Artikel 1
Indonesia
accepts FIFA ban on national coach
The Jakarta
Post | Thu, 04/19/2012 1:13 PM
Aji Santoso:
(Tribunnews.com)
Indonesia
coach Aji Santoso has been banned for four games and fined by FIFA for accusing
match officials of taking bribes during a 10-0 loss to Bahrain in World Cup
qualifying [1].
The Indonesian Football Association and Santoso said
on Wednesday they accepted the punishments but didn't rule out an appeal.
Santoso, now coaching the national under-23 side, was fined $6,530.
Santoso was
red-carded by Lebanese referee Andre Al Haddad in the 75th minute of February's
match in Manama following allegations he accused Al Haddad of being bribed [2].
FIFA said
Santoso told the officials “(there is) money involved (here).” [3].
In the second minute, Al Haddad sent off Indonesia's
goalkeeper and awarded four penalties to Bahrain, which needed to make up a
nine-goal deficit on Qatar to have a chance of advancing to the next round.
However, Qatar drew 2-2 with Iran, and those two
advanced.
FIFA called the outcome "unusual" and
launched an investigation.
Indonesia was warned by FIFA before the match to send
its strongest team, but an inexperienced team was selected after Indonesia
suspended players from clubs in the breakaway Indonesian Super League.
Edi Ellison, the spokesman for the Indonesian
association, said they will wait to decide on an appeal after the result of
FIFA's probe.
Because of the loss to Bahrain and the breakaway
league, the government was planning to cut funding to the association.
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Indonesia
coach Aji Santoso has been banned for four games and fined by FIFA for accusing
match officials of taking bribes during a 10-0 loss to Bahrain in World Cup
qualifying [1].
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2.
Santoso was
red-carded by Lebanese referee Andre Al Haddad in the 75th minute of February's
match in Manama following allegations he accused Al Haddad of being bribed [2].
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3.
FIFA said
Santoso told the officials “(there is) money involved (here).” [3].
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Artikel 2
A story of
romantic love
Prodita
Sabarini, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 02/12/2011 12:24 PM
Sweet Valentine: Baker Emily Jones decorates chocolate
hearts at the Lake Champlain Chocolates factory in Burlington, Vermont, on Feb.
11.AP/Toby TalbotFor many, February is the month of romance.
Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14th gives people a momentum
to celebrate love and express it to their object of affection.
The classic formula to mark the occasion usually
includes a romantic dinner for two, red roses, chocolate, candy and a greeting
card. For those with more money to spend, a holiday getaway and jewelry might
come into the picture.
Those skeptical of the day’s hype might refuse to
partake in the consumerist frenzy, saying that love should be celebrated on any
day of the year. Romantics, who love the special occasion, meticulously plan
their activities on Valentine’s Day. And
there are those who don’t mind being given a reason to be romantic [4].
But for every type of person holding different
opinions on Valentine’s Day, romantic love is more than dinner and gifts. It is
the one drug that everyone loves — as long as it lasts. It gives people energy,
sparks creativity, and makes a besotted person incredibly focused on one’s
object of affection.
Romantic love is a great motivator and a muse for art.
The many poems dedicated to love is testament to that. Love drives people to go
the extra mile. The fear of loosing love and jealousy can drive people to the
worst of actions, from stalking to murder.
Beyond kowtowing to the demands of a commercialized
Valentine’s Day, The Jakarta Post asked people what they did when driven by
this intense emotion, and what their perception of romantic love was.
Most answered they wanted an everlasting relationship.
A happily married mother of one said love was an illusion, referring to the
roles of dopamine and serotonin in our brains. Others say they believe in love
in a metaphysical manner. And an editor-cum-artist dreams of a noncommittal
everlasting love.
The feisty, 25-year-old Bali-based editor Annisa
Dharma said romance or the feeling of infatuation drives her to “assemble
beautiful words that woo”. It had also driven her to make what she called
“grand gestures”.
“I’ve moved countries for a boy. I’ve made a song for a boy [5].
I’ve created art for a boy. I’ve let go of my ambition for a boy,” she said.
Annisa said
her actions were driven by romance [6].
“I think romance is more of a language. Romance and
love don’t go hand in hand,” she said.
“Personally, I can’t be romantic to someone I truly
love, and likewise, when I don’t love a person, I can be the most romantic
person ever.”
However if she really loves someone, she would not do
anything to hurt or harm herself. “Because I’d trust them with all my heart,”
she said.
Annisa added she would want love to last forever.
“Thus, no commitments…Free and liberating.”
She however would not mind getting married “if I found
the right one, in which the relationship didn’t change regardless of the
married status. That would mean getting married purely as an act of romance…
which is fine,” she said.
For 28-year-old Yolanda Nirmala, love has such a
powerful effect on her it made her think twice
about her religion and chose to live without it. She said she found peace as an agnostic.
about her religion and chose to live without it. She said she found peace as an agnostic.
“Would it makes sense to you if I told you that being
in love once led to me being agnostic? That’s how powerful love is in my life,”
she said.
Coming from a conservative Muslim family, Yolanda fell
in love with a man who had a Catholic upbringing. She was in her early 20s, in
college; meanwhile, her partner was in his early thirties.
Their families disapproved of their relationship
because they came from different faiths. They
continued to date in secret for fear of being separated [7].
She and her partner devised a plan to elope to
Singapore and live abroad. They started to save up money for their planned
future together.
During this time, she started to question religion.
“I started to lose my faith in religion. I started to
ask myself: ‘What is the point of religion have if it used to hate other
people?’ Because of a different religion, one can hate and stay away from
others?”
Life sent her on another path, Yolanda said, as her
boyfriend was killed in a car accident in their two years of relationship.
“I was sad as sad can be. But the thing that didn’t
die with him, was me being an agnostic,” she said. “I don’t feel there is a
strong reason to fit in boxes that separate people.”
For 29-year-old Ramdan Sudrajat, love has made him do
things he never imagined he could do.
“I cleaned my girlfriend’s father’s behind when he was
ill after having a stroke,” he said.
“I even surprised myself. I have never even seen my
own father naked. That’s the power of love,” he said.
The relationship with his girlfriend eventually
fizzled. That was around 2006 he said, and he was over it.
“Failure is normal. Even though I regret the decision
to break up. I still remember her as a part of the story of my life,” he said.
“I think love is when you put your trust and hope in
someone whom you wish to be your life companion and who will be by your side
until you get old,” he said.
While Ramdan is looking to forge a lasting
relationship soon, Yolanda said she was not in a rush and was looking for a
mature relationship, with a solid long-term plan. “If a guy says sweet things
to me such as ‘I like you’ or something similar, until he proves it I would say
it’s bulls**t,” she said. And until she finds that love, she is happy with
casual dates.
Maria Ferrari, 33, a mother and a singer, has a very
rational perspective on romantic love. She believes it is an illusion, and the
emotion comes from a combination neurotransmitters in the brain.
“In reality, [most] humans whether they realize it or
not are self-centered,” she said. “For me, the deepest and craziest [thing one
can do] for ‘love’ is to keep it unspoken.”
She believes a committed relationship occurs when two
people agree to want to “know” their partners.
“The ‘want’ is full of conflict. And often it becomes
a drama, just like sinetron,” she said. Maria added there was no time frame in
getting to know one’s partner. “Because humans are dynamic,” she went on.
Despite her rational perspective, Maria enjoys being
infected with the emotions.
“Being high and low is exciting. Because [sometimes]
that is what people look for. So life doesn’t feel that bland,” she said.
Scientists have explained love through neuroscience. A
professor of Neuroscience in Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, Larry Young.
wrote in scientific journal Nature, that love could be explained by a series of
neurochemical events in a specific area of the brain. From his research Young
finds that oxytocin levels in the brain may enhance humans ability to form
trusting relationships.
Meanwhile anthropologist Helen Fisher states that
different neurotransmitters such as testorerone, dopamine, serotonin and
oxytocin have roles in the phases of romantic love, which are lust, attraction
and attachment. In her articles, Fisher wrote that when someone faces
rejection, the body goes into protest and also a renewed passion that she
coined “frustration attraction”, which results from the prolong effect of
dopamine.
To cope with all the highs and lows of love, Maria
suggested being conscious of all these emotions.
Taking advice from meditation teacher, she said:
“Consciously enjoy everything, and observe”.
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And there
are those who don’t mind being given a reason to be romantic [4].
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5.
I’ve made a
song for a boy [5].
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6.
Annisa said
her actions were driven by romance [6].
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7.
They
continued to date in secret for fear of being separated [7].
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Artikel 3
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
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 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 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 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 [8].
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Penjelasan :
8. These private
services have been developed to help residents and clients get to Transjakarta
bus stops or terminals [8].
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