Angelina Jolie's Humanitarian Work

"We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us."

—Jolie on her motives for joining UNHCR in 2001

Jolie stated that she first became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) in Cambodia. She contacted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for information on international trouble spots. To learn more about the conditions in these areas, Jolie began visiting refugee camps around the world. In February 2001, she went on her first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; she later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed^. In the following months, she returned to Cambodia for two weeks and met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan. She covered all costs related to her missions and shared the same rudimentary working and living conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of her visits. Jolie was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva on August 27, 2001.

Since then, Jolie has been on field missions around the world and met with refugees and internally displaced persons in more than 30 countries. Asked what she hoped to accomplish, she stated, "Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon." Jolie aims to visit what she terms "forgotten emergencies," crises that media attention has shifted away from^. She is noted for not shying away from traveling to areas that are at war. she visited the Darfur region of Sudan during the Darfur conflict in 2004; Chad during its civil war in 2007 Iraq during the Second Gulf War in 2007 and 2009 Afghanistan during the ongoing war in 2008 and 2011; and Libya during the Libyan revolution in 2011

After more than a decade of service as Goodwill Ambassador, Jolie was promoted to the rank of Special Envoy of High Commissioner António Guterres on April 17, 2012. As Special Envoy, she represents the UNHCR and High Commissioner António Guterres at the diplomatic level and works to facilitate long-term solutions for people displaced by large-scale crises, such as Afghanistan and Somalia. "This is an exceptional position reflecting an exceptional role she has played for us," said a UNHCR spokesman.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Jolie at World Refugee Day in 2005

In addition to her work with the UNHCR, Jolie uses her public profile to promote humanitarian causes through the mass media. Her early field visits were chronicled in her book Notes from My Travels, which was published in conjunction with the release of her film Beyond Borders (2003). She filmed a 2005 MTV special, The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, portraying her and noted economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachs on a trip to a remote group of villages in Western Kenya. Jolie has also regularly released public service announcements promoting World Refugee Day and other causes.

Over time, Jolie became more involved in promoting humanitarian causes on a political level. She has regularly attended World Refugee Day in Washington, D.C., and she was an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2005 and 2006. She also began lobbying humanitarian interests in the U.S. capital, where she met with members of Congress at least 20 times between 2003 and 2006, during which she pushed for several bills to aid refugees and vulnerable children in the Third World and the United States. She explained in 2006, "As much as I would love to never have to visit Washington, that's the way to move the ball.' In 2007, she became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jolie has established several charitable organizations. In 2003, she founded the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation—named the Maddox Jolie Project until 2007—which is dedicated to community development and environmental conservation in Cambodia's northwestern province Battambang. In 2006, she partnered with the Global Health Committee to establish the Maddox Chivan Children's Center, a daycare facility for children afflicted and affected by HIV in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh^. That same year, she and her partner Brad Pitt founded the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to aid humanitarian causes worldwide. In 2007, Jolie and noted economist Dr. Gene Sperling founded the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, which funds education programs for children affected by man-made or natural disasters. In 2008, she collaborated with the Microsoft Corporation to establish Kids in Need of Defense, a pro bono movement of law firms, corporate law departments, NGOs and volunteers committed to providing legal counsel to unaccompanied immigrant children in the U.S. In 2010, she established the Jolie Legal Fellows Programme, which recruits lawyers to support governmental child protection efforts in Haiti.

Jolie has received wide recognition for her humanitarian work. In 2002, she received the inaugural Humanitarian Award by the Church World Service's Immigration and Refugee Program. In 2003, she was the first recipient of the Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association. In 2005, she was awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA.^[86] On July 31, 2005, King Norodom Sihamoni awarded Jolie Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in the country. In 2007, Jolie received the Freedom Award by the International Rescue Committee. In 2011, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres presented Jolie with a gold pin reserved for the most long-serving staff, in recognition of her decade as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.

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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress and director. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011.^[1][2] Jolie is noted for promoting humanitarian causes as a Special Envoy and formerly as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman, a title for which she has received substantial media attention.

Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), but her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in the cyber-thriller Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical television films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999).

Jolie achieved wide fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and established herself among the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood with the sequel The Cradle of Life (2003).^[7] She reinforced her reputation as a leading action star with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and Wanted (2008)—her biggest non-animated commercial successes to date^[8]—and received further critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Jolie made her directorial debut with the wartime drama In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011).

Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie now lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship notable for fervent media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, and three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.

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Angelina Jolie'S Career

Early work: 1982; 1991–1997

When she was seven years old, Jolie had a small part in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), a movie co-written by and starring her father, Jon Voight. She committed to acting at the age of 16, but initially found it difficult to pass auditions, often being told that she was "too dark."^[15] She appeared in five of her brother's student films, made while he attended the USC School of Cinema-Television, as well as in several music videos, namely Lenny Kravitz's "Stand by My Woman" (1991), Antonello Venditti's "Alta Marea" (1991), The Lemonheads's "It's About Time" (1993), and Meat Loaf's "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" (1993). She began to learn from her father, as she noticed his method of observing people to become like them. Their relationship during this time was less strained, with Jolie realizing that they were both "drama queens."^[13]

Jolie began her professional film career in 1993, when she played her first leading role in the low-budget, straight-to-video science-fiction sequel Cyborg 2, as Casella "Cash" Reese, a near-human robot, designed to seduce her way into a rival manufacturer's headquarters and then self-detonate. Jolie was so disappointed with the film that she did not audition again for a year.^[15] Following a supporting role in the independent film Without Evidence (1995), Jolie starred as Kate "Acid Burn" Libby in her first Hollywood picture, Hackers (1995). The New York Times wrote, "Kate (Angelina Jolie) stands out. That's because she scowls even more sourly than [her co-stars] and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard in a see-through top. Despite her sullen posturing, which is all this role requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of her father, Jon Voight."^[25] The movie failed to make a profit at the box office, but developed a cult following after its video release.^[26]

She next appeared in the 1996 comedy Love Is All There Is, a modern-day loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set among two rival Italian family restaurant owners in The Bronx, New York. In the road movie Mojave Moon (1996) she played a young woman who falls for Danny Aiello's middle-aged character, while he develops feelings for her mother, played by Anne Archer. That same year, Jolie also portrayed Margret "Legs" Sadovsky, one of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond in the film Foxfire after they beat up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. The Los Angeles Times wrote about her performance, "It took a lot of hogwash to develop this character, but Jolie, Jon Voight's knockout daughter, has the presence to overcome the stereotype. Though the story is narrated by Maddy, Legs is the subject and the catalyst."^[27]

In 1997, Jolie starred with David Duchovny in the thriller Playing God, set in the Los Angeles underworld. The movie was not well-received by critics; Roger Ebert noted that "Angelina Jolie finds a certain warmth in a kind of role that is usually hard and aggressive; she seems too nice to be [a criminal's] girlfriend, and maybe she is."^[28] She then appeared in the television film True Women (1997), a historical romantic drama set in the American West and based on the book by Janice Woods Windle. That year, she also appeared as a stripper in the music video for "Anybody Seen My Baby?" by the Rolling Stones.

Breakthrough: 1998–2000

Jolie's career prospects began to improve after she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in TNT's George Wallace (1997). She portrayed Cornelia Wallace, the second wife of Alabama Governor George Wallace, played by Gary Sinise. The film was very well-received by critics and won, among other awards, the Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film. Jolie also received an Emmy Award nomination for her performance.

In 1998, Jolie starred in HBO's Gia, portraying supermodel Gia Carangi. The film chronicled the destruction of Carangi's life and career as a result of her addiction to heroin, and her decline and death from AIDS in the mid-1980s. Vanessa Vance from Reel.com noted, "Angelina Jolie gained wide recognition for her role as the titular Gia, and it's easy to see why. Jolie is fierce in her portrayal—filling the part with nerve, charm, and desperation—and her role in this film is quite possibly the most beautiful train wreck ever filmed."^[29] For the second consecutive year, Jolie won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also won her first Screen Actors Guild Award.

In accordance with Lee Strasberg's method acting, Jolie preferred to stay in character in between scenes during many of her early films, and as a result had gained a reputation for being difficult to deal with. While shooting Gia, she told her then-husband Jonny Lee Miller that she would not be able to phone him: "I'd tell him: 'I'm alone; I'm dying; I'm gay; I'm not going to see you for weeks.'"^[30] After Gia wrapped in 1997, Jolie announced that she had given up acting for good, because she felt that she had "nothing else to give."^[31] She separated from Miller and moved to New York, where she enrolled at New York University to study filmmaking and attend writing classes; she later described it as "just good for me to collect myself."^[31] Encouraged by her Golden Globe Award win for George Wallace and the positive critical reception of Gia, she resumed her career.^[15]

Jolie returned to film in the 1998 gangster movie Hell's Kitchen. Later that year, she appeared in Playing by Heart, part of an ensemble cast that included Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, Ryan Phillippe, and Jon Stewart. The film received predominantly positive reviews, and Jolie was praised in particular. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Jolie, working through an overwritten part, is a sensation as the desperate club crawler learning truths about what she's willing to gamble."^[32] Jolie won the Breakthrough Performance Award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

In 1999, she starred in the comedy-drama Pushing Tin, alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. The film received a mixed reception from critics, and Jolie's character—Thornton's seductive wife—was particularly criticized. The Washington Post wrote, "Mary (Angelina Jolie) [is] a completely ludicrous writer's creation of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots of turquoise rings and gets real lonely when Russell spends entire nights away from home."^[33] She then co-starred with Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector (1999), an adaptation of a crime novel by Jeffery Deaver. Jolie played a police officer haunted by her cop father's suicide, who reluctantly helps Washington track down a serial killer. The movie grossed $151 million worldwide,^[8] but was a critical failure. The Detroit Free Press concluded, "Jolie, while always delicious to look at, is simply and woefully miscast."^[34]

"Jolie is emerging as one of the great wild spirits of current movies, a loose cannon who somehow has deadly aim."

—Roger Ebert on Jolie's performance in Girl, Interrupted (1999)^[35]

Jolie next took the supporting role of the sociopathic mental patient Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted (1999), an adaptation of author Susanna Kaysen's memoir of the same name. While Winona Ryder played the main character in what was hoped to be a comeback for her, the film instead marked Jolie's final breakthrough in Hollywood.^[36] She won her third Golden Globe Award, her second Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Variety noted, "Jolie is excellent as the flamboyant, irresponsible girl who turns out to be far more instrumental than the doctors in Susanna's rehabilitation."^[37]

In 2000, Jolie appeared in her first summer blockbuster, Gone In 60 Seconds, in which she played Sarah "Sway" Wayland, the ex-girlfriend of car thief Nicolas Cage. The role was small, and The Washington Post criticized that "all she does in this movie is stand around, cooling down, modeling those fleshy, pulsating muscle-tubes that nest so provocatively around her teeth."^[38] She later explained that the film had been a welcome relief after the emotionally heavy role of Lisa Rowe. It became her highest grossing movie up until then, earning $237 million internationally.^[8]

International success: 2001–present

Although highly regarded for her acting abilities, Jolie's films to date had often not appealed to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) made her an international superstar. An adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogame, Jolie was required to learn an English accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the title role of Lara Croft. She was generally praised for her physical performance, but the movie generated mostly negative reviews. Slant commented, "Angelina Jolie was born to play Lara Croft but [director] Simon West makes her journey into a game of Frogger."^[  The movie was an international success nonetheless, earning $275 million worldwide, and launched her global reputation as a female action star.

Jolie then starred opposite Antonio Banderas as his mail-order bride in Original Sin (2001), a thriller based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich. The film was a major critical failure, with The New York Times noting, "The story plunges more precipitously than Ms. Jolie's neckline."^[40] In 2002, she starred in Life or Something Like It as an ambitious television reporter who is told that she will die in a week. The film was poorly received by critics, though Jolie's performance received positive reviews. CNN's Paul Clinton wrote, "Jolie is excellent in her role. Despite some of the ludicrous plot points in the middle of the film, this Academy Award-winning actress is exceedingly believable in her journey towards self-discovery and the true meaning of fulfilling life."^[41]

Jolie at the Cologne premiere of Alexander in 2004

Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003), which established her among Hollywood's highest-paid actresses.^[7] The sequel was not as lucrative as the original, earning $156 million at the international box office.^[8] She appeared in the music video for Korn's "Did My Time," which was used to promote the film. She next starred in Beyond Borders (2003), as a socialite who joins aid workers in Africa and Asia. The film reflected Jolie's real-life interest in promoting humanitarian relief, but it was critically and financially unsuccessful. The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Jolie, as she did in her Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted, can bring electricity and believability to roles that have a reality she can understand. She can also, witness the Lara Croft films, do acknowledged cartoons. But the limbo of a hybrid character, a badly written cardboard person in a fly-infested, blood-and-guts world, completely defeats her."^[42]

In 2004, Jolie starred alongside Ethan Hawke in the thriller Taking Lives. She portrayed an FBI profiler summoned to help Montreal law enforcement hunt down a serial killer. The movie received mixed reviews and The Hollywood Reporter concluded, "Angelina Jolie plays a role that definitely feels like something she has already done, but she does add an unmistakable dash of excitement and glamour."^[43] She also provided the voice of the angelfish Lola in the DreamWorks animated movie Shark Tale (2004), and had a brief appearance in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), a science fiction adventure film shot entirely with actors in front of a bluescreen. That same year, Jolie played Olympias in Alexander, about the life of Alexander the Great. The film failed domestically, which director Oliver Stone attributed to disapproval of the depiction of Alexander's bisexuality,^[44] but it succeeded internationally, with revenue of $139 million outside the United States.^[8]

Jolie then starred opposite Brad Pitt in the 2005 action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which tells the story of a bored married couple, John and Jane Smith, who find out that they are both secret assassins. The film received mixed reviews, but was generally lauded for the chemistry between the two leads. The Star Tribune noted, "While the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry."^[45] The movie earned $478 million worldwide, making it the seventh-highest grossing film of 2005.^[46]

Jolie as Christine Collins on the set of Changeling in 2007

Jolie next appeared in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006), a film about the early history of the CIA, as seen through the eyes of Edward Wilson, an officer based on James Jesus Angleton and played by Matt Damon. Jolie played the supporting role of Margaret "Clover" Russell, Wilson's neglected wife. According to the Chicago Tribune, "Jolie ages convincingly throughout, and is blithely unconcerned with how her brittle character is coming off in terms of audience sympathy."^[47]

In 2007, Jolie made her directorial debut with the documentary A Place in Time, which captures daily life in 27 locations around the world during a single week. The film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and was intended for distribution to high schools through the National Education Association.^[48] Jolie then starred as Mariane Pearl in the documentary-style drama A Mighty Heart (2007). Based on Pearl's memoir of the same name, the film chronicles the kidnapping and murder of her husband, The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, in Pakistan. The Hollywood Reporter described Jolie's performance as "well-measured and moving," played "with respect and a firm grasp on a difficult accent."^[49] Jolie was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance. She also played Grendel's mother in the animated epic Beowulf (2007), which was created through the motion capture technique.

Jolie co-starred alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the 2008 action movie Wanted, an adaptation of Mark Millar's graphic novel of the same name. The film received predominately favorable reviews and proved an international success, earning $342 million worldwide.^[8] She also provided the voice of Master Tigress in the DreamWorks animated movie Kung Fu Panda (2008). With revenue of $632 million internationally, it became the third-highest grossing film of 2008.^[50] That same year, Jolie took on the lead role in Clint Eastwood's drama Changeling.^[51] Based in part on the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, the film stars Jolie as Christine Collins, who is reunited with her kidnapped son in 1928 Los Angeles—only to realize the boy is an impostor. The Chicago Tribune noted, "Jolie really shines in the calm before the storm, the scenes [...] when one patronizing male authority figure after another belittles her at their peril."^[52] Jolie received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a BAFTA Award.

Jolie on the Salt panel at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2010

Jolie next starred in the 2010 thriller Salt, her first film in two years. She starred alongside Liev Schreiber as CIA agent Evelyn Salt, who goes on the run after she is accused of being a KGB sleeper agent. Originally written as male, the character Salt underwent a gender change after a Colombia Pictures executive suggested Jolie for the role to director Phillip Noyce. The film was an international success with revenue of $294 million.^[8] It received mixed to positive reviews, with Jolie's performance earning praise; Empire remarked, "When it comes to selling incredible, crazy, death-defying antics, Jolie has few peers in the action business."^[53] She also starred opposite Johnny Depp in The Tourist (2010), which was a major critical failure. Peter Travers wrote, "Depp and Jolie hit career lows, producing the chemistry of high-fashion zombies."^[54] After a slow start at the domestic box office, the film went on to gross $278 million worldwide.^[8] Jolie received a controversial Golden Globe Award nomination, which was speculated to have been given merely to ensure her high-profile presence at the awards ceremony.^[55][56]

In 2011, Jolie reprised her voice role as Master Tigress in the animated DreamWorks sequel Kung Fu Panda 2. It became the fourth-highest grossing film of 2011 and Jolie's highest grossing film to date, earning $666 million at the international box office.^[8][57] She also made her directorial feature debut with In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), a love story between a Serb soldier and a Bosniak prisoner of war, set during the 1992–95 Bosnian War. Jolie, who had twice visited Bosnia-Herzegovina in her capacity as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, explained that she made the film to rekindle attention for the survivors of a war that took place in recent history.^[58] The film, which Jolie also scripted and co-produced, aroused both praise and criticism in the Balkans; the response from Bosniak war-victims advocacy organizations was "overwhelmingly positive,"^[59] while a Serb war prisoners group decried the film for its alleged anti-Serb bias.^[60] In the Land of Blood and Honey won the Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America, which honors films that highlight provocative social issues.^[61] It also received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Jolie will play the Disney villain Maleficent in the upcoming film of the same name, where the character's background story will be revealed.

 

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Kehidupan Mewah ala Suri Cruise

Suri Cruise memiliki hidup yang luar biasa.

Dia baru genap berusia 6 tahun pada Rabu dan putri Tom Cruise serta Katie Holmes itu sudah merasakan hidup yang diimpikan banyak orang dewasa.
Sering berpergian bersama kedua orangtuanya dengan helikopter, Suri sudah mengunjungi kota-kota seperti Sevilla di Spanyol, Vancouver di Kanada -- dimana dia mengenakan sepatu Jimmy Choo seharga AS$ 600 (sekitar Rp 5,5 juta) -- dan bahkan pergi menonton Super Bowl, semuanya dilakukan sebelum kebanyakan anak kecil masuk sekolah dasar.
"Suri yang membuat peraturan dan Tom dan Katie mengikutinya," ujar seorang teman keluarga Cruise pada Us Weekly.
belum lagi ini, 

Suri Cruise meminta hadiah seharga AS$ 100.000 (sekitar Rp900 juta) untuk Natal tahun ini.

Putri Tom Cruise dan Katie Holmes itu dilaporkan mengirim surat untuk Santa Claus meminta banyak hadiah.
Meski Suri adalah salah satu gadis kecil paling beruntung di Hollywood, ternyata masih banyak barang yang dia inginkan.
"Permintaan nomor satunya adalah kuda poni," ujar seorang teman keluarga Cruise kepada majalah InTouch. Sumber itu juga menambahkan kalau Tom sudah mencari kandang yang cocok untuk kuda tersebut di dekat rumah mereka di Beverly Hills.
"Meski dia sudah punya segalanya, Suri juga minta anting berlian dan gaun indah, seperti gaun putri peri."
"Tom dan Katie menyukai Natal dan selalu berusaha membuat Suri merasakan pengalaman yang menyenangkan. Mereka membelikan semua yang dia minta."
"Suri itu dewasa dan dia tahu apa yang dia ingingkan," tambah sumber tersebut.
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Murut saya melalui sisi positif tom cruise dan kate holmes telah menjadi orang tua yang baik karena mereka mampu memenuhi semua keinginan putri mereka, namun amat disayangkan perlakuan ini akan memberikan pengaruh buruk kepada Suri. Memberikan barang-barang mewah bukanlah hal yang harus terus dan melulu dilakukan orangtua demi membahagiakan anak, justru hal ini akan memicu anak menjadi manja dan tidak mengenal perjuangan.

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Bersiap Menghadapi Gempa Besar 'Mega Thrust'

nesia artinya harus bersiap menghadapi bencana yang bisa datang setiap saat. Pada 12 April lalu, kita diingatkan lagi betapa gempa bisa datang tanpa diduga waktu tepatnya. Berdasarkan pengalaman gempa besar Aceh pada Desember 2004 lalu, penduduk sudah lebih sadar untuk mengevakuasi diri ke dataran tinggi, berjaga-jaga dari kemungkinan terjangan tsunami.

Meski gempa tak bisa diduga waktunya, namun para peneliti sudah memperkirakan akan terjadinya gempa besar (mega thrust) di Padang dengan 8,9 SR.

Menurut ahli gempa dari Program Studi Geodesi Institut Teknologi Bandung Irwan Meilano, mega thrust di Sumatera adalah kawasan yang selama ini banyak dipelajari oleh peneliti gempa. Kawasan ini terbentuk ketika lempeng Indoaustralia menunjam lempeng Eurasia.

Penunjaman ini menyimpan energi sangat besar yang bisa dilepaskan sewaktu-waktu sebagai gempa besar. Gempa 9 Skala Richter pada 2004 yang melanda Aceh merupakan megathrust yang berasal dari zona subduksi di pantai barat Aceh. Bahkan, gempa yang terjadi 12 April lalu ia perkirakan akan mempercepat terjadinya gempa mega thrust di Padang.

Dalam daftar 10 gempa terdahsyat yang pernah terjadi sejak 1900 sampai sekarang, Indonesia mendominasi dengan tiga gempa besar dan dengan jumlah korban yang banyak pula.

Artinya, tinggal di Indonesia yang merupakan kawasan rawan gempa seharusnya menjadikan kita lebih siap menghadapi bencana ini. Bukan hanya kesiapan pemerintah dalam urusan infrastruktur yang jadi sorotan, tapi bagaimana kita sendiri bisa mengkondisikan diri untuk tetap tenang, mencari tempat aman, dan menyelamatkan diri saat bencana terjadi.

Kita bisa berdoa, namun itu tidak cukup. Ada hal-hal yang secara manusiawi bisa kita siapkan untuk meminimalkan terjadinya korban jiwa. Apakah kita sudah melatih anak-anak sampai orangtua untuk mengevakuasi diri untuk persiapan jika bencana terjadi seperti di Jepang?

Apakah kita sudah memiliki kotak darurat berisi P3K, perlengkapan makanan serta minuman, yang bisa dibawa sewaktu-waktu saat gempa? Atau jangan-jangan malah kita tidak tahu apa yang harus dibawa ketika evakuasi darurat saat gempa? Dan tahukah kita ke mana harus menyelamatkan diri saat gempa? Seberapa sering kita melakukan latihan evakuasi?

Lalu, apa lagi menurut Anda yang bisa kita siapkan untuk selalu siaga menghadapi bencana gempa yang bisa datang sewaktu-waktu?

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MY REVIEW "Dik, Jangan Dik," Kisah Polisi Dalam Kepungan Massa Jl Diponegoro

"Dik, Jangan Dik," Kisah Polisi Dalam Kepungan Massa Jl Diponegoro

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FOTO: Mobil Resmob dibakar (Antara)

Jakarta - Kamis (29/3) malam lalu, suasana di depan kampus UPI-YAI, Jalan Diponegoro, Jakarta Pusat tampak mencekam. Ratusan mahasiswa melakukan aksi bakar ban dalam demo menolak kenaikan Bahan Bakar Minyak (BBM) itu.

Saat itu, aksi unjuk rasa berubah menjadi liar tidak terkendali. Para pendemo tidak hanya membakar ban, namun Pospol yang terletak di antara kampus UKI dan UPI-YAI juga ikut dirusak massa yang mengamuk. Setelah merusak Pospol dengan batu, massa juga membakar motor milik anggota Polsek Senen yang diparkir di Pospol tersebut.

Massa juga memblokade Jalan Diponegoro mulai dari depan kantor LBH Jakarta hingga ke arah Salemba. Massa juga melakukan sweeping terhadap pengendara yang melintas. Bahkan, massa juga mengeroyok Kapolsek Senen Kompol Iman Zebua yang saat itu bertugas di lokasi. Kompol Iman pingsan dan dilarikan ke UGD RSCM setelah dihajar massa.

Ratusan aparat polisi dari Polres Jakarta Pusat tidak dapat menahan amukan massa yang sudah brutal itu. Untuk mengendalikan massa yang sudah brutal itu, Kepolisian Daerah Metro Jaya mengirimkan pasukan tambahan.

Termasuk salah satunya tim dari Subdit Resmob Polda Metro Jaya diperintahkan untuk ikut mengendalikan massa. Kepala Subdit Resmob Polda Metro Jaya, AKBP Herry Heryawan saat itu memimpin langsung 7 anggotanya.

"Setelah menerima informasi Kapolsek Senen dikeroyok, saya bersama anggota saya menuju ke TKP sekitar pukul 20.15 WIB," kata Herry.

Saat itu, Herry dan 7 anggotanya berangkat beriringan dari Mapolda Metro Jaya dengan menggunakan tiga unit mobil. Herry saat itu menumpang mobil Kijang LX tahun 2001 yang bertanda khusus, tulisan 'RESMOB' pada body samping kiri-kanan dan belakangnya.

"Saat itu, mobil Resmob yang saya dan dua anggota saya tumpangi berada paling depan, untuk membuka jalan karena saat itu jalanan macet," katanya.

Dalam situasi seperti itu, petugas memang harus cepat berada di lokasi. Untuk membuka jalur, Herry menyalakan rotator dan sirine pun menyalak. Melalui pengeras suara, anggotanya menghalau pengendara untuk meminggirkan kendaraannya.

"Sesampainya di lokasi, di depan LBH ternyata jalanan sudah terblokir," ujarnya.

Saat itu, mobil Resmob yang ditumpangi Herry dan anggotanya terhalang Kopaja. Saat itu pula, puluhan orang berlarian ke arah mobil Resmob yang ditumpangi Herry dan dua anak buahnya.

"Kami saat itu tidak mengira kalau massa akan memburu kami. Tetapi rupanya mereka semakin mendekati mobil kami," katanya.

Karena jumlah anggota yang sedikit tidak seimbang dengan massa yang banyak, Herry kemudian memutuskan untuk memerintahkan anggotanya yang berada dalam dua unit mobil di belakangnya agar putar balik, menghindar massa. Dua mobil yang ditumpangi anggotanya berhasil memutar balik kendaraannya. Namun nahas, mobil Resmob yang ditumpangi Herry dan dua anak buahnya tidak sempat memutar balik karena terhadang Kopaja.

Massa yang beringas merusak mobil Resmob yang sedang ditumpangi Herry dan dua anggotanya itu. Massa kemudian mengguncang-guncangkan mobil Resmob tersebut. Di tengah situasi seperti itu, Herry mencoba menenangkan massa untuk tidak berbuat anarki.

"Saya sudah bilang ke mereka, Dik jangan Dik. Kita ke sini untuk memberikan pengamanan. Kita bukan musuh kalian," ujarnya kala itu.

Namun massa tidak mempedulikan imbauan Herry kala itu. Massa terus menghancurkan mobil Resmob. Dalam situasi seperti itu, Herry pun memerintahkan dua anak buahnya yang ikut bersamanya untuk turun dari mobil. Herry saat itu sempat tergencet, hampir tidak dapat meloloskan diri dari amukan massa.

Dengan sekuat tenaga, Herry mencoba mendorong pintu mobil yang sudag dikepung massa. Ia kemudian menyelamatkan diri bersama dua anggotanya, menuju ke Mteropole yang letaknya berjarak sekitar 10 meter dari lokasi kejadian. Massa kemudian mengejar Herry dan anak buahnya.

"Kami dikeroyok oleh mahasiswa. Kami bergumul dengan tangan kosong," katanya.

Mobil Dibakar

Setelah berhasil meloloskan diri dari amukan, massa kemudian membakar mobil Resmob. Seketika, Jalan Diponegoro berubah mencekam. Api memerah keluar dari mobil Resmob. Herry saat itu hanya bisa menatap mobil dinas anggota yang hanya satu-satunya itu.

Beberapa saat setelah aksi pembakaran mobil Resmob, petugas gabungan dari Polda Metro Jaya datang ke lokasi membubarkan massa. Menjelang Jumat (30/3) dini hari, massa baru terkendali. Pasca kejadian itu, petugas kemudian melakukan sweeping ke kantor LBH Jakarta.

"Kami mendapat informasi kalau massa bersembunyi ke kantor LBH Jakarta," ujar Wakil Direktur Reserse Kriminal Umum Polda Metro Jaya AKBP Nico Afinta.

Petugas kemudian menggeledah tiap lantai kantor LBH. Di lantai satu, petugas menemukan ratusan tas milik mahasiswa. Dari hasil penggeledahan, petugas menemukan spanduk, bendera bergambar lambang Nazi, tiga bilah bambu, pecahan kaca, pecahan bemper mobil, batu dan dua buah ketapel.

Di lokasi, petugas juga mengamankan 53 mahasiswa yang saat itu bersembunyi di lantai 2 kantor LBH. Kepala Subdit Keamanan Negara (Kamneg) Polda Metro Jaya, AKBP Daniel Bolly Tifaona menyatakan, seluruhnya ditetapkan sebagai tersangka karena telah melakukan perusakan, pembakaran dan pengeroyokan.

Daniel mengatakan, kelimapuluh tiga mahasiswa tersebut dijerat dengan pasal 187 KUHP tentang pembakaran jo 170 KUHP tentang pengeroyokan terhadap orang dan benda jo pasal 164 KUHP tentang pemufakatan melakukan kejahatan.

"Mereka telah melakukan perusakan terhadap benda seperti mobil Resmob, motor dan pembakaran pospol," kata Bolly.

Bolly melanjutkan pihaknya memiliki bukti kuat bahwa para pelaku melakukan aksi anarki di lokasi saat melakukan aksi demo menolak kenaikan harga BBM di Jalan Diponegoro, Jakarta Pusat pada Kamis (28/3) sore lalu.

"Ada bukti, kita tidak akan menahan kalau tidak ada alat bukti dong," ujarnya

Tanggapan : In my opinion every act is based on how they've been treated, but anarchism is'nt allowed for any conclusion. It's just making worse the situation. Imagine there's many people or citizen could be a victim of this situation Whereas they dont have any direct business at this problem. we must realize that police and even student too, we were people/citizen.
all we must do is keep calm of reacting all the situation, our house of people's representatives must be had the best reason in every policy. And stay positively think. :D

SRI UTAMI N 3EB13