Feb 20, 2008

Indonesian Child Song


IN my mailing list with 94 generations of SMA Negeri Karanganyar (SMA is Sekolah Menengah Atas = Senior High School) we talked about how the ‘child song” can effect the need for achievement. It is similar with David McClelland’s trial to make connection between the ‘before sleeping’ stories and need for achievement. This is the letter in Bahasa at last February 2008
Need for achievement was defined by David McClleland as a motivation to excel in attaining goals in competitive settings through hard work, self-challenging, and persistence. Entrepreneurs may have an image of high-achievers, yet studies show that entrepreneurs do not stand out significantly in terms of their need for achievement. Non-entrepreneurs can be equally achievement-seekers at times and entrepreneurs may not exhibit a stable high need for achievement. A recent meta-analysis of the relationship of achievement motivations to entrepreneurial behavior nonetheless finds a positive correlation between the former and the choice of an entrepreneurial career and entrepreneurial performance. In McClelland’s theory of individual motivations, the need for achievement is one of three dominant motivations, together with a need for power and need for affiliation. McClelland further argued for an achievement orientation—a societal-level stance that endorses individual achievement, striving for improvement and excellence in performance. See generally, DAVID C. MCCLELLAND, THE ACHIEVING SOCIETY (1961). In these email above, we discuss about the Indonesian Child’s Song, and Java’s Song.

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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:57:53 -0000 "kang_aan" wrote:
Lagu "Nenek Moyangku Orang Pelaut"... aku dadi kelingan lagu-lagu lainnya. Tepatnya lagu anak-anak lainnya. Kalau di diktat manajemen disebutkan seorang peneliti bernama David McClelland yang pernah mengamati bagaimana dongeng anak-anak itu berpengaruh pada semangat hidup kelak dewasa. Mungkinkah bisa dihubungkan antara lagu anak-anak dengan semangat need for achievement gitu Ros? Baik mari kita hubung-hubungkan. Lagu "Nenek Moyangku" sebenarnya sangat bagus, tetapi kenyataannya matra berbangsa dan bernegara kita masih sangat amat 'daratan' sekali. Buktinya ... Orde Baru mewariskan yang namanya jabatan Panglima Abri (TNI now) dikuasai angkatan darat. Thanks God we have Gus Dur, yang akhirnya mengangkat Panglima Tni dari angkatan laut (AL atau AU ya kalau gak salah). Lagu kedua adalah lagu anak "Balonku" mengapa jumlah balonnya ada empat dibilang lima? Warna: 1. Hijau 2. Kuning kelabu 3. Merah muda 4. Biru. Apakah kelabu itu warna tersendiri? Kalau Abu-abu sih ada... Kelabu? Gak janji deh. Lagu ketiga adalah lagu "Naek Kereta Api" itu apakah mengajarkan mbonceng gratisan? Simak saja teksnya "Siapa hendak turut... Ke mbandung surabaya... Bolehlah naek dengan percuma". Makanya terus numpak KA pada gelantungan di atas gerbong -mungkin mempraktikkan lagu tersebut. Teksnya terakhirnya berbunyi "..ayo kawanku lekas naik... keretaku tak berhenti lama". Awas lagunya sedikit bohong, kereta di Indonesia itu kalau berhenti padha lama-lama, gak nyampe-nyampe tujuan. Lagu keempat adalah "Bangun Tidur". Masak habis bangun tidur "... kuterus mandi tidak lupa menggosok gigi". Dunia kesehatan menyebut bahwa paling bagus adalah B-A-B pagipagi. Bangun tidur kok terus mandi ama tidak lupa gosok gigi, apakah lupa kalau lepas baju dulu, pakek sendal masuk ke kamar kecil, jangan lupa keramas. Terakhirnya adalah "...habis mandi kutolong Ibu, membersihkan tempat tidurku...". Membersihkan t4 tidur itu sehabis bangun tidur, jangan ditunda-tunda. Kemudian membersihkan t4 tidur apakah tugas Ibu doang? Kemana sang ayah (-> gender perspective) .Lagu kelima adalah lupa judul, tapi sebulan y.l.l Mertuaku membelikan vcd lagu buat anak kami, tentang "Tangga Nada". Ada bahaya memplesetkan tangga nada lho, katanya gini "DO dari kata sado, RE hari telah sore, MI biasa dengan baso, FA dengar suara tifa, SOL sama dengan sombong, LA alunan biola, SI dari sisi nada, mari kembali ke DO..".... Bagaimana pendapat kang Karjo? Ibu Ita Triyanto alias Rosana Dewi Yunita? Mohon konfirmasi


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Karjo E answered ::
aku dik cilik hampir tidak kenal lagu anak-anak maklum aku ra pernah sekolah TK Kalau di suruh nyanyi, biasane aku nyanyi lagu pitik walik jambul Pitik walik jambul sega golong mambu enthong mangga sami kundur weteng kulo sampun kothong enake.... sega liwet campur terong -teronge bunder bunder -bocah sregep mesti pinter -teronge ijo ijo -bocah keset mesti bodho kurang lebih begitu lah liriknya, lagu itu yang ku hapal waktu itu. Tapi lagu itu cukup membekas juga dalam benak saya 'Supaya pinter harus rajin, kalau tidak rajin nanti bodoh' pilihannya rajin atau keset "rajin" waktu itu dimaknai dengan mengisi waktu untuk melakukan rutinitas pokok atau melakukan sesuatu yang mendukung aktifitas pokok. misalnya SEORANG PELAJAR, kalau sepanjang waktu tak pernah absen kemudian sepanjang hari belajar terus menerus, kemana-mana bawa buku.. ini dibilang rajin

Dampak dari pemahaman ini adalah sang pelajar tidak sempat keluar melihat alam nyata di sekelilingnya. Dalam benaknya hanya berkutat bahwa tugas pokok seorang pelajar adalah belajar, dapat nilai bagus, rangking 10 besar. Pinter secara akademik. Namun karena tidak bergaul dengan lingkungan menyebabkan kurang peka terhadap kondisi sekitar. Cenderung kuper. akhirnya bodoh secara sosial. Mungkin saya termasuk korban dan pelaku dalam kasus ini.

Ada lagi nilai yang ditanamkan waktu sekolah, yang menurut saya membekas pada pribadi siswa2 dan alumni2 nya. Sewaktu SMA kita selalu di cekoki tentang informasi kesuksesan alumni2 SMA yang telah berhasil menjabat ini dan itu, sebagai karyawan ini dan itu, telah bergaji sekian dan sekian. Dampaknya motivasi yang muncul dalam diri-diri kita adalah bagaimana bisa meraih apa yang diceritakan oleh guru2 tersebut. pegawai oriented dan gaji oriented.

Rasanya tak pernah di ceritakan seorang alumni yang berhasil bisnis ini dan itu, mengembangkan sumber daya ini dan itu, profitnya sekian dan sekian. akhirnya motivasi
kesanapun juga minim. Rupanya nilai yang ditanamkan sewaktu masa pertumbuhan, sewaktu kecil begitu membekas dalam diri-diri kita, berkarat dan mendarah daging.

Barang kali itu gambaran pengaruh penanaman nilai masa lampau terhadap perkembangan kita saat ini. Mungkin psikolog lebih memahami masalah ini. Allahu alam


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yuni andono replied:
Lagunya bagus itu Jo. Lagu-lagu anak yang basa jawa malah banyak maknanya hlo kangmas Karjo. Tahun 2004 saya sempat ngikuti ceramah Emha Ainun Nadjib, waktu itu ada peluncuran bukunya Anas Urbaningrum. Emha saat itu sedikit membahas tentang lagu Gundul-gundul Pacul. Ternyata maknanya dalam sekali. “Wakul ngglimpang segane dadi saklatar”… Apa isinya wakul or bakul? Adalah nasi (sega). Pemimpin harus mengutamakan rakyat –yang notabene pemakan nasi- di atas segalanya, karena kalau sampai ngentengake maka rakyat akan turun ke jalan. Lagu lain adalah Ilir-ilir. Kalau yang ini versinya sudah banyak beredar. Inget kan yang “Lir…Ilir, Lir…Ilir, Tandhure wus sumilir, tak ijo royo-royo, tak sengguh temanten anyar. Cah angon-cah angon, penekno blimbing kuwi, lunyu-lunyu penekna, kanggo mbasuh dodotira. Dodo tira…dodo tira, kumitir bedhah ing pinggir, dondomono, jlumantana… kanggo saba mengko sore, mumpung padhang rembulane, mumpung jembar kalangane… Dha surak’a surak hiyo”. Cah angon adalah sang pemuda, bisa juga pemimpin. Penekna blimbing kuwi -> titilah pohon belimbing secara hati-hati. Buah belimbing adalah buah bersegi lima, yang merupakan simbol dari Pancasila. Bagi Umat Islam, 5 adalah lima rukun Islam dan sholat lima waktu. Dodot (s)ira, dodot (s)ira kumitir bedah ing pingggir: Kain dodotmu, kain dodotmu, telah rusak dan robek. Bila orang meninggalkan agama maka kemerosotan moral terjadi sehingga berkehidupan digambarkan seperti pakaian yang telah rusak dan robek.

Dondomana, jlumatana, kanggo seba mengko sore: Jahitlah, tisiklah untuk menghadap (Rajamu/ Sang Gusti) entar sore. Seba artinya menghadap orang yang berkuasa (raja/gusti), oleh karena itu disebut 'paseban' yaitu tempat menghadap raja. Di sini Sunan Kalijaga memerintahkan agar orang Jawa memperbaiki kehidupan beragamanya yang telah rusak tadi dengan cara menjalankan ajaran agama Islam secara benar, untuk bekal menghadap Allah SWT di hari nanti.

Kalau pak Gunawan, menceritakan bagaimana hikmah lagu Sluku-sluku Bathok: “Sluku-aluku bathok, bathoke ela-elo, Sri Romo menyang Solo, leh-olehe payung mutha, takjentiiitttt lololobah, wong mati ora obah, yen obah medeni bocah, yen urip goleka dhuwit”. Kalimat terakhir: kalau hidup maka carilah uang. Saya masih nyari makna lagu Cublak-cublak Suweng. Konon lagu itu juga dipopulerkan oleh para Walisongo. Kalau ada yang tahu mungkin. Semoga bermanfaat.
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Roseanne wrote on 25th February 2008:
Begini, pada dasarnya bikin lagu anak memang harus disesuaikan dengan tingkat perkembangan kognitif mereka yang masih sensori motor atau operasional konkrit. gak seperti kita-kita yang udah di tahap operasional formal. Ngerti yang abstrak-abstrak. So, ya gimana caranya dengan lagu memancing anak untuk mengembangkan kemampuan bahasa dan motoriknya. dengan lagu, mengembangkan daya ingat anak. Nah, tugas ortu atau guru untuk menjelaskan ke anak atau mendiskusikan ke anak isi lagu tersebut. Misal boleh gak naik kereta gratisan???Aku waktu kecil juga gak paham lagu Ilir-ilir, Gundul-gundul pacul, Pitik walik sobo kebon, dll. Ya karena guru or ortu yang ngajari lagu tersebut gak pernah ngasih tahu maknanya. Coba waktu itu dijelasin mungkin gak sekedar hafal saja tapi juga lebih bisa memahami dan menjiwai. Mungkin bagi para pencipta lagu gimana bikin anak yang penting hepi aja bisa apal lagu en bisa narinari,loncat, and teriak-teriak. ...kalau anak hepi, gampang masukin banyak hal antara lain pengembangan need for achievement tadi
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people of the world, my daddy's name is Sardjito Wiwoho but you can wrote with Sarjito

Feb 11, 2008

Tempe, Batik, now Gayo Kopi: They’re Belong to Anybody



TITLE “Holland claims trade right over Gayo coffee” shown up in The Jakarta Post February 11th of 2008. The Gayo tribe in Aceh Nangroe Darussalam may already have lost the right to use their own name in international trade for their own brand of coffee after a Dutch firm officially claimed Gayo coffee as its trademark. Made from one of the world's finest varieties of Arabica beans grown only in central Aceh's highlands, the Gayo trademark coffee can only be used in international trade by Amsterdam-based company Holland Coffee B.V.

Rachim Kartabrata, the executive secretary to the Indonesian Coffee Exporter Association (AEKI), said Holland Coffee claimed to have registered the word as one of its brands, Gayo Mountain Coffee. Gayo coffee is produced only in the area of Aceh Tengah and Bener Meriah, known as the country's second largest coffee bean plantation.

The coffee was named Gayo after the Gayo people who process the beans. The coffee is a favorite among Europeans and Americans for its strong premium taste and long shelf life. According to Rachim, CV Arvis Sanada, the Indonesian company Holland Coffee has asked to give up the name, had refused to stop exporting its coffee under the name of Sumatra Arabica Gayo.

A big cosmetic farm from Japan, Shiseido, have patent its cosmetic which contained from Indonesian spicy like “kayu rapet, kemukus, lempuyang, pelantas, pulowaras, diluwih, cabe jawa, brotowali, kayu legi, and bunga cangkok”. Tempe is patented by 13 kind belongs to US (8 belongs to Z-L Limited Partnership and 2 to Gyorgy) and 6 kinds belongs to Japan. Another copyright of tempe called “tempeh” founded by Nishi and Inoue (Riken Vitamin Co Ltd) at July 10th of 1986. translated from discussion in http://www.forumsains.com/index.php?topic=333.msg1158. Batik -java's traditional clothes- maybe belongs to malay’s copy right. Conclusion from http://sumatra-bali-hartatinurwijaya.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html.


What is Tempe and why is it so special?
Tempe is a fermented soy bean product originally made by Central Javanese people through fermentation with Rhizopus species. Although there is evidence of earlier fermentation of soy, tempe had appeared in the Central Javanese food pattern in the 1700s.

Through its extensive use in main meals and snacks, it has led to people in the Jakarta having the highest known soy intake in the world and accordingly of the isoflavones contained.This provides an unique opportunity to consider the health effects of tempe (and soy), both beneficial and potentially toxic. Apparent health benefits are bowel health, protection against cardiovascular disease, certain cancers (e.g. breast and prostate) and menopausal health (including bone health).
Closely resembling a Camembert cheese in colour and texture with a mushroom-like aroma, tempe is in fact one of the world's first soybean foods. It is composed of cooked soybeans that have been fermented through by an edible fungus which, when mature (like a cheese) becomes an attractive and aromatic white cake suitable for a variety of uses in hundreds of local dishes.
Now, research in food science and nutrition has shown tempe to be unique amongst vegetarian foods, and already popular among vegetarians in the USA and Australia. An ever popular and versatile ingredient in Indonesian dishes, it represents a food that has evolved in the archipelago and within Indonesia has become synonymous with Indonesian traditional cookery. In the sense of 'as American as apple pie', tempe is the soul of village food to the Javanese.

The result showed that tempe feeding lowered the cholesterol level in the tempe group, possibly due to the high content of cholesterolreleased from the liver through the bile (M Astuti, unpubl.data, 1997). According to Gorcia Hermosilla et al. free fatty acids in tempe inhibited the action of hydroxymethyl glutaryl CoA reductase, an enzyme which is responsible for cholesterol synthesis in the liver
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ever been in Kadipiro Baru Kelurahan (village) Bejen? From 1983 until 1994 we live there, home sweet home

Jan 28, 2008

Whats Wrong Whats WRight



AT the time 13.10 Indonesian’s clock (similar with 1 pm in Bangkok Thailand) at Sunday –Ahad Wage in Java’s calendar- 27th January 2008 in Jakarta, at the age of 86, the islands of Indonesia shuddered, because Soeharto was passed away. Retirement General Soeharto is the President for Indonesia’s 32 years – from 1966 until 1998. On the same time M. Jusuf Ronodipuro, one of the founders of state radio station RRI, passed away at the Gatot Subroto Army Hospital at about 11:20 p.m Sunday. He was 88. Born in 1920, Jusuf suffered a stroke in June 2007 and had been in and out of hospital since then. According to daughter Fatmi Ronodipuro, the burial will be held at the Kalibata National Heroes Cemetery in South Jakarta. Along with Bachtiar Lubis, Jusuf was the first person to read Indonesia's 1945 Proclamation of Independence on air. Jusuf requested then president Sukarno make a recording of the proclamation as historical proof of the event. The recording was made in 1950. Jusuf also coined the "Once on air, it remains on air" slogan of The Radio Republic of Indonesia (RRI), which remains in use today.
Soeharto is a ‘complete’ man, he has a good and bad on the both side, in the same time. United Nations and Worlbank prove that General Soeharto is a good leader on making improvement for the poor countries like Indonesia. Stability had been Suharto's gift to his country. By his ‘military perspective’ networking he make this country peace, but not for his opposition.
From the time.com released that Soeharto had come to power at the head of a junta of generals in 1965, overthrowing the country's flamboyant and charismatic first president, Sukarno, whose friendship with Beijing and predeliction for Communists in the government had brought the country to the brink of economic collapse and civil war. Sukarno born on June 6th of 1901, Suharto on 8th June 1921, after that his ‘golden boy’ retirement General Hartono born on 10th June 1941. The three mens’ different born exactly on 2 days 20 years. We call Soeharto or Suharto by “Pak Harto”. Pak or Bapak used to respectfully address a man, without regarding to his status or age. Similar to English Mr. (mister), Pak is usually followed by name. But for 1st President Soekarno or Sukarno we call him by “Bung Karno”, the word BUNG similar with ‘Bro” or “brother”.
To implementation what we call pro-indigenous people, Soeharto made a lot foreign debt to financing. How to react to Soeharto’s phenomena? Soeharto built Indonesia and we have him to thank for modern buildings, ports and harbors. He has made mistakes, and there were consequences for many, but he used that centralistic form of government to build things as fast as possible.

To understand what Pak Harto have done –whats wrong whats wright- when he lifed is by “Hart to Hart”. Harto closely to “heart to”. Understand him, but the law enforcement must keep on running
-doing my thesis I am assistanced by Dr Jossy Prananta Moeis-

Jan 22, 2008

Not just DOUBLE-TRACK line, we need TRIPLE TRACK



FROM The Jakarta Post I know that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to commission a double-track railway link between Kutoarjo in Purworejo, Central Java, and Yogyakarta on Tuesday, 22nd of January 2008. The event will take place at the Kutoarjo station, state railway company Kereta Api Indonesia spokesman Noor Hamidi said Monday. He said the 64-kilometer track was constructed from 2004 to 2007 at a total cost of Rp 900 billion provided by the Japanese government through the Japan Bank for International Cooperation. At the same occasion, Yudhoyono would also commission an electric train depot of Kereta Api's Jabotabek (Jakarta-Bogor-Tangerang-Bekasi) division in Depok, West Java, by a teleconference facility at the Kutoarjo station. The title of JakartaPost's article is "SBY to inaugurate double-track line".

Ladies and gentlemen,
From www.businessweek.com/magazine we memorize that on 2006 our cabinet have set up economic objectives to be achieved in the next five years. We have to have 6% to 7% growth over the next five years just to create jobs. Our government's development strategy is based on what SBY’s the triple track strategy.

The first track is to achieve sustainable higher growth through a combination of strong exports and increased investment, both domestic and foreign. The second track is to stimulate the performance of the economic sectors to create employment. And the third track is to promote the development of the rural economy and agriculture to alleviate poverty.

SBY said on business week that, “By 2009, we aim to reduce the unemployment rate from 9.5% to 5.1%, and we seek to cut the poverty rate in half, to 8.1%. We also seek to increase growth on average of 6.6% per annum during the next five years. But we want to do more than pump up numbers. We intend to create quality growth that creates good jobs for around 2 million new job seekers each year. We also aim to improve the climate of doing business within Indonesia”.

Yet for the first time in years from 2005 Indonesia has reason for some pesimis. Connected with world economy and depreciation between Rupiahs and the dollars, and the oil.
On RKP or Rencana Kerja Pemerintah (Government’s Document Planning in year), they plan to take 6,8 percent growth. Assume that 1 percent could absorb 215 thousands people (SMERU assumption). CONCLUSION: We need the implementation action by triple track strategy, not just DOUBLE TRACK
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Annex: Pak Yudhoyono is the retired general turned political reformer, who holds a PhD in agriculture, is also overseeing a long-sought-after economic recovery. The economy shot up 6.4% year-over-year in the first quarter, the best showing since 1996. And foreign investment is starting to stream back into this $255 billion economy, after slowing to a trickle since the mid-1990s.
The attempt is by implementing what we would call the triple track strategy. The government of Indonesia (GoI) has declared triple track strategy strategy for 2004-2009. That’s growth, employment, and poor. Growth means pro-growth, to achieve sustainable higher economic growth through a combination of strong exports and increased investments –both domestic and foreign. From 5.5% in 2005 become 7.6% in 2009 economic growth.
About 70% of our poor people are living in the country side, are working in the agriculture sector, around 40 millions. And another 20 millions of the near poor, they are mostly living in the country side and in the agriculture sector. So if we could improve, if we could revitalize the agriculture sector, and rural economic development, we believe very strongly in the years to come we can reduce significantly the number of the poor people by stimulating our agriculture and rural economic development.
If we remain on track with the the triple track strategy strategy, we will be able to meet the economic target set by my government immediately upon assuming office. Economic growth can only be accelerated if we increase productivity in every sector of the economy. And such an increase in productivity will only take place if macro-economy reforms are continued and synchronized with various reforms at the micro level. We can be assured that GoI is actively persuing various reforms to improve investment climate, to ensure flexibility of the labor market and to combat corruption in order to reduce high cost economy.
On 2007, the Government of Indonesia launched “National Program on Community Empowerment” or PNPM (Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Masyarakat). Specially in Social Department, we launched BLPS or Bantuan Langsung Pemberdayaan Social (Conditional Cash Transfer for Social Empowerment).
On September 7, 2006, the President of the Republic Indonesia has declared a new government policy to accelerate poverty reduction and jobs creation in the framework to achieve the target in the mid term national development plan to halve the number of poor people by the year of 2009. The GOI has launched the National Program for Community Empowerment (PNPM= Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Masyarakat) as a main vehicle or program instrument to accelerate poverty reduction and jobs creation –start in fiscal year 2007.
PNPM (Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Masyarakat or National Program for Community Empowerment) is adopted from the success of Kecamatan Development Program (PPK =Program Pengembangan Kecamatan) and Urban Alleviation Poverty Program (P2KP= Program Penanggulangan Kemiskinan Perkotaan).

So we need not just double track but TRIPLE TRACK to be implemented. We hope the President not just inaugurate double-track line. That's a simple world -coz just talking about the train track. The real problem is ...implemented triple track. Pro employment, high income, and the quality of the growth. Its a real problem

Jan 20, 2008

Rexy Resign: Rebuild Republic?


AT KUALA lumpur on 19th January 2008 (exactly on Java’s calendar as “Ahad Pahing”, ahad = sunday), men's doubles pair Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan clinched the Malaysian Open Super Series title after beating Danish veteran pair Lars Paaske-Jonas Rasmussen. The Indonesian duo edged out the Danish pair 21-10, 20-22, 21-18. In the same tournament, the Malaysian’s coach from Indonesia –bapak Rexy Mainaky- surprised Malaysian badminton fans when he said he was contemplating resigning as national doubles coach on Friday, January 17th. Told to ‘BernamaMainaky has voiced out his intention to resign after being accused by Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) officials that he was not being professional in carrying out his job. This had been the talk in town after his charges, namely the world No. 1 men's doubles pair Koo Kien Keat/Tan Boon Heong and also the pair of Choong Tan Fook/ Lee Wan Wah failed to deliver in last year's world championship in Kuala Lumpur. And to further tarnish his reputation as a coach, none of his players managed to get to the quarter final stage of the ongoing Malaysian Open here.
Rexy said his work ethic has been questioned by certain quarters and he is upset with the allegation. "I'm responsible. There are people who think I'm not working. If people are thinking I'm not doing my job, why should I continue?," said a frustrated Rexy. "I don't want to say who they are and whether they are from the BA of Malaysia (BAM) or National Sports Council (NSC). "I only have this to say. I love Malaysia, if I decide to quit, I'll never get involved in badminton again. This has nothing to do with any offers (from others). "Only BAM can clarify the situation." This is the second time Rexy has contemplated quitting in the middle of a tournament. The first was during the Doha Asian Games in 2006 after his charges lost in the team event against South Korea. However, he retracted his decision a day later and Kien Keat-Boon Heong repaid his faith in them by winning the men's doubles gold after a 36-year lapse, they defeated Indonesian double Luluk/ Alven.

LADIES and gentlemen, the themes of this article means “If REXY RESIGN from Malaysian Badminton, will he back to Indonesia and REBUILD REPUBLIC of Indonesia's double”. Rexy started began coaching the men's doubles players in 2005 and his current contract expires in June 2009.
Rexy leaved Indonesian team, retired from badminton since 2000. His succeed is terrific from both- as a player and coach. He make the England get the 1st silver from mixed double in Olympic which held in Athens, Greek, on 2004. As a player "Duo R" (Rexy and Ricky Subagdja) become the champion in Olympic at Atlanta 1996. His succeed is follow what his coach –bapak Christian Hadinata or nickname by “Koh Chris”- have done. Maybe PBSI (Persatuan Bulutangkis Seluruh Indonesia, Indonesian Badminton Association) have to monitor what Rexy do from year to year, from country to country. Treat him by experience as a young coach, and when he got mature –maybe he can help the Malaysian get medal for 1st time in Beijing Olympic- so pull him to become Indonesian coach.
Source: Bernama, New Straits Times

Jan 9, 2008

Putin: PUT him IN long-power


EARLY week on January 2008, former President Suharto (or with old 'Bahasa' wrote by: Soeharto) suffered from anemia and a severe edema. Two weeks before that event, Vladimir Putin from Russia agreed to work as prime minister. No correlation between two former President from different countries but Putin is similar with Soeharto. They similar on what they both have done to make a long-lasting the power. Soeharto became President of Indonesia for 32 years (1966-1998). Former President of Soviet Union, Mr Michael Gorbachev made a glasnost and perestroika on 1989 that make USSR ‘dead’. USSR divided into small country, and Boris Yeltsin (note: his big body remembered me to Java's story giant Borisrawa) make a great Russia more powerfull with his policy. Anyway Gorbachev make a long wat to democratization but it’s a long way to heaven (or hell?) for Russian. Putin make a good job in his career, following his former successor.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Putin exactly under the loyalist he has hand-picked to succeed him as president next May, a move that would keep him as one of Russia's most powerful politicians for years. Addressing about 2,000 supporters of the Kremlin-allied United Russia party in central Moscow, Mr. Putin said he was ready to become premier if his former aide, Dmitry Medvedev, is elected presi¬dent on March 2. That is a virtual certainty given broad public support for Mr. Putin and the Kremlin's tight control over politics.
"[We] shouldn't be ashamed or afraid of transferring the key powers of the country, the destiny of Russia to the hands of such a man," he said of the 42-year-old Mr. Medvedev after receiving a loud and lengthy round of applause.
His announcement appeared to draw a line under a year of speculation about his future role and was widely interpreted as a signal that the Putin era is entering a new phase, rather than winding up. Analysts said that even though the Rus¬sian constitution gives the president far greater powers, Mr. Putin, as premier, will remain Russia's most powerful politician for years ahead. Some observers argue that could fuel tennsion between the two men and lead to instability in the future. Those statements is also agreed by Andrew Osborn from The Wall Street Journal 18th December 2007, under the title “Putin will Take Job of Premier to Retain Power”.
Some analysts also said they thought Mr. Putin's pledge was a ploy, though, and said they couldn't believe he would really take a position that was subordi¬nate to one of his former aides and left him vulner¬able to public criticism if the government became unpopular.
"They need Medvedev to win as many votes as possible. That's what this is about," said Nikolai Zlobin, analyst at the Center for Defense Information in Washington. "I don't think he [Mr. Putin] is really going to become prime minister."
Prevented by the constitution from running for a third consecu¬tive term and yet still relative! young at 55, analysts say the premier's job would allow Mr. Putin to influence Mr. Medvedev while retaining the option of running again for the presidency in 2012.
"It will be a wonderful tandem," Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said of Mr. Putin's pro¬posed political union with Mr. Medvedev, the Interfax news agency reported. With his official popularity ratings above 80%, Mr. Putin is being marketed by his United Russia party as the country's "national leader" who ended the chaos of the 1990s and gave Russians higher living standards, fueled by oil revenue while reasserting Russia's influence on the world stage and returning lost national pride. His pivotal role in political life was underscored earlier this month in a parliamentary election cast as a referendum on his nearly eight years in pnwer. Mr Putin'c United Russia party won almost 65% of the vote. ber face creased with purpose when he broke the news to his sup¬porters from a rostrum bedecked with images of Russia's blue, white and red national flag.
Mr. Putin called Mr. Medvedev "the most optimal" choice as president praising him as man who put the interests of the government and its citizens above all else Shying away from the triumpha-lism that has marked some of his recent public appearances, he said there were more unsolved prob¬lems than achievements to talk about and urged his party to re¬form and the government to. Lord Acton ever said, “Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupt absolutely”. Be carefull Putin, what you will have done is a move that would keep you as one of Russia’s most powerfull politicians for year. But what you announce appeared to conclude a year of speculation about your role. And your country too.

yuni andono achmad : kang_aan@yahoo.com

Jan 7, 2008

2008 belongs to PRC?



THE Wall Street Journal on Tuesday December 18, 2007, make on report that PRC or People Republic of China’s economy shrank by about 40% -at least according to a reworking of glo¬bal economic statistics coordinated by the World Bank. Reported by Bob Davis, TWSJ forwarded information from The World Bank group looked at prices in 146 countries to come up with more-accurate rankings of economic might. It's difficult to compare countries because they have different currencies and because global products are priced differently in different nations.
The World Bank tried to put together a global set of statistics for 2005. When national economic output was converted into dollars at the prevailing exchange rate, the U.S. has 28% of global gross domestic product. A better measure, many economists figure, is to compare the cost of commodities and services in different nations. By that measure, the U.S. share was just 23%
As the report by the "International Comparison Program" explained, if a Big Mac costs $4 in the U.S. and €4.80 in France, then the conversion rate is €1.20 to the U.S. dollar—no matter what the official exchange rate is.
The comparison program collected data on the prices of more than 1,000 goods and services in 100 countries to come up with a "purchasing power parity" figure for converting national currencies into dollars.
The recalculation especially affected China because this is the first time the country has been surveyed in a rigorous fashion for price data. Under the old calculation, China had GDP of $8.8 trillion, about 15% of global GDP of $59 trillion. According to the new calculation, China's economy shrank by 40% to $5.3 trillion, about 10% of global GDP of $55 trillion.
World Bank predicts that Indonesian macro economic make a larger on growth by 6.4 percent becoz consumption and investment up. While Japan’s growth just 1.8 percent, Korea 5.1, Vietnam 8.2, and Thailand 4.6 percent. President PRC Hu Jintao said, "Our economic growth is realized at an excessively high cost of resources
and the environment," and pledged to reverse the trend. Mr. Wu, a longtime worker at the agency, has seen that shift firsthand.. "From 1995 to 2005, in that 10-year period, there were only two projects that SEPA did not approve," Mr. Wu said in an interview in his offices in northern Beijing. The agency handles the en¬vironmental-impact assessments that companies file as part of the approval process for major investments, like steel mills and power plants.
PRC prepared all including environmental controls. PRC’s environmental controls, long criticized as weak and ineffective, are starting to have real economic bite. This year, officials have rejected billions of dollars worth of new facto¬ries and other investment projects for failing to meet standards. For local firms accustomed to ignoring standards, this could change the financial calculus.
"Our supervision is getting tougher, and environmental requirements are being raised," said Wu Bo, a director at the State Environmental Protection Administration who is in charge of reviewing the environmental impact of new factories and infrastructure projects.

aan (alumni SMP Negeri 1 Karanganyar, Kabupaten Karanganyar, Jawa Tengah)

Dec 4, 2007

Welcome CCCP (Climate Change Conference Participants)



THE global effort to save the planet is reaching momentum as support grows for reaching a new consensus on climate change mitigation, the negotiations for which officially began here at Nusantara. From 3 until 14 December 2007 held in Bali, Indonesia, more than 10,000 people, including ministers and senior officials from more than 180 countries, are gathered in “Nusa Dua” to address climate change. They are seeking a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, which expires in 2012. The Conference, hosted by the Government of Indonesia, brings together representatives of over 180 countries together with observers from intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and the media. The two week period includes the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, its subsidiary bodies as well as the Meeting of the Parties of the Kyoto Protocol. A ministerial segment in the second week will conclude the Conference.
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change say that this year, 2007, could well be termed an incredible year for climate change. It started with the EU adopting a 20% or 30% reduction target for 2020, depending on action by others; It continued with major developing countries like China adopting national climate change strategies; In 2007 all major summits adopted policy positions on climate change, starting with the G-8 and including APEC, ASEAN, and the Commonwealth; In 2007 the United States launched meetings of the major economies aimed at contributing, by the end of 2008, to the UNFCCC process; Above all, 2007 was the year of the IPCC, whose Fourth Assessment Report was applauded at every stage of finalization and crowned by the Nobel Peace Price; 2007 culminated in a call from more than 80 heads of state or government at the high-level event of the Secretary-General, for a breakthrough in Bali.
The 1997 Kyoto accord required industrialized nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions -- which are generally thought to be responsible for global warming -- by specific amounts by the year 2012. Indonesian Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar says he expects that the Bali meeting will achieve more comprehensive results than Kyoto.
Brother of Rachmat –Indonesian journalist Wimar Witoelar- wrote that The Bali meeting should address poverty issues”.
He is hoping for serendipity to direct the Bali results to a more immediate human problem in Indonesia, which is poverty. In a talk show held on Nov. 27 by the UNDP to launch the 2007/2008 Human Development Report, the main speaker, Haakan Bjorkman, the UNDP's Indonesia country director, highlighted the poverty implications of this year's annual report, Fighting Climate Change: Human solidarity in a divided world
His point was that Indonesia's poor will be most affected by climate change, the United Nations Development Programme said in an auxiliary report titled The Other Half of Climate Change. This report looks at the impact of climate change on the poor in Indonesia as well as efforts to adapt to the global weather phenomenon.
In the report, it says that Indonesia will face changes in seasons and rainfall, more extreme weather events, rises in sea levels of between 9 and 100 centimeters, warmer oceans and higher temperatures due to global warming. Bjorkman said the impact of climate change was discriminatory. "Poor people are more vulnerable. They have fewer resources or capacities to adapt to climate change," Bjorkman said.
"Farmers, fishermen and urban slum dwellers are living on the most marginal land that is vulnerable to droughts, floods or landslides. When disaster strikes, poor communities have very few resources to fall back on," Bjorkman said. "The impact of climate change will be felt the strongest among poor people. Climate change sabotages Indonesia's fight against poverty."
On The Jakarta Post (December 4th 2007) Indonesia's state minister for the environment, Rachmat Witoelar, took over the leadership of the UN forum debating future strategies from Kenyan Environment and Natural Resources Minister David Mwiraria, giving the host country an opportunity to play a role in the crucial talks.
The optimistic mood was further buoyed by the announcement from the Australian delegation that it would soon ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Australia's change of heart followed the Labor Party's win in recent elections, and newly installed Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is expected to join the 12-day talks next week.
aan iesp 96

Nov 26, 2007

Human Pathos and Suffering





AFTER teaching (asistancy) to the undergraduate student at Fakultas Ekonomika dan Bisnis Ugm, I decide to read a moment in Periplus at Bandara Adisutjipto in Yogyakarta. NOTE: Adi Sucipto we can write by Adi Sutjipto, or Adi Sutjipto International Airport. Fakultas Ekonomika dan Bisnis it was: Faculty of Economic, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta). I have found an interesting fiction book and I call it ‘priceless’. In Periplus bandara a lot of book labelled by that mark “just Rp 5000”. Its very cheap than the volatility of dollar versus Rupiahs nowdays. One US dolar could be Rp 9.100, in Bahasa we use to write Rp 9.100,00.
I choose the novel written by Yashusi Inoue “The Counterfeither an Other Stories” copywright 1965. The three stories assembled in that bookreveal another face of Yashusi Inoue –his great compassion for his fellow human being. The tragic Hosen harra in “The Counterfeiter” and pathetic Kagebayashi of “The Full Moon” are not particularly pleasant people by any standards, Oriental and Western, but the symphatethetic compassion with which Inoue handles them provides a real insight into the nature of the author.
It therefore seems rather surprising to find “Obasute” that Inoue harbors a fear that :misanthropic blood” possibly flows through his veins.
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“What do you mean by ‘extraordinary’?”
“I guess it’s a funny thing to say but any how, even now I cant forget the way the old man looked that night”, said Tassan (“The Counterfeither”, page 63)

“The fall colors seem better than the moon, don’t you think?,” said my driver. Right then, I had had exactly the same thought. A corner of the plain was quickly becoming obscured, and just as I was thingking thaht I heard the sounds of an approaching shower, raindrops began to fall right where we were. We left the place. (page 96, Obasute).

There’s not time like the present to make this switch (page 104, The Full Moon).
You see, anything at all can happen (page 107)
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Leon Picon who made the intorduction analyses about Inoue’s book say that “Human pathos and suffering, lonelines and isolation, fatalism, and Budhistic concepts of oredestination form doninant strands in the fabric of virtually all of the writing of Yasushi Inoues. His own separation from his parents when he was a child set the pattern for the basic framework of there moods, particularly that of lonelines.”
The Japanese character for “lonelines” means “orphan alone”. And Yasushi Inoue as a child was an orphan alone in almost every sense but the legal one. I agree with the Mainichi Daily News that this book is “Japanese in setting, but universal in symbol and appeal”
(Yashusi Inoue was born in 1907, and died 1991)
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kang_aan@y----.c-- andono ahmad or yuniando@y----.c--

Nov 19, 2007

One Asean One Market –Too Fast and Furious




NOVEMBER 19th of 2007. Early this month, Southeast Asian civil society leaders met at the third ASEAN and Civil Society Conference in Singapore. On that event, the 10 leaders of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will sign a historical charter and declaration of the Economic Community Blueprint when they meet at the 13th ASEAN Summit here (Jakarta Post on Tuesday). What is ASEAN Charter? From wikipedia, stated that The ASEAN Charter is a proposed constitution for the Association of South East Asian Nation or ASEAN. The intention to draft the constitution was formally tabled at the 11th Asean Summit held in December 2005 in KL, Malaysia. Ten ASEAN leaders, one each from each member state, called the Asean Eminent Persosns Groups has been assigned to produce a draft of the charter. In the 12th ASEAN Summit held in January 2007 in Cebu the Philippines, several basic proposals were made public. One of the proposals includes the removal of non-interference policy that is central to the regional group since its formation in the 1960. "The high point of the summit will be the signing of the ASEAN Charter," host Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo said. "It will take us an important step forward in regional integration, to a higher level." The long-overdue ASEAN Charter is aimed at formally turning the 40-year-old organization - often derided as a powerless talk shop - into a rules-based legal entity. That means ASEAN can sue and be sued, and will be held accountable for all the treaties andagreements it signs. The charter still needs to be ratified by parliaments of member countries, a process that will take a year.
It is hoped the charter would help transform the grouping into a more cohesive and rules-based organization, while the economic blueprint will pave the way for a single market and production base in the region by 2015.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Saturday the charter would make ASEAN a more cohesive and dynamic organization and help promote a culture that supports the effective implementation of agreements. He added it would also put a rules-based framework in place, which would include measures for monitoring compliance and provisions for the settlement of disputes. The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint is a master plan that identifies the priority measures and actions to be undertaken to transform ASEAN into a region with free movement of goods, services, investments, skilled labor and flow of capital by 2015. The ASEAN secretariat said in a statement the blueprint was aimed at ensuring the full and effective functions of the ASEAN economic community in order to generate more growth and create more jobs.

1st Experience: European Integrity
Learning form European Market, Paul R Krugman and Maurice Obstfeld say that by now most of 1992’s market integration measures have been implemented (‘page 611). National economic barriers within EU Europe generally are lower than in the mid-1980s, but 1992 has been more effective in some areas than in others. Financial capital, for example, can move quite freely, not only within the European Union, but between the European Union and outside jurisdictions.
Krugman wrote on “International Economic” thaht the tprogress has been slower, however, in lowering barriers to the free movement of people within the European Union. EU workers are legally free to seek jobs or reside anywhere in the Union, but labor mobility remains limited. Several EU members feared illegal immigration from outside the European Union, however, and as a result the original goal to abolish passport checks at EU members’ common borders by January 1, 1993, was not fully met.
What we talked about “Integrity Market” is exactly the results of development of the global economy with all its fluctuations, cycles of boom and recession creates a wide range of efforts for identifying the outputs and the factors affecting it. While this development to the eighties was focused to the economic competition between West and East, the historical changes in the late of eighties rapidly changed this situation. World economy is transfering to the stage of its globalisation and by this new "game" are accepting quite new rules. The expansion of three centres of economic power (USA, Japan and European Community) are preparing new tools and measures for the wining of definite total economic supremacy. Obviously all three centres are trying to use their existing domestic advantages, but it vill be probably just new strategic elements which can decide who is definitely "number one" and who will win more on detriment of the others.
European has been implemented the one market as symbol of integrity mass of “need and give”, consumption and production from about 400 million people (two times up with Indonesia people). Adapted European phenomenon to Asean case is too fast, but it’s a tremendous trial if we want to implemented. Europe needs more/ less 40 years from 1957 to make an market unification. The ‘original’ EU members formed their custom union in 1957 was still incomplete 30 years later. The efforts culminated in the birth of the Euro on January 1, 1999. Two main motives inspired this integrity is: 1) To enhance Europe’s role in the world monetary system, 2) To turn the European Union into truly unified market. Europe needs 40 years, while Asean follow the idea just 10 years (from KL Meeting in 2005 until 2015 desire to implemented). Its too fast isnt it....

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