Dewan Minyak Kelapa Sawit Mentah Malaysia (MPOD) menyatakan stok minyak kelapa sawit (crude palm oil/CPO) Maret turun 7,5 persen menjadi 1,65 juta ton. Ini merupakan level terendah selama enam bulan terakhir atau sejak September 2009.
"Kita mungkin akan melihat peningkatan stok pada April. Ekspor akan tetap stagnan dan cenderung rendah karena saat ini permintaan rendah dan fenomena El Nino tidak berdampak seburuk yang kita sangka," kata seorang trader di Kuala Lumpur, seperti dikutip dari Reuters, Senin (12/4/2010).
Tingkat penurunan stok CPO mulai melemah seiring meningkatnya produksi di Sabah dan Johor. Ekspor CPO Malaysia Maret naik 7,65 persen menjadi 1.393.999 ton.
sumber;okezone.com
Senin, 12 April 2010
Pajak Sarang Walet
Sejak perjanjian Perdagangan Bebas ASEAN-China berlaku ekspor sarang walet ke China masih terkena 17%. Padahal potensi ekspor sarang walet Indonesia mencapai 500-600 Ton per tahun.” Pemeberlakuan pajaka ekspor sebesar 17 persen ke China sangat disesalkan para peternak dan pedagang sarang walet. Ironis karena Malaysia,Singapura,Vietnam, dan Thailand dapat mengekspor sarang walet ke China tanpa pajak.
Pajak Sarang Walet
Sejak perjanjian Perdagangan Bebas ASEAN-China berlaku ekspor sarang walet ke China masih terkena 17%. Padahal potensi ekspor sarang walet Indonesia mencapai 500-600 Ton per tahun.” Pemeberlakuan pajaka ekspor sebesar 17 persen ke China sangat disesalkan para peternak dan pedagang sarang walet. Ironis karena Malaysia,Singapura,Vietnam, dan Thailand dapat mengekspor sarang walet ke China tanpa pajak.
Pajak Sarang Walet
Sejak perjanjian Perdagangan Bebas ASEAN-China berlaku ekspor sarang walet ke China masih terkena 17%. Padahal potensi ekspor sarang walet Indonesia mencapai 500-600 Ton per tahun.” Pemeberlakuan pajaka ekspor sebesar 17 persen ke China sangat disesalkan para peternak dan pedagang sarang walet. Ironis karena Malaysia,Singapura,Vietnam, dan Thailand dapat mengekspor sarang walet ke China tanpa pajak.
Syarat-Syarat Mendapat Tax Refund
Kementerian Keuangan memaparkan syarat-syarat untuk mendapatkan Tax Refund.
1.Pengembalian pajak bagi wisatawan asing hanya pada took yang ditunjuk.
2.hanya boleh dilakukan dalam jangka waktu 1 bulan sebelum keberangkatan ke luar negeri
3. diberikan jika wisatawan menunjukkan barang yang dibeli.
4.wisatawan hanya meminta Tax Refund untuk pembelian barang yang jumlah Pajak Pertambahan Nilai(PPN) minimal Rp.500.000 degan meminta faktur khusus dari took yang ditunjuk.
5. wisatawan tersebut berada di Indonesia tidak lebih dari 2 bulan serta memiliki paspor luar negeri
Pemberlakuan Tax Refund bagi wisatawan asing tercantum dalam Undang-Undang Nomor 42 Tahun 2009 tentang PPN dan Pajak Penjulan Barang mewah (PPnBM).
1.Pengembalian pajak bagi wisatawan asing hanya pada took yang ditunjuk.
2.hanya boleh dilakukan dalam jangka waktu 1 bulan sebelum keberangkatan ke luar negeri
3. diberikan jika wisatawan menunjukkan barang yang dibeli.
4.wisatawan hanya meminta Tax Refund untuk pembelian barang yang jumlah Pajak Pertambahan Nilai(PPN) minimal Rp.500.000 degan meminta faktur khusus dari took yang ditunjuk.
5. wisatawan tersebut berada di Indonesia tidak lebih dari 2 bulan serta memiliki paspor luar negeri
Pemberlakuan Tax Refund bagi wisatawan asing tercantum dalam Undang-Undang Nomor 42 Tahun 2009 tentang PPN dan Pajak Penjulan Barang mewah (PPnBM).
TAX Ratio Indonesia Masih Rendah
Rasio penerimaan pajak terhadap produk domestik bruto (PDB) atau Tax Ratio Indonesia masih sangat rendah hanya 11.6 %, bandingkan dengan Negara-negara lain diantaranya Jepang 27,4% , Korea Selatan 26,8%, Singapura 22,44%, Malaysia 20,17, Sri Lanka 17,91%, India 17,7%, Thailand 17,28%, Flipina 13,68%, Pakistan 13,68% dan Pakistan 13,6%.
Target pemerintah untuk Tax Ratio 2010 adalah 16%. Walaupun hal ini merupakan suatuyang sangat berat, walaupun hal ini dapat diwujudkan apabila pemerintah dalam hal ini Dirjen Pajak dapat memperbaiki pelayanan yang diberikan kepada masyarakat serta penegakan hokum di lingkungan Dirjen Pajak.
Target pemerintah untuk Tax Ratio 2010 adalah 16%. Walaupun hal ini merupakan suatuyang sangat berat, walaupun hal ini dapat diwujudkan apabila pemerintah dalam hal ini Dirjen Pajak dapat memperbaiki pelayanan yang diberikan kepada masyarakat serta penegakan hokum di lingkungan Dirjen Pajak.
KTT ASEAN :Tampilkan Wajah Aman dan Damai
Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono mengemukakan, bila ASEAN tetap bisa menampilan wajah Asia Tenggara yang stabil, aman,dan damai,itu sudah menjadi sumbangan bagi perdamaian dan keamanan dunia.
Presiden Yudhoyono mengemukakan pendapat Indonesia tentang hasil Konferensi Tingkat Tinggi (KTT) XVI ASEAN dalam jumpa pers di Hanoi, Vietnam. dalam menjelaskan hasil KTT ASEAN di Hanoi yang berlangsung pada 8-9 April ini, Presiden juga menekankan tentang kejahatan lintas Negara seperti pembalakan hutan ,lalu lintas penjualan manusia dan pencurian ikan.
Mengenai wajah ASEAN yang aman,damai, dan stabil, ungkap Presiden, merupakan awal pengikat berdirinya ASEAN pada 1967. Bila hal itu ditingkatkan lagi,sudah menjadi sumbangsih bagi keamanan dan perdamaian dunia sebelum Negara-negara ASEAN membangun arsitektur baru tentang ASEAN.
Menurut presiden dengan membangun harmoni di Asi Tenggara itu, merupakan suatu contoh yang baik bagi dunia untuk pembangunan peradaban yang baik. Keberhasilan membangun keamana,stabilitas dan perdamaian di ASEAN sudah bisa dirasakan manfaatnya ketika di Negara-negara di kawasan ini mengalami krisis ekonomi dan berbagai krisis lainya.
Presiden Yudhoyono mengemukakan pendapat Indonesia tentang hasil Konferensi Tingkat Tinggi (KTT) XVI ASEAN dalam jumpa pers di Hanoi, Vietnam. dalam menjelaskan hasil KTT ASEAN di Hanoi yang berlangsung pada 8-9 April ini, Presiden juga menekankan tentang kejahatan lintas Negara seperti pembalakan hutan ,lalu lintas penjualan manusia dan pencurian ikan.
Mengenai wajah ASEAN yang aman,damai, dan stabil, ungkap Presiden, merupakan awal pengikat berdirinya ASEAN pada 1967. Bila hal itu ditingkatkan lagi,sudah menjadi sumbangsih bagi keamanan dan perdamaian dunia sebelum Negara-negara ASEAN membangun arsitektur baru tentang ASEAN.
Menurut presiden dengan membangun harmoni di Asi Tenggara itu, merupakan suatu contoh yang baik bagi dunia untuk pembangunan peradaban yang baik. Keberhasilan membangun keamana,stabilitas dan perdamaian di ASEAN sudah bisa dirasakan manfaatnya ketika di Negara-negara di kawasan ini mengalami krisis ekonomi dan berbagai krisis lainya.
La Nina Datang Terlampau Cepat
Fenomena El Nino 2009-2010 baru saja menghilang sekitar bulan Februari 2010 dan diperkirakan mulai awal mei 2010 dapat diketahui berubah menuju La Nina, perubahan sangat cepat ini tergolong ekstrem karena lazimnya terjadi pada periode 2-6 tahun.
“Perubahan yang sangat cepat itu sebagai dampak pemanasan global.”kata Kepala Pusat Perubahan iklim dan Kualitas Udara Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi,dan Geofisika (BMKG) Edvin Aldrian.
Menurut Edvin,saat ini nilai indeks Nino 3 untuk memantau perubahan fenomena El Nino dan La Nina menunjukkan angka 0,5. Diperkirakan ,angkanya terus menurun hingga pada awal Mei Nanti bisa menembus minus satu, yang berarti timbul fenomena La Nina di wilayah Pasifik.
Dampak La Nina bagi wilayah Indonesia umumnya mendatangkan intensitas hujan lebih tinggi dibandingkan pola normal. Diperkirakann ,La Nina bisa terjadi sampai November atau Desember 2010.
“Perubahan yang sangat cepat itu sebagai dampak pemanasan global.”kata Kepala Pusat Perubahan iklim dan Kualitas Udara Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi,dan Geofisika (BMKG) Edvin Aldrian.
Menurut Edvin,saat ini nilai indeks Nino 3 untuk memantau perubahan fenomena El Nino dan La Nina menunjukkan angka 0,5. Diperkirakan ,angkanya terus menurun hingga pada awal Mei Nanti bisa menembus minus satu, yang berarti timbul fenomena La Nina di wilayah Pasifik.
Dampak La Nina bagi wilayah Indonesia umumnya mendatangkan intensitas hujan lebih tinggi dibandingkan pola normal. Diperkirakann ,La Nina bisa terjadi sampai November atau Desember 2010.
Guru Minta TKD Diubah
Guru PNS DKI meminta kebijakan pemprov DKI mengenai pemberian Tunjangan Kinerja Daerah(TKD) sebagai pengganti kesejahteraan (kesra) dan tunjangan perbaikan penghasilan (TPP), diubah. Mereka menuntut TKD guru jangan disamakan dengan PNS Golongan 1.
Hal itu disampaikan forum guru PNS di Jakarta (FGJ) kepada wartawan di kantor Indonesia Corruption Watch(ICW),Pancoran,Jakarta Selatan. FGJ menilai kebijakan TKD mendiskriminasi guru yang selama ini menjadi :”ujung tombak” pelayanan kebutuhan dasar masyarakat Jakarta
Kebijakan pemberian tkd DIATUR MENURUT Pergub DKI no 215/2009 Jo 41/2010. Indikasi diskriminasi menurut retno dapat dilihat pada perbedaan besarna take home pay pegawai walaupun berasal dari golongan yang sama.
Guru PNS golongan III (non sertifikat) memperoleh take home pay sebesar Rp.4.785.200 lebih rendah dibandingkan dengan pegawai structural dari unti lain dengan golongan yang sama yang menerima sebesar Rp.5.485.200
Selain diskriminasi, pergub itu menyimpan potensi pemborosan anggaran daerah karena mengalokasikan danayang sangat besar bagi pejabat jabatan tinggi.di antaranya tunjangan jabatan gubernur sebesar Rp.5.400.000 per bulan dan wakil gubernur sebesar Rp.4.320.000
Hal itu disampaikan forum guru PNS di Jakarta (FGJ) kepada wartawan di kantor Indonesia Corruption Watch(ICW),Pancoran,Jakarta Selatan. FGJ menilai kebijakan TKD mendiskriminasi guru yang selama ini menjadi :”ujung tombak” pelayanan kebutuhan dasar masyarakat Jakarta
Kebijakan pemberian tkd DIATUR MENURUT Pergub DKI no 215/2009 Jo 41/2010. Indikasi diskriminasi menurut retno dapat dilihat pada perbedaan besarna take home pay pegawai walaupun berasal dari golongan yang sama.
Guru PNS golongan III (non sertifikat) memperoleh take home pay sebesar Rp.4.785.200 lebih rendah dibandingkan dengan pegawai structural dari unti lain dengan golongan yang sama yang menerima sebesar Rp.5.485.200
Selain diskriminasi, pergub itu menyimpan potensi pemborosan anggaran daerah karena mengalokasikan danayang sangat besar bagi pejabat jabatan tinggi.di antaranya tunjangan jabatan gubernur sebesar Rp.5.400.000 per bulan dan wakil gubernur sebesar Rp.4.320.000
Steak Sedang disantap disita
Apa jadinya kalo lagi asyik-asyiknya makan steak tiba-tiba makanan kita diambil paksa .hmhm gmn ya ??? mungkin kita bisa tanyakan kepada para tamu di sebuah restoran di Kota Aachen, Jerman yang tengan menyantap steak dibuat kaget. Tiba-tiba saja daging panggang yang tengah mereka nimati diambil oleh seseorang. Kejadian itu merupakan buntut dari sengketa antara pemilik restoran dan si pemasok daging. Polisi kota itu menjelaskan si pemasok daging menagih pembayaran atas daging yang sudah dikirim sebesar Rp.4,8 juta. Tapi pemilik restoran tak mampu membayar. Si pemasok berang.dia lantas mengambil daging yang belum dimasak, namun setelah dihitung nilainya masih kurang, maka daging yang sedang dibakar dan sudah disajikan kepada tamu pun ia ambil.
Bir Dibatasi Pekerja Mogok
Ada-ada aja nih para pekerja pabrik bir di Copenhagen,Denmark . mereka mogok kerja bukan karena upahnya gak dibayar atau apa, tap I cumin karena mereka memprotes peraturan baru perusahaan tersebut yang melarang pekerja meneguk bir sesuka hati.peraturan baru yang berlaku per 1 april menetapakan bahwa pekerja hanya boleh minum bir di kantin perusahaan pada jam makan siang.padahal sebelumnya pekerja boleh minum bir gratis kapanpun di pabrik itu.batasannya cumin satu,enggak boleh samapai mabuk. Dulu bir bisa didapat di berbagai sudut ruang pabrik yang disediakn dalam pendingin. Kini semuanya disingkirkan manajemen. Mereka yang melakukan pemogokan adalah pekerja di bagian produksi dan gudang sebanyak 250 orang.
XL-PT KA Perluas Tiketing Online
PT XL Asiata Tbk(XL) memperluas kerja sama dengan PT Kereta Api (KA) dengan menandatangani solusi korporat berupa penyediaan jaringan 120 multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) untuk PT K. Penandatanganan kerjasama dilakukan Direktur Network XL Dian Siswarini dan Direktur Komersial PT KA Sulistyo Wimbo HArdjito, di Ritz Carlton, Mega Kuningan, Jakarta,
Xl akan menyediakan jaringan MPLS di 120 titik di Jawa dan Sumatera.PT KA akan dapat segera mengembangkan jaringan online antarstasiun dan kantor cabang,yang antara lain dapat dimanfaatkasn bagi penyediaan layanan pemesana dan pembayaran tiket secara elektronik. “untuk lebih mengoptimalkan pelayanan dan kebutuhan internal akan layanan data yang semakin meningkat PT KA membutuhkan jaringan komunikasi yang handal.
Sumber : WARTAKOTA
Xl akan menyediakan jaringan MPLS di 120 titik di Jawa dan Sumatera.PT KA akan dapat segera mengembangkan jaringan online antarstasiun dan kantor cabang,yang antara lain dapat dimanfaatkasn bagi penyediaan layanan pemesana dan pembayaran tiket secara elektronik. “untuk lebih mengoptimalkan pelayanan dan kebutuhan internal akan layanan data yang semakin meningkat PT KA membutuhkan jaringan komunikasi yang handal.
Sumber : WARTAKOTA
MENARA BERSAMA TRI DAN INDOSAT
PT Hutchison CP Telecommunication pemilik operator seluler 3 (tri) dan PT Indosat Tbk (Indosat) menandatangani kerjasama untuk penggunaan menara telekomunikasi Indosat bagi BTS tri. Ini merupakan upaya tri mengembangkan daerah jangkauan jaringannya. Kesepakatan itu meliputi perjanjian sewa menara komunikasi Indosat yang berlangsung selama 12 tahun.
Kerja sama dalam penggunaan infrastruktur telekomunikasi ini merupakan bagian dari upaya Indosat untuk mendukung kebijakan penggunaan menara bersama sesuai dengan imbauan pemerintah,sehingga terjadi efisiensi dalam industry telekomunikasi maupun masing-masing operator
Lebih dari itu kerja sama ini tentu sajka memberikan manfaat dalam mengoptimalkan penggunaan infrastruktur secara bersama di antara para operator, demikian disampaikan Fadzri Sentosa,Director & Chief Wholesale and infrastructure officer Indosat.
Tri akan melanjutkan inisiatif menara bersam guna lebih memfokuskan pada pertumbuhan pelanggan yang didukung oleh inovasi marketing dan peningkatan kualitas jaringan.
Sumber : Wartakota
Kerja sama dalam penggunaan infrastruktur telekomunikasi ini merupakan bagian dari upaya Indosat untuk mendukung kebijakan penggunaan menara bersama sesuai dengan imbauan pemerintah,sehingga terjadi efisiensi dalam industry telekomunikasi maupun masing-masing operator
Lebih dari itu kerja sama ini tentu sajka memberikan manfaat dalam mengoptimalkan penggunaan infrastruktur secara bersama di antara para operator, demikian disampaikan Fadzri Sentosa,Director & Chief Wholesale and infrastructure officer Indosat.
Tri akan melanjutkan inisiatif menara bersam guna lebih memfokuskan pada pertumbuhan pelanggan yang didukung oleh inovasi marketing dan peningkatan kualitas jaringan.
Sumber : Wartakota
MENARA BERSAMA TRI DAN INDOSAT
PT Hutchison CP Telecommunication pemilik operator seluler 3 (tri) dan PT Indosat Tbk (Indosat) menandatangani kerjasama untuk penggunaan menara telekomunikasi Indosat bagi BTS tri. Ini merupakan upaya tri mengembangkan daerah jangkauan jaringannya. Kesepakatan itu meliputi perjanjian sewa menara komunikasi Indosat yang berlangsung selama 12 tahun.
Kerja sama dalam penggunaan infrastruktur telekomunikasi ini merupakan bagian dari upaya Indosat untuk mendukung kebijakan penggunaan menara bersama sesuai dengan imbauan pemerintah,sehingga terjadi efisiensi dalam industry telekomunikasi maupun masing-masing operator
Lebih dari itu kerja sama ini tentu sajka memberikan manfaat dalam mengoptimalkan penggunaan infrastruktur secara bersama di antara para operator, demikian disampaikan Fadzri Sentosa,Director & Chief Wholesale and infrastructure officer Indosat.
Tri akan melanjutkan inisiatif menara bersam guna lebih memfokuskan pada pertumbuhan pelanggan yang didukung oleh inovasi marketing dan peningkatan kualitas jaringan.
Sumber : Wartakota
Kerja sama dalam penggunaan infrastruktur telekomunikasi ini merupakan bagian dari upaya Indosat untuk mendukung kebijakan penggunaan menara bersama sesuai dengan imbauan pemerintah,sehingga terjadi efisiensi dalam industry telekomunikasi maupun masing-masing operator
Lebih dari itu kerja sama ini tentu sajka memberikan manfaat dalam mengoptimalkan penggunaan infrastruktur secara bersama di antara para operator, demikian disampaikan Fadzri Sentosa,Director & Chief Wholesale and infrastructure officer Indosat.
Tri akan melanjutkan inisiatif menara bersam guna lebih memfokuskan pada pertumbuhan pelanggan yang didukung oleh inovasi marketing dan peningkatan kualitas jaringan.
Sumber : Wartakota
Kelompok Anti Pemerintah Thailand Pamer Peti Mati
Kelompok pendemo anti-pemerintah Thailand kembali melakukan protes di Bangkok, Thailand hari ini. Berbeda dengan protes sebelumnya, kali ini mereka membawa 14 peti mati menandakan jatuhnya korban saat bentrokan antara mereka dengan polisi Sabtu 10 April lalu.
Pada bentrokan Sabtu, 21 nyawa dikabarkan melayang. Namun tidak semuanya korban tewas berasal dari kelompok pendemo. Beberapa diantara yang tewas terdapat anggota polisi Thailand serta seorang kamerawan asal Jepang. 874 pendemo juga dilaporkan turut terluka dalam bentrokan yang terjadi menjelang malam tersebut.
Seperti dilansir Associated Press, Senin (12/4/2010), bentrokan tersebut juga dianggap sebagai kerusuhan paling terburuk yang pernah dialami oleh Thailand selama dua dekade terakhir.
Namun tanda-tanda aksi protes akan berakhir, hingga saat ini belum tampak sama sekali. Kelompok anti pemerintah yang biasa disebut 'kaus merah' bahkan terus bersikeras melakukan protes hingga tuntutan mereka dipenuhi. Mereka minta pemerintah untuk membubarkan parlemen dan mendesak mempercepat dilakukan pemilu.
Menurut laporan sebuah media setempat, Perdana Menteri Abhisit Vejjajiva dikabarkan ditekan oleh pemerintahan koalisi Thailand untuk berkompromi dengan para pendemo. PM Abhisit diminta untuk membubarkan parlemen dalam waktu enam bulan, dari keinginan sebelumnya untuk membubarkan parlemen pada akhir tahun.
Tetapi langkah kompromi yang dihendaki pihak koalisi pemerintah tampaknya akan menghadapi hambatan. Sebelumnya pada hari Minggu 11 April, menegaskan tidak akan bernegosiasi dengan pihak pemerintah yang mereka anggap pembunuh.
14 peti mati kosong mereka usung dalam protes hari ini, sebagai tanda berkabung. Peti mati tersebut mereka arak di sepanjang Kota Bangkok sebagai protes aksi kekerasan yang diduga dilakukan oleh pihak keamanan Thailand. Sementara proses otopsi atas 21 korban tewas akibat bentrokan baru akan dilakukan hari ini. Otopsi akan membuktikan penyebab kematian dari para korban tewas.
sumber;okezone.com
Pada bentrokan Sabtu, 21 nyawa dikabarkan melayang. Namun tidak semuanya korban tewas berasal dari kelompok pendemo. Beberapa diantara yang tewas terdapat anggota polisi Thailand serta seorang kamerawan asal Jepang. 874 pendemo juga dilaporkan turut terluka dalam bentrokan yang terjadi menjelang malam tersebut.
Seperti dilansir Associated Press, Senin (12/4/2010), bentrokan tersebut juga dianggap sebagai kerusuhan paling terburuk yang pernah dialami oleh Thailand selama dua dekade terakhir.
Namun tanda-tanda aksi protes akan berakhir, hingga saat ini belum tampak sama sekali. Kelompok anti pemerintah yang biasa disebut 'kaus merah' bahkan terus bersikeras melakukan protes hingga tuntutan mereka dipenuhi. Mereka minta pemerintah untuk membubarkan parlemen dan mendesak mempercepat dilakukan pemilu.
Menurut laporan sebuah media setempat, Perdana Menteri Abhisit Vejjajiva dikabarkan ditekan oleh pemerintahan koalisi Thailand untuk berkompromi dengan para pendemo. PM Abhisit diminta untuk membubarkan parlemen dalam waktu enam bulan, dari keinginan sebelumnya untuk membubarkan parlemen pada akhir tahun.
Tetapi langkah kompromi yang dihendaki pihak koalisi pemerintah tampaknya akan menghadapi hambatan. Sebelumnya pada hari Minggu 11 April, menegaskan tidak akan bernegosiasi dengan pihak pemerintah yang mereka anggap pembunuh.
14 peti mati kosong mereka usung dalam protes hari ini, sebagai tanda berkabung. Peti mati tersebut mereka arak di sepanjang Kota Bangkok sebagai protes aksi kekerasan yang diduga dilakukan oleh pihak keamanan Thailand. Sementara proses otopsi atas 21 korban tewas akibat bentrokan baru akan dilakukan hari ini. Otopsi akan membuktikan penyebab kematian dari para korban tewas.
sumber;okezone.com
Kamis, 08 April 2010
tugas part 5
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Nancy Paterson, an international war crimes prosecutor who played a leading role in building the case linking the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to massacres, mass rape and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans in the 1990s, died on March 27 at her home in Bethesda, Md. She was 56.
The cause was ovarian cancer, her friend Carrie Hunter said.
With Clint Williamson, who later became the United States ambassador at large for war crimes issues, Ms. Paterson led a team of more than 50 lawyers and investigators who gathered evidence leading to the indictment of Mr. Milosevic, whose role in the bloodshed earned him the sobriquet Butcher of the Balkans.
The 54-page initial indictment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which focused on war crimes in the Kosovo region, was written by Ms. Paterson and Mr. Williamson. It was the first time that a sitting head of state had been charged by an international tribunal. The indictment was later expanded to include crimes in Croatia and Bosnia.
Mr. Milosevic, the Communist leader whose embrace of Serbian nationalism ignited the ethnic strife, was president of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and president of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. As he rose to power by inciting dreams of a Greater Serbia, he became the prime engineer of conflicts that pitted his fellow Serbs against the Slovenes, the Croats, the Bosnians, the Albanians of Kosovo and ultimately the combined forces of the NATO alliance.
By the fall of 2000, Mr. Milosevic’s appeals to nationalism were no longer sufficient to keep him in power. After his ouster, Mr. Milosevic was placed under house arrest in Belgrade and, in the summer of 2001, was transferred to a United Nations detention center in The Hague.
Though many people were skeptical that it would succeed, he said, “we were able in a relatively short period to bring together a very strong case against Milosevic, and Nancy deserves credit for her leadership role in making that happen.”
Louise Arbour, who was the chief prosecutor for the tribunal at the time of the initial Milosevic indictment, said the Paterson-Williamson team “showed that Milosevic was commander of the army and the police; that everything came under his command both in the political and the military sense.”
Ms. Paterson, who had been a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office for 11 years, specializing in child abuse cases and sex crimes, had volunteered to go to Yugoslavia in 1994 as a member of a United Nations commission investigating widespread sexual violence there.
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Raff shook his head again, this time harder. "Now I know you're crazy. Frogman'll kill us if we go on his property. They say he murdered some people up in Lownes County and got away with it. I hear if you get too close to his landing, even when you're just fishing around there, he'll come out and yell and tell you he's going to kill you."
"Oh, yeah? I hear people disappear on the Chicobee and their bodies are never found."
"You think Frogman did that? No way. If they suspected him even just a smidgen, he'd be down at the Clayville Police Station and they'd be diggin' up his property to look for dead bodies."
"How should I know? Maybe the Chicobee Serpent. Maybe they just fell overboard and drowned. Their bodies got carried on down to the Gulf. Or maybe they wasn't really any people at all they couldn't account for. Maybe all that's just a story."
"I heard Frogman's a pervert," Raff came back. "He does things to little boys, you know."
passive voice
A Newark man was arrested and charged with burglary and criminal mischief in the September 2009 theft of a cash register containing $100 and some clothing from JD Custom Tailor at 525 Millburn Avenue, Police Capt. James Miller reports in the weekly Millburn police blotter.
Police were called to the store on Sept. 12 at 3:15 a.m. in response to an alarm. The front door had been shattered.
The investigation by Millburn Police detectives that led to the charge includes the collection of DNA evidence at the crime scene and its analysis by the New Jersey State Police Laboratory.
The police said they traced the DNA to Christopher M. Ransom, 38, who was located in New Jersey state prison. No details were immediately available as to why Mr. Ransom was in prison. Bail is set at $10,000.
Still under investigation by Millburn police detectives is the theft of computers and a projector, worth more than $8,000, from Stone & Magnanini, LLP, on John F. Kennedy Parkway on Easter Sunday. While police report no damage to the outside of the building, there was damage to an office door inside the building.
In other police news:
* Police responded to a store alarm at New Choice Wireless on Millburn Avenue on Wednesday, March 31. The front door glass was shattered and cash was stolen. The burglary is still under investigation, and anyone with information is asked to contact the Millburn Police Detective Bureau at 973-564-7017.
* On Saturday morning, April 3, a Millburn resident reported to police that his bicycle was stolen from the Millburn Train Station. The $400 bike was chained to a telephone pole on Friday morning, April 2, but the thieves cut the lock.
* Also on April 3, a 16-year-old teenager from Brooklyn was arrested and charged with shoplifting $26 worth of makeup from Sephora at The Mall at Short Hills.
degree of comparison
On Monday, the baseball season begins in earnest, and in Indianapolis, the men’s national championship game will feature a compelling matchup between Butler, the nation’s underdog, and Duke, the nation’s villain. And at Augusta National, the shrine of golf, Tiger Woods will speak to the news media at an unusual one-man news conference before the Masters. The weekend was set in motion Saturday night when Butler, the hometown favorite, earned a spot in the national title game with a 52-50 victory over Michigan State and Duke routed West Virginia, 78-57.
The convergence of these events will attract sports purists, sports devotees and casual fans who simply enjoy spectacles.
This is a sports holy week, the United States at its playful best.
Even for Mike Krzyzewski, who has coached Duke to 11 Final Fours and 3 national championships and led the United States to an Olympic gold medal in 2008, the electricity cannot be duplicated.
“In college, you are still always playing for the name on the front of the jersey,” he said. “There’s not one player and there’s not one coach who’s bigger than the college game. It just doesn’t happen.
For the Baylor women, Sunday’s national semifinal game is a lesson in conviction: achieving the seemingly impossible. Baylor takes on Connecticut, one of the greatest programs in college basketball history. The Huskies enter this Final Four with a 76-game winning streak and no margin of victory closer than 12 points.
Baylor Coach Kim Mulkey, a college star at Louisiana Tech, spoke bravely about facing a UConn team that has not lost since 2008.
Oklahoma Coach Sherri Coale, in more of a lament than a war cry, said: “Somebody’s got to beat Connecticut. Somebody has got to stop the madness at some point.”
The lesson in Boston, where the Red Sox host the Yankees, is a message of sportsmanship and respect. In a national environment that has become increasingly partisan and stratified, the lesson of Red-Sox Yankees is that bitter rivals can fight to the symbolic end and still have respect — even admiration — for each other as the great opponent who brings out the best.
“I think what we love about sports, as we do about art, is seeing human excellence,” said Bobby Fong, the Butler University president. “Those are areas where you honored the talent, not the background. We’ve got a lot to learn about being able to honor achievement regardless of race or ethnicity or ideology.”
Or size of university. On Saturday, he watched Butler earn its first berth in the national championship game.
Fong is concerned that lessons of teamwork, sportsmanship and the greater good are lost on a nation that is increasingly pushed toward specialization.
sumber : Newyotk times
Nancy Paterson, an international war crimes prosecutor who played a leading role in building the case linking the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to massacres, mass rape and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans in the 1990s, died on March 27 at her home in Bethesda, Md. She was 56.
The cause was ovarian cancer, her friend Carrie Hunter said.
With Clint Williamson, who later became the United States ambassador at large for war crimes issues, Ms. Paterson led a team of more than 50 lawyers and investigators who gathered evidence leading to the indictment of Mr. Milosevic, whose role in the bloodshed earned him the sobriquet Butcher of the Balkans.
The 54-page initial indictment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which focused on war crimes in the Kosovo region, was written by Ms. Paterson and Mr. Williamson. It was the first time that a sitting head of state had been charged by an international tribunal. The indictment was later expanded to include crimes in Croatia and Bosnia.
Mr. Milosevic, the Communist leader whose embrace of Serbian nationalism ignited the ethnic strife, was president of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and president of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. As he rose to power by inciting dreams of a Greater Serbia, he became the prime engineer of conflicts that pitted his fellow Serbs against the Slovenes, the Croats, the Bosnians, the Albanians of Kosovo and ultimately the combined forces of the NATO alliance.
By the fall of 2000, Mr. Milosevic’s appeals to nationalism were no longer sufficient to keep him in power. After his ouster, Mr. Milosevic was placed under house arrest in Belgrade and, in the summer of 2001, was transferred to a United Nations detention center in The Hague.
Though many people were skeptical that it would succeed, he said, “we were able in a relatively short period to bring together a very strong case against Milosevic, and Nancy deserves credit for her leadership role in making that happen.”
Louise Arbour, who was the chief prosecutor for the tribunal at the time of the initial Milosevic indictment, said the Paterson-Williamson team “showed that Milosevic was commander of the army and the police; that everything came under his command both in the political and the military sense.”
Ms. Paterson, who had been a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office for 11 years, specializing in child abuse cases and sex crimes, had volunteered to go to Yugoslavia in 1994 as a member of a United Nations commission investigating widespread sexual violence there.
conditional sentences
Raff shook his head again, this time harder. "Now I know you're crazy. Frogman'll kill us if we go on his property. They say he murdered some people up in Lownes County and got away with it. I hear if you get too close to his landing, even when you're just fishing around there, he'll come out and yell and tell you he's going to kill you."
"Oh, yeah? I hear people disappear on the Chicobee and their bodies are never found."
"You think Frogman did that? No way. If they suspected him even just a smidgen, he'd be down at the Clayville Police Station and they'd be diggin' up his property to look for dead bodies."
"How should I know? Maybe the Chicobee Serpent. Maybe they just fell overboard and drowned. Their bodies got carried on down to the Gulf. Or maybe they wasn't really any people at all they couldn't account for. Maybe all that's just a story."
"I heard Frogman's a pervert," Raff came back. "He does things to little boys, you know."
passive voice
A Newark man was arrested and charged with burglary and criminal mischief in the September 2009 theft of a cash register containing $100 and some clothing from JD Custom Tailor at 525 Millburn Avenue, Police Capt. James Miller reports in the weekly Millburn police blotter.
Police were called to the store on Sept. 12 at 3:15 a.m. in response to an alarm. The front door had been shattered.
The investigation by Millburn Police detectives that led to the charge includes the collection of DNA evidence at the crime scene and its analysis by the New Jersey State Police Laboratory.
The police said they traced the DNA to Christopher M. Ransom, 38, who was located in New Jersey state prison. No details were immediately available as to why Mr. Ransom was in prison. Bail is set at $10,000.
Still under investigation by Millburn police detectives is the theft of computers and a projector, worth more than $8,000, from Stone & Magnanini, LLP, on John F. Kennedy Parkway on Easter Sunday. While police report no damage to the outside of the building, there was damage to an office door inside the building.
In other police news:
* Police responded to a store alarm at New Choice Wireless on Millburn Avenue on Wednesday, March 31. The front door glass was shattered and cash was stolen. The burglary is still under investigation, and anyone with information is asked to contact the Millburn Police Detective Bureau at 973-564-7017.
* On Saturday morning, April 3, a Millburn resident reported to police that his bicycle was stolen from the Millburn Train Station. The $400 bike was chained to a telephone pole on Friday morning, April 2, but the thieves cut the lock.
* Also on April 3, a 16-year-old teenager from Brooklyn was arrested and charged with shoplifting $26 worth of makeup from Sephora at The Mall at Short Hills.
degree of comparison
On Monday, the baseball season begins in earnest, and in Indianapolis, the men’s national championship game will feature a compelling matchup between Butler, the nation’s underdog, and Duke, the nation’s villain. And at Augusta National, the shrine of golf, Tiger Woods will speak to the news media at an unusual one-man news conference before the Masters. The weekend was set in motion Saturday night when Butler, the hometown favorite, earned a spot in the national title game with a 52-50 victory over Michigan State and Duke routed West Virginia, 78-57.
The convergence of these events will attract sports purists, sports devotees and casual fans who simply enjoy spectacles.
This is a sports holy week, the United States at its playful best.
Even for Mike Krzyzewski, who has coached Duke to 11 Final Fours and 3 national championships and led the United States to an Olympic gold medal in 2008, the electricity cannot be duplicated.
“In college, you are still always playing for the name on the front of the jersey,” he said. “There’s not one player and there’s not one coach who’s bigger than the college game. It just doesn’t happen.
For the Baylor women, Sunday’s national semifinal game is a lesson in conviction: achieving the seemingly impossible. Baylor takes on Connecticut, one of the greatest programs in college basketball history. The Huskies enter this Final Four with a 76-game winning streak and no margin of victory closer than 12 points.
Baylor Coach Kim Mulkey, a college star at Louisiana Tech, spoke bravely about facing a UConn team that has not lost since 2008.
Oklahoma Coach Sherri Coale, in more of a lament than a war cry, said: “Somebody’s got to beat Connecticut. Somebody has got to stop the madness at some point.”
The lesson in Boston, where the Red Sox host the Yankees, is a message of sportsmanship and respect. In a national environment that has become increasingly partisan and stratified, the lesson of Red-Sox Yankees is that bitter rivals can fight to the symbolic end and still have respect — even admiration — for each other as the great opponent who brings out the best.
“I think what we love about sports, as we do about art, is seeing human excellence,” said Bobby Fong, the Butler University president. “Those are areas where you honored the talent, not the background. We’ve got a lot to learn about being able to honor achievement regardless of race or ethnicity or ideology.”
Or size of university. On Saturday, he watched Butler earn its first berth in the national championship game.
Fong is concerned that lessons of teamwork, sportsmanship and the greater good are lost on a nation that is increasingly pushed toward specialization.
sumber : Newyotk times
if clause
‘If You Voted for Obama, Seek Urologic Care Elsewhere’ Doctors take the Hippocratic oath promising to do no harm, but once that requirement is fulfilled do they have a right to choose patients based on politics?
One Republican urologist outside Orlando has stirred up a tempest by suggesting exactly that. A sign hanging this week in the office of Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, clearly states a preference for patients who agree with his opposition to the president, and the recently passed health care overhaul.
The sign posted on the office door of Dr. Jack Cassell, a urologist in Mount Dora, Fla.Deirdre Lewis/Orlando Sentinel, via Associated Press The sign posted on the office door of Dr. Jack Cassell, a urologist in Mount Dora, Fla.
“If you voted for Obama,” says the taped-up sign, “seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now. Not in four years.”
Perhaps it was just a matter of time before the partisan rancor surrounding health care found its way into patient care. Civil rights law prevents discrimination based on sex, gender, or religion, but experts say that political differences are not specifically protected — consider it a pre-existing condition that can still be used for patient filtering.
The logic for some, especially here in contentious swing states like Florida, seems to be simple: Stand up and stay separated. If states, counties or towns can be red and blue, Republican and Democratic, why not everyplace else within those areas? Why not make sure that even in doctors’ offices people can feel secure in knowing they are sharing space with those who are share their views?
Dr. Cassell, in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel, insisted that he would not turn anyone away. “That would be unethical,” he said. But he added that he would not mind if Democrats saw the sign and found another doctor. His wife is a Republican candidate for the local county commission, so perhaps his efforts are an example of strong spousal support and smart politics.
It was tough to tell on Friday morning — the telephone line at his office in Mount Dora was busy for several hours, possibly with calls of praise or complaint.
But at least one patient referred to Dr. Cassell has sought care elsewhere, according to the office of Representative Alan Grayson. Mr. Grayson, a Democrat who was one of the boldest supporters of health care in the House, represents the neighborhood where Dr. Cassell’s office sits. His response was characteristic outrage.
“I think it’s disgusting,” he said. “I know that most people go into health care because they want to help sick people. They don’t have some political agenda. I think it’s outrageous that someone would try to press his political agenda.”
He added, “I think the sore losers are out in force.”
One Republican urologist outside Orlando has stirred up a tempest by suggesting exactly that. A sign hanging this week in the office of Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, clearly states a preference for patients who agree with his opposition to the president, and the recently passed health care overhaul.
The sign posted on the office door of Dr. Jack Cassell, a urologist in Mount Dora, Fla.Deirdre Lewis/Orlando Sentinel, via Associated Press The sign posted on the office door of Dr. Jack Cassell, a urologist in Mount Dora, Fla.
“If you voted for Obama,” says the taped-up sign, “seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now. Not in four years.”
Perhaps it was just a matter of time before the partisan rancor surrounding health care found its way into patient care. Civil rights law prevents discrimination based on sex, gender, or religion, but experts say that political differences are not specifically protected — consider it a pre-existing condition that can still be used for patient filtering.
The logic for some, especially here in contentious swing states like Florida, seems to be simple: Stand up and stay separated. If states, counties or towns can be red and blue, Republican and Democratic, why not everyplace else within those areas? Why not make sure that even in doctors’ offices people can feel secure in knowing they are sharing space with those who are share their views?
Dr. Cassell, in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel, insisted that he would not turn anyone away. “That would be unethical,” he said. But he added that he would not mind if Democrats saw the sign and found another doctor. His wife is a Republican candidate for the local county commission, so perhaps his efforts are an example of strong spousal support and smart politics.
It was tough to tell on Friday morning — the telephone line at his office in Mount Dora was busy for several hours, possibly with calls of praise or complaint.
But at least one patient referred to Dr. Cassell has sought care elsewhere, according to the office of Representative Alan Grayson. Mr. Grayson, a Democrat who was one of the boldest supporters of health care in the House, represents the neighborhood where Dr. Cassell’s office sits. His response was characteristic outrage.
“I think it’s disgusting,” he said. “I know that most people go into health care because they want to help sick people. They don’t have some political agenda. I think it’s outrageous that someone would try to press his political agenda.”
He added, “I think the sore losers are out in force.”
tugas bahasa inggris 2 (passive)
Over the past two weeks, the Philippines has been hit by Tropical Storm Ketsana and Typhoon Parma, which have killed over 300 people and displaced over 490,000. In this story, Manila residents Marco and Amy describe how flooding submerged their homes and displaced the two neighbors to one of the city’s evacuation centers where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is present.
“Saturday, when the water started to rise, I was in the supermarket where I work, as usual," says Marco. "I received a text from my wife—'Quick. Come home. The water is rising.' I asked my supervisor if I could go and started to run to catch a train. Unfortunately, the trains were already blocked because of the flooding. In the city there was water everywhere. I couldn’t get home. I was terrified. After a few hours, my wife called me, to say, 'I am on the second floor and I have water up to my hips! Please come!' But there was nothing I could do.
"I stayed outside the whole night and on Sunday morning I managed to come here to Pasig where I found two of my children. My wife and my four-month-old baby were still in the house, and with such a small child she couldn’t get out. I went to rescue her. The water level was already starting to go down.
"We have received food, clothes and the hygiene kit MSF brought us today but we are still living in this corridor. It’s noisy, windy—not a place for a family.
"We have been here now for a week and we plan to go back to our house on Monday even if it’s still covered with mud and rubbish. We are lucky we still have our house. Our neighbor has lost everything."
"We have been here now for a week and we plan to go back to our house on Monday even if it’s still covered with mud and rubbish. We are lucky we still have our house. Our neighbor has lost everything.”
Marco’s neighbor Amy sits next to them. She seems tired and nervous, and as she talks tears fill her eyes.
“When the water was coming up, it was horrible," Amy says. "It came so fast that some people were trapped in their house. You could hear them shouting for help. Some had to break the roof of their house to escape—it was horrible.
"I have lost everything. My house was washed away by the floods. I wasn’t able to take anything when I left but the clothes I was wearing. I have nothing left and no money. I used to work as a waitress earning US$2 a day. I might go back to my village, which I left two years ago. I might try and walk there. I don’t know what to do. I have lost everything."
“Saturday, when the water started to rise, I was in the supermarket where I work, as usual," says Marco. "I received a text from my wife—'Quick. Come home. The water is rising.' I asked my supervisor if I could go and started to run to catch a train. Unfortunately, the trains were already blocked because of the flooding. In the city there was water everywhere. I couldn’t get home. I was terrified. After a few hours, my wife called me, to say, 'I am on the second floor and I have water up to my hips! Please come!' But there was nothing I could do.
"I stayed outside the whole night and on Sunday morning I managed to come here to Pasig where I found two of my children. My wife and my four-month-old baby were still in the house, and with such a small child she couldn’t get out. I went to rescue her. The water level was already starting to go down.
"We have received food, clothes and the hygiene kit MSF brought us today but we are still living in this corridor. It’s noisy, windy—not a place for a family.
"We have been here now for a week and we plan to go back to our house on Monday even if it’s still covered with mud and rubbish. We are lucky we still have our house. Our neighbor has lost everything."
"We have been here now for a week and we plan to go back to our house on Monday even if it’s still covered with mud and rubbish. We are lucky we still have our house. Our neighbor has lost everything.”
Marco’s neighbor Amy sits next to them. She seems tired and nervous, and as she talks tears fill her eyes.
“When the water was coming up, it was horrible," Amy says. "It came so fast that some people were trapped in their house. You could hear them shouting for help. Some had to break the roof of their house to escape—it was horrible.
"I have lost everything. My house was washed away by the floods. I wasn’t able to take anything when I left but the clothes I was wearing. I have nothing left and no money. I used to work as a waitress earning US$2 a day. I might go back to my village, which I left two years ago. I might try and walk there. I don’t know what to do. I have lost everything."
tugas tulisan 02
1.Terima kasih duhai cinta,karena kau
Telah menemani hari-hariku dan membuat hari-hariku
Indah disetiap waktu.
2. maaf kan aku duhai kasih ku,
Karena ku sudah membuat mu kecewa.
Karena ku sudah membuat mu menangis.
3. bersyukur ku padaMu Tuhan
Karena kau telah memberiku anugerah terindah
Dalam hidupku.
4. asaku tak akan pupus untuk mengejar dirinya
5. Hasrat ku sangat besar untuk memiliki mu,duhai sayang
6. Kupanjatkan doa ku padaMu tuhan ku,
Disetiap langkah-langkahku,dan disetiap hembusan nafasku
Sampai akhir waktu ku.
7. Tulus kah kamu memberi ku kasih sayang dan cintamu
Untuk ku.Duhai kekasih.
8. Jika kamu tidak memahami teman kamu dalam
Semua keadaan maka kamu tidak akan pernah
Memahaminya.
9. Semoga hari esok menjadi hari yang indah dan
menyenangkan untukmu.
10. too muh love will kill u
Terlalu mencintaimu akan membunuh diriku oh,kasihku
Ku ingin kau tetap di sampingku
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