Sejak Hani ke Madura, kan banyak libur panjang juga. Kami berdua gak ada kegiatan. Kalo udah gitu, Mas nyempetin diri gitaran .. hobby lama yang gak pernah sempet dilakukan kalo hari2 kerja.
Tiap liburan panjang gitu, selalu ada lagu terfavorit yang dimainkan berkali2. Waktu libur lebaran kemarin lagu ‘Donna … Donna’ punya Joan Baez yang diulang2 terus. Jangan heran kalo jarang denger …

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ABRI - Armed Forces of the Republic of Indonesia

Indonesia’s four armed services, collectively termed the Armed Forces of the Republic of Indonesia [ABRI - Angkatan Bersenjata Republik Indonesia], consist of the three military services–the army, navy, and air force–and the police. The effort to forge a united and coherent nation that could accommodate the natural diversity of peoples in the Indonesian archipelago has always been a central theme in the country’s history. ABRI plays a role in national society that is perhaps unique in the world. The military establishment in the early 1990s was involved in many affairs of state that elsewhere were not normally associated with military forces and acknowledged as the dominant political institution in the country. The armed forces establishment, led by the dominant branch, the army, has been the country’s premier institution since 1966 when, in its own view, it answered the summons of the people and moved to the center stage of national life. Comprising the three military services and the police, the armed forces operated according to dwifungsi, or dual function, a doctrine of their own evolution, under which they undertook a double role as both defenders of the nation and as a social-political force in national development.

To fully understand the role of the armed forces in contemporary Indonesian society, one must understand the absolute priority the government and the military leadership has placed, from the beginning of the New Order, on the importance of internal security to the achievement of national stability. The New Order government, whose military leaders played an important role in 1965 in crushing what was officially described as a communist coup attempt, believed that threats to internal stability were the greatest threats to national security. Having experienced two attempted coups, supposedly communist-inspired, a number of regional separatist struggles, and instability created by radical religious movements, the government had little tolerance for public disorder.

Since the beginning of Suharto’s rise to power in 1965, the armed forces accepted and supported the foundation of his regime, namely, the belief that economic and social development was the nation’s first priority and that social and political stability was absolutely essential if that goal were to be achieved. The primary mission of the armed forces has therefore been to maintain internal stability. The maintenance of internal security was considered an integral part of national defense itself. Indonesian doctrine considers national defense within the broader context of “national resilience,” a concept that stresses the importance of the ideological, political, economic, social, and military strength of the nation. Like dwifungsi, this concept has also legitimized activities of the armed forces in areas not ordinarily considered belonging to the military sphere.

The role of the separate armed services has not changed since 1969, when the heads of the army, navy, and air force were reduced to chiefs of staff. Operational control of almost all their military units was vested in the commander in chief, reducing the headquarters of each military service to the status of administrative organs. Only the police chief continued to exercise operational control over his own personnel.

Communist victories in South Vietnam and Cambodia prompted national authorities to reconsider both the external threat the nation faced and how best to meet it. Consequently, the new minister of defense and security, General Mohammad Jusuf, directed a major upgrading of armed forces military capabilities. This upgrade included increased training and procurement of sufficient equipment and personnel to establish a core of some 100 fully ready combat battalions. Under Jusuf, the armed forces initiated extensive retraining and reorganization programs that culminated in a major reorganization of the armed forces in 1985.

Largely retained intact when split off from HANKAM in 1985, the ABRI staff and its functions remained directly subordinate to the commander in chief, who remained, in turn, directly responsible to the president, also the supreme commander of the armed forces. Under the commander in chief, there was a provision for a deputy, a position that in 1992 was not filled. There were two ABRI chiefs of staff, one for the general staff and one for social-political affairs. The inspector general and the assistant for plans and budget, as well as a number of agencies and institutes, remained directly under the commander in chief. The ABRI chief of general staff directed assistants for communications/electronics, intelligence, logistics, operations, personnel, public security affairs, and territorial affairs, the chief of staff for social-political affairs directed the armed forces’ dwifungsi operations in the civilian sector of the government through assistants for nonmilitary workers’ affairs and for social-political affairs. The ABRI joint staff supported the headquarters of each of the four services. Staff personnel were drawn from all four services. Police officers served only in positions related to internal security.

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Ngawi berduka, begitulah kota kelahiranku ini bebeapa hari lalu terendam banjir besar yang selama ini belum pernah terjadi. Hampir seluruh kota terendam air bahkan air telah mencapai atap rumah sehingga bantuan makanan diberikan melalui udara. Alhamdulillah, di desaku tidak terkena banjir. Namun, keluargaku di Kedunggalar terisolasi karena ke timur kota Ngawi terendam banjir, ke barat […]

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p to a 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. Next-generation 802.11n wireless. Gorgeous upgraded displays. Wickedly fast NVIDIA graphics. Available in 15- and 17-inch models starting at just $1999. Start your engines.

The latest and greatest.

MacBook Pro is built on the revolutionary Intel Core 2 Duo — which packs the power of two processor cores (up to 2.6GHz) inside a single chip. It provides 4MB of L2 Smart Cache that can be shared between the cores as needed. It delivers higher performance in 2D and 3D graphics, video editing, and music encoding. But the faster engine is only part of the story. MacBook Pro features up to 4GB of 667MHz DDR2 memory with a faster, 800MHz frontside bus and support for hard drives up to 250GB. Ultimate speed, performance, and connectivity. To go. That’s MacBook Pro.

Graphically speaking.

Whether you’re creating 3D animation, editing photos from the day’s shoot, or playing your favorite video game, MacBook Pro delivers serious processing power with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics controller.

Display’s the thing.

A great video processor powers a great display. The new MacBook Pro is available in 15-inch models with a mercury-free, power-efficient LED-backlit display and a 17-inch model with an optional 1920-by-1200-pixel display.

Packs power, not pounds.

What makes MacBook Pro so mobile? Performance in a portable package. Only one inch thin and 5.4 and 6.8 pounds, respectively, the 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro models are among the thinnest, lightest notebooks in their display class

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Bersandar pada tari warna pelangi
kuingat depanku bertudung sutra senja
Di hitam matanya kembang mawar dan melati
Harum rambutnya mengalun bergelut senda
Sepi menyanyi, malam dalam mendoa tiba
Meriak muka air kolam jiwa
Dan dalam dadaku teremuk pilu
Menarik segala tari jiwa
Hidup dari hidupku, pintu tertutup
Selama mata itu tak terpaling
Selama kau darah mengalir dari luka
jiwa ini mati tiada kembali.

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Orang tua saya sering berpuasa di hari weton(kelahiran) saya. Misalnya saja Sabtu Pahing. Katanya itu untuk kebahagiaan hidup saya. Bahkan beliau juga menyuruh saya melakukannya. Bagaimana saya menanggapi fenomena itu ya mas?
Budaya harus dihormati sebab manusia adalah bagian yang tidak terpisahkan dari budaya itu sendiri. Manusia yang tidak menghargai budayanya sendiri adalah manusia yang lupa akan asal-usulnya. Ibarat kacang lupa kulitnya.
Tentu, tidak semua kebiasaan lama harus ditaati. Barangkali ada kebiasaan tersebut yang menurut akal budi kita bertentangan dengan agama. Seperti memberi sesaji kepada arwah yang sudah meninggal misalnya.
Namun meski demikian, tidak semua kebiasaan lama tersebut bernilai negatif. Ada juga yang memberikan energi positif.
Berpuasa di hari weton(kelahiran kita) saya kira adalah hal yang baik. Tidak hanya orang tua, kita sendiri juga tidak jelek jika berpuasa di hari tersebut.
Bukankah agama mengajarkan kita untuk bersyukur. Berpuasa di hari weton saya pikir adalah salah satu manifestasi dari rasa syukur itu sendiri.
Dalam khasanah kejawen hal […]

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