Dividen PT ASTRA ASII 20-23 May 2013

ASTRA INTERNATIONAL Tbk ASII 150 20-May-13 23-May-13
payment on 7 june and TLKM on 18 June 2013

Dividen Telkom TLKM 2013 29 May - 3 June 2013 IDR 436,098

TELEKOMUNIKASI INDONESIA Tbk TLKM 436.098 29-May-13 3-Jun-13 30-May-13 4-Jun-13 3-Jun-13 18-Jun-13
 
Ket: Dividen tunai tahun buku 2012 Rp369.082 ditambah special dividen tunai sebesar Rp67.016

Obama defends handling of Syria and Boston bombing, vows to close Gitmo

By Olivier Knox and Rachel Rose Hartman qPresident Barack Obama on Tuesday forcefully defended his policy toward Syria, his handling of the Boston Marathon bombing, the future of Obamacare and even his political relevance in a wide-ranging press conference 100 days into his second term. Obama also made a passionate promise to try again to close the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison. The president delivered an unprompted tribute to Jason Collins, the first openly gay active NBA player, calling him "a terrific young man" and a "role model" for gay youth who may be struggling. "One of the extraordinary measures of progress that we've seen in this country has been the recognition that the LGBT community deserves full equality—not just partial equality, not just tolerance, but a recognition that they are fully a part of the American family," the president said. "America should be proud." Obama batted down calls for the U.S. to escalate its role in Syria's civil war after intelligence concluded that President Bashar Assad likely used the deadly nerve agent sarin on rebels seeking his ouster. Obama said proof that Assad unleashed chemical weapons would be a "game changer" but warned that the United States cannot rush to judgment. "We don't know how they were used, when they were used, who used them, we don't have a chain of custody that establishes what exactly happened," Obama told reporters during the hastily announced question-and-answer session in the White House briefing room. "I've got to make sure I've got the facts." He added, "If we end up rushing to judgment without hard, effective evidence" confirming the U.S. intelligence community's preliminary finding that Assad likely used the deadly nerve agent sarin, then America may find it hard to rally support from the international community and even some partners in the region who support Assad's ouster. So "it's important for us to do this in a prudent way," Obama said. But the president repeated that the use of chemical weapons would be a game changer "because what that portends is potentially even more devastating attacks on civilians, and it raises the strong possibility that those chemical weapons can fall into the wrong hands,." "By 'game changer' I mean that we would have to rethink the range of options that are available to us," said Obama, who has sent aid to Syria's opposition and neighboring countries like Turkey and Jordan but thus far has resisted calls to arm the rebels or attack Assad's forces directly. Obama said there is "a spectrum of options" that are "on the shelf right now" but might be used because using chemical weapons would represent "an escalation, in our view, of the threat." Obama laughed off a question about whether the defeat of a bipartisan bill to enhance background checks of would-be gun buyers and other legislative struggles meant he lacked the political "juice" to advance his second-term agenda. "If you put it that way," the president said with a chuckle, "maybe I should just pack up and go home. Golly." "As Mark Twain said, you know, rumors of my demise may be a little exaggerated at this point." Obama said he was confident that bipartisan efforts to overhaul America's immigration policy would result in a bill that passes the Senate and House and "gets on my desk." But he had harsh words for the "dysfunctional" Congress and critics who seem to think "that somehow, these folks over there have no responsibilities and that my job is to somehow get them to behave." "That's their job," he said sternly. Obama denied claims by some Republicans that the Boston Marathon bombings indicated an intelligence failure. He said investigators had worked in "exemplary fashion" to track down the perpetrators of the attack and to determine what provoked two Russian-born brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to detonate the two devices that killed three and injured nearly 300. Obama said the FBI had worked in concert with Russian officials to identify and question Tamerlan Tsarnaev after Russian investigators suggested he might be embracing extremist views. The FBI interviewed Tamerlan but said nothing had indicated he would carry out an attack. Obama said U.S. and Russian officials were continuing to cooperate in the investigation. Obama said Tamerlan Tsarnaev's apparent embrace of radical Islam indicated a growing concern about "self-radicalized individuals" living in the United States and unconnected to any terror networks. Obama said Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was reviewing what happened to see if there were additional protocols to put in place to detect a potential attack in the future. "Was there something that happened that triggered radicalization?" Obama said. "Are there additional things that could have been done in the interim?" The president vowed to revisit one of the most high-profile promises from his history-making 2008 campaign: closing the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility. "I'm going to go back at this," he said with evident passion. "It needs to be closed. "It's critical for us to understand that Guantanamo is not necessary to keep America safe," Obama said in his most forceful remarks on the issue in years. The prison is expensive and inefficient and "hurts us in terms of our international standing," Obama said, calling it "a recruitment tool" for extremists. "I'm going to re-engage with Congress to try to make the case that this is not something that's in the best interests of the American people," he said. Obama said American could not be in the business of holding roughly 100 detainees in a "no man's land in perpetuity" without trying them. "That is contrary to who we are." But he acknowledged that "it's a hard case to make" to the public. Asked whether his administration would continue to force-feed hunger-strikers at the facility, Obama replied: "I don't want these individuals to die." The president pushed back on comments by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Democrat, who called the implementation of the Affordable Care Act a "train wreck." Obama said most of the provisions of the new health care law are already in place. "For the 85-90 percent of Americans who already have health insurance, they're already experiencing most of the benefits," Obama said, noting that under the new law, insurance companies cannot drop people because of pre-existing conditions and that young people up to age 26 can remain on their parents' policies. Obama said the implementation challenges would mainly affect Americans currently without insurance who will now be required to enroll in health care exchanges to purchase coverage. The challenge is that setting up a market based system … is a big, complicated piece of business," Obama said, adding it was further complicated by Republican efforts to block or defund implementation. Obama held the news conference during a week that both the Senate and House are out of town, making it harder for lawmakers to counter his message.

Rana Plaza tragedy: Is your shirt or jeans from here? Mango, Primark,Benetton....

By Nina Strochlic | The Daily Beast  Was your shirt or jeans stitched by one of the nearly 1,000 garment workers who were injured or killed in the recent factory collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh? You might want to check the label. In the week since an eight-story, four-factory complex collapsed in Bangladesh, online records and physical debris has revealed a growing list of international retailers tied to the suppliers housed in the Rana Plaza building. More than a dozen brands have been identified—including big names like The Children's Place, Benetton, Mango, and Primark—and a number of these companies have emerged to explain their association with the shoddily built, illegal bloc that housed the factories. READ MORE JCPenney's Very Good Bad Day In an assembly line with so many middlemen, who's to blame? Garment workers, among the world's worst paid and treated laborers, increasingly have fallen victim to unsafe working conditions inBangladesh, where the $20 billion garment industry employs 3.2 million people. But in the finger pointing after every disaster, little progress is made to fix the issue, as companies often blame corrupt government inspectors or factory owners, who blame companies for the pressures of a rigorous supply schedule. In the wake of a string of deadly factory accidents, critics argue a stricter set of checks and balances must be implemented across the board—and taken out of the hands of international retailers. "You're the leader in the industry, and the industry's been structured in a way that keeps responsibility at a distance from you and that's not acceptable," says Judy Gearhart, executive director of the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF), of the companies. She calls the current systems in place "woefully inadequate," saying, "Frankly, they don't want responsibility for those workers." READ MORE Iron Man 3's Global Bow The Daily Beast contacted 11 international retailers whose names surfaced in connection to the factories, and two responded with comments by press time. Department store JCPenney noted that while no company-label merchandise was produced at the factory, product slated for its stores was. "While JCPenney has no direct insight into the development and sourcing of Joe Fresh apparel, we will continue to be a part of a broader coalition that aims to improve the safe working conditions in Bangladesh," a spokeswoman said in an email to The Daily Beast. READ MORE Chat Apps Bite Mobile $$ Some, including Benetton and Mango, have acknowledged using the factories but said they were not official suppliers and had not been fully audited. "A one-time order was completed and shipped out of one of the manufacturers involved several weeks prior to the accident," Benetton said in a statement. "Since then, this subcontractor has been removed from our supplier list." According to activists, labels were found for French supermarket Carrefour and European retailer C&A, both of which deny current involvement with the suppliers. The Children's Place and The Dress Barn said they were prior customers but hadn't done business with the factories in years. And despite one of the factory websites claiming Walmart as a customer, the world's largest retailer denies the association. READ MORE Prison Review on Yelp Others have been more forthcoming. Bonmarché, in the United Kingdom, confirmed it was working with one of the factories, telling The Daily Beast, the company has "a clear supplier code of conduct, in line with industry standards." Both Loblaw Co., the Canadian retailer that owns Joe Fresh, and the U.K. clothing chain Primark announced they would dole out reparations to family members of the victims, including long-term provisions and immediate aid. "We are fully aware of our responsibility," Primark said in a statement. "We urge these other retailers to come forward and offer assistance." Notably, though, neither Loblaw or Primark has agreed to sign the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement, a 2011 proposal drafted by the National Garment Workers' Federation that would establish a system of independent factory inspectors. On Change.org, a petition urging retailers Primark, Mango, and Matalan to add their names to the agreement and supply worker compensation has garnered 60,000 signatures. READ MORE The Triumph of the Suburbs Though unrest over working conditions has been escalating over the past decade in Bangladesh, in the past six months, fatal incidents have hit "record numbers," says Gearhart. "It's unfathomable that we could have ever gotten to this many worker deaths." In November, 112 garment workers were killed in a fire at Tazreen Fashions factory, where products were being made for Walmart and Sears. A year and a half earlier, Walmart shareholders had voted down requiring annual safety reports from suppliers, saying it "could ultimately lead to higher costs for Walmart and higher prices for our customers. This would not be in the best interests of Walmart's shareholders and customers and would place Walmart at a competitive disadvantage." READ MORE Schwarzman Wants Scholars Twenty-four-year-old Sumi Abedin survived the November fire by jumping from a third-story window, breaking her arm and leg in the process. She recently traveled across the United States to speak out against the practices of big business. "I don't want anyone else to have to live through a horrible fire like I experienced at Tazreen," she said in a statement released by the ILRF. "I had to find my courage to take this trip to call on U.S. apparel companies and buyers to stop the murders in Bangladeshi garment factories before the death toll becomes any higher." As pressure mounts, petitions take off, and consumers boycott brands, Gearhart says she hopes the international supply chain will be encouraged—or shamed—into entering binding agreements for a comprehensive system of safety checks and balances. But that would require a complete revamping of "the level of commitment from the brands to factories and factories to workers," and Gearhart isn't entirely optimistic. Each time factory abuse is revealed in a tragedy, the world reacts—viscerally, furiously—but so far the outrage hasn't been enough to stop the cycle. "We ask ourselves, how many more workers have to die for there to be a significant change?" she says.

Dividen ANTM 2013 47,09

it is not much...and it is much lower than last year Title : ANTM : Antam bagikan dividen Rp449 M PT Aneka Tambang Tbk (ANTM) berencana membagikan dividen sebesar Rp448,97 miliar atau setara dengan 15 persen dari perolehan laba bersih tahun berjalan 2012 sebesar Rp2,99 triliun. Direktur Utama Perseroan periode sebelumnya, Alwinsyah Lubis menyebutkan, dividen yang dibagikan sebesar Rp47,09 per lembar saham. Pembagian dividen ini sudah disepakati dalam Rapat Umum Pemegang Saham Tahunan (RUPST) di Ritz Carlton Mega Kuningan, Jakarta, Selasa (30/4/2013). (sindo/dk)