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Lamongan, NU Online Following the heavy rains Bengawan Solo River has overflowed a number of areas such as Solo, Madium, Ngawi, Bojonegoro, and Lamongan. At least there were some six districts such as Laren, Glagah, Karangbinagun, Maduran, and sekaran in the regency were inundated. Chairman of the Kedungpring’s Nahdlatul Ulama Branch Representative Council Board (MWC NU), Drs Khamim Baidlowie, MM, told NU Online by phone on Tuesday (01/01).
Every people or group hopes the happening of change to get a better life. The hopes are most of the time connected to certain events, such as holy day or the change of time like the coming of new year. Every new year is always followed by new hopes. Different from some years ago, the hopes are now spilled out and littered with such optimism, or we could say it is full of euphoria symbols . It is a little bit difference, when society is getting wiser, that from year after year a life is not getting easier like its expectation, even getting worse. It does not mean without hopes, the society realizes that the change with all its hopes will happen if accompanied by the planned steps and done consistently. We can not just give it to the time rotation, waiting and sleeping or have a great party, waiting the magic coming from the sky. Well those wishes merely nothingness, on the contrary merely disasters which come.&l
Jakarta, NU Online President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked all segments Indonesian people to draw a lesson from past (2007) experience as an introspection to start the new year 2008. The president made the call when asked after attending "Zikir" -organized worship function- to welcome new year 2008 at the Baiturrahim mosque at the presidential palace complex here on Monday evening.
Mecca, NU Online A total of 312 Indonesians have died in Saudi Arabia up to Monday (Dec. 31) during this year’s hajj pilgrimage, according to data from the Indonesian hajj information center. Currently, 33 Indonesian hajj pilgrims were being hospitalized in Saudi Arabia, namely five in Jeddah, 27 in Madinah and one in Mecca.
Bojonegoro, NU Online One-meter high flood water inundated several parts of Bojonegoro town in East Java on Sunday after the dike preventing flood water from Bengawan Solo River collapsed. The flood water inundated house buildings along a number of roads such as Jl. Rajekwesi, Jl. MH Thamrin and Jl Jaksa Agung Soeprapto to the height of 50-60 cm overnight, an Antara journalist observed.
Medan, NU Online Chairman of the executive "Tanfidziyah" council of the Nahdlatul Ulama Branch Board of Nias regency Abdul Madjid SE said some 13 NU madrassas (Islamic schools) of 15 destroyed by both the tsumani disaster and earthquake three years ago had not yet been reconstructed by the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Board (BRR). "We have officially sent a letter to the BRR of Nias. But imagine till now there have been no response. It has been running for three years. We have called on Minister of Public Works Djoko Kirmanto responsibble for the Aceh and Nias BRR to evaluate the Nias BRR performance," Abdul Madjid told NU Online by phone on Friday (28/12).
From Moscow to Washington to New Delhi and points in between, dismay and condemnation poured forth Thursday over the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, along with concern for the stability of the volatile region. In India, which has fought three wars against Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Bhutto is irreplaceable, and noted she had striven to improve relations between the two nuclear-armed countries.
Jakarta, NU Online On account of the substantive syariah principles recognizing a political accountability model, Indonesian constitution can be potentially a model for many other Muslim countries. The statement was made by the Islamic law scholar, Dr. Nadirsyah Hosen at a discussion taking up Islam and state issues at the Association for the Development of Pesantren and Society (P3M)'s headquarters in Jakarta Thursday (27/12)
Jakarta, NU Online The rising flow of religious-nuance and inter-sectarian conflicts should be kept on guard. It is strongly alleged that there are hidden scenarios to globally disturb Muslims stability behind the conflicts. Chairman of the Central Board of the Indonesian Muslim Students Movement (PB PMII) Hery Haryanto Azumi told NU Online here on Wednesday (26/12).
Calang, NU Online Survivors prayed at mass graves and mosques Wednesday to mark the third anniversary of the Asian tsunami, while warning sirens sent hundreds fleeing beaches during a drill to test an alert network established since the disaster. The waves on Dec. 26, 2004, spawned by the mightiest earthquake in 40 years, killed around 230,000 people in 12 Indian Ocean nations, just under half of them in the Indonesian province of Aceh on Sumatra island.
Pangkalpinang, NU Online The Indonesian government planned to establish a special embassy in Suriname and Aledonia in a bid to restore relations between the two nations which came from the same ancestors. "There is a strong emotional bond between the people of Suriname and Aledonia because they come from the same ancestors. Therefore, the central government through the foreign ministry planned to establish special embassies in Suriname and Aledonia," he said here on Monday.
Every community has cosmology or their own view of life. The cosmology is able to keep their life not only with their natural environment but also with their social one. The implementation of both social ethic and natural one is actually a mechanism to keep the harmony of life. The pragmatic life of modern society has destroyed social cosmology, thus the society experiences disintegration, and finally it loses its social cohesiveness. Social ethic begins to relax when everyone has no cares of others and merely care about their own self. When our society experienced disintegration at the same time with economic crisis mid-1990s, we watched many kind of conflicts happened. This conflict had social root, but also had provocation from groups who had interest to do divide et impera (break and smash). Conflict comes from small problem like fighting between villages with ethnic group and between religious group or political.
