Ahmad D Bashori
Lecturer at International Relation FEIS, UIN Jakarta

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Sophisticated diplomacy
Great influence in Middle East
King Abdullah leadership
Palestine conflict
National unity government
Fatah-Hamas conflict
January 2007, Damascus Meeting
Saudi initiative
The failure of negotiation facilitate by Egypt and Suriah
Public doubt about the success of Mecca meeting
Aljazirah, Aljazeera polling
preparatory committee
Fatah leader, Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen)
Hamas leader, Khaled Mesha’al
Al-Iltizam (commitment), al-ihtiram (respect)
Palestinian rights
Government cabnet
Domestic Affairs Ministry
Foreign Affairs Ministry
Palestine Authority
Palestine Liberation Organization, Mahmoud Abbas
Prime Minister of Palestine, Ismail Haniyah
Special thing of Saudi Arabia
FATAH and HAMAS
Good relationship with Riyadh
Non-intervention objective policy
European Union economic pressures
Political observer
America’s allies
2006 general election
HAMAS democratic government
Internal Palestinian conflict
Destroying Al Aqsha Mosque

Original source: Success Story of Mecca Reconcilliation 

Anas Urbaningrum
Head of Grand Board of HMI 1997-1999

HMI Congress, 1997
Intellectualism tradition
Nurcholishme trap
Nurcholish Madjid (Cak Nur) just as inspirator
Cak Nur response
Based on freedom of thought
Educated community
Grand scholar
HMI Chapter Ciputat
Islamic higher education institution
UIN Syarif Hidayatullah
Azyumardi Azra, Komaruddin Hidayat, Fachry Ali, Bahtiar Effendy
Saiful Mujani, Ihsan Ali Fauzi, M Wahyuni Nafis
Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Malang, Makassar, Bogor, Medan, Semarang
Center of excellence
New direction of intellectualism
Political struggle
Academic intellectuals
HMI is not anti-politics
Organization skill
Communication skill
Indepedency
Political recruitment
The needs of scholar in all field of life

Original source: Turning The HMI (Islamic Student Assembly) Intellectual Turbine On 

Sunday 05 February 2007

Purwanti Sri Widyastuti
Lecturer at Civil Engineering Department Muhammadiyah University of Solo
Alumnus Water, Engineering, and Development Centre, Loughborough University, England

Jakarta’s flood, February 2007
Routinity of flood disaster, regular schedule
Complex problem
Paralyzed businees and economy activities
Disturbance to telecommunication infrastructure
Disease dissemination
Clean water disturbance
Broken off electric service
suffer a financial loss
billion rupiahs to recover the flood impact
flood as nature phenomenon
Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM, 2006)
Interaction result among nature phenomenon with environment, social process, and economy process
Illegal logging
Water absorbant area
River line area
Puncak, Cipanas, Bogor, West Java
Multidisciplinary approach
Drainage
Dam
Meterology, hidrology
Critical land rehabilitation
Integrated effort to solving flood problem
Planology aspect
Integrated programme

Original source: Together We Maintain Flood Disaster 

Azyumardi Azra

Wahabism, radicalism, Puritanism
Wahabism in Indonesia
Bangkok, mid January 2007
Southern Thailand Muslim
Natana J. Delong-Bas, Wahabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad, Oxford/Cairo: Oxford University Press & American University Press, 2005
Post-9/11 World Trade Center bombing
Islamic threat
Inspired resource for Usamah bin Ladin and Al Qaidah
Untolerance sect in Islam
Syaikh Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab (1702/3-1791/2)
Ibn Taymiyyah (1263-1328)
Elite in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Bush Senior, Bush Junior
House of Saud and House of Bush
Wahabism in Islamic world
Unpopular Wahabism in south-east asia
Syaikh Muhammad Abduh, Syaikh Muhammad Rasyid Ridha
Indonesian Islam characteristics
Anathema
There is no urgent to worry about Wahabism in Indonesia

Original source: Wahabist Islam 

Friday 16 February 2007

Mudhofir Abdullah
Lecturer at State Islamic Religion Higher School (STAIN) Surakarta

Flood in Jakarta
Response after the flood disaster
Socio-economy-politics-culture resources in facing the disaster
The definition of politics of disaster
Suprastructure level
Main concept of mitigation
Pioneering and leadership
Responsibility of government
Prohibition of big number of victims
The role of religion
Environmental damage
Human morality and human behavior
Mary Evelyn Tucker, ecology expert and environmental activist, Buckel University, Pennsylvania
The need of ethics and values
Indonesia as the religious nation
Islam, Christian, Catholic, Hind, Budha
Potential power
Disaster is not God punishment

Original source: Religion and Politics of Disaster 

Dedi J Chandra
Media Team of Department of Agriculture

Flood in Jakarta
Business activity
The flood impacts
Flood in West Java, Kalimantan, southern Sumatera
Pessimism of rice harvest
Andalan Naional Farmer Contact (KTNA) assign the need of rice import
Logistic Business Council (Bulog)
Rice for the poor (Raskin)
Market operation (OP)
Great harvest
Fail harvest
The rise of rice price
Rice import is like opium for the Indonesian bureaucracy
Panick government
Tuesday meeting (13 February 2007), Vice President Jusuf Kalla decide to importing rice again as many as 500 thousand ton
Don’t take any risk
Minister of Agriculture tend to reject the rice import policy
Contra-productive steps taken by government
Arya Bima, Member of Parliament Commission IV of People Representative
Food plant
Wet rice field
Indonesian rice surplus in number
Excellent  rice seed subsidy programme
Rice hybrid plantation
New rice field
Post-crop losses
Research results of R & D Council of Department of Agriculture
Improvement of seeds
Improvement of fertilization ways
Improvement of land management technique
Increasing producticity
Better way to crop
Social function of BULOG
Price disparity
Profit from rice import for BULOG and importer
Interest logics
Import from Vietnam
Profit margin 675 billion dollar rupiahs for 500 thousand ton rice import
1.3 trillion rupiahs for 1 million ton
Inflation rate
Statistic of poor number

Original source: Rice Import (Politics) “Opium” 

Sunday 22 January 2007

Wahyudin Munawir
Member of Parliament, Commission VII (7) People Representatives Chamber (DPR) Republic of Indonesia (RI), Fraction of Justice and Prosperous Party (PKS)

1970’s
Urea fertilizer factory in Aceh,
PT Pupuk Iskandar Muda
PT Asean Aceh Fertilizer
The popular factory
The history of glory
PT ExxonMobil didn’t want to supply gas
Unpolite ExxonMobile action
Best quality fertilizer in the world
Gas exploration in Natuna island, D-Alpha block
production sharing contract (PSC) 1986
20 years of contract
ExxonMobil preference to explorate Qatar gas well
Gas price in global market
46 trilion cubic feet (tcf), the largest in Asia even in the world
Geology expert, Andang Bachtiar
Assuming the cheapest gas price: 3 US dollar per cubic feet
The economy value of D-Alpha block Natuna is 138 billion US dollar
Indonesia just get 0 percent from the PSC
Corruption in New Order (Orde Baru)
Government’s responsibility in ExxonMobil case
Stopping the contract continuation
Constitution of Republic of Indonesia UUD 45 Chapter 33 Verse 2
No doubt to terminate the ExxonMobil contract
Unfair contract

Original source : Do Government Still Beleving ExxonMobil?

Surwandono
Lecturer at Faculty of Social Science and Political Science Muhammadiyyah University of Yogyakarta (UMY)
Doctorate Student of Political Science at Gadjah Mada University

Poso conflivt in last two weeks
Speial Regiment Command  (Densus 88)
29 peoples as People Searching List (DPO)
Civil emergency law
ABC theory from John Galtung
Three determinstic factors
Attitude from conflicted ethnic and from security institution
Conflict excalation
Peace political adagium, Von Clausewitz, who want to peace, must fight in battle
Logical thinking of war
Power balances in army
Contradiction/rumor
Public trust
Government bureaucracy
Human security paradigm
human security by security approach
Primordialistic religion
Change by nature, slowly, and cultural
New respect to values of peace
Not for the bullet
Primordial conflict

Original source: Poso Conflict and Public Trust 

Wednesday 24 January 2007

Bagus Hendraning Kobarsyih
Staff at Foreign Affairs Minister, Republic of Indonesia

Quoting Republika, 18 January 2007,
Ahmed Bahar statement, Deputy Chairman Palestine Parliament
Hasan Wirajuda’s statement
Three months after, plan to facilitate meeting between FATAH and HAMAS
Indonesia diplomacy to reconsilliate FATAH and HAMAS
Hope to create unity and solidity among Palestinian
Kwartet, Rusia, European Union, United Nations, United State of America
Proactive action
Active-free foreign affair politics
So long to low profile, normative, verbalism and legal-formal
HAMAS, the terrorist organization due to United Nations list
Positive signal
Relationship between Indonesia and FATAH, Yasser Arafat
Indonesia, the majority muslim country
Public relations media
Country that care to Palestine issues
Reformation and democratization
High attention from Indonesian Muslim to Palestine issues
Back then in Indonesian freedom histoy
The support from middle east countries, Iraq, Egypt, Suriah, India, Myanmar
Optimalize the performance of diplomacy in order to support the world peace
Palestineian steps to negotiate with Isarel
Sahred points between FATAH and HAMAS
Indonesia strategic role
Palestine internal conflict
Palestine external concflict
Indonesia task force on Palestine issues
Indonesia bargaining chip
Respected region in Middle East countries’s view
Ramification of Indonesian diplomacy
The pluralistic culture
The great natural resources
Indonesia active role in Palestine-Israel conflict
Indonesian status as the majority muslim country
More useful and meaningful

Original source: The Meaning of Invitation for Palestine 

Tuesday 23 January 2007

Amiruddin Sujadi
Student at Magister Programme, State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta

Response to Said Aqil Siradj writing, “Relation Between religion and State” in Republika daily
Portrait the early picture of Madina state building
City state, Islamic state
The success of Islamic civilization building
Rasulullaah SAW, Muhammad, shahabah, prophet, companon
Islam, bless to universe, rahmatan lil ‘alamiin
Inappropriate analysis about mystification of chilapate/chalipate  (khilafah)
Ibn Taimiyyah position
Framework of thought
Politics in Islam
Ibn Taimiyyah’s book As Siyasah As Syar’iyyah
The whole political concept in Islam
Sunni muslim scholar
Al Mawardi (450 H), Madzhab Shafi’i
Al Farra (458 H), Madzhab Hanbali
Imam Al Haramain Al Juwaini (478 H)
Sulthan Al ‘Ulama’, Izzuddin ibn ‘Abd As Salam (660 H)
Caliphate system
Obligatory to build Islamic caliphate system
Ahlussunnah, Shi’ite, Khawarij (except An Najadat sect), Mu’tazilah (except Al Asham sect and Al Fuwathi sect)
Imam, imamat
Al Qalqasyandi (1964: I: 2), mainstream Islam
Al-Ghazali (w 505 H), Al-Iqtishad fi Al-I’tiqad
Mystifying Islamic state?
More transparent
Transparency problem in Islamic state
Creativity and expression of people
Unclear picture about caliphate government
Caliphate, Not democracy, not theocracy
Caliphate not like a king, reincarnation of God
Accountability problem
Will Durrant, great appreciate to Islamic caliphate
China, Indonesia, India, Persia, Syam, Arabic Peninsula, Egypt, Marocco, Spain
Political background
Islamic unity
Will Durant, The History of Civilization, vol XIII
The episode of glory of Islam in history
Understand the history
Don’t denial the fact

Original source: Islam and The Mystification of Chilapate