Apr 29, 2012

Water Privatization in Jakarta ‘Not Working’

Water Privatization in Jakarta ‘Not Working’:
Water Privatization in Jakarta ‘Not Working’
Two groups on Sunday criticized the privatization of clean water in the capital, and received the support of a candidate for the city’s governorship. 11:03pm Apr 29, 2012
Put Religious Freedom Before Harmony in Indonesia, Activist Urges
Efforts by the government to insert itself more prominently into religious matters, coupled with its unclear stance on the role of religion in the state, will only exacerbate interreligious tensions in the country, leading rights activists warn. 10:34pm Apr 29, 2012
Baduy Share Worries, Concerns With Government
The Baduy tribe, which lives in isolation in the Lebak district of Banten, is reiterating its demand for the government to get its faith, Sunda Wiwitan, recognized by law. 10:17pm Apr 29, 2012
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Sacred Grave Impairing Jakarta Port Growth Plan, Hutchison Says
Hong Kong. A land dispute over a sacred grave site in North Jakarta has constrained a massive project to develop Tanjung Priok port, the chief executive of the company that manages the port said in Hong Kong on Friday. 10:22pm Apr 29, 2012
Indonesia Holds Promise For Hutchison Amid Forecasts of Fast Economic Growth
S&P Warning Points to Dark Storm Clouds Over India’s Economy
Bumi Serpong Damai Profits on Property Sales in Banten Site

Chinese Activist Chen’s Plight Echoes Story Of Previous Asylum Seeker
After the high drama of a 650-kilometer dash to freedom across northern China, Chen Guangcheng, a blind legal activist now reportedly under the protection of US diplomats in Beijing, confronts more mundane challenges: filling in forms, listening to warnings about potential peril ahead, and waiting while officials haggle over his fate. 9:44pm Apr 29, 2012
A Year After Bin Laden Was Slain, Al Qaeda ‘In Ruins’
Thailand Still Struggling to Secure Freedom of Speech
South Sudan Hit First by Fighting, Now by Inflation

Badminton: After Indian Win, Liliyana, Tontowi Turn to London
Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir raised Indonesia’s hopes for Olympic glory in badminton when the mixed doubles pair retained its India Open Super Series title on Sunday. 8:21pm Apr 29, 2012
Israeli Football Copes With Wave of Violence
NBA: Rose Injury Casts Major Cloud Over Chicago Bulls Victory
Rooftop Missiles to Secure the London Olympic Games

An Afternoon With Former Indonesian President BJ Habibie
At 76 years of age, Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie is as agile and enthusiastic as someone half his age. When the former president of Indonesia welcomed a group of women to his house in Kuningan, South Jakarta, on Wednesday to reminisce on his life and work, he presented himself as a true gentleman: Always polite, ready to smile and quick to crack jokes. 8:01pm Apr 29, 2012
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The Delicate Art of Finding the Right Kebaya
‘Beyond Organic’ Fish Farming in Your Home
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  • 11:11pm |How Young is Too Young For Tec...so is it safe for those babies to use iPads on such early stage of life?

  • 11:06pm |Malaysia Plantation Giant’s Li...If happen its bigger than Face Book's IPO. But If Pakatan win the election on June I think the court will abourt the move.

  • 10:48pm |‘Mr Bean’ Confirmed to Play Gh...@asogenie: sadly we are talking about the same SIR Rowan Atkinson, and yes i share the same disappointment..

  • 10:41pm |Afriani Faces 15 Years For All...@bawel: nope i'm not sad and i dont need to hand in credible facts to you, because everyone can just read news and see the hard facts about how yo

  • 10:31pm |Samsung Indonesia Launches Sma...I bet it's only Jakarta that will be getting Smart TV. The rest of the archipelago is not cared at all by everyone.


    Even th

  • 10:31pm |Samsung Indonesia Launches Sma...Good article, why late?

  • 9:48pm |We need a nanny here, because as other people posted because of the traffic we spend too much time out of the house, and the other reason is that h

  • 9:32pm |Angelina Recovering From Shock...Angelina woman from the Democratic party is punishable by criminal acts of corruption that is layered, Rindak money Laundering and Crime corporatio


Some 1.1 million people are employed in Indonesia’s formal mining sector, according to the national statistics bureau. But this figure does not include illegal miners, like this group operating in a...


Some 1.1 million people are employed in Indonesia’s formal mining sector, according to the national statistics bureau. But this figure does not include illegal miners, like this group operating in a...


Some 1.1 million people are employed in Indonesia’s formal mining sector, according to the national statistics bureau. But this figure does not include illegal miners, like this group operating in a...


Some 1.1 million people are employed in Indonesia’s formal mining sector, according to the national statistics bureau. But this figure does not include illegal miners, like this group operating in a...


Some 1.1 million people are employed in Indonesia’s formal mining sector, according to the national statistics bureau. But this figure does not include illegal miners, like this group operating in a...


Some 1.1 million people are employed in Indonesia’s formal mining sector, according to the national statistics bureau. But this figure does not include illegal miners, like this group operating in a...


Some 1.1 million people are employed in Indonesia’s formal mining sector, according to the national statistics bureau. But this figure does not include illegal miners, like this group operating in a...


Some 1.1 million people are employed in Indonesia’s formal mining sector, according to the national statistics bureau. But this figure does not include illegal miners, like this group operating in a...


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Angelina Recovering From Shock of Being Arrested

Angelina Recovering From Shock of Being Arrested:
Angelina Recovering From Shock of Being Arrested
The House of Representatives’ Honorary Board is closely watching the investigation process into alleged graft suspect Angelina Sondakh, a Parliament member from the ruling Democratic Party, to see if or when she will need to be permanently dismissed. 3:42pm Apr 29, 2012
Indonesian Lawmakers Demand Additional Investigation in Organ Harvesting Case
The National Police and the Foreign Ministry have dismissed the possibility of organ harvesting in the case of three Indonesian migrant workers shot by Malaysian police, but several lawmakers remain unconvinced. 3:48pm Apr 29, 2012
Raising the Modern Family: Indonesia's Nanny Debate
More and more parents in Jakarta today are expressing concerns about having their young children cared for by nannies. And it’s understandable. 3:33pm Apr 29, 2012

Graft suspect Angelina Sondakh was arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission on Friday after seven hours of questioning. (Antara Photo)

How Young is Too Young For Technology?
Twenty-two-month-old George sits on a tiny blue chair, at a baby-sized desk, playing with a grown-up toy — an iPad, sign of a powerful trend that has set alarm bells ringing among child development experts. 4:08pm Apr 29, 2012

The Sunday Profile: Eliza Kissya, The Man Who Can Summon Fish
Soft winds blow through the tall nutmeg trees on Doa Dukono Hill, Tobelo, North Halmahera, as a man with a long, white beard plucks his ukulele. Sitting in front of young people in a traditional hall and looking across a vast spread of coconut trees, small islands and the Halmahera Sea, he sings a well-known, cheerful song from Maluku with a big smile. 3:52pm Apr 29, 2012

My Jakarta: Adrianus Widya Krisnadi and Erma Sianturi, Lovers, Co-Owners of De Londre Haus
Business and romantic partners Adrianus Widya Krisnadi and Erma Sianturi sometimes consider attending business seminars a date. The very entrepreneurial couple are now trying to get De Londre Haus, a laundry service, off the ground.

Krisna, 25, is a small business veteran while Erma, 27, was once a secretary to the board of directors of one of country’s biggest companies, but decided to give up that life for the more exciting one of start-up owner.

The couple talk to My Jakarta about learning how to do laundry, why they stand out and the perils of working with your romantic partner. 4:19pm Apr 29, 2012
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  • 4:25pm |Aceh Man Caught Smuggling 35 K...@Lauren

    Not sure of your logic, unless you mean the police there are smoking the good stuff (heads), and not merely leaves.

  • 4:19pm |Raising the Modern Family: Ind...I congratulate Andreati for her determination and her understanding that a child is indeed something very special to have and I really despise self

  • 4:17pm |Singapore Party Canceled After...if we protect our kids from sex but not from war, and see nothing wrong with that position.
    I don't get it. It must be a Christian thing.

  • 4:15pm |Indonesian Lawmakers Demand Ad...we demand an apology after accusing them of organ harvesting on 3 armedIndonesians illegally in Malaysia... does not compute

  • 4:13pm |Yet Another Indonesian Maid Fa...seems the same here 22.. human and religious abuses reported every day and courts/police do nothing

  • 4:03pm |Indonesian Lawmakers Demand Ad...Malaysian Police(PDRM) 5 of them SHOT 3 ALLEGED ROBBERS based on SUSPICION not FACTS. ain't the court suppose to decide? those 3 were workers at

  • 3:57pm |Raising the Modern Family: Ind...Debate?

    If folks are financially able to afford a nanny, and wish to employ a nanny, then do so.

    If folks aren't fin

  • 3:52pm |In Singapore everything had to be made by man.
    Bali had it all, but men are now destroying it.

    Is it true after all that ther


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Bersih 3.0 Jakarta

Bersih 3.0 Jakarta:
It’s been 25 years since Unspun left Malaysia. The reason for leaving was Operasi Lallang, when the Umno-led government, headed by Mahathir closed down The Star, the paper where Unspun was working at, for political reasons.
Since then life has taken Unspun to many countries, with the past 16 years mostly in Indonesia which I consider home these days. For all its faults, Indonesia is more democratic, freer and less hypocritical than Malaysia society.
Time has also loosened many of the emotional ties that Unspun has had of Malaysia, so much so that I do not keep up so much with the politics any more and generally ignore the trivial pursuits of the opposition and the government.

And why bother? The Opposition and the Government were trapped in their artless polemic, devoid of vision.
The Opposition could only oppose without offering any viable alternatives. There was a brief flicker of hope in Anwar Ibrahim. There was a man who at least seemed like he had a vision. But a closer look at him and you see through the man for what he is – a consummate politician with the same moral consistency of a chameleon’s colors as it moves over a varied terrain.
The Government also disappointed. There was Mahathir who was effective and did a lot of good for the country. But at the same time he not only failed to build the institutions that are essential for a democracy ; he helped destroy them. He also failed to groom any worthy successors. The result was Abdullah Badawi, a man who had less charisma than a five-day old rubbish dump; and now Najib, a man so cautious that he’s have to have his domineering wife inspect the toilet paper before he wiped himself.
So Unspun spralled into total nonchalance when it came to Malaysian politics.
Then something stirred when Bersih 2.0 came around. Watching the leader of the movement, Ambiga, speak and address reporters and their questions Unspun saw, for the first time in many years, a Malaysian leader who was skilled in communicating her thoughts and vision. She was measured, uncluttered and spoke her mind without being defensive, like so many other Malaysian politicians.
So when Bersih 3.0 came around yesterday Unspun decided to shake off his ennui and got the family to attend its gathering in Jakarta. The setting was in a restaurant/bar called Liquid Exchange.
The agenda was to gather wearing the trademark Bersih yellow T-shirts, have lunch, give some people the opportunity to make some short speeches and then disperse. It seems tame by comparison to the risks faced by Bersih supporters in Malaysia and the organizers came up for some criticisms from a Malaysian who lived in Australia (see this link).
But the organizers had good reasons: It was illegal for foreigners o stage demonstrations in Indonesia and they were initially unsure how many malaysians would attend. the initial calculation was maybe five Malaysians as they are not generally known for their defiance of authority.
So they were pleasantly surprised when the turnout totaled over 80 Malaysians, plus three or so Indonesians and one German supporter. At the restaurant we were able to follow the development of the Bersih 3.0 protest in KL through news bulletins on Al Jazeera. Another indication of of how the world is watching.
A few speeches were made, not fantastic ones but those that came from the heart. The gist of it was how we all wanted to see a more democratic Malaysia; that Malaysia had receded in democracy while Indonesia had forged ahead; and, most touchingly, that we would have not done our duty to our country and our families if we had stayed home and not tried to make our country more democratic if only by showing up in an act of defiance against the authorities.
One other thing that I was very proud of was how some of the Malaysians, headed by old friend and former president of the Malaysia Club Jakarta Ch’ng Chin Hon, passed the proverbial hat around to raise funds for a charity – not for Malaysians but for the needy in the community we work in – the disadvantaged Indonesians.
Chin Hon and his friends run Kecara, a foundation helping poor Indonesians in Jakarta by collecting and distributing used clothes, food and even disbursing scholarships.
The gathering then released balloons as a symbolic gesture of releasing our wishes for a free election in Malaysia and dispersed after that.
After that, for the first time in a long while Unspun  felt proud of the fellow Malaysians who turned up in the Bersih gatherings in Malaysia, Jakarta, Bali and at least 10 other cities worldwide.
The fact that so many Malaysians had turned out in the Bersih gatherings, which in the past was something that most people would have feared to do, for fear of government reprisals, is evidence enough that Umno’s days are numbered as the dominant power in Malaysian politics.
The fear is gone and one that happens there is no way they can hold on to power for too long, unless they change. Maybe that was why Unspun could smile so heartily when a Malaysian Embassy political attaché had asked to take a photo with Unspun. His reason was that he wanted to show a blogger that he had met Unspun but I have a feeling that the Special Branch may be admiring my dentist’s handiwork. I hope they like the smile.

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Obama?s 15 funniest jokes

Obama?s 15 funniest jokes:
His best punchlines aimed all across the room.



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What the Rest of the World is Like for Women

What the Rest of the World is Like for Women: During the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing, more than 100 countries expressed their commitment “to advance the goals of equality, development and peace for all women everywhere in the interest of humanity.” Since then, the United Nations has been tracking the plight of women, at times demanding international attention. To make [...]
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Australia Government Under Pressure

Australia Government Under Pressure: Australia's minority government suffered a further blow after Prime Minister Julia Gillard suspended an embattled lawmaker from the Labor party in a move that will pressure the government's stability.
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For Miners, Coal Is No Longer Hot

For Miners, Coal Is No Longer Hot: It's been a bleak spring for U.S. coal miners—and the question for Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources is whether they can even meet lowered expectations.
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Texas Base Takes In Children Caught at Border

Texas Base Takes In Children Caught at Border: A dormitory at an Air Force base in San Antonio has become an unlicensed home for young illegal immigrants.
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Support From Islamists for Liberal Upends Race in Egypt

Support From Islamists for Liberal Upends Race in Egypt: Egypt’s most conservative Islamists backed a dissident ex-leader of the Muslim Brotherhood for president, confounding expectations about the dynamics of the Islamist movement.



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Saudi Arabia Closes Embassy in Egypt After Protests

Saudi Arabia Closes Embassy in Egypt After Protests: Saudi Arabia closed its embassy and recalled its ambassador after protests in Cairo over the Saudis’ detention of an Egyptian human rights lawyer.
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Germany Looks to Southern Europe to Fill Jobs

Germany Looks to Southern Europe to Fill Jobs: The recruitment of young, skilled southern Europeans has led to concerns that Germany is gaining another economic advantage over financially ailing European Union countries.



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Women See Worrisome Shift in Turkey

Women See Worrisome Shift in Turkey: Rights groups say domestic violence against women in Turkey has reached alarming proportions, with women's rights being undermined by the Islamic-oriented ruling party and other factors.
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Attack on Christians in Nigeria Kills at Least 15: Witness

Attack on Christians in Nigeria Kills at Least 15: Witness: Gunmen killed at least 15 people and wounded many more on Sunday in an attack on a university theatre being used by Christian worshippers in Kano, a northern Nigerian city where hundreds have died in Islamist attacks this year.



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Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry

Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry: A new literary network revives an old Pashtun tradition.



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News Analysis: The Post-Cash, Post-Credit-Card Economy

News Analysis: The Post-Cash, Post-Credit-Card Economy: Your smartphone keeps track of where you are, what you like and who your peers are, all of which can be leveraged to sell you things you never knew you needed.



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Obama Campaign Confronts Voter ID Laws

Obama Campaign Confronts Voter ID Laws: The Obama campaign has begun national outreach to train volunteers and staff about the new voter identification laws that the campaign says are a burden to the registration process.
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Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Cases Take Toll on Children

Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Cases Take Toll on Children: Not only are more children developing type 2 diabetes, but the disease develops more quickly and is less responsive to treatment, a new study has found.
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Mitt Romney’s road to presidency this fall looks narrow on electoral map

Mitt Romney’s road to presidency this fall looks narrow on electoral map:
It’s no secret that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has a narrow path to win the presidency this fall. Nowhere is that reality more apparent than when examining the electoral map on which Romney and President Obama will battle in November.
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How Osama bin Laden is winning, even in death

How Osama bin Laden is winning, even in death:
In the year since Osama bin Laden’s death, it has been a comforting thought for Westerners to say that he failed. And that’s certainly true in terms of al-Qaeda, whose scorched-earth jihad tactics alienated Muslims along with everyone else. But in terms of bin Laden’s broader goal of moving the Islamic world away from Western influence, he has done better than we might like to think.
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Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.

Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.:
Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it’s not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either side of the aisle to say something outrageous. What made West’s comment — right out of the McCarthyite playbook of the 1950s — so striking was the almost complete lack of condemnation from Republican congressional leaders or other major party figures, including the remaining presidential candidates.
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Al-Qaeda is weaker without bin Laden, but its franchise persists

Al-Qaeda is weaker without bin Laden, but its franchise persists:
As U.S. helicopters approached in darkness a year ago, Osama bin Laden was woefully unprepared: no means of escape, no way to destroy files, no succession plan.
But U.S. intelligence analysts scouring the trove of data he left behind continue to find evidence that al-Qaeda was making provisions for the long term, plans that in some cases remain on track.
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