Venezuela is a test for the Trump administration—but also for the Democratic Party, which needs to find its voice on foreign policy, Fareed writes in his latest Washington Post column. It must pursue a foreign policy that helps usher out the odious regime of President Nicolás Maduro without triggering a backlash against perceived U.S. “imperialism.” It must support a political transition that doesn’t threaten the old guard so much that it fights to the end. And the United States must join other nations to help a country that has virtually been destroyed over the past decade. All this requires careful diplomacy, multilateralism and quiet pressure, not bombast.
Venezuela’s crisis has revealed “worrying signs that the new Democratic foreign policy could turn out to be a reflexive isolationism that is not so different from President Trump’s own ‘America First’ instincts,”Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) said, “The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future.” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said, “We cannot hand pick leaders for other countries on behalf of multinational corporate interests.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) noted, “We must learn the lessons of the past and not be in the business of regime change or supporting coups.” Leftist hero Noam Chomsky and several dozen other academics and activists have signed a letter largely blaming the crisis in Venezuela on U.S. actions. Fareed writes.
Liberal voices have called for America not to meddle in Venezuela’s affairs and to let Venezuelans determine their futures, but “[d]oes one really have to explain that Venezuela’s problems have been primarily caused by its own nasty government? That the Venezuelan people have not been allowed to determine their own future or pick their own leaders for years, going back to Hugo Chávez’s rule?” Fareed asks, The current government has clung to power by rigging elections, crushing opposition parties, muzzling the media and using lethal force against protesters. During a single week in January, pro-Maduro forces allegedly killed at least 30 people and arrested at least 850, according to the United Nations.
The Chávez-Maduro regime has destroyed what was once Latin America’s richest nation, producing an almost unimaginable inflation rate of 1 million percent. (Prices double approximately every 19 days.) The simplest, bleakest indicator of how bad things are in Venezuela is that since 2015, an estimated 3 million Venezuelans have fled the country. That’s about 10 percent of the country, equivalent to an exodus of 33 million Americans.
But millions more Venezuelans are staying and fighting. They have come out in droves to vote against this government, almost driving Maduro out in 2013 despite an unfair election, and successfully bringing an opposition parliament to power in 2015. For the past few years, Venezuelans have organized massive protests against the regime, enduring tear gas, arrests and killings. They have rallied behind an opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, and are using a constitutional process to shift control of the government from the regime to the elected parliament.
Will the US Ask China for a Loan, Amid Its Trade War?
The US Treasury needs to borrow more money—a stunning $12 trillion over the next decade, by one estimate—and it’s not getting as much help from China as it used to, The Financial Times’ Gillian Tett writes. China has been a reliable buyer of US Treasury bonds, but its holdings have quietly dropped.
Last year, US deficits hit their highest mark since 2013, and Bloomberg reported in October that Treasury planned to borrow more, in part, to finance Trump’s tax cuts, which have cut revenue. The U.S. Treasury Department said government borrowing this year will more than double from 2017 to $1.34 trillion as the Trump administration finances a rising budget deficit. Specifically, the department expects to issue $425 billionin net marketable debt from October through December, lower than the $440 billion estimated in July, according to a statement released Monday in Washington. The Treasury sees an end-of-December cash balance of $410 billion, compared with its previous forecast of $390 billion. Treasury could offer bonds more attractive to US buyers, but a question remains: From whom will the US borrow?
The situation raises an uncomfortable prospect, if one that’s unlikely to succeed, of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin asking China for a loan, whilst squaring off over trade—a distinctly un-Trumpian move. The uncomfortable truth for the bill’s supporters is that the tax cuts are substantially contributing to a widening federal budget deficit, which now appears on track to top $1 trillion this year. If growth fades in the coming years — as many economists believe it will — the cuts could exacerbate the deficit even more.
The best-case scenario for proponents is that the cuts spur a sustained increase in productivity and growth, which in turn produces increasingly higher revenues several years down the road — enough to reduce the “cost” of the bill to the budget deficit.
The 2018 results are, oddly enough, what a lot of economists predicted would happen with Mr. Trump’s cuts, including ones who generally favor tax cuts. Total federal revenues in 2018 came in roughly where the Tax Foundation, a Washington think tank that typically projects large growth boosts from tax cuts, had forecast — which is to say, well below the budget office’s baseline.
Just because the new law helped to increase economic growth, said Kyle Pomerleau, an economist with the Tax Foundation, “it doesn’t mean that it is going to pay for itself.” Mr. Pomerleau said additional growth from the law “will continue to be modest over the next couple of years.”
“That will offset some of the initial cost,” he continued, “but it will still be nowhere near enough to make the tax cut self-financing.”
In December 2017, as Republicans sped the tax cuts through Congress, the Tax Foundation released a projection that the cuts would add about $450 billion to federal deficits over 10 years, after accounting for the additional economic growth it would spur. The group has since redone the analysis, with what Mr. Pomerleau called improvements to its methodology. It now predicts deficits will increase by $900 billion — double its original forecast.
A Bad Sign for Climate Change: The World Wants More Oil
The Economist points to a stark reality: Oil demand is rising, and major producers intend on pumping more, not less—a development that will not help the world meet emissions-reduction and warming targets.The world’s largest economy and its second biggest polluter, climate change is becoming hard to ignore. Extreme weather has grown more frequent. In November wildfires scorched California; last week Chicago was colder than parts of Mars. Scientists are sounding the alarm more urgently and people have noticed—73% of Americans polled by Yale University late last year said that climate change is real. The left of the Democratic Party wants to put a “Green New Deal” at the heart of the election in 2020. As expectations shift, the private sector is showing signs of adapting. Last year around 20 coal mines shut. Fund managers are prodding firms to become greener. Warren Buffett, no sucker for fads, is staking $30bn on clean energy and Elon Musk plans to fill America’s highways with electric cars.
Yet amid the clamour is a single, jarring truth. Demand for oil is rising and the energy industry, in America and globally, is planning multi-trillion-dollar investments to satisfy it. No firm embodies this strategy better than ExxonMobil, the giant that rivals admire and green activists love to hate. As our briefing explains, it plans to pump 25% more oil and gas in 2025 than in 2017. If the rest of the industry pursues even modest growth, the consequence for the climate could be disastrous.
Rising emissions would be the biggest obstacle to mitigating climate change, but other problems loom against that larger one: The world isn’t getting any leadership from the US, The Washington Post writes, and a better funding mechanism may be needed to help countries implement climate plans, Sagatom Saha writes in the World Politics Review.
Trusting the Taliban
America shouldn’t, Hudson Institute Director for South and Central Asia Hussain Haqqani writes in Foreign Policy, arguing that the framework under discussion—withdrawal, in exchange for peace and denial of terrorist safe haven—looks a lot like the Soviet withdrawal conditions of 1988. Cracks have already appeared in US/Taliban negotiations, as the State Department denied a Taliban claim that the US had promised to withdraw half its troops by April.
The Pentagon and the White House did not immediately respond to the Taliban official’s comments.
In December, a U.S. official said Trump was planning to pull out more than 5,000 troops, or about a third of the total 14,000 U.S. personnel in Afghanistan. Last week, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Scott Miller, told ABC News that he was always looking for ways to reduce the U.S. footprint there where possible but said there was no order to drawn down. “I want the right capabilities here, not necessarily specific numbers, so I’m always looking to reduce where I’m able to, and be as efficient as possible,” he said.”
In Moscow the Taliban delegation reiterated the group’s demand that all U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan.
The group’s representatives have been taking part at the highly unusual meeting with key Afghan powerbrokers, among them Afghanistan’s former president, Hamid Karzai, who have said they hope the event can build trust and lay a foundation for a possible political settlement in the future.
Afghanistan’s government though has refused to attend the talks in Moscow, criticizing them as undermining its legitimacy. The government, led by president Ashraf Ghani, is already uneasy that it has been sidelined from the U.S.-Taliban talks and faces the challenge of other powerful political figures in Afghanistan seeking to take leading roles in the burgeoning peace efforts with the Taliban.
Afghanistan’s government is anxious that a sudden U.S. exit could see it rapidly weakened and there are worries the country could fall further into violent chaos or renewed civil war as other warlords emerge to compete with the Taliban.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Ghani to reassure him of the U.S. commitment to Afghanistan.
Ghani in a tweet said that Pompeo had “stressed that there is no uncertainty and ambiguity about the U.S. commitment to Afghanistan” and that Pompeo had “underscored the central importance of ensuring the centrality of the Afghan government in the peace process.”
A readout released by the State Department, however, said Pompeo had also emphasized the importance of an “intra-Afghan dialogue” and expressed the U.S. determination to find “the conditions for the Afghan government, other Afghan leaders and the Taliban to sit together and negotiate a political settlement.”
Trump’s desire to withdraw points to a larger question about America’s role in the world: While Trump is right to reject the role of world policeman, Haqqani writes, America should accept the more-limited role of umpire. The Wall Street Journal, for its part, agrees, writing that Trump seems to misunderstand that keeping troops abroad can maintain stability and that he “shouldn’t mislead his supporters at home and upset friends abroad by suggesting that peace can be purchased by American retreat.”
President Trump won applause in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address when he declared that “great nations do not fight endless wars.” It’s a resonant line in a country that has been fighting in parts of the Middle East for nearly two decades. And, in a literal sense, the statement is true.
Will the World Bank Take a Free-Market Turn?
President Trump’s nominee to run the World Bank, David Malpass, laid out his vision in a Financial Times op-ed, giving a nod to “freer markets … that have lower taxes, fewer regulatory burdens.” Those are long-held tenets of the so-called Washington Consensus on model governance, and Malpass appears poised to uphold them.
While Malpass has criticized the bank, he won’t “look to burn [it] to the ground” if he’s installed as president, Ian Bremmer writes at Time, predicting instead Malpass will reform its bureaucracy while pushing developing countries to seek more private financing. If you look at congressional testimony Malpass gave last year, it seems he and the Trump administration have three main goals when it came to the administration’s dealings with the World Bank and IMF.
The first is to get emerging markets to start relying more on international market-based financing rather than the below-market-rate financing the Bank offers; the second is to make sure that money is lent for projects that are more financially sustainable; and third is to seek more debt transparency from countries receiving the loans in order to keep better tabs on the financial diplomacy China is pursuing around the world.
Expect Malpass to make progress towards these three goals rather than set about dismantling the organization completely.
From : The White House <info@mail.whitehouse.gov>To : <redaksi@mediahukumindonesia.com>Date : Wed, 06 Feb 2019 07:54:53 +0700 Subject : TONIGHT: What President Trump will tell Americans
TONIGHT: What President Trump will tell Americans
In a few minutes, President Donald J. Trump will travel to the U.S. Capitol to deliver the second State of the Union Address of his presidency. Watch it live at 9 p.m. ET.
Here’s a preview of what he’ll tell Congress and the American people:
“Together, we can break decades of political stalemate. We can bridge old divisions, heal old wounds, build new coalitions, forge new solutions, and unlock the extraordinary promise of America’s future. The decision is ours to make.”
The President picked one simple, powerful message for our country tonight: “Choosing Greatness.” When our leaders in Washington put citizens first and their careers second—when they choose a spirit of compromise over the politics of retribution—there is no limit to what America can achieve.
Both parties can rally behind this vision. We can protect American workers by passing the U.S.–Mexico–Canada Agreement to replace NAFTA. We can rebuild our country with a bipartisan infrastructure package that puts people to work. We can rebuild trust with a safe, legal immigration system that halts the flow of drugs and crime into our country.
President Trump was elected to solve the problems that Washington gave up trying to fix. He is a dealmaker offering common-sense, bipartisan solutions. In the past few months, Republicans and Democrats have already come together to pass historic criminal justice reform and crucial legislation to fund the war on opioid abuse.
These issues matter. Americans don’t want resistance. They want results.
With Pitch for Unity, President Trump Urges Republicans and Democrats to ‘Choose Greatness’
“President Trump in his State of the Union address Tuesday night issued a call for unity and an end to the political divisiveness that has ensnared Washington,” Melissa Quinn reports for the Washington Examiner.
During the speech—with its theme of “choosing greatness”—President Trump laid out five priorities that should unite both parties in Washington: “American jobs and fair trade, rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, reducing the price of healthcare and prescription drugs, creating a safe and lawful immigration system, and pursuing a foreign policy agenda that ‘puts America’s interests first.’”
“There is a new opportunity in American politics if only we have the courage together to seize it,” Trump said. “Victory is not winning for our party. Victory is winning for our country.”
The president struck notes of unity and bipartisanship with his speech, which marked the third address he has delivered before a joint session of Congress and lasted 82 minutes. During the remarks, he urged lawmakers in attendance to put aside their differences and reject gridlock.
“We can make our communities safer, our families stronger, our culture richer, our faith deeper, and our middle class bigger and more prosperous than ever before,” the president said. “But we must reject the politics of revenge, resistance, and retribution — and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise, and the common good.”
Trump used his address to tout the accomplishments of his first two years in office, including the passage of tax reform in 2017 and the addition of more than 5 million new jobs to the economy. He also noted the legislative achievements of the last Congress, including reforms to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the farm bill, and criminal justice reform.
Trump’s comments about the economic gains particularly benefiting women earned the him a standing ovation and chants of “USA, USA” from lawmakers led by female members, including Democrats.
“Don’t sit yet. You’re going to like this,” he joked. “And exactly one century after Congress passed the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote, we also have more women serving in Congress than at any time.”
But the president took aim at the ongoing investigations on Capitol Hill, including those focused on his administration and presidential campaign. Those probes are expected to ramp up this Congress, with Democrats now controlling the House and gaining subpoena power.
“An economic miracle is taking place in the United States, and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics, or ridiculous partisan investigations,” Trump said. “If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. It just doesn’t work that way.”
Casting a shadow over the State of the Union is the ongoing fight over funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and efforts to avert a second government shutdown. Trump continued to push for Congress to quickly pass legislation that will fund a slew of government agencies, for which funding will lapse Feb. 15, and secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
“This is a moral issue,” the president said of border security. “The lawless state of our southern border is a threat to the safety, security, and financial well‑being of all Americans. We have a moral duty to create an immigration system that protects the lives and jobs of our citizens. This includes our obligation to the millions of immigrants living here today, who followed the rules and respected our laws.”
Trump added, “Simply put, walls work and walls save lives. So let’s work together, compromise, and reach a deal that will truly make America safe.”
Three-quarters approve of Trump speech: polls
In The Hill, Tal Axelrod reports that roughly three-quarters of American voters approved of President Trump’s State of the Union address, according to CNN and CBS News polls. “Seventy six percent approved of the speech in the CBS poll, with 24 percent saying they disapproved,About 59 percent of respondents to the CNN poll had a very positive reaction to the speech, while 17 percent said they had a somewhat positive reaction. Roughly one-quarter — 23 percent — had a negative reaction in that survey.” Axelrod writes. But the telling stat: CBS found that “about 82 percent of independents in that survey who watched the speech liked what they heard.”
About 87 percent of Republicans told CNN they had a very positive reaction to the speech, while 64 percent of Democrats had a very or somewhat negative response.
Trump Tuesday night hopscotched between calling for bipartisanship and national unity and doubling down on hot-button issues such as immigration and abortion.
“I stand here ready to work with you to achieve historic breakthroughs for all Americans,” Trump said, adding later that “countless Americans are murdered by criminal illegal aliens.”
Only a third, 33 percent, of respondents, however, told CBS they believed Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will work together more after the speech, while 63 percent said there would not be much change in their working relationship.
The CBS News survey polled 1,472 adults who watched the State of the Union address and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
The CNN poll surveyed 584 adults who watched the State of the Union address and has a margin of error of 5.4 percentage points.
Trump goes big, uses delayed State of the Union to make case on border, much more
“The speech was big, not just in length — about 80 minutes — but also in concept. It had a structure. It had a message. It had passages to appeal to all Americans. It had passages to appeal to Trump’s conservative base. And it had passages to appeal to opposition Democrats,” Byron York writes in the Washington Examiner. “He delivered a big, broad, far-ranging statement of his approach to the presidency and to the country.”
The strongest part of Trump’s speech that appealed to all Americans came after his “choose greatness” introduction, when he walked through recent progress in the American economy. “In just over two years since the election, we have launched an unprecedented economic boom — a boom that has rarely been seen before,” Trump said. Then the details: 5.3 million new jobs; 600,000 manufacturing jobs; rising wages; Americans off food stamps; low unemployment; low minority unemployment; low unemployment for disabled Americans; more people working (157 million); lower taxes; an increased child tax credit; soaring energy production; deregulation, and more.
At times Speaker Nancy Pelosi, sitting behind the president, didn’t quite seem to know what to do. “Pelosi’s face during Trump’s comments about job growth could not have been more strained,” tweeted Miranda Green, a reporter for The Hill. Indeed, Democrats didn’t have much to say in response to Trump’s economic record. They could quibble with the numbers — maybe it’s really 4.9 million new jobs instead of 5.3 million, or maybe Trump was taking credit for President Barack Obama’s accomplishments — but the fact is, Trump had a strong case to make for the performance of the economy during his presidency, and he made it the first part of his speech.
GUILFOYLE: PRESIDENT TRUMP’S STATE OF THE UNION WAS A GRAND SLAM
“The president also took time to highlight a few of the many incredible achievements under his administration” in last night’s State of the Union, Kimberly Guilfoyle writes in The Daily Caller. “Record-low unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanics, and women. Rising wages and tax cuts for working-class families. A historic bipartisan criminal justice reform bill to give non-violent offenders a second chance.”
Still, the speech stuck out because it challenged us as a nation to go even further.
It challenged us to live up to our core values and advance bipartisan policies that give every American a chance to live the American Dream. To be sure, the speech was not only a vision, but a realistic blueprint to achieve that vision.
Unsurprisingly, the president highlighted trade policy as a necessary first step to better the lives of all Americans.
For too long, our trade agreements have put the interests of big corporations and foreign powers above those of the American people. Those types of agreements must become a thing of the past. Trade should always be fair, free, and put the interests of American workers first.
Congress should follow President Trump’s lead and vote to pass his historic new trade deal between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. The agreement, known as the USMCA, would help bring manufacturing jobs back to America by revitalizing the automotive industry. Farmers would be better off too, thanks to the deal opening up new markets for their exports.
President Trump also called for common-sense fixes to our broken immigration system. Our current open borders system benefits political elites at the expense of everyday Americans. To that end, the status quo is immoral, unfair, and unjust.
That’s why the president called for a feasible solution: building a border wall. A wall on the southern border would uphold the rule of law, halt the flow of dangerous narcotics, and protect families from criminal aliens.
The president also believes that in order to fully ensure our safety and quality of life, we must invest in world-class infrastructure. In fact, the American Society of Civil Engineer’s rated our infrastructure a D+ grade in a 2017 report.
Congress breaks out into Happy Birthday for Holocaust survivor
“Members of Congress broke out into a spirited singing of ‘Happy Birthday’ for a guest of President Trump’s State of the Union who survived both the Holocaust and the anti-Semitic mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue,” Tamar Lapin reports in the New York Post.
Judah Samet turned 81 Tuesday as he was honored at Trump’s address to the nation for his incredible stories of survival.
Samet, who survived 10 months in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II also narrowly escaped the October 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue, in which 11 people were killed.
“He arrived at the synagogue as the massacre began, but not only did Judah narrowly escape death last fall, more than seven decades ago he narrowly survived the Nazi concentration camps,” Trump said during his speech.
“Today is Judah’s 81st birthday,” Trump continued, as the crowd cheered and began to sing “Happy Birthday.”
After the song, Samet thanked the well-wishers and Trump quipped: “They wouldn’t do that for me, Judah” to laughs.
President Trump also honored three veterans who served in World War II: Private First Class Joseph Reilly, Staff Sergeant Irving Locker, and Sergeant Herman Zeitchik.
KABUPATEN BEKASI , MHI – Berdasarkan UU No, 05 Tahun 2014 Tentang ASN Undang –Undang dan Pemerintah bermaksud mewujudkan aparatur sipil negara sebagai bagian dari reformasi birokrasi, perlu ditetapkan aparatur sipil negara sebagai profesi yang memiliki kewajiban mengelola dan mengembangkan dirinya dan wajib mempertanggung jawabkan kinerjanya dan menerapkan prinsip merit dalam pelaksanaan manajemen aparatur sipil negara, Sedangkan Sistem Merit adalah kebijakan dan Manajemen ASN yang berdasarkan pada kualifikasi, kompetensi, dan kinerja secara adil dan wajardengan tanpa membedakan latar belakang politik, ras, warna kulit,agama, asal usul, jenis kelamin, status pernikahan, umur, atau kondisi kecacatan. (6/2).
Namun didalam implementasinya justru terkadang jauh panggang daripada api sehingga selain menimbulkan berbagai dugaan , kecurigaan serta kekecewaan dikalangan masyarakat , media dan para penggiat sosial didalam aktifitasnya selaku sosial kontrol dimana erat kaitannya dengan Perangkat daerah kabupaten Bekasi yang meliputi sekretariat daerah, sekretariat dewan perwakilan rakyat daerah, dinas daerah, dan lembaga teknis daerahpun mengalami hal yang sama.
Keterbukaan Informasi Publik terkesan terkekang dan terbelenggu diKabupaten Bekasi, manakala awak media serta para penggiat sosial membutuhkan keterangan , penjelasan ataupun klarifikasi terkait hasil kinerja steikh holder terkait didalam menjalankan tugas dan kewajibannya selain kurang dan tidak memuaskan serta digenapi dengan adanya dugaan berbagai penyimpahgan dan penyelewengan.
Menyangkut hal tersebut anggota DPRD Komisi I Kabupaten Bekasi dari Partai PDI-P Soelaeman angkat bicara saat dijumpai awak media dikediamannya pada bilangan perum tridaya, “Kalau memang sulit dihubungi kaitannya dengan kinerja silahkan melaporkan kekomisi I .. Cara Kerja dia…Kepala Dinasnya Bandel apalagi sering bolos dan jarang-jarang masuk…monggo silahkan datang keKomisi I” , Tegasnya.
Perintah Pak Jokowi kemaren itu bahwa…Dinas itu harus satu pintu agar tidak simpang siur..kenapa yah demikian…saran dari pak Jokowi itu bekerjalah buat rakyat…rakyat butuh ASN yang Cakap bekerja betul-betul buat Rakyat, Bila ada complaint silahkan kedinas terkait namun bila tidak ada response monggo datang kekami dan kami akan menindak lanjuti selaku Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah , Pungkasnya.
KABUPATEN BEKASI , MHI – Keberadaan Sutet ( Tiang Listrik bertegangan tinggi ) didalam lingkungan sekolah SMAN 1 Cibitung menjadi fenomena tersendiri , Selain disinyalir dapat berdampak buruk pada kesehatan para murid yang mengenyam pendidikan disekolah tersebut termasuk para pengajarnya dari radiasi yang ditimbulkan oleh tiang bertegangan tinggi itu pada khususnya serta masyarakat sekitar yang tinggal berdekatan pada umumnya (6/2) sekaligus bila terjadi hal yang bersifat insidetil (Force Majeure) yang tentunya membutuhkan pertanggung jawaban yang maximal dan Konferhensif dari pihak PT Cikarang Listrikindo.
Kepala Sekolah SMAN 1 Cibitung Madasar beserta Humas Sekolah sangat sulit dijumpai awak media untuk dimintai keterangannya tentang keberadaan tiang bertegangan tinggi tersebut yang berada didalam lingkungan sekolah , hal tersebut sudah dilakukan awak media berulang kali untuk meminta waktunya namun tidak pernah diresponse dan dapat bertemu dengan berbagai dalih alasan yang disampaikan melalui security sekolah kepada awak media dan LSM.
Setali tiga uang , hal tersebutpun tak jauh berbeda dengan Dinas Tata Ruang dan Pemukiman (Tarkim), sebelas dua belas dengan kepala sekolah , Kepala Dinas Tarkim Iwan Ridwan beserta kabid dan Kasinyapun sulit dimintai keterangan melalui para staffnya dengan berdalih nada lagu lama , sedang rapat ,sibuk, tak dapat diganggu , sedang keluar kota serta dengan banyak judul lagu lama yang didendangkan, kemudian akibat dari seringnya didendangkan sehingga kian lama terdengar membosankan ditelinga awak media dan penggiat sosial.
PT Cikarang Listrikindo Inkar Janji
Ketua DPRD Kab,Bekasi, Sunandar
Awak Mediapun menyambangi Kantor DPRD Kabupaten Bekasi lalu bertemu dengan Ketua DPRD Kabupaten Bekasi Sunandar namun Sunandar enggan memberikan keterangan terkait tiang sutet didalam sekolah , Hanya mengatakan dan berjanji , Nanti akan diinfomasikan setelah dibicarakan dan didiskusikan dengan anggota dewan , Katanya.
Kemudian Awak Media dan Penggiat sosialpun mendatangi Komisi III yang membidangi hal tersebut dan diterima oleh anggota Komisi III, H Kardin dari Partai Golkar, Dalam penjelasannya H.Kardin mengatakan, Itu milik swasta dan itu bagian dari kepentingan negara juga karena selama ini kita kekurangan pasokan listrik..salah satunya PT Cikarang Listrikindo membangun sarana pembangkit listrik diantaranya ada diJababeka dan Muara atau diBabelan…dibutuhkan infrastruktur untuk dilalui kabel-kabelnya melalui kali sadang dan kebetulan SMAN 1 Cibitung ada diFasos Fasum Perumahan Villa Mutiara dan kebetulan ada salah satu tiang dari Cikarang Listrikindo ada dilingkungan sekolah, kaitan dengan berdekatan dengan sekolah mungkin Cikarang Listrikindo minta petunjuk dari pemerintah daerah dan kepala sekolah disana, Namun ada hal-hal yang perlu diperhatikan berkaitan dengan radiasi sutet itu berjarak per sepuluh meter menurut informasi yang saya dapat, selama ini memang aman saja namun alamkan dapat berubah-rubah , mengenai agreement adanya diRt-Rw ,kita memang pernah diundang pada saat pemancangan tiang namun yang membuat perjanjianya adalah Rt dan Rw setempat dan DPRD sendiri tidak ikut serta dalam penanda tanganan tersebut, Paparnya.
H Kardinpun menambahkan, Justru sekarang ada hal-hal yang menjadi ganjalan saya dengan banyaknya pengaduan warga kesaya terkait komitment PT Cikarang Listrikindo terhadap masyarakat yang tidak dipenuhi secara maksimal dan sudah satu tahun sehingga menimbulkan kekecewaan masyarakat, Harapan Saya tentunya PT Cikarang Listrikindo agar memenuhi janjinya terhadap masyarakat, Tutupnya.
Menkumham menandatangani perjanjian MLA dengan pemerintah Swiss di Bernerhof Bern, Senin (4/2).
BERBERHOF BERN, MHI – Pemerintah Republik Indonesia (RI) melalui Menteri Hukum dan Hak Asasi Manusia (Menkumham), Yasonna H. Laoly menandatangani Perjanjian Bantuan Hukum Timbal Balik dalam Masalah Pidana/Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) antara Republik Indonesia dengan Konfederasi Swiss di Bernerhof Bern, Senin (4/2).
Perjanjian MLA RI-Swiss ini merupakan perjanjian MLA yang ke-10 yang telah ditandatangani oleh Pemerintah RI (ASEAN, Australia, Hong Kong, RRC, Korsel, India, Vietnam, UEA, dan Iran), dan bagi Swiss adalah perjanjian MLA yang ke 14 dengan negara non Eropa.
Namun perjanjian MLA RI-Swiss merupakan capaian kerja sama bantuan timbal balik pidana yang luar biasa, dan menjadi sejarah keberhasilan diplomasi yang sangat penting, mengingat Swiss merupakan financial center terbesar di Eropa.
Penandatanganan Perjanjian MLA ini sejalan dengan program Nawacita, dan arahan Presiden Jokowi dalam berbagai kesempatan, di antaranya pada peringatan Hari Anti Korupsi Sedunia tahun 2018 dimana Presiden menekankan pentingnya perjanjian ini sebagai platform kerja sama hukum, khususnya dalam upaya pemerintah melakukan pemberantasan korupsi dan pengembalian aset hasil tindak pidana korupsi (asset recovery).
Perjanjian ini terdiri dari 39 pasal, yang antara lain mengatur bantuan hukum mengenai pelacakan, pembekuan, penyitaan hingga perampasan aset hasil tindak kejahatan.
Ruang lingkup bantuan timbal balik pidana yang luas ini merupakan salah satu bagian penting dalam rangka mendukung proses hukum pidana di negara peminta.
Sejalan dengan itu, Perjanjian MLA ini dapat digunakan untuk memerangi kejahatan di bidang perpajakan (tax fraud) sebagai upaya Pemerintah Indonesia untuk memastikan warga negara atau badan hukum Indonesia mematuhi peraturan perpajakan Indonesia dan tidak melalukan kejahatan penggelapan pajak atau kejahatan perpajakan lainnya.
Atas usulan Indonesia, perjanjian yang ditandatangani tersebut menganut prinsip retroaktif. Prinsip tersebut memungkinkan untuk menjangkau tindak pidana yang telah dilakukan sebelum berlakunya perjanjian sepanjang putusan pengadilannya belum dilaksanakan. Hal ini sangat penting guna menjangkau kejahatan yang dilakukan sebelum perjanjian ini.
Perjanjian MLA RI-Swiss terwujud melalui dua kali putaran, pertama dilakukan di Bali pada tahun 2015. Kedua pada tahun 2017 di Bern, Swiss untuk menyelesaikan pembahasan pasal-pasal yang belum disepakati di perundingan pertama.
Kedua perundingan tersebut dipimpin oleh Direktur Otoritas Pusat dan Hukum Internasional, Cahyo Rahadian Muzhar yang kini menjabat sebagai Dirjen AHU.
Pasca penandatanganan perjanjian ini, Menkumham berharap dukungan penuh dari Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR) nantinya segera meratifikasi agar perjanjian ini dapat langsung dimanfaatkan oleh para penegak hukum, dan instansi terkait lainnya.
Pada kesempatan ini, Menkumham atas nama pemerintah Indonesia menyampaikan ucapan terima kasih dan penghargaan yang setinggi-tingginya kepada Pemerintah Swiss yang telah membantu dan memudahkan serta menjadikan Perjanjian MLA ini terwujud.
Menkumham juga mengucapkan terima kasih atas dukungan penuh dari Dubes Muliaman Hadad dan Dubes Linggawaty Hakim serta K/L, khususnya kepada para pejabat dari Otoritas Pusat Kemenkumham, Kemenlu, Kemenkeu, Kejagung, Kepolisian, KPK, dan PPATK yang telah bersama-sama mewujudkan dan menyaksikan penanda tanganan Perjanjian MLA RI-Swiss ini.
(JL/IR/EN) MHI
Sumber:(Biro Humas, Hukum dan Kerja sama Kemenkumham)
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MHI 
Ketua DPRD Kab,Bekasi, Sunandar
Menkumham menandatangani perjanjian MLA dengan pemerintah Swiss di Bernerhof Bern, Senin (4/2).
