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Rasa aman, tentram dan damai bagai ungkapan 'sampai ketemu nanti'. Perang tak pernah benar-benar mengucapkan selamat tinggal dari tempat itu.  Ibarat menjelajahi wahana di Dufan yang tidak ada habis-puasnya. Belum lagi perang NIIS yang punya franchise di Indonesia. Well , sebelum membaca tulisan ini, kita sepakati dulu kalau ada korelasi positif antara sejarah dan yang akan menjadi sejarah. Untuk lebih jelasnya tentang ini nanti bisa ditanyakan ke ahli penyakit dalam (baca:filsuf). Kita sepakati saja dulu dan saya akan cerita. Konon, kala melacak sejarah asal-usul konflik di timur tengah, sumber yang paling sering dikutip para peneliti adalah catatan Ibn Jubayr (antara 1183-1185) berjudul Rilah. Seorang politisi yang kurang populer, Ronald Broadhurst, menerjemahkan catatan itu menjadi The Travels of Ibn Jubayr . Diceritakan, dibagian utara Damaskus (sekarang Suriah) menjulang Gunung Qasiyoun setinggi 1.151 mdpl. Di tempat ini, terjadi pembunuhan manusia yang perta...

China dirundung masalah. Sudah jatuh tertimpa tangga pula. Belum selesai dengan gejolak demonstrasi Hongkong, pemblokiran 5G Huawei, cyber war , perang dagang, hingga provokasi muslim Uighur, kini merebak virus korona tipe baru. Yang disebut terakhir menostalgia kembali wabah SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) pada tahun 2003 dan H5N1 atau flu burung yang menjangkiti peternak ayam di China. Baik SARS maupun H5N1 adalah endemi yang juga bermula dari negeri tirai bambu itu. Setelah ditelusuri, ternyata virus korona terbaru ini punya skala genosida sepuluh kali lebih besar ketimbang SARS, kata ahli virologi Universitas Hong Kong, Guan Yi, seperti dikutip Media Indonesia. Namun dilihat dari asalnya, untuk sementara belum diketahui pasti. Para ahli masih bergelut di laboratorium. Disisi lain, Komisi Kesehatan Guangxi bekerja sama dengan Universitas Niangbo serta Natural Science Foundation melaporkan, bahwa virus ini bersumber dari ular kobra atau disebut juga ular Naja A...

Grand design M-Tower, Mamuju. Recently, the public has been faced by notion of Mamuju's iconic construction plan Manakarra Tower (referred to M-Tower) in the municipality. Argument split into two perspectives, those who agree with and doesn't is like two sides of coin. Moreover, the pros and cons evoked a resistance between supporter and repellent with various analysis. A specific trigger is the fact that this infrastructure will spend tens of billions money. A likely explanation of M-Tower's supporter views point out that the building could be an iconic value for the city, which will look stylistic features for tourists and the locals. Like an Eiffel Tower did that was attracting anyone to go there for example. Still, it has been commonly assumed the presence of M-Tower will encourage profitable revenue for the resident around it. Simply put, street vendors and micro enterprises nearby the district will be overwhelmed by buyers. However, what the main conc...

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on," said the former of UK's prime ministry Wiston Churchill, between 1940-1945 and 1951-1955. The above quote described how a firehose of falsehood, called Hoax, has spread faster than a truth even when a validity has not yet been packaged. For years the circumstance is still relevant. Wherever you lived, hoax is found elsewhere.  It sounds horrendous. People will wonder what the particular causes are? yet it was led to by lack of literacy skills. As you can imagine, since social media has served our life, everyone could either produce or consume all kind of information. Thus, the information is out of control and consequently supports the deployment of that fake news. Without literalness ability, we would be a victim of an hoax. Moreover, illiteracy skills are not the only one argument, there is more. Most cultural experts have seen it as a result of social construction, w...

Child involved in political campaigns brought by their parent. March 28th, early morning on Thursday. A number of areas in Mamuju municipality were crowded and the joint forces were arranging traffic jam. Some road sections closed. Party's supporters marched together to the Ahmad Kirang field for deliberately campaigning of both presidential and vice presidential candidates. In that day, not only adults participated but pupils, who must not join a campaign, also involved in. I assumed most were still in elementary school. Some of child walked with their parents while others followed party's group, even wearing campaign attributes and jostling underneath the sun. The children participation matter in campaigns is often considered as a normal thing by their parents, whereas at odds with Indonesia's constitution, number 35/2014 Article 15, arguing children should not be involved in political activities including campaigns. Therefore, pupils have a right to be protect...

Our Brand Is Crisis scene The millennial issues have been debatable and become a chatter in political spaces. Recently I have read an essay about it, entitled Millennial and Political Marketing Scenario. The contents illustrated how millennial generation was seen as commodity transactions among politicians. Therefore, as written in the essay, it is important to those to be a critical voter. I am not a politician or business expert, nor do I have an equal educational background, but as a millennial who  wants to respond. Besides, nothing difficulties to recognize what she wrote. Firstly, the practice occurred. Secondly, there was indications of marketing scenarios on what she calls product diversification. For the millennial, marketing is a selling concept where the cover must be the main attraction, even if its contents are shoddy. So the problem is then, how does marketing work in business purposes, and marketing that works for political purposes? The latter reminds m...

Nandan arranged newspapers in pedestrian, Cikapundung A couple of years ago the wave of printed newspaper service was rapturous. But when digital platforms are going to shape up maturity, as Klaus Schwab called it fourth industrial revolution, the selling of printed newspaper providence has gradually decreased, replaced by digital subscribe, then bringing out the question about will the newspapers die out? As of 22nd of May 2018. It was in the morning on Tuesday, my watch showed a quarter past four. The sun even hadn't risen in Cikapundung area, Bandung municipality, as I arrived appropriately on the sidewalk of Soekarno Hatta avenue, where a lot of printing newspapers were arranged on the pedestrian walk by its sellers. Consisting of China's news, Singapura, Sunda, Indonesia and English. The area was definitely known as the central printing and distribution of periodic gazette since 1960s. One of the seller is Nandan. He justified that he has worked to market dai...