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| Posted: 18 Jul 2008 01:50 PM CDT
Jakarta “Aku itu tegang, karena beban. Apalagi pas mas masuk tiga besar, itu berat banget jadi harus konsentrasi,” ujar Patudu yang ditemui seusai babak spektakuler Indonesian Idol, di Balai Sarbini, Jakarta, Jumat, (18/7/2008). Titi Dj, Anang dan Indra Lesmana selaku juri menilai penampilan Patudu tidak maksimal. Ia tidak bisa menguasai lagu yang dipilihkan ketiga juri tersebut. Patudu malam itu menyanyikan lagu 'Inikah Cinta' dari ME dan 'Dunia Boleh Tertawa' milik Indra Lesmana. Ketiga juri menganggap Patudu tidak bisa menampilkan groove dari kedua lagu itu. Sebelumnya saat berbincang dengan detikhot, Indra Lesmana pun sudah mempediksi kepulangan pria 20 tahun tersebut. Namun tersingkir dari panggung spektakuler tidak menyurutkan keinginan Patudu untuk menjadi penyanyi. “Kalau jalan hidup saya harus jadi penyanyi, saya harus niat,” ujarnya mantap. (kee/kee) Like this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed. |
| Tommy Jajal Trek KFC Sprint Rally Posted: 18 Jul 2008 01:00 PM CDT Jakarta - Kejuaraan KFC Sprint Rally, 19-20 Juli 2008 akan diikuti pembalap senior Hutomo “Tommy” Mandala Putra. Ia bersama pereli muda Sean Gelael telah mencoba lintasan Mandala Pratama Permai Industrial Estate, Dawuan, Cikampek, Jawa Barat. Sean duduk di jok kanan sebagai pengemudi sedangkan Tomy di sebelah kiri mobil Subaru Imprezza WRX yang akan dikendarai Sean pada perlombaan itu. Usai menjalani test di trek berdebu itu, Tommy pun memuji pereli berusia 11 tahun ini “Kamu akan mengalahkan ayahmu (Ricardo Gelael),” kata Tommy dalam rilis yang diterima detiksport, Jumat (18/7/2008). Tommy pada perlombaan Sabtu dan Minggu, sebenarnya akan menjadi pengemudi (driver) sedangkan navigatornya Anthony Sarwono. Sementara Sean pada kejuaraan speed rally, akan bertindak selaku driver dan navigatornya Hervian “Ian” Soejono. Selain Tommy dan Sean, yang tergabung dalam Tim Serge KFC, pereli lainnya adalah Ricardo Gelael yang berpasangan dengan Adiguna Soetowo dan Chepot Hanniwiano dengan Franky. Mereka bersama beberapa pereli lain telah mencoba lintasan juga. Tommy seusai melakukan test berkali-kali termasuk bersama Anthony Sarwono, mengatakan ia tidak memiliki target dalam kejuaraan itu. ”Saya hanya ingin meramaikan saja, saya tidak ikut kejuaraan untuk mencari point,” katanya. Ia merasa masih butuh penyesuaian waktu dan latihan untuk dapat melakukan “handling” kendaraan sekarang, karena sifat dan karakter kendaraan sekarang amat canggih dibanding mobil lama. “Mobil Grup N sekarang bahkan bisa mengalahkan Grup A dan Grup S yang 3000 CC jaman lalu. Berarti kemajuan teknologi kendaraan sekarang amat maju,” kata Tommy. Sean pun tidak mau kalah dalam menyatakan pendapatnya. “Bila ikut reli tentu ingin menang. Nah, target saya tentu menang dalam kategori nonseeded, minimal masuk urutan lima besar,” ujar Sean yang baru lulus SD. Sedangkan Ricardo Gelael menyebutkan, lintasan yang digunakan untuk berlomba Sabtu dan Minggu amat menantang, karena banyak tikungan dan jalur lurus. ”Amat menantang dan aman bagi kendaraan,” katanya. Pereli dari Sumatera Utara, Ijeck, yang kini memimpin perolehan nilai tertinggi untuk kategori Kejurnas, pun telah menjajal trek. Ada sekitar 10 kendaraan dari Sumut yang akan mengikuti kejuaraan KFC Sprint Rally berhadiah total Rp 80 juta itu. “Saya suka dengan lintasan ini. Sebagai pereli kami harus siap berlaga di mana saja,” kata Ijeck yang juga ketua umum Pengda IMI Sumut. Khusus untuk kejuaraan KFC Sprint Rally, menurut Arief Indiarto yang melakukan pengambilan waktu untuk handicap peserta, untuk Grup N adalah nol detik, GR2-1 handicap 1,5 detik, GR2-2 handicap tiga detik dan Grup N handicap 6,5 detik per kilometer. ( key / key ) Like this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed. |
| 14 Wasit/Juri PON Bakal Diperiksa Posted: 18 Jul 2008 12:00 PM CDT Balikpapan - Meski Pekan Olahraga Nasional sudah berakhir, namun penyelesaian kasus yang tersisa terus bergulir. Salah satunya adalah akan dilakukannya pemeriksaan terhadap 14 wasit/juri yang beberapa diantaranya terindikasi suap. Ini terkait dengan dugaan adanya kecurangan yang terjadi dalam cabang loncat indah yang dirasakan oleh kontingen DKI Jakarta beberapa waktu lalu. Saat itu, atlet-atlet loncat indah DKI gagal meraih emas lantaran penilaian yang diduga “Ke 14 wasit/juri itu akan diperiksa, karena beberapa diantaranya terindikasi kasus suap. Ini didasarkan pada adanya penilaian yang dianggap tidak wajar,” ujar Sekretaris Dewan Hakim PON, Faisal Abdullah saat dihubungi detikSport, Penilaian ini di lakukan oleh tiga pakar loncat indah yakni MuchtarYasin, Abdul Muin dan Pelatih pelatnas loncat indah asal Cina Hua Yun. Adapun pemeriksaan ini akan dilakukan di Jakarta pada 23 Juli mendatang. Berita tentang adanya kecurangan ini kontan saja menuai banyak perhatian publik. Ini dikarenakan Shenny Ratna Amalia dan Sari Ambarwati merupakan penghuni pelatnas SEA Games. Terlebih Shenny adalah satu-satunya atlet yang meraih emas lewat cabang aquatic di SEA Games XIV/2007. Tidak hanya itu, Shenny bahkan pernah menjadi wakil Indonesia pada Olimpiade 2000. “Jika dugaan ini terbukti benar, maka PB PRSI akan menghukum mereka dengan tidak boleh menjadi wasit/juri loncat indah lagi. Dan bagi DKI, bisa saja akan diadakan penganuliran medali, sesuai dengan permintaan dari DKI,” tandasnya. ( key / key ) Like this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed. |
| Four dead in Kurd rebel clash in S.E. Turkey Posted: 18 Jul 2008 10:10 AM CDT Tunceli, Turkey (ANTARA News/Reuters) - Two Turkish soldiers and two Kurdish guerrillas were killed in clashes in southeast Turkey over the past 24 hours, security sources said on Friday. Two rebels and one soldier were killed in a clash in Bingol late on Thursday, which started after security forces encountered a group of separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) members in the restive region east of the town of Tunceli. Additional troops were sent to the area for back-up and the clashes were still continuing, the sources, who declined to be named, told Reuters. Another soldier was killed in a separate clash early on Friday in mountainous Sirnak, near the Iraqi border. The operations, backed by attack helicopters in Cudi mountains, where security forces detected some PKK militants, were continuing as well. Turkey`s military has recently launched a major offensive against rebel hideouts in the region. PKK fighters also regularly enter Turkey from the mountains of northern Iraq, where several thousand of the militants are based. This year the Turkish military has launched a series of raids against the group in northern Iraq. The PKK, regarded as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and European Union, took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984. Some 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict. (*) Like this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed. |
| Myanmar should release political detainees: seasian officials Posted: 18 Jul 2008 10:10 AM CDT Singapore (ANTARA News/AFP) - Myanmar should release all political detainees, senior Southeast Asian officials say in a recommendation to their foreign ministers. “The SOM (senior officials` meeting)… called on the release of all political detainees,” a senior Southeast Asian official said. If endorsed, the recommendation will be included in a joint statement to be issued after a two-day meeting of the ministers that starts Sunday, the official said. The proposed paragraphs on Myanmar also call on the junta “to take bolder steps in what they`re doing to move along the roadmap to democracy,” the official said. However, it could still be amended by the ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The 10-member ASEAN has been widely criticised for its policy of Myanmar`s detainees include democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been held under house arrest for most of the past 18 years. (*) Like this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed. |
| Kashmir attack injures 35, including six children Posted: 18 Jul 2008 10:10 AM CDT Srinagar, Kashmir (ANTARA News/DPA) - At least 35 people including six children were injured in an attack by suspected Muslim militants in India-administered Kashmir on Friday, officials said. The explosion occurred near a school in the Banihal town located some 160 kilometres north of winter capital Jammu. “The militants lobbed a grenade at a Central Reserve Police Force patrol team near the school. There was complete chaos at the scene as children and people ran for safety crying and screaming in fear,” police official Hemant Kumar Lohia said. “Besides six girl students who were waiting to catch their school bus home, four paramilitary police and civilians were wounded in the attack,” he said. Security forces and local police rushed to the spot and shifted the injured to the hospital. “Among the injured, doctors said four people including three CRPF men and a civilian were in a critically injured,” Lohia added. He said additional police teams were deployed in the areafollowing the incident. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Kashmir has been at the root of tense relations between India and Pakistan since their independence from British rule in 1947. An estimated 40,000 people, including civilians, militants andsecurity personnel, have been killed in political violence in Indian-administered Kashmir since 1990. India accuses Pakistan of aiding and abetting Kashmiri secessionist militants. Pakistan denies the allegations, saying the Kashmiri militants are local freedom fighters. (*) Like this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed. |
| Motor-vehicle sales in first semester 2008 reach 3 mln units Posted: 18 Jul 2008 09:30 AM CDT Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Despite gloomy economic conditions this year, motor-vehicle sales in the first semester of 2008 reached 3,055,327 units or 65 percent of the figure for the whole year of 2007, data provided by the Indonesian Motor-Vehicle Industry Association (AISI) show. It is therefore expected that motor-vehicle sales this year will exceed the 2007 figure. In the first semester, Honda still dominated the market with sales recorded at 1,405,669 units or 46 percent of the market. Yamaha was second with sales at 1,203,851 units, Suzuki 405,339 units, Kawasaki 17,780 units and others 22,688 units. In the last three months however (April-June, 2008), Honda motor vehicle sales fluctuated while Suzuki and Kawasaki sales showed an upward trend. (*) Like this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed. |
| PLN proposing Java-Sumatra power trasmission cable project Posted: 18 Jul 2008 09:30 AM CDT Jakarta (ANTARA News) - State-owned electricity company PLN is proposing a 650-km Java-Sumatra power transmission cable project to the National Development Planing Board (Bappenas) worth US$1.8 billion, its president director said. “We have finished a feasibility study for the project and we have proposed it to Bapennas,” PLN President Director Fahmi Mochtar said here on Friday. He said based on estimates the mega power project would cost US$1.8 billion. The high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission cable would transmit 2,000 MW from power plants in South Sumatra to Java via the Sunda Strait. The tranmission of such a volume of power required the conversion of the electricity current from alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC). Therefore, facilities to convert power from AC to DC would be built near the South Sumatra power plants and facilities for conversion from DC to AC near Jakarta. The HVDC cable transmission project would be the first of its kind in Indonesia while not many companies were doing business in this field. PLN has been imposing alternating power cuts in several parts of the country of late due to shortage of power supplies. The PLN president director said recently the company had until now been having an electricity deficit of 600 MW per day or about 3,000 MW per week. (*) Like this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed. |
| China to build two steel plants in Indonesia Posted: 18 Jul 2008 09:30 AM CDT Jakarta (ANTARA News) - China Steel Resources Holding Company will build two steel factories with a combined capacity of three million tons per annum in Indonesia, an Indonesian official said. The construction of the steel plants will be carried out in two stages within a span of five years with the first plant to be built in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan. “In the first stage, the steel plant to be built will have a capacity of 1.5 million tons in Banjarmasin. It will be followed by the construction of another plant with a capacity of 1.5 million tons in the second stage,” Achmad Kurniadi of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) said on the sidelines of an international convention of Chinese businessmen here on Friday. He said the location of the steel plant that would be built in the second stage had not yet been decided. “The investment license for the first stage in Banjarmasin which is close to the raw materials has been issued. For the second factory, the investor is till considering certain locations,” he said. Achmad hoped that Chinese investors attending the convention would be attracted to make their investment in other sectors such as the manufacturing and transportation sectors. “The Chinese investors have looked at the mining sector in the country and we are waiting for their investments in the transportation sector as well,” he added. So far, Chinese investors generally invested in natural resource-based industries such as mining, plantation and fisheries, he said. Running from July 18 to 19, 2008, the convention is being attended by representatives of 93 Chinese companies that have plans to visit Indonesia to explore investment possibilities in the trade, property, manufacturing, finance, energy and mineral sectors. The Chinese companies are engaged in various fields of business or industry, namely 27 companies in the energy and mineral, 20 in the trade , 22 in the property, 22 in the manufacturing and five in the financial sectors. (*) Like this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed. |
| Japan continues bridge construction program in Sumbawa island Posted: 18 Jul 2008 09:30 AM CDT Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara (ANTARA News) - Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will continue the second phase of its program to build bridges for a ring road in the southern part of Sumbawa Island, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), an official said. “JICA has dispatched project consultants from Katahira & Engineers International to survey the locations of the second stage of its bridge construction program which will be started later in 2009,” Tri Joko, field officer of Hazama Corporation, said here on Friday. He was speaking at the location of a bridge project to be implemented with a Japanese grant in Tatar, Sumbawa Barat district, Sumbawa Island, West Nusa Tenggara. Hazama Corporation, a Japanese contractor, has been working on eight JICA-financed bridge projects on a ring road in the southern part of Sumbawa Island since February 2007. The projects are expected to be completed next November or December, much earlier their original completion date of March 31, 2009. The total cost of building the eight bridges had been estimated at 675 million yen or about Rp50 billion. But there were still sections of roads in the region which needed connecting bridges. “The survey team from Katahira & Engineers Internatinal has observed the locations of the second phase of the bridge contruction program,” Joko said. (*) Like this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed. |
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