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-Fenomena “Local Bossism” dan Kegagalan Partai Politik-

Oleh: Nofia Fitri (INSPESIA Researcher)

Pada dasarnya aku bukan tipikal "student" yang begitu tertarik dengan riset-riset tentang Desentralisasi dan bagaimana implementasi otonomi daerah itu sendiri di Indonesia. Apalagi faktanya di negeri ini, memberikan kewenangan kepada daerah justru memperbesar potensi korupsi dan authority para penguasa-penguasa lokal, ditambah lagi bargaining antar Partai dengan para pemilik modal yang birahi terhadap kekuasaan Politik.

Artikel berikut adalah sedikit pandangan ku tentang apa yang terjadi di Banten dan Fenomena Local Bossism.

Alhamdulillah artikel ini cukup mendapat apresiasi dari Dosen ku Ibu Riaty Rafiudin Ph.D, tapi bukan pada penyajian analisisnya, karena jujur metode pengumpulan data melalui kepustakaan tidaklah cukup menjawab permasalahan yang diangkat. Namun teknik penulisan dan gaya bahasa yang dipakai yang menampillkan orisinalitas seorang penulis akademis.

Thanks God, sedikit semangat untuk mengembalikan produktivitas seorang Penulis (baca: Peneliti) ditahun 2018.

Semoga bermanfaat kawan-kawan! ;)

http://nofiafitri.id/fenomena-local-bossism-dan-kegagalan-partai-politik/.html

one universal truth: no matter what language you are learning, no matter your native language, prepositions are a bitch

Menjejaki Sistem Cybersecurity Pemerintah Indonesia Terpusat

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Cybersecurity menjadi isu yang nyaris mencuri perhatian publik dan semua kalangan dari berbagai latar belakang, khususnya ditengah-tengah mencuatnya isu penyadapan baru-baru ini. Kelemahan-kelemahan Pemerintah Indonesia di level cybersecurity pun menjadi sorotan dunia, baik di lingkungan regional maupun global. Pemerintah Indonesia tidak bisa sepenuhnya menyalahkan pihak negara Penyerang dalam hal kelemahan sistem yang berhasil di exploitasi tanpa pertanggungjawaban diplomatik dalam isu penyadapan misalnya, melainkan juga harus mengoreksi sistem keamanan negara itu sendiri.

Banyak kritik bermunculan dari berbagai kalangan, khususnya peneliti-peneliti Cyber Security asing terkait sistem keamanan siber Indonesia, diantaranya yaitu kurang sinerginya kerja lembaga-lembaga atau think-tank Pemerintah di bidang keamanan siber dalam fungsi-fungsinya. Mengutip pernyataan Kathleen Rustici[i]:

“Indonesia faces numerous challenges in developing its Cybersecurity capabilities, including coordinating across a large and difuse government. Currently, the government has no coordinated strategy for cybersecurity.... “

Kemudian, mempertimbangkan masukan dari berbagai pihak yang mengkaji isu-isu Cybersecurity Indonesia, diantaranya:

              “As Indonesia continues to develop rapidly and increase its cyber dependency in the process, the country will become more vulnerable toa growing number of sopisthicated threats, some of which may be politically motivated, hence Indonesia must put cybersecurity into a wider societal context and make necessary preparation to meet this challenge.”[ii]

  Dengan demikian, diantara yang menjadi kebutuhan dalam upaya meningkatkan Sistem Keamanan Sistem Siber Indonesia adalah merespon inisiasi-inisiatif yang masuk dari berbagai pihak tersebut.

Diantaranya persoalan penting terkait sistem keamanan siber negara ini, yang dapat dirangkum adalah: pertama,lemahnya regulasi-regulasi Pemerintah dalam pengaturan cybersecurity, serta payung kebijakan terkait peningkatan sistem keamanan siber yang belum berdiri atas dasar kesepakatan pihak-pihak yang bekerja di bidang keamanan itu sendiri. Persoalan kedua adalah tingkat kesadaran publik tentang pentingnya menjaga Keamanan Siber sebagai kebutuhan bersama dan tanggung jawab berbagai pihak. Persoalan terakhir, yang sangat penting sebagaimana dipaparkan sebelumnya adalah lemahnya kordinasi antara lembaga-lembaga keamanan negara yang terlibat dalam tanggungjawab Cybersecurity Indonesia.

  Solusi Infrastruktur IT yang Terpusat

Melihat kebutuhan akan kerjasama sistem keamanan yang lebih terkordinasi tersebut, adapun upaya yang mungkin dilakukan oleh Pemerintah dalam hal ini adalah menciptakan insfrastruktur IT yang terpusat, dimana pengelolaan-pengelolaan sistem dimasing-masing lembaga pemerintahan diatur oleh pemegang otoritas khusus. Lembaga ini kemudian berfungsi mengawasi seluruh jaringan internet pemerintah yang sebelumnya terpisah karena kebijakan masing-masing lembaga pemerintahan.

Ketika sebuah sistem keamanan ciber dibangun dibawah kordinasi Pemerintah atau secara terpusat, seluruh penyelenggara keamanan di tingkat lembaga-lembaga pemerintahan seperti kementrian, lembaga-lembaga militer dan lembaga-lembaga non-government –yang ter’hired- yang terlibat di dalam penyelenggaraan sistem keamanan cybersecurity tersebut harus berkordinasi dalam satu ruang kerja dibawah kendali pemerintah. Model sistem keamanan ciber terpusat sudah menjadi perhatian banyak kalangan dan diterapkan dibeberapa negara di dunia, seperti China dan Amerika Serikat.

Bagan dibawah ini adalah model akuisisi sistem keamanan siber yang diterapkan di Amerika Serikat:[iii]

  Menghadapi ancaman-ancaman cybersecurity Indonesia kedepan yang menjadi tanggungjawab Pemerintah, serta indikasi Pemerintah itu sendiri menjadi target atau sasaran dari kepentingan-kepentingan lewat dunia maya, Pemerintah sudah seharusnya merumuskan suatu bentuk sistem keamanan cyber yang memperhatikan pentingnya lembaga-lembaga Pemerintahan bekerja dibawah kendali keamanan terpusat. Dengan demikian, membangun infrastruktur IT negara yang terkordinasi atau terpusat, akan lebih mempermudah Pemerintah dalam melakukan pengawasan serta mencari solusi persoalan-persoalan keamanan cyber dimasa datang.

  [i]Kathleen Rustici, Indonesia’s Cybersecurity: An Opportunity for Deeper Cooperation, November 26, 2013, Center for Strategic and International Studies.

[ii]“Making the Cybersecurity Challenge in Indonesia: An Executive Summary”, DAKA Advisory, March, 2013.

[iii]Rita Creel, “Assuring Software System Security: Life Cycle Considerations for Government Acquisitions”, June 2007, Curnegie Mellon University, sources: https://buildsecurityin.us-cert.gov/articles/best-practices/acquisition/assuring-software-systems-security---life-cycle-considerations-government-acquisitions

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Do yourself a favor. Learn to code. Here's how.

I’ve said this to my non-techie friends countless times. It’s no secret that being able to code makes you a better job applicant, and a better entrepreneur. Hell, one techie taught a homeless man to code and now that man is making his first mobile application.

Learning to code elevates your professional life, and makes you more knowledgeable about the massive changes taking place in the technology sector that are poised to have an immense influence on human life.

(note: yes I realize that 3/5 of those links were Google projects)

But most folks are intimidated by coding. And it does seem intimidating at first. But peel away the obscurity and the difficulty, and you start to learn that coding, at least at its basic level, is a very manageable, learnable skill.

There are a lot of resources out there to teach you. I’ve found a couple to be particularly successful. Here’s my list of resources for learning to code, sorted by difficulty:

Novice

Never written a line of code before? No worries. Just visit one of these fine resources and follow their high-level tutorials. You won’t get into the nitty-gritty, but don’t worry about it for now:

Dash - by General Assembly

CodeAcademy

w3 Tutorials (start at HTML on the left sidebar and work your way down)

Intermediate

Now that you’ve gone through a handful of basic tutorials, it’s time to learn the fundamentals of actual, real-life coding problems. I’ve found these resources to be solid:

Khan Academy

CodeAcademy - Ruby, Python, PHP

Difficult

If you’re here, you’re capable of building things. You know the primitives. You know the logic control statements. You’re ready to start making real stuff take shape. Here are some different types of resources to turn you from someone who knows how to code, into a full-fledged programmer.

Programming problems

Sometimes, the challenges in programming aren’t how to make a language do a task, but just how to do the task in general. Like how to find an item in a very large, sorted list, without checking each element. Here are some resources for those types of problems

Talentbuddy

TopCoder

Web Applications

If you learned Python, Django is an amazing platform for creating quick-and-easy web applications. I’d highly suggest the tutorial - it’s one of the best I’ve ever used, and you have a web app up and running in less than an hour.

Django Tutorial

I’ve never used Rails, but it’s a very popular and powerful framework for creating web applications using Ruby. I’d suggest going through their guide to start getting down-and-dirty with Rails development.

Rails Guide

If you know PHP, there’s an ocean of good stuff out there for you to learn how to make a full-fledged web application. Frameworks do a lot of work for you, and provide quick and easy guides to get up and running. I’d suggest the following:

Cake PHP Book

Symfony 2 - Get Started

Yii PHP - The Comprehensive Guide

Conclusion

If there’s one point I wanted to get across, it’s that it is easier than ever to learn to code. There are resources on every corner of the internet for potential programmers, and the benefits of learning even just the basics are monumental.

If you know of any additional, great resources that aren’t listed here, please feel free to tweet them to me @boomeyer.

Best of luck!

Past Participant Q&A: Joshua from Kenya

Joshua Ogure, 34, is applying knowledge gained from the UNAOC-EF Summer School to bring about positive social change in Kibera– one of Africa’s largest urban slums. The Map Kibera Trust is helping transform the Nairobi slum into a thriving, vibrant community by putting it on the map. Literally. It empowers residents to digitally map their vast community for the very first time. Through his coordination role with the Map Kibera Education project, Joshua is working to make educational information easily accessible to everyone in Kibera. He also works with the Kibera News Network, which enables the community to share their stories with the world.

Can you tell us more about your work with the Map Kibera Trust?

Yes, I work with Map Kibera Trust, which has three programs. These are the mapping program, the Voice of Kibera (which is an SMS reporting platform), and the Kibera News Network, which is where I work. We have recently started a project called ‘Humans of Kibera’ that is inspired by Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York.  Map Kibera’s mandate is to increase influence and representation of marginalized communities through the creative use of digital technology for positive action.

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FAMOUS AUTHORS

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.

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Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.

The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.

Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

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MATH AND SCIENCE

FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.

Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.

Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.

Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.

FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.

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byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.

Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.

International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.

Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.

Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.

Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.

The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.

Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.

PLAYS

ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.

Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”

ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE

Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.

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Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.

Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.

Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.

The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.

Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.

John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.

SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.

Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.

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Project Laurens Jz Coster: Find Dutch literature here.

ATHENA Textes Francais: Search by author’s name, French books, or books written by other authors but translated into French.

Liber Liber: Download Italian books here. Browse by author, title, or subject.

Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.

Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.

KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.

Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.

Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.

Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.

Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.

Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.

Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.

CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.

Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.

HISTORY AND CULTURE

LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.

The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.

Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.

Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.

Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

RARE BOOKS

Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.

Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.

Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.

2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.

Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.

Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.

Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.

Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.

MYSTERY

MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.

TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.

Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.

POETRY

The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.

Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.

Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.

CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.

PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.

World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.

DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.

A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.

Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.

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Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.

Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

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