Author: Elisabeth Oktofani

Indonesian Netizens Enthusiastic for National Hero Day

Indonesian Netizens Enthusiastic for National Hero Day

Posted by | November 10, 2014 | , , | 0 |

JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Every 10 November, Indonesia celebrates the National Hero Day to honor the Indonesian national hero. But today (Monday) seems to be different as many are very enthusiastic. Twitter community find that topic of “Selamat Hari Pahlawan” (Happy National Hero) as one of the top ten of worldwide trending topic today. A number of government and private institutions, public figures and ordinary citizens are posting tweet with 140 character to wish Happy National Hero. The former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, for instance, posted a tweet saying “A big nation is a nation, which appreciate the struggle of...

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Govt Should Not Pay for Satinah’s Blood Money, Citizens Say

Posted by | April 4, 2014 | , , | 0 |

JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Many of Indonesian citizens are not happy with the government of Indonesia’s initiative to pay for blood money in exchange for the life of Indonesian migrant worker Satinah binti Jumadi Ahmad (41). Satinah is scheduled to face the dead execution today (April 4) in Saudi Arabia. After weeks of controversy, the Indonesian government announced that they finally agreed to complete the payment of Satinah’s blood money for as much as 7 million Riyal (Rp21 billion). “It is not that I am heartless but I don’t agree that the government is willing to pay Satinah’s blood money. If the government keeps paying for the blood money, the Saudis would take the advantage of it whenever there is a criminal case involving Indonesian migrant worker there,” Aninda Kusuma told Yosefardi.biz over the phone on Friday (4 April). Niken Putri, a private company employee in Yogyakarta, told Yosefardi.biz that the government was not wise to pay the Satinah’s blood money. The government should allocate the fund to improve the skill and language training centre so they are well-prepared before they leave to work in another country. Number of social movements have been done to raise the funding to pay the blood money for Satinah. One of the movement, initiated by the Indonesian celebrities Melanie Subono, has successfully raised Rp2.8 billion. However since the government has paid the blood money,...

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Indonesian-made Airplane R-80 To Be Launched in 2017

Posted by | April 2, 2014 | , , | 0 |

JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Former president of Indonesia B.J Habibie plans to launch the Indonesian-made airplane R-80 in 2017. The R-80 or Regio Prop 80 is produced by 15 airplane experts with 20-years of experience from PT Dirgantara Indonesia. Some of them also have experiences of working for Boeing and Airbus. The R-80 was produced by PT Regio Aviasi Industri (RAI), the joint venture between PT Ilhabi (owned by Ilham Akbar Habibie) and PT Eagle Capital (owned by Erry Firmansyah). PT RAI invests US$500 million on first phase of the R-80 project. One unit of R-80 costs US$28 million. The Indonesia-made airplane R-80 is designed to carry 80 passengers with propellers....

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Shocking Health Picture Warning to Reduce Indonesian Smoker’s Number

Posted by | March 26, 2014 | , , | 0 |

JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – All the cigarette packages, distributed in Indonesia, will be required to attach a shocking graphic health warning about the danger of smoking by 24 June, 2014. This policy, part of the 2012 Tobacco Regulation, aims to discourage people for smoking. Currently the Indonesian government allows the cigarette company to only attach text warning, but requiring no specific size assigned for the cigarette pack. However it would change. All cigarettes company should attach the image of oral cancer, smokers with smoke images that make up the skull, throat cancer pictures, pictures of people smoking with children nearby and images blackened lung cancer....

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Indonesia Bans Hollywood Film “Noah”

Posted by | March 25, 2014 | , | 0 |

JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The two largest Indonesia cinema chains, Blitzmegaplex and Cineplex 21, could not screen the Hollywood film Noah after the Indonesia Film Censorship Institute (LSF) decided to ban “Noah”film Friday last week (March 21). Noah is an American film telling about Noah’s Ark adopted from the Old Testament and Koran, where a man is chosen by God to undertake a mission of rescue before a dreadful flood destroys the world. LSF considered that the film produced by Paramount Pictures is contradictory with the basic teaching of the Koran or the Old Testament. The LSF chairman, Muklhis Paeni, said LSF opted to ban the film on worries the film directed by Darren Aronofsky would trigger violent protests by the Indonesia’s society. LSF also noted that the film was also banned by Film Censorship boards in Qatar, Bahrain and United Emirate Arab. The film is stared by Russel Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and Emma Watson. In the United State of America, Noah is scheduled to be released on March 28, 2014....

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