Menteri Perekonomian Hatta Rajasa mengatakan, pengumuman kenaikan harga bahan bakar minyak (BBM) bersubsidi selambat-lambatnya tanggal 17 Juni 2013.

JAKARTA, Saco- Indonesia.com — Menteri Perekonomian Hatta Rajasa mengatakan, pengumuman kenaikan harga bahan bakar minyak (BBM) bersubsidi selambat-lambatnya tanggal 17 Juni 2013. Hal itu sesuai dengan selesainya rapat paripurna soal Rancangan Anggaran dan Pendapatan Belanja Negara Perubahan (RAPBNP 2013).

"Kenaikan harga BBM subsidi akan dilaksanakan selambat- lambatnya tanggal 17 Juni 2013 sesuai berakhirnya pembahasan APBNP 2013," kata Hatta Rajasa di Kantor Presiden seperti dikutip dari laman Sekretariat Kabinet di Jakarta, Selasa (4/6/2013).

Lebih lanjut, Hatta mengatakan bahwa pembahasan APBNP 2013 bukan hanya menjadi kepentingan pemerintah, melainkan juga negara. Dengan demikian, semua pihak terikat dengan jadwal ketat yang sudah ditetapkan DPR.

"Begitu selesai di DPR, pemerintah akan langsung mengumumkan penyesuaian harga BBM beserta kompensasinya," kata Hatta. Penyesuaian harga BMM bersubsidi, kata Hatta, harus segera dilakukan secepatnya, dan yang penting masyarakat harus dibantu. Hatta mengingatkan kepada para spekulan untuk tidak main-main dengan harga dan tidak mencoba melakukan penimbunan BBM.

"Hentikan spekulasi seperti itu karena akan berhadapan dengan hukum. Jangan berspekulasi," katanya. Dalam rangka menjaga stabilitas harga kebutuhan pokok menjelang puasa, Hatta mengatakan bahwa pemerintah akan melakukan intervensi demi mencukupi ketersediaan pangan nasional.

"Kita bersyukur bulan Mei terjadi deflasi dan berharap pada bulan Juni ini inflasi tidak terlalu tinggi. Caranya dengan menjaga pasokan bahan pangan sehingga cukup," tambahnya.

Untuk mengantisipasi inflasi yang tinggi, pihaknya sudah meminta jajarannya untuk secepatnya melakukan intervensi untuk menjaga harga pangan, terutama daging.

"Kasihan nanti menjelang puasa daging harganya tinggi. Rakyat kita kan ingin makan daging," ungkapnya.

Sementara itu, Menko Kesra Agung Laksono mengatakan, penyesuaian harga BBM bersubsidi harus dilakukan secepatnya karena volume BBM subsidi terus meningkat. Jika berlarut-larut, maka akan ada risikonya.

"Saat ini kuota BBM bersubsidi telah melampaui batas, yakni mencapai 48 juta kiloliter dari sebelumnya 46 juta kiloliter," ujar Agung. Terkait adanya partai anggota-anggota koalisi di kabinet yang menolak kesepakatan bersama menyangkut harga BBM serta kompensasinya, Agung mengingatkan, sebagai anggota koalisi yang tergabung dalam sekretariat gabungan, sebaiknya kesepakatan politik apa pun yang sudah disepakati dengan cara demokratis dan ikhlas seharusnya tinggal dilaksanakan. Terlebih lagi, jika hal itu menyangkut kepentingan rakyat banyak.

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saco-indonesia.com, Hendak main ke rumah sang kakak di Jalan Teluk Cendrawasih gang 13 RW 3/Rt 5, Malang, Jawa Timur, Wilda yang berusia (28) tahun telah kehilangan sepeda motornya jenis Vario CBS 125cc persis di depan halaman rumah.

Peristiwa pencurian ini diperkirakan telah berlangsung pada Rabu (1/2) malam sekitar pukul 20.00 WIB.

Wilda yang tidak menyangka akan kehilangan sepeda motor yang sehari-hari dipakai untuk berangkat dan pulang bekerja. Apalagi, jauh sebelumnya dia juga sudah sering memarkirkan kendaraan roda dua miliknya tersebut di depan halaman rumah sang kakak.

"Saya juga gak nyangka mas karena sebelum-sebelumnya saya parkir di depan halaman rumah gak hilang dan saya juga tidak merasa ada yang ikutin saya," ujar Wilda, kamis (2/1).

Sekitar pukul 19.00 WIB malam , Wilda tiba di rumah sang kakak dan mengunci rapat motor Vario Techno merah yang bernomor polisi N 6348 BH. Kemudian dia telah bergegas masuk ke dalam rumah, hanya berselang satu setengah jam, motor kesayangannya sudah hilang.

"Sekitar pukul 20.00 WIB malam , saya ditanyain sama kakak motor parkir di mana. Saya bilang parkir di depan rumah, tempat biasa parkir, kemudian saya coba check melihat dari depan pintu tapi udah gak ada, saya tegasin lagi lihat keluar ternyata benar-benar udah hilang dan kondisi sepi gak ada siapa-siapa," jelasnya.

Namun dirinya juga mengakui, bahwa di daerah tempat rumah sang kakak rawan dan sering dimasuki oleh maling. "Memang sih mas daerah sini itu rawan maling, banyak orang pendatang dan ngekos di sini, dan yang saya tahu orang-orang gembong hipnotis juga suka bawa orang masuk ke dalam gang sekitar sini," tandasnya.

Wilda sendiri telah melaporkan kejadian tersebut ke Polsek Blimbing, Malang, Jawa Timur dan dirinya juga mengaku shock atas kejadian tersebut serta telah berusaha untuk mencari sepeda motornya.

"Saya juga dapat informasi dari sekitar orang rumah, mereka juga bilang biasanya setiap motor yang hasil curian dititipin dulu ke parkiran di seputar terminal dan kebetulan jarak rumah kakak saya ke terminal berdekatan. Saya coba cari kesana ada 8 sampai 9 tempat parkir penitipan motor, tapi tetap gak ketemu," keluhnya.

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saco-indonesia.com, Hendak main ke rumah sang kakak di Jalan Teluk Cendrawasih gang 13 RW 3/Rt 5, Malang, Jawa Timur, Wilda yang berusia (28) tahun telah kehilangan sepeda motornya jenis Vario CBS 125cc persis di depan halaman rumah.

Peristiwa pencurian ini diperkirakan telah berlangsung pada Rabu (1/2) malam sekitar pukul 20.00 WIB.

Wilda yang tidak menyangka akan kehilangan sepeda motor yang sehari-hari dipakai untuk berangkat dan pulang bekerja. Apalagi, jauh sebelumnya dia juga sudah sering memarkirkan kendaraan roda dua miliknya tersebut di depan halaman rumah sang kakak.

"Saya juga gak nyangka mas karena sebelum-sebelumnya saya parkir di depan halaman rumah gak hilang dan saya juga tidak merasa ada yang ikutin saya," ujar Wilda, kamis (2/1).

Sekitar pukul 19.00 WIB malam , Wilda tiba di rumah sang kakak dan mengunci rapat motor Vario Techno merah yang bernomor polisi N 6348 BH. Kemudian dia telah bergegas masuk ke dalam rumah, hanya berselang satu setengah jam, motor kesayangannya sudah hilang.

"Sekitar pukul 20.00 WIB malam , saya ditanyain sama kakak motor parkir di mana. Saya bilang parkir di depan rumah, tempat biasa parkir, kemudian saya coba check melihat dari depan pintu tapi udah gak ada, saya tegasin lagi lihat keluar ternyata benar-benar udah hilang dan kondisi sepi gak ada siapa-siapa," jelasnya.

Namun dirinya juga mengakui, bahwa di daerah tempat rumah sang kakak rawan dan sering dimasuki oleh maling. "Memang sih mas daerah sini itu rawan maling, banyak orang pendatang dan ngekos di sini, dan yang saya tahu orang-orang gembong hipnotis juga suka bawa orang masuk ke dalam gang sekitar sini," tandasnya.

Wilda sendiri telah melaporkan kejadian tersebut ke Polsek Blimbing, Malang, Jawa Timur dan dirinya juga mengaku shock atas kejadian tersebut serta telah berusaha untuk mencari sepeda motornya.

"Saya juga dapat informasi dari sekitar orang rumah, mereka juga bilang biasanya setiap motor yang hasil curian dititipin dulu ke parkiran di seputar terminal dan kebetulan jarak rumah kakak saya ke terminal berdekatan. Saya coba cari kesana ada 8 sampai 9 tempat parkir penitipan motor, tapi tetap gak ketemu," keluhnya.

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As he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President Obama on Monday found himself thinking about a young man he had just met named Malachi.

A few minutes before, in a closed-door round-table discussion at Lehman College in the Bronx, Mr. Obama had asked a group of black and Hispanic students from disadvantaged backgrounds what could be done to help them reach their goals. Several talked about counseling and guidance programs.

“Malachi, he just talked about — we should talk about love,” Mr. Obama told a crowd afterward, drifting away from his prepared remarks. “Because Malachi and I shared the fact that our dad wasn’t around and that sometimes we wondered why he wasn’t around and what had happened. But really, that’s what this comes down to is: Do we love these kids?”

Many presidents have governed during times of racial tension, but Mr. Obama is the first to see in the mirror a face that looks like those on the other side of history’s ledger. While his first term was consumed with the economy, war and health care, his second keeps coming back to the societal divide that was not bridged by his election. A president who eschewed focusing on race now seems to have found his voice again as he thinks about how to use his remaining time in office and beyond.

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In the aftermath of racially charged unrest in places like Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and New York, Mr. Obama came to the Bronx on Monday for the announcement of a new nonprofit organization that is being spun off from his White House initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. Staked by more than $80 million in commitments from corporations and other donors, the new group, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, will in effect provide the nucleus for Mr. Obama’s post-presidency, which will begin in January 2017.

“This will remain a mission for me and for Michelle not just for the rest of my presidency but for the rest of my life,” Mr. Obama said. “And the reason is simple,” he added. Referring to some of the youths he had just met, he said: “We see ourselves in these young men. I grew up without a dad. I grew up lost sometimes and adrift, not having a sense of a clear path. The only difference between me and a lot of other young men in this neighborhood and all across the country is that I grew up in an environment that was a little more forgiving.”

Organizers said the new alliance already had financial pledges from companies like American Express, Deloitte, Discovery Communications and News Corporation. The money will be used to help companies address obstacles facing young black and Hispanic men, provide grants to programs for disadvantaged youths, and help communities aid their populations.

Joe Echevarria, a former chief executive of Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, will lead the alliance, and among those on its leadership team or advisory group are executives at PepsiCo, News Corporation, Sprint, BET and Prudential Group Insurance; former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey; former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; the music star John Legend; the retired athletes Alonzo Mourning, Jerome Bettis and Shaquille O’Neal; and the mayors of Indianapolis, Sacramento and Philadelphia.

The alliance, while nominally independent of the White House, may face some of the same questions confronting former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she begins another presidential campaign. Some of those donating to the alliance may have interests in government action, and skeptics may wonder whether they are trying to curry favor with the president by contributing.

“The Obama administration will have no role in deciding how donations are screened and what criteria they’ll set at the alliance for donor policies, because it’s an entirely separate entity,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One en route to New York. But he added, “I’m confident that the members of the board are well aware of the president’s commitment to transparency.”

The alliance was in the works before the disturbances last week after the death of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered fatal injuries while in police custody in Baltimore, but it reflected the evolution of Mr. Obama’s presidency. For him, in a way, it is coming back to issues that animated him as a young community organizer and politician. It was his own struggle with race and identity, captured in his youthful memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” that stood him apart from other presidential aspirants.

But that was a side of him that he kept largely to himself through the first years of his presidency while he focused on other priorities like turning the economy around, expanding government-subsidized health care and avoiding electoral land mines en route to re-election.

After securing a second term, Mr. Obama appeared more emboldened. Just a month after his 2013 inauguration, he talked passionately about opportunity and race with a group of teenage boys in Chicago, a moment aides point to as perhaps the first time he had spoken about these issues in such a personal, powerful way as president. A few months later, he publicly lamented the death of Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager, saying that “could have been me 35 years ago.”

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That case, along with public ruptures of anger over police shootings in Ferguson and elsewhere, have pushed the issue of race and law enforcement onto the public agenda. Aides said they imagined that with his presidency in its final stages, Mr. Obama might be thinking more about what comes next and causes he can advance as a private citizen.

That is not to say that his public discussion of these issues has been universally welcomed. Some conservatives said he had made matters worse by seeming in their view to blame police officers in some of the disputed cases.

“President Obama, when he was elected, could have been a unifying leader,” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican candidate for president, said at a forum last week. “He has made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions.”

On the other side of the ideological spectrum, some liberal African-American activists have complained that Mr. Obama has not done enough to help downtrodden communities. While he is speaking out more, these critics argue, he has hardly used the power of the presidency to make the sort of radical change they say is necessary.

The line Mr. Obama has tried to straddle has been a serrated one. He condemns police brutality as he defends most officers as honorable. He condemns “criminals and thugs” who looted in Baltimore while expressing empathy with those trapped in a cycle of poverty and hopelessness.

In the Bronx on Monday, Mr. Obama bemoaned the death of Brian Moore, a plainclothes New York police officer who had died earlier in the day after being shot in the head Saturday on a Queens street. Most police officers are “good and honest and fair and care deeply about their communities,” even as they put their lives on the line, Mr. Obama said.

“Which is why in addressing the issues in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York, the point I made was that if we’re just looking at policing, we’re looking at it too narrowly,” he added. “If we ask the police to simply contain and control problems that we ourselves have been unwilling to invest and solve, that’s not fair to the communities, it’s not fair to the police.”

Moreover, if society writes off some people, he said, “that’s not the kind of country I want to live in; that’s not what America is about.”

His message to young men like Malachi Hernandez, who attends Boston Latin Academy in Massachusetts, is not to give up.

“I want you to know you matter,” he said. “You matter to us.”

Over the last five years or so, it seemed there was little that Dean G. Skelos, the majority leader of the New York Senate, would not do for his son.

He pressed a powerful real estate executive to provide commissions to his son, a 32-year-old title insurance salesman, according to a federal criminal complaint. He helped get him a job at an environmental company and employed his influence to help the company get government work. He used his office to push natural gas drilling regulations that would have increased his son’s commissions.

He even tried to direct part of a $5.4 billion state budget windfall to fund government contracts that the company was seeking. And when the company was close to securing a storm-water contract from Nassau County, the senator, through an intermediary, pressured the company to pay his son more — or risk having the senator subvert the bid.

The criminal complaint, unsealed on Monday, lays out corruption charges against Senator Skelos and his son, Adam B. Skelos, the latest scandal to seize Albany, and potentially alter its power structure.

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The repeated and diverse efforts by Senator Skelos, a Long Island Republican, to use what prosecutors said was his political influence to find work, or at least income, for his son could send both men to federal prison. If they are convicted of all six charges against them, they face up to 20 years in prison for each of four of the six counts and up to 10 years for the remaining two.

Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, of Long Island, who serves as chairman of the Republican conference, emerged from a closed-door meeting Monday night to say that conference members agreed that Mr. Skelos should be benefited the “presumption of innocence,” and would stay in his leadership role.

“The leader has indicated he would like to remain as leader,” said Mr. LaValle, “and he has the support of the conference.” The case against Mr. Skelos and his son grew out of a broader inquiry into political corruption by the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, that has already changed the face of the state capital. It is based in part, according to the six-count complaint, on conversations secretly recorded by one of two cooperating witnesses, and wiretaps on the cellphones of the senator and his son. Those recordings revealed that both men were concerned about electronic surveillance, and illustrated the son’s unsuccessful efforts to thwart it.

Adam Skelos took to using a “burner” phone, the complaint says, and told his father he wanted them to speak through a FaceTime video call in an apparent effort to avoid detection. They also used coded language at times.

At one point, Adam Skelos was recorded telling a Senate staff member of his frustration in not being able to speak openly to his father on the phone, noting that he could not “just send smoke signals or a little pigeon” carrying a message.

The 43-page complaint, sworn out by Paul M. Takla, a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, outlines a five-year scheme to “monetize” the senator’s official position; it also lays bare the extent to which a father sought to use his position to help his son.

The charges accuse the two men of extorting payments through a real estate developer, Glenwood Management, based on Long Island, and the environmental company, AbTech Industries, in Scottsdale, Ariz., with the expectation that the money paid to Adam Skelos — nearly $220,000 in total — would influence his father’s actions.

Glenwood, one of the state’s most prolific campaign donors, had ties to AbTech through investments in the environmental firm’s parent company by Glenwood’s founding family and a senior executive.

The accusations in the complaint portray Senator Skelos as a man who, when it came to his son, was not shy about twisting arms, even in situations that might give other arm-twisters pause.

Seeking to help his son, Senator Skelos turned to the executive at Glenwood, which develops rental apartments in New York City and has much at stake when it comes to real estate legislation in Albany. The senator urged him to direct business to his son, who sold title insurance.

After much prodding, the executive, Charles C. Dorego, engineered a $20,000 payment to Adam Skelos from a title insurance company even though he did no work for the money. But far more lucrative was a consultant position that Mr. Dorego arranged for Adam Skelos at AbTech, which seeks government contracts to treat storm water. (Mr. Dorego is not identified by name in the complaint, but referred to only as CW-1, for Cooperating Witness 1.)

Senator Skelos appeared to take an active interest in his son’s new line of work. Adam Skelos sent him several drafts of his consulting agreement with AbTech, the complaint says, as well as the final deal that was struck.

“Mazel tov,” his father replied.

Senator Skelos sent relevant news articles to his son, including one about a sewage leak near Albany. When AbTech wanted to seek government contracts after Hurricane Sandy, the senator got on a conference call with his son and an AbTech executive, Bjornulf White, and offered advice. (Like Mr. Dorego, Mr. White is not named in the complaint, but referred to as CW-2.)

The assistance paid off: With the senator’s help, AbTech secured a contract worth up to $12 million from Nassau County, a big break for a struggling small business.

But the money was slow to materialize. The senator expressed impatience with county officials.

Adam Skelos, in a phone call with Mr. White in late December, suggested that his father would seek to punish the county. “I tell you this, the state is not going to do a [expletive] thing for the county,” he said.

Three days later, Senator Skelos pressed his case with the Nassau County executive, Edward P. Mangano, a fellow Republican. “Somebody feels like they’re just getting jerked around the last two years,” the senator said, referring to his son in what the complaint described as “coded language.”

The next day, the senator pursued the matter, as he and Mr. Mangano attended a wake for a slain New York City police officer. Senator Skelos then reassured his son, who called him while he was still at the wake. “All claims that are in will be taken care of,” the senator said.

AbTech’s fortunes appeared to weigh on his son. At one point in January, Adam Skelos told his father that if the company did not succeed, he would “lose the ability to pay for things.”

Making matters worse, in recent months, Senator Skelos and his son appeared to grow wary about who was watching them. In addition to making calls on the burner phone, Adam Skelos said he used the FaceTime video calling “because that doesn’t show up on the phone bill,” as he told Mr. White.

In late February, Adam Skelos arranged a pair of meetings between Mr. White and state senators; AbTech needed to win state legislation that would allow its contract to move beyond its initial stages. But Senator Skelos deemed the plan too risky and caused one of the meetings to be canceled.

In another recorded call, Adam Skelos, promising to be “very, very vague” on the phone, urged his father to allow the meeting. The senator offered a warning. “Right now we are in dangerous times, Adam,” he told him.

A month later, in another phone call that was recorded by the authorities, Adam Skelos complained that his father could not give him “real advice” about AbTech while the two men were speaking over the telephone.

“You can’t talk normally,” he told his father, “because it’s like [expletive] Preet Bharara is listening to every [expletive] phone call. It’s just [expletive] frustrating.”

“It is,” his father agreed.