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Today, is a historical day for my country Indonesia. Our controversial former President, Mr. Soeharto dead. I think his death will take cases related on him also be buried together without any conclusion and solution.Personally, i think Mr. Soeharto is a controversial man who, in one side should be given merit for many things he has done for Indonesia, and one side, should be condemned to heaviest punishment available as he did a lot of horrible action in his 32 years reign. Below are post, as result of my read, saturated from various news site.

Indonesias former President, Soeharto aka Suharto (86), died this afternoon in Pertamina Hospital Jakarta, Indonesia. He died after been treated for 23 days. His condition worsened dramatically over the weekend and he lost consciousness and stopped breathing on his own, they said.

According to the chief presidential doctor, Mr. Soeharto declared dead at 1:10 p.m because of multi-organ failure.

Soeharto who was born in Kemusuk village, Yogyakarta, on June 8, 1921, ruled the country for 32 years through six consecutive general elections.
Between 1960 and 1965, the national economy grew merely by an average of 2.1 percent annually. The inflation rate reached over 250 percent in 1961-1965 and even jumped to 650 percent in 1966.

The Smiling General

The Smiling General, cute name given by west media, was driven from office in 1998 by widespread rioting, economic paralysis and political chaos.

Despite so many negative tag given to his reign. His rule was not without accomplishment; he led Indonesia to stability and nurtured economic growth. The success of his economic development earned him the title “Bapak Pembangunan” (Father of Development) which was conferred on him by the People`s Consultative Assembly (MPR) in 1983 in recognition of his success.

But these successes were ultimately overshadowed by his pervasive and large-scale corruption; repressive, militarized rule; and a convulsion of mass bloodletting when he seized power in the late 1960s that took at least 500,000 lives. The event widely known as G-30S PKI (30 September Communist Party Movement).

As the leader of one of the world’s most populous countries, Mr. Suharto and his family became notorious for controlling state enterprises and taking kickbacks for government contracts, for siphoning money from state charities and for committing gross violations of human rights.

Yet Mr. Suharto remained virtually untouchable to the end, even as his successors in a new democratic system repudiated his rule.

In his last days, a parade of the country’s power elite visited the hospital to pay their respects. Some of his collegas when he rule also pay a visit, including Mr. Mahatir Muhammad former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew former Prime Minister of Singapore, and Mr. Hasanah Bolkiah the Sultan of Brunei Darusallam.

Like his predecessor, Sukarno, Mr. Suharto worked to forge national unity in a fractious country of 200 million people comprising 300 ethnic groups speaking 250 languages and inhabiting more than 17,000 islands spread over a 3,500-mile archipelago.

In the following years, governing through consensus, traditional mysticism, military repression and authoritarian control, President Suharto restored order to the country and presided over an era of substantial development. Many Indonesians benefited from his programs, but none more so than members of his family, who became billionaires many times over. Last year, he topped a new list of world leaders who had stolen from state coffers. The list, by the United Nations and the World Bank, cited an estimate that he had embezzled $15 billion to $35 billion.

Mr. Suharto was an unlikely character to play such a major role in his country’s destiny. He was a private person, and although he wielded complete power, he spoke in gentle tones, smiled sweetly to friend and foe and presented himself as a man of humble origins, shy, retiring and enigmatic. Short and thick set, he almost invariably dressed in a Western business suit or a safari jacket once he gave up his military uniform, and a black songkok, the flat traditional Indonesian cap.

Rest In Peace Mr. Soeharto.

Saturated from Wiki, Theage.com.au, Nytimes.com

Updating WordPress The Easiest Way

January 24th, 2008 by Hendra

Have you update your WordPress? Are you postponing the upgrade because you don’t know how to do it correctly or, you might fear something wrong going to happen if you upgrade? Or do you have any other problems related to upgrade?If you do, don’t worry many of WordPress user also face the same problem on upgrading.

Well, whether you are a ‘master of upgrading’ or just an ordinary mike like me, allow me to introduce great plugin i have just ‘plugged’ yesterday.

I just had my WordPress upgraded yesterday after some postpone. Planned to upgrade since the day i installed WP. Have read hell a lot of reading about ‘the art of upgrade’ so i won’t miss anything, well it’s my first experience of blogging and using WP.

I even contact THC’s 24 hours customer service, whom offered to help me upgrading step by step, which then i prefered to do by myself, learning the hard way.

Just before i took the hard way, i found this fine new blog, (yes, honestly i admire the blog and it gave me inspirations and a lot of things to think about). While wondering around the blog, i found up this link automatic update plugin.

The techie-buzz owner made and share a plugin that allow WordPress users to upgrade their installation to the latest WordPress release available as easy as possible. It just a few click from the dashboard and the update will run automatically. It even create backup for you to download at the end of the process.

What made it even better is, it’s free and easy to use, what you need to do is, just download and upload the plugin into your plugins folder, activate via the dashboard, and the next hard things to do is, doing few clicks as guided by the plugin to make the plugin running.

So here, as a sign of support and appreciation for these great tech guys dedication, i posted this review to be read by all of WordPress fans.

If possible i also would like to support this plugin to be included in evey WordPress installation available, so many people could reap the full benefit of using WordPress.

Yesterday i posted about Utopia web based online game. Mumbling about what is utopia, and why i don’t play utopia anymore.

Actually i’m not totally quit from online gaming. At the moment, i am playing another game called Erepublik, online game a bit like Utopia, but with far simple interface and little complexity. The game offers you to be a citizen in a country of your choice, you can play and socializing and build your country with other fellow mate from same country.

The basic reasons why i play Erepublik simply because i like playing online game. Erepublik is simple and also doesn’t need me to active as much as other games in the forum etc, but on the other side i still can contribute my best for the Nation/group i am in. I might review it more next time.

If Utopia and Erepublik is not interesting enough for you, you might wanna try cybernations, unlike utopia where the game reset every few moths, cybernations run since years ago and haven’t stopped till now. They have their own system that made the game attractive in its own style.

I registered for cybernations before i found erepublik. A day after registering, i was shocked, to find 20 message came into my inbox, offering me to join their Alliance. Each Alliace come with their own term.

They really act fast and it surprised me. I did follow up their offer and trying to register, but registering wasn’t so easy, many term and conditions are given. The test was like i am going for the army, they ask about my loyalty, why i played the game, and some game related questions, lol.

Soon i delete the account, i just can’t bear with it. The game is so complex, they got more serious player involved, more alliance things and i can see in the future, they’re going to ask more of me.

(PS to see their seriousness for the game, you can find their ‘recruitment video in youtube.com‘, created beautifully, what a wonderfull work!!)

I also found the game gonna ask for more time then Utopia. The learning curve itself is very step, more and more of time had to be invested to just understand the basic of the game. All of that reasons made me i resign and delete my account.

Utopia is still running until now, it’s tempting to play again, especially if i though the fun and friendship i got there. But no, i have think about it, i am not going back to play, and i don’t have that much time to spare. I already got family and work to manage which consume enough of my time already.

My personal notes, online game are fun and sometimes could end on addiction. I myself was an addict too. Spent half an hour to few more hours a day, socializing with fellow team mates in the forum, talking about the game and the strategy. Waking up in the middle of the night and other time wasting behavior. Beside a commitment to be active in the game. I think everybody should also make a target and limit how many hours a day to spend on online gaming.

I quit playing Utopia at the right moment, it was when i am going to work on my thesis which need all of my attention at that moment.

Everybody got and have to had their own priority in life, it could be their family, their work, their blog , their hobbies, playing game, etc. For me there is many things in real live more important than just a game, my priority is God, family and work.

When something not so important start taking your precious things in live, that no so important thing might worth to live without, before it become one of your precious things and you can’t live without.

What you have just read is just my personal opinion, no offense or whatsoever related to anybody or any company meant.