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Michael is a professional leader in the fields of energy investments, complex commercial deals, and sustainability with extensive international experience. His personal interests span from socio-political issues, history, and culture.
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Faith, Reason and the University -Memories and Reflections
By michael on 30/10/2006
“…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.”
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Bahasa Kebangsaan yang Merakyat dan Supel
Hakikat bahasa Indonesia menurut Ki Hajar Dewantara dalam Kongres Bahasa Indonesia I 1939 di Solo:
”jang dinamakan ‘Bahasa Indonesia’ jaitoe bahasa Melajoe jang soenggoehpoen pokoknja berasal dari ‘Melajoe Riaoe’ akan tetapi jang soedah ditambah, dioebah ataoe dikoerangi menoeroet keperloean zaman dan alam baharoe, hingga bahasa itoe laloe moedah dipakai oleh rakjat diseloeroeh Indonesia; pembaharoean bahasa Melajoe hingga menjadi bahasa Indonesia itoe haroes dilakoekan oleh kaoem ahli jan beralam baharoe, ialah alam kebangsaan Indonesia” (Ki Hajar Dewantara dalam Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Edisi Ketiga (2005: xxv), Jakarta: Balai Pustaka).
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