Patung Minamoto no Yoshitsune di Dannoura, Jepang (Source: wikipedia.org)

Peradaban Jepang di kala itu diselimuti oleh peperangan maupun perebutan wilayah, Ushiwakamaru tumbuh di keluarga samurai dibawah pengawasan Taira no Kiyomori, yang merupakan pimpinan dari klan Heike. Tumbuh dan berkembang di kalangan biksu, namun kemudian keluar biara dengan berbagai keahlian diantaranya berburu, berkuda, seni pedang, taktik perang dan lain-lain. Dengan menggunakan nama Yoshitsune, kemudian bergabung dengan tentara Genji bersama saudara-saudaranya untuk melawan tirani klan Heike.

Kemudian Yoshitsune memiliki salah satu pengikut yang cukup terkenal yakni Saito Musashibo Benkei, yang dikenal sebagai sosok yang tangguh dan setia pada Yoshitsune dan klan Genji. Keseluruhan kisah dari pertempuran dua klan ini diangkat dalam novel Eiji Yoshikawa (2010) maupun komik dengan judul Shanaou Yoshitsune, karya komikus Sawada Hirofumi (2003), namun ada sedikit perbedaan dengan kisah aslinya di dalam komik, Ushiwakamaru dan Yoshitsune (Hyota) dibedakan menjadi dua orang yang berbeda untuk keperluan cerita.

Referensi

Sawada, Hirofumi (2003). Shanaou Yoshitsune Vol. 1-22. Jakarta: Elex Media Komputindo.

Yoshikawa, Eiji (2010). The Heike Story: Kisah Epik Jepang Abad ke-12. Jakarta: Zahira Books.

Tidak hanya sekedar men-cover lagu-lagu Indonesia, kecintaannya terhadap negeri kita ini juga ia tunjukkan dengan konser-konser amal yang ia selenggarakan di Belanda, semua hasil kegiatan amal itu ia sumbangkan untuk korban-korban bencana alam yang terjadi di Indonesia. Diri nya pun aktif di Ranesi (Radio Netherland Siaran Bahasa Indonesia), radio di Belanda yang menyiarkan informasi dalam bahasa Indonesia. Peter sangat mengagumi budaya pop Indonesia, yang menurutnya sangat unik dan indah.

Peter Fennema (nlpeter)

Peter juga mengagumi sinematografi videoclip dari musisi dalam negeri (Indonesia), ini bukti bahwa apa yang kita kerjakan bisa menjadi sebuah “trend” di kalangan luas, banyak kita kunjungi di Indonesia, musisi muda yang berupaya sekuat tenaga untuk meniru musisi-musisi asia timur seperti Jepang dan Korea, namun inilah uniknya, ketika kita lupa akan “budaya” negeri sendiri, justru orang Belanda yang “kegandrungan” musik-musik kita, dan tanpa ragu mereka mengatakan, “Indonesian song’s is beautiful”.

Inilah bukti dimana dunia telah menjadi “flat”, pertukaran budaya bisa terjadi dimana saja, namun sekali lagi, Indonesia memang membanggakan! Peter dapat dikunjungi pada situs nlpeter.nl

nlpeter – jangan menyerah (d’masiv cover)

Tidak perlu meragukan sepak terjang bapak kelahiran Bandung 22 Maret 1963 ini, nama nya cukup “beken” dikalangan mahasiswa dan departemen luar negeri, sebelum nya Marty Natalegawa adalah Duta Besar Indonesia untuk PBB, Duta Besar Indonesia untuk Kerajaan Britania Raya (United Kingdom), dan juru bicara Menteri Luar Negeri.

Dr. Marty Natalegawa, M.Phil (Menteri Luar Negeri Indonesia 2009-2014)

Banyak tugas yang telah diemban nya dengan sangat baik, ini memunculkan optimisme keseriusan SBY dalam pemerintahan versi keduanya ini, bahwa ada pesan bahwa profesionalisme tetap menjadi hal yang utama, ditengah-tengah pembagian kursi kabinet yang dinanti-nanti oleh Partai Koalisi. Marty Natalegawa akan memimpin Deplu dalam 5 tahun kedepan dan hal ini patut kita banggakan. Selamat bekerja Kang Marty!

Soekarno, Presiden pertama Indonesia dan sang proklamator, sosok yang tangguh, berwibawa dan yakin akan kemandirian bangsa nya.

“Bung, apa yang harus kami lakukan ?”

Bung Karno dan Che Guevara, revolver!.

]]> http://irwanarfandi.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/soekarno-suara-bangsa-indonesia/feed/ 0 irwanarfandi Photobucket http://irwanarfandi.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/masihkah-abang-adik/ http://irwanarfandi.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/masihkah-abang-adik/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:00:46 +0000 irwanarfandi http://irwanarfandi.wordpress.com/?p=400 ]]> Dulu sekitar tahun 1980-an, Indonesia dan Malaysia ibarat abang yang selelu memberi contoh pada adik nya, bagaimana cara belajar, berkreasi dan berusaha, tapi kini hubungan “abang-adik” ini bak kisah seorang adik (Malaysia) yang merasa sudah berhasil melampaui kemampuan sang kakak (Indonesia), apa pun itu, hubungan manis ini seharusnya tetap dijaga, adik boleh lebih dari abang, tapi tidak boleh mencontek kerjaan abang, benar kan ?

Kisah ini jika ditilik jauh lebih pada sisi sejarah, pada era Presiden Soekarno ada semboyan yang terucap, “ganyang Malaysia!!”, Bung Karno mungkin menganggap DNA sang adik ini adalah DNA yang tidak baik, yang merupakan bentukan negara sekutu penjajah. Masa berganti pada era Presiden Soeharto, hubungan erat Pak Harto dengan Perdana Menteri Mahatir Muhammad sangat baik, bisa mencerminkan istilah “abang-adik” tersebut, Petronas belajar pada Pertamina, mahasiswa asal Malaysia belajar di Universitas-universitas Indonesia, dan masih banyak lagi program-program kerjasama lainnya.

Hasil “akuisisi” sang adik atas abang nya, Pulau Sipadan dan Pulau Ligitan.

Pada era millenium ini, Malaysia mengalami perkembangan yang cukup pesat ketimbang sang abang, hal ini wajar dialami banyak negara-negara berkembang lainnya, namun ini menjadi awal mula masalah-masalah abang dan adik ini. Mulai dari permasalahan pulau sipadan-ligitan, sang adik berupaya “mengakuisisi” milik abang-nya, namun pulau bukanlah persoalan bisnis keluarga yang bisa di bagi-bagi, kemudian masalah TKI yang sangat menyudutkan sang abang sekali lagi, lalu tak ketinggalan persoalan kebudayaan karya masyarakat negara sang abang ikut diakui seperti lagu-lagu daerah dan tarian, masyarakat Malaysia boleh saja berkata budaya adalah sesuatu yang dapat menyatukan, tapi menyatukan apa? masyarakat di negeri sang adik mengatakan tidak peduli soal pengakuan budaya itu, namun kenapa video komersial soal pariwisata Malaysia itu tetap ada. Dunia infotainment pun tak ketinggalan dengan hasil “akuisisi” buruk sang adik perihal Manohara Odelia Pinot, yang beberapa waktu lalu marak di media.

Tari Pendet asal Bali (Indonesia).

Abang selalu mengalah, namun adik semakin tidak tahu diri, bagaimana dengan teroris Noordin M. Top & Dr. Azahari ? mereka masih tercatat sebagai warga negara Malaysia, inikah balasan yang diberikan sang adik pada abang ? Adik memang selalu menyusahkan sang abang…

Human Resource vs Marketing vs Common Sense

Apabila perspektif human resource dianggap terlalu luas, dan konsep marketing dianggap tidak strategis, melihat apa yang dilakukan oleh Marshanda, saya mengutip perkataan dosen saya yang cukup “kena” untuk saya pakai guna menganalisis perilaku Marshanda ini, ” I know you are not smart, then use your common sense, even your sense is not common!”

Sebagai pengguna common sense (sejauh ini saya mengerti), saya akan menafsirkan perilaku Marshanda yang diperlihatkan pada situs Youtube. Analisis saya adalah sebagai berikut :

1. Marshanda memang mengalami stres yang di akibatkan oleh tekanan pekerjaan atau malah tidak mendapatkan job yang cukup karena kalah bersaing dengan Cinta Laura atau Shireen Sungkar.

2. Marshanda mempromosikan diri nya dengan sangat buruk sebagai aktris protagonis yang dengan mudah nya menyebut teman-teman di pendidikan dasar (SD).

3. Marshanda mencari sensasi dengan mengunakan media yang salah, ini mungkin disebabkan oleh kurang nya job, karena memasarkan bakat sebagai pemeran protagonis di tempat yang gratis, dan dengan mudah nya di unduh oleh orang lain.

Namun saya hanya berkata secara tidak sengaja, tapi saya tetap mendukung Marshanda untuk tetap melakukan yang terbaik, karena di masa depan dunia perfilman dan sinetron Indonesia masih membutuhkan bakat nya yang telah diasah dari masa kanak-kanak. Semangat!

Bibliography

Handoko, T. Hani. 1987. Manajemen Personalia dan Sumber Daya Manusia. BPFE-Yogyakarta.

Cuplikan video Marshanda

Dikdik (security): “good morning, what can i do, sir?”

Bomber: “morning, i’m just want to meet my boss inside”

Dikdik: “in what purpose, sir?”

Bomber: “just deliver my boss order”

The security check out the situation after the explosion (17/07) source

Dikdik said that he didn’t want have a complain from the visitor, then Dikdik prefer not to disturbed that man, but he told to his security friends to following the misterious man to the Syailendra Lounge.

Dikdik take his steps, in seconds count, “i’m heard the explosion but i’m didn’t fainted”, Dikdik said again, his friends that followed the bomber was saved, although get some serious injury. Hard for Dikdik to explain how the bomber looks like, but he will knowing the bomber, if he can see the photograph of the bomber.

In the year of 2003, Dikdik was there (JW Marriott), when the first bomb exploded, “glad to be survive after this bombs accidents”.

some source:
http://justnurman.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/inilah-percakapan-satpam-jw-marriott-dengan-teroris-sebelum-bom-meledak/

The victims including several foreign citizens from US and Canada. This accident really unpredictable, like another bombs accident in JW Marriott hotel several years ago or the famous Bali bombs.

Who ever did this, it is dishonourable actions, no proudly things of did that bomber actions, even to said in the name of justice and religions. But Indonesian Government along with the police department must quickly taking some solution about this things, take the arsonist of this bomber action to the court with higher punishment according to the exist law.

Ritz-Carlton hotel conditions after the bombs incidents (17/07).

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) cursing the arsonist of JW Marriot and Ritz-Carlton hotel bombs, “don’t ever let them act like a dracula”, the president said in Democrats Party sites (17/07).

“This states will never let them act like a dracula, again Indonesia must run the risk abouth this awful impacts, justice have to enforce and realize”, said SBY. Because Indonesian effort in 5 years to defend the stability has been corrupt by the arsonist bomber.

SBY instructing all the governments (province, region and local), police depatment, military, and citizens to unite face and solve this terrorism accidents.

some sources:
http://www.demokrat.or.id/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2617&Itemid=6
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/17/world/17jakarta-600.jpg (for the picture).

Megawati Soekarno Putri with Prabowo Subianto

Number 2, current Indonesia President, Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) with the vice-president candidates, Mr. Boediono, he is a professor from Gadjah Mada University, former minister, governor of Bank of Indonesia. The slogan is “lanjutkan!” (continue) from the government effort to make continuing development, as we know SBY’s party, Partai Demokrat is the winner of Indonesian Legislatif Election in April 2009.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono with Boediono

Number 3, current Indonesia Vice-President, Mr. M. Jusuf Kalla (JK) will attend to be Indonesia next president with Mr. Wiranto, former General of Indonesian Army (Panglima TNI) as vice-president in “JK-Win” collaboration. JK-Win collaboration have a motto “lebih cepat lebih baik” (too fast more better) in Indonesian next governments.

M. Jusuf Kalla with Wiranto

Okay, guys, this is the time for you to choose, all the candidate is the best to be a leaders,but we must choosing one as our president, all hail you guys, Indonesian citizens and voters!

Following his career history, Michael, was really legendary musician, he is like a role for every child, teenager and so many music listeners, through so many top hitlist songs from his albums, it really sad saw him passed away this years by cardiac desease.

Michael Jackson, “The King of Pop” (1958-2009)

Through this following little article, let we little bit take a rest, memorizing him “the king of pop”, give applause for his dedication to the music and entertainment, so long Michael!

Jusuf Kalla (Indonesia Vice President / Indonesia President Candidate).

It is because this day, May 1. 2009 JK with his party (Golkar Party) choose to separate with SBY, it is to becoming President as well. JK has Vice-President candidate, he is General (Purn.) Wiranto from Hanura Party (Partai Hati Nurani Rakyat). They was announced to the publics for this coalition.

it is good coalition or not?

First, to see from political perspective, its hard to compete with SBY, the party is to strong, powerful and believable. In the other hand, Megawati Sukarno putri (Indonesia Democracy Party-Struggle) also have a power and she is not yet choose the sides to do coalition, from the calculation and estimation, she is will duet with General (Purn) Prabowo Subianto from Gerindra Party. JK-Wiranto will facing the truth that SBY is to strong as well, and Megawati also has a huge number of followers.

Wiranto (Hanura Party Head Leader / Indonesia Vice President Candidate).

Second, another perspective, historical truth about JK-Wiranto it is almost clean, except little Wiranto roles in 1998 tragedy (fall of Suharto), but for all of this they are clean as well. Especially JK, he has good track records, for example to solve Aceh conflicts, he is a main maker in that peaceful agreement with Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM) as separatism movement – read book: “To See The Unseen“.

For Indonesia voters, it is better to be wise to choose, but to lead, to solve and to built this country, whoever the President, as a citizens we must support them and respects their aim to make “better Indonesia”.

Manohara Odelia Pinot.

Not to blame once again, but this is a truth that Malaysian also did un-racional things to Indonesian citizens that living in their country, for example is what happened to a lot of Indonesian workers (TKI) that got sexual harrashment or tortured by Malaysian.

To see this Manohara problems, in many perspective, such as many news was released, that Manohara’s mother selling her for enrich herself or to enter the socilite lifes, nobility, etc. The way that news report was unproved that Malaysian said, but this is a problems, we can not separate this from other posibility, just for assumtion.

And then, how this problems means for us as Indonesia peoples? not to blame once again, sometimes, for example Manohara’s mom who blind because of luxurious, just gives her daughter to Kelantan’s prince, that she assumed has position, luxurious and nobility, it is show that Indonesia have a lower bargaining position, in economics, politics and laws.

Should SBY involves in this problems? in his capability as president of Indonesia, SBY have a strong chance to solve this problems, but it is not president responsibility, this step can be putted to Indonesia Foreign Affairs Depatment, but Manohara’s case not that easy as we know, to much aspects to be involved in this case, let se how it is work?

The announcement came only days after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and South Korea’s foreign minister, Yu Myung-hwan, urged the North not to carry out the test, calling such a move “very unhelpful” and “provocative.”

Prototype pictures of North Korea Ballistic Missiles.

During her trip to Seoul last week, Mrs. Clinton called the North Korean government’s rule “tyranny,” but offered to normalize ties and provide economic help if it abandoned its nuclear weapons program. Officials in the region were awaiting the North Korean response when the announcement came on Tuesday.

“The preparations for launching experimental communications satellite Kwangmyongsong-2 by means of delivery rocket Unha-2 are now making brisk headway,” North Korea’s Committee of Space Technology said in a statement carried by the government news agency, KCNA.

The statement marked the first time North Korea had confirmed its activities at a missile-launching base at Musudan-ri on its east coast. It did not say when the launch would take place, but it was the clearest sign so far that it may be imminent.

In recent weeks, North Korea has said it has the right to launch a scientific satellite, an excuse, analysts in South Korea say, the North has adopted to avoid United Nations sanctions and any potential U.S. attempt to shoot down its missiles.

“It’s really absurd and funny for North Korea, a country unable to feed its own people, to say it is developing a space program,” said Kim Tae-woo, a senior analyst at the government-funded Korea Institute for Defense Analysis. “I think a missile launch is imminent, with all major preparations completed.”

A long-range ballistic missile carrying a warhead and a rocket delivering a satellite are so similar that experts said it was difficult to tell them apart until tracking technology detects a new satellite in orbit.

The U.S. space authorities tried but could not find a new satellite after North Korea launched what it called its Kwangmyongsong-1 satellite in 1998. Western officials believed that it had actually tested its Taepodong-1 missile.

At the time, North Korean media praised Kim Jong-il, who had been confirmed as the country’s top leader, for pioneering the country’s “space development program” and said the satellite was broadcasting revolutionary Communist songs to earth.

North Korea Chairman of The Defense Commission, Kim Jong Il.

Mr. Kim is expected to be reconfirmed as leader by the North’s rubber-stamp Parliament on March 8. Analysts in Seoul have cited the period around Mr. Kim’s re-election as a possible window for the North to launch a missile.

In recent weeks, officials and experts in the region have feared that North Korea was readying to launch the multistage Taepodong-2, the North’s most advanced missile with an estimated range of 4,200 miles and capable of reaching Alaska.

For decades, North Korea has tried to build nuclear weapons and missiles capable of delivering them, according to U.S. officials. After North Korea conducted its first nuclear test in 2006, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution urging it to stop all ballistic missile-related activities.

North Korea often uses its military threats to obtain concessions. The announcement Tuesday came just as Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso landed in Washington for a summit with President Obama.

Some Sources :

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/world/asia/25korea.html?ref=asia

Taepodong 2, North Korea three-stage Ballistic Missile

A South Korean government official said a U.S. reconnaissance satellite last week spotted a train carrying large cylindrical objects from a missile arsenal near Pyongyang to the test site in Tongchangri. “Given their size, these objects are presumed to be rockets for Taepodong-2 missiles,” the official added. Some experts speculated these could be an improved version of the Taepodong-2 missiles with a range of 10,000 km capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.

Military intelligence presumes it will be possible for North Korea to test-fire Taepodong-2 missiles one or two months from now because it takes considerable time to assemble the first, second and third-stage rockets, set up the launch pad, and fill the rockets with liquid fuel.

The preparations come after the North Korean Army on Jan. 17 threatened military action against the South. On Jan 30, the North Korean Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland declared inter-Korean peace agreements null and void. There is speculation that it may be trying to back the threat with concrete action.

Sources :

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200902/200902040001.html

The country’s Social Democratic Alliance Party has picked Johanna Sigurdardottir, 66, to be prime minister in the wake of this week’s collapse of Iceland’s ruling conservative coalition, The Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

Iceland’s Coat of Arms

Currently Iceland’s social affairs minister, Sigurdardottir, described as a former flight attendant who rose through the political ranks, could confirmed as early as this week by Iceland’s new ruling coalition of the Alliance Party and the Left-Green movement, the newspaper said.

Sigurdardottir will face a massive job of rebuilding Iceland’s economy, which has been battered the collapse of three major banks saddled by huge debt loads. The bank failures triggered a plunge in Iceland’s currency, inflation and rising unemployment.

About Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic politician and the current Prime Minister of Iceland. She had previously been Iceland’s Minister of Social Affairs and Social Security from 1987–1994 and 2007–2009. She has been a member of the Althing (Iceland’s parliament) for Reykjavík constituencies since 1978, winning re-election on eight successive occasions. She became Iceland’s first female Prime Minister on 1 February 2009; she also became the world’s first openly gay head of government of the modern era. Jóhanna is a social democrat and Iceland’s longest-serving member of Parliament. In the 1990s, when she lost a bid to head the party, she lifted her first and declared “My time will come!” – a phrase that became a popular Icelandic expression.

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland

On 26 January 2009, Prime Minister Geir Haarde tendered the resignation of the coalition government to the President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. The move followed sixteen weeks of protests over the government’s handling of the financial crisis, protests which had intensified from 20 January.

After talks with the leaders of the five parties represented in the Althing, the President asked the Social Democratic Alliance and the Left-Green Movement to form a new government and to prepare for elections in the spring.

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was proposed as Prime Minister for the new government, not least because of her popularity among the general public and her good relations with the Left-Green Movement. An opinion poll by Capacent Gallup in December 2008 found 73% approval of her actions as a minister, more than any other member of the Cabinet: she was also the only minister to have improved her approval ratings over 2008.

The new government needs the support of the Progressive Party in the Althing. Negotiations continued up to the evening of 31 January, and the new Cabinet was appointed on 1 February.

Sources :

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/28/Iceland_to_name_openly_gay_prime_minister/UPI-90501233173410/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3hanna_Sigur%C3%B0ard%C3%B3ttir