Cari Blog Ini

Memuatkan ...

Selasa, 23 Ogos 2011

Bahasa Melayu -| Media Indonesia - Bali Mulai Bebas dari Kemiskinan

Media Indonesia - Bali Mulai Bebas dari Kemiskinan: DENPASAR--MICOM: Gubernur Made Mangku Pastika menjabarkan pentingnya kemerdekaan sejati. Kemerdekaan sejati itu, katanya, adalah terbebasnya rakyat dari ...

Bahasa Melayu -| Tahun 2011 Inflasi Rendah, Angka Kemiskinan Turun | JatengOnline.Com

Tahun 2011 Inflasi Rendah, Angka Kemiskinan Turun | JatengOnline.Com: Angka kemiskinan juga mengalami penurunan. Tahun 2009, penduduk miskin Jawa Tengah sebanyak 17,72% lebih rendah dari tahun 2008 sebanyak 19,23%. ...

Bahasa Melayu -| Melawan Kemiskinan Lewat "Pro Poor" (Part II)

Melawan Kemiskinan Lewat "Pro Poor" (Part II): Isu kemiskinan memang hal yang sering menjadi modal janji (misi) bagi para calon pemimpin negeri ini saat melakukan pertarungan untuk menguasai tampuk ...

Bahasa Melayu -| Kemiskinan Tampak Jelas - KOMPAS

Kemiskinan Tampak Jelas - KOMPAS: Jakarta, Kompas - Meskipun data kemiskinan menunjukkan perbaikan, kemiskinan masih terlihat jelas di sejumlah tempat. Di daerah tambang, kantong kemiskinan ...

Bahasa Melayu -| Kemiskinan dan Korupsi Menghantui Negara

Kemiskinan dan Korupsi Menghantui Negara: Masyarakat Indonesia menganggap kemiskinan dan korupsi sebagai masalah utama di negara ini. Pemerintah dianggap belum mampu mengatasi masalah-masalah ...

Bahasa Melayu -| Pemerintah Percepat Pengentasan Kemiskinan - Jawa Tengah

Pemerintah Percepat Pengentasan Kemiskinan - Jawa Tengah: JAMBU - Pemerintah terus berupaya menurunkan tingkat kemiskinan di tanah air sesuai dengan kesepakatan global Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). ...

Bahasa Melayu -| Mulai Menulis Tentang Masalah Sosial « Pembelajar Sepanjang Zaman

Mulai Menulis Tentang Masalah Sosial « Pembelajar Sepanjang Zaman: Bermula dengan idealisme yang membara, saya pun mengikuti jejak Mas Teguh Aditya yang tulisan-tulisannya tentang dunia Pekerjaan Sosial tersebar luas di ...

Indonesia: Hope and Hard Reality in Papua

Indonesia: Hope and Hard Reality in Papua

The aspirations voiced during the conference contrast sharply with the reality of escalating conflict in the highland district of Puncak Jaya, a remote region wracked by insurgency, corruption and some of the worst poverty in Indonesia. ...

Papuan Conflict Will Get Worse Without Development Unit: ICG

Papuan Conflict Will Get Worse Without Development Unit: ICG: The government must quickly set up a long-awaited body to oversee political and economic development in the restive province of Papua if it is to stem a rising tide of violence there, analysts said on Monday. Sidney Jones, a senior adviser for the ...


Opposition demands Manus Island details

Opposition demands Manus Island details: Yesterday the Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Papua New Guinea, paving the way for asylum seekers to be sent to Manus Island. The five-page deal is scant on details. The cost, the number of people who will be sent to PNG and ...


New Australian Party drops candidate for gay marriage question

New Australian Party drops candidate for gay marriage question: by Stephen Gray for PinkNews.co.uk Australia's newest political party has dropped one of its candidates, a former police officer, for asking whether he could hold personal views on issues including marriage equality. Jason Somerville was formerly a ...


Sperm donor stripped from birth records

Sperm donor stripped from birth records: Rodney Chiang-Cruise is a sperm donor and co-moderator of Gay Dads Australia who told SX he has “mixed feelings” about the case. “One thing it will do, it will provoke a lot discussion among co-parent dads – they will be up in arms about it,” he said. ...


Gay marriage flies in the face of Bob Katter

Gay marriage flies in the face of Bob Katter: ... after Bob Katter said he would vote against a bill to allow same sex marriages and laughed at the idea of homosexuals marrying last week upon receiving a list of 32000 signatures against gay marriage from Family Voice Australia. ...


It's a Queer World: Idea of gay marriage slowly expands in Australia

It's a Queer World: Idea of gay marriage slowly expands in Australia: Idea of gay marriage slowly expands in Australia. TEN days out from the 2010 election, Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott fronted a forum of undecided voters at ...

Australia Abandons Anti-Psychotic Drug Trial On Teenagers

Australia Abandons Anti-Psychotic Drug Trial On Teenagers:
... who had early signs of mental illness. Last month, a complaint was lodged with the ethics committee of Melbourne Health, the umbrella service including Orygen, by psychiatrists, psychologists and researchers from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, ...


NewsPoint Africa

Schapelle Corby and Renae Lawrence to receive sentence cuts

Schapelle Corby and Renae Lawrence to receive sentence cuts: Convicted Australian drug smugglers Schapelle Corby and Renae Lawrence have been ... being convicted for drug trafficking on the Indonesian island of Bali. ...

Security in Latin America and the Gap between Public Perception and Reality By ...

Security in Latin America and the Gap between Public Perception and Reality By ...: Yet despite the UPP occupation and the official state response, drug trafficking groups still operate in the area. One former drug trafficker, who asked not to be named, told ISN Insights that instead of making life safer for residents, the UPPs have ...


Finding a Way Home via Soccer

Finding a Way Home via Soccer:
Homelessness is just stigmatized, there's just something about it that people are repelled by.” In his book, and in person, Bidini was particularly taken with the player Billy Pagonis, who is currently the coach of Canada's team in Paris. ...


New York Times (blog)

Man's best friend needs a bed, too

Man's best friend needs a bed, too:
She said the vast majority of welfare operators offering short, medium and long-term accommodation in NSW would not take in a homeless person if they want to keep their animal with them. ''In Australia we have one of the highest rates of pet ownership ...


Sydney Morning Herald

Students go back to basics

Students go back to basics:
But he is committed to the cause of raising awareness about the 1.4 billion people – more than 300 times the population of New Zealand – who live in poverty around the world. "It is hard to imagine the challenges that these people face and the struggle ...


Stuff.co.nz

Ailments could fester for years

Ailments could fester for years: While New Zealand, Australia and other markets appear to have rebounded quickly from the chaotic and savage pounding that began early this month, thanks to opportunistic and risk-taking bargain hunters, others will take a long time to forget this ...


Economy may influence election

Economy may influence election: The global financial downturn, a domestic recession and the rebuild of Canterbury have set a scene of restraint, amid the need to boost New Zealand's financial future while helping the most vulnerable. However, political parties will come at the issue ...


Living on less than $3 a day

Living on less than $3 a day:
"It's just a snapshot to try and put yourself in someone else's shoes." The challenge is organised by the New Zealand chapter of the Global Poverty Project. It aims to take a fresh and new approach to the issues of poverty. More than 1.4 billion people ...


Auckland stuff.co.nz

Still in pursuit of full independence

Still in pursuit of full independence: In the social sphere, there was the monumental battle to provide jobs, build up housing, schools and health systems, besides reducing poverty. Today, many developing countries like Malaysia have succeeded, to a significant extent, ...


We Must Not Forget the Poor

We Must Not Forget the Poor:
(JG Photo/Safir Makki) After 66 years of independence, Indonesia is still grappling with the basic problems that confront any newly-born country: poverty and social injustice. Blessed with abundant natural resources, the world's largest archipelagic ...


Jakarta Globe

Isnin, 22 Ogos 2011

Amid Global Woe, Local Investors Seize Golden Opportunity

Amid Global Woe, Local Investors Seize Golden Opportunity:
Ahead of Idul Fitri, investment-minded customers are flooding gold shops in Jakarta. (JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal) At the Toko Mas Mulia jewelry store along Jalan Cikini in Central Jakarta, customers glance at owner Kurniawan's collection of rare 22- and ...


Jakarta Globe

Being who you are

Being who you are: Pridentity has been trialled in several schools over the past two years and is available to schools throughout Australia. "For young people who have never thought about the idea that a gay person is simply a person, a human being, who have always been ...


SEA Games corruption suspect to face trial soon

SEA Games corruption suspect to face trial soon: He is soon facing trial,” Wafid's lawyer Erman Umar told The Jakarta Post on Sunday. “The KPK will hand the file to the Corruption Court next Tuesday, so I'd say his trial is likely to start after Lebaran, or next month.” Wafid was allegedly caught ...


Jakarta Souvenir Design Award 2011, Way to Advance Creative Industry

Jakarta Souvenir Design Award 2011, Way to Advance Creative Industry: Jakarta Dekranasda held Jakarta Souvenir Design Award (JSDA) 2011 at Senayan City, Jakarta in order to enrich the Jakarta cultural treasures. It is the second even held. There are five winners of this event which previously passing several challenges. ...


How can technology be harnessed to help young people & “mental wealth”?

How can technology be harnessed to help young people & “mental wealth”?: Every year mental illness costs Australia $48.6 billion: over a third of this can be attributed to loss of life to suicide and suicide attempts; untreated mental illness amongst young people and the impact this has on productivity, medical, ...


Anti-Psychotic Drug Trial On Teens Abandoned In Australia

Anti-Psychotic Drug Trial On Teens Abandoned In Australia: It was to investigate whether the drug would decrease or delay the risk of people aged between 15 and 40 with early signs of mental illness, developing a psychotic disorder such as schizophrenia. Last month, psychiatrists, psychologists and researchers ...


Charities offer to house asylum kids

Charities offer to house asylum kids: Mr Hall pointed to recent national apologies - to the Aboriginal stolen generation and the British child migrants forcibly shipped to Australia and then abused and neglected in state-run orphanages and churches - as warnings against history repeating ...


Fears for bumper festival

Fears for bumper festival: Both artists are members of the ProppaNOW collective of urban Aboriginal artists, which also launched an exhibition addressing racism in sport. Albert, who is known for his reworking of Aboriginal kitsch from the 1960s, sold signed posters of three ...


Laptops promise a future in Doomadgee

Laptops promise a future in Doomadgee

All of the more than 300 primary school children at Doomadgee, an Aboriginal community in northwest Queensland inland from the Gulf of Carpentaria, have their own laptop. The devices -- supplied by the Australian arm of ground-breaking global ...

Starved of their future at birth

Starved of their future at birth

These skills of parenting, taken for granted in most of Australia, are severely compromised among Aboriginal people whose lot is the isolated community under government administration. On the other hand, they will be swept along by an ill tide into an ...

NGOs Ask KPK to Focus on Budget Graft

NGOs Ask KPK to Focus on Budget Graft: The group, which includes leading watchdog Indonesia Corruption Watch, the Center for Indonesian Law and Policy Studies (PSHK), the Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation and Indonesia Budget Center, stated that there were at least two efforts that could be made ...


'Convoy of no confidence' rolls into Canberra

'Convoy of no confidence' rolls into Canberra: The truckers in 11 convoys are demanding a new election and protesting about the Government's approach to live animal exports, the carbon tax, mining tax, gay marriage and road laws. Some have complained about Finance Minister Penny Wong and her ...


How Singapore Managed to Score Man United Listing

How Singapore Managed to Score Man United Listing:
And if there is a lesson to be learnt from all of this, it is that — just like in football — always play to the final whistle. Reprinted courtesy of Straits Times Indonesia. To subscribe to Straits Times Indonesia and/or the Jakarta Globe call 021 ...


Jakarta Globe

A Battle Is Under Way For The Forests Of Borneo

A Battle Is Under Way For The Forests Of Borneo: 12:00 pm ET A dirt road passes through remote Sekendal village in Indonesia's western Borneo. Some 60 percent of the island's forests have been cut down, and only 8 percent of the islands virgin forests remain, mostly in national parks. ...


AUSTRALIA: Classical scholar and soldier

AUSTRALIA: Classical scholar and soldier:
In his early 80s he was investigating Bunuba, a language of the Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 13 November 1919, the eldest of four children of John Treloar, who became the first director of ...


University World News

Afghanistan: Failing war breeding poverty

Afghanistan: Failing war breeding poverty:
The August 20 Guardian said at least 12 people were killed, including a New Zealand SAS soldier and three “security contractors” working for multinational security outfit G4S. The company was contracted to guard the offices. ...


Green Left Weekly

Two arrested for $59 million scam in Indonesia

Two arrested for $59 million scam in Indonesia: JAKARTA (BNO NEWS) -- Police in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta detained two people on Friday for an alleged money-laundering scheme involving state-owned insurer Asuransi Kredit Indonesia (Askrindo) which may have cost the state up to Rp 500 billion ...


West Papua: Military report confirms desire for freedom

West Papua: Military report confirms desire for freedom: By Ash Pemberton A leaked report from the notorious Indonesian special forces unit Kopassus detailing information about the West Papuan independence movement has drawn attention to Indonesia's brutal occupation of the region. ...


No turtle eggs on Raya menu

No turtle eggs on Raya menu:
During a routine check on Thursday, (Aug 20) at 3.15pm, Marine Police detained a boat near the Brunei-Malaysian border. A local 44-year-old man was arrested and brought in for questioning. The last big haul may have been in late July, 2010, when Brunei ...


Borneo Bulletin

BCF helps build charity house, 'Rumah Namche'

BCF helps build charity house, 'Rumah Namche':
This is the second house donated by Brunei Chess Federation (BCF) in collaboration with the Department of Community Development (JAPEM) in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, resulting from last year's Charity project called Everest Trekking ...


Borneo Bulletin

Mental Illness joins Football West Inclusive Program - Football ...

Mental Illness joins Football West Inclusive Program - Football ...: Football West recently commenced working with Mental Illness Fellowship of Western Australia (MIFWA), a not-for-profit organisation providing advice and ...


advocate for mentally ill recognized for his work

advocate for mentally ill recognized for his work

Along with earning a PhD from Greenwich University in Australia, he dedicated much of his energy to mental-health education and awareness. “The stigma destroys the capacity of the individual to reintegrate. It's worse than the illness itself,” he said. ...

Political Dumpground: Poverty

Political Dumpground: Poverty: We in New Zealand obviously have it much better therefore we are not in poverty correct? I think we have to look at things a little more deeply specifically ...


Raising money and living on $2.25

Raising money and living on $2.25:
It is the first time the Live Below The Line challenge has run in New Zealand. Participants are being sponsored to raise money for charities tackling extreme poverty. LBTL's Will Watterson says people have got to understand poverty is about lack of ...


3News NZ

Gays denied human rights

Gays denied human rights: In Australia in 1918 the government ordered that Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory were allowed to marry non-Aboriginal men only with the permission of the Chief Protector. Divorce used to be prohibited across Western societies. ...


Sabtu, 20 Ogos 2011

PNoy wins praise for making RH Bill a priority

PNoy wins praise for making RH Bill a priority: Dr. Ernesto Pernia of the University of the Philippines School of Economics said there is good reason to pursue a population bill because of the direct and indirect impacts of rapid population growth on the country's fight against poverty. ...


Indonesia's high-profile graft case widens

Indonesia's high-profile graft case widens: The case is likely to damage the credibility of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the president, after having won two elections on a campaign to reduce poverty and wipe out widespread corruption. The Nazaruddin case comes quickly after the case of Gayus ...


Medical fund mooted to help struggling parents

Medical fund mooted to help struggling parents: Kidscan is calling on Kiwis, who already donate more than a hundred million dollars in child sponsorships overseas, to help needy children in New Zealand. It estimates $2.5 million could feed every struggling child in low decile schools.



Jakarta Dreams of Becoming SE Asia's Motor City

Jakarta Dreams of Becoming SE Asia's Motor City:
An officer inspects automobiles that are ready for export at Tanjung Priok Port in Noth Jakarta. Indonesia is expecting more than $1 billion in investment in the automotive sector starting this year. (JG Photo) General Motors and Peugeot's decision ...


Jakarta Globe

remote control of indigenous affairs

remote control of indigenous affairs: Thus she feels the overarching dilemma for remote Aboriginal societies is the tension between the imperative to preserve cultural integrity and the drive to escape poverty. The difference embodied in the life ways of Aboriginal communities should be ...


Prejudice alive and well against political women

Prejudice alive and well against political women

Alternative questions could have taken up the program: 9.1 per cent unemployment; the economy; the national debt; poverty; cuts in education spending; the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; terrorism; and climate change. Sexism in male voting habits is also ...

Australian Trade minister's high hopes for G20

Australian Trade minister's high hopes for G20: The World Bank has found that rising food prices pushed another 44 million people into extreme poverty last year. And Craig Emerson says greater trade reform is desperately needed. EMERSON: Take the opportunity to eliminate export subsidies, ...


Trainee cops weed out alleged crook

Trainee cops weed out alleged crook: Trainees at the NSW police academy will get top marks after helping weed out an alleged crook who brazenly wandered past them carrying some cannabis. A couple of trainees sprung into action after spying the man walking through the grounds of the ...


South Africa: Ethical Victory in Healthcare for All

South Africa: Ethical Victory in Healthcare for All: Why do they want more resources for Aboriginal health? Why are these Australian taxpayers prepared to pay more to help to improve the health of these disadvantaged people? Well we don't really know. Maybe they are compassionate towards Aboriginal ...


40 Hour Famine : Youth Ambassador Blog > Will : Climate Change

40 Hour Famine : Youth Ambassador Blog > Will : Climate Change: Climate change has the potential to undo much of the progress that has been made over the last 50 years in fighting poverty. Australia and other rich ...


Auckland Food Prices: Poverty, Causes | Stuff.co.nz

Auckland Food Prices: Poverty, Causes | Stuff.co.nz: Although it is a benchmark of international poverty standards, living on $2.25 a day will become the norm for a One Tree Hill resident next week.


indonesia poverty east nusa tenggara NGO Oxfam | Oxfam GB Indonesia

indonesia poverty east nusa tenggara NGO Oxfam | Oxfam GB Indonesia: Tagged acute respiratory illness, air pollution source, and child mortality, indonesia poverty east nusa tenggara NGO Oxfam, indoor air pollution, ...


Soddom and Australia

Soddom and Australia:
And by mentioning that twin-city massacre in the case of the legalisation of gay marriage in Australia she is implying, presumably, that God would be right to repeat the dose. Implying we invite our own murder at the hands of her God if we allow a ...






| Latest News