Obama dan Logika Israel

Tak bisa diterima, biadab dan kejahatan terhadap kemanusiaan. Itulah beberapa reaksi komunitas internasional atas serangan berdarah Israel terhadap penumpang kapal berbendera Turki, Mavi Marmara, yang membawa relawan serta bantuan kemanusiaan menuju Jalur Gaza.

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What time is it in Indonesia? Last week the public clocks which the punctual Dutch had placed along Batavia’s sweltering, mosquito-infested streets did not say; nobody had wound them. Nobody collected electric bills, because the electrical engineers are Dutch and the company accountants Indonesian; they could not decide who should get the receipts. Batavia had two mayors, one Dutch, one Indonesian; two flags, one Queen Wilhelmina’s and one Ir. Soekarno’s; two currencies, neither of which could buy much, and two possible destinies: it might become the chief city of the first great Moslem colony to free itself from European rule, or it might come to symbolize the first wave of Asiatic nationalism to break into chaos.

Jelang Final Miss Universe, Zizi Masih Kontestan Terfavorit

Pagelaran kecantikan dunia, Miss Universe tinggal menghitung jam. Puteri Indonesia, Zivanna Letisha alias Zizi masih menjadi kontestan terfavorit. Bahkan Zizi berada di peringkat satu.

Dikutip detikhot dari Missuniverse.com, Minggu (23/8/2009) Zizi berada di urutan pertama dalam polling kontestan Miss Universe 2009 terfavorit.

Cory Aquino, Dari Ibu Rumah Tangga Hingga Presiden

Mantan presiden Filipina Corazon “Cory” Aquino, yang meninggal Sabtu pada usia 76 tahun, dulu merupakan orang yang enggan menjadi pemimpin,  kendati ia memimpin revolusi yang memulihkan negaranya menuju demokrasi pada 1986.
    
Selama tiga hari pada Februari tahun itu,

Taliban issues code of conduct

The Taliban in Afghanistan has issued a book laying down a code of conduct for its fighters. 

Al Jazeera has obtained a copy of the book, which further indicates that Mullah Omar, the movement’s leader, wants to centralise its operations.

Jemaah Islamiyah (a.k.a. Jemaah Islamiah)

A profile of the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, the group allegedly responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings.

Vengeance with a Smile

The Ikeya-Seki comet appeared on Indonesia’s eastern horizon early one morning last October. From the base of the volcano Agung, navel of creation and home of the Great Gods, the mystic prophets of the island of Bali watched it streak through the sky for ten days and were alarmed. It was an omen, they warned, of much death and change of government in the land.