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National Car Name's ESEMKA

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:12:03 PST

Jakarta:The Kiat Esemka Sport utility vehicle (SUV) is not the first car to be produced by Indonesia. According to Wikipedia, national automotive businessmen have developed 16 other brands since the 1990s. Unfortunately, most of the innovative projects collapsed due to problems including the monetary crisis and political turbulence in 1998.

Bakrie and Brothers developed the first national car in 1994. The Beta 97 MPV minibus was designed by UK-based automotive designer, Shado. The prototype of Beta was released in 1997 but the development was terminated due to the monetary crisis.

A year later, President Soeharto issued a policy on the development of a national car, Timor, which was short f orTeknologi Industri Mobil Rakyat. His youngest son, Hutomo Mandala Putra, developed the Timor S515 sedan, which was a derivation of Korea’s Kia Sephia 1995. Further developments were halted due to the monetary crisis.

At the same time, Timor, B.J. Habibie, the then research and technology minister, designed a car called Maleo. The 1,200 cc car was made with 80 percent local components and was supposed to be sold at Rp30 million. The development also ended as the research fund was used for Timor.

However, not all national car projects failed. Besides Esemka, there are currently several brands that are ready to be marketed, such as the GEA mini car produced by PT Industri Kereta Api, Nuri and Tawon produced by PT Super Gasindo Jaya, Marlip electric car produced by the Indonesia Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and off road car, Komodo, which was released by PT Fin Komodo Teknologi.

The Industry Ministry’s land transportation industry director, Supriyanto, said that Indonesia could produce its own cars within the next five years. To support the design development, the government will provide incentives, including research and human development support. “So far, Indonesia only assembled cars, while the designs are made overseas,” he said. FERY FIRMANSYAH | EKA UTAMI APRILIA

The New Blue Planet

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:11:11 PST

KOMPAS.com - Astronomers have discovered the first habitable blue planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a star similar to the Sun.

NASA’s Kepler Mission has been finding new worlds at an incredible rate over the past year but this is the first discovery of what could be a habitable super-earth as it appears to be large, rocky planet with a surface temperature of about 72 degrees Fahrenheit, similar to spring day on Earth.

A team of researchers, including Carnegie Institute's Alan Boss, made the discovery which will be published in The Astrophysical Journal.

The discovery team, led by William Borucki of the NASA Ames Research Center, used photometric data from the NASA Kepler space telescope, which monitors the brightness of 155,000 stars.

Earth-size planets whose orbital planes are aligned such that they periodically pass in front of their stars result in tiny dimmings of their host star’s light, dimmings that can only be measured by a highly specialized space telescope like Kepler.

This discovery is the first detection of a possibly habitable world in orbit around a Sun-like star.
The host star lies about 600 light-years away from us toward the constellations of Lyra and Cygnus.

The star, a G5 star, has a mass and a radius only slightly smaller than that of our Sun. As a result, the host star is about 25 per cent less luminous than the Sun.

The planet orbits the G5 star with an orbital period of 290 days, compared to 365 days for the Earth, at a distance about 15 per cent closer to its star than the Earth from the Sun. This results in the planet’s balmy temperature.

It orbits in the middle of the star’s habitable zone, where liquid water is expected to be able to exist on the surface of the planet. Liquid water is necessary for life as we know it, and this new planet might well be not only habitable, perhaps even inhabited.

Numerous large, massive gas giant planets have been detected previously in habitable-zone orbits around solar-type stars, but gas giants are not thought to be capable of supporting life.

This new exoplanet is the smallest-radius planet discovered in the habitable zone of any star to date. It is about 2.4 times larger than that of the Earth, putting it in the class of exoplanets known as super-Earths.

While the mass of this new planet is not known, it must be less than about 36 times that of the Earth, based on the absence of a measurable Doppler (radial velocity) wobble in the host star.

The masses of several other super-Earths have been measured with the Doppler technique and determined to lie in the range of about 5 to 10 times that of the Earth.

Some appear to be rocky, while others probably contain major fractions of ice and water. Either way, the new planet appears to be habitable.

'This discovery supports the growing belief that we live in a universe crowded with life,' Boss said. 'Kepler is on the verge of determining the actual abundance of habitable, Earth-like planets in our galaxy'.

Meanwhile scientists have started a systematic 'index' to categorise which planets might be 'habitable' - and so far, we've found 47 planets and moons that might fit the bill.

The Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo (UPR Arecibo) judges candidates by where they sit in their solar system, and what type they are. Most of the 700 planets so far detected are no-go zones - but 47 look promising.

Over 700 exoplanets have been detected and confirmed with thousands more still waiting further confirmation by missions such as NASA Kepler.

Most of these are gas giants, similar to Jupiter and Neptune, but orbiting very dangerously close to their stars. Only a few have the right size and orbit to be considered suitable for any life.

'One important outcome of these rankings is the ability to compare exoplanets from best to worst candidates for life,' says Abel Méndez, Director of the PHL and principal investigator of the project.

The catalogue uses new habitability assessments like the Earth Similarity Index (ESI), the Habitable Zones Distance (HZD), the Global Primary Habitability (GPH), classification systems, and comparisons with Earth past and present.

According to Méndez, 'New observations with ground and orbital observatories will discover thousands of exoplanets in the coming years. We expect that the analyses contained in our catalogue will help to identify, organize, and compare the life potential of these discoveries.'

The catalogue lists and categorizes exoplanets discoveries using various classification systems, including tables of planetary and stellar properties.

ne of the classifications divides them into eighteen mass and thermal categories, creating a table similar to a periodic table for exoplanets. Additional resources of the catalogue will include scientific visualizations and stellar maps of exoplanets.

Only two confirmed exoplanets so far match the criteria for habitability in the catalogue, Gliese 581d and HD 85512b - both of which are Earthlike. However, the catalogue identifies over 15 exoplanets and 30 exomoons as potential habitable candidates.

Future observations with new instruments, such as the proposed NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder, will be necessary to confirm the suitability for life of any of these candidates.

'I hope this database will help increase interest in building a big space-based telescope to observe exoplanets directly and look for possible signatures of life,' says Jim Kasting, an expert on planetary habitability science from Penn State.

26th Sea Games

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:13:12 PDT

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com -
Indonesian vice president Boediono expressed his optimism that the country would come out as the overall champion at the upcoming 26th Southeast Asian Games.
"I am convinced with the good preparations that I have seen so far our athletes would be able to make their best achievements this time. I think as the host country we must, God willing, be able to become the overall champion," he said before athletes here on Monday.

He met with the athletes after checking their readiness and inspecting the venues that would be used for the 26th SEA Games.Vice President Boediono called on the athletes to maintain their health conditions and fitness so that they could perform well at the competitions and show their best performance.
He also called on them to prepare their mental conditions. Boediono said the event is a prestigious competition among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). During his inspection of venues and readiness of martial art athletes Boediono was presented with demonstrations of karate, taekwondo, wu shu and Povinam.

Several athletes from other sport brachens like athletic and weight lifting were also seen at the meeting. When inspecting the venue for archery Boediono took an opportunity to try shooting a target twice but failed.
Other venues being inspected are the basket ball field in Kelapa Gading and Vellodrom in Rawamangun. The 26th SEA Games which is scheduled to be opened on November 11 and end on November 22 will be carried out in Palembang, South Sumatra, and Jakarta.

The event will compete 44 sport branches and offer 542 gold medals for grab. This year’s bi-annual event will be the fourth hosted by Indonesia. Indonesia hosted the 10th event in 1979, the 15th event in 1987 and the 19th one in 1997 and in all of the events it came out as the overall champion.

HIV Vaksin

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:09:19 PDT

VIVAnews - Alan Aderem, Director of BioMed, Seattle and Rino Rappuoli, Global Head of Vaccines Research for Novartis Vaccines and Diagonstics, reviewed the latest progress in vaccine development in a scientific journal, Nature.
They write, it is estimated, by 2020, a vaccine for malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV / AIDS is found. In the journal that they also discussed the new devices include systems biology and structure-based design of antigens that can provide a better understanding of the mechanism of protection.
This device will give clues leading to the rational development of vaccines to alleviate the patient's most terrible diseases in the world.
According Aderem, a pioneer in the field of systems biology, new concepts and technological advances indicate that the vaccine for three diseases terdahsyat it will be developed within the next 10 years.
"The success will greatly depend on our ability to approach biological systems to analyze data generated during testing of evidence," said Aderem, like diktutip from MedIndia, May 28, 2011.
Aderem says, success will also provide new insights such as identifying the relationship between protection or signs of immunogenicity and the acceleration of large-scale clinical trials. Also, added Aderem, new regulatory approaches and innovative clinic will also accelerate the discovery of vaccines that are needed.
In his report, Aderem and Rappuoli also reviews the advantages and disadvantages of systems biology approach, with the major advantages of this approach is the ability to capture and integrate biological data in a very large number that appears to visualize the nature of which is not shown by the parts individually and unpredictable if you only use every single part.
"The advantage of biological systems is its ability to predict the behavior of entire biological systems," said Aderem. "From there, we can optimize vaccine candidates and predict whether the drug or vaccine candidates able to work before the drug was taken to a large-scale clinical trials are very expensive," he said.
Biological systems can also be used to accelerate clinical trials usually last long.
Aderem and Rappuoli predicts that in a trial vaccine for malaria, TB and HIV / AIDS, only one hypothesis successfully tested every eight years in the past three decades. "We can not continue to use this approach if we want to get results in the period immediately," said Aderem.
With this new method, said Aderem, we can accelerate development by conducting clinical trials of more efficacious and to improve the design using a systems biology approach to test several hypotheses in parallel and have an adaptive design to extend the results will prove most promising.• VIVAnews

The End Of Saturday?

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Sat, 21 May 2011 04:33:33 PDT

KOMPAS.com - Usually when we party like there's no tomorrow we wake up with a hangover of biblical proportions. But while fun-loving atheists plan to take two paracetamol as per usual on Sunday, some evangelists will be taking the 'no tomorrow' angle a little too literally.
According to some minority sections of the Christian faith - via one octogenarian's rather embarrassingly unreliable maths - 'The Rapture' will take place at around 6pm tomorrow; Saturday, May 21.
The Rapture, another name for Judgement Day, is supposedly the time when God's chosen people will ascend to heaven and the rest of us are left behind to face apocalyptic scenes of earthquakes and fire.
The 'trial' for non-believers could last six months, but by October 21 they will all be dead, says the prophecy. Just in case the prediction is right, some Americans are making the most of their time left with 'Rapture Parties' across the country.

On the other hand, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the American Humanist Association is organizing a two-day anti-Rapture extravaganza. There will be a party on Saturday and a concert on Sunday - with the tongue in cheek proviso that Sunday's fun could be cancelled due to a natural catastrophe of some sort.
The concept of the Rapture is a relatively new in terms of the Christian faith - first appearing in Christian teaching in the 19th century - but the chosen date is the work of one modern minister.
Harold Camping, 89, came up with the date by adding up numbers in the Bible. He did the same thing once before, stating unequivocally that the world would end in 1994, before apologising and blaming a mathematical error.

His followers have erected billboards across America that have been warning for weeks: 'Judgment Day is coming May 21st, 2011 – The Bible guarantees it!'
Most Christians barely pay the 'prophecy' a second thought but Camping, from Oakland, California, stands by his second Doomsday warning.
'We know without any shadow of a doubt it is going to happen,' said the founder of Family Radio, which broadcasts his forecast around the world.
'There’s going to be a huge earthquake that’s going to make the big earthquake in Japan seem like a Sunday School picnic.'

Camping, a civil engineer who once ran his own construction business, plans to spend the day with his wife in Alameda, in northern California, and watch doomsday unfold on television.
'I'll probably try to be very near a TV or a radio or something,' he said.
'I'll be interested in what's happening on the other side of the world as this begins.'
Camping has based his prediction on his belief that the Noah’s Ark flood happened in the year 4990 BC.
He claims that since 2 Peter 3:8 says that one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like one day to God, there will be seven thousand years between Noah's flood and the end of the world.
The seven days come from Noah having seven days to warn people about the coming disaster, so he assumes there will be seven days, translated to 7,000 years, between the flood and the destruction of earth.
So 4990 plus 2011, minus one because there was no year '0', equals 7,000 years. The prediction has been publicised in almost every country, said Chris McCann, who works with one of the groups spreading the message, eBible Fellowship.

McCann plans to spend Saturday with his family, reading the Bible and praying. His fellowship met for the last time on Monday.
'We had a final lunch and everyone said goodbye,' he said.
'We don't actually know who's saved and who isn't, but we won't gather as a fellowship again.'
The publicity has had some effect outside North America. In Vietnam, a crowd of around 5,000 members of the Hmong ethnic minority gathered near the border with Laos to await the biblical event, but they were soon dispersed by the government.
However, the Rapture - the belief that Christ will bring the faithful into paradise prior to a period of tribulation on earth that precedes the end of time - is a divisive belief even among Christians.
Most don't believe in it, and some are actively against it because they feel it makes them look foolish.
'People like this man are over-literalising certain passages that are not meant to be taken in such a strictly literal sense and they're trying to build strict chronologies by piecing together different Bible verses that were never intended to be interpreted in such a fashion,' said Dr. Don Howell, professor of New Testament at Columbia International University.

In an attempt to talk to Camping on his own literal terms, Dr Howell also points to Matthew 24, which says no one but the Father knows when the end will come, not even Jesus or the angels.
The Rapture is often mocked by non-believers in popular culture - the comic strip 'Doonesbury' has tackled the subject - while a Facebook page called 'Post Rapture Looting' has won huge support.
More than 175,000 people have joined the group, leaving comments such as: 'When everyone is gone and God’s not looking, we need to pick up some sweet stereo equipment and maybe some new furniture for the mansions we’re going to squat in.'

Jerry Jenkins, co-author with Tim LaHaye of the 'Left Behind' series of apocalyptic novels that have sold millions of copies worldwide, is among those who has a problem with the prediction.
'As a believer, I'm already a kook compared to most people, so for someone to choose a date and get everyone excited about a certain time, my problem is it makes us look worse,' said Jenkins, 61.
But the very industry in which Jenkins' books are aimed and sold are part of the problem according to Barbara Rossing, professor of the New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
She describes a huge apocalyptic 'prophecy industry' that includes video games, board games and books, and says: 'It is very appealing to people.'

Indeed, according to its tax returns Family Radio, a non-profit organisation, has raised more than $100m over the last seven years. It owns 66 radio stations worldwide and a recent spike in activity has seen it lavish millions on its international billboard advertising campaign.
When asked what the church was going to do with the money when the world ended, Camping told Contra Costa Times; 'When Judgment Day comes, if someone is a billionaire, how will they take their money with them?
'If we have any money left, and we will because we have to pay bills up to the very end... it will all be destroyed because the world will be in a day of judgment.
'The money is not important at all. It's a vehicle to spread the judgment and a vehicle of the Lord.'
But as the true believers prepare for what they hope will be their last day on earth, many atheists are having fun with the anticlimax they anticipate.
In Tacoma, Washington, atheists have organized a party for Saturday night under the banner 'countdown to backpedaling', on the assumption that Camping and Family Radio will change their story if Judgment Day does not come.

At least 100 people are expected at the party, said Sam Mulvey, 33, an organizer of the event and the producer of a weekly atheist radio show in Tacoma.
'If the world still exists the next day, Family Radio is going to have to say something and most of the time they backpedal, and that's what we're counting down to,' he said.
Other atheists have taken a more practical approach to the 'rapture' by turning the 'prophecy industry' on itself to make money.

In New Hampshire, Bart Centre started his company Eternal Earth-bound Pets in 2009.
He offers rapture believers an insurance plan for those pets that won't join them in heaven: 10-year pet care contracts, with Centre and his network of fellow non-believers taking responsibility for the animals after the Rapture.
The fee - payable in advance, of course - was originally $110, but has risen to $135 since Camping's prediction. He has 258 clients.

ASEAN Has Good Single Currency Prospect

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Sat, 07 May 2011 08:47:26 PDT

Diponegoro University economist Nugroho SBM said in Semarang Friday that ASEAN remains an important geopolitical and economic power in Asia, and even in the world, and therefore a single currency will strengthen it against pressure from the US dollar for instance.

With ASEAN having a single currency, he said, the strong effect of the US dollar in that part of the world would be sterilized and thus strengthening the monetary position of the ASEAN countries.
"It would take a very long time. The European Union alone needed 60 years before agreeing to use the euro as a single currency, bit it would be better to discuss the foundation of an ASEAN single currency from now on," he said.

He said Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines may serve as a driving power for the formation of a single currency because they have a dominating trade volume among the ASEAN member countries.

He also said that it is indeed not easy to form an ASEAN single currency because such a great idea will be facing an obstacle from the countries with an already strong currency and did not wish their monetary data be known to other countries.
"The formation of a single currency needs central interbank transparency while not all the central banks of the member countries are open to information. This is one of the serious obstacles," he said.
Nugroho predicted that China and India will be playing an increasing important role in the world economy and in the Asian region which was marked with the huge trade volume of the two countries with the ASEAN member countries.

According to data, ASEAN trade with India in 2010 stood at 50 billion US dollars, while China has since the introduction of the China-ASEAN free trade set a target of its trade with ASEAN of 500 billion US dollars by 2015.

Aisha Gaddafi

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:09:00 PDT

KOMPAS.com - Embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has enlisted the help of his glamorous only daughter in his fight to retain power in the war-ravaged country.
Aisha Gaddafi, a 34-year-old lawyer who has represented Saddam Hussein and the IRA, was photographed in the capital Tripoli, dressed in a veil and waving her father's green flag from a vehicle, London's Daily Mail reported.
Mobbed by supporters, her modest appearance was a far cry from the eye-catching designer outfits and voluminous blonde hair that earned her the nickname "the Claudia Schiffer of North Africa".
She told the crowd at the Bab Al Azizia compound that her father was a "great man and leader".
Her appearance came as Gaddafi's troops bombarded the oil terminal town of Ras Lanuf, east of Tripoli, and the United States fired missiles over Taiura, the suburb where the Libyan leader maintains a home.
Ms Gaddafi, her father's only daughter, was named as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador in 2009 but was stripped of the honour in February because of her support of Gaddafi's regime. As a lawyer she volunteered on the defence team that worked for Saddam Hussein before his trial and hanging in 2006.
When London's Telegraph asked Ms Gaddafi what she thought of Iraqis who claimed her client murdered thousands of their countrymen, she replied: "It is only normal that some people are against you and some people are with you. You are bound to meet people who may be against your policies".
According to CNN, she also defended the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoe at former US president George W. Bush. Ms Gaddafi married her cousin, army general Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi, in 2006. The couple have three children.
The newspaper also wrote that she is resentful towards the West after the death of her adopted sister, Hana, who was killed when Ms Gaddafi was nine, during a US raid on Tripoli.
"I woke to the thunder of bombs and the screams of my sister, with blood splattered all over me," she is reported as saying at the time.
During a rare interview with the Telegraph last October she said people "generally gasp" when they find out who she is.
"... and then they become very friendly, and take the chance to send greeting to my father," she said.
"No one has ever reacted badly".
Ms Gaddafi reportedly tried to leave Libya for Malta in January but was turned back when the aircraft was denied permission to land, according to Al Jazeera and the Telegraph.
She denied the reports and told the Libyan public: "I am steadfastly here".

it's On Facebook........True Story

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:12:02 PDT

KOMPAS.com - As the founder of Facebook, you would have thought he would know how to update his relationship status. But seven years after starting his relationship with Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg has finally got around to announcing they are going out.
The 26-year-old has updated his Facebook status to ‘in a relationship’ to reflect the fact he is taken. He added that the change had been ‘long overdue’ but did not explain why he had waited so long.
Observers however have noted that often when couples become 'in a relationship' on the social network and ‘engaged’ status soon follows. Zuckerberg and Chan started seeing each other when they were both studying at Harvard University.

Following the new update, Chan's Facebook page reveals that the pair started their relationship on November 7 2003, just days after Zuckerberg's infamous Facemash stunt at Harvard.
He was nearly expelled from the university after hacking into different colleges' websites and taking pictures of all the female students, placing them next to each other and asking other students to 'rate' their attractiveness. The success the site had during the few days it was on the internet was his initial inspiration for Facebook.
Few details have emerged about the couple's private life together at their home in Palo Alto, California, as Zuckerberg is notoriously secretive. It was only after a glitch that made his Facebook profile temporarily public - along with relentless criticism of the website’s stance on privacy - that he has allowed other people access to it.

Should Zuckerberg propose to Chan, a Chinese-American from the Boston suburbs, one of the issues that would likely come up with be a pre-nuptial agreement. Despite his youth Zuckerberg is worth $13.5billion (£8.3billion), making him the 52nd richest person in the world, according to Forbes magazine - the second youngest billionaire in the world, behind Facebook co-founder and billionaire Dustin Moskovitz.
Chan has been with him for a large part of the time Facebook has existed, but it is unclear what role if any she has played in its development. Zuckerberg’s relationships were dramatised in The Social Network, the Hollywood film released last year about how Facebook was created

During the final scene he tries to ‘friend’ his ex-girlfriend on the website after she had previously dumped him. As the credits roll he keeps pressing the ‘refresh’ button in the vain hope that she has accepted.
However, this aspect of the story has been disputed by the real-life characters. He and Chan had previously set up a Facebook page for their pet dog ‘Beast’ in a bid to soften his public image. The Hungarian Sheepdog now has 77,000 fans.

Stop Violance In Palestine

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:25:47 PDT

KOMPAS.com -
Indonesia has called for international cooperation to stop violence against Palestinian prisoners held at a number of Israeli prisons and detention centers. President of the Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians of International Parliamentary Union (IPU) Dr. Nurhayati Ali Assegaf made the call in her keynote speech to the First International Conference on the Rights of Palestinian Prisoners in Geneva recently.
Minister Counselor of the Indonesian Representative in Geneva Dicky Komar said in a press statement issued on Tuesday the conference was initiated by three non-governmental organizations, U-free, Rights for All and North-South 21.

The other speakers of the conference were members of the Palestinian, Greek, Swiss and Irish parliaments as well as former Palestinian prisoners including Sheik Raed Salah who is now Imam of Al Aqsa Mosque.
Also present at the conference were figures, non-governmental organization activists, and academicians from various European countries. Nurhayati who is also deputy chief of the Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Board (BKSAP) of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) further stressed Indonesia’s consistency in encouraging the formation of an independent Palestinian state in what she said was in line with the mandate of the 1945 Constitution.
She also attached the significance of integrated concrete steps involving various elements of the international community to put an end to Israeli violence among others through the mechanisms of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee to allow any of their members to monitor and visit Israeli prisons and detention centers.
She said the fate of female prisoners should also draw special attention because they were highly vulnerable to violence and human rights violation. The conference underscored the need for Israel to comply with international conventions related to prisoners’ rights, ensure that the rights of Palestinian prisoners were fulfilled, and stop violence against them.

In addition, it also underlined the importance of comprehensive solution to the Palestinian conflict by forming an independent Palestinian state. The conference also agreed to declare 2011 as the Year of Palestinian Women Prisoners.

Mubarak Wants Stay

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:08:38 PST

KOMPAS.com - The president of Egypt last night declared that he is ‘fed up and wants to go’ as bloody clashes continued in Cairo. But Hosni Mubarak said he would not resign immediately – because he feared there would be ‘chaos’.
His remarks came as pro-government mobs targeted Western journalists and human rights activists near Tahrir Square, the centre of the protests. Several were punched, their equipment smashed – and one was stabbed in the leg with a screwdriver.

There were reports the army was rounding up foreign cameramen and correspondents. A Greek man was reported to have died in the clashes.
Fears were growing that tourists could be next in line as Britain and other Western countries urgently evacuated their citizens. Last night 180 Britons flew out of Cairo on a specially chartered Foreign Office plane. As many as 25,000 remain.

Egypt yesterday pointed the finger at ‘foreign agendas’ for fuelling the protests.
Vice president Omar Suleiman said: ‘When there are demonstrations of this size, there will be foreigners who come and take advantage and they have an agenda to raise the energy of the protesters.’
Last night Egyptian TV reported that Israeli spies were in the country posing as journalists.
Mr Suleiman dismissed mounting international calls – including from Britain – for President Mubarak to step down immediately.
Mr Mubarak himself said last night: ‘I am fed up. After 62 years in public service, I have had enough. I want to go. If I resign today there will be chaos.’
He told ABC News he was distressed by the violence in Cairo between his supporters and the reformist campaigners.
‘I was very unhappy about yesterday,’ he said. ‘I do not want to see Egyptians fighting each other.’
He added: ‘I don’t care what people say about me. Right now I care about my country. I care about Egypt.’
He also warned President Obama: ‘You don’t understand the Egyptian culture and what would happen if I step down now.’
He vowed to remain in his country until his death. ‘I will die on this soil,’ he said.
There could be further clashes today after prayers. Supporters from both sides have pledged to march.
At one stage yesterday it had appeared the military had finally decided to end the violence that has left at least 12 dead and more than 900 wounded in 48 hours.
Soldiers pushed back pro-government attackers and took up positions between the two sides while an army tank moved against Mubarak supporters as they hurled rocks, prompting cheers.
The Mubarak loyalists fled when the tank turned its turret towards them, then regrouped nearby.
Eventually the soldiers stepped aside allowing clashes to resume.
The anti-Mubarak protesters, who had claimed ‘Victory’ after driving the president’s men from the square, appeared dominated by a youthful hardcore including secular middle-class graduates and mostly poorer Islamist activists.
A large number had the trimmed beards of Islamic conservatives, a sign of how the Muslim Brotherhood movement is playing a major role in the fight.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last night: ‘I urge the government and a broad and credible representation of Egypt’s opposition, civil society and political factions to begin immediately serious negotiations on a peaceful and orderly transition.’

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IMF.Indonesian Economic will Grow

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:59:59 PST

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Indonesian Monetary Fund (IMF) said Indonesia will experience good economic growth this year. International financial institutions predict that Indonesia's economic growth in 2011 more than 6 percent.

IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Khan said the Indonesian economy is going well, despite facing the same challenge with other countries, such as food and energy price volatility. "Globally, Indonesia's economy is going well and I expect to grow more than 6 percent," Dominique said after meeting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the Presidential Office on Wednesday (02/02/2011).

According to Dominique, no significant issues that could hamper the Indonesian economy to grow. In addition, he said, the budget deficit by 1.8 percent in 2011 is still in a reasonable level. "Because, will help the level of investment and development in Indonesia," he said.

For your information, the government sets the economic growth of 6.4 percent in the Income and Expenditure Budget (APBN) in 2011. Growth rate was up 0.1 percent from the year 2011 state budget draft targets of 6.3 percent.

Dominique added, the political disputes in Egypt will affect world oil and food prices. The result will affect economic growth world countries even if only temporary. (Hans Henricus / Cash)

Indonesian Legend WarShip Dewa Ruci Will Change This Year

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:27:56 PST

SURABAYA, KOMPAS.com - RI warships that had been used as a trainingsailing ship, KRI Dewa Ruci, eventually retire. Procurement of new trainingsailing ship was made in 2011.

This was conveyed by TNI Commander Rear Admiral Agus Suhartono inspectorafter a handover ceremony in the position of TNI Commander General of theAcademy at the Naval Academy, Surabaya, on Friday (28/01/2011).

Lieutenant General (Mar) Nono Sampono handed military academy Danjenposition to Sru Astjarjo Andrew Young Marshal. Nono now he is Head of the National SAR, whereas before it was the Governor Astjarjo Air Force Academy.

According to Agus, the procurement of substitute training sailing ship KRI DewaRuci processed in 2011. Problem where purchased sailboat is not yet knownbecause it depends of the tender.

"What is clear, the ship was to be bigger screen, can accommodate 150cadets, 150 crew, and can travel the world very well," said Agus.

KRI Dewa Ruci built HC Sohn Stulchen and Hamburg, Germany, in 1952-1953.This ship weighs 847 tons, 58.5 meters long and 9.5 meters wide.

Extreme Weather Alert to June

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:52:34 PST

Environment Minister Gustavo Mohammad Hatta:
Extreme Weather Alert to June

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Environment Minister Gustavo Mohammad Hatta reminded constantly alert for citizens to remember that predicted the extreme weather will last until next June in Indonesia. Extreme weather could cause flooding and landslides in some areas that are prone to disaster.
Therefore, local governments, particularly the region including the area of disaster areas in red, is expected to always prepare ourselves. Hazard map with three colors, namely red, green, and yellow, which has been distributed is expected to be followed to handle anticipated disaster.
It was reminded by Gusti Muhammad Hatta told the press after the meeting about the safety of maritime transport and associated with extreme weather crossing at the Vice Presidential Palace, Jakarta, Wednesday (01/12/2011).
"Today, the weather and climate can no longer predictable. So, there is no other way except the local government and residents is always on hand to anticipate them. We expected until next June of extreme weather persists," said Gusti Muhammad Hatta.
According to Gusti Muhammad, his side has provided maps to the entire region vulnerable to disaster. As flash floods Wasior, Wondama Bay, and West Papua is already reflected in disaster-prone map in red.
"However, that's what happened. Therefore, we expect each local government can be on hand to deal with extreme weather," he added.
Gusti Muhammad also hope the Bureau of Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) can continue to inform changes in the weather to the community and local government.

World not yet have a solution
While at the same place, a spokesman for Vice President Yopie Hidayat said the weather extremes that occur in Australia and causing flash floods and the recent extreme weather in Europe and the United States shows that the world does not have a solution to anticipate climate change is happening now.
Therefore, the vice president when meeting with new Australian Ambassador, Greg Moriarty, expressed concern with the disaster that hit Australia.
"Flash floods that occurred in Australia is also the impact of extreme weather that has not been able to find a solution by mankind," said Yopie, who joined the meeting accompanied by Ambassador of the Australian Vice President Vice President Palace, Jakarta.
According Yopie, what is happening in Australia is also a warning to the nations of the world to continuously anticipate and prepare for natural disasters due to extreme weather.

Merapi Volcano image

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:25:13 PST

image by Reuters

Mount Merapi volcano erupts, as seen from Manisrenggo village in Klaten of Indonesias central Java province November 12, 2010.JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano has killed 206 people since it began erupting late last month, with more than 380,000 people in makeshift camps, an official said Friday.

“The death toll from Merapi has reached 206 people. And about 380,000 people have fled their homes,“ disaster management official Heriyanto said, updating the previous official toll of 194.

He said rescuers had been able to recover more bodies in the central Java area where the volcano is located.

Mobile Phone Users Enlisting YouMail "Digital Secretary"

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:18:38 PDT

SAN FRANCISCO, KOMPAS.com - Ranks of mobile phone users are enlisting the services of a “digital secretary” that automatically snubs unwanted callers, transcribes messages, and gives loved ones special handling. California startup YouMail said Monday that it has passed the half-billion-call mark and now manages more than 1.5 million calls daily.

“The growth is strong and steady,” YouMail founder and chief executive Alex Quilici told AFP. “It is almost more convenient to not answer the phone with YouMail.”

YouMail lets users personalize greetings to specific incoming telephone numbers. A spouse whose call is missed might be greeted with recorded words of affection while a boss could be reassured a project is nearly complete.

A “DitchMail” feature lets users bash telemarketers, troublesome ex-paramours, or other unwanted callers in recorded greetings and then have the calls automatically disconnect. YouMail users have an online community that shares digital recordings of greetings tailored for various occasions.

Snippets lifted from movies or television shows along with music or official-sounding advisories were among the array of downloadable greetings available at greetings.youmail.com on Monday.

“The fingers you have used to dial are too fat, to obtain a special dialing wand please mash the keypad with your palm now,” said a greeting taken from a popular animated comedy television show “The Simpsons.” Another greeting featured a woman calmly advising callers they had reached the devil’s answering service then telling which buttons to hit to sell one’s soul, get directions to hell, or speak with a demon.

“When we started YouMail there were no solutions for voice mail that were fun to use,” Quilici said.

“We thought we could do a better job by letting people leave personal greetings tailored to each caller.”

DitchMail was the Southern California company’s first offering, mobile phone greetings for people users didn’t want to hear from, according to the founder. The list of DitchMail options included recordings titled “Die in a fire” and “Lying, cheating, bastard” along with an “ear-splitting whistle” and an authentic sounding “this number is no longer in service.” Telemarketers that use blocked or private numbers aren’t necessarily protected from YouMail users’ scorn.

Telemarketers phone numbers are shared in the YouMail online community, and the service lets users automatically notify callers that messages from blocked numbers will not be accepted. YouMail has expanded beyond Ditchmall to add categories for holiday, celebrity, political, inspirational, sports, polite, and foreign language greetings.

About two years ago, YouMail added machine-based conversion of voice messages to text but found “it sometimes worked wonderfully and sometimes it was completely misleading or gibberish,” Quilici said. “A phone in a crowded bar is a recipe for disaster; you get the dog died instead of the dog tried,” Quilici said of relying purely on machines to transcribe voice messages. YouMail added humans into the equation, having people edit and refine messages transcribed to text.

“We thought we could organize messages visually on computers, smartphones, iPads, iPods...true multi-platform visual voice mail,” Quilici said.

“Our goal is to provide it on every device.”

YouMail saw a boost after Google launched its Voice service that lets people have one number that rings at all of their telephones; converts voice mail or text messages into email, and allows for toll-free calls to the United States and Canada, according to Quilici. Last month, Google added Voice to its free Web-based email service Gmail and logged more than a million calls in the 24 hours after its launch.

“A category is being created of better voice mail,” Quilici said.

“You will see more carriers offering us as an option.”

Basic YouMail is free, but transcriptions are a premium service with a typical monthly plan costing seven dollars and transcribing a maximum of 50 messages from voice to text. Unlimited message transcription can be had for 30 dollars a month.

Sexual Harased In A worked Place

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:41:40 PDT

KOMPAS.com - Nine in ten women have suffered some form of sexual discrimination in the workplace, a study has found. A vast majority of women workers have experienced ‘gender harassment’, which includes offensive sexist remarks or being told that they could not do their job properly due to their sex.

This more common, low-level sexist behaviour was just as damaging and distressing as overt advances, experts suggest. The researchers at the University of Michigan found that 10 per cent of the women surveyed had experienced the most severe form of harassment, in which they were promised promotion or better treatment if they were ‘sexually cooperative’.

The study questioned women in two male-dominated environments – the US military and the legal profession. It found that although few were subjected to actual advances, such as being groped, 90 per cent had been subjected to gender harassment.

This included offensive remarks about being female, their appearance, body or sexual activities. The researchers argued that this ‘leads to negative personal and professional outcomes and as such is a serious form of sex discrimination’.

Gender harassment ‘creates a hostile environment that disadvantages women’, they said. Often dismissed as a misguided attempt to draw women into romantic relationships, such behaviour actually rejects women and drives them out of jobs, they said.

The findings, in Springer’s journal of Law and Human Behaviour, concluded that harassment victims fared poorly at work. They were far more likely to develop health problems that affected their performance.

Travel To Yogyakarta-Indonesia

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:57:29 PDT

Borobudur temple is located in Magelang regency, Central Java Province, and became part of the place when people come to visit the tour to yogyakarta.Yogyakarta who has his own province are special areas that have a government other than the governor also affected by the sultan's palace.
It is located in the middle of the island of Java, making this place visited by many travelers either from within or outside . travel from Bandung west Java is 7 hours journey by train excekutif, or can by using an aircraft with a 1,5 hours travel from each city in Java island, which provides domestic airport.

Yogyakarta is a province that still upholds customs applicable to the present. Yogyakarta is known for friendly and always smile for the visitors. yogyakarta tour are:

yogyakarta palace is a place which is always a lot of vacationing students who visit there, and used as material for the task of writing his school, because starting from lane 1 to present the history and images of the sultan's palace in Yogyakarta.
Taman Sari, a famous pool with its noble history of sultans who always chose his wife, through the window to be the consort of the king at that time.
and his very beautiful pool and manicured until now.

Jalan Malioboro, which is very famous for shopping tour by presenting a relatively cheap price and good. sold are various kinds and styles of batik, wood carvings for decoration and a lot of traditional painting with color and good pictures
For places to stay, ranging from cheap hotels to luxury available in the city better when going to visit this city, book hotel a month or two weeks earlier, to avoid a full hotel.

Borobudur Temple, is filled with sights of natural charm that is very beautiful. traveltime between Yogyakarta to Borobudur temple, reached by the time one hour by car.

This is the picture on the top of Temple and view of Parang ktitis Bantul who can reach by car 1,5 hours trip from Yogyakarta

Parang Kritis Beach bantul

Tips for Premature Ejaculation

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:36:16 PDT

From Meaning, definition and understanding of premature ejaculation, or which is also called premature ejaculation is a problem in which husband and wife in the male sex or orgasm out earlier than women. This can cause problems because the women did not get the peak of pleasure. Time is not a problem despite your wife out within 10 seconds and your at 15 seconds. The point is the concept of a first lady should take precedence.
Sometimes these problems are not understood and realized by the men, so that it can lead to problems outside the household affairs of the bed. In sexual relationships both parties must be equally satisfied. Basic sex education should be known and understood by both parties, lest one wants to win their own without thinking of their partner.
Steps to overcome and prevent ejakulasi early / premature ejaculation:
1. The direction of thought and concentration Point your mind on something that had nothing to do with sex as intercourse. Can also thinking that you do not like. This will reduce the stimulation received by the husband.
2. Reduce the sensitivity of the penis Use a condom, cream or other sex aids can reduce the stimulation received by a party man. Condoms should be used to measure thickness in order to reduce the stimulation that would be received later.
3. Pull technique When the male orgasm rush will be revoked in a timely manner, do not let all the sperm out. This technique required the participation of wives in order to succeed.
4. Right position Look for intercourse positions that normally you can enjoy for a long time. Wear these positions at the beginning of the game so you can be durable and able to orgasm or your partner out first.
Attention: - Contact your doctor if this method does not work and do not use the drug because it can be fatal vain. - Do not have sex freely without wedlock. The impact can also be fatal. Sexually transmitted diseases / STDs is always circulated everywhere without you realizing it. Use safe techniques to gain inner satisfaction. - Make sure your spouse free pms before and after marriage on a regular basis.

* Education seksologi blog

Long-Haul Revolution

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:13:46 PDT

KOMPAS.com - Steve McKenna takes the rough with the super smooth on a rail epic through the Middle Kingdom.

WHEN I told her I was planning to zigzag across her country to savour Avatar-esque countryside, ancient imperial capitals and metropolises that never sleep, my Chinese friend Nan had a morsel of advice.

"Use eLong.net," she beamed. "It's amazing. Super-cheap flights. Cheaper than trains or buses, some of the time."

I didn't want to be rude but I had to tell her that she was wasting her breath. I'd already decided that I was going the whole hog by rail: from Guangzhou in the south, to Qingdao in the north, with stops at Guilin, Shanghai, Xian and Beijing along the way.

Despite the vagaries of long-haul train travel - I'd turned the air blue on occasions during previous trips across Europe, India and Vietnam - I've never been a big fan of flying internally, especially when you have time not to and particularly in a country such as China.

As well as its astonishingly rich history and culture, the Middle Kingdom has made no secret of the fact it wants to develop one of the world's greatest high-speed rail networks. The government is investing accordingly, with billions of yuan being splashed on new infrastructure, the target being a drastic cut in journey times and a further boost to the country's already rocketing economy. I felt it would be a shame to visit China and not see how it's all coming along.

Yet, as I stood in what was, frankly, a ridiculous queue in Guangzhou's steamy, clapped-out old railway station, I was reconsidering my grand idea. The prospect of having to endure these crowds every time I wanted to buy a ticket made me sweat even more.

"Don't all these people have to work? Where are they going on a Monday afternoon?" asked Mai, a chirpy, Mandarin-speaking Spanish tourist I'd met, who had offered to come to the station with me. An hour later, we were both standing at the counter, wiping our sodden brows. As I leafed hopelessly through my Mandarin phrase book, Mai spoke to the ticket women and the information flickered on the computer screen in front of us.

My ticket to Guilin - some 1030 kilometres west of Guangzhou - was 215 yuan ($38) for a hard sleeper, which is ostensibly a spot in a moving six-bed dorm room with no doors. The cheapest flight I could find on eLong, incidentally, was 450 yuan.

The following evening, after passing through airport-like security (bags are scanned, X-ray-style, at every station in China), I found myself in a terminal that was busy but nowhere near as chaotic as India - and much cleaner. Despite a few token English signs, nearly everything was written in Chinese characters. Fortunately, the times and train codes on the giant neon display of arrivals and departures were easy to fathom. Mine read: "T38: 19:47". Train services starting with the letters Z, C and D tend to be the best; with T and K more of a lottery, I found.

Compared with stations in Europe, Guangzhou's had sparse dining and shopping options - just a tiny KFC kiosk and a few mini-marts. The waiting rooms were packed with families, hunched together, scoffing pot noodles, while the smoking areas were full of men puffing away on cigarettes while playing cards.

As an indecipherable voice crackled over the PA system, railway staff marched along, barking into loudspeakers. Everyone gathered their things. I followed them and we were soon on a train that looked distinctly 1980s.

My cramped berth was filled by an elderly Chinese woman and four men - including a young chap in military uniform who pirouetted around the small compartment with the elasticity of a gymnast. I'd paid a little extra to have the bottom bunk and there was just enough room for my backpack and me.

As the train left the station, I began to explore. There was a mix of (fairly grotty) squat and Western-style toilets, rooms with washbasins and mirrors and several areas with warm-water taps - for drenching those pot noodles. I passed through the soft-sleeper carriages, which were carpeted and had four-bed, airconditioned rooms with lace curtains (these were almost twice the price of hard sleepers).

I sought out the dining carriage, where the menu comprised a dozen traditional Chinese options (25-40 yuan). I chose sour spicy beef with rice and vegetables. And green tea. "You no want beer?" asked the cheerful young waitress, who seemed shocked when I said no. She then struck up a little conversation, asking where I was from and whether I liked China.

"Sorry for my bad English. I'm trying to learn more," she said, immediately, and unintentionally, shaming me for my near non-existent Mandarin.

By now, the train was doing 150km/h, which is snail-slow compared with the Chinese trains of the future and even the present.

China already boasts the world's fastest train: the Maglev that bullets from Shanghai's Pudong airport to the city centre - covering 30 kilometres in just eight minutes at a top speed of 430km/h. Within a decade, it's hoped that this will be more or less the norm.

The lights in my carriage went out at 10pm (standard procedure) and eventually I dozed off. Next morning I was nudged by the guard as we approached Guilin and the joy of rail travel once again revealed itself.

Glancing out of window, half-asleep, I was greeted by a landscape of beguilingly beautiful limestone karst peaks that reminded me a little of Pandora in the movie Avatar. Much better than the ceiling of a hotel room.

Traditionally, the Chinese are sticklers for punctuality; this is reflected in its rail service. Not one of my trains was late during my month-long, 6000-kilometre-plus adventure. Though sometimes gruelling, venturing around China by rail was an ultimately rewarding experience - and a fascinating insight into a country that's destined to stamp its mark on the 21st century.

You really get a feel for the sheer enormity of the place, as well as the fact that, despite new millionaires being created every day, most Chinese are not wealthy. More than 300 million farmers eke out an existence in the countryside, while millions more migrate to and try to find work in the sprawling cities.

While foreign tourism is increasing, you'll still be very much in the minority if you take the train. Because of this, curious stares will likely follow you everywhere but most Chinese I encountered were unfailingly polite. Although most Chinese travellers won't speak English, some will give it a go. Of course, it always helps to carry a Mandarin phrase book.

For the last leg of my adventure - Beijing to Qingdao - I headed to the capital's sparkling new southern railway station.

Compared with where I'd started my trip, it felt like I'd been propelled 20 years into the future.

Beijing South is a spotless, shiny, airy arena, sprayed by beams of sunlight and dotted with spindly palm trees. Self-service ticket machines and desks with bilingual staff sit alongside rows of coffee shops and restaurants.

Unlike in Guangzhou, the giant electronic departures and arrivals screen displays information in Chinese and English. The messages that drift from the PA system are in both languages, too.

Every 10 minutes or so, rapid-fire inter-city trains depart here for Tianjin, the 120-kilometre trip taking just 30 minutes.

I boarded the D55 to Qingdao, home of the famous Tsingtao beer and a launch pad to South Korea by ferry. Like the best trains in Europe, it was sleek, comfy and fast, (covering 888 kilometres in just over five hours and costing 275 yuan). Classical Chinese music was played over the carriage speakers and the toilets were super clean.

Anyone who visits China and merely plies the routes from Shanghai Airport or Beijing South may think the Chinese have already cracked the art of 21st-century rail travel. They haven't. The network is a work in progress, however, things are heading in the right direction.

World Cup 2010 Champions Is Spain

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:32:55 PDT

Iniesta Gol...........................by kompas.com

KOMPAS.com - Champions of Europe and now champions of the world, Spain captured football's Holy Grail for the first time with a 1-0 victory over the Netherlands thanks to Andres Iniesta’s 116th-minute strike at Soccer City.
The solitary goal came with penalties looming as substitutes Fernando Torres and Cesc Fabregas combined to play in Iniesta and the little Barcelona midfielder drove emphatically across Maarten Stekelenburg and into the far corner.
With this victory – their fourth successive single-goal win in South Africa – Spain became the eighth name on the FIFA World Cup™ Trophy and also the first European team to have triumphed on a different continent. For the Netherlands, who lost defender John Heitinga to a red card in extra time, there is only the heartache of another story of what might have been after previous Final losses in 1974 and 1978.
This was a match preceded by much talk of two like-minded footballing cultures, of the influence of Dutchmen like Johan Cruyff and Rinus Michels on Barcelona, of ‘tiki taka’ and Total Football. In many ways it was also a case of the irresistible force versus the immovable object. The Dutch had won 14 straight games to get to the Final, in qualifying and the tournament proper, and Spain 15 out of 16, their only slip the defeat by Switzerland in their first game here in South Africa.
Yet the Spanish found their stride first, living up to their pre-game billing as favourites. Vicente del Bosque’s side, playing in navy blue, dominated possession and fashioned the early chances. With the Dutch penned inside their half, Maarten Stekelenburg had to make a save after five minutes, diving low to stop a Sergio Ramos header from Xavi’s free-kick in from the right. Gerard Pique looked poised to follow up only to be denied by a combination of Joris Mathijsen and Dirk Kuyt.
Ramos came again in the tenth minute, beating Kuyt on the right and driving in a low centre that John Heitinga deflected behind. From the corner came another scare for the Netherlands. Xavi played the ball back to Xabi Alonso whose ball went beyond the far post to Villa but the in-form No7 sliced his volley into the side-netting.
After those near things, however, both defences got on top with none of the flair players on either side able to take a grip on proceedings. Instead the yellow-card count began to rise with Nigel de Jong becoming the fifth player in Howard Webb’s notebook by the time we reached the half-hour mark, the Netherlands midfielder, newly returned from suspension along with Gregory van der Wiel, having clattered into the chest of Xabi Alonso.
With the orange sections of the 84,490 Soccer City crowd finding their voice, their favourites almost gave them something to sing about from a corner in the 37th minute. Robben rolled the ball to Van Bommel on the edge of the box and although he failed to make a clean connection he unwittingly diverted the ball on to the unmarked Mathijsen but the defender missed his kick.
As half-time approached, Iker Casillas had barely had a save to make but entering stoppage time, Spain’s custodian had to be alert to deny Robben at his near post as a spell of Dutch pressure ended with the winger spearing in a low shot from the corner of the box.
Puyol, Spain’s semi-final hero, showed his aerial threat once more minutes after the restart when he rose above Heitinga and headed to the far post but Joan Capdevila failed to make contact. The game was gradually opening up and Dutch spurned a golden opportunity in the 62nd minute when Wesley Sneijder sent Robben running clear. Casillas came to Spain’s rescue, deflecting the shot behind with his right foot when falling the wrong way.
Spain coach Del Bosque had already sent on Jesus Navas for Pedro on the hour and the winger helped pick a hole in the Dutch defence in the 70th minute. Xavi sent him flying down the right and into the box and when Heitinga failed to deal with Navas’s low cross, the ball fell to Villa who looked odds-on to score only to see his effort deflected behind. Ramos was equally profligate after 78 minutes when he headed over a Xavi centre when unmarked, after Villa had forced another corner.
Spain were looking the more likely winners and it took Sneijder of all people to foil Iniesta with a smart tackle after his jinking run into the box. Yet Robben’s pace is a persistent threat and the Oranje No11 almost embarrassed Puyol in the 82nd minute, speeding clear of the Spain defender when second-favourite to reach a through-ball. Resisting Pique’s attempt to tackle too, he was foiled only by Casillas, the captain saving at Robben’s feet as the Dutchman sought to round him.
Extra time began with opportunities for Spain. Xavi failed to connect when well positioned and when the ball ran to Villa, his shot went wide off an orange shirt. Substitute Cesc Fabregas then broke clear on to Iniesta’s through-ball but was foiled by Stekelenburg. Mathijsen headed wide from a corner but like waves, Spanish attacks kept rolling on to the Netherlands back line and Navas was close with a shot deflected into the side-netting.
Fernando Torres replaced Villa midway through the extra period and Spain gained a man advantage four minutes late with Heitinga’s dismissal for pulling back Iniesta on the edge of the box, the offence earning him a second yellow. Iniesta would not be denied, however, as his late strike brought joy to Spain and shattered the men in Oranje.

Facebook in Deal to sell Credit

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:52:56 PDT

KUALA LUMPUR, KOMPAS.com – Facebook is partnering with a Malaysian company to sell credits at retail outlets across Asia for the first time, aiming to make it easier for millions of people to purchase virtual goods and play games on the social networking site while boosting revenue for developers.

Electronic payments company MOL — part of the business empire of tycoon Vincent Tan — will offer the online currency from Aug. 1 at more than 500,000 outlets including 7-Eleven stores and Internet cafes in five Southeast Asian countries, India, Australia and New Zealand, company spokesman Nor Badron said Friday.

The move is targeting people who don't have a credit card, particularly younger Facebook users, and those who don't want to take the risk of making payments online.

"Asia has a huge gaming community, and it's typically young people," Nor said. "The penetration for credit cards is very low... so the developers are not making money and missing this opportunity."

Nor said MOL already sells prepaid credits for other online games at its established network of stores, but it will be the first time that consumers can buy credits for Facebook's applications, including such popular games as Mob Wars and FarmVille, without credit cards.

MOL, which last year bought social networking site Friendster, announced the partnership with Facebook in a press release Thursday.

"We view this agreement as a major opportunity to broaden the availability of a simple, unified currency that can be used in games and applications across Facebook," said Vaughan Smith, director of business and corporate development at Facebook, in the press release.

"Working with MOL means we can offer the benefits of Facebook Credits to millions of people in Asia using a payment system that is already widely used and trusted," he said.

In Southeast Asia, the credits will be sold in Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines.

More than 70 percent of Facebook members use applications, and payment transactions and volume have seen a double-digit increase over the last quarters, according to MOL.

Japan Population Down

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:05:48 PDT

TOKYO, KOMPAS.com - The number of foreign residents in Japan fell for the first time in nearly half a century last year as a severe recession hit jobs in the auto and other industrial sectors, according to government data.
A total of 2.186 million people were listed as foreign residents at the end of 2009, down 1.4 percent from a year earlier, ending a rising streak for the 47 consecutive years since 1962, the justice ministry said.

“We assume one of the reasons was that the global financial crisis triggered a recession,” prompting companies to shed jobs, an official at the ministry’s immigration bureau said.

Japan has one of the world’s lowest birth rates, but it has rejected large-scale immigration of unskilled workers. The ratio of foreign residents to Japan’s total population of 127 million was only 1.71 percent in 2009.

The global slowdown since 2008 badly shook Japan’s automakers, which hire South American descendants of Japanese immigrants on assembly lines. The government grants a special visa to these Japanese descendants, but the number of Brazilians in Japan decreased by 14.4 percent in 2009 and the number of Peruvians was down 3.8 percent.

The First Woman Prime Minister In Australia

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:19:54 PDT

KOMPAS.com - Mr Rudd was convinced to step aside after it became obvious during an emergency caucus meeting that he did not have the support of enough MPs to continue serving as prime minister.

The British-born Ms Gillard was reportedly backed by at least 75 of the Labour Party's 115 MPs, sending a clear and emphatic message to Mr Rudd that it was time to go.

The threat to Mr Rudd's leadership emerged on Wednesday night, after senior Labour powerbrokers told him that he had lost their support and Ms Gillard revealed that she would challenge him.

The prime minister was urged to step down, but a defiant Mr Rudd announced that he would go to a vote. After a night of frantic phonecalls to gauge support, Mr Rudd decided not to stand against Ms Gillard, handing her the prime ministership unopposed.

The move against Mr Rudd came amid fears that he could not win an election later this year, and hopes that Ms Gillard, who is seen as more voter-friendly than the rage-prone Mr Rudd, had a far better chance.

Ms Gillard is considered to be a consummate political performer, and is viewed by the public as warm and trustworthy. Born in Barry, Wales, her family came to Australia as "Ten Pound Poms" in 1966. She became engaged in politics at university, while training to be a lawyer, and entered parliament in 1998.

However, there is no guarantee that Ms Gillard's move to take charge of the party will put and end to Labour's problems. Ms Gillard was part of Mr Rudd's "gang of four", a small group of MPs consulted by Mr Rudd over policy issues. She had a hand in the scrapping of the emissions trading scheme, which infuriated the electorate and could leave her tarred with the same brush as Mr Rudd.

The political violence of the past 24 hours is also expected to badly damage and divide the party, and further anger voters just months from an election.
The leadership spill comes amid increasing public frustration with the government.

The Labour Party has a primary vote of just 35 per cent, with the Liberals polling 40 per cent. The dire outlook for Labour was triggered a series of unpopular decisions made by Mr Rudd, including the announcement in April that the government was shelving its flagship emissions trading scheme. Mr Rudd was also embroiled in a high profile fight with the mining industry over his planned 40 per cent super profits tax on resources.

Indonesia In Gaza

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:53:45 PDT

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - In a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jakarta recently, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono spoke of Indonesia’s plan to construct a hospital in Gaza, Palestine.

"We will build a hospital in Gaza worth Rp20 billion in the hope it will increase public health facilities in Gaza," the President said at the Merdeka Palace, last May 29, when speaking at a joint press conference after meeting with visiting Mahmoud Abbas.

A staunch supporter of Palestine, Indonesia was also ready to give any kind of humanitarian aid needed by Palestine and to continue to contribute to the development of capacity for the establishment of a free Palestinian state as it had been doing so far through a forum of Asian-African countries, Yudhoyono said.

To follow up the plan, an Indonesian delegation consisting of among others House Speaker Marzuki Alie, a number of Indonesian members of parliament (DPR), and Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono, will visit Gaza, on June 30.

"Until now, the visit has been scheduled. Members of the DPR’s Commission I have obtained permission from the coordinating minister for people’s welfare, who will also join the MPs, and so the House Speaker, too," Hidayat Nur Wahid, chairman of the DPR’s Inter-parliamentarian Cooperation Board, confirmed here, Wednesday (June 16).

They are expected to witness the laying of the first corner stone marking the beginning of the hospital construction on a 1.5 hectare-plot of land in Gaza.

"The visit is also part of the DPR’s task regarding international relations, and is also meant to deliver assistance collected from the Indonesian people for Gaza," he said.

Earlier this month, Dino Patti Djalal, a presidential spokesman said that the Indonesian government will join other countries in ensuring that humanitarian aid sent through the freedom flotilla mission will reach the Gaza Strip.

"It is true (we will join the effort). That has become the mandate of the UN that the aid must reach Gaza," Dino Patti Djalal said at the presidential office on June 4.

In principle, the aid must reach Gaza by whatever means, he said. On May 31, Israeli troops attacked humanitarian aid carrying ship Mavi Mamara that was attempting to break the Israeli blockade in the waters en route to Gaza.

Reports from various sources said nine people were killed and more than 30 others injured in the attack. A total of 12 Indonesians joined the group, and two of them sustained gunshot woudns during the Israeli attack. Indonesia’s MER-C (Medical Emergency Rescue Committee) had sent four volunteers to join the flotilla, namely Nurfitri Taher (Upi), a Mer-C project officer, Arief Rahman, a medical doctor, Nur Ikhwan Abadi, a mechanic, and Abdillah Onim, a non-medical worker.

In Gaza, they would carry out certain assignments related to Indonesia’s plan to build a hospital in Gaza.   Besides, MER-C, other Indonesian NGOs that had sent volunteers to join the humanitarian mission to Gaza are KISPA (Indonesian Committee for Palestinian Solidarity) and "Friends of Al-Aqsa".

Dr. Joserizal Jurnalis, a MER-C presidium member who had visited Palestine several times to give emergency medical treatments to victims of Israeli atrocities, said some Rp15 billion has been collected from the Indonesian people to help finance the hospital.

"I hope that the President (Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono) will inaugurate it," Dr Joserizal Jurnalis said after attending a hearing with some legislators at the Parliament Building, last June 9, 2010.

He once told a television journalist that the planned hospital to be located at Bayt Lahiya, north Gaza, will most likely be named "Hospital Indonesia".
MER-C, the health ministry, the state secretariat and the foreign affairs ministry have held several meetings to discuss the planned construction of the hospital, first initiated in 2008.

Indonesia had earlier sent a number of ambulances, medical equipment and medicines for Gaza civilians. Meanwhile, "Dhompet Dhuafa" (DD) national charity institution has announced its plan to build artesian wells and clean water installations for the Gazans to get clean water.

"Now the people of Gaza are suffering under the pressure of Israel. Their clean water supply comes from Israel," DD Program Director Arifin Purwakananta said in Jakarta early June.

Gaza residents are in constant fear that their clean water supply will be stopped any time by Israel or be poisoned, he said. DD plans to make five to ten artesian wells and clean water installations to meet the Gaza people’s need for clean water, he added.

In an article entitled "More Than Just A Massacre" published by Australia’s ABC on its website, Michael Brull wrote that the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla was bringing water filtration equipment to Gaza.

"The reason it chose to do so was because there is virtually no clean drinking water in Gaza. Partially due to the damage done to greenhouses during Israel’s attacks on Gaza from 2008-2009, Gaza’s water supply system was reported to be on the verge of collapse in September last year. There was an urgent need to find clean drinking water, because, as Amnesty International had pointed out, some 90-95 percent of water in Gaza was not fit for drinking," he further wrote.

Kate Allen, head of Amnesty International UK said , "Israel’s continuing blockade of Gaza is preventing the importation of urgently-needed materials to repair water and sewage treatment works."

As noted in the Ha’aretz report, the unclean drinking water had caused respiratory and intestinal problems to babies in Gaza, wrote Michael Brull, who has a featured blog at Independent Australian Jewish Voices. The people of Gaza have been on a diet for years. They have lost weight. Their children’s growth has been stunted, and their babies have suffered anaemia.

Indonesia Porn Actress Video

noreply@blogger.com (ibenks permana) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:59:57 PDT

KOMPAS.com - Porn videos allegedly starred by Indonesian celebrities absorbed not only domestic viewers' attention but also global's one especially among porn stars. U.S. porn star, Vicky Vette, got attracted to know more about Peterporn, the new title addressed to Ariel's former band Peterpan.

The Norwegian-born actress was tempted to talk about the issue dominating trending topic on microblogging Twitter for the last two days last week. Ignited by the curiousity to watch the tapes, Vicky asked Twitter users to send her them. Not long after that, one of users from Indonesia sent them to her.

The hot scenes starred by the stars impressed her so much that she asked Vivid Interactive, the corporation dealing with adult movies in U.S., to help distribute the movies shocking Indonesia. She even mentioned her plan to visit Indonesia.

"If I go to Indonesia, I want 'Ariel Peterporn' to be my guide. But I think Indonesia government will not grant me visa to enter the country," said Vicky Vette.

She also expressed her interest to join "Ariel Peterporn" on porn movie. "I just want to say that I'd like to get involved in the next "Ariel Peterporn's" movie.

The other porn star from Japan, Maria Ozawa a.k.a. Miyabi also paid special attention to the porn blockbusters. On Twitter, Miyabi commented at her account on the videos with the title of Peterporn.

At the account updated since last Friday to Saturday, Miyabi revealed that she finally got the tapes after searching for them for two days.
"Guys, after 2 days search on the web, today I get the real video of peterporn. Many thanks for my follower in Indonesia who give the link... ," Miyabi commented.

She got curious with stars on the videos. The actress who is also French-Canadian blend really wanted to know the stars on the movies.

According to her, the man is handsome and the ladies are beautiful. The porn star with a rose and sakura picture adorning her left arm expressed her intention to get to know more about the man with the title of Peterporn and his intimate partners.