Teknopreneur Award is held again

Ikatan Alumni ITB(Alumni Ties of ITB), Indonesia Teknopreneur, and Tekno Ventura, has started to open registration Teknopreneur Award 2009 contest, which is a tribute to the best business actor in technology in the homeland(Indonesia).

Teknopreneur Award 2009 will be held on 23 November -10 December 2009, will compete technology innovation that companies engaged in technology, ranging from information technology, communications, biotechnology, energy, or manufacturing nanotechnology.

This award is divided into two categories namely the Uprising Company and Corporate. “Until now many companies that have signed up online, and 58 companies have submitted data of their company,” says COO Teknopreneur Indonesia Adie Marzuki on November 18, 2009.

The committees are involving some of the country personage to do the judging of this event. They are Amin Sambodo (ITB Alumni Association & Teknopreneur Indonesia), Anindya Bakrie (KADIN Indonesia), Budi Gunadi Sadikin (Bank Mandiri), Cahyana Ahmadjayadi (HR Research and Kominfo), Dwi Larso (SBM ITB), Ilham Habibie (The Habibie Center) , and Retno Santi Ruwyastuti (Metro).

According to Adie, the jury could not simply keep score based on technological innovation alone, but also from a business model that can be developed, whether judged capable of continuing or not.

From the participants who signed up, said Adie, 80 percent of them came from information technology companies. Through this event, it is expected that companies have the best technological innovation reconcilable with a company engaged in the field of venture capital financing.

The reason, says Adie, innovations actual companies and SMEs in Indonesia was no less qualified when pitted with foreign companies. “Unfortunately, their appreciation of the domestic is still lacking,” said Adie.

Later, Adie said, Tekno Ventura and several other companies, will see the innovation potential for capital funding support. And capital will not be limited to the firms Teknopreneur Award winners only, Adhie explained.

First Award Teknopreneur held last year, with the number of participants reached 80 companies. As the first award was won by Zahir accounting software company.

Registration Teknopreneur Award in 2009 still open until 22 November 2009. Further information can be obtained at http://award.teknopreneur.com.

source: vivanews.com

Indonesia Lead the Asia Pacific Economy Broadband Agreement

Indonesia is going to be a great developing country that really concern in development of Information Technology. This is proven in a big event like Asia Pasific Telecomunity that had been held in Indonesia. Indonesia has proven to the world that this developing country has a big willingness to improve Information Technology sector.

Indonesia be the host of 29th meeting of ministers of information and telecommunications technology in Asia Pacific in Nusa Dua, Bali, led agreements to strengthen regional cooperation in developing economy based on broadband technology.

Agreement is summarized in the Bali together declaration statement in the arena Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) in 2009 to encourage the establishment of regulatory cooperation, investment, and competition in the provision of broadband services.

“From the agreement of our meeting today will review the policies that are not pro-competition and pro-investment,” Chief Information Center Depkominfo, Gatot S Dewa Broto, said via a telephone line.

Indonesia itself in terms of broadband connectivity development plan to focus on the Palapa Ring and enhance the project of universal service obligation (USO) to broadband service obligation (BSO).

USO Fund will be developed to expand the use of broadband. USO project will not only basic telephony or village rang but the Smart Village that offers internet data access with broadband technology in the district.

“Palapa Ring will be a reference for the pilot project for other countries due to very high levels of difficulty,” Billy continued.

Billy explains member countries will also be encouraged to form a regulatory body that covers the main tasks and functions in the field of telecommunications regulation, IT, and broadcasting. Countries in the Asia Pacific region will also implement the licensing scheme is neutral and technology-based services using a convergence.

Gatot give special add on regional cooperation will be carried out studies and activities to share information in the use of radio waves, and planned to develop a network of APT Frequency Information System (AFIS).

sorce: detikinet.com

7,3 on the Richter Scale Earthquake shook Java

Wednesday, 2 September 2009 at 14:55 pm, the Earthquake really made lots of people in Java be panic. This earthquake also could be measured as a medium scale earthquake. The Epicentrum of this earthquake was in Tasikmalaya, West Java. Because of that, the most victims and damage raised up in Tasikmalaya. Based on data of BMG(Meteorology and Geophysics Departement), the epicenter located at coordinates 8.223 and 107.449 LS BS in depth of 30 kilometers below sea level, about 142 kilometers southwest of Tasikmalaya, West Java. This earthquake also caused a tsunami potential.

Although the epicenter was in Tasikmalaya, but the shock could be felt up to a few regions such as Jakarta, Bandung, Sukabumi, Yogyakarta and others. In Jakarta, some residents and employees who work in the buildings of skyscrapers in the capital city was panic. They poured out of the building to escape.

7.3 Richter scale earthquakebased on 142 kilometers southwest of Tasikmalaya destroyed hundreds of houses in 9 villages in the District Cigalontang, Tasikmalaya. As a result 400 people were forced to flee in an emergency tent.

The circumstance in the refugee camps was depressing enough. Hygiene facilities and means to sleep was less feasible. Most of the refugees was only just openning to tents and sleeping mats. Moreover, they still have to share with other refugees.

Some people even have started complaining about the disease. This can be seen from the many people who complained about health problems in the health service office. 30 people – including toddlers – as is handled in the local medical personnel.

Around 1358 buildings were damaged in the known Cigalontang district. 679 One of them is staying home while the other 45 is a place of worship and rest is another building.

Total of damaged buildings, the worst damage occurred in a mosque in District Cigalontang. The death toll has found 1 person, 5 people suffered severe injuries and 27 other people suffered minor injuries.

Here is the details :
Magnitude 7.0
Date-Time Wednesday, September 02, 2009 at 07:55:01 UTC
Wednesday, September 02, 2009 at 02:55:01 PM at epicenter
Location 7.778°S, 107.328°E
Depth 50 km (31.1 miles)
Region JAVA, INDONESIA
Distances 95 km (60 miles) SSW of Bandung, Java, Indonesia
110 km (70 miles) SSE of Sukabumi, Java, Indonesia
115 km (70 miles) WSW of Tasikmalaya, Java, Indonesia
195 km (120 miles) SSE of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 6.6 km (4.1 miles); depth +/- 12.3 km (7.6 miles)
Parameters NST=213, Nph=213, Dmin=352.7 km, Rmss=1.1 sec, Gp= 29°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=9
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID us2009lbat

Aceh declared ‘One Family One Computer’

Banda Aceh, Kominfo Newsroom – Aceh Vice Governor Muhammad Nazar declared “One Family One Computer” in the National IT Exhibition EXPO 2009 in Building Tgk. Chik Ditiro Banda Aceh, Thursday(7/5) evening.

Vice Governer, Muhammad Nazar in the opening of the exhibition is also said, who is the mastered in technology, he has been take control the world.

This is possible because the development of information technology has been the emergence of technology-based activities, such as E-Government, E-Education and the other, all of which are based electronics.

Therefore, all the families in Aceh should have one computer, because in life now and in the future, information technology and telecommunications sector is the most dominant.

Ready to”a kind of master this technology, then he will become a leader in the world,”he said.

At the Vice Governor also submit two units of Computers for free from Computer Association of Indonesia in Aceh Province, to the two families, the Hasballah family and Zakaria family.

Meanwhile the Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Computer Employers also said, needs a computer for every family in Aceh have already tried.

Tan hands in front of the science to be very high, so if you can not take the computer into Aceh akan dikuatirkan backward areas from other regions.

The exhibition was followed by various computer companies either have in Banda Aceh and that came from outside the city such as Singapore.

Present at the ceremony exhibition, Kapolda Aceh Aditya Warman, Chairman of the Computer Association of Indonesia, Amir faisal, Muspida, teachers, and students.

BPPT has made Meetings Resume Notes(tracter) software

Jakarta, Kominfo Newsroom – Badan Pengkajian dan Pengimplementasian Teeknologi (BPPT) or Indonesia Research and Implemantation of Technology Institution has developed an application to the meeting minutes automatically by utilizing a speech detector technology with made tracter.

With this “tracter”, each word is pronounced the meeting participants will be any posts is tracnscipted automatically, according runut hour, minute and second, so easily known when, and who speak what is realtime,’’said Resource Center Coordinator Open Source BPPT Oskar Riandi, M. Sc on the broadcast voice Iptek in Kemeneg RISTEK, Jakarta, Friday (5 / 6).

He is also the Information Technology practitioner that explains, perisalah is a software system as one of the speech a first language in the world that are used to conduct the meeting transcript automatically.

The tracter have some features (the ability to do the application) so that the participants display a simple greeting in mind when, who and what to speak in the meeting. Edit features on the fly allows notulis perform editing / correction when meeting transcript or by the system are berlansung so that they can increase the speed and accuracy of meeting minutes.

The main problem in making meeting monograph / notulen is the length of the transcript made by notulen. One way to be a regular problem solving as it is recording a meeting with the split into several parts and assigned to several notulis to be that transcript.

The problem will be more complex when there are meetings conducted simultaneously in several different rooms, and must soon be made that tract. It will impact on the decrease of speed and size of the tract of making the cost of which must be issued to pay notulen.

Problem that does not lose too serious is note man difficult to write a detail when, who and what to speak during the transcript. By using this tracter, will be able to reduce costs and facilitate notulis archive storage form of digital voice recording and text in the electronic database, he said.

Perisa it has 4 main functions, namely as a system speech language, as the system automatically meeting tracter, as sorter tool documents automatically, and as meeting records.

Tracter new research is starting in January 2009, and currently live prototype already completed development of what later.

65 districts in West Java may Grants Internet Access

Bandung, Kominfo Newsroom – Ministry of Information and Communication (Kominfo) in this year 2009 released Public Communication of Indonesia Program, as one of the efforts to make Indonesia as part of the Global Information Society in 2015.

Of them with access to the Internet community or the Community Access Point (CAP) in the rural areas, the condition is one of at least 50 percent of the Indonesian people have internet access, and because of that Depkominfo released Public Communication of Indonesia Program.

With that help ”the future internet will connected to a number of public facilities such as hospitals, health centers, village hall, so that the benefits of Internet access for its users will feel”, said Director General Applications Telematika Depkominfo Cahyana Ahmadjayadi received at West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan in Bandung , Friday (12 / 6) evening.

Attended the meeting which took place in the building is Pakuan Bandung, Sukabumi, among others, the Regent Sukmawijaya, Aceng Fikri Garut Regent, Vice Regent of Cianjur, and range Diskominfo West Java.

According to the plan, for this year’s CAP program will be in 3 provinces, namely West Java, Lampung and Banten. There are about 220 units in the third dot location in the province will be built facilities CAP.

Special West, Director General of promising applications Telematika Depkominfo 65 districts that immediately built on the CAP in 2009, the one point where the CAP consists of 10 units of computer facilities for internet access for the community.

In addition to the CAP are static, Depkominfo also helps to provide Mobile-CAP, which is the vehicle with information technology facilities including internet access.

This program, according to Cahyana, the form of grant assistance from the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) of U.S. $ 1,868,338.00 through the Ministry of Communication and Information.

This assistance aims to improve the strategic role of internet access in rural areas in order to speed up literation community in the field of information and communication technology. Agreement with the World Bank have been signed in Jakarta on 21 April 2009 ago.

Meanwhile, the West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan welcome and fully support the program because this program Depkominfo he thought that was very important, considering that the internet access will be able to help the community in obtaining information useful.

Internet, will provide much useful information that is needed residents, both for students, traders, teachers, boarding, and so forth. And that the CAP is expected to open during the isolation of this information manacle rural areas.

In addition, in order to build a healthy culture of information and responsibility, Depkominfo also released Internet Healthy ”program” that aims to filter information that violates the norms of law and morality.

Since the program was released, Depkominfo block has about 2 million sites that impact on the social and moral damage to society. I with the regents and mayors strongly support the policy to build the culture of the Internet Healthy,” said Governor Heryawan.

The Youngest Professor in USA is Indonesian

Nelson Tansu Professor achieve a degree in the field of Electrical Engineering in the United States before the age of 30 years. Because his last name similar to the name of Japan, many Japanese petinggi the mengajaknya “return to Japan” to Japan. But Prof. Tansu says if he is the holder of the passport berlogo green Garuda Pancasila. However, he would not return to Indonesia. Why?

Nelson Tansu, Ph.D.

Nelson Tansu was born in Medan, 20 October 1977. Graduates from high school Sutomo 1 Medan. Was a finalist team in the Physics Olympiad. Reaching Bachelor degree from Wisconsin University in the field of Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Physics (AMEP), which ditempuhnya only in 2 years 9 months, with the predicate and Summa cum laude.

Zahir, Indonesia Accounting Software

Indonesia in its developing of software can produce local software that is not worse than other international product. That is Zahir, an accounting software made by Indonesian which is leading in accounting software market in Indonesia. Zahir is accounting software that can create Information Accounting System. Many companies are going to make that kind of system definitely.

Zahir Software

Now, Zahir customer up to 8000 national company in Indonesia. Muhammad Ismail as director of PT Zahir International said, “Majority of software house companies in Indonesia is in low-middle economic company, but now, they can compete with other foreign software company”.

Meanwhile, Administration Coordinator of Penanggulangan Pelanggaran Hak Kekayaan Intelektual (PPHKI) -National Institute for Violation of Intellectual Property Rights said that Indonesian people should love and give appreciate to local product, because with useing local product, it can improve citizen wealth level. And then, the further implication are the developing of Indonesian software industry, many of job vacancy will be created, and welfare is coming.

Buya Hamka

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Buya Hamka

Ulama, Politisi dan Sastrawan Besar

Buya Hamka (1908-1981)
Buya Hamka seorang ulama, politisi dan sastrawan besar yang tersohor dan dihormati di kawasan Asia. HAMKA adalah akronim namanya Haji Abdul Malik bin Abdul Karim Amrullah. Lahir di kampung Molek, Maninjau, Sumatera Barat, 17 Februari 1908 dan meninggal di Jakarta 24 Juli 1981.
Dia diberikan sebutan Buya, yaitu panggilan buat orang Minangkabau yang berasal dari kata abi, abuya dalam bahasa Arab, yang berarti ayah kami, atau seseorang yang dihormati.
Ayahnya, Syeikh Abdul Karim bin Amrullah, disapa Haji Rasul, seorang pelopor Gerakan Islah(tajdid) di Minangkabau, sekembalinya dari Makkah 1906.

HAMKA mendapat pendidikan rendah di Sekolah Dasar Maninjau sehingga Darjah Dua. Ketika usia HAMKA mencapai 10 tahun, ayahnya telah mendirikan Sumatera Thawalib di Padang Panjang. Di situ HAMKA mempelajari agama dan mendalami bahasa Arab. HAMKA juga pernah mengikuti pengajaran agama di surau dan masjid yang diberikan ulama terkenal seperti Syeikh Ibrahim Musa, Syeikh Ahmad Rasyid, Sutan Mansur, R.M. Surjoparonto dan Ki Bagus Hadikusumo.

Hamka mula-mula bekerja sebagai guru agama pada tahun 1927 di Perkebunan Tebing Tinggi, Medan dan guru agama di Padang panjang pada tahun 1929. HAMKA kemudian dilantik sebagai dosen di Universitas Islam, Jakarta dan Universitas Muhammadiyah, Padangpanjang dari tahun 1957 hingga tahun 1958. Setelah itu, beliau diangkat menjadi rektor Perguruan Tinggi Islam, Jakarta dan Profesor Universitas Mustopo, Jakarta. Dari tahun 1951 hingga tahun 1960, beliau menjabat sebagai Pegawai Tinggi Agama oleh Menteri Agama Indonesia, tetapi meletakkan jabatan itu ketika Sukarno menyuruhnya memilih antara menjadi pegawai negeri atau bergiat dalam politik Majlis Syura Muslimin Indonesia (Masyumi).

Hamka adalah seorang otodidak dalam berbagai bidang ilmu pengetahuan seperti filsafat, sastra, sejarah, sosiologi dan politik, baik Islam maupun Barat. Dengan kemahiran bahasa Arabnya yang tinggi, beliau dapat menyelidiki karya ulama dan pujangga besar di Timur Tengah seperti Zaki Mubarak, Jurji Zaidan, Abbas al-Aqqad, Mustafa al-Manfaluti dan Hussain Haikal. Melalui bahasa Arab juga, beliau meneliti karya sarjana Perancis, Inggris dan Jerman seperti Albert Camus, William James, Sigmund Freud, Arnold Toynbee, Jean Paul Sartre, Karl Marx dan Pierre Loti. Hamka juga rajin membaca dan bertukar-tukar pikiran dengan tokoh-tokoh terkenal Jakarta seperti HOS Tjokroaminoto, Raden Mas Surjoparonoto, Haji Fachrudin, Ar Sutan Mansur dan Ki Bagus Hadikusumo sambil mengasah bakatnya sehingga menjadi seorang ahli pidato yang handal.

Hamka juga aktif dalam gerakan Islam melalui pertubuhan Muhammadiyah. Beliau mengikuti pendirian Muhammadiyah mulai tahun 1925 untuk melawan khurafat, bidaah, tarekat dan kebatinan sesat di Padang Panjang. Mulai tahun 1928, beliau mengetuai cabang Muhammadiyah di Padang Panjang. Pada tahun 1929, Hamka mendirikan pusat latihan pendakwah Muhammadiyah dan dua tahun kemudian beliau menjadi konsul Muhammadiyah di Makassar. Kemudian beliau terpilih menjadi ketua Majlis Pimpinan Muhammadiyah di Sumatera Barat oleh Konferensi Muhammadiyah, menggantikan S.Y. Sutan Mangkuto pada tahun 1946. Beliau menyusun kembali pembangunan dalam Kongres Muhammadiyah ke-31 di Yogyakarta pada tahun 1950.

Pada tahun 1953, Hamka dipilih sebagai penasihat pimpinan Pusat Muhammadiah. Pada 26 Juli 1977, Menteri Agama Indonesia, Prof. Dr. Mukti Ali melantik Hamka sebagai ketua umum Majlis Ulama Indonesia tetapi beliau kemudiannya meletak jawatan pada tahun 1981 karena nasihatnya tidak dipedulikan oleh pemerintah Indonesia.

Kegiatan politik HAMKA bermula pada tahun 1925 apabila beliau menjadi anggota parti politik Sarekat Islam. Pada tahun 1945, beliau membantu menentang kemaraan kembali penjajah Belanda ke Indonesia melalui pidato dan menyertai kegiatan gerila di dalam hutan di Medan. Pada tahun 1947, HAMKA dilantik sebagai ketua Barisan Pertahanan Nasional, Indonesia. Beliau menjadi anggota Konstituante Masyumi dan menjadi pemidato utama dalam Pilihan Raya Umum 1955. Masyumi kemudiannya diharamkan oleh pemerintah Indonesia pada tahun 1960. Dari tahun 1964 hingga tahun1966, HAMKA telah dipenjarakan oleh Presiden Sukarno kerana dituduh pro-Malaysia. Semasa dipenjarakanlah maka beliau mula menulis Tafsir al-Azhar yang merupakan karya ilmiah terbesarnya. Setelah keluar dari penjara, HAMKA dilantik sebagai ahli Badan Musyawarah Kebajikan Nasional, Indonesia, anggota Majlis Perjalanan Haji Indonesia dan anggota Lembaga Kebudayaan Nasional, Indonesia.

Selain aktif dalam soal keagamaan dan politik, HAMKA merupakan seorang wartawan, penulis, editor dan penerbit. Sejak tahun 1920-an lagi, HAMKA menjadi wartawan beberapa buah akhbar seperti Pelita Andalas, Seruan Islam, Bintang Islam dan Seruan Muhammadiyah. Pada tahun 1928, beliau menjadi editor majalah Kemajuan Masyarakat. Pada tahun 1932, beliau menjadi editor dan menerbitkan majalah al-Mahdi di Makasar. HAMKA juga pernah menjadi editor majalah Pedoman Masyarakat, Panji Masyarakat dan Gema Islam.

Hamka juga menghasilkan karya ilmiah Islam dan karya kreatif seperti novel dan cerpen. Karya ilmiah terbesarnya ialah Tafsir al-Azhar (5 jilid) dan antara novel-novelnya yang mendapat perhatian umum dan menjadi buku teks sastera di Malaysia dan Singapura termasuklah Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck, Di Bawah Lindungan Kaabah dan Merantau ke Deli.

Hamka pernah menerima beberapa anugerah pada peringkat nasional dan antarabangsa seperti anugerah kehormatan Doctor Honoris Causa, Universitas al-Azhar, 1958; Doktor Honoris Causa, Universitas Kebangsaan Malaysia, 1974; dan gelaran Datuk Indono dan Pengeran Wiroguno daripada pemerintah Indonesia.

Hamka telah pulang ke rahmatullah pada 24 Juli 1981, namun jasa dan pengaruhnya masih terasa sehingga kini dalam memartabatkan agama Islam. Beliau bukan sahaja diterima sebagai seorang tokoh ulama dan sasterawan di negara kelahirannya, malah jasanya di seluruh alam Nusantara, termasuk Malaysia dan Singapura, turut dihargai.

DATA
Nama: Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah
Panggilan:Buya Hamka
Lahir:Molek Maninjau, Sumatera Barat, 17 Februari 1908
Meninggal:Jakarta, 24 Juli 1981
Ayah:Syekh Abdul Karim bin Amrullah

source:
Muslim Indonesia