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The late Abdurrahman Wahid once stated that, “Nahdlatul Ulama [NU] is like Shiite minus Imamah; similarly Shiite is NU plus Imamah.”&lt;br /&gt;
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There have been too many similarities between the two, as the position and role of kyai is somehow similar with the position and the role of the imam in the Shiite tradition. The main contrast between them is that in NU, the concept is visible in the form of accepted culture, while in Shia, it takes the form of theology. Perhaps this is the substance of his statement.&lt;br /&gt;
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The tragedy of Sampang is once again a strong slap to our religious harmony and it is very unfortunate that our security apparatus was not able to prevent this atrocity before it occurred.&lt;br /&gt;
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The attack on the Shiite Islamic boarding school should have been prevented if the police, as well as local government, had a greater concern about this important issue.&lt;br /&gt;
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Article 18 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that freedom of religion is a fundamental right, which should be protected by the state. The entire state machinery, therefore, should assume the responsibility and awareness to foresee any possible threats which could lead to violations of this right.&lt;br /&gt;
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The attack on the boarding school in Sampang reminds us of the tragedy that occurred in Cikeusik, Banten, last year, which left three people dead and their place of worship burned. Just like the tragedy in Cikeusik, the police in Sampang seemed ill-prepared for the raid, even though they were called few hours beforehand.&lt;br /&gt;
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Also, in a similar way, the local police stated that they were prevented access to the site by angry masses positioned a few hundred yards from the school compound.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is totally unreasonable for the police apparatus to have so casually given over their position of strength to the angry masses, which they were supposed to expel.&lt;br /&gt;
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The position of this minority sect is much more marginalized due to the release of a fatwa (edict) by the Ulema Council of Sampang (MUI Sampang), which states that the Shiite tradition has gone astray and is a misguided sect; despite the fact that the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) never released such a fatwa against Shia.&lt;br /&gt;
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Indeed, they recognized that Sunni as well as Shiite were two great sects in Islam, as recognized by the Islamic Conference in Mecca in 2009. This decision shows that the fatwa issued by the MUI Sampang poses a great threat.&lt;br /&gt;
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Previously, several attacks on Shiite Muslims occurred in East Java, in Bondowoso, Pasuruan, Malang and Bangil; these should have made it imperative upon the local government to prevent this particular conflict from escalating and to seek any possible solution to prevent further possible attacks.&lt;br /&gt;
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Meanwhile, the ongoing Sunni-Shiite dialogue among academics, as well as elites, has helped to minimize misunderstanding and build a common understanding among the two groups.&lt;br /&gt;
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It also affirms that previous misunderstandings between Sunnis and Shiites were not based on fundamental aspects from each religious teaching.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is, however, very unfortunate that this kind of mutual understanding is found only within the elite and academic levels; the recent tragedy in Sampang illustrates what can happen if such awareness does not find its way to the grassroots level: namely, the common people.&lt;br /&gt;
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The growing misunderstanding between Sunni and Shiite among ordinary people varies from theological differences, as with Sharia, which at an “elite” level is in fact not very significant, but there is a huge gap between academic dialogue at an intellectual level and what is understood among the majority of people. This happens because of the absence of a strategic approach to familiarize the dialogue process from the elite level in order to reach, and be accepted at, the grassroots level.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is very interesting that culturally there have been several Islamic traditions that have sprung from the Shiite tradition.&lt;br /&gt;
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Tabok and the remembrance of the month of Muharram is one example; although it has been mingled with various cultures from Java, Sulawesi and Sumatra along with their own cultural idiosyncrasies, the essence and the substance of the tradition remains the same.&lt;br /&gt;
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This shows how an accepted culture in the form of a soft approach is more-easily welcomed by people than a hard approach, such as an overly theological or Sharia approach.&lt;br /&gt;
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Also, there have been harmonious relations between Sunni and Shiite, and it’s already been interpreted into common acceptable tradition.&lt;br /&gt;
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Such tradition also shows that culture can become an effective medium to translate elite-level dialogue for acceptance among ordinary people.&lt;br /&gt;
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Thus, for the academic scholar, there should be some sort of comprehensive study to diagnose possible misunderstandings as perceived by people regarding the Sunni-Shiite issue, as well as to map the characteristics and the level of those misunderstandings according to particular provinces.&lt;br /&gt;
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This information could be used to determine the extent to which such misunderstandings may threaten to erupt into serious horizontal conflict, which could be used as the basis of a blueprint to foster further dialogue. Misunderstandings between Sunni and Shiite followers in Indonesia are mostly due to the absence of culture as a means of propagation and dialogue.&lt;br /&gt;
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Finally, the enemies of Islam — as for all religions — are oppression, poverty and ignorance. These common enemies of religion should be examined and understood by local ulema in order that they do not disrupt harmonious relations between different sects within a particular religion or between different religions.&lt;br /&gt;
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Was published at &lt;a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/01/10/cikeusik-sampang-the-threat-conflict.html"&gt;The Jakarta Post&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The writer has a post graduate degree from the department of politics and international relations at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-7367161883707726836?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/KpiGmoFYGJw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/KpiGmoFYGJw/cikeusik-to-sampang-threat-of-conflict.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2012/01/cikeusik-to-sampang-threat-of-conflict.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-2931204005249839565</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-21T02:24:43.222-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Opini</category><title>The legacy of the 9/11 attacks in world politics</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;Kamilia Hamidah, Jakarta | Wed, 09/14/2011 7:00 AM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Ten years have passed since the events of 9/11 struck the United States, taking some 3,000 lives. The so-called terrorist attacks have had enormous global impacts since then. We have marked two wars as part of the US-led War on Terror, in Afghanistan and Iraq, where somehow there are still few signs of stability despite the tens of thousands of additional lives that have been lost.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;However, after 10 years, while the traumatic events still haunt the legacy of 9/11, we have seen some signs of hope with current developments, particularly with the democratic upsurge in the Arab world, which provided both the ideology and leadership for al-Qaeda.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The current trend of the Arab spring is to smash the gulf that was created, deliberately or otherwise, between the Muslim world and the Western world — between the vision of al-Qaeda’s Caliphate Creed and the US championing democratic values.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;It is not the collision between the two ideologies that created the wave of extremism and the later building of a global terrorist network, but this discourse is based upon conflicting policies toward the Middle East, particularly concerning the Palestine conflict, which is crucial for Muslim and Western-backed despotic regimes and rulers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The discourse will persist and will continue to have an audience as long as the collective West does not make adjustments in their policies toward the Middle East.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;For al-Qaeda itself, the end of the Osama bin Laden era this year has had a devastating impact on the organization in South Asia. Its remaining leaders will continue to be hunted, either being caught or killed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;For instance, last week Pakistani and US security agencies collaborated in a joint operation to capture Sheikh Younis al-Mauritani, a senior leader known as the group’s global operations chief.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;However, the threat of al-Qaeda might continue amid the rising turmoil in Arabian Peninsula and parts of Africa. The recent leadership crisis in Yemen might provide an opportunity for the organization to regroup, plan and carry out terrorist actions in the region.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;With the growing humanitarian disaster in Somalia we see al-Qaeda-linked groups intensifying their guerilla campaign, although the terror network has virtually lost their reign of action in the region where it planned international terrorist acts such as 9/11.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;While the threat of al-Qaeda may have become less intense since the events of 9/11, this is not a cause for celebration, particularly from the Muslim world perspective. What the al-Qaeda leadership preaches has undermined and harmed Muslims more than anyone else.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;So, when Egyptians or Tunisians or Libyans fill the streets demanding their desire for democracy, they collectively reject Western-backed political despotism in their respective countries with religious despotism of the sort of jihadis militancy, such as Zawahiri.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Not only al-Qaeda and its terrorist manifestation are to blame for the global havoc, but the manner in which the War on Terror has been waged has made the world more unstable. Iraq in the post-Saddam era is not as stable as was expected before.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Afghanistan is another battleground, which was supposed to end this year, but it seems that there are few signs of a US troop withdrawal anytime soon.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The militaristic US response gives opportunity for despotic regimes to sustain their status quo by labeling or branding their political opponents as al-Qaeda-linked organizations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan, for instance, has employed this trick quite successfully for several years, as it would have been difficult for Gen. Musharraf to rule over Pakistan for so long in the absence of 9/11.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;While Col. Muammar Qaddafi also tried the same game, until recently the current wind of change in North Africa and across the Middle East are so massively popular that even Western desires to keep a Muslim despot and deny democratic opportunity are no longer feasible.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Thus, the 10th anniversary of 9/11 should be a suitable opportunity to reflect upon why extremist causes spread and terrorism thrives within them. As revolutionary trends in various Muslim countries suggest, the way forward is reconciliation and democratization. The war can only end by reconciling with the enemy, as we have seen countries where al-Qaeda and its extremist-terrorist affiliates had flourished have finally chosen the path for democracy and are now looking for the support of the free world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The response to 9/11 in the form of war has shaken the very fundamental foundation of the way world politics has evolved for centuries. In terms of inter-state relationships, the sovereignty of various nations has been violated with impunity in the name of fighting al-Qaeda.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Now as the threat of al-Qaeda has started to recede, it would be the right time to revert to the same code of conduct that the members of the world community have long adhered to, which is to respect each other’s sovereignty.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Finally, while thousand of those who lost their lives in the tragic events of 9/11, or the many thousands more who have perished as a consequence of terrorism and the war on terrorism, they deserve our prayers. Their sacrifice for humanity can only be honored if the most powerful nations are willing to get their act together for the sake&amp;nbsp;of greater democracy and peace in the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The writer is a post-graduate student of politics and international relations at International Islamic University, Islamabad. Was published at &lt;a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/09/14/the-legacy-911-attacks-world-politics.html"&gt;The Jakarta Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-2931204005249839565?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/G_YFpKQqdhk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/G_YFpKQqdhk/legacy-of-911-attacks-in-world-politics.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2012/01/legacy-of-911-attacks-in-world-politics.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-7524680191540197415</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-08T12:00:11.670-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sosial</category><title>From Bin Laden to NII</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;#39;Times New Roman&amp;#39;, serif;"&gt;Eventually Osama episode has been over, we have seen mixed reaction across the world praising the successful operation done by US SEAL in one of Pakistan territory in Abbottabad, which just one and half an hour drive from the capital city of Islamabad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;#39;Times New Roman&amp;#39;, serif;"&gt;Within US perspective this operation means lots for Obama’s Administrations, at least he and his team has fulfilled one of his promise during his presidential campaign. Despite domestic issue on the rising price of gasoline and also the rising percentage of unemployment rate, this event has eventually direct the public attention from domestic issue and somehow rising Obama’s popularity among American society and as positive support as he embarks for his re-election campaign.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/05/from-bin-laden-to-nii.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-7524680191540197415?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/Fb1nnaA8_04" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/Fb1nnaA8_04/from-bin-laden-to-nii.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/05/from-bin-laden-to-nii.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-5879695448600223414</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-14T13:07:18.787-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Parenting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Kesehatan</category><title>Puber Dini Pada Anak 'Precocious Puberty'</title><description>Menjadi orang tua untuk anak yang mulai beranjak meninggalkan usia 5 tahun, tentu ada sebuah kebanggaan tersendiri, bahwa sebagai orang tua kita telah diberikan kesempatan untuk dapat terus menjaganya sampai sebesar ini. Akan terapi sebagai orang tua masa kini, tentu saja kita perlu menyadari perubahan-perubahan apa yang terjadi pada diri anak kita baik secara fisik atau mental, dan kesemuanya itu harus senantiasa kita ikuti perkembanngannya. Memastikan apakan semuanya normal dan baik-baik saja..&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anak saya pernah mengeluhkan nyeri salah satu payudarannya jika kesenggol, usianya belum genap 7 tahun saat ini, meski saat ini saya amati tidak ada perkembangan lanjutan, tetapi tetap saja sebagai seorang ibu saya masih penasaran, &amp;#39;masa secepat itu udah mau jadi anak gede&amp;#39;, lalu seharian saya mencari-cari artikel yang mengupas lengkap tentang puber dini, tapi saya tidak menemukan artikel yang secara lengkap menuliskannya sehingga akhirnya saya menemukan istilah &lt;b&gt;&amp;#39;precocious puberty&amp;#39;&lt;/b&gt; dan mulainya googling sampai saya pada sebuah artikel yang di muat di laman kidshealth.org, yang membahas secara panjang lebar tentang masalah puber dini pada anak. Saya sempatkan untuk menerjemahkan secara bebas kedalam bahasa Indonesia semoga dapat di ambil manfaat terutama para orang tua yang anaknya sudah mulai beranjak pada usia transisi.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/04/puber-dini-pada-anak-precocious-puberty.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-5879695448600223414?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/5PlEjNaaZUw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/5PlEjNaaZUw/puber-dini-pada-anak-precocious-puberty.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/04/puber-dini-pada-anak-precocious-puberty.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-5417968592972340067</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-12T04:56:39.987-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Politik</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sosial</category><title>Briptu Norman, Catatan Tentang Advokasi Publik</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Oleh: Kamilia Hamidah  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://2.gvt0.com/vi/jsVW-XO9nuY/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jsVW-XO9nuY&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;source=uds"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jsVW-XO9nuY&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Bermula dari sebatas keisengan meng-unggah video pendek ke media youtube, yang diberi judul ‘POLISI GORONTALO MENGGILA’ yang berdurasi 6 menit 30 detik, melambungkan nama Briptu Norman pada seantero negeri, Norman yang kala itu hanya bermaksud menghibur rekannya yand dalam kondisi depresi karena masalah keluarganya. Tidak lama video lip-sync lagu India Chayya..chayya…chayya…ini membuatnya hampir mendapatkan sangsi militer dari Mabes Gorontalo beberapa waktu lalu, bahkan tidak menutup kemungkinan akan menghambat proses kenaikan pangkatnya atau lebih sadis lagi di nonaktifkan. Ah, sadis sekali..!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/04/briptu-norman-catatan-tentang-advokasi.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-5417968592972340067?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/4kqMs0bzA1Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/4kqMs0bzA1Y/briptu-norman-catatan-tentang-advokasi.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/v/jsVW-XO9nuY&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;source=uds" length="1090" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><media:content url="http://www.youtube.com/v/jsVW-XO9nuY&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;source=uds" fileSize="1090" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Oleh: Kamilia Hamidah   Bermula dari sebatas keisengan meng-unggah video pendek ke media youtube, yang diberi judul ‘POLISI GORONTALO MENGGILA’ yang berdurasi 6 menit 30 detik, melambungkan nama Briptu Norman pada seantero negeri, Norman yang kala itu han</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Kamilia Hamidah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Oleh: Kamilia Hamidah   Bermula dari sebatas keisengan meng-unggah video pendek ke media youtube, yang diberi judul ‘POLISI GORONTALO MENGGILA’ yang berdurasi 6 menit 30 detik, melambungkan nama Briptu Norman pada seantero negeri, Norman yang kala itu hanya bermaksud menghibur rekannya yand dalam kondisi depresi karena masalah keluarganya. Tidak lama video lip-sync lagu India Chayya..chayya…chayya…ini membuatnya hampir mendapatkan sangsi militer dari Mabes Gorontalo beberapa waktu lalu, bahkan tidak menutup kemungkinan akan menghambat proses kenaikan pangkatnya atau lebih sadis lagi di nonaktifkan. Ah, sadis sekali..!!Read more »</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Culture,Budaya,Politik,Hubungan,Internasional,Sosial,Parenting</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/04/briptu-norman-catatan-tentang-advokasi.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-5151760166889790121</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T14:12:36.692-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Budaya</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Kisah</category><title>Festival Musim Semi Navruz; Catatan dari Uzbekistan</title><description>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0dN6_bqiKAk/TYZrHdffQgI/AAAAAAAAAT0/sFWA0nKma3c/s1600/sumalak.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0dN6_bqiKAk/TYZrHdffQgI/AAAAAAAAAT0/sFWA0nKma3c/s200/sumalak.jpg" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Image taken from &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=813717548243193784&amp;amp;postID=5151760166889790121"&gt;Uzbek Cooking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Assalom, Navruz! &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Sebuah karya puisi terkenal oleh seorang filsuf dan penyair terkemuka Umar Khayam dituliskan: ‘Bahwa dia yang merayakan dan memberikan kegembiraan pada hari Navruz akan menghabiskan hidupnya dengan riang sampai pada perayaan Navruz berikutnya’.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Untuk semua bangsa yang hidup dalam empat musim, musim semi diibaratkan sebagai waktu kebangkitan alam dan kehidupan, sebuah  masa rejuvenasi dan harapan perdamaian antar manusia dengan sesamanya, juga sebentuk masa waktuya penyemaian bibit tanaman, baik pada ladang-ladang maupun pekarangan sebagai penopang ketahanan pangan, pun sebagai masa peningkatan pada ternak, yang kesemuanya itu untuk memperkuat tali kasih sayang dan sebentuk gambaran hubungan mesra antara manusia dengan alam. Hal itulah yang melatarbelankangi perayaan Navrus pada kebanyakan wilayah Asia Tengah, Iraq, Turki dan sebagian Cina Persia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/03/festival-musim-semi-navruz-catatan-dari.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-5151760166889790121?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/lTHElRZ6GEY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/lTHElRZ6GEY/festival-musim-semi-navruz-catatan-dari.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><media:thumbnail url="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0dN6_bqiKAk/TYZrHdffQgI/AAAAAAAAAT0/sFWA0nKma3c/s72-c/sumalak.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/03/festival-musim-semi-navruz-catatan-dari.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-6582589527897796993</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T14:13:10.820-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Politik</category><title>The Challenge of Political Realism in Egypt Revolution</title><description>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;The Jasmine Revolution was not far behind the scene of the history and yet another revolution has swept another Arab country and it has been so far successfully forcing the 30 years reign of Hosni Mubarak to step down from his post. Unlike Tunisia, Egypt was one of US important ally in this region, particularly to support US interest to prevent the growing fundamentalism in this region that might become a hurdle toward Israel-Palestinian Peace process.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Within realist paradigm, naturally a weaker state seeks protection from a stronger state, in response to a potential threat from an adversary, where a stronger states acts in self-interest, protecting the resources of the weaker state from incursion by the foe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-of-political-realism-in-egypt.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-6582589527897796993?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/D6-2ZHQUsTA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/D6-2ZHQUsTA/challenge-of-political-realism-in-egypt.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-of-political-realism-in-egypt.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-2951162928015811796</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T13:50:02.006-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Politik</category><title>Kearah Mana Transisi Mesir Berkiblat? Indonesia atau Iran</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Setelah revolusi Mesir beberapa waktu lalu berhasil membuat Husni Mubarak bertekuk lutut untuk meletakkan kekuasaannya, tidak jelas apakah mundurnya Mubarak yang di sampaikan oleh Omer Suleiman tersebut atas kemauan Mubarak sendiri, atau karena tekanan dari pihak militer Mesir saat itu, yang mana aksi tuntutan para demonstran tersebut tidak dapat di tawar lagi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Sebuah pertanyaan yang layak di pertanyakan saat ini adalah, apa kelanjutan dari revolusi ‘Hari Kemarahan’ tersebut? Akanlah Mesir akan berkiblat ke arah Indonesia atau Iran, sebagaimana banyak di khawatirkan oleh negara-negara yang menanam kepentingan strategis di Negeri Fir’aun ini.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/03/kearah-mana-transisi-mesir-berkiblat.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-2951162928015811796?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/BFYT90dcXCA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/BFYT90dcXCA/kearah-mana-transisi-mesir-berkiblat.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/03/kearah-mana-transisi-mesir-berkiblat.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-2972206099467984176</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T13:50:35.549-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">IDwebhost</category><title>Kapan Perlu Website?</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Eksis di dunia internet, saat ini sudah hampir bisa disamakan dengan eksis di dunia nyata. Sebuah kantor atau toko yang mempunyai gedung fisik, tidak lengkap kalau tidak mempunyai sebuah website. Keberadaan sebuah website sudah seperti kantor atau toko maya yang dapat dikunjungi orang secara online dari jarak dan waktu yang tidak ada batasnya. Begitu juga seorang personal atau pribadi, di zaman sekarang ini, dengan eksistensinya di dunia maya, dapat ditemui, diajak bicara dan berdiskusi secara langsung atau tidak langsung tanpa harus menemuinya secara fisik.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/02/kapan-perlu-website.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-2972206099467984176?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/ZFiUp542je0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/ZFiUp542je0/kapan-perlu-website.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/02/kapan-perlu-website.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-5669145797917768062</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T13:51:06.554-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Politik</category><title>Dari Tunisia menuju Mesir; Akankah membawa Perubahan di Timur Tengah</title><description>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Revolusi Melati di Tunisia masih belum sepenuhnya hilang dari pemberitaan media, antara apa dan bagaimana akhir dari revolusi itu sendiri sampai saat ini masih belum seutuhnya lengkap terangkum dalam sejarah. Dari Tunisia, akankah akan membawa angin segar untuk memunculkan tuntutan perubahan di negara-negara Timur Tengah, -Mesir, tentu saja saat ini yang masih di guncang protes, Jordan, Yaman, Algeria dan Libya- menuju sistem pemerintahan yang lebih representatif dan aspiratif di mata rakyatnya? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/02/dari-tunisia-menuju-mesir-akankah.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-5669145797917768062?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/5cIeDdSYVX4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/5cIeDdSYVX4/dari-tunisia-menuju-mesir-akankah.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/02/dari-tunisia-menuju-mesir-akankah.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-7510067669528616272</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T13:51:52.671-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Budaya</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Informasi</category><title>Uzbek Suzanne, Wall-Embroidery</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs733.ash1/162750_1621438187095_1570657989_31399608_3484794_a.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs733.ash1/162750_1621438187095_1570657989_31399608_3484794_a.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 241px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 180px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Pada sekitar akhir abad ke 19, kerajinan seni sulam tangan menjadi bagian dari budaya di Uzbekistan. Dapat dikatakan hampir setiap wanita Uzbek mengerti bagaimana membuat sulaman Suzana ini. Suzanne pada tradisinya dikenal sebagai bingkisan pernikahan yang diperuntukkan sebagai pajangan dinding pada pasangan yang baru menikah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Kata Suzanne sendiri berasal dari bahasa Tajik yang artinya ‘jarum’, dalam pengertian lokalnya Suzanna diartikan sebagai wall-embroidery. Rata-rata Suzanna paling besar dengan ukuran panjang 2-3 meter dengan lebar 2 meter persegi. Biasanya sulaman Suzanne ini mengikuti model yang sudah di gambar di atas kain polos yang disebur ‘Kalam’, dan model sulaman ini hampir tidak meninggalkan sedikitpun ruang kosong pada dasar kain sehingga hampir motif sulaman ini penuh dan rumit.Sementara itu kombinasi warna biasanya mereka menggunakan warna dari bahan-bahan alami, seperti misalnya warna merah mereka ambil dari perasan paprika merah atau dari buah redberry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/01/uzbek-suzanne-wall-embroidery.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-7510067669528616272?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/7OlbocF9mJ8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/7OlbocF9mJ8/uzbek-suzanne-wall-embroidery.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2011/01/uzbek-suzanne-wall-embroidery.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-5515294232669669563</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T13:52:39.072-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sosial</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Perempuan</category><title>The Fate of Indonesian Migrant Worker</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Migrant workers have become one source of foreign exchange. The World Bank estimates that remittances of these workers will bring at least 7.1 billions U.S. dollars in 2010 and up to 6.7 U.S. Dollars in 2009. However, what they get from the state, we have seen among them return home with suffer and &lt;b&gt;Sumiati binti Mustapa Salan&lt;/b&gt; in one of example.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sumiati&lt;/b&gt; is one case among many cases of Indonesian migrant workers, who experience miserable fortune, this problem will not happen if only the government give them long term protection for their fate, this including measurable legal protection while they work abroad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/11/fate-of-indonesian-migrant-worker.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-5515294232669669563?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/JocFDxc1Etk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/JocFDxc1Etk/fate-of-indonesian-migrant-worker.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/11/fate-of-indonesian-migrant-worker.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-111970861233085808</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T13:25:31.936-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Budaya</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Informasi</category><title>Samarkand, Sebuah Catatan Perjalanan</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;You can travel through the whole world, have a look at the pyramids and admire the smile of the Sphinx; You can listen to the soft singing of the wind at the Adriatic Sea and kneel down reverently at the ruins of the Acropolis, be dazzled by Rome with its Forum and Coliseum, be charmed by Notre Dame in Paris or by old domes of Milan; But if you have seen buildings of Samarkand, you will be enchanted by its magic forever.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anda mungkin dapat melakukan perjalanan ke seluruh dunia, mengunjungi piramida dan mengagumi senyuman Sphinx; Anda dapat mendengarkan nyanyian lembut angin di Laut Adriatik dan berlutut dengan penuh hormat di reruntuhan Acropolis atau terpesona oleh Roma dengan Forum dan Coliseum-nya, atau anda akan terpesona oleh Notre Dame di Paris atau dengan kubah lama Milan; Tetapi, jika Anda telah melihat bangunan Samarkand, Anda akan terpesona oleh sihir selamanya. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/10/samarkand-catatan-perjalanan.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-111970861233085808?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/Us_KkcFmYLA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/Us_KkcFmYLA/samarkand-catatan-perjalanan.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/10/samarkand-catatan-perjalanan.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-4999673922261279901</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T13:58:03.051-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Agama</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Budaya</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Kisah</category><title>Catatan Lebaran di Uzbekistan</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pV48a3OeNUw/TJD5am6Z_oI/AAAAAAAAASg/w-Ln_iinEyg/s1600/Azzim+Home.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517183779046293122" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pV48a3OeNUw/TJD5am6Z_oI/AAAAAAAAASg/w-Ln_iinEyg/s320/Azzim+Home.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: justify; width: 320px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;#39;Haid Mubarik&amp;#39; Begitu ungkapan para muslim Uzbek memberikan selamat lebaran&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lebaran kali ini adalah kali pertama lebaran kami di Uzbekistan, hari Jum’at lalu kami sama-sama merayakan Idul Fitri di negeri ini. Sholat Id untuk warga negara Indonesia yang ada di Uzbek dilaksanakan di lapangan Wisma Duta Besar Republik Indonesia di Uzbekistan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Seperti sholat Id sebelumnya, kali ini juga turut hadir beberapa Dubes dari negara-negara Islam seperti dari Jordan dan terutama dubes dari negara-negara Turkmenistan, seperti Kazakistan dan sekitarnya. Meskipun jawaban mereka agak enggan untuk hadir, dengan dalih, ‘saya ini muslim rusia, yang tidak pernah sholat dan tidak pernah puasa’, tapi meskipun demikian bapak duta besar kita meyakinkan beliau agar untuk tetap bisa hadir sekedar sholat dan makan-makan ala Indonesia. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/09/catatan-lebaran-di-uzbekistan.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-4999673922261279901?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/89iQuCAwDas" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/89iQuCAwDas/catatan-lebaran-di-uzbekistan.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><media:thumbnail url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pV48a3OeNUw/TJD5am6Z_oI/AAAAAAAAASg/w-Ln_iinEyg/s72-c/Azzim+Home.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/09/catatan-lebaran-di-uzbekistan.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-7817498822996687651</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-14T00:28:33.000-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Agama</category><title>Agama di Era Deprivasi</title><description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Dalam sebuah artikel tentang Religion and Global Politic, Explaining Deprivation yang di tulis oleh Jeff Hayness, menyebutkan bahwa, munculnya solidaritas keagamaan adalah sebentuk keniscayaan dari sebuah proses perputaran modernisasi. Banyak kalangan yang sudah memprediksikan kembalinya agama dalam ranah publik.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Dengan arus modernisasi dan globalisasi, peran agama semakin termarginalkan sehingga agama tidak lebih ditempatkan dalam sisi yang paling pribadi. Dalam suatu negara dimana besar kemungkinan konflik horizontal antar agama terjadi, para negarawan cenderung menggiring rakyatnya menuju sebuah proses agama madani, atau disebut civil religion, hal ini dilakukan untuk melindungi kepentingan agama minoritas yang ada dalam negara tersebut. Mungkin di satu sisi akan menumbuhkan terciptanya kebersamaan dalam perbedaan agama, akan tetapi di sisi lain semakin mempersempit lingkup agama di ruang publik, sehingga hal ini makin membuat agama menjadi tersisih dari peran publik.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sebagai proses cycling, agama madani akan sampai pada puncaknya ketika solusi masalah sosial tidak terpecahkan dengan kebijakan publik yang dicanangkan oleh pemerintah, biasanya hal ini sering terjadi dengan permasalahan yang berkaitan dengan ekonomi, yang berimbas pada meningkatnya pengangguran dan kriminalitas. Di saat inilah pada akhirnya agama memerankan perannya untuk menggandeng masyarakat untuk lebih kuat dalam menghadapi resesi ekonomi dan permasalahan sosial lainnya. Apakah dengan ini lalu dikatakan sebagai kembalinya agama di publik?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Tentu tidak, akan tetapi persenyawaan atas termarjinalnya agama dari lingkup publik dan lemahnya agama madani untuk memberikan kenyamanan dalam masyarakat, menjadikan agama tertentu atau kelompok tertentu muncul ke ranah publik dan mencoba menggeser kebijakan pemerintah yang ingin selalu menekan perbedaan antar agama dalam selubung civil religion.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Dalam kasus rencana pembakaran Alqur’an yang di lakukan oleh jamaah Gereja Gainesville Florida adalah sebuah bukti kongkrit kembalinya agama dalam ranah publik dan sebuah akumulasi atas lelahnya masyarakat dengan civil religion, sehingga agama keluar dari batas strategis yang semestinya sebagai penjaga kebersamaan keagamaan guna meminimalisir konflik horizontal antar agama, baik itu di level domestik maupun global.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Rencana ini tidak hanya memicu kecaman dari kalangan pejabat dan pemimpin negara, bahkan sejumlah organisasi keagamaan di AS juga melakukan penolakan yang sama, seperti banyak diberitakan di media massa kita, penolakan dilakukan oleh National Association of Evangelicals&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;(NAE-Asosiasi Evangelis Nasional), the Southern Baptist Convention (Konvensi Babtis Selatan) The Anti-Defamation Leagus dan bahkan gereja-gejera lain yang ada di Gainesville, Florida. Bahkan rencana aksi ini juga mengundang reaksi keras dari komandan pasukan AS yang di Afghanistan.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Terlepas dengan banyaknya kecaman dan tanggapan keras dari berbagai kalangan, tidak menutup kemungkinan rencana ini justru sengaja di gunakan oleh sebagian kalangan untuk mencoba mencoreng keharmonisan antar ummat beragama. Karena tidak menutup kemungkinan aksi ini tentunya akan menimbulkan reaksi keras, terutama dari negara-negara dengan mayoritas muslim dan hal tersebut tentu dapat berimplikasi pada aksi sweeping pada jamaah Kristiani atau yang lebih luas lagi, merenggangkan hubungan antar negara.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Untuk menganalisa kembalinya agama dalam ranah publik dalam kasus Eropa, mungkin perlu dipahami, bahwa banyaknya organisasi keagamaan yang meleburkan aktifitas mereka di semua lini, baik itu politik, sosial dan moral, sehingga tidak mengherankan aktifitas organisasi keagamaan ini secara tidak langsung berpengaruh pada kebijakan yang diambil oleh pemerintah.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sekitar seperempat abad yang lalu, ketika beberapa tokoh-tokoh kenamaan seperti Mark, Durkheim, Weber menyatakan bahwa sekularisme, memerlukan perubahan yang kompleks, baik itu secara struktural dan ideology demi menuju kemajuan politik, dari sinilah kemudian semakin mengikisnya pengaruh agama dalam masyarakat.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Tentu disadari atau tidak, agama adalah bagian integral dari sebuah komunitas, sehingga ketika kultur, identitas suatu kelompok tertentu teralienasi dengan berkembangnya isme yang mengatasnamakan kebersamaan keagamaan atau yang disebut sebagai agama madani (civil religion), maka tidak mengherankan agama akan menjelma sebagai kekuatan kelompok solidaritas yang bertujuan untuk memperlambat proses transisi kultural dalam sebuah masyarakat modern.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Jadi menurut hemat penulis, isu rencana pembakaran Alqur’an semestinya tidak memicu emosi umat Islam, akan tetapi rencana ini semata dikaji dari perspektif yang lebih bijak dan arif. Sehingga tidak terpicu secara emosional.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-7817498822996687651?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/t67__XDfPPA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/t67__XDfPPA/agama-di-era-deprivasi.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/09/agama-di-era-deprivasi.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-8225413211329149868</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T13:26:38.192-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Article Review</category><title>The Myth Of Global Chaos</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;An Article Summary of &lt;b&gt;Yahya Sadowski &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;With the end of cold war in 1989, American was like a baby tasting its first mouthful of peanut butter: both delighted and confused. They could neither understand how it had happened so quickly nor figure out how to adjust to a new world without the ‘red menace’. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Initially the optimism of American society prevailed, where the first vision of life after the &lt;b&gt;Cold War&lt;/b&gt; was articulated by &lt;b&gt;Francis Fukuyama&lt;/b&gt; in his famous article ‘The end of History’. In which he states that the Soviet Union had been defeated not by the force or arm but by the universal allure of American values. And now it shows that the whole world was scrambling to emulate the democratic capitalism epitomized by the United States.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/08/myth-of-global-chaos.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-8225413211329149868?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/V3Yr2NnOgwY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/V3Yr2NnOgwY/myth-of-global-chaos.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/08/myth-of-global-chaos.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-5496458547681622322</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T13:27:39.453-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Article Review</category><title>The Coming Anarchy</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;By: &lt;b&gt;Robert Kaplan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Coming Anarchy&lt;/b&gt;; how scarcity, crime, overpopulation, tribalism and disease are rapidly destroying the social fabric of our planet. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This article was writen by journalist &lt;b&gt;Robert D. Kaplan&lt;/b&gt; in 1994 and it is considered to be one of the fundamental theses on the state of the current world affairs in the Post-Cold War Era and is often ranked on the same level of doctrinal importance as &lt;b&gt;Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilization &lt;/b&gt;and&lt;b&gt; Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History&lt;/b&gt; and the Last Man theses.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Many believed that the post-Cold War would bring about a new era of peace in world affairs. The new struggles were no longer neatly ideological, but cultural and historical. New tensions such as population increases, urbanization, and resource depletion are undermining fragile governments across the developing world.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/07/coming-anarchy.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-5496458547681622322?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/VqmJnggGjks" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/VqmJnggGjks/coming-anarchy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/07/coming-anarchy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-8963397321969107981</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T13:27:54.659-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Politik</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Article Review</category><title>The Next Pattern of Conflict; The Clash of Civilization</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The article was review of &lt;b&gt;Samuel. P. Huntington&lt;/b&gt;&amp;#39;s thesis&lt;b&gt; The Clash of Civilization&lt;/b&gt;, where the thesis outlines a future where the &amp;quot;great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural&amp;quot; and not primarily on the basis of ideology or economic. And the clash of civilization will dominate global politics.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Conflict between civilizations will be the latest phase in the evolution of conflict in the modern world. Prior to the &lt;b&gt;Treaty of Wesphalia&lt;/b&gt; the global conflict were mainly between emperor, absolute monarch that attempting to expand their bureaucracies, armies, economic and above all their territory, until the emergence of &lt;b&gt;France Revolution&lt;/b&gt;, trend of conflict slightly shifted into conflict between nations rather than princes, until it was the culminating on First World War ended into ideological conflict, first among communism, fascism-Nazism and liberal democracy and then communism and liberal democracy during the so called &lt;b&gt;Cold War&lt;/b&gt; era. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/06/next-pattern-of-conflict-clash-of.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-8963397321969107981?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/Ns2V2z_Tbu4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/Ns2V2z_Tbu4/next-pattern-of-conflict-clash-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/06/next-pattern-of-conflict-clash-of.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-8870569656219600600</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-07-21T05:46:36.428-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Politik</category><title>The Security Dilemma</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;This article mainly a review from what has been written by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;John H. Herz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The security dilemma or Power and security dilemma is a social constellation in which units of power (such as states or nations in international relation) find themselves whenever they exist side by side without higher authority that might impose standards of behavior upon them and thus protect them from attacking each other.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;From above definition, the security dilemma regard as an overestimate threat of a states or nations security of the persistence threat of feeling insecurity that might come from outside.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;It appear by the state behavior of feeling insecurity that derived from mutual suspicion and mutual fear, this feeling compel this units to compete for more power on order to find more security. The consequence would be the states or nations as a unit tend to acquire more power as to find more security, an effort which ultimately unobtainable, because complete security is impossible.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The impacts of security acquisition by a unit obviously impose the threat on insecurity for other unit. Because the fact by other makes him appear to them as their potential enemy.  Thus, there arises a mutual constellation or mutual suspicion and a mutual dilemma: the dilemma of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;‘kill or perish’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt; of attacking first or the running the risk of being destroyed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The power and security dilemma thus affect the relationship between all groups, the relation between states would be based on suspicion, and particularly if one a unit develop its defense capability to minimize the feeling of insecurity it might lead to the other unit of being attack. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The security dilemma also called &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;‘predicament of Hobbesian fear’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt; that is a grand dialectical jam of a kind that exasperate men. It can be illustrated as two enemies, armed with handgun or pistols locked in one room though both of them would like to throw the pistols out of the window, but yet it defeats the intelligent to find the way of doing so. Hence, in international affairs it is this situation that has hitherto defeats all the endeavor   human intellect. However, even if a nation could based the international relation on mutual understanding, yet how could it trust the continuance of good intentions in the case of collective entities with leaders and policies that forever changing with difference circumstances.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-8870569656219600600?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/fLPRih4bz0Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/fLPRih4bz0Y/security-dilemma.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/05/security-dilemma.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-8855931296575291991</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 11:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T13:28:01.159-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Politik</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Article Review</category><title>World Politics as Primitive Political System</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In this article Roger D. Master use a set of comparison to explore the structure and functioning of the international system. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;He started with an argument why it is important to compare international politics with primitive political system. Depart from this argument he further give three important reasons which, firstly, as an attempt to bridge the gap between political science and anthropology, since the political aspects of primitive society have often been imperfectly analyzed. Secondly, in the history of political philosophy, the idea of ‘state of nature’ play important role in shaping the political system, although political anthropologist regard the notion of ‘state of nature’ never existed. Thirdly, the concept of diplomacy in primitive society would have to comprehend the rivalry and warfare in the primitive society.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;II. Similarities between Primitive and International Politics:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/05/world-politics-as-primitive-political.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-8855931296575291991?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/ku42UP3XYoM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/ku42UP3XYoM/world-politics-as-primitive-political.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/05/world-politics-as-primitive-political.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-1542268321436563561</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T13:57:44.977-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Kisah</category><title>Krisis Energi</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pV48a3OeNUw/S8lRsHezAdI/AAAAAAAAASI/ocA4k9JJ24c/s1600/Pakistan-Load-Shedding-300x199.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460985841527751122" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pV48a3OeNUw/S8lRsHezAdI/AAAAAAAAASI/ocA4k9JJ24c/s320/Pakistan-Load-Shedding-300x199.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 199px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gambar diambil dari &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thenewspk.com/tag/4500-mw-shortfall/"&gt;sini &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Fenomena mati litrik sudah tidak menjadi hal yang aneh di Pakistan, meski saya cukup bersyukur karena Islamabad hanya mendapatkan empat jam jatah pemadaman listrik, dengan jadwal yang rutin, antara jam 4 pagi, jam 10 pagi, jam 4 sore dan jam 9 malam, dibandingkan dengan kawasan luar kota yang jadwal rutin mati listriknya tidak tentu. Bahkan beberapa daerah di kawasan luar kota ada yang mengalami mati listrik sampai 12 jam, dengan jarak per jam padam dan sejam kemudian ada listrik untuk sejam kemudian dipadamkan kembali.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/04/krisis-energi.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-1542268321436563561?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/-FBPcLDCfVg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/-FBPcLDCfVg/krisis-energi.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><media:thumbnail url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pV48a3OeNUw/S8lRsHezAdI/AAAAAAAAASI/ocA4k9JJ24c/s72-c/Pakistan-Load-Shedding-300x199.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/04/krisis-energi.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-4860275921299846235</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T13:57:10.643-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Kisah</category><title>Khanpur Festival</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pV48a3OeNUw/S8ZrEnCY3YI/AAAAAAAAASA/fmPjmuHMQWg/s1600/khanpur+dam.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460169325175954818" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pV48a3OeNUw/S8ZrEnCY3YI/AAAAAAAAASA/fmPjmuHMQWg/s320/khanpur+dam.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 226px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Khanpur Festival yang di sponsori oleh Sharhad Tourism Corporation menyelenggarakan tiga hari spring festival, termasuk permainan air dari jetsky sampe boating, karena festival ini diadakan di pingiran danau Khanpur yang airnya berwarna hijau muda. Air danau berwarna hijau ini dikarenakan aliran dari air gleser es dari wilayah pegunungan salju abadi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/04/khanpur-festival.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-4860275921299846235?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/J8I3Nh1pJmc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/J8I3Nh1pJmc/khanpur-festival.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><media:thumbnail url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pV48a3OeNUw/S8ZrEnCY3YI/AAAAAAAAASA/fmPjmuHMQWg/s72-c/khanpur+dam.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/04/khanpur-festival.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-1782984697949527820</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-04-05T05:51:36.227-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Politik</category><title>Sebuah Legasi</title><description>&lt;div&gt;Sebetulnya saya tidak suka menuliskan ini semuanya, mungkin karena ego saya sebagai seorang student yang profesornya dengan semena-mena merubah-rubah tugas yang sebelumnya kami sepakati bersama. Whateverlah, mungkin dia tipikal dosen yang authoritative..but somehow, akhirnya saya menulis juga, tentang perjanjian Yalta Agreement yang banyak kalangan mengira perjanjian ini sebagai tonggak sejarah pergolakan perang dingin karena basis perbedaan ide0logi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Memang dalam kamus politik pepatah yang sangat terkenal adalah ‘no everlasting enemy, what remain is national interest’. Alied Forces yang dikenal dengan perpaduan gabungan antara kekuatan Ingris, Amerika Serikan dan Perancis akhirnya berhasil duduk bersama untuk menggagas sebuah persetujuan yang nantinya sebagai penentu masa depan negara-negara Eropa setelah berakhirnya masa kekuasaan Nazi Jerman. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pertemuan ‘the big three’ dalam di Yalta sebuah resort yang ada di kawasan Crimea, berhasil membujuk Uni Soviet untuk masuk dalam entity Allied Forces, terlebih setelah Jerman waktu itu berhasil menduduki Poland, sebuah negara yang tentunya perbatasaannya paling dekat dengan Uni Soviet. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bagi Josef Stalin (PM Uni Soviet pada waktu itu) bargaining untuk masuk ke kelompok Allied Forces ini adalah semata karena posisinya Uni Soviet yang sudah mulai terancam, mungkin lebih tepatnya sebagai upaya preventif. Sementara dari perjanjian ini pula, Uni Soviet bersedia untuk menyerang kekuatan Kerajaan Jepang yang pada masa itu hampir seluruh kawasan Asia Tengara, termasuk Indonesia jatuh di bawah kekuasaan Jepang. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dengan bom Herosima dan Nagasaki akhirnya menandai berakhirnya Perang Dunia II dengan kekalahan Jerman dan Jepang, Sampai Perjanjian Yalta akhirnya disepakati bersama oleh ‘the big three’ yang di wakili oleh PM Josef Stalin dan Uni Soviet, Winston Churchil dari Ingris dan Roosevelt dari Amerika Serikat. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Perjanjian ini diantaranya mengatur pembagian wilayah negara bekas jajahan Jerman, pembagian Jerman menjadi 4 zona, masalah masa depan negara-negara di wilayah Eropa, yang sebagian besar dibawah pengaruh Uni Soviet, diadilinya penjahat perang dengan dibukanya Nuremberg Trial yang mengadili Adolf Hitler, penghapusan Nazi dari Jerman, mengajak Uni Soviet untuk bergabung dalam PBB (United Nation) dan janji Stalin untuk melangsungkan pemilihan umum secara bebas dan demokratis, di negara-negara yang ada di bawah kekuasaan Uni Soviet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Janji adalah janji, berkuasanya pasukan Red Army (Pasukan Uni Soviet) di wilayah Poland semakin menguatkan pengaruh komunisme di negara ini, Provisional Governement yang ada di Poland yang pro komunis menjadikan pemilihan umum terlaksana dengan tidak mengikutsertakan kekuatan demokratis Poland yang ada di luar Poland. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hampir 60 tahun ketegangan perang dingin mengubah strategi kebijakan luar negeri Amerika Serikat dari Isolationist ke Interventionist, demi sebuah kebijakan yang dinamakan Policy of Containment, padahal jika di lihat secara kasat mata, wilayah Amerika Serikat secara geografis sangatlah aman, karena hampir semua wilayahnya berbatasan dengan perairan samudra yang luas, sehingga kalaupun terjadi sebuah agresi militer, tentu memerlukan dana dan tenaga yang tidak sedikit. Paska tahun 1945 hampir tiap pergolakan yang ada di beberapa negara di belahan bumi ini adalah sebentuk proxi war yang mengatasnamakan perang melawan idealisme. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sebut saja, Krisis Cuba, Perang Vietnam, Kudeta Iran yang menaikkan Shah Iran atas oponen politiknya Musaddeg yang sudah jelas pro terhadap komunis,  Mujahidin Afghanistan yang berakhir pada porak-porandanya Uni Soviet dan terpecahnya negara Asia Tengah menjadi empat negara baru, kesemuanya itu adalah contoh nyata yang mungkin sampai sekarang masih berbekas.  Dalam kasus Indonesia, tumbangnya Pemerintahan Soekarno juga tidak luput dari covert action, layaknya yang terjadi di Cuba untuk menumbangkan Fidel Castro, hanya mungkin perbedaannya di Cuba, Fidel Castro makin popular karena berhasil menumpas pemberontak yang di training oleh CIA sementara di Indonesia Soekarno ‘katanya’ dengan suka rela menyerahkan kekuasaannya. Embuhlah..karena sejarah ada di tangan penguasa. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kali ini, perang melawan ideology tersebut terus mengalir, mungkin versus ideologi yang lain, sampai mungkin tesis &lt;i&gt;the end of history &lt;/i&gt;nya Fransis Fukuyama akan jelas terbukti, and God knows where it will ends..mungkin ada benarnya bahwa global politic itu masih seperti pemerintahan primitif yang menjunjung konsep &lt;i&gt;might is right-nya &lt;/i&gt;Thomas Hobbes di State of Nature, dengan menghalalkan berbaga cara. Saat ini perang terorisme masih terus berlanjut..entah sampai kapan, mungkin sampai ada ideologi lain yang juga mengancam interest suatu negara... so far negara mana?? masih absurd..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-1782984697949527820?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/hfWMFqRlx0Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/hfWMFqRlx0Y/sebuah-legasi.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/04/sebuah-legasi.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-8625066635505178320</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-03-23T08:51:36.052-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Politik</category><title>Opini Publik dan Soft Power</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;'If you can divert the public opinion, there is something you get what money could not buy'&lt;/i&gt; sejenak mungkin terdengar sederhana, tapi tentu bisa dicermati secara seksama dalam fenomena kekinian, baik itu yang bersangkutan dengan politik dalam negeri atau dalam pola hubungan internasional antar negara. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Di era globalisasi ini, tentu dapat di pahami adanya pergeseran trend di percaturan politik global, dimana jika dulu&lt;i&gt; sovereignity of state&lt;/i&gt;, kedaulatan suatu bangsa adalah sebuah harga mati yang tidak bisa di gadaikan, kini, dengan arus globalisasi sedikit demi sedikit mengikis state sovereignity sehingga relasi intra-state dan jaringan transnasional dapat dengan mudah diakses oleh siapa saja. Jika dulu interdependen antar negara diartikan dengan hubungan internasional, saat ini bergeser menjadi istilah relasi global atau &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;global relation&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lantas apa hubungannya dengan opini publik? sebetulnya opini publik ini berhubungan dengan kepiawaian suatu negara untuk dapat berkiprah di jalur internasional, berpindahnya pola sistem politik global dari bipolar menjadi multipolar menuntut masing-masing negara untuk dapat memberikan andil positif di percaturan internasional. Meskipun pada kenyataannya dalam fenomena multipolar ini di dominasi oleh sistem unipolar yang di mainkan oleh Amerika Serikat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Membangun opini publik tidaklah semudah permainan survey, tapi bagaimana opini publik ini terbentuk sehingga dalam jangka panjang akan memberikan keuntungan tersendiri bagi suatu negara atau individu tanpa harus bersusah payah untuk berkonsentrasi dalam hard power. Sebut saja perang melawan jaringan Teroris Global, kebijakan-kebijakan yang di ambil USA telah berhasil membentuk opini publik global sedemikin rupa sehingga hampir semua negara mau tidak mau turut sertadalam agenda Perang Terorisme ini. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Begitu pula kemenangan Presiden SBY dalam pemilu terakhir lalu, banyak di dukung dengan jaringan-jaringan lembaga-lembaga pooling dan survey, sehingga sedikit banyak berhasil mempengaruhi opini publik. Meski demikian tentu saja membangun opini publik tidak semudah lembaga survey mempublikasikan hasil survey lapangannya, tapi lebih dari itu, opini publik di bangun atas dasar &lt;i&gt;soft power&lt;/i&gt; yang senantiasa berjalan secara berkesinambungan, karena mustahil seseorang dapat membentuk opini publik yang sedemikian rupa tanpa kerja keras. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tulisan ini adalah wacana &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Global Public Opinion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; yang di sampaikan dalam sebuah seminar internal study grup yang di hadiri oleh penulis beberapa waktu lalu, semoga bermanfaat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-8625066635505178320?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/xAkJO06PK5U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/xAkJO06PK5U/opini-publik-dan-soft-power.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/03/opini-publik-dan-soft-power.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-813717548243193784.post-1034401775817762678</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-20T13:54:46.567-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Kesehatan</category><title>Makanan Mengandung Antioksidan</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Akhir-akhir ini seringkali banyak di bahas masalah pentingnya antioksidan, tentu secara alami tubuh kita sudah memproduksi aktioksidan, tapi seiring dengan bertambahnya usia dan turunnya metabolisme tubuh, kita juga perlu mengambil sumber antioksidan dari luar tubuh kita.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Diantara fungsi antioksidan adalah untuk menstabilkan kelebihan radikal bebas dalam tubuh. Tanpa antioksidan yang cukup, reaksi negatif yang disebabkan oleh radikal bebas dapat merusak atau menghancurkan seluruh sel tubuh anda. Meskipun belum ada penelitian lanjutan, namun radikal bebas diyakini dapat memicu berbagai macam penyakit pada saat anda menginjak usia tertentu. Maka tidak heran jika antioksidan ini disebut sebagai nutrisi untuk sel-sel yang ada dalam tubuh kita.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/03/makanan-mengandung-antioksidan.html#more"&gt;Read more »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/813717548243193784-1034401775817762678?l=kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~4/B_tNZdafHCU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/LRvep/~3/B_tNZdafHCU/makanan-mengandung-antioksidan.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kamilia Hamidah)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://kamilia-milestones.blogspot.com/2010/03/makanan-mengandung-antioksidan.html</feedburner:origLink></item><language>en-us</language><media:credit role="author">Kamilia Hamidah</media:credit><media:rating>nonadult</media:rating></channel></rss>

