Kasus bobolnya rekening tabungan beberapa orang di Bali melalui modus skimming telah membuka mata banyak orang mengenai resiko bahaya dari kemudahan menarik uang melalui ATM.

Di Indonesia, pihak Bank dengan mudah melemparkan tanggung jawab kepada nasabah. Tetapi di Jepang, tanggung jawab mengamankan ATM adalah tanggung jawab pihak Bank. Karena area ATM adalah area yang dimilik oleh Bank, dan bukan nasabah. Karena itu di Jepang, terutama dulu, banyak ATM tidak buka 24 jam.

Sekarang pun, walau memberikan layanan 24 jam, tetap diawasi dengan berbagai macam cara. Karena itu tadi, area ATM adalah area milik Bank, dan sudah seharusnya pihak Bank bertanggung jawab penuh.

Nah, untuk yang berada di Indonesia, sangat dianjurkan agar mempersiapkan diri dengan pengetahuan-pengetahuan penting. Terutama bagi yang suka menarik uang melalui ATM, silahkan baca baik-baik penjelasan Commonwealth Bank ini. Filenya juga bisa diunduh disini

(updated) perseteruan R[S|A] in a nutshell

Dari artikel berjudul Bahasa Indonesia, Siapa Yang Seharusnya Belajar? – KOMPAS.com, ada kutipan2 menarik:

  • Dr. James Sneddon, associate professor dari Griffith Unversity yang kini sudah pensiun, menyayangkan bentuk promosi yang menekankan bahwa bahasa Indonesia adalah bahasa yang mudah. Hal ini memberi dampak yang negatif terhadap bahasa Indonesia. Bahasa Indonesia dianggap tidak penting. Seperti di Jepang, mahasiswa-mahasiswa yang dianggap kurang pandai selalu diarahkan untuk mengambil bahasa Indonesia. Akhirnya bahasa Indonesia berkesan sebagai bahasa yang hanya cocok dipelajari oleh orang-orang yang bodoh saja.

  • Kita selalu merasa bangga dan senang bukan kepalang kalau orang asing mampu berbicara dan menganggap penting bahasa Indonesia. Sebaliknya kita tidak merasa terganggu ketika sebagian dari kita tidak mahir berbahasa Indonesia.

Jadi sebetulnya siapakah yang seharusnya belajar bahasa Indonesia?

I like the Governor of California talk about Climate Change in Copenhagen.

There is an interesting book “「捨てる!」技術”. The author website is in here

When we read something like this coming from a people who belong to so called free democracy country:

A second principle states that independence for Israel will be achieved only by bringing Jews to the land “and the removal of all hostile elements from the land.”

Mishmeret Yesha, which stands for “Guardians of the Jews of Judea, Samaria and Gaza,” trains armed response teams in settlements to fight off Palestinian invaders, plants vines and olive trees around the West Bank to claim it for Jews and keep it away from Palestinians, and pushes the creation of jobs and development for Jews. It rejects working with or acknowledging any legitimacy to Palestinians.
“The Arabs have to understand that they can’t stay here,” asserted Israel Danziger, who runs the hard-line organization and rejects the word “Palestinian.” “There is no in-between possible.”

Mr. Danziger spoke as a dozen men in their 20s were training with M-16 automatic rifles in the settlement of Yitzhar. Most had served in the army, all were religiously observant and all rejected any legitimacy to the idea of being moved to make room for a Palestinian state.

then we call them civilized people.

But when peoples who are oppressed and chased away from their own land by the settler, asked for a true justice, a civilized media call them as terrorist.

NYT is brave enough to put a report with words like Jewish terror is not new

Posting ini adalah link ke Koran Tempo yang menurunkan berita tentang orang Indonesia yang berkarya dan karyanya bisa dirunut saat belajar di luar negri maupun yang saat ini sedang berkarya di luar negri. Link laporan khususnya ada di sini

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I got a link that maybe useful for you who want to stay in Tokyo for a short term managed by Interwhao company. Go to http://www.interwhao.com/english/index.html

According to WSJ.com’s article, in term of censorship Iran can do more by doing deep packet inspection compare to China.

But it is understandable as Iran’s Internet user is 23 million, compare to China’s 300 million strong. Because of China’s geography, China’s monitoring infrastructure is decentralized, compare to Iran’s centralized policy. Because of this policy, when Iran activated deep packet inspection to monitor traffics, users felt an access slow down especially after the June 2009 election.

The Time has new report on Gaza condition. I’m speechless reading this report :( What kind of country that easily imprison and starve more than 1 million people in a tiny place called Gaza?

Israel’s list of goods allowed into Gaza is short — food, medicine, and recently, paper for schoolbooks. Its list of prohibited items is long, and sometimes bizarre. Macaroni was only recently removed from the forbidden list. Netanyahu is reportedly willing to let in more food, but as UNRWA’s Ging observes: “Bringing in immediate humanitarian aid isn’t enough. There’s no construction, no re-construction, no economy left in Gaza. You’re creating the conditions for more extremism.”

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