PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2018

Dituding main proyek, mantan Timses Jokowi akan temui Ahok

Michael Bimo Putranto juga mengaku akan mengunjungi Wakil Gubernur DKI Jakarta Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok). Tujuannya ingin melakukan klarifikasi atas informasi yang disampaikan Ahok.

Sebelumnya Ahok telah menyebut bahwa Bimo Putranto adalah sering 'main' proyek dengan memanfaatkan nama Jokowi. Ahok juga mengaku informasi tersebut datang dari Jokowi sendiri.

"Saya sedang dalam perjalanan menuju ke sana (Balai kota DKI Jakarta). Harapannya bisa mendapatkan klarifikasi," jelasnya , Rabu (12/3).

Seperti yang telah diketahui, Ahok juga mengatakan, dirinya juga sudah berbicara dengan Gubernur DKI Jakarta Joko Widodo (Jokowi) tentang dugaan keterlibatannya dalam kasus pengadaan bus TransJakarta berkarat. Ahok juga mengungkapkan, Bimo memang sering bermain proyek dan mengatasnamakan Jokowi.

"Aku sudah tanya pak Jokowi. Itu anak memang dari dulu di Solo suka begitu. Dia suka ada proyek, suka ngaku-ngaku deket pak Jokowi," katanya di Balaikota DKI Jakarta.

Ahok juga menambahkan, apabila akan main proyek, Bimo biasanya menunjukkan foto-foto dirinya bersama Jokowi dan meyakinkan kepada sesama pengusaha bahwa dirinya dekat dengan Jokowi. Tujuannya supaya para pengusaha lainnya takluk dan memberikan proyek kepada dirinya.

"Dia juga sering manfaatin, foto-foto sama Pak Jokowi dia klaim. Pak Jokowi juga kaget. Rupanya dia jualan di depan pengusaha," jelasnya.

Seperti yang telah diketahui, persoalan proyek pengadaan bus transJakarta tersebut awal Februari lalu, ketika ditemukan banyak kerusakan pada sebagian dari 90 bus transJakarta baru yang disimpan di pool Unit Pengelola Transjakarta di Cawang, Jakarta Timur. Baru sehari diresmikan pengoperasiannya oleh Gubernur Jokowi pada 15 Januari, beberapa bus mogok.

Dari 30 bus gandeng yang diluncurkan itu, 12 di antaranya tak bisa jalan besok harinya. Pengelola Transjakarta telah menemukan macam-macam kerusakan. Masalah yang berat mesin sering terlalu panas dan pada bagian-bagian penting karatan. Letak unit kontrol elektronik yang merupakan bagian dari sistem kelistrikan pun hanya 30 sentimeter dari permukaan tanah terlalu dekat dengan jalan yang sering banjir.

PERLUASAN MASJIDIL HARAM

Masjidil Haram saat ini sedang diperluas. Hal ini dilakukan karena jemaah haji yang selalu meningkat setiap tahunnya. Proyek renovasi meliputi perluasan area tawaf dan pengurangan tiang-tiang penyangga sebanyak 60 persen. Karena proyek perluasan, area tawaf yang awalnya mampu menampung 48 ribu jemaah dalam satu jam, kini hanya dapat menampung 22 ribu jemaah.

Lantai dua dan tiga yang biasa digunakan sebagai tempat tawaf akan diperlebar dari 20 meter menjadi 50 meter.

Namun untuk menambah kapasitas tempat tawaf, terutama saat musim haji, dibuat area tawaf sementara. Area ini dibangun dengan sistem knock down sebanyak dua lantai yang akan dimanfaatkan selama renovasi.

Dengan tambahan area tawaf ini kapasitasnya menjadi 35 ribu jemaah dalam satu jam. Setelah proyek rampung, kapasitas tempat tawaf menjadi 105 ribu jemaah dalam satu jam.

Selain itu, ada proyek ketiga Kerajaan Arab Saudi, yaitu pembangunan Masjid Abdullah yang nantinya akan terhubung dengan area tawaf. Renovasi ini termasuk proyek meratakan jalan, sehingga sudut pandang jemaah ke Kabah lebih fokus.

Akibat proyek ini tak sedikit bangunan yang harus tergusur. Pemondokan yang biasa digunakan untuk jemaah haji Indonesia akan rata dengan tanah.

Tak hanya itu, rumah kelahiran Rasulullah yang menjadi perpustakaan kini tinggal kenangan.

Proyek perluasan yang melibatkan 1.500 Tenaga Kerja Indonesia ini baru dimulai Desember tahun lalu dan  akan rampung tahun 2016 mendatang. Selama itulah kuota jemaah haji dari seluruh dunia dikurangi 20 persen (metronews.com/haji.kemenag.go.id)

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MENDAG JABATAN POLITIS

saco-indonesia.com, Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) belum juga menunjuk menteri perdagangan pengganti Gita Wirjawan. Anggota Komisi VI DPR, Hendrawan Supratikno mengatakan, SBY perlu pertimbangan matang untuk dapat menunjuk pangganti Gita.

"Menteri perdagangan jabatan politis. Karena, telah melibatkan berbagai perjanjian modern, diplomasi internasional, dan perdagangan internasional," kata Hendrawan di Gedung DPR, Jakarta, Selasa (11/2/2014).

Dia juga telah menyinggung mekanisme penunjukan menteri perdagangan yang berlaku selama ini. Menurutnya, siapa pun presidennya posisi menteri perdagangan harus ditempati oleh orang yang telah mendapat persetujuan dari Amerika Serikat.

"Dulu kan siapa pun presidennya, menteri perdagangan harus persetujuan Washington. Itu dulu, enggak tahu kalau sekarang," sambung politikus PDI Perjuangan ini.

Hendrawan juga telah menyarankan, dengan mempertimbangkan efektifitas kerja, hendaknya pengganti Gita diambil dari internal Kementerian Perdagangan.

"Kalau orang baru nanti harus belajar lagi. Bisa dari BKPM. Kalau rutenya BKPM maka Mahendra Siregar yang kuat. Tapi kalau pertanian, yang dianggap sebagai kunci, Bayu Krisna Mukti adalah figur yang cocok. Tapi tentu ini semuanya hak prerogatif presiden," paparnya.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

YANG DIPELAJARI SAAT MANASIK UMROH DARI TRAVEL

Saat Anda sudah melewati masa-masa mendaftar dan membayar untuk paket umroh di perusahaan travel yang lumayan cukup besar, Anda biasanya juga akan mendapat kesempatan untuk dapat ikut manasik umroh. Ini adalah bentuk simulasi agar Anda tidak kagok dan bingung saat sudah berada di tanah suci. Walaupun nantinya Anda juga akan berangkat bersama rombongan dan dibekali oleh buku petunjuk untuk ritual umroh di sana, tetap saja Anda juga harus berlatih agar tidak merasa kagok dan gugup.

Perusahaan pengelola perjalanan umroh yang berkualitas biasanya akan menyediakan manasik umroh sebagai bagian dari pembayaran yang sudah Anda lakukan, dan manasik ini biasanya juga bisa diikuti saat Anda sedang menunggu waktu untuk akhirnya bisa berangkat ke tanah suci. Materi dalam Manasik Umroh

Berikut adalah yang Anda akan pelajari saat manasik umroh:
• Tata cara berpakaian saat umroh, termasuk cara melilitkan kain ihram untuk lelaki, serta tata tertib yang harus dipatuhi saat memilih dan mengenakan pakaian untuk berbagai tahap umroh.
• Jalur yang harus dilalui saat Anda melakukan ritual umroh; ini juga termasuk permulaan jalur yaitu tempat miqat dan tempat untuk dapat mengganti pakaian dengan pakaian ihram di Bir Ali, jalur perjalanan ke Mekah hingga Ka’bah, dan bukit Shofa dan Marwa.
• Ritual umroh juga termasuk cara tawaf dan ritual Sa’I di Shofa dan Marwah, serta solat dua rakaat di Masjidil Haram.
• Semua bacaan umroh yang harus dihapalkan, termasuk bacaan saat mulai berjalan kaki ke Mekah serta saat tawaf keliling Ka’bah.
• Manasik umroh juga termasuk pengetahuan akan semua larangan dan anjuran yang harus dipatuhi pada saat melakukan umroh, termasuk semua yang berkaitan dengan anjuran dan larangan berpakaian, merias diri, bergaul dengan suami atau istri, dan sebagainya.

Dalam manasik umroh, Anda juga akan mendapat semua petunjuk dan pelajaran yang patut diketahui tentang apa saja yang patut dilakukan di dalam kegiatan umroh, termasuk apa yang boleh, harus dan tidak boleh dilakukan. Jadi, jika Anda ingin mengalami umroh yang lebih berkesan, jangan segan untuk dapat menerima tawaran melakukan manasik haji oleh perusahaan travel umroh tempat Anda memesan paket perjalanan.

JUVENTUS AGRESIF, INTER MALAS

saco-indonesia.com, Pelatih Walter Mazzarri juga sangat kecewa dengan performa para pemain Internazionale saat dibungkam oleh tuan rumah Juventus 1-3 di giornata 22 Serie A 2013/14.

Dalam laga di Juventus Stadium itu, Senin (03/2), Inter bahkan telah tertinggal 0-3 terlebih dahulu melalui gol-gol Stephan Lichtsteiner, Giorgio Chiellini dan Arturo Vidal. Satu-satunya gol hiburan Nerazzurri telah diciptakan oleh Rolando pada menit 71.

"Penguasaan bola hampir seimbang, tapi ada beberapa faktor yang telah menciptakan perbedaan besar. Determinasi Juventus lebih baik dan mereka lebih agresif, sedangkan kami bermain sangat lamban dan terkesan malas," kata Mazzarri seperti dilansir Football Italia.

"Meski begitu, kami juga sempat menciptakan beberapa kesempatan. Jangan lupa, Rodrigo Palacio dua kali berpeluang untuk mengubah skor jadi 3-2. Kami harus fokus untuk dapat meningkatkan determinasi tim," imbuhnya.

Akibat dari kekalahan tersebut, Inter sekarang telah menempati peringkat enam dengan 33 angka atau terpaut 11 dari Napoli di batas tiga besar.

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Late in April, after Native American actors walked off in disgust from the set of Adam Sandler’s latest film, a western sendup that its distributor, Netflix, has defended as being equally offensive to all, a glow of pride spread through several Native American communities.

Tantoo Cardinal, a Canadian indigenous actress who played Black Shawl in “Dances With Wolves,” recalled thinking to herself, “It’s come.” Larry Sellers, who starred as Cloud Dancing in the 1990s television show “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” thought, “It’s about time.” Jesse Wente, who is Ojibwe and directs film programming at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, found himself encouraged and surprised. There are so few film roles for indigenous actors, he said, that walking off the set of a major production showed real mettle.

But what didn’t surprise Mr. Wente was the content of the script. According to the actors who walked off the set, the film, titled “The Ridiculous Six,” included a Native American woman who passes out and is revived after white men douse her with alcohol, and another woman squatting to urinate while lighting a peace pipe. “There’s enough history at this point to have set some expectations around these sort of Hollywood depictions,” Mr. Wente said.

The walkout prompted a rhetorical “What do you expect from an Adam Sandler film?,” and a Netflix spokesman said that in the movie, blacks, Mexicans and whites were lampooned as well. But Native American actors and critics said a broader issue was at stake. While mainstream portrayals of native peoples have, Mr. Wente said, become “incrementally better” over the decades, he and others say, they remain far from accurate and reflect a lack of opportunities for Native American performers. What’s more, as Native Americans hunger for representation on screen, critics say the absence of three-dimensional portrayals has very real off-screen consequences.

“Our people are still healing from historical trauma,” said Loren Anthony, one of the actors who walked out. “Our youth are still trying to figure out who they are, where they fit in this society. Kids are killing themselves. They’re not proud of who they are.” They also don’t, he added, see themselves on prime time television or the big screen. Netflix noted while about five people walked off the “The Ridiculous Six” set, 100 or so Native American actors and extras stayed.

But in interviews, nearly a dozen Native American actors and film industry experts said that Mr. Sandler’s humor perpetuated decades-old negative stereotypes. Mr. Anthony said such depictions helped feed the despondency many Native Americans feel, with deadly results: Native Americans have the highest suicide rate out of all the country’s ethnicities.

The on-screen problem is twofold, Mr. Anthony and others said: There’s a paucity of roles for Native Americans — according to the Screen Actors Guild in 2008 they accounted for 0.3 percent of all on-screen parts (those figures have yet to be updated), compared to about 2 percent of the general population — and Native American actors are often perceived in a narrow way.

In his Peabody Award-winning documentary “Reel Injun,” the Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond explored Hollywood depictions of Native Americans over the years, and found they fell into a few stereotypical categories: the Noble Savage, the Drunk Indian, the Mystic, the Indian Princess, the backward tribal people futilely fighting John Wayne and manifest destiny. While the 1990 film “Dances With Wolves” won praise for depicting Native Americans as fully fleshed out human beings, not all indigenous people embraced it. It was still told, critics said, from the colonialists’ point of view. In an interview, John Trudell, a Santee Sioux writer, actor (“Thunderheart”) and the former chairman of the American Indian Movement, described the film as “a story of two white people.”

“God bless ‘Dances with Wolves,’ ” Michael Horse, who played Deputy Hawk in “Twin Peaks,” said sarcastically. “Even ‘Avatar.’ Someone’s got to come save the tribal people.”

Dan Spilo, a partner at Industry Entertainment who represents Adam Beach, one of today’s most prominent Native American actors, said while typecasting dogs many minorities, it is especially intractable when it comes to Native Americans. Casting directors, he said, rarely cast them as police officers, doctors or lawyers. “There’s the belief that the Native American character should be on reservations or riding a horse,” he said.

“We don’t see ourselves,” Mr. Horse said. “We’re still an antiquated culture to them, and to the rest of the world.”

Ms. Cardinal said she was once turned down for the role of the wife of a child-abusing cop because the filmmakers felt that casting her would somehow be “too political.”

Another sore point is the long run of white actors playing American Indians, among them Burt Lancaster, Rock Hudson, Audrey Hepburn and, more recently, Johnny Depp, whose depiction of Tonto in the 2013 film “Lone Ranger,” was viewed as racist by detractors. There are, of course, exceptions. The former A&E series “Longmire,” which, as it happens, will now be on Netflix, was roundly praised for its depiction of life on a Northern Cheyenne reservation, with Lou Diamond Phillips, who is of Cherokee descent, playing a Northern Cheyenne man.

Others also point to the success of Mr. Beach, who played a Mohawk detective in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and landed a starring role in the forthcoming D C Comics picture “Suicide Squad.” Mr. Beach said he had come across insulting scripts backed by people who don’t see anything wrong with them.

“I’d rather starve than do something that is offensive to my ancestral roots,” Mr. Beach said. “But I think there will always be attempts to drawn on the weakness of native people’s struggles. The savage Indian will always be the savage Indian. The white man will always be smarter and more cunning. The cavalry will always win.”

The solution, Mr. Wente, Mr. Trudell and others said, lies in getting more stories written by and starring Native Americans. But Mr. Wente noted that while independent indigenous film has blossomed in the last two decades, mainstream depictions have yet to catch up. “You have to stop expecting for Hollywood to correct it, because there seems to be no ability or desire to correct it,” Mr. Wente said.

There have been calls to boycott Netflix but, writing for Indian Country Today Media Network, which first broke news of the walk off, the filmmaker Brian Young noted that the distributor also offered a number of films by or about Native Americans.

The furor around “The Ridiculous Six” may drive more people to see it. Then one of the questions that Mr. Trudell, echoing others, had about the film will be answered: “Who the hell laughs at this stuff?”

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KATHMANDU, Nepal — When the dense pillar of smoke from cremations by the Bagmati River was thinning late last week, the bodies were all coming from Gongabu, a common stopover for Nepali migrant workers headed overseas, and they were all of young men.

Hindu custom dictates that funeral pyres should be lighted by the oldest son of the deceased, but these men were too young to have sons, so they were burned by their brothers or fathers. Sukla Lal, a maize farmer, made a 14-hour journey by bus to retrieve the body of his 19-year-old son, who had been on his way to the Persian Gulf to work as a laborer.

“He wanted to live in the countryside, but he was compelled to leave by poverty,” Mr. Lal said, gazing ahead steadily as his son’s remains smoldered. “He told me, ‘You can live on your land, and I will come up with money, and we will have a happy family.’ ”

Weeks will pass before the authorities can give a complete accounting of who died in the April 25 earthquake, but it is already clear that Nepal cannot afford the losses. The countryside was largely stripped of its healthy young men even before the quake, as they migrated in great waves — 1,500 a day by some estimates — to work as laborers in India, Malaysia or one of the gulf nations, leaving many small communities populated only by elderly parents, women and children. Economists say that at some times of the year, one-quarter of Nepal’s population is working outside the country.

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