saco-inonesia.com, Bupati Tapanuli Tengah Raja Bonaran Situmeang telah mendatangi gedung Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK). Bon

saco-inonesia.com, Bupati Tapanuli Tengah Raja Bonaran Situmeang telah mendatangi gedung Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK). Bonaran datang sekitar pukul 09.00 WIB dengan mengenakan batik cokelat.

Bonaran juga mengaku akan menjalani pemeriksaan sebagai saksi dalam kasus dugaan korupsi penanganan sengketa pilkada di Mahkamah Konstitusi. Menurutnya, dia juga tidak tahu sama sekali mengapa KPK memanggilnya.

"Nanti saya jelaskan habis diperiksa. Apa hubungannya dengan saya, juga  tidak tahu," ujarnya, Jumat (3/1).

Dia pun juga mengaku, tak tahu apakah Akil adalah hakim panel dalam sengketa yang ditanganinya pada 2011 lalu. Diketahui, kemenangan Bonaran dan pasangannya Syukran Jamilan Tanjung sempat digugat ke MK oleh lawannya.

"Saya tidak tahu apakah Akil Mochtar hakim panel (sidang) saya," imbuh mantan pengacara terpidana korupsi Anggodo Widjojo itu.

Bonaran juga juga sempat menjelaskan ketidakhadirannya ketika dipanggil 30 Desember lalu. "Saya juga tidak datang tanggal 30, baru saya terima undangannya 30 malam," katanya.

Saat ditanya apakah dirinya mengenal sosok Daryono dan Muhtar Ependy, yang disebut sebagai kaki tangan Akil, Bonaran juga mengaku tidak mengenal. "Saya tidak kenal sama sekali," tandasnya.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

saco-indonesia.com, Evaluasi Tim Teknis Alsintan Di tengah derasnya produk impor alat dan mesin pertanian, alsintan produ

saco-indonesia.com, Evaluasi Tim Teknis Alsintan Di tengah derasnya produk impor alat dan mesin pertanian, alsintan produksi dalam negeri ternyata telah mampu untuk bertahan. Bahkan kini industri dalam negeri juga sudah mampu untuk memproduksi semua alsintan yang telah dibutuhkan oleh pelaku usaha. Petani pun juga lebih memilih produk dalam negeri ketimbang produk impor dari China, karena tidak dilengkapi dengan layanan purna jual. Lebih menggembirakan lagi, kini telah bermunculan pengrajin kecil alsintan di tengah eksistensi industri besar alsintan. Harapan kini telah berlanjut pada kualitas alsintan produksi mereka, yang perlu ditingkatkan, agar konsumen tidak merasa dirugikan. Pengrajin kecil alsintan juga diharapkan selalu berpedoman SNI dalam memproduksi alsintan agar bermutu baik dan mampu untuk bersaing dengan perusahaan besar. Untuk dapat mengetahui kesesuaian antara mutu alsintan yang diproduksi dengan persyaratan SNI, maka BPMA telah mengadakan kegiatan Evaluasi Tim Teknis. Produk alsintan yang telah diuji oleh laboratorium penguji akan dievaluasi kesesuaiannya dengan persyaratan SNI oleh Tim Teknis. TimTeknis yang telah terdiri dari pakar mutu alsintan yang ditunjuk berdasarkan Kepmentan No. 3775/Kpts/OT.160/9/2011. Model alsintan yang telah memenuhi SNI selanjutnya diterbitkan Surat Keterangan Kesesuaian (SKK), setelah terlebih dahulu disahkan oleh Direktur Mutu dan Standardisasi Ditjen PPHP. Kegiatan yang rutin dilaksanakan sejak tahun 2004 ini telah mengevaluasi sebanyak 354 tipe/model alsintan. Sudah 103 tipe/model alsintan yang dinyatakan berhak memperoleh Surat Keterangan Kesesuaian (SKK). Jenis alsintan yang dibahas telah mencakup Rice Polisher, Rice Milling Unit, Power Thresher, Pengering Gabah traktor roda dua, Pompa Air, Hand Sprayer, Reaper, Corn Sheller, Paddy Husker, Mesin Fogging dan Mist Blower. Terjadi indikasi adanya penurunan jumlah SKK pada tahun 2011. Penurunan ini telah disebabkan sebagian model alsintan tidak lagi menjadi bahan evaluasi Tim Teknis, tetapi dievaluasi oleh Komisi Teknis Lembaga Sertifikasi Produk (LS Pro) BPMA. Sejak terakreditasinya LS Pro Alsintan BPMA pada tahun 2010, LS Pro telah melaksanakan sidang-sidang Komisi Teknis untuk dapat memutuskan alsintan yang berhak diterbitkan Sertifikat Produk Pengguna Tanda SNI (SPPT SNI). Berbeda dengan SKK, SPPT SNI diterbitkan bagi alsintan yang selain telah memenuhi persyaratan SNI, produsen itu juga telah menerapkan Sistem Manajemen Mutu ISO 9001:2008. Sementara SKK, tidak menjadikan penerapan sistem manajemen mutu sebagai bagian persyaratannya. Sampai saat ini SKK juga masih dikeluarkan khusus bagi produsen skala kecil yang belum mampu menerapkan sistem manajemen mutu, namun alsintan yang diproduksinya telah memenuhi SNI. Diharapkan ini juga dapat memotivasi mereka agar dalam berproduksi selalu berpedoman pada SNI. Namun ke depan diharapkan pengrajin alsintan kecil pun juga mampu menerapkan sistem manajemen mutu yang standar, agar konsistensi kualitas alsintan yang diproduksi terjaga dan mampu bersaing dengan produk dari perusahaan besar. Dirat Mutu dan Standardisasi, sebagai pembina produsen alsintan, menjadi ujung tombak untuk kemajuan produsen alsintan kecil menengah ini. Editor : Dian Sukmawati

BALTIMORE — In the afternoons, the streets of Locust Point are clean and nearly silent. In front of the rowhouses, potted plants rest next to steps of brick or concrete. There is a shopping center nearby with restaurants, and a grocery store filled with fresh foods.

And the National Guard and the police are largely absent. So, too, residents say, are worries about what happened a few miles away on April 27 when, in a space of hours, parts of this city became riot zones.

“They’re not our reality,” Ashley Fowler, 30, said on Monday at the restaurant where she works. “They’re not what we’re living right now. We live in, not to be racist, white America.”

As Baltimore considers its way forward after the violent unrest brought by the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died of injuries he suffered while in police custody, residents in its predominantly white neighborhoods acknowledge that they are sometimes struggling to understand what beyond Mr. Gray’s death spurred the turmoil here. For many, the poverty and troubled schools of gritty West Baltimore are distant troubles, glimpsed only when they pass through the area on their way somewhere else.

Photo

 

And so neighborhoods of Baltimore are facing altogether different reckonings after Mr. Gray’s death. In mostly black communities like Sandtown-Winchester, where some of the most destructive rioting played out last week, residents are hoping businesses will reopen and that the police will change their strategies. But in mostly white areas like Canton and Locust Point, some residents wonder what role, if any, they should play in reimagining stretches of Baltimore where they do not live.

“Most of the people are kind of at a loss as to what they’re supposed to do,” said Dr. Richard Lamb, a dentist who has practiced in the same Locust Point office for nearly 39 years. “I listen to the news reports. I listen to the clergymen. I listen to the facts of the rampant unemployment and the lack of opportunities in the area. Listen, I pay my taxes. Exactly what can I do?”

And in Canton, where the restaurants have clever names like Nacho Mama’s and Holy Crepe Bakery and Café, Sara Bahr said solutions seemed out of reach for a proudly liberal city.

“I can only imagine how frustrated they must be,” said Ms. Bahr, 36, a nurse who was out with her 3-year-old daughter, Sally. “I just wish I knew how to solve poverty. I don’t know what to do to make it better.”

The day of unrest and the overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations that followed led to hundreds of arrests, often for violations of the curfew imposed on the city for five consecutive nights while National Guard soldiers patrolled the streets. Although there were isolated instances of trouble in Canton, the neighborhood association said on its website, many parts of southeast Baltimore were physically untouched by the tumult.

Tensions in the city bubbled anew on Monday after reports that the police had wounded a black man in Northwest Baltimore. The authorities denied those reports and sent officers to talk with the crowds that gathered while other officers clutching shields blocked traffic at Pennsylvania and West North Avenues.

Lt. Col. Melvin Russell, a community police officer, said officers had stopped a man suspected of carrying a handgun and that “one of those rounds was spent.”

Colonel Russell said officers had not opened fire, “so we couldn’t have shot him.”

Photo

 

The colonel said the man had not been injured but was taken to a hospital as a precaution. Nearby, many people stood in disbelief, despite the efforts by the authorities to quash reports they described as “unfounded.”

Monday’s episode was a brief moment in a larger drama that has yielded anger and confusion. Although many people said they were familiar with accounts of the police harassing or intimidating residents, many in Canton and Locust Point said they had never experienced it themselves. When they watched the unrest, which many protesters said was fueled by feelings that they lived only on Baltimore’s margins, even those like Ms. Bahr who were pained by what they saw said they could scarcely comprehend the emotions associated with it.

But others, like Lambi Vasilakopoulos, who runs a casual restaurant in Canton, said they were incensed by what unfolded last week.

“What happened wasn’t called for. Protests are one thing; looting is another thing,” he said, adding, “We’re very frustrated because we’re the ones who are going to pay for this.”

There were pockets of optimism, though, that Baltimore would enter a period of reconciliation.

“I’m just hoping for peace,” Natalie Boies, 53, said in front of the Locust Point home where she has lived for 50 years. “Learn to love each other; be patient with each other; find justice; and care.”

A skeptical Mr. Vasilakopoulos predicted tensions would worsen.

“It cannot be fixed,” he said. “It’s going to get worse. Why? Because people don’t obey the laws. They don’t want to obey them.”

But there were few fears that the violence that plagued West Baltimore last week would play out on these relaxed streets. The authorities, Ms. Fowler said, would make sure of that.

“They kept us safe here,” she said. “I didn’t feel uncomfortable when I was in my house three blocks away from here. I knew I was going to be O.K. because I knew they weren’t going to let anyone come and loot our properties or our businesses or burn our cars.”

Ms. von Furstenberg made her debut in the movies and on the Broadway stage in the early 1950s as a teenager and later reinvented herself as a television actress, writer and philanthropist.