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Makassar, NU Online Hundreds of poor people staged a protest rally against the government`s plan to raise domestic fuel oil prices at Vice President Jusuf Kalla`s private residence in Makassar, South Sulawesi, on Saturday. Their proters said if the government of Persident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla insisted on raising the fuel oil prices, it would increase the misery of the poor people in the country.
Pati, NU Online A prospective measure has been taken by the Rabithah Ma'ahid Islamiyah of Pati Central Java. The NU's pesantren association has set up an information center throughout Pati so-called as Pesantren Crisis Center (PCC). The fresh PCC would have a function as such a data center dealing with issues on pesantren and all its aspects in the region. The initiative has been taken for considering many emerging unsolved basic problems facing pesantrens.
Jakarta, NU Online With the deadline for political parties to register for next year's elections just two days away, the fate of the rival camps of the divided National Awakening Party (PKB) hangs in the balance. General Elections Commission (KPU) member Andi Nurpati said Friday the poll body was still debating options for settling the dual leadership of the party, which forms the fifth-largest faction at the House of Representatives.
Bogor, NU Online General Chairman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) KH Hasyim Muzadi said that the teachings of Ahlussunnah wal Jamaah (Aswaja) would disappear following the existence new Islamic sects. "The teaching of Aswaja is good and appropriate with our nation's culture. If it is not well organized, it would increasingly weak and disappear," Hasyim made the statement before tens of NU followers (Nahdliyin) in Bogor on Wednesday (7/5).
Jakarta, NU Online House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Agung Laksono called on the government not to use the option of raising fuel oil prices to resolve the increasing subsidy problem amid the upward trend in crude prices in the world market. "The people are now already in economic difficulties," the House Speaker said after giving a general lecture at the University of Indonesia in Depok on Wednesday.
Nusa Dua, NU Online The government has yet to announce a decision regarding a ban on the religious sect Ahmadiyah but said Wednesday it was working to protect the group from continued attacks. "We are trying to cope with the issue. We have not arrived at a particular prescription for how to deal with it," minister of foreign affairs Hassan Wirayuda said at a press briefing here Wednesday. The Jakarta Post reported.
Jakarta, NU Online As burgeoning fuel subsidies overshadow the sustainability of the state budget, the government announced plans Monday (5/5) to raise fuel prices to a level deemed 'affordable' by the public. Outgoing Coordinating Minister for the Economy Boediono said the increase would be "limited"; meaning it would help contain a widening budget deficit but that fuels would continue to be subsidized to a reduced extent.
The wave of pauperization would likely happen again and again in the beloved country of ours following the government plan to raise fuel oil prices (BBM). Formerly there have been rocketing and rare prices of necessities like cooking oil, wheat, kerosene, gas, and so on that would in turn make many small and medium enterprises collapse. Thousands of fried foods, bakso, noodle traders till traditional “warteg” sidewalk stalls for instance have started to collapse. There have also been bread and fermented soybean cake companies collapse following hiking raw material costs. All this would of course cause the collapse of people’s enterprises resulting in mass pauperization. All this happens on account of the government’s political-economic policies paying no more attention to people and the nation’s interests. Instead the policies take sides with big corporations. The corporations constantly subsided can easily have access to big banks. While people’s enterprises are one by one dismantled through any collusive political decision.
Depok, NU Online A political observer of the University of Indonesia (UI), Arbit Sanit believed that Muhaimin-led National Awakening Party (PKB) was more democratic than the splinter PKB led by Ali Masykur Musa. "From the beginning, the disease in the PKB party is in its too strong Advisory Board Chairman, Sanit said as contacted by Antara from Depok on Sunday.
Jakarta, NU Online The National Awakening Party (PKB)`s executive board led by Muhaimin Iskandar would offer an advisory post (Dewan Mustasyar) to Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur), the party`s chief patron. "Hopefully he (Gus Dur) will accept it (the advisory post). If he rejects it, there is no problem," Hj Lily Chadijah Wahid, Gus Dur`s younger sister said on Sunday on the sidelines of extraordinary congress of the PKB led by dismissed chairman Muhaimin Iskandar, in Ancol, North Jakarta on Sunday.
Jakarta, NU Online General chairman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) KH Hasyim Muzadi told Indonesia's British ambassador Martin Hatful to study more about religion-state relations. Following his meeting with Hatful at the office of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) on Thursday, Hasyim told NU Online that he felt honored to suggest Hatful to study about religion-state relations as conducted by the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU).
Jakarta, NU Online Ali Masykur Musa was elected Thursday the new chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB) in the party's extraordinary meeting, replacing sacked chairman Muhaimin Iskandar. Masykur, 46, promised to be loyal to PKB founder and irreplaceable leader Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid unlike his predecessors.
