Monday, June 28, 2010

Diborong Orang Berseragam Polisi, Majalah Tempo Edisi Terbaru Dicetak Ulang

http://www.tempointeraktif.com/hg/hukum/2010/06/28/brk,20100628-259105,id.html

Majalah Tempo Edisi 28 Juni - 4 Juli 2010

TEMPO Interaktif, Jakarta - PT Tempo Inti Media Tbk, penerbit Majalah TEMPO memutuskan akan mencetak ulang Majalah Tempo Edisi Terbaru menyusul lenyapnya majalah itu dari peredaran, Senin (28/6) dini hari. " Kami memutuskan mencetak ulang agar bisa diedarkan lagi ke pembaca " kata Windalaksana, Kepala Divisi Sirkulasi, Distribusi dan Pemasaran Tempo di Jakarta.

Seperti diketahui, puluhan ribu eksemplar majalah Tempo edisi terbaru hilang dari pasaran sejak Senin subuh. Beberapa pemborongnya adalah orang yang berseragam polisi dan memakai mobil polisi.

Terbit dengan Cover " Rekening Gendut Perwira Polisi", majalah Tempo pekan ini bergambar seorang polisi tengah memegang seutas tali yang diikatkan pada tiga babi kecil berwarna merah muda diduga menjadi sebab habisnya majalah Tempo dari peredaran. Edisi kali ini membuat laporan utama soal rekening jumbo para jenderal polisi. Laporan ini juga memuat indikasi rekening para jenderal di Mabes Polri yang mencurigakan.

Hasil analisis Pusat Pelaporan dan Analisis Transaksi Keuangan menemukan ada puluhan miliar rupiah yang masuk ke rekening para Jenderal Polisi. Duit itu mengalir dari pihak ketiga tanpa kejelasan aktivitas bisnis yang dilakukan.

Menurut Winda, sejumlah agen telah melaporkan kepada Tempo, adanya pembelian besar-besaran oleh sejumlah kelompok, begitu majalah bergambar polisi dengan tiga babi kecil itu akan dijual.

Pembelian itu dilakukan Senin dini hari hingga menjelang subuh, langsung ke sejumlah agen dan distributor. Edisi yang lenyap dari pasaran itu adalah edisi eceran untuk pembaca. Namun khusus untuk para pelanggan, kata Winda, tetap aman. " Karena itu, untuk kepentingan publik secara luas, kami putuskan untuk cetak ulang" kata Windalaksana.

Soal berapa yang akan dicetak, Winda belum bisa memastikan karena sedang melakukan pendataan. Namun ia memastikan, edisi terbaru bisa didapat di lapangan, paling telat Selasa (29/6).

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Obama visited Saudi King

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – President Barack Obama began his latest bid to open a dialogue with the Muslim world by paying a call Wednesday on Saudi King Abdullah, guardian of Islam's sacred sites in Mecca and Medina.

The monarch of Saudi Arabia greeted Obama at Riyadh's main airport with a ceremony when the new U.S. president arrived after an overnight flight from Washington. A band played "The Star-Spangled Banner." And each leader shook hands with members of his counterpart's entourage.

Perched on ornate chairs behind a flower arrangement, Obama and Abdullah then chatted briefly in public and shook hands, with cameras capturing the scene. Then, they retreated to hold private talks on a range of issues.

Saudi Arabia is a stopover en route to Cairo, where Obama is to set deliver a speech that he's been promising since last year's election campaign — aiming to set a new tone in America's often-strained dealings with the world's 1.5 billion Muslims.

Many of those Muslims still smolder over Iraq, Guantanamo and unflinching U.S. support of Israel, but they are hoping the son of a Kenyan Muslim who lived part of his childhood in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, can help chart a new course.

"You know, there are misapprehensions about the West, on the part of the Muslim world," Obama said in a pretrip interview with the BBC. "And, obviously, there are some big misapprehensions about the Muslim world when it comes to those of us in the West."

Aides cautioned that Obama was not out to break new policy ground in his Cairo speech, which follows visits to Turkey and Iraq in April and a series of outreach efforts including a Persian New Year video and a student town hall in Istanbul. And they said the president is not expecting quick results, even though the speech will be distributed as widely as possible.

"We don't expect that everything will change after one speech," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. "I think it will take a sustained effort and that's what the president is in for."

Officials said Obama also wouldn't flinch from difficult topics, whether it's the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, the goal of a Palestinian state or democracy and human rights. Obama has been criticized for setting the address in Egypt, where President Hosni Mubarak has jailed dissidents and clung to power for nearly three decades.

In Riyadh, the president was talking to Abdullah about a host of thorny problems, from Arab-Israeli peace efforts to Iran's nuclear program. The Saudis have voiced growing concern in private that an Iranian bomb could unleash a nuclear arms race in the region.

The surge in oil prices also was on the agenda. Crude topped $68 a barrel this week, sparking fears that a fresh jump in energy costs could snuff out early sparks of a recovery from a deep global slump.

Obama likely will be looking for help from Saudi Arabia on what to do with some 100 Yemeni detainees locked up in the Guantanamo Bay prison. Discussions over where to send the Yemeni detainees have complicated Obama's plan to close the prison. The U.S. has been hesitant to send them home because of Yemen's history of either releasing extremists or allowing them to escape from prison.

Instead, the Obama administration has been negotiating with Saudi Arabia and Yemen for months to send them to Saudi terrorist rehabilitation centers.

The president was to stay overnight at the king's horse farm in the desert outside Riyadh. Abdullah, who hosted then-President George W. Bush at the ranch in January of last year, keeps some 260 Arabian horses on its sprawling grounds in air-conditioned comfort.

In any effort to court Muslims, the Saudis will be key — not just for their oil wealth, but by virtue of the authority they wield at the center of Arab history and culture.

Obama's meeting with the 84-year-old Abdullah will be his second in three months. The two saw each other at the G-20 summit in London, a meeting both sides called friendly and productive. Perhaps a bit too friendly: Critics accused Obama of bowing to the Saudi monarch during a photo-op. The White House maintained he was merely bending to shake hands with a shorter man.

"This in many ways will be one of the pivotal relationships President Obama can develop," said Robin Wright, a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. "Saudi Arabia is important not just in terms of the Gulf and oil prices. It sets the tenor. It's one of the most conservative regimes. It's also important because King Abdullah is, among the various royals, more open-minded than others. These are two men who might actually deal well with each other."


Thursday, April 30, 2009

BCA Syariah akan segera dibuka

Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono memberikan sambutan saat pembukaan Festival Ekonomi Syariah di Balai Sidang Jakarta, Rabu (4/2). Pameran perbankan ini diikuti 14 bank umum syariah atau unit usaha syariah, empat BPR syariah dan beberapa lembaga keuangan non syariah berlangsung hingga Minggu (8/2) mendatang.
Rabu, 29 April 2009 | 19:11 WIB

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Wakil Presiden Direktur Bank BCA Jahja Setiaatmadja mengatakan, BCA Syariah yang merupakan anak usaha Bank BCA di bisnis perbankan syariah akan beroperasi pada September 2009. "Yang pasti 2009, sekitar September, kalau molor sekitar dua bulanlah," katanya, Rabu (29/4).

Ia mengatakan, BCA syariah tersebut nantinya beraset sekitar Rp 700 miliar. Jahja menambahkan pihaknya akan menambah modal bank tersebut sesuai kebutuhan.

Langkah BCA membentuk bank syariah dilakukan setelah mengakuisisi salah satu bank yang kemudian diubah menjadi syariah. Strategi ini mengikuti strategi yang dilakukan BRI yang mengakuisisi Bank Jasa Artha yang kemudian diubah menjadi bank syariah.

Langkah ini mungkin dirasa lebih murah sebab untuk mendirikan bank menurut BI setidaknya harus bermodalkan Rp 2 triliun untuk bank umum. Sementara untuk pendirian bank syariah melalui pemisahan (spin off) bisa hanya bermodalkan Rp 500 miliar.

What is Swine Flu ?

Flu babi( Swine Flu, Pig Flu) adalah penyakit pernapasan pada babi yang disebabkan virus influenza tipe A. Virus ini dapat menular ke manusia dan dari manusia ke manusia.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009


Hati-hati kecanduan situs jejaring sosial face book. Bisa-bisa anda kehilangan pekerjaan seperti yang dialami seorang wanita di Swiss.

Ceritanya wanita yang identitasnya dirahasiakan itu meminta izin pada bosnya karena menderita sakit migrain. Wanita itu mengaku terlalu pusing untuk berada di depan komputer dan harus berbaring di ruangan gelap untuk meredakan sakit kepalanya.

Demikian seperti ditulis ananova.com dari BBC, Senin (27/4/2009).

Namun, perusahaan tempat wanita itu bekerja menemukan wanita itu membuka-buka acount facebook miliknya. Ia pun dituduh sebagai pembohong dan dipecat.

Wanita itu membela diri. Ia mengaku mengakses facebook via handphone miliknya di atas tempat tidur.

Ia pun mencurigai perusahannya telah membuat seorang kawan fiktif yang di-add dalam acountnya. Lewat 'kawan' inilah perusahaan bisa tahu aktivitas wanita ini.

Dugaan ini diperkuat karena 'kawan' tersebut mendadak hilang setelah ia dipecat.

Namun perusahaannya tidak mau ambil pusing. Mereka beralasan, siapapun yang cukup sehat mengakses facebook, berarti cukup sehat juga untuk bekerja di depan komputer.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

WHO Tries to Come Up With Swine Flu Plan

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization tried to determine Sunday how to battle a deadly new strain of swine flu, holding teleconferences with staff and flu experts around the world as countries from New Zealand to France reported suspected cases.

WHO stopped short of recommending specific measures to stop the disease, urging governments to step up their surveillance of suspicious outbreaks but leaving further decisions up to individual nations.

Governments across Asia began quarantining those with symptoms of the deadly virus and some issued travel warnings for Mexico.

Some governments were increasing their screening of pigs and pork imports from the Americas or banning them outright despite health officials' reassurances that it was safe to eat thoroughly cooked pork.

In a second day of top-level meetings, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan and senior advisors were trying to determine what measures the agency could recommend to stop the spread of the outbreak, which she called a public health emergency of "pandemic potential" because the virus can pass from human to human.

New Zealand said that 10 students who took a school trip to Mexico "likely" had swine flu. Israel said a man who had recently visited Mexico had been hospitalized while authorities try to determine whether he had swine flu. France said that two people who had returned from Mexico with fevers were being monitored in regions near the port cities of Bordeaux and Marseille.

Spain's Health Ministry said three people who just returned from Mexico were under observation in hospitals in the northern Basque region, in southeastern Albacete and the Mediterranean port city of Valencia.

Governments must report any unusual cases of flu to WHO, and the agency was considering whether to issue nonbinding recommendations on travel and trade restrictions, and even border closures. It is up to governments to decide whether to follow the advice.

"Countries are encouraged to do anything that they feel would be a precautionary measure," WHO spokeswoman Aphaluck Bhatiasevi said. "All countries need to enhance their monitoring."

H1N1 influenza is a subset of influenza A that is a combination of bird, pig and human viruses, according to the WHO. Symptoms include a fever of more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius), body aches, coughing, a sore throat, respiratory congestion and, in some cases, vomiting and diarrhea.

At least 81 people have died from severe pneumonia caused by the flu-like illness in Mexico, according to the WHO.

The virus is usually contracted through direct contact with pigs, but Joseph Domenech, chief of animal health service at U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency in Rome, said all indications were that the virus is being spread through human-to-human transmission.

No vaccine specifically protects against swine flu, and it is unclear how much protection current human flu vaccines might offer.

The WHO's pandemic alert level is currently at to phase 3. The organization said the level could be raised to phase 4 if the virus shows sustained ability to pass from human to human.

Phase 5 would be reached if the virus is found in at least two countries in the same region.

"The declaration of phase 5 is a strong signal that a pandemic is imminent and that the time to finalize the organization, communication, and implementation of the planned mitigation measures is short," WHO said.

Phase 6 would indicate a full-scale global pandemic.

Mexico closed schools, museums, libraries and theaters in a bid to contain the outbreak after hundreds were sickened there. U.S. authorities said 11 people were infected with swine flu, and all recovered or were recovering.

Hong Kong and Taiwan said visitors who came back from affected areas with fevers would be quarantined. China said anyone experiencing flu-like symptoms within two weeks of arrival an affected area had to report to authorities.

Tokyo's Narita airport installed a device to test the temperatures of passengers arriving from Mexico.

Indonesia increased surveillance at all entry points for travelers with flu-like symptoms — using devices at airports that were put in place years ago to monitor for severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, and bird flu. It said it was ready to quarantine suspected victims if necessary.

A Russian health agency said any passenger from North America running a fever would be quarantined until cause of the fever is determined.

Hong Kong and South Korea warned against travel to the Mexican capital and three affected provinces. Italy's health ministry also advised citizens to postpone travel to affected areas.

Serbia on Saturday banned all imports of pork from North America, despite reassurances from the FAO that pigs appear not to be the immediate source of infection.

Italy's agriculture lobby, Coldiretti, warned against panic reaction, noting that farmers lost hundreds of millions of euros (dollars) because of consumers boycotts during the 2001 mad cow scare and the 2005 bird flu outbreak.

Japanese Agriculture Minister Shigeru Ishiba appeared on TV to calm consumers, saying it was safe to eat pork.

In Egypt, health authorities were examining about 350,000 pigs being raised in Cairo and other provinces for swine flu.

Associated Press writers around the world contributed to this report.