Some of the local reactions to the Japan earthquake and tsunami tragedy; worries about economic impact on Indonesia.
Obviously the following notes are trivial compared to the tragedy but on an Indonesia focused site….
Via JP
Indonesia’s exports and imports with Japan may be impeded by the recent massive earthquake and tsunami that resulted in damaged infrastructure in mainly coastal parts of the archipelago.
Japan is the country’s number one export destination for non-oil and gas products, accounting for nearly 13% of overall exports, or $16.5 billion in 2010.
In a similar vein, Edy Putra Irawady, deputy for industry and trade to the coordinating minister for economic affairs, said Indonesian companies should look elsewhere:
So exporters, importers and business world alike should be patient or switch to new markets other than Japan
He also worried that the massive Japanese investment in Indonesia would decline.
And the minister of Transmigration and Manpower worries that the disaster will limit work opportunities for Indonesian guest workers; there are currently 17,000 Indonesians there, many of them nurses, and Muhaimin Iskandar is fearful that the companies that employ them will go broke or have severe liquidity problems.
On a more positive note the Indonesian Red Cross/Palang Merah Indonesia (PMI) is going to send 7 people to help.
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Hi there,
I suspect that there is a simple method for collecting all my email addresses, and sending them out to an unlimited numbers. Warning them of the potential dangers of not taking care when building nuclear reactors. Having a back up facility that uses storage batteries. This is in case a tsunami comes and wipes out your electricity supply that runs the pumps that keeps the “rods” cool. So preventing the type of disaster that we now see that is killing lots of Japanese citizens. And that of other countries which will be shortly affected by the fall out.And of course that will make vast areas of their land uninhabitable for thousands of years.
Why Japan who have direct experience of the terrible consequences of nuclear fission would even contemplate having such a terrible source of death and destruction being built on their land. In never ceases to amaze me that scientists, and politicians who rely on the scientists prognostications are ever trusted, when year after year they put profit before the health and happiness of their people.
Women, who are ever aware of potential dangers for their children should be given final say in such important decisions. They are usually allowed to be more intuitive. It would be interesting to know if the animals living in those townships actually tried to head for the hills in order to avoid the immanent danger to themselves. Many aboriginals would always heed their animals heightened sense of danger and would learn that that is the moment for all the family to follow their animals and also head for the hills! Don’t stop to pick up your valuable possessions they are no use to you if you are carried away on a huge wave.
Geese, dogs, cats, horses, and just about all animals have a heightened awareness of natural phenomena, that will mean death if you ignore the first vibrations that are too subtle, for all present days citizens with their Walkman or over devices firmly ensconced in their ears. Bedazzled and disorientated by the roar of traffic and other sounds of our civilized environment we are no longer in touch with our environment to heed the early warning signs of danger.
Here is the original article describing a method of safely using human, animal and vegetable waste including kitchen waste. By erecting relatively safe Methane Digesters,
which are inexpensive to build and maintain. They will provide methane which has a high calorific output, and the resultant debris left in the digester can be used as a inert fertilizer devoid of harmful pathogens. Of course apart from the initial construction costs, no one is going to make profits from using this fairly primitive technology, and the need for oil and other harmful ways of providing energy will be sharply reduced.
It will take a huge investment.
I suspect that collecting sewage sludge and composting it, and using the methane as a source of power will not be popular. After all India has had methane generators for at least fifty years. In many parts of the country it is their main source of power.
When i lived in Hawaii in a flood prone zone, an edict came out banning septic tanks in the villages. We waited to see what would happen to a Chinese man who had built a new house. He had ordered a very large tank and it awaited installing in the surrounds of the house. Needing of course a leech field to absorb the surplus effluent.
We wondered what he would do without breaking the law. We didn’t have long to wait. He cut away the supporting 15 foot timbers supporting the house. (It had been raised because of recent floods.)
Put metal T beams in to support the house, and moved the septic tank in under the house. Then he boarded it up with siding so there was no storage space under the house.
We waited and were very curious as to what he was doing. I met him one day when he solved the mystery. He told me that he had connected the main sewage pipe to the inlet of the tank, where it digested the sewage.
In the process accumulating methane. When the septic tank was full the methane traveled up into his kitchen were it was used for fueling a cooker that was designed for methane use. Methane has a high calorific content so it is entirely suitable for cooking on.
Shower and sink water after going through a fat filter was put into a separate tank and used for watering the garden.
He told me that in six months time his sewage would be giving off enough methane to run his car on, and still leave enough for cooking and heating purposes. A fairly simple adjustment to the carburetor was all that was needed.
His car with a flapping container for the methane on the roof became a familiar sight on Waimanolo roads in Oahu. Amazing. No fuel costs! This would also work to obviate the need for sewage plants which release raw sewage whenever floods hit our cities, and sewage works overflow.
A very elegant solution. And cheap too!
Free energy! If you fit the methane generators with connectors that are telescopic and are attached to floating houses. The houses will rise like boats whenever floods hit your town. Fitted with a caisson underneath that will raise the house like they do in Holland.
You can, if floods are becoming more prevalent, build all houses to float when there are floods. Let drinking water and sewage generators float, to be serviced by barges that went up and down streets to deliver supplies and drinking water. Four pylons at each corner of the house to keep it securely moored would work just fine.
Takes a few years before sewage generators residual needs pumping out. Methane can be supplied in cylinders to your door while you wait for the generator to make more gas.
Now more than ever is there is a need for humans to emulate the aboriginals or original people, and learn how to use and get to trust in their “inner voice”. And a plug for me! Learn a twentieth century way to unleash your inner intuition. It may save your life, and that of your loved ones one day. And the most amazing thing of all, it’s won’t cost you anything apart from the rudimentary cost, (which if Auntie BBC had it’s citizens welfare at heart would take this rare opportunity to obviate the need for you to record the following, on specialised equipment and play it when you are asleep). They would just play it at times when the majority of people who are asleep. They would have an initial tone which would enable you to tune and set the playback that would be soft enough not to wake you.
To learn the technology on how to “do it” to become much more sensitive to “warnings” of all kinds that already are being transmitted to you, and then transformed into ways that will enhance your survival, and your health.
Go to intuit.org.uk to learn how to do it. All free!!!
rayner
sorry then, may be it was just a misunderstanding.
well, obviously that is just your imajination,
as the muslims themself do not think there is anything different in their religion.
we belief in all of the same things that is in the Qur’an and the Hadith.
You saw indonesian muslims everyday, so perhaps your opinion about them is more on the spot than the one on the arab muslims. May be you are just another korban of some anti arab propaganda? there are plenty of organizations that specialize on things like that.
on a more serious note, I think you are confusing between “real reasons” and “people’s attempt on rationalizing religious instruction”.
Easy example is on why muslims do not eat pig. Well, for us, first and foremost, the most obvious reasons is that because God told us not to. But, people like you always asks for “why” “why” “why”.. so then some smart human trys to satisfy you and think of some reasons. They might say that it is because the pigs are dirty, etc etc. This might be valid in some way (well, if you ever visit a pig pen in bali, most likely you wont eat any pig anymore), but actually, even if the pigs are raised in a super clean hospital room, they are still forbidden to eat, because God tells us so.
Same things with clothes. What you are making fun of (to stop women from inviting rape) is just some extreme examples of people trying to rationalize a religious instruction. The instructions is simple: be modest. Every civilized people dress modestly.
oigal you need to read my comment again. I said we do not need any scientific proof, as God’s law stand as it is by it self.
As I said, scientific reasons are just people trying to use their small minds to understand God’s instructions. It (the current scientific reasons given) might be right might be not.
The whole point a faith is being called faith is just that, it is a faith. Islam is specifically more scientific and logical than the other, but still there are parts of Islamic faith that is still can not be explained by the current science. Perhaps in the next 100years some more of them will be explained, but for now, some of them require our faith. But, we still have other reason/proof of the Greatness of God, so our faith is not a crazy illogical faith.
What do you mean by strawman? the pig is dirty argument was true for the whole previous millenia, and it still is in some part of bali. There might be other reasons not to eat pig, we just don’t know it yet due to our limited knowledge.
“this fallacy of one big happy family is just that a oft repeated myth with no basis in fact”
People like you and the west in general ofcourse will gain the most from a fragmentation of the muslim world, just as it was during the colonizations. But in reality you are just pipe dreaming. Notice that people are still demonstrating for Palestine in far away countries like Indonesia or south africa, where they might even never meet an arab. As we both know recently, Muslims are very vigilant in pushing out people/sects who they deemed as having deviant belief, so rest assured if there is no SKB against an islamic group, then they are still considered within the family. The weird names they called them self usually is nothing more than signifying school origins of their religious teachers. The religious teaching it self is the same. You might think Sufi is some kind of very very nice muslims who belief different things.. but in reality they are just as muslims as the guy next to you in the bus. They do not eat pork, do not drink alcohol, they dress modestly.
There are trends ofcourse, of western institutions trying to divide up muslims into camps and pit them against them self: “moderate” vs “extremists”, “sufi” vs “non sufi”, “indonesians” vs “arabs”, etc. But belief me, we know what you are doing, and it wont work. Even the prime minister of Turkey who has been lauded as an example of “moderate muslim” who lead a “moderate islamic government” dismissed this classification of muslim into good and bad camps.
We had our time in the past being one big successful nation, and every muslim down to kampung farmers know this and proud of it. Look at the UN and see what our 57 country voting block can do. We had our Islamic Development Bank where Islamic countries can get development funds without the usual western strings attached.
“What’s modest? A subjective thing and the women’s business not yours. (Feel free to tell us what you would demand in your brave new world tho)”
You are absolutely wrong. Modesty is never a personal choice, not even in western nations.
Try walking nude on the street of sydney, you will most likely ends up in jail. Modesty is something imposed by the society on individuals in that society, the level of which depends on which society we are talking about. You are trying to impose what is allowed or not allowed (think poligamy) in your society on ours.
one easy way to look at it, oigal:
there are so many types of churches in even just within Indonesia alone, and members of one type of church can not pray in the other. Differences between Batak Church and Toraja ones are so big, they can’t just pray in any church they find on the road.
While Indonesian muslims can still go to egypt, senegal, nigeria, bosnia, pakistan, afhanistan, USA, and can still pray together or even lead prayers, with locals there in any local mosque we find there.
The imam in the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, which is the city’s largest mosque located in 96th street Manhattan, and the Director of Jamaica Muslim Center in Queens, is actually an Indonesian. Can you now comprehend the one ness of the community? why are you focusing on petty little differences between fringe sects nobody ever hear about? look at the bigger picture.
yes, oigal, you equate fringe groups with the mainstream and compare them.
JIL is almost a non existent group compared to NU or Muhammadiyah, they are fringe group, with extreme opinions condemned by every mainstream national muslim organization in Indonesia. People like Ulil does not deserve to sit in the same table as the leaders of Muhammadiyah or NU or PKS as Ulil is just representing himself, while the other guys collectively represents more than 2/3 of Indonesia. Ulil opinion does not deserve to be compared side by side with mainstream muslim opinion, his is a fringe one. If you look at the big picture, the mainstream is fairly large big one stream, almost encompass 99% of all muslim. The rest consist of all those fringe sects.
“The rest consist of all those fringe sects.”
which, I might add, can be fairly ignored. Nobody ever invite people from JIL or other fringes to discuss islamic community matters (in a formal setting, like with the district government), they invite MUI or NU or Muhammadiyah or PKS.
Hi ET:
you were the first one who invoke something related to Islam in:
“7 people on a total of 240+ Mio. Impressive. How about the Bulan Sabit Merah/Red Crescent?”
I was just replying.
I really feel sorry for Japan, I wish this would never happen. Also, I wish it wasn’t a 8.9 or 8.4 on magnitude. 🙁
Also long as we are all living, we will help each other. 🙂
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The difference is very big on Muslims in Indonesia and in the Arab World.
The difference was greater for a few years ago. Now ther is revolt throughout the Arab world and they want a Muslim community that Indonesia was before. Now we can only whait and hope that Indonesia understands that they were about to be ripped in to the wrong road. it’s so sad when children and masses should have to suffer, when a few top dog do missteps. destroy children’s dreams and future. typical of religion and communists to do like that.
And Now invade Saudi, Bahrain. the Dictatorship Cattle mobilizes its terror