Police defend members in Bima incident

The National Police defended its members who were on duty at the deadly incident in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, saying a thorough investigation into the incident was now in progress.

National Police chief Gen. Timur Pradopo said the investigation would focus on who started the shooting.

“Nothing wrong happened at the Sape Seaport, when the police were trying to remove demonstrators. There was sporadic shooting coming from between 700 and 900 meters from the seaport,” the police chief said, adding that the government was still investigating who started the shooting and why.

Timur said the police at the seaport carried out their tasks based on the commands of city and district police chiefs.

Separately, Police have named 56 Bima residents and five West Nusa Tenggara Police officers as suspects in the clash that took place between protesters and authorities at Sape port on Dec. 24, 2011. The 56 residents are now in police custody.

“We are handling 56 residents who have been named suspects in the Bima clash,” National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Saud Usman Nasution said at his office in Jakarta on Monday as quoted by kompas.com.

He also said that police had named two officer suspects in the Bima clash, adding to the three police officers previously named in the same case. “The two officers [most recently named suspects] come from the Bima Police, First Brig. A and First Brig. MS,” Saud said as quoted by tribunnews.com.

“We will bring all five [police] suspects to a disciplinary court in the near future,” he said.

Police had earlier indicted First Brig. F and First. Brig. S, both of whom are members of the Bima Police, and Second Brig. F from the West Nusa Tenggara Mobile Brigade.

Saud also said police were continuing their investigation to determine if bullets that killed and injured residents during the clash matched those used by authorities.

“We recovered eight rubber bullets from the bodies of victims who were injured and are now being treated in a hospital in Bima. We will determine what kind of weapon was used,” he said.

The clash began when a number of residents, citing environmental concerns, demonstrated against the Bima administration by blocking the road to Sape port, demanding the revocation of a mining permit issued to PT Sumber Mineral Nusantara.

Two residents from Suni village, identified as Arif Rahman, 18, Syaiful, 17, and a West Nusa Tenggara Muhammadiyah University student, Immawan Ashary, died as a result of the clash.

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Thousands of houses affected by floods in Surakarta

The Surakarta city administration has raised its status to alert for the next seven days following floods affecting thousands of houses in six regencies and 11 sub-districts in the Greater Surakarta area.

The regencies and subdistricts were inundated by floods after eight hours of rainfall in the area on the very first day of year 2012.

“Considering that the water level at the Bengawan Solo River reached 9.38 meters, the Surakarta city administration raised its status to alert for the next seven days,” Surakarta Vice Mayor F.X. Hadi Rudyatmo said Monday at the Surakarta City Hall.

As many as 3,684 houses in 11 subdistricts in the city, including a house belonging to the vice mayor, have been affected by floods 50 to 150 centimeters deep.

In Trucuk, Klaten regency, 500 families living in five villages were inundated by floodwaters 60 centimeters deep, resulting in losses costing more than Rp 100 billion (US$11 million).

Three embankments in Klaten regency; Dengkeng, Sungai Gamping and Kali Jaran, had broken down, with damages in various locations ranging in length from 15 to 25 meters long.

“If it is still raining on Monday evening, the condition of the embankments could become even worse,” Cawas district head Pri Harsanto said.

In Sukoharjo regency, 1,000 families in four districts have had to evacuate due to one to 3-meter deep floods that had inundated their houses.

As many as 163 houses in three villages in Boyolali regency were also affected by floods.

In Karanganyar regency, two districts, Jenawi and Ngargoyoso, were impacted by landslides, while two other districts, Kebak Kramat and Gondangrejo, were flooded in knee-deep water.

In Sragen regency, the five districts of Sidoarjo, Masaran, Plupuh, Sragen Kota and Tanon, were inundated by up to 2 meters of water.

The Wedi and Bayat districts were affected by overflowing water from an embankment.

Klaten Disaster Management Agency secretary Joko Rukminto said that the agency had coordinated with areas affected by the floods to distribute aid.

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Bars in London Provide Video Games in Toilet

Wow! Bars in London Provide Video Game in the Toilet. The Exhibit Bar made ​​a breakthrough by installing a video game that is controlled with urine in the urinal in their toilet; those games tickle were given names such as Clever Dick and On The Piste.
The system developed in the installation of this game is the first thought in the world, and in addition to making trips to the toilet more enjoyable, it also allows new container for advertisers to promote their products.
Developed by Captive Media is based in England, urinal is accompanied by a high-tech 12-inch LCD screen mounted on it. Ads will be screened in advance until the customer approached the urinal. After detecting the existence of the players already in position to urinate, then the system turns on the mode of play.
“Sophisticated algorithm of the gaming device will allow his players to do something very simple, but VERY challenging – that is aiming to control the game with just a left or right!” Said the ad on the website of Captive Media. So with this ski game, you can control the pace of the ski track with a smooth yet agile movements. How good are you in this game will be absolutely dependent on the capabilities of your control.
Urinal game was the brainchild of Gordon MacSween, someone who could arguably be paid to pee. “We tend to drink more so that we can test these products more often,” he told Time Out magazine from London.
MacSween said that when the game is on trial in a bar in Cambridge recently, some changes in behavior on the people who urinate in the toilet were recorded. “There’s less mess, and it conforms to our expectations because we were designing this game to make them more control of their urine, and less vandalism,” says MacSween explanation.



“When we first installed, we think people will immediately remove it from the wall within a week, but it was still last up to four months. As it turns out the people enjoy it and have fun, they tend to behave more patient. ”

At one point MacSween amazed at the ability of the players in achieving a much higher value above the value which he printed. After talking with some customers, he had finally figured out that customers are learning some new tricks to control their urine as possible.
The Exhibit has opened their new toilet on Friday, it is possible that for the first time in a pub / bar in the UK there will be more people queuing for the toilet than to queue for drinks.

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SBY outlines economic strategy to IDX

 

If the stock market was “Kid-Zania”, then President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s speech at the first day of trading on Monday was like a father laying out his financial plans so that the kids could continue playing grown-ups.

In so many words, Yudhoyono said the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) owed much of its positive performance in 2011 to prudent fiscal and monetary policies formed under his stewardship.

The stock market ended a bumpy year on Dec. 30, 2011, with the Jakarta Composite Index (JCI) at 3,821.99, growing by a modest 3.2 percent compared to the previous year, making it nonetheless the third best performer globally in an era of great economic uncertainty.

In his keynote speech, Yudho-yono told stock traders that the country had to be prepared for another round of uncertainty as decision makers in the US and Europe were still struggling to avoid another recession.

A government-appointed think tank, the National Economic Committee (KEN), warned recently that crises in the developed world would weaken Indonesian exports, create foreign liquidity problems and hurt investment growth. The committee said Indonesia’s financial markets were poised to bear the brunt of high volatility.

Gloomy outlook aside, there was room for hope, Yudhoyono said, especially after Fitch Ratings had reinstated the status of Indonesian sovereign debt to investment-grade level. Yudhoyono said he would maximize efforts to cash in on the positive momentum.

Yudhoyono’s strategy for weathering the external turbulence is to maintain his style of economic leadership, which has been characterized by a conservative fiscal policy — meaning a low state budget deficit, high domestic consumption and double-digit export growth.

In the finalized 2012 state budget, the government predicted revenue of Rp 1,292.9 trillion with expected state spending of Rp 1,418.5 trillion; and a budget deficit of 1.5 percent of GDP. Yudhoyono said the 2011 budget deficit stood at 1.3 percent, well below the 2 percent target.

The Finance Ministry said that it hoped to maintain inflation at a maximum of 5.3 percent this year. The inflation rate stood at 3.79 percent in 2011.

“We have to maintain the fiscal policy, the debt to GDP ratio, inflation rate and the interest rate. When the government achieves such conditions, it is the economic actors’ time to step up,” the President said.

Yudhoyono may argue that the performance of the stock market should reflect the country’s economic fundamentals, which he has vowed to maintain.

However, analysts have long argued that the IDX suffers from a structural problem of having too much foreign funds in its investment pool, which makes it extremely vulnerable to external shocks.

Foreign funds traditionally control more than 60 percent of daily transactions in the stock market, which reached Rp 24.2 trillion by the end of last year.

Considering the large amount of so-called “hot” money, volatility in the Indonesian financial market directly translates into more pressure on the rupiah.

IDX president director Ito Warsito brushed off fears over the inability to increase the proportion of Indonesian investors, saying that it was an accepted characteristic of the Indonesian stock market.

He denied that more foreign investors would cause instability in the secondary market.

“An increase in the number of foreign investors is a logical consequence of Indonesia being of interest to global investors,” he said.

In his speech, Yudhoyono failed to address these concerns, which have the potential to destabilize the economy. KEN, the economic think tank that the President personally appointed, warned that Indonesia should reactivate the currency-swap agreement with China and Japan under the Chiang Mai Initiative in order quell this single-most detrimental force in the economy.

The JCI closed at 3,809.14 on Monday, falling slightly by 0.34 percent from 3,821.99 on Dec. 30.

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Lady Gaga outfit Inspiration Trends 2012

2012 TRENDS predictable fashion clothes tend to be more expressive and free. Asymmetrical cuts, three-dimensional, and origami will be more rampant raised in the draft.
“Pieces like this growing number of celebrities such as Lady Gaga does it,” said Homeland famous fashion designer, Ichwan Thoha to Legal via electronic mail, not long ago.
Women’s clothing designs will also be further expose the sexiness of women from the back of the body, namely the back, like the design of the era of the 1930s. This concept shifts, from which previously relied on the shoulder and chest.
“Either directly demonstrated by using materials leather and see though,” he explained.
Layering or stacked lightweight design, advanced Ichwan, also will return to trend. For color, the choice of natural colors will back up into the fashion world, including terracotta, mustard, blue coral, or yellow turmeric. Color trend is inspired by the issue of global warming which will further strengthen next year.

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German jobless rate up to 6.6 percent in December

Germany's jobless rate edged higher in December, but the overall picture in Europe's biggest economy remained positive as the average number of people unemployed last year was the lowest for two decades, official figures showed Tuesday.

The unadjusted jobless rate was up to 6.6 percent last month from 6.4 percent in November, the Federal Labor Agency said. The number of people registered as unemployed rose 67,000 to 2.78 million. Compared with December 2010, that was a decrease of 231,000.

It is common for unemployment figures to rise at this time of year as winter weather weighs on industries such as construction, though the agency said the increase was smaller than usual.

Germany's job market is in very good shape overall after two years of strong economic growth. Its strength contrasts with high unemployment in economically weaker countries that have been hit hard by the eurozone debt crisis - in the worst case, Spain, the jobless rate is above 20 percent.

The labor agency said the number of people out of work averaged 2.976 million over the course of last year, 263,000 fewer than in 2010 and the lowest overall figure since 1991.

Labor agency chief Frank-Juergen Weise said that "demand for labor was very high over the whole year." Last year's average jobless rate was 7.1 percent, down from 7.7 percent in 2010.

After a strong export-driven performance over the last two years, Germany is expected to see much weaker economic growth in 2012 because of the eurozone debt crisis and economic troubles elsewhere.

Tuesday's figures showed a still-positive underlying trend on the German job market, with the seasonally adjusted jobless rate dipping to 6.8 percent in December from 6.9 percent a month earlier. In adjusted terms, 22,000 fewer people were unemployed, following a similar decline in November.

Andreas Rees, an economist at UniCredit in Munich, said that the 6.8 percent figure was the lowest since German reunification in 1990, and noted that it was the 29th monthly decline in 32 months in seasonally adjusted unemployment. He added that the German labor market still has "substantial" momentum.

He said "companies are still sitting on a huge pile of backlog orders, thereby keeping the labor market going" despite signs of new orders decreasing.

"We expect job creation in the next few months to continue, which is good news for consumer expenditures in 2012," he said.

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Android Applications Downloaded 10 Billion Times

Android seems increasingly prevail. Reportedly more than 10 billion apps have been downloaded from the Android Market. However, some analysis suggests Google to address the programs that are less good.

Not only is Google’s operating system that is all the more brilliant, but it was interested in the Android Market applications is increasing.

Google will hold the celebration of ’10 billion ‘it for 10 days, and will provide a series of popular programs and provide a cheaper price.

Based on the data, as long as 22 months Android managed to reach 1 billion downloads, but then it only takes a month to increase from 9 billion to 10 billion.

Instead, Apple reaches 1 billion downloads after 9 months. “Apple announced a 15 billion times the download in July, so it is clear that the momentum of Android on the activation device to download applications and explain the use,” said Geoff Blabber, analyst at CCS Insight.

“We expect Android will overtake Apple to download the application in the first half of 2012,” he continued, as reported by the BBC (12/07/2011).

Blabber added, rapid growth has raised the challenge of how to help customers find the software useful of all that is offered.

“This is something that must be considered developers and consumers, but a significant opportunity for anyone who solved the first problem,” he continued.

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