Senin, 28 Juli 2008

"Buruh-buruh Cilik"







Minggu, 27 Juli 2008

‘Berjalanlah di muka bumi!’

La Tahzan
Diantara perkara yang dapat melapangkan dada dan melenyapkan awan kesedihan dan kesusahan adalah berjalan dan menjelajah negeri dan membaca ”buku penciptaan” yang terbuka lebar ini untuk menyaksikan bagaimana pena-pena kekuasaan menuliskan tanda-tanda keindahan diatas lembaran-lembaran kehidupan.

Keluarlah dari rumah, lalu perhatikan apa yang ada disekitar anda, didepan mata anda, dan dibelakang anda...dakilah gunung-gunung, jamahlah tanah dilembah-lembah, panjatlah batang-batang pepohonan, reguklah air jernih, ciumlah hidungmu atas bunga-bunga. Pada saat-saat demikian itu, anda akan menemukan jiwa anda benar-benar merdeka dan bebas seperti burung-burung yang berkicau melafalkan tasbih diangkasa kebahagiaan.

Mengurung diri dalam kamar yang sunyi bersama kekosongan yang membahayakan merupakan cara ampuh umtuk bunuh diri. Kamar anda bukanlah alam semesta. Dan anda bukan manusia satu-satunya dialam ini. Karena itu mengapa anda harus menyerahkan diri kepada ”pembisik-pembisik” kesusahan dan kesedihan? Tidakkah anda sebaiknya menyatukan pandangan, pendengaran dan hati untuk menyeru kepada diri anda sendiri,

Berangkatlah kamu baik dalam keadaan merasa ringan ataupun berat.
(QS.At-Taubah:41)

"Pengrajin batu bata"










Berlokasi di Desa Daraulin, sekitaran Bandung selatan. Didesa tersebut terdapat beberapa sentra pembuatan batu bata dari tanah liat, karena memang tanah didaerah tersebut memungkinkan untuk itu. Ditambah masalah sruktural kemiskinan dimana dengan rendahnya tingkat ekonomi masyarakat yang membatasi mereka mendapatkan akses pendidikan yang layak, rendahnya tingkat pendidikan sehingga membatasi pilihan dalam mendapatkan pekerjaan yang dapat menyokong perekomonian mereka.


Sabtu, 26 Juli 2008

Iran's nuclear issue

We are a country, we are a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency. For over 33 years we are a member state of the agency.
The bylaw of the agency explicitly states that all member states have the right to the peaceful nuclear fuel technology. This is an explicit statement made in the bylaw, and the bylaw says that there is no pretext or excuse, even the inspections carried by the IAEA itself that can prevent member states' right to have that right.
Of course, the IAEA is responsible to carry out inspections. We are one of the countries that's carried out the most amount of level of cooperation with the IAEA. They have had hours and weeks and days of inspections in our country, and over and over again the agency's reports indicate that Iran's activities are peaceful, that they have not detected a deviation, and that Iran -- they have received positive cooperation from Iran.
But regretfully, two or three monopolistic powers, selfish powers want to force their word on the Iranian people and deny them their right.
They tell us you don't let them -- they won't let them inspect. Why not? Of course we do. How come is it, anyway, that you have that right and we can't have it? We want to have the right to peaceful nuclear energy. They tell us, don't make it yourself, we'll give it to you.
Well, in the past, I tell you, we had contracts with the U.S.
government, with the British government, the French government, the German government, and the Canadian government on nuclear development for peaceful purposes. But unilaterally, each and every one of them canceled their contracts with us, as a result of which the Iranian people had to pay a heavy cost in billions of dollars.
Why do we need the fuel from you? You've not even given us spare aircraft parts that we need for civilian aircraft for 28 years under the name of embargo and sanctions because we're against, for example, human rights or freedom? Under that pretext, you deny us that technology? We want to have the right to self-determination toward our future. We want to be independent. Don't interfere in us.
If you don't give us spare parts for civilian aircraft, what is the expectation that you'd give us fuel for nuclear development for peaceful purposes? For 30 years, we've faced these problems for over $5 billion to the Germans and then to the Russians, but we haven't gotten anything.
And the words have not been completed. It is our right. We want our right. And we don't want anything beyond the law, nothing less than international law.