Rabu, 28 Maret 2012

Tugas 2 Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 2


Tugas Bahasa Inggris Mencari 6 Modals Dalam Artikel
1.    Artikel 1
Transjakarta feeder-bus route set for Bekasi
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 03/28/2012 10:35 AM
The Jakarta Transportation Agency will on Wednesday launch a new feeder-bus route to support the Transjakarta busway between Bekasi and the Pulo Gadung terminal in East Jakarta.

Jakarta Transportation Agency chief Udar Pristono said that the route will start at the Pulo Gadung bus terminal and pass through Jl. Raya Bekasi, the Jakarta Outer Ring Road, the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road and Jl. Cut Mutia before ending at the Bekasi terminal.

The route will use bus stops in front of the Social Ministry office and the Bekasi Trade Center, which are both on Jl. Muladi Joyomartono, and in front of the Bank Mandiri office and the Hiba Utama bus depot on Jl. Raya Bekasi, Udar said during a press conference in Jakarta on Tuesday
Each passenger will have to [1] pay a fare of Rp 9,500 (US$1.05), comprising Rp 6,000 for the feeder bus and Rp 3,500 for the Transjakarta bus.
The bus is a high-deck-type with a capacity of 85 passengers, like a Transjakarta bus.
But unlike its Transjakarta counterpart, the feeder bus will be [2] powered by diesel fuel, not compressed natural gas (CNG).
“Fifteen buses will serve the route, with a total capacity of 17,340 passengers per day,” Udar said.
He said that he hoped the feeder buses would see commuters from Bekasi who usually used cars or motorcycles to get to Jakarta be converted into using public transportation.
“It cannot [3] absorb the passengers as targeted if commuters still use cars and motorcycles instead of taking public transportation,” he said.
Udar gave the example of the feeder-bus route that stops in front of City Hall, which only has seen around 100 passengers a day utilize the service.
“We have provided the facility but people do not want to use it,” he said.
The agency also demanded that the Bekasi administration provide adequate facilities for passengers, such as parking lots and restaurants, to support the region’s growing bus system.
Based on research from the Greater Jakarta Urban Transportation Policy Integration Project (JUTPI), the number of people commuting from Bekasi to Jakarta grew more than 60 percent in eight years.
There were 423,000 people commuting daily from Bekasi to Jakarta in 2010, compared to 262,000 in 2002.
From the 423,000 Bekasi-Jakarta commuters, 51.1 percent used motorcycles and 29.1 percent drove their cars.
Just 16.3 percent of commuters used bus services and 3.1 percent, or 13,113 passengers, traveled by train each day.
Anisa Titisari, 23, a Bekasi resident who frequently goes to Jakarta to meet with friends, said that she was pleased with the administration’s plan.
“It would be a lot easier to get to Jakarta. I usually have to change several public transportation services to reach Jakarta,” she told The Jakarta Post. However, she hoped that the buses would journey closer to her house in Harapan Indah because it costs her Rp 5,000 to travel to the Bekasi bus terminal.
Several feeder-bus systems have been created by various private real-estate agencies operating in Jakarta’s outskirts, such as in Tangerang and Cikarang.
These private services have been developed to help residents and clients get to Transjakarta bus stops or terminals.
Penjelasan :
1.    Each passenger will have to [1] pay a fare of Rp 9,500 (US$1.05), comprising Rp 6,000 for the feeder bus and Rp 3,500 for the Transjakarta bus.
Have to : masuk ke dalam fungsi necessity.
2.    But unlike its Transjakarta counterpart, the feeder bus will be [2] powered by diesel fuel, not compressed natural gas (CNG).
Will be : masuk ke dalam fungsi 100 % certainty.
3.    “It cannot [3] absorb the passengers as targeted if commuters still use cars and motorcycles instead of taking public transportation,” he said.
Cannot : masuk ke dalam fungsi impossibility (negative only).



1.    Artikel 2

Yogyakarta Tourism to Develop Even Faster
| Jimmy Hitipeuw | Jumat, 11 Februari 2011 | 11:31 WIB
 
Thousands of people attended the Padusan tradition of cleansing the body and mind in Parangtritis Beach Yogyakarta on Aug.10, 2010. Padusan is a tradition of the Javanese people before fasting in the month of Ramadan. Yogyakarta. Indonesia.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Tourism in Indonesia, especially in the cultural city of Yogyakarta is expected to develop even faster following an important role played by tourist guides. Indonesian Tourism Humanity Friendship Forum (Fosipa) chairman Sarbini said in Yogyakarta over the weekend that the tourist guides had an important role to support the image of that tourism city with outstanding historical and cultural heritage.
"Through their role, the image of tourism in Yogyakarta can [1] be improved in order to have a positive impact on the tourists who visit the tourism objects in the city and elsewhere," Sarbini said.
According to him the tourist guides played an important role in helping both domestic and foreign tourists and making them feel at home during their visit. To give the best possible service to both domestic and foreign tourists visiting Indonesia in general and Yogyakarta in particular, Sarbini said the tourist guides should [2] be more professional, well educated, and well trained.
Tourist guides empowerment is actually needed to improve tourism services beside hotels, restaurants, transportation services, souvenirs and other things. It is because the tourist guides can fulfill a very important role in increasing the number of tourists visiting Yogyakarta.
According to him, optimal service given by tourist guides was of great importance in developing the tourism sector in Yogyakarta. Therefore the tourist guides have to be trained regularly in an effort to improve their skills which in the long run will contribute to the local economic welfare. Sarbini said the tour guides could act as spearhead in promoting tourism objects in Yogyakarta to both domestic and foreign tourists.
"With their particular techniques and ways, the tour guides can make tourists enjoy their visit to the tourism objects in Yogyakarta," Sarbini said.
He pointed out that foreign tourists who got a good impression of the way how the tour guides guided them would then tell it to their relatives on returning to their countries of origin.
"Therefore the tour guides have a very strategic role to play in stepping up the progress of tourism in Yogyakarta," Sarbini added.
He said that besides acting as the spearhead in the promotion of tourism, the tour guides should also have the sense of responsibility to the tourists whom they guided.
"They should have a moral responsibility to the tourists they guide, and they are also required to provide the tourists with the sense of comfort and safety," he said.
He said tourism department and tour guides organization would continue to improve the skills, capability, and the knowledge of the tour guides to make them more professional. To support Yogyakarta’s great potential tourism, Yogyakarta Mayor Herry Zudianto said at Beringharjo market recently that traditional markets would continue to be developed for that purpose.
Herry Zudianto said the local government would continue to improve the concept and management of traditional markets to back up the tourists who visit the place for pleasure. With several thousand-year-old temples of the ninth century by the dynasty of Syailendra, Yogyakarta also has beautiful natural panorama with green rice fields cover the suburban areas with a background of volcanic Mount Merapi.
The city, in which the people live in peace with typical Javanese hospitality, has numerous traditional markets where the exchange of goods and services take place as a result of buyers and sellers being in contact with one another. In the modern industrial system, however, the traditional markets in Yogyakarta will not be the places for transaction only but their concept and management will also be developed to support the tourism.
"With a better concept and management, the traditional markets will function not only as the place of transaction but also of recreational fun," Herry Zudianto said.
He said the concept and management of traditional markets should at least be the same as that of malls and other shopping centers in the country. Herry said the government has been committed to developing traditional markets into modern market level in a bid to improve the people’s economy.
Meanwhile, the Association of Traditional Market Managers (Asparindo) spokesman Suhendro said the condition of traditional markets in Yogyakarta was good enough.
"Based on our records, 80 percent of 8,854 traditional markets in Indonesia are not in very good condition but in Yogyakarta they are good enough," Suhenro said.
Therefore he expressed hope that the government would continue to develop the concept and management of traditional markets to support tourism. Besides, rural tourism in Yogyakarta is also predicted to have good prospects in 2011, Widya Budaya Foundation chairperson Widi Utaminingsih has early this month.
"The rural tourism potential will complement the diversity of tourism attractions in Yogyakarta special province," Widi said, adding that rural tourism Yogyakarta hould continue to be developed.
Therefore she said both the regional and provincial governments should make every effort to develop the rural tourism potential to attract as many foreign and domestic tourists as possible this year.
"Every rural tourism in Yogyakarta has its own typical atmosphere namely the culture and tradition, arts, as well as natural breathtaking scenery," Widi said.
She added that the Widya Budaya Foundation has a great concern in the field of tourism and cultural development study with a local potential basis.
According to her, each rural tourism has the potential of agriculture, animal husbandry, and art and cultural attractions that could [3] be developed to attract tourists. She said there were at least 50 villages in Yogyakarta that could be developed into rural tourism with the cooperation from relevant parties.
Sumber : antara

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Penjelasan :
1.    "Through their role, the image of tourism in Yogyakarta can [1] be improved in order to have a positive impact on the tourists who visit the tourism objects in the city and elsewhere," Sarbini said.
Can : masuk ke dalam fungsi ability/possibility.
2.    To give the best possible service to both domestic and foreign tourists visiting Indonesia in general and Yogyakarta in particular, Sarbini said the tourist guides should [2] be more professional, well educated, and well trained.
Should : masuk ke dalam fungsi advisability.
3.    According to her, each rural tourism has the potential of agriculture, animal husbandry, and art and cultural attractions that could [3] be developed to attract tourists.
Could : masuk ke dalam fungsi suggestion.

 

Rabu, 07 Maret 2012

Tugas 1 Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 2


Dua Artikel Koran Bahasa Inggris yang Menyangkut Ekonomi dengan Menggunakan Neither...Nor, Both...And, Either...Or, Not Only...But Also.
Artikel 1 :
How Malaysia Still Sees Indonesian Maids
| Jimmy Hitipeuw | Senin, 16 Agustus 2010 | 14:45 WIB

Migrant workers returning from Saudi Arabia sit in a bus as they arrive at a special terminal for migrant workers in Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta October 28, 2009. Indonesian migrant workers are one of the biggest foreign exchange contributors to the country. Jumhur Hidayat, head of the National Indonesian Workers Placement and Protection Agency (BNP2TKI) said that migrant workers contributed some 100 trillion rupiah to the economy in 2008. In the last ten years, more than five million Indonesians have worked abroad, mostly in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia and South Korea.

KUALA SELANGOR, KOMPAS.com - The government has yet to decide on the RM600 (US$190) minimum wage for Indonesian maids as claimed by the Indonesian embassy here, said Human Resources Minister Dr S. Subramaniam.  He said the minimum wage as claimed by the embassy was neither with the approval of the ministry nor the Home Ministry.
"I don’t know whether the Indonesian embassy fixed the minimum wage on their own accord or not but from what we have agreed, the minimum wage for foreign maids will be determined by the market forces based on supply and demand.        "Hence, what the embassy was doing now is beyond our knowledge and we will find out what really happened," he told reporters after attending a Malaysia programme organised by the Special Cabinet Committee for Indian Community, in Ijok, here Sunday.
He was commenting on complaints lodged by several employers that they had to agree to pay a minimum wage of RM600 to Indonesian maids as a condition to renew passports of maids. The matter was alleged to have been announced by the Indonesian embassy through its intercom system when the employers were accompanying their maids to renew their passports, at the embassy.       The employers claimed that the embassy also informed them that the agreement pertaining to the minimum wage for the maids had been signed by the Malaysian government and took effect last month.       Subramaniam, however, said both countries were still negotiating the issue to find a mutually-beneficial arrangement for the maids and their employers. Prior to this, the minister announced that Malaysia had to say no to the Indonesian government’s demand for a RM800 (US$253) minimum wage as Malaysia does not have a minimum wage structure.
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Penjelasan :
English
1.  He said the minimum wage as claimed by the embassy was neither with the approval of the ministry nor the Home Ministry.
2.  Subramaniam, however, said both countries were still negotiating the issue to find a mutually-beneficial arrangement for the maids and their employers.

Indonesia
1.    Dia mengatakan upah minimum seperti yang diklaim oleh kedutaan itu tidak dengan persetujuaan dari pelayan maupun Departemen Dalam Negeri.
2.    Subramaniam, bagaimanapun, mengatakan kedua negara masih merundingkan masalah ini untuk menemukan pengaturan yang saling menguntungkan untuk para pembantu dan majikan mereka.

Arikel 2 :

A Dilematic Situation over Calls for Dismissing Sri Mulyani and Boediono
jimbon | Selasa, 2 Maret 2010 | 05:50 WIB
By Sara Webb and Sunanda Creagh
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Indonesia’s Bank Century inquiry has little to do with banking — it is just the latest battleground in a war between reformers and traditional business elites that will decide the fate of two key pro-market allies of the president. The outcome of this particular battle is crucial for foreign investors and Indonesians alike when it comes to pushing ahead with much-needed reforms and generating a faster pace of growth in southeast Asia’s biggest economy.
If Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Vice President Boediono, the two technocrats in question, remain in their posts, then prospects for reform should improve, and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will have more clout to tackle graft and take on the overhaul of the civil service, police and judiciary. But if either Indrawati or Boediono — or both — are forced out, Yudhoyono will have been severely weakened, reducing prospects for reform in the remainder of his five-year term.
“This is a contest between two forces — reform and anti-reform,” said Aleksius Jemadu, a political analyst at Pelita Harapan University in Jakarta. “If you look at what Sri Mulyani has done as minister of finance, many people appreciate it, but it’s a threat to others. There are people who will be put at risk because of her policies, for instance her tax policies. Some people feel threatened by her policies, so are trying to get rid of her through this scandal.”
Indonesia has been a star performer among emerging markets in the past year, due to strong fundamentals, a thriving domestic consumer market, but also crucially because of hopes Yudhoyono would press ahead with reforms to unlock even faster growth.
Many analysts say an upgrade of Indonesia’s sovereign debt to investment grade is within reach in a couple of years. It has been widely tipped as the country most likely to join the “BRICs” — Brazil, Russia, India and China — in the select group of essential emerging markets investors cannot afford to ignore.
Prolonged conflict over reform could put that at risk. “In the longer term this would clearly impact people’s appetite for Indonesia,” said James Bryson, a Jakarta-based investment advisor at fund manager HB Capital.
“If that rumbles on it makes it less likely that the ratings agencies upgrade Indonesia’s sovereign rating. If progress in these areas and cleaning up the institutions isn’t made, then Moody’s, S&P will be slower to upgrade any ratings.”
Powerful enemies
As finance minister, Indrawati has cleaned up Indonesia’s notoriously corrupt tax and customs departments in an effort to increase state revenues from tax and duties and reduce the country’s reliance on bond issues to fund the budget deficit. To get an idea of the scale of tax evasion in Indonesia, last month, the tax department produced a list of the 100 worst tax dodgers which it said owed a total of $1.9 billion in taxes in 2009, equivalent to one-tenth of the amount that Indonesia plans to raise in the bond markets this year.
Among the various state and private sector firms on the list was a coal-mining company controlled by Aburizal Bakrie, a tycoon and politician who has clashed with Indrawati and who is seen as the driving force behind efforts to remove her. Bakrie isn’t the only tycoon feeling the heat from the tax department. Last month, Yudhoyono asked police to help the tax department pursue dodgers and there are signs that other tax cases which had languished are being pursued more aggressively.
While the Bank Century case is unlikely to have a short-term impact on economic growth, a slower reform push would have a longer-term impact. For years, Indonesia has lagged emerging market giants China and India in terms of its growth rate.
Investors were reluctant to stump up the billions of dollars required to develop infrastructure, including ports and tollroads, or boost the natural resources and manufacturing sectors, because of Indonesia’s reputation for corruption, red tape, and legal uncertainty.
These are the main areas that Yudhoyono and his reformers have started to address. The reforms are not only intended to attract investment, but should also reduce the overall cost of borrowing by improving Indonesia’s chances of achieving an investment grade credit rating.
Yudhoyono also reversed Indonesia’s reputation as a political basket case prone to repeated bouts of instability. While few analysts or investors expect either Indrawati or Boediono to lose their jobs over Bank Century, they recognise that attacks on the reformers are likely to continue.
“Investors are clearly worried that domestic politicians are more interested in fighting over the spoils of power, than in supporting the reform process,” said one long-term U.S.-based investor in Indonesia who declined to be quoted by name.
“With the president’s leadership, Sri Mulyani and Boediono have been vital to ensuring the benefits of Indonesia’s strong growth are more fairly shared by all Indonesians. Dismissing either reformer would lead investors to concerns that Indonesia was returning to crony capitalism, which was certainly very painful for investors and most Indonesians — at least those who weren’t tycoons or politically well-connected, or both.”
Sumber : Reuters

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Penjelasan :
English
1.    But if either Indrawati or Boediono — or both — are forced out, Yudhoyono will have been severely weakened, reducing prospects for reform in the remainder of his five-year term.
2.    The reforms are not only intended to attract investment, but should also reduce the overall cost of borrowing by improving Indonesia’s chances of achieving an investment grade credit rating.

Indonesia
1.      Tapi jika salah satu Indrawati atau Boediono atau keduanya yang dipaksa keluar, Yudhoyono akan menjadi sangat lemah, mengurangi prospek untuk reformasi di sisa lima tahun masa jabatannya.
2.      Reformasi tidak hanya ditujukan untuk menarik investasi, tetapi juga harus mengurangi biaya keseluruhan pinjaman dengan meningkatkan peluang Indonesia yang mencapai peringkat tingkat investasi kredit.