Gubernur DKI Joko Widodo membantah alih fungsi rumah dinas milik camat dan lurah menyebabkan kerja mereka tak efektif.

JAKARTA, Saco-Indonesia.com —Gubernur DKI Joko Widodo membantah alih fungsi rumah dinas milik camat dan lurah menyebabkan kerja mereka tak efektif. Menurutnya, wacana program itu masih dalam kajian yang mendalam agar tepat sasaran.

"Ini masih ditentukan, mana yang produktif, mana yang enggak produktif. Mana yang dipakai, mana yang enggak dipakai," ujarnya di Gedung Balaikota, Jakarta, Selasa (4/6/2013) pagi.

Jika inventarisasi rumah dinas camat dan lurah tersebut telah rampung, lanjut Jokowi, pihaknya tinggal membuat Peraturan Gubernur untuk menaungi kebijakan tersebut. Namun, dia belum bisa memastikan kapan proses itu selesai.

"Totalnya belum ada. Pergubnya sambil berjalan. Sekarang kan baru inventarisasi, belum tahu jadi tahun depan atau tahun ini," ujarnya.

Sebelumnya diberitakan, Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta akan melakukan alih fungsi sejumlah rumah dinas camat dan lurah yang tak produktif. Rencananya, rumah dinas yang tak produktif tersebut akan dijadikan kawasan berjualan pedagang kaki lima atau ruang terbuka hijau.

Namun, beberapa anggota DPRD DKI menilai, kebijakan tersebut dapat menyebabkan kerja lurah dan camat menjadi tak efektif. Pasalnya, jarak antara rumah pribadi dan kantor ada yang tergolong jauh.

Editor :Liwon Maulana

Sumber:Kompas.com

Jika seorang muslim melakukan ihram haji atau umrah maka haram atasnya sebelas perkara sampai ia keluar dari ihramnya (tahallul)

Jika seorang muslim melakukan ihram haji atau umrah maka haram atasnya sebelas perkara sampai ia keluar dari ihramnya (tahallul):

    Mencabut rambut.
    Menggunting kuku.
    Memakai wangi-wangian.
    Membunuh binatang buruan (darat, adapun binatang laut maka dibolehkan).
    Mengenakan pakaian berjahit (bagi laki-laki dan tidak mengapa bagi wanita). Pakaian berjahit adalah pakaian yang membentuk badan, seperti baju, kaos, celana pendek, gamis, celana panjang, kaos tangan dan kaos kaki. Adapun sesuatu yang ada jahitannya tetapi tidak membentuk badan maka hal itu tidak membahayakan muhrim (orang yang sedang ihram), seperti sabuk, jam tangan, sepatu yang ada jahitan-nya dsb.
    Menutupi kepala atau wajah dengan sesuatu yang menempel (bagi laki-laki), seperti peci, penutup kepala, surban, topi dan yang sejenisnya. Tetapi dibolehkan berteduh di bawah payung, di dalam kemah dan mobil. Juga dibolehkan membawa barang di atas kepala jika tidak dimaksudkan untuk menutupinya.
    Memakai tutup muka dan kaos tangan (bagi wanita). Tetapi jika di depan laki-laki asing (bukan mahram) maka ia wajib menutupi wajah dan kedua tangannya, namun dengan selain tutup muka (cadar), misalnya dengan menurunkan kerudung ke wajah dan memasukkan tangan ke dalam baju kurung.
    Melangsungkan pernikahan.
    Bersetubuh.
    Bercumbu (bermesraan) dengan syahwat.
    Mengeluarkan mani dengan onani atau bercumbu.

Orang Yang Melakukan Hal-hal Yang Dilarang Memiliki Tiga Keadaan:

    Ia melakukannya tanpa udzur (alasan), maka ia berdosa dan wajib membayar fidyah (tebusan).
    Ia melakukannya untuk suatu keperluan, seperti memotong rambut karena sakit. Perbuatannya ter-sebut dibolehkan, tetapi ia wajib membayar fidyah.
    Ia melakukannya dalam keadaan tidur, lupa, tidak tahu atau dipaksa. Dalam keadaan seperti itu ia tidak berdosa dan tidak wajib membayar fidyah.

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WASHINGTON — During a training course on defending against knife attacks, a young Salt Lake City police officer asked a question: “How close can somebody get to me before I’m justified in using deadly force?”

Dennis Tueller, the instructor in that class more than three decades ago, decided to find out. In the fall of 1982, he performed a rudimentary series of tests and concluded that an armed attacker who bolted toward an officer could clear 21 feet in the time it took most officers to draw, aim and fire their weapon.

The next spring, Mr. Tueller published his findings in SWAT magazine and transformed police training in the United States. The “21-foot rule” became dogma. It has been taught in police academies around the country, accepted by courts and cited by officers to justify countless shootings, including recent episodes involving a homeless woodcarver in Seattle and a schizophrenic woman in San Francisco.

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Last summer at a writers’ workshop in Oregon, the novelists Anthony Doerr, Karen Russell and Elissa Schappell were chatting over cocktails when they realized they had all published work in the same magazine. It wasn’t one of the usual literary outlets, like Tin House, The Paris Review or The New Yorker. It was Rhapsody, an in-flight magazine for United Airlines.

It seemed like a weird coincidence. Then again, considering Rhapsody’s growing roster of A-list fiction writers, maybe not. Since its first issue hit plane cabins a year and a half ago, Rhapsody has published original works by literary stars like Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Moody, Amy Bloom, Emma Straub and Mr. Doerr, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction two weeks ago.

As airlines try to distinguish their high-end service with luxuries like private sleeping chambers, showers, butler service and meals from five-star chefs, United Airlines is offering a loftier, more cerebral amenity to its first-class and business-class passengers: elegant prose by prominent novelists. There are no airport maps or disheartening lists of in-flight meal and entertainment options in Rhapsody. Instead, the magazine has published ruminative first-person travel accounts, cultural dispatches and probing essays about flight by more than 30 literary fiction writers.

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An airline might seem like an odd literary patron. But as publishers and writers look for new ways to reach readers in a shaky retail climate, many have formed corporate alliances with transit companies, including American Airlines, JetBlue and Amtrak, that provide a captive audience.

Mark Krolick, United Airlines’ managing director of marketing and product development, said the quality of the writing in Rhapsody brings a patina of sophistication to its first-class service, along with other opulent touches like mood lighting, soft music and a branded scent.

“The high-end leisure or business-class traveler has higher expectations, even in the entertainment we provide,” he said.

Some of Rhapsody’s contributing writers say they were lured by the promise of free airfare and luxury accommodations provided by United, as well as exposure to an elite audience of some two million first-class and business-class travelers.

“It’s not your normal Park Slope Community Bookstore types who read Rhapsody,” Mr. Moody, author of the 1994 novel “The Ice Storm,” who wrote an introspective, philosophical piece about traveling to the Aran Islands of Ireland for Rhapsody, said in an email. “I’m not sure I myself am in that Rhapsody demographic, but I would like them to buy my books one day.”

In addition to offering travel perks, the magazine pays well and gives writers freedom, within reason, to choose their subject matter and write with style. Certain genres of flight stories are off limits, naturally: no plane crashes or woeful tales of lost luggage or rude flight attendants, and nothing too risqué.

“We’re not going to have someone write about joining the mile-high club,” said Jordan Heller, the editor in chief of Rhapsody. “Despite those restrictions, we’ve managed to come up with a lot of high-minded literary content.”

Guiding writers toward the right idea occasionally requires some gentle prodding. When Rhapsody’s executive editor asked Ms. Russell to contribute an essay about a memorable flight experience, she first pitched a story about the time she was chaperoning a group of teenagers on a trip to Europe, and their delayed plane sat at the airport in New York for several hours while other passengers got progressively drunker.

“He pointed out that disaster flights are not what people want to read about when they’re in transit, and very diplomatically suggested that maybe people want to read something that casts air travel in a more positive light,” said Ms. Russell, whose novel “Swamplandia!” was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.

She turned in a nostalgia-tinged essay about her first flight on a trip to Disney World when she was 6. “The Magic Kingdom was an anticlimax,” she wrote. “What ride could compare to that first flight?”

Ms. Oates also wrote about her first flight, in a tiny yellow propeller plane piloted by her father. The novelist Joyce Maynard told of the constant disappointment of never seeing her books in airport bookstores and the thrill of finally spotting a fellow plane passenger reading her novel “Labor Day.” Emily St. John Mandel, who was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction last year, wrote about agonizing over which books to bring on a long flight.

“There’s nobody that’s looked down their noses at us as an in-flight magazine,” said Sean Manning, the magazine’s executive editor. “As big as these people are in the literary world, there’s still this untapped audience for them of luxury travelers.”

United is one of a handful of companies showcasing work by literary writers as a way to elevate their brands and engage customers. Chipotle has printed original work from writers like Toni Morrison, Jeffrey Eugenides and Barbara Kingsolver on its disposable cups and paper bags. The eyeglass company Warby Parker hosts parties for authors and sells books from 14 independent publishers in its stores.

JetBlue offers around 40 e-books from HarperCollins and Penguin Random House on its free wireless network, allowing passengers to read free samples and buy and download books. JetBlue will start offering 11 digital titles from Simon & Schuster soon. Amtrak recently forged an alliance with Penguin Random House to provide free digital samples from 28 popular titles, which passengers can buy and download over Amtrak’s admittedly spotty wireless service.

Amtrak is becoming an incubator for literary talent in its own right. Last year, it started a residency program, offering writers a free long-distance train trip and complimentary food. More than 16,000 writers applied and 24 made the cut.

Like Amtrak, Rhapsody has found that writers are eager to get onboard. On a rainy spring afternoon, Rhapsody’s editorial staff sat around a conference table discussing the June issue, which will feature an essay by the novelist Hannah Pittard and an unpublished short story by the late Elmore Leonard.

“Do you have that photo of Elmore Leonard? Can I see it?” Mr. Heller, the editor in chief, asked Rhapsody’s design director, Christos Hannides. Mr. Hannides slid it across the table and noted that they also had a photograph of cowboy spurs. “It’s very simple; it won’t take away from the literature,” he said.

Rhapsody’s office, an open space with exposed pipes and a vaulted brick ceiling, sits in Dumbo at the epicenter of literary Brooklyn, in the same converted tea warehouse as the literary journal N+1 and the digital publisher Atavist. Two of the magazine’s seven staff members hold graduate degrees in creative writing. Mr. Manning, the executive editor, has published a memoir and edited five literary anthologies.

Mr. Manning said Rhapsody was conceived from the start as a place for literary novelists to write with voice and style, and nobody had been put off that their work would live in plane cabins and airport lounges.

Still, some contributors say they wish the magazine were more widely circulated.

“I would love it if I could read it,” said Ms. Schappell, a Brooklyn-based novelist who wrote a feature story for Rhapsody’s inaugural issue. “But I never fly first class.”