saco-indonesia.com, Jenazah seorang tenaga kerja wanita asal Kota Binjai, Sumatera Utara telah ditemukan nelayan dalam kondisi y
saco-indonesia.com, Jenazah seorang tenaga kerja wanita asal Kota Binjai, Sumatera Utara telah ditemukan nelayan dalam kondisi yang telah membusuk di dalam peti jenazah yang terapung di perairan laut Bagansiapiapi Sinaboi Provinsi Riau.
"Ketika ditemukan, kondisi mayat sudah membusuk di dalam peti mati dan terapung di laut," kata salah seorang keluarga korban tenaga kerja wanita (TKW) asal Binjai itu, Sri Nilawati, di Binjai, Senin.
Sri Nilawati juga menjelaskan bahwa adiknya itu, Anita Purnama Boru Huahuruk yang berusia (35) tahun , yang juga merupakan warga Jalan Bintara Kelurahan Satria Kota Binjai, yang bekerja di Malaysia sejak beberapa waktu yang lalu.
Mayat adiknya itu pertama kali telah ditemukan oleh nelayan dalam keadaan yang sudah membusuk di dalam peti dan terapung di laut di perairan Bagansiapiapi Sinaboi Provinsi Riau.
TKW yang telah meninggal dunia dengan kondisi mayat membusuk ini telah diketahui berkat informasi yang telah diterima dari polisi Airud Riau yang telah menghubungi mereka.
"Dari situlah kami dapat mengetahui bahwa adikku itu sudah meninggal dunia dalam keadaan membusuk di dalam peti mati," katanya.
Ditemukannya mayat adiknya itu berkat adanya buku paspor, cincin, kalung emas dan nomor hp di dalam dompetnya.
Sri Nilawati juga menjelaskan bahwa korban rencananya di Malaysia bekerja di rumah makan, namun sesampainya di sana ternyata menjadi pembantu rumah tangga.
Korban pergi ke Malaysia pada bulan Agustus 2013 lalu, melalui sebuah agen penyalur tenaga kerja ke luar negeri. "Namun kami tidak mengetahui perusahaan yang memberangkatkannya," katanya.
Sementara itu salah seorang adik korban lainnya, Faisal, juga menyatakan saat dirinya sampai di Bagansiapiapi Sinaboi untuk menjemput, kondisi mayat sudah tidak bisa dilihat karena sudah busuk, namun pihak keluarga yakin itu mayat Anita, karena terdapat tato bunga mawar di pundaknya dan indentitas lainnya.
Kemudian mayat yang dibungkus plastik di dalam peti jenazah itu dibawa pulang untuk segera dikebumikan. Kini keluarga belum tahu apa penyebab kematian korban hingga mayatnya bisa dibuang dan terapung ke laut.
Keluarga juga berharap kepada pemerintah untuk segera mengungkap kematian korban, karena pada saat dia pergi dari rumah dalam keadaan sehat, kata Faisal.
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Ceruk peluang bisnis bagi industri sewa mobil melaju pesat seiring dengan pertumbuhan ekonomi yang semakin meningkat di Indonesi
Ceruk peluang bisnis bagi industri sewa mobil melaju pesat seiring dengan pertumbuhan ekonomi yang semakin meningkat di Indonesia dan telah membuat banyak perusahaan bertumbuh besar. Alat transportasi pun juga semakin dibutuhkan untuk dapat memudahkan mobilisasi demi kepentingan bisnis. "Sekarang memang banyak jasa sewa mobil yang berdiri atau tumbuh karena kebutuhan perusahaan semakin banyak. Baik itu transportasi karyawan hingga transportasi untuk mengangkut hasil tambang," Prodjo Sunarjanto, Presiden Direktur PT Adi Sarana Armada (ASSA), salah satu perusahaan sewa mobil perusahaan terbesar di Indonesia.
Dia juga mengakui sebelum ini industri sewa mobil untuk perusahaan memang sudah banyak pemainnya, tetapi dengan pertumbuhan ekonomi seperti ini telah membuat bisnis semakin menggiurkan. Oleh karena itu dia berharap ekonomi Indonesia bisa terus meningkat atau setidaknya terjaga agar ritme industri sewa mobil bisa terus bertahan. "Kalau pertumbuhan ekonomi jelek atau anjlok kayak waktu tahun 1998, ya kacau. Perusahaan pada bangkrut, tingkat sewa juga menurun drastis," ungkapnya.
Pendorong lainnya adalah persentase Return on Equity (ROE) atau rasio tingkat pengembalian atas modal yang tinggi yang mengindikasikan apakah perusahaan dikelola dengan baik dan efisien. Semakin tinggi persentase artinya semakin efisien sebuah perusahaan dikelola. "Perusahaan kami tahun ini akan menargetkan ROE mencapai 18%," harapnya. Dia juga menambahkan, model bisnis sewa mobil memang padat modal sehingga modal yang dibutuhkan tinggi.
Industri Sewa Mobil Didukung Perbankan
Cara manajemen dan skema keuangan pun telah menjadi penting untuk dapat menghasilkan keuntungan. "Banyak perusahaan yang salah menerapkan hal ini karena tidak menyadari industri ini telah memiliki skema yang berbeda, jadi banyak perusahaan yang tidak berkembang atau malah bisa tutup. Salah satu skema yang biasa terjadi adalah kompetisi dengan harga murah, tidak memperhitungkan banyak hal hingga akhirnya kekurangan dana untuk berkembang," tambahnya. Oleh karena itu, ASSA memutuskan tidak akan main banting-bantingan harga.
Risiko yang tersebar juga menjadi andalan industri rental mobil untuk terus melaju pertumbuhannya. Prodjo juga menjelaskan, banyak bank yang berminat untuk memberikan pinjaman karena kemungkinan gagal bayar sangat kecil. Alasannya, industri rental mobil merupakan bisnis padat modal berupa mobil atau kendaraan lainnya. Modal ini pun bisa dicairkan dengan cara menjual sesuai dengan kebutuhan yang diperlukan.
"Kita kan bisnis padat modal, banyak mobil yang kita miliki yang harganya minimal Rp 150 juta. Kalau ada utang atau apa-apa yang butuh uang kita tinggal jual. Apalagi kalau ekonomi sedang anjlok berarti harga mobil dan kurs dolar meningkat, artinya harga jual mobil bekas juga meningkat. Pengalaman saya waktu tahun 1998, harga mobil Rp 30 juta bisa dijual Rp 100 juta," jelasnya. Hal ini membuat risiko perusahaan tersebar sehingga cenderung lebih aman. "Oleh karena itu, bank juga selalu siap meminjamkan uangnya karena senang dengan bisnis model industri rental mobil," tegasnya.
Late in April, after Native American actors walked off in disgust from the set of Adam Sandler’s latest film, a western sendup that its distributor, Netflix, has defended as being equally offensive to all, a glow of pride spread through several Native American communities.
Tantoo Cardinal, a Canadian indigenous actress who played Black Shawl in “Dances With Wolves,” recalled thinking to herself, “It’s come.” Larry Sellers, who starred as Cloud Dancing in the 1990s television show “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” thought, “It’s about time.” Jesse Wente, who is Ojibwe and directs film programming at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, found himself encouraged and surprised. There are so few film roles for indigenous actors, he said, that walking off the set of a major production showed real mettle.
But what didn’t surprise Mr. Wente was the content of the script. According to the actors who walked off the set, the film, titled “The Ridiculous Six,” included a Native American woman who passes out and is revived after white men douse her with alcohol, and another woman squatting to urinate while lighting a peace pipe. “There’s enough history at this point to have set some expectations around these sort of Hollywood depictions,” Mr. Wente said.
The walkout prompted a rhetorical “What do you expect from an Adam Sandler film?,” and a Netflix spokesman said that in the movie, blacks, Mexicans and whites were lampooned as well. But Native American actors and critics said a broader issue was at stake. While mainstream portrayals of native peoples have, Mr. Wente said, become “incrementally better” over the decades, he and others say, they remain far from accurate and reflect a lack of opportunities for Native American performers. What’s more, as Native Americans hunger for representation on screen, critics say the absence of three-dimensional portrayals has very real off-screen consequences.
“Our people are still healing from historical trauma,” said Loren Anthony, one of the actors who walked out. “Our youth are still trying to figure out who they are, where they fit in this society. Kids are killing themselves. They’re not proud of who they are.” They also don’t, he added, see themselves on prime time television or the big screen. Netflix noted while about five people walked off the “The Ridiculous Six” set, 100 or so Native American actors and extras stayed.
But in interviews, nearly a dozen Native American actors and film industry experts said that Mr. Sandler’s humor perpetuated decades-old negative stereotypes. Mr. Anthony said such depictions helped feed the despondency many Native Americans feel, with deadly results: Native Americans have the highest suicide rate out of all the country’s ethnicities.
The on-screen problem is twofold, Mr. Anthony and others said: There’s a paucity of roles for Native Americans — according to the Screen Actors Guild in 2008 they accounted for 0.3 percent of all on-screen parts (those figures have yet to be updated), compared to about 2 percent of the general population — and Native American actors are often perceived in a narrow way.
In his Peabody Award-winning documentary “Reel Injun,” the Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond explored Hollywood depictions of Native Americans over the years, and found they fell into a few stereotypical categories: the Noble Savage, the Drunk Indian, the Mystic, the Indian Princess, the backward tribal people futilely fighting John Wayne and manifest destiny. While the 1990 film “Dances With Wolves” won praise for depicting Native Americans as fully fleshed out human beings, not all indigenous people embraced it. It was still told, critics said, from the colonialists’ point of view. In an interview, John Trudell, a Santee Sioux writer, actor (“Thunderheart”) and the former chairman of the American Indian Movement, described the film as “a story of two white people.”
“God bless ‘Dances with Wolves,’ ” Michael Horse, who played Deputy Hawk in “Twin Peaks,” said sarcastically. “Even ‘Avatar.’ Someone’s got to come save the tribal people.”
Dan Spilo, a partner at Industry Entertainment who represents Adam Beach, one of today’s most prominent Native American actors, said while typecasting dogs many minorities, it is especially intractable when it comes to Native Americans. Casting directors, he said, rarely cast them as police officers, doctors or lawyers. “There’s the belief that the Native American character should be on reservations or riding a horse,” he said.
“We don’t see ourselves,” Mr. Horse said. “We’re still an antiquated culture to them, and to the rest of the world.”
Ms. Cardinal said she was once turned down for the role of the wife of a child-abusing cop because the filmmakers felt that casting her would somehow be “too political.”
Another sore point is the long run of white actors playing American Indians, among them Burt Lancaster, Rock Hudson, Audrey Hepburn and, more recently, Johnny Depp, whose depiction of Tonto in the 2013 film “Lone Ranger,” was viewed as racist by detractors. There are, of course, exceptions. The former A&E series “Longmire,” which, as it happens, will now be on Netflix, was roundly praised for its depiction of life on a Northern Cheyenne reservation, with Lou Diamond Phillips, who is of Cherokee descent, playing a Northern Cheyenne man.
Others also point to the success of Mr. Beach, who played a Mohawk detective in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and landed a starring role in the forthcoming D C Comics picture “Suicide Squad.” Mr. Beach said he had come across insulting scripts backed by people who don’t see anything wrong with them.
“I’d rather starve than do something that is offensive to my ancestral roots,” Mr. Beach said. “But I think there will always be attempts to drawn on the weakness of native people’s struggles. The savage Indian will always be the savage Indian. The white man will always be smarter and more cunning. The cavalry will always win.”
The solution, Mr. Wente, Mr. Trudell and others said, lies in getting more stories written by and starring Native Americans. But Mr. Wente noted that while independent indigenous film has blossomed in the last two decades, mainstream depictions have yet to catch up. “You have to stop expecting for Hollywood to correct it, because there seems to be no ability or desire to correct it,” Mr. Wente said.
There have been calls to boycott Netflix but, writing for Indian Country Today Media Network, which first broke news of the walk off, the filmmaker Brian Young noted that the distributor also offered a number of films by or about Native Americans.
The furor around “The Ridiculous Six” may drive more people to see it. Then one of the questions that Mr. Trudell, echoing others, had about the film will be answered: “Who the hell laughs at this stuff?”