Dear All, AFAIK, diskusi di salah satu milis di bawah ini dapat menambah wawasan kita dalam melihat (& mengunyah) pemberitaan di media massa.. Kita kritisi dan tidak menelan mentah" apa yang disajikan media massa, secara proporsional..
CMIIW.. -- Wassalam, Irwan.K "Better team works could lead us to better results" http://irwank.blogspot.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Musa Kazhim Date: 2009/7/25 Subject: Re: KTP, DOMPET dan MESIN FOTOKOPI DI MARRIOTT - Re: Jakarta Bombings analysis Alfian, saya setuju sama Tasning. Jurnalisme polisi sepertinya tetap akan jadi panglima. Aparat pemerintah kini bisa mendikte media atas nama kebebasan pers--ooh, come on and cry me a river, coz i cried a river over you. ________________________________ From: kalamdari Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 11:12:54 AM Subject: KTP, DOMPET dan MESIN FOTOKOPI DI MARRIOTT - Re: Jakarta Bombings analysisNggak juga ah, Mas. Saya pribadi melihat tulisan John McBeth yang satu ini sama penyakitnya dengan banyak laporan media dalam negeri: terlalu percaya sama sumber2 (polisi). (Dia sebenarnya punya reportase yang lebih apik, yang lebih bertumpu pada wawancaranya sendiri dengan orang2 di lapangan. Masih di The Straits Times, 21 Juli: http://www.nationmu ltimedia. com/2009/ 07/21/opinion/ opinion_30107935 .php Kembali ke analisanya per 23 Juli itu. Coba deh mas perhatikan paragraf ini: > > The clerks could not make a copy of his Indonesian identity card > > because the two photocopying machines at the front desk were > > unavailable. He was asked to return later to get it done. He > > never did. Tidakkah ini ANEH? Tidakkah John mestinya bertanya: mosok hotel superduper mewah seperti Marriott dua mesin fotokopinya unavailable saat yang sama? Kalau toko fotokopi dekat kampus UI sih masuk akal itu terjadi. Tapi ini kan Marriott? Lagian, kan ada buanyak staff reception yang bisa diminta lari sebentar ke mesin fotokopi terdekat yang masih berfungsi. (Marriot mestinya sih punya mesin fotokopi lebih dari dua biji). Tapi mari kita periksa kemungkinan lain. Jika memang KTP itu tak jadi dikopi, berarti KTP itu kan tetap di tangan atau dompet si tamu. Nah, dalam hal ini ada hal yang menarik: Media online seperti Detik dan televisi seperti TVOne telah menyangkan gambar KTP si Nurdin Aziz! Ini artinya KTP itu masih ada, selamat dari ledakan bom. Bukan begitu? Kok bisa? Detik.com bilang: "Dari kamar 1808 Hotel JW Marriott, POLISI MENEMUKAN KTP penyewa kamar itu yang disebutkan bernama Nurdin Azis beralamat di Pondok Pinang, RT 10/RW 07 Kebayoran Lama, Jakarta Selatan." Tapi masalah belum selesai. Masih ada pertanyaan yang menggantung dan harus terjawab ASAP: Di mana sebenarnya dompet si Nurdin? Apakah dia juga meninggalkan dompetnya di kamar? Atau dia sengaja meninggalkan KTP-nya untuk ditemukan polisi dan disiarkan Detik? Wuekekeke ... Atau ada penjelasannya lain? Misal, karena KTP itu sempat keluar dari dompet saat proses check-in, si tamu hanya mengantonginya dan lupa meletakkan kembali ke dompet, dst. (Slowmo cctv bisa memperjelas soal ini) Sayang, para wartawan yang selalu bergemuruh seperti guntur di setiap konfres (penyiar Metro TV yang mempopulerkan kata ini di telinga saya) kurang detil saat bertanya. Mbok ya beranikan diri gitu lho tanya ke polisi: apa2 saja sih barang bukti yang disita polisi dari Kamar 1808? Apa ada dompet di antaranya atau hanya KPT? Mbok ya ditanya juga apakah forensik menemukan dompet milik Nurdin Aziz di crime scene? --- In , "Farid Gaban" <faridgaban@ ...> wrote: > > Tulisan bagus, analisis mentah. > > Ini tulisan yang bagus, runut dan gamblang menjelaskan kronologi ledakan. Seharian ini saya mencoba menyisir berita-berita lokal dan tak menemukan kronologi yang sejelas ini. > > John McBeth adalah wartawan kawakan yang pernah bekerja untuk majalah prestisius Far Eastern Economic Review. Tulisannya ini bagus meski saya terganggu dengan sumber-sumber liputannya yang sebagian besar anonim: "well-placed sources", "sources close to the investigation" .... > > Analisisnya? Menurut saya sih mentah, kecuali sejak awal kita sudah punya kerangka (frame) bahwa ini merupakan bom bunuh diri ala Jemaah Islamiyah. > > (Koran The Strait Times ini pulalah yang pertama kali dan getol memperkenalkan istilah "Jemaah Islamiyah" lewat tulisan Darwin Parera beberapa bulan sebelum Bom Bali I meletus. Waktu itu saya kira McBeth belum bekerja di sana). > > McBeth melewatkan begitu saja detil penting yang sudah dia sebut: pelaku tahu dan mengincar acara pertemuan mingguan para CEO perusahaan besar yang diselenggarakan oleh James Castle. Apa kaitannya ini dengan missi "mendirikan negara Islam" Jemaah Islamiyah? > > Tapi, yang menggelikan: dia menghabiskan enam alinea terakhir tulisannya untuk mempromosikan alat keamanan senilai US$ 25.000. > > Bagaimanapun, berbagai teror bom di Indonesia memang telah memunculkan industri keamanan yang menawarkan konsultan, personil dan peralatan mahal. > > Tidakkah ini sendiri bisa menjadi kemungkinan motif? > > fgaban > > --- In , ging ginanjar <ging.ginanjar@ > wrote: > > > > Re: Jakarta Bombings analysis - the best so far > > > > The Straits Times (Singapore) > > Thursday, July 23, 2009 > > > > Plenty of red flags, yet it happened > > John McBeth, Senior Writer > > > > Jakarta hotels failed to pick up clues that could have averted > > tragedy > > > > IN HINDSIGHT, there were plenty of 'red flags'. Nurdin Aziz, as > > he called himself, had made his hotel reservation in a July 10 > > telephone call. He refused the first two rooms offered to him > > and accepted the standard room rate without protest. > > > > He paid a US$1,000 (S$1,400) cash deposit for Room 1808 - > > unusual too perhaps, but seemingly not unusual enough to alert > > the staff manning the reception desk at Jakarta's tightly > > guarded JW Marriott Hotel. > > > > The clerks could not make a copy of his Indonesian identity card > > because the two photocopying machines at the front desk were > > unavailable. He was asked to return later to get it done. He > > never did. > > > > All this occurred on July 15, two days before the twin bomb > > explosions that rocked the Marriott and the neighbouring > > Ritz-Carlton Hotel, both owned by Indonesian-Chinese property > > tycoon Tan Kien. > > > > It is clear from the early room reservation that this was a > > well-planned operation, with the inner workings of the hotel > > apparently under an extended period of surveillance. > > > > Nurdin and perhaps some other accomplices may easily have > > smuggled the bomb-making materials into the hotel in a suitcase > > or suitcases. Checked luggage does not go through X-ray machines > > or other scrutiny, like hand-carried items do. > > > > Well-placed sources tell The Straits Times that all of the > > Marriott's four vapour detectors, which are used to look for > > explosives, were out of order - as were two of the four at the > > Ritz-Carlton. > > > > The Marriott bomb was assembled in Room 1808 - remarkably, using > > electronic components from the room's dismantled television set. > > Experts say these components may have included the remote > > control mechanism, the capacitor and circuit boards. > > > > It has been determined that the explosives themselves were > > concealed from household staff in an air-conditioning service > > duct in the bathroom. Investigators are still trying to > > determine whether a third device, composed of black powder and > > bolts, was designed to destroy the evidence in the room or > > belonged to another bomber who opted out at the last moment. > > > > On the morning of July 17, the bomber took an elevator down to > > the Marriott's spacious lobby, a backpack strapped incongruously > > to his chest and pulling a carry-on bag. > > > > Questioned by two hotel security men, he walked on past, saying > > he had a meeting with his 'boss' in the lounge where businessman > > James Castle was hosting his weekly breakfast. > > > > The position of the backpack attracted the attention of a third > > security man, the shift supervisor. But it was too late. As he > > approached the suspect at the entrance to the lounge, the bomb > > was detonated in a blinding flash of light. The guard has not > > been found. That means the death toll in the twin explosions > > could well rise to at least 10. > > > > One of the survivors recalled seeing a person, whom he thinks > > was the bomber, looking into the meeting room at about 7.25am, > > 22 minutes before the blast. If true, then he was probably > > checking to ensure that the Castle meeting was still on. > > > > The Straits Times has learnt that the second bomber, neatly > > dressed in a black suit and white shirt, colluded with an > > employee of a hotel florist vendor to get into the Ritz-Carlton > > through the employees' entrance. The accomplice, identified as > > Ibrahim, left a resignation letter with his employer and > > disappeared. > > > > Waiting for the Marriott blast, the bomber spent the next hour > > roaming the Ritz with a backpack and bulging laptop case. Then > > he walked down the broad corridor to the coffee shop, where he > > was shown to a table. > > > > Moments later, he got up and detonated the backpack, apparently > > also triggering explosives in the computer bag. A waiter and a > > Dutch couple seated nearby were killed instantly. > > > > The coffee shop was the obvious target but given the relatively > > small number of breakfast patrons, the purpose here may have > > been to simply double the effect of the Marriott explosion. > > > > Sources close to the investigation say that anti-terrorist > > police were close to breaking the case, but they did not have > > enough key pieces of information to prevent the tragedy. > > > > Given the number of red flags, Indonesia's seventh major bomb > > attack in the past decade is likely to force Jakarta's major > > hotels to add yet another layer to their security precautions. > > > > The Marriott in Islamabad, already hit by three bombings, has an > > industrial-size X-ray machine installed at a location away from > > the main reception area. All luggage is run through the machine > > and then delivered to the room. Hand luggage is routinely > > scanned - as is the case in some Jakarta hotels - by smaller > > X-ray machines at the lobby entrance. Both machines can also > > detect explosives. > > > > What the Islamabad hotel could not forestall was a huge truck > > bomb, which detonated outside the hotel last September after > > failing to break through the security barriers. It still killed > > 54 people but that was because the blast ignited a natural gas > > pipe. > > > > Jakarta hotels may also want to look at spending US$25,000 on a > > system called GT200, the brainchild of Britain's Royal > > Engineers, which is currently being used by hotels in Manila. > > > > The crude-looking device - similar to the old divining rod used > > to locate water - can detect almost any explosives up to 600m > > away - and certainly on a walk down a hotel corridor. > > > > Mr Glen Gardiner, president-director of Jakarta-based security > > firm Concord Consulting, which markets the product, says it > > would have almost certainly alerted Marriott's security officers > > to what was happening behind the door of Room 1808. > > > > thane.cawdor@ -- -- Wassalam, Irwan.K "Better team works could lead us to better results" http://irwank.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
