Libur Ngetik Sejenak

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Berhubung baru overload pekerjaan kantor, maka dengan ini saya mohon maaf yang sebesar-besarnya saya sementara waktu libur ngetik-ngetik dulu.

The Art of War - Sun Tzu

-- No nation has ever benefitted from prolonged war
-- War is a matter of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, survival or ruin

Pra-Perang:
-- Know your enemy and know yourself and in 100 battles you will never be in peril

Menimbang Kebun Emas

Emas adalah barang yang anti-inflasi, yaitu tidak terpengaruh dengan infalasi, sehingga banyak orang (bahkan negara) mengamankan kekayaannya dalam bentuk emas. Oleh karena itu, segala perhitungan kekayaan dikembalikan ke dalam bentuk emas. Bisa jadi uang 10.000.000 tahun ini bisa untuk membeli 1 sepeda motor, 10 tahun lagi mungkin hanya bisa untuk beli sepeda saja. Tetapi, kalo sekarang 30 gram emas bisa untuk beli motor, 10 tahun lagi harganya tidak jauh dari 30 gram emas.

Dulu, saya pernah tertarik dengan kebun emas, yaitu membeli emas dengan harga 1/3 dari harga emas pada saat itu. Buktinya, saya mendaftar seminar yang membahas tentang kebun emas tersebut, meskipun yang berangkat bukan saya. Berdasarkan informasi yang didapat, maka saya mencoba melakukan simulasi sendiri.

Bedanya Orang Goblok dan Orang Pintar versi Mbah Bob Sadino

Kalo orang 'goblok' itu tak pandai menghitung, makanya lebih cepat mulai usaha. Kalau orang pinter, menghitungnya 'njlimet', jadi nggak mulai-mulai usahanya. Nah, kalau orang 'goblok', dia akan mencari orang pintar dan harus lebih pintar darinya, untuk menjalankan usahanya. Lain hal dengan orang 'goblok', jika ketemu gagal, nggak merasa kalau dia gagal, karena dia merasa sedang 'belajar'. Pengusaha tak harus pintar dalam segala hal. Tapi harus pintar mencari orang pintar.

Komentar saya:

Tidak ada salahnya orang goblok yang beruntung mudah mencari pekerjaan, kemudian dengan kegoblokannya cari orang yang pinter untuk membantu berusaha. Dan tidak ada salahnya juga orang pinter yang mudah mencari pekerjaan pada suatu waktu menggoblokkan dirinya untuk membuka usaha. Pandai-pandai saja merubah tingkat kepinteran/kegoblokan. Jangan terbawa emosi, bosan menjadi karyawan misalnya. Apakah tidak boleh menjadi karyawan sekaligus memiliki usaha? Kalo tidak ada yang mau menjadi karyawan, terus mana ada orang yang mulai berusaha. Setidaknya menjadi karyawan bagi dirinya sendiri.

Dunia itu penuh dengan ketidakpastian kepastian. Orang lain bisa sukses dengan cara X, belum tentu kita bisa sukses jika melakukan hal yang sama. Bisa jadi kita sukses dengan cara Y.

Kewajiban manusia hanyalah berusaha yang terbaik, Allah-lah yang menentukan segala sesuatu. Sehingga, jangan lupa bahwa kita ini adalah makhluk ciptaan Allah yang diciptakan sebagai Abdullah (abdi Allah). Besihkanlah harta kita dengan zakat karena sebagian harta kita bukan merupakan hak kita. Allah saja memberi rizki kita dengan cara yang tidak dapat kita duga, mosok menyisihkan 2,5% (tergantung usaha kita) saja tidak mau.

Selamat berusaha dan semoga mendapatkan barokah dari Allah. Amin.

Muslim World Population

Nearly 1 in 4 people worldwide is Muslim, report says (CNN) -- Nearly one in four people worldwide is Muslim -- and they are not necessarily where you might think, according to an extensive new study that aims to map the global Muslim population. Nearly two out of three of

the world's Muslims are in Asia, stretching from Turkey to Indonesia.

India, a majority-Hindu country, has more Muslims than any country except for Indonesia

and Pakistan, and more than twice as many as Egypt.

China has more Muslims than Syria.Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon.And Russia

has more Muslims than Jordan and Libya put together.Nearly two out of three of the world's

Muslims are in Asia, stretching from Turkey to Indonesia.The Middle East and north Africa, which together are home to about one in five of the world's Muslims, trail a very distant second.

There are about 1.57 billion Muslims in the world, according to the report, "Mapping the Global Muslim Population," by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. That represents about 23 percent of the total global population of 6.8 billion.

There are about 2.25 billion Christians, based on projections from the 2005 World Religions Database.

Brian Grim, the senior researcher on the Pew Forum project, was slightly surprised at the number of Muslims in the world, he told CNN. "Overall, the number is higher than I expected," he said, noting that earlier estimates of the global Muslim population have ranged from 1 billion to 1.8 billion.

The report can -- and should -- have implications for United States policy, said Reza Aslan, the

best-selling Iranian-American author of "No God but God."

Fact Box

Report: Top 10 Muslim countries, by population

1. Indonesia: 202,867,000 (country is 88.2 percent Muslim)

2. Pakistan: 174,082,000 (country is 96.3 percent Muslim)

3. India: 160,945,000 (country is 13.4 percent Muslim)

4. Bangaldesh: 145,312,000 (country is 89.6 percent Muslim)

5. Egypt: 78,513,000 (country is 94.6 percent Muslim)

6. Nigeria: 78,056,000 (country is 50.4 percent Muslim)

7. Iran: 73,777,000 (country is 99.4 percent Muslim)

8. Turkey: 73,619,000 (country is about 98 percent Muslim)

9. Algeria: 34,199,000 (country is 98 percent Muslim)

10. Morocco: 31,993,000 (country is about 99 percent Muslim)

Source: "Mapping the Global Muslim Population," The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

"Increasingly, the people of the Middle East are making up a smaller and smaller percentage of the worldwide Muslim community," he told CNN by phone. "When it comes to issues of outreach to the Muslim world, these numbers will indicate that outreach cannot be focused so narrowly on the Middle East," he said.

"If the goal is to create better understanding between the United States and the Muslim world, our focus should be on south and southeast Asia, not the Middle East," he said.

He spoke to CNN before the report was published and without having seen its contents, but was familiar with the general trends the report identified. The team at the Pew Forum spent nearly

three years analyzing "the best available data" from 232 countries and territories, Grim said.

Their aim was to get the most comprehensive snapshot ever assembled of the world's Muslim population at a given moment in time.

So they took the data they gathered from national censuses and surveys, and projected it forward based on what they knew about population growth in each country.

They describe the resulting report as "the largest project of its kind to date." It's full of details that even the researchers found surprising. "There are these countries that we don't think of as Muslim at all, and yet they have very sizable numbers of Muslims," said Alan Cooperman, the associate director of research for the Pew Forum, naming India, Russia and China.

One in five of the world's Muslims lives in a country where Muslims are a minority.

And while most people think of the Muslim population of Europe is being composed of

immigrants, that's only true in western Europe, Cooperman said. "In the rest of Europe -- Russia, Albania, Kosovo, those places -- Muslims are an indigenous population," he said. "More than half of the Muslims in Europe are indigenous." The researchers also were surprised to

find the Muslim population of sub-Saharan Africa to be as low as they concluded, Cooperman said. It has only about 240 million Muslims -- about 15 percent of all the world's Muslims.

Islam is thought to be growing fast in the region, with countries such as Nigeria, which

has large populations of both Christians and Muslims, seeing violence between the two groups.

The Pew researchers concluded that Nigeria is just over half Muslim, making it the sixth most populous Muslim country in the world.

Roughly nine out of 10 Muslims worldwide are Sunni, and about one in 10 is Shiite, they estimated. They warned they were less confident of those numbers than of the general population figures because sectarian data is harder to come by.

"Only one or two censuses in the world ... have ever asked the sectarian question," said Grim.

"Among Muslims it's a very sensitive question. If asked, large numbers will say I am just a Muslim -- not that they don't know, but it is a sensitive question in many places," he said.

One in three of the world's Shiite Muslims lives in Iran, which is one of only four countries with a Shiite majority, he said. The others are Iraq, Azerbaijan, and Bahrain. Huge as the project of mapping the world's Muslim population is, it is only the first step in a Pew Forum undertaking.

Next year, the think tank intends to release a report projecting Muslim population growth into the future, and then the researchers intend to do the whole thing over again with Christians,

followed by other faith groups. "We don't care only about Muslims," Grim said.

They're also digging into what people believe and practice, since the current analysis doesn't analyze that. "This is no way reflects the religiosity of people, only their self-identification ,"

Grim said. "We're trying to get the overall picture of religion in the world."