GEMASHAFAMARWA, JAKARTA — Momentum tahun baru ini juga berselaras dengan masa liburan sekolah. Tak heran, kata dia, pemina
GEMASHAFAMARWA, JAKARTA — Momentum tahun baru ini juga berselaras dengan masa liburan sekolah. Tak heran, kata dia, peminat berumrah dalam satu rombongan keluarga juga meningkat. Walau tak mengantungi data detail berapa komposisi jumlah jamaah keluarga maupun perorangan namun ia sangat yakin momentum tahun baru dan liburan sekolah memberikan kontribusi yang besar terhadap peningkatan jamaah umrah pada musim ini.
Fuad Hasan Masyur, ketua umum Asosiasi Muslim Penyelenggara Haji dan Umroh Republik Indonesia (AMPHURI) meneropong dengan penuh keyakinan, hingga tahun depan animo masyarakat untuk pergi umrah akan bisa meningkat pesat. Ia memproyeksi akan ada peningkatan sekitar 30 persen untuk jamaah umrah pada 2014. ”Peningkatan itu tentunya sudah mulai terlihat mulai Desember ini,” kata dia, baru-baru ini.
Pendapat serupa juga diaminkan oleh Baluki Ahmad, ketua umum Himpunan Penyelenggara Umroh dan Haji (Himpuh). Ia yakin jumlah jamaah yang hendak umrah pada tahun ini akan lebih banyak dibandingkan dengan tahun lalu. ”Saya memperkirakan pada 2014 ini akan bisa mencapai 800 ribu jamaah,” katanya
Peningkatan jamaah umrah ini, kata Baluki, memang sudah mulai tampak sejak Desember ini. Bulan Desember tahun ini merupakan awal dari musim umrah 2014. Hingga awal tahun depan, kata Baluki, para pengelola travel umrah sudah mengalami kebanjiran calon jamaah. Ia memprediksi peningkatan terbesar kemungkinan terjadi sekitar Juni atau saat memasuki masa liburan sekolah. ”Tak ketinggalan juga pada bulan Ramadhan, jamaah umrah akan lebih banyak lagi,” katanya.
Dengan adanya momentum tahun baru ini, Baluki dan Fuad meyakini para pengelola travel umrah tentunya sudah menyiapkan strategi memikat agar perayaan pergantian tahun menjadi lebih bermakna. ”Ini akan menjadi perayaan tahun baru yang memberi warna bagi kehidupan jamaah. Ini adalah pengalaman yang jarang didapat, tentunya,” kata Baluki menegaskan.
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Cibaduyut adalah sebuah daerah di sekiar kota Bandung bagian selatan. Daerah ini juga terkenal dengan kerajinan sepatunya. Hasil
Cibaduyut adalah sebuah daerah di sekiar kota Bandung bagian selatan. Daerah ini juga terkenal dengan kerajinan sepatunya. Hasil produksi sepatunya biasanya telah dipasarkan langsung di pinggiran jalan Cibaduyut Raya dengan banyaknya kios dan toko sepatu. Sedangkan produksinya ada di gang-gang belakang jalan Cibaduyut.
Untuk dapat mencapai kawasan industri sepatu Cibaduyut, bisa dilakukan dengan banyak cara. Kalau dari Stasiun bisa langsung naik angkot ke Cibaduyut. Demikian juga jika dari terminal Cicaheum maupun dapat ditempuh dengan angkut jurusan Leuwi Panjang.
Sebenarnya, Cibaduyut dekat dengan terminal Leuwi Panjang, jika dari sana tinggal jalan kaki saja sekitar 300 meter sudah sampai kawasan Cibaduyut.
Kualitas sepatu Cibaduyut lumayan bagus, namun ada juga produk yang dijual murah di Cibaduyut, namun produk berasal dari luar kota semisal sandal dan sepatu murah dari Tasik maupun Ciomas Bogor.
Kawasan Cibaduyut ini juga lumayan sangat padat dan parkir relative sulit serta kondisi jalan yang tidak begitu lebar. Jadi anda harus ekstra sabar untuk bisa mendapatkan parkir.
Oiya, jika anda mau beli sepatu, gunakan penawaran terbaik. Sepatu yang dijual di Cibaduyut sistemnya tawar menawar, meskipun kadang sudah di bandrol.
Mengenai puncak kunjungan, biasanya telah terjadi saat liburan sekolah atau hari Sabtu-Minggu dimana orang banyak berlibur ke Bandung. Jadi pada kondisi tersebut, jelas Cibaduyut biasanya macet.
From sea to shining sea, or at least from one side of the Hudson to the other, politicians you have barely heard of are being accused of wrongdoing. There were so many court proceedings involving public officials on Monday that it was hard to keep up.
In Newark, two underlings of Gov. Chris Christie were arraigned on charges that they were in on the truly deranged plot to block traffic leading onto the George Washington Bridge.
Ten miles away, in Lower Manhattan, Dean G. Skelos, the leader of the New York State Senate, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on accusations of far more conventional political larceny, involving a job with a sewer company for the son and commissions on title insurance and bond work.
The younger man managed to receive a 150 percent pay increase from the sewer company even though, as he said on tape, he “literally knew nothing about water or, you know, any of that stuff,” according to a criminal complaint the United States attorney’s office filed.
The success of Adam Skelos, 32, was attributed by prosecutors to his father’s influence as the leader of the Senate and as a potentate among state Republicans. The indictment can also be read as one of those unfailingly sad tales of a father who cannot stop indulging a grown son. The senator himself is not alleged to have profited from the schemes, except by being relieved of the burden of underwriting Adam.
The bridge traffic caper is its own species of crazy; what distinguishes the charges against the two Skeloses is the apparent absence of a survival instinct. It is one thing not to know anything about water or that stuff. More remarkable, if true, is the fact that the sewer machinations continued even after the former New York Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, was charged in January with taking bribes disguised as fees.
It was by then common gossip in political and news media circles that Senator Skelos, a Republican, the counterpart in the Senate to Mr. Silver, a Democrat, in the Assembly, could be next in line for the criminal dock. “Stay tuned,” the United States attorney, Preet Bharara said, leaving not much to the imagination.
Even though the cat had been unmistakably belled, Skelos father and son continued to talk about how to advance the interests of the sewer company, though the son did begin to use a burner cellphone, the kind people pay for in cash, with no traceable contracts.
That was indeed prudent, as prosecutors had been wiretapping the cellphones of both men. But it would seem that the burner was of limited value, because by then the prosecutors had managed to secure the help of a business executive who agreed to record calls with the Skeloses. It would further seem that the business executive was more attentive to the perils of pending investigations than the politician.
Through the end of the New York State budget negotiations in March, the hopes of the younger Skelos rested on his father’s ability to devise legislation that would benefit the sewer company. That did not pan out. But Senator Skelos did boast that he had haggled with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, in a successful effort to raise a $150 million allocation for Long Island to $550 million, for what the budget called “transformative economic development projects.” It included money for the kind of work done by the sewer company.
The lawyer for Adam Skelos said he was not guilty and would win in court. Senator Skelos issued a ringing declaration that he was unequivocally innocent.
THIS was also the approach taken in New Jersey by Bill Baroni, a man of great presence and eloquence who stopped outside the federal courthouse to note that he had taken risks as a Republican by bucking his party to support paid family leave, medical marijuana and marriage equality. “I would never risk my career, my job, my reputation for something like this,” Mr. Baroni said. “I am an innocent man.”
The lawyer for his co-defendant, Bridget Anne Kelly, the former deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, a Republican, said that she would strongly rebut the charges.
Perhaps they had nothing to do with the lane closings. But neither Mr. Baroni nor Ms. Kelly addressed the question of why they did not return repeated calls from the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., begging them to stop the traffic tie-ups, over three days.
That silence was a low moment. But perhaps New York hit bottom faster. Senator Skelos, the prosecutors charged, arranged to meet Long Island politicians at the wake of Wenjian Liu, a New York City police officer shot dead in December, to press for payments to the company employing his son.
Sometimes it seems as though for some people, the only thing to be ashamed of is shame itself.