The business of luxury cemeteries is growing in Indonesia. Today, the Indonesian upper middle class have several options of exclusive real estate to choose from for their final resting place. These cemeteries are far from the image of burial sites as a frightening space. Herein, we will talk about two of such cemeteries. [Continue reading]
Cemeteries to Die For
NewsroomThe business of luxury cemeteries is growing in Indonesia. Today, the Indonesian upper middle class have several options of exclusive real estate to choose from for their final resting place. These cemeteries are far from the image of burial sites as a frightening space. Herein, we will talk about two of such cemeteries. [continue reading]
FPI Spokesperson Munarman
NewsroomMunarman is a widely known name in the circles of Indonesian human rights activists. He is very popular, but not in a good way. Munarman was once a human rights activist but he then made a 180-degree turn and became the spokesperson of the notorious Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), the notorious community organization responsible for countless acts of violence. [continue reading]
People: Agus Santoso
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Agus Santoso, deputy chairman of the money-laundering watchdog PPATK, hopes Indonesia will have a new law targeting terrorist financing by February. The law would enable authorities to freeze bank accounts used to finance terrorism.
Name : Agus Santoso
Place of Birth : Purwokerto, Central Java
Date of Birth : 9 Agustus 1960
Job tittle : Deputy chairman of the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK)
Wife : Juli Widiastuti SH
Website : www.agussantoso.org
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People: Ansyaad Mbai
People![Terrorism remains a real threat in Indonesia, and the target has shifted to the "near enemy", Indonesian police chief of the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT), Ansyaad Mbai told Khabar Southeast Asia in an exclusive interview last week. [2013: Oktofani]](https://oktofani.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/dsc03891.jpg)
Terrorism remains a real threat in Indonesia, and the target has shifted to the “near enemy”, Indonesian police chief of the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT), Ansyaad Mbai told Khabar Southeast Asia in an exclusive interview last week. [2013: Oktofani]
Job tittle : Head of National Agency for Combating Terrorism (BNPT)
Place of Birth : Buton, Southeast Sulawesi
Date of Birth : 2 June 1948
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New MataMassa app empowers regular people to help monitor elections
Khabar Southeast AsiaNew MataMassa app empowers regular people to help monitor elections
by: Yositha Nirbhaya
Free mobile application encourages citizens to monitor violations during the election, inviting greater engagement in the democratic process.
A smartphone app offers greater Jakarta area residents a way to help ensure free and fair upcoming 2014 general elections.
The Jakarta branch of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) and the ICT Laboratory for Social Changes (iLab) launched MataMassa (“Eyes of the Public”) in November as a way for citizens to monitor and anonymously report administrative, criminal or ethical violations during voting or campaigning.
Those could include installation of campaign banners in houses of worship, highways, or hospitals; vote buying; or other violations as defined by the General Election Committee (KPU) and the Election Supervisory Committee (Bawaslu).
Nelson Simanjuntak, Bawaslu committee commissioner, said the app encourages direct societal participation of the process.
“It needs to be understood that MataMassa really helps us improve the 2014 election,” he told Khabar Southeast Asia.
Users can download MataMassa for free and use it to submit a report of a violation by text, photo or video to AJI Jakarta. Project personnel investigate and submit verified reports to Bawaslu.
Between December 15th last year and March 13th, MataMassa received 1,249 reports, and verified 1,154 of them, according to AJI. Because of limited funding, project personnel could only verify violations in Jakarta and outskirts including Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi, AJI Jakarta Chairman Umar Idris told Khabari.
Direct participation
Renanda Laksita, a Partai Demokrat candidate for the House of Representatives (DPR) wished the app could be more widely used.
“I think this is a new innovation to invite society to participate in our democratic process, as we know that many Indonesian people love to use gadgets. I hope society takes advantage of it,” the candidate from Bali told Khabar.
“It would be better if it is applicable all over Indonesia than greater Jakarta only,” she added.
Stefani Bilwa tried, but failed to submit a violation in the form of a massive poster of a candidate in Setiabudi.
“Unfortunately, I was unlucky in submitting it directly through my iPhone,” she told Khabar. “Therefore I have to submit it through the website, which is not as efficient.” Still, Stefani liked the idea of the app to help deliver a fair election.
Reports can also be submitted through SMS center to 081370202014 or via email at lapor@matamassa.org for people without a smartphone or the app.
Data On-shoring: Is the Government Prepared?,
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Our Phone Rights
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Deputy Chief Badrodin Haiti
NewsroomThe chief of the national police Sutarman has appointed commissioner general Badrodin Haiti as the new deputy chief to replace Oegroseno, who retired in Feb. 2014. Badrodin was picked out of other three-star police generals including Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan, the chief of Police Education Institution, and Comr. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam, the General Supervision Inspector. [continue reading]
People: Umar Patek
People![Umar Patek, an accused bombmaker in the 2002 Bali attacks, was speaking to reporters in West Jakarta District Court [2012: Oktofani]](https://oktofani.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/dsc03021.jpg)
Umar Patek, an accused bombmaker in the 2002 Bali attacks, was speaking to reporters in West Jakarta District Court [2012: Oktofani]
Alias : Umar Patek alias Umar, Abu Syekh, Arsalan, Abdul Karim, Umar Arab, Umar Syekh, Zacky dan Anis Alawi Jafar.
Date of birth : 20 Juli 1970
Place of birth : Pemalang, East Java
Wife : Fatimah Azzahra binti Husein Luceno alias Ruqoyah
Case : 2002 Bali Bomb
Summary : Umar Patek was found guilty of murder and bomb-making in connection with the Bali attacks, which killed more than 200 people, mostly foreigners. West Jakarta District Court has convicted a militant of making explosives used in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings and sentenced him to 20 years in jail in 2012.
On March 2014, Umar Patek was relocated from the Brimob prison in Kelapa Dua, Depok, West Java to Porong Penitentiary in Sidoarjo, East Java. The relocation was due to the police’s efforts to uncover a regional terrorism network.
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