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Empowering migrant workers

Footnotes from President’s visit to the Middle East (2) Read the first part of this article (only in Indonesian language) Read this article in Indonesian language Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times’ columnist, said in his best-seller book The World is Flat that the globalisation that we are in now is Globalization 3.0. The [...]

Ttg Pemberdayaan TKI

Catatan kaki dari kunjungan Presiden di Timur Tengah (2) Kalau belum baca, silakan simak bagian pertama. Artikel ini juga ada dalam bahasa Inggris. Click here for the English version of this post. Thomas L. Friedman, kolumnis The New York Times, dalam buku best-seller-nya “The world is flat” mengatakan bahwa globalisasi yang kita alami saat ini [...]

Cinta Nabi dan Makar Allah

Ketika masih tinggal di Belanda, seorang kawan bertanya kepada saya dengan pertanyaan retoris, “Mas, bukankah kita harus cinta kepada Nabi melebihi cinta kita kepada istri?” Saya kan harus menjawab, “Tentu saja”.

Ttg Kemampuan Evaluasi Pemerintah

Catatan kaki dari kunjungan Presiden di Timur Tengah (1) Artikel ini adalah un-editted version dari artikel yang dimuat di Pikiran Rakyat, Selasa, 9-Mei-2006: Lawatan SBY dan Nasib TKI Bagi kami warga Indonesia yang tinggal di Emirat (United Arab Emirates), tatap muka dengan Presiden SBY hari Selasa lalu adalah anti-klimaks dari apa yang sebelumnya kami rencanakan [...]

Asides

If Moses had gotten the Ten Commandments on a floppy disk, it would never have made it to today. (Dag Spicer, curator of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, The NYTimes Circuit, 26-Mar-2009)

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

“The wrath of God is the only way I can describe it. I’m used to seeing roofs off houses, houses blown over. These houses were down to their foundations, stripped clean.” said Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, after surveying tornado damage there.

James Madison said, “If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one.” In Indonesia, …, well no comment.

Setelah empat belas hari menunggu, akhirnya saya bisa menikmati kembali berita-berita dari Bandung. Harian PR tampil dengan wajah baru dengan koneksi yang tampaknya lebih kencang.