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Jakarta, NU Online Thousands of people representing various elements in society rallied in Jalan Merdeka Utara in front of the Merdeka Palace on Wednesday to protest against the government`s plan to raise fuel oil prices. Some 2,000 demonstrators made up of students, workers and non-governmental organization members converged on the palace from different directions.
Thousands of students, activists and youth leaders rallied in Jalan Tamrin-Sudirman Central Jakarta to commemorate and call for the importance of national awakening clamorously. Various seminars were held and words were disseminated in mass media. Many political elites with their commercial advertisements took advantage from the commemoration. Any loud shouting and appeal full of hope were littered with awkwardness and even in vain. Is is possible to calling for the awakening for those having plunged the nation into destruction? Is it possible for students and young cadres to hope the awakening while at the same time they have been sterilized through schooling systems leading in turn the absence of the root of nationalism? Schools have so far yet to change their orientation to build objectivity by freeing national ideology.
Jakarta, NU Online Head of the health ministry's crisis management center, Rustam S. Pakaya, said Monday Indonesia would send a 62-member medical and military team to help quake victims in Shincuan province, China. The team is said to consist of officials from the health ministry, the National Defense Forces (TNI) and police officers, including doctors from Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital in Jakarta, RS Sadikin Hospital in Bandung and Dr Soetomo Hospital in Surabaya.
Malang, NU Online General Chairman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) would send a letter to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) asking the government's plan to soon raise fuel oil prices on Monday (19/5). General Chairman of the PBNU KH Hasyim Muzadi said that he had personally talked to President SBY dealing with his objections on the government's plan.
Banda Aceh, NU Online The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is paying for the schooling of 500 tsunami orphans in Aceh Besar district. Antara reported. "The program is aimed at assisting Aceh children in pursuing better education in the future," the OIC`s administrative and financial manager, Era Purike, said on Sunday.
Jakarta, NU Online The government will not revise the profit target of state firms for 2008 and 2009 despite the continued rise in global crude prices and the government`s plan to raise the prices of subsidized fuel oils, a minister said. "Until now, we still have no plan to lower the profit target of state firms for this year and next year," State Enterprises Minister Sofyan A Djalil said at the weekend.
Jakarta, NU Online Councils of religions in Indonesia will organize a major meeting in Jakarta, from May 20 to 22, 2008, to draft recommendations on efforts to strengthen the national unity. The meeting to be organized and financed by several national councils of religions, would be held to observe the 100th anniversary of the National Awakening Day, according to Slamet Effendi Yusuf, chairman of the organizing committee of the Major Meeting of Indonesian Religion Followers To Guard the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI).
Jakarta, NU Online Different views among Muslims in Indonesia on the branches of religious matters (furu'iyyah) like matters pertaining to prayer ritual have so far been on the right track. Yet there have been always those whose blind fanaticism by questioning rituals of other Muslim group. The latest case having ever caused social unrest is the presence of a book that criticizes the ritual of Nahdliyin (NU followers) in East Java. Ironically the book written by "ex-cleric" of NU is also 'supported' by a member of Muhammadiyah.
Jakarta, NU Online He is not a Catholic priest but a cleric (kiai) or ulema. He is also the leader of Indonesia's biggest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama. He is KH Hasyim Muzadi. He said that he had come to Vatican more often than Indonesian Catholic leader Cardinal Julius Darmaatmadja. Hasyim who is also the president of World Conference of Religions for Peace said that he had so far met with two supreme leaders of world's Catholic members, namely Pope Johannes Paulus II and Pope Benedict XVI.
Jakarta, NU Online General Chairman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) KH Hasyim Muzadi said that inter-religious dialogue was very important to create both togetherness and brotherhood. The dialogue, he added, was aimed at avoiding any suspicions among religious adherents. According to Hasyim, there had lately been many religious-nuanced conflicts. Whereas the conflicts were nothing to do with certain religion.
Jakarta, NU Online The House of Representatives plans to summon President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to explain his plan to raise fuel prices, as the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) unanimously rejected the planned increases. House Deputy Speaker Muhaimin Iskandar said the legislature would ask the President to provide details about the government's plan to increase fuel prices.
Jakarta, NU Online Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), has called on the government to provide greater support for Palestinians. General Chairman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) KH Hasyim Muzadi on Thursday (15/5) said the government should seek more effective ways to support the Palestinian cause, as there is still room for progress.
