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Mudik Lebaran Setelah saya tiba di jakarta, ada teman yang tanya apakah saya sudah ada di "Indon" atau belum. Sebagai TKI saya "tersinggung" juga. Saya pikir apa teman saya itu sudah jadi kaki tangan Badawi, ya? Tapi memang, mungkin dalam pesawat dari kuala lumpur ke cgk itu (klm transit di kl) ada juga TKI yg pernah dianiaya oleh kaki tangan Badawi, walaupun dalam penerbangan yg hanya 1.5 jam itu tidak terlihat profil penumpang seperti kalau saya naik emirates, qatar atau saudi airlines.  Kalau dari eropa naik airlines ini, transit di negara2 arab. Dari situ biasanya ada penumpang baru, orang2 indonesia. Terus terang ada yang kelakuannya agak minus. Banyak juga yang kelihatannya agak "kasian-kasian". Beberapa kali selama penerbangan kami mau tidak mau kena curhat. Ada curhat senang karena dapat majikan baek, katanya kalau musim libur sampai dibawa ke London segala. Tapi ada juga yang curhat sedih.  Sampai di cengkareng biasanya jalurnya dipisah. Ada petu...

When Education Fails to Cultivate Curiosity Karina Soemarwoto Leiden, The Netherlands   /   Wed, May 14 2008   /  Opinion, The Jakarta Post With articles, opinions and other writings that have appeared in The Jakarta Post since National Education Day (May 2) and The Jakarta Post Weekender titled "Education Interrupted", one might reflect back on our education systems and schooling methods. For a nation with plenty of intelligent citizens, some having acquired awards in international Olympiads, why is there still a widening gap between its development and that of other nations ahead of us? Let's look for a flaw and identify its contribution in forming this gap. It is not an unfamiliar case when students are required to memorize exact definitions of difficult vocabulary as is noted in a specific dictionary when learning a language. Of course it becomes laborious when one comes across yet other unfamiliar terms in a definition, let alone to even consider ...

Islamophobia and the Eternal Muslim Karina Soemarwoto, Thu April 24, 2008, Opinion, The Jakarta Post ( Islamphobia and the eternal Muslim - Thu, April 24 2008 - The Jakarta Post ) In his 1922 Munich speech, Hitler stated "It is in the nature of the Jew to destroy and he must destroy. The Jew is harmful to us." Not unlike Wilders's closing message in his film Fitna, stating "Islam wants to rule, submit, and seeks to destroy our Western civilization," or the statement in his article "Enough is Enough: Ban the Koran from Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant: "(Islam) will only bring our country hell and damnation." The week Fitna was released on the Internet, the Indonesian government banned it. However, a common view streaming into The Jakarta Post's Website disagrees with the act. But to judge how tolerable the film truly is, let's ask history.  "A moderate Islam does not exist. It does not exist because there is no difference between good Is...