Yth. Para Mahasiswa Indonesia di California Selatan,

Teriring salam dari Bapak Agusti Anwar, Konsul Pensosbud, bersama ini disampaikan undangan acara Simposium Pendidikan, yang akan berlangsung pada hari Sabtu, 19 Juni 2010 di Auditorium Lantai III KJRI Los Angeles.

Dalam acara yang akan dibuka oleh Konsul Jenderal RI Bapak Subijaksono Sujono ini,  sejumlah civitas academica Indonesia yang mengajar di berbagai universitas di AS akan hadir mempresentasikan gagasan dan makalah tentang peningkatan hubungan dan kerjasama pendidikan RI-AS.

Selanjutnya pada hari Minggu, 20 Juni 2010, acara akan dilanjutkan dengan pemutaran 4 film nasional (Denias, Garuda Di Dadaku, King dan Laskar Pelangi) secara medley sejak pukul 13.00 s/d selesai di tempat yang sama.

Demikian, atas kehadirannya diucapkan terima kasih.

Salam,

Fungsi Pensosbud.

Come on Join us!

Dalam rangka memperingati HUT RI ke-65 Konsulat Jenderal Republik Indonesia di Los Angeles dan PERMIAS Los Angeles mengadakan pertandingan Futsal.

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Sabtu 26 Juni 2010

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The Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in Los Angeles is cooperating with various Indonesian Community in Southern California to organize this Festival event.

The program of celebration is designed to display the richness and diversity of Indonesia’s many forms of traditional and modern cultures such as:

Cultural Performances
Experience the sight and sounds of the Indonesian culture: traditional dances and arts, innovative crafts, and combinations of both worlds from different islands of Indonesia.

Food Bazaar
At the food bazaar, enjoy the savory taste of different Indonesian cuisines.

Cultural Display and Exhibition
Discover the beauty of the workmanship of many Indonesian local artists spanning from different cultures and backgounds.

Batik Day. Be a part of history!
On the day of the celebration, the Indonesian community of Los Angeles will also try a historic feat by calling thousands of Indonesians and non-Indonesians to wear Batik, a national attire, as well as other traditional dresses. Batik artists will also entertain the audience in making traditional batik paintings and dying.

The Indonesian Community in Los Angeles
Southern California is home to the largest Indonesian community in the United States. The Indonesian community has been a part of the cultural melting pot since the 1960s. They come from a land with rich culture and traditions, for Indonesia is home to many ethnic groups and beliefs.

Free BBQ Night

All Indonesian “Mahasiswa” Please come and join us for a BBQ at Wisma Indonesia in Los Angeles. The message as the following:

Bersama ini dengan hormat disampaikan bahwa Konsul Jenderal RI, Bapak Subijaksono Sujono, mengundang seluruh mahasiswa Indonesia di California Selatan untuk hadir dalam acara BBQ bersama dan ramah tamah (peralatan musik tersedia), yang akan dilaksanakan pada :

Hari/Tanggal : Minggu, 21 Maret 2010

Waktu : Pukul 18.00 s/d 21.00

Tempat : Wisma Indonesia, 627 South Windsor Blvd , Los Angeles , CA 90005

Mohon bantuan untuk menyebarluaskan undangan ini.

Salam,

Pensosbud

It’s going to be a great BBQ night. Don’t wanna miss it. See You All There!

According to him, freedom of the press in Indonesia has not fully supported, so no wonder if his position at the Asian level was still above the 170 ranked. “The ranking of the independence of the press in Indonesia was below 100, because our legal system does not support the freedom of the press,” he said.

It was also due to Indonesia do not currently have a regional human rights court in Southeast Asia, as well as countries in Europe and America, if there is a dispute of the press, journalists are not prosecuted when on journalistic duty. In this regard, he said, the Indonesian press is not pure free yet, tried to be kept no longer to criminalize  press.

But with the existence of ITE Law precisely assessed the government will limit the freedom of the press and freedom of expression again, like when the era of the New Order (Order Baru). He further said that press freedom can not be achieved if without the support of the community. Therefore, since the government was opened reform, freedom of the press who previously confined, continue trying to help promote applied democracy. “For example, escorting the media crowded and Chandra seed cases and cases Prita be evidence of the press force to defend the public interest,” he said.
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Obama & World

When President Barack Obama was sworn in one year ago, the world embraced him as one of their own.

The first African-American president could claim heritage from Kenya to Kansas and from Indonesia to Ireland. He was elected on the hope of a nation, and inaugurated amid the pride of a global family.

And guess what? Now they’re all treating him like, well, family.

They expect more from him. They wonder why he never calls. He doesn’t write…

In Indonesia, their feelings are hurt that he hasn’t come to visit the place where he came of age. In Kenya, they wonder if he has forgotten the place from which his ancestors hailed. In Afghanistan, they are profoundly disappointed in his behavior. In Iraq, like all in-laws, they can’t wait to say goodbye after too long a visit. Europe, like an older brother, feels protective, and maybe a bit jealous.

And right here in the liberal bastion of Boston, the home of his closest political relatives, Obama is in a full-blown family feud. Tuesday, Obama and his policies were stunningly rebuked when Massachusetts voters elected a hard-right Republican to fill the Senate seat of the “liberal lion,” Ted Kennedy.

On that cold day on Jan. 20, 2009, when Obama put his right hand on the same bible used by Abraham Lincoln, GlobalPost featured a series of essays, reports, videos and photo slideshows in a special report titled “… For Which It Stands: America and the World.” In the series, we explored how the world views America and how America views the world.

After eight years of President George W. Bush, it was a time when one poll after the next showed America’s image in the world had never been lower. And here was a new president reaching out to and engaging with the world. It seemed the beginning of a new era, a time of unbridled hope and optimism that this president would indeed bring about change.

We invite you to take a look back at last year’s stories as a metric for whether Obama has succeeded and where we are today. One year on, we asked many of those same correspondents and columnists to revisit how Obama and America are viewed today.

Obama's inauguration

Now 365 days later, the world seems largely impatient with the idea that the president’s soaring rhetoric has not been matched with deeds. His public diplomacy is strong, but our correspondents are hearing from every corner of the world that to carry out the hard work of affecting change he still has a long way to go.

In Kenya, Tristan McConnell writes that Obama’s speech last July during a visit to sub-Saharan Africa resonated with Africans.

“Africa’s future is up to Africans,” Obama declared to loud applause.

But as McConnell reports from Nairobi, the administration policy on Africa still has not taken shape.

In Indonesia, Peter Gelling writes of a nation that was honored tohave had a personal connection with the life of Obama, who lived in Jakarta as a boy. The word on the street was that Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, might be the first place he visited. It never happened. He went to Canada and then London and then Egypt and Africa and China and he made it to Oslo to collect his Nobel Peace Prize and then to Copenhagen for the conference on climate change.

The Indonesians even built a statue of 10-year-old Obama in shorts and a T-shirt with the Nobel Peace Prize hanging around his neck and a butterfly on his hand. A plaque reads, “The future belongs to those who believe in the power of their dreams.”

Now a Facebook page is gaining more and more members – more than 60,000 and climbing – calling for the statue to be taken down.

In Afghanistan, correspondent Jean MacKenzie writes that the thing Afghans might remember most is that the day of Obama’s inauguration was the day full electrical power came to Kabul and the lights came on – and stayed on through the night. It was a first since the fall of the Taliban.

“Now, a year later, much of the glow has dimmed, at least from the perspective of this sad and war-ravaged nation,” writes MacKenzie.

“It was inevitable, of course – no one could have lived up to the inflated expectations that Obamamania had generated. But in Afghanistan the disappointments have been especially bitter.”

In almost every corner of the world, it seems Obama has fallen short of the extraordinary faith so many were willing to put in his ability to affect change. Our columnist HDS Greenway observes that there are few foreign policy successes to highlight. And Greenway quotes former U.S. national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who said Obama “has not yet made the transition from an inspiring orator to compelling statesman. Advocating that something happen is not the same as making it happen.”

GlobalPost columnist Mohamad Bazzi agrees. Bazzi introduces an Arabic term used in the Middle East for bloated rhetoric. It is called, “haki fadi,” or “empty talk.”

As Bazzi writes, “In his appeal to the Arab world, President Barack Obama is dangerously close to being full of haki fadi.”

But not all corners of the world are expressing discontent in Obama.

In London, columnist Tom Fenton write that Obama is more popular in Europe than in his own country.

In fact, a German Marshall Fund poll released in the fall showed that support for the American president has jumped 88 points since the days of President Bush.

“You can bask in the glow of being an American in Paris these days, like you could in the good old days after World War II,” writes Fenton.

So perhaps at the end of the day, Obama is now truly part of the family, no longer an honored guest or a favorite son. And, as the saying goes, “You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family.”

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Google announced Wednesday that it will start encrypting all its Gmail traffic when using a remote wireless server.

This comes within days of Google’s announcement that it might pull its offices from China after discovering concerted attempts to break into Gmail accounts of human rights activists.

Gmail users will now default to using HTTPS, the secure, encrypted method for communicating with a remote server.  This is for the entire e-mail session, not just for log-in as was previously the case.  Since 2008 this option has been officially available for Gmail users but Google hesitated at turning it on for all users because the encryption does slow down the service.

Gmail Engineering Director Sam Schillace wrote in the Gmail blog that  “Over the last few months, we’ve been researching the security/latency tradeoff and decided that turning https on for everyone was the right thing to do,”

When people were using fixed and trusted connections, such as home and work, this wasn’t as necessary but as Wi-Fi connections become more popular, hackers simply began using sniffing software to access people’s online activities.

Rest assured that the HTTPS does not encrypt your email messages, the e-mails sent to other people are transmitted as they have always been in plain text.  It simply encrypts the communications it transit between Google’s servers and the user’s computer.

It was a coalition of privacy and security experts that called on Google publicly to make the change last June.  They stated that Google was putting millions of people at risk by not using encryption as the default for their cloud computing services.

The HTTPS can be turned off in their account settings for users that really find it slows them down or that they just don’t need the added security/privacy. Just note that failing to use HTTPS increases your vulnerability to nasty hack attacks when using open or badly secured network, particularly a public Wi-Fi spot.
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“I have ordered an Indonesian contingent to be sent to help the people of Haiti who are victims of this massive natural disaster,” the President said after taking part in evaluating the preparation of 3,000 members of the Rapid Reaction Team for Disaster Handling (SRC-PB) at the Halim Perdanakusumah airbase here on Thursday.

Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN the death toll of the quake could be “well over 100,000” with tens of thousands confirmed dead and thousands more unaccounted for. Many people
are believed to be trapped alive under the rubble after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake decimated the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.

The earthquake in the Carribean archipelago has been in world headlines, with humanitarian aid coming in from countries worldwide.

Haiti’s devastation is all too familiar to Indonesia: a mammoth quake struck off the country’s western coast in 2004, spawning a tsunami that killed about 230,000 people in 14 countries — half of them in
Indonesia.

“As a country that has been itself devastated by a similar situation, we are absolutely saddened by what’s happening in Haiti,” AP quoted Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa as saying at an ASEAN meeting in Vietnam. “We call on the ASEAN community, including ourselves, of course, to do what we can do to assist them.”

Two major donors, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, have cancelled US$1.2 billion in Haiti’s debts, freeing up funds for the government to pour cash into rebuilding roads, bridges and social programs, Reuters reported.

The World Bank has also pledged an extra $100 million in aid for Haiti and said it is considering setting up a special trust fund to mobilize and coordinate international aid for the country.

Yudhoyono said urgent action was needed to help Haitians because the first hours after the disaster were critical for saving lives.

“We shouldn’t waste time in the first hours after a disaster, it’s a golden chance. If we can quickly help those who can still be saved, then a lot of our brothers’ lives can be saved,” he said.

Meanwhile Syamsul Maarif, head of the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), said the agency would send 30 medical officers from the Rapid Reaction Team along with food aid to Haiti on Friday.

The Foreign Ministry has confirmed that five Indonesians working in Haiti, including two UN staffers, survived the quake and were on their way home.

On Thursday Yudhoyono remained on site to evaluate the capability of the Rapid Reaction Team, which continued conducting their emergency drill despite a heavy downpour.

The team first flew over, mapping the disaster area. Information of the extent of the disaster was sent to the base, which specified the exact location. Another helicopter was then flown in to begin evacuations, while yet another helicopter delivered food aid to unreachable victims.

“The rain has made the [training] conditions more realistic and impressive,” Yudhoyono said.

Yudhoyono said the team would have two main bases, at Halim airport in Jakarta and at Abdul Rahman Saleh airport in Malang.

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Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009
Time: 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: The Hall
Address: 320 W. Garvey Ave, Monterey Park, CA
Ticket: $15 ($19 at the door, DINNER included).
Dinner will be served 6 – 8 pm.
To purchase tickets: info@mudikaic.org or visit us: www.mudikaic.org

CASTS:
Arrio Saputra, Bella Gumulia,
Caecilia, Cindy, Daniel, Davin, Della,
Ella, Hendri, Kevin, Sheila, Thomas

CREWS:
Directors: Mario Anes, Kiki Kusuma
Writers: Audrey Suratna, Bella Gumulia
Original Song: Arrio Saputra
Music Conductor: Willy Kurniawan
Stage Crews: Christina Agis, Michelle Hartono
Set Designer: Nelson Wibowo
Lighting & Sound Engineer: Agus Halim
Multimedia: Setiadi Kawibawa, Lucas Sudiro
Executive Producer: Thomas Wang (Event Ministry Coordinator)

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About Mudika Nite:
Mudika Nite is a nite of Charity Event that is held by Mudika ICADLA (Mudika of Indonesian Community of Archdiocese of Los Angeles). It is the time when Mudika ICADLA presents a dinner with a live performance by Mudika members. With a small contribution, audiences will have a dinner with fun entertainment.

The whole income from this event will be given to charitable organization in need in Indonesia. Many organizations have been benefited from this event like: Adhi Luhur Catholic High School in Nabire, Irian Jaya, Yayasan PKP Seraphim in Sumba, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Pondok Bambu Cilincing in Jakarta,

Through this event, Mudika would like to thank and invite everyone to join the effort to help our brothers and sisters those in need back in our home country Indonesia.