difference when discussing Muslim middle-class relations with religious matters. In this case, the political identity of middle class Muslims in Indonesia are absolutely not one entity. Along with the wave of political openness in 1998 and in post-Suharto, the middle class Muslims in Indonesia are also devided into various ideologies. Generally, it can be divided into two groups; The first is the middle class Muslims with moderate ideology, and the second is middle class Muslims who have a radical
caused their corruption. They were probably like that before. The power just exposed the part of their personality that they may have been trying to hide from the world. Power exposes true character. (Hutson “why power brings”) Example, Haji Mohammad Suharto, he was the second president of Indonesia as well as one of the most corrupt people. Indonesia lost a total of thirty-five billion dollars due to his corrupt practices, though his presidency wasn’t what caused his corruption. His unstable childhood
INTRODUCTION Palm oil industry is an industry that produces various things with palm oil, such as chocolate, chewing gum, lipstick, soap, biodiesel, etc. Palm oil can be beneficial and problematic towards us. What most people know the benefits of palm oil is that, it is good for your health; reduce risk of having heart diseases and it can increase our “good” cholesterol which is the HDL (High-Density Lipoprotein) cholesterol. High-density Lipoprotein means that it is preservative. Moreover, palm
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are”- Benjamin Franklin. Although many believe that the world is a minor step away from achieving equality for all, these individuals’ are strongly mistaken. Unfortunately, individuals’ often overlook various occurrences’ of inequitable treatment in their own lives; due to their modernized outlook on fairness, as well as what the term “being fair” truly stands for in society. Throughout my lifetime I have been
Bre-X: an infamous fraud in capital markets Background Bre-X Minerals Ltd. was a subsidiary of Bresea Resources Ltd. founded by David Walsh in 1989. Also as a major part of Bre-X in Canada, it was involved in a gold mining fraud causing a big hit in 1990s. Michael de Guzman was originally a geologist in Philippines. The initiator of evil is that he wanted to receive recognition of the job performance. So after consideration, he had a plan to make fortunes. Guzman cooked up a story to explain that
Genocide is the word derived from word “Geno – derived from the Greek word for race or tribe” and “Cide – derived from Latin word for killings”. Raphael Lemkin first introduced The word Genocide. Lemkin was a Polish – Jewish Lawyer. Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy the nation, nationals, racial or religious group, such as: A) Killing of members of group B) Forcing them in a manner to bring physical destruction C) Not allowing rather preventing births of child
worked towards independence for his country but his method was slightly different. Gandhi followed passive indifference, which was a method where people had to sacrifice themselves to make change. ( Doc. 3 ) One of Indonesia’s most prominent leaders, Suharto, also dedicated himself to uniting Indonesia under its own rule, without colonial inclusions. He was similar to these other countries in that he wanted Indonesia to be a self-determined country, and not under the rule of some other powerful nation
Do you ever wonder find yourself wondering how we lived in a world without the internet, smartphones, and televisions? This new world of technology that we live in today is do to the globalization “super story”, which enables us to put things in ways we, individually, can comprehend. Thomas Friedman, an American journalist and three time Pulitzer Prize winner, suggest in his article “Globalization: The Super Story”, that the world has shifted from the international Cold War system to the new international
We as a nation have come a long way from the times of the cold war era to the current time period. The cold war system was based on division and everyone focused on one aspect which was staying away from each other. In today’s era, we have the globalization system which is all about the balance of power and how each country and/or individual can use it to their benefit. The main perk to them is the world wide web. Due to the global market place, the balance of power between nations, investors and
Singapore’s current political system is a democratic society. On paper, it ticks all the boxes of what makes a democratic system. It gives citizens the right to vote for the person they feel will best represent the voice of the people and address their needs. It also ensures that people have the freedom of speech and expression as stated in Article 14 of the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore. However, things do not appear to be so straightforward, there definitely is more than meets the eye
Friedrich Nietzsche presents several ideas on the concept of power and what humans do with it in his work “On the Doctrine of the Feeling of Power.” Such ideas can also be found interspersed into the personalities of characters in Nancy Farmer’s book The House of the Scorpion. We conceive power as a person’s ability to have others do what he wants, and Nietzsche highlights this points in various parts of his text. Having power is not bad, but people do not always use theirs for good. Finally, aspects
Indonesia is a unique and diverse country in Southeast Asia and has a truly remarkable history, in which former Dutch imperialism stands out among other significant events. Imperialism is the practice of extending rule and power to regions outside of the country which holds it by creating colonies. In 1602, the Netherlands founded the East India Trading Company, abbreviated VOC for Dutch “Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie”, to trade spices in Southeast Asia, mainly Indonesia. (van Dam 1) As they
Islamophobia’s occurrence in any particular country has little do with the presence of Muslim; it is possible to be Islamophobic when there are virtually no Muslim around. This because the lack of Muslims is filled by the surplus of Islamophobic representations. This surplus of representations is now increasingly reliant on the internet. There are many studies reporting on Islamophobia on the internet, classifying the negative representations, the targeted acts of aggressive online behaviour (trolling)