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“God, Why?” (Reflection on Job 29-31)

“ God, Why?” (Reflection on Job 29-31) Introduction Being forsaken is one of the terrible thing in our life. Nobody in the world wants to be thrust away and rejected, especially by our inner circle relation. And no body can ultimately survive if he is being forsaken by his God. The book of Job tells us about Job's struggles inside when he felt that he was forsaken by people and God. The calamity in his life make him left behind, helpless. He needed God's explanation, God's reason, God's purpose to understand what has happening. But still there was no answer. God was silence; he felt that God has forsaken him. This book help us to understand the fragile nature of human being and how he depend ultimately to God. Without God we can do nothing, without God we are nothing. Job cried out to God his deep feeling, his protests, and the agony that he felt. He poured out his feeling to God in lament. This help us to understand that Our God hear our prayer, our sorrow a

Anti Corruption Progress in Indonesia

Anti Corruption Progress in Indonesia Asian Studies II: Current Trend in Asia Introduction The flame of the spirit of reformation flared up on 1998. Demonstrations, riots and chaos sprung up in some prominent cities. And the climax on May 1998, Suharto step down from the president of Indonesia office, and ended his powerful authoritarian regime. Indonesian people rejoice and dream of “a New Indonesia” in the spirit of democracy and reformation. And now, 15 years later, Indonesia has transformed from a military and authoritarian centralized government to be a more relative open and democratic nation. The other side of shifting to democracy state, it had brought the country faced complex problems. One of the biggest problems is the corruption emerged to different way, even in more dangerous ways. People in political power, politics mafia, know that they just only have a short period of time in power and position, therefore they engage massive corruption while they were s