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The Strategic Case of Climate Change for Indonesia
It is critical to frame the issue of climate change as a problem to the population. It should not be seen only as a problem to the environment, since it also poses grave challenges to social and economic development. Planet Earth has been in existence for more than four billion years and has gone through solar storms, meteor impacts and several ice ages. Several dozens of high-grade hurricanes and meters of rising sea level will not jeopardize the planet as much as it will demolish the people living on it.The window of opportunity for Indonesia to embed climate change considerations into its development plan and muster international support to undertake a low carbon development is still open – but not for long.
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For all its pivotal utilities, the calendar system also sets benchmarks in our lives so that we can see our life journey in sections like days, months, and years. It enables us to review our past and plan for the future. But most of the time we do not know the full extent of what we do today will bring us in the future. Just like we didn’t know that something small in the past actually brought something we value dearly.
Memilih Sekolah di Luar Negeri beserta Tanggung Jawabnya
Setiap pelajar Indonesia yang sekolah di luar negeri memiliki beragam tanggung jawab. Tapi semua itu dimulai dengan tanggung jawab untuk memilih pendidikan yang sebaik-baiknya. Jangan sampai hanya semata karena dis-informasi atau mis-informasi, putra-putri bangsa ini mubazir merantau.
Impian Itu Adalah Setiap Anak Indonesia Kenal Komputer
Di negara dengan ketimpangan sosial yang relatif tajam seperti Indonesia, kesenjangan teknologi pun lebih terasa. Sebagian mahasiswa metropolitan kerap memeriksa surat elektronik melalui kotak ajaib seukuran telapak tangan, sementara rekan-rekan mereka di pedalaman masih belajar dengan lampu minyak. Memang, keadaan seperti itu banyak bergantung pada faktor ekonomi, tapi hal ini dapat dilangkahi dengan penerapan teknologi mutakhir yang merakyat.
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Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Prayer for Interfaith Meetings
God of all creation,
we stand in awe before You,
impelled by visions of the harmony of humanity.
We are children of many traditions –
inheritors of shared wisdom and tragic misunderstandings,
of proud hopes and humble successes.
Cross-Cultural Management
Komunikasi dan Manajemen Lintas Budaya
Semboyan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika memiliki dua elemen yaitu perbedaan dan kesatuan. Jangan kita menafikan perbedaan dengan hidup dalam ilusi bahwa terdapat satu budaya Indonesia, tetapi let’s cherish and manage the differences. Rule of thumb setiap kali kita berinteraksi dengan budaya-budaya yang berbeda adalah: it’s not right, it’s not wrong, it’s just different.
By: Nawa Tunggal / Kompas
Potential Production of Second Generation Biofuels
Indonesia has a huge potential to produce second generation biofuel that can be produced from waste, residue, and non-crop plants. Second generation biofuel does not compete with sugarcane, corn, wheat, palmoil, or other plants that require large area of land such as jatropha.
Oleh: Nawa Tunggal / Kompas
Bahan Bakar Alternatif Potensi Produksi “Biofuel” Generasi II
Indonesia memiliki potensi besar untuk memproduksi generasi kedua biofuel yang dapat dihasilkan dari limbah, residu, serta tanaman nonpangan. Generasi kedua biofuel ini tidak "memakan" tanaman tebu, jagung, kedelai, minyak sawit, ataupun bahan baku yang membutuhkan area lahan seperti biji jarak pagar.
Interfaith Dialogue
Nostra Aetate
Nostra Aetate is a groundbreaking document of its time that spearheaded true interfaith dialogs from the Church in the 20th century. Explicit references are made to other religions, acknowledgment of past history, but most of all sincere intention to move forward as one humanity - beyond religious boundaries.
Undangan 29 Juni 2007
A Tribute to All Parents
Tanggal 29 Juni 2007 nanti menandai tepat 40 hari wafatnya ayah terkasih yang dipanggil Sang Khalik pada 21 Mei 2007. Bertepatan dengan itu dan untuk mendoakan orang tua kita semua -baik yang masih bersama kita maupun yang sudah menyelesaikan tugasnya di dunia- saya dengan rendah hati mengundang teman-teman sekalian pada:
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Lecture of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Reason and the University -Memories and Reflections
"...While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from these possibilities and we must ask ourselves how we can overcome them. We will succeed in doing so only if reason and faith come together in a new way, if we overcome the self-imposed limitation of reason to the empirically verifiable, and if we once more disclose its vast horizons. In this sense theology rightly belongs in the university and within the wide-ranging dialogue of sciences, not merely as a historical discipline and one of the human sciences, but precisely as theology, as inquiry into the rationality of faith."
Kontroversi Ceramah Paus Benediktus XVI
Fakta dibalik Berita
Tulisan ini sama sekali tidak dimaksudkan untuk membela Paus Benediktus XVI terkait pemberitaan akhir-akhir ini tentang pernyataan beliau yang katanya kontroversial tentang Islam dan jihad. Tulisan ini juga tidak untuk membela otoritas Vatikan ataupun Gereja Katolik. Maksud dari tulisan ini sebenarnya sederhana, ingin mengajak publik Indonesia untuk berpikir sehat dan kritis dalam menarik kesimpulan dan kemudian menyikapi suatu berita.
Oleh: Hellena Souisa
Tunas Sepak Bola Indonesia Menjajal Belanda
Mungkin tidak banyak yang tahu, bahwa sudah sejak Juni 2006 yang lalu, Belanda kedatangan tamu-tamu muda dari Indonesia. Ya, tim nasional PSSI dibawah usia 23 tahun (U-23) saat ini ada di Negeri Kincir Angin, untuk mengikuti serangkaian latihan sekaligus seleksi pemain.
Ditemui hari Sabtu yang lalu usai bertanding melawan tim papan atas liga amatir Belanda, DOS [...]
The Hague, 17 June 2006
The Yogyakarta Memoir
In response to the recent and devastating Yogyakarta earthquake, the Indonesian Student Association in Netherlands together with elements of Indonesian communities in the Netherlands spontaneously initiated the “Solidarity Committee for Yogyakarta Earthquake.” This Committee immediately gained support from various Indonesian organizations in the Netherlands and abroad.
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Some phrases are worth remembering or at least glanced through once and again. Indeed, their worthiness is often boosted by the person behind the words. This selection provides a very small fraction of those phrases from renowned ladies and gentlemen from various periods. Although they are listed in no particular order, updates will be placed on top for comfort reading. Welcome to the world of 
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Affiliates, Interests, Daily Clicks, Friends, Organizations—the followings are links to some of my most visited websites or those that are related to me. You may find them interesting, useful, or in any case informative. Some are totally in Indonesian.
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