SUPER BODY YANG DICINTAI

SUPER BODY YANG DICINTAI

Negara Indonesia adalah negara terkorup nomor 5 didunia yang dinyatakan oleh KPK. Dan hasil Riset lembaga The Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) masih menempatkan Indonesia di urutan ke 2, disusul Thailand, sebagai negara terkorup di Asia. Riset tersebut dilakukan pada Maret 2009 terhadap 1.700 responden pelaku bisnis di 14 negara Asia, ditambah Australia dan Amerika Serikat. Hal ini merupakan suatu prestasi yang “membanggakan” bagi bangsa ini. Inilah yang menjadi tantangan bagi pemerintah dan generasi muda yang akan datang dan terkhusus KPK. Kompas menyebutkan, jika masalah Korupsi di Indonesia terselesaikan maka 90% masalah di Indonesiapun selesai.
Indonesia memiliki berbagai lembaga hukum seperti Kejaksaan dan kepolisian negara yang selama ini dipercaya untuk menuntaskan kasus-kasus korupsi, tidak menunjukkan hasil yang memuaskan. Itulah yang melatarbelakangi terbentuknya Komisi Pemberantasan Tindak Pidana Korupsi (KPTPK) yang dikenal dengan KPK. Yang juga didukung dengan adanya rezim reformasi yang melahirkan Tap MPR No.VIII/MPR/2001, tentang pemberantasan KKN, yang dilanjutkan dengan lahirnya UU No.30/2002. KPK sendiri berdiri sejak 29 Desember 2003.
Berdasarkan visi yang dicanangkan, KPK mempunyai harapan yang cukup mulia, yakni mewujudkan Indonesia bebas dari korupsi. Melakukan pemberantasan korupsi secara professional, intensif, dan berkesinambungan untuk mewujudkan masyarakat yang adil, makmur, sejahtera.
Adapun tugas, wewenang, dan tanggung jawab KPK yaitu Koordinasi dan supervisi dengan instansi yang berwenang melakukan pemberantasan tindak pidana korupsi, melakukan pencegahan, penyelidikan dan penyidikan serta penuntutan terhadap tindak pidana korupsi, melakukan monitor terhadap penyelenggaraan pemerintahan Negara. Yang terpenting bagi KPK adalah membentuk mental antikorupsi kepada masyarakat.
Selama tahun 2008, ketua KPK Antasari Azhar menyatakan telah melakukan penyelidikan sebanyak 70 kasus dan perkara yang sudah inkracht sebanyak 7 perkara. Tidak hanya itu KPK juga melakukan penanganan gratifikasi yang menyelamatkan harta negara uang sejumlah RP. 3,6 miliar dan barang senilai Rp 1,3 miliar.
Yang menjadi nilai tambah bagi KPK yaitu keanggotaannya tidak berasal dari kalangan elit politik yang memiliki maksud-maksud tertentu untuk kepentingan kelompok maupun pribadi. Didalam tubuh KPK terdiri dari orang-orang yang berlatar belakang dari bidang pendidikan yang mengutamakan kemajuan bangsa. KPK pun bekerja sama dengan pihak perguruan tinggi dengan menandatangani Mou. Hal ini dimaksudkan bahwa kinerja KPK tidak sekedar main-main.

KPK Sebagai Solusi
Dari penjabaran diatas, keefisiensi KPK sudah tampak, dengan upaya-upaya yang dilakukan, KPK berhasil menanggkap elit politik “nakal” dan mengembalikan uang negara untuk kepentingan masyarakat luas. Tak heran jika KPK di cintai lebih dari 75% penduduk Indonesia. Sangat jelas, para elit politik “nakal” bagai kebakaran jenggot jika KPK mulai menyelidik kejanggalan-kejanggalan yang membuat masyrakat bertanya-tanya.
Resiko yang menanti atas keberhasilan KPK menjerat balada koruptor pun, menimbulkan banyak pihak yang hendak menjatuhkan KPK sebagai lembaga yang dinilai pahlawan rakyat kecil. Berbagai survei telah dilakukan dan menyatakan penduduk di Indonesia menilai dengan baik usaha Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) memberantas korupsi, lebih baik daripada yang dilakukan di negara lain. Telalu banyak puja-puji memang, namun itulah fakta yang terus berkembang di tengah keprihatinan atas negeri ini.
Sudah jelas, KPK harus terus dipertahankan baik kualitas internal maupun dukungan eksternal. Kinerja KPK pun harus lebih maksimal lagi dalam menangani kasus-kasus korupsi. KPK harus tetap mempertahankan kredibilitas keanggotaannya dan menambah jumlah anggota yang juga dapat dipercaya masyarakat. KPK lembaga yang “super body” yang anti korupsi, anti jatuh harga diri dan anti menjilat ludah sendiri.
Jika masyarakat terus mendukung, mengawasi dan menjalin kerjasama yang baik dengan KPK, maka kasus-kasus korupsi di Indonesia satu persatu dapat ditumbangkan. Begitupun pihak pemerintah, seharusnya mendukung penuh kinerja KPK dan bukan menjadi provokator dalam mengkerdilkan KPK.
Jadi, KPK masih efisien dan harus tetap berdiri dengan maksud yang bersih untuk kemajuan negeri ini.

oleh. Hiya salsabillah

Haiti quake: Survivors struggle while awaiting aid

By MIKE MELIA, Associated Press Writer Mike Melia, Associated Press Writer

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Desperately needed aid from around the world began arriving in quake-stunned Haiti on Thursday, while rescuers struggled frantically to save the trapped and injured, turning pickup trucks into ambulances and doors into stretchers.

Planes carrying teams from China and France, Spain and the United States landed at Port-au-Prince's airport with searchers and tons of water, food, medicine and other supplies — with more promised from around the globe.

It took six hours to unload a Chinese plane because the airport lacked the needed equipment — a hint of possible bottlenecks ahead as a global response brings a stream of relief flights to the airport, itself damaged by Tuesday's magnitude-7 earthquake.

Search and rescue squads from Virginia and Iceland arrived Wednesday and some groups — from Cuba's government and Doctors Without Borders — used staff already in the country to treat victims immediately after the quake.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that "tens of thousands, we fear, are dead" and said United States and the world must do everything possible to help Haiti surmount its "cycle of hope and despair."

The U.S. dispatched troops and ships along with aid to Haiti, and other nations were joining the effort to help the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation, where the international Red Cross estimated 3 million people — a third of the population — may need emergency relief.

In the streets of the capital, survivors set up camps amid piles of salvaged goods, including food scavenged from the rubble.

Bodies lay in the street, often covered by a white cloth. Some people dragged the dust-covered dead along the roads, trying to reach a hospital where they might leave them.

Trucks carrying police and U.N. workers were often stuck in traffic on roads filled with pickup trucks, cars and pedestrians.

At many collapsed buildings, neighbors and volunteers dug through rubble without any official presence.

"This is much worse than a hurricane," said Jimitre Coquillon, a doctor's assistant working at a triage center set up in a hotel parking lot. "There's no water. There's nothing. Thirsty people are going to die."

The aid group Doctors Without Borders treated wounded at two hospitals that withstood the quake and set up tent clinics elsewhere to replace its damaged facilities. Cuba, which already had more than 300 doctors in Haiti, treated injured in field hospitals.

President Barack Obama promised an all-out rescue and humanitarian effort including the military and civilian emergency teams from across the U.S.

"The 82nd Airborne is getting to Haiti today, the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson will be on the horizon soon, the Coast Guard has performed magnificently in helping to evacuate the injured, particularly American citizens," Clinton said.

The U.S. Army said a detachment of more than 100 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division was heading out from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, looking for locations to set up tents and other essentials in preparation for the arrival of another 800 personnel on Friday.

That's in addition to some 2,200 Marines to be sent, as the military prepares to help with security, search and rescue missions and the delivery of humanitarian supplies. More than a half-dozen U.S. military ships also are expected to help, with the largest, the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, arriving later Thursday.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said that 91 injured French nationals were evacuated to the Caribbean island of Martinique in three planes that had delivered aid and medical personnel.

There was no firm estimate on how many people were killed by Tuesday's quake. Haitian President Rene Preval said the toll could be in the thousands.

"Let's say that it's too early to give a number," Preval said told CNN.

Survivors used sledgehammers and their bare hands to try to find victims in the rubble. In Petionville, next to the capital, people dug through a collapsed shopping center, tossing aside mattresses and office supplies. More than a dozen cars were entombed, including a U.N. truck.

Nearby, about 200 survivors, including many children, huddled in a theater parking lot using sheets to rig makeshift tents and shield themselves from the sun in 90-degree heat.

The acrid smell of drywall and ancient dust that filled the air immediately after the quake has faded, giving way to the usual aromas of Port-au-Prince — flowers and mango trees, with a hint of gasoline and urine.

Police officers carried the injured in their pickup trucks. Wisnel Occilus, a 24-year-old student, was wedged between two other survivors in a truck bed headed to a police station. He was in an English class when the quake struck and the building collapsed.

"The professor is dead. Some of the students are dead, too," said Occilus, who suspected he had several broken bones. "Everything hurts."

Other survivors carried injured to hospitals in wheelbarrows and on stretchers fashioned from doors.

Calls to emergency services weren't getting through because systems that connect different phone networks were still not working, said officials from a telecommunications provider in Haiti.

About 3,000 police and international peacekeepers cleared debris, directed traffic and maintained security in the capital. But law enforcement was stretched thin even before the quake and would be ill-equipped to deal with major unrest. The U.N.'s 9,000-member peacekeeping force sent patrols across the capital's streets while securing the airport, port and main buildings.

Looting began immediately after the quake, with people seen carrying food from collapsed buildings, but aid workers said disturbances were rare. Inmates were reported to have escaped from the damaged main prison in Port au Prince, said Elisabeth Byrs, a U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman in Geneva.

Port-au-Prince's ruined buildings fell on both the poor and the prominent: The body of Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, 63, was found in the ruins of his office, said the Rev. Pierre Le Beller of the Saint Jacques Missionary Center in Landivisiau, France.

Haitian Senate President Kelly Bastien was rescued from the collapsed Parliament building and taken to a hospital in the neighboring Dominican Republic. The president of Haiti's Citibank was also among the survivors being treated there, said Rafael Sanchez Espanol, director of the Homs Hospital in Santiago.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter evacuated four critically injured U.S. Embassy staff to the hospital at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the military has been detaining suspected terrorists.

The U.S. Embassy had no confirmed reports of deaths among the estimated 40,000 to 45,000 Americans who live in Haiti.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said it set up a Web site to help Haitians find missing loved ones. Robert Zimmerman, deputy head of the group's tracing unit, said people in Haiti and abroad can use the site to register names of missing relatives.

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Associated Press contributors to this story: Jonathan Katz and Jennifer Kay in Port-au-Prince; Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations; Frank Jordans and Bradley S. Klapper in Geneva; Jenny Barchfield in Paris; Pauline Jelinek in Washington; Tales Azzoni in Sao Paulo.

Quake-stunned Haitians pile bodies by fallen homes

By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press Writer Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press Writer – 9 mins ago

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake crushed thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers were still trapped.

President Rene Preval said he believes thousands of people were dead from Tuesday afternoon's magnitude-7.0 quake.

"Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed," Preval told the Miami Herald. "There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them."

The Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince was among the dead, and the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission was missing.

The international Red Cross said a third of Haiti's 9 million people may need emergency aid and that it would take a day or two for a clear picture of the damage to emerge.

President Barack Obama promised an all-out rescue and humanitarian effort, adding that the U.S. commitment to its hemispheric neighbor will be unwavering.

"We have to be there for them in their hour of need," Obama said.

Other nations — from Iceland to Venezuela — said they would start sending in aid workers and rescue teams. The United Nations said Port-au-Prince's main airport was "fully operational" and open to relief flights.

Aftershocks continued to rattle the capital of 2 million people as women covered in dust clawed out of debris, wailing. Stunned people wandered the streets holding hands. Thousands gathered in public squares to sing hymns.

People pulled bodies from collapsed homes, covering them with sheets by the side of the road. Passers-by lifted the sheets to see if loved ones were underneath. Outside a crumbled building, the bodies of five children and three adults lay in a pile.

The prominent died along with the poor: the body of Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, 63, was found in the ruins of his office, said the Rev. Pierre Le Beller of the Saint Jacques Missionary Center in Landivisiau, France. He told The Associated Press by telephone that fellow missionaries in Haiti had told him they found Miot's body.

Preval told the Herald that Haiti's Senate president was among those trapped alive inside the Parliament building. Much of the National Palace pancaked on itself.

The international Red Cross and other aid groups announced plans for major relief operations in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country.

Many will have to help their own staff as well as stricken Haitians. Taiwan said its embassy was destroyed and the ambassador hospitalized. Spain said its embassy was badly damaged.

"Haiti has moved to center of the world's thoughts and the world's compassion," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.

Tens of thousands of people lost their homes as buildings that were flimsy and dangerous even under normal conditions collapsed. Nobody offered an estimate of the dead, but the numbers were clearly enormous.

"The hospitals cannot handle all these victims," said Dr. Louis-Gerard Gilles. "Haiti needs to pray. We all need to pray together."

An American aid worker was trapped for about 10 hours under the rubble of her mission house before she was rescued by her husband, who told CBS' "Early Show" that he drove 100 miles (160 kilometers) to Port-au-Prince to find her. Frank Thorp said he dug for more than an hour to free his wife, Jillian, and a co-worker, from under about a foot of concrete.

An estimated 40,000-45,000 Americans live in Haiti, and the U.S. Embassy had no confirmed reports of deaths among its citizens. All but one American employed by the embassy have been accounted for, State Department officials said.

Even relatively wealthy neighborhoods were devastated.

An AP videographer saw a wrecked hospital where people screamed for help in Petionville, a hillside district that is home to many diplomats and wealthy Haitians as well as the poor.

At a destroyed four-story apartment building, a girl of about 16 stood atop a car, trying to see inside while several men pulled at a foot sticking from rubble. She said her family was inside.

"A school near here collapsed totally," Petionville resident Ken Michel said after surveying the damage. "We don't know if there were any children inside." He said many seemingly sturdy homes nearby were split apart.

The U.N.'s 9,000 peacekeepers in Haiti, many of whom are from Brazil, were distracted from aid efforts by their own tragedy: Many spent the night hunting for survivors in the ruins of their headquarters.

"It would appear that everyone who was in the building, including my friend Hedi Annabi, the United Nations' secretary-general's special envoy, and everyone with him and around him, are dead," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on RTL radio.

But U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy would not confirm that Annabi was dead, saying he was among more than 100 people missing in its wrecked headquarters. He said only about 10 people had been pulled out, many of them badly injured. Fewer than five bodies had been removed, he said.

Brazil's army said at least 11 of its peacekeepers were killed, while Jordan's official news agency said three of its peacekeepers were killed. A state newspaper in China said eight Chinese peacekeepers were known dead and 10 were missing — though officials later said the information was not confirmed.

The quake struck at 4:53 p.m., centered 10 miles (15 kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince at a depth of only 5 miles (8 kilometers), the U.S. Geological Survey said. USGS geophysicist Kristin Marano called it the strongest earthquake since 1770 in what is now Haiti.

Video obtained by the AP showed a huge dust cloud rising over Port-au-Prince shortly after the quake as buildings collapsed.

Most Haitians are desperately poor, and after years of political instability the country has no real construction standards. In November 2008, following the collapse of a school in Petionville, the mayor of Port-au-Prince estimated about 60 percent of buildings were shoddily built and unsafe normally.

The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, and in eastern Cuba, but no major damage was reported in either place.

With electricity out in many places and phone service erratic, it was nearly impossible for Haitian or foreign officials to get full details of the devastation.

"Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken," said Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official in Port-au-Prince. "The sky is just gray with dust."

President Barack Obama offered prayers for the people of Haiti and said the U.S. stood ready to help. Rajiv Shah, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said a disaster response team would fly in Wednesday.

Edwidge Danticat, an award-winning Haitian-American author was unable to contact relatives in Haiti. She sat with family and friends at her home in Miami, looking for news on the Internet and watching TV news reports.

"You want to go there, but you just have to wait," she said. "Life is already so fragile in Haiti, and to have this on such a massive scale, it's unimaginable how the country will be able to recover from this."

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Associated Press videographer Pierre Richard Luxama in Port-au-Prince and AP writers David Koop and Olga R. Rodriguez in Mexico City; David McFadden and Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Matthew Lee in Washington; Tamara Lush in Tampa, Fla.; and Jennifer Kay and Christine Armario in Miami contributed to this report.