GURU PENDIDIKAN AGAMA KRISTEN SEBAGAI PELOPOR REVOLUSI MENTAL

The most effective pioneers of mental revolution are learners. Learners are the next generation of this nation, and learners who will take many roles in the development of the Indonesian nation. The advanced nation is determined by the person involved in the care of the Indonesian people, the advanced church is determined by the youth and members of the congregation who are actively involved in it. It is undeniable that changes within the church and within this nation are much influenced by the nation's children. Thus, the bachelors involved in the church and the state must be the nation's children who have good character, have a steel mental who will firmly fight for the Indonesian people and gerind from corruption, collusion, nepotism and other attitudes that can divide an alliance both in the church and in the nation. Therefore, the nation's children who are expected to bring change, are expected to be well educated, and have a commitment to be honest in advancing this nation, so teachers, especially Christian teachers who directly touching in educating the nation's children are expected to give its role as a destination planner mature learning, being a good example and able to create synergy between schooland parents

Utopia or Uprising? Conflicting Discourses of Japanese Robotics in the British Press

Technology is a particularly interesting example of where media portrayal of Japan is inconsistent. For many years, Japan has been known as a technologically advanced nation. This image persists, especially in the last couple of years with the introduction of service and retail robots such as Softbank’s Pepper. While sometimes news publications present this as a positive image of the future, an idea of what we in the West have to look forwards to, at other times, the image of technology in Japan is decidedly negative. Sometimes it has too much technology, or it has technologies that ‘we in the West’ would not see a use for. How do these conflicting views arise? This paper uses Critical Discourse Analysis to analyse British news articles about three recent robots in order to reveal the discourses present. The article will investigate whether these depictions are a result of Orientalism, but will show that no single Orientalism is responsible, but rather a combination of Techno-Orientalism, Self-Orientalism, and Wacky Orientalism.

Taxing Consumption

Since the United States needs more revenue than it can generate just by raising existing taxes, policymakers need to think about new taxes, starting with a broad-based national consumption tax, as discussed in Chapter 13. Value-added taxes (VATs) are the world’s most common consumption tax, in place in more than 160 countries, including every economically advanced nation except the United States. A VAT is really a sales tax for consumers, but it’s collected in parts at each stage of production rather than all at once at the retail level. A broad-based, 10 percent value-added tax should be a central part of the fiscal solution. It would raise substantial revenues. It wouldn’t distort incentives to save, invest, or borrow. And it’s simpler to administer than other broad-based consumption taxes.

Implementasi Audit Mutu Internal Pada Perguruan Tinggi Agama

Education has become one of the most important instruments in the transformation of human civilization. Thus, the establishment of Islamic Higher Education institution has indicated the responsibility of community on development of this nation. Then, in this modern era, the process of competition among nations has determined by the quality of education. A nation will be known well as strong and advanced nation if the citizen has independence in the culture, economic and politics. Certainly, this matter depended on the role of education side. Thereby, there would be an actualization of human authority in contributing the valuable matters in order to realize a better quality of the nation.