Ini Reaksi Istri Anas saat KPK Sita Harta Suaminya
Athiyya Laila , istri Anas Urbaningrum, tersangka dalam kasus dugaan penerimaan gratifikasi terkait dalam proyek pembangunan sport center di Bukit Hambalang, Bogor, Jawa Barat, dan pencucian uang, kembali menjenguk suaminya yang kini telah mendekam di Rutan KPK.
Athiyya Laila , istri Anas Urbaningrum, tersangka dalam kasus dugaan penerimaan gratifikasi terkait dalam proyek pembangunan sport center di Bukit Hambalang, Bogor, Jawa Barat, dan pencucian uang, kembali menjenguk suaminya yang kini telah mendekam di Rutan KPK.
Saat tiba di Gedung KPK, Kamis (13/3/2014) pagi, Athiyya tampak membawa sebuah map warna merah. Seperti biasanya, perempuan berhijab ini tidak mengeluarkan pernyataan dari mulutnya.
Bahkan, ketika disinggung ihwal kasus pencucian uang dan aset suaminya yang telah disita KPK, tetap menutup rapat mulutnya dan hanya melontarkan senyum.
Sekedar diketahui, sejumlah aset yang telah disita KPK, diantaranya merupakan aset yang diatasnamakan ayah Athiyya, Attabik Ali. Dalam perkara yang ditangani KPK telah menetapkan Anas bukan hanya dalam kasus penerimaan gratifikasi, tetapi ia juga ditetapkan sebagai tersangka pencucian uang.
Aset milik mantan Ketua Umum Partai Demokrat itu, beberapa diantaranya telah disita oleh KPK, yakni dua bidang tanah di Kelurahan Mantrirejo, Yogyakarta dengan luas 7.670 M2 dan 200 M2 atas nama Attabik Ali.
Kemudian, tanah dan bangunan di Jalan Selat Makasar C9/22 di Duren Sawit, Jakarta Timur, serta tiga bidang tanah di Desa Panggungharjo, Bantul atas nama Dina Az, anak Attabik Ali.
Para Pekerja di Jeddah Rusuh Membakar gedung Konsulat RI
Ribuan
pekerja Indonesia di Jeddah, Arab Saudi, dikabarkan mengamuk di Konsulat Jendral RI, Minggu
(9/6/2013) waktu setempat.
JEDDAH, Saco-Indonesia.com - Ribuan pekerja Indonesia di Jeddah, Arab
Saudi, dikabarkan mengamuk di Konsulat Jendral RI, Minggu (9/6/2013) waktu setempat. Mereka
membakar beragam perkakas di pintu masuk konsulat, dan berusaha menerobos untuk melakukan
pembakaran gedung. Aksi tersebut dipicu kemarahan atas proses dokumen
perjalanan.
"Kami masih memeriksa apakah ada korban atau
berapa banyak pekerja terluka," kata Duta Besar Indonesia untuk Arab Saudi, Gatot Abdullah
Mansyur seperti dikutip Arab News. Dia mengatakan bahwa semua diplomat dan staf konsuler
aman.
Kru Pertahanan Sipil, polisi, pasukan khusus dan ambulans Bulan Sabit Merah
turun ke tempat kejadian untuk memulihkan ketertiban. Jalan menuju ke konsulat ditutup.
Saksi
mata mengatakan api masih menyala hingga pukul 22.00 waktu setempat. Petugas pemadam kebakaran
pun masih terlihat berupaya memadamkannya.
Kerusuhan ini adalah buntut insiden pada Sabtu (8/6/2013). Saat itu para pekerja
perempuan Indonesia "menyerbu" konsulat untuk mendapatkan dokumen perjalanan.
Setidaknya tiga perempuan terluka dan pingsan.
Para pekerja Indonesia di Arab
Saudi yang tak memiliki izin bekerja, punya tenggat waktu hingga 3 Juli 2013 untuk
"melegalkan" keberadaan dan aktivitas mereka. Dokumen yang harus dipastikan mereka
miliki adalah visa kerja.
Perseteruan antara para pekerja, polisi, dan pejabat konsulat diduga dipicu frustasi
para pekerja karena lamanya proses pengurusan dokumen dan kurangnya pengorganisasian di
konsulat. "Kami telah mengalami masalah dengan konsulat sejak kami tiba dua
hari lalu," kata seorang asisten rumah tangga dari Indonesia, yang tidak ingin namanya
dipublikasikan. "Kemarin saya jatuh dan terluka
karena konsulat tidak tahu apa yang mereka lakukan dan tidak bisa mengendalikan
massa."
Pekeja lainnya yang mengaku bekerja
di bidang konstruksi, mengeluh dia tidak bisa masuk ke konsulat untuk mengurus dokumen
perjalanan. "Percayalah, sekarang saya hanya ingin pulang,"
kata dia.
G.O.P. Hopefuls Now Aiming to Woo the Middle Class
WASHINGTON — The last three men to win the Republican nomination have been the prosperous son of a president (George W. Bush), a senator who could not recall how many homes his family owned (John McCain of Arizona; it was seven) and a private equity executive worth an estimated $200 million (Mitt Romney).
The candidates hoping to be the party’s nominee in 2016 are trying to create a very different set of associations. On Sunday, Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, joined the presidential field.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida praises his parents, a bartender and a Kmart stock clerk, as he urges audiences not to forget “the workers in our hotel kitchens, the landscaping crews in our neighborhoods, the late-night janitorial staff that clean our offices.”
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a preacher’s son, posts on Twitter about his ham-and-cheese sandwiches and boasts of his coupon-clipping frugality. His $1 Kohl’s sweater has become a campaign celebrity in its own right.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky laments the existence of “two Americas,” borrowing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s phrase to describe economically and racially troubled communities like Ferguson, Mo., and Detroit.
“Some say, ‘But Democrats care more about the poor,’ ” Mr. Paul likes to say. “If that’s true, why is black unemployment still twice white unemployment? Why has household income declined by $3,500 over the past six years?”
We are in the midst of the Empathy Primary — the rhetorical battleground shaping the Republican presidential field of 2016.
Harmed by the perception that they favor the wealthy at the expense of middle-of-the-road Americans, the party’s contenders are each trying their hardest to get across what the elder George Bush once inelegantly told recession-battered voters in 1992: “Message: I care.”
Their ability to do so — less bluntly, more sincerely — could prove decisive in an election year when power, privilege and family connections will loom large for both parties.
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Questions of understanding and compassion cost Republicans in the last election. Mr. Romney, who memorably dismissed the “47 percent” of Americans as freeloaders, lost to President Obama by 63 percentage points among voters who cast their ballots for the candidate who “cares about people like me,” according to exit polls.
And a Pew poll from February showed that people still believe Republicans are indifferent to working Americans: 54 percent said the Republican Party does not care about the middle class.
That taint of callousness explains why Senator Ted Cruz of Texas declared last week that Republicans “are and should be the party of the 47 percent” — and why another son of a president, Jeb Bush, has made economic opportunity the centerpiece of his message.
With his pedigree and considerable wealth — since he left the Florida governor’s office almost a decade ago he has earned millions of dollars sitting on corporate boards and advising banks — Mr. Bush probably has the most complicated task making the argument to voters that he understands their concerns.
On a visit last week to Puerto Rico, Mr. Bush sounded every bit the populist, railing against “elites” who have stifled economic growth and innovation. In the kind of economy he envisions leading, he said: “We wouldn’t have the middle being squeezed. People in poverty would have a chance to rise up. And the social strains that exist — because the haves and have-nots is the big debate in our country today — would subside.”
Republicans’ emphasis on poorer and working-class Americans now represents a shift from the party’s longstanding focus on business owners and “job creators” as the drivers of economic opportunity.
This is intentional, Republican operatives said.
In the last presidential election, Republicans rushed to defend business owners against what they saw as hostility by Democrats to successful, wealthy entrepreneurs.
“Part of what you had was a reaction to the Democrats’ dehumanization of business owners: ‘Oh, you think you started your plumbing company? No you didn’t,’ ” said Grover Norquist, the conservative activist and president of Americans for Tax Reform.
But now, Mr. Norquist said, Republicans should move past that. “Focus on the people in the room who know someone who couldn’t get a job, or a promotion, or a raise because taxes are too high or regulations eat up companies’ time,” he said. “The rich guy can take care of himself.”
Democrats argue that the public will ultimately see through such an approach because Republican positions like opposing a minimum-wage increase and giving private banks a larger role in student loans would hurt working Americans.
“If Republican candidates are just repeating the same tired policies, I’m not sure that smiling while saying it is going to be enough,” said Guy Cecil, a Democratic strategist who is joining a “super PAC” working on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Republicans have already attacked Mrs. Clinton over the wealth and power she and her husband have accumulated, caricaturing her as an out-of-touch multimillionaire who earns hundreds of thousands of dollars per speech and has not driven a car since 1996.
Mr. Walker hit this theme recently on Fox News, pointing to Mrs. Clinton’s lucrative book deals and her multiple residences. “This is not someone who is connected with everyday Americans,” he said. His own net worth, according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is less than a half-million dollars; Mr. Walker also owes tens of thousands of dollars on his credit cards.
But showing off a cheap sweater or boasting of a bootstraps family background not only helps draw a contrast with Mrs. Clinton’s latter-day affluence, it is also an implicit argument against Mr. Bush.
Mr. Walker, who featured a 1998 Saturn with more than 100,000 miles on the odometer in a 2010 campaign ad during his first run for governor, likes to talk about flipping burgers at McDonald’s as a young person. His mother, he has said, grew up on a farm with no indoor plumbing until she was in high school.
Mr. Rubio, among the least wealthy members of the Senate, with an estimated net worth of around a half-million dollars, uses his working-class upbringing as evidence of the “exceptionalism” of America, “where even the son of a bartender and a maid can have the same dreams and the same future as those who come from power and privilege.”
Mr. Cruz alludes to his family’s dysfunction — his parents, he says, were heavy drinkers — and recounts his father’s tale of fleeing Cuba with $100 sewn into his underwear.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey notes that his father paid his way through college working nights at an ice cream plant.
But sometimes the attempts at projecting authenticity can seem forced. Mr. Christie recently found himself on the defensive after telling a New Hampshire audience, “I don’t consider myself a wealthy man.” Tax returns showed that he and his wife, a longtime Wall Street executive, earned nearly $700,000 in 2013.
The story of success against the odds is a political classic, even if it is one the Republican Party has not been able to tell for a long time. Ronald Reagan liked to say that while he had not been born on the wrong side of the tracks, he could always hear the whistle. Richard Nixon was fond of reminding voters how he was born in a house his father had built.
“Probably the idea that is most attractive to an average voter, and an idea that both Republicans and Democrats try to craft into their messages, is this idea that you can rise from nothing,” said Charles C. W. Cooke, a writer for National Review.
There is a certain delight Republicans take in turning that message to their advantage now.
“That’s what Obama did with Hillary,” Mr. Cooke said. “He acknowledged it openly: ‘This is ridiculous. Look at me, this one-term senator with dark skin and all of America’s unsolved racial problems, running against the wife of the last Democratic president.”
In Baltimore, National Guard Pullout Begins as Citywide Curfew Is Lifted
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National Guard soldiers boarding a truck in Baltimore on Sunday.
Baltimore residents prepared to resume the more familiar rhythms of their lives as days passed without new bouts of widespread rioting and as the National Guard began to pull its troops from the city.