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Values are Missing from the Presidential Campaigns
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07/2/09.
When the waves of global
financial meltdown are over, people will soon
discover the somewhat unsurprising culprit: a crisis
of value. Back in the late 1990s, when a severe
financial crisis hit Indonesia, many later found
that moral hazard was one of the underlying causes.
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Can We Trust
R.I. Presidential Race
Polls?
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06/25/09.
Reasonably, the probability of SBY-Boediono to win
this Wednesday election is higher compared to Mega-Prabowo
and JK-Wiranto. The question of course is, by how
much? Noone knows for sure until the election is
over.
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Neo-liberalism and Competitive Nation |
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06/11/09.
Like people of other
nations, Indonesians are also dreaming of having a
competitive nation of their own. However, it takes
not only an enormous of hard work and but also a
right attitude to realize a great dream. Alas, in
this respect Indonesians still have a lot to learn.
Case in point: the pervasive phobia of
neo-liberalism.....More |
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Obama the Great Lincoln vs. the
Wanderers
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01/19/09.
To be sure, a mixed-color and minority in the
White House is something that Americans should celebrate, a
historic achievement that surely should put the liberal
Europeans, if one is aware of their view of integration and
assimilation in America as described in recent Bruce Bawer’s
book, into shame. ....More |
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Education Expenditure Hysteria
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09/13/07.
The demand to increase the education expenditure to 20 % of
the government budget is understandable. After all,
government spending on education is pivotal to education
development. Since education plays a critical role in
creating human capital, which contributes to productivity,
such investment will help advance economic development....More |
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Religious Violence vs. the Inept Government
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09/4/07.
On June 2007, the Interaction of Solidarity between Elements
of Society (INSAN-EMAS) and the Indonesian Foundation for
Legal Service (LPH YAPHI) were about to hold an one-day
seminar at the Taman Sari Restaurant in Colomadu, Solo,
Central Java. The organizer, INSAN-EMAS, is comprised of
several elements of religious factions whose aims are to
promote nonviolence in society and to find ways to prevent
increasing attacks on places of worship...More...
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Syariahization
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08/24/07.
This article provides
the recent developments in the attempts to establish
the Islamic state of Indonesia or Indonesia based on
syari'ah law.
The Suharto’s departure and the development of
democracy in the country in 1998 have opened new
opportunities for the proponents of Islamic state.
Their methods vary from radical violence to
persuasion.
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