New
York – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati is listed in “100 Most Powerful Women in the World” by Forbes. Former IMF executive director sits in number 23, defeating Aung San Suu Kyi in 38 and Hillary Clinton in 28.
“Since Sri Mulyani is appointed in
2005 as Finance Minister, Indonesia's foreign exchange reserves
increased up to USD50 billion and foreign investment increased
drastically. She has fought against corruption, created tax
incentives, and simplified Investment Law,” noted Forbes.
Jakarta – 3kg LPG (elpiji) in
Jakarta, Bekasi, Tangerang, and Serang since Thursday (28/8) started
to disappear from the market due to its continuously rising demand,
yet limited supply. Household consumers are now confused looking for
elpiji, particularly the 3kg package.
Aside from difficult to
find the subsidized elpiji, they also have to face the increased
price of 3kg elpiji. Now, 12kg elpiji is also started to be rare and
mostly sold in far higher price than Pertamina's price, IDR69,000.
Jakarta – Next week,
Transportation Ministry will call Sriwijaya Air management for
information on the plane accident in Jambi, Wednesday (27/8).
According to Director of Airworthiness Certification, Yurlis
Hasibuan, the call is to clarify the accident and evaluate Sriwijaya
Air's safety system. He said, so far Sriwijaya Air is in questioned
airlines group.
Today National Transportation Safety
Commission will send an investigation team for Sriwijaya Air
incident.
Palembang
- A Sriwijaya Air plane with 100 passengers on board slipped off the
runway of Jambi`s Sultan Thaha airport, ran over a piece of farmland
and hit a farmer and his child on Wednesday. The farmer and his child
who had yet to be identified were injured and rushed to a nearby
hospital but nobody on the plane was hurt.
One of the
passengers evacuated from the plane said the aircraft left Jakarta at
15:45 and was to arrive in Jambi at 16:45. The short wing at the
plane`s rear end was damaged.
Mataram
– Earthenware craftsmen in Banyumulek Village, West Lombok, West
Nusa Tenggara, urged to execute Bali bombers immediately. According
to them, bomb impact is still felt up until now: less buyers, since
tourists are still afraid to come. “We're still suffering,” said
Secretary of Banyumulek Earthenware Craftsmen Association, Zainuddin
Mujiburahman, Thursday (28/8).
Attorney General Hendarman
Supandji said, their execution is postponed until after
ramadan.
Doctors
can be some sort of gods? That's what happen these days. Medical
experts are free to determine the diagnosis, types of medicine and
therapies. They can even prodect how much longer someone can survive
his age. In this 307-pages book Jerome
Groopman elaborated doctors' performances along with the disastrous
consequences they can cause.
Dr.
Groopman is the executives at Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of
Medicine in Harvard
Medical School.
His experience in the medical world is enriched by several
researches, interviews with fellow doctors and patients, in
completing the book.
At
least understanding between doctors and patients, which is still rare
to have, can be started through this book. (merry
magdalena)
