Its really true that we beat KOREA?

One of the rare occasions when Indonesia beat Korea on football. It happened on Saturday (October 12) when skipper Evan Dimas scored all Indonesia’s goals as they beat Korea Republic 3-2 at Gelora Bung Karno stadium, Jakarta, and qualified for the AFC Under 19th years old Championship 2014.
Indonesia finished their qualifying Group G campaign with a perfect record from all their three games while Korea Republic managed to get six points from as many games and sat second in the four-team table.
The leaders of the nine qualifying groups and six best runners-up along with the competition’s hosts Myanmar will compete in the 16-sided tournament in October next year (2014). Indonesia had a dramatic end to their campaign as they overcame South Korea 3-2 in a tense final Group G match to emerge as group winners. They had earlier defeated Laos 4-0 and Philippines 2-0. Its rare occasion, so I've wrote on here  to describe how we've been waiting this moments for many years.

Belajar dari Garuda Muda

The Result of Asian Football Federation (AFF) Under 19th (U-19) or AFFU19: Indonesia are Champions after Winning Sudden-Death Shoot Out, defeat Vietnam. I have wrote it on http://olahraga.kompasiana.com/bola/2013/09/23/belajar-dari-garuda-muda-part-kesekian--595097.html -the title is "Belajar dari Garuda Muda" (Lesson learned from Young Garuda). Check it out

"Belajar dari garuda Muda (Part Kesekian)". Ketika penendang penalti pertama Vietnam dengan jumawa menendang kembali bola yang muntah dari golnya yang mantul ke gawang, saya jadi yakin. Yakin bahwa mereka yang –katakanlah- sombong akan kalah, dan mereka yang rendah hati akan menang. Ini seperti kejadian saat Markis Kido/ Hendra Setiawan meraih emas Olimpiade Beijing tahun 2008. Di set pertama Cai Yun/ Fu Haifeng yang menang, dan satu yang sangat terekam di pikiranku adalah ketika Cai/ Fu melepaskan emosi kepercayaan terlalu tinggi dengan meninju ke udara ke arah penonton –atau apalah namanya yang mengindikasikan kesombongan itu. Selengkapnya di sini

 

MDGs: Killed or to be killed

It feels long time ago that I didnt wrote any article in English. Probably since 2010 before I moved to Medan for eight months. Yesterday –Tuesday March 27- I brought the jakarta Post when we flight to Balikpapan. Several article and news are very nice and I think its nice to be shared. I noticed interesting event on bali this week –when many stakeholders discuss the post 2015 MDGs agenda.

Riwanto Tirtosudarmo wrote that civil society groups, academics, the private sector, government officials and politicians will conduct parallel meetings.  The bali meeting is the final meeting of the HLPEP meetings previously conducted in New York, London and Monrovia. One major issue that increasingly needs to be given more attention in the discusiion on sustainable development is the issue of inequality among populations between and within countries.

Inequality is apparently increasing between economic calsses as well as between regions in Indonesia, in which Java has consistenly shown higher social and economic conditions compared to the rest of the country, especially between eastern versus western. Population dynamics concerning migration or human movement is perhaps the most crucial component than is strongly interconnected with the spatial dimension of social equity.

Issues related to sustainable development, particularly economic growth, social equity and the environment will become the major focuses for the post-2015 development agenda. The other perspective that will be brought to the discussion is the contribution of population dynamics in the achievement of sustainable development. Population dynamics are acknowledged to play a significant role in shaping the achievement of sustainable development goals. As one of the largest countries in terms of population, Indonesia has many experiences and features that could be shared with the world.


Indeed, inequality is pressing all of us through its various manifestations and sustainable development will never be realized if the widening inequality cannot be resolved. Social equity, as one of the focuses of the post-2015 development agenda besides economic growth and environment sustainability, is highly instrumental in tackling the increasing problem of inequality.

The manifestation of inequality is often measured through a selected number of social and economic indicators that show the glaring gap between different groups within society. The crude measurements, however, still use income per capita between different economic classes within a country or the average income per capita between countries.

Inequality is apparently increasing between economic classes as well as between regions in Indonesia, in which Java has consistently shown higher social and economic conditions compared to the rest of the country, especially with the eastern parts. At the global level, as The Economist (2012) based on various sources, has also indicated the alarming growing inequality internationally.

The issue of social equity is therefore critical for the overall goals of the post-2015 development agenda as increasing inequality no doubt threatens economic growth as well as environmental sustainability, both in Indonesia and in the world. Population dynamics concerning migration or human movement is perhaps the most crucial component that is strongly interconnected with the spatial dimension of social equity.

As the case of Indonesia has shown, the relocation of people to urban areas in Java and to other economic hubs on other islands reflects the uneven development between regions as well as inequality between migrants and local populations.

Rapid urbanization has resulted in the increasing concentration of people in the areas around Jakarta, Semarang, Bandung and Surabaya, all of which are located in Java. The glaring disparity between the haves and the haves not in the cities is also an alarming sign as social tensions and conflict can easily break out at some point.

The large proportion of young people not adequately accommodated in the labor markets is also another issue on how population age structure is closely related with social, economic and political developments.

The recently published 2012 Failed States Index illustrates that incompetence in managing a growing population significantly contributes to the condition of a failed state.

At the global level, the situation concerning population dynamics and social equity is unfortunately far from promising. International migration could be seen as one of the aspects making the inequality gap between rich industrialized countries and poor developing countries lean toward more protectionism on the part of rich countries when it comes to immigration. In the last 10 years or so, international migration has been perceived not only as an issue of economic development but also of becoming more political and securitized.

Unless a progressive effort to reduce the barriers to human mobility between countries is removed, which is unlikely, the social equity issue as aspired to in the post-2015 development agenda currently under discussion in Bali will most likely be the main stumbling block to making the world more equally prosperous and peaceful.

Ini Sepakbola, Bung....

SANGAT provokatif ketika koran sore Sinar Harapan memakai headline “Hakikat Sepak Bola itu Kemenangan” pada edisi Senin, 18 Maret 2013. Namun seandainya provokatif, tendensius, dan berlebihan, minimal bisa menarik kocek saya untuk membelinya. Statemen itu mengutip pernyataan kolumnis sepakbola Indonesia, yang sudah almarhum, Kadir Yusuf.

Semula saya menolak mentah-mentah sinyalemen yang “sederhana” itu. Kalau diteruskan, maka sebuah tim hanya mengejar kemenangan semata, tanpa ada jiwa seninya. Maka berterimakasihlah kepada Maradona, Zidane, Messi, dan barangkali Andik Virmansyah, merekalah yang memasukkan unsur keindahan dalam gocekan bolanya.

Kalau “hakikat sepakbola adalah kemenangan” diteruskan, maka bisa-bisa yang menggelora adalah asal menang. Sehingga bisa muncul negatif footbal. Ibaratnya Chelsea yang menaruh bis di depan gawangnya –saat melawan Barca di ajang Champion 2012 lalu. Yang penting menang, alias menghalalkan segala cara. Tapi hati ini serasa hipokrit ketika menonton PSSI lawan Arab Saudi hari Sabtu (23 Maret) lalu. Kok ndilalah, bola yang dikuasai terus menerus oleh Arab, menit kelima jatuh ke Boas Salossa, dan gol dengan dua sentuhan.

Indonesia unggul 1-0 pada menit kelima. Bayangan saya, biarlah pertandingan dikuasai Arab, yang penting Indonesia menang. Tapi ternyata, hukum alam –alias ciptaan Tuhan-berlaku. Mereka yang berusaha lebih banyak, hasilnya lebih gedhe juga. Arab mendominasi, dan merekalah yang menang.

Seperti melihat pertandingan Italy lawan Belanda dulu tahun 2000 di Piala Eropa. Dominasi total football dalam pertandingan tersebut takluk dengan grendel catenaccio Italia. Saya berharap demikian adanya pertandingan PSSI kemarin. Tapi lagi-lagi apa daya. Keberuntungan berpihak kepada mereka sang penguasa –maksudnya yang menguasai pertandingan.

Pelatih legendaris Indonesia asal Belanda, mister Wiel Coerver (1924-2011), yang pernah melatih Indonesia tahun 1975-1976 pernah mengatakan, inti sepakbola adalah memenangkan duel satu lawan satu. Pernyataan Kadir Yusuf tadi bila dituliskan secara lengkap adalah: Inti dari sepak bola adalah bagaimana mencetak gol lebih banyak ke gawang lawan –daripada tim lawan mencetak gol ke gawang kita.

Seminggu sebelumnya, kepengurusan PSSI bisa “reuni” dengan hanya satu bond di tanah air (Ahad, 17 Maret). Ini salah satu bentuk kemenangan yang kompromis. Ketika La Nyalla Mattalitti (Ketua KPSI alias Komite Penyelamat Sepakbola Indonesia) mau menjadi Wakil Ketum PSSI dibawah Djohar Arifin. Jadi inti sepakbola adalah kompromi bukan.....

Selain itu, dan pasti, hakekat sepakbola adalah berbuat baik. Ini yang tampaknya kurang dari pemain sepakbola. Semangat mencederai lawan, semangat yang berlebihan dalam merayakan gol di hadapan lawan, itu bukan semangat yang betul.  Coba pelajari bagaimana seorang Christian Ronaldo tidak mau merayakan golnya di depan publik Manchester, karena mungkin takut melukai perasaan mantan klubnya. Atau bagaimana CRonaldo tidak mau bertukar kaos dengan pemain Israel, karena takut menyinggung tanah Palestina –tuan rumah sebenarnya- di atas stadion tersebut.

Sepakbola adalah refleksi kehidupan ini bro. Sabar dan syukur salah “dua”nya. Sabar dalam menguasai pertandingan, dan syukur atas gol yang diciptakan.

My Poem on Febr "13

Masihkah Hujan Mengguyur Kota Ini

Ini bukan soal banjir yang melanda kotamu
tapi air di matamu yang membeku dan membekas
siang itu seperti kemarin hujan menyapaku
di tengah surya yang menghujam panas
bukan tentang panas itu lagi-lagi bukan
dan kamu adalah esnya di antara batu-batu
tapi bukan itu lagi-lagi bukan
karena auramu ialah sekam menyatu satu
dan bisakah aku membuatkanmu kolam
yang tengahnya lampu namun bersinar kelam
lalu kamu menepi karena alasan rancu
lalu aku seperti menyesali sesuatu
karena auramu ialah sekam menyatu satu
dan bisakah kuyakin segera meninggalkanmu
tapi bukan itu lagi-lagi bukan
karena auramu menarik seperti sang malam
dan kerlingmu adalah bohlam, bohlam, bohlam,
tapi bukan itu lagi-lagi bukan
apapun itu semakin semakin aku
karena aku semakin terpekur dalam
guyuran hujan cintamu