'Miniskirts = porn': Religious Affairs Minister

'Miniskirts = porn': Religious Affairs Minister

Margareth S. Aritonang, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 03/28/2012 2:03 PM

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Suryadharma Ali: Religious Affairs Minister. (Tribunnews.com/Herudin)

Following the establishment of the anti-pornography task force, Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said that skirts that fall above the knee would be included in the working group’s definition of pornography, on which it would base its future work.

"We will arrange meetings with different stakeholders from the public to get input on how they understand pornography, and I'm sure that they will come up with different definitions [of pornography]. However, there must be a set of universal criteria to define something as pornographic, of which one will be when someone wears a skirt above the knee," Suryadharma, who was tapped by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to run the body on a daily basis, said on the sidelines of a hearing with the House of Representatives Commission VIII overseeing religious and social affairs on Wednesday.

Once a standard of pornography was established, the task force would apply it nationwide across all ethnicities, he added.

Attempting to curb the distribution of pornographic materials across the country, the President recently established a task force on the management and prevention of pornography as a body to implement the 2008 Pornography Law.

The President appointed Coordinating People’s Welfare Minister Agung Laksono to lead the task force and Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali to manage day-to-day operations.

Members of the task force include other Cabinet members such as Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring, Law and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin, Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Linda Gumelar, Education and Culture Minister Muhammad Nuh, as well as Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi.

 

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Nila Moeloek: Women Should Have Higher Education

The Dharma Wanita Persatuan (DWP) is celebrating its 12th anniversary
today (12/21) in Kuningan, South Jakarta. In this event, DWP
chairwoman Nila Moelek urges woman to have higher education in order
to achieve welfare for their family and surrounding
environment.

“Woman should be more educated to achieve welfare
for their family,” she expressed.

Moreover she said that
Jakarta DWP has big challenges to create welfare and eradicate
poverty. Due to high population number, various problems are emerging
in the city.

Meanwhile, according to City Secretary Fadjar
Panjaitan, Jakarta DWP is able to assist Jakarta Provincial Government
in eradicating poverty. Through its programs that directly touch
low-level societies, Jakarta DWP can effectively provide assistance on
the right targets.

“The first point of Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) is poverty eradication, which is very in line with the
government’s programs,” he stated

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Google to sell a branded tablet - Android game-changer?

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Google will begin selling co-branded Android tablets, attempting to slow Apple’s massive market share growth with the New iPad and a reduced-price iPad. Instead of getting into the OEM game, Google is expected to work with existing Android tablet-makers to market Google tablets through an online store and traditional brick and mortar retail outlets. But will it be enough to change public perceptions and get people to start purchasing Android-powered tablets instead of iPads?

Naysayers have been quick to point out the dismal failure of Google’s initial efforts to sell their Nexus One smartphone direct to consumers and, as Jason Perlow noted recently, even their highest profile devices (including those from soon-to-be subsidiary Motorola) suffer from fragmentation, bloatware, and miserable update records. How will Google-branded devices (reportedly from Asus and Samsung) sold direct by Google and in retail channels (often right next to Apple devices) solve this problem that seems to be inherent in Android?

According to the WSJ article,

Google believes the current model for selling tablets is broken, said people familiar with its strategy. Google has watched as wireless carriers, who helped Android become the No. 1 mobile operating system for smartphones, have struggled to replicate that success with tablets…

…This time, however, Google won’t have to worry about pairing with wireless carriers because tablets are primarily used with WiFi connections in people’s homes.

The article also cited what may be a more effective strategy (one that has worked for Amazon with their Kindle Fire tablet): subsidizing the cost of the hardware sold under the Google brand. Google will also have the opportunity to heavily market the tablets and take advantage of its considerable reach online and, more recently, in traditional media, to capture potential customers and educate the market on the value of Android tablets. Unfortunately, many customers and more than a few analysts are skeptical about whether Android has any value at all in the tablet space.

I’ve argued for some time that Android will ultimately win the tablet wars, at least in terms of market share. Google’s ability to market directly to consumers, though, is dubious at best. If it’s going to keep new customers from simply defaulting to iPads, then it will be the potential for differentiation and market segmentation provided by Android and many OEMs that does it (just as it has in the smartphone wars); a Google online store won’t exactly turn the market upside down.

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Apple: iPad 3 battery gauge works as expected

AllThingsD’s Ina Fried published an article today indicating that the observations of unusual charing behavior with the iPad 3 aren’t so unusual after all.

Yesterday I noted that if you unplug your iPad 3 as soon as the battery indicator says “100%” you’re actually missing out on as much as 1.2 hours (10 percent) of additional run time. But Apple says that this is the expected behavior and that the iPad battery is designed to work this way.

Fried explains it this way:

Apple does, in fact, display the iPad (and iPhone and iPod Touch) as 100 percent charged just before a device reaches a completely charged state. At that point, it will continue charging to 100 percent, then discharge a bit and charge back up to 100 percent, repeating that process until the device is unplugged.

Soneira, President of DisplayMate Technologies Corporation, first discovered that the iPad 3 experienced a net loss of 1.2 hours (around 10 percent) of battery run time if unplugged as soon as its battery indicator displayed 100%. His essential point was that if the iPad 3 is fully charged (i.e. overnight) it will run 11.6 hours, which is 1.2 hours longer than if it is only charged to 100% (10.4 hours).

Apple VP Michael Tchao tells AllThingsD that Apple decided not to keep changing the battery status “so as not to distract or confuse users,” explaining:

That circuitry is designed so you can keep your device plugged in as long as you would like, It’s a great feature that’s always been in iOS.

So there you have it. The iPad battery displays “100%” a little prematurely because Apple didn’t think that it would be wise to show the battery constantly fluctuating between 90 and 100 percent as the battery goes through its normal trickle charge/discharge cycle to keep it topped off. Makes sense to me.

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1,900 Police/TNI Personnel Guard MPR/DPR Building

Thousands of protesters are predicted will pack the area around MPR/DPR building where the plenary meeting to discuss fuel (BBM) price hike plan is going to be held by People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) and House of Representatives (DPR) members, Friday (3/30). In fact, the number of protesters will be a lot higher compared than the demonstration in the same place on Tuesday (3/27)

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Mahasiswa Riau Tuntut Nasionalisasi Aset Negara

Metrotvnews.com, Pekanbaru: Sekitar 100 mahasiswa di
Pekanbaru, Riau, menuntut pemerintah melakukan nasionalisasi aset
strategis Energi dan Sumber Daya Alam (ESDM) yang dikuasai asing.

Tuntutan mereka ajukan dalam unjuk rasa yang mereka lakukan
bersama masyarakat untuk menolak rencana penaikan harga bahan bakar
minyak (BBM) subsidi pada 1 April mendatang.

"Penaikan harga
BBM sarat dengan kepentingan asing. Kami menuntut pemerintah untuk
menasionalisasi aset-aset strategis yang kini dikuasai asing," kata
koordinator aksi Bersatu Mahasiswa Peduli Rakyat (Bemper) Hendro Salim
di Kantor DPRD Riau di Kota Pekanbaru, Jumat (30/3).

Menurutnya, pemerintah saat ini bersikeras menaikkan harga BBM
subsidi karena dalam tekanan pengaruh kapitalisme asing. Alasan
pengurangan subsidi untuk menyelamatkan APBN merupakan pembodohan.
Sebab dari kebocoran anggaran di APBN lebih banyak digunakan untuk
pemborosan birokrasi dan aparatur negara.

"Sebagian besar
rakyat di negara ini selalu yang menjadi korban kebijakan yang pro
kapitalisme. Sedangkan segelintir orang menikmati penindasan terhadap
rakyat," paparnya.

Dalam pernyataan sikapnya, para mahasiswa
bersama sejumlah LSM menuntut pemangkasan anggaran pejabat dan
birokrasi, nasionalisasi aset, meminta SBY-Boediono bertanggung jawab
atas kerusuhan yang terjadi, dan menolak keras rencana penaikan harga
BBM subsidi.(MI/RIZ)

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Medco, partners to acquire two ExxonMobil’s gas blocks

Medco, partners to acquire two ExxonMobil’s gas blocks

The Jakarta Post | Fri, 03/30/2012 10:27 AM

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PT Medco Energi Internasional says it will join forces with two other firms to buy two oil and gas blocks operated by US-based ExxonMobil.

Medco, state gas distributor PT PGN and state fertilizer maker PT Pupuk Sriwijaya (Pusri) have submitted a formal bid for ExxonMobil’s Block B and the North Sumatra Offshore (NSO) block, Medco president director Lukman Mahfoedz said in a message on Thursday.

“If the acquisition is successful, the share composition for the two blocks will be 40 percent for Medco and 30 percent for PGN and Pusri, respectively,” he said.

Contacted separately, ExxonMobil declined to name of companies interested in its 100 percent stake in both blocks or its 30 percent stake in liquefied natural gas producer PT Arun NGL.

The assets produced a combined 215 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (mmscfd) in 2010, ExxonMobil said in a statement sent to The Jakarta Post in August last year.

“We can’t comment further because the [acquisition] is still underway. We will ensure that the decision to sell the shares is consistent with the company’s long-standing practice of continuously reviewing assets for their contribution to the company’s operating and financial objectives,” the company said in the statement.

ExxonMobil is now concentrating its attention on developing the Cepu block in East Java.

Cepu’s Banyu Urip field will produce 165,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) by 2014 and may be one of the most important blocks in Indonesia’s effort to produce 1 million bpd of oil by that year, according to reports.

ExxonMobil has been operating in Indonesia for more than 100 years. Its current projects cover the Cepu block in Central Java, East Natuna in Riau Islands and the coal bed methane (CBM) evaluation project in Kalimantan.

Gas in Aceh was discovered by Mobil Oil Indonesia in 1971. After studies, the government and its partners set up an LNG plant in Arun and began exporting LNG to Japan in 1978.

State oil and gas firm PT Pertamina currently holds a 55 percent stake in the Arun LNG plant, ExxonMobil owns 30 percent and a consortium of Japanese buyers owns 15 percent.

According to upstream oil and gas regulator BPMigas’s data, the Arun LNG plant exported 362 cargoes of LNG in 2011, down significantly from 427 cargoes in 2010.

— JP/Rangga D. Fadillah

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