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How US Sees Terrorism in Indonesia

MAGELANG, KOMPAS.com - US ambassador to Indonesia Scot Marciel said,” terrorism issue in Indonesia would not affect cooperation between the two countries’ governments,”

"Every country has problems and so do the US and Indonesia," he said after visitign the Pabelan Islamic boarding school in Magelang, Central Java, here on Thursday.      He said Indonesia as a developing country is facing a terrorism problem but the US will continue to develop cooperation with Indonesia in fundamental areas such as education, healthcare, environment and welfare improvement. During a meeting with board members and students of the boarding school. Marciel said Moslem community in the US is an inseparable part of the US community.

He admitted that some of the US citizens have not yet known Islam and therefore they are afraid of it. He said Muslims in the US have not informed the people much about Islam.      "But in the last 10 years however some US Muslims have started to know that Islam is a good religion that needs to be respected," he said.      He said the US is a diverse country with people from various backgrounds including in terms of culture and origins. He said Muslims in the US are not a separated community but integrated.

"We have no problems although it is not perfect we are improving. Muslims are also our brothers," he said. Before being assigned to Indonesia, Marciel lived in Virginia and his children also have Muslim friends from Indonesia and Iran.

"They played together and had no problems. They came to our home and we also visited them," he said.      He said in the US there are also schools like the Islamic boarding schools managed by community members or churches but basically the students are the same namely studying math, natural and social sciences.      "Religion is not taught at public schools in the US but it is in private schools," he said.

Sumber :
http://nasional.kompas.com/read/2010/09/24/0849020/how.us.sees.terrorism.in.indonesia
Keterangan :

·        "They played together and had no problems. They came to our home and we also visited them," he said => kalimat tidak langsung ( indirect speech ) = simple past

·        "But in the last 10 years however some US Muslims have started to know that Islam is a good religion that needs to be respected," he said => Kalimat langsung ( direct speech ) = present continous.

·        He said Indonesia as a developing country is facing a terrorism problem but the US will continue to develop cooperation with Indonesia in fundamental areas such as education, healthcare, environment and welfare improvement. During a meeting with board members and students of the boarding school => kalimat langsung ( direct speech ) = simple present

How SBY Feels if People Visit State Palace

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has no objection to people visiting the state palace as far as it is done based on existing standing procedures, Presidential Spokesman Julian A Pasha said.       "The president does not object to it, but in principle there are certain steps and procedures that have to be observed before someone can visit," Julian Pasha said when he was asked about the visit to the state palace by a mother and her child who were  victims of a gas canister blast here on Tuesday.       He said all Indonesian citizens had the right to visit the state palace. "After all, they are the country’s citizens. However the president is of the view that a problem such as the victim of a gas cylinder explosion should be handled by government officials at the appropriate level," he said.       A gas victim in East Java for example should be handled by the local government so that he or she need not come to the presidential palace. "This is saddening and the president expressed his deep sympathy for the two victims," he said.
On Monday, Susi Haryani (29) while holding her son Ridho Januar (4.5) arrived at the parking lot of State Secretariat but she did know what to do to meet the president. "If I am allowed to, I want to enter the Palace," she said to reporters who usually cover the president’s activities.       Ridho suffered burns and injuries to his face, arms and legs as a result of a gas canister blast. Susi said the accident happened when she was about to cook on March 27, 2010 in Mojo Kampung village, Bojonegoro district, East Java. Susi suffered injuries to her legs.    
But 3kg-gas cylinder explosions have been taking place almost every day in a number of provinces in Indonesia. Substandard products have caused fatalities among the public. The government noted that in 2007, there were five cases of gas canister explosions with injured victims.
In 2008 there 27 cases with two dead and 35 injured while in 2009 there were 30 blasts killing 12 victims and injuring 48 others
Sumber : http://nasional.kompas.com/read/2010/07/21/10063783/How.SBY.Feels.if.People.Visit.State.Palace
Keterangan :

·        On Monday, Susi Haryani (29) while holding her son Ridho Januar (4.5) arrived at the parking lot of State Secretariat but she did know what to do to meet the president. "If I am allowed to, I want to enter the Palace," she said to reporters who usually cover the president’s activities => question.

·        Susi said the accident happened when she was about to cook on March 27, 2010 in Mojo Kampung village, Bojonegoro district, East Java. Susi suffered injuries to her legs.    But 3kg-gas cylinder explosions have been taking place almost every day in a number of provinces in Indonesia. Substandard products have caused fatalities among the public => (indirect) = present prefect

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Muslim Women Told It's Sinful to Wear A Bra

 
KOMPAS.com - The Shabaab movement in Somalia controls large parts of the south and centre of the country, and because officials in this movement embrace the Wahabi ideology they have imposed their views on Somalis by force and have issued strict decrees banning films, plays, dancing at weddings, football matches and all forms of music, even the ring tones on mobile phones.

Some days ago these extremists carried out a strange operation: they arrested a Somali woman and whipped her in public because she was wearing a bra. They announced clearly that wearing these bras was unIslamic because it is a form of fraud and deception.

We may well ask what wearing bras has to do with religion, why they would consider them to be a form of fraud and deception, and how they managed to arrest the woman wearing the bra when all Somali women go around with their bodies completely covered.
Did they appoint a special female officer to inspect the breasts of women passing by in the street? One Somali woman called Halima told the Reuters news agency: "Al Shabaab forced us to wear their type of veil and now they order us to shake our breasts... They first banned the former veil and introduced a hard fabric which stands stiffly on women's chests. They are now saying that breasts should be firm naturally, or just flat."

In fact this excessive interest in covering up women's bodies is not confined to the extremists in Somalia. In Sudan the police examine women's clothing with extreme vigilance and arrest any woman who is wearing trousers. They force her to make a public apology for what she has done and then they whip her in public as an example to other women.

Some weeks ago the Sudanese journalist Lubna al-Husseini insisted on wearing trousers and refused to make the public apology. When she refused to submit to flogging she was referred to a real trial and the farce reached its climax when the judge summoned three witnesses and asked them if they had been able to detect the shape of the accused's underwear when she was wearing the trousers. When one of the witnesses hesitated in answering, the judge asked him directly: "Did you see Lubna's stomach when she was wearing the trousers?" The witness gravely replied: "To some extent."

Lubna said she was wearing a modest pair of trousers and that the scandalous pair she was accused of wearing would not suit her because she is plump and would need to lose 20 kilos in order to put them on. But the judge convicted her anyway and fined her £500 or a month in prison.

In Egypt too, extremists continue to take an excessive interest in women's bodies and in trying to cover them up entirely. They not only advocate that women wear the niqab but also that they wear gloves on their hands, which they believe will ensure that no passions are aroused when men and women shake hands. We really do face a phenomenon which deserves consideration: why are extremists so obsessed with women's bodies? Some ideas might help us answer this question:

Firstly, the extremist view of women is that they are only bodies and instruments for either legitimate pleasure or temptation, as well as factories for producing children. This view strips women of their human nature. Accusing the Somali woman of fraud and deception because she was wearing a bra is the same charge of commercial fraud which the law holds against a merchant who conceals the defects of his goods and make false claims about their qualities in order to sell them at a higher price.

Sumber : http://nasional.kompas.com/read/2009/10/29/0019004/muslim.women.told.its.sinful.to.wear.a.bra

Keterangan :

** In Egypt too, extremists continue to take an excessive interest in women's bodies and in trying to cover them up entirely. They not only advocate that women wear the niqab but also that they wear gloves on their hands, which they believe will ensure that no passions are aroused when men and women shake hands. We really do face a phenomenon which deserves consideration: why are extremists so obsessed with women's bodies? Some ideas might help us answer this question => Di Mesir juga, ekstrimis terus mengambil minat yang berlebihan dalam tubuh perempuan dan dalam mencoba untuk menutupi mereka sepenuhnya. Mereka tidak hanya menganjurkan bahwa wanita mengenakan niqab tetapi juga bahwa mereka memakai sarung tangan di tangan mereka, yang mereka percaya akan memastikan bahwa tidak ada nafsu terangsang ketika pria dan wanita berjabat tangan. Kami benar-benar menghadapi fenomena yang patut dipertimbangkan: mengapa ekstremis begitu terobsesi dengan tubuh perempuan? Beberapa ide mungkin bisa membantu kita menjawab pertanyaan ini.

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Firstly, the extremist view of women is that they are only bodies and instruments for either legitimate pleasure or temptation, as well as factories for producing children. This view strips women of their human nature. Accusing the Somali woman of fraud and deception because she was wearing a bra is the same charge of commercial fraud which the law holds against a merchant who conceals the defects of his goods and make false claims about their qualities in order to sell them at a higher price => Pertama, pandangan ekstremis wanita adalah bahwa mereka hanya tubuh dan instrumen baik untuk kesenangan sah atau godaan, serta pabrik-pabrik untuk memproduksi anak-anak. Pandangan ini strip wanita dari sifat manusia mereka. Menuduh wanita Somalia penipuan dan penipuan karena dia mengenakan bra adalah biaya yang sama penipuan komersial yang memegang hukum terhadap pedagang yang menyembunyikan cacat barang dan membuat klaim palsu tentang kualitas mereka untuk menjualnya dengan tinggi harga.

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Sperm Donor Dad Has 400 Children

By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
KOMPAS.com - It's a crisp fall day in Northville, Mich., a small suburb of Ann Arbor, and Kirk Maxey, a soft-spoken, graying baby boomer with a classic square jaw, is watching his 12-year-old son chase a soccer ball toward the goal. Maxey is doing what he does every Saturday, along with hundreds of other family men and women across the country, but he's not your average soccer dad. Maxey, 51, happens to be one of the most prolific sperm donors in the country. Between 1980 and 1994, he donated at a Michigan clinic twice a week.
He's looked at the records of his donations, multiplied by the number of individual vials each donation produced, and estimated the success of each vial resulting in a pregnancy. By his own calculations, he concluded that he is the biological father of nearly 400 children, spread across the state and possibly the country.
When Maxey was a medical student at the University of Michigan, his first wife, a nurse at a fertility clinic, persuaded him to start donating sperm to infertile couples. Maxey became the go-to stud for the clinic because his sperm had a high success rate of making women pregnant, which brought in good money for the clinic. Maxey himself made about $20 a donation, but says he was motivated to donate more out of a strong paternal instinct and sense of altruism.
"I loved having kids, and to have these women doomed to wandering around with no family didn't seem right, and it's easy to come up with a semen donation," he says. "You would get a personal phone call from a nurse saying, 'The situation is urgent! We have a woman ovulating this morning. Can you be here in a half hour?' "
Maxey, now the CEO of Cayman Chemical, a 300-person global pharmaceutical company, says back then he just "didn't think about it a lot." He didn't have to. When he began volunteering, he wasn't asked to take any genetic tests and received no psychological screening or counseling.
He merely signed a waiver of anonymity, locked himself in a room with a cup and a sexy magazine, and didn't consider the emotional or genetic consequences for another 30 years. Both his cavalier attitude and the clinic's lax standards, Maxey says, explain why he may have so many offspring.
But now a fierce conscience is catching with his robust procreative drive. When he's not running his company, Maxey has become a devoted advocate for better government regulation of the sperm-donor business. He is also making his genome public through Harvard's Personal Genome Project, and hopes that the information collected there might one day help his offspring and their mothers.
"I think it was quite reckless that sperm banks created so many offspring without keeping track of their or my health status," he says. "Since there could be [many families] that could have to know information about my health, this is my effort to correct the wrong."
Maxey began donating before sperm banking became the big visible business it is today, where single women and couples can purchase STD-free, Ivy League, celebrity-look-alike sperm that has been quarantined and meets FDA mandates. But, in the '70s and '80s, the business operated behind a veil of secrecy.
A man could clandestinely make some extra cash by donating to an infertile couple, and more often than not the ob-gyn, not the prospective families, would choose the sperm—his favorite tennis partner, perhaps, or in the case of Kirk Maxey, the handsome, blue-eyed, Nordic husband of his nurse.
Now the confluence of genetic science and an increased awareness around the consequences of sperm donation is changing the game—and potentially the lives of Maxey's offspring. Today sperm donation is no longer a shadow business, partially because infertility, single motherhood, and homosexual parenting have become more socially acceptable. (The California Cryobank alone now sells an average of 30,000 vials of sperm a year.)
At the same time, donors and offspring have begun to connect though genetic testing and Web sites like the Donor Sibling Registry. In 2007 two of Maxey's offspring, Ashley and Caitlyn Swetland, who are now 21 and 18, used the site to find Maxey, who had been a registered user since 2005.
The sisters lived just 45 minutes away from Maxey, and soon began visiting a few times a year, going rock climbing with Maxey and his son or meeting up at an old-fashioned-style ice-cream parlor. No other children have come forward, but as Maxey's relationship with Ashley and Caitlyn progressed, he began to think about the consequences of his earlier donations.
"I had this 'Oh my God' moment, thinking, how many kids have been produced?" he says. "I thought the doctors were keeping track of each birth, but when I realized they weren't, I began to worry. What if they start dating one another?" He also began to worry about their genetic health. "I wanted to know if I have anything totally lethal or deranged or recessive in my genes that I may have passed along."
These were questions that neither the sperm bank nor the government was asking. Several times Maxey tried to contact IVF Michigan, the bank where he made most of his donations, but it refused to release any information, noting that he signed a waiver to give up his rights to know who used his sperm.

Sumber : http://nasional.kompas.com/read/2009/12/19/0909382/sperm.donor.dad.has.400.children

Keterangan :

** He merely signed a waiver of anonymity, locked himself in a room with a cup and a sexy magazine, and didn't consider the emotional or genetic consequences for another 30 years. Both his cavalier attitude and the clinic's lax standards, Maxey says, explain why he may have so many offspring => Dia hanya menandatangani surat pernyataan bersedia disebutkan namanya, mengunci diri di kamar dengan sebuah cangkir dan sebuah majalah seksi, dan tidak mempertimbangkan konsekuensi emosional atau genetik selama 30 tahun. Kedua sikap angkuh dan standar longgar klinik, Maxey mengatakan, menjelaskan mengapa ia mungkin memiliki keturunan begitu banyak.

**These were questions that neither the sperm bank nor the government was asking. Several times Maxey tried to contact IVF Michigan, the bank where he made most of his donations, but it refused to release any information, noting that he signed a waiver to give up his rights to know who used his sperm => Ini adalah pertanyaan yang baik bank sperma maupun pemerintah bertanya. Beberapa kali Maxey mencoba menghubungi IVF Michigan, bank tempat ia membuat sebagian besar sumbangan, tetapi menolak untuk melepaskan informasi, mencatat bahwa ia menandatangani surat pernyataan untuk menyerahkan hak untuk tahu siapa yang digunakan spermanya.