Bekasi, Saco-Indonesia.com - Mantan Ketua MK, Akil Mochtar, dijadwalkan akan bersaksi dalam kasus dugaan suap pengurusan sengketa Pilkada Gunung Mas, Kalimantan Tengah di Pengadilan Tindak Pidana Korupsi Jakarta, Kamis (30/1/2014).

Bekasi, Saco-Indonesia.com - Mantan Ketua MK, Akil Mochtar, dijadwalkan akan bersaksi dalam kasus dugaan suap pengurusan sengketa Pilkada Gunung Mas, Kalimantan Tengah di Pengadilan Tindak Pidana Korupsi Jakarta, Kamis (30/1/2014). Akil akan bersaksi untuk tiga terdakwa sekaligus yaitu politisi Partai Golkar Chairun Nisa, Bupati terpilih Gunung Mas Hambit Bintih, dan pengusaha Cornelis Nalau Antun.

"Pak Akil akan bersaksi jam 09.00," ujar pengacara Akil Tamsil Sjoekoer di Gedung KPK, Jakarta, Rabu (29/1/2014).

Selain Akil, Jaksa Penuntut Umum Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi akan menghadirkan saksi Ketua DPD Golkar Palangkaraya, Rusliansyah.

Dalam persidangan sebelumnya, Nisa mengaku didesak oleh Rusli untuk mempertemukan Hambit dengan Akil.

Seperti diberitakan, Nisa dan Cornelis tertangkap tangan oleh KPK ketika hendak memberikan uang pada Akil yang saat itu menjabat Ketua MK. Akil ikut diciduk KPK. Uang itu bertujuan agar permohonan keberatan hasil Pilkada Gunung Mas periode 2013-2018 ditolak. Dengan demikian, keputusan KPU Kabupaten Gunung Mas tentang pasangan calon terpilih pada Pilkada tersebut dinyatakan sah, yaitu dimenangkan pasangan nomor urut 2, Hambit dan Arton S Dohong.

Dalam dakwaan, Hambit meminta Nisa untuk menghubungkannya dengan pihak MK. Hambit dan Akil akhirnya bertemu. Kemudian, melalui Nisa, Akil menyatakan bersedia membantu Hambit dengan kesepakatan pemberian uang sebesar Rp 3 miliar dalam bentuk dollar AS. Nisa kemudian bertemu dengan Hambit dan menerima Rp 75 juta. Setelah itu, Nisa menemui Cornelis yang sudah menyiapkan dana Rp 3 miliar untuk Akil. Uang yang akan diserahkan ke Akil disimpan dalam empat amplop cokelat, yaitu masing-masing 107.500 dollar Singapura, 107.500 dollar Singapura, 22.000 dollar AS, 79.000 dollar Singapura.

Sumber :kompas.com

Editor : Maulana Lee

saco-indonesia.com, Nasib nahas telah menimpa seorang bocah Sekolah Dasar Negeri (SDN) Tugu Utara 22, Muhammad Badrul Tamam yang

saco-indonesia.com, Nasib nahas telah menimpa seorang bocah Sekolah Dasar Negeri (SDN) Tugu Utara 22, Muhammad Badrul Tamam yang berusia (7) tahun . Bocah kelas 2 SD tersebut tewas setelah terlindas truk kontainer yang bernomor polisi B 9899 UEH di Jalan Kratmat Jaya, Koja, Jakarta Utara, Selasa pagi.

Akibat dari kecelakaan yang telah terjadi sekitar pukul 09.45 WIB, telah mengakibatkan kepala Badrul pecah terlindas kontainer. Sang Ibu yang mengerem secara mendadak sepeda motor Honda Spacy biru B 3535 UAX untuk dapat mengindari lubang sedalam 20 sentimeter.

Salah satu guru Badrul, Yasin juga mengatakan, dirinya pertama kali mendengar kabar tersebut dari seorang guru lainnya di SDN 23 yang tidak jauh dari lokasi.

"Kebetulan ada guru olahraga SDN 23 yang pas mau berangkat ke sekolah ketika di Jalan Kramat Jaya dia lihat ada keramaian pas dilihat ternyata ada kecelakaan anak sekolah pakai baju sekolah SDN 22 tapi dia gak ngenalin wajahnya, kemudian dia langsung ke sekolah dan nemuin pimpinan kemudian saya langsung ke Rumah Sakit Pelabuhan Jakarta Utara," jelasnya, Selasa (28/1).

Selain itu, Yasin juga menuturkan, memang setiap hari sang ibu selalu mengantar dan menjemput anaknya ke sekolah, namun baru kali ini sang anak terlambat sekolah padahal jam masuk sekolah pukul 09.00 WIB.

"Baru mau berangkat sekolah, jam masuk sekolah itu pukul 09.00 WIB, dia memang setiap hari dianter Ibunya ke sekolah. Harusnya memang sudah masuk tapi baru kali ini telat," tandasnya.

Saat ini sang ibu telah mendapatkan perawatan intensif di Rumah Sakit Pelabuhan, Jakarta Utara karena telah mengalami luka-luka dan shock berat atas kejadian tersebut. Sedangkan jasad sang anak dibawa langsung ke RSCM untuk identifikasi lebih lanjut.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

WASHINGTON — The last three men to win the Republican nomination have been the prosperous son of a president (George W. Bush), a senator who could not recall how many homes his family owned (John McCain of Arizona; it was seven) and a private equity executive worth an estimated $200 million (Mitt Romney).

The candidates hoping to be the party’s nominee in 2016 are trying to create a very different set of associations. On Sunday, Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, joined the presidential field.

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida praises his parents, a bartender and a Kmart stock clerk, as he urges audiences not to forget “the workers in our hotel kitchens, the landscaping crews in our neighborhoods, the late-night janitorial staff that clean our offices.”

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a preacher’s son, posts on Twitter about his ham-and-cheese sandwiches and boasts of his coupon-clipping frugality. His $1 Kohl’s sweater has become a campaign celebrity in its own right.

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky laments the existence of “two Americas,” borrowing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s phrase to describe economically and racially troubled communities like Ferguson, Mo., and Detroit.

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“Some say, ‘But Democrats care more about the poor,’ ” Mr. Paul likes to say. “If that’s true, why is black unemployment still twice white unemployment? Why has household income declined by $3,500 over the past six years?”

We are in the midst of the Empathy Primary — the rhetorical battleground shaping the Republican presidential field of 2016.

Harmed by the perception that they favor the wealthy at the expense of middle-of-the-road Americans, the party’s contenders are each trying their hardest to get across what the elder George Bush once inelegantly told recession-battered voters in 1992: “Message: I care.”

Their ability to do so — less bluntly, more sincerely — could prove decisive in an election year when power, privilege and family connections will loom large for both parties.

Questions of understanding and compassion cost Republicans in the last election. Mr. Romney, who memorably dismissed the “47 percent” of Americans as freeloaders, lost to President Obama by 63 percentage points among voters who cast their ballots for the candidate who “cares about people like me,” according to exit polls.

And a Pew poll from February showed that people still believe Republicans are indifferent to working Americans: 54 percent said the Republican Party does not care about the middle class.

That taint of callousness explains why Senator Ted Cruz of Texas declared last week that Republicans “are and should be the party of the 47 percent” — and why another son of a president, Jeb Bush, has made economic opportunity the centerpiece of his message.

With his pedigree and considerable wealth — since he left the Florida governor’s office almost a decade ago he has earned millions of dollars sitting on corporate boards and advising banks — Mr. Bush probably has the most complicated task making the argument to voters that he understands their concerns.

On a visit last week to Puerto Rico, Mr. Bush sounded every bit the populist, railing against “elites” who have stifled economic growth and innovation. In the kind of economy he envisions leading, he said: “We wouldn’t have the middle being squeezed. People in poverty would have a chance to rise up. And the social strains that exist — because the haves and have-nots is the big debate in our country today — would subside.”

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Republicans’ emphasis on poorer and working-class Americans now represents a shift from the party’s longstanding focus on business owners and “job creators” as the drivers of economic opportunity.

This is intentional, Republican operatives said.

In the last presidential election, Republicans rushed to defend business owners against what they saw as hostility by Democrats to successful, wealthy entrepreneurs.

“Part of what you had was a reaction to the Democrats’ dehumanization of business owners: ‘Oh, you think you started your plumbing company? No you didn’t,’ ” said Grover Norquist, the conservative activist and president of Americans for Tax Reform.

But now, Mr. Norquist said, Republicans should move past that. “Focus on the people in the room who know someone who couldn’t get a job, or a promotion, or a raise because taxes are too high or regulations eat up companies’ time,” he said. “The rich guy can take care of himself.”

Democrats argue that the public will ultimately see through such an approach because Republican positions like opposing a minimum-wage increase and giving private banks a larger role in student loans would hurt working Americans.

“If Republican candidates are just repeating the same tired policies, I’m not sure that smiling while saying it is going to be enough,” said Guy Cecil, a Democratic strategist who is joining a “super PAC” working on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Republicans have already attacked Mrs. Clinton over the wealth and power she and her husband have accumulated, caricaturing her as an out-of-touch multimillionaire who earns hundreds of thousands of dollars per speech and has not driven a car since 1996.

Mr. Walker hit this theme recently on Fox News, pointing to Mrs. Clinton’s lucrative book deals and her multiple residences. “This is not someone who is connected with everyday Americans,” he said. His own net worth, according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is less than a half-million dollars; Mr. Walker also owes tens of thousands of dollars on his credit cards.

But showing off a cheap sweater or boasting of a bootstraps family background not only helps draw a contrast with Mrs. Clinton’s latter-day affluence, it is also an implicit argument against Mr. Bush.

Mr. Walker, who featured a 1998 Saturn with more than 100,000 miles on the odometer in a 2010 campaign ad during his first run for governor, likes to talk about flipping burgers at McDonald’s as a young person. His mother, he has said, grew up on a farm with no indoor plumbing until she was in high school.

Mr. Rubio, among the least wealthy members of the Senate, with an estimated net worth of around a half-million dollars, uses his working-class upbringing as evidence of the “exceptionalism” of America, “where even the son of a bartender and a maid can have the same dreams and the same future as those who come from power and privilege.”

Mr. Cruz alludes to his family’s dysfunction — his parents, he says, were heavy drinkers — and recounts his father’s tale of fleeing Cuba with $100 sewn into his underwear.

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey notes that his father paid his way through college working nights at an ice cream plant.

But sometimes the attempts at projecting authenticity can seem forced. Mr. Christie recently found himself on the defensive after telling a New Hampshire audience, “I don’t consider myself a wealthy man.” Tax returns showed that he and his wife, a longtime Wall Street executive, earned nearly $700,000 in 2013.

The story of success against the odds is a political classic, even if it is one the Republican Party has not been able to tell for a long time. Ronald Reagan liked to say that while he had not been born on the wrong side of the tracks, he could always hear the whistle. Richard Nixon was fond of reminding voters how he was born in a house his father had built.

“Probably the idea that is most attractive to an average voter, and an idea that both Republicans and Democrats try to craft into their messages, is this idea that you can rise from nothing,” said Charles C. W. Cooke, a writer for National Review.

There is a certain delight Republicans take in turning that message to their advantage now.

“That’s what Obama did with Hillary,” Mr. Cooke said. “He acknowledged it openly: ‘This is ridiculous. Look at me, this one-term senator with dark skin and all of America’s unsolved racial problems, running against the wife of the last Democratic president.”

From sea to shining sea, or at least from one side of the Hudson to the other, politicians you have barely heard of are being accused of wrongdoing. There were so many court proceedings involving public officials on Monday that it was hard to keep up.

In Newark, two underlings of Gov. Chris Christie were arraigned on charges that they were in on the truly deranged plot to block traffic leading onto the George Washington Bridge.

Ten miles away, in Lower Manhattan, Dean G. Skelos, the leader of the New York State Senate, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on accusations of far more conventional political larceny, involving a job with a sewer company for the son and commissions on title insurance and bond work.

The younger man managed to receive a 150 percent pay increase from the sewer company even though, as he said on tape, he “literally knew nothing about water or, you know, any of that stuff,” according to a criminal complaint the United States attorney’s office filed.

The success of Adam Skelos, 32, was attributed by prosecutors to his father’s influence as the leader of the Senate and as a potentate among state Republicans. The indictment can also be read as one of those unfailingly sad tales of a father who cannot stop indulging a grown son. The senator himself is not alleged to have profited from the schemes, except by being relieved of the burden of underwriting Adam.

The bridge traffic caper is its own species of crazy; what distinguishes the charges against the two Skeloses is the apparent absence of a survival instinct. It is one thing not to know anything about water or that stuff. More remarkable, if true, is the fact that the sewer machinations continued even after the former New York Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, was charged in January with taking bribes disguised as fees.

It was by then common gossip in political and news media circles that Senator Skelos, a Republican, the counterpart in the Senate to Mr. Silver, a Democrat, in the Assembly, could be next in line for the criminal dock. “Stay tuned,” the United States attorney, Preet Bharara said, leaving not much to the imagination.

Even though the cat had been unmistakably belled, Skelos father and son continued to talk about how to advance the interests of the sewer company, though the son did begin to use a burner cellphone, the kind people pay for in cash, with no traceable contracts.

That was indeed prudent, as prosecutors had been wiretapping the cellphones of both men. But it would seem that the burner was of limited value, because by then the prosecutors had managed to secure the help of a business executive who agreed to record calls with the Skeloses. It would further seem that the business executive was more attentive to the perils of pending investigations than the politician.

Through the end of the New York State budget negotiations in March, the hopes of the younger Skelos rested on his father’s ability to devise legislation that would benefit the sewer company. That did not pan out. But Senator Skelos did boast that he had haggled with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, in a successful effort to raise a $150 million allocation for Long Island to $550 million, for what the budget called “transformative economic development projects.” It included money for the kind of work done by the sewer company.

The lawyer for Adam Skelos said he was not guilty and would win in court. Senator Skelos issued a ringing declaration that he was unequivocally innocent.

THIS was also the approach taken in New Jersey by Bill Baroni, a man of great presence and eloquence who stopped outside the federal courthouse to note that he had taken risks as a Republican by bucking his party to support paid family leave, medical marijuana and marriage equality. “I would never risk my career, my job, my reputation for something like this,” Mr. Baroni said. “I am an innocent man.”

The lawyer for his co-defendant, Bridget Anne Kelly, the former deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, a Republican, said that she would strongly rebut the charges.

Perhaps they had nothing to do with the lane closings. But neither Mr. Baroni nor Ms. Kelly addressed the question of why they did not return repeated calls from the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., begging them to stop the traffic tie-ups, over three days.

That silence was a low moment. But perhaps New York hit bottom faster. Senator Skelos, the prosecutors charged, arranged to meet Long Island politicians at the wake of Wenjian Liu, a New York City police officer shot dead in December, to press for payments to the company employing his son.

Sometimes it seems as though for some people, the only thing to be ashamed of is shame itself.