Published on 23/5/2012 @ The Jakarta Post http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/05/23/letter-reviving-ri-s-real-muslim-culture.html
Lately, Indonesian vigilante groups are really cowing us. These groups are hogging much of the limelight. They can torture, intimidate, expel the Ahmadis, rough up groups promoting plurality, dismiss intellectual discussions, seal off a legalized church and ban Lady Gaga’s show. They register “success” as being an influential decision maker in our daily lives.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
May 1 and A Knowledge-based Economy
Published on 5/5/2012 @ The Jakarta Post http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/05/05/letter-may-1-and-a-knowledge-based-economy.html
In future the May Day celebration, which commemorates the struggle for labor rights, will likely perish. Or at least, the day will be observed differently.
The day will be abandoned, not only because many of those rights have been fulfilled, but given the fact that at the end of the day the amount of blue-collar workers will sharply reduce. The sunset of the industrial economy and the dawn of the knowledge-based economy (KBE) has radically changed the way of production as well as the need for products. And in the process, the economy needs fewer workers and spells doom for lower-skilled workers.
In future the May Day celebration, which commemorates the struggle for labor rights, will likely perish. Or at least, the day will be observed differently.
The day will be abandoned, not only because many of those rights have been fulfilled, but given the fact that at the end of the day the amount of blue-collar workers will sharply reduce. The sunset of the industrial economy and the dawn of the knowledge-based economy (KBE) has radically changed the way of production as well as the need for products. And in the process, the economy needs fewer workers and spells doom for lower-skilled workers.
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