NO SECRETS

The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in. This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place. Assange was dressed in a gray full-body snowsuit, and he had with him a small entourage. “We are journalists,” he told the owner of the house. Eyjafjallajökull had recently begun erupting, and he said, “We’re here to write about the volcano.” After the owner left, Assange quickly closed the drapes, and he made sure that they stayed closed, day and night. The house, as far as he was concerned, would now serve as a war room; people called it the Bunker. Half a dozen computers were set up in a starkly decorated, white-walled living space. Icelandic activists arrived, and they began to work, more or less at Assange’s direction, around the clock. Their focus was Project B—Assange’s code name for a thirty-eight-minute video taken from the cockpit of an Apache military helicopter in Iraq in 2007. The video depicted American soldiers killing at least eighteen people, including two Reuters journalists; it later became the subject of widespread controversy, but at this early stage it was still a closely guarded military secret.
Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. He and his colleagues collect documents and imagery that governments and other institutions regard as confidential and publish them on a Web site called WikiLeaks.org. Since it went online, three and a half years ago, the site has published an extensive catalogue of secret material, ranging from the Standard Operating Procedures at Camp Delta, in Guantánamo Bay, and the “Climategate” e-mails from the University of East Anglia, in England, to the contents of Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo account. The catalogue is especially remarkable because WikiLeaks is not quite an organization; it is better described as a media insurgency. It has no paid staff, no copiers, no desks, no office. Assange does not even have a home. He travels from country to country, staying with supporters, or friends of friends—as he once put it to me, “I’m living in airports these days.” He is the operation’s prime mover, and it is fair to say that WikiLeaks exists wherever he does. At the same time, hundreds of volunteers from around the world help maintain the Web site’s complicated infrastructure; many participate in small ways, and between three and five people dedicate themselves to it full time. Key members are known only by initials—M, for instance—even deep within WikiLeaks, where communications are conducted by encrypted online chat services. The secretiveness stems from the belief that a populist intelligence operation with virtually no resources, designed to publicize information that powerful institutions do not want public, will have serious adversaries.
Iceland was a natural place to develop Project B. In the past year, Assange has collaborated with politicians and activists there to draft a free-speech law of unprecedented strength, and a number of these same people had agreed to help him work on the video in total secrecy. The video was a striking artifact—an unmediated representation of the ambiguities and cruelties of modern warfare—and he hoped that its release would touch off a worldwide debate about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was planning to unveil the footage before a group of reporters at the National Press Club, in Washington, on April 5th, the morning after Easter, presumably a slow news day. To accomplish this, he and the other members of the WikiLeaks community would have to analyze the raw video and edit it into a short film, build a stand-alone Web site to display it, launch a media campaign, and prepare documentation for the footage—all in less than a week’s time.
Assange also wanted to insure that, once the video was posted online, it would be impossible to remove. He told me that WikiLeaks maintains its content on more than twenty servers around the world and on hundreds of domain names. (Expenses are paid by donations, and a few independent well-wishers also run “mirror sites” in support.) Assange calls the site “an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis,” and a government or company that wanted to remove content from WikiLeaks would have to practically dismantle the Internet itself. So far, even though the site has received more than a hundred legal threats, almost no one has filed suit. Lawyers working for the British bank Northern Rock threatened court action after the site published an embarrassing memo, but they were practically reduced to begging. A Kenyan politician also vowed to sue after Assange published a confidential report alleging that President Daniel arap Moi and his allies had siphoned billions of dollars out of the country. The site’s work in Kenya earned it an award from Amnesty International.
Assange typically tells would-be litigants to go to hell. In 2008, WikiLeaks posted secret Scientology manuals, and lawyers representing the church demanded that they be removed. Assange’s response was to publish more of the Scientologists’ internal material, and to announce, “WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon.”
In his writing online, especially on Twitter, Assange is quick to lash out at perceived enemies. By contrast, on television, where he has been appearing more frequently, he acts with uncanny sang-froid. Under the studio lights, he can seem—with his spectral white hair, pallid skin, cool eyes, and expansive forehead—like a rail-thin being who has rocketed to Earth to deliver humanity some hidden truth. This impression is magnified by his rigid demeanor and his baritone voice, which he deploys slowly, at low volume.


Sumber: TheNewYorker

Field Trip Landmark Research Garuda

On the 8th of February until 10th of February
Cita Hati Christian Senior School held a study tour called
WEEK WITHOUT WALLS
It is unfortunate that I cannot join the wonderful trip.
So I had to RESEARCH!! How dreadful was that!
Even if it is no fun, I was privileged to be able to know about the wondrous things Indonesia has to offer.
The students went to visit Garuda Indonesia's landmarks in Jakarta
and I had to research on those!
GMF,GITC and ACS!

hope you enjoy the rest of the blog! :-)


Let us talk about GMF first! GMF was an abbreviation for Garuda Maintenance Facility.
What is Garuda Maintenance Facility or GMF anyways?
PT. Garuda Maintenance Facility (GMF) is the base camp for Garuda Indonesia’s aero plane maintenance. This maintenance center facility was built on an area approximately 115 hectares. This huge patch of land is located around Bandara Soekarno-Hatta Cengkareng.
GMF is opened for service 24 hours a day, with approximately 1,600 workers and technicians.


Purpose
GMF Airplane maintenance center was equipped with modern repairing technology which are internationally recognized. GMF was facilitated with 3 airplane hangar that can accommodate wide body airplanes and narrow body airplanes. GMF was also equipped with supplementary facilities such as workshops, spare part garage, waste disposal area and lots more.


Partnership
GMF has acquired certificates and recognitions from international institutions such as: FAA – United States, CAAS – Singapore, DOA – Thailand, ATO – Philippines, CAA – Pakistan, and many more.
Not only for Garuda Indonesia airplanes, has GMF also accepted repair service for mainstream airplanes from various countries that needs reparation whilst in the lands of Indonesia. GMF has taken care of many competitor’s airplanes like: Air Canada, Kuwait Airways, World Airways, Latur Mexico, Pakistan Airline, Iran Assesman, Cambodia Airforce, Air Nigeria, Merpati Airlines, Mandala and many

GITC
GITC or Garuda Indonesia Training Center is the training and educational institution for Garuda Indonesia employees; either on land or up in the air (pilot and stewardess). Trainings that were held in GITC have surpassed the international standard. The institution was certified for ISO 9001.



FACILITIES
To support its training activities and satisfies customer's needs, GITC provides the following facilities:
• 34 class rooms
• 3 Clasess of Computers Lab with Network integrated
• 2 Clasess of Computer Based Training
• Dormitory with 40 rooms
• Student Canteen and
• Cockpit Crew Lounge
• Free WIFI for internet access
• Full Flight Simulators (F28, B737CG, B747-200)
• Cabin Service Mockup Wide Body and Narrow Body
• Static Mockup and motion mockup for Emergency Procedure Training
• Door trainers for most aircraft types
• Auditorium Hall for conference, seminar and meeting
• Pool for cabin/cockpit crew wet drill training
• Mosque
• e-learning web sites
• Sport Center (tennis court, badminton, jogging track, basket ball)
• Gymnastic Room
• Modern Music and traditional gamelan set
• Helli pad


GITC provided training programs such as; Education for pilot, education and training for flight attendants, training for ground staff , for instance, the mechanic, ticketing, customer service and airline management. Every programs were taught through theories and practices.



Pilots were educated with a syllabus of mathematics, navigation, physics, aerodynamics, mechanical skills and practical lectures using simulator. GITC facilitated a simulator for Boeing and Airbus.



ACS
ACS is an abbreviation for Aero Catering Service. The corporate itself- PT. ACS is the supplementary company from PT. Aerowisata which is the subsidiary company of Garuda Indonesia. ACS is in the business of catering for aeroplanes. This subsidiary company has been operating since 1974 and it has employed more than 1.300 workers.
The head quarters and manufacture factory of ACS is located near Jakarta’s International Airport Bandara Soekarno-Hatta, Cenkareng. Besides Jakarta, PT. ACS also has various branch offices throughout Indonesia.



Purpose
ACS (Aero Catering Service) is a company under Garuda Indonesia that has a purpose of supplying meals for inbound and outbound flights. ACS manufacture branches can produce more than 65,000 meals each day. Jakarta branch itself can produce approximately 35,000 meals each day! This company is not a joke; their production process applies an International Standard in accordance to ISO 9001 – 2001.






For Garuda Indonesia flights, ACS also provides special-request meals such as: vegetarian meal, kosher meal, diabetic meal, gluten atau sugar free meal, low fat meal, soft diet meal a\dan low salt diet meal. This type of request can be done during the flight reservation or three days before the flight depart.
Partner

Besides creating meals for airline passangers, PT. ASC also produce meals for hotels in Indonesia. Besides providing food for all Garuda flights, ACS also provide meals for other airlines- both domestic and International flights. Those partners are: Merpati Nusantara Airlines, Pelita Air Services, Bouraq, Star Air and many more. PT. ACS equips 19 International airlines such as: Air China, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, EVA Air, Malaysian Airlines, Qantas, Qatar Airlines, Thai Airways, and many more.


THIS IS ALL ABOUT GARUDA INDONESIA
CHEERS!

Cheers to all!

Greetings everyone!
My name is Jessica Tattiana- yes with a double T. 
I am a tenth grader in Cita Hati, Pre International Baccalaureate student to be exact.
I was born in Jakarta, May 23rd 1995 and moved to Surabaya when I was 6 months old.
My favorite sport is badminton; I do think i am pretty good at it.
My hobby is to listen to music and watch news. I hope that I can integrate that for my future.
I believe that I am a dare-devil, I often get injured because of reckless stunts. Lol
In the future, I wished to be a successful CEO in New York city.
Also, I hope to have fun with the things I do.


One thing you need to know, I am a Christian.
I believe that Jesus Christ is my LORD and SAVIOR.

                        

                                                     xoxo, Jessica Tattiana