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TIPS CARI RENTAL MOBIL DI JOGJA

Tips Menggunakan Jasa Rental Mobil Jogja Tanpa Sopir

Jika Anda ingin memanfaatkan jasa rental mobil Jogja tanpa sopir artinya Anda sendiri yang akan mengendarainya pun bisa dilakukan. Menyewa mobil tanpa jasa sopir tersebut dikenal dengan sebutas “lepas kunci”. Jika Anda sudah hafal jalan-jalan di Jogja tentu membawa mobil sendiri bukan hal yang susah. Itulah sebabnya ada baiknya Anda memastikan diri Anda benar-benar mengetahu medan jalan yang akan dituju sebelum benar-benar menyewa kendaraan tanpa sopir. Namun tidak sedikit yang menyewa mobil tanpa menggunakan sopir. Biasanya mobil tersebut digunakan perjalanan jarak jauh. Ada kalanya juga bukan digunakan untuk perjalanan wisata namun untuk pernikahan atau perayaan acara tertentu misalnya kelulusan anak, menghadiri pernikahan saudara dan lainnya.

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Memastikan Keadaan Kendaraan

Ketika akan menggunakan jasa rental mobil Jogja lepas kunci selain Anda harus yakin mengenai jalan yang akan dilalui maka ada hal lain yang perlu diperhatikan. Hal tersebut adalah keadaan kendaraan yang akan digunakan. Jangan hanya memperhatikan kondisi fisik kendaraan namun juga detail mesin, kondisi ban, rem, bahan bakar, dan lainnya. Anda juga harus memastikan mobil yang akan digunakan juga dilengkapi peralatan yang sering diperlukan salah satunya dongkrak ban. Selain akan mempertimbangkan keselamatan dalam berkendara, hal ini juga untuk memperkecil kemungkinan saling menyelahkan pada saat ada kerusakan pada mobil. Karena Anda harus membawa mobil tersebut sendiri maka Anda harus memastikan hal-hal tersebut dengan cermat.

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Cari Tahu Tarif Sewa

Anda juga perlu mencari tahu berapa tarif yang ditetapkan rental mobil Jogja 24 jam jauh-jauh hari. Artinye setelah menetapkan hari kapan Anda akan berlibur atau pergi ke lokasi yang diinginkan selanjutnya cari tahu kisaran harga yang ditetapkan. Pertimbangkan pula bagaimana harga bahan bakar apakah sedang mengalami kenaikan atau tidak. Apakah saat itu sedang musim liburan atau tidak dan berbagai pertimbangan lainnya. Harga tiap rental mobil tentu akan berbeda. Biasanya akan dipengaruhi mobil, lama peminjaman, paket yang diberikan dan lainnya. Jika Anda menyewa mobil untuk menjemput tamu atau rekan bisnis, tentu Anda perlu memilih mobil yang nyaman. Selain itu pastikan sopirnya juga ramah dan tidak ugal-ugalan, dan pertimbangan lainnya.

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Mempertimbangkan Kebutuhan

Saat memutuskan untuk menyewa mobil, perlu mempertimbangkan pula tingkat kebutuhannya. Misalnya untuk berapa lama, keperluan apa, berapa orang peserta karena mempengaruhi berapa kapasitas mobil yang disewa, sewa jauh-jauh hari dan jangan mendadak. Jika mendadak kemudian saat musim orang liburan maka Anda harus siap-siap kecewa jika tidak bisa memilih kendaraan yang diinginkan. Karena bisa jadi sudah disewa oleh orang lain. Dan Anda hanya memperoleh kendaraan yang ada. Misalnya Anda ingin menggunakan Fortuner ternyata tinggal Avanza, atau lainnya. Maka perlu rencana matang agar tidak menyesal dan kebingungan karena gagalnya perencanaan.

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Lebih mudah lagi jika Anda memiliki teman yang menyewakan mobil, tentu lebih terpercaya. Namun jika tidak memiliki kenalan maka anda tidak perlu khawatir ketika berlibur di Jogja kemudian ingin menyewa mobil agar lebih nyaman dalam liburan. Karena ada banyak rental yang terpercaya dan sudah terdaftar resmi pemerintah. Anda hanya perlu merencakan tujuan yang diinginkan dan kapan waktu pelaksanaan. Agar bisa masuk list dari rental bersangkutan. Untuk meningkatkan kepercayaan biasanya akan dikenai uang muka dengan jumlah tertentu. Selanjutnya pada saat datang di Jogja maka Anda hanya perlu menghubungi rental mobil Jogja yang sebelumnya sudah memiliki kesepakatan.

Blusukan ke Marunda, Jokowi heran banyak wartawan TV mengikuti

Gubernur DKI Jakarta Joko Widodo (Jokowi) hari ini akan melakukan blusukan ke RT 3 RW 7 Kelurahan Marunda, Kecamatan Cilincing, Jakarta Utara. Pada hari ini ia merasakan ada yang berbeda dengan rombongannya.

"Kok sepertinya wartawan televisinya lebih banyak ya?" ungkap Jokowi di sela-sela blusukan, Jumat (14/3).

Wartawan yang berada di sekelilingnya awalnya hanya tersenyum. Karena masih penasaran Jokowi akhirnya menanyakan kembali kepada rombongan wartawan.

"Feeling saya ini wartawan televisinya kok ada banyak ya? Memang ada apa sih?," tanya Jokowi.

Wartawan akhirnya buka suara. "Kabarnya bapak mau deklarasi kali. Makanya banyak yang ngikutin. Pada mau liputan detik-detik terakhir blusukan," jelas wartawan.

Jokowi yang mendengar jawaban wartawan hanya tersenyum geli. Bahkan dirinya hanya menggelengkan kepalanya karena masih tidak percaya kalau wartawan televisi lebih banyak yang mengikutinya hari ini.

Bagi Pasek sumpah Ruhut potong leher cuma omong kosong

Saco-Indonesia.com - Seorang Juru Bicara Partai Demokrat Ruhut Sitompul siap pasang badan dan bersumpah akan potong leher jika Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono ( Ibas ) yang merupakan putra sulung Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ( SBY ) terlibat dalam kasus Hambalang.

Loyalis Mantan Ketua Umum Partai Demokrat Anas Urbaningrum , Gede Pasek Suardika menilai, pernyataan Ruhut hanyalah sebuah sugesti semata. Ruhut dianggap ingin mempengaruhi publik jika Ibas betul-betul tidak terlibat dalam kasus Hambalang itu.

"Itu juga merupakan pernyataan khas orang Indonesia untuk menunjukkan sebuah keyakinan. Istilahnya berani sumpah itu, itu hanya gaya bahasa yang sifatnya ingin memberikan sugesti keyakinan bahwa apa yang dinyatakan dia itu bener," kata Pasek kepada wartawan di Gedung DPR, Senayan, Jakarta, Kamis (6/2).

Menurut Pasek, soal sumpah Ruhut yang bernuansa sugesti tentunya berbeda dengan kenyataan-kenyataan yang terjadi. Sumpah Ruhut, hanyalah pernyataan untuk melindungi orang lain dalam hal ini Ibas yang bersifat bantahan.

"Kalau bicara fakta kan itu kan hal yang berbeda, karena pernyataan tersebut tidak terkait dirinya sendiri. Kalau terkait dirinya sendiri itu begini 'saya berani saya tidak pernah mendapatkan gratifikasi misalkan' sebagai bentuk pembantahan diri," jelas Pasek.

"Tapi ada yang dilakukan beliau adalah sesuatu bantahan yang dilakukan oleh orang lain," pungkasnya.

Sebelumnya, Ruhut berani dipotong lehernya jika Ibas benar-benar terlibat korupsi dan ditetapkan tersangka oleh KPK. Dia yakin, mantan anggota DPR itu bersih dari korupsi.

"Kalau dia terlibat, potong leher aku, kurang apalagi, Ibas itu mantap, aku jaminannya 100 persen," ujar Ruhut di Gedung DPR, Jakarta, Selasa (4/2).

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Cara Begini Dewi Persik Menolak, Sering Digodo Pejabat

Dewi Persik juga merupakan salah satu artis yang mengaku kerap digoda pejabat. Namun Depe mengaku punya cara sendiri menolak godaan pejabat genit yang sering menghubunginya.

"Cara menolaknya cukup kalau handphone saya tidak pernah angkat. Kalau SMS, saya kasih ke manajer saya. Kalau kepepet misal nelepon terus, misal ada ancaman, itu saya langsung bales. Alasan aja," katanya ditemui di Studio Hanggar, Pancoran, Jakarta Selatan, Senin (20/5/2013) malam.

"Akhirnya lama-lama kalau gitu kan bisa berpikir 'Wah nggak bisa nih dapetin Dewi Persik'," lanjutnya.

Pemilik nama asli Dewi Murya Agung itu mengatakan, sudah sangat sering pria-pria berkedudukan mengajaknya berkencan atau sekadar menggoda. Namun ia mengaku selalu menolak.

"Bukan pernah lagi, seperti yang sudah-sudah. Sekarang zamannya cinta bertolak, infotainment yang bertindak," jelasnya.

Namun Depe mengatakan, bukan hanya pejabat yang bisa saja menggoda wanita karena memiliki kuasa dan uang. Siapapu pria memang mempunyai kesempatan untuk berbuat nakal.

"Tidak semua pejabat. Salahkan oknumnya. Tidak pejabat aja yang punya banyak wanita, pengusaha juga banyak, kiai juga banyak. Kembali ke individunya masing-masing. Kalau punya prinsip kuat dan lingkungan yg bersih itu mudah-mudahan nggak keganggu," jabarnya.

LOWONGAN KERJA TERBARU DI PT. BUMA GROUP | PAPUA

Portal Lowongan Kerja Indonesia. Update Informasi Lowongan Kerja Terbaru Januari 2014 di BUMA GROUP sebagai Accounting Manager. Perusahaan tersebut sedang membutuhkan tenaga kerja profesional untuk menempati kursi kekosongan. Bagi anda yang berminat untuk menempati kekosongan tersebut, silahkan baca persyaratan pendaftaran dan simak artikel selengkapnya di bawah ini :

 

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Profil Perusahaan : We are looking for highly motivated candidates to fill the following.

 

Admin dan HRD , Akunting , Asuransi , Desain , Hospitality, Makanan dan Minuman , Ilmu Pengetahuan, Lab, R&D , Konstruksi dan Bangunan , Lainnya , Manajemen , Manufakturing , Media dan Periklanan , Pelayanan Kesehatan , Pelayanan Profesional , Pemasaran, Hubungan Masyarakat (Humas) , Pendidikan , Penjual, Pelayanan Pelanggan dan Pengembang Bisnis , Perawatan Kecantikan, Kesehatan , Perbankan / Keuangan , Perdagangan dan Pembelian , Properti , Teknik , Teknologi Informatika , Telekomunikasi , Transportasi dan Logistik , Umum, Sipil ,

Alamat : Jakarta
 

Lokasi Kerja : Papua
Posisi Pekerjaan : Accounting Manager

 

Requirements:

 

• Candidate must have at least Bachelor Degree in Accounting from reputable university and (preferably) holding Tax Brevet A/B.
• Highly analytical and possess a comprehensive knowledge in Accounting, Finance and Tax Management.
• Has minimum 5 years of experience in related fields, minimum 3 years in managerial level.
• Have good knowledge and familiar with Budgeting, Treasury, Cost Control, Account Payable, Account Receiveable and Purchasing.
• Accurate in numbers, honest, presistent, hard worker, and able to work independently as well as a team.
• High intregity and proferssional in all aspects of accounting practice.
• Domicile in Jakarta and able to work in Papua.  

 

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Baltimore Residents Away From Turmoil Consider Their Role

BALTIMORE — In the afternoons, the streets of Locust Point are clean and nearly silent. In front of the rowhouses, potted plants rest next to steps of brick or concrete. There is a shopping center nearby with restaurants, and a grocery store filled with fresh foods.

And the National Guard and the police are largely absent. So, too, residents say, are worries about what happened a few miles away on April 27 when, in a space of hours, parts of this city became riot zones.

“They’re not our reality,” Ashley Fowler, 30, said on Monday at the restaurant where she works. “They’re not what we’re living right now. We live in, not to be racist, white America.”

As Baltimore considers its way forward after the violent unrest brought by the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died of injuries he suffered while in police custody, residents in its predominantly white neighborhoods acknowledge that they are sometimes struggling to understand what beyond Mr. Gray’s death spurred the turmoil here. For many, the poverty and troubled schools of gritty West Baltimore are distant troubles, glimpsed only when they pass through the area on their way somewhere else.

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And so neighborhoods of Baltimore are facing altogether different reckonings after Mr. Gray’s death. In mostly black communities like Sandtown-Winchester, where some of the most destructive rioting played out last week, residents are hoping businesses will reopen and that the police will change their strategies. But in mostly white areas like Canton and Locust Point, some residents wonder what role, if any, they should play in reimagining stretches of Baltimore where they do not live.

“Most of the people are kind of at a loss as to what they’re supposed to do,” said Dr. Richard Lamb, a dentist who has practiced in the same Locust Point office for nearly 39 years. “I listen to the news reports. I listen to the clergymen. I listen to the facts of the rampant unemployment and the lack of opportunities in the area. Listen, I pay my taxes. Exactly what can I do?”

And in Canton, where the restaurants have clever names like Nacho Mama’s and Holy Crepe Bakery and Café, Sara Bahr said solutions seemed out of reach for a proudly liberal city.

“I can only imagine how frustrated they must be,” said Ms. Bahr, 36, a nurse who was out with her 3-year-old daughter, Sally. “I just wish I knew how to solve poverty. I don’t know what to do to make it better.”

The day of unrest and the overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations that followed led to hundreds of arrests, often for violations of the curfew imposed on the city for five consecutive nights while National Guard soldiers patrolled the streets. Although there were isolated instances of trouble in Canton, the neighborhood association said on its website, many parts of southeast Baltimore were physically untouched by the tumult.

Tensions in the city bubbled anew on Monday after reports that the police had wounded a black man in Northwest Baltimore. The authorities denied those reports and sent officers to talk with the crowds that gathered while other officers clutching shields blocked traffic at Pennsylvania and West North Avenues.

Lt. Col. Melvin Russell, a community police officer, said officers had stopped a man suspected of carrying a handgun and that “one of those rounds was spent.”

Colonel Russell said officers had not opened fire, “so we couldn’t have shot him.”

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The colonel said the man had not been injured but was taken to a hospital as a precaution. Nearby, many people stood in disbelief, despite the efforts by the authorities to quash reports they described as “unfounded.”

Monday’s episode was a brief moment in a larger drama that has yielded anger and confusion. Although many people said they were familiar with accounts of the police harassing or intimidating residents, many in Canton and Locust Point said they had never experienced it themselves. When they watched the unrest, which many protesters said was fueled by feelings that they lived only on Baltimore’s margins, even those like Ms. Bahr who were pained by what they saw said they could scarcely comprehend the emotions associated with it.

But others, like Lambi Vasilakopoulos, who runs a casual restaurant in Canton, said they were incensed by what unfolded last week.

“What happened wasn’t called for. Protests are one thing; looting is another thing,” he said, adding, “We’re very frustrated because we’re the ones who are going to pay for this.”

There were pockets of optimism, though, that Baltimore would enter a period of reconciliation.

“I’m just hoping for peace,” Natalie Boies, 53, said in front of the Locust Point home where she has lived for 50 years. “Learn to love each other; be patient with each other; find justice; and care.”

A skeptical Mr. Vasilakopoulos predicted tensions would worsen.

“It cannot be fixed,” he said. “It’s going to get worse. Why? Because people don’t obey the laws. They don’t want to obey them.”

But there were few fears that the violence that plagued West Baltimore last week would play out on these relaxed streets. The authorities, Ms. Fowler said, would make sure of that.

“They kept us safe here,” she said. “I didn’t feel uncomfortable when I was in my house three blocks away from here. I knew I was going to be O.K. because I knew they weren’t going to let anyone come and loot our properties or our businesses or burn our cars.”

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G.O.P. Hopefuls Now Aiming to Woo the Middle Class

WASHINGTON — The last three men to win the Republican nomination have been the prosperous son of a president (George W. Bush), a senator who could not recall how many homes his family owned (John McCain of Arizona; it was seven) and a private equity executive worth an estimated $200 million (Mitt Romney).

The candidates hoping to be the party’s nominee in 2016 are trying to create a very different set of associations. On Sunday, Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, joined the presidential field.

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida praises his parents, a bartender and a Kmart stock clerk, as he urges audiences not to forget “the workers in our hotel kitchens, the landscaping crews in our neighborhoods, the late-night janitorial staff that clean our offices.”

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a preacher’s son, posts on Twitter about his ham-and-cheese sandwiches and boasts of his coupon-clipping frugality. His $1 Kohl’s sweater has become a campaign celebrity in its own right.

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky laments the existence of “two Americas,” borrowing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s phrase to describe economically and racially troubled communities like Ferguson, Mo., and Detroit.

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“Some say, ‘But Democrats care more about the poor,’ ” Mr. Paul likes to say. “If that’s true, why is black unemployment still twice white unemployment? Why has household income declined by $3,500 over the past six years?”

We are in the midst of the Empathy Primary — the rhetorical battleground shaping the Republican presidential field of 2016.

Harmed by the perception that they favor the wealthy at the expense of middle-of-the-road Americans, the party’s contenders are each trying their hardest to get across what the elder George Bush once inelegantly told recession-battered voters in 1992: “Message: I care.”

Their ability to do so — less bluntly, more sincerely — could prove decisive in an election year when power, privilege and family connections will loom large for both parties.

Questions of understanding and compassion cost Republicans in the last election. Mr. Romney, who memorably dismissed the “47 percent” of Americans as freeloaders, lost to President Obama by 63 percentage points among voters who cast their ballots for the candidate who “cares about people like me,” according to exit polls.

And a Pew poll from February showed that people still believe Republicans are indifferent to working Americans: 54 percent said the Republican Party does not care about the middle class.

That taint of callousness explains why Senator Ted Cruz of Texas declared last week that Republicans “are and should be the party of the 47 percent” — and why another son of a president, Jeb Bush, has made economic opportunity the centerpiece of his message.

With his pedigree and considerable wealth — since he left the Florida governor’s office almost a decade ago he has earned millions of dollars sitting on corporate boards and advising banks — Mr. Bush probably has the most complicated task making the argument to voters that he understands their concerns.

On a visit last week to Puerto Rico, Mr. Bush sounded every bit the populist, railing against “elites” who have stifled economic growth and innovation. In the kind of economy he envisions leading, he said: “We wouldn’t have the middle being squeezed. People in poverty would have a chance to rise up. And the social strains that exist — because the haves and have-nots is the big debate in our country today — would subside.”

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Republicans’ emphasis on poorer and working-class Americans now represents a shift from the party’s longstanding focus on business owners and “job creators” as the drivers of economic opportunity.

This is intentional, Republican operatives said.

In the last presidential election, Republicans rushed to defend business owners against what they saw as hostility by Democrats to successful, wealthy entrepreneurs.

“Part of what you had was a reaction to the Democrats’ dehumanization of business owners: ‘Oh, you think you started your plumbing company? No you didn’t,’ ” said Grover Norquist, the conservative activist and president of Americans for Tax Reform.

But now, Mr. Norquist said, Republicans should move past that. “Focus on the people in the room who know someone who couldn’t get a job, or a promotion, or a raise because taxes are too high or regulations eat up companies’ time,” he said. “The rich guy can take care of himself.”

Democrats argue that the public will ultimately see through such an approach because Republican positions like opposing a minimum-wage increase and giving private banks a larger role in student loans would hurt working Americans.

“If Republican candidates are just repeating the same tired policies, I’m not sure that smiling while saying it is going to be enough,” said Guy Cecil, a Democratic strategist who is joining a “super PAC” working on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Republicans have already attacked Mrs. Clinton over the wealth and power she and her husband have accumulated, caricaturing her as an out-of-touch multimillionaire who earns hundreds of thousands of dollars per speech and has not driven a car since 1996.

Mr. Walker hit this theme recently on Fox News, pointing to Mrs. Clinton’s lucrative book deals and her multiple residences. “This is not someone who is connected with everyday Americans,” he said. His own net worth, according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is less than a half-million dollars; Mr. Walker also owes tens of thousands of dollars on his credit cards.

But showing off a cheap sweater or boasting of a bootstraps family background not only helps draw a contrast with Mrs. Clinton’s latter-day affluence, it is also an implicit argument against Mr. Bush.

Mr. Walker, who featured a 1998 Saturn with more than 100,000 miles on the odometer in a 2010 campaign ad during his first run for governor, likes to talk about flipping burgers at McDonald’s as a young person. His mother, he has said, grew up on a farm with no indoor plumbing until she was in high school.

Mr. Rubio, among the least wealthy members of the Senate, with an estimated net worth of around a half-million dollars, uses his working-class upbringing as evidence of the “exceptionalism” of America, “where even the son of a bartender and a maid can have the same dreams and the same future as those who come from power and privilege.”

Mr. Cruz alludes to his family’s dysfunction — his parents, he says, were heavy drinkers — and recounts his father’s tale of fleeing Cuba with $100 sewn into his underwear.

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey notes that his father paid his way through college working nights at an ice cream plant.

But sometimes the attempts at projecting authenticity can seem forced. Mr. Christie recently found himself on the defensive after telling a New Hampshire audience, “I don’t consider myself a wealthy man.” Tax returns showed that he and his wife, a longtime Wall Street executive, earned nearly $700,000 in 2013.

The story of success against the odds is a political classic, even if it is one the Republican Party has not been able to tell for a long time. Ronald Reagan liked to say that while he had not been born on the wrong side of the tracks, he could always hear the whistle. Richard Nixon was fond of reminding voters how he was born in a house his father had built.

“Probably the idea that is most attractive to an average voter, and an idea that both Republicans and Democrats try to craft into their messages, is this idea that you can rise from nothing,” said Charles C. W. Cooke, a writer for National Review.

There is a certain delight Republicans take in turning that message to their advantage now.

“That’s what Obama did with Hillary,” Mr. Cooke said. “He acknowledged it openly: ‘This is ridiculous. Look at me, this one-term senator with dark skin and all of America’s unsolved racial problems, running against the wife of the last Democratic president.”

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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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