[nasional_list] Re: [ppiindia] Teach a man to fish

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Indonesia, yang dipentingkan tempel titel.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ANDREAS MIHARDJA" <mihardja@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ppiindia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [ppiindia] Teach a man to fish


> Meskipun saya tidak 100% setuju dgn cara Sukarno bekerja [presiden se-umur 
> hidup dan banyak persoalan lain yg aneh] satu hal yg saya kagumi adalah 
> teach men to fish and not give them fish.  Ini pricipe dia pakai. Dia 
> mengirim banyak sekali mahasiswa2 keluar Indonesia dgn atau tanpa bantuan 
> negara atau dgn scholarship luar negeri  Kita betul2 dididik menjadi self 
> reliance dan pengetahuan kita [karena kebanyakan kita graduate study] 
> mengikuti standard international - tetapi Suharto malah mempersulit dan 
> kalau keIndonesia malah dikirim kepulau ---- atau seperti banyak collega 
> hanya tinggal namanya. - karena berpikiran sosialis atau liberal.
> Kita diluar negeri tidak mungkin melarat kecuali mendapat kesulitan dari 
> Suharto cs, Kita kan sudah mendapat pendidikan yg above standard. 
> Achirnya kita semua kebanyakan mendapat posisi diluar Indonesia dan banyak 
> yg menjadi pemimpin negara yg menerima mereka with open arms.  Banyak yg 
> mendapat posisi di organisasi international.  Apakah ini bukan buang 
> kapital negara??
> Andreas
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> Ambon <sea@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/630038.html
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>            Wed., September 28, 2005 Elul 24, 5765|  |Israel Time:  01:44 
> (EST+7)
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>      Teach a man to fish
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>      By Idit Weiss
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>      The approach of the High Holidays witnesses a huge surge in food 
> collection campaigns, boosted by the media. Huge notices in the newspapers 
> announce that one Israeli child in three lives in poverty, as an 
> introduction to food collection campaigns organized by non-profit 
> associations, commercial companies and the media itself. That figure is 
> correct. The Poverty Report indeed determined that in 2004, one-third of 
> Israeli children come from poor families, and that the problem of poverty 
> has spread and worsened in the past year.
>
>      What is most outrageous about the notices, however, is the erroneous 
> assumption that a donations campaign can solve or reduce the poverty 
> problem. Not only do these campaigns not solve poverty, they are liable to 
> hamper an effective plan to reduce it. Reliance on the tradition of relief 
> aid and charity, instead of a concerted effort by the government, may only 
> exacerbate the poverty problem.
>
>      These campaigns do not provide a family with a secure and regular 
> source of income, nor do they reduce the costs of health care and 
> education. They can also create a feeling among the public that relief aid 
> and charity are the effective ways for coping with poverty, and only if we 
> are merciful enough and give money through these campaigns (and not via 
> taxes) will poverty be solved. These campaigns are also liable to detract 
> from the understanding that the main responsibility for solving this 
> problem lies with the government.
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>      The truth must be spoken. Poverty cannot be solved by charity, and 
> many children will continue to live in poverty long after these campaigns 
> are over. The deepening of this poverty and its worsening among children 
> in Israel is due, first and foremost, to the continuing policy of the 
> erosion of the welfare state: the slashing of child allowances, the 
> erosion of stipends to families who work for low wages or families in 
> which the breadwinner cannot find a job; the lack of enforcement of the 
> minimum wage law; and the continuing privatization of the health care and 
> education systems.
>
>      The public must be informed that poverty can be solved, it is not a 
> "decree from heaven" that requires acts of kindness. Many governments 
> around the world are succeeding, via long-term policies, to reduce the 
> dimensions of poverty. There is a broad range of effective strategies for 
> reducing poverty, both in the long and short term, that the government 
> could adopt. These strategies include:
>
>      Transfer payments: The government should cancel the massive slashing 
> of child allowances; increase guaranteed income stipends in order to 
> ensure that people can live in dignity; prevent further restrictions in 
> the unemployment insurance law; and ease some of the conditions for 
> eligibility for unemployment benefits.
>
>      Fiscal welfare: tax credits for workers, and for parents in 
> particular. The government should require dignified employment terms for 
> workers: social benefits and a feeling of security and continuity.
>
>      Arrangements that would lead to a reduction in discrimination against 
> Arab workers in the job market.
>
>      Investments in education. Studies show that education open to all - 
> including the relevant professional training for integration into the work 
> force, education whose quality is not dependent on the parents' income, 
> that offers a real opportunity for learning to all sectors of the public - 
> leads to a significant reduction in poverty.
>
>      With the approach of the High Holidays, it would be better for the 
> public to channel its energies and emotions not only toward charity and 
> kindness, but all the more so toward stern demands on the government to 
> take proven measures to dispel poverty. Succor and charity are welcome 
> traditions as long as they occupy a marginal (and usually unassuming) 
> place in society; as long as there is no reliance on them as a main means 
> for coping with poverty.
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>      The writer is a senior lecturer at the Bob Shapell School of Social 
> Work, Tel Aviv University.
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