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Prisoners in protest over women guards Oct
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span style="text-decoration: underline;">Prisoners in protest over women guards
Oct. 24, Online/AP
Some prisoners in the highest-security unit of the Guantanamo Bay detention center have launched a protest against what they consider the religiously offensive use of female guards to move them around the US base in Cuba, lawyers for the men say.
Prisoners designated by the government as 'high-value detainees' because of their allegedly significant involvement in terrorism recently began refusing to meet with defense lawyers appointed by the Pentagon to defend them against war-crime charges unless the military agreed to use only men to escort them to meetings, according to several lawyers involved.
Your comments:
First, I think their court cases should have been completed years ago; for these cases to have dragged on for so many years is ridiculous.
Also, I think the prisoners should be allowed to practice their religion as long as they don't cause any trouble. Muslims practicing their religion includes not shaking hands (or touching) unrelated members of the opposite sex, according to the teachings of Islam.
It would be easy for the prison commander to change the guards so that the prisoners' religious beliefs are respected. The women guards could be given duties elsewhere in the prison.
This protest is confined to Camp 7; there is no protest from the prisoners in the other camps, which makes me wonder what is really going on.
Women guards are not unusual in the US military. According to statistics, 15.6 percent of the US army's 1.1 million soldiers are women. Women serve in 95 percent of all army occupations. In a one-year span, some 40,000 American women soldiers were deployed during the Gulf War's Desert Shield and Desert Storm operations.
Eddy Saf
Has Jokowi picked a hardworking Cabinet?
Oct. 28, p2
On a recent visit home, an Indonesian ambassador told of how he had been scoffed at by his bosses at the Foreign Ministry for failing to include the title 'Prof.' in banners that he had prepared to welcome former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono earlier this year.
Luckily for him, the error was detected before Yudhoyono arrived at the country he was representing. The envoy scrambled at the last minute to produce new banners, with the appropriate full title: 'Welcome President Prof. Dr. H. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono'. (By Endy Bayuni)
Your comments:
What's so great about having titles when they can be easily bought in Indonesia without even passing a single university exam?
Sure, Jokowi's Cabinet lacks the wow factor, but the most important thing is that the chosen people are honest, capable and hard working and they are committed to making Indonesia a better country.
Don't judge a book by its cover.
Just give them a chance to prove themselves, instead of complaining and nagging before they even begin to work.
Chotto Matte
I am Bataknese. I don't mind that Jokowi hasn't selected a minister from my ethnic group. I believe
he's chosen the best ministers for Indonesia.
Torus
The suspicious might say that Jokowi picked second-class ministers (with a handful of exceptions like Ignasius Jonan) because Jokowi himself lacks the influence, experience and aptitude to lead a first-class Cabinet.
He simply can't afford to have someone with more credentials and clout undermining him.
The hopeful will say that that intelligence and experience are not everything. The most important thing is Cabinet synergy and synchronized policy.
But the article hits the mark. We don't need a star-studded Cabinet. We need a Cabinet that delivers.
Ngukzilla
What Indonesians need is a humble, honest and hard working man that can deliver, not some idol on a political stage.
Blue Moejoe
However you describe, praise or even embellish the names of the Cabinet ministers, the one thing I look forward to seeing are their achievements in the days ahead. Nothing less.
Luwanto
Maybe this nation has begun to enter a new era, when 'ethnic' affiliation is not important when considering a person's credentials.
Gado
Greenpeace hands over green petition to Jokowi
Oct. 27, Online
Environment group Greenpeace Indonesia said it had handed over a green petition signed by 113,595 people to President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo during a peaceful rally in front of the State Palace, Central Jakarta, on Monday.
Greenpeace members gave Jokowi the petition, entitled '100% Indonesia Green Peaceful', together with a so-called Green Package, a document laying out the most critical environmental issues in the country collected through a survey.
Your comments:
Solar water heaters can be used to heat water, which is proven technology to reduce carbon emissions for people who need water or heat.
Save the environment for the sake of future generations. We can start with hotels and hospitals.
H Cahyadi
We should build more recycling factories, sewage cleaning facilities and produce more garbage and sewage trucks.
We also need to improve environmental education so that the poor people know how to clean their homes and how to dispose of their waste.
If this works, Indonesia will be very clean, like Singapore.
Tutkukap
