Kisah pegawai sapu ijuk

Alkisah di negeri Cina ada seorang gadis muda yang bekerja di sebuah pabrik sapu ijuk, sebut saja namanya Nana. Gadis muda ini mulai bekerja sejak berumur 12 tahun di pabrik sapu ijuk ini sampai sekarang berusia 15 tahun, mulai memasuki masa-masa remajanya. Suatu ketika ketika Nana sedang mandi sangat terkejutlah ia ketika Nana memperhatikan daerah di bawah perutnya yang ternyata bermunculan banyak rambut hitam tebal serupa ijuk. Setelah mandi Nana sangat stress memikirkan hal ini, dia menduga pasti ijuk yang sering dikerjakannya setiap hari di pabrik ijuk telah meracuni badannya dengan virus berbahaya sehingga daerah dibawah perutnya muncul banyak sekali ijuk.
Keesokan harinya melaporlah Nana kepada manager di pabrik ijuk tempat Nana bekerja.
“Pak manager, mohon maaf saya ingin segera mengundurkan diri dari pabrik ini.”
Sang manager pun sangat terkejut dengan keputusan Nana ini, sebab dia tahu bahwa prestasi kerja Nana sangatlah mengesankan dirinya selama ini. Bertanyalah sang manager kepada Nana,
“Nana, ada apa yang terjadi sehingga membuat kamu ingin mengundurkan diri.”
Tetapi Nana tidak mau mengatakan alasan apa yang menyebabkan Nana ingin mengundurkan diri kepada Managernya, Nana tetap bersikeras ingin mengundurkan diri. Bertambah bingunglah sang Manager, dan pada akhirnya sang Manager memutuskan menunda permintaan pengunduran diri Nana hari itu dan Nana kembali bekerja lagi. Selama di kantornya sang Manager bingung luar biasa menerka-nerka apa yang menyebabkan Nana ingin mengundurkan diri.
Keesokan harinya Sang Manager kembali memanggil Nana ke ruangannya, lalu dengan rasa penasaran yang menggebu-gebu sang Manager terus menanyai Nana apa penyebab Nana ingin mengundurkan diri. Setelah berulang kali bertanya, akhirnya Nana pasrah juga dengan pertanyaan sang Manager ini.
“Oke lah Pak, sebenarnya saya ini sangat takut bekerja lagi di pabrik ini.”
“Lha Na, kamu sudah lebih dari 3 tahun bekerja di sini, tetapi kenapa tiba-tiba kamu ingin mengundurkan diri?”
“Umm….sebenarnya saya takut Pak, setelah bekerja sekian lama saya baru menyadari bahwa bekerja di sini telah membuat saya terinfeksi penyakit yang diakibatkan oleh ijuk-ijuk ini Pak.”
Sang Manager sangatlah terkejut dengan pernyataan Nana ini, bertanyalah ia kepada Nana,
“Hah…selama saya bekerja disini saya tidak pernah menemui penyakit seperti ini. Katakan penyakit apa yang sedang kamu alami Na!”
“Nih Pak coba lihat ini, ijuk-ijuk sekarang tumbuh di sini Pak, bagaimana ini bisa terjadi pada saya…” ujar Nana sambil membuka rok dan celana dalam yang dikenakannya di depan sang Manager. Sang Manager bukannya terkejut tapi cuman senyum-senyum saja, lalu dia pun berkata
“Ah kalo cuman segitu sich belum seberapa Na.”
Nana sangat terkejut juga dengan perkataan sang Manager, dikiranya sang Manager akan terkejut tapi sang Manager malah menganggap remeh penyakit itu.
“Maksud bapak bagaimana toh? Saya ini jadi bingung…??” tanya Nana.
“Ah kalo cuman numbuh ijuk segitu sih gak seberapa Na…nich coba lihat punya bapak…” ujar sang Manager sambil membuka celananya dan memperlihatkan isinya kepada Nana. Nana sangat terkejut apa yang terpampang didepannya itu. Lalu sang manager berkata lagi:
“Kalo cuman ijuk yang keluar sich belum apa-apa Na, nich lihat bapak sekarang ampe gagang-gagangnya ijuk dah nongol.”
Nana setelah mendengar pernyataan dan melihat ‘gagang’ ijuknya sang Manager langsung jatuh pingsan dan setelah sadar langsung meminta pengunduran dirinya keesokan harinya kepada sang Manager…

UN News Service

Timor-Leste: UN and partners appeal for $33.5 million for recovery efforts

31 March 2008 – The United Nations and
non-governmental organizations working in
Timor-Leste are seeking $33.5 million to help the
country’s most vulnerable, including internally
displaced persons (IDPs) and those most at risk from natural disasters.

Finn Reske-Nielsen, the UN’s Humanitarian
Coordinator for Timor-Leste, said that funds
raised will complement those already committed by
the Government toward projects outlined in the
Transitional Strategy and Appeal.

“The Government of Timor-Leste has committed $15
million in 2008 to address IDP issues,” said Mr.
Reske-Nielsen. “These financial resources
constitute a significant and increased commitment
of the Government towards these issues. However,
further donor support to the Government’s efforts
will be valuable to help meet its shortfall.”

The funds will support some 67 projects in three
strategic areas: continued emergency assistance
in IDP camps, supporting the Government’s
National Recovery Strategy and strengthening the
country’s ability to manage risk and impact from natural disasters.

While humanitarian assistance in the IDP camps
continues to be critical, the primary focus of
the Government and its partners this year is
early recovery initiatives that will facilitate
the return and/or resettlement of those that have been displaced.

Mr. Reske-Nielsen said that ongoing humanitarian
problems that stem from the crisis that erupted
in 2006 are complex and multi-dimensional with
social, economic and political roots.

The 2006 crisis, attributed in part to
differences between Timor-Leste’s eastern and
western regions, began in April with the firing
of 600 striking soldiers, a third of the overall armed forces.

Ensuing violence claimed at least 37 lives and
drive 155,000 people, or about 15 per cent of the
total population, from their homes. The Security
Council created the UN Integrated Mission in
Timor-Leste (UNMIT) in August that year to help restore stability.

“There is no simple or short-term solution, and
the experience of national and international
organisations along with the Government shows
that continued support to ongoing humanitarian
response and recovery efforts is vital to
reaching a sustainable resolution to the crisis,” Mr. Reske-Nielsen stated

Asia: Timor govt runs out of money to feed refugees

By Stephanie March

DILI, March 31 AAP – Jose Sarmento lines up on a basketball court
with 3,000 other displaced people to collect his rice and cooking oil
for the month.

He stands with an empty rice sack and an old water bottle.

These men, women and children wait in line for up to six hours for
their four kilograms of rice and a half litre of oil, given out at
the Don Bosco Church compound in Dili, their home for the past two years.

As parents wait in line, small children run about screaming and
playing basketball.

Some children are too young to remember life before their families
were forced to take shelter in internally displaced persons (IDP)
camps. For them food ration lines are a normal part of life.

“We live here because we are afraid of the others,” Jose says.

For Jose, “the others” are people who burnt down his home during East
Timor’s 2006 crisis that left 37 people dead, and forced 150,000 to
flee their homes.

In 2006, tensions between the country’s armed forces paved the way
for an east versus west ethnic conflict which led to over 8,000 homes
being destroyed and thousands more damaged.

Many homes in Dili were burnt down by rival groups within
neighbourhoods, forcing residents to flee to IDP camps that emerged
across the country.

About 70,000 people still live like Jose, in tents across the
country, dependant upon food giveaways, too scared to move back next
to neighbours who only two years ago attacked them.

But at the end of April, Jose’s food handouts end.

In February, the World Food Program (WFP) cut rice rations from eight
kilograms to four, and as of April they will stop them altogether.

“It was already in the pipeline because we know that not all IDPs
need food handouts, and we don’t want to make people dependant,” says
Joan Fleuren, country director of the WFP in East Timor.

Despite the WFP’s long-planned exit strategy, East Timor’s State
Secretary for Social Assistance Jacinto De Deus says his government
was under the impression the WFP would continue its support
throughout 2008, which is why it failed to allocate any money in this
year’s budget to pay for food for the people living in camps.

“This year, the government allocated $US15 million ($A16.38 million)
for the IDPs, and mainly that money is only to be used for the
recovery effort, and none of the amount is allocated for the
humanitarian assistance,” he says.

“For two years already, all the food has been provided from the
international community through WFP,” he said.

“It’s something that the government must take over but unfortunately
we didn’t anticipate it during the budget discussion for 2008.”

That lack of foresight has forced East Timor’s government to launch
its own appeal to donors and bilateral partners to help provide the
$US700,000 ($A764,442) it says it needs each month to feed the IDPs.

And at a donor meeting on Saturday, East Timor’s vice Prime Minister
Jose Luis Gutteres appealed to 27 donor countries for $US33.5 million
($A36.58 million) in aid assistance to help the government through 2008.

Part of that funding would be used to buy food for IDPs, he said.

But raising that money may prove difficult, as donor fatigue towards
the IDP problem is already showing.

“Even last June there was always this uneasiness from donors,” Fleuren says.

“They were asking ‘how long, how much longer do we continue with
IDPs?’, but that was just after the elections and there was good
reason to not completely cut it because there was a new government,
but clearly the donors wanted an exit strategy.”

There are good reasons for donors to question why they are being
asked to give so much money to IDPs.

According to an assessment in September last year, only half of the
country’s 70,000 displaced people actually need food supplied to them.

The other half have access to income-generating activities, or have
other means of growing or getting food.

Finn Reske-Nielsen, the United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste
humanitarian coordinator, said Timor wasn’t Darfur, where people live
in camps and they have no other options.

“Many of the people in the camps (in Timor) are working, and many of
them have set up little businesses, and therefore they do have
alternatives to food handouts,” Reske-Nielsen said.

But Fleuren says the assessment also showed that around 35,000 of
non-IDPs in East Timor are in desperate need of food assistance.

“What we are trying to do now, is to stop [IDP] food distribution
altogether, and we are trying to identify people who are chronically
vulnerable, who need continued assistance maybe in the form of food,
or food coupons, not only IDPs but also the rest of the population,”
Fleuren said.

Since the February attacks on East Timor’s leaders that left
President Jose Ramos Horta severely wounded and rebel leader Alfredo
Reinado dead, several hundred displaced people have felt safe enough
to move home.

While this initial movement is a good sign, the UN doesn’t expect the
displacement problem will resolve itself anytime soon, and predicts
only one third of displaced people will have returned home by the end
of this year.

Jose Sarmento hopes to move home as soon as he gets a relocation
grant from the government, but he is worried about what could happen
if the government chooses to – or is forced to – stop giving food aid
to people in camps.

“Of course there will be trouble because the people who live in camps
need to eat three times a day. Where do they get this food? Of course
they steal from the others.

“Why should the government stop? If the government is not responsible
for this, then who is?”

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Joyo Indonesia News Service

Job Vacancy IT Support- World Vision International – Timor Leste

World Vision International – Timor Leste

Job Vacancy Re-Announcement

World Vision Timor Leste, a non-profit Christian Humanitarian Organization, committed to

working with the poor and vulnerable, is seeking for one (1) qualified Timorese National to fill

a vacant position of “IT Support based in Dili.

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

Under supervision of IT consultant, installs, maintain, troubleshoots and upgrades computer

hardware, software, personal computer networks, peripheral equipment and electronic mail

systems; assesses user training needs and train users in effective use of application and

equipments.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Installs, configures and upgrades operating system and software using standard business and administrative packages.

• Install, assembles and configures computers, monitor, network infrastructure and peripherals such as printers, scanners and related hardware, pulls cables and rewires or direct the rewiring of cables as required fro new instillation and office reconfiguration.

• Troubleshoots problem with computer system, including troubleshoots hardware and software, network and peripheral equipment problems, make repairs and corrections where required.

• Acts as a technical resource in assisting users to resolve problems with equipment and data, staff a centralized help desk to facilitate exchange of information and advise: implement solutions or notifies outsource providers as required.

• Assist in instruction staff in the use of standard business and administrative software; including word processing, spreadsheet and database management; provides instructions or written documentation where required.

• Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Completion of course in computer science, information technology or computer related field and general computer installation, maintenance and repair experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job as listed above.

• Installing, configuring and upgrading operating system and software, using primarily standard financial, business and administrative application practices

• Installing, configuring, assembling and repairing computer, monitors, network infrastructure and peripherals such as printer and related hardware.

• Troubleshooting and solving hardware and software problems.

• Two years experience working in the computer field and network.

• Ability to speak Bahasa Indonesian, Tetun and English desirable.

• Posses the values and attitudes that conform with World Vision Core Values

Interested applicants should submit Application Letter,CV and other document to: Human

Resources Department, World Vision Timor Leste, Rua Jacinto de Candido/Rua D Fernando,

Caicoli, Dili. P.O. Box 43, Dili. Timor Leste. Tel: (670) 331 2834

World Vision Timor Leste is committed to the principles of workplace diversity.

Only short listed candidates will be notified and applications will not be returned.

Closing date is 7 April 2008, at 5:00 pm