Siapa yang Menanggung Biayanya? (Lanjutan 1)
Artikel di Kompas tentang Biaya Penanggulangan Semburan Lumpur
Sampai saat ini General Manajer P.T. Lapindo Berantas menyatakan menanggung pengeluaran yang terjadi sampai saat ini, sekitar US$ 70.000.000,00 Kalau perkiraan di NYT benar, dan pernyataan General Manajer benar, dan semuanya dana digunakan untuk mengatasi lumpur, maka kemungkinan P.T. Lapindo Berantas harus mengeluarkan sekitar US$ 930.000.000,00 lagi.
Tetap semangat!
Menteri Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral meminta supaya pembicaraan mengenai masalah pendanaan dilakukan dalam forum yang terbatas dan tertutup, bahkan beberapa anggota tim juga harus meninggalkan ruangan.
Kenapa yah? Mungkin Pak Menteri mau nyumbang, cuman nggak enak kalo ketahuan.
Pada awal rapat rencana sudah dipaparkan secara baik, tetapi ketika ditanya mengenai masalah pendanaan oleh Polda Jatim, Ketua Tim Pelaksana diminta memilah perencanaan menjadi jangan pendek, jangka menengah, dan jangka panjang. Jangka panjangnya kayaknya panjaaanngg sekali.
Wah ini kesempatan kabur nih, karena kayaknya bakal lebih lama lagi penyelesaiannnya. Selain itu, proyek jangka menengah dan jangka panjang bisa jadi kesempatan untuk buat proyek baru nih. Hidup proyek!
p.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Cool Song
I just learned how to post a videoclip here. I was so outdated. Anyhow, enjoy the song...
I watched Man in the Moon movies that played by Jim Carey. It was a movie about Andy Kaufman. He's an idealist entertainer, who simply wanted to make people gasp. It is a good movie, for me, and this song about him was so perfectly fit. So, I like the song, I'm a fan of the group (REM), I like the actor, and I enjoyed the movie; it was a good combination.
p.
I just learned how to post a videoclip here. I was so outdated. Anyhow, enjoy the song...
I watched Man in the Moon movies that played by Jim Carey. It was a movie about Andy Kaufman. He's an idealist entertainer, who simply wanted to make people gasp. It is a good movie, for me, and this song about him was so perfectly fit. So, I like the song, I'm a fan of the group (REM), I like the actor, and I enjoyed the movie; it was a good combination.
p.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Siapa yang menanggung biayanya?
Artikel dari halaman depan New York Times (NYT)
Artikel di atas membuat gue tertarik pada kasus ini, karena berada di halaman depan NYT. Setelah itu gue mulai mencari-cari berita di Indonesia, untuk menjawab pertanyaan yang diutarakan oleh artikel ini. Sampai saat ini yang gue lihat dari berita-berita itu hanyalan proses masalah penanggulangannya yang, seperti biasa, berantakan. Penanggulangannya juga dilakukan oleh tim yang dibuat oleh pemerintah, tanpa gue lihat peran atau partisipasi dari perusahaan yang berbuat kesalahan. Sehingga, sampai saat ini, gue cuman bisa menjawab bahwa pemerintah, dengan dana pajak yang diambil dari rakyat, akan menanggung biaya yang dapat mencapai 1 milyar dollar, hampir mencapai 10 triliun rupiah (sekitar Rp. 10.000.000.000.000,00). Gue rasa masyarakat akan merasa malas untuk membantu, karena yang menyebabkan bencana ini bisa kabur.
Kutipan dicetak miring:
"Foreign companies, environmental groups and political observers are now watching closely to see whether the government will hold the company that drilled the well accountable for the costs of the cleanup, which could easily reach $1 billion."
Selain itu dari segi bagaimana perusahaan induk dapat melarikan diri dari kemungkinan tuntutan keungan juga menarik. Lapindo Berantas yang dimiliki oleh Bakrie Groups telah dijual ke perusahaan yang terdaftar di Jersey, Amerika (Lyte Ltd.) seharga 2 dollar, hampir mencapai 20 ribu rupiah (sekitar Rp. 20.000,00). Perusahaan 'bodoh' yang mau membeli Lapindo Berantas yang bermasalah ini ternyata adalah perusahaan yang pemilik sepenuhnya Bakrie Groups. Sehingga, bila Lyte Ltd. menyatakan pailit di Amerika, Bakrie Group kemungkinan besar tidak perlu menanggung biaya bencana yang disebabkan oleh Lapindo Berantas.
"But as the liabilities have escalated, Lapindo was sold — for $2 — last month to an offshore company, owned by the Bakrie Group, and many fear it will declare bankruptcy, allowing its owners to walk away."
"Lapindo’s parent company announced that it was selling Lapindo for $2 to Lyte Ltd., a company that is registered in the offshore island of Jersey. The majority shareholder in the parent company is the Bakrie Group, and the Bakrie Group is also the sole owner of Lyte, according to public documents."
"A concern now is whether Lyte, which has been renamed Bakrie Oil & Gas, will declare bankruptcy, which seems almost inevitable."
“That’s what I’m afraid of,” said Mr. Hendrarso, the senior elected executive official in Sidoarjo, the district that is at the center of the mud disaster. If the Bakrie Group does not pay, the Indonesia government will be left with the bill, government officials said."
Gue berasa mau gebukin orang ajah nih bawaannya.
Walaupun gue sebenernya mau percaya mungkin itu emang alam ajah yang lagi nyebelin, jadi bencana alam tersebut terjadi, tetapi sampai saat ini kok berat ke kesalahan manusia yah.
Semoga, sekali lagi semoga, yang mesti bertanggung jawab melaksanakan kewajibannya. Sehingga bukan masyarakat Indonesia lagi yang dibuat jadi lebih miskin, hanya karena ada yang mau dapat untung lebih besar dengan membuat sesuatu tidak sesuai ketentuan.
Semoga.
NB: Kalo ternyata yang semestinya bertanggung jawab dengan berbagai tipu daya dan muslihat bisa lari dari kewajiban, maka hanya satu yang dapat gue lakukan, seperti rakyat Indonesia pada umumnya: gue sumpahin loe semua.
Contoh: GUE SUMPAHIN MATI BESOK LOE SEMUA, BANGSAT!!!
Artikel dari halaman depan New York Times (NYT)
Artikel di atas membuat gue tertarik pada kasus ini, karena berada di halaman depan NYT. Setelah itu gue mulai mencari-cari berita di Indonesia, untuk menjawab pertanyaan yang diutarakan oleh artikel ini. Sampai saat ini yang gue lihat dari berita-berita itu hanyalan proses masalah penanggulangannya yang, seperti biasa, berantakan. Penanggulangannya juga dilakukan oleh tim yang dibuat oleh pemerintah, tanpa gue lihat peran atau partisipasi dari perusahaan yang berbuat kesalahan. Sehingga, sampai saat ini, gue cuman bisa menjawab bahwa pemerintah, dengan dana pajak yang diambil dari rakyat, akan menanggung biaya yang dapat mencapai 1 milyar dollar, hampir mencapai 10 triliun rupiah (sekitar Rp. 10.000.000.000.000,00). Gue rasa masyarakat akan merasa malas untuk membantu, karena yang menyebabkan bencana ini bisa kabur.
Kutipan dicetak miring:
"Foreign companies, environmental groups and political observers are now watching closely to see whether the government will hold the company that drilled the well accountable for the costs of the cleanup, which could easily reach $1 billion."
Selain itu dari segi bagaimana perusahaan induk dapat melarikan diri dari kemungkinan tuntutan keungan juga menarik. Lapindo Berantas yang dimiliki oleh Bakrie Groups telah dijual ke perusahaan yang terdaftar di Jersey, Amerika (Lyte Ltd.) seharga 2 dollar, hampir mencapai 20 ribu rupiah (sekitar Rp. 20.000,00). Perusahaan 'bodoh' yang mau membeli Lapindo Berantas yang bermasalah ini ternyata adalah perusahaan yang pemilik sepenuhnya Bakrie Groups. Sehingga, bila Lyte Ltd. menyatakan pailit di Amerika, Bakrie Group kemungkinan besar tidak perlu menanggung biaya bencana yang disebabkan oleh Lapindo Berantas.
"But as the liabilities have escalated, Lapindo was sold — for $2 — last month to an offshore company, owned by the Bakrie Group, and many fear it will declare bankruptcy, allowing its owners to walk away."
"Lapindo’s parent company announced that it was selling Lapindo for $2 to Lyte Ltd., a company that is registered in the offshore island of Jersey. The majority shareholder in the parent company is the Bakrie Group, and the Bakrie Group is also the sole owner of Lyte, according to public documents."
"A concern now is whether Lyte, which has been renamed Bakrie Oil & Gas, will declare bankruptcy, which seems almost inevitable."
“That’s what I’m afraid of,” said Mr. Hendrarso, the senior elected executive official in Sidoarjo, the district that is at the center of the mud disaster. If the Bakrie Group does not pay, the Indonesia government will be left with the bill, government officials said."
Gue berasa mau gebukin orang ajah nih bawaannya.
Walaupun gue sebenernya mau percaya mungkin itu emang alam ajah yang lagi nyebelin, jadi bencana alam tersebut terjadi, tetapi sampai saat ini kok berat ke kesalahan manusia yah.
Semoga, sekali lagi semoga, yang mesti bertanggung jawab melaksanakan kewajibannya. Sehingga bukan masyarakat Indonesia lagi yang dibuat jadi lebih miskin, hanya karena ada yang mau dapat untung lebih besar dengan membuat sesuatu tidak sesuai ketentuan.
Semoga.
NB: Kalo ternyata yang semestinya bertanggung jawab dengan berbagai tipu daya dan muslihat bisa lari dari kewajiban, maka hanya satu yang dapat gue lakukan, seperti rakyat Indonesia pada umumnya: gue sumpahin loe semua.
Contoh: GUE SUMPAHIN MATI BESOK LOE SEMUA, BANGSAT!!!
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Puisi Buatan Istri
* yang ini ngerti dikit-dikitlah, lumayan, hehehehhehe
KE MANA?
Kala trus beranjak
Dari tiada menjadi ada
Ketika ada terpelihara
Namun tetap bagian dari dunia
Lekang pupus dimakan usia
Ketika tak sanggup menemukannya kembali
Terpisahlah dua anak manusia
Bukan maut yang memisahkannya
Bukan pula kematian raga
Hanya perginya rasa yang pernah ada
Ke mana perginya
Tak ada yang berusaha mencari
Dari ada menjadi tiada
Hanya mampu berucap doa
Inilah yang terbaik untuknya
11 Oktober 2006
(Tercenung mendengarkan kabar dari kawan lama)
* yang ini ngerti dikit-dikitlah, lumayan, hehehehhehe
KE MANA?
Kala trus beranjak
Dari tiada menjadi ada
Ketika ada terpelihara
Namun tetap bagian dari dunia
Lekang pupus dimakan usia
Ketika tak sanggup menemukannya kembali
Terpisahlah dua anak manusia
Bukan maut yang memisahkannya
Bukan pula kematian raga
Hanya perginya rasa yang pernah ada
Ke mana perginya
Tak ada yang berusaha mencari
Dari ada menjadi tiada
Hanya mampu berucap doa
Inilah yang terbaik untuknya
11 Oktober 2006
(Tercenung mendengarkan kabar dari kawan lama)
The Traces of Her
*On Itunes
*On Mobile Phones
*On The Desk
*On Yahoo Messengger Window Chat
*On The Wall 1
*On Yahoo Messengger
*On Friendster 1
*On Friendster 2
*On Friendster 3
*On Friendster 4
*On Friendster 5
*On The Wall 2
*On Friendster 6
*On Friendster 7
*On Friendster 8
*On Friendster 9
*On My Mind.... On My Heart... Always...
I love you... Always...
*On Itunes
*On Mobile Phones
*On The Desk
*On Yahoo Messengger Window Chat
*On The Wall 1
*On Yahoo Messengger
*On Friendster 1
*On Friendster 2
*On Friendster 3
*On Friendster 4
*On Friendster 5
*On The Wall 2
*On Friendster 6
*On Friendster 7
*On Friendster 8
*On Friendster 9
*On My Mind.... On My Heart... Always...
I love you... Always...
Friday, October 13, 2006
Me, Myself, and Books
I love to buy books, actually I'm addicted to books. Almost any kind of books, from philosophy books to comic books (yes, comic is also a book). I don't read the entire books that I bought, maybe I read the introduction, but definitely not all the contents of the book, with the exception of very few interesting books.
Since elementary school, I like to be surrounded by books. Both of my parents, my mother and my father, have oollection of books that I can't understand until now, their books were about medical science or perinatalogy, and administration research. Most of the time, my parents gave books to me and my sister. We're not allowed to buy a lot of toys, but they always more lenient if we wanted books; we were also allowed to rent videos, but let's focus on books here. In addition, my grandparents from my mother side also like to give books to their grandchildren, any kind of books.
Of course, naturally, we accumulated a lot of comics's book, until our parents detected our craving toward comics. Then, they reduced comics consumption. Of course, we moved to novel, and we accumulated a lot of novels afterward.
We had so many books, we even opened a small library for our neighborhood, well actually my smart sister did all the work, but that was the first time I realized we have a lot of books. We rented our books for people in the surrounding area: Jalan Haji Jame/Gang Belimbing, Cilandak KKO. It was for a good cause, because books were relatively expensive at that time, and our neighborhood was not even in the average of middle income level. We were philanthropist at our young age :D. If my memory served, we rented our books for Rp 100.00 (or maybe Rp. 50.00) for couple of days, and we gave discount for our active customer. For the detailed, I have to ask my sister, if she still remember. We had our times and businesss was good, but we were bored easily, and we abandon our noble intention to spread our reading materials.
But good thing has to end somewhere; we moved to our current place. We moved to smaller place, but better ones, because the house is closer to our school and my mother workplace. I like to move to my current house, where my grandparents previously stayed. But it is not about the new place, it's about the process of moving. When the important things have to be packed and sent, books will be in the least important things. Of course, our parents promised to keep the books or sent the books later, but that day never come, until now (I'm married now, and my sister is ..., well no comment). The books were damaged, and I think even the scavengers doesn't want to take books that heavily damaged. It hurts me everytime I remember the books that I once had.
In a new place, we hardly had spaces to keep our books organized. We're still buying books, but we just didn't keep it like we used to be. The books were thrown everywhere, sometimes it was damped, in short the books were easily damaged. We're also occupied with our teenage problems, and other problems that demand our time. Again, books became the least important thing in our life. Therefore, although the books keep flowing, but the stock was not increasing like before.
Now, I'm still buying books like an addict. I'm lucky because my wife is also like to collect books, and she keeps the books in a mint condition. She even scolds me if I'm not careful with her books and also my books. We try too keep our books, although we don't have big spaces, but my wife try to manage it. In my previous office and my desk in UIUC, I have big book shelves, so everything is getting better for books. Yeah, I hope it will continue in the years come.
I'm always planning to have small library in our place.
Why I'm writing this essay? It was because I just bought the same book for the third time, and I'm asking to myself: Why I'm addicted to the books. So, maybe later I will tell you about the book that gave inspiration to this essay.
p.
I love to buy books, actually I'm addicted to books. Almost any kind of books, from philosophy books to comic books (yes, comic is also a book). I don't read the entire books that I bought, maybe I read the introduction, but definitely not all the contents of the book, with the exception of very few interesting books.
Since elementary school, I like to be surrounded by books. Both of my parents, my mother and my father, have oollection of books that I can't understand until now, their books were about medical science or perinatalogy, and administration research. Most of the time, my parents gave books to me and my sister. We're not allowed to buy a lot of toys, but they always more lenient if we wanted books; we were also allowed to rent videos, but let's focus on books here. In addition, my grandparents from my mother side also like to give books to their grandchildren, any kind of books.
Of course, naturally, we accumulated a lot of comics's book, until our parents detected our craving toward comics. Then, they reduced comics consumption. Of course, we moved to novel, and we accumulated a lot of novels afterward.
We had so many books, we even opened a small library for our neighborhood, well actually my smart sister did all the work, but that was the first time I realized we have a lot of books. We rented our books for people in the surrounding area: Jalan Haji Jame/Gang Belimbing, Cilandak KKO. It was for a good cause, because books were relatively expensive at that time, and our neighborhood was not even in the average of middle income level. We were philanthropist at our young age :D. If my memory served, we rented our books for Rp 100.00 (or maybe Rp. 50.00) for couple of days, and we gave discount for our active customer. For the detailed, I have to ask my sister, if she still remember. We had our times and businesss was good, but we were bored easily, and we abandon our noble intention to spread our reading materials.
But good thing has to end somewhere; we moved to our current place. We moved to smaller place, but better ones, because the house is closer to our school and my mother workplace. I like to move to my current house, where my grandparents previously stayed. But it is not about the new place, it's about the process of moving. When the important things have to be packed and sent, books will be in the least important things. Of course, our parents promised to keep the books or sent the books later, but that day never come, until now (I'm married now, and my sister is ..., well no comment). The books were damaged, and I think even the scavengers doesn't want to take books that heavily damaged. It hurts me everytime I remember the books that I once had.
In a new place, we hardly had spaces to keep our books organized. We're still buying books, but we just didn't keep it like we used to be. The books were thrown everywhere, sometimes it was damped, in short the books were easily damaged. We're also occupied with our teenage problems, and other problems that demand our time. Again, books became the least important thing in our life. Therefore, although the books keep flowing, but the stock was not increasing like before.
Now, I'm still buying books like an addict. I'm lucky because my wife is also like to collect books, and she keeps the books in a mint condition. She even scolds me if I'm not careful with her books and also my books. We try too keep our books, although we don't have big spaces, but my wife try to manage it. In my previous office and my desk in UIUC, I have big book shelves, so everything is getting better for books. Yeah, I hope it will continue in the years come.
I'm always planning to have small library in our place.
Why I'm writing this essay? It was because I just bought the same book for the third time, and I'm asking to myself: Why I'm addicted to the books. So, maybe later I will tell you about the book that gave inspiration to this essay.
p.
Nobel Peace Prize and Economic Prize Winner 2006
My undergraduate years were filled with mostly Keynesian and some Neo-Classic economics of thought. Since I'm interested in economic development, I studied growth and development intensely. Therefore, I'm more or less familiar with the Nobel Economics Prize winner; at least I learnt their concepts. It is always interesting to see how they can develop such concepts that are simple but powerful. They are powerful enough to shape the development of economic thinking and economic policies.
Therefore, the easiest way to know about economics is to read the life and the works of the Nobel Economics Price winner. You'll see how their passion can turn into the leading concept in economics field. I'm not saying that I'm familiar with the entire winners, but I somewhat superficially know some of the winner's works.
Edmund Phelps is the winner for 2006 Nobel Economics Prize. I know his work, but mostly from the Paul Ormerod's book (The Butterfly Economics). The book criticize the NAIRU (Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment). I'm more familiar with Phillips's Curve, but I read about this NAIRU concept hastily. One of the main reason for my negligence is in high growth developing countries like Indonesia, we don't really care about unemployment, because high growth will undermined the unemployment rate. In addition, in Indonesia, unemployment was still a vague concept, because our social structure, which require redefinition of employment and unemployment concept. But nowadays, this concept is very important for development in Indonesia. Edmund Phelps is, without a doubt, one of the leading thinkers in economic.
Now, let's move to the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2006. Surprisingly, at least for me, the winner is also economist, and I know his work from my undergraduate class. Dr. Mohammad Yunus is the inventor of Grameen Bank; it is a microcredit/microfinancing for people who can not get credit from the conventional bank. His work was copied by many countries, even his concept is included in many economics' development books, like Leading Issues in Economic Development by Gerald Meier. I studied his work in the development class. At the time I learnt about his concept, microfinancing is one of the leading policy in Indonesia, and in many developing countries for helping the poor. Furthermore, when I became a field researcher, I surveyed the impact of microfinancing to the people. It is a very well known concept and practice for me. Of course you will not see the Grameen Bank in American Economic review, Journal of Political Economy, or even in any "serious" economic discussion, but microcredit was spreading to help the poor in the world. It was not about the concept that might be exist before Grameen Bank (which I doubt it), but the practice that makes people believe in microcredit.
I'm very happy to see Dr. Mohammad Yunus as the Nobel Peace Prize winner for his work in economic for the poor. Well, I think he should also win the Nobel Economic Prize As a bigheaded economist I would say, this is one of the example if we work economics problem, peace can be achieved simultaneously. I hope more "economist for the poor" will be rocognized in the years ahead.
p.
My undergraduate years were filled with mostly Keynesian and some Neo-Classic economics of thought. Since I'm interested in economic development, I studied growth and development intensely. Therefore, I'm more or less familiar with the Nobel Economics Prize winner; at least I learnt their concepts. It is always interesting to see how they can develop such concepts that are simple but powerful. They are powerful enough to shape the development of economic thinking and economic policies.
Therefore, the easiest way to know about economics is to read the life and the works of the Nobel Economics Price winner. You'll see how their passion can turn into the leading concept in economics field. I'm not saying that I'm familiar with the entire winners, but I somewhat superficially know some of the winner's works.
Edmund Phelps is the winner for 2006 Nobel Economics Prize. I know his work, but mostly from the Paul Ormerod's book (The Butterfly Economics). The book criticize the NAIRU (Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment). I'm more familiar with Phillips's Curve, but I read about this NAIRU concept hastily. One of the main reason for my negligence is in high growth developing countries like Indonesia, we don't really care about unemployment, because high growth will undermined the unemployment rate. In addition, in Indonesia, unemployment was still a vague concept, because our social structure, which require redefinition of employment and unemployment concept. But nowadays, this concept is very important for development in Indonesia. Edmund Phelps is, without a doubt, one of the leading thinkers in economic.
Now, let's move to the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2006. Surprisingly, at least for me, the winner is also economist, and I know his work from my undergraduate class. Dr. Mohammad Yunus is the inventor of Grameen Bank; it is a microcredit/microfinancing for people who can not get credit from the conventional bank. His work was copied by many countries, even his concept is included in many economics' development books, like Leading Issues in Economic Development by Gerald Meier. I studied his work in the development class. At the time I learnt about his concept, microfinancing is one of the leading policy in Indonesia, and in many developing countries for helping the poor. Furthermore, when I became a field researcher, I surveyed the impact of microfinancing to the people. It is a very well known concept and practice for me. Of course you will not see the Grameen Bank in American Economic review, Journal of Political Economy, or even in any "serious" economic discussion, but microcredit was spreading to help the poor in the world. It was not about the concept that might be exist before Grameen Bank (which I doubt it), but the practice that makes people believe in microcredit.
I'm very happy to see Dr. Mohammad Yunus as the Nobel Peace Prize winner for his work in economic for the poor. Well, I think he should also win the Nobel Economic Prize As a bigheaded economist I would say, this is one of the example if we work economics problem, peace can be achieved simultaneously. I hope more "economist for the poor" will be rocognized in the years ahead.
p.
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