Congratulation to our New Minister of Health

Last Wednesday at 21^st October 2009, Our President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono aka SBY announce his new cabinet. This cabinet was called KABINET INDONESIA BERSATU Jilid II (United Indonesia Cabinet part II). To select all the ministers for this cabinet, SBY used fit and proper test. There are some steps that all candidates must through, and all of them must passed the health screening.  There is a controversial after SBY announced this cabinet, because one candidate that has been announced in the media wasn’t in this cabinet. Nila Joewita Moeloek, who was a candidate for minister of health, was replaced by Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih in “the last minute” before the announcement. The reason of this replacement is because Mrs. Moeloek hasn’t passed the health screening. Because of that sudden change, many people judge SBY embarrassed Mrs.  Moeloek. Besides that, many people judge Endang Sedyaningsih wasn’t capable to sit in this position because she’s only echelon II in Department of Health (DoH), and then they treat her as a traitor  because she had collaborated with United States of Naval Medical Research Unit-2 (US NAMRU-2), as a researcher. Well, first of all, let’s ignore about this issue, and we can see our new minister of health’s background.

dr. Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, MPH, DR.PH born in Jakarta at 1^st February 1955. She got her bachelor degree from Faculty of medicine University of Indonesia at 1979, and her master and doctoral degree from Harvard School of Public Health at 1992 and 1997. She’s the director of Center for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research & Programme Development National Institute of Health Research & Development-MOH since 2007. And in 2001, Endang was working at World Health Organization (WHO) in Jenewa, Swiss ^(1,2). Her publications can be seen in BiomedExperts.  There are so many publications written by her collaborated with her colleagues who are varied from Indonesia and another country

In my opinion, she is capable to do her job as a Minister of Health. It wasn’t easy to be accepted as an undergraduate student at University of Indonesia, especially it wasn’t easy to be accepted at Harvard. So I think she has “something” to offer for this country. She has many experiences working with many people that have different cultures, it made her mind WIDER and of course she has erudition. And with her background in research, I hope Indonesia will put more concern in that field. Research and development can help Indonesia to become healthier and stronger country. About her collaboration with US NAMRU-2 that has been one of the reasons for the controversial, she mentioned that she’s collaborating with many countries and US NAMRU is one of them. She said that this collaboration will be continued but in different shape, more transparent and gives benefits to both country. The US Navy will not interrupt the institution, and US-NAMRU-2 will collaborate with CDC and also NIH, it will change its name into Indonesia-USAaid Center for Biomedical and Public Health Research (IUC).

For many people who against her promotion as Minister of Health, please don’t use Indonesia as your excuse, because not every people in this nation against and underestimate dr. Endang. For every people who underestimate her, let her prove  her capability to this nation first before you say that she will be replaced in 100 days. Let us support our new cabinet and try to do our part. Congratulation for dr. Endang, hope so you can prove your self that you are fit for this position and bring some improvements to this country and also bring a fresh air to our research fields ..^^ ..Gbu

Let’s Knock Him Down!

Just read a blog from Kompas. Even I disagree with his vision, but I like the way he write, because he wrote some references and using factual data. I won’t write about him actually, I’ll write about a guy whom commented on that blog. A silly, fanatic, and arrogant guy. Kinda hate a guy like this one. He wrote like he knows everything, the best, and he is the most righteous person, and the thing that I hate most is he doesn’t respect woman.

The first thing he mentioned about prostitution and liquor restriction, and also gambling. Okay, I agree with the prostitution and gambling thing, but the way he wrote, made me think either he’s a jerk who used those services too or he’s too nerd, he wants but have no money to do it..^^..I don’t know why, this thing just come to my mind. And about the liquor, he said, even in small amount it ruins human’s cognitive skill and damages human’s soul. Has he ever read news or articles? Liquor is one of fermentation drink that if we drink it with a right amount it can give us advantages, such as red wine can give benefit to our heart health. And if you prohibit any kind of liquor in this country, it means you kill some cultures, because like tuak from Batak or sake from Japan is a liquor too and part of their culture. Well, you angry when our culture were claimed by other country, but try to kill your own culture…Fyuh..Weirdo..

And then he mention about women…This is the part that I hate most. He said to decrease criminal rate especially in raping, women must find a job that can make her go home before night, and women must use a close cloth. In his sight, women give him too many temptations..^^..Someone asked him, how if the woman is a widow and she only can work at night, and he answered that he doesn’t want to know how, but the woman must work at daytime, because there still many men outside to work at midnight. He said like he’s a true gentleman. Okay, if that’s the case, let’s go to Transjakarta bus or public bus. When a pregnant woman, or grandpas or grandmas come in to the bus, who would give them their seats first? From my experiences, it’s a girl whom often aware to give their seats. I scarcely saw a guy would get up from their seat. A gentleman is really rare to find, but an arrogant like this guy really need to be knock down! Now about the costume. It is better if a woman doesn’t expose their body too much, but is it really women’s fault that so many raped case in the world? Why we don’t think that the men are responsible too in this case? And he was too arrogant to admit it. And the other case is about man can get marry to more than one wives in few conditions. Haish..It’s make my emotion rise up..Hey, who do you think you are? Can you respect woman? If a guy wants to be the one for his women, he must be loyal to his woman too. What you want other to do upon you, you must do it first. Is it right? If you have more than one wives, so it’s ok for your wives to have another husband right? Well woman and man are equal. God made women and men suit to each other, no one is more superior to other. At Eph 5:22-33, God gives HIS words not only for wife but also for husband, the wife must respect his husband and husband need to love his wife like he loves himself. Hope so he can treat his wife respectful.

End of word, I hope I don’t meet a guy like this or I’ll really knock him down..

Menghadapi konflik Indonesia-Malaysia

Konflik antara Indonesia dan Malaysia kian memanas. Selain mengkliam Pulau Ambalat, Malaysia telah banyak mengklaim berbagai kebudayaan Indonesia, seperti batik, Reog ponorogo, lagu Rasa Sayange, dan yang terhangat ialah tari pendet. Awalnya ssaya kira konflik ini baru ada selama 10 tahun terakhir ini, tapi ternyata masalah ini sudah ada sejak jaman Pak Soekarno masih menjabat sebagai Presiden Indonesia. Dari yang saya baca Lagu kebangsaan Malaysia merupakan hasil copy irama dari lagu Gesang,salah satu seniman Indonesia, yang berjudul Terang Bulan. Bahkan gerakan “Ganyang Malaysia” sudah ada dari jaman Pak Karno. Selain masalah klaim ini, satu hal yang membuat saya sangat marah ketika saya membaca suatu forum di web berikut (http://www.topix.com/forum/world/malaysia/TK0OQAT9ICE7KMU4V), di mana lagu kebangsaan Indonesia digubah liriknya oleh seorang warga negara Malaysia menjadi lirik sampah. Berikut lirik yang ditampilkan di forum tersebut:

IndonSIAL wrote:

Indonesial tanah Cairku
Tanah tumpah muntahku
Disanalah aku merangkak hina
Jadi kubur
Indonesial negara miskin ku
Bangsa Busuk dan Tanah Miskinku
Marilah kita semua tidur
Indonesial negara miskinku
Mati lah tanahku
Modar lah negriku
Bangsaku Rakyatku semuanya
Miskin lah jiwanya
Tidurlah badannya
Untuk Indonesial Miskin
Indonesial Miskin
Mampous Modar
Datang kerja Malaysia
Tapi TKI Jadi perampok
Rompak Malaysia bawa wang ke Indon
Indonesial Pendatang Haram
Miskin lah Miskin lah
Datang Haram ke Malaysia
Tiada paspor
Bila kena tangkap dan hantar balik
Kata nya malaysia jahat
Indonesial Negara Perampok
Indonesial Menghantar perampok maling
pekerja TKI Indonesial
hantaq pi Malaysia
Indonesial Maling
Merampok lagu Malaysia
Mengatakan itu lagu mereka
Indonesial Tanah yang hina
Tanah gersang yang miskin
Di sanalah aku miskin Untuk slama-lamanya
Indonesial Tanah puaka
Puaka Hantu Kita semuanya
Negara luas hasil bumi banyak tapi miskin
Datang minta sedekah di Malaysia
Marilah kita mendoa Indonesial brengset
Gersang lah Tanahnya mundurlah jiwanya
Bangsanya Rakyatnya semuanya
Tidurlah hatinya Mimpilah budinya
Untuk Indonesial Miskin
Indonesial Tanah yang kotor Tanah kita yang Malang
Disanalah aku tidur selamanya bermimpi sampai mati
Indonesial! Tanah Malang Tanah yang aku sendiri benci
Marilah kita berjanji Indonesial miskin
Mati lah Rakyatnya Modar lah putranya
Negara Miskin Tentera Coma pakai Basikal
Miskinlah Negrinya Mundur lah Negara nya
Untuk Indonesial kurap

Sebagai seorang WN Indonesia, saya sangat marah membacanya, walaupun bila dinyanyika kata-katany tidak semuanya sesuai dengan irama aslinya Semakin membaca forum tersebut, semakin ilfil rasanya, karena warga dari kedua negara ini saling mengeluarkan kata-kata kotor di forum tersebut.

Rasa-rasanya kalau kita saling mengatai ga bakal ada habisnya. Masalah ini muncul tidak hanya karena salah satu negara saja. Di satu sisi, latar belakang Malaysia melakukan hal ini sudah dibahas dengan sangat baik oleh Pak Chandra Marsono di blognya (http://chandramarsono.blogspot.com/2009/08/malaysias-culture-confusion.html). Dari sisi Indonesia sendiri mungkin dikarenakan kecuekan kita sendiri sebagai warga negara, jujur saja saya sendiri malas dan tidak berbakat untuk belajar tari daerah, lagu daerah saja saya ketahui dari pelajaran semasa di bangku sekolah. Ketika memperoleh kesempatan magang di negara orang saya semakin menyadari betapa Indonesia negara yang kaya dan begitu indah. Selain dari sisi warga negara mungkin juga terdapat masalah diplomasi maupun birokrasi yang sulit dilakukan. Banyak aspek yang berpengaruh dalam masalah ini.

Tapi apakah kita mau saja diinjak-injak ketika kebudayaan kita diambil satu persatu? Lalu bagaimanakah respon kita yang seharusnya? Pertanyaan ini cukup mengganggu saya. Apakah kita perlu mengeluarkan sumpah serapah di internet dan berkata-kata kotor? Bukankah hal tersebut semakin membuktikan bahwa bangsa Indonesia merupakan kumpulan orang-orang tidak berpendidikan yang emosinya mudah disulut? Jujur saja saya tidak setuju dengan cara tersebut. Ada banyak cara untuk membuktikan bahwa kebudayaan tersebut milik bangsa Indonesia, pertama tentunya melalui cara diplomasi. Kita buktikan bahwa Bangsa kita merupakan bangsa yang berpendidikan dan cinta damai. Kedua kita dapat berkarya seperti yang dilakukan Saykoji lewat lagu terbarunya You Copy it (again), di sana dia katakan bahwa itulah cara dia melawan, perang makian di internet udah basi, melalui karya-karya seperti ini kita buktikan bahwa Bangsa Indonesia memiliki kreativitas tinggi dan tidak hanya bisa menjiplak hasil karya orang lain. Well, saya tidak punya bakat dalam menciptakan lagu atau menari, tapi saya mencoba membuktikan bahwa Bangsa Indonesia merupakan Bangsa yang terpelajar melalui tulisan saya..^^