Doctor Victim Crashed

How can a mother explain to her two young children that ..
Their father will never come home again.

So said Lia, the wife of Tono.

He is one among 189 people on board Lion Air flight.

The flight crashed into the sea.

Their children are 4 yo Budi and 1 yo Bini.

I don’t know what to tell them when they ask.

They will certainly ask about their father.

What they do know is that their father is working.

Lia said as quoted by Kompas.

He was on the flight from X to Y after visiting his family in Depok.

He was on his way to report for duty as a specialist at a hospital in a regency neighboring Pinang.

The flight carried xxx passengers, x pilots, and 6 crew members.

 
The flight never made it to its destination.
He was very caring and loving towards his family, especially …

He was very attentive towards his children. He loved them.

He often video called them when he was in Pinang.

Every time he had to fly back to work, she always waited for him to return.

She would wait by the door to greet him and gave him a hug.

She has no idea that her father is one of the victims on the downed Lion flight.

The next hardest thing for me to do is to explain her husband whereabouts to them.
Oh God.




He had planned that the 4 of us would go on a vacation in December.

The flight was scheduled to land at air port at 7:10 on Monday, but …
Air traffic control lost contact with it shortly after take-off at 6:20.

The plane crashed 7 nautical miles off the coast of Tanjung Bungin.

Wages

The city will raise its minimum wage by 8.3 percent, as ..(because)
It has been mandated by a government regulation.
He is a member of Jakarta wage council. (dewan pengupahan).
The wage will increase from Rp. X at present to above Rp. X next year.
The increase is in accordance with Government Regulation No. x on wages. (sesuai)
 Based on the calculation, Jakarta’s minimum wage will be Rp.
The minimum wage amount would be enough to fulfill an inexperienced worker’s need .
The annual raise is aimed at ensuring the well-being of newcomers in the world of work.
He suggested worker unions not demand too much on the minimum wage raise.
Please do not demand a raise beyond employers’ capabilities.
The regulation has fairly regulated the raise.
The raise is positive for both employers and employee.
The x percent increase was decided on based on statistic indonesia’s data.
The data states this year inflation stands at 2.88 percent and economic development at 5.15%.
If those figures are combined, it results in an 8.03 percent (raise in the minimum wage).

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A labor union in Depok has demanded an increase of 25% to the current minimum wage of …

In 2019 we demand an increase to around Rp. …

The increased wage will be sufficient for to provide an appropriate standard of living for workers in the city.

Talks with the Wage Council have collapsed with the issuance of Government Regulation on labor wages.

The talks have resulted in a recommendation.

Its implementation had ended once (begitu) the 2015 regulation was issued.
The regulation has prevented the right of labor unions to negotiate (on behalf of workers) from being fulfilled, because

The wage is set by the central government.

Depok Mayor and Manpower Agency head have yet to respond to the unions’ demand.

Minister stated earlier that the government had determined the rate of next year’s regional minimum wage increase at 8.3%.

Referring to data from BPS.

BPS data calculates national inflation at 2.88% and economic growth at 5.15% to  to total a wage increase of 8.03%.

He has disseminated the information to regional heads that were obliged to announce next year's wage increase on Nov. 1.

A labor union in Depok, West Java, has demanded an increase of 25 percent to the current minimum wage of Rp 3.58 million (US$241).

"In 2019, we demand an increase to around Rp 4.48 million," Wido Pratikno, chairman of the Indonesian Metal Workers Federation, said on Sunday as quoted by tempo.co.

He said that the increased wage would be sufficient for to provide an appropriate standard of living for workers in the city. 

Wido also said that talks with the Depok Wage Council had collapsed with the issuance of Government Regulation No. 78/2015 on labor wages.

Wido said the talks had resulted in a recommendation that the Depok mayor had signed, but that its implementation had ended once the 2015 regulation was issued.

"The 2015 regulation has prevented the right of labor unions to negotiate [on behalf of workers] from being fulfilled, because the wage is set by the central government," he said. 

Depok Mayor Mohammad Idris and Depok Social and Manpower Agency head Diah Sadiah have yet to respond to the union's demand.

Manpower Minister Hanif Dhakiri stated earlier that the government had determined the rate of next year's regional minimum wage increase at 8.3 percent, referring to data from Statistics Indonesia (BPS).

The BPS data calculates national inflation at 2.88 percent and economic growth at 5.15 percent to total a wage increase of 8.03 percent.

Hanif said he had disseminated the information to regional heads that were obliged to announce next year's wage increase on Nov. 1. (sau)

City Accident

A cyclist died instantly in Central Jakarta on Sunday after being hit by a Transjakarta bus in front of the National Monument (Monas) IRTI parking lot.

The accident happened at around 7 a.m., said Central Jakarta Police traffic unit head Sr. Adj. Comr. Juang Andi.

“The bus was traveling from Jl. Medan Merdeka Selatan in Gambir and hit a cyclist that was riding in the busway lane,” he said in a statement as quoted by kompas.com.

The unidentified cyclist, who was riding a blue and white-colored Pinarello bike, suffered serious injuries to the head and was killed instantly.

Police have been unable to identify the victim because he carried no forms of identification.

His body was taken to the Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital in Central Jakarta.

The Transjakarta bus driver has been questioned over the incident.

The capital has experienced 44 accidents involving Transjakarta buses as of September this year, according to Jakarta Police data. They involved 59 victims, six of whom died and 11 suffered from serious injuries, while 42 sustained light injuries. (ris)

A man, identified by the police as AH, 55, died after collapsing while taking part in the Electric Jakarta Marathon on Sunday morning.

He collapsed at the 3-kilometer mark of the 5 km race, his wife, Cut, said at the Mintohardjo Navy Hospital in Bendungan Hilir, Central Jakarta, where his body was taken.  

 “We will take his body to our home in Grogol [West Jakarta],” Cut added on Sunday as quoted by kompas.com.

AH had taken part in the marathon with colleagues from PT Samuel Aset Manajemen.

Some marathon runners and members of the running community assisted AH’s family at the hospital. 

The marathon, which was sponsored by state-owned utility company PLN, started and finished at the Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) sports complex on Jl. Gerbang Pemuda, Senayan. 

It consisted of five categories, namely the marathon, half marathon (21 km), 10K (10 km), 5K (5 km) and Maratoonz (for children). 

About 16,500 runners took part in the event, of which 1,585 were foreigners. (cal/evi)

Married Priest Belgium

Vatican stalls on married Catholic priests

Pope Francis delivers a speech during a meeting with bishops at the sacristy of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Santiago on Jan.16. Pope Francis on Tuesday opened his visit to Chile by asking forgiveness for child sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church in the South American country. (Luca Zennaro/POOL/AFP)

A bid by Belgium bishops to allow young married men to take the cloth has fallen flat at a Vatican meet --

 though Pope Francis is considering testing out the idea in the Amazon.

The suggestion of easing the rules on celibacy was raised by the Auxiliary Bishop of Brussels, Jean Kockerols, during a month-long meeting of the world's bishops.

It appeared to fall on deaf ears -- at least officially.

"There were no reactions" to that, or any of the "daring proposals" that made newspaper headlines during the synod, French bishop Emmanuel Gobillard told AFP.

The 330 or so clerics and lay people taking part in the talks, which end Sunday, were tackling the thorny issue of how to make the Roman Catholic Church appeal to youngsters.

"I am disappointed by the lack of reaction. One bishop compared it to stalactites that take a long time to grow," Kockerols told AFP.

"Numerous bishops sought me out during coffee breaks, saying 'you are right, we should be heading in that direction,' but I notice the subject was never looked into in the working groups," he said.

The number of priests and nuns dropped sharply in 2016 in Europe -- and the Americas to a lesser extent. The picture is rosier in Africa and Asia, according to the Fides Catholic agency.

As the Argentine pontiff has repeatedly said, there is no doctrinal prohibition on married men becoming priests, and therefore the discipline can be changed.

- 'Taboo' subject -

Saint Peter, the church's first pope, had a mother-in-law, according to the bible.

Celibacy was imposed in the 11th century, possibly partly to prevent descendants of priests from inheriting church property.

But some within the church believe it is time to join many eastern rite Catholic Churches in permitting married men to take the cloth. Married Anglican priests keen to convert to Catholicism have already been welcomed over.

The Vatican's number two man, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, suggested in an interview at the start of the synod that the church could "gradually look in depth" at the issue, while ruling out a "drastic change".

Some 60,000 priests have given up their vocation over the past few decades, often to marry, according to a book on the topic presented a stone's throw from the Vatican during the synod.

There were 414,000 Roman Catholic priests around the world in 2016. Some 1,000 of them are quitting each year, according to the book by Vatican expert Enzo Romeo.

While there are no official statistics on the number of married ex-priests, he estimates that there are around 8,000 of them in Italy alone.

"Priests' emotions are still often a taboo subject, swept under the carpet at the heart of the church," Romeo said.

The decision to leave the priesthood -- despite the job security and free accommodation -- usually happens after 13 years on the job or is sparked by a mid-life crisis, he says.

- Lonely hearts, rejects -

One of the former priests quoted in Romeo's book says he quit not only because he fell in love, but also because he found it difficult to preach to others about the church's moral stance on sexuality.

Pope Paul VI's refusal to open the door to the use of the pill in the Swinging Sixties saw many priests abandon their calling.

"Celibacy is an extreme form of poverty which lumps those who practice it in with the loneliest people, the rejects," one older cleric, defending his radical choice, told Romeo.

Pope Francis suggested in 2017 that the church "reflect" on the question of ordaining "viri probati", married men of proven virtue, particularly in far-flung places where priests are thin on the ground.

The idea is likely to be on the table at a synod next year dedicated specially to the Amazon, an immense territory where clergy are scarce.

Sensing a possible shift in attitude, some 300 or so married, former priests in Italy sent a letter to Francis at the start of October offering to take up the cloth once more should he need them.