Tell the truth: Rosa urges Angelina

Mindo Rosalina “Rosa” Manulang has urged Democratic Party lawmaker Angelina Sondakh to give an honest testimony to Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators when she is questioned by them on Thursday.
“Please [Angelina], tell the truth about what really happened in my case,” Rosa said after her trial hearing on Wednesday.
“I hope her information can help reduce my sentence."
The KPK is scheduled to summon Angelina for questioning on Thursday in its ongoing investigation of a high-profile bribery case centering around a construction project tender for the upcoming SEA Games.
Angelina, who is a member of the House of Representatives' Commission X overseeing sport and who is also on the House Budget Committee, is believed to have helped fix the tender, which was granted to PT Duta Graha Indah (DGI).
Angelina first came under the spotlight after an alleged go-between in the case, Rosa, accused her of playing an important role in the graft, during her testimony with the KPK in May.
Angelina is scheduled to be questioned as a witness for suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin, the recently ousted Democratic Party lawmaker for Commission III overseeing law and legal affairs.
Nazaruddin, who is accused of masterminding the bribery by ordering Rosa, his confidante, to seek a project at the Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry that could be awarded to DGI

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Mahfud MD: Determination Against Suspect Zainal Arifin Weird

Sleman (Reuters) - Mahfud MD Chairman of the Constitutional Court considered the stipulation of the suspect status to the former clerk of the Constitutional Court Zaenal Arifin Hosein in the case of a false letter very strange.
"In the process of investigation of cases of fake letters, both the House, the Police and the Court itself equally get a new fact. The question mark, why did the police actually set the Hussein that his signature was forged as a suspect," he said during the "open house" at the residence personal in the New Sambilegi, Depok, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Sunday.
He wrote in a letter that is not true, signature Hussein only in "scan only" and not a signature in ink so that it is not the signature is affixed to the original question.
"There are two letters where one false and one true, the fake letter was dated August 14, 2009 regarding the determination of the number of candidates 112/PAN.MK/VIII/2009 Hanura Goddess Yasin Limpo Dapil as the winner of the Parliament of South Sulawesi. The letter correct dated August 17, 2009, "he said.
He said the second letter was submitted to the Commission by the commissioner of the Court, whereas Hasan Mansuri was told to Andi Nurpati if a letter dated 14 was not true and the truth is that dated 17.
"But in the reconstruction, the Court Commissioner who submitted a letter to the Commission and Andi Nurpati actually read a letter dated August 14, 2009 are false. In fact, the Court concerned has the correct letter dated August 17, 2009 aka. There is a tape in it's reconstruction," he said.
Mahfud said, on the grounds that he was surprised and felt so strange why Zaenal a suspect. And people who read the fake letter was not left unharmed.
"But I submit the assessment to the public. The community has its own understanding of the logic built Police. In this case, the Court did not lose. Instead of nations and law enforcement who suffered losses from the logic of the police," he said.
He said the case is not just art forgery, embezzlement but also art.
"So there are two articles that should be explored," he said.

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Lebaran Traffic Data Telkomsel 101 Reaches Terabyte

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - More and more mobile users who expressed his Selamat Hari Raya Idul Fitri use non-SMS data services, such as email, messenger or take advantage of social networking. This phenomenon, inevitably shifts the previously dominant role of SMS.
This phenomenon, among others, reflected in the increase of communication traffic during Eid in Telkomsel. Telkomsel recorded a surge in data traffic increases up to 101 terabytes, or an increase of 33 percent compared to traffic on a normal day.
The increase also occurred in Telkomsel BlackBerry service that includes chat applications, browsing, and social media has also increased by 2.3 Gbps, compared to the normal day to reach 1.9 Gbps.
Increased traffic in the period of Eid, should be assumed, one of which caused a growing number of Telkomsel's customers who say "Selamat Hari Raya and sorry physically and spiritually" through access to streaming video and social networking such as Facebook and Twitter
Although data traffic has increased, services such as SMS and MMS also noted an increase. Service SMS (short message service), which reached 1.2 billion SMS or rose 39 percent from the number of SMS in a normal day in the range 864 million SMS per day.
According to President Director of Telkomsel Sarwoto Atmosutarno, the high utilization of data services at a time when Eid is a form of high consumer confidence on the quality and capacity of broadband networks Telkomsel. This success is the key''to support the business success of mobile broadband as well as a foundation for realizing Telkomsel as the leader in the era beyond telecommunications, "said Sarwoto.
In addition to data services, increased traffic also occurs on SMS service which experienced a surge by 39 percent to 1.2 billion SMS per day. The increase in SMS traffic is taking place on August 29 (924 million), H-1 widths of 30 August (1.2 billion), and H Eid Day August 31 (967 million).
Recorded 99.63 per cent of all SMS sent during Eid al-Fitr Telkomsel customers successfully reached the recipient's number, where 85.63 percent of them arrived within no more than 30 seconds. SMS traffic increase has been anticipated Telkomsel to increase the capacity of 80,000 SMS per second at last year's Eid, to be capable of processing 83 750 SMS per second in this year's Lebaran.
Meanwhile, the use of communications services to telephone (voice) also increased, where the traffic is successfully serviced by 1.03 billion minutes, an increase of 3 percent compared to voice traffic on a normal day is about 1 billion minutes.
Generally there are no significant obstacles experienced by Telkomsel in delivering smoothness and convenience of communicating to customers during Eid in 2011. This is because SingTel routinely conduct checks to prepare the network communication traffic spikes that generally occur on every Eid and New Year.
Telkomsel has also set up a team charged with starting TELKOMSELsiaga H-7 to H +7 to ensure the whole set of network setup is really going according to plan so comfortable communicating during homecoming and widths will be maintained.
"Thanks to all the preparations increased network capacity and quality of what we did, this year's data traffic, voice, and SMS on Eid period was smooth so that customers can communicate comfortably without much disruption. This proves that the efforts to Telkomsel in delivering good quality services from the network and service through programs TELKOMSELsiaga 2011, has responded positively and optimally utilized by customers, "added Sarwoto.

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Around 93,000 travelers cross to Bakauheni from Merak

Merak, Banten (ANTARA News) - A total of 93,832 holiday travelers crossed from Merak ferry port in Banten to Bakauheny port in Lampung on Sunday, two days ahead of Idul Fitri or Lebaran festivity.

"Passenger data on Sunday or D-Day minus two was dominated by passengers on vehicles," Inland Waterway Transportation Service PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry Operation Manager for Merak port, Zalis Anas said here on Monday.

He said that based on recapitulation data, the 93,832 holiday travelers and vehicles, transported by ferry ships from 8 on Sunday morning until 8 on Monday morning, was made up of 276 on speed boats, 6,315 pedestrian passengers, and 77,241 passengers on vehicles.

Zalis added that a total of 19,411 vehicles, divided into 9,743 two-wheel vehicles, 8,698 private cars and small vehicles, 592 buses and 378 trucks.

Meanwhile, PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry director of the port business Prasetyo B Utomo explained that the increasing number in the flow of holiday travelers through Merak port was beyond the prediction of PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry.

"As of D-Day minus two, the surge of passengers still occurs but the number is not the same as that on Saturday and Friday or D-Day minus three and four when there was a long line of vehicles outside Merak port along Merak toll road," Prasetyo said.

Meanwhile, it was reported from Bakauheni that on Monday morning the ferry port in Lampung was still packed with incoming home-bound Lebaran holiday travelers from Merak.

While on Sunday, a multitude of travelers were seen spending the night at Bakauheni port before proceeding to the main terminal of Rajabasa in Bandarlampung.

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RI govt: Idul Fitri date set at August 31

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian government has decided to set the date of Idul Fitri, the festivity marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadhan, at August 31.

Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali made the announcement here on Monday following a meeting with representatives of Islamic organizations to determine the end of the fasting month.

The decision was also made based on reports from those observing the rise of the new moon in various regions in the country. The observers failed to sight the new moon.

Muhammadiyah Islamic organization meanwhile continued with its decision to end fasting on Monday and celebrate Idul Fitri on Tuesday.

Nahdlatul Ulama meanwhile would celebrate Idul Fitri on Wednesday, August 31, after its observers in various regions failed to see the first moon.

"Based on reports from 90 locations none of NU`s observers saw the new moon," its general chairman, KH Said Aqil Siroj, said.

Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama are the two largest Islamic organizations in Indonesia.

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Pegadaian records 20% increase in pawn transactions

State pawn shop operator Perum Pegadaian recorded a 20 percent increase in transactions in August, ahead of the Idul Fitri holidays, compared with the previous month.
“Compared with before Lebaran [Idul Fitri], the pawn transactions rose by up to 20 percent,” Perum Pegadaian managing director Suwhono said Friday in Jakarta.
He said people commonly pawned their motorcycles and or bought back gold jewelry they had deposited ahead of Idul Fitri.
“They may want to wear gold jewelry when they come to their hometowns, while motorcycles are pawned more because they consider it safer than to leave them at home,” Suwhono added.
He said people mostly visited  pawn shops three or four days before Idul Fitri.
Perum Pegadaian recorded a turnover of Rp 36 trillion (approximately US$4.2 billion) in the first half of the year, and is targeting revenues of Rp 84 trillion by the end of the year, Antara news agency reported.

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Three beaten by alleged FPI members, accused of being drunk

Three youngsters, who were hanging out on Jl. Matraman Raya in East Jakarta on Saturday at around 2:00 a.m., were beaten up by a group of men who said they were members of the Islam Defenders' Front (FPI), as the youngsters were apparently found drunk.
The incident occurred when the group were traveling en route to attend an event at the National Monument in Central Jakarta.
“When they [the FPI members] passed a gas station, they spotted the youngsters who were hanging out. They approached them because they assumed the youths were drunk,” Cempaka Putih crime unit detective head, Adj. Comr. Gonjali Ruhulima, said Sunday as quoted by tribunnews.com.
The teenagers fought back against the group. They suffered injuries as they were outnumbered by their attackers. The youngsters were later taken to a hospital for treatment.
During Ramadhan this year, FPI members, notoriously known for violence against minority groups, have been involved in a string of violent acts, including an attack upon a local Ahmadiyah community in Makassar, in which a local mosque was damaged and two Ahmadis seriously injured.

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Indonesian post-colonial theatre

With each successive regime change the erasure of other narratives and identities involved in forging a unitary Indonesian nation – the grand ‘forgetting of the past’ – is repeated. Sukarnoist nationalism replaced colonialism and was erased by Suharto’s New Order; then came the so-called reformasi era. Theatre reflects these processes, yet it is haunted by political ghosts and an ongoing, post-colonial concern about its own authenticity and cultural legitimacy.
Evan Winet’s Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre: Spectral Geneologies and Absent Faces is an interesting and unusual study of teater, modern, Indonesian-language theatre based originally on the model of western drama. In Winet’s view, this derivation constitutes the defining quality of such theatre. As a product of interaction with European colonisers, teater continues to carry with it the ‘ghost’ of that colonial history.
In spite of nationalist rhetoric proclaiming Independence as an act of conclusive rupture with the past, Winet argues that ‘Jakarta’s theatre buildings, acting pedagogies and dramatic repertoires are still haunted by the colonial experience’. Just as European theatre in colonial Batavia suffered from a sense of inadequacy compared to the superior stage fare of Amsterdam, Paris and London, post-independence Indonesia ‘struggles to develop an Indonesian theater of the caliber of European and American examples’.

Colonial shadows

Winet explains the book’s approach as stemming from a wish to help illuminate why Indonesian modern theatre remains within ‘the shadow of coloniality’. He wants to challenge ideologically-motivated, nativist assertions of authenticity by presenting a more inclusive, pluralist perspective. The first four chapters of the book discuss the origins of modern theatre in the colonised East Indies, Eurasian and Chinese performances of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and linkages between the colonial and post-Independence periods in relation to theatre spaces and acting pedagogies. The final three chapters focus on Indonesian theatre of the 1960s onwards. They analyse how successive productions of two western classics, Hamlet and Caligula, have engaged with different moments in Indonesia’s post-colonial history, why committed Muslim artists have subsumed Islamic discourse and imagery within a nationalist framework, and how modern theatre after the ending of the Suharto regime continues to be haunted by presidential ghosts.
The early chapters give a fascinating picture of the ethnically-diverse theatre staged in colonial Batavia and of processes of revival, reinterpretation and erasure of these activities in more recent times. An example cited is the Dutch language play Karinda Adinda by Eurasian playwright Victor Ido staged in Batavia in 1913 and re-presented in Indonesian translation in 1993. The later performance occurred at a commemorative festival at the Gedung Kesenian Jakarta – the refurbished Shouwburg Weltewreden theatre where the play had first been performed. In Ido’s original work the Dutch-educated son and daughter of a Javanese district head denounce their father’s feudalism, espousing European ideals of equality in keeping with mixed-race, anti-colonial nationalism. The daughter, Karina Adinda, an independent-minded young woman inspired by the example of Kartini, defiantly stabs herself in order to join her murdered Dutch lover and avoid the marriage arranged for her by her father. In the 1993 version, however, the daughter’s suicide is avoided by the sudden appearance of her Dutch beloved, miraculously rescued from death. The play ends with a tableau where the son invokes nobility of ideas and deeds and asks for moral guidance from God. The stinging denunciation of native feudalism and patriarchal authority, inspired by European-derived values, is muted to fit the conditions of post-colonial New Order Indonesia. The event commemorated Ido as a Dutch rather than a Eurasian playwright, for within a nationalist, us-and-them understanding of Indonesian theatre history, the substantial contributions of Eurasian and Chinese plays, playwrights and performers are largely ignored.
In a chapter on ‘theatre spaces’ Winet examines the varied roles within performance activities in Jakarta of two major theatre complexes. These are the Schouwburg/Gedung Kesenian with its grand pillared façade, colonial-era European focus and contemporary cultivation of global connections; and the Taman Ismail Marzuki, the major municipal cultural centre, charged with fostering local and ethnic as well as modern cultures. To include under this rubric, as Winet does, plays produced in far-off spaces of exile in the 1930s by future president Sukarno, is rather a long stretch. However the accounts of Sukarno’s theatre productions in Flores and Bengkulu, including two plays influenced by Hollywood horror movies, make for absorbing reading.
The fourth chapter, focusing on issues of professionalism and amateurism in Indonesian theatre, describes how amateur modern theatre, which developed during the Japanese Occupation and actor training institutions, which were established after Independence, engaged with western theatrical concepts and standards. In response to accusations that this approach indicated dependency on and subjection to the West, Winet engages with the theories of two of its major proponents who argue the purpose was, rather, to develop inner psychological depth. It is through the struggle and eventual failure to identify with a western character – the insurmountable ‘Other’ – that actors come to better understand their own identity. Such individualistic understandings of cultural nationalism were out of keeping with Sukarno-era populism and with nativist cultural trends, which came to the fore in the theatre of the New Order period. Nevertheless, Winet argues that theatre artists continued to draw on imported techniques and scripts and themes of individual identity struggle.
In the final chapters, focusing on more recent developments, Winet’s post-colonial frame no longer seems sufficient to encompass the complex issues involved. To what extent does Emha’s separation of his art from his Islamic religious faith relate to post-colonial conditions? Are Islamic concerns sufficiently prominent in Ratna Sarumpaet’s plays to justify discussion in this context? The presidential faces haunting post-1998 theatre productions may well represent the lingering presence of authoritarian-style Indonesian nationalism. However recalling colonial parallels is not an adequate response to the conditions of these fluid, changing times, and the need to develop a new, inclusive, cosmopolitan Indonesia. The book’s concluding sentence exhorting modern theatre in democratic Indonesia to clear a space ‘not only for the ‘native’ but for the Chinese, the Muslim and, perhaps most challengingly, the mestizo’, suggests ethnic and cultural divisions in theatre which are oddly out of keeping with the hybridity and global-connectedness of much contemporary performance.
Nevertheless, the underlying pluralist sentiments of this sentence and of the book as a whole are all too relevant. Winet reminds us in a salutary and timely way of the colonial/post-colonial heritage of modern Indonesian theatre and of essentialising, exclusivist attitudes and processes, which need to be questioned and resisted. His discussions of particular performances, actors and groups, even where they may not wholly fit this frame, are lively, enlightening and informative.
Evan Darwin Winet, Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre: Spectral Geneologies and Absent Faces, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Barbara Hatley (Barbara.Hatley@utas.edu.au) is Honorary Professor at the University of Tasmania and Monash University. She is author of Javanese Performances on an Indonesian Stage: Contesting Culture, Embracing Change. Singapore: NUS Press, 2008.

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Sri Mulyani in Forbes’ most powerful women list for 3rd time

Former Indonesian finance minister and current World Bank managing director Sri Mulyani Indrawati has been listed for the third year in Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women.
In the 2011 list released recently, Forbes put Mulyani in the 63rd place, up from 71 in 2009, but still far from her rank of 23 she had in 2008.
Forbes said Mulyani’s achievements included managing to cut Indonesia’s debts by half and increasing the country’s foreign exchange reserves to more than US$50 billion.
Mulyani also managed to reform her office while serving at the finance ministry, making it one of the least corrupt institutions in graft-ridden Indonesia, and creating a business climate conducive for businesses, Forbes added, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
Mulyani is the only Indonesian woman in the 2011 list, which puts German Chancellor Angela Markel in the top place, followed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseffm, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
Co-founder and co-chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda Gates, is in sixth place, followed by Indian National Congress Party chairwoman Sonia Gandhi, US First Lady Michele Obama, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and Kraft Foods CEO Irene Rosenfeld.
Lady Gaga is the most powerful female celebrity, securing 11th place.

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Dewa Ruci sailing through winds of change

Can you imagine sailing aboard a 58-year-old medium-sized sailing vessel and seeing sailors overcoming the rough and frequently dangerous waters?

Why has a Class A tall ship been rigorously maintained by the Indonesian Navy as a sail training vessel, when modern sea transportation has been made much easier with computerized navigation systems?

Both questions perhaps represent the general public’s concern and response to the continuing service of the German-made barquentine that began its journey immediately after it was built in 1953.

So confident is the Indonesian Navy of the performance of this ship that it will soon take part in a 10-month global journey, again on a cultural and goodwill ambassadorship mission, which includes a stopover in the United States in conjunction with the July 4 commemorations of US independence.

However, they have many reasons to be confident. “The Dewa Ruci may be old, but it does not mean that she is not seaworthy. The key here is good maintenance,” says 39-year-old Dewa Ruci commander Lt. Col. Haris Bima Bayuseto.

“This vessel undergoes regular checks on its return from overseas travel. And immediately upon the arrival of the ship in Surabaya after this journey, the Dewa Ruci will be thoroughly refurbished and its engine will undergo a massive overhaul to prepare it for the long trip next year,” mechanic chief Sgt. Heru Suhendro said.

The Indonesian Navy’s — at least the ship’s crews’ — love for the Dewa Ruci cannot be separated from its continuing service as a sail training vessel for naval cadets since the first batch came aboard in 1954.

This tall ship — one of the last three of its kind still in service — has been “very helpful” in promoting Indonesia’s cultural richness, with its cadets and crew members continually traveling across the globe to take part in various maritime and cultural events as goodwill ambassadors for Indonesia.

Being one of the few countries that still operates such vessels, besides Chile, India, Japan, Malaysia and Oman, Indonesia is perhaps the most active country in promoting its culture through the routine overseas journeys of the Dewa Ruci.

Still, there is nothing eternal in this world, including the Dewa Ruci. While many in the Indonesian Navy, particularly those involved in the day-to-day management and maintenance of the ship, still believe in its seaworthiness, the Dewa Ruci may soon see its service reduced to local journeys within Indonesian waters only.

The construction of a replacement ship, also a sail training vessel, which will be bigger than the Dewa Ruci, is expected to be completed in 2014.

However, those involved in the training of cadets and the ship’s management are confident in the continued use of the Dewa Ruci as a training vessel, even though the planned new vessel will have more sophisticated technology.

“Cadets must continuously be taught basic navigation skills, because in a worst case scenario, for example if a ship’s computer system breaks down, the cadets and ship’s crew can use very basic navigational skills, for example using a sextant to determine their position on the ocean, and guide the ship toward its destination or home,” said Col. Iswan Sutiswan, the director of education at the Indonesian Naval Academy.

Lt. Col. Haris concurred. “We need to maintain skills in basic sea navigation and sea journey technology, such as the sextant, manual sea routing and operational procedures for the ship’s masts and sails, because you never know whether a computerized system is completely safe from crashing or hacking.

“Furthermore, as long as our country relies on foreign military equipment, there is no guarantee we will be free from a military embargo as has happened in the past. What happens if we rely completely on imported modern technology if there is another embargo?” Haris said.

Apart from the equipment reliability issue, a complete departure from basic navigation and sea journey management system to a completely modern and computerized system would also see cadets’ morale decline, reducing their endurance and stamina in dealing with hardships, he said.

Previous experiences saw cadets test their mental and physical strength when the ship was hit by a typhoon for two-and-a-half days in waters off Hong Kong on its way from Manila, the Philippines, to Guangzhou, China.

Then during the Asia and Southeast Asia trip that just concluded, the Dewa Ruci was stuck for four days in a cyclone in waters off Vietnam on its way from Guangzhou to Bangkok, Thailand.

“As human beings, we’re accustomed to living on land.

“So, naturally, nearly all of us were vomitting and feeling very queasy when the ship was hit by the typhoon and the cyclone,” said cadet Habibi Ahmad.

“Initially, we were worried when we vomited, thinking we were the only ones who felt ill. But we later were relieved to find other members of the ship’s crew were also suffering from seasickness,” fellow cadet Pandu Indrawanto added.

A complete shift to a modern vessel would also mean a reduction, if not a vacuum, of the simple but effective promotion of Indonesian culture and traditions worldwide.

“Being a sail training vessel with classical features of rows of high masts and multiple sails is the selling point of the Dewa Ruci. This has also made it easy for the Dewa Ruci to travel anywhere around the world. It wouldn’t be the same if, for example, the Dewa Ruci was a warship, because warships can only make very limited official visits and travel overseas on special occasions for joint military exercises,” said Capt. Dafris Jambek, the ship’s intelligence officer.

It is very common for the Dewa Ruci to attract attention from local populations wherever it docks. A stop in Port Bitung in North Sulawesi, for example, received wide coverage in the local media and drew local visitors to various events organized by its crew and cadets. The timing of the visit to Bitung also coincided with the birthday of Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi.

Similarly, in Manila, Guangzhou, Bangkok and Batam, the Riau Islands, locals and tourists flocked to see cultural events put on by the crew of the Dewa Ruci, including performances of Indonesian songs and dances, as well as a drum band display and march through the cities’ centers.

“The response from the local people at the ports we visited was so enthusiastic that we often judged the success of each mission by how many people were crying when we left each port,” Sec. Corp. Sarno said.

Long and good memories have escorted the journeys of the Dewa Ruci since its maiden voyage in 1953. In several years from now we may no longer see the Dewa Ruci around, since it may only serve short local journeys, if it is not taken out of service completely due to safety concerns, or if it is replaced.

However, the spirit and historic service of the Dewa Ruci are eternal and occupy a proud position in Indonesian naval history
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Entering 58 years of service, the Dewa Ruci (a sail training vessel named after the mythological Indonesian god of truth and courage) was recently on an East Asia and Southeast Asia voyage. The trip was part of the Dewa Ruci’s routine mission to provide firsthand experience for Indonesian Navy cadets as well as a campaign ground for them to promote multicultural Indonesia, as goodwill ambassadors for international relations. The Jakarta Post’s Imanuddin Razak took the opportunity to join the ship for a short journey, to see what sea travel is all about and catch a glimpse of real sailors’ lives.

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Indonesia Strengthen Security Embraces China Sea Region.

Chairman of the Commission of a House of Representatives said the cooperation between Indonesia and China should be improved, especially the defense sector partnerships to realize the security area of ​​the sea.

Defense Commission Chairman House of Representatives, Mahfudz Siddiq said in Jakarta recently (17 / 8), forms of cooperation petahanan maritime, or defensive sea areas should be a priority partnerships Indonesia and China.
According to Mahfouz, although Indonesia is not part of the parties or the subject directly in the conflict in the South China Sea region, but Indonesia and China partnership is quite strategic. "The closest is the cooperation in the field of defense for protection of marine areas yes. There are trade flows that Indonesia also has an interest ", said Mahmud.
Military technological cooperation between Indonesia and China it is still quite minimal. "China is a strategic and political power are very influential in Southeast Asia and in Asia as a whole. And advances in the field of defense and defense industry is also very fast yes", so says Mahmud on progress of China's defense industry.
Dikatannya Furthermore, the security interests of the region should be encouraged towards constructive. Indonesia's defense cooperation with China is considered not exceed defense forged partnerships with ASEAN members Indonesia, South Korea, Australia and Japan.
Earlier, defense analysts Wawan Purwanto positive enough to appreciate Indonesia plans to increase partnerships with China in the field of defense. According to Henry, an adequate defense capability owned by China has driven the country's economic growth.
In a state visit late last year in Beijing, China (October 2010), Vice President He has said, Indonesia would still consider the Chinese bid for the field of defense cooperation.
Until now, considerable technological cooperation between Indonesia and China stand out is limited to joint research between experts of both countries, in the development of rocket and missile technology.
Since April 25, 2005, the two countries, Indonesia and China formally established a strategic partnership in various fields, including economic, political, social and cultural rights, including energy cooperation

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Towards the Feast 1 Shawwal, Assistant Infal Demand Rises Maid special seasonal work while going home and widths, usually booked since the beginning of Ramadan, and came from Central Java.

Infal maid servant who is employed as a special homecoming and widths. Usually they work seasonally, between one to two weeks, to replace the old maid who was returning home.

Ahead of Eid, the demand increased infal aides, especially in many big cities in Indonesia. Increased demand could reach 20 percent, over time the approach of Lebaran.

An owner of a foundation's assistant labor suppliers infal in Bandung, Sumiati, said the demand for maids in the city of Bandung infal not proportional to the amount of labor available. As a result, Sumiati can not meet all the orders, because the stock of labor, mostly imported from Apex, Central Java habis.Untuk get around the shortage of labor, Sumiati usually work together with other fellow dealers infal helpers in the city of Bandung.

Wages for one maid infal variable, ranging between 600 thousand to 750 thousand dollars per month. The higher wages doubled compared with the usual auxiliary wage. Meanwhile, it became an aide to infal a distinct advantage for Fatimah, an aide to infal from Apex-Central Java. In addition to a higher salary, he is only employed in the not too long, that is two weeks.

Although only employed for a while, an aide to infal should still have good skills in performing various household chores. It is a key condition imposed by a labor recruiter infal assistant, in addition must also be honest and trustworthy

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