Kini Ada Simbol Mercy di Perut Saya ADA kesan yang mendalam bahwa sakit saya yang parah kemarin-kemarin itu karena saya kerja terlalu keras. Seorang ibu sampai menasihati anaknya begini: Jangan kerja terus seperti itu. Nanti seperti Pak Dahlan Iskan! Setelah menerima SMS dari Saudara Socrates, teman di Batam yang lahir di Padang itu, saya jadi [...]
CIBUBUR, INDONESIA — In Indonesia’s crowded world of celebrity Muslim preachers, it often pays to have a trademark. For Koko Liem, his ever-present Chinese-style outfits — garish satin tunics paired with matching skullcaps — play the role. Whether in television appearances or Koran recitals, the approach of Mr. Liem, a 31-year-old convert to Islam from [...]
KABUL, Afghanistan — After intensive negotiations with NATO military commanders, the Afghan government on Wednesday approved a program to establish local defense forces that American military officials hope will help remote areas of the country thwart attacks by Taliban insurgents. Details of the plan are sketchy, but Americans had been promoting the force as a [...]
MANILA, Philippines — Electricity was restored in the Philippine capital, flights resumed and schools reopened Thursday after the first typhoon of the season killed at least 26 people and plunged most of the main northern island into darkness. Thirty-eight people remained missing, mostly fishermen caught by Typhoon Conson’s fury at sea. Electricity was restored to [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa – An Iowa tea party group on Wednesday replaced a billboard comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin, calling the sign a bad decision that reflected poorly on the organization. Workers papered over the sign in downtown Mason City at the request of the North Iowa Tea Party. “We [...]
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s president said Tuesday his nation will sell its massive reserves of diamonds despite not receiving authorization from the world’s diamond control body. A defiant President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday told lawmakers diamond sales have “huge potential” to revive the shattered economy. He said Zimbabwe can account for one-fourth of the world’s [...]
JAKARTA – Polemik tentang wadah tunggal organisasi pengacara atau advokat belum berakhir. Ratusan anggota Kongres Advokat Indonesia (KAI) menyerbu gedung Mahkamah Agung (MA) di Jalan Medan Merdeka Utara, Jakarta Pusat, kemarin (14/7). Mereka tidak terima atas surat edaran MA yang berbunyi bahwa hanya advokat anggota Perhimpunan Advokat Indonesia (Peradi) yang bisa disumpah. Ratusan pengacara memadati [...]
A dumbfounding study roughly a decade ago that many now find hard to believe revealed that if people are asked to focus on a video of other people passing basketballs, about half of watchers missed a person in a gorilla suit walking in and out of the scene thumping its chest. Now research delving further [...]
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith is on his way to Indonesia for talks about plans for a regional refugee processing centre. Australia has proposed setting up an asylum seekers’ centre in East Timor. But Indonesia has expressed concern that this could attract more refugees to Indonesian waters, and East Timor has not agreed to the [...]
The BBC’s Duncan Kennedy: “This was a huge operation involving some 3,000 Carabinieri” The man believed to be the “top boss” of an alleged Italian crime family is among those arrested in a police sweep. At least 300 people were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of crimes including murder, money laundering and belonging to a [...]
