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Friday, January 14, 2011
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Asia: Region-Wide Arms Race Is Underway
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| Asian nations’ military buildups are fueled by a desire to protect themselves from other Asian states, but the intracontinental tensions will soon be trumped by a collective Asian fear of a common outside enemy. |
Between 2005 and 2009, the amount spent on weapons purchases throughout Southeast Asia almost doubled, signaling that the nations in the region are equipping themselves for a major conflict.
The figures, from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, show that as historically aggressive and unstable nations like North Korea, China and Pakistan expand their arsenals, the region’s democratic countries feel pressured to follow suit.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Introducing Indonesia
Yogya’s airport still close
Low-cost flight passengers up 14 percent
The rise of agriculture and Indonesia’s future
Saving lives, including Merapi’s cattle
Police should take full responsibility over Gayus ‘escape’; justice officialBPS to announce unemployment rate in December ‘Gayus ‘ stayed in Westin, Nusa Dua: Police President needs to strengthen KIP: ICW BPS slams World Bank claiming more valid data on poverty
Friday, November 12, 2010
Today's Headlines News
- Iraq breaks impasse as Maliki to form government
- Clinton offers Netanyahu security pledge on peace talks
- Top Russian spy defects after betraying ring in U.S.
- Taiwan ex-president gets 19 years in prison
- Haiti cholera toll at 800, U.S. risk seen low
- Suicide car bomb kills at least 15 in Karachi
- Rivals fail to break Italy's political deadlock
- Cuban prisoners likely to be freed soon: dissident
- Gaza aid shipment off course after row with captain
- New Pompeii collapses add to conservation worries
- SBY arrives in Seoul for G-20 Summit
- In Asia, Obama's runs into the limits of his power
- Specter of trade war looms as G-20 nations gather
- Tifatul handshake incident goes global
- Woman student orgs hold inaugural conference
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Today's Headlines News
Boediono will not represent Yudhoyono at G-20, APEC Summits
Thu, 11/11/2010 7:46 AM
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono instructed Vice President Boediono not to attend the G-20 Summit in Seoul, South Korea, or the Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit, 30 minutes ...Norway gives $1m to tsunami and Merapi victims
Wed, 11/10/2010 8:34 PM
Norway announced US$1 million of assistance recently for the emergency relief efforts in disaster-affected areas.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Today's Headlines News
House approves govt request for extra funds for natural disaster
Mon, 11/01/2010 8:44 PM
The House of Representatives has approved the central government`s request for extra funds for the natural disaster emergency responses, House deputy speaker Priyo Budi Santoso said Monday.Indonesia to try Papua torture video accused
Mon, 11/01/2010 8:15 PM
Indonesia's president pledged Monday that the soldiers accused of torturing suspected separatists in footage posted online would go on trial before a military tribunal.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Today's Headlines News
Death toll in Indonesian tsunami, volcano tops 340
Thu, 10/28/2010 10:31 AM
The death toll from a tsunami and a volcano rose to more than 340 Thursday as more victims of Indonesia's double disasters were found and an official said a warning system installed after a deadly ...Dems spokesman deems House speaker insensitive towards Mentawai victims
Mild earthquake hits Yogyakarta
Indonesia struggles as tsunami, volcano tolls rise
Leaders urged to introspect after a series of disasters
Twitter users urged not to spread photo of Mbah Maridjan's body
Govt aid ships depart for Mentawai
Yudhoyono to hold coordination meeting in West Sumatra
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Today's Headlines News
Six mild quakes hit West Sumatra
Tue, 10/26/2010 8:57 AM
Six earthquakes measuring from 5.0 to 6.2 on the Richter scale hit several parts in West Sumatra on Tuesday morning. ...Do not recklessly name Soeharto as national hero: PDI-P
Mon, 10/25/2010 5:16 PM
A senior politician from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) says that the government needs to be very careful before naming former dictator Soeharto as a national hero.US monitor: 7.5-magnitude quake hits off Indonesia
House finance commission to spend time in four countries
KPK grills Miranda Goeltom over alleged bribery
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Today's Headlines News
Police disperse student protest at airport
Sat, 10/23/2010 9:38 PM
Soekarno-Hatta Airport police dispersed on Saturday dozens of students grouped under the People’s Alliance against Legislators’ Overseas Outing who rallied to protest House of Representatives ...Aburizal disappointed with governor’s detention
Sat, 10/23/2010 8:47 PM
Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie visited North Sumatra governor Syamsul Arifin at Salemba prison on Saturday, expressing disappointment with the latter’s detention by the Corruption ...
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Today's Headlines News
Ariel “Peterporn” to face trial in Bandung
Wed, 10/20/2010 8:25 PM
Superstar Nazril “Ariel” Ilham, the front man of rock-band Peterpan, will soon be tried in Bandung, West Java after police detectives finished and handed-over his dossier to state prosecutors.RI press freedom ranks second in Southeast Asia, 117th worldwide
Wed, 10/20/2010 7:39 PM
Indonesia was ranked second in Southeast Asia press freedom, but 117th in the world, the Reporters Without Borders has reported.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Today's Headlines News Indonesia
States set to unveil joint probe into foreclosures
Wed, 10/13/2010 12:34 PM
Up to 40 state attorneys general are preparing to launch a joint investigation into the mortgage industry over the ..President to leave for Wasior Wednesday morning
Wed, 10/13/2010 8:37 AM
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to depart for Wasior of Teluk Wondama, West Papua, on Wednesday morning to meet survivors of the last Tuesday’s flash flood, which killed more ...Shoot-on-site rule not violates human rights: Police
Tue, 10/12/2010 10:00 PM
The police have denied allegations that a newly-endorsed rule which allows officers to shoot rioters on site is prone to human rights violations.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Today's Headlines News Indonesia
Jump in whale deaths blamed on krill, ship traffic
Fire razes carriages at Banten station
President urged to replace underperforming ministers
Activists say Yudhoyono government has failed
Ex ‘Playboy’ editor sent to prison over public indecency
Govt denies it is moving slowly in Wasior
Eating out in Ubud, for a song
American pornstar to shoot in Indonesia
Fire razes carriages at Banten station
President urged to replace underperforming ministers
Activists say Yudhoyono government has failed
Ex ‘Playboy’ editor sent to prison over public indecency
Govt denies it is moving slowly in Wasior
Eating out in Ubud, for a song
American pornstar to shoot in Indonesia
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Today's headlines news Indonesia
- Police detective gets 2 years in jail for graft
- Indonesia’s dropout reaches 13 million: GNOTA
- Ulema council aims to curb religious conflicts
- Bars won’t stop Ba’asyir from preaching for jihad
- Kuwait: For abused domestic workers, nowhere to turn
- FPI and the limits of freedom of association
- American pornstar to shoot in Indonesia
NU asks Ahmadiyah to leave Islam
Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) has suggested that Ahmadiyah followers no longer claim themselves as part of Islam, citing widespread rejection from Muslims in the country.
NU deputy secretary general Enceng Shobirin told a discussion on settlement to Ahmadiyah problems on Wednesday followers of the religious sect would suffer from isolation if they insisted on associating themselves with Islam while violating the basic teaching of the religion.
Enceng said violence against Ahmadis would recur as mainstream Muslims deemed the sect as a threat to Islamic teachings. Click here for more
NU deputy secretary general Enceng Shobirin told a discussion on settlement to Ahmadiyah problems on Wednesday followers of the religious sect would suffer from isolation if they insisted on associating themselves with Islam while violating the basic teaching of the religion.
Enceng said violence against Ahmadis would recur as mainstream Muslims deemed the sect as a threat to Islamic teachings. Click here for more
Monday, October 4, 2010
Intolerance ‘on the rise’ among Muslims
Religious intolerance among Indonesian Muslims has increased in the last 10 years, a new study shows, indicating a link with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the country.
The survey results were announced Tuesday by the Center for the Study of Islam and Society (PPIM), an independent research center at the State Islamic University (UIN) in Jakarta.
The findings confirmed the results of previous surveys by other study groups.
PPIM executive director Jajat Burhanudin said his center’s study was conducted nationwide between 2001 and 2010, each year surveying different groups of 1,200 Muslim men and women aged 17 and above, mostly elementary and junior high school graduate from various backgrounds.
“The study used several indicators to measure tolerance such as the level of objection among Muslims to non-Muslims teaching their children in public schools, and to plans by non-Muslims to building houses of worship,” he said.
The survey showed that non-acceptance levels among the surveyed Muslims toward the construction of churches and other non-Muslim religious buildings in 2010 was 57.8 percent, the highest ever recorded since 2001 (40.5 percent).
In 2010, around 27.6 percent of those surveyed said they did mind if a non-Muslim taught their children at school, a 6.2 percent increase compared to 2008 (21.4 percent), but still lower than in 2007 (33.5 percent).
Jajat, who teaches Islamic history at UIN, said the statistics showed that in the past 10 years, intolerance among Muslim Indonesians appeared to have risen, especially in the case of construction of places of worship for non-Muslims.
The Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI) said that in Greater Jakarta alone, at least 11 churches and Christian institutions were either destroyed or sealed off between January and August this year.
“We also tracked how this trend correlates with the rise of Islamic extremism. This means the more intolerant a Muslim is, the more likely that person is to support a fundamentalist agenda,” Jajat said.
He added that extremist ideology was widespread given the lack of strict standards and policies on mitigating the negative impacts of fundamentalism since the end of the authoritarian New Order regime.
A number of Islamic boarding schools still see teachers using “emotional appeals” in teaching students about non-Muslims, Jajat said.
The instructors, he continued, were acting independently of any Muslim association, making it hard for the government to monitor them. The Islamic hardliners, Jajat said, shared the same goal of trying to make Islam the basis of the state.
The study also revealed that 31.4 percent of respondents in 2008 supported chopping off the hand of a convicted thief as a legal form of punishment. This was an increase from 28.9 percent in 2001.
Jajat said he hoped that through these findings, the government would formulate policies aimed at building a more tolerant society.
Commenting on the survey, International Conference of Islamic Scholars secretary-general Hasyim Muzadi said, “The level of interreligious tolerance among Indonesian Muslims is high. However, there are cases in which religion is pitted against ethnicity; that is the root of emerging interreligious problems.”
Among instances of religious violence was the Sept. 12 stabbing of two church leaders in Bekasi, West Java.
Hasyim, also former Nahdlatul Ulama chairman, said religious minorities, including Muslims in Christian-majority areas, should be more sensitive when building houses of worship.
“They need to make full use of interreligious forums and local authorities should provide alternatives for the minority if locals rejects their proposal to build a new place of worship,” he said. (tsy)
The survey results were announced Tuesday by the Center for the Study of Islam and Society (PPIM), an independent research center at the State Islamic University (UIN) in Jakarta.
The findings confirmed the results of previous surveys by other study groups.
PPIM executive director Jajat Burhanudin said his center’s study was conducted nationwide between 2001 and 2010, each year surveying different groups of 1,200 Muslim men and women aged 17 and above, mostly elementary and junior high school graduate from various backgrounds.
“The study used several indicators to measure tolerance such as the level of objection among Muslims to non-Muslims teaching their children in public schools, and to plans by non-Muslims to building houses of worship,” he said.
The survey showed that non-acceptance levels among the surveyed Muslims toward the construction of churches and other non-Muslim religious buildings in 2010 was 57.8 percent, the highest ever recorded since 2001 (40.5 percent).
In 2010, around 27.6 percent of those surveyed said they did mind if a non-Muslim taught their children at school, a 6.2 percent increase compared to 2008 (21.4 percent), but still lower than in 2007 (33.5 percent).
Jajat, who teaches Islamic history at UIN, said the statistics showed that in the past 10 years, intolerance among Muslim Indonesians appeared to have risen, especially in the case of construction of places of worship for non-Muslims.
The Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI) said that in Greater Jakarta alone, at least 11 churches and Christian institutions were either destroyed or sealed off between January and August this year.
“We also tracked how this trend correlates with the rise of Islamic extremism. This means the more intolerant a Muslim is, the more likely that person is to support a fundamentalist agenda,” Jajat said.
He added that extremist ideology was widespread given the lack of strict standards and policies on mitigating the negative impacts of fundamentalism since the end of the authoritarian New Order regime.
A number of Islamic boarding schools still see teachers using “emotional appeals” in teaching students about non-Muslims, Jajat said.
The instructors, he continued, were acting independently of any Muslim association, making it hard for the government to monitor them. The Islamic hardliners, Jajat said, shared the same goal of trying to make Islam the basis of the state.
The study also revealed that 31.4 percent of respondents in 2008 supported chopping off the hand of a convicted thief as a legal form of punishment. This was an increase from 28.9 percent in 2001.
Jajat said he hoped that through these findings, the government would formulate policies aimed at building a more tolerant society.
Commenting on the survey, International Conference of Islamic Scholars secretary-general Hasyim Muzadi said, “The level of interreligious tolerance among Indonesian Muslims is high. However, there are cases in which religion is pitted against ethnicity; that is the root of emerging interreligious problems.”
Among instances of religious violence was the Sept. 12 stabbing of two church leaders in Bekasi, West Java.
Hasyim, also former Nahdlatul Ulama chairman, said religious minorities, including Muslims in Christian-majority areas, should be more sensitive when building houses of worship.
“They need to make full use of interreligious forums and local authorities should provide alternatives for the minority if locals rejects their proposal to build a new place of worship,” he said. (tsy)
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Govt told to revoke Decree on HOuse of Worship
The Jakarta Post runs the latest articles today that says critics have demanded the government revoke a 2006 ministerial decree on obtaining building permits for house of worship, saying the regulation was often abused to suppress freedom and minority rights.
It further reports that the Regional representatives Council Speaker Irmam Gusman critizized Yudhoyono for washing his hands of the issue by delegating the search for a solution to the Bekasi mayor.
"The President has turned a blind eye to the seriious violations of religious freedom and the use of violence in the name of a certain religion," International Center for Islam and Pluralism executive director M. Syafi'i Anwar said.
Advocates of pluralism were shocked by an incident Sunday when hard-line Muslims, opposed to a plan by the HKBP church to construct a house of worship in the area, attacked the congregation members, leaving two church leaders injured, one critically from a stab wound.
Critics say Ministerial Decrees 8 and 9 jointly issued by the Religious Affairs Ministry and the Home Ministry in 2006 allowed for multiple interpretations and were "manipulated" by Muslim hardliners and the Bekasi administration as a pretext to deny congregation members a presence in the area.
On the cyber front, 4,656 people signed an online petition at www.petitiononline.com urging the government to find with what has been allowed to happen," Hera Diani, one of the organizers of the petition, said.
It further reports that the Regional representatives Council Speaker Irmam Gusman critizized Yudhoyono for washing his hands of the issue by delegating the search for a solution to the Bekasi mayor.
"The President has turned a blind eye to the seriious violations of religious freedom and the use of violence in the name of a certain religion," International Center for Islam and Pluralism executive director M. Syafi'i Anwar said.
Advocates of pluralism were shocked by an incident Sunday when hard-line Muslims, opposed to a plan by the HKBP church to construct a house of worship in the area, attacked the congregation members, leaving two church leaders injured, one critically from a stab wound.
Critics say Ministerial Decrees 8 and 9 jointly issued by the Religious Affairs Ministry and the Home Ministry in 2006 allowed for multiple interpretations and were "manipulated" by Muslim hardliners and the Bekasi administration as a pretext to deny congregation members a presence in the area.
On the cyber front, 4,656 people signed an online petition at www.petitiononline.com urging the government to find with what has been allowed to happen," Hera Diani, one of the organizers of the petition, said.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Introducing Indonesia
My beloved president, for sure, cannot do much about it because he has tons of more important homeworks like addressing his firm protests for the Koran burning on the other corner of the world.
I feel totally ashamed of this continuous harassment and assaults towards (mostly) Christian and other minorities in Indonesia, my so-called country, and hell yeah, we cannot expect much or nothing At ALL from our so-called government or authorities.
Cheers to that.
The idea MY government wants to take an important role in peace-keeping activities abroad become more laughable.
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