Twitter Mania - Facebooker Reporter Informasi Terkini

Sebelum menyampaikan bagaimana para penggila facebook dan twitter secara saadar atau tidak menjadi "online dan uptodate reporter" ada beberapa hal yang patut diketahui.

Jejaring sosial, Facebook dan Twitter, memang sarana berbagi cerita, kabar, status, uneg-uneg, yang sangat populer. Dengan media sosial ini, masyarakat bahkan dapat membagi/share foto dan film.

Aliran informasi yang ingin disampaikan biasanya hanya ditujukan kepada orang-orang terdekat, keluarga, teman, rekan kerja, dan sebagainya.

Namun patut diketahui, secara bawaan/default penyampaian kabar/informasi/status pada Facebook maupun Twitter umumnya terseting untuk konsumsi publik.

Singkatnya, dengan perangkat search engine yang benar, maka semua informasi/kabar/status seantero dunia dapat terlihat.

Terlepas dari pro-kontra bahwa informasi yang disampaikan hanya untuk kalangan tertentu, sebenarnya para pengguna facebook dan twitter telah menyumbang bagi perkembangan dan penyampaian informasi publik yang revolusioner.

Update status pada twitter yang paling mudah dilihat, fasilitas untuk melihat status publik disediakan dalam layanan search engine Bing Sosial, nah ini dia linknya http://www.bing.com/social

Sementara untuk melihat status kategori publik di facebook, anda dapat menggunakan Openbook, dan ini linknya http://youropenbook.org

Penggunaan layanan ini hanya perlu mengetikkan kata terkait informasi yang dicari dalam kotak pencarian dan kemudian hanya menekan enter, walaaaaa semua status/informasi publik yang dengan berhubungan dengan kata kunci akan terlihat secara uptodate.

Kenapa layanan ini? karena search engine biasa seperti google dan lain-lain, memiliki akses yang sangat terbatas untuk menggunakan informasi dari facebook maupun twitter.

Untuk Bing Social, layanan ini dikelola oleh jasa korporasi, sementara Openbook merupakan hasil karya dari orang-orang yang mengkritik facebook.

Baru-baru ini, sempat terjadi kekisruhan antara ormas dengan masyarakat di Kota Pontianak, Kalbar,  Dengan hanya mengetikkan kata kunci, segala informasi/status terkait kejadian tersebut langsung tertera.

Anda dapat bayangkan, mendapat informasi langsung dari saksi mata yang berada ditempat kejadian, tentunya sangat bermanfaat. Kadang memang hanya komentar belaka sih.

Begitu banyak yang memberikan kontribusi status/informasi, mulai dari anak sekolahan, remaja, pegawai negeri, aparat, LSM, bahkan provokator sekalipun. Karena itu anda harus cermat dalam mengakses informasi yang diterima.

Semakin gempar atau populer kejadian yang kita cari informasinya, maka semakin luar biasa arus informasi/status di twitter dan facebook.

Luar biasanya informasi selalu diperbarui bersamaan dengan saat facebooker atau twitter mania mengetikkan status. Tak hanya informasi tulis, namun juga foto dan video terkait yang di-attach, dapat anda akses atau download.

Informasi yang anda terima, sangat sangat sangat cepat jika dibandingkan/mengharapkan berita dari web media online.

Untuk saat ini, saya lebih menyarankan penggunaan Bing Social untuk melihat status Twitter, karena penyedia jasa layanan ini telah bekerjasama dengan Twitter.

Sementara untuk Openbook bagi melihat status publik Facebook, memiliki keterbatasan dalam mengakses maupun dalam kecepatan mengupdate status publik facebook. Maklumlah, Openbook hanya merupakan karya kelompok orang saja, yang tidak berniat mencari keuntungan.

Sumatran Elephants Last Hope

Human-elephant relationship never harmonious since prehistoric times, until today.

The elephants seemed have no right to live on this cruel world because of human need for lands and men ruthless exploitation to those big animals.

It takes many wise unselfish men, community, policy, fund, and will, to save elephants from extinction. For this purpose Way Kambas National Park was established.

The Elephant Conservation Centre (PKG) of Way Kambas National Park (TNWK) is in East Lampung regency, Lampung Province, Sumatra Island, Indonesia.

TNWK was established in 1985, the park is the first Elephant Training Center (PLG) in Indonesia. Now its status has changed to Elephant Conservation Center (PKG)

There are about 60 Sumatran Elephants (Elephas maximus sumatranus) lived at the conservation center areas. This areas expected to be the center for domestication, training, breeding, and conservation of Sumatran elephants that continue to shrink in numbers.

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), said Sumatran elephants are endangered species because its population is reduced to 2,400-2,800 elephants from about 5,000 elephants in 1985.

Various of causes that lead to those heavy animals extinction, including elephants conflict with human due to men massive land expansion, illegal hunting activities, and disesases.

Cases of elephant poaching for it high value ivory is increasing in some Sumatra Island areas.

Meanwhile, elephant-human conflict are continued to occur. One of Margahayu Villager, Satari, admitted he and his family is unable to do much when wild elephants ruffled their plantation.

Satari recognized that he and along with hundreds other villagers from Braja Asri Village, Braja Yekti Village, Proyek village, and Plang Ijo Village, only able to block elephants attack by guarding around TNWK areas.

He said villagers no longer calculating losses due elephant-human conflict. The elephants often looting their crops before the harvest time come.

Some farmers even choose to trade around conservation park areas rather than working on their farm.

Head of TNWK, Awen Pranata, explain that human-elephant conflict never caused human life casualties. However, residents had suffered great losses because of their plantations destroyed.

Conflict with humans usually occur before harvest time, because elephants have sharp smell, the big animal come to citizens farm and agriculture areas.

He hope that 200 new men at TNWK will able to dispel wild elephants from residents neighborhood.

There are about 36 villages that near with the national park. However, elephant is often targeting 23 villages because those vilagges are adjacent with conservation forests.

He said, in the future, TNWK will minimize the elephant attacks on people and agricultural crops, with involving the local community.

In addition, TNWK will also restored some forrest area for elephants and provide assistance support for local communities to improve their economic livelihood.

Elephant conflicts with residents in the surrounding buffer zones have been very worrying.

According to the Secretary of Way Kambas Forum Rembuk Desa Penyangga (FRDP), Suyuti, during 2010 occurred about 500 cases of elephant-human conflict in that region. In January-September 2011 about 785 cases occurred.

President Regulation made 3.32 Million Hectares Borneo Deforestation

Indonesian President Regulation, No. 3 of 2012, on Borneo Island Land Use Plan allegedly able to deforesting about 3.32 million hectares of Central Borneo Province forest. Invironmental NGOs urge for immediately review on the President Regulation.

Director of Indonesian Forest Watch (FWI), Hapsoro, on Saturday (3/10/12), said that government should review this regulation before it can make forest destruction widespread.

Hapsoro explain, President Regulation removes the status of Limited Production Forest (HPT) in State Forest Zone.

According to him, HPT status loses implies to more serious threat of deforestation in Central Borneo Province.

NGOs analysis discover about 3.32 million hectares of Central Borneo Province forest will vanish if President Regulation not reviewed. This areas previosly categorized as a Limited Production Forest (HPT).

Based on reports released in July 2011, FWI reveal that Central Borneo Province is province with the highest deforestation rate in Indonesia.

At least, he added, about 2 million hectares of Central Borneo forest have been lost in 2000 - 2009 period.

Forest loss occurred in almost all types of forest ecosystems, including 490 thousand hectares of peatland forest ecosystem.

FWI already delivering the massive scale of Central Borneo forest destruction occurrences to government, but a few months later government aggravate Central Borneo forest condition through No. 3 of 2012 Presiden Regulation.

1 Million Ton Greenhouse Emission from Tofu Waste

Indonesian tofu industries is one of the significant contibutor for greenhouse emission in this country.

There is about 84 thousand units tofu homeindustries in Indonesia, with production capacity more than 2.56 million ton of tofu a year. 80 percent of Indonesian tofu industries located on Java Island.

This industry produced liquid wastes that up to 20 millions cubic meter per year, with about 1 million ton greenhouse emission produced.

Kyoto protocol arranged six kinds of greenhouse gases, that is carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrogen oxide (N2O), and other three industrial gases that contained fluoride (HFC, PFC,dan SF6). 70 percent greenhose emission volume is carbon dioxide, then followed by methane, nitrogen oxide, etc.

For tackling this problem, Indonesian Environmental Technology Center for Technology Assessment and Application (BPPT PTL), developed liquid waste management technology that turn tofu wastes into bio gas fuel.

Pilot project for this technology set at Banyumas Regency, Cental Java Province. There is about 2 thousand tofu industries exist in Banyumas Regency.

BPPT researcher, Widiatmini SW, said that liquid waste treatment can reduce environmental pollution and help to meet community need for energy.

With liquid waste management technology, people can produce 6,500 liter bio gas from 1 meter cubic of tofu liquid wastes. For this process BPPT PTL placing Fixed Bed Reactor in Kalisari Village and Cikembulan Village, Banyumas Regency, with funding from Research and Technology Ministry

From pilot project in that two villages, 50 households already using generated biogas to replace LPG. They savings about 90 tons of LPG per year, and reducing 184 tons of CO2 emissions a year.