Journées 1

Namaku adalah Gebrew, aku lahir di Paris biarpun aku lahir di Paris, aku adalah orang Indonesia. Orang tua ku bekerja di Paris dan aku pun lahir dan memiliki adik-adik yang cantik. Ini adalah kisah tentang hidupku yang kadang aku pertanyakan, apa, siapa, kenapa bisa, seandainya. Pertanyaan itu yang selalu muncul dalam benak ku, tanpa tau apa sebenarnya dari arti semuanya.

Kehidupan itu kadang tak seperti apa yang kita bayangkan, kenyataan dan pengharapan kadang dapat berbeda 360°. Keinginan untuk memiliki seorang pasangan adalah hal yang wajar, dan yang aku inginkan adalah yang sempurna. Sempurna bagiku adalah seseorang yang cantik, berkelakuan baik, mempunyai budi pekerti yang baik pula dan tentunya memiliki rasa sayang, cinta terhadap diriku dan orang tuaku. Biarpun aku memiliki rasa untuk mempunyai pasangan, tapi kadang aku takut untuk merasakan cinta, merasakan rasa bahagia dan di sakiti. Karena aku pernah merasakan hal itu sebelumnya dimana di saat kita mengorbankan semuanya kepada pasangan kita, ternyata dia telah menghianati rasa kepercayaan apa yang telah kita berikan.

Dunia itu selalu berputar, selalu saja ada hal baru dan dimana akhirnya aku bertemu Mikayla. Dia adalah seorang wanita Prancis, dan aku pun bertemu dengannya secara tak sengaja. Aku kira dia adalah teman lamaku, karena wajahnya sangat mirip dengan teman lamaku. Hal yang secara tak sengaja, akhirnya menjadi sesuatu yang merubah hidupku untuk hari ini. Hingga akhirnya kami pun bertukar nomer telepon masing-masing, dan pelajaran yang aku dapat hari ini adalah; sesuatu yang tak di sengaja itu sama halnya bagaikan dua buah jalur, jalur pertama dimana kita memutuskan untuk meneruskan, dan jalur ke-dua adalah dimana kita memutuskan untuk berhenti. Dan aku memilih jalur pertama, karena suatu ke sengajaan itu tak akan dating lagi.

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5 Cara mudah menghadapi bos yang kejam

Apakah atasan di tempat kerja Anda termasuk kejam pada Anda? Jangan takut! Sebab ada lima cara mudah untuk menghadapinya seperti yang dilansir dari India Times (01/06) berikut ini.

1. Apabila bos Anda suka berjanji, mengancam, atau mengutarakan argumen yang tidak masuk akal, catat atau simpan percakapan Anda dengannya agar Anda bisa mengungkit kembali hal tersebut ketika Anda sedang terpojok dan dijadikan kambing hitam oleh si bos.
2. Memendam perasaan tidak akan membuat masalah Anda selesai maupun menenangkan situasi. Kini saatnya Anda memberanikan diri untuk menegur bos Anda yang kejam. Jika perlu, Anda bisa menuliskan poin-poin yang ingin Anda utarakan pada bos lalu mengatakannya dengan lantang agar tidak lupa.
3. Jangan membiarkan kesempatan pada bos Anda untuk menyalahkan segala perbuatan Anda. Jadi Anda sebaiknya mengumpulkan tugas dengan tepat waktu dan tidak memancing emosi bos.
4. Ada teman kerja Anda yang tidak pernah dimarahi bos atau selalu disayang? Coba tanyakan kepadanya apa rahasia untuk meluluhkan hati bos Anda yang kejam.
5. Ada jenis banyak bos yang bisa dikatakan kejam, seperti bos yang suka mengubah aturan seenaknya, bos yang suka menganggu pekerjaan Anda, atau bos yang gemar mengambil keuntungan Anda. Kenali sifat kejam bos Anda dan temukan cara yang paling tepat untuk mengatasinya sesuai dengan kemampuan Anda.

Jangan terburu-buru keluar dari pekerjaan Anda jika Anda memiliki bos yang kejam, sebab Anda sebenarnya bisa mengatasinya jika Anda mau mencoba. Good luck, fellas!

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Pray for GAZA

I used to smile and my land so beautiful, green and peace. My friends play each other, they laughed, they fought, they cried. I love my homeland, I love the people, I love my friends, that was so peaceful. But a blinding flash of white light lit up the sky over my homeland, missiles, bomb, rocket, fallen down and destroyed my homeland, then people running for cover not knowing whether they're dead or alive. It such a nightmare for us, an innocent child cried, screamed because of fearless. Satanic came to our homeland, the engine of their tanks and their planes fulfill our sky. Just a voice of missiles, bomb, rocket rising up in the smoky haze. Women and children alike murdered and massacred while they debated on who's wrong or right. Bombs fell down like acid rain but through the tears and the blood and the pain.

My beautiful homeland was a dream and my smile fade after they bombarded. They just know about WAR, WAR and WAR. Many people of us killed, many of children smile in died, many babies killed. We just see the war from behind the wall, sometimes I wonder, why adults people like to war, sometimes adults people too selfish, they do not think about us which still young, still baby, still want to enjoy the life. When this war will ended? when my beautiful homeland become a green anymore? when the peaceful will come?.

I want my smile back, I want to play with my friends again. They think that they God who have power, that's not power, they just killed us and they just happy to see us sorrow and misery. I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT STOP THE WAR, do not you see an innocent lovely face of children died? WAR SHOULD BE ENDED and PEACEFUL SHOULD BE BACK TO US.

Pray for GAZA by Ganis Wicaksono 22.11.12 - 23:00
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Gaza, Israel and World War III

“We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans did not stop with Hiroshima. … They hit Nagasaki too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing.” —Gild Sharon, son of former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon

“We must blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure including roads and water” —Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai

Israel’s ongoing attack against Gaza is entering its second week. Hundreds of Palestinian civilians—men, women and children—have been killed or injured, while thousands have been rendered homeless. These people are, for the most part, defenseless against Israel’s unrelenting bombardment from all directions and from all possible platforms, whether from the air, land or sea.

Before this latest onslaught began, of course, Gaza’s “infrastructure” was already crumbling as a result of Israeli-imposed blockades and economic sanctions. Now Palestinian territory is being systematically reduced to rubble. This bombing is thus indiscriminate in that all Palestinian public spaces and, yes, private homes, are targeted—schools, government offices, a building housing international press offices in Gaza City and a Gazan grocer’s home. The grocer’s whole family, including four children younger than 7 years old, and four women, one of whom was 83, were murdered by Israeli missiles on Sunday.

At this writing, the American media are reporting that high-level talks of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, under the aegis of various Middle Eastern countries and the US, are underway. Yet at the same time the Israeli government has begun the mobilization of 75,000 reservists and the massing of tanks on the Gaza border. In 2008-09, a similar mobilization preceded Israel’s ground invasion that killed 1,400 Gazans, the vast majority of whom were civilians.

The Obama administration and the corporate media have all turned a blind eye to Israel’s continued aggression. They blithely parrot Israel’s specious claim of the “right of self-defense” against Hamas’ rockets “raining” down on Israel and its citizenry.

President Obama said last Sunday in Bangkok:
“Let’s understand what the precipitating event here was that’s causing the current crisis, and that was an ever-escalating number of missiles; they were landing not just in Israeli territory, but in areas that are populated. And there’s no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders. So we are fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself from missiles landing on people’s homes and workplaces and potentially killing civilians. And we will continue to support Israel’s right to defend itself.”

Let’s look a little closer at Israel’s claim that its current assault on Gaza is merely a response to an “ever-escalating number of missiles” fired at it by Hamas.

1. In the year—the whole year—preceding this current bloodbath in Gaza, not a single Israeli was killed by a rocket or missile from Gaza. Yet the Israeli press reported that, after a brief spike, which was brought on by repeated Israeli incursions into Gaza and the killing of several civilians, including children, rocket attacks had, in fact, subsided.

2. The Israelis and the Hamas leadership were actively engaged in Egyptian-brokered discussions to hammer out a long-term ceasefire. The Palestinian negotiator in these talks was Ahmed Jaabari, leader of the Hamas military wing. On Nov. 14, Jaabari received a copy of a draft ceasefire agreement. Before he had time to even read or sign off on that agreement, he was targeted and killed by an Israeli Hellfire missile. Israel justified the killing as a necessary act in furtherance of their policy of “targeted killings.”

3. The killing of Jaabari must be seen as a deliberate provocation. It signaled, indeed, the unveiling of Israel’s so-called Operation Defense Pillar. This operation is not structured to defend anyone or anything, but is a blatant program of offensive tactics by Israel against a comparatively defenseless and one of the most oppressed peoples on the planet.

4. President Obama’s and the American corporate media’s support for Israel do not seem to countenance the inhumane, indeed inhuman, conditions constantly enforced against and endured by Gazans: 1.7 million people, mostly refugees, violently uprooted and expelled from their homes and lands. They have essentially been incarcerated in the earth’s largest open-air prison, blockaded from all potential foreign assistance. The result has been unimaginable suffering, sickness, hunger, and death. These conditions are all the while enforced by the Israeli Defense Forces, which surround Gaza at every conceivable point.

Finally, all of this is happening not quite 100 miles from the US-backed civil war in Syria. Yet we hear no sympathetic entreaties whatever for Gazan civilian casualties, while those in Syria are decried on a continuing news loop and cycle. Who in the West is demanding the ouster of Benjamin Netanyahu for killing civilians or his institution of no-fly zones? Instead, Israel is given a wink and a nod, if not outright encouragement, to kill Gazans at will.

Opinion:
The attack on Gaza is merely a warm-up for the real war which will follow in 2013, probably not long after the Israeli elections in January. That would be the war featuring the US, Israel and the European Union on one side, and Iran, along with most other Middle Eastern nation-states, Russia, and even China, on the other side. This Gazan incursion is a thinly veiled effort by Israel to short-circuit any potential or possibility for a peaceful settlement of the issues regarding Iran’s nuclear program. Simultaneously, if all goes according to plan, Gaza, already weak and ineffective, will have been completely neutralized in the upcoming war against Iran.

I am afraid that what we are witnessing here just might be the beginning skirmishes of a third world war.

References:
http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_22033617/rumors-truce-between-israelis-and-palestinians-gaza
http://www.alternet.org/top-10-myths-about-israels-attack-gaza
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20413625
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20404589
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20391558
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57552440/clinton-in-israel-aiming-for-gaza-cease-fire/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/israel-gaza-attacks-truce-talk_n_2167093.html
Herbert Dyer, Jr. is based in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, and is an Anchor for Allvoices.

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Fokus Utama KTT ASEAN, Persiapkan Masyarakat ASEAN 2015

  Pembukaan KTT ke-21 ASEAN, di Phnom Penh, Minggu (18/11/2012). KTT langsung dibuka oleh PM Kamboja Hun Sen

PHNOM PENH,  - Perhatian banyak pihak tertuju ke Pnom Penh, ibu kota Kamboja, pekan ini,. Di kota tersebut, tengah berlangsung pertemuan pemimpin negara-negara ASEAN dalam Konferensi Tingkat Tinggi (KTT) ke-21 ASEAN, dan KTT lainnya yang melibatkan negara-negara mitra dialog, termasuk AS dan China. Pembukaan KTT berlangsung, Minggu (18/11/2012) pagi, di Istana Damai. Dalam pernyataannya, Perdana Menteri Kamboja Hun Sen menekankan pentingnya para pemimpin untuk fokus mempersiapkan Masyarakat ASEAN pada tahun 2015.

Masyarakat ASEAN merupakan langkah signifikan perhimpunan negara-negara Asia Tenggara yg dibentuk tahun 1967. Tujuannya untuk mentransformasikan diri menjadi semacam Masyarakat Eropa, termasuk dengan kebijakan pasar tunggalnya. Namun, tidak disebut terkait rencana penerapan mata uang bersama ASEAN, seperti halnya yang berlaku di Eropa.

Dengan terciptanya Masyarakat ASEAN, tidak hanya akan terjadi kohesivitas sosial, budaya antarmasyarakat anggota ASEAN, tetapi juga langkah-langkah yang mendorong pertumbuhan ekonomi. Misalnya, melalui kemudahan-kemudahan dalam meningkatkan perdagangan serta investasi.

"Segala persiapannya harus dilakukan oleh para menteri menjelang 2015 untuk membuka pasar kita dan mentransformasi kawasan ini menjadi sebuah pasar yang terintegrasi bagi tiga miliar penduduk kawasan," kata Hun Sen.

Kawasan Bebas Perdagangan merupakan strategi kunci ASEAN untuk mendapatkan akses pasar yang lebih luas terhadap mintra dagangnya, serta untuk menarik investasi asing langsung ke ASEAN.

Kehadiran Obama dan Wen Jiabao

Selain KTT ASEAN, para pemimpin negara-negara ASEAN yang merupakan penggerak ekonomi regional ini akan mengadakan pertemuan tingkat tinggi dengan mitra dialognya, termasuk Presiden AS Barack Obama yang baru saja terpilih kembali dalam Pemilu AS pada 6 November lalu. Selain Obama, PM China Wen Jiabao juga dijadwalkan akan hadir di KTT ASEAN. Kehadirannya menjadi istimewa, setelah terjadi pergantian kepemimpinan di China, dari Presiden Hu Jintao kepada Xi Jinping.

Kehadiran Presiden Obama dan PM Wen Jiabao akan dimanfaatkan oleh para pemimpin ASEAN untuk mengetahui langsung dampak dari kepemimpinan baru terkait relasi dan kebijakan politik dan ekonomi mereka terhadap ASEAN ke depan.

Khusus dengan China, ASEAN memiliki agenda yang sangat penting, terutama berkaitan dengan konflik antara negara anggota ASEAN dengan China akibat adanya klaim tumpang tindih atas Kepulauan Spratly di Laut China Selatan.

Melalui pertemuan tingkat tinggi ASEAN-China ini, ASEAN mengajukan proposal Tata Berperilaku di Laut China Selatan, yang intinya adalah segala persoalan yang timbul akibat konflik itu akan diselesaikan melalui dialog, bukan dengan cara militer.

Menteri Luar Negeri Marty Natalegawa mengatakan, sebelum tercapainya kesepakatan Tata Berperilaku atau Code of Conduct itu, ASEAN akan mengajukan pembukaan hotline antarmenlu, untuk menjamin berlangsungnya momentum dialog ini.

Filipina ,Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia merupakan negara garis depan ASEAN yang terlibat dalam konflik tumpang tindih klaim itu,. Klaim ini sering menciptakan peluang terjadinya ketegangan militer antarpihak, yang akan mengganggu stabilitas keamanan. Selain itu, juga tidak menguntungkan dalam upaya peningkatan kerjasama pembangunan dan ekonomi antara ASEAN dan China, khususnya.

Selain Presiden AS dan PM China, akan hadir juga PM Jepang Yoshihiko Noda, OM India Manmohan Singh, PM Australia Julia Gillard, dan Presiden Rusia, yang kemungkinan diwakili.

Sementara itu, Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tiba di Phnom Penh, Sabtu (17/11/2012) petang. Turut dalam rombongan Presiden, Menko Perekonomian Hatta Rajasa, Menko Kesra Agung Laksono, Menteri Perindustrian MS Hidayat, Menteri Pertanian Suswono, dan Sekretaris Kabinet Dipo Alam. Adapun, Menko Polhukam Djoko Suyanto, Menteri Luar Negeri Marty Natalegawa, dan Menteri Pedagangan Gita Wirjawan telah berada di Phnom Penh lebih dahulu. 

KTT D8

Selain mengikuti serangkaian KTT ASEAN dan KTT Asia Timur, Presiden SBY juga akan mengadakan serangkaian pertemuan bilateral, dengan para pemimpin ASEAN dan mitra dialognya itu. Selanjutnya, Presiden dijadwalkan akan menghadiri KTT D8 di Islamabad, Pakistan. .

D8 yang didirikan tahun 1997 ini merupakan perkumpulan negara-negara berkembang yang berpenduduk mayoritas muslim untuk mempererat kerjasama pembangunan. Negara-negara itu adalah Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Iran, Mesir, Turki, Bangladesh, dan Nigeria. Perkumpulan D8 menjadi perkumpulan yang tergolong penting karena gabungan dari negara-negara ini mencakup 60 persen seluruh penduduk muslim dunia, atau 13 persen dari jumlah penduduk dunia. 

Presiden akan kembali ke Tanah Air pada 23 November 2012.

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Foto - Foto Unik dan Aneh Dari Dunia Penerbangan

1. Bentuknya Seperti Ikan Paus

Pesawat unik ini biasa digunakan untuk mengangkut pesawat ataupun bagian pesawat lainnya yang belum dirakit. Beberapa namanya yang terkenal adalah Airbus Beluga dan Transporter.


2. Sonic Boom

Pesawat ini memiliki kecepatan secepat kecepatan suara dan dapat menempuh jarak 1 km hanya dalam 3 kali kedipan mata, sehingga dapat menimbulkan suara dentuman seperti suara petir.


3. Aerion Supersonic

Pesawat ini hanya diperuntukan untuk 12 penumpang. Kecepatannya melebihi pesawat penumpang bermesin jet lainnya. Pesawat ini dapat terbang dari Paris ke New York hanya dalam 4 jam 14 menit, yang artinya lebih cepat 3 jam dari pesawat penumpang bermesin jet lainnya.


4. Bandara Heathrow yang selalu diganggu oleh kawanan burung di landasan pacu nya

Sudah berbagai cara dilakukan untuk mengusir kawanan burung-burung ini dari daerah sekitar bandara. Mulai dari memasang pita khusus untuk mempersulit kawanan burung ini terbang lalu lalang hingga alat khusus yang dapat mengirimkan gelombang suara yang dapat menakutinya, namun mereka tetap senang bermain di bandara ini.


5. Tabrakan fatal dengan seekor burung

Dalam kecepatan sangat tinggi, tabrakan pesawat dengan benda sekecil apapun di udara, pasti dapat membahayakan keselamatan pesawat dan penumpangnya. Contohnya seperti gambar diatas, yaitu bagaimana seekor burung yang tertabrak pesawat, dapat membuat sayap pesawat menjadi sobek, retak, bahkan bisa hancur.


6. Bandara dekat pantai

Mungkin pemandang pesawat terbang rendah, telah menjadi atraksi menarik bagi turisturis di sekitar bandara. Namun tanpa mereka sadari, sebenarnya hal itu dapat memahayakan diri mereka apabila terkena semburan panas jet dari pesawat.

Bandara unik yang terletak di dekat pantai ini bernama 'Princess Juliana International Airport'. Pada akhirnya bandara ini resmi ditutup karena landasannya yang sangat pendek sehingga menyulitkan bagi pesawat besar untuk tinggal landas.


7. Bandara yang kebanjiran

Kejadian ini berlangsung di Chennai Airport. Saat itu sedang tejadi banjir besar disana, sehingga menjadi pemandang unik, seakan pesawat-pesawat disana bisa berjalan di atas air.





8. Gibraltar Airport

Bandara ini sangat unik, karena landasannya memotong jalur kendaraan umum lainnya. Seperti yang dapat kita lihat pada gambar, kendaraan yang akan lewat harus berhenti dahulu apabila ada pesawat yang mau melintas di landasan tersebut.


Seperti kita antri saat kereta api mau lewat, tetap juga ada kendaraan yang nekat menerobos palang pintu penjagaan.

9. Manuver Helikopter yang luar biasa dari pilot yang handal

Terjadi di Afghanistan, disaat helikopter bantuan datang untuk menyelamatkan tentara yang terluka dari atap sebuah gubuk. Hanya pilot handal dan helikopter berteknologi tinggi yang dapat melakukan manuver ini.


10. Wingtip Vortices

Gesekan antara udara dan sayap menimbulkan panas dan meng-kondensasikan udara yang hampir mencapai titik embun, lalu terbentuklah jejak-jejak uap air di ujung pesawat. Garis asap yang kita lihat setiap kali pesawat melintas itu trjadi karena proses kondensasi


11. Manusia Jet

Untuk dapat terbang, Anda harus beradsa di ketinggian 4000 meter terlebih dahulu. Setelah itu baru Anda terjun melayang-layang di udara. Lalu baru pada ketinggian 2500 meter, mesin jet dinyalakan dan Anda bisa terbang bebas dan bermanuver pada ketinggian 1600 meter.


12. Pesawat tanpa suara

Sebutannya adalah 'Silent Aircraft Initiative', pesawat ini tidak mengeluarkan suara bising dan juga hemat bahan bakar. Cocok digunakan sebagai pesawat mata-mata.


13. Pesawat Pemadam Kebakaran

Evergreen Supertanker, Pesawat Pemadam Kebakaran terbesar di dunia. Dibuat dari Boeing 747, memiliki ruang untuk tangki hingga 24.000 galon dan dapat memadamkan105.000 hektar lahan ataupun hutan yang terbakar.

Pesawat Be-200 adalah amfibi baru, paling efisien dan canggih yang pernah diproduksi. Amfibi Be-200 dirancang sebagai pesawat pemadam kebakaran, tetapi bisa juga dugunakan untuk transportasi penumpang dan kargo, patroli pantai, pengendalian lingkungan, operasi penyelamatan di laut, dll.

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Lama sudah

Lama sudah

Lama sudah telah kunanti
Lama sudah telah kutunggu
Bayangnya yang kuingat selalu
Bayangnya yang kurindu selalu

Indah rasanya bila berdua
Mata yang berbinar indah
Parasnya yang polos suci
Senyumnya yang manis indah

Hanya senyumnya yang kuingat
Hal-hal kecil yang kuingat
Nalar, logika, hati, perasaan
Semuanya hanya semu yang indah

Aneh rasa bila didekatnya
Mematung diam bila didekatnya
Tak berdaya bila didekatnya
Aneh rasa jika kunanti

by Ganis Wicaksono 10.11.12

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10 Most Amazing Buildings In The World

Modern architecture has brought many amazing buildings to the world.
Quirky shapes, ambitious designs, new materials, and new different styles have come with the modern architecture into construction today. The purpose of the building is not always seen in its design. Futuristic museums and opera houses have become a usual thing. Today we list 10 most amazing buildings in the world.

Cubic Houses, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Piet Blom had an idea of cubic houses in 1970s. Some of them were built in Helmond and when Rotterdam city asked him to build housing on top of a pedestrian bridge he chose this concept.

Dancing Building, Prague, Czech Republic

The ‘Dancing Building’ is a nickname given to Nationale-Nederlanden building that is located in Prague’s downtown. Designed by Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in collaboration with Canadian Frank Gehry the building was completed in 1996. The building was built instead of the one that was destroyed during Bombing of Prague in 1945.

The Ufo House, Sanjhih, Taiwan

The Ufo House in Sanjhih, Taiwan is actually an deserted resort project. It earned this nickname from Taiwanese for its strange futuristic design.

Kansas City Public Library, Missouri, United-States

As an incentive to visit library the design in the downtown of Kansas city was made in shape of books that according to people of Kansas city represent Kansas.
Update: I was told that it’s a parking garage not the actual library. And still it looks awesome, isn’t? What can I say? A suitable building for storing books.

Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace, France

Ferdinand Cheval Palace was built by a postman in Hauterives, France, who intended to use it as his own tomb but haven’t obtained a license for that. His Ideal Palace is now known around the world.

Forest Spiral Hundertwasser Building, Darmstadt, Germany

Forest Spiral Hundertwasser was built in 2000. Designed by Austrian architect and painter, Friedensreich Hundertwasser the building has 105 apartments and features colorful and organic design.

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

Built by Nervion River Guggenheim Museum of modern and contemporary art was designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. The building’s silhouette resembles the ship while the design was random, which helped it, according, to architect catch the light.

Bahá’í House of Worship a.k.a Lotus Temple, Delhi, India

Bahá’í House of Worship mostly known as Lotus Temple was constructed in 1986 and is a Mother Temple of the Indian subcontinent. It is open for people of all religions.

Ripley’s Building, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Known for the collection of odd and unbelievable things and artifacts Ripley’s Believe It or Not! franchise just had to have this kind of building.

The Crooked House, Sopot, Poland

Started and finished in 2003 The Crooked House was design was based on Polish artist and child books illustrator, Jan Marcin Szancer’s and Per Dahlberg’s, Swedish painter pictures and paintings.

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Violence in society

Politic in Indonesia changed since 1999 which turn into democratic system. The fall down of Soeharto from president make political system different. A lot of violence happens, then political condition chaos. In view of extensive democratization and decentralization reforms, Indonesia is still experiencing high levels of violence.

Recently case in Papua, the government does not give much attention to Papua, so Papua want to be an independent. In here, government should look after Papua from Indonesia from NKRI. Papua give big contribution for Indonesia and natural resources. On the other hand, like in Aceh, almost the same with in Papua. Aceh want to be an independent but finally Yusuf Kalla be a negotiator and Aceh still be NKRI. Violence is a manipulation tool as one of propaganda in politics. Violence effect to our society moral, it constructs people morale. Society is provided with an objective and firm foundation. Civil society plays an important role in our society, because society part of democracy system, if the social is not good, political system will be not good too. The mobilization of civilians into paramilitary groups draws on extensive social forces and a tradition of creating , mobilizing, and incorporating crime as part of politics.

The provincial distribution of group violence in Indonesia has two notable features. First, in terms of deaths, as is well known, North Maluku, Maluku, DKI Jakarta, West and Central Kalimantan have been the worst provinces, but it is less well known that these are not the provinces with the highest number of incidents. Second, Java also has the largest number of incidents falling in the “Others” category.

Youth clashes constitute the single most important trigger of group violence. Young people in all parts of the world participate in large numbers in riots and various other forms of group violence. In Indonesia, however, the nature of such clashes is very different. Policy interventions that could somehow channel the energy of the youth in a positive direction are worthy of serious consideration.

In addition, violence is example of how bad our political system. Sometimes violence for propaganda to make bad democracy. To make a good political system, we have to clean our government first. We have to stop violence in our society so we can make a good democracy politics. For an adequate understanding of group violence in Indonesia, attention should be paid not simply to the national level factors, such as the changing fortunes of the New Order and the changing political dynamics at the national level, but also to local-level factors.

In conclusion, to prevent violence in our society, the government should take control in society. People should support government in a good way then give appreciation with choose the right President.

by Ganis Wicaksono

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Dynamic Politics in Indonesia

Politic is an interaction between government and people. Political decisions become authoritative policy for a group. Process in political system is about decision making. Indonesia has been undergoing four systems of politics. First is liberal democracy, guided democracy or old order, new order period, and reformation period. Liberal democracy was in 1945 – 1959, liberal democracy used presidential cabinet and in 1950, United of Republic Indonesia or RIS had dismissed and Indonesia went back into Republic of Indonesia. In RIS, the highest power was a prime minister. Meanwhile, political situation in old order had three main political forces that came from Soekarno, the army, and PKI. Afterwards, Soeharto got mandated from Soekarno to stabilize the security because unstabled the national security at that time. Then we now “Supersemar”, it’s stand for, “surat perintah 11 Maret 1966.” New order, focused on economic issues, but in one hand, this regime tried to make political stabilization and security. In here, political parties and mass media controlled by government, so government monitored their space. After 32 years as a president, Soeharto down from his position. There are two types intuitional system which applied by Soeharto. Firstly, president as the main power in this country and secondly, president have prerogative rights to pick-up or to stop ministers. Then reformation era, B.J. Habibie replaced Soeharto as a president, but B.J. Habibie only for a year became president.

Reformation happens because of these factorcs; simply activists’ dislike of the new populist powerholders, then there was a genuine concern about the standing of independent, supposedly ‘neutral’ institutions, last is decisive point the led to renewed middle class mobilization was moral outrage at corruption scandals. Indonesia governance based on constitution system and this system give assertiveness on controlling governance. President is fully responsible on government. The Constitution is a medium for the creation of democratic life for all citizens. In other words, countries that choose democracy as a choice, then the democratic constitution is a rule that can guarantee true democracy in the country, hence the birth of power or democratic governance.

Hence, Indonesia political system is democracy where democracy is a freedom. Now people free to give appreciations to government. Actually, political system in Indonesia is democracy since independent day, but in different way of democracy. Democracy is fit with Indonesia because it is appropriate with pancasila. Political culture is a habit in politics and Indonesia is a country that adopts democracy. For example the election which is the political culture in Indonesia. Indonesia has a head of state is the president, but the highest power in the hands of the people and returned again to the people. Indonesia has conducted election 10 times, the first elections in 1945 and under Suharto era in 1955,1971,1977,1982,1987,1992,1997 then in 1999 under Habibie, afterwards in 2004 Gus Dur replaced by Megawati whose chose by MPR and in 2009 where first time election done by Indonesian citizenship and Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono won that election.

There are few types of political culture in Indonesia; rigid hierarchy, the tendency patronage, neo-patrimonialistik tendency and modern bureaucracy. Political culture is shaped and developed by political actors and what which will be determined by political actors as the main characteristics their political culture to some extent, influenced by the education system. So the relationship between political culture and education is indirect. This means that education is not in the final established political actors. Education provides the basics to each potential political actors, if the basics are good and sturdy, large likelihood (probability) would be born good political actors. However, if the fundamentals of education are bad and fragile, then the possibility would be born bad and fragile too. We can see now, that a lot of corruptors, it is because of bad political culture.

Afterwards, Gus Dur made a change when he became president. In the past, Chinese culture had banned from Indonesia, but Gus Dur permit again Chinese culture. He brought change in Indonesia then he known as the father of Indonesia pluralistic. Pluralism itself is a system that recognizes more than one ultimate principle. For instance, prohibition against Confucianism, which began in 1967, revoked in 2000, during the New Order government from 1965 to 1998.

Directed election in 2004, made a new change. Besides of direct election to choose president, it also direct election for governor, mayor city and other leaders. Election is the central instrument of liberal democracy. There are pro and cons in politics which categorize as coalition and opposition. Coalition itself is a partnership where an opposition is a partnership which cons with government.

The media process a natural vitality in consolidated democracies, where freedom of expression is legally protected. In nearly all established democracies, television has become the pre-eminent mass medium. Besides TV, the second mass medium is newspapers. The print media remain important in politics, not least because they are free of the tight regulation still applied to national broadcasters. Propaganda was an important feature of communication in totalitarian regimes, with their aim of transforming political culture. It has also been important to democracies in times of war, both externally to mislead the enemy and internally to protect domestic morale. Presidential system is positioning president and vice president as the main power. In here, as the system which is not an integral and its consequence its position chosen in one package.

Besides domestic politics, foreign politics between other countries should be good too. We make bilateral relationship between countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia, USA and so on. This bilateral relationship should be well maintained, if not will be chaos, such as war. So, we have to make diplomacy as a representative from country itself.

To conclude that Indonesia has been experiencing a lot of political system and I think the best system for Indonesia is democracy. Democracy itself is suitable for Indonesia because based on Pancasila ideology. However, since reformation era, now Indonesia still in transition because sometimes still influence from new order era. To form a good democracy, we need all together to raise our awareness and we should not skeptical about Indonesia. Indonesia still need time to build a clean democracy and to make good government also to make stabilization.

by Ganis Wicaksono

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Peneliti: Evolusi Manusia Belum Selesai

Evolusi terjadi sebagai reaksi menanggapi dorongan dari lingkungan luar yang menekan setiap individu tanpa terkecuali, untuk bertahan hidup. Oleh karena itu, sejumlah ilmuwan meyakini hingga kini manusia masih terus berevolusi. Studi mengenai kelanjutan evolusi manusia ini diterbitkan dalam jurnal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science secara online, Senin (30/4).

Para ilmuwan meneliti data 6.000 penduduk Finlandia yang lahir antara tahun 1760 hingga 1849. Mereka menganalisis dan membandingkan informasi kelahiran, kematian, pernikahan, dan status ekonomi orang-orang tersebut. Data tersebut dapat mudah diperoleh karena subjek genealogi (penyelidikan dalam genetika terhadap keturunan nenek moyang dari individu) sangat populer di Finlandia.

"Mempelajari evolusi butuh sampel data perseorangan yang besar, yang mencakup seluruh kehidupannya," ungkap salah satu peneliti dari University of Sheffield, Inggris, Virpi Lummaa.

Dari penelitian tersebut ilmuwan menyelidiki hubungan antara pertanian dengan empat aspek penting kehidupan masyarakat: kemampuan bertahan hidup hingga mencapai kedewasaan, kemampuan menemukan pasangan hidup, perkawinan, dan kesuburan masing-masing pasangan. "Kami menemukan fakta bahwa spesies kita masih terus berevolusi, selayaknya semua spesies lain di Bumi yang ada di dalam liar," lanjut Lummaa.

Menariknya adalah ditemukan tingkat kemampuan bertahan hidup (survival) dan tingkat kesuburan (fertility) berada pada tingkat yang sama antara orang yang sejahtera dan orang yang tergolong miskin.

Alexandre Courtiol, peneliti yang ialah ahli biologi evolusioner Institute for Advance Study di Berlin, menambahkan, "Banyak yang mengira faktor kesejahteraan bagaimana pun mungkin bisa 'melindungi' kita dari ancaman lingkungan. Tapi terbukti orang yang yang kaya dan miskin sama-sama memiliki kesempatan bertahan hidup," ujarnya.
(Gloria Samantha. Sumber: Live Science)

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NASA Capai Kemajuan Besar Dalam Studi Exoplanet

Keberhasilan teleskop antariksa Spitzer milik NASA untuk mendeteksi cahaya inframerah dari planet di luar tata surya kita merupakan kemajuan besar dalam pencarian kehidupan di dunia lain.

Planet yang diteliti itu tidak dapat dihuni, tetapi para ilmuwan berharap bahwa teknik pengukuran inframerah yang dibuat lebih canggih di masa depan akan dapat membedakan molekul organik, yang merupakan tanda-tanda adanya potensi kehidupan.

Planet-planet jauh yang mengorbit bintang-bintang di luar tata surya kita dikenal sebagai exoplanet. Sebuah studi badan antariksa Amerika yang dipublikasikan minggu ini melaporkan tentang planet exoplanet 55 Cancri e, yang disebut 'Bumi Super' berjarak sekitar 41 tahun cahaya dari dunia kita, yang termasuk relatif dekat secara kosmik.

Planet itu memiliki massa sekitar delapan kali massa Bumi dan berukuran dua kali besar Bumi. Planet itu mengorbit bintang 55 Cancri setiap 18 jam, sedemikian sehingga sisinya yang sama  terus menerus menghadap ke mataharinya. Akibatnya, suhu permukaan planet itu mencapai lebih dari 1.700 derajat Celcius, lebih dari cukup untuk mengubah besi dan logam lain menjadi cair.

Data yang dikumpulkan oleh teleskop Spitzer menunjukkan bahwa 55 Cancri e memiliki inti batu, dikelilingi oleh lapisan air dalam keadaan 'superkritis', keduanya dalam bentuk cair dan gas sekaligus.

Exoplanet pertama ditemukan hanya beberapa tahun sebelum peluncuran teleskop Spitzer pada tahun 2003, dan misi tersebut telah direncanakan selama beberapa dekade sebelum itu.

Para ilmuwan NASA mengatakan mereka gembira dengan keberhasilan yang dicapai sejauh ini, dan mereka mengharapkan kemajuan-kemajuan lebih lanjut dalam studi mengenai kemungkinan adanya kehidupan di luar Bumi dalam peluncuran wahana utama berikutnya untuk mempelajari alam semesta. Menurut rencana badan antariksa NASA akan meluncurkan Teleskop Antariksa James Webb, pada tahun 2018 .

Studi NASA itu diterbitkan dalam jurnal astrofisika, The Astrophysical Journal.

 

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