Saturday, 20 June 2009

Idul Fitri, Hari Libur di New York

http://internasional.kompas.com/read/xml/2009/06/19/16412650/Idul.Fitri.Jadi.Hari.Libur.di.New.York

NEW YORK, KOMPAS.com — Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Kota New York, Amerika Serikat, setuju memasukkan Hari Raya Idul Fitri dan Idul Adha sebagai kalender hari-hari libur sekolah di kota itu, seperti Natal pada agama Kristen dan Yom Kippur dalam agama Yahudi.

"Alhamdulillah, dengan suara mayoritas, hanya satu suara yang menentang, resolusi tersebut diterima secara mutlak. Hari Kamis, 18 Juni 2008, merupakan hari bersejarah bagi komunitas Muslim di Kota New York," kata anggota Dewan Muslim Kota New York asal Indonesia Syamsi Ali yang menghubungi Antara di Jakarta, Jumat (19/6).

Imam Masjid Indonesia di New York ini mengungkapkan, proses menjadikan Hari Raya Idul Fitri dan Idul Adha sebagai hari libur tersebut melewati masa yang lama. Sekitar dua tahun lalu, bertepatan dengan Hari Raya Idul Adha, Kota New York mengadakan jajak pendapat di mana anak-anak Muslim harus memilih antara sekolah atau shalat Idul Adha.

Sejak itu, masyarakat Muslim membentuk koalisi besar untuk hari-hari libur Muslim atau Coalition for Muslim Holidays, yang tidak saja beranggotakan komunitas Muslim, tetapi juga berbagai organisasi non-Muslim. Keterlibatan non-Muslim ini adalah hasil dari upaya menjembatani hubungan antarkomunitas.

Beberapa waktu lalu diadakan perdebatan umum yang diikuti publik di Dewan Kota New York, di mana sejumlah rabi dan pastor mendukung usulan liburnya Idul Adha dan Idul Fitri, kata Syamsi yang pernah dinobatkan sebagai tokoh Muslim paling berpengaruh di Kota New York oleh media setempat.

Ia menjelaskan, resolusi tersebut pertama kali disponsori anggota DPRD Robert Jackson dari Bronx. Berkat kepemimpinannya di Komisi yang membawahi pendidikan dan budaya, serta dorongan dari aktivis Koalisi Hari-hari Libur Muslim itu, akhirnya mayoritas anggota DPRD mendukung, termasuk para penganut agama Yahudi.

"Pada akhirnya resolusi ini akan diajukan ke meja wali kota untuk disahkan menjadi peraturan kota. Insya Allah kita optimistis wali kota akan mengesahkan resolusi tersebut," kata Syamsi yang berasal dari Makassar itu.

Kalangan Muslim di Kota New York sedang merancang strategi untuk melobi wali kota, termasuk menghubungkan dukungannya dengan pemilihan wali kota mendatang. Wali Kota New York Michael Bloomberg yang merupakan seorang Yahudi berniat maju kembali menjadi calon wali kota periode ketiga setelah Dewan Kota mengubah pembatasan wali kota dalam dua periode.

"Bagi kami, ini sejarah yang akan dicatat dalam perkembangan Kota New York. Keberhasilan ini juga merupakan indikasi bahwa Islam dan Muslim di AS semakin mendapat pengakuan," ujarnya.

Satu dari setiap 10 warga kota New York adalah Muslim, persisnya antara 800.000 hingga sejuta orang, sementara jumlah masjid mencapai 200-an. Syamsi menungkapkan, warga Muslim New York ini terlibat dalam segala sendi kehidupan, termasuk kepolisian dan pendidikan

Boediono Imbau Para Scientist 'Bertobat'Penulis

Sabtu, 20/06/2009 07:03 WIB

Boediono Imbau Para Scientist 'Bertobat'Penulis: Amanda Ferdina - detikPemilu
(Pak Boediono, teman Anda itu ketika "tertipu"

dalam kasus Blue Energy pernah mengatakan

"I am not a scientist.....". Gimana nih.....)

Bandung - Fenomena banyaknya scientist (ilmuwan) yang beralih ke sektor lain setelah lulus membuat Cawapres Boediono angkat bicara. Lulusan Ekonomi ini meminta para scientist agar bertobat kembali ke sektor asalnya.

"Gini, di krisis (global) ini banyak scientist beralih masuk ke ekonomi, jadi banyak ciptkan produk yang aneh-aneh. Makanya, Scientist kembali saja ke sektornya," ujar Boediono.

Hal itu disampaikan Boediono di tengah acara pertemuan dengan Rektor ITB, Djoko Santoso, di Ruang Perpustakaan observasi Bosscha, Bandung, Jumat (19/06/2009) malam.

Boediono menyatakan bahwa sejak muda ia memiliki pula impian menjadi ilmuwan. Akan tetapi tidak dapat terlaksana. "Minat saya terhadap science sudah jauh ketika muda. Tapi nggak bisa terlaksana impian ini. Saya masuk menjadi ekonom," imbuhnya.

Science dianggap Boediono sebagai ilmu yang bermanfaat ke depannya.

"Untuk manfaat langsung, tidak bisa kita hanya untuk pasar dan suku bunga, itu kan hanya jangka pendek. Tapi jangka panjangnya ke ilmu pasti, ke ilmu science teknologi," katanya sambil tersenyum.

Bersama rektor ITB dan rombongan, Boediono sempat mengunjungi dua teropong bintang yang terletak di sana. Boediono yang mengaku pertama kali datang, berkesempatan menggunakan teropong dan melihat planet saturnus dan bintang BE yg terang.

"Luar biasa mengamati bintang, benar-benar luar biasa. ini adalah aset nasional yang perlu kita lestarikan," ujar Boediono setelah menggunakan teropong.

Sebelumnya, boediono juga meminta dukungan kepada puluhan pengusaha Jawa Barat dan meminta agar isu atau pun komentar yang berkembang dapat disaring dan dikonfirmasikan dahulu.

"Menjelang tanggal 8 Juni makin intensif komentar dan SMS. Saya mohon tolong disaring, tidak semuanya betul. kalau perlu bisa dikonfirmasikan," ujar Boeodiono di acara pertemuan dengan pengusaha Jabar, di Grand Hotel Universal, Jl Setiabudi, Bandung.

Ia juga menyatakan tidak ada hal yang tersembunyi antara dirinya maupun SBY.

"Kecocokan Bapak SBY dan saya cukup baik. Tidak perlu dicari-sari selahnya," imbuhnya. ( amd / anw )======
Pak Boediono, teman Anda itu ketika "tertipu" dalam kasus Blue Energy pernah mengatakan
"I am not a scientist.....". Gimana nih.....

Profile of Pramoedya Ananta Toer


Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925 - 2006), Indonesian prose author that foremost, Art Nobels Prize victorious candidate. He is borne at Blora, Central java, 6th February 1925, but then proceeds and reaches for success at Jakarta. Before he passes away, she stays at Bojong, Bogor. She writes novel, short story, biography, and translating severally world art opus into indonesian. Pramoedya constitutes the most Indonesia man of letters be known at international world and is looked on as a considerable post colonialism writer, particularly passes through novel Tetralogy “Bumi Manusia” (Human earth), “Anak Semua Bangsa” (Child all Nation), “Jejak Langkah” (Staged track), and “Rumah Kaca” (Greenhouse) (1980 - 1987) that first thing is written while he is alienated at Buru island on Soeharto’s military regime term. That Tetralogy tell about Indonesian nationalism evocation process that interlaced by one inter-race loves story that end unhappy with take model a move figure that is forgotten in history, Tirto Adhi Suryo.

Stand up with severally another ‘left intellectual’, Pramoedya was alienated to go to Buru island and be jailed up to 14 years (1965 - 1979) without litigation overtakes what do be looked on as mutiny of Indonesian Communist Party one fails at the early 1965. Military also confiscate his house and burns his book collection and eight his manuscript that was published. West intellectual has once written that the mutiny for that matter is constitute emulation among faction at military. Hundreds thousand (even there is that call number millions) communist sympathizer and another peopled innocent at severally region at Indonesian, experiences persecution, murder, and incarceration after that ‘mutiny’ incident. Even up to now they are still lose civil rights.

Pramoedya's opuses that the lot vicinity total sixty book was translated into vicinity forty worldwide language, including Greek, Russia, Swedish, Spain, and Vietnamese, but ironically there are many his opus just is prohibited circulating at alone country. His bad experience up to as political prisoner be poured into two autobiography volumes, “Nyanyian Sunyi Seorang Bisu” (1995 – translated into English language as Mute ’ s Soliloquy , 1999).

International appreciation that have once he accepts for example Present Wertheim (Dutch), Magsaysay present (Philippine, 1995), Fukouka present (Japan, 2000), Le Chevalier de l’Irdre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 2004). He also there are many translate world art opus into Indonesian, for example Tikus dan Manusia (in Indonesian) (John Steinbeck's novel, 1950, republished 2003), Kembali Pada Cinta Kasihmu (Leo Tolstoy's novel, 1954), Kisah Seorang Prajurit Sovyet (Mikhail Sholokov's novel, 1954), Ibunda (Maxim Gorky's novel, 1956, republished 2000), Asmara dari Rusia (Alexander Kuprin's novel, 1959), and Manusia Sejati (Boris Polewoi's novel, 1959).

Pramoedya dies at Jakarta in age 81 on 2006 with leave one opus that don't be finished, “Ensiklopedia Kawasan Indonesia” (Indonesian Area encyclopaedia). Commenting Pramoedya's death, English foremost novelist indigenous Pakistani one also journal editor New Left Review , Tariq Ali, write in Counter Punch , 2nd May 2006, “Pramoedya Ananta Toer's death at Jakarta, 30th April 2006, are forfeit big for world literature. He is foremost Indonesia intellectual, at a swoop fiction writer that genius … ”.

Example Of Java Philosophy

Now, Javanese culture, particularly Javanese Philosophy, nearly gets lost of society life. Our free life have ignored that Java philosophy. Eventually, in that philosophy contain glorious teachings that really good for society life.

Javanese philosophy basically gets universal character. So, Javanese philosophy is not just be destined for Java society, but also for any individual that wants to study it.

Severally Javanese philosophy for example:

  • Memayu hayuning bawana (protect for whole world life)

  • Sukeng tyas yen den hita (want to accept advice, criticism and rebuke)

  • Jer basuki mawa beya (someone success is gotten with sacrifice)

  • Ajining dhiri dumunung ing kedhaling lathi (point self of someone lays in utterance of tongue)

  • Ajining sarira dumunung ing busana (point warms up someone lay in dress)

  • Amemangun karyenak tyasing sesama (make delicate other people feel)

  • Kridhaning ati ora bisa mbedhah kuthaning pasthi (Soul distortion can't revamp certainty)

  • Budi dayane manungsa ora bisa ngungkuli garise Kang kuwasa (human power can't settle Lord destiny)

  • Sura dira jayaningrat lebur dening pangastuti (resentment and dislike will be erased and gets lost by bland attitude)

  • Tan ngendhak gunaning janma (don't scorn man cleverness)

Big nation is not just nation that modern, but nation who can live modern without leave teaching and cultures glorious point.

Thursday, 18 June 2009

US Enlists Twitter in Iranian Standoff


IslamOnline.net & Newspapers

CAIRO — The US administration has delved into Iran’s election dispute by asking the micro-blogging website Twitter to delay maintenance shutdown to avoid disrupting communications among tech-savvy Iranian activists.

"This was just a call to say: 'It appears Twitter is playing an important role at a crucial time in Iran. Could you keep it going?'" P.J. Crowley, assistant secretary of state for public affairs, told the New York Times on Wednesday, June 17.

State Department official Jared Cohen e-mailed the social-networking site with the unusual request to delay its scheduled maintenance shutdown because of its use as a communications tool by Iranian activists who stage nonstop protests.

Twitter noted the State Department's request in a blog post and said that it put off the move until late Tuesday afternoon — 1:30 a.m. Wednesday in Tehran.

"It's humbling to think that our two-year old company could be playing such a globally meaningful role that State officials find their way toward highlighting our significance."

The move came despite an assurance by President Barack Obama on Tuesday, June 16, that his administration would not interfere in the Iranian poll dispute.

"It is not productive, given the history of US-Iranian relations to be seen as ... meddling in Iranian elections."

But the State Department insisted that their Twitter request did not amount to meddling.

"This is completely consistent with our national policy," Crowley said.

"We are proponents of freedom of expression. Information should be used as a way to promote freedom of expression."

Incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been declared the winner of Friday’s presidential vote, with results showing him winning almost 63 percent of the vote against 34 percent for his main reformist rival Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

But Mousavi is refusing to acknowledge the re-election of Ahmadinejad for a second four-year term and is leading his supporters in street protests.

Some 1.5 to two million pro-Mousavi demonstrators swarmed to the streets over the past days in the biggest outpouring of public anger since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Twitting Iranians

A White House official said that social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook have become a focal point for young, urban Iranians to speak their mind out.

"Twitter is simply a medium that all Iranians can use to communicate," he told the Washington Post.

The official suggested that even Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is a Twitter user.

According to reports, supporters of Mousavi posted defiant messages on Twitter on Tuesday, calling for a second banned rally to go ahead and offering security updates.

Mousavi has almost 48,000 supporters on his Facebook page, and Ahmadinejad also has a page with 2,615 fans.

More than 23 million Iranians in a country of 70 million -- more than 60 percent of whom are under the age of 20 -- have access to the Internet.

In a 2007 report on Iran, the OpenNet Initiative estimated there were about 400,000 blogs in Farsi.

Twitter officials insisted their decision to delay the outage was not made upon the government request, but rather to help Iranians get out the word.

"We did so because events in Iran were tied directly to the growing significance of Twitter as an important communication and information network," said Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.

Some, however, doubt how much twittering is actually going on inside Iran, as the Twitter interface does not support Farsi.

The tweets circulated by Iranian expatriates in the US tend to be in English. And though people may be sending tweets out of Iran, their use inside Iran may be low.

"Twitter's impact inside Iran is zero," maintains Mehdi Yahyanejad, manager of a Farsi-language news site based in Los Angeles.

"Here, there is lots of buzz, but once you look…you see most of it are Americans tweeting among themselves."

Tuesday, 9 June 2009

Trick to Increase Traffic or Visitor.

First step

Utilize Traffic Exchange Program at www.trafficswarm.com. Then on member area chooses menu “Manage Your Site Promotions” then click “Add a New Site Address” then inserts URL, Title, Description, and chooses Your sites category then click "Update".

If You want to do surfing, click “surf for credit ” on member area. Each page will emerge after you choose to register sites that you want to explore. Each sites page that opening to give credit point that different. Usually been accounted 1:2, its mean is Your sites will perform 1 time if you do surfing on 2 sites. More and more You do surfing, more and more traffic Your sites.

You can buy credit if doesn't want to get pains for surfing, or upgrades your member if wants to increase your advertising ratio. So your advertising is clicked by visitor to increase amount of credit sites that you promotes.

Second stage

Listing your sites on Auto Surfing sites at www.clickevolution.com. The ways of working equals with First Step, if you do surfing therefore your sites will visit person. and in here, you can buy traffic by cheaply.

Trick to Adds Page View at Yuwie by Fast, Trick Utilizes Linky

As writing previous about "what is yuwie" and how get dollar from yuwie, this time I will work through about trick to get page view that a lot of by once click.

Have we knows that yuwie accounts production that we gets up on amount page view that we has and added by page view from downline (every 1000 page view well worth 0.5 $).

One of the ways to adding personal page view at yuwie are visit and open others profile by piece. If you have many leeways, it must be not difficult, but if you are busy person, this is one problem, because time in full day depleted for browsing at yuwie.

There is one plugin at Firefox that called "linky". Linky is one plugin who we can utilize to open some link at a swoop. It’s really useful, because, we don't get to do click on that link by piece.

This following is trick utilize Linky to adding yuwie page view rapid fire:

  1. If haven't have account at yuwie, please to make

  2. If you haven't have Firefoxs, please to download

  3. Install Add On Linky

  4. Log In to your yuwie account

  5. Go to menu "control is pane" at yuwie

  6. Then clicks on menu "Friend"

  7. Elective your friend, five at a swoop by dragging

  8. Succeeding Stages, right click on your friend photographs, then chooses linky, click on open selected link in new is tab, Firefox will shortly open new tab of many that link.

  9. Opens by piece umpteen that link tab, and chooses view profile to open your friend profile.

If was finished, go over from point 5 for another friends.

Page view who accounted by yuwie as point is page that be opened by minimal time is 3 seconds. So while have is more than 3 seconds, profile already being opened can be closed.
How is friend, faster or not? One day gets 200 page view was goodly


Warning: Why are I just choose 5 friends and why be not all? because, if we choose 10 person or more, therefore surfing activity that we do will be suspected by yuwie's server as boot of auto surf program, and accordingly we can touch banned, so utilizes linky with expedient and doesn't open more than 10 profile concurrently. OK?