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Allah Ta’ala berfirman,
“Bukanlah menghadapkan wajahmu ke arah Timur dan Barat itu suatu kebaikan, akan tetapi sesungguhnya kebaikan itu ialah beriman kepada Allah, Hari Kemudian, malaikat-malaikat, nabi-nabi …” (QS. Al Baqarah : 177)
“Barangsiapa kafir kepada Allah, malaikat-malaikat-Nya, kitab-kitab-Nya, rasul-rasul-Nya, dan Hari Kemudian, maka orang itu telah sesat sejauh-jauhnya” (QS. An Nisaa’ : 136)
Rasulullah ShallallaHu ‘alaiHi wa sallam bersabda ketika Jibril bertanya kepada beliau tentang iman,
“Hendaklah kamu beriman kepada Allah, malaikat-malaikat-Nya, kitab-kitab-Nya, rasul-rasul-Nya, Hari Akhir dan beriman kepada takdir baik dan buruk-Nya” (HR. Muslim no. 8, dari Umar bin Khaththab radhiyallaHu ‘anHu)

Komplek Makam Astana Giri Bangun

Kondisi kesehatan mantan Presiden Soeharto yang masih kritis masih menjadi perhatian banyak orang. Astana Giri Bangun, komplek makam yang dipersiapkan sebagai makam keluarga besar Soeharto, pun mendapat perhatian. Berikut ini makam Astana Giri Bangun yang termuat dalam Suara Merdeka 14/1/2007.
Kompleks makam Astana Giribangun di lereng barat Gunung Lawu, tepatnya di Desa Karangbangun, Matesih, Karanganyar sangat megah dan luas. Makam di atas sebuah bukit itu dibangun tepat di bawah Astana Mangadeg,

Taman Satwa Taru Jurug

Salah satu objek wisata paling populer di Solo adalah Taman Satwa Taru Jurug ( TSTJ ). TSTJ terletak di bagian timur kota Solo, tepatnya di pinggir sebelah barat Sungai Bengawan Solo. Apa yang menarik dari TSTJ ini? Yuk kita tengok taman yang akan menjadi BUMD ini.
Di TSTJ ini terdapat kebun binatang yang dahulu merupakan koleksi kebun binatang bon raja Sriwedari. Karena perkembangan dan perubahan tata kota kebon binantang di taman sriwedari dipindah ke Taman Jurug ini. Diantara binatang yang dipindh tersebut adalah gajah bernama Kiai Anggoro.

Museum Radya Pustaka

Di kota Solo terdapat sebuah museum sejarah dan budaya yang bernama Museum Radya Pustaka. Museum Radya Pustaka merupakan museum tertua di Indonesia yang didirikan pada masa pemerintahan Paku Buwono IX tepatnya tanggal 28 oktober 1890 oleh kanjeng Raden Adipati Sosrodiningrat IV. Raden Adipati Sosrodidingrat IV adalah patih Pakubuwono IX dan Paku Buwono X.
Pada saat itu museum berada di dalam komplek dalem kepatihan. Untuk lebih memudahkan diakses oleh lebih banyak orang pada tanggal 1 januari 1913 musim ini dipindahkan ke lokasinya yang sekarang yaitu di Gedung Museum Radya Pustaka ( kompleks Taman Sriwedari ) jalan Slamet Riyadi. Gedung tersebut dulunya adalah tempat tinggal Johannes Buseelar, seorang warga negara Belanda.

Mesjid Laweyan Dan Makam Ki Ageng Henis

Masjid Laweyan merupakan masjid tertua di Laweyan, yang dididikan tahun 1546 Masehi. Menilik tahun bedirinya, mesjid ini dibangun sebelum Jaka Tingkir atau Sultan Hadiwijaya menjadi Sultan Pajang antara tahun 1568-1582.
Masjid Lawayan dibangun oleh Ki Ageng Henis. Ki Ageng Henis adalah Putra dari Ki Ageng Sela yang masih keturunan Raja Brawijaya yang berarti masih keturunan raja-raja Majapahit. Ki Ageng Henis inilah yang kemduian menurunkan raja-raja dinasti mataram islam.

Benteng Vastenberg di solo

Benteng megah di tengah Kota Bengawan ini, sekarang tinggal seongok bangunan yang tak berharga dan ditumbuhi rumput ilalang yang lebat. Dalam konteks morfologi perkotaan, benteng itu memiliki peranan penting yakni pusat hubungan Solo-Semarang. Kota Solo dalam periode XVIII-XIX, sebagai pusat perdagangan dan ditandai perkembangan kota kolonial. Uniknya, perkembangan ini tercipta dalam nuansa kekuasaan tradisionalistik Kerajaan Kasunanan Surakarta. Sisa-sisa artefak yang jadi bukti simbol perkotaan masih dapat ditemukan di sekitar benteng, di antaranya Gereja St Antonius,

sejarah kota surakarta

Inilah Kota Solo, salah satu kota besar di Indonesia.  Masih segar dalam ingatan kita saat reformasi tahun 1998, kerusuhan terjadi dimana-mana, tak terkecuali di kota Solo. Massa yang bringas membakar, merusak,dan menjarah toko, mall, bank, dealer,dan bangunan2 lain di kota ini. Saat itu kota solo bagaikan kota mati. Aktivitas perekonomian di kota ini lumpuh total, hanya bangunan2 yang hangus sisa kebakaran dan penjarahan lah yang menjadi pemandangan di kota ini.

Setelah lebih dari 12 tahun berlalu, kota solo sekarang sudah berubah total.

TIME, Apr.13, 1962: DUTCH SQUEEZE

Indonesian guerrillas crept through the dense jungles of Dutch New Guinea last week, and it became clear that Indonesia’s President Sukarno was at last going to do more than talk about grabbing the disputed territory that he calls West Irian. He also adroitly deployed psychological warfare: Indonesia broadcast reports of widely spaced new landings on New Guinea’s coast and Waigeo Island, forcing the Dutch to spread out their meager defenses (5,800 combat troops). And by compelling The Hague to ship new troops to the Pacific on the eve of a big debate on New Guinea in the Dutch Parliament, Sukarno played shrewdly on the knowledge that a bloody defensive war would be unpopular in The Netherlands.

TIME, Jan.26, 1962: SETBACK FOR SUKARNO

One moonlit night last week, three blips flashed on the radar screen of a Dutch Neptune patrol bomber some 60 miles southwest of New Guinea. They turned out to be three Indonesian torpedo boats racing at flank speed (40 knots) toward the Dutch New Guinea coast. Just over two hours later, after alerting two 2,000-ton Dutch frigates in the area, the Neptune dropped flares over the torpedo boats and was greeted with a salvo of antiaircraft fire.

TIME, Dec.29, 1961: FIGHT OVER THE PAPUA

As India’s armed forces rolled into Goa last week, Indonesia’s jaunty President Sukarno tried to hitch a ride. Standing beneath a canopy in the cultural center of Djokjakarta, Sukarno told a wildly cheering crowd of 100,000 to prepare “for the coming general mobilization of all the Indonesian people soon to liberate West Irian from the claws of Dutch imperialism. My brothers, this is my command!”
West Irian is the Indonesian name for a

TIME, Sept.8, 1961: RITE OF BELGRADE

To brush-clean, flag-bedecked Belgrade last week came an emperor, two kings and two princes, three foreign ministers, six prime ministers and nine presidents.-Representing 23 countries, they had been invited by Yugoslavia’s President Tito for a Conference of Unaligned Nations.
Even as the delegates began to stream in, word reached Belgrade of Russia’s announcement that it intended to resume nuclear testing. The news struck the neutrals like a slap in the face. Hardly united and agreed on anything except their common animus against a big-power thermonuclear holocaust that would endanger them all, the neutralists at first greeted the news with grim silence. Only India’s Nehru stated bleakly: “I am against nuclear tests anywhere.”

TIME, Apr.28, 1961: ABSORBED, CRAZED & OBSESSED

President Sukarno of Indonesia is probably the most footloose head of state since Richard the Lionhearted. Last week, as is his yearly wont, he took leave from his Djakarta palace and his lesser palace at Bogor, with its surrounding park stocked with small white deer, to fly off on a three-month junket in a chartered DC-8 (estimated charter cost: $600,000) to Thailand, South America, Europe, Moscow and Washington.

RITE OF BELGRADE

Three weeks ago, Indonesia’s Defense Minister Abdul Haris Nasution set off for Moscow on what he called his “West Irian mission.” Last week he returned to Djakarta in triumph. His trophy was a promise of $450 million in military aid and equipment, enough to double the fighting potential of Indonesia’s armed forces, and a Russian pledge to support Indonesia in its efforts to free West Irian (Netherlands New Guinea) from the Dutch “colonizers.”
Shrill threats to “liberate West Irian” have long been President Sukarno’s favorite device to rouse Indonesian patriotic passions and divert attention from the myriad shortcomings of his floundering economy at home. Indonesia’s claim to Netherlands New Guinea is based on the fact that the Dutch administered it as part of The Netherlands East Indies along with the other islands that now make up independent Indonesia.
But the fact is that Netherlands New Guinea’s Papuans want to be no part of Indonesia. They are Melanesians, with no racial kinship to the Indonesians. Their skins are darker, their languages totally different. Furthermore, the Papuans have no desire to trade Dutch colonialism for Indonesian colonialism, want to join together instead with Australian New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in a union to be called the United States of Melanesia.
As for the Dutch, they want to get out. Their territory is suffering from economic malnutrition, has brought no return from the millions of dollars sunk into it. Last year the territory’s total exports of crude oil, copra, spices and skins dwindled to less than $7,000,000. But the Dutch, chastened by their mistakes in Indonesia, are reluctant to abandon New Guinea until the Papuans are ready for self-government, an eventuality that some colonial officials estimate will take 40 years, perhaps considerably longer.
Nearly half of Netherlands New Guinea’s 700,000 Papuans still live in primitive villages where the cowrie shell is the medium of exchange and where women often rank below pigs on the social scale. For the primitive tribesmen of the interior, the concept of government does not exist; their only political guideposts are myth and magic. Head-hunting and cannibalism are still practiced in some areas. Some Papuan natives wear no clothes save for string, have no dishes or cooking utensils. They consider death the action of a wizard, often chop off the ends of their fingers as a sign of mourning.
In the coastal areas where the Dutch exercise firm administrative control, some 30,000 Papuans attend primary school, and one lone native is a student at a university in The Netherlands. Next month the Papuans will hold their first election ever for a New Guinea-wide council, to which the Dutch will turn over the power to pass its own ordinances regulating health, marriage, crime, labor and taxes.
In the meantime, Indonesia shouts on, has twice landed armed parties in abortive raids. President Sukarno steadfastly has opposed Dutch offers of an invitation to the U.N. to send an observer to inspect colonial administration of the colony. Says Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Subandrio: “Why should any U.N. mission go there? The territory belongs to Indonesia and should come back to us. That’s the only basis on which Indonesia will consider any talks.”

TIME, Aug.29, 1960: CHILD’S PLAY

Nothing ever works quite the way it should in Indonesia. Scarcely had the red and white flags been put up to celebrate the nation’s 15th independence day last week when workmen were back in the streets of Djakarta. Their task: to take down 12-ft.-high poster portraits of Guinea’s President Sekou Toure and Egypt’s Vice President Abdel Hakim Amer, both of whom had reneged, without notice, on promises to put in an appearance at the independence-day festivities.

TIME, Aug.1, 1960: CHINESE, GO HOME

Red China’s Chou En-lai and Indonesia’s President Sukarno basked in each other’s compliments at the 1955 Bandung Conference, found common cause in anticolonialism. But last year, looking for a scapegoat for his crumbling economy, Sukarno cast his restless eye on the Chinese who run the stores and make the most money in nearly every village and town in Indonesia. He decided to transfer this lucrative business to deserving Indonesians, lightly overlooked the fact that few Indonesians have the

TIME, June 20, 1960: HOME IS WHERE TROUBLE IS

After junketing around the world for 64 days, Indonesia’s President Sukarno finally returned to his land of customary turmoil last week. On his swing through 18 nations, he had picked up five honorary degrees, nine decorations and still another shapely airline hostess to go nightclubbing with: a 22-year-old Hawaiian beauty queen named Carol Ah You, who works for Great Lakes Air Lines and accompanied the President from San Francisco to Hawaii. Said Bung Karno, step ping off a charted Pan American DC-6B still staffed by favorite stewardess No. i, 25-year-old Joan Sweeney: “This has been much more successful than my earlier trips.” But the old place was not much fun to come home to. Rebel and bandit fighting continued in Java, Sumatra, the Celebes and Borneo. The monetary reform so ambitiously decreed last year was a total failure. With more currency

TIME, Mar.21, 1960: THE VAGRANT MIG

A flight of four MIG jet fighter planes, with the red and white markings of the Indonesian air force, flashed over the capital city of Djakarta one day last week. Suddenly, one of the MIGs broke formation and, with spitting guns, dived on Merdeka palace, residence of President Sukarno. Bullets smashed through the roof, and chandeliers exploded into glass splinters. A man whitewashing an outside wall was hit in the shoulder; a sentry fell, wounded in the thigh; two passers-by were hit in the legs.
Personable President Sukarno was presiding at a meeting of his Supreme Advisory Council, only a few hundred feet from the palace. When the firing ceased, Sukarno paused only to grab a long-handled black umbrella and then raced across the palace lawn, was relieved to find that his seven children had not yet come home from school.
The vagrant MIG flew on to the nearby port city of Tandjung-priok, opened fire at the huge gas tank of the Stanvac Oil Co., missed the tank but wounded 14 people. Next, the plane swept over Bogor, 30 miles from Djakarta, made a strafing run at Sukarno’s massive Bogor palace, and missed again. With its fuel exhausted, the MIG made a bellylanding in a West Java rice field. As the pilot, Lieut. Daniel Maukar, 28, looking dazed and shaken, stumbled from his Russian-made plane, he was seized.

TIME, Feb.8, 1960: DESPERATE BUT NOT SERIOUS

In cities throughout Indonesia, housewives defied a police ban on demonstrations to march on government offices; in Djakarta, students and trade-union deputations presented petitions of protest. Reason: within seven days, the price of rice had doubled and the cost of cooking fuel had shot up 61% as Indonesia’s rupiah plunged unchecked. In less than two months the rupiah (officially 45 to the dollar) had fallen from 150 to a record low of 500.
Adding twirls to the inflationary spiral were the 2,500,000 Overseas Chinese who have been banned since Jan. 1 from

Indonesia 1960-1970

The urge to turn back the clock is as strong among revolutionaries as reactionaries. Saddled wih the chaos and corruption of 14 years of freedom, many Indonesians yearn for the good old days of 1945, when life was violent but simple and all that had to be done was win independence from the Dutch.
On a rainy afternoon last week President Sukarno tried to find the way back for himself and his country. Dressed in a spotless white uniform, with a black petji set jauntily on his head, Sukarno stood under a brown awning on the columned porch of his Freedom Palace and, “in the name of the one and only God.” announced the revival of the 1945 revolutionary constitution. His fiat swept out of office the 17th government to rule Indonesia in 14 years, dissolved the Constituent Assembly, emasculated some 40-odd political parties and caused the resignation of the 27-man Cabinet of his loyal ally, Premier Djuanda.

Fenomena Alam yang sangat langka di dunia!

Berikut ini adalah beberapa fenomena alam yang sangat luar biasa yang terjadi di berbagai belahan muka bumi ini, di mana fenomena tersebut tidak terjadi merata di berbagai daerah di belahan bumi kita.
      1. Hujan Ikan di Honduras
The Rain Of Fishes  (hujan ikan) di ceritakan dalam cerita Rakyat Honduras. Namun, juga terjadi secara nyata di Departemen di Yoro, antara bulan Mei dan Juli. Saksi nengatakan bahwa fenomena ini di mulai dengan awan gelap di langit di ikuti dengan kilat, guntur, angin kencang dan hujan lebat selama 3 - 4 jam. setelah hujan berhenti, ratusan ikan di temukan hidup di tanah. Orang mengambil ikan - ikan ini untuk di masak. Sejak 1998, festifal Hujan ikan di rayakan setiap tahun di kota Yoro.
      2. Hujan Merrah di Kerala
Dari tanggal 25 Juli sampai 23 September 2001, hujan merah turun di selatan india, propinsi Kerela tidak hanya merah, hujan warna kuning, hijau bahkan hitam juga di laporkan terjadi. Pemeritah India menemukan bahwa hujan ini telah di warnai olrh sepora dari Alga, yang tersebar di udara, kemudian awal tahu 2006 Kerela pun jadi pusat perhatian dunia.
      3. Natahari Hitam di Denmark
Selama musim semi di Denmark, sekitar satu setengah jam sebelum senja, lebih dari 1 juta sturnus vulgari (sejenis burung) berkumpul dari seluruh pelosok untuk bergabung dan membentuk suatu kumpulan yang luar biasa desar di udara. Hingga membuat langit tarasa gelap. Fenimena ini di sebut dengan Black sun dan dapat di saksikan di awal musim semi di barat Denmark.