Why Physical Education Should not Be Required in College

ini dia paper UAS my beloved wife....gathered at may 25th, 2009. any comment??

We might still remember about violence action happened in IPDN Campus in Jatinangor, Sumedang, West Java that result the death of one student in 2007. The student passed away because of a violence action by his senior. Then, some similar cases appeared in some colleges such as ITB and STIP in recent times. In fact, any kinds of physical education is still applied in some colleges although there are many controversy about it. People that agree with physical education argue that physical education is needed to produce a strong mentally and high discipline person. In opposite,most people agree that physical education is not the only way to make a strong mentally and high discipline person. In addition, they argue that physical education should not be required in colege for some reasons.

First of all, physical education is not an effective learning methode to adult. As we know, the students of a college are adult, or adolescens that is growing up to be adult. According to the scientist, adults need a spesific learning method named andragogi. Andragogi is a self learning activity that depend on people who is studying, and it is not only a teaching activity by a teacher. It means that the student is a subject, not an object, in a learning activity. The students are motivated to study because of their own necessity, so they can study happily and highly motivated. In applying andragogi, one of any important things should be prepared is an arrangement of phsycological and social condition where adult feel that they are accepted, appreciated, and supported. In order to fulfill that condition, the teacher called facilitator should develop a friendly, democratic, informal, and relax situation. However, such situation will not be achieved by a physical education because it will relatively make a contradictory situation such as formal, stiff, and frightening situation. Therefore, physical education will not support an effective learning process in college.

Moreover, physical education can cause a thinking laziness. A physhical education is ussually being applied in an education institution, where education is regarded only as a knowledge transfer process. Actually, education is a liberation process. By education, students are expected to be an autonomous person. It will be achieved if education is not regarded only as a knowledge transfer process, but also as a creative discovery process of knowledge and the truth. If education is regarded only as a knowledge transfer process, so there will be an indoctrination approach that very depend on the power of the transferer. Therefore, the relationship between a teacher and a student become very hierarchical that restrict the growth of student’s critical atitude. Next, the lost of the critical attitude will close ability and willingness to find a new knowledge. As the result, people who learn by this way will grow as a robotic man, that will only do what is said by other people.

In addition, the physical education can create a bad morally person because the person grow in a violence culture. The person who is usual as an object of any violence, though it is the part of educational process, will relatively do the same violence to the other person. He will regard it as an usual thing, and believe that it is an usual thing to be done to the other people. He will have only a little compassionation to the other person. As a result, this kind of people may can do anything to get his wants although it will disturb other people’s right. If this kind of people is produced from the educational process in our country, so what will happen to this country?

The last, physical education is not the only way to make a high discipline and strong morally person. There are some other alternative ways that can ommit many negative effects of physical education. One of the alternative ways is religion approach. In religion, people is teached to be discipline and having a strong character by follow rules in his religion. Religion will motivate people to be disciplin and having a good character from the bottom of his soul. The motivation that come from the soul is the biggest power to do something. For example, people will strongly changed to be a good person from bad person if he realize the truly himself and his truly position as a creation of his almighty God. If people know who he is and what the aim of his creation is, he will try to be the best person as his religion asked to by following the rules already stated by his religion. Religion, especially Islam, build a good character base on principal: mansuetude attitude, supporting and helping each other, giving a good advice each other. As the result, people will be disciplin, honest, brave, care, and having any other good characters.

In conclution, we can see from the explanation above that physical education is not an effective learning method, can cause a thinking laziness and created a bad morrally person. Moreover, there are some alternatives to replace the physical education in college. Therefore, educational institution should leave the physical education and find any other ways to produce high quality persons.

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JAKARTA WITHOUT TRAFFIC JAM, IS IT POSSIBLE?

ini adalah paper UTSku...at march, 16 2009

Jakarta is a super traffic jam city. The roads in Jakarta is mostly crowded. This situation make longer the trip time. For example, the distance from Thamrin to Otista which only 13 km can be passed in more than two hours by car and may be more than three hours in rainy time. We may spent three till five hours everyday to reach our office in Jakarta and go home if our home is in fringe area of Jakarta.

In my opinion, there are several factors cause traffic jams in Jakarta. May be the factors is more than five, but i just talk about five factors thats be the main factors. First, too fast green-traffic light. It makes only few car can run and the light will have been red again, even the queue is until one kilo metres length or about 200 cars in a line. Second, there are too many public vehicles (especially mikrolet and metromini) that could suddenly stop everywhere to wait the passengers. The stop cars will automatically block the vehicles behind them and decrease free part of the roads that can be passed. Third, the street retailers who used general roads. The fourth cause is the queue in the toll entrances. And the last factor is the usage of general tracks by Trans Jakartas.

Now, what are the solutions?

I think the solution for the first problem is the government should make longer green light time, may be until 1,5 or two minutes on the busy tracks, for example the traffic light of T-intersection between Otista III and Otista Raya roads. The government also must build fly over at some busy and jam cross roads, so the traffic jams caused by red light can be reduced.

For the second problem, I think the necessary is traffic police alert to organize public vehicles, for example in the Kampung Melayu bus station. As we know, although the traffic police had stand by in anywhere, they can’t reduce traffic jam significantly. These because they have loose their authority. The drivers don’t follow traffic rule if there are no police, and they will also break the rule if the police is easy to compromise. So, the Police also just as strict with the driver. Clean polices, whose can not be bribed, are needed.

Organizing the Street Retailers is not easy. They often use public roads, so disturb the user of the roads and make jams. Moreover, they usually exploit traffic jam to sell their products to the road users. For this problem, the government should also regulates the usage of general roads by the street retailers. The regulation must be followed by law enforcement.

On the toll entrances, stop cars that will pay the toll charge often cause traffic jams. For example, the queue in the Tebet tol entrance is until Mampang fly over. To solve this problem, I think the tolls should be free of charge on the traffic jam times so there are not queue of cars that can cause the traffic jams. This compromise will push the social function of the toll.

Trans Jakartas has used one line general tracks so they runs faster than the other vehicles. However, they cause jams on the non-busway tracks. It means, on the tracks which consist only two lines, the half line are used by Trans Jakarta. Therefore, most tracks which are passed by Trans Jakarta, such as Thamrin-Sudirman track, are very crowded.

Now is time for government to controll traffic jam points and extensive the tracks. If needed, use the condemned areas for public usages.

Furthermore, government should increase mass public vehicles such as busses and trains so the crowd of passengers can be decreased. For example in the Jabotabek trains, the crowd of passengers not only till the doors, but until the roofs. The intertrains frequences are very little. There are only two trains in fifteen minutes. If goverment increase the train, may the intertrains interval is only five minutes, and it will decrease the crowd of passengers so the traffic jams can be reduced.

Enlargement of Ciliwung River and other rivers can create new way without condemn the houssing area. It can reduce the flood because the river’s capacity is bigger. This solution is cheaper than monorail project that absorb funds until seven billions rupiah and just coverage three areas that are Sudirman, Gatot Subroto, and Kuningan.

One of my ideas, I think it’s not a problem if at seven till nine am, toll way from Cawang to Semanggi is made only one direction, that is from Cawang to Semanggi. Why? Because in the morning, the direction to Semanggi is very crowded and jam. On the contrary, the direction to Cawang is very quiet. The other way, at 5 am until 7 pm, toll way is made just to Cawang. With this methode, I think the traffic jam, at least on jalan Gatot Subroto, Mampang, and Sudirman can be reduced.

Other extreme alternative is move the headquarter from Jakarta to other city outside Java island.

More than 80% of moneys circulate inside Jakarta. So, Jakarta become crowded quickly (more than 8,7 million persons), and now defeat New York City (just 8,1 million persons). It happens because Jakarta monopoly all of the activities like politics, economy, cultures, etc.

In the USA, although there are jams, but the goverment success distribute its society, not crowded in the capital. Washington DC, the capital of USA, just the 27^th crowded city in the USA with 550 thousand of persons. While New York as the center of business is the most crowded city in USA with 8,1 million persons, and Los Angeles as the center of entertainment is the second with 3,8 million persons. (@gus sulistiyo / 7a / 2)

WORKING CULTURE DEVELOPMENT TEAM OF BPKP

alhamdulillah...akhirnya paper UAS jadi. Pengganti UAS tertulis 25 Mei 09....

The history of BPKP can't be separated from the history of the development of government functional supervision, which is now known as Government Internal Auditor (Aparat Pengawasan Internal Pemerintah/APIP). Based on the Presidential Decree number 3 year 1983 about BPKP, practically, BPKP takes over all main duties and functions of The Directorate General of Supervisory for Government Finance (DJPKN = Direktorat Jenderal Pengawasan Keuangan Negara) which was a part of the Ministry of Finance.

Due to cabinet restructuring, the Presidential Decree number 103 year 2001 concerning The Position, Duties, Functions, Authorities, Organizational Structures, and Procedures of Non Ministerial Government Institution was issued. That Presidential Decree has been revised several times, the last revision is revision by Presidential Regulation number 64 year 2005. Article 52 of this Presidential Regulation mentions that BPKP's duties are conducting governmental functions in the area of financial and development supervisory within the related enforcing laws.

On the year of 2001, BPKP has set its vision and mission. The vision of BPKP is “The New Era of Government Management Catalyst Through Professional Supervisory Service”. Catalyst is one of object to speed up the changing process so it can not run outside the process itself, but it can blend inside the changing process. New Era of Government Management means effort to change strict birocrate government management and orientate into the process of new government management. On the other hand, professional supervisory service should be done using methodological based, integrity, and partners oriented in term of creating their value added.

By the time BPKP’s role changed, from the real auditor which used represived approach into asisstant which use preventive approach. Socialization, assistancy, and evaluation are new activities of BPKP. Meanwhile, audit function can be done if any request from the government official for law enforcement in calculating government loss. During this reform era, BPKP has taken many activities to help local government and ministerial/institution based on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Something that never happen in the past is that the local government and ministerial/institution is not an audit object anymore, but they are BPKP’s partner for increasing their performance to achieve good governance.

On December 11th, 2006, The President of The Republic of Indonesia asked BPKP to do second functions about reposition and revitalisation. This reposition and revitalisation should be followed by better vision, mission, and strategic. Therefore, the new vision of BPKP is “Become the Credible Internal Auditor for Government in Transforming Government Management to Achieve Clean Government and Good Government” By this new vision, BPKP emphasizing its main tasks to the expanding of preventive function. The preventive audits result become a management system model to create pre-emptive activity. If there is a negative indication founded during the analysis process of preventive audits, then it needs deeper audits and the non justicia represive audit will be held. This audits are held as basic to build a better government management system to banned moral hazard or fraud. Assistency tasks with the Police Investigator, District Attorney and the Commision Againts Corruption, should be conducted as a duty to eliminate corruption criminal acts, give deterrent repressive justicia effect, and also as guiding function to save government assets.

Changing the role should be followed by changing the officer behaviour. In order to support this role, BPKP has set up the values of “PIONIR”. PIONIR is stand for Profesional, Integritas, Orientasi pengguna, Nurani dan akal sehat, Independen, and Responsibility. It influences all the officer. In Bengkulu that I’ve been live there over two years for example, I joined to “working culture development team” (tim pengembangan budaya kerja). The team consists of stuctural and fungsional officers viewed as agent of change.

Generally, its very difficult to find corporate culture at govermental agencies. However in BPKP, I find what “working culture” is. At beginning, I'm not exactly sure, but I knew it when I saw it. We know, changing govermental culture is fundamental and thus more difficult. Now, I can say that it is possible. Changing officer culture won't be easy, mostly because it's about changing attitudes and behaviors and some people aren't going to go with us. The key is, clearer we can define and quantify what's to be changed, faster we can help those people find something else to do and get everyone else engaged. The main problem is ethic.

Ethic covers various areas of life: personal, public and professional relations. Personal ethic studies the well-being of certain individual and its development methods. Social ethic emphasizes well-being of society and duties of individual persons in the society. Employees which is working in public sector such as BPKP inevitably stuck with ethic and working culture problems. Perhaps even more than the representatives of other fields, because they are constantly communicating with people, help them to solve their problems every day, and inform people about governmental decisions (Wagner-Tsukamoto, 2005). When having some contact with employees at municipality, people judge the morality and working culture of higher officers and public institution according to their behaviour. Therefore ethic and working culture of municipality employees should be as high as possible. Ethic is important not only in communication with customers (external environment), but also internally in the organization, in the mutual relations between colleagues and staff members. Ethical problems might cause various different consequences. Some of them are being solved almost unnoticed; the others have strong impact on individuals separate persons and organizations. Ethical problems might occur and disappear or have continuous character. We try to eliminate the ethical problem by organize islamic discussion in the office mosque.

In the simple definition offered above, I noticed that corporate culture is comprised of what employees experience, and what customers experience. In the bussiness operation, the manager should be focus on "employees first, customers second, and profits third". Can it be used in public institution? We know, employees describe culture as "what should be done here". For the customer, your culture is "what it's like to do business with you". Together with BPKP, The Customers are the stakeholder, such as President, House of representatif, Finance Auditory Board, Commision Againts Corruption, District Attorney, Police investigators, and The society.

Now, I have the conclution that working culture of public officers is important because they have to communicate with people. I can also say that as the medium link between the citizens and political power, state officer’s behaviour and working culture forms the people’s opinion about the whole authorities, morality and ethics of high officers. It is very important to educate officers, to recognize and solve ethical problems, because this could be one of the ways to avoide them. The last, conflicts in the works of public officers are the negative appearance because of their negative impact on the person itself and the people around that are customers and colleagues. It has negative impact on the efficiency of work, communication, and working atmosphere. Now, the working culture development team of BPKP is widely received by the BPKP officer in many moment and activities, such as the sport field, spiritual activity, moral and ethics discussion, transfer of knowledge, etc. And the final and the most important impact is the increasing of the officer performance. (@gus Sulistiyo-09460004869).

Waktu begitu cepat berlalu

Minggu kedua pun berlalu, 31 Januari 2009

Hari demi hari berlalu dengan begitu cepat. Tak terasa, perkuliahan sudah melewati pekan kedua. Pada pekan pertama, kegiatan tidak begitu padat. Namun tugas dari dosen lumayan banyak. Pada pekan pertama, dosen yang hadir adalah mata kuliah Bahasa Inggris, Teori Akuntansi, Akuntansi Manajemen, Sistem Informasi Manajemen, dan Internal Audit. Sedangkan yang tidak masuk adalah dosen Manajemen Stratejik,

Kuliah Perdana

Hari pertama, Senin 19 Januari 2009 Agak nervous! Biasa sih, kalo lagi agak tegang memang begini. Bangun seperti biasa, karena putri tercinta, Afra Haniya Salsabila telah “ribut” mulai jam 2’an dinihari. Nervousku ditandai dengan males sarapan, eneg. Rasanya sudah pengen banget sampe kampus. Penasaran siapa aja sih kawan-kawan sekelas, siapa aja dosen dan mata kuliahnya, de el el. Alhamdulillah, sampe di kelas, bayangan yang agak “serem” itu tak ada. Suasana cair banget. Mata kuliah pertama, Bahasa Inggris, dengan Mr Hussein. Ni sedikit cerita matkul B. Inggris: Hello, introduce me, my name is Hussein. The long name is Abdul Kahar Muzakkir Hussein. My tittle is Drs, Ak, CPA, MBA. My CPA I have joined with STAN (was named A3N-Akademi Ajun Akuntan Negara). Director general of Tax, Hadi Purnomo was as my student. The ex head of BPKP, Ari Soelendro was my children too, at Pajajaran University. English-as others language-is a habitual language. So, if you want able to speak english fluently, you should try to repeat and speak as much as possible. Thats Mr Hussein lesson. I like his presentation and style. Although his age already 73rd, his still strong and gentle. He tell that he was studied in Singapore, to got his CPA degree. The lesson finished at 10.30 am. No significant homework. Just to repeat read an article “whats ‘new’ in new year 2009”, and “be friendly with Jakarta”.