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"Sudah bukan Rahasia Umum Popularitas Jokowi Memang Lintas Partai"

JAKARTA, Saco-Indonesia.com — Politisi PDI Perjuangan, Eva Kusuma Sundari, mengatakan, digunakannya foto Joko Widodo alias Jokowi dalam baliho kampanye calon anggota legislatif dari partai lain menunjukkan bahwa popularitas Gubernur DKI Jakarta itu lintas partai politik. Partainya, kata Eva, tak mempermasalahkan soal itu.

"Mau enggak mau, kita enggak bisa melawan zaman bahwa Jokowi paling populer dan lintas parpol," kata Eva, di Kompleks Gedung Parlemen, Jakarta, Kamis (30/1/2014).

Anggota Komisi III DPR itu mengatakan, sosok Jokowi memang telah sangat dicintai oleh masyarakat, termasuk politisi dari partai politik lain. Hal itu, lanjut Eva, terlihat saat ia menyosialisasikan diri sebagai calon anggota legislatif (caleg) DPR periode 2014-2019 di daerah pemilihannya.

Eva mengungkapkan, dalam alat peraga kampanyenya, ia hanya memasang foto Ketua Umum PDI Perjuangan Megawati Soekarnoputri dan foto Soekarno. Akan tetapi, ia mengaku terpaksa membuat alat peraga kampanye baru yang juga memuat foto Jokowi karena besarnya permintaan dari konstituen di daerah pemilihan.

"Dipasangnya foto Jokowi itu bukan urusan PDI-P, tapi urusan masing-masing caleg, ini kan strategi pemasaran. Di dapil saya banyak caleg dari partai lain yang terang-terangan dukung Jokowi maju sebagai calon presiden," kata Eva.

Seperti diberitakan sebelumnya, caleg DPR dari Partai Nasdem di Daerah Pemilihan (Dapil) Sumatera Barat II Nomor urut 1, Erizal Effendi, memasang foto Jokowi pada baliho kampanyenya. Yose Hendra, warga Padang, Sumatera Barat, mengatakan, dirinya melihat setidaknya dua baliho di pinggir ruas jalan di wilayah Padang Pariaman, Sumatera Barat, yaitu di Simpang Duku dan di depan pasar Lubuk Alung. Kedua baliho itu dipasang di Jalan Lintas Padang-Bukit Tinggi.

Dia mengatakan, baliho tersebut sudah dipasang selama sekitar 15 hari. Di baliho tersebut terpajang gambar Erizal, Jokowi, dan Ketua Umum Partai Nasdem Surya Paloh. Selain itu, di baliho itu juga tertulis slogan Partai Nasdem, "Gerakan Perubahan" dan slogan yang sering dikaitkan dengan Jokowi, "Indonesia Baru".

Sumber:kompas.com

Editor : Maulana Lee

LIMA HIKMAH WAJIBNYA HAJI

Setiap ibadah yang disyariatkan oleh Allah SWT mengandung hikmah tersendiri. Allah tidak pernah sekalipun memerintahkan manusia melakukan suatu perbuatan yang tak bermakna atau tidak mengandung hikmah. Hikmah yang bisa kita petik dari pelaksanaan ibadah haji antara lain:

1. Menyaksikan secara langsung Masjidil Haram, Ka’bah, tempat turunnya Alquran, serta tempat-tempat bersejarah dalam kehidupan Rasulullah SAW dan penyebaran Islam. Umat Islam yang mengunjungi tempat-tempat tersebut diharapkan dapat menghayati nilai-nilai keimanan, ketakwaan, keikhlasan, kepahlawanan, dan pengorbanan Rasulullah SAW dan para sahabat dalam menyebarkan agama Islam.

2. Ketika memasuki Makkah dan melihat Ka’bah umat Islam diajak untuk mengingat nilai-nilai ketakwaan Nabi Ibrahim AS beserta keluarganya. Seberat apa pun perintah Allah SWT, bahkan meninggalkan istri di padang tandus dan menyembelih seorang anak sekalipun, tetap dilaksanakan dengan baik oleh Ibrahim.

3. Ketika memakai pakaian ihram yang berwarna putih polos tanpa jahitan dan pernak-pernik umat manusia dari segala penjuru seakan-akan diingatkan bahwa mereka adalah umat yang satu. Mereka tidak dibedakan berdasarkan kelas sosial, ras, etnis, bahasa, atau kebudayaan.

Mereka semua sama di mata Allah SWT. Satu-satunya yang membedakan hanyalah ketakwaan masing-masing. Dalam ibadah haji, terpapar persamaan atas nama agama, yaitu Islam (al-musawah al-lslamiyah).

Mereka berkumpul di tempat yang sama dan dengan penampilan yang sama. Semuanya tunduk, merendah dan takut kepada Allah.

4. Haji adalah ibadah yang menyempurnakan kehidupan spiritual umat Islam. Setelah shalat, puasa, dan zakat ditunaikan maka ibadah haji adalah penyempurnanya. Umat Islam dari penjuru dunia berkumpul ditempatyang sama dan pada waktu yang sama.

Mereka membawa rasa cinta yang sama, yaitu cinta kepada Allah dan Rasul-Nya. Sekalipun aliran teologi dan madzhab fikih mereka berbeda, namun masing-masing digerakkan oleh satu alasan yang sama, yaitu kepatuhan kepada Allah SWT dan kecintaan kepada Rasulullah SAW.

5. Haji adalah pertemuan akbar yang dihadiri oleh umat Islam dari segala penjuru dunia. Dengan demikian, haji memberikan kesempatan yang sangat besar bagi umat Islam untuk menggalang persatuan di antara sesamanya, menyatukan tekad dan semangat, dan bersama-sama memikirkan persoalan yang mendera umat Islam.

Pada musim haji, setiap orang bahkan dapat membangun komunikasi atau relasi dengan orang lain baik untuk kepentingan duniawi maupun ukhrawi. Hal ini tidak lain merupakan realisasi doa Nabi Ibrahim AS, “Wahai Tuhan kami,sesungguhnya aku telah menempatkan sebagian keturunanku di lembah yang tidak mempunyai tanam-tanaman di dekat rumah-Mu (Baitullah) yang dihormati. Wahai Tuhan kami (yang demikian itu) agar mereka mendirikan shalat, maka jadikanlah hati sebagian manusia cenderung kepada mereka dan berilah mereka rezeki dari buah-buahan, mudah-mudahan mereka bersyukur.”(QS. Ibrahim ayat 37).

Massa yang begitu besar itu bergerak dan berputar mengelilingi Ka’bah. Mereka adalah orang-orang yang terpanggil untuk berkunjung dan bertamu ke rumah Allah (Baitullah) itu. Karena mereka adalah tamu Allah, maka Allah akan menyuguhkan ‘jamuan’ yang tak terbilang nikmatnya bagi mereka. ‘Jamuan’ itu adalah kasih sayang dan ampunan Allah yang tak terbatas.

Sumber : http://www.jurnalhaji.com

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Taiwan party leader affirms eventual reunion with China

BEIJING (AP) — The head of Taiwan's Nationalists reaffirmed the party's support for eventual unification with the mainland when he met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of continuing rapprochement between the former bitter enemies.

Nationalist Party Chairman Eric Chu, a likely presidential candidate next year, also affirmed Taiwan's desire to join the proposed Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank during the meeting in Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and doesn't want the island to join using a name that might imply it is an independent country.

Chu's comments during his meeting with Xi were carried live on Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix Television.

The Nationalists were driven to Taiwan by Mao Zedong's Communists during the Chinese civil war in 1949, leading to decades of hostility between the sides. Chu, who took over as party leader in January, is the third Nationalist chairman to visit the mainland and the first since 2009.

Relations between the communist-ruled mainland and the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan began to warm in the 1990s, partly out of their common opposition to Taiwan's formal independence from China, a position advocated by the island's Democratic Progressive Party.

Despite increasingly close economic ties, the prospect of political unification has grown increasingly unpopular on Taiwan, especially with younger voters. Opposition to the Nationalists' pro-China policies was seen as a driver behind heavy local electoral defeats for the party last year that led to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou resigning as party chairman.

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Ghostly Voices From Thomas Edison’s Dolls Can Now Be Heard

Though Robin and Joan Rolfs owned two rare talking dolls manufactured by Thomas Edison’s phonograph company in 1890, they did not dare play the wax cylinder records tucked inside each one.

The Rolfses, longtime collectors of Edison phonographs, knew that if they turned the cranks on the dolls’ backs, the steel phonograph needle might damage or destroy the grooves of the hollow, ring-shaped cylinder. And so for years, the dolls sat side by side inside a display cabinet, bearers of a message from the dawn of sound recording that nobody could hear.

In 1890, Edison’s dolls were a flop; production lasted only six weeks. Children found them difficult to operate and more scary than cuddly. The recordings inside, which featured snippets of nursery rhymes, wore out quickly.

Yet sound historians say the cylinders were the first entertainment records ever made, and the young girls hired to recite the rhymes were the world’s first recording artists.

Year after year, the Rolfses asked experts if there might be a safe way to play the recordings. Then a government laboratory developed a method to play fragile records without touching them.

The technique relies on a microscope to create images of the grooves in exquisite detail. A computer approximates — with great accuracy — the sounds that would have been created by a needle moving through those grooves.

In 2014, the technology was made available for the first time outside the laboratory.

“The fear all along is that we don’t want to damage these records. We don’t want to put a stylus on them,” said Jerry Fabris, the curator of the Thomas Edison Historical Park in West Orange, N.J. “Now we have the technology to play them safely.”

Last month, the Historical Park posted online three never-before-heard Edison doll recordings, including the two from the Rolfses’ collection. “There are probably more out there, and we’re hoping people will now get them digitized,” Mr. Fabris said.

The technology, which is known as Irene (Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, Etc.), was developed by the particle physicist Carl Haber and the engineer Earl Cornell at Lawrence Berkeley. Irene extracts sound from cylinder and disk records. It can also reconstruct audio from recordings so badly damaged they were deemed unplayable.

“We are now hearing sounds from history that I did not expect to hear in my lifetime,” Mr. Fabris said.

The Rolfses said they were not sure what to expect in August when they carefully packed their two Edison doll cylinders, still attached to their motors, and drove from their home in Hortonville, Wis., to the National Document Conservation Center in Andover, Mass. The center had recently acquired Irene technology.

Cylinders carry sound in a spiral groove cut by a phonograph recording needle that vibrates up and down, creating a surface made of tiny hills and valleys. In the Irene set-up, a microscope perched above the shaft takes thousands of high-resolution images of small sections of the grooves.

Stitched together, the images provide a topographic map of the cylinder’s surface, charting changes in depth as small as one five-hundredth the thickness of a human hair. Pitch, volume and timbre are all encoded in the hills and valleys and the speed at which the record is played.

At the conservation center, the preservation specialist Mason Vander Lugt attached one of the cylinders to the end of a rotating shaft. Huddled around a computer screen, the Rolfses first saw the wiggly waveform generated by Irene. Then came the digital audio. The words were at first indistinct, but as Mr. Lugt filtered out more of the noise, the rhyme became clearer.

“That was the Eureka moment,” Mr. Rolfs said.

In 1890, a girl in Edison’s laboratory had recited:

There was a little girl,

And she had a little curl

Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good,

She was very, very good.

But when she was bad, she was horrid.

Recently, the conservation center turned up another surprise.

In 2010, the Woody Guthrie Foundation received 18 oversize phonograph disks from an anonymous donor. No one knew if any of the dirt-stained recordings featured Guthrie, but Tiffany Colannino, then the foundation’s archivist, had stored them unplayed until she heard about Irene.

Last fall, the center extracted audio from one of the records, labeled “Jam Session 9” and emailed the digital file to Ms. Colannino.

“I was just sitting in my dining room, and the next thing I know, I’m hearing Woody,” she said. In between solo performances of “Ladies Auxiliary,” “Jesus Christ,” and “Dead or Alive,” Guthrie tells jokes, offers some back story, and makes the audience laugh. “It is quintessential Guthrie,” Ms. Colannino said.

The Rolfses’ dolls are back in the display cabinet in Wisconsin. But with audio stored on several computers, they now have a permanent voice.

Obama Finds a Bolder Voice on Race Issues

As he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President Obama on Monday found himself thinking about a young man he had just met named Malachi.

A few minutes before, in a closed-door round-table discussion at Lehman College in the Bronx, Mr. Obama had asked a group of black and Hispanic students from disadvantaged backgrounds what could be done to help them reach their goals. Several talked about counseling and guidance programs.

“Malachi, he just talked about — we should talk about love,” Mr. Obama told a crowd afterward, drifting away from his prepared remarks. “Because Malachi and I shared the fact that our dad wasn’t around and that sometimes we wondered why he wasn’t around and what had happened. But really, that’s what this comes down to is: Do we love these kids?”

Many presidents have governed during times of racial tension, but Mr. Obama is the first to see in the mirror a face that looks like those on the other side of history’s ledger. While his first term was consumed with the economy, war and health care, his second keeps coming back to the societal divide that was not bridged by his election. A president who eschewed focusing on race now seems to have found his voice again as he thinks about how to use his remaining time in office and beyond.

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Obama Speaks of a ‘Sense of Unfairness’

In the aftermath of racially charged unrest in places like Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and New York, Mr. Obama came to the Bronx on Monday for the announcement of a new nonprofit organization that is being spun off from his White House initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. Staked by more than $80 million in commitments from corporations and other donors, the new group, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, will in effect provide the nucleus for Mr. Obama’s post-presidency, which will begin in January 2017.

“This will remain a mission for me and for Michelle not just for the rest of my presidency but for the rest of my life,” Mr. Obama said. “And the reason is simple,” he added. Referring to some of the youths he had just met, he said: “We see ourselves in these young men. I grew up without a dad. I grew up lost sometimes and adrift, not having a sense of a clear path. The only difference between me and a lot of other young men in this neighborhood and all across the country is that I grew up in an environment that was a little more forgiving.”

Organizers said the new alliance already had financial pledges from companies like American Express, Deloitte, Discovery Communications and News Corporation. The money will be used to help companies address obstacles facing young black and Hispanic men, provide grants to programs for disadvantaged youths, and help communities aid their populations.

Joe Echevarria, a former chief executive of Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, will lead the alliance, and among those on its leadership team or advisory group are executives at PepsiCo, News Corporation, Sprint, BET and Prudential Group Insurance; former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey; former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; the music star John Legend; the retired athletes Alonzo Mourning, Jerome Bettis and Shaquille O’Neal; and the mayors of Indianapolis, Sacramento and Philadelphia.

The alliance, while nominally independent of the White House, may face some of the same questions confronting former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she begins another presidential campaign. Some of those donating to the alliance may have interests in government action, and skeptics may wonder whether they are trying to curry favor with the president by contributing.

“The Obama administration will have no role in deciding how donations are screened and what criteria they’ll set at the alliance for donor policies, because it’s an entirely separate entity,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One en route to New York. But he added, “I’m confident that the members of the board are well aware of the president’s commitment to transparency.”

The alliance was in the works before the disturbances last week after the death of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered fatal injuries while in police custody in Baltimore, but it reflected the evolution of Mr. Obama’s presidency. For him, in a way, it is coming back to issues that animated him as a young community organizer and politician. It was his own struggle with race and identity, captured in his youthful memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” that stood him apart from other presidential aspirants.

But that was a side of him that he kept largely to himself through the first years of his presidency while he focused on other priorities like turning the economy around, expanding government-subsidized health care and avoiding electoral land mines en route to re-election.

After securing a second term, Mr. Obama appeared more emboldened. Just a month after his 2013 inauguration, he talked passionately about opportunity and race with a group of teenage boys in Chicago, a moment aides point to as perhaps the first time he had spoken about these issues in such a personal, powerful way as president. A few months later, he publicly lamented the death of Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager, saying that “could have been me 35 years ago.”

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That case, along with public ruptures of anger over police shootings in Ferguson and elsewhere, have pushed the issue of race and law enforcement onto the public agenda. Aides said they imagined that with his presidency in its final stages, Mr. Obama might be thinking more about what comes next and causes he can advance as a private citizen.

That is not to say that his public discussion of these issues has been universally welcomed. Some conservatives said he had made matters worse by seeming in their view to blame police officers in some of the disputed cases.

“President Obama, when he was elected, could have been a unifying leader,” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican candidate for president, said at a forum last week. “He has made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions.”

On the other side of the ideological spectrum, some liberal African-American activists have complained that Mr. Obama has not done enough to help downtrodden communities. While he is speaking out more, these critics argue, he has hardly used the power of the presidency to make the sort of radical change they say is necessary.

The line Mr. Obama has tried to straddle has been a serrated one. He condemns police brutality as he defends most officers as honorable. He condemns “criminals and thugs” who looted in Baltimore while expressing empathy with those trapped in a cycle of poverty and hopelessness.

In the Bronx on Monday, Mr. Obama bemoaned the death of Brian Moore, a plainclothes New York police officer who had died earlier in the day after being shot in the head Saturday on a Queens street. Most police officers are “good and honest and fair and care deeply about their communities,” even as they put their lives on the line, Mr. Obama said.

“Which is why in addressing the issues in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York, the point I made was that if we’re just looking at policing, we’re looking at it too narrowly,” he added. “If we ask the police to simply contain and control problems that we ourselves have been unwilling to invest and solve, that’s not fair to the communities, it’s not fair to the police.”

Moreover, if society writes off some people, he said, “that’s not the kind of country I want to live in; that’s not what America is about.”

His message to young men like Malachi Hernandez, who attends Boston Latin Academy in Massachusetts, is not to give up.

“I want you to know you matter,” he said. “You matter to us.”

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