Gempa Jepang Ternyata Sudah Diprediksi Sebelumnya

TOKYO--Gempa yang memorak-porandakan Jepang, Jumat lalu, ternyata sudah diramalkan sebelumnya. Namun, para peneliti tidak tahu kalau kekuatan gempa itu sangat dahsyat.

Sadayuki Kitagawa, peneliti di divisi Penelitian Seismik mengatakan bahwa sebetulnya mereka sudah meramal akan terjadi gempa bumi di sekitar pantai Fukushima dan Ibaraki.

Yang mereka tidak tahu adalah besaran kekuatan gempa itu dan akan terjadi tsunami. "Kami memang sudah memprediksi akan ada gempa dengan kekuatan 8 atau lebih kecil, tapi tidak yang sebesar ini," katanya.

Ia menambahkan, kekuatan gempa Jumat akan membuat rentetan gempa susulan yang diperkirakan berlangsung untuk sementara waktu. Kitagawa mengatakan, gempa dahsyat itu menyerupai gempa di Aceh 2004 yang juga menimbulkan tsunami besar Samudera Hindia.

Sementara Bloomberg News melaporkan, lembaga geologi Italia mengklaim gempa Jepang menggeser poros bumi sekitar 10 cm.

Ditemukan, Planet lain mengandung Oksigen

Jupiter Panas
Oksigen, gas pemberi kehidupan, untuk pertama kalinya di temukan di sebuah planet selain bumi. Sebuah tim Astronomi Prancis menegendus oksigen
di sebuah planet yang biasa disebut “hot Jupiter’ sebuah planet gas raksasa yang mengorbit teramat dekat ke “Matahari”.
Tim yan dipimpin oleh Alferd Vidal-madjar, dari the Institut d’Astrophysiqu de Paris, mengamati oksigen dengan spekrometer pada teleskop Langit Hubble. Tim tersebut menemukan karbon di planet HD 209458b secara informal biasa disapa Osiris.
Osiris hanya butuh empat hari untuk mengelilingi bintang induknya tersebut. Namun, menurut anggota Tim itu, seperti dikutip The Age 4 februari 2004, secara alami ada di planet itu. “Ia tidak dihasilkan oleh sepercik kehidupan di alam gas panas tersebut,”katanya.
“Bagaimanapun, komposisi kimia atmosfir itu baru bisa diukur dalam beberapa tahun cahaya lagi,” kata anggota tim tersebut. Osiris Merupakan satu dari lebih 100 planet yang pernah ditemukan menorbit binatang lain.
Pertama kali pada tahun 1999, binatang yang memiliki orbit mirip matahri di konstelasi Pegasus tersebut, jaraknya sekitar 150 tahun cahaya dari bumi (satu tahun cahaya sekitar 10 trilyun kilometer). Sebelumnya di planet ini diemukan kandunan natrium (Na) dalam atmosfirnya. Ukuran planet luasnya sekitar 70% dari Jupiter (planet terbesar dalam susunan tata surya kita).
Bagaimanapun para astronom masih belum yakin, baaimana “Jupiter panas” itu bisa terbentuk sedemikian dekat denan matahari-nya. Sebagai bandindingan Jupiter kita berjarak sekitar 800 juta kilometer dari Matahari, dan bumi 150 juta kilometer. Sementara Osiris hanya berjarak 7 juta kilometer dari mataharinya. (*)

AFF Suzuki Cup 2010 Final 2nd Leg Indonesia vs Malaysia

KH Muh. AS'Ad Umar Berpulang

innalillahi wa inna ilaihi rajji'un
الأحد ، 29  Dzulhijah 1431 ه   Jombang- Darul Ulum berduka pada hari Minggu (5/12) pukul 10:57 di saat kepergian KH Muh. As' Ad Umar menghadap sang khalik saat dirawat di RS Husada Utama Surabaya karena Komplikasi beberapa penyakit seperti Stroke yang sudah di derita sejak 6 tahun yang lalu dan gangguan pencernaan serta ginjal. Almarhum wafat dalam usia 77 tahun dengan meninggalkan seorang istri Hj. Azzah dan 8 orang anak diantaranya:
Zaimuddin, Zulfikar, Zainul ibad, Niswah Qonita, Zulhilmi, Zahrul Jihad, Uswatun Qoyyimah, Zahrul Azhar serta 19 cucu yang dicintainya. Beliau akan di makamkan di kompleks pemakaman keluarga yang berada di kawasan ponpes.

    Kabar wafatnya KH Muh. As'Ad Umar diterima BBS-International melalui woro- woro masjid induk. Saat mendengar berita tersebut ribuan santri dan masyarakat terkejut dan team langsung bergerak menuju kediaman beliau dan  tampak ribuan santri & masyarakat memadati area kediaman untuk menyambut kedatangan jenazah. Setelah jenazah tiba, isak tangis keluarga pun pecah. keluarga memandikan terlebih dahulu, mengkafani, dan sungkem terakhir. Setelah semua selesai, Jenazah di iring - iring ke masjid untuk di sholati, Para petakziyah mensholati di Masjid Induk Darul-Ulum termasuk Wagub Jatim Saifullah Yusuf,  Wabup Jombang  Widjono Soeparno serta sekdakab Jombang. Para Petakziyah dari berbagai kalangan dan daerah terus berdatangan waktu demi waktu unruk mendo'akan orang nomor satu di Darul-ulum.
 
    Setelah di sholati pada pukul 19:30 KH Muh. As'Ad Umar dimakamkan di pesarean pondok. Seluruh masyarakat, santri, kelurga, dan pemerhati berkumpul untuk membacakan tahlilan dan berdo'a untuk Ketua Umum MPP Darul-Ulum 1985-2010 tersebut. Kegiatan ini juga di hadiri dirktur TV9 sekaligus PWNU Jatim KH Mutawakkil Alallah, Pengasuh Ponpes Tambak Beras KH Hasib Wahab, Pengasuh Ponpes Perak KH Masduqi Abdurrahim dan beberapa orang penting lainnya. Kyai As'Ad berpesan kepada anak-anaknya untuk selalu rukun.(Ahm_29)

Obama Visit Indonesia

pectinatella magnifica, obama indonesia visit, obama ke indonesia, obama visit indonesia, kunjungan obama ke indonesia News Source By Stephen Collinson (AFP) ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — US President Barack Obama makes a much-delayed homecoming of sorts to Indonesia on Tuesday, seeking to engage Muslims and cement strategic relations on the second leg of his Asia tour.

The Indonesia volcano that threatened President Obama’s visit is now “likely” to shorten an already brief stop to the capital city of Jakarta.
Obama arrived in Indonesia, where he spent part of his childhood, on Tuesday for a two-day trip.
“It is wonderful to finally be back in Indonesia,” said Obama. “I barely recognized it when I was driving down the streets.”
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, who earlier told reporters that officials were closely monitoring the ash cloud from Mount Merapi, said forecasting shows air traffic might again be disrupted.
Obama is scheduled to meet with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono; attend an official dinner; and visit the Istiqlal Mosque, the largest mosque in southeast Asia.
Gibbs said the President still hopes to deliver a speech at the University of Indonesia.
“My sense is, our hope is that while we may have to truncate some of the morning we can get the speech in,” Gibbs told reporters aboardAir Force One on a flight from New Delhi to Jakarta..
Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, said earlier that Obama lived in Jakarta for several years as a boy.
In the university speech, “he’ll have a chance to talk about the partnership that we’re building with Indonesia … [and]also to talk about some of the themes of democracy and development and our outreach to Muslim communities around the world, while also speaking of Indonesia’s pluralism and tolerance as well,” Rhodes said ahead of Obama’s 10-day tour of Asia.
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“While [Indonesia is] a Muslim majority, it’s a host to a broad religious diversity,” Rhodes added.
On Sunday, Muslims staged rallies across Indonesia to protest Obama’s visit to the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.
“We don’t see the differences between Obama and Bush. They both oppress Muslims. They both have blood on their hands,” said Ismail Yusanto, a spokesman for the Muslim group Hizbut Tahrir.
“That’s why we reject Obama and we don’t believe that he’s reaching out to Muslims.”
About 20,000 people attended the rallies, the spokesman said.
More than one in 10 of the world’s Muslims live in Indonesia, which has about 205 million Muslims.
Obama’s trip to Asia started Saturday with a three-day visit to India.
His stay in India — the third largest economy and one of the world’s few growth markets — included a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi and an address to the nation’s parliament.
In another major sign of growing ties between India and the United States, Obama on Monday backed a permanent seat for India in the U.N. Security Council.
“In the years ahead, I look forward to a reformed U.N. Security Council that includes India as a permanent member,” he said to India’s parliament.
The statement came as Obama made a wide-ranging address that envisioned closer economic and security ties between the United States and India, standing “shoulder to shoulder” with the world’s largest democracy.
Obama praised India’s democratic institutions: its free electoral system, independent judiciary, the rule of law, and a free press. He said India and the United States have a unique link because they are democracies and free-market economies.
“When Indians vote, the whole world watches. Thousands of political parties. Hundreds of thousands of polling centers. Millions of candidates and poll workers, and 700 million voters. There’s nothing like it on the planet. There is so much that countries transitioning to democracy could learn from India’s experience; so much expertise that India can share with the world. That, too, is what’s possible when the world’s largest democracy embraces its role as a global leader,” he said.
Noting the country’s rise as a world power, Obama said he sees the United States cooperating with India in various international and regional alliances. He praised India’s role in the climate change negotiations and its role as a top contributor in U.N. peacekeeping missions.
Obama’s visit to India included a town hall-style meeting with students, a celebration of the Hindu holiday Diwali and a visit to Humayun’s Tomb, an architectural precursor to the Taj Mahal.
On Wednesday, the president will leave for South Korea, where he will attend the G-20 summit in Seoul.
Obama is to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao while both are in South Korea. The U.S. president also is to deliver a speech to U.S. troops in South Korea on Thursday, which is the Veterans Day holiday in the United States.
Obama’s Seoul visit will include a meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and a news conference.
The U.S. president will leave South Korea for Japan on Thursday.
In Japan, Obama will speak at a CEO Business Summit that is part of an Asia-Pacific Economic Council summit. Obama’s packed schedule includes other APEC events and bilateral talks with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
The president’s Asia tour is part of an administration focus on a vital region for expanding trade and fighting terrorism, Rhodes said ahead of the trip.
“If you look at the trend lines in the 21st century, the rise of Asia, the rise of individual countries within Asia, is one of the defining stories of our time,” Rhodes said, later adding, “We see core U.S. national interests that will be advanced by us playing a key role in helping to shape the future of the region and making clear that we’re an Asian and a Pacific power.”
Obama will head back to the United States on Sunday. Obama is flying from India, the world’s largest democracy, to Indonesia, its most populous Muslim-majority nation, mixing diplomatic symbolism with a search for new export markets to boost the lagging US recovery and jobs growth.
The president will return as an adoptive favourite son, after spending four years in Indonesia as a boy with his late mother, though he will have little time for tourism in the middle of a nine-day, four-nation tour of Asia.
Obama, whom Indonesians remember as “Barry”, will hold talks and share an official dinner with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, with economic and security issues topping the agenda.
The next day, Obama will visit the Istiqlal Mosque, Southeast Asia’s largest, and leverage his popularity with an open-air speech to the Indonesian people.
About 8,500 security personnel, including the military, will be on the streets of Jakarta for Obama’s visit to a country that has fallen victim to a number of deadly terror attacks in recent years.
“‘Barry’ to Return Home,” trumpeted The Jakarta Post newspaper, while the Koran Tempo declared: “Finally He’s Here.”
US officials say that, just as with Obama’s trip to India, his visit to Indonesia is designed to reinvigorate relations with an “inspiring” emerging democracy and an economy with a key role to play in the early 21st century.
“We’ve had this focus on Asia and on emerging powers and on democracies as kind of cornerstones of the kind of strategic orientation of the United States in the 21st century,” said Ben Rhodes, a deputynational security adviser and Obama speechwriter.
“India fits firmly in that category and so does Indonesia.”
Obama’s Jakarta speech on Wednesday has the twin aims of engaging Indonesians on their embrace of democracy and economic growth, and of renewing dialogue with Muslims opened at his landmark Cairo address last year.
An embarrassed Obama cancelled two previous attempts to visit Indonesia earlier this year, as domestic crises intervened, and his snatched day in the country where he lived for four years as a boy may disappoint his hosts.
Originally, Obama planned to show his family fondly remembered haunts of his youth, but given his diminished political standing following mid-term elections a prolonged wallow in nostalgia abroad would be a political step too far.
However, the White House has hinted there will be more time for Obama to go down memory lane next year, when he is expected in Indonesia as the first US president to join the East Asia summit.
That may give a chance for Obama’s daughters, Malia and Sasha, currently back at school in the United States, to join the parents on a family vacation.
For a few days this week, it seemed Obama’s visit could be in doubt again, after a volcanic ash cloud thrown up by Mount Merapi raised fears that Air Force One would be unable to reach Jakarta.
But international flights returned to normal on Tuesday and the White House gave the green light for the visit.
Obama’s speech will mark his most high profile chance for discourse on US relations with the Islamic world in a foreign country since his landmark speech to the world’s Muslims in the Egyptian capital in June 2009.
But officials cautioned against the idea that Obama needed to renew his commitment for a “new beginning” with Islam, after a furore over plans to build an Islamic cultural centre near the site of the September 11 attacks in New York.
U.S. President Barack Obama headed to Jakarta on Tuesday for a visit aimed at boosting U.S. security and trade ties with Indonesia, and using the most populous Muslim nation to reach out to the wider Islamic world.
Indonesia is an important destination for Obama for a variety of strategic and personal reasons, aides said. Its importance as a U.S. ally is on the rise, even if the joy over Obama’s election has faded since he became president almost two years ago.
As Southeast Asia’s biggest economy and a G20 member, Indonesia has proved resilient to the financial crisis and has become a hot destination for emerging market investors looking to tap strong consumer demand, abundant resources and political stability.
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“We see in Indonesia the intersection of a lot of key American interests, and we see this as a partnership that is very important to the future of American interests in Asia and the world,” said Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security advisor for strategic communications.
Obama’s visit to a country where he spent four years of his childhood comes after two previously scheduled trips were put off — in March as he fought to pass his healthcare overhaul law and in June as he faced the cleanup of the massive BP oil spill.
The delays disappointed and angered some Indonesians, and even this visit had been in some doubt because of concerns about volcanic ash from repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi volcano, which led to flight cancellations over the weekend.
Jakarta is the second stop on Obama’s 10-day four-nation Asian tour. He has spent three days in India, where his emphasis was on developing business links that could lead to U.S. jobs, and later will visit South Korea, where he attends a G20 summit and Yokohama, Japan, for an Asia-Pacific economic meeting.
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Comprehensive partnership
Obama and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono are expected to sign a “Comprehensive Partnership” they agreed to a year ago.
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The pact covers security, economic and people-to-people issues, said Jeffrey Bader, Obama’s top Asian adviser. Obama could announce millions in funding to fight climate change by protecting Indonesia’s forests, sources say, although large corporate deals have not been flagged.
The United States exports only about $6 billion worth of goods to Indonesia each year, making it America’s 37th largest market, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Two-way trade is likely to pick up slightly to around $20 billion this year.
However, the U.S. has dwindled in importance as a source of foreign direct investment into Indonesia, with just $171.5 million or 1.6 percent of the total last year, reflecting rampant graft, poor infrastructure and concerns on nationalist policies.
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“Indonesia maintains significant and far-reaching foreign investment restrictions,” said the U.S. Trade Representative’s 2010 National Trade Estimates Report.
“Its investment climate continues to be characterized by legal uncertainty, economic nationalism and disproportionate influence of business interests.”
While Obama is hoping for U.S. investment in sectors such as clean energy to help spur a sagging economy at home, growing direct investment is now coming more from Asia than the West.
Obama will also use his short stay to reach out to the Muslim world. On Wednesday he will visit the Istiqlal Mosque, one of the world’s largest, and make a major outdoor speech that aides said is expected to draw large crowds.
Around 15,000 police and military personnel are massing to maintain security, in a city that saw bomb attacks on hotels last year but that has made progress in tackling Islamic militancy.
The long U.S. wars in Muslim nations Afghanistan and Iraq have lost Obama support among Muslims since he made a major speech in Cairo in June 2009, and a hardline Islamic group in the mostly moderate Muslim country has protested against his visit.
Barack Hussein Obama II (i /bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.
A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid against a Democratic incumbent for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for United States Senate in 2004.[4] Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party’s nomination. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009.
As president, Obama signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February 2009. Other domestic policy initiatives include the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – a major piece of health care reform legislation which he signed into law in March 2010 – and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which forms part of his financial regulatory reform efforts, which he signed in July 2010. In foreign policy, Obama gradually withdrew combat troops from Iraq, increased troop levels in Afghanistan, and signed an arms control treaty with Russia. On October 9, 2009, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

PKB Kutuk Pengguntingan Mulut TKW di Arab 

Selasa, 16 November 2010 - 19:01 wib

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JAKARTA - Tindakan tidak berprikemanusian terhadap tenaga kerja wanita (TKW) kembali terulang. Kali ini tindakan keji yakni dengan menggunting lidah yang dilakukan warga negara Arab Saudi, menimpa Sumiati asal Kepulaun Bima.

Tindak kekerasan tersebut pun mendapat kecaman dari pelbagai kalangan. Salah satunya datang datang dari Fraksi Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa (FPKB). Menurut Ketua FPKB, Marwan Ja'far, tindakan keji dan biadab serta tidak berperikemanusiaan yang dilakukan warga negara Arab Saudi kepada Sumiati, merupakan cermin prilaku jahiliah.

"Pelbagai tindakan kekerasan dan penyiksaan seperti gunting lidah, setrika panas, pemukulan dan sebagainya yang dialami Sumiati, TKW asal Bima, adalah cermin perilaku jahiliyah warga negara Arab Saudi," ujar Marwan kepada Okezone, Selasa, (16/11/2010). "Bahkan para kafir Qurays pun tidak pernah bertindak sekeji itu," tambahnya.

Tak hanya umpatan kemarahan yang disampaikan Marwan. Namun, dia juga mengeluarkan sikap tegas dari fraksi partai yang dipimpinnya. "Pertama, FPKB mengutuk dan memprotes keras tindakan warga Arab Saudi yang lebih nista dan hina dari kaum jahiliyah tersebut serta meminta pertanggungjawaban dari pemerintah Arab Saudi.

Rasulullah saja tidak pernah memperlakukan para budak senista itu, tetapi majikan Sumiati berperilaku jauh lebih hina. Kedua, mendesak pemerintah Arab Saudi agar meminta maaf secara terbuka kepada Sumiati, keluarganya, Pemerintah RI serta bangsa Indonesia. Ketiga, Pemerintah RI harus mendesak Pemerintah Arab Saudi untuk menghukum majikan Sumiati seberat-beratnya. Jika perlu dilakukan qishas terhadap majikan tersebut.

Keempat, meminta Pemerintah RI untuk mendesak Pemerintah Arab Saudi agar membawa kasus tersebut kepada Mahkamah Internasional dan menjadikan majikan Sumiati sebagai pelaku kejahatan HAM.

Kelima, jika Pemerintah Arab Saudi tidak menghukum sangat berat pelaku/majikan Sumiati, maka wajib hukumnya bagi Pemerintah Indonesia untuk melakukan moratorium pengiriman TKI/TKW ke Arab. Jika perlu pemerintah agar menarik semua TKI/TKW di Arab. "Bahkan, patut dipertimbangkan untuk menarik Duta Besar Indonesia di Arab Saudi," pungkasnya.(ram)

Riyoyaan Qurban

RIYOYAN QURBAN
@16 November 2010

Jombang-Wong Islam kabeh sak Indonesia podo binggung kabeh masalah riyoyoan, enek seng dino seloso enek seng dino rabu bahkan enek seng sak gurunggi seloso ambek sak wis'e  rabu, Ormas Muhammadiyah iku nyoto'no lek riyoyone seloso tapi Ormas paleng gede sak ndunnyo Nahdalatul-Ulama iku nyotokno lek dino rebo. Jarene Din Syamsudin masalah perbedaan iki ga' usah di gedek2 no. Lha masalah dino riyoyo iku seng betul iku sak manteppe atimu, tp aku nyaranno dino seloso so'ale:
1) Nang mekkah iku dino seloso lha indonesia ambek mekkah kan ga' sampek limang jam selisihhe.
2) Kalender Hijriyah kuno khalifah Umar bin Khattab iku 10 dzulhijjah iku tibo neng dino seloso.
3) Ormas Islam Muhammadiyah wes ndelok Hillal nang berbagi daerah tp NU gurrung goro2 ndelok'e sak wesse merapi mbeledos dadi khan otomatis hilal'e kurang jelas alias ketutupan(A/13)