However, when considering long-term relationships, women choose men as soon as the loving, sensitive, and monogamy.Similarly, the research said.
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Men Less Festive, Women Affair With Type Favourites
However, when considering long-term relationships, women choose men as soon as the loving, sensitive, and monogamy.Similarly, the research said.
Denpasar tornado, house roofs flying
Based on field observations, on Thursday (11/25/2010), quite severe damage occurred at Jalan Indah Fur, West Denpasar, who struck five houses and stalls. Almost all citizens flying from the roof strength of tornado winds.
"It was drizzling rain initially and then followed the wind quite strong. I saw the roof of my shop has been lifted and thrown to the wind outside," said urges Sri, owners of food stalls in Jalan Fur Indah, Denpasar.
Back on Flight 12 Cancelled
Based on data from Officer in Charge (OIC) at the Terminal II of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (Soetta), which fails to scheduled flights are dispatched, GA 611 goals Ujung Pandang, at 7:40 pm, GA 011 Surabaya goal, at 7:50 pm, GA 511 Behind goals board, at 8:10 pm.
Horoscopes period 22-28 November 2010
General: This week you will be burdened with substantial responsibilities. Instead you do not side with anyone this time, make sure you are in a safe position. Do not be hasty in making decisions. You do not want to regret in the future right?
Chaotic Water Festival in Cambodia, 345 dead
Dozens of ambulances were brought to the scene on Monday, 22 novembe night local time, on a narrow bridge connecting the island of Diamond in Phnom Penh, where the festival was held.
Prime Minister Hun Sen described the incident as the worst incident since the Khmer Rouge, who during his reign in the 1975-1979 led to the killing of a quarter of Cambodia's population.
Astronomers Discover Planet of Other Galaxies
WASHINGTON - Astronomers claim to have discovered a planet filled with hot gas content, is orbiting rapidly among the stars in the galaxy.Scientists claim if the discovery of planetary astronomy who came from outside this galaxy is the first time. This outer planet discovered by astronomers from the Max Planck Institute.
Launched by the Straits Times, Friday (19/11/2010), this planet has a size larger than the size of Jupiter. In fact Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. Not to mention, the outermost planet is orbiting at a distance of 2000 light years from Earth, and is expected to enter into the ranks of the Milky Way galaxy.
'Ancestors' up Auctioned USD30.000
SAN FRANCISCO - The FaceMash.com, the first site developed by the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, now worth USD30.000 auctioned. The auction conducted by the domain name service provider, Flippa.
economictimes, Friday (11/19/2010), launch FaceMash.com has received approximately 10 bids with the current bid reaches USD30.201 dollars.
The FaceMash.com developed by Zuckerberg in 2003 when he registered as a student at Harvard. FaceMash.com allows students to compare images of college students and provide an assessment as the woman most 'hot' on campus.
Earth Hour Forecast is for (Some) Darkness
If organizers have their way, Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Surabaya and Denpasar will be plunged into darkness when the clock strikes 8:30 p.m. tonight.
But not because of a rolling blackout caused by a power shortage. The local governments of the five cities have signed up for Earth Hour, a global event aimed at tackling climate change by turning off the lights in a symbolic show of global unity.
Now in its fourth year, Earth Hour, an initiative of the World Wide Fund for Nature, will see thousands of cities and famous landmarks, including Monas, go dark for an hour once local clocks hit 8:30 p.m., creating what organizers call a “24-hour wave of hope and action.”
It may take some doing, however, to excite local residents.
“I do not want to switch off electricity at my house on Saturday, as it will be uncomfortable,” said Evi Komarwati of Jakarta.
But student Inusa Pramusyawa said, “One hour to save the Earth is not a big deal for me. People should be able to think that way.”
Gusti Ayu Fransiska Kusumadewi, coordinator of the Bali Collaboration on Climate Change, said Earth Hour was having trouble gaining traction in Bali, perhaps because people had participated recently in World Silent Day and Nyepi.
Adinda Ashrinintya, of the Aston Hotel and Convention Center in Denpasar, said, “We are collaborating with WWF to make this event successful.”
Malls in Surabaya seem to be giving the event a pass. BG Junction will only turn off 25 percent of its lights. “It is hard for us to switch all the lights off, as the mall is a public place,” said Wahjuono, the manager.
In Jakarta, most municipal buildings are expected to go dark. As for the rest, light a candle and watch the skyline to judge for yourself.
But not because of a rolling blackout caused by a power shortage. The local governments of the five cities have signed up for Earth Hour, a global event aimed at tackling climate change by turning off the lights in a symbolic show of global unity.
Now in its fourth year, Earth Hour, an initiative of the World Wide Fund for Nature, will see thousands of cities and famous landmarks, including Monas, go dark for an hour once local clocks hit 8:30 p.m., creating what organizers call a “24-hour wave of hope and action.”
It may take some doing, however, to excite local residents.
“I do not want to switch off electricity at my house on Saturday, as it will be uncomfortable,” said Evi Komarwati of Jakarta.
But student Inusa Pramusyawa said, “One hour to save the Earth is not a big deal for me. People should be able to think that way.”
Gusti Ayu Fransiska Kusumadewi, coordinator of the Bali Collaboration on Climate Change, said Earth Hour was having trouble gaining traction in Bali, perhaps because people had participated recently in World Silent Day and Nyepi.
Adinda Ashrinintya, of the Aston Hotel and Convention Center in Denpasar, said, “We are collaborating with WWF to make this event successful.”
Malls in Surabaya seem to be giving the event a pass. BG Junction will only turn off 25 percent of its lights. “It is hard for us to switch all the lights off, as the mall is a public place,” said Wahjuono, the manager.
In Jakarta, most municipal buildings are expected to go dark. As for the rest, light a candle and watch the skyline to judge for yourself.
Former Indonesian Soldier Stokes ‘Balibo’ Flames With Account of Massacre
People watching the film 'Balibo' which depicts the murders of
Australia journalists during Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor
Australia journalists during Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor
Awitness to the deaths of five journalists at Balibo in 1975 has said a plainclothes unit of Indonesian troops advancing into East Timor in October that year — well before Jakarta officially invaded the country in December — shot the men dead and burned the bodies to erase the evidence. Gatot Purwanto, at the time an Army lieutenant, told Tempo magazine that the advancing troops had found the five journalists — Greg Shackleton, Tony Stewart, Gary Cunningham, Brian Peters and Malcolm Rennie — alive inside a house on the outskirts of the East Timor town of Balibo. But after shots came from the direction of the house, soldiers reacted by spraying it with gunfire. The journalists were later found dead inside. Determined to keep the presence of the marauding military unit unknown, the soldiers burned the bodies. “If they’re dead and we ignore the bodies, there would be evidence that they were shot in an area taken over by Indonesian guerillas. To make it easy, we just got rid of the traces. We said we knew nothing. That was our spontaneous reaction,” said Gatot, now a retired Army colonel. Air Vice Marshal Sagom Tamboen, a military spokesman, said he respected what Gatot reportedly said because he was an eyewitness, but lashed out at Australian filmmakers for bringing a movie on the killings to Indonesia and causing trouble.
Batik is Indonesian Cultural Heritage
Director-General of Small and Medium Industry of Department of Industry, Fauzi Aziz, said the efforts of the Government and Indonesian batik community to get world acknowledgement on batik as Indonesian cultural heritage are expected to be achieved soon. Batik is one of intellectual properties of Indonesian cultural heritage, and the Indonesian Government, supported by batik community, has proposed it to the UNESCO. The process is on progress and has come to the final result before the committee meeting on September 2009 or October 2009 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Two third members of the UNESCO, among others are Nigeria, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, has recommended batik as Indonesian heritage that no country could ever claim batik. The Government of Indonesia is responsible to preserve and protect batik from extinction.
Balibo reflects new challenges for Indonesia's foreign policy team
The announcement by the Australian police that they will open an investigation into the Balibo incident is the issue of the week now. We remember the 1975 Balibo incident, which began the East Timor horror. As Soeharto's troops conducted a military operation in Balibo, five Western reporters were killed on the battleground. The Indonesian Army said they were caught in the crossfire, but others saw it as murder. Twenty-five years of human suffering followed, with casualties on all sides, including Indonesians. Much later, in 1998, the Indonesian people gained enough momentum to reject Soeharto for state crimes, including human rights abuses. Successive governments in Indonesia made peace as we supported Timor Leste. Balibo has just been made into a feature movie. Asked for comment, President Jose Ramos-Horta of Timor Leste said the movie reminded him of events he thought he had forgotten about. Ramos-Horta said the film should not be seen "as an indictment of today's Indonesia", which to his mind has changed dramatically since 1998 into "one of the most inspiring democracies". He adds that it is up to the Indonesian people to address our past mistakes. The way most of us see it, the mistake was allowing the Soeharto government to run a foreign policy that was not anchored in human rights and development. The foreign policy of the New Order was designed to maintain Soeharto's grip on his vision of order, mobilizing people who agreed with his vision. Because Soeharto was the master of patronage, it will never be clear just how many Indonesians agreed with his vision and how many were driven by self-interest for the largesse that came to Soeharto loyalists. My feeling is that many Indonesians did not share the Soeharto government's penchant for excessive use of power. It is just that not many are aware there is any other way to run a country. Now we have found a better way. The Balibo affair is beyond doubt a tragedy. But Indonesia is trying to deal with these tragedies - not just five foreign journalists killed, but dozens of activists kidnapped who are still missing, students murdered and hundreds of citizens raped and killed in the riots of May 1998. President Ramos-Horta is spot on in saying that Balibo is our problem and we have to deal with it. We need to make sure our state never commits heinous crimes again. Our attitudes toward human rights are the opposite of those of the 1975 government responsible for Balibo. The call to investigate the Balibo case would parallel a call for the investigation into the deaths of Indonesian fishermen in Darwin in 2002. They are both wounds that could reopen through lack of sensitivity. Australia needs to be more sensitive and knowledgeable of changes that have been achieved in Indonesia. We are our own harshest critics, because we are the people who rose against state violence. Balibo is only one of many cases. Because the public is either ignorant or confused about both Balibo and Darwin, the government has a role to play. The foreign policy team of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's new Cabinet should turn defense into offense. We should enlighten the public on sensitive issues and show the world that Indonesia cares. We should remind the world that we are on the same side of the issues on human rights. Every country has crimes against humanity in their history. It is not how you failed but how you recover. If there is to be an investigation into Balibo, it should be done jointly. We have been very successful in Australian-Indonesian police cooperation. The prestigious international magazine The Economist praised Indonesia in a headline: "Despite the apocalyptic visions of a decade ago, Indonesia is a huge success. But it should aim higher." The most visible expression of government will in international eyes is foreign policy. Foreign policy should not always defend domestic policy. Foreign policy should certainly support domestic policy; ideally they should be mutually supportive. We should address misconceptions in our public dialogue. Witness the infantile outburst of emotion against Malaysia, which is not justified by the facts. Witness the culpability of the public for political exploitation of the Bank Century case. At a broader but more serious level, witness the embarrassing emotion during the recent campaign against foreign debt, "neoliberal" economics and a slew of issues that are not understood by the people who rail against them. There is rampant xenophobia among our fellow citizens, based on the notion that the world is against us. It is not. Often the world appreciates us more than we appreciate ourselves. We should rise higher and adopt a receptive audience to world reaction. We need to promote an open stance toward the world, not just by diplomacy but by generating public support of our foreign policy. It will result in a positive view of the world that will give us a better economy, better education, better health, and most importantly, the dignity Indonesia deserves.
Indonesia: A Historical Glimpse
The first known hominid inhabitant of Indonesia was the so-called "Java Man", or Homo erectus, who lived here half a million years ago. Some 60,000 years ago, the ancestors of the present-day Papuans move eastward through these islands, eventually reaching New Guinea and Australia some 30-40,000 years ago. Much later, in about the fourth millennium B.C., they were followed by the ancestors of the modern-day Malays, Javanese and other Malayo-Polynesian groups who now make up the bulk of Indonesia's population. Trade contracts with India, China and the mainland of Southeast Asia brought outside cultural and religious influences to Indonesia. One of the first Indianized empires, known to us now as Sriwijaya, was located on the coast of Sumatra around the strategic straits of Malacca, serving as the hub of a trading network that reached to many parts of the archipelago more than a thousand years ago. On neighboring Java, large kingdoms of the interior of the island erected scores of exquisite of religious monuments, such as Borobudur, the largest Buddhist monument in the world. The last and most powerful of these early Hindu-Javanese kingdoms, the 14th century Majapahit Empire, once controlled and influenced much of what is now known as Indonesia, maintaining contacts with trading outposts as far away as the west coast of Papua New Guinea. Indian Muslim traders began spreading Islam in Indonesia in the eighth and ninth centuries. By the time Marco Polo visited North Sumatra at the end of the 13th century, the first Islamic states were already established there. Soon afterwards, rulers on Java's north coast adopted the new creed and conquered the Hindu-based Majapahit Empire in the Javanese hinterland. The faith gradually spread throughout archipelago, and Indonesia is today the world's largest Islamic nation. Indonesia's abundant spices first brought Portuguese merchants to the key trading port of Malacca in 1511. Prized for their flavor, spices such as cloves, nutmeg and mace were also believed to cure everything from the plague to venereal disease, and were literally worth their weight in gold. The Dutch eventually wrested control of the spice trade from Portuguese, and the tenacious Dutch East India Company (known by initials VOC) established a spice monopoly which lasted well into the 18th century. During the 19th century, the Dutch began sugar and coffee cultivation on Java, which was soon providing three-fourths of the world supply of coffee. By the turn of the 20th century, nationalist stirring, brought about by nearly three centuries of oppressive colonial rule, began to challenge the Dutch presence in Indonesia. A four-year guerilla war led by nationalists against the Dutch on Java after World War II, along with successful diplomatic maneuverings abroad, helped bring about independence. The Republic of Indonesia, officially proclaimed on August 17th, 1945, gained sovereignty four years later. During the first two decades of independence, the republic was dominated by the charismatic figure of Sukarno, one of the early nationalists who had been imprisoned by the Dutch. General (ret.) Soeharto eased Sukarno from power in 1967. Indonesia's economy was sustained throughout the 1970's, almost exclusively by oil export. The Asian financial crisis, which broke out in mid-1997, paralyzed the Indonesian economy with the rupiah losing 80% of its value against the US dollar at the peak of the turmoil. On May 21, 1998, Soeharto resigned after 32 years in power and was replaced by B.J. Habibie following bloody violence and riots. Indonesia held its first democratic election in October 1999, which put Abdurrahman 'Gus Dur' Wahid in the role of president.
Indonesia: A Necklace of Equatorial Emeralds
Indonesia is often referred to as the world's largest archipelago, a name which aptly represents its 17,000 or so islands which span more than 5000 km (around 3,200 miles) eastward from Sabang in northern Sumatra to Merauke in Irian Jaya. If you superimpose a map of Indonesia over one of Europe, you will find that it stretches from Ireland to Iran; compared to the United States, it covers the area from California to Bermuda. There are eight major islands or island groups in this enormous chain. The largest landmasses consist of Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan (Borneo), Sulawesi (Celebes) and Irian Jaya (the western half of Papua New Guinea). The smaller islands fall into two main groups: the Molluccas to the northeast, and the lesser Sunda chain east of Bali. Bali is a unique island, which for a number of reasons can be put into a class of its own. Mountain lovers will find plenty to enjoy in Indonesia. A great volcano chain, the Bukit Barisan, runs the entire length of Sumatra. On the West Coast, the mountains fall abruptly to the sea, while to the east they ease gradually down to plains in a broad fringe of coastal mangroves. Vegetation-clad volcanoes also rise dramatically from the sea at Banda, Ternate and Makian. Many of the volcanoes are still active, constantly smouldering and occasionally erupting violently, though geological stations monitor the active ones constantly and give warning if they are unsafe to climb. Mount Merapi in Central Java is a favourite for climbers, despite being one of the most active on the archipelago. Mountain lakes are also abundant in dormant craters of many volcanoes, the most famous of these being lake Toba in the northern highlands of Sumatra. This mountain lake covers an area four times the size of Singapore. In Kalimantan, waterborne transportation moves cargo and passengers up and down the major rivers: Mahakam, Barito, Kahayan and Kapuas. The mountainous island of Flores is famous for its multi-coloured volcanic lakes, known as Keli Mutu. The three lakes are in a close group and range from dark red to turquoise. Located between two distinct bio-geographic groups - Asia and Australia - the flora and fauna of the archipelago is also quite idiosyncratic. Species found nowhere else on earth have flourished in certain areas, including the famous Komodo dragon on the island of the same name. Also in abundance are rare flowers, including exotic orchids, unusual insects, birds of paradise and numerous indigenous spices such as cloves, nutmeg cinnamon, mace and many more.
Indonesia Flora and Fauna
British naturalist A. R. Wallace (1823-1931) postulated an imaginary line (named after him Walace's Line) as the dividing line between Asiatic and Australian fauna. It passes between Bali and Lombok islands between Kalimantan and Sulawesi, then continues south of the Philippines and north of Hawaii. This theory probably explains the presence of species of fauna familiar to both Asia and Australia found in Indonesia. However, there are species indigenous to Indonesia, like the "orang utan" apes of Sumatra and Kalimantan, the giant "komodo" lizards which are the only ones of their kind in the world today roaming free on the island of Komodo; the one homed rhinoceros of Java, the wild "banteng" oxen, tigers and many other species which are now protected in wildlife reserves. The flora of Indonesia ranges from the tiny orchid to the giant "Rafflesia" plant which has a bloom almost a metre (3.2 feet) in diameter the largest flower in the world and many other species of plant life which can be seen at the Bogor Botanical Gardens. Agricultural produce include rubber, coconut, coffee, tea, cocoa, corn, spices, kapok, tobacco, rice, etc. and an abundance of vegetable and fruit. Indonesia has some of the richest timber resources in the world and the largest concentration of tropical hardwoods. The total area of statecontrolled forests is approximately 12,9 million hectares. Meranti constitues about 56% of the entire timber export. Other varieties include ramin, agathis, teak, pinewood and a range of other timber is smaller quantity, rattan and bamboo.
Indonesia Commemorate May, 20 2009 as National Revival Day
"Boedi Oetomo - May, 20 1908"Every May, 20 Indonesian celebrate National Revival Day. 101 year ago on May, 20 1908 there was the birth day of the first political organization named Boedi Oetomo that consist of young Indonesian who declare themselves to fight about their right to be free against colonialism that happen in Indonesia by the Dutch. This organization was motored by Dr.Soetomo, Dr.Wahidin Soedirohoesodo, Dr.Goenawan and Suryadi Suryaningrat (or well knowed as Ki Hajar Dewantara, one of Indonesian Education Figure). Because of this organization, the Indonesian awake from its long sleep and prepare themselves to fight for their freedom. Cause of that the Indonesian Government take the birth day of Boedi Oetomo as the National Revival Day to honor all who behind this organization. Indonesian hoist "Merah Putih" flag in all their home to celebrate this day. Although this was not off day Indonesian still remembered it and celebrate this day every year. Just right after May, 20 2009 there was off day in Indonesia (on May, 21 2009) to celebrate the ascesion day of Jesus Christ that commemorate by all Indonesian Christian.
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