I personally think that what is missing from the current public policy is class awareness, when policy is crafted based on class, not expecting it to be a silver bullet for all classes.
Sadly, as the consequence, middle class is often be neglected…
We kept guessing the outcome of it, but it remains a mystery.
We kept running simulations of it, but the modeling won’t ever work, because it is almost, not finish.
Tanteku baru aja meninggal, kakaknya mamaku. Beliau lulusan teknik sipil, akhirnya jadi PNS, penempatan di Biak. Punya anak 4, pas anaknya masih kecil-kecil, suaminya meninggal. Akhirnya tanteku harus membesarkan empat anak-anaknya sendiri, sekarang tinggal dua paling kecil yang masih sekolah. Satu kuliah, tinggal dua semester lagi, satunya masih SMA.
Tanteku meninggalnya mendadak, sakitnya juga mendadak. Sodara-sodaranya sampe kaget.
Usut punya usut, ternyata karena tabungannya (taspen) dibobol habis ama penipu. Dia ngaku sama sodara-sodaranya cuma ilang 5 juta, ternyata hampir 300 juta ludes.
Tabungan seumur hidup, hasil dia hidup sederhana, yang penting anak-anaknya bisa sekolah.
Sehabis ditipu itu, dia tergoncang ampe kena fisik, kemudian meninggal.
Sudah meninggalpun, tadinya diberi tau kalo pemakamannya nanti ditanggung pemerintah (santunan biaya pemakaman), tapi sehari setelah dimakamkan, yang tukang gali kubur datang ke rumah minta dibayar. Ternyata uang pemakamannya DIKORUPSI. 😊 Jadi sepupu-sepupu aku yang dituntut buat bayar.
Sekarang mereka berempat kayak hilang arah, ditinggal bapak dan ibu.
Semoga sindikat penipu yang suka bobol tabungan orang itu bisa baca twit aku ini:
Aku doain kalian semua dilancarkan rejekinya, diberikan kesempatan untuk mengasah ilmu untuk hal-hal yang baik, supaya ke depannya ga perlu nipu lagi. Biar keturunan kalian dijauhkan dari doa-doa tidak baik.
Doain sepupu-sepupuku juga, ya. Supaya hatinya bisa damai, kuat menghadapi hidup yang apa-apaan ini.
Gerindra paling banyak menang dalam pilkada serentak 2024. Jika pakai pemilihan via DPRD, kemenangan Gerindra bisa jauh lebih banyak. Lebih lengkapnya paper saya berjudul party cartels, coalitions, and competitions akan dimuat @ISEAS 🙏
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has signed an agreement to establish a Research and Development Center in Vietnam. Additionally, Nvidia has acquired VinBrain, an AI-focused startup under Vietnam's private conglomerate VinGroup. The company has also bolstered its partnerships with FPT in smart cloud development and with Viettel in establishing a cyberspace center.
Hadiz & robison thesis was in 2004 (20 years ago), not including hadiz's earlier papers. As long as one variable (politically well-organised workers, lower class, liberals, reformists) is missing, the social structure where political-economic elites are dominant is a constant.
Eating meat with a lower carbon footprint often means killing more animals and treating them more poorly.
@hannahritchie presents the research on the trade-offs between environmental protection and animal welfare.
https://t.co/cFQ0hs8ZdU
Saat masih TK dan belum bisa membaca, Ibu hadiahi saya satu set ensiklopedia Widya Wiyata. Saat SD pun juga diberikan akses langganan majalah anak seperti Bobo dan XY Kids, serta mengoleksi komik.
Cara anak privilege pamer tersirat dalam literasi, salah tiganya:
- Koleksi harpot sejak kecil
- Koleksi Lima Sekawan sejak kecil
- Langganan Majalah Bobo pas masih kecil
Tapi percaya deh, mereka-mereka ini pada tidak sadar saat itu punya privilege tersebut. 😭👍
Dahulu, semua ini saya anggap hal biasa, sampai sadar akan realitas sosial. Ternyata, hal yang selama ini saya peroleh adalah privilege luar biasa.
Berkat privilege ini, saya merasakan beragam manfaatnya saat ini.
Terima kasih, Ma!
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.
"If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!
"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."