a simple thought

I can see that there are still so many cases similar like stories below.. I just cant help it.. i dont know what and how to say to relieve my feeling for this things. How come a mother sold her own daughter to strangers? how come she made her only daughter become a prostitute?? this world goin insane..!

Sejak rencana penangkapan ibu kandungnya mulai disusun, kondisi psikologis Lara terguncang hebat. Batinnya berada pada dua kutub perasaan yang mendasari pilihan sikap yang saling bertentangan: satu sisi ingin melepaskan diri dari eksploitasi seks yang dimotori ibu kandungnya, di sisi lain sebagai anak dia merasa ”wajib” untuk berbakti. ”Apakah perbuatan saya ini berdosa, Bu?” tanya Lara kepada Kepala Unit Remaja Kejahatan dan Anak (Renakta) pada Direktorat Reserse Kriminal Umum Polda Metropolitan Jakarta Raya Komisaris Sri Suari beberapa waktu lalu. Pertanyaan itu diajukan di saat polisi tengah meyakinkan keluarga besar Kh (44)—ibu kandung Lara dan saudara-saudara Lara. Di tengah pemahaman subkultur dari adat ketimuran yang begitu tunduk pada seorang ibu, pertanyaan yang diajukan Lara tentu tidak bisa dijawab dengan mudah. Apalagi ketika pemahaman tentang keberbaktian itu begitu merasuk ke dalam setiap relung hati dan tingkah laku serta berbuatan Lara sejak kecil, baik karena penga...

Damn... gw ga tau mesti kasih stempel apa ke seorang IBU yang seperti ini... Jahat! Keterlaluan.. . Kompas, 23 Februari 2006 Hal. 1 wrote .. Entah hari-hari macam apa yang akan dilalui Lara (18), sebut saja begitu. Sejak kelas II SMP atau usia 14 tahun, ia ”dijual” oleh ibu kandungnya kepada laki-laki hidung belang. Wanita setengah baya itu duduk di halte bus Pasar Jumat di depan Gedung Sekolah Lanjut Perwira Kepolisian Negara RI, Jakarta Selatan, Rabu (22/2). Dari pakaian yang dikenakannya, sepintas ia seperti wanita baik-baik. Mengenakan pakaian warna kuning lengan panjang, wanita itu terlihat gelisah seperti menanti seseorang. ”Maaf, jam berapa, Mas?” tanyanya singkat. ”Jam 13.40,” jawab Kompas yang sedang berada di halte tersebut. Lima menit berlalu. Wanita itu melepas kacamata bening berbingkai kuning dan memasukkannya ke dalam tas hitam yang sejak awal ia dekap erat. Kegelisahannya makin terlihat jelas ketika berkali-kali dia menebar pandangan, seakan tak sabar menunggu ked...

Tahukah Anda jika selama ini cinta yang pernah Anda rasakan itu adalah sebuah bagian dari proses kimia, sebuah proses yang membuat Anda merasakan sesuatu yang 'aneh' pada diri Anda. Meskipun kita tahu cinta sendiri ga selalu datang dari 'mata turun ke hati'. Namun dalam sebuah penelitian cinta justru datang dari indera menuju rasio dulu, maksudnya dari mata diolah ke otak sebelum menuju ke hati. Sehingga otaklah yang jadi 'pusat pengendali' proses cinta itu. Memang cinta datang lewat indera dari mata, hidung, kulit ataupun telinga. Sinyal-sinyal dari alat indera itu lantas merangsang otak untuk memproduksi sejumlah senyawa kimia yg kemudian menyebar ke seluruh tubuh. Otherway, Love is chemical process, not just emotions!! So, bukan sesuatu yang aneh jika orang jatuh cinta suka tersenyum tersipu-sipu, wajah memerah, tangan berkeringat dingin atau nafas jadi tak teratur. That's all chimical process of love . Para ahli mengatakan, seperti dikutip dari Time Mag...

‘PR cuts through clutter using third party endorsements. Buzz occurs when people talk about you versus advertising when you are talking about yourself”, Jerry Schwartz – veteran US PR agency owner. PR has always worked to disseminate messages through influencers – independent 3rd parties. When they say good things about an organisation, person, product or service it usually confers more credibility than if you tried to say it yourself. Traditionally media has been the main PR influencer – and getting implied endorsement from the media is still one of the most powerful tools. But now PR is taking the influencer model further and starting to use it to create word-of-mouth ‘buzz’. And a lot of the campaigns don’t even involve using the media! So who are influencers? They are individuals with the power to sway or affect attitude or behaviour based on their prestige, ability or position. Or “expertise from people who can’t afford to lie,” according to Faith Popcorn. Why are they important t...

The modern rules of advertising? AD BREAKDOWN The Magazine's review of advertising Men are tired of their portrayal in advertising, according to a new book by Michael Buerk. But images of men behaving stupidly is not the only cliche which irritates writer John Camm. Dad in muddy boots walking blithely across a kitchen floor just cleaned by an e xasperated mum who just gives a frustrated but loving smile to her giggly children, who cry out: "Da-a-ad!". Just one advertising cliche, and just one where no-one behaves like people really do. It's the kind of thing which irritates John Camm. "It's tiresome to see male characters in adverts who don't resemble anyone you know," he says. "But what's perhaps worse is the absolute reliance of advertising on its own regurgitated cliches." He has drawn up a list of seemingly unwritten rules which, he concludes, might as well be the Advertising Bible. Add your views to his list...

Over decades of working in PR, I have had occasion to meet practitioners who are obsessed about staying on message. They have a set of bullet points on a sheet or PowerPoint slides, and they repeat the points over and over. Ask any question that expands the points, and their response is the points. Try to get them off the points, and they come back to the points. The points are everything and if they say them often enough, they believe they will beat you down until you too believe the points. I call this plastic PR because it is a facsimile of relationship building that PR espouses and not real relationship building at all. In real PR, one listens to the other side and explains a message in as many ways as it takes to get the other party to understand. That, by the way, is staying on message too but in a more human way. Perhaps the most plastic of PR practitioners are those trained in political campaigns. They are reluctant to use any words but the approved ones because they fear -- an...

As the mass media descends into semi-irrelevance, blogging is ascending. Blogs have driven US Senator Lott from power, outed a GOP flack who was asking softball questions for Bush during press conferences and working as a gay escort at night, and caused a CNN executive to resign for remarks at an international conference. Even the journalism school at the University of California, Berkeley, now plans to offer a graduate-level course in blogs. As a result, branding executives must pay greater attention to blogs in three ways. First, they must distribute their story to blogs, for much the same reasons that they have sought to distribute their story to print, radio and TV media for decades. Second, they must use blogs as a corporate and crisis communications tool. Finally, they must use blogs as a periscope that can provide insights into what customers, prospects and even the disenchanted are saying about offerings. For those who seek to communicate a brand story through blogs...