Kabut asap Riau ancam Malaysia, Singapura lebih awal tahun ini

Ancaman kabut asap dimulai awal tahun ini ketika musim kering di wilayah Selat Malaka memasuki fase yang mengakibatkan kebakaran lahan pertanian di Riau, Indonesia. 

Ini diperburuk oleh tiupan angin ke barat Semenanjung Malaysia yang kini mulai datang dari arah Sumatera. 

Pada saat ini, ancaman kabut terkonsentrasi ke selatan Semenanjung dan Singapura akibat jarak dan tiupan angin. 

Hasil tampilan satelit yang diolah Badan Meteorologi Klimatologi Geofisika Indonesia menunjukkan ada sejumlah titik panas di wilayah Riau, Indonesia dan vektor angin menunjukkan tiupan yang menghadap ke Semenanjung. 

Ini memungkinkan terjadinya kabut asap di Malaysia dan Singapura dalam waktu terdekat.

Laman Pergerakan Hijab Singapura dihapuskan dari Facebook

Pergerakan Hijab Singapura di laman Facebook , yang mendapat lebih 26,000 Likes dalam tempoh beberapa minggu,  telah dikeluarkan dari Facebook atas sebab-sebab yang tidak diketahui hari ini.

Kumpulan Facebook telah menggesa kerajaan Singapura untuk melonggarkan larangan ke atas pemakaian hijab, tudung Islam, untuk wanita yang bekerja dalam organisasi sektor awam yang memerlukan pakaian seragam .

Terdapat petunjuk bahawa pergerakan itu mengumpul lebih ramai sokongan sebelum penyingkiran halaman. Berdasarkan Google,  didapati bahawa pentadbir telah berkongsi petikan yang berkaitan dengan hak-hak wanita dan isu hijab minggu ini , dan ini telah menjadi viral dengan beratus-ratus perkongsian di Facebook.

Pautan meningkat, dengan bilangan orang yang "menentang" Page ini mengatasi bilangan orang-orang "menyokong" dan menunjukkan bahawa peserta halaman ini masih aktif menyokong terhadap pengharaman hijab.

Setakat ini, kerajaan tidak berubah pendiriannya mengenai isu itu. Timbalan Perdana Menteri Teo Chee Hean berkata, kerajaan perlu mengekalkan keharmonian dalam masyarakat walaupun ia memahami pandangan masyarakat. Beliau memberitahu The Straits Times:

" Setiap masyarakat apabila ia menekan untuk kepentingan sendiri perlu ingat bagaimana ia mempengaruhi masyarakat lain dan bagaimana pandangan orang lain."

Bermasalah untuk membolehkan hijab ?

Perdebatan telah tercetus sejak beberapa minggu. Pada bulan September, seorang peserta forum bertanya mengapa jururawat di Singapura tidak dibenarkan memakai hijab. Pengharaman itu terpakai kepada wanita Islam dalam pasukan polis dan tentera , walaupun orang-orang Sikh dalam perkhidmatan awam dibenarkan memakai serban mereka di tempat kerja.

Yaacob Ibrahim, menteri komunikasi dan maklumat berkata bahawa membenarkan tudung akan " sangat bermasalah " bagi sesetengah profesion dan meminta masyarakat Melayu -Muslim , yang mewakili 15 peratus daripada rakyat Singapura agar bersabar .

Fellowship Persatuan Pelajar Islam juga telah bercakap mengenai perkara itu , dengan alasan bahawa membenarkan hijab tidak akan menjejaskan keharmonian agama . Wakil memberitahu hari ini bahawa :

Terdapat banyak bukti dalam masyarakat maju yang lain untuk menunjukkan bahawa membenarkan perempuan Islam memakai tudung [ editor : yang tudung dan hijab adalah sinonim ] tidak menjejaskan integrasi dan perpaduan sosial . Dan, dalam kes jururawat yang memakai tudung di negara-negara Baratmereka dapat melaksanakan tugas mereka secara profesional.

Tech di Asia masih mencuba untuk menghubungi pentadbir laman Facebook berhubung hal ini . Disunting oleh : Steven Millward ) - TECH IN ASIA

Singapore ‘Hijab Movement’ Facebook page mysteriously disappears

November 14, 2013at 12:31 pmby Terence Lee
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This snapshot was captured by Google on November 13 at around 10am Singapore time.

The Singapore Hijab Movement Facebook page, which garnered over 26,000 likes in the span of a few weeks, has been removed from Facebook for unknown reasons yesterday.

The Facebook group has called on the Singapore government to loosen its ban on the wearing of the hijab, a Muslim headscarf, for women who work in public sector organizations that require a uniform.

There was every indication that the movement was gathering even more steam prior to the page’s removal. A Google cache of the page showed that the administrator has been sharing quotes pertaining to women’s rights and the hijab issue this week, and these postings have gone viral with hundreds of shares on Facebook.

Engagement appeared to be high too, with the number of people “talking about this” outstripping the number of likes, indicating that the page’s participants are still actively advocating against the hijab ban.

So far, the government has not shifted its stance on the issue. Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean said that the government has to maintain social harmony even though it understands the community’s views. He told The Straits Times:

Every community when it presses for its own concerns must bear in mind how that affects other communities and how others might see it.

Problematic to allow the hijab?

The debate has been raging for weeks. In September, a participant at a forum asked why nurses in Singapore were not allowed to wear the hijab. The ban applies to Muslim women in the police force and Armed Forces, even though Sikh men in public service are allowed to wear their turbans on the job.

Yaacob Ibrahim, the minister for communication and information, said that allowing the headscarf would be “very problematic” for some professions, and asked the Malay-Muslim community, which represents 15 percent of Singaporeans, to remain patient.

The Fellowship of Muslim Students Association has also spoken out on the matter, arguing that allowing the hijab would not affect religious harmony. A representative told Today:

There is much evidence in other advanced societies to show that allowing Muslim girls to wear the tudung [editor: the tudung and hijab are synonymous] does not affect integration and social cohesiveness. And, in the case of nurses, who don the hijab in Western countries [...] they are able to perform their duties professionally.

Tech in Asia is attempting to contact the administrators of the Facebook page.

(Editing by Steven Millward)

Bacaan lanjut : Tech In Asia

Batman bin Suparman Dihumban Ke Penjara Di Singapura

Pemuda Singapura yang menjadi perhatian media sosial tahun lalu kerana memiliki nama Batman bin Suparman akhirnya dihumban ke penjara kerana menggunakan heroin dan mencuri wang dari kad ATM abangnya. Dia dipenjara 33 bulan kerana kesalahan tersebut memberi populariti kali kedua untuknya sehinggakan ia dilaporkan di akhbar-akhbar utama dunia, dek kerana pesalah memiliki nama super hero yang seharusnya sinonim dengan perlakuan yang membela kebenaran.

Selasa, 12/11/2013 13:07 WIB

Punya Nama Unik, Batman bin Suparman Ngetop di Media Sosial

Novi Christiastuti Adiputri - detikNews

Singapura - Seorang pemuda kelahiran Singapura ini memiliki nama superhero namun sayang perilakunya sangat bertolak belakang. Pemuda bernama Batman bin Suparman ini ditangkap polisi karena mengkonsumsi narkoba dan mencuri dari kakaknya.

Seperti dilansir nydailynews.com, Selasa (12/11/2013), pemuda berusia 23 tahun ini menjadi terkenal setelah salinan identitas dirinya tersebar luas di internet. Tertulis dalam kartu identitas tersebut, nama pemuda ini adalah Batman bin Suparman. Nama yang unik dan cenderung tak lazim.

Namun perilakunya tak seperti namanya yang menggunakan nama superhero terkenal dunia, Batman, yang dalam kisahnya banyak membela kebenaran dan melawan para penjahat. Kiprah pemuda berkebangsaan Singapura ini justru sebaliknya. 

Pada Senin (11/11) kemarin, pemuda ini divonis hukuman 2 tahun 9 bulan penjara oleh pengadilan setempat atas bermacam tindak pidana. Mulai dari mencuri kartu ATM milik kakak laki-lakinya untuk diambil uangnya, hingga menerobos masuk ke dalam kantor sebuah perusahaan di Singapura untuk mencuri uang di sana. 

Pemuda yang seorang pengangguran ini juga didakwa memiliki dan menggunakan heroin.

Jika dilihat dari keterangan yang ada kartu identitas tersebut, tertulis bahwa Batman merupakan keturunan suku Jawa meskipun tertulis jelas bahwa dia warga negara Singapura. Tidak diketahui pasti apakah memang ayah atau ibunya yang keturunan Jawa dan apakah ada kemungkinan mereka sebelumnya merupakan orang Indonesia.

Yang jelas, gara-gara namanya yang unik ini, Batman menjadi sensasi tersendiri di media sosial. Bahkan pemuda ini telah memiliki klub penggemar sendiri di jejaring sosial Facebook

“Batman Suparman” Jailed in Singapore for Theft, Trespassing

By  J.T. Quigley

November 12, 2013

After multiple deviations from his heroic namesake, Singaporean courts have sentenced “Batman” to more than two and a half years in prison on multiple counts of theft and trespassing. The 23-year-old man, whose full name is Batman Bin Suparman, was found guilty of three out of 10 charges, which also included illegal drug use.

The prosecution said that Batman broke into a billiard hall last August, stealing approximately $160. He also lifted his brother’s ATM card, making multiple withdrawals totaling more than $680.

“During sentencing, the court heard that Batman is a first offender and a young one at that,” said Channel NewsAsia of the relatively lenient sentence. “For housebreaking, he could have been jailed [up to] 14 years.” - The Diplomat

Singapore poverty in the spotlight

The island's rich get richer while its poor get poorer, prompting calls for an official poverty line to be set.

Singapore - Begging is illegal here, under the island-nation's Destitute Persons Act, carrying a fine of up to $3,000 or imprisonment for up to two years for repeat offenders.

But Singapore's poor still can be found, often selling packets of tissues outside food centres. Or spending the night on benches near their jobs to save the transport fare home - they are commonly called "sleepers". Or collecting empty soft drink cans out of trash bins.

The poor have no place in Singapore's vaunted success story, but there are growing calls for one of the wealthiest countries in the world to acknowledge rapidly rising income inequality by setting an official poverty line. Hong Kong's recent decision to set a poverty line as a way to better identify and assist its poor has prompted a similar debate in Singapore's parliament.

A report to be formally released on November 11 says Singaporeans are not aware of the scale and depth of poverty. Meanwhile, a new public awareness campaign challenges citizens to try living on $5 for a day in a nation with one of the highest costs of living in the world.

But even as government spending on anti-poverty efforts is rising - assistance payments to the poor exceeded $100m Singaporean dollars for the first time last year, a nearly 45 percent jump from the previous year - business-minded Singaporeans are balking at the idea.

Some 105,000 households in Singapore - that's one in 10 family homes, or 387,000 people - earn an average monthly income of $1,323 and some 114,000 individual residents earn less than $805 a month, according to government data. That's despite the country's average per capita income of $52,305 a year, one of the highest in the world.

While Singapore has no official measure of poverty, the average household spends $1,250 a month for a four-person household on basic needs - food, clothing and shelter, says a two-year-old survey held by the Department of Statistics.

"In light of rising concerns about increasing inequality, and debate about the existence, extent and nature of poverty in Singapore, it is time for Singapore to join comparable developed nations in officially defining and measuring poverty," reads the report to be released Monday by Singapore Management University's Lien Centre for Social Innovation.

In the report, a team of researchers and policy experts say officially defining and measuring poverty will help to identify at-risk households and to measure the performance of efforts to lift people out of poverty.

The report cites two measures of inequality in Singapore. First, the period from 1998 to 2010 saw the real median income of employed residents in the bottom 20 percent fall by approximately 8 percent, while the income of those in the highest-earning quintile increased by 27 percent. Second, Singapore's Gini coefficient - which measures the degree of inequality within the country - increased between 2002 and 2012 at a rate that far outpaces the rest of the developed world.

"Rising inequality does not necessarily denote the existence of poverty. However, rising inequality combined with evidence of poverty indicates that the poor are being left further behind, and this appears to be what is happening in Singapore," reads the report.

Income inequality

Singapore does not have as high percentages of impoverished residents as those in the less developed world, and its poor tend to go unnoticed amid the country's steel-and-glass opulence. But researchers point to a growing inequality - it ranks 26th out of 136 countries for income inequality - and a high cost of living: In 2012, Singapore was the world's sixth most expensive country to live in, according to the Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2013.

Yet Singapore's poor are largely hidden, in part because affordable public housing typically means a roof over the heads of the working poor and elderly poor. That helps to create an overall impression that poverty and homelessness may exist only negligibly, if at all.

Reflecting that view, a leading academic, Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, wrote in 2001: "There are no homeless, destitute or starving people in Singapore. Poverty has been eradicated, not through an entitlements program (there are virtually none) but through a unique partnership between the government, corporate citizens, self-help groups and voluntary initiatives." 

The fact that many needy residents live in the shadows of a rich society prompted a new campaign to raise awareness about the poor in Singapore. Singaporeans Against Poverty, launched in October and organised by Caritas Singapore, a Catholic social action group, is intended to operate for three to five years.

"This is not a charity or donation drive. We want to set everyone thinking about the poor in Singapore. Who are they? Why are they in such a plight? How do they survive?" said Caritas Singapore advocacy committee chairman and member of parliament Laurence Lien. "We want to start a conversation. We invite everyone to move out of their comfort zones to join in this conversation." 

Public service advertisements include videos showing everyday citizens making decisions about what to eat, what to wear, and how to spend money, with the tagline: "105,000 low-income families would gladly swap their problems with yours." There is a webpage with facts about income inequality and a planned online educational game.

The campaign also urges the public to participate in its $5 challenge, which is based on the statistic that some 387,000 Singaporeans only have about $5 a day to spend on food and transport per family member. Radio personalities have been enlisted to join the campaign and make on-air appeals for listeners to do the same.

The 'cliff effect'

Calls for Singapore to follow Hong Kong's lead prompted a debate in parliament in late October, where Chan Chun Sing, Minister for Social and Family Development, expressed the government's opposition to the idea. He said he worries a single measure would allow some needy people to fall through the cracks.

"In Singapore, we use broad definitions for the groups we seek to help, have clear criteria to identify and assess those in need, and tailored schemes to assist them," he said in a written reply. "A poverty line does not fully reflect the severity and complexity of the issues faced by poor families, which could include ill health, lack of housing or weak family relationships."

Chan added: "If we use a single poverty line to assess the family, we also risk a 'cliff effect', where those below the poverty line receive all forms of assistance, while other genuinely needy citizens outside the poverty line are excluded. Our assessment process is rigorous but also flexible to cater to the genuinely needy. Singaporeans who do not meet scheme criteria but who still deserve help, can receive assistance." 

Singaporean bloggers were quick to criticise Chan's comments. "Chan's answer reinforces a general view about this government. They really do not want to provide social assistance," wrote Alex Au Waipang on his popular blog Yawning Bread. 

"At heart they really do believe in trickle-down and little else. They only get into social assistance when they can't avoid it and a problem is staring them in the face."

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Selain itu ia mengingatkan kita akan susur galur darah asal yang mengalir dalam diri kita.

Semoga niat suci dipermudahkan olehNya. Amin.

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11.11.13

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