the crop of choice. It is fast growing with high yields -- global demand now tops 40 million tonnes a year and is central to the economies of Malaysia and Indonesia. But the rampant tearing down of Indonesia's natural forests have made this tropical nation the world's third largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Already, 85 percent of Sumatra's forests are gone and what is left is disappearing at an alarming rate. We are running out of time here, we are at the end of the tunnel, Peter Pratje with the Frankfurt Zoological Society tells us at an orangutan sanctuary in the heart of Sumatra. Sumatran orangutans are expected to be the first great ape to become extinct -- due to the loss of their natural habitat, just one of many species threatened because of unchecked deforestation. The problem is there is no second chance, Pratje adds. If you shut down an ecosystem that is hundreds of years old you can't re-grow it any longer, so this is the last chance. If you don't protect it, we can't hope that later we can correct this error. It's a reality that even the largest buyers and producers of palm oil acknowledge. Consumer products giant Unilever spearheaded a movement towards sustainable palm oil cultivation the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) which gathered palm producers, manufacturers, and green groups to find a sustainable way to cultivate palm. If agriculture cannot be made sustainable then we as a food and home and personal care company are in trouble, Jan Kees Vis, Unilever and RSPO president explains. But critics like Greenpeace fault the RSPO's standards for being too weak and say that they can't control their members. What we are against is the deforestation and the peat land destruction, Bustar Maitar, a Greenpeace activist tells us. At the moment, only three to four percent of globally produced palm oil is certified by the RSPO. It's a drop in the bucket now, but the RSPO expects the volume to double in the next year. But that probably won't be enough to save Sumatra's forests or our environment. Conservationists say that its time for companies to control their desire for more money, governments to start seriously enforcing forest protection laws and individual consumers to take on responsibility and make lifestyle changes. RELATED TOPICS a.. Indonesia b.. Global Climate Change c.. Deforestation STORY HIGHLIGHTS a.. Production of palm oil big contributor to deforestation in Sumatra b.. Global demand for palm oil now tops 40 million tonnes per year c.. Soaps, chocolates, margarine and cosmetics regularly contain palm oil d.. Palm oil production is central to the economies of Indonesia and Malaysia [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[wanita-muslimah] Re: 5 berita maximum, setuju pak ambon?
Coba kita tanya ke Pak Ambon, apakah bapak setuju mengirim berita maximum 5 berita per 24 jam? salam Mia --- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, sunny am...@... wrote: Apakah tidak dibutuhkan selingan untuk relax dalam hidup? - Original Message - From: Dwi Soegardi To: wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 4:08 AM Subject: Re: [wanita-muslimah] Hitler feared going to the dentist kalo begitu baca saja sendiri, dan diskusikan pada waktu makan atau minum kopi, bukan sembarangan milis Anda penuh-penuhi. Kalo Anda posting sehari satu-dua sih ngga masalah kadang-kadang OOT (out of topic), tapi Anda kirimnya ngga terbatas, OOT-nya tak terbatas pulak, Apa pantes begitu?
[wanita-muslimah] Reporter's notebook: Palm oil production devastating Sumatran forests (RALAT)
Bisa dilihat video footage-nya dengan click pada situs dibawah ini : http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/11/damon.sumatra.climate.notebook/index.html Reporter's notebook: Palm oil production devastating Sumatran forests By Arwa Damon, CNN December 11, 2009 -- Updated 1436 GMT (2236 HKT) Palm oil problem STORY HIGHLIGHTS a.. Production of palm oil big contributor to deforestation in Sumatra b.. Global demand for palm oil now tops 40 million tonnes per year c.. Soaps, chocolates, margarine and cosmetics regularly contain palm oil d.. Palm oil production is central to the economies of Indonesia and Malaysia Sumatra, Indonesia (CNN) -- As we drive through central Sumatra, what looks like a scene from some apocalyptic movie where an unknown force has obliterated all life on earth unfolds before us. The land is tinted a sick gray. Some parts still smolder. Twisted hulks of tree trunks take on abnormal shapes. A dark black canal cuts perfectly through. It's nearly impossible to imagine that this was once lush tropical rainforest. In other parts as far as the eye can see, a sea of emerald green. But the rolling hills are not covered in natural forest -- instead they're covered in palm plantations. Their emerald green color splashed across rolling hills give the impression that this is untouched nature. But the deafening silence inside the plantations are a clear indication that they are lifeless ecosystems, part of a global factory churning out one of the most in-demand products out there -- palm oil. We are running out of time here, we are at the end of the tunnel --Peter Pratje RELATED TOPICS a.. Indonesia b.. Global Climate Change c.. Deforestation In supermarkets across the world products containing palm oil regularly fly off the shelves -- soaps, chocolates, margarine, cosmetics. Most consumers have no idea that they contain palm oil which often hides behind the label of vegetable oil and even less of a clue that conservationists are singling it out as being one of the main driving forces behind deforestation. Clearing forests for agriculture isn't exactly new, but palm is quickly becoming the crop of choice. It is fast growing with high yields -- global demand now tops 40 million tonnes a year and is central to the economies of Malaysia and Indonesia. But the rampant tearing down of Indonesia's natural forests have made this tropical nation the world's third largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Already, 85 percent of Sumatra's forests are gone and what is left is disappearing at an alarming rate. We are running out of time here, we are at the end of the tunnel, Peter Pratje with the Frankfurt Zoological Society tells us at an orangutan sanctuary in the heart of Sumatra. Sumatran orangutans are expected to be the first great ape to become extinct -- due to the loss of their natural habitat, just one of many species threatened because of unchecked deforestation. The problem is there is no second chance, Pratje adds. If you shut down an ecosystem that is hundreds of years old you can't re-grow it any longer, so this is the last chance. If you don't protect it, we can't hope that later we can correct this error. It's a reality that even the largest buyers and producers of palm oil acknowledge. Consumer products giant Unilever spearheaded a movement towards sustainable palm oil cultivation the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) which gathered palm producers, manufacturers, and green groups to find a sustainable way to cultivate palm. If agriculture cannot be made sustainable then we as a food and home and personal care company are in trouble, Jan Kees Vis, Unilever and RSPO president explains. But critics like Greenpeace fault the RSPO's standards for being too weak and say that they can't control their members. What we are against is the deforestation and the peat land destruction, Bustar Maitar, a Greenpeace activist tells us. At the moment, only three to four percent of globally produced palm oil is certified by the RSPO. It's a drop in the bucket now, but the RSPO expects the volume to double in the next year. But that probably won't be enough to save Sumatra's forests or our environment. Conservationists say that its time for companies to control their desire for more money, governments to start seriously enforcing forest protection laws and individual consumers to take on responsibility and make lifestyle changes. For Sumatra, it might already be too late. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[wanita-muslimah] Keracunan kehamilan?
Seminggu lalu kami dikagetkan dengan meninggalnya kerabat, tingal di kota kecil, yang mengandung 9 bulan tinggal seminggu lagi. Ibu dan anak keduanya meninggal. Ibunya sakit, kemudian bayinya meninggal di dalam dan kemudian menyusul ibunya. Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun. Anaknya yang pertama masih usia 4 tahun. Menurut ceritanya, ibu muda itu keracunan kehamilan. Jujur, saya nggak pernah tau istilah ini, tapi memang ada rupanya. Seorang teman menyebutnya dalam istilah kedokteran, tapi saya lupa. Dia mengalami ini pada setiap kehamilan setelah usia 7 bulan, karena itu harus tiap minggu ke dokter. Tanda-tandanya ada kegemukan atau pembengkakan di beberapa bagian tubuh, tekanan darah sangat tinggi, dan mata berkunang-kunang. Kalau tidak tertolong cepat, keracunan kehamilan bisa fatal, kata teman saya. Ibu muda ini mengeluh sakit perut (btw perutnya sangat besar untuk ukuran kehamilan biasa). Dia pikir mau melahirkan, diantar ke bidan. Kenapa ke bidan saya juga kurang ngerti - mungkin saja sebagian orang memang masih cenderung ke bidan, apalagi kalau kehamilannya dirasa biasa-biasa saja. Kata bidan, belum waktunya melahirkan jadi diminta pulang lagi. Besoknya sesak napas, lalu dibawa ke rumah sakit di kota itu, Sukabumi. Nah, dari cerita famili, saya merasa bahwa rumah sakit tidak memberikan pertolongan yang seharusnya, atau sangat lambat. Katanya kamar darurat penuh, jadi ditempatkan di kamar biasa. Besoknya komplikasi, jantung, ginjal dsb. Dokter nggak berani melakukan caesar. Bayi pun tak tertolong, dan setelah mengetahui bayinya meninggal, sang ibu tambah parah, tak sadar kemudian meninggal. Saya nggak mengetahui visum dari dokter, tapi katanya komplikasi, jawaban klise. Sungguh, saya masih belum bisa menerima kenyataan ini. Rasanya masih bisa tertolong, ibu dan anak itu tidak mendapatkan pertolongan yang seharusnya dia dapatkan. Dr Donnie, keracunan kehamilan itu apa? salam Mia
Re: [wanita-muslimah] Keracunan kehamilan?
Ikut berduka cita mbak Mia atas kehilangannya. :( Saya gak terlalu yakin maksudnya (maklum dah bukan dokter lagi:p), tapi sepertinya yang dimaksud adalah kasus Pre Eclamsia/eclamsia, suatu kondisi yang ditrigger oleh hipertensi pada kehamilan dibawah ada reference terkait itu. Kalau tertarik lebih jauh bisa googling dengan key words Preeclampsia, eclampsia, atau pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH). Semoga membantu. Donnie Introduction to Preeclampsia Although many pregnant women with high blood pressure have healthy babies without serious problems, high blood pressure can be dangerous for both the mother and the fetus. Women with pre-existing, or chronic, high blood pressure are more likely to have certain complications during pregnancy than those with normal blood pressure. However, some women develop high blood pressure while they are pregnant (often called gestational hypertension). The effects of high blood pressure range from mild to severe. High blood pressure can harm the mother's kidneys and other organs, and it can cause low birth weight and early delivery. In the most serious cases, the mother develops preeclampsia-or toxemia of pregnancy-which can threaten the lives of both the mother and the fetus. What is preeclampsia? Preeclampsia is a condition that typically starts after the 20th week of pregnancy and is related to increased blood pressure and protein in the mother's urine (as a result of kidney problems). Preeclampsia affects the placenta, and it can affect the mother's kidney, liver, and brain. When preeclampsia causes seizures, the condition is known as eclampsia-the second leading cause of maternal death in the U.S. Preeclampsia is also a leading cause of fetal complications, which include low birth weight, premature birth, and stillbirth. There is no proven way to prevent preeclampsia. Most women who develop signs of preeclampsia, however, are closely monitored to lessen or avoid related problems. The way to cure preeclampsia is to deliver the baby. Who Is More Likely to Develop Preeclampsia? Women with chronic hypertension (high blood pressure before becoming pregnant). Women who developed high blood pressure or preeclampsia during a previous pregnancy, especially if these conditions occurred early in the pregnancy. Women who are obese prior to pregnancy. Pregnant women under the age of 20 or over the age of 40. Women who are pregnant with more than one baby. Women with diabetes, kidney disease,rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, orscleroderma. What Are the Symptoms of Preeclampsia and How Is It Detected? Unfortunately, there is no single test to predict or diagnose preeclampsia. Key signs are increased blood pressure and protein in the urine (proteinuria). Other symptoms that seem to occur with preeclampsia include persistent headaches, blurred vision or sensitivity to light, and abdominal pain. All of these sensations can be caused by other disorders; they can also occur in healthy pregnancies. Regular visits with your doctor help him or her to track your blood pressure and level of protein in your urine, to order and analyze blood tests that detect signs of preeclampsia, and to monitor fetal development more closely. How Can Women with High Blood Pressure Prevent Problems During Pregnancy? If you are thinking about having a baby and you have high blood pressure, talk first to your doctor or nurse. Taking steps to control your blood pressure before and during pregnancy-and getting regular prenatal care-go a long way toward ensuring your well-being and your baby's health. Before becoming pregnant: Be sure your blood pressure is under control. Lifestyle changes such as limiting your salt intake, participating in regular physical activity, and losing weight if you are overweight can be helpful. Discuss with your doctor how hypertension might affect you and your baby during pregnancy, and what you can do to prevent or lessen problems. If you take medicines for your blood pressure, ask your doctor whether you should change the amount you take or stop taking them during pregnancy. Experts currently recommend avoiding angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors andAngiotensin II (AII) receptor antagonists during pregnancy; other blood pressure medications may be OK for you to use. Do not, however, stop or change your medicines unless your doctor tells you to do so. While you are pregnant: Obtain regular prenatal medical care. Avoid alcohol and tobacco. Talk to your doctor about any over-the-counter medications you are taking or are thinking about taking. On Dec 13, 2009, at 5:26 PM, aldiy wrote: Seminggu lalu kami dikagetkan dengan meninggalnya kerabat, tingal di kota kecil, yang mengandung 9 bulan tinggal seminggu lagi. Ibu dan anak keduanya meninggal. Ibunya sakit, kemudian bayinya meninggal di dalam dan kemudian menyusul ibunya. Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun. Anaknya yang pertama
Re: [wanita-muslimah] Re: 5 berita maximum, setuju pak ambon?
apa ngga terlalu sedikit, mbak? :-) bak pecandu nikotin, kalau tiba-tiba distop bisa pusing nanti :-) Gimana kalau 10, 5 berita, plus 5 tanggapan diskusi, biar enak kan makin kenal, makin akrab, dua arah, tidak bertepuk sebelah tangan. Agar kecanduannya tidak bikin pusing, saya usulkan: - kirimnya ke milis tetangga, hahaha - bikin milis sendiri misalnya sunnyam...@yahoogroups.com, dibuat settingnya terbuka untuk umum, dapat diakses kapan saja, sekali-kali rangkumannya (bukan semuanya) dikirim ke sini tidak apa-apa. Saya siap jadi orang pertama yang langganan milis Om. - bikin website sendiri misalnya ambonnewsnetwork.com isinya berita-berita yang sering menuh2i berbagai milis, lebih mudah diakses, dan tidak dimaki-maki orang banyak :-) Bisa pasang gambar dan video youtube. Lebih bebas lagi bikin tajuk rencana: anti-SBY, NKRI 60 tahun merdeka terus menderita, tirulah Kuba, dll . silakan dipertimbangkan Om Ambon .. Sekedar gambaran soal informasi dan membaca seperti yang tampaknya jadi anjuran Om Ambon: - selain langganan 100-an milis (paling banter ngga sampai 10 yang saya baca rutin), saya juga punya account google reader, yomomedia dan netvibes, yang bisa menampilkan headlines berbagai berita, blog maupun milis. Tak kurang dari 200 RSS Feeds (dan podcasts) dari berbagai kategori (news, tech, sports, dll) yang diupdate setiap saat, dan saya akses dari PC maupun cellphone. Tentunya saya punya harapan bahwa tiap news feed itu menampilkan berita khas, termasuk posting2 WM. Lha kalo 200 feeds isinya sama semua, postingnya om Ambon semua, buat apa langganan banyak-banyak? salam, 2009/12/13 aldiy al...@yahoo.com Coba kita tanya ke Pak Ambon, apakah bapak setuju mengirim berita maximum 5 berita per 24 jam? salam Mia --- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, sunny am...@... wrote: Apakah tidak dibutuhkan selingan untuk relax dalam hidup? - Original Message - From: Dwi Soegardi To: wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 4:08 AM Subject: Re: [wanita-muslimah] Hitler feared going to the dentist kalo begitu baca saja sendiri, dan diskusikan pada waktu makan atau minum kopi, bukan sembarangan milis Anda penuh-penuhi. Kalo Anda posting sehari satu-dua sih ngga masalah kadang-kadang OOT (out of topic), tapi Anda kirimnya ngga terbatas, OOT-nya tak terbatas pulak, Apa pantes begitu? === Milis Wanita Muslimah Membangun citra wanita muslimah dalam diri, keluarga, maupun masyarakat. Twitter: http://twitter.com/wanita_muslimah Situs Web: http://www.wanita-muslimah.com ARSIP DISKUSI : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wanita-muslimah/messages Kirim Posting mailto:wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com Berhenti mailto:wanita-muslimah-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com Milis Keluarga Sejahtera mailto:keluarga-sejaht...@yahoogroups.com Milis Anak Muda Islam mailto:majelism...@yahoogroups.com Milis ini tidak menerima attachment.Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [wanita-muslimah] Re: 5 berita maximum, setuju pak ambon?
Saya pikir ini urusan mod nya untuk meloloskan postingannya atau tidak. Dan rasanya berita yg pak ambon kirimkan lumayan berguna bwt nambah wawasan, kalo gak suka kan tinggal delete aja atau gak usah baca. Gak pake tenaga banyak kok bwt delete. Kalo gusdur bilang 'Gitu aja kok repot' Maaf ya kalo ikut2an. saya yakin niat pak ambon ini baik, insya allah. Sent from my BlackBerry® powered by Sinyal Kuat INDOSAT -Original Message- From: aldiy al...@yahoo.com Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:45:08 To: wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com Subject: [wanita-muslimah] Re: 5 berita maximum, setuju pak ambon? Coba kita tanya ke Pak Ambon, apakah bapak setuju mengirim berita maximum 5 berita per 24 jam? salam Mia --- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, sunny am...@... wrote: Apakah tidak dibutuhkan selingan untuk relax dalam hidup? - Original Message - From: Dwi Soegardi To: wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 4:08 AM Subject: Re: [wanita-muslimah] Hitler feared going to the dentist kalo begitu baca saja sendiri, dan diskusikan pada waktu makan atau minum kopi, bukan sembarangan milis Anda penuh-penuhi. Kalo Anda posting sehari satu-dua sih ngga masalah kadang-kadang OOT (out of topic), tapi Anda kirimnya ngga terbatas, OOT-nya tak terbatas pulak, Apa pantes begitu? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] === Milis Wanita Muslimah Membangun citra wanita muslimah dalam diri, keluarga, maupun masyarakat. Twitter: http://twitter.com/wanita_muslimah Situs Web: http://www.wanita-muslimah.com ARSIP DISKUSI : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wanita-muslimah/messages Kirim Posting mailto:wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com Berhenti mailto:wanita-muslimah-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com Milis Keluarga Sejahtera mailto:keluarga-sejaht...@yahoogroups.com Milis Anak Muda Islam mailto:majelism...@yahoogroups.com Milis ini tidak menerima attachment.Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wanita-muslimah/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wanita-muslimah/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: wanita-muslimah-dig...@yahoogroups.com wanita-muslimah-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: wanita-muslimah-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[wanita-muslimah] U.S. Freezes $2 Billion in Iran Case
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126057864707988237.html a.. DECEMBER 12, 2009 U.S. Freezes $2 Billion in Iran Case By JAY SOLOMON WASHINGTON -- More than $2 billion allegedly held on behalf of Iran in Citigroup Inc. accounts were secretly ordered frozen last year by a federal court in Manhattan, in what appears to be the biggest seizure of Iranian assets abroad since the 1979 Islamic revolution. The legal order, executed 18 months ago by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, is under seal and hasn't been made public. The court acted in part because of information provided by the U.S. Treasury Department. President Barack Obama has pledged to enact new economic sanctions on Iran at year-end if Tehran doesn't respond to international calls for negotiations over its nuclear-fuel program. The frozen $2 billion stands at the center of an intensifying legal struggle between Luxembourg's Clearstream Banking S.A., the holder of the Citibank account, and the families of hundreds of U.S. Marines killed or injured in a 1983 terrorist attack on a Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. Clearstream is primarily a clearing house for financial trades and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Germany's Deutsche Börse AG. Luxembourg's bank secrecy laws have helped it grow into a major European financial center. There is no indication that Citibank knew the funds may ultimately belong to Iran. U.S. firms that do business with Iran face stiff civil and criminal penalties. A federal judge in Washington ruled in 2003 that Iran orchestrated the bombing of the Marine barracks and later ordered Tehran to pay the victims' families $2.7 billion in compensation. Lawyers for the families, backed by information provided by the U.S. Treasury, are arguing that Clearstream is holding Iranian funds at Citibank and are seeking to seize the assets as payment for their clients. I was stunned when this money popped up in New York, said Steven Perles, a lawyer representing the victims' families. I had no idea there was Iranian money of this size flowing through the United States. Citibank, Clearstream and the Iranian government all declined to comment on the case, and Tehran hasn't made any filings in the matter. The outlines of the dispute, however, appear in judicial filings and in the federal court's docket sheets. Those documents show that Clearstream has denied it is holding funds for the Iranian government and that the European firm has been fighting to release the $2 billion. The court initially ordered Citibank in June 2008 to freeze $2.25 billion of Clearstream's accounts, but the company's lawyers were able to get $250 million released the following month, according to court records. Clearstream is represented in the U.S. by White Case LLP, which declined to comment. The legal battle over the funds could lead to a trial. A victory for the plaintiffs would mark the largest seizure of Iranian funds since Islamist parties seized power in Tehran from the U.S.-backed Shah in 1979. That year, the U.S. government froze around $12 billion of Iranian assets in retaliation for the kidnapping of American diplomats and military personnel. While a portion of the funds was returned after the hostages' release, a United Nations body in the Netherlands continues to try and arbitrate the return of the remaining assets, which include bank deposits, gold and real estate. The legal case concerning Citibank in New York comes as the U.S. government is intensifying efforts to use the global financial system to pressure Iran into giving up its nuclear program and support for international terrorism. U.S. officials said that the Obama administration has also finished tailoring a new round of economic sanctions on Iran that could be enacted early next year. The new penalties seek to hobble Tehran's oil and gas industry by blacklisting Iranian energy, insurance and shipping firms. The U.S. strategy also seeks to target the economic assets of Iran's elite military unit, the Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is believed to oversee the country's nuclear program. U.S. officials said international deliberations over new Iran sanctions could begin at the United Nations Security Council within the next month. Inside the U.S. government, the plan is now done, said a senior U.S. official briefed on the sanctions deliberations. We've put together a plan that's comprehensive and goes after a number of Iran's vulnerabilities. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates joined with European leaders Friday to warn that Iran risks sanctions soon if it fails to cooperate with the West on its expanding nuclear program. I think that you are going to see some significant additional sanctions imposed by the international community, Mr. Gates said. He cautioned that any military action would only buy some time, maybe two or three years. Lawyers for the victims of the Beirut bombing said they started
[wanita-muslimah] Climate change row - Science not faked, but not pretty
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7section=0article=129507d=13m=12y=2009pix=opinion.jpgcategory=Opinion Sunday 13 December 2009 (26 Dhul Hijjah 1430) Climate change row - Science not faked, but not pretty Seth Borenstein Raphael Satter | AP LONDON - E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data - but the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press. The 1,073 e-mails examined by the AP show that scientists harbored private doubts, however slight and fleeting, even as they told the world they were certain about climate change. However, the exchanges don't undercut the vast body of evidence showing the world is warming because of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The scientists were keenly aware of how their work would be viewed and used, and, just like politicians, went to great pains to shape their message. Sometimes, they sounded more like schoolyard taunts than scientific tenets. The scientists were so convinced by their own science and so driven by a cause that unless you're with them, you're against them, said Mark Frankel, director of scientific freedom, responsibility and law at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also reviewed the communications. Frankel saw no evidence of falsification or fabrication of data, although concerns could be raised about some instances of very 'generous interpretations.' Some e-mails expressed doubts about the quality of individual temperature records or why models and data didn't quite match. Part of this is the normal give-and-take of research, but skeptics challenged how reliable certain data was. The e-mails were stolen from the computer network server of the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia in southeast England, an influential source of climate science, and were posted online last month. The university shut down the server and contacted the police. The AP studied all the e-mails for context, with five reporters reading and rereading them - about 1 million words in total. One of the most disturbing elements suggests an effort to avoid sharing scientific data with critics skeptical of global warming. It is not clear if any data was destroyed; two US researchers denied it. The e-mails show that several mainstream scientists repeatedly suggested keeping their research materials away from opponents who sought it under American and British public records law. It raises a science ethics question because free access to data is important so others can repeat experiments as part of the scientific method. The University of East Anglia is investigating the blocking of information requests. I believe none of us should submit to these 'requests,' declared the university's Keith Briffa. The center's chief, Phil Jones, wrote: Data is covered by all the agreements we sign with people, so I will be hiding behind them. When one skeptic kept filing FOI requests, Jones, who didn't return AP requests for comment, told another scientist, Michael Mann: You can delete this attachment if you want. Keep this quiet also, but this is the person who is putting FOI requests for all e-mails Keith (Briffa) and Tim (Osborn) have written. Mann, a researcher at Penn State University, told The Associated Press: I didn't delete any e-mails as Phil asked me to. I don't believe anybody else did. The e-mails also show how professional attacks turned very personal. When former London financial trader Douglas J. Keenan combed through the data used in a 1990 research paper Jones had co-authored, Keenan claimed to have found evidence of fakery by Jones' co-author. Keenan threatened to have the FBI arrest University at Albany scientist Wei-Chyung Wang for fraud. (A university investigation later cleared him of any wrongdoing.) I do now wish I'd never sent them the data after their FOIA request! Jones wrote in June 2007. In another case after initially balking on releasing data to a skeptic because it was already public, Lawrence Livermore National Lab scientist Ben Santer wrote that he then opted to release everything the skeptic wanted - and more. Santer said in a telephone interview that he and others are inundated by frivolous requests from skeptics that are designed to tie-up government-funded scientists. The e-mails also showed a stunning disdain for global warming skeptics. One scientist practically celebrates the news of the death of one critic, saying, In an odd way this is cheering news! Another bemoans that the only way to deal with skeptics is continuing to publish quality work in quality journals (or calling in a Mafia hit.) And a third scientist said the next time he sees a certain skeptic at a scientific meeting, I'll be tempted to beat the crap
[wanita-muslimah] Venezuela closes 8th bank in 11 days
Refleksi : Di NKRI presiden dan sobat-sobatnya bikin skandal dengan satu bank. Di Venezuela disita 8 bank dalam tempo 11 hari. Skandal Bank Cenury menyebabkan rakyat berdemonstrasi. 100 hari kerja pemerintah dihabiskan dengan masalah satu bank Century. Untuk mana presiden beberapa kali keseleo lidah dalam berpidato, bukan diucapkan korupsi tetapi koperasi. Bisa juga yang melakukan korupsi adalah koperasi. Rakyat mau berdemonstrasi dimommokan dengan adanya anasir-anasir yang mau menjatuhkan pemerintah. Untuk mendramatisaskian ucapan tsb presiden lari tunganglang meninggalkan istana ke Bali, tempat aman dan nyaman. Aman dari segala maca kereopotan Bali adalah pulau dewata tempat berkonsultasi untuk mendapat perlindungan dewa-dewa. Rupanya konsultasi berhasil dan demi berkat perlindungan dewa-dewa demonstrasi di Jakarta berlangsung aman. Jadi tidak seperti dihembuskan adanya kekuatan luar yang turut campur yang mau menjatuhkan pemerintah. Untuk menyenangkan hati demonstran dan masayrakat pada umumnya, juga demi untuk mengalihkan perhatian masyarakat dari masalah Bank Century ke arah lain, wakil presiden tiba-tiba mengeluarkan pernyataan bahwa angka kemiskinan turun menjadi 14% dan akan menurun terus. Pada hal kalau diteliti penganguran makin bertambah karena krisis keuangan internasional berefek bertambah penganguran, bertambah pengangguran berarti bertambah pula angka jumah kaum miskin. Masyarakat mayoritas tetap berada dalam lingkaran matarantai kemiskinan dan iblis pemiskinan. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=6section=0article=129497d=13m=12y=2009pix=business.jpgcategory=Business Sunday 13 December 2009 (26 Dhul Hijjah 1430) Venezuela closes 8th bank in 11 days Walker Simon | Reuters CARACAS: President Hugo Chavez's socialist government on Friday shut private bank Banorte on grounds it was unable to meet short-term obligations, threatening to undermine confidence in Venezuela's financial system. (Banorte's) illiquid situation did not allow (it) to cover its short-term obligations, the banking suprintendency said in a statement. It was the eighth private bank closed by the government since Nov. 30 by the government. Chavez said he shut seven banks last week to uproot financial corruption and protect depositors. Earlier Friday he told remaining private banks to lend more or face extinction. The seven banks shut last week accounted for about 8 percent of Venezuela's total bank deposits. Two will be liquidated and the rest will be merged into a new state bank. State bank deposit insurance agency Fogade would protect 93 percent of Banorte's 68,865 depositors, the superintendency said. It said Banorte and other recently shut small banks threatened the credibility and confidence necessary for the stability of our financial system. Banorte officials could not be reached immediately for comment. Chavez faces 2010 congressional elections as economic problems mount. Venezuela slipped into recession in the third quarter of this year amid the highest inflation in Latin America, running at an annual 12-month rate of 26.2 percent. The latest bank closures are a growing political issue. Lines of panicked investors at banks shut last week revived memories of a mid-1990s financial crisis that wiped out half the nation's banks and cost the state $11 billion. Chavez says he is an anti-corruption fighter intolerant of government-allied bankers he said breached the law at banks shut last week. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[wanita-muslimah] Venezuela closes 8th bank in 11 days
Refleksi : Di NKRI presiden dan sobat-sobatnya bikin skandal dengan satu bank. Di Venezuela disita 8 bank dalam tempo 11 hari. Skandal Bank Cenury menyebabkan rakyat berdemonstrasi. 100 hari kerja pemerintah dihabiskan dengan masalah satu bank Century. Untuk mana presiden beberapa kali keseleo lidah dalam berpidato, bukan diucapkan korupsi tetapi koperasi. Bisa juga yang melakukan korupsi adalah koperasi. Rakyat mau berdemonstrasi dimommokan dengan adanya anasir-anasir yang mau menjatuhkan pemerintah. Untuk mendramatisaskian ucapan tsb presiden lari tunganglang meninggalkan istana ke Bali, tempat aman dan nyaman. Aman dari segala maca kereopotan Bali adalah pulau dewata tempat berkonsultasi untuk mendapat perlindungan dewa-dewa. Rupanya konsultasi berhasil dan demi berkat perlindungan dewa-dewa demonstrasi di Jakarta berlangsung aman. Jadi tidak seperti dihembuskan adanya kekuatan luar yang turut campur yang mau menjatuhkan pemerintah. Untuk menyenangkan hati demonstran dan masayrakat pada umumnya, juga demi untuk mengalihkan perhatian masyarakat dari masalah Bank Century ke arah lain, wakil presiden tiba-tiba mengeluarkan pernyataan bahwa angka kemiskinan turun menjadi 14% dan akan menurun terus. Pada hal kalau diteliti penganguran makin bertambah karena krisis keuangan internasional berefek bertambah penganguran, bertambah pengangguran berarti bertambah pula angka jumah kaum miskin. Masyarakat mayoritas tetap berada dalam lingkaran matarantai kemiskinan dan iblis pemiskinan. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=6section=0article=129497d=13m=12y=2009pix=business.jpgcategory=Business Sunday 13 December 2009 (26 Dhul Hijjah 1430) Venezuela closes 8th bank in 11 days Walker Simon | Reuters CARACAS: President Hugo Chavez's socialist government on Friday shut private bank Banorte on grounds it was unable to meet short-term obligations, threatening to undermine confidence in Venezuela's financial system. (Banorte's) illiquid situation did not allow (it) to cover its short-term obligations, the banking suprintendency said in a statement. It was the eighth private bank closed by the government since Nov. 30 by the government. Chavez said he shut seven banks last week to uproot financial corruption and protect depositors. Earlier Friday he told remaining private banks to lend more or face extinction. The seven banks shut last week accounted for about 8 percent of Venezuela's total bank deposits. Two will be liquidated and the rest will be merged into a new state bank. State bank deposit insurance agency Fogade would protect 93 percent of Banorte's 68,865 depositors, the superintendency said. It said Banorte and other recently shut small banks threatened the credibility and confidence necessary for the stability of our financial system. Banorte officials could not be reached immediately for comment. Chavez faces 2010 congressional elections as economic problems mount. Venezuela slipped into recession in the third quarter of this year amid the highest inflation in Latin America, running at an annual 12-month rate of 26.2 percent. The latest bank closures are a growing political issue. Lines of panicked investors at banks shut last week revived memories of a mid-1990s financial crisis that wiped out half the nation's banks and cost the state $11 billion. Chavez says he is an anti-corruption fighter intolerant of government-allied bankers he said breached the law at banks shut last week. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[wanita-muslimah] The Shadowy World of Indonesia's Case Brokers
http://thejakartaglobe.com/home/the-shadowy-world-of-indonesias-case-brokers/347256 December 13, 2009 Nivell Rayda The Shadowy World of Indonesia's Case Brokers Officially, 37-year-old Yudho is a chauffeur for a senior officer at the Jakarta Police, but in actuality the unassuming father of three has a much more lucrative occupation. I don't like the term 'case broker,'? Yudho (not his real name) told the Jakarta Globe. I'm just a negotiator, someone who takes care of things for other people. My boss knows what I do but, as long as he gets his cut, he never complains. Known locally as makelar kasus, or markus for short, case brokers like Yudho have long been a crucial element in the corruption that permeates the country's legal system. However, it was only recently that the shadowy world of the case broker was thrust into the public spotlight. On Nov. 2, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) released wiretapped telephone conversations that included a suspected case broker talking to several high-ranking law enforcement officials about an alleged plot to fabricate testimony. The recordings, which were aired live by several national TV stations, offered a glimpse of the power these case brokers can wield, prompting the government to make public promises to target their profession. From Chauffeurs to Lawyers Neta S Pane, chairman of Indonesian Police Watch, said brokers could be anyone, from lawyers to former criminals, and in Yudho's case, even a humble chauffeur. The key to being a case broker is to build close relationships with police officials, Neta said. The first step is earning [an officer's] trust. Once the broker has done that, the officer will only deal with that particular broker. The higher the officer's rank, the greater the broker's power. Yudho became a broker almost by chance. Being a chauffeur, he said, gave him the opportunity to interact with his boss's subordinates and gradually earn their trust. A criminal suspect asked me one day why it was so easy for me to go from one [Jakarta Police] station to another, he said. Later, he asked me to persuade one of the officers to drop a criminal charge against him. At first I declined, but he kept badgering me until I finally did it just to get him off my back. But when the charge was later dropped, he gave me a wad of money worth 10 times my monthly salary. I was hooked. Yudho refused to disclose how much money he made brokering, but the KPK recordings suggest brokers could make as much as Rp 5 billion ($530,000) per case. It all depends, Neta said. If it's a high-profile case - where brokers have to pay off high-ranking officials or where officers from several units are involved - it costs more. If another broker is involved, it becomes even more expensive. For small cases, however, usually the broker just has to pay off lower ranking officials. Just Like the Real Mafia The term judicial mafia used to describe these case brokers is no exaggeration. Almost on a daily basis, the brokers battle each other for territory, respect and money, much like the real deal. Some time ago, my boss got transferred to Surabaya [in East Java] and I followed him to try my luck brokering cases there, but I couldn't get the Surabaya officers to open up to me. Later, I found out the hard way that the resident broker didn't like me trying to muscle in on his territory, Yudho said, laughing. Yudho said it wasn't always about competition and that sometimes cooperation paid off. While in Surabaya, I befriended [another broker] and we built up a mutually beneficial relationship based on my contacts with the Jakarta Police and his access to the Surabaya Police. A retired police officer, who agreed to speak to the Globe on the condition of anonymity, said that brokers used all kinds of dirty tricks to get an advantage. Once, one of my men told me he was being blackmailed. He had been offered a prostitute and someone secretly took compromising pictures of him and the girl, the former officer said. I found out that the blackmailer was a case broker, trying to pocket my subordinate. So I had my men dig up some dirt on him and when we found out he was a drug addict, we arrested him for drug possession. However, the retired officer said that he later became friends with the broker. He was targeting my subordinate but got me instead, he said, laughing. We had mutual respect. To me, it was just about helping a friend. [The broker] also helped me when I needed him. He bought my son a house as a wedding gift and helped me with my promotion as a provincial police chief. But now that I'm retired, not once has he called to say hello. Wide Range of Services Postponing an arrest, halting a case, witness intimidation and getting rid of incriminating evidence are just some of the services a case broker can offer, as 27-year-old Budi, a former street racer, learned five years
[wanita-muslimah] Forum Indonesia Membaca Instills a Love for the Written Word
http://thejakartaglobe.com/home/forum-indonesia-membaca-instills-a-love-for-the-written-word/347144 December 13, 2009 Tasa Nugraza Barley Forum Indonesia Membaca's programs to encourage reading include story sessions, book discussions and writing workshops. It also holds an annual event, 'World Book Day Indonesia.' (Photos courtesy of Forum Indonesia Membaca) Forum Indonesia Membaca Instills a Love for the Written Word The benefits of reading cannot be emphasized enough. Reading opens a window onto the wider world, and helps create well-informed and more knowledgeable citizens. Unfortunately, reading is not a big part of Indonesian culture - or at least, that's what Dessy Sekar Astina believes. Dessy is the program director of Forum Indonesia Membaca (Indonesian Reading Forum), a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote reading among young people. Our young people don't seem to make reading a part of their daily routine, and that's sad, she said. Forum Indonesia Membaca was established in October 2001 by 15 people who believed that instilling a reading culture among young Indonesians was one way they could contribute to the country's progress. Ade Oktarini, a member of the organization since 2003, said most young people preferred hanging out with their friends or surfing social networking sites like Facebook to reading. The country, however, seems to be making inroads where literacy is concerned. In September, Hamid Muhammad, the director general of nontraditional education at the Ministry of Education, said that by the end of the year, the illiteracy rate in Indonesia would stand at about 5.3 percent, or about 8.3 million people. The problem, according to Desy, is in actually encouraging people to read. Our government only focuses on literacy initiatives and that is not enough, she said. Ade agreed that picking up a book did not come naturally to many Indonesians. In this country, you don't see people reading a book in public places, like a bus stop or a park, Ade said. And while in many developed countries it's not unusual to see someone reading a thick paperback while waiting for a bus, Ade said that here, you'll probably get teased for holding a big book. In contrast, she said, it's so much easier to find young people glued to their computer screens or smartphones, logged on to Facebook or engrossed in a video game. Dessy said the spread of technology itself had become a barrier to encouraging young people to read. She said people preferred watching TV, surfing the Internet or playing video games on PlayStation to reading. The fact that technology is advancing every day is a good thing, Dessy said. But we have to use this technology wisely. Our young people think that they can find everything on Google, she said. Well, that's not totally wrong. Google does give us everything, but only in a small portions. If they want to find out more information, in a lengthier version, they have to rely on books. The importance of reading, Dessy said, could be seen in Unesco's Literacy for Life report in 2006, which showed that there is a strong connection between illiteracy and poverty. Countries that have high illiteracy levels also have more people living below the poverty line, according to the report. That's how important reading is, Dessy said. She said the government had not done enough to promote the written word, pointing to the lack of libraries in the country. Dessy said the government had been unable to work with community groups to improve local libraries. In addition to the scarcity of reading materials, there is also the issue of cost. Sometimes we can't blame people for not reading books, Dessy said. This is because they can't find places where they can borrow books for free, or buy them at cheap prices. Forum Indonesia Membaca is trying to spread the love of the written word from its modest office at the Bank Mandiri Museum in Kota Tua, West Jakarta. They have implemented the Begini Begitu program for kids and Makin Menter for teens. These programs involve weekly storytelling sessions, books discussions and writing workshops. We want to let young people know that reading can be so much fun, Dessy said. And it's a lot easier if this is done as early as possible. In addition, the organization also holds World Book Day Indonesia, an annual event where book publishers and members of the community, from nongovernment organizations to green groups, come together. The event was last held in May. Forum Indonesia Membaca is run by a core group of 10 full-time volunteers, with as many as 150 part-time members. The organization also manages the Bank Mandiri Museum's library, libr...@batavia . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[wanita-muslimah] Minister: 'SBY Won't Abandon Sri Mulyani and Boediono'
Refleksi : Bagi yang berpendapat bahwa SBY akan menceraikan salah satu dari dua orang kekasihnya, pasti keliru! Karena cinta kedua-duanya dirangkul. http://thejakartaglobe.com/home/minister-sby-wont-abandon-sri-mulyani-and-boediono/347265 December 13, 2009 Febriamy Hutapea Muninggar Sri Saraswati Minister: 'SBY Won't Abandon Sri Mulyani and Boediono' House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie said over the weekend that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono continued to support Vice President Boediono and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, who are under pressure to resign for their roles in the bailout of Bank Century last year. Marzuki, a senior member of Yudhoyono's Democratic Party, said there was no rift within the cabinet, and denounced personal political statements that muddled the ongoing House investigation into the Rp 6.7 trillion ($710 million) bailout. SBY is a consistent person, he won't abandon Sri Mulyani and Boediono, Marzuki told journalists in Bogor on Saturday, referring to Yudhoyono. There's no rift in the cabinet. SBY will take responsibility. He is the one who really knows what's happening in the cabinet, Marzuki said. Analysts have been predicting the imminent demise of Boediono, who was central bank governor at the time of the Bank Century bailout in November 2008, and Sri Mulyani, who agreed with the decision to save the troubled lender. There has been rampant speculation that figures within the Golkar Party, as well as from other members of Yudhoyono's coalition government, were plotting to oust the vice president and finance minister in the hope of getting their own officials into the powerful positions. Boediono and Sri Mulyani are respected technocrats, but analysts have said they are vulnerable because they do not have a political base. However, Marzuki's comments indicate that Yudhoyono, who left for an official visit to Europe on Sunday, still backs the pair. His comments may yet help turn the tide in favor of the vice president and finance minister. Bambang Soesatyo, a Golkar lawmaker who claimed to have incriminating evidence against Sri Mulyani relating to the bailout, was forced to backtrack on Sunday after the finance minister released a videotape that disputed his claims. Bambang lashed out at Mulyani on Friday after she said in a newspaper interview that she doubted Golkar would be fair to her in investigating Bank Century, and also criticized its chairman, Aburizal Bakrie. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[wanita-muslimah] Video Kalimul Husein (#1603;#1604;#1610;#1605; #1575;#1604;#1581;#1587;#1610;#1606;)
Kepada Bapak dan Ibu Pecinta Rasulullah saw dan Ahlul baitnya (sa) Assalamu'alaikum wr.wb Dalam rangka menyongsong datangnya bulan Muharram dan Asyura, mari kita saksikan video Kalîmul Husein. Video yang mengisahkan peristiwa Karbala dalam syair dan irama yang menyayat hati, peristiwa yang telah Allah gambarkan kepada Nabi Musa (as) sebagai Kalîmullâh saat bermunajat di Thur Sinai. Video ini dilengkapi terjemahan bahasa Indonesia. Insya Allah dapat meneteskan air mata duka, dan mengantarkan kita untuk merenungi peristiwa besar yang menimpa Imam Husein (as) cucu tercinta Rasulullah saw. Yang ingin menyaksikan klik di sini: http://amalia-99.blogspot.com Selamat menyaksikan! Semoga bermanfaat.
[wanita-muslimah] Re: Keracunan kehamilan?
Saya juga ikut berduka cita mba Mia. Bude saya juga meninggal saat melahirkan. Ceritanya bude ini selalu berpindah kota karena tugas suaminya, pasangan suami istri ini mempunyai kepercayaan untuk tidak memakai pencegah kehamilan karena banyak anak, banyak rezeki katanya. Jadi tiap tahun bude hamil. Satu saat ibu saya diberi tahu dari satu kota tempat tugas suami bude bahwa bude sudah meninggal. Cerita pakde sih, bude ingin melahirkan dengan didampingi dokter tapi dokternya telat datang, jadi bude menahan proses melahirkan (emang bisa ya?) terus bude mengalami perdarahan di kepalanya dan meninggal. Bayinya selamat dan disusui ibu saya. Menurut ibu saya, bude mengalami pre eklamsi karena bude sibuk dengan anak-anak yang lahir tiap tahun, tidak sempat periksa rutin ke dokter, tensinya tidak terkontrol dan pecah pembuluh darah otaknya saat melahirkan. Di Indonesia ini berapa banyak ibu yang hamil saja tiap tahun tapi tidak terkontrol kesehatannya (kurang gizi, tidak terkontrol tensi, dll) lalu mati sia-sia dengan meninggalkan banyak anak? Apakah bisa dikatakan mati syahid jika mati karena sengaja dirinya atau lingkungan keluarga terdekatnya seperti suaminya tidak peduli kesehatan istrinya? Apalagi dengan kasus yang diceritakan pak Kartono tentang RS yang ditarget setoran, berapa banyak ibu2 yang tidak melahirkan di RS karena tidak mampu bayar dan lalu melahirkan di tempat-tempat murah meriah yang mungkin saja tidak bersih? --- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, donnie damana donnie.dam...@... wrote: Ikut berduka cita mbak Mia atas kehilangannya. :( Saya gak terlalu yakin maksudnya (maklum dah bukan dokter lagi:p), tapi sepertinya yang dimaksud adalah kasus Pre Eclamsia/eclamsia, suatu kondisi yang ditrigger oleh hipertensi pada kehamilan dibawah ada reference terkait itu. Kalau tertarik lebih jauh bisa googling dengan key words Preeclampsia, eclampsia, atau pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH). Semoga membantu. Donnie Introduction to Preeclampsia ..
[wanita-muslimah] Re: mau tanya..
Mbak Dewi, Beberapa hari yang lalu moderator menegur salah saorang anggota milis yang banyak sekali posting dan memang banyak yang kaitannya jauh dengan tujuan didirikannya milis WM ini. Saya tidak tahu apakah ybs sudah mampu mengendalikan dirinya untuk tidak posting tulisan yang tidak relevan. Bagaimana kalau mba Dewi posting tulisan yang lebih relevan atau ikut ngobrol tentang wanita dan muslimah? Misalnya sekarang ada thread tentang pre eklamsi yang dimulai mba Mia. --- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, dEwi rachmanidew...@... wrote: Aslm.Wr.Wb. up.moderator. milis ini kok isinya gak sesuai dengan definisiny ya..-- Milis wanita muslimah ini membicarakan hal-hal yang menyangkut isu-isu masalah perempuan pada umumnya dan wanita muslimah pada khususnya, fiqh perempuan, pergerakan perempuan, kesehatan reproduksi, isu gender dan hal-hal lain yang menyangkut perempuan termasuk kebijaksanaan pemerintah seperti hukum, peraturan ataupun perundang-undangan yang menyangkut masalah perempuan saya baru bergabung dengan milis ini beberapa hari yang lalu, tetapi yang di posting sama sekali gak ada yang nyangkut dengan tujuan itu.. terlalu banyak politik.. maaf klo kata2 saya tidak berkenan.. terima kasih Wassalam..
Re: [wanita-muslimah] Re: 5 berita maximum, setuju pak ambon?
1. hahaha ... mas dwi sbg mod di suruh mencekal pak ambon donk jadinya. 2. sekarang saya gak langganan rss feed atau liat berita via bb lagi, alasannya cukup langganan satu milis (wm aja) udah dapat semuanya :p kan udah di rangkum ama pak ambon. milis lain yg ada pak ambonnya juga saya sign out, biar isinya ndak doble doble. btw, saya sendiri malah jarang baca tulisan yg dikitim pak ambon, karena : - banyak yg bahasa asing. kalo yg bahasa asing, saya baru nimbrung kalo berpotensi jadi debatan - bentuk kurang menarik, beda dengan di web apakabar atau fesbuk. di milis kan plain gitu apa lagi ya ? bosen kali ? :)) 2009/12/13 aurora_2...@yahoo.com: Saya pikir ini urusan mod nya untuk meloloskan postingannya atau tidak. Dan rasanya berita yg pak ambon kirimkan lumayan berguna bwt nambah wawasan, kalo gak suka kan tinggal delete aja atau gak usah baca. Gak pake tenaga banyak kok bwt delete. Kalo gusdur bilang 'Gitu aja kok repot' Maaf ya kalo ikut2an. saya yakin niat pak ambon ini baik, insya allah. -- salam, Ari
[wanita-muslimah] Peluncuran dan Diskusi Majalah Bhinneka di Salihara
Peluncuran dan Diskusi Majalah Bhinneka bersama Dédé Oetomo dan Soe Tjen Marching, moderator: Nong Darol Mahmada, besok: Selasa 15 Des, pkl 19.00 di Serambi Salihara, http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205816063232ref=mf Latar Belakang Majalah Bhinneka yang didirikan oleh Soe Tjen Marching bekerja sama dengan GAYa NUSANTARA, adalah majalah yang dibuat untuk mengkritisi interpretasi agama di Indonesia. Namun, dalam kemasannya, majalah Bhinneka tidak menyatakan tujuan ini secara gamblang supaya dapat menarik masa sebanyak mungkin untuk membacanya. Selama ini, beberapa jurnal kritis masih terkesan “eksklusif” baik dari penampilan, nama Jurnal ataupun publikasinya, sehingga pembacanya pun kurang lebih menjadi ekslusif. Artinya, mereka datang dari kalangan tertentu. Sedangkan majalah Bhinneka dikemas secara populer dan terkesan umum supaya tidak memberi “tembok” terlebih dulu bagi publik yang tertarik untuk membacanya. Karena itu, digunakan nama yang dipandang cukup “netral”, yaitu Bhinneka yang artinya keberagaman. Untuk mengingatkan moto dari bangsa Indonesia sendiri, bahwa Indonesia tidak tunggal ika, dan interpretasi agama apapun tidak bisa dipandang dari satu sisi saja. Terbit dua bulan sekali, sampai saat ini (17 November 2009), dua edisi majalah Bhinneka telah terbit. Dan kami memandang perlunya me-launching majalah ini agar lebih diketahui khalayak umum. Majalah Bhinneka dibagikan gratis karena dana dari Kedutaan Britania Raya. Kami juga mendapat dana khusus untuk launching majalah ini di Jakarta, dan kami memilih Salihara karena tempat ini telah dikenal luas sebagai salah satu pusat diskusi kebudayaan yang sifatnya juga “netral” (tidak condong pada etnis atau agama tertentu). Tujuan dari launching ini adalah: 1. Memperkenalkan majalah Bhinneka kepada publik 2. Mengadakan diskusi berdasarkan majalah Bhinneka pada umumnya dan interpretasi agama di Indonesia pada khususnya 3. Menjalin kerja sama yang lebih erat antara majalah Bhinneka dan Salihara. Metode dan Setting Forum Launching akan diadakan pada tanggal 15 Desember 2009 pukul 19.00 WIB. Secara keseluruhan, launching ini akan dipandu oleh 2 nara sumber. Adapun setting forum selama launching adalah sebagai berikut: 1. Sesi pengenalan majalah Bhinneka dan pembahasan beberapa artikel. 2. Sesi diskusi: hadirin bisa menanyakan tentang majalah Bhinneka dan juga masalah yang menyangkut politik, sosial dan agama secara umum. 3. Sesi penyusunan rencana strategis juga dilakukan dalam format diskusi interaktif yang dipandu oleh seorang fasilitator. Dengan mengacu sesi-sesi sebelumnya, sesi ini melakukan analisis: Bagaimana bentuk kerja sama antara majalah Bhinneka dan Salihara selanjutnya. Narasumber Ada dua orang nara sumber yang akan berperan aktif dalam diskusi ini, yaitu: 1. Soe Tjen Marching (Pendiri Majalah Bhinneka) 2. Dede Oetomo (Pendiri GAYa NUSANTARA) Moderator: Nong Darol Mahmada Buat sendiri desain eksklusif Messenger Pingbox Anda sekarang! Membuat tempat chat pribadi di blog Anda sekarang sangatlah mudah. http://id.messenger.yahoo.com/pingbox/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [wanita-muslimah] Re: Keracunan kehamilan?
Teori (agak) terbaru tentang proses terjadinya keracunan kehamilan adalah teori hormonal. Biasanya terjadi pada wanita yang mengalami kurang darah (anemia) kronis. Sewaktu hamil, darah dia harua mengalirkan oksigen ke dirinya dan sekaligus bayinya. Maka terjadi perebutan karena darah anemis tidak cukup banyak membawa oksigen, apalagi untuk dua manusia sekaligus. Untuk memperoleh oksigen yang cukup, bayi akan mengeluarkan hormon yang memaksa darah dipompa lebih kencang. Akibatnya tekanan darah ibu mengalami peningkatan drastis. Terjadilah keracunan kehamilan. Perebutan oksigen itu mempunyai empat kemungkinan akibat: 1. Bayi dalam kandungan yang kalah, maka ia mati dalam kandungan atau lahir dengan otak tidak sempurna berkembang, 2. Ibu kalah, maka terjadi keracunan kehamilan yang dapat mengakibatkan kematian ibu, 3. Dua-duanya kalah, dua-duanya meninggal, 4. Dua-duanya kalah sebagian, ibu mengalami pre eklampsi tetapi tertolong, dan janin lahir tetapi dengan perkembangan otak yang tidak sempurna, atau lahir dengan berat badan kurang, atau lahir prematur. Keadaan akan lebih parah jika suami sering merokok di dekat istrinya yang sedang hamil. Tingkat angka kematian ibu yang berkaitan dengan kegamilan di Indonesia masih tertinggi di Asia, keracunan kehamilan adalah salah satu dari tiga penyebab utama. Perbaikan gizi sewaktu hamil, pengobatan anemia sejak sebelum menikah, dan pengawasan kehamilan secara tertib, merupakan cara menurunkan angka kematian ibu. Selain itu diimbau para suami agar tidak merokok di dekat isteri atau anaknya, terutama jika isteri sedang hamil. KM Original Message From: aishayasmina2...@yahoo.com.sg Date: 14/12/2009 5:17 To: wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com Subj: [wanita-muslimah] Re: Keracunan kehamilan? Saya juga ikut berduka cita mba Mia. Bude saya juga meninggal saat melahirkan. Ceritanya bude ini selalu berpindah kota karena tugas suaminya, pasangan suami istri ini mempunyai kepercayaan untuk tidak memakai pencegah kehamilan karena banyak anak, banyak rezeki katanya. Jadi tiap tahun bude hamil. Satu saat ibu saya diberi tahu dari satu kota tempat tugas suami bude bahwa bude sudah meninggal. Cerita pakde sih, bude ingin melahirkan dengan didampingi dokter tapi dokternya telat datang, jadi bude menahan proses melahirkan (emang bisa ya?) terus bude mengalami perdarahan di kepalanya dan meninggal. Bayinya selamat dan disusui ibu saya. Menurut ibu saya, bude mengalami pre eklamsi karena bude sibuk dengan anak-anak yang lahir tiap tahun, tidak sempat periksa rutin ke dokter, tensinya tidak terkontrol dan pecah pembuluh darah otaknya saat melahirkan. Di Indonesia ini berapa banyak ibu yang hamil saja tiap tahun tapi tidak terkontrol kesehatannya (kurang gizi, tidak terkontrol tensi, dll) lalu mati sia-sia dengan meninggalkan banyak anak? Apakah bisa dikatakan mati syahid jika mati karena sengaja dirinya atau lingkungan keluarga terdekatnya seperti suaminya tidak peduli kesehatan istrinya? Apalagi dengan kasus yang diceritakan pak Kartono tentang RS yang ditarget setoran, berapa banyak ibu2 yang tidak melahirkan di RS karena tidak mampu bayar dan lalu melahirkan di tempat-tempat murah meriah yang mungkin saja tidak bersih? --- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, donnie damana donnie. dam...@... wrote: Ikut berduka cita mbak Mia atas kehilangannya. :( Saya gak terlalu yakin maksudnya (maklum dah bukan dokter lagi:p), tapi sepertinya yang dimaksud adalah kasus Pre Eclamsia/eclamsia, suatu kondisi yang ditrigger oleh hipertensi pada kehamilan dibawah ada reference terkait itu. Kalau tertarik lebih jauh bisa googling dengan key words Preeclampsia, eclampsia, atau pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH). Semoga membantu. Donnie Introduction to Preeclampsia ..
[wanita-muslimah] Re: 5 berita maximum, setuju pak ambon?
Saya pikir Nyong Ambon manise wat milis sendiri aja yang punya ciri khas sendiri dan beda dari WM ini. Misal milis Loper. Jadi bagi yang mo menambah wawasan yang berciri khas loper, ya nangkring aje disitu. Jangan menghilangkan ciri khas suatu milis yg dah ada dunk. Yang bikin 'refot otak ane' nih, ane dah semangat mo mengunjungi WM dengan berharap mendapat pelajaran seperti yang sudah-sudah 'pengajian wanita muslimah yang moderat' dari diskusi diskusi yg timbul..eh tiba tiba satu screen isinya dijual jamu kuat lelaki, Bandrex cap ayam jago. Ya..memang akhirnya ane tinggal. Jadi, bukan cuma soal delete-mendelete. Begono menurut ane seh! wassalam, --- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, aurora_2...@... wrote: Saya pikir ini urusan mod nya untuk meloloskan postingannya atau tidak. Dan rasanya berita yg pak ambon kirimkan lumayan berguna bwt nambah wawasan, kalo gak suka kan tinggal delete aja atau gak usah baca. Gak pake tenaga banyak kok bwt delete. Kalo gusdur bilang 'Gitu aja kok repot' Maaf ya kalo ikut2an. saya yakin niat pak ambon ini baik, insya allah. Sent from my BlackBerry® powered by Sinyal Kuat INDOSAT -Original Message- From: aldiy al...@... Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:45:08 To: wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com Subject: [wanita-muslimah] Re: 5 berita maximum, setuju pak ambon? Coba kita tanya ke Pak Ambon, apakah bapak setuju mengirim berita maximum 5 berita per 24 jam? salam Mia --- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, sunny ambon@ wrote: Apakah tidak dibutuhkan selingan untuk relax dalam hidup? - Original Message - From: Dwi Soegardi To: wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 4:08 AM Subject: Re: [wanita-muslimah] Hitler feared going to the dentist kalo begitu baca saja sendiri, dan diskusikan pada waktu makan atau minum kopi, bukan sembarangan milis Anda penuh-penuhi. Kalo Anda posting sehari satu-dua sih ngga masalah kadang-kadang OOT (out of topic), tapi Anda kirimnya ngga terbatas, OOT-nya tak terbatas pulak, Apa pantes begitu? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [wanita-muslimah] Re: 5 berita maximum, setuju pak ambon?
p://thejakartaglobe.com/home/forum-indonesia-membaca-instills-a-love-for-the-written-word/347144 Forum Indonesia Membaca's programs to encourage reading include story sessions, book discussions and writing workshops. It also holds an annual event, 'World Book Day Indonesia.' (Photos courtesy of Forum Indonesia Membaca) Forum Indonesia Membaca Instills a Love for the Written Word The benefits of reading cannot be emphasized enough. Reading opens a window onto the wider world, and helps create well-informed and more knowledgeable citizens. Unfortunately, reading is not a big part of Indonesian culture - or at least, that's what Dessy Sekar Astina believes. Dessy is the program director of Forum Indonesia Membaca (Indonesian Reading Forum), a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote reading among young people. Our young people don't seem to make reading a part of their daily routine, and that's sad, she said. Forum Indonesia Membaca was established in October 2001 by 15 people who believed that instilling a reading culture among young Indonesians was one way they could contribute to the country's progress. Ade Oktarini, a member of the organization since 2003, said most young people preferred hanging out with their friends or surfing social networking sites like Facebook to reading. The country, however, seems to be making inroads where literacy is concerned. In September, Hamid Muhammad, the director general of nontraditional education at the Ministry of Education, said that by the end of the year, the illiteracy rate in Indonesia would stand at about 5.3 percent, or about 8.3 million people. The problem, according to Desy, is in actually encouraging people to read. Our government only focuses on literacy initiatives and that is not enough, she said. Ade agreed that picking up a book did not come naturally to many Indonesians. In this country, you don't see people reading a book in public places, like a bus stop or a park, Ade said. And while in many developed countries it's not unusual to see someone reading a thick paperback while waiting for a bus, Ade said that here, you'll probably get teased for holding a big book. In contrast, she said, it's so much easier to find young people glued to their computer screens or smartphones, logged on to Facebook or engrossed in a video game. Dessy said the spread of technology itself had become a barrier to encouraging young people to read. She said people preferred watching TV, surfing the Internet or playing video games on PlayStation to reading. The fact that technology is advancing every day is a good thing, Dessy said. But we have to use this technology wisely. Our young people think that they can find everything on Google, she said. Well, that's not totally wrong. Google does give us everything, but only in a small portions. If they want to find out more information, in a lengthier version, they have to rely on books. The importance of reading, Dessy said, could be seen in Unesco's Literacy for Life report in 2006, which showed that there is a strong connection between illiteracy and poverty. Countries that have high illiteracy levels also have more people living below the poverty line, according to the report. That's how important reading is, Dessy said. She said the government had not done enough to promote the written word, pointing to the lack of libraries in the country. Dessy said the government had been unable to work with community groups to improve local libraries. In addition to the scarcity of reading materials, there is also the issue of cost. Sometimes we can't blame people for not reading books, Dessy said. This is because they can't find places where they can borrow books for free, or buy them at cheap prices. Forum Indonesia Membaca is trying to spread the love of the written word from its modest office at the Bank Mandiri Museum in Kota Tua, West Jakarta. They have implemented the Begini Begitu program for kids and Makin Menter for teens. These programs involve weekly storytelling sessions, books discussions and writing workshops. We want to let young people know that reading can be so much fun, Dessy said. And it's a lot easier if this is done as early as possible. In addition, the organization also holds World Book Day Indonesia, an annual event where book publishers and members of the community, from nongovernment organizations to green groups, come together. The event was last held in May. Forum Indonesia Membaca is run by a core group of 10 full-time volunteers, with as many as 150 part-time members. The organization also manages the Bank Mandiri Museum's library, libr...@batavia - Original Message - From: Lina To: wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 4:21 AM Subject: [wanita-muslimah] Re: 5 berita maximum, setuju pak ambon? Saya pikir Nyong Ambon manise wat milis sendiri aja yang
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Keutamaan Bersyukur By: agussyafii Ketika hari dihiasi malam. Kumandang adzan maghrib telah berlalu. Keindahan malam menebarkan harum bunga melati. Anak-anak Amalia melantunkan ayat-ayat suci. Nampak Lusi dan Lita sedang mengajar adik-adiknya membaca Iqra'. Kebahagiaan menyelimuti hati mereka. Kebahagiaan hadir karena kami berkumpul untuk belajar, bermain dan berdiskusi. Pada malam itu Dani bertanya, 'Untuk apa kita bersyukur?' Saya jelaskan padanya bahwa bersyukur sebagai tanda terima kasih kita atas karunia yang Alloh SWT berikan kepada kita. Malam itu saya bercerita pada anak-anak Amalia. Suatu hari ada orang miskin yang datang menghadap kepada Nabi Musa Alaihissalam pakaiannya lusuh dan badannya kurus tak terawat. Berkatalah orang miskin itu kepada Nabi Musa, 'Ya Nabi, tolong sampaikan kepada Alloh SWT, mohonkan aku, agar aku menjadi orang kaya. 'Saudaraku, perbanyaklah bersyukur kepada Alloh SWT,' jawab Nabi Musa sambil tersenyum padanya. Orang miskin itu terkejut mendengar jawaban Nabi Musa, dengan nada marah dia mengatakan, 'Bagaimana aku bersyukur, makan aja susah, apa lagi pakaian cuman satu sudah begitu compang camping lagi.' sambil ngeloyor pergi meninggalkan Nabi Musa. Tak lama kemudian datang orang kaya menghadap Nabi Musa, 'Ya Nabi, tolong sampaikan kepada Alloh SWTmohonkan aku, agar aku menjadi orang miskin aja karena harta yang banyak membuat hidupku tidak nyaman.' 'Saudaraku, perbanyaklah bersyukur kepada Alloh SWT,' jawab Nabi Musa sambil tersenyum padanya. Orang kaya itu terkejut mendengarkan jawaban Nabi Musa, tanpa berkata apapun dia akhirnya pulang ke rumah. Beberapa hari kemudian orang kaya itu bertambah kaya karena sejak itu selalu bersyukur dan orang miskin semakin miskin karena enggan bersyukur atas semua karunia Alloh SWT. Diakhir cerita saya menjelaskan pada anak-anak Amalia, begitulah Alloh SWT senantiasa melimpahkan rizki kepada hamba-hambaNya yang pandai bersyukur dan tugas kita adalah selalu bersyukur dalam keadaan apapun. Salah satu Asma Alloh SWT adalah Asy-Syakuur, Asy-Syakuur artinya Maha Menerima Syukur. Bila kita selalu bersyukur atas semua karunia dan nikmat-Nya yang kita terima maka akan dilipatgandakan oleh Alloh SWT sebab Dia adalah Asy-Syakuur, Maha Penerima Syukur hamba-hambaNya. --- Agar Alloh menyempurnakan kepada mereka pahala mereka dan menambah kepada mereka dari karunia-Nya. Sesungguhnya Alloh Maha Pengampun lagi Maha Mensyukuri (QS: Fathir, 35:30). Wassalam, agussyafii -- Yuk, sambut tahun baru hijriyah bersama anak-anak Amalia. Dalam program kegiatan 'Amalia Cinta Muharram (ACM) pada hari Ahad, 20 Desember 2009 di Rumah Amalia. Kirimkan dukungan dan komentar anda di http://agussyafii.blogspot.com atau http://www.facebook.com/agussyafii atau sms di 087 8777 12 431 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [wanita-muslimah] Re: 5 berita maximum, setuju pak ambon?
Topik diskusi yang OOT (out of topic) yaitu membahas perilaku om Ambon di milis, ditanggapi oleh yang bersangkutan dengan artikel yang OOT juga hihihi kapokmu kapan :D On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:29 PM, sunny am...@tele2.se wrote: p:// thejakartaglobe.com/home/forum-indonesia-membaca-instills-a-love-for-the-written-word/347144 Forum Indonesia Membaca's programs to encourage reading include story sessions, book discussions and writing workshops. It also holds an annual event, 'World Book Day Indonesia.' (Photos courtesy of Forum Indonesia Membaca) Forum Indonesia Membaca Instills a Love for the Written Word The benefits of reading cannot be emphasized enough. Reading opens a window onto the wider world, and helps create well-informed and more knowledgeable citizens. Unfortunately, reading is not a big part of Indonesian culture - or at least, that's what Dessy Sekar Astina believes. Dessy is the program director of Forum Indonesia Membaca (Indonesian Reading Forum), a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote reading among young people. Our young people don't seem to make reading a part of their daily routine, and that's sad, she said. Forum Indonesia Membaca was established in October 2001 by 15 people who believed that instilling a reading culture among young Indonesians was one way they could contribute to the country's progress. Ade Oktarini, a member of the organization since 2003, said most young people preferred hanging out with their friends or surfing social networking sites like Facebook to reading. The country, however, seems to be making inroads where literacy is concerned. In September, Hamid Muhammad, the director general of nontraditional education at the Ministry of Education, said that by the end of the year, the illiteracy rate in Indonesia would stand at about 5.3 percent, or about 8.3 million people. The problem, according to Desy, is in actually encouraging people to read. Our government only focuses on literacy initiatives and that is not enough, she said. Ade agreed that picking up a book did not come naturally to many Indonesians. In this country, you don't see people reading a book in public places, like a bus stop or a park, Ade said. And while in many developed countries it's not unusual to see someone reading a thick paperback while waiting for a bus, Ade said that here, you'll probably get teased for holding a big book. In contrast, she said, it's so much easier to find young people glued to their computer screens or smartphones, logged on to Facebook or engrossed in a video game. Dessy said the spread of technology itself had become a barrier to encouraging young people to read. She said people preferred watching TV, surfing the Internet or playing video games on PlayStation to reading. The fact that technology is advancing every day is a good thing, Dessy said. But we have to use this technology wisely. Our young people think that they can find everything on Google, she said. Well, that's not totally wrong. Google does give us everything, but only in a small portions. If they want to find out more information, in a lengthier version, they have to rely on books. The importance of reading, Dessy said, could be seen in Unesco's Literacy for Life report in 2006, which showed that there is a strong connection between illiteracy and poverty. Countries that have high illiteracy levels also have more people living below the poverty line, according to the report. That's how important reading is, Dessy said. She said the government had not done enough to promote the written word, pointing to the lack of libraries in the country. Dessy said the government had been unable to work with community groups to improve local libraries. In addition to the scarcity of reading materials, there is also the issue of cost. Sometimes we can't blame people for not reading books, Dessy said. This is because they can't find places where they can borrow books for free, or buy them at cheap prices. Forum Indonesia Membaca is trying to spread the love of the written word from its modest office at the Bank Mandiri Museum in Kota Tua, West Jakarta. They have implemented the Begini Begitu program for kids and Makin Menter for teens. These programs involve weekly storytelling sessions, books discussions and writing workshops. We want to let young people know that reading can be so much fun, Dessy said. And it's a lot easier if this is done as early as possible. In addition, the organization also holds World Book Day Indonesia, an annual event where book publishers and members of the community, from nongovernment organizations to green groups, come together. The event was last held in May. Forum Indonesia Membaca is run by a core group of 10 full-time volunteers, with as many as 150 part-time members. The organization also manages the Bank Mandiri Museum's library, libr...@batavia -
[wanita-muslimah] Re: 5 berita maximum, setuju pak ambon?
Om, Tradisi baca juga dah diajarin sama Allah via AlQur'an. Ane dah faham. Tapi kan baca itu buanyak sekali sumbernya dan jenisnya. Nah sumber yang ada di milis ini sudah memilih 'ciri khas'nya sendiri. Untuk itu ane datang ke milis ini, selaen ane juga hadir di milis2 laen. Ane gak mungkin dateng ke dokter gigi untuk ngobatin panu ane. Ane gak mungkin googling foto panas seleb ke milis WM. Pan gitu. Ane gemar baca, tapi ane milih2 or selektip gitu, karena waktu ane yang terbatas. Coba ente knape gak kirimin loper ente yg seabrek abrek ini ke FPK dengan alasan or niat yang sama yaitu biar menambah wawasan? Salam klise, --- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, sunny am...@... wrote: p://thejakartaglobe.com/home/forum-indonesia-membaca-instills-a-love-for-the-written-word/347144 Forum Indonesia Membaca's programs to encourage reading include story sessions, book discussions and writing workshops. It also holds an annual event, 'World Book Day Indonesia.' (Photos courtesy of Forum Indonesia Membaca) Forum Indonesia Membaca Instills a Love for the Written Word The benefits of reading cannot be emphasized enough. Reading opens a window onto the wider world, and helps create well-informed and more knowledgeable citizens. Unfortunately, reading is not a big part of Indonesian culture - or at least, that's what Dessy Sekar Astina believes. Dessy is the program director of Forum Indonesia Membaca (Indonesian Reading Forum), a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote reading among young people. Our young people don't seem to make reading a part of their daily routine, and that's sad, she said. Forum Indonesia Membaca was established in October 2001 by 15 people who believed that instilling a reading culture among young Indonesians was one way they could contribute to the country's progress. Ade Oktarini, a member of the organization since 2003, said most young people preferred hanging out with their friends or surfing social networking sites like Facebook to reading. The country, however, seems to be making inroads where literacy is concerned. In September, Hamid Muhammad, the director general of nontraditional education at the Ministry of Education, said that by the end of the year, the illiteracy rate in Indonesia would stand at about 5.3 percent, or about 8.3 million people. The problem, according to Desy, is in actually encouraging people to read. Our government only focuses on literacy initiatives and that is not enough, she said. Ade agreed that picking up a book did not come naturally to many Indonesians. In this country, you don't see people reading a book in public places, like a bus stop or a park, Ade said. And while in many developed countries it's not unusual to see someone reading a thick paperback while waiting for a bus, Ade said that here, you'll probably get teased for holding a big book. In contrast, she said, it's so much easier to find young people glued to their computer screens or smartphones, logged on to Facebook or engrossed in a video game. Dessy said the spread of technology itself had become a barrier to encouraging young people to read. She said people preferred watching TV, surfing the Internet or playing video games on PlayStation to reading. The fact that technology is advancing every day is a good thing, Dessy said. But we have to use this technology wisely. Our young people think that they can find everything on Google, she said. Well, that's not totally wrong. Google does give us everything, but only in a small portions. If they want to find out more information, in a lengthier version, they have to rely on books. The importance of reading, Dessy said, could be seen in Unesco's Literacy for Life report in 2006, which showed that there is a strong connection between illiteracy and poverty. Countries that have high illiteracy levels also have more people living below the poverty line, according to the report. That's how important reading is, Dessy said. She said the government had not done enough to promote the written word, pointing to the lack of libraries in the country. Dessy said the government had been unable to work with community groups to improve local libraries. In addition to the scarcity of reading materials, there is also the issue of cost. Sometimes we can't blame people for not reading books, Dessy said. This is because they can't find places where they can borrow books for free, or buy them at cheap prices. Forum Indonesia Membaca is trying to spread the love of the written word from its modest office at the Bank Mandiri Museum in Kota Tua, West Jakarta. They have implemented the Begini Begitu program for kids and Makin Menter for teens. These programs involve weekly storytelling sessions, books discussions and writing workshops. We want to let young people know that
[wanita-muslimah] Re: Hitler feared going to the dentist
Masalahnye...kebanyakan berita2 yg dikirim nyong AMbon emang gak penting buat milis WM ini. Saking kebanyakan jadi dibikin reaksi. Hukum alam: ade aksi ada reaksi. Nah kalo ente pikir milis ini tidak meneruskan berita ttg perlakuan wanita di berbagai tempat dan bagaimana solusinya, nah ente aje yang nerusin ke milis ini. Ntu lebih cengli dah. --- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, sunny am...@... wrote: Satu berita tidak penting dibikin reaksi. Berkali-kali dikrim berita tentang masalah wanita, TKW disiksa, tidak dibayar diperkosa Anda, atau rasisme, lihat saja masalah Prita. Apakah Anda pernah meneruskan berita tentang perlakuan wanita di tempat Anda sebagai peringatan kepada yang lain dan menganjur bagaimana solusinya? - Original Message - From: aishayasmina2002 To: wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 7:05 AM Subject: [wanita-muslimah] Re: Hitler feared going to the dentist Selingan untuk relax dalam hidup itu perlu tapi anda masih belum mengerti juga ya, mas Dwi sudah menjelaskan, ini milis! milis wanita-muslimah. Urusan yang begini jika menurut anda cocok untuk ngobrol di jamuan makan atau minum kopi, ya ...obrolkan saja di acara seperti itu.Bukan di milis. --- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, sunny ambon@ wrote: Apakah tidak dibutuhkan selingan untuk relax dalam hidup? - Original Message - From: Dwi Soegardi kalo begitu baca saja sendiri, dan diskusikan pada waktu makan atau minum kopi, bukan sembarangan milis Anda penuh-penuhi. Kalo Anda posting sehari satu-dua sih ngga masalah kadang-kadang OOT (out of topic), tapi Anda kirimnya ngga terbatas, OOT-nya tak terbatas pulak, Apa pantes begitu? On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:17 PM, sunny ambon@ wrote: Ini bukan refleksi tetapi info tentang buku yang terbit di Inggris yang disampaikan oleh Hindustan Times, benar ataukah tidak benar cerita dentist (dokter gigi) ini belum ada yang membantah, anggaplah ini sekadar ceita untuk cerita yang bisa dipakai waktu ngobrol di jamuan makan atau minum kopi. - Original Message - From: Dwi Soegardi Apa refleksi kisah ini? Agar hati2 dengan hoax? On 12/11/09, sunny ambon@ wrote: http://www.hindustantimes.com/Hitler-feared-going-to-the-dentist/H1-Article1-485614.aspx Hitler feared going to the dentist Press Trust Of India London, December 12, 2009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
