Saturday, March 8, 2014

[batavia-news] Past present: Gods of war

 

 

Religion has played an important role in wars. In the ancient times, when tribes engaged in bloody conflicts, both sides were believed to be blessed and supported by their gods, whose images were carried to the battlefield. Thus, the war was not just between two tribes but between two gods as well.

Nearly all ancient civilisations had their own war gods and goddesses to help them excel on the battlefield. The Sumerians had Asher, the Egyptians had Horus, the Greeks Athena and Ares, and the Romans had Mars. The followers of these deities built temples in their honour where the war booty was deposited to please and appease them.

Religious association thus made war sacred and holy. In Judaism, the concept of martyrdom evolved for those who were killed in the battle field while fighting for or defending their religion. During the Roman period, the concept was used for persecuting Christians who refused to regard the emperor as divine or to worship the Roman gods. Gradually the concept of martyrdom for those who were killed while defending their country and faith became acceptable to all nations.

In 1094 AD, Pope Urban II declared a crusade against the Muslims and urged the Christians to free Jerusalem from the 'infidels'. Although Christianity claimed to be a religion of peace, the concept of a 'just' war validated killing and bloodshed in the battlefield. Adhering to this validation, the crusaders slaughtered the Muslims after defeating them. The crusades were not restricted to the Muslims, but were also extended to 'heretic' sects like the Cathars in France, and the eastern-European heretics and pagans who were massacred by the Catholics. The crusades strengthened the authority of the church while the common people were imbued with religious zeal to lay down their lives for faith.

In 1517AD, when Martin Luther challenged the pope, Christianity was divided into the catholic and protestant sects. Each sect believed in its own righteousness, considering the other as misguided, and both were supported by rival rulers which eventually led to a bloody conflict in Europe.

France, which was predominantly a catholic country, did not tolerate the new emerging Calvinists known as Huguenots in France. In 1572, 13,000 people were killed in the "bloody Sunday" St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of the Huguenots in Paris and other cities of France. Consequently, a large number of Huguenots left France to settle in other European countries, depriving France of professional artisans and craftsmen.

In 1590, the sectarian conflict came to an end when Henry IV issued the edict of Nantes, providing concessions to the Huguenots. He adopted religious tolerance, and the separation of religion from politics; restoring peace and order in France.

In Germany, the clash between the Protestants and the Catholics was resolved by the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, which was rather short-lived as, in 1618, began a series of wars known as the Thirty Years' War; the most prolonged, continuous and bloodiest of wars with far-reaching consequences for both sides. The armies fought with religious zeal until both sides were exhausted and manpower and resources were expended, paving the way for peace negotiations.

It took Germany 200 years to recover from these losses. One-third of the population of Germany was killed, villages plundered and burnt, crops destroyed, while land remained uncultivated in the absence of peasants and business and industry became stagnant. According to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, the religion of the ruler became the state religion so people could either convert to the religion of state or migrate to a state where their faith was implemented and followed. As a result, people migrated from one state to another creating social, cultural and financial problems and breaking up the centuries-old structure of the traditional society.

Europe learnt a very hard lesson from the sectarian strife of the 16th and 17th centuries and, to prevent similar clashes in future, the policy of tolerance was adopted to create nation states based on politics instead of religion. Why are lessons always learnt after suffering, hardships and bloodshed instead of by studying the past?

In our country, the growing intensity of sectarian strife is causing dire political, social and economic repercussions. History is full of examples that no sect — even with a majority status — can crush and subdue its opponents without paying a terrible price. Without a policy of peace and tolerance, there will only be bloodshed. Perhaps it'll take us another few centuries to figure this one out.

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[batavia-news] Libya Threatens to Bomb North Korean Tanker if It Ships Oil From Rebel Port

 

 
 

TRIPOLI — Libya threatened on Saturday to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker if it tried to ship oil from a rebel-controlled port, in a major escalation of a standoff over the country's petroleum wealth.

The rebels, who have seized three major Libyan ports since August to press their demands for more autonomy, warned Tripoli against staging an attack to halt the oil sale after the tanker docked at Es Sider terminal, one of the country's biggest. The vessel started loading crude late at night, oil officials said.

The oil dispute is just one facet of the deepening turmoil in the North African OPEC member, where the government is struggling to control militias who helped topple Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 but kept their weapons and now challenge state authority.

A local television station controlled by protesters showed footage of pro-autonomy rebels holding a lengthy ceremony and slaughtering a camel to celebrate their first oil shipment. In the distance stood a tanker. The station said the ceremony took place in Es Sider.

Prime Minister Ali Zeidan appeared on television to warn the tanker's crew. "The tanker will be bombed if it doesn't follow orders when leaving (the port). This will be an environmental disaster," Zeidan said.

"They are now trying to load oil," he said, denouncing it as a criminal act. Authorities have ordered the arrest of the tanker's crew.

There was no immediate sign of the country's armed forces moving towards the port. Analysts say the military, still in training, would struggle to overcome rebels battle-hardened from the eight-month uprising against Gaddafi.

Zeidan acknowledged the army had failed to implement his orders last week to stop the protesters sending reinforcements from their base in Ajdabiyah, west of the regional capital Benghazi, to Es Sider.

"Nothing was done," Zeidan said, adding that political opponents in parliament were obstructing his government. He said North Korea had asked the ship's captain to sail away from the port but armed protesters had prevented that.

Abb-Rabbo Albarassi, the eastern autonomy movement's self-declared prime minister, said Zeidan's government had failed to meet its demands to share oil wealth, investigate oil corruption and to grant the regional autonomy.

"We tried to reach a deal with the government, but they and parliament ... were too busy with themselves and didn't even discuss our demands," he told the televised ceremony.

"If anyone attacks, we will respond to that."

A successful independent oil shipment would be a blow to the government. Tripoli had said earlier it would destroy tankers trying to buy oil from Ibrahim Jathran, a former anti-Gaddafi rebel who seized the port and two others with thousands of his men in August.

Jathran, who was seen attending the televised ceremony, had commanded a brigade of former rebels paid by the state to protect petroleum facilities. He defected with his troops, however, to take over the ports.

In January, the Libyan navy fired on a Maltese-flagged tanker which it said had tried to load oil from the protesters in Es Sider.

The North Korean-flagged Morning Glory, which was previously flagged in Liberia, had been circling off the Libyan coast for days. It tried to dock at Es Sider on Tuesday, when port workers still loyal to the central government told the crew to turn back.

Storage tanks at Es Sider and other seized ports are full, according to oil sources.

It is extremely unusual for an oil tanker flagged in secretive North Korea to operate in the Mediterranean, shipping sources said.

A spokesman for state-run National Oil Corp (NOC) said the Morning Glory was owned by a Saudi company. It had changed ownership in the past few weeks and previously been called Gulf Glory, according to a shipping source.

The Saudi embassy in Tripoli said in a statement that the kingdom's government had nothing to do with the tanker, without saying who owned it.

PROTESTS

 

Western powers worry Libya will slide into deeper instability or even break apart as the government, paralyzed by political battles in parliament, struggles to assert control of a vast country awash with arms and militias.

At a Libya conference this week in Rome, Western countries voiced concern that tensions in Libya could slip out of control in the absence of a functioning political system, and urged the government and rival factions to start talking.

Libya's government has tried to end a wave of protests at oil ports and fields across the vast desert state that have slashed oil output, the country's lifeline, to 230,000 barrels per day (bpd), from 1.4 million bpd in July.

Tripoli has held indirect talks with Jathran but his demand for a greater share of oil revenues for the east, like the region had under Gaddafi's predecessor King Idris, is sensitive for a government that worries this might lead to secession.

Jathran has teamed up with another set of protesters blocking oil exports at the 110,000-bpd Hariga port in Tobruk, also located in the east.

Libya's defense minister held talks this week with protesters blocking the 340,000-bpd El Sharara oilfield in the south but there is no word on whether it will reopen soon.

The protesters, from a tribal minority, want national identity cards and a local council, demands the minister has promised to study.

(Additional reporting by Ghaith Shennib and Ayman al-Warfalli; Editing by Patrick Markey and Andrew Roche)

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[batavia-news] Indonesia Candidate Tries Softer Touch + Eggs and Napoleon with Prabowo

 

 
 

Indonesia Candidate Tries Softer Touch

Updated March 6, 2014 5:28 p.m. ET

BOGOR, Indonesia—A prominent but polarizing Suharto-era general running for president is pushing for a more-relaxed dose of Indonesia's economic nationalism, following the rollout of laws to pressure mining companies to invest in building refining capacity.

Prabowo Subianto said that he strongly believes the Southeast Asian country, with about 240 million people, needs to keep more of the money earned from raw materials by processing them at home. That would help overcome poverty, he said, but compromise is needed.

"I'm considered a strong economic nationalist, but I'm also a realist," Mr. Subianto said in an interview Wednesday, as the country readies for elections that will lead to the first change in leadership in a decade. "It should not be done in a way that backfires on you. The goal is improved prosperity."

Such goals have fueled policy in Japan, India, Europe and elsewhere. But Indonesia, with its history of corruption and mistrust of foreigners, has earned a reputation as a minefield for investors caught on the wrong side of changing laws, murky ownership and uncertain enforcement of contracts.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's team eased regulations in his first five-year term, but took a harder line in the second. In January, the government banned the export of raw mineral ores and raised taxes on some concentrates to force mining companies to spend billions of dollars to build refining capacity and keep that lucrative work here.

Indonesia is a major source of commodities such as nickel ore, bauxite, tin, copper and thermal coal.

Following an outcry from local mining companies and international giants such as Freeport-McMoRan FCX -4.85% and Newmont Mining Corp. NEM -1.32% that the plans were economically unfeasible and would lead to job losses, officials said Sunday that Indonesia may reduce export duties case by case for companies serious about refining here.

Mr. Subianto agreed that Indonesia must tap more of the wealth its resources create. "We have this burgeoning population; what are they going to do?" he said. "They have to be productive.'"

However, the law may have been implemented too quickly and there should have been more consideration of the interests of foreign partners, he said.

"They invested money here years ago when nobody wanted to come in. There should not be shocks" that make it difficult to do business, Mr. Subianto said. "The consequence now is that there could be hundreds of thousands of people out of jobs."

Mr. Subianto, 62 years old, has a directness contrasting with the soft-spoken Javanese tradition and appeals to some Indonesians desiring decisive leadership. But he is distrusted by others for his role as a general leading the Special Forces in the authoritarian era of the late President Suharto, who was his father-in-law.

The regime collapsed in street riots fueled by the Asian financial crisis in 1998. The U.S. has blacklisted Mr. Subianto from obtaining a visa in connection with the abduction of dissidents; he has denied the allegations. U.S. Ambassador Robert O. Blake says that Washington will work with whoever is elected leader.

Mr. Subianto lost a vice presidential bid in 2009 and has worked to strengthen his Great Indonesia Movement Party, giving speeches across the archipelago.

Winning the presidency is complicated. Indonesia holds legislative elections April 9. Only groupings that win 25% of the national vote or 20% of the 560 seats in the House of Representatives can field presidential candidates. Few parties hit that threshold, so intense negotiations follow the vote to build alliances. The presidential vote comes July 9 and goes two rounds if there is no majority winner.

—Anita Rachman and Andreas Ismar contributed to this article.

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Eggs and Napoleon with Prabowo

 

Prabowo Subianto views himself as a pragmatist. If he sets a breakfast meeting at his ranch in the highlands overlooking Jakarta, he flies in guests by helicopter to avoid the day-long traffic jam circling the city.

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Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, a former military commander, joins hands with supporters during a forum in Jakarta on Jul. 15.

The former Special Forces general and current presidential contender checks out visitors in a pavilion a few meters from the helipad. In local tradition, they're invited into the main house only if they pass muster.

Inside, pictures of Prabowo in his Suharto-era military uniform vie with views overlooking his expansive hilly acreage. He loves animals; the stray mutt rescued by his staff and now ruler of the roost growls through the window in a territorial throw-down at the white-headed sea hawk perched outside.

He makes sure the batik-shirted staff gets the eggs right – "Scrambled? Sunny side up?" – and regrets the loss  of muscle mass after 55 (watch the carbs, eat protein; he's 62). Admitting he's a clear member of the elite 1%, he weighs in on how domestic control of economic resources and modern agriculture could uplift the half of the country he says has been left behind by the recent economic boom.

But Prabowo is, at heart, a military man, even if his career ended abruptly in 1998 after unrest ended the long rule of his former father-in-law, Suharto, and put him on a U.S. visa blacklist for alleged human-rights abuses, which he denies. His view of the world is shaped by a passion for history, strategy and tactics. He'll quote Napoleon ("An army marches on its stomach") to support his agriculture policy and paraphrase Goebbels ("If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it'') to dismiss his critics.

His library overflows with volumes on military history. He's now brushing up on his economics – though still angled on the sweep of events: "The Commanding Heights" and its Great Man subject, Keynes, and a dog-eared copy of Niall Ferguson's "The Great Degeneration."

A few observations he shared during a recent breakfast:

 

 

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[batavia-news] Mencuri di Masjid, Pria Ini Babak Belur Dihajar Warga

 

res : Kalau petinggi-petinggi departemen rezim neo-Mojopahit berani korupsi Al Quran, maka tidak mengherankan kalau ada yang nekat mencuri di mesjid, sebab para petinggi memberikan contoh bagaimana bisa kaya lagi makmur dengan perbuatan haram.
 
 
 
 

Mencuri di Masjid, Pria Ini Babak Belur Dihajar Warga

Sabtu, 8 Maret 2014 | 17:35 WIB

 

AMBON, KOMPAS.com - Seorang pemuda berinisial AAE (31) warga Silale Lorong Gapura, Kecamatan Nusaniwe Ambon babak belur dikeroyok warga setelah tertangkap mencuri di Masjid Jami yang bersebelahan dengan Masjid Raya Alfatah Ambon, Sabtu (8/3/2014).

Kapolsek Sirimau AKP Sarah Lessil kepada Kompas.com membenarkan adanya peristiwa itu. Menurut Sarah pelaku melancarkan aksinya dengan cara berpura-pura menjadi jamaah masjid, namun saat sholat berlangsung pelaku langsung melancarkan aksinya.

"Dia (pelaku) ikut masuk ke dalam masjid dan berpura-pura sholat Dzuhur, namun saat sujud pelaku langsung menghilang dengan membawa tas salah satu jamaah yang sedang sholat," kata Sarah.

Sarah mengatakan, saat akan hendak keluar, penjaga masjid memergoki pelaku dan langsung memberitahukan kepada jamaah masjid yang selesai sholat. Spontan aksi ini langsung menarik perhatian warga lainnya. Tas yang dicuri pelaku tersebut milik seorang pemuda yang sedang mengikuti seleksi calon tentara.

"Pelaku langsung dihajar. Beruntung ada sejumlah anggota brimob yang melintas di depan masjid langsung mengamankan pelaku dari amukan massa," ujarnya.

Menurut Sarah, dari hasil penyelidikan sementara, pelaku sebelumnya juga pernah terlibat aksi pencurian yang sama di masjid. Hingga kini penyidik masih terus mendalami kasus pencurian itu karena dari pengakuan warga, barang-barang jamaah masjid kerap hilang saat sholat.

"Pelaku ini pernah melakukan hal yang sama sebelumnya. Dia ini memang spesialis pencuri di masjid. Kami juga mendapat informasi dari jamaah kalau sering terjadi kehilangan di masjid dan kemungkinan aksi itu dilakukan oleh komplotan pencuri," ungkapnya.

Sarah mengatakan, saat ini pelaku masih berada di ruang tahanan Polsek Sirimau. Rencananya pemeriksaan masih akan terus dilakukan untuk mengidentifikasi dugaan pelaku pencurian lainnya yang kerap melancarkan aksi yang sama.

Penulis : Kontributor Ambon, Rahmat Rahman Patty

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[batavia-news] Oh DPR RI ... rapormu merah, gajimu terbesar keempat di dunia

 

res : Kalau rapor DPR merah, tetapi gaji anggota terbesar keempat di dunia, maka rapor merah ini menunjukan bahwa DPR tidak lain dari Dewan Penipu Rakyat.  Bukankah penipu selalu ingin banyak fulus. Keliahaian sedikit kerja duit banyak.   Siapa  salah  mengangkat tukang catut  elemen buruk masyarakat  menjadi wakil  rakyat?
 
Sangat diragukan bahwa masalahl buruk  ini akan berubah dengan hasil pemilihan umum 2014, sebab elemen-elemen buruk  sudah menginfeksi seluruh sistem aparat kekuasan di segala tingkat dan lapangan, jadi sekali pun ada orang jujur  masuk dia pun secara sadar atau tidak sadar akan turut termakan dengan kebiasaan yang dipraktekan oleh sobat bin kerabat, ibarat penyakit menular seperti ibola yang menjalar dengan cepat dan sulit disembuhkan. Penderitaan akan terus berlangsung tanpa minta permisi sebentar, terkecuali kaum neo-Mojopahitlah yang imun nan jaya.
 
 
 

Oh DPR RI ... rapormu merah, gajimu terbesar keempat di dunia

Jumat, 7 Maret 2014 03:00 WIB |


 
Depok (ANTARA News) - Gaji anggota DPR RI yang "wah" karena totalnya mencapai 18 kali dari pendapatan per kapita penduduk Indonesia, ternyata tidak sebanding dengan kinerja dan hasil yang telah dicapai para politisi DPR selama duduk di kursi parlemen.

Bahkan kasus-kasus korupsi makin menggila dan terus menyeret sejumlah anggota dewan.

Lebih mengejutkan lagi data yang dilansir oleh Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) dan Dana Moneter Internasional (IMF), bahwa gaji anggota DPR RI berada di peringkat keempat terbesar di dunia - bahkan mengalahkan Amerika - setelah Nigeria (116 kali lipat pendapatan per kapita penduduknya ), Kenya (76 kali lipat) dan Ghana (30 kali lipat).

Menurut data IPSA dan IMF itu, seorang anggota DPR yang duduk di kursi legislatif dalam setahun bisa memiliki pendapatan 65 ribu dolar AS, atau sekitar Rp780 juta di luar gaji ke-13, dana reses atau aspirasi daerah pemilihan, insentif setiap kali ikut membahas rancangan undang-undang.

Jika ditotal dalam satu tahun pendapatan seorang legislator bisa lebih dari Rp1 miliar. Gaji yang sangat fantastis untuk ukuran sebagian besar rakyat Indonesia yang hidupnya masih di bawah garis kemiskinan, yang konon nasib dan kepentingan mereka akan "diperjuangkan" oleh para anggota dewan itu di DPR RI.

Tetapi, gaji besar ternyata tidak sebanding dengan kinerja anggota DPR. Sebagian besar dari mereka tidak rajin menghadiri sidang untuk membahas materi-materi yang berkaitan dengan kesejahteraan rakyat, mengundangkan RUU menjadi UU. Mereka masih sibuk melakukan "transaksi politik" dan terlibat dalam kadus-kasus korupsi.

Koordinator Forum Indonesia untuk Transparansi Anggaran (Fitra) Uchok Sky Khadafi menyebutkan, kinerja DPR dengan gaji selangit semakin dipertanyakan, ketika banyak anggota dewan tertangkap kamera sedang asik bermain video game atau tertidur pulas saat menghadiri rapat paripurna di DPR.

Belum lagi dengan para anggota dewan yang diketahui sering mangkir dan bolos dalam rapat-rapat di DPR. "Ya gaji besar tapi kerja tidak becus. Maunya jalan-jalan dengan alasan
studi banding. Lebih memalukan lagi, para politisi Senayan juga tidak sedikit terlibat kasus korupsi dan harus mendekam di penjara karena terbukti korupsi atau menerima suap," katanya.

Ketua Pusat Pelaporan dan Analisis Transaksi Keuangan (PPATK) Muhammad Yusuf mengatakan berdasarkan riset tipologi yang dilakukan lembaganya terhadap anggota legislatif, ditemukan bahwa periode 2009-2014 paling banyak terindikasi melakukan tindak pidana korupsi dan pencucian uang. sebesar 42,71 persen.

Dari hasil analisis itu ditemukan juga bahwa anggota dewan paling banyak, 69,7 persen terindikasi melakukan tindak pidana korupsi, sedangkan ketua komisi yang terindiksi melakukan tipikor sebanyak 10,4 persen. Mayoritas tipikor yang dilakukan anggota dewan melibatkan penyedia jasa keuangan, yaitu perbankan melalui fasilitas tunai, rekening rupiah dan polis asuransi.

Dalam praktiknya, Yusuf mengaku sepanjang tahun 2012, telah memberikan 20 nama anggota Badan Anggaran (Banggar) periode 2009-2014 ke Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK), karena terindikasi melakukan tipikor atau pencucian uang.

Dari ke-20 nama tersebut yang sudah diproses hukum oleh KPK adalah mantan anggota Banggar dari Fraksi PAN Wa Ode Nurhayati, mantan anggota Banggar dari fraksi Demokrat Muhammad Nazaruddin dan Angelina Sondakh.

Meski Yusuf mengaku tidak bisa membeberkan 17 nama lainnya karena termasuk informasi rahasia yang jika dibeberkan ke publik berisiko pidana, tetapi dia yakin bahwa KPK akan memproses dan mendalami dugaan tipikor yang dilakukan oleh nama-nama yang telah disampaikan PPATK tersebut.

Beberapa nama pimpinan Banggar kerap disebut terlibat dalam kasus korupsi. Di antaranya adalah mantan Wakil Ketua Banggar dari fraksi Demokrat Mirwan Amir dan Wakil Ketua Banggar dari fraksi PKS Tamsil Linrung.

Dalam kasus suap alokasi Dana Penyesuaian Infrastruktur Daerah (DPID), terdakwa Wa Ode Nurhayati menuding bahwa Rp1,2 triliun dari anggaran DPID sebesar Rp7,7 triliun mengalir ke Pimpinan DPR RI dan Pimpinan Banggar. "Sesuai dengan jumlah anggaran yang hilang untuk 126 daerah, uang Rp1,2 triliun itu dibagi-bagi. Jadi tidak hilang di saya ya," katanya.

Sementara itu, di level anggota Banggar, nama I Wayan Koster kerap disebut terlibat dalam kasus korupsi yang telah menjerat Angelina Sondakh. Politisi dari PDI-P ini disebut bersama-sama dengan Angie menggiring anggaran di Komisi X yang membawahi Kementerian Pemuda dan Olahraga dan Kementerian Pendidikan Nasional.


Minim Kehadiran

Koordinator Fitra, Uchok juga mengkritisi kinerja DPR RI yang sepanjang tahun 2013 hanya menghasilkan 16 undang-undang dari 75 UU yang ditargetkan tahun itu, padahal untuk belanja gaji pegawai di parlemen menghabiskan Rp554,9 miliar. "Belanja gaji pegawai ini benar-benar kemahalan, tidak sebanding dengan hasil kinerja yang mereka berikan kepada rakyat," katanya.

Persoalan lain yang membuat produk legislasi DPR menurun menurut dia, adalah karena masalah kehadiran anggota dewan. Berdasarkan catatan Seknas Fitra atas 93 sidang anggaran di Banggar dan Komisi-Komisi DPR selama 16 Agustus sampai dengan 12 September 2013, rata-rata kehadiran anggota hanya 35 persen.

Hal ini mengindikasikan ketidakseriusan anggota DPR dalam membahas anggaran. Besarnya gaji dan lengkapnya fasilitas yang diterima anggota dewan, menyebabkan orang-orang lama ingin kembali menjadi anggota DPR, karena itu mereka lebih fokus kepada kesibukan persiapan pemenangan Pemilu 2014 daripada pembahasan anggaran," katanya.

Meski kritikan pedas dan kecaman terus dilontarkan banyak pihak kepada para anggota DPR yang sering mangkir dalam sidang, tidak serius mengikuti jalannya sidang dan malah tertidur, mereka bergeming. Menjelang Pemilu 2014 kehadiran anggota DPR dalam sidang paripurna terus merosot.

Bahkan pertemuan harus ditunda beberapa saat karena jumlah kehadiran anggota dewan tak kuorum. Padahal, dalam sidang yang dipimpin Pramono Anung ini terdapat dua agenda penting yang harus mendapatkan persetujuan dari wakil rakyat itu. Pertama, pengesahan RUU tentang Perjanjian antara RI dan Republik Korea tentang Bantuan Hukum Timbal Balik dalam masalah pidana.

Begitu juga pengambilan keputusan RUU tentang Perjanjian antara Republik Indonesia dan Republik India tentang Bantuan Hukum Timbal Balik dalam masalah pidana.

Agenda kedua adalah Laporan Komisi VII DPR RI tentang hasil fit and proper test calon anggota Dewan Energi Nasional (DEN) dari Pemangku Kepentingan Periode 2014-2019, dilanjutkan dengan pengambilan keputusan.

"Saya khawatir kalau bapak (Pramono) skors sidang ini akan sepi lagi. Untuk hal yang ini kesepakatan fraksi-fraksi saja sudah selesai. Jangan sampai skors, hilang kita semua, meskipun data (absen) sampai, tetapi tidak ada penampakannya," kata Ketua Komisi VII, Sutan Bhatoegana.

Daftar hadir anggota dewan usai penundaan sidang adalah Partai Demokrat: 81 orang, Partai Golkar: 45, PDIP: 42, PKS: 31, PAN: 23, PPP: 18, PKB: 6, Gerindra: 14, Hanura: 7. Jumlah 267 dari total 560 anggota DPR.

Wakil Ketua DPR RI Pramono Anung prihatin terhadap tingkat kehadiran anggota dewan yang menurun menjelang Pemilu. Menurut dia hal ini adalah sebuah kenyataan pahit. "Yang seperti tadi adalah kenyataan yang tak bisa ditutupi. Sedih proses pengambilan keputusan tak bisa berjalan dengan baik karena kuorum baru terpenuhi pada pukul 11.45 WIB," ujarnya.

Anggota yang hadir paripurna hanya separuh lebih sedikit, sisanya pergi ke dapil masing-masing. "Lebih parah lagi kondisi di rapat komisi yang terpaksa hanya memenuhi kuorum fraksi saja," kata Pramono sambil menambahkan, harus ada perubahan aturan sehingga anggota yang tak hadir dapat ditindak lebih tegas, salah satunya adalah menambah wewenang BK DPR RI untuk melakukan penindakan.

"Peserta sidang yang hadir itu-itu aja, yang tidak hadir juga itu-itu saja. Pada saat rapat, terpotret ketidak-seriusan. Peserta bergantian keluar masuk ruang. Anggota DPR tidak menghormati sidang serta menganggu sidang mereka sendiri. Di akhir sidang, tanda tangan penuh. Padahal di awal dan pertengahan sepi dari tanda tangan. Ada anggota dewan yang titip tanda tangan ke staf ahli," kata Koordinator Fitra, Uchok.

Terkait dengan terus menorotnya kinerja dewan, Ketua DPR Marzuki Alie dinilai gagal menjaga marwah dan integritas lembaga itu. Pasalnya, baru kali ini lembaga DPR RI digeledah oleh Tim Penyidik Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK), terkait kasus dugaan suap di lingkungan Satuan Kerja Khusus Pelaksana Kegiatan Usaha Hulu Minyak dan Gas Bumi.

Anggota Komisi III DPR RI, Fahri Hamzah, menyebutkan, "Saya punya saran khusus buat Pak Marzuki, dia harus menjelaskan secara kompeherensif tentang wibawa DPR RI yang semakin hancur selama dia pimpin sama Pak Marzuki. Seharusnya Marzuki melakukan evaluasi terhadap dirinya sendiri saat ini, banyak pekerjaan rumah yang tidak kunjung."

Memang seperti dikatakan Dyah Ayu Pilatoka dari PDIP, masih ada anggota-anggota DPR yang benar-benar bekerja untuk kepentingan rakyat banyak. Pertanyaannya, berapa persen anggota yang serius menyuarakan dan memperjuangkan aspirasi rakyat itu dibandingkan dengan mereka yang terlibat suap, korupsi dan transaksi politik?
(E.Z002/Z002)

Editor: B Kunto Wibisono

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[batavia-news] Ties with Jakarta remain close, vital

 

 

Ties with Jakarta remain close, vital

 
AUSTRALIA'S defence relationship with Indonesia is set to get back on
track after the tensions over spying allegations, says defence force
chief David Hurley.
 
General Hurley told Canberra University's National Security Institute
the Australian Defence Force had invested heavily in its
military-to-military relationship with Indonesia during the past five years.
 
Relations at a commander-to-commander level remained close despite
recent problems.
 
"I think there's a big desire to get back to business as usual in
that relationship," General Hurley said.
 
He said there was fairly constant interaction between the senior
leaderships of both countries. "So there are political decisions to
be made but the militaries are poised to go back to previous arrangements."
 
He strongly defended the need for Australia to collect intelligence
to give it a strategic edge.
 
"We could not do what we do without a robust intelligence community
and capability," he said.
 
"In many respects you could not over-invest in intelligence because
of the powerful edge it gives you, particularly these days where some
of the capabilities give you insights that in the past were
inconceivable about what people are thinking, saying and doing."
 
General Hurley said about 2000 people worked in the three defence
intelligence agencies and they should never be considered to be
public servants whose jobs could be cut.
 
The services would be blind without them, he said.
 
"They are core capability for the ADF to be able to do its job and if
you reduce them you reduce our ability to be successful on the battlefield."
 
General Hurley said Australia's relative economic advantage in the
region was declining.
 
In terms of GDP, Indonesia's economy was now larger than Australia's
and in 20 years it would be nearly twice as big.
 
"The gap is predicted to widen further by 2050. That development, by
itself, has important repercussions for our security and reinforces
how critical our relationship with Indonesia is."
 
General Hurley said that with the size of Australia's economy
declining compared with those of its neighbours, the ADF could face
lethal weapons in a technically far more dangerous future
environment. The coming defence white paper would have to ensure the
ADF was well-equipped and highly capable.
 
General Hurley said military diplomacy would be crucial to defusing
tensions in the region and it was vital to keep inviting Indonesian
officers to study in Australian defence institutions and for
Australians to develop close personal relations with them.
 
He said he had told personnel he did not care what grades they got as
long as they finished their courses with at least two lifelong
Indonesian friends they could phone at any time.
 
He said joint military exercises wi

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[batavia-news] Dijerat Pencucian Uang, Ruhut: Anas Terima

 

res : Mungkin saja  cuci menyuci uang mendapat restu dari atas dan waktu uang dicuci sebahagian mengalir ke kas Partai Duit.  Berapa banyak uang yang mengalir ke kas partai dari hasil panen korupsi, hanya mereka yang tahu. Jadi kalau Situmpul bilang "terima nasibmu", dia menberitakan dengan jelas bahwa Partai Duit bersemboyan "habis manis sepah dibuang".  Banyak petinggi partai masuk perangkap tikus, mereka bernasib sial ditinggalkan pencipta perangkap.
 
 
 
 

Dijerat Pencucian Uang, Ruhut: Anas Terima Nasibmu

TEMPO.CO , Jakarta: Juru bicara Partai Demokrat Ruhut Sitompul menyarankan bekas Ketua Umum Demokrat Anas Urbaningrum untuk menerima statusnya sebagai tersangka pencucian uang dalam kasus Hambalang.

Menurut Ruhut, dengan penetapan sangkaan itu artinya Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi memiliki alat bukti yang cukup. "Karena itulah terima nasibmu," katanya melalui sambungan telepon, Kamis, 6 Maret 2014. (Baca: Istri Anas Ogah Komentari Tuduhan Pencucian Uang).  

Anas, kata dia, harus membuktikan asal harta yang dimilikinya bukan berasal dari korupsi. "Dia harus menjelaskan asal usul rumahnya yang tersebar di beberapa tempat," ujar Ruhut. (Baca: Pencucian Uang Anas, Tri Dianto Siap Diperiksa KPK). 

KPK menetapkan Anas menjadi tersangka pidana pencucian uang. Juru bicara KPK Johan Budi mengatakan harta Anas akan ditelusuri sejak menjadi anggota Komisi Pemilihan Umum pada 2001-2005. (Baca: Kubu Anas Pasrah Dijerat Pasal Pencucian Uang).

Johan menjelaskan Anas awalnya dikenakan pasal gratifikasi terkait proyek Hambalang dan proyek lainnya. Dari tindak pidana korupsi itu, KPK mengembangkan dan menemukan bukti adanya pencucian uang.

Ruhut menyayangkan pengacara Anas yang lebih banyak mencari popularitas. Mereka malah mengarahkan kasus itu ke arah politik. Padahal, kasus ini murni masalah korupsi. "Sudah jelas pidana korupsi, kok malah diarahkan ke politik," ujarnya.

Ruhut pun meminta agar Anas memilih pengacara yang belum memiliki jam terbang tinggi. Soalnya, mereka akan membelanya dengan dasar hukum. "Kalau yang sekarang mencari popularitas," katanya.

NUR ALFIYAH

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Friday, March 7, 2014

[batavia-news] Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (RALAT)

 

NKRI  menandatangi konvensi ini pada 23 Oktober 1985  dan meratifikasikan pada tgl 28 October 1998.  Antara tahun 1998 hingga tahun 2014 apakah rezim tidak melakukan siksaan terhadap tahanan?
 
 
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
New York, 10 December 1984
 
 
Declarations and Reservations
(Unless otherwise indicated, the declarations and reservations were made
upon ratification, accession or succession.)

Indonesia
Declaration:
"The Government of the Republic of Indonesia declares that the provisions of paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 of article 20 of the Convention will have to be implemented in strict compliance with the principles of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States.

Reservation:

The Government of the Republic of Indonesia does not consider itself bound by the provision of article 30, paragraph 1, and takes the position that disputes relating to the interpretation and application of the Convention which cannot be settled through the channel provided for in paragraph 1 of the said article, may be referred to the International Court of Justice only with the consent of all parties to the disputes."

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