Batik in The Eyes of World

Batik is one of the cultural product that represent identity of Indonesia in the world view. In a fabric of batik exposed culture identity and history of a region or a city like batik pekalongan, batik solo, batik Cirebon, batik jogja, batik kudus and many more

UNESCO has set that Indonesian Batik as one of Indonesian cultural heritage has become World Heritage at October 2nd, 2009 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

World batik summit 2011 with a theme “Indonesia : Home of Global Batik”, September 28th until October 2nd 2011 which hold in Jakarta Convention Center, is one attempt to protect, preserve, develop, and promote Indonesian Batik in International World.

Indonesian Batik internationally later become national asset which capable of sustaining Economical, Trade, Industrial as well as tourism sector in Indonesia.

World Batik Summit 2011 is a strategic momentum for Indonesia to increase creativity, quality and image of Indonesian batik to become more famous and accepted by International society, as one of seed of Kelompok Usaha Menengah Kecil (KUKM) and become means to strengthen batik existence as one of Indonesian Cultural Heritage in International society.

World Batik Summit 2011 is a pillar that sustaining Indonesia financial and is the pride of Indonesian Society.

In this exhibition not only to promote the Indonesians cutting-edge work, but also become educational moment for young generation to increase the knowledge of batik product in terms of design, type, material, and can give inspiration.

Indonesian Batik has a high value of philosophy and aesthetics and has accepted by International World. Therefore, World Batik Summit 2011 is expected to boost image and more popularized Indonesian Batik in International World.

Zsuryanuti Dirgantara Perdana X3

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All Sukhoi Victims Have Been Identified

In just 12 days counted after eight days since the body is received, Disaster Victim Identification, on Sunday (05.20.2012) at 13.00 completed 45 identifications on victims of SUPERJET 100, Sukhoi on the slopes of Mount Salak.
The DVI team delivered PR Police Headquarters, Commissioner Boy Rafli Amar, Sunday at 17.00, at the Police Hospital Raden Said Sukanto, Kramatjati, East Jakarta.
On Tuesday (22/05/2012), starting at 13:00, the victim's family are allowed to see the bodies in the RS Sukanto. After storing the corpse's chest will be closed.
On Wednesday (05.23.2012), DVI will give the bodies to the state. Furthermore, the state would hand over the bodies to the families of the victims. 




Gandira Putra Prahandika

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Mirror Mirror VS Snow White and The Huntsman

2012 will be a big year for snow white fans! There are two versions of snow white with two mirrors, two evil queens, two fairest maidens and fourteen dwarves. All that together and you get two very, very different interpretations of “Snow White”. Each movie has its own uniqueness.

 Mirror Mirror: The Untold Adventure of Snow White this movie is directed by Tarsem Singh with has a famous actors and actresses such as Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen,  Lily Collins as Snow White,  Armie Hammer  as Prince Andrew Alcott, Sean Bean as the King, and Nathan Lane as Brighton.

Lily Collins known role as snow white explains the difference in the two characters snow white who had regarded the same. She said “I think, both are different and both of them will create a different perspective to an audience”. Mirror mirror is showed us more about comedic side of snow white.

Meanwhile Snow White and the Huntsman is showed us more mysterious and the dark side of snow white who is directed by Rupert Sanders with the Twilight Saga stars Kristen Sterwart as Snow White, Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman, Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen, and Sam Claflin as the prince.

So, which one do you prefer? Mirror mirror was released on March 30 and indeed movie series of comedies or Snow White and the Huntsman will be released on July 1 and showed the dark side of Snow White.

Dewi Tirtarini

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The Hunger Games boosts Lionsgate’s Profit

New York : Box-office movie “The Hunger Games” opening weekend which debuted with estimated $155 million, ultimately lead to more than $300 million in profit for independent studio Lionsgate.

The movie which is directed by Gary Ross based on the novel “The Hunger Games” written by Suzzane Collins. It stars Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence as main character Katniss, Josh Hutcherson  as Peeta, Liam Hemsworth as Gale, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch, and Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket.

Hunger Games’ first show of the trilogy had the highest-grossing first weekend  and the third-largest opening weekend, as Canada's largest movie theatre company said on Thursday in Yahoo! News. 

As seen at LaTimes’ blog, the international results of this movie are in the same line with the first show in the "Twilight" and "Harry Potter", indicating that the sequels to "The Hunger Games" will make more money.

Not only high profit, "The Hunger Games" also did well with critics, and made 86% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The next movie in the sequel, "Catching Fire," is planned to hit theaters in November 2013.

With two sequels to come which are “Catching Fire” and “Mocking Jay”, Lionsgate expects to make $1.5 billion profit or more. That’s a significant success for this independent studio despite they got struggled in last four years in film production. 

Monica Dicenso of JP Morgan predicted that this film will produce #310 million in profit and the sequel will generate $1.5 billion. Not just the film, Lionsgate expands his business by making Hunger Games’ souvenir like T-shirts. -KZF

Khansaa ‘ziz Fathima

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Mauritania 0-2 Indonesia

Palestine - Indonesia national team to achieve positive results in the opening match of the tournament Al Nakbah. Mauritania against the national team, "Red and White 'wins two goals without reply.

In the action in Nablus Football Stadium on Thursday (17/05/2012) night, Indonesia and Mauritania show attacking game from the beginning of the fight.

Titus Bonai in the early matches could provide a threat to the goal Mauritania nyamun header was wide of the target.

Indonesia finally opened the scoring on 20 minutes when a through pass Tibo Bayouw pursued by Hendra and coolly beat goalkeeper Bayouw opposed to a horizontal kick into the goal.

Five minutes later, Indonesia doubled the score when a cross into the face of goal Ramdhan Hamdi failed driven to perfection by a defender Mauritania, Jacob, who actually steer the ball into the goal.

After a two-goal lead, Indonesia did not relax the attack but no goal is more to be created until the first half ended.

In the second half Mauritania appear slightly better than Indonesia and began an offensive against Indonesia which escorted Rev. Tri Nugroho. But the brilliant performances of Revelation under the rule makes the opposing team fails to score, with a couple of times to rescue important.

As a result no longer a goal that is present until 90 minutes after the game. With this result Indonesia earned three points and will play the second match of Group B counter Iraqi Kurdistan the next two days.

 

 

 

 

Irham Aditama X3 

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Marines Beat Down a Civilian in Cilandak

Thursday May 17, 2012 some marines beat down a civilian in a marine base Cilandak, South Jakarta.

The witness, mr.Anto, said there was a conflict that when a civilian name Adi Suparjo was riding his motorbike, he bump in to marine’s motorbike when the marine is trying to get in the road from a nearby shop. The marine is angry then he get off the bike and stop mr.Adi Suparjo’s bike. They went to the conflict then a group of marines showed up and standed up for their friend. They both wont give up or apologies. Mr. Adi called some witnesses to explain what was happened.

The witnesses said that mr. Adi ride his motorbike so fast in the edge of the street and that marines wont stop the turn because he expected mr. Adi to stop. “They both made the mistake, you should wait for the turn” said one of the witness when he pointed to the marine “and you should ride your motorbike slower and watch where you ride it” cleared the witness to mr. Adi.

And still they had mouth fighting each other to proof their statement. The situation was getting hotter when the marine pushes mr. Adi  on his shoulder. Mr. Adi wont stay calm and hit the marine once. After mr. Adi hit him, a group of marine didn't stay calm either when their friend get a hit. The marines beat mr. Adi down badly until the surrounding civilian separated them. Some of the civilian was scared because they’re dealing with some marines and failed to stop their rage to mr. Adi. The beat down act stopped when a higher rank marine showed up to see what’s happened in front of his house and hardly rebuked the marines to stop.

Mr. Adi immediately taken to the nearest hospital in the marine’s base hospital. “Why did you all did this? This kind of act was embarrassing the marine’s reputation” rebuked the general to his subordinate. “If you all did this kind of act again, you all will be expelled from the marines” shout the general. The civilian around that area was lightly mocking at them. There were no causalities in this incident.

Gladly Mr. Adi just had a light damage in the stomach and his head. He was bleeding because his gum got a hit. “Mr. Adi didn't sue the marines” said the witness. “it will be a long incident if he sue the marines, and he might be targeted by their marines friends” cleared Mr. Anto with fright-chuckle. Although a marine, the human rights are equals to the entire civilization. Don't get too arrogant even though you are officials, marine, police, minister and else.

Fauzan Vivaldi

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IACF 2012

HIV/AIDS have become a serious problem for many countries,including Indonesia. There have been more than 400.000 case of HIV/AIDS in Indonesia in 2010 and the increase of the problem is very significant.

Without a serious plan to solve this problem, the victim will become more and more each year into 2,18 million in 2025. If we make a serious plan the increation number will be less than 912 thousands.This data support by National Aids Comission United Nations General Assembly Special Session (NAC UNGASS).

For fixing this problem many professional peoples involved in a group name iVoice. They are peoples with high social attention who want to take a part with many activities that can help people with HIV/AIDS.

One of their activities is The Internaitonal AIDS Candlelight Fetival (IACF) 2012 and the theme is Promoting Health and Dignity Together that will be held in 26-27 Mei 2012.This activity hope can make people care to AIDS/HIV problem. And raising fund for  international communitry to anticipating and curing HIV/AIDS.

“We make this for celebrating AIDS night international, that always be held in 20 May each year” said Dody who trusted to be Media Coordinator for IACF 2012.

This year IACF is different from the same activity in the past year, because this year iVoice invite more people and this event make for people from all community  like student, government, media, including artist.

IACF 2012 will make session that based on 3 principe educate,entertain and raising fund. One of the event is workshop with the experts of HIV/AIDS, discussion with panelists, discussion between teenager, auction for art commodity,art exhibition, Charity Gala Dinner and many more.

HIV/AIDS not only the government problem but  all society. Therefore we must be proactive and not only waiting the government or international community to handle this HIV/AIDS problem.

“We hope 1000-2000 peoples will attends this event each day” said Dody.

Siti Leah Latifa

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Chelsea Wins The Champions League for The First Time

Chelsea has won the Champions League for the first time in the club's history after beating Bayern Munich 4-3 on penalties after 120 minutes match.

Didier Drogba's winning spot kick in a penalty shootout satisfied Roman Abramovich's after nine-year long dream of winning the Europe's elite club competition, European Champion’s League.

A high tense final was held in Germany, where much of the first half saw Chelsea apply similar tactics that they show against Barcelona in the semifinal stage of the competition.

However, the game opened up after the break as both teams went in search of the winning goal, and Bayern thought it had found it with just nine minutes left on the clock through Thomas Muller header.

The trophy seems like will be owned by Bavaria, but Didier Drogba's header almost at the end of the match mean the final would be taken into extra time.

The added time still could not determine who would win, meaning penalties were needed to decide which side would win for Champion’s League 2012. 

Bastian Schweinsteiger's missed spot kick gave Drogba the chance to banish his side's demons of the 2008 final against Manchester United, which he duly took to crown Chelsea as European champion four years on.

For Bayern, the club has now finished runner-up in two of the previous three Champions League campaigns, and has ended the season without a trophy after losing out in the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal.

Meanwhile for Chelsea, Caretaker Roberto Di Matteo has now won the FA Cup and the Champions League during his brief reign at Stamford Bridge, while also securing champion’s league place for next season replace Tottenham Hotspur that finish in 4th rank in English Premiere League

Harits Abdurrahman

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