saco-indonesia.com, Sudah bukan zamannya lagi jika absensi harus dilakukan dengan cara manual atau ketok cap pada kartu absen

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Sudah bukan zamannya lagi jika absensi harus dilakukan dengan cara manual atau ketok cap pada kartu absen. Cara ini juga sangat mudah dimanifulasi oleh para karyawan dan terkadang dapat menyulitkan pencatatan absensi untuk pada bagian administrasi atau kepegawaian. Untuk itu, anda juga dapat menggunakan ID Card sebagai alat untuk absensi.

Fungsi ganda selain sebagai kartu tanda pengenal karyawan di perusahaan anda, ini akan sangat mempermudah berbagai hal yang telah berkaitan dengan absensi, mulai dari reward dan punishment karena keterlambatan, izin, atau untuk proses penggajian dan bonus karyawan secara berkala.

Saat ini juga sudah banyak ID Card yang telah mempergunakan system magnetic dan barcode yang tidak hanya dapat difungsikan sebagai kartu identitas saja, melainkan juga untuk absensi. Selain itu, kartu ini jga bisa dijadikan untuk kunci ruangan ruangan tertentu yang hanya bisa diakses oleh divisi divisi tertentu saja. Ini tentunya telah membuat perusahaan anda lebih aman dalam penyimpanan data data perusahaan.

Magnetic   Barcode

Keamanan juga bisa menjadi sebuah keunggulan yang dapat anda tawarkan dalam menjual barang atau jasa yang dihasilkan oleh perusahaan anda. Semakin banyak klien yang percaya pada perusahaan anda, maka semakin banyak pula keuntungan yang akan didapatkan oleh perusahaan anda. Semakin banyak keuntungan yang didapat, makan karyawan karyawan anda dapat tersejahterakan.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

saco-indonesia.com, Penyanyi Siti Liza telah kembali menggarap video klip singlenya yang berjudul Jangan Oh Jangan yang diciptak

saco-indonesia.com, Penyanyi Siti Liza telah kembali menggarap video klip singlenya yang berjudul Jangan Oh Jangan yang diciptakan oleh Arnold. Berbeda dengan video klip sebelumnya, Siti kini tampil beda. Dari segi fashion, Siti kini juga lebih terlihat ceria dengan pakaian yang penuh warna.

"Memang lebih beda untuk video klip ini. Kalau yang sebelumnya Aku lebih sering pakai dress panjang satu warna, sekarang lebih colourful dan ceria, dengan pakaian yang warna warni. Akan ada dancer-dancernya juga," ungkap Siti saat ditemui disela syuting video klip di Rumah Joe, Kebagusan Dalam 1, Jakarta Selatan, Senin (3/3) kemarin.

Tidak hanya soal pakaian saja , Siti juga tampil lebih fresh dengan warna rambut yang lebih cerah dari sebelumnya."Memang ada perubahan juga sih ya, dulu rambut cokelat tua sekarang lebih terang," kata Siti.

Untuk video klipnya sendiri, Siti telah menjelaskan bahwa konsepnya juga tidak jauh dari cerita lagu Jangan Oh Jangan itu sendiri. Siti juga menggandeng komedian, Bedu.

"Konsep semua dari sutradara ada tambahan dikit sih biar aku lebih masuk di cerita video klipnya. Ceritanya aku ga mau lagi sama pasangan aku. Aku milih pelawak, Bedu, biar lebih seru," terangnya.

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HOBART, Tasmania — Few places seem out of reach for China’s leader, Xi Jinping, who has traveled from European capitals to obscure Pacific and Caribbean islands in pursuit of his nation’s strategic interests.

So perhaps it was not surprising when he turned up last fall in this city on the edge of the Southern Ocean to put down a long-distance marker in another faraway region, Antarctica, 2,000 miles south of this Australian port.

Standing on the deck of an icebreaker that ferries Chinese scientists from this last stop before the frozen continent, Mr. Xi pledged that China would continue to expand in one of the few places on earth that remain unexploited by humans.

He signed a five-year accord with the Australian government that allows Chinese vessels and, in the future, aircraft to resupply for fuel and food before heading south. That will help secure easier access to a region that is believed to have vast oil and mineral resources; huge quantities of high-protein sea life; and for times of possible future dire need, fresh water contained in icebergs.

It was not until 1985, about seven decades after Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen raced to the South Pole, that a team representing Beijing hoisted the Chinese flag over the nation’s first Antarctic research base, the Great Wall Station on King George Island.

But now China seems determined to catch up. As it has bolstered spending on Antarctic research, and as the early explorers, especially the United States and Australia, confront stagnant budgets, there is growing concern about its intentions.

China’s operations on the continent — it opened its fourth research station last year, chose a site for a fifth, and is investing in a second icebreaker and new ice-capable planes and helicopters — are already the fastest growing of the 52 signatories to the Antarctic Treaty. That gentlemen’s agreement reached in 1959 bans military activity on the continent and aims to preserve it as one of the world’s last wildernesses; a related pact prohibits mining.

But Mr. Xi’s visit was another sign that China is positioning itself to take advantage of the continent’s resource potential when the treaty expires in 2048 — or in the event that it is ripped up before, Chinese and Australian experts say.

“So far, our research is natural-science based, but we know there is more and more concern about resource security,” said Yang Huigen, director general of the Polar Research Institute of China, who accompanied Mr. Xi last November on his visit to Hobart and stood with him on the icebreaker, Xue Long, or Snow Dragon.

With that in mind, the polar institute recently opened a new division devoted to the study of resources, law, geopolitics and governance in Antarctica and the Arctic, Mr. Yang said.

Australia, a strategic ally of the United States that has strong economic relations with China, is watching China’s buildup in the Antarctic with a mix of gratitude — China’s presence offers support for Australia’s Antarctic science program, which is short of cash — and wariness.

“We should have no illusions about the deeper agenda — one that has not even been agreed to by Chinese scientists but is driven by Xi, and most likely his successors,” said Peter Jennings, executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and a former senior official in the Australian Department of Defense.

“This is part of a broader pattern of a mercantilist approach all around the world,” Mr. Jennings added. “A big driver of Chinese policy is to secure long-term energy supply and food supply.”

That approach was evident last month when a large Chinese agriculture enterprise announced an expansion of its fishing operations around Antarctica to catch more krill — small, protein-rich crustaceans that are abundant in Antarctic waters.

“The Antarctic is a treasure house for all human beings, and China should go there and share,” Liu Shenli, the chairman of the China National Agricultural Development Group, told China Daily, a state-owned newspaper. China would aim to fish up to two million tons of krill a year, he said, a substantial increase from what it currently harvests.

Because sovereignty over Antarctica is unclear, nations have sought to strengthen their claims over the ice-covered land by building research bases and naming geographic features. China’s fifth station will put it within reach of the six American facilities, and ahead of Australia’s three.

Chinese mappers have also given Chinese names to more than 300 sites, compared with the thousands of locations on the continent with English names.

In the unspoken competition for Antarctica’s future, scientific achievement can also translate into influence. Chinese scientists are driving to be the first to drill and recover an ice core containing tiny air bubbles that provide a record of climate change stretching as far back as 1.5 million years. It is an expensive and delicate effort at which others, including the European Union and Australia, have failed.

In a breakthrough a decade ago, European scientists extracted an ice core nearly two miles long that revealed 800,000 years of climate history. But finding an ice core going back further would allow scientists to examine a change in the earth’s climate cycles believed to have occurred 900,000 to 1.2 million years ago.

China is betting it has found the best location to drill, at an area called Dome A, or Dome Argus, the highest point on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Though it is considered one of the coldest places on the planet, with temperatures of 130 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, a Chinese expedition explored the area in 2005 and established a research station in 2009.

“The international community has drilled in lots of places, but no luck so far,” said Xiao Cunde, a member of the first party to reach the site and the deputy director of the Institute for Climate Change at the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. “We think at Dome A we will have a straight shot at the one-million-year ice core.”

Mr. Xiao said China had already begun drilling and hoped to find what scientists are looking for in four to five years.

To support its Antarctic aspirations, China is building a sophisticated $300 million icebreaker that is expected to be ready in a few years, said Xia Limin, deputy director of the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration in Beijing. It has also bought a high-tech fixed-wing aircraft, outfitted in the United States, for taking sensitive scientific soundings from the ice.

China has chosen the site for its fifth research station at Inexpressible Island, named by a group of British explorers who were stranded at the desolate site in 1912 and survived the winter by excavating a small ice cave.

Mr. Xia said the inhospitable spot was ideal because China did not have a presence in that part of Antarctica, and because the rocky site did not have much snow, making it relatively cheap to build there.

Anne-Marie Brady, a professor of political science at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the author of a soon-to-be-released book, “China as a Polar Great Power,” said Chinese scientists also believed they had a good chance of finding mineral and energy resources near the site.

“China is playing a long game in Antarctica and keeping other states guessing about its true intentions and interests are part of its poker hand,” she said. But she noted that China’s interest in finding minerals was presented “loud and clear to domestic audiences” as the main reason it was investing in Antarctica.

Because commercial drilling is banned, estimates of energy and mineral resources in Antarctica rely on remote sensing data and comparisons with similar geological environments elsewhere, said Millard F. Coffin, executive director of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart.

But the difficulty of extraction in such severe conditions and uncertainty about future commodity prices make it unlikely that China or any country would defy the ban on mining anytime soon.

Tourism, however, is already booming. Travelers from China are still a relatively small contingent in the Antarctic compared with the more than 13,000 Americans who visited in 2013, and as yet there are no licensed Chinese tour operators.

But that is about to change, said Anthony Bergin, deputy director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. “I understand very soon there will be Chinese tourists on Chinese vessels with all-Chinese crew in the Antarctic,” he said.