Persepsi Mengenai Keberadaan "Ley 1492" di Kolombia

Berhentilah memandang Kolombia (hanya) sebagai pasar narkotika dunia meskipun The Revolutionary  Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) masih terus berjaya lewat penyelundupan kokain di negara ini. Setelah Juan Pablo Montoya kehilangan kedigdayaannya di arena balap formula satu, kini muncul cara baru untuk memandang negara yang terletak di bagian utara kawasan regional Amerika Selatan ini, yakni lewat Undang-undang Ketenagakerjaan yang disahkan oleh Kongres Kolombia pada akhir Desember tahun 2010 silam.

Undang-undang Ketenagakerjaan yang dinamakan "Ley 1492" atau "la ley de formalización y generación de empleo" ini merupakan bentuk terobosan baru yang dihasilkan pemerintahan Presiden terpilih pada Agustus 2010 lalu, Juan Manuel Santos Calderon (Mantan Menteri Perdagangan Asing, mantan Menteri Keuangan, dan sekaligus mantan Menteri Pertahanan dan Keamanan Kolombia dalam beberapa periode kepresidenan Alvaro Uribe).

Tujuan utama dari pengesahan Ley 1492 adalah untuk mengeliminir penyebaran jumlah pengangguran usia muda (15 hingga 24 tahun) di Kolombia yang pada tahun 2010 mencapai angka  persentase sebesar 24%. 

International Women's Day 2011

This is the day when I woke up this morning celebrated by my boyfriend through text message in my cell simply with "Happy International Women's Day" words. When I logged on to my twitter account, it was full with several top notch people congratulated Women all over the world as well. One of the most active account in Twitter with Happy International Women Day (IWD) tweets was Helen Clark's, the Head of United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Once, Mrs. Clark tweeted "Education is life changing - Women need equal opportunity to access it."

Equal opportunity.

Intimidating Your (MY) Mind About Next Step

I'm taking a break for a while from foreseeing prodigious 'autocracy to democracy revolutions" euphoria around the middle east, into here... my self, or even farther, my inner space. Politics sucks (for now) hahaha!

It's always exciting plus electrifying for 20 something 22 years old human like me, to questioning life and it's inhabitants. But it is also frightening at some point, when I look carefully around my closest circle of friends, how time flies extravagantly fast and leaving me here with my own deliberation and self doubtfulness. Seems like everybody already know what they really want in life, while I'm wasting (is it?) juncture with dubiousness.

I've been to several places, met various kind of people with different backgrounds (but still long way to go to be named world explorer though), and I loooovee travelling! (Who dont? Stupid).

Just a Glimpse of Davos Annual Madness

First thing about Davos 2011, I would like to handover my gratitude from numerous world-caliber economic analysts for their heady articles written in several media, to Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times’s dealbook columnist who wrote worth to read “A Hefty Price for Entry to Davos” on January 24^th, 2011.  Mr. Sorkin comprehensively clarify in his article about how much is the price for becoming Davos attendee, and the answer… is not-surprisingly enormous.

According to Mr. Sorkin’s article, there are several levels of Davos’s membership, first, is the "Basic level" where you have to pay 50,000 Swiss Franc ($52,000) and the invitation for the event will follow. The ticket itself costs 18,000 Swiss Franc ($19,000) plus tax, so it’s gonna costs $71,000 for both the membership and the entrance fee (remember, it is for one person only).  The second level is “Industry Associate Level”, which will enable the member to stick together with billionaires in private sessions, and it costs $137,000, so the membership plus the ticket fee is gonna be $156,000. To upgrade your membership from “Industry Associate Level” into “Industry Partner Level” in which you might be able to bring along your business colleagues, you have to pay $263,000 plus the two tickets fee ($301,000 in total). Now how about big boss needs to be accompanied by his/her team which consist of (let say) 5 people? Let’s go to “Strategic Partner Level” with the price tag $527,000 and plus not to forget one person entrance fee (still) costs $19.000/person. Honestly, I’m pretty bad with math, so please stop these whole calculations…. here.

23 and 32, Years Tunisia and Indonesia Have to Pay in Future

For independent (slash) junior (slash) unexperienced researcher like me, finding fresh and up-to-the-minute topics to be developed in my personal blog is somewhat  difficult thing to do. But that’s turn out to the opposite when it comes to Tunisia and it’s political fiasco for the last couple weeks in which all started from three weeks protests mostly by unemployed youths in coalition with lawyers, political campaigners, and students. Sounds like “Bangkok’s Red Shirt” on May 2010? Scratch that thought out, this one is more than just ousted prime minister and his group attacking current government, this is 23 years of waiting for justice and degree of social peace ever since President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali overthrew Tunisia’s last President, Habib Bourguiba (who is declared by his physicians unable to continue assuming the duties of the office) in a bloodless coup. Ben Ali was served his fifth consecutive five-year term as president, strongly supported by military army and World Bank loans. Nowadays, Tunisians throwing great celebrations after Mr. Ben Ali stood down as president and left the country.