3rd day of Service Learning Program: Art Class, Sharing, Feeding Program, and Gift Giving

Our last day of service learning program is one of the best day I've ever had in my life. Why? Because I did learn a lot of new things from that day. At our 3rd day of service learning program, we had an art class that we asked the kids to draw who they want to be when they grow up. We also helped the kids on drawing and looking for the idea. Surprisingly, some kids already decided what they want to be. I found some kids want to be police, miss universe, doctor, and pilot. By this activity, I learned that even though some of the kids are coming from the bad economic condition family, but they still have their own dreams. So why do we as someone who has a good condition not dreaming a lot also?

After it, we also asked the kids to share about their drawing. Some of them has a very nice yet cute stories why they choose what they draw. Listened to their story make me and my group mate can't stop smiling and becoming more happy to hear them. Then we also continued it with feeding program. At first, we were planning to buy something from a common fast food restaurants cause kids usually love that, but the athe told us that it will be better to feeding them with the food that they cook because they already take care of the nutrition. I was feeling so amazed at that time. I realized that Bukas Palad is a kind of a very caring organization, and I also feel honoured that I can have my social activities here.

We ended our activities with giving the gift to the kids. Even its actually not a very big gift, but I can see that the kids was very happy. It touched me a lot that even the small things that we do could be other people happiness.

It was sad that I just have one term here so I can't visit them again later. It was a very fun experience for me to do social activities like this. I'm very admired Ms. Castillo, our professor because she gave us the task to do this social activities. :) I have never found this kind of activity be a part of subject when its actually a very nice activities to do. And the conclusion is that I learned a lot from doing this service learning program.

Gift Giving

Feeding Program

Art Class- Drawing Who You Want to be When You Grow Up

Sharing The Kids Drawing

2nd day of Service Learning Program: Introducing, Trip to Jerusalem, Dancing, and Chair Games

At our second day of service learning program, we start our activities with the 15 kids. I've been so excited since the day before it because I really love and enjoy playing with kids. But I also worried because I can't speak tagalog and I'm sure that kids can't speak English also. Even though when the day came, I actually don't need to be to worry because its actually very fun to be with the kids, I really enjoy it. Even some of my group mate whom saying that they didn't like kids, they also look so happy and excited.

We began our activities with praying together and listening to the kids introduce themselves one by one. At that time, we asked the kids to tell their name, age, and their favourite food. It was very fun to listening to the kids because they are all still very innocent. Some of them are very energetic and some of them also very shy. I found it lovely and healing to see the kids smile, especially because I know that they come from a kind of not better economic condition.

After it we continued our activities with playing Trip To Jerussalem game. I'm a bit surprised that the kids can understand well about how to play the game and saw that they were very excited on playing it. We also played the Chair While Dancing Game. At that time I can not stop myself from following the kids dancing and play with them. Its very fun to play with them and make them happy.

For the 2nd day of service learning program, even its just the 2nd day, I already learned a lot. Especially, I just realized that I feel happy because the kids feel happy. I learned that our happiness is other people happiness. We can be happy with what we have now, but is it the truly happiness?

The kids

The kids introduce themselves

Dancing Games

Chair Games

1st day of Service Learning Program: Discuss and Tour

Bukas Palad Foundation

In the end of our CSRGOVE class, we got the task to make a service learning program. I found this very interesting cause in my university in Indonesia, we don't have this kind of activity as a part of the subject. I think it is a very interesting and nice activity because the student can learn more by having a direct practice of doing a social responsibility.

At the first day, me and my group mate go to the Bukas Palad foundation to discuss more about our activity plan and having a look at the foundation. At that day, I learn so much new knowledge about the foundation. Bukas Palad foundation is actually one of the social expressions of the Focolare Movement. Its also a non-stock, non-profit, and non-government organization which established in 1983. Bukas Palad foundation provides sustainable development, education, livelihood, information and communication technology to needy children, elderly, urban poor, and victims of calamities and disasters.

The place of Bukas Palad Foundation that we visited that day is located in Pasay City, Manila. I found it as a very nice and comfortable place. It has a nice and cutely draw building, complete facilitation, clinic, and they also had their own kitchen inside to provide the food for the children. After discussing and doing a tour of the place, we decided that we will teach the class with 15 kids whom in 4-5 age years old. I felt very excited at that day because I really love kids and I also love to doing this kind of social activities.

Bukas Palad Office

Clinic

Baby's care

Library

Cutely Draw Buildings

10th Week of CSRGOVE Class: The Sixth Case and South Korea Corruption Presentation

At the 10th week, we began the class with discussed about the sixth case. The sixth case is about Solomon whom was a principal engineer at an environmental engineering consulting firm. His main role is to advise clients on what type of action to take when they are faced with risk and liabilities while conducting certain projects. The ethical issues that involved in this case is the client does not comply with the state regulation of proper waste management. Also does Solomon have to push for a more fiscally demanding yet sustainable proposal to maintain their partnership, is gaining profit more important than the overall well-being of the environment? or Is the relationship with only one client more important that the sustaining the environment?.

I think its a very interesting case because I saw so many this kind of case in Indonesia. And this kind of case usually include a very high number of bribe and gave a lot of bad impact to the environment. For this case, we choose the best alternative that Solomon could try recommending outsourcing a company/service that would help the client properly dispose of the waste from the expansion. Solomon would also tell the client about the importance of sustaining the environment. We choose this alternative because its considering not only from the firm perspective, but also how it will give impact to the environment.

Also in that week, we have a presentation about the corruption in the specific country. Our group choose South Korea because it has a very current big case about the corruption. We began our presentation with mentioned about South Korea economic background as the agricultural economy country whom success on shifted towards manufacturing and well known because their developed from being one of the world's poorest countries to become one of the world's top 20 economies today.

In our presentation, we discussed about South Korea's current corruption case which give a very big impact of their political condition. The case is actually about South Korea's President Park Geun-hye whom has become the country's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office. It could happened because of her corruption scandal. This corruption scandal centers on her relationship with an old friend, Choi Soon-Sil, and has brought allegations of cult activities, influence-peddling and leaks of classified information.

Choi is accused of using her presidential connections to pressure companies for millions of dollars in donations to two non-profit foundations she controlled. Even a very big and well known company, Samsung become one of 8 that has admitted making payments to the foundation, but denies it did so in return for any favours. President Park is alleged to have been personally involved, instructing Ms Choi and two presidential aides to collect money for the launch of Ms Choi's foundations

What makes this case become a big case is because when the justice has said that Park is confirmed with her corruption scandal, she can't be judged because of her position as a president. As this scandal unfolded, hundreds of thousands of Koreans braved the brutally cold winter temperatures to protest on the streets of Seoul from November 2016 until March 10th 2017.

Finally, four months after it, the Constitutional Court upheld that vote, ending the presidency of South Korea's first female leader. And South Korea will now hold a snap election to choose Park's replacement.

9th Week of CSRGOVE Class: The Fifth Case

At the 9th week, our class continued the debate and have the quiz 2. But because I was sick, I didn't go to the class. At the night before the class, I discussed with my group mate about the case so even though I didn't go to the class, I was able to explained about the case.

The fifth case is about Monica who works at a large medical company that reviews lab procedures. Her company job is to give the institution permission to use blood samples for laboratory testing. The ethical issues that involved in the case is about does Monica should follow the company rules and just send back the unsigned form to the supplier or she should go to her boss and discuss about the procedure or the process use to accept the form. Also is it ethical to let the blood suppliers sign a consent form which they cannot understand because it is too complex and is it ethical to let her company still doing the same procedure which made them still accept the numerous unsigned consent forms.

From this case, our group comes up with third alternative that Monica could do. The first alternative is Monica could bring the case up to her boss and give her concerns about the consent forms. She can clear up any misunderstandings she has about the process of the papers. The second alternative is Monica should make a simpler revision of the consent form and submit the proposal to the management. Also the third alternative is Monica should return the form back for a signature from the supplier without comments which also means the do nothing action.

After considered how the alternative will affect the stakeholders with utilitarian, Kantian duty, ethics of care, justice and fairness, and implication for the personal integrity, we decided that the first alternative is the best alternative because it gives all yes to the criteria. We also evaluated the decision alternative with the work's procedure, customer's loyalty and relationship, and self image and career until we found that the first alternative is the best alternative to choose.

8th Week of CSRGOVE Class: The Fourth Case, Transportation Strike, and McDonald vs Liebeck Debate

A the 8th week, we didn't have a class in the Monday because of the transportation strike. Actually, I think that transportation strike has an ethical issue on it. It was about the ethical issue between the jipniy driver and the government. The government should have more considering about the jipniy driver's perspective and needs. But from what I knew, the strike has end with the result that the government allow the jipniy driver to raise the cost from 7 peso to 8 peso. Actually from my perspective as a foreigner, it wasn't a big amount to raise the cost from 7 to 8 peso because the public transportation cost in my country is even higher than it. But the government also have to make sure for some other aspect such as making sure that the jipniy driver will treat the passenger nicely and drive well as a benefit of the higher cost.

At the beginning of the class, we discussed about the case fourth which is about Rachel who works as a Quality Assurance Engineer at a large electronics company. The ethical issues that we found from the case is that the company’s business model does not give sample to conduct Quality Control tests for their products, which may lead to a defective product. Also other ethical issue is that the company would be deceiving its customers when it ships out untested products to the market and Rachel placed the profit of the company and it’s advantage from the competitor over their customer’s safety.

Related to this case, we decide that the best alternative for it is to ship out the products but put a disclaimer that it is not guaranteed to be safe. It cause this alternative considering well about the company's image, company's goal, company's loyalty and relationship, and also about Rachel's own career.

After discussing the case, we have a debate about McDonald vs Liebeck. I found this debate very interesting because I have never heard this case before even though its a very big and interesting case. Actually this case is happened in 1994 and well known as McDonald's coffee case and the hot coffee lawsuit. This case began when Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman who suffered third-degree burns in her pelvic region when she accidentally spilled hot coffee in her lap after purchasing it from a McDonald's restaurant. Liebeck was hospitalized for eight days while she underwent skin grafting, followed by two years of medical treatment. After it Liebeck's attorneys and Mc Donalds lawyer argued service quality of Mc Donald's coffee when Mc Donald's actually has followed all the coffee legal and standard.

Its a very interesting debate cause I learned a lot not only about how to giving argument in debate, but also how I should think if I was Mc Donald's lawyer. Its like I learn about looking for the legal and standard of any case. I just realized that a very simple thing like putting the "hot coffee" label in a product is a very important thing.

7th Week of CSRGOVE Class: The Third Case, Unethical Advertising Analysis, and Ethics in Marketing

At the Monday of those week, we began the class with discuss about The Third Case. The third case is about Sarah who was recently promoted to a managerial position at her industrial engineering company. But then Sarah found out that her workers worked overtime without getting paid  and when she expressed her concern to her supervisor, he explained to Sarah that the factory meets their goals by having workers work overtime and they don't have enough budget to pay the overtime workers.

From this case, we can see that the ethical issues involved that is the workers work overtime but are not paid for it and Sarah is working for a company that has illegal practices. For this case, we decided that Sarah can go to seminars to learn about how to properly manage workers in order to meet company expectations without having to work overtime for the best decision because it is well considering all the aspect (utilitarianism, kantian duty, justice and fairness, ethics of care, implications for personal integrity and character aspect).

At the Wednesday of those week, we did The Unethical Advertising Analysis and Presentation. My group presentation is about Napoleon Quince’s billboard for their liquor. Its ad billboard featured a tagline saying “Nakatikim ka na ba ng 15-anyos?” The ad was trying to send a message about the liquor, but at the same time, it had a hidden sexual meaning behind it. My group thought this was unethical because it contained sexual innuendos and since this ad was shown to the public, it is very inappropriate. There was an effort to make the ad attention grabbing but the meaning of its tagline may be taken in the wrong context by those who see it.

It can be considered unethical because the innuendo was referring to minors. It is an inappropriate tagline. Also considering the conservatism of the Philippine culture and its adherence to the Catholic Church, jokes like these are not considered moral. Because of this advertisement’s controversial tagline, it was taken down.

For those week, we also learned some new CSR's theories. We learned about Relationship Between Employer and Employee which has main duty to work towards the goal of the firm. Its theory said about the importance to obedience to supervisor, and avoid activities that might be harmful to their goal. We also learned about is ethical Downsizing possible. And then about the characteristic of Sweatshops that is the employee is the child labor, provide under range salary, and not environmental friendly. We also learned about Conflict of Interest, Bribes and Extortion, Employee Theft, and Ethical Issues in Marketing. 

6th Week of CSRGOVE Class: The Model of CSR, Good News on Monday, Second Case Discussion, and Skit

At the fifth week, it was my group turn to have a Good News on Monday presentation. Our good news is about the corporate social responsibility in Mead Johnson Company. Mead Johnson is actually a company that produces nutritional supplements for children and infants. This company have a high commitment to corporate citizenship. This company’s corporate citizenship programs are tied to these three pillars: serving the marketplace, protecting the environment, and nurturing communities. They have A Child’s Best Start Program, Feeding Hope Supplemental Feeding Program, Orphan Disease Program, and Pasiglahin ang Estudyanteng Pinoy (PEP) Feeding Program.

After did our presentation, we discussed about The Second Case in the class. The second case is about Satomi who works as an intern in a research facility that provides statistical results for the bioengineering firm. One day, one of Satomi’s co-intern, Max, failed to verify whether the samples are anonymized and one of the interns asked Satomi not to speak up about their failure for their sakes.

For this case, my group decided to have "Satomi should tell the supervisor about the mistake so that the supervisor may decide the right course of action" as our decision. It cause this decision is well considering the Kantian duty, justice and fairness, ethics of care, implications for personal integrity and character aspect.

We also have the skit performance from every group that is related to the health and safety theory. My group skit is about implementing all the letter of SAFETY FIRST. Our skit is showing the act of every letter of safety first and giving explanation about it. The 'S' letter of our skit saying to 'Stop mobile phone usage'. The 'A' letter of our skit saying to 'Avoid alcohol/drugs'. The The 'F' letter of our skit saying to be 'Fit to Work'. The 'E' letter of our skit saying to do the 'Equipment Maintained'. The 'T' letter of our skit saying to 'Take 5 minutes to get ready'. The 'Y' letter of our skit saying that 'Yes, I’m prepared'.

And then the 'F' letter of our skit saying to do the 'Fall prevention'.  The 'I' letter of our skit saying that 'I am accountable'. The 'R' letter of our skit saying to do the 'Responsible operations'. The 'S' letter of our skit saying to 'Stand in line of sight'. The last one, the 'T' letter of our skit saying to be 'Traffic and MHE safety'.

After did the skit, we learned about The Model of CSR. The model of CSR is talking about economic view of CSR, Philantropic CSR, Social web model of CSR, and Integrative model of CSR.

5th Week of CSRGOVE Class: First Case Discussion and Transportation Strike

At the Monday of those week, we didn't have a class because there was a Transportation Strike. As a foreigner, this is my first time hearing about 'transportation strike' in Manila. I still remember that time I have been in front of class when I suddenly read the message in my exchange student group. I was so sad when I see the message because I also didn't have a class in the morning so I really hope at least I have one class to study in that day :')

If we talk about transportation strike, from what I know, transportation strike here is done by the jeepney driver. In Indonesia, we also have the same case that the public transportation's driver do the strike because of some reasons and it usually gives some big effect to the people's daily life. Actually we can relate this transportation strike case with the theories that we have studied in CSRGOVE class. We can said that there was a big probability that this case happened because of the unethical business or because of not considering ethics in business.

From what I remembered, the transportation strike is caused by the fuel price hike. If we relating it to the ethical decision making theories, we can analyse which step that the government weren't well considering the decision so that it gives the transportation strike impact. It could be that the government didn't well considering the fifth step that is consider how decision affect the stakeholders because it was like that the government didn't considering how will the hike impact the jeepney's driver income.

At the Wednesday of those week, we start discussed about the first case. The first case is about Sherry who has been working at a computer company for 25 years but she didn't find herself can develop because her company having her to train new hires instead of finishing her own projects. We discussed this case by following the ethical decision making steps. From doing this case, I learned that we should consider about a lot of aspect before making a decision. In this case, Sherry can consider about herself goal, her company goal, and the consequences which is probably happen.

I really enjoy to learn by discussing the case with my group mate and my class mate because I think this way is so much more effective to make us understand about implementing the theory in the real case. :)

4th Week of CSRGOVE Class: Parable Sadhu Case Analysis

At the 4th week, we discussed about Parable Sadhu case. We discussed this case in group and we followed the step of the ethical decision making that we have learned in the week before. Parable Sadhu is actually a story about a man that climbed Himalaya with his group from his office. On their way through the climb, they found Sadhu which has almost died. At that moment, they faced the ethical issues that is helping the sadhu or continue their climb which both of it have their own consequences.

From the Parable Sadhu case, we can learn that we should always considering 'ethics' when we are going to make a decision. In Parable Sadhu case, the man and their group decided to leave the Sadhu when they actually knew that it was an unethical act. Moreover, if they tried to considering ethics and do the ethical decision making, they can find the best decision which was considered all of the aspect that they need.

The fifth step of the ethical decision making is one of the most important step to help people have their ethical decision, and also for this Parable Sadhu case. For the fifth step, me and my group mate tried to evaluate every alternatives with the utilitarianism, Kantian duty, justice and fairness, ethics of care, and implications for personal integrity-character aspect. We found that leave the Sadhu with all his needs (clothes, food, and the way back) as the best alternatives because it wont give them consequence to be late to reach the peak of the mountain (utilitarianism), it is considering the humanity aspect (Kantian duty), it will be fair for the Sadhu (justice and fairness), it showed that they care about the live of the Sadhu (ethics of care and implications for personal integrity-character).

For the sixth step, we tried to evaluate the chosen alternative with criteria that is humanity 10 %, safety 30%, and reaching their goals to reach the peak of mountain 60%. And we agree that this decision is the best alternative that the group can do for the Sadhu.

In Wednesday, we had a first quiz about the ethic and business and ethical decision making. At that time, I felt confidence enough because I've tried to study a lot and I even make a summary for every chapter. But the result is not really satisfying me hahaha :') I found that I didn't really understand what is the difference between Kantian duty, and deontology and it got me confused in some questions. After the quiz, I learned that I have to prepare even more and more. :)

3rd Week of CSRGOVE Class: The Moral Compass, Ethical Decision Making

For me, third week is one of my preferred weeks because I learn a lot of new things that I can relate, use, and implement it in my real life. At those week, we discussed about the moral compass and ethical decision making.

The Moral Compass is the dynamics of ethical principles that used in reference to a person's ability to judge what is right and wrong which include five components that is virtue as a centre and four side elements that is individual rights, justice, care, and the common good- utilitarianism. In those discussion, we also discuss about explaining 'bad' acts which could be cognitive barrier, satisficing, motivation, and full power.

We also discussed about Ethical Framework which include utilitarian, rights, deontology, justice & fairness, ethics of care, and virtue ethics. Utilitarian is a ethical theory or something that direct us to decide based on overall consequences of our acts. Rights is an individual's entitlement to something or we can call it 'principle'. Deontology is an ethics of rights and duties which respect the dignity of each individual human being and act so as universal and humanity action.

In Justice and Fairness  we learned about distributive justice (treats equal equally), egalitarianism (every person should be given exactly equal shares of a society's benefit and burdens), capitalist justice (workers paid in proportion to the work they have contribute), socialism, retributive justice, and compensatory justice. Ethics of Care is about our exist in relationship and our caring relationship with other people. Virtue Ethics is the attitude or character traits that enable us to be and to act in ways that develop this potential.

We also discussed about Ethical Decision Making. When I learned about this the class, I felt so excited because everyone can actually implement this theory for every decision that we make in our life, because actually we always have to considered about 'ethics' in our life.

There was seven steps in ethical decision making. The first step is determine the facts which means to look and choose the most relevant case. The second step is identify the ethical issues. For the second step, we can do it by looking for interrogative statement. The third step is identify the stakeholder which means mention all the individual that impacted by the decision and discuss why the could be a part of the stakeholder. The fourth step is considered the alternatives by looking for many alternatives and seeing the advantage and disadvantage of those alternatives.

The fifth step is consider how the decision affects the stakeholder by evaluate its alternative with utilitarianism, kantian duty, justice and fairness, ethics of care, implications for personal integrity and character aspect. The sixth step is make a decision by evaluate the chosen alternative with table criteria, weight, and rationale. The last step is monitor and learn from the outcomes.

2nd Week of CSRGOVE Class: Ethics and Business

At the Monday January 16th, I feel so excited that I finally allow to attend my CSRGOVE Class. My first impression about this class is that this class is really the class that I want to attend! Because the professor is teaching about CSRGOVE excellently, clearly and make me easily to understand about the theories even it was my first time studying in the class that uses English language (in the university in Indonesia, people using Indonesia language for the education). The professor and also the student in this class are very open for me and treat me well, and it makes me feel comfortable even though I'm a foreigner here.

At those meeting, the professor was teaching and discussing with us about ethics and business. From those class, I learn that there was a lot of aspect and element that people have to be considered about to do the business. One of the most important aspect that people should be considered is ethic in the business. Nowadays, when people talk about ethics in business, the question is no longer about 'how do we implement ethics in business?' but more about 'Which values that we should implement?' and 'How to integrated this ethics aspect?'.

Ethic itself means activity of examining one's moral standards or the moral standards of society and asking how these standard applied or we can said ethic as a application of values. Business itself means activity to earn profit. So the tension of ethics in business is doing things right and doing things that customer will pay more.

One of the element in the ethics of business that people should be considered about is Conscience which means something that commands people about doing wrong or good thing. Another element in ethics of business is Religion, when people doing a business, he/she should be considered about religion and not  humiliating other's religion. For this religion element's explanation, miss give us an example about Salman Rushdie's fatwa (novel) which considered humiliating Islam and gives a lot of bad effect even in a lot of countries such as India, Pakistan, and Ireland.

Values and norms are one of the most important element of ethics in business. Norms itself means those standards of appropriate and proper behaviour. Values itself means underlying beliefs and Ethical Values itself means those beliefs and principle that impartially promote human well-being. Another element of ethics in business is the golden rule, morality, personal integrity, and social ethics.

At the 2nd day meeting of those week, we discuss about the most important values from terminal and instrumental values by our own perspective. Those discussion made us study more that everyone has their own values that they think is important in their life and it could be different from one and another. Some people focus on the values related to happiness and pleasure life, and another people focus on the values related to ambitious and intellectual.

In those meeting, we also studied about the ethical audience that people should considered when making a business decision which called stakeholder. Stakeholder itself means individual or group whose welfare may be seriously affected by a corporations activity and thus have stake claim in manager's decision making.

Beside it, we also learned about why we should care about ethics, the argument against business ethics, common unethical acts, key influences on ethical behaviour, government regulation of business and comparison of ethical systems which include paradigm legal, codes, religion, philosophy, and culture.  

1st Week of CSRGOVE Class: My view about this class.

One of the subject that I chose for this term as an exchange student in De La Salle University, Philippines is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSRGOVE). From the time first that I looked on the list of subject that I can choose for this term, I have been fallen in love with this subject because I have never studied so intensify about CSR, because CSR as a subject is not available in the university that I study on in Indonesia, we just study CSR in general view as a part of the human resource management studies.

Even thought I didn't came to the 1st week of this class because I'm still in Indonesia to manage my scholarship and permission (I arrived in Philippines in January 13th), I've been looking forward so excitedly for this class. I have a really high interested to learn  more about CSR, especially I'm sure I can learn not only the theories about CSR, but I can also learn about the CSR's implementation in another country (Philippines).

For the next three months, I really hope I can learn more about CSR theories and implementation, so that I can gain and add more knowledge from the professor and also I hope I can meet so many new friends that has some interest in CSR as me so we can share a lot of experiences and knowledge in this class. :)

Titik balik minimum

I was just done my 'metode statistika' exam. Huffft *senyum senyum*
Alhamdulillahnya metstat bisa dilalui tanpa perasaan berat saat menyelesaikannya, yaa walaupun ada satu anak soal yang bener-bener ga bisa aku jawab, itupun kakak aspraknya sampe bilang "Aduh sorry yang itu belum gue ajarin" Yaudahlah yah, that's not my fault. Life must go on. Holiday is coming now hahahahah :D

Bicara tentang titik balik minimum, seminggu lalu UAS gue dibuka dengan ujian metode kuantitatif yang salah satu materi pembahasannya adalah tentang kurva turunan. Setelah uas, salah satu materi kurva turunan yang masih gue hafal sampai detik ini adalah bentuk titik balik minimum. Kenapa? Karena bentuknya 'SENYUM' alias cembung terhadap titik asal. Sebetulnya ini penemuan evy pas lagi belajar bareng-bareng di r\

umah gue hehehe

Ga tau kenapa mesti ketawa.

Titik balik pasti ada dalam hidup tiap orang. Bisa bagus, bisa juga enggak.
Tapi gue tau satu hal, hidup ini cuma sementara. Jadi detik ini, di LSI Perpustakaan IPB, di bawah tulisan layanan jurnal online tepat pukul 14:54 gue memutuskan untuk memulai titik balik kehidupan gue.

Titik balik minimum, supaya ngejalaninnya sambil senyum, hasilnya pun ditutup dengan senyuman :) hahahahah.

Terakhir, selamat liburan semua!
Aktifin blog lagi yuk! hahahah


-fafa- 100persen asli :)


actually, aktifin blog lagi adalah inti dari postingan ini

Pajak

-Mereka bilang negara ini adalah negara demokrasi

Dari rakyat, oleh rakyat, dan untuk rakyat

Maka itulah di negaraku diterapkan pajak

Mereka bilang pajak ditarik dari rakyat

Kemudian digunakan untuk mengurus rakyat

Tapi mengapa tidak semua rakyat dapat merasakannya?

Bagaimana dengan saudaraku di Nusa Tenggara?

Tidakkah mereka berhak mendapatkan bagian dari pajak?

Bukankah pajak itu dari mereka dan untuk mereka?

Dimana hak mereka?

Atau mungkinkah seperti yang dikatakan para politikus itu?

Bahwa pajak adalah hak para petinggi dirjen pajak.

Contohlah Gayus Tambunan,

Berjalan-jalan ke Bali,

Dan membuat paspor seharga sembilan puluh sembilan juta

Hak-nya kah?

Pajak, oh pajak

Dari rakyat, oleh rakyat, dan untuk pemerintah

Pajak, oh pajak

Yang kami harapkan kesejahteraan,

Namun yang kami dapatkan kesengsaraan

ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ  fathimah 25 januari 2011

Komentar? mangga

Puisi ini saya buat dadakan di sekolah, alhamdulillah mendapatkan nilai 87 dan dipuji oleh guru saya. Guru saya bilang puisi ini setipe dengan puisi-puisi karya Pak Taufik Ismail. Kebetulan, saya memang pengagum beliau




Just found it out at kompasiana.com
actually, i can wrote poem well. Here is the link--> Puisi Pajak
-.fafa- 100persen asli :)

Ia Nyawanya

Disini ia bersimpuh

Ia ucapkan doanya hingga berpuluh-puluh

Ia harapkan hilangnya keluh

Dan kembalinya kapal nabi Nuh

Baginya dirinya adalah tangan

Yang bersusah mencari pangan

Dan hanya bisa menatap semua kenangan

Hari yang ia lewati adalah pasrah

Menjejaki siang tanpa marah

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(14 februari 2011)

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Smash jadi agama baru? Aliran Sesat gaya baru euy

10.000.000 Dukung Smash menjadi Agama baru

Kapanlagi.com - Ada-ada saja yang dilakukan para penggemar maupun haters saat ini. Jika terlalu suka terhadap sang idola, si penggemar bisa mati-matian mendukung. Tapi juga berlaku sebaliknya, apabila terlalu membenci bisa nekat melakukan apa saja. Termasuk yang kejadian ini nih, membuat akun untuk mencari 10 juta pendukung untuk menjadi SMASH sebuah agama baru. OMG!

Pertama kali melihat akun dengan judul '10.000.000 Dukung Smash menjadi Agama baru', kebanyakan orang akan bertanya-tanya. Apa ini? Bukan hanya para haters, tetapi juga para penggemar yang benar-benar merasa kaget atas akun tersebut.

Beberapa di antara mereka langsung saling memberikan pendapat. Ada yang menghujat, tapi ada pula yang membela dengan mengatakan bahwa yang membuat akun tersebut adalah para Antis - orang yang tidak suka dengan boyband yang digawangiBisma, Ilham, Dicky, Morgan, Rangga, Reza, dan Rafael itu.

Pun begitu, yang akhirnya memberikan 'Like' untuk akun ini juga tak sedikit. Tercatat sudah ada 920 Facebookers yang ikut andil di akun yang membubuhkan kategori Church/Religious Organization tersebut.

Mmm... Entah siapa yang benar, yang pasti akun ini sudah berhasil mencuri perhatian banyak orang. 

Berita di atas adalah sebuah kabar yang saya kutip dari Kapanlagi.com yang membahas tentang 10.000.000 Dukung Smash menjadi Agama baru. 10.000.000 Dukungan ini adalah sebuah dukungan yang dibuat di account facebook syang telah di like oleh 2.407 orang sampai saat ini. Munculnya page dukungan ini menyedot perhatian masyarakat terutama karena dukungan ini yang jelas-jelas tergolong sesat. Begitu muncul, page ini langsung mendapat banyak kritik pedas, namun tetap ada pula yang menjadi pengikut page ini. Layaknya page-page terkenal, setiap postingan dari page ini mendapatkan ratusan comment dalam jangka waktu yang sangat cepat. 

Dukung Smash menjadi agama baru?

Mungkin bagi kebanyakan dari kamu yang merupakan penjelajah rutin di dunia maya, berita ini sudah pernah kamu dengar, tapi masih cukup banyak kalangan yang baru mendengar dan kaget akan berita ini. Tentu saja begitu kita mendengar berita ini kebanyakan dari kita akan bereaksi sama. Entah itu mengatakan

"Astaghfirullahaladzim", 

atau mungkin,

"Gila sesat abis" 

atau semacamnya.

Jika kita lihat dengan baik, kita dapat menemukan bahwa dukungan ini adalah semacam dengan aliran sesat yang sudah cukup sering kita jumpai. Seperti Ahmadiyah, Surga Eden dan sebagainya. Akan tetapi dukungan ini dapat kita sebut dengan 'Aliran sesat gaya baru'. Kebanyakan aliran sesat yang kita temui dulu merupakan aliran yang dibentuk oleh si pemimpin atau yang biasanya 'dituhankan' terlebih dahulu, baru kemudian memiliki pengikut. Alangkah edannya zaman sekarang ini, seseorang yang jelas-jelas manusia biasa dan belum tentu tertarik untuk dituhankan.

Secara logika tanpa kita harus bertanya pada anggota smash, 'Apakah mereka mau menjadi tuhan?' Saya yakin haqul yakin mereka akan menjawab 'Tidak'. Kalau dipikir, mana ada orang 'waras' dan 'berakal' yang ingin dijadikan tuhan oleh orang lain. Apalagi jika orang tersebut juga memiliki agama. Bagi para smash blast (fans smash) pasti mengetahui bahwa setiap anggota smash memiliki agama masing-masing yaitu; Morgan dan Rafael beragama Katolik serta Ilham, Reza, Dicky, dan Bisma beragama Islam. Apakah mungkin seseorang yang memiliki agama juga menjadikan dirinya sebagai agama atau yang diikuti?

Dilihat dari pandangan islam

Tentu saja bagi teman-teman pembaca yang beragama Islam langsung dapat memandang dan mengambil kesimpulan bahwa tindakan dukungan di atas adalah sebuah kesesatan dan merupakan perbuatan syirik atau menyekutukan Allah yang merupakan dosa besar yang tidak akan diampuni oleh Allah swt. Sebagaimana Qur'an surat An-Nisa ayat 48

إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَغْفِرُ أَنْ يُشْرَكَ بِهِ وَيَغْفِرُ مَا دُونَ ذَلِكَ لِمَنْ يَشَاءُ وَمَنْ يُشْرِكْ بِاللَّهِ فَقَدِ افْتَرَى إِثْمًا عَظِيمًا

Sesungguhnya Allah tidak akan mengampuni dosa syirik, dan Dia mengampuni segala dosa yang selain dari (syirik) itu, bagi siapa yang dikehendaki-Nya. Barangsiapa yang mempersekutukan Allah, maka sungguh ia telah berbuat dosa yang besar.

Kalau kita teliti dengan seksama, sesungguhnya kita tidak bisa menyalahkan si pembuat page secara keseluruhan. Mengapa? Karena bagaimana si pembuat page bisa sampai berpikir untuk membuat page tersebut di dalamnya ada andil orang lain. Jika saya rinckan satu per satu tentu akan sangat banyak. Misalnya, orang tua si pembuat page. Jikalau orang tua si pembuat page tersebut memberikan cukup pengawasan terhadap perilaku anaknya, pasti hal ini tidak akan terjadi. Mana mungkin ada orang tua yang menginginkan anaknya menjadi seseorang yang tersesat dari jalan-Nya.

Begitu pula ada andil dari pemerintah. Si pembuat pasti cukup memiki keberanian untuk membuat page tersebut karena yakin dirinya akan aman-aman saja dan tidak akan terjerat oleh hukum. Berbeda halnya jika pemerintah yang ada saat ini adalah pemerintah dibawah Sistem Islam, pastilah si pembuat tidak akan berani membuat page semacam itu karena akan dikenai hukuman yang setimpal akibat perbuatannya tersebut. Seperti halnya pada Zaman Kekuasaan Islam dahulu ada seseorang yang mengakui dirinya sebagai rasul setelah Nabi Muhammad, lantas ia mendapatkan hukuman mati.

Begitulah kawan, sebagai harapan bangsa kita berkewajiban untuk melihat segala sesuatunya secara kritis. Seperti misalnya pada masalah ini, kita harus bisa menilai bahwa dibalik masalah ini, ada sebuah inti permasalahan. Yaitu tidak diterapkannya Sistem Islam di muka bumi ini. Inilah hasilnya, kesesatan dimana-mana tanpa ada yang mengendalikannya maupun memberi sangsi.

Semoga Bermanfaat.

-fafa- 100persen asli :)

Artis k-pop jadi idola? Pikir lagi deh

“B-bring the boys out!”

Hem pasti bagi kamu para penyuka boy band dan girl band Korea, lagu ini dah gak asing lagikan? Yap, lagu The Boys yang dirilis baru-baru ini oleh SNSD, langsung menempati urutan atas di tangga-tangga lagu musik , tak hanya di Korea, juga di Indonesia lagu ini langsung menjadi hits. Selain SNSD, pasti sudah gak asing lagikan di telinga kamu nama-nama boy band maupun girl band papan atas Korea kayak Super junior, 2PM, U-kiss, f(x), shinee, SS501, dan masih banyak lagi. Bahkan nggak jarang juga diantara kita yang tahu banget akan seluk-beluk boy band maupun girl band yang jadi faforit kamu itu, mulai dari nama-nama personilnya, lagu-lagunya sampai kehidupan pribadi para personilnya sekalipun.

Adalah hal yang wajar kalau kita-kita, para remaja merasa tertarik dengan hal-hal macam ini karena pada usia remaja, kita memang sedang dalam tahap pencarian jati diri. Sekarang permasalahannya adalah jatidiri seperti apa yang akan kita pilih? Apakah kita akan memilih jati diri sebagai layaknya seorang muslimah, ataukah yang lain?

Coba kita lihat dari beberapa sisi. Pertama, Pantaskah kita sebagai muslimah jika kita mengidolakan para personil boy band dan girl band Korea? Padahal kita tahu sendirikan bahwa idola adalah panutan. Jadi, apakah mereka yang membuka aurat dan melenggak-lenggokkan badannya di depan umum itu dapat kita jadikan panutan? Apakah kita mau meniru gaya berpakaian mereka yang menampilkan aurat kemana-mana? Hiiy, pastinya nggakkan? Bukan, bukan jati diri seperti merekalah yang kita inginkan.

Beda cerita kalau yang kita idolakan adalah Rasulullah SAW. Mulai dari sifat beliau yang amanah dan shiddiq alias dapat dipercaya, ibadah beliau yang di atas rata-rata hingga cara beliau dalam berdakwah semuanya sangat baik dan wajib banget untuk kita tiru. Selain itu, dengan kita mengidolakan Rasulullah maka itu sama saja dengan memiliki tiket keselamatan kita di akhirat nanti. Sebagaimana hadits Anas bin Malik, ada seorang laki-laki yang datang kepada Rasulullah. Dia berkata, ”Wahai Rasulullah, ada seseorang yang mencintai orang lain, tapi tidak mampu beramal seperti amalnya.” Maka Rasulullah saw. Bersabda:

”Seseorang akan bersama siapa yang dicintainya”  (HR. Ahmad)

Nah ini berarti kalau kita mencintai Rasulullah maka kita akan bersama Rasulullah di akhirat nanti. Dan sekarang kita tinggal pilih, mau bersama Rasulullah yang sudah dijamin masuk surga, atau bareng para personil boy band dan girl band Korea yang jelas-jelas hobi menebar aurat dan tidak terjamin masuk surga?

Kedua, para pecinta boy band dan girl band Korea umumnya berusaha banget untuk meniru personil favoritnya. Mulai dari gaya berpakaiannya, gaya rambutnya, sampai lagu faforitnya pun diikuti. Padahal Allah SWT melarang tasyabuh  (meniru atau mengikutkan diri kepada suatu kaum). Untuk dalil tentang tasyabuh sendiri tercantum baik dalam hadits maupun ayat qur’an. Kalau dalam hadits kurang lebih berbunyi, ”Barang siapa yang mengikuti suatu kaum, niscaya dia termasuk dalam kaum tersebut.” Sedangkan dalam Al-Qur’an terdapat pada surat An-Nisa ayat 115 yang berbunyi:

”Dan barangsiapa yang menentang Rasul sesudah jelas kebenaran baginya, dan mengikuti jalan yang bukan jalan orang-orang mukmin, Kami biarkan ia berkuasa terhadap kesesatan yang telah dikuasainya itu dan Kami masukan ia ke dalam Jahanam, dan Jahanam itu seburuk-buruknya tempat kembali.” (QS An-Nisa:15)

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Nah udah jelaskan dari pengertian ayat di atas tentang tasyabuh? Dan ayat di atas juga sudah menjelaskan bahwa hukuman bagi orang-orang yang melakukan tasyabuh adalah dimasukkan ke dalam Neraka Jahanam. Nah sekarang coba lihat ke dalam diri kita sendiri. Jangan- jangan tanpa sadar sebenarnya kita sudah mulai meniru gaya-gaya mereka dan bahkan melanggar perintah Allah swt. yaitu larangan tasyabuh. Sekarang tinggal kita yang memilih, mau masuk Neraka Jahanamkah? Kalau saya sih ogah.

Ketiga, kita harus perhatikan juga soal musiknya kawan. Karena kita bisa lihat sendiri bagaimana besarnya pengaruh musik pada jiwa remaja jaman sekarang. Untuk itu kita harus selektif juga dalam memilih lagu apa yang akan kita dengarkan. Jangan sampai yang tadinya kita lagi semangat, eh begitu mendengarkan lagu galau kita malah kebawa galau, nggak bangetkan?

Selain itu, dengarkanlah lagu yang liriknya berisi semangat-semangat positif dan tidak berisi syahwat ataupun lirik yang mengundang kita melakukan maksiat. Misalnya lagu Kissing you-nya SNSD. Bayangkan saja, muslimah macam apa yang nyanyi lagu begituan? Dari judulnya sajakan sudah tercermin bagaimana isi lagunya. Dan bayangkan alangkah ill feel-nya orang-orang mendengar seorang muslimah berjilbab menyanyikan ”Cup curucucucu Kissing you, baby” hadoh saya jamin orang di sekitarnya bakal nengok dengan raut muka yang super aneh.

Lebih parah lagi jika kita video klipnya. Mengapa? Karena kita tahu sendirikan kalau boy band dan girl band sangat menonjolkan bagian lekuk tubuh mereka untuk diekspos. Dan bagi seorang muslim yang baik, kita harus ingat bahwa Allah swt. Melarang kita untuk melihat aurat.Ingat ya, melihat aurat dapat menghilangkan hafalan qur’an kita juga selain mendatangkan dosa. Kan sayang banget tuh hafalan qur’an yang sudah kita hafalkan dengan cukup perjuangan harus hilang begitu saja karena menonton video klip ber-aurat yang hanya beberapa menit.

Jangan lupa juga, seperti yang sudah kita bahas tadi, kita harus memperhatikan dampak dari mendengarkan lagu itu sendiri. Jangan sampai kita kebawa galau karena mendengarkan lagu galau ataupun terbawa sedih karena mendengarkan lagu sedih padahal awalnya kita baik-baik saja. Hem, gak banget deh.

Selain itu, Jangan sampai karena terlalu cinta sama boy band dan girl band membuat kita tertarik untuk menonton konser mereka. Widiw, kudu kita perhatikan baik-baik nih kalau konser itu sendiri sangat memungkinkan mendatangkan maksiat. Dimulai dari kedaannya yang bercampur baur antara perempuan dan laki-laki sampai kemungkinan adanya maksiat dalam berlangsungnya konser tersebut.

Kesimpulannya, kita sebagai remaja haruslah berhati-hati dalam menghadapi besarnya arus globalisasi saat ini. Sebagai muslimah yang memiliki jati diri seorang muslim, kita harus bisa menjaga diri untuk tidak berperilaku layaknya orang kafir apalagi menjadikan mereka sebagai idola kita. Semangkaa kawan! Allahu akbar!-fafa- 100persen asli :)

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Permintaan Kondom di Kediri Meningkat Menjelang Valentine?

Kemarin (14/02) berbagai macam kalangan di berbagai belahan dunia merayakan hari valentine. Tentu tidak asing di telinga Anda bahwa valentine dalam islam hukumnya Haram. Karena selain bertentangan dengan aturan-aturan dalam al-qur’an, valentine juga merupakan budaya barat. Yang tidak baik untuk ditiru oleh kita.

Selain dilarang oleh agama, valentine atau ber-valentine ria juga membawa dampak yang negatif. Dampak yang paling pastinya adalah meningkatnya seks bebas dan kehamilan di luar nikah. Karena di cukup banyak negara, valentine biasanya ditutup dengan acara seks bebas.

Dan ini pulalah yang terjadi di Indonesia. Menjelang hari Valentine permintaan stok kondom di beberapa hotel di Kota Kediri meningkat. Meningkatnya permintaan ini disebabkan oleh meningkatnya penyewaan kamar.

Awal Februari Komisi Penanggulangan AIDS Daerah (KPAD) Kota kediri sudah mendistribusikan ratusan kondom ke outlet outlet di beberapa hotel di Kota Kediri. Heri Nurdianto, sekretaris KPAD Kota Kediri mengatakan, dari 8 hotel yang rutin menerima pasokan kondom, 4 diantaranya minta tambahan pasokan kondom cukup banyak.

“Mungkin permintaan kondom dari penghuni kamar meningkat,”kata Heri. Tetapi Heri Nurdianto menegaskan jika peningkatan pasokan kondom pada Pebruari ini bukan karena momen Valentin.

Heri Nurdianto menambahkan, penyediaan kondom di hotel tidak dimaksudkan untuk mendukung praktik prostitusi di masyarakat. Tetapi sebagai upaya pencegahan terjadinya penularan virus penyakit kelamin lewat hubungan seksual terutama virus HIV-AIDS.”kita tekan semaksimal mungkin penularan IMS lewat hubungan seksual,”pungkas Heri. (republika.co.id, 14/2/2011)

Tapi, kalau difikir-fikir, jika tidak dimaksudkan untuk mendukung terjadinya praktik prostitusi dan seks bebas di masyarakat, mengapa harus ditingkatkan di bulan Februari ini? Bukankah lebih baik jika kondom dikurangi sehingga membuat orang-orang takut untuk melakukan seks bebas karena takut akan kehamilan.

Lebih baik mencegah daripada mengatasi.

-fafa- 100persen asli :)

Kenapa polisi belum juga tentukan tersangka?

Malam ini (12/02) saya sedang menonton Seputar Indonesia dan saya menyaksikan

“Polisi juga belum tentukan tersangka” seputar indonesia 12 februari 2011

Dalam berita ini dibahas bahwa penyelidikan polisi belum mendapatkan hasil tentang siapakah yang menjadi tersangka dalam kasus penyerangan terhadap anggota jemaat ahmadiyah di Cikeusik, Paledang.

Ketika saya menonton berita tersebut, saya tergerak hati untuk menuliskan alasan-alasannya agar saudara-saudara sekalian juga dapat mengetahui kenapakah gerangan polisi belum juga tentukan tersangka dalam kasus penyerangan terhadap anggota Ahmadiyah.

Kejadian penyerangan terhadap anggota Ahmadiyah ini tidak akan terjadi seandainya pemerintah menindak dengan tegas anggota Ahmadiyah yang jelas-jelas telah dinyatakan sesat oleh MUI. Padahal, sangatlah mudah bagi pemerintah untuk menghindari kasus ini. Cukup dengan membubarkan Ahmadiyah atau menyuruh para jemaat Ahmadiyah untuk tidak menyatakan dirinya sebagai Muslim dan membuat agama baru.
Kita tidak dapat menyalahkan kelompok yang melakukan penyerangan terhadap jemaat Ahmadiyah tersebut. Kenapa? Karena mereka melakukan semua itu tidak lain dikarenakan tidak ada yang bertindak menangani kasus Ahmadiyah ini. Padahal, untuk menindak Ahmadiyah ini adalah tugas pemerintah. Tapi karena pemerintah tidak segera bergerak, salah siapa jika rakyat yang bergerak?
Jadi, setelah terjadinya kasus ini diharapkan dapat menyadarkan pemerintah untuk bertindak dengan segera dan menuntaskan setiap permasalahan di negara ini sampai benar-benar tuntas dan tidak membuat rakyat menjadi harus melakukan tugas pemerintah.

-fafa- 100persen asli :)