As is generally accepted, people all over the world are in need of clothes. The clothes are very useful. It can cover our bodies and prevent direct radiation of Sun that is potentially harmful to our skin and so on. With respect to the fashion, people may also prefer certain characteristic or type of clothes differently. Therefore, importing second clothing or locally known as Cakar is one alternative to provide and distribute various clothes with low price that may seem to be interesting to the people.

Surprisingly, there has been an investigation that revealed the existence of alien substance such as micro organism and bacteria on these second clothes. In response to this investigation, people with low economy caste wondered about the new policy that has been issued to stop the distribution of this imported second clothing due to these potentially dangerous substances.

 In fact, the prohibition of imported second stuff including second clothinghas been applied in this country but unfortunately, it seems the government has no concern with this issue. At last, the minister of trade, RahmatGobel, took step to moderate this issue. “Imported second clothing isseriously dangerous and it may cause various diseases such as itch, skin transferred disease nad on the fatal level, it may cause HIV,” The Minister said.

  Absolutely, the pro and cons has become evident among the traders. They claim that they can only gain sufficient income to ‘make end meet’ from the trading of those second stuffs. The traders even explained further that the buyers could put their second clothing into the hot boiled water, so that there will be no microorganism remained.

 In addition, almost all costumer of this second clothing are those with low economy class. They assume it is the surest way to find clothes which have good quality and low price. They prefer to go to cakar rather than go to the mall to find qualified clothes due to lack of money.

  This new policy should consider the rights of both the buyer and the seller. It should also have solution to the merchants on how to gain sufficient income beside of selling second clothes. In the other hand, this policy automatically will increasethe national income (Cakar) because people buys their own local product.

Written By : M. Herdian Fajar│The President of HEC

Today, porn video becomes public consumption not only for adult but also for teens. It can be seen from one study cited (v. disebutkan) in the London media saying as much 42% of internet users ages 10 to 17 said they viewed porn online in the past 12 months. In Indonesia, based on Seto Mulyadi, Chief of Indonesian Comision Children Right, it was known that 97% from 4500 teens were recognized (v. diketahui) to have watched porn video. This habit has grown (v. tumbuh) and spred (v. tersebar) over society. It is caused by hormone of puberty hitting (v. melanda) teens. Actually it is not only the influence of the hormone but also it also comes from teens having big curiousity for a new thing.

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Actually, watching porn video for teens has a long and short term effect. Long term effect happens to brain and short term is to reproduction health and sexual behavior (n. perilaku).

There are five crucial parts in brain to porn watching, i.e. Orbitofrontral Midfrontal, Insula Hippocampus Tempral, Nucieus accumbens, Patumencingalute, dan Cerebelum. When someone watches porn video, one of them will potentially be damaged. A part in someone’s brain taking an important role when watching porn is prefrontal cortex. Prefrontal cortex controls personality, morality, and decision making. It will produce dufamin or lust (n. nafsu) full hormone. Dufamin is inveterate (adj. bersifat candu) in an individual’s life, so a porn watcher can become an addictive consumer.

Meanwhile, the effect for reproduction health comes to excessive production of several hormones, such as Dophamine, Neuropiniphrin, Serotonin and Oksitosin. Those are hormones that drive a person to have addictive condition, especially to porn consumption behavior. For sexual behavior, excessive (adj. berkelebihan)  production of hormone can transform teens to experience “adventurous sex”, sex behavior that belongs to those acting sex in crime. Usually, they are looking for someone to rape (v. dicabuli) when they reach maximal desire of lust.

Today, very few parents ever bring themselves to talk to their children about sex. To help, the teens parents can begin with talking about sex, not sex education. Reaching this technological era, talking about sex for some parents in some families is still a taboo because of including some verbal adult content. Parents should dedicate themselves to try to help their children openly, honestly, and privately in their intimate (adj. dekat) relationships, whereas (adv. mengingat) sex education is done only once and short in time. That is really not enough to create intimate relationships beetween parents and children. Parents should make it as intense as it is needed.

As a conclussion, watching porn video is strongly prohibited especially for teens. It causes many negative impacts for them as young as well as future generation.

Questions.

1.         As a young generation, what do you think about the number of teens recognized to have watched porn video?

2.         What do you think about the main factor teens watching porn video?

3.         Do you agree about talking about sex is effective to reduce the numbers of watching porn video in teens? If yes, how do parents can do it?

4.         Can somebody get rid of watching-porn habit without help from anyone? How?

Written By: Fitriani Kasim | Student of Public Health Master Program

As one form of human effort in facilitating the work to meet the needs, human never stop evolving (V/mengembangkan) technology through theirconsciousness (N/kesadaran) in everything related to the fulfillment (N/pemenuhan) of primary, secondary, and tertiary needs.So that the technology penetrated (V/menembus) in some areas that are closely related to human needs. The more diverse (Adj/beragam) type of human needs, the faster the rate of technology developes.

The primary need is the top priority of every human need, one of the primary needs is food. In response to the food, a country faces a challenge that is known for food resilience. A country can be said to achieve the goals to food resilience (N/ketahanan) if it has been able to meet the three pillars of food resilience. They are the availability of food,the affordability (N/kemampuan untuk mencapai)to food, and the quality of the food.

The first pillar of food resilience lies on the availability of food.Food availability describes the sense of how the ability of a state to provide sufficient (Adj/cukup) food for its people, from national to sub-national levels (e.g. regional, district, community, etc). This pillar has to be backed-up (V/dikuatkan) by the ability a country to make use of their potential land and resource in producing food.The second pillar is the affordability of food.This gives a sense of how society's ability to get the food that has been provided by the state.It is strongly associated with economic condition. The third is the quality of the food.It gives the sense of food that will be consumed influence people's health.

At present humans are facing great challenges in the quality and quantity of food. When viewed in the perspective of agricultural cultivation, the quality and quantity of food decrease.None other happens more than the negative impact of environmental degradation caused by the utilization of technologies that are not environmentally friendly. This sort of (kind of) technology has increased the environmental contamination that requires changing plant physiology activity in order to prevent life from destruction (N/kerusakan). Change is exactly what causes the food situation throughout the world. It does not conform (V/menyesuaikan) to what is expectedto.

One of problems that can be put to the floor is BioEnergy. As one of the efforts to create an environmentally friendly technology, various countries such as Brazil, US, and other countries in Europe have been working out to increase the use of plant as a source of energy called BioEnergy. This is a significant progress in the energy combined with ecological use as well as an irony to food security and sustainability because the plant is used as raw material to create energy in which plant in the same time becomes the core (N/inti) of human life in the world. Therefore BioEnergy is a threat (N/ancaman)against human food resilience in the future.

However, the scientists in this field are still trying to minimize the amount of losses that will come to the manufacture of new energy technologies. By calculating the usefulness and risks, it can create a variety of new technologies that can reduce the negative impact of technology invention.

Written by : Muh. Khaeran Ali (Geophysics- Hasanuddin University)

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