Monday 24 August 2015

#12 no title

"If time could be turned back, I would have stayed and never left."

Sunday 16 August 2015

Religiosity Before The Eyes of Cosmic Era

For a couple of centuries humankind used to be wondering what might lay beyond the skies. It was mysteries to them for what stars and moon truly were and what might hide behind them. On July 14, 2015, though, humanity has successfully reached the nearest distance ever to Pluto using New Horizons spacecraft. It’s no longer a secret that stars are burning plasma and moon is satellite. To make it easier, Google has been created to find such common knowledge.

Using Hubble Telescope launched since 1990 to observe the characteristic of our Universe, and using Kepler spacecraft launched since 2003 to find extrasolar habitable planet in Milky Way, we’ve developed more understanding about the world where we live than our ancestors.

Friday 7 August 2015

Chronicle of Human Rights in Tibet

On July 6, 2015, His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama had his 80th birthday. It was celebrated for 3 days in California, billed as a Global Compassion Summit.

H.H. Dalai Lama has been living in Dharamsala, India, his exile from Tibet due to the China’s claim over Tibet and accusation towards H.H. Dalai Lama for trying to split Tibet from the rest of China. This conflict has been ongoing since 1949/50, recorded as the first time of invasion by People’s Republic of China (PRC).

Originally, there were two spiritual leaders of Tibetan Buddhism, Dalai Lama (reckoned as the manifestation of Avalokitesvara Boddhisatva) and Panchen Lama (reckoned as the manifestation of Amithaba Buddha). Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, a kid who was born in 1989 and then was divinely recognized as the 11th Panchen Lama by Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Buddhist leaders, however, has been kidnapped and hidden by China’s government since May 17, 1995 when he was 6 years old.

Monday 3 August 2015

Objektivitas dan Independensi

Dalam dunia finansial, menjadi objektif dan bias sangat diperlukan dalam membuat suatu laporan riset yang akhirnya akan dibaca oleh investor-investor yang menggunakan laporan tersebut sebagai salah satu sumber untuk pengambilan keputusan investasinya. Laporan riset yang disiapkan oleh analis berupa dokumen sebagai bagian dari tim riset investasi didalam broker saham atau bank investasi.

Pada umumnya, ketika investor sudah menanam kepercayaan kepada suatu perusahaan penulis laporan riset ― atau bahkan individu analis tertentu ― mereka dapat terkesan lengah dan cenderung menaruh kepercayaan berlebihan kepada apa yang ditulis di dalam laporan riset tersebut. Namun pada praktiknya, tidak sedikit laporan yang ditulis oleh analis yang mungkin tidak sepenuhnya objektif atau bahkan menjadi menyimpang dari tujuan laporan yang seharusnya mempresentasikan objektivitas.

Integritas dalam Pasar Modal

Pasar modal sebagai bagian dari dunia keuangan memiliki kode-kode etika tersendiri yang mengatur tingkah laku individu-individu yang berkecimpung di dunia pasar modal sebagai trader (orang yang melakukan jual beli saham berdasarkan informasi-informasi yang ada). Standar yang mengatur tentang etika di dunia pasar modal ini terdiri dari 2 bagian: Standar II A, yang membahas mengenai informasi non-publik yang bersifat material dan Standar II B, yang membahas mengenai manipulasi pasar berdasarkan Certified Financial Analyst (CFA).