Sumanto digeruni kerana 'makan orang'

Sumanto

PURBALINGGA: Seorang lelaki Indonesia, Sumanto mencetuskan ketakutan di kalangan penduduk hingga terpaksa diasingkan daripada masyarakat kerana memakan daging manusia meskipun sudah berhenti daripada tabiat itu.

Dia pernah digelar pemakan orang kerana suka makan daging manusia sehingga sanggup menggali mayat seorang wanita tua semata-mata untuk mendapatkan hidangan yang 'murah dan sedap'.

"Daging itu sungguh sedap," kata Sumanto di sebuah pusat pemulihan di luar bandar Jawa Tengah.

"Saya suka makan semua jenis daging selagi ia dimasak. Tetapi, saya tidak lagi makan orang. Sekarang saya makan bayam," katanya.

Jika di negara lain, petani seperti beliau berusia 37 tahun dari kampung Palumutan itu akan menerima rawatan psikiatri khas di sebuah kemudahan yang selamat.

Tetapi, tidak di Indonesia. Dia menghabiskan masa lima tahun di penjara biasa yang turut menempatkan pencuri kerana menakutkan orang ramai sebelum dibebaskan terus ke kampung halamannya tanpa sebarang rawatan susulan.

Jirannya yang takut memulaukannya menyebabkan Sumanto dihantar ke sebuah pusat pemulihan berhampiran.

"Tiada siapa sukakannya. Penduduk kampung memanggilnya 'pemakan orang' dan takut kepadanya," kata pengarah pusat berkenaan, Supono Mustajab.

Bekas pengerusi Persatuan Perubatan Indonesia, Kartono Mohammad berkata tiada institusi rasmi di negara itu dibina bagi menempatkan penjenayah 'tidak waras' walaupun rayuan dibuat pakar kesihatan mental.

"Hingga kini, Menteri Kesihatan (Siti Fadilah Supari) tidak kisah. Beliau tidak berminat dalam isu ini. Perkara ini bukan satu isu yang diberi keutamaan," katanya. "Saya amat prihatin. Di beberapa negara lain, rakyat seperti Sumanto akan ditempatkan di sebuah pusat perlindungan, bukan di penjara. Bagaimana jika keadaan beliau berulang? Ia akan menjadi satu masalah sosial. Beliau perlukan kaunseling dan perubatan," kata Kartono.

Di pusat pemulihan itu di Purbalingga, bersebelahan kampung Sumanto di Palumutan, kakitangannya berkata, Sumanto berkelakuan ganas dan tertekan selepas dibebaskan dari penjara pada 2006.

"Kehidupan di penjara memberi kesan buruk kepadanya. Dia tidak akan makan atau minum serta bersikap pemarah. Kami perlu kawal biliknya siang dan malam supaya dia tidak ganggu orang lain,' kata Mustajab.

Di pusat itu, beliau diajar membaca al-Quran dan digalakkan untuk bersukan, bertani dan menangkap ikan untuk menghilangkan tekanan. - AFP

Tun M tak tahu kebenaran cerita pelantikan pengerusi baru Petronas

IPOH: Bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad mengakui ada mendengar cerita bahawa jawatan Pengerusi Petronas yang kini disandang Tan Sri Hassan Merican akan diganti oleh individu lain namun menegaskan beliau tidak tahu sejauh mana kebenaran cerita berkenaan.

Katanya beliau hanyalah seorang penasihat tanpa kuasa eksekutif dan oleh kerana Petronas terletak terus di bawah bidang kuasa Perdana Menteri, sebarang pelantikan jawatan di syarikat itu bergantung kepada keputusan Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

"Barangkali orang lain ini lebih cekap daripada Hassan Merican... boleh dapat untung lebih besar kot, mana kita tahu," katanya ketika ditanya sama ada menggantikan Hassan yang telah terbukti keupayaannya di Petronas sebagai satu tindakan yang betul.

Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita selepas mesyuarat agung penubuhan Gagsan Melayu Perak di sini hari ini.

Desas-desus sejak beberapa bulan lalu menyatakan bahawa bekas Pegawai Khas Najib ketika beliau Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Omar Mustapha Ong akan dilantik sebagai Ahli Lembaga Pengarah manakala bekas Menteri Dalam Negeri, Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar dilantik sebagai Pengerusi Petronas bagi menggantikan Hassan yang juga Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Petronas.

Dr Mahathir juga menolak dakwaan pihak tertentu kononnya beliau semakin hampir hilang sabar terhadap Perdana Menteri yang dikatakan mempunyai gaya kepimpinan lemah dan menegaskan beliau tidak pernah beranggapan sedemikian terhadap Najib.

"Saya tak kata saya puas hati, saya tak kata saya tak puas hati tapi saya buat teguran tentang pemilihan orang yang terlibat dalam rasuah masih ada dalam kepimpinan parti. Yang itu saya rasa tak setuju," katanya ketika ditanya sama ada ini bermakna beliau berpuas hati dengan kepimpinan Najib setakat ini.

Sementara itu ketika mengulas tulisan dalam blognya www.chedet.cc yang menyamakan Menteri Mentor Singapura Lee Kuan Yew sebagai 'Maharaja Kecil', Dr Mahathir berkata Lee adalah seorang pemimpin sombong yang cuba mengajar pemimpin di negara-negara jirannya.

"Orang ini dia cukup sombong. Dia pergi ke negara jiran untuk nak bagi tahu kepada negara jiran apa yang patut mereka buat dan dia mengutamakan negeri dia dan memberitahu kepada kita, kita hanya pedalaman. Saya dari dulupun saya tak berapa serasi dengan dia," katanya.

Mengenai lawatan lapan hari Lee ke beberapa negeri baru-baru ini, Dr Mahathir berkata bekas pemimpin Malaysia belum tentu akan mendapat layanan serupa di republik itu seperti mana sambutan yang telah diberikan oleh para pemimpin negara ini terhadap Menteri Mentor Singapura itu.

Terdahulu dalam ucapannya pada majlis itu, Dr Mahathir berkata masa depan orang Melayu akan menjadi gelap sekiranya pemimpin Umno terus dengan sikap lebih mengutamakan kepentingan diri daripada agama, bangsa dan negara.

"Umno tidak lagi memperjuangkan kepentingan orang Melayu tapi menjadi landasan untuk orang mendapat tempat dan gelaran. Sebab itu pada pilihan raya umum ke-12, orang Melayu tidak lagi mengundi Umno sebab mereka kecewa dengan keadaan sedemikian," katanya. - Bernama

Mahathir bercakap lagi

Mahathir tak minat jumpa Kuan Yew

KUALA LUMPUR 11 Jun - Bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad tidak berminat untuk bertemu dengan Menteri Mentor Singapura, Lee Kuan Yew selain tidak yakin jambatan ketiga Malaysia-Singapura akan menjadi realiti.

Beliau berkata, Kuan Yew tidak meminta untuk bertemu dengannya dan tidak ada sebab bagi pemimpin veteran republik berkenaan untuk berjumpa dengan beliau.

"Ah! tak dak,'' katanya kepada pemberita apabila ditanya mengenai kemungkinan bagi beliau untuk bertemu dengan Kuan Yew yang sedang dalam lawatan lapan hari ke negara ini.

Mengenai jambatan ketiga Malaysia-Singapura pula, Dr. Mahathir berkata, jambatan itu hanya akan menjadi kenyataan jika Malaysia memberikan pasir kepada republik berkenaan.

"Jika kita beri pasir kepada Singapura, kita dapatlah (jambatan ketiga),'' kata beliau selepas melancarkan Penyelenggara Kawalan Jauh Operasi Dasar Laut Sapura Crest Petroleum Berhad pada Pameran Minyak dan Gas Asia 2009 di Pusat Konvensyen Kuala Lumpur (KLCC) di sini hari ini.

Jelas Dr. Mahathir, Kuan Yew tidak membuat sebarang permohonan untuk bertemu dengan beliau.

"Saya tidak fikir sebab untuk Kuan Yew bertemu dengan saya. Saya bukan sesiapa,'' katanya.

Mengenai pertemuan Kuan Yew dengan pemimpin pembangkang Malaysia, Dr. Mahathir berkata, Menteri Mentor Singapura itu mempunyai pengalaman yang luas.

"Ahli politik Malaysia tidak tahu apa-apa jadi kita kenalah belajar dari Singapura.

"Singapura sebuah negara yang hebat, mereka melabur banyak wang,'' katanya.

Kuan Yew, 85, kini dalam rangka lawatan lapan hari ke negara ini.

Pembangkang perlu ada sebagai cermin kerajaan - Dr Mahathir

Star Online
Selasa Jun 9, 2009

SHAH ALAM: Bekas Perdana Menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad berkata pembangkang perlu ada bagi memainkan peranannya sebagai "cermin" kepada kerajaan.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika diminta mengulas cadangan Presiden PAS Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang pada penutupan Muktamar PAS ke-55 di sini Ahad lepas, bagi penubuhan kerajaan perpaduan.

"Kalau nak buat negara satu parti ni, kurang sihat la, kita kena ada pembangkang, jika tidak kita tidak ada cermin nak tengok muka kita, cantik ke tidak," katanya dalam sidang media di sini hari ini.

Mengulas lanjut, Dr Mahathir berkata idea kerajaan perpaduan yang dimaksudkan Abdul Hadi juga tidak jelas, sama ada ia dilakukan di antara PAS dan Umno atau Barisan Nasional (BN) dengan pakatan pembangkang.

"Dulu masa kita tubuhkan BN, kita jemput semua orang (parti) untuk menyertai dan yang tolak hanya DAP. PAS pun masuk jugak BN tapi kemudian kita terpaksa berpisah dengan PAS sebab dia guna kuasa dia dalam kerajaan untuk perkukuhkan parti dia bukan BN," katanya.

Ditanya bukankah perpaduan itu akan memberikan keuntungan kepada negara, Dr Mahathir berkata ia mendatangkan kebaikan jika kedua-dua pihak ikhlas melakukannya demi untuk negara.

"Tapi ahli politik ni kadangkala susah jugak nak ikhlas, saya ahli politik jugak tau," katanya sambil tersenyum.

Terdahulu, Dr Mahathir merasmikan kilang perintis Green Base Utama Sdn Bhd di Seksyen 28 di sini, yang mampu menukar barang buangan plastik kepada biofuel.

Pengerusi Green Base Utama, Tan Sri Abdul Halil Abdul Mutalib berkata kilang itu mampu mengeluarkan 5,000 liter biofuel sehari.

Katanya biofuel yang dihasilkan adalah lebih bersih kerana kandungan sulfurnya hampir sifar.

Beliau berkata biofuel keluaran syarikat itu dijual pada harga lebih rendah iaitu RM1.40 dan RM1.50 seliter berbanding harga bahan api yang terdapat di pasaran sekarang.BERNAMA

CEOs Without College Degrees

by Rebecca Reisner
Monday, June 1, 2009 provided byBusinessWeek

The thousands of wait-listed would-be MBAs who may not get the chance to go to their dream B-school might want to draw inspiration from the following group of CEOs. Not only did they not get graduate degrees, they didn't get undergraduate degrees -- and some never even attended college.

Of course, not having a degree didn't stop them from being a big name on campus. You'll find Alfred Taubman's name at Brown, Harvard, the University of Michigan, and Lawrence Technological University; at least one building on each campus bears his name, although the retail magnate and philanthropist never finished college. Read on to learn who else made it into corporate top spots without the benefit of a bachelor's degree.

1. Dennis Albaugh

Chairman, Albaugh
Type of Business: Pesticides
Education: Associate's degree from Des Moines Area Community College
Fun fact: He has a collection of more than 100 classic Chevrolets

2. Paul Allen

Founder and chairman, Vulcan
Type of Business: Media, telecommunications
Education: Dropped out of Washington State College after two years
Fun fact: He persuaded Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard. They later founded Microsoft (MSFT) together.

3. Richard Branson

CEO, Virgin Group
Type of Business: Travel, radio, TV, music, venture capital
Education: No college degree
Fun fact: He became an entrepreneur at age 16 with the creation of Student magazine.

4. Maverick Carter

CEO, LRMR Innovative Marketing & Branding
Type of Business: Marketing
Education: 3.5 years of college at Western Michigan University and University of Akron combined
Quote: "Don't be afraid if you see an opportunity to go and give it shot. You can finish school later; it's always there."

5. John Paul DeJoria

CEO, John Paul Mitchell Systems
Type of Business: Hair-care products
Education: No college
Fun fact: He started out selling greeting cards at age 9.

6. Michael Dell

Founder, chairman, and CEO Dell (DELL)
Type of Business: Computers
Education: Attended University of Texas, Austin; did not finish.
Quote: "When I started our company, it was very much an idea outside of the conventional wisdom, and if there were people telling me that it wasn't going to work, I wasn't really listening to them."

7. Felix Dennis

Founder and chairman, Alpha Media Group, formerly Dennis Publishing
Type of Business: Publishing (Maxim, The Week)
Education: No college degree
Fun fact: He wrote a biography and published a magazine about Bruce Lee; sales surged when the martial arts star died suddenly in 1973.

8. Barry Diller

Chairman and CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI)
Type of Business: Media
Education: Dropped out of UCLA after three weeks
Fun fact: He started his career working in the mail room of the William Morris Agency.


. Bill Gates

Co-chair and Trustee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Chairman, Microsoft (MSFT)
Type of Business: Philanthropy. Software.
Education: Dropped out of Harvard
Fun fact: As a schoolboy, he created a program that allowed people to play tic-tac-toe on the computer.

10. Mukesh "Micky" Jagtiani

Chairman, Landmark International (Dubai)
Type of Business: Retailing
Education: No college degree
Fun fact: The billionaire mall developer flunked out of a London accounting school as a teenager and worked as a taxi driver before becoming an entrepreneur.

11. Dean Kamen

Founder and chairman, Segway
Type of Business: Motor vehicles
Education: Dropped out of Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Fun fact: Kamen founded FIRST, a robotics competition for high school students.

12. David Oreck

Founder, Oreck
Type of Business: Vacuum cleaners
Education: No college. At 17, enlisted in the army, and flew B-29 bombers during World War II
Quote: "Things are never as bad as they seem to the pessimist and never as good as they seem to the optimist."

13. Amancio Ortega Gaona

President, Inditex Group
Type of Business: Fashion retailing (Zara, Kiddy Class, others). (A Coruna, Spain)
Education: No college
Fun fact: Often cited as the richest man in Spain, he reportedly has never given any media interviews

14. Phillip Ruffin

Owner, Treasure Island
Type of Business: Casinos
Education: Attended Washburn University for three years and Wichita State University but never got his degree.
Quote: "You get the most experience from the business of life."

15. Alfred Taubman

Founder, Taubman Centers (TCO). Philanthropist
Type of Business: Shopping malls
Education: Attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor for three years but left to start a family and his career
Quote: "Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business. No one starts out as a generalist."

16. Ty Warner

Founder, Ty, Inc.
Type of Business: Toys (stuffed animals)
Education: Dropped out of college to pursue a career in acting. Later founded Ty Inc.
Fun fact: The plush animals his company manufactured retailed for only $5 in the 1990s, but Beanie Baby-mania drove prices up to $30 or more for the hard-to-get characters.

BTN apa sudah jadi?

Friday May 22, 2009
BTN course teaches disunity

AS parents we are glad that our grown up children attend the Biro Tata Negara (BTN) course, which is compulsory for government servants. They are all mature professionals.
But what angers me is that, instead of talking integrity, unity and harmony among the various races, participants are taught about disunity and racial hatred. Is this what our Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib wants for 1MALAYSIA?
Throughout the five days of the course, participants are repeatedly told not to question Malay rights and so on. The course coordinators keep talking about social contracts and telling non-Malays not to question Malay rights and so on.
Many participants, including my Malay friends, are upset.
Are we still living in a primitive age? If the BTN course is to be conducted in this manner, it is better to abolish it or let it concentrate on only one ethnic group.
The course is not bringing unity but only arousing anger and hatred.
As it is handled by the Prime Minister’s office, please do not say that they do not know what is going on.
DISAPPOINTED,Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur.


Tuesday May 26, 2009
BTN course turning into a farce

REFERRING to the letter “BTN course teaches disunity” (The Star, May 22), I agreed with the writer. I’ve talked to almost everybody who had attended the course and the common reaction was how much more they dislike the Government after the course.
I believe BTN should be dropped. The course is not achieving its objectives.
On the contrary, it is sowing hatred against the Government and encouraging disunity.
All BTN course participants are grown-ups and know what is right and wrong.
By trying to enforce a belief, the Government is instead causing a backlash.
If the organisers of a five-day course think they can convert an opposition-minded government officer to change his mind, they are being naive.
The course is compulsory for all new government servants and those who entered the service from 2002 to 2004.
If one does not pass BTN, one will not get a promotion or salary increase even though one gets “Aras 4”, the highest mark for the PTK (Penilaian Takap Kecekapan) exam.
This is another reason why decent, hard-working government doctors leave the service and we end up employing foreigners who can barely live up to the standards.
Do not waste money and precious time by conducting such a course.
Government servants are attending enough courses and seminars already.
Let them stay in their workplace to serve the people.
GOVERNMENT DOCTOR,Kuching.

Allow Chin Peng to return, Gerakan

Posted Date 19/05/2009: GERAKAN WEBSITE

Press Statement by Penang Gerakan Chairman Datuk Dr Teng Hock Nan

Former communist leader Chin Peng should be allowed to return to Malaysia on humanitarian grounds, especially when he is no more a security threat to the country, said Penang Gerakan chairman Datuk Dr Teng Hock Nan.

“Communism all over the world including China and Russia has transformed and is moving towards economy-based struggles and extreme communist terrorism practiced in the 50s is non-existent now,” said Dr Teng in a statement.

Echoing the call by Penang-based Citizens International chairman S.M. Mohamed Idris to the government to allow Chin Peng to return to the country, Dr Teng urged Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to use his good offices to take a re-look at Chin Peng’s case.

Chin Peng, who was born in Sitiawan, Perak, has brothers and sisters, and close relatives who are staying in Butterworth, Perak and all over Malaysia.

“He is now 85years’old and wishes to return to Malaysia, his birthplace. He had even appealed to the High Court to allow him to return but the appeal was rejected.

“The government should fulfill his wishes,” said Dr Teng, adding that Chin Peng’s family would be very happy to see him back.

S. M. Mohamed had told a Press conference yesterday that the struggle waged by the liberation movement led by Chin Peng, Rashid Mydin, Abdullah C.D, Shamsiah Fakeh and others had contributed to the independence of Malaya.

S.M. Mohamed described Chin Peng as a Malaysian patriot who fought the British colonialists from the age of 15 and “sacrificed everything he had to free this country from British control, domination and exploitation.”
Mohamed also said an appeal letter would be sent to Najib.

Chin Peng is currently living in exile in Bangkok. He failed in his last bid to live in Malaysia after the Federal Court on April 30 upheld two lower courts’ decisions compelling him to produce his identification documents before he could enter the country.