JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com — Mahkamah Agung mengurangi hukuman mantan Menteri Kelautan dan Perikanan Rokhmin Dahuri dari tujuh tahun menjadi 4,5 tahun. MK mengabulkan permohonan peninjauan kembali (PK) yang diajukan Rokhmin.

“Mengabulkan PK dari terpidana. Membatalkan putusan kasasi MA pada 8 Mei 2008,” kata Kepala Bagian Humas MA Andri Kristianto Sutrisno, Jumat (13/11) di Gedung MA, Jakarta.

Menurut Andri, putusan tersebut dijatuhkan oleh majelis PK yang dipimpin oleh Djoko Sarwoko dengan hakim anggota, Abbas Said, Hamrad Hamid, Sofian Martabaya, dan Leopold Hutagalung.

Majelis PK, kata Andri, menyatakan, Rokhmin terbukti secara sah dan menyakinkan bersalah melakukan korupsi bersama-sama dan berlanjut. Selain menjatuhkan pidana 4,5 tahun penjara, MA juga menghukum Rokhmin dengan pidana denda Rp 200 juta subsider empat bulan kurungan.

Rokhmin diduga melakukan tipikor dalam dana nonbudgeter di Departemen Kelautan dan Perikanan. Pada 23 Juli 2007, Pengadilan Tipikor menjatuhkan hukuman tujuh tahun penjara dan denda Rp 200 juta subsider enam bulan penjara. Putusan ini dikuatkan oleh Pengadilan Tinggi Tipikor pada PT DKI Jakarta.

Rokhmin mengajukan kasasi, tetapi ditolak oleh majelis kasasi yang dipimpin oleh Iskandar Kamil. Saat itu, majelis kasasi menilai bahwa Rokhmin terbukti memenuhi unsur melakukan paksaan psikis sesuai Pasal 12 huruf e Undang-Undang Nomor 31 Tahun 1999.

Majelis kasasi menilai bahwa Rokhmin terbukti memerintahkan kepada pejabat eselon I dan II memotong anggaran untuk kepentingan nelayan, tetapi penggunaannya ternyata tidak sesuai dengan yang dimaksudkan.

Laporan wartawan KOMPAS Susana Rita

Indonesia will lobby China to ask the country to announce its voluntary target of emissions cuts to ward off the expected deadlock on new climate change treaty talks to be held in Copenhagen next month.

State Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta said China played a pivotal role for the success of the Copenhagen talks given rich nations demanded that emerging countries like China commit to a binding target on emissions reduction.

“If China sets a voluntary target on emissions cuts, I believe the United States and others wealthy nations would follow suit,” Gusti said Friday.

He said he had also talked with European ambassadors in Jakarta asking for their support for the key Copenhagen conference, to be held from Dec. 7 to 18.

Indonesia is one of the first developing countries to have announced targets for emissions reductions.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged that Indonesia would cut its emissions by 26 percent by 2020 on a voluntary basis.

Adianto P. Simamora ,  The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta   |  Fri, 11/06/2009 9:13 PM  |  National

5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands: Ensuring Survival, Preserving Life, and Improving Governance May 3-7, 2010, UNESCO, Paris, France

(in association with the 50th anniversary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and in celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity 2010)

The 5th Global Oceans Conference will specifically address the challenges and opportunities posed by the emerging international consensus on a new climate regime (as developed through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Copenhagen, December 2009). Mitigation, adaptation, and financing issues will profoundly affect oceans, coasts, and small island States, which are at the frontline of climate changes. Thus, it is imperative that the importance of marine and freshwater ecosystems and resources and their vulnerability to climate change are emphasized and that integrated ecosystem-based principles and approaches be fully incorporated in the shared vision for long-term cooperative action and in the adaptation, mitigation, financing, and technology strategies and measures.

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Oceans Day at Copenhagen: The Importance of Oceans, Coasts, and Small Island Developing States in the Climate Regime: December 14, 2009, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen (during the UNFCCC 15th Conference of the Parties)

Oceans Day, co-organized by the International Coastal and Ocean Organization (Secretariat of the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands), the Government of Indonesia, the European Environment Agency, together with a number of governments, NGOs, and IGOs, will provide an opportunity for Parties and Observer States, intergovernmental organizations, non-government organizations, and members of civil society to discuss the implications of the emerging Copenhagen agreement for oceans, coasts, and coastal communities around the globe, especially in small island developing States. Oceans Day will highlight the direct link between climate change, the health of the oceans, and human well-being, as well as highlight the need for sufficient funding to support bold mitigation and adaptation actions that will minimize climate change impacts on coastal communities and ocean resources. Oceans Day at Copenhagen will also underscore the latest scientific understanding about the impacts of climate change and increased concentration of atmospheric carbon on the oceans. This enhanced knowledge, in addition to the Manado Oceans Declaration, underpins the strong need to focus on oceans, coasts, and coastal communities in the climate negotiations and provide the context for charting the way forward.

The Associated Press ,  Athens   |  Wed, 11/04/2009 9:32 PM  |  World

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday warned that the problem of environmental refugees from developing countries is increasing the pressure for a climate change agreement at an upcoming conference in Copenhagen.

Ban said that the global talks on climate change have also reached a “critical period” in the weeks ahead of Dec. 7-18 climate conference.

On Tuesday, African nations staged a one-day walkout from the U.N. climate talks in Barcelona, Spain, to press demands that negotiations focus more heavily on carbon emission cuts by rich nations. The protesting countries said they would be hardest hit by the effects of global warming.

“Negotiations have recognized that migration is a likely consequence of climate impacts. Populations will relocate due to more extreme weather, including prolonged droughts, intensive storms and wildfires,” Ban said.

“In Africa, expanding desertification is … prompting more people to leave rural areas. So far these movements have occurred within countries. But that could very well change over time,” he said.

Ban spoke at an international conference on immigration Wednesday in Greece, where he began a two-day official visit.

“Protecting vulnerable communities must be a priority,” he said. “We need action in Copenhagen. We will continue to push for the most ambitious agreement possible.”

In London on Tuesday, Ban acknowledged that agreements on firm carbon emission cuts may not be reached in Copenhagen, but that progress toward that goal could be made.

On Wednesday, he met Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and President Karolos Papoulias.

Ban urged Greece’s new Socialist government to improve screening procedures for asylum seekers.

“I am … aware that the various U.N. refugee and human rights mechanisms have expressed their concerns about the conditions of migrants detained in Greece,” he said.

Greek officials on Wednesday promised to review bureaucratic procedures for asylum seekers and speed up the application process.

According to European Union figures, nearly half of the total number of illegal immigrants that reached the EU borders last year, arrived through Greece.

Nearly 20,000 asylum applications were filed in Greece last year, but only 379 people were granted international protection, the U.N. refugee agency said.

Ban also said his special envoys had made “reasonable progress” in talks to reunite divided Cyprus and were ready to restart talks on a name dispute between Greece and its neighboring Macedonia.

SLEMAN, KOMPAS.com — Pemerintah Indonesia menyatakan akan berupaya keras mempertahankan Protokol Kyoto dalam konferensi perubahan iklim di Kopenhagen, Denmark, Desember nanti. Protokol itu dinilai sangat penting sebagai perangkat aturan guna mengurangi tingkat emisi gas karbon dunia.

“Jangan sampai Protokol Kyoto itu hilang begitu saja. Kalaupun sampai diganti namanya, kita mengharapkan artikel 3.9 itu tetap ada, yakni kewajiban negara-negara maju untuk menurunkan emisinya,” kata Menteri Negara Lingkungan Hidup Gusti Muhammad Hatta saat kunjungan kerjanya di Sleman, DI Yogyakarta, Rabu (4/11).

Dari data yang diterima Gusti, ada kekhawatiran suhu bumi akan naik 4 derajat celsius jika emisi gas karbon tidak diturunkan. Hal itu akan mencairkan es di kutub dan membuat permukaan air laut naik 80 cm. “Dampaknya, 33 juta penduduk Indonesia yang tinggal di garis pantai akan kebanjiran,” kata Gusti.

Karena itu, Gusti mengatakan bahwa Indonesia akan memainkan peranannya dalam konferensi nanti untuk mendesak negara-negara maju agar ikut serta menurunkan emisinya bersama-sama Indonesia. “Indonesia sudah secara sukarela menurunkan emisi gas karbonnya hingga 26 persen. Padahal, Indonesia tidak wajib. Itu maksudnya untuk menggugah negara-negara maju, seperti Amerika Serikat, untuk ikut,” katanya.

Pemerintah saat ini juga gencar menggalang kekuatan, khususnya dari negara-negara Eropa, untuk mendukung rencana tersebut. “Beberapa hari ini saya sudah menerima duta besar dari negara-negara Eropa. Kita meminta dukungan kepada mereka dan mereka menyambut positif,” kata Gusti.

Laporan wartawan KOMPAS Mohamad Final Daeng

Arthur Max ,  Associated Press ,  Barcelona   |  Sun, 11/01/2009 8:32 PM  |  World

Negotiators from nearly 180 countries hope to nail down the outline of a plan to provide tens of billions of dollars a year to fight climate change, in their final round of talks before a decisive conference in Copenhagen next month.

The five-day meeting beginning Monday will resume work on the draft of an agreement to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the first international accord on controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and other climate-changing gases.

They are charged with whittling down a thick draft document full of competing proposals, disputed wording and minority-backed options, and crafting a workable agreement that can be accepted by all 192 nations due to attend the Dec. 7-18 Copenhagen conference.

But with time swiftly running out, skepticism is mounting that one of the most complex treaties in history can be reached in the Danish capital, as envisioned when the negotiations began two years ago.

Deep divisions remain among industrial countries and the developing world on commitments by the rich countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and on how the developing countries can lower the upward trajectory of their own emissions.

“It is realistic to say that in Copenhagen we will not be able to conclude a treaty, but it is important to lay down a political framework which will be the basis of the treaty,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the close of a European Summit in Brussels on Friday.

Even with that framework, she said, “negotiations will drag out longer until we get a treaty.”

Environment advocates caution against losing faith and momentum.

“It is crucial that we keep ambitions high,” said Kim Carstensen, the global climate strategist for the World Wildlife Fund, concerned that cascading pessimism could contribute to failure in Copenhagen.

The Kyoto Protocol required 37 countries to reduce emissions by an average 5 percent from 1990 levels by 2012, but made no demands on emerging countries. The U.S. renounced it as unfair and harmful to its economy.

Over the next decade after Kyoto was signed through 2006, U.S. emissions grew 5.5 percent while India’s grew 47 percent and China’s by 92 percent, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Of the 180 pages in the draft document discussed in Barcelona, 30 pages deal with financing for poor countries to help them adjust to climate changes and to move toward a greener development path.

The European Union gave shape to the discussion on Friday when it put a figure on the table. It called for euro5 billion to euro7 billion ($7.5 billion to $10.3 billion) over the next three years, scaling up gradually to euro100 billion, or nearly $150 billion a year, by 2020.

As much as half should come from governments and public money, while the other half should derive from private investments and from the carbon market in the industrial countries. Europe has had carbon trading since 2005, and the U.S. Congress is considering a similar cap-and-trade scheme.

Climate activists criticized the EU paper as too vague and the funding inadequate.

The policy paper avoided saying how much Europe would contribute to the climate fund and called on all countries except the poorest to throw money into the pot. The EU said it would pay its “fair share” if others did too.

Oxfam International called it an “opening bid for climate justice that is nowhere near enough.”

“This is not yet a breakthrough for a climate deal. But the EU has shown that real numbers can now be negotiated,” said Elise Ford, head of Oxfam’s Brussels office.

PANGANDARAN, KOMPAS.com — Kerut di wajah wanita ini menggambarkan betapa keras jalur hidup yang ditempuhnya. Susi Pujiastuti (45) merangkak sebagai pedagang ikan segar. Ia sukses di industri perikanan modern dan penerbangan carter beraset ratusan miliar rupiah.

Tak pelak, PT Excelcomindo Pratama (Tbk), perusahaan telekomunikasi, menganugerahinya predikat The Best Indonesia Berprestasi 2009. Saat ini, wanita yang hanya lulusan SMP itu mengelola dua perusahaan.

Masing-masing adalah PT ASI Pujiastuti Marine Product yang bergerak di bisnis perikanan, dan Susi Air yang merupakan maskapai sewa dengan 22 pesawat propeler. Dari dua perusahaan itu, Susi bisa menghidupi ribuan karyawan.

Jalan hidup wanita ini memang penuh liku. Seusai memutuskan keluar dari bangku SMA di Cilacap, Jawa Tengah, pada 1983, Susi mulai menjalani pekerjaannya sebagai pengepul ikan dengan modal pas-pasan.

Usahanya terus berkembang. Setahun kemudian, dia berhasil menguasai pasar Cilacap. Tidak puas hanya berbisnis ikan laut di satu daerah, Susi mulai melirik daerah Pangandaran di pantai selatan Jawa Barat.

Ternyata, di sana keberuntungan Susi datang. Usaha perikanannya maju pesat. Jika semula dia hanya memperdagangkan ikan dan udang, maka Susi mulai memasarkan komoditas yang lebih berorientasi ekspor, yaitu lobster.

Dia membawa dagangannya sendiri ke Jakarta untuk ditawarkan ke berbagai restoran seafood dan diekspor. Karena permintaan luar negeri sangat besar, untuk menyediakan stok lobster, Susi harus berkeliling Indonesia mencari sumber suplai lobster.

Masalah pun timbul. Problem justru karena stok sangat banyak, tetapi transportasi, terutama udara, sangat terbatas. Untuk mengirim dengan kapal laut terlalu lama karena lobster bisa terancam busuk atau menurun kualitasnya.

Pada saat itulah timbul ide Susi lainnya untuk membeli sebuah pesawat. Christian von Strombeck, suaminya yang kebetulan warga negara asing yang berprofesi sebagai pilot pesawat carteran asal Jerman mendukungnya.

Sebuah pesawat jenis Cessna dia beli. Alat transportasi itu sangat membantunya meningkatkan produktivitas perdagangan ikannya. Nilai jual komoditas nelayan di daerah juga naik.

“Nelayan bisa mendapatkan nilai tambah. Misalnya saja, lobster di Pulau Mentawai yang tadinya hanya dijual Rp 40.000 per kilo, setelah itu bisa dinaikkan menjadi Rp 80.000 per kilo saat itu,” kata Susi kepada Persda Network.

Jadi, kebutuhan terhadap pesawat penumpang pun semakin meningkat seiring dengan ekspor yang terus bertambah. Belakangan, pesawat yang tadinya hanya untuk mengangkut barang dagangan laut, dia coba sewakan kepada masyarakat yang ingin menumpang.

“Ternyata, permintaan transportasi sangat besar karenanya kita pun mengembangkan bisnis pesawat carter ini dan Susi Air,” ujarnya.

Saat ini, Susi Air memiliki 22 pesawat kecil, antara lain jenis Cessna Grand, Avanti, dan Porter yang dioperasikan oleh 80 pilot. Sebanyak 26 pilot di antaranya adalah pilot asing.

Harga pesawat Cessna saat ini Rp 20 miliar per unit. Adapun harga pesawat Avanti bisa empat kali lebih mahal.

Maskapai Susi Air saat ini beroperasi di hampir semua daerah pelosok di Indonesia. Untuk mengembangkan bisnisnya ini, Susi bertekad menambah pesawat lagi hingga mencapai 40 unit pada akhir tahun depan dengan investasi sekitar Rp 200 miliar.

“Yang penting kita tingkatkan layanan agar pelanggan semakin suka pada kita,” ujarnya berfalsafah. (Hendra Gunawan)

Sumber: KOMPAS

Semarang (ANTARA News) – Direktur Lembaga Pengembangan Wilayah Pantai (LPWP) Universitas Diponegoro Semarang, Dr Agus Suherman mengatakan Menteri Kelautan dan Perikanan membutuhkan wakil menteri mengingat kompleksitas permasalahan kelautan Indonesia.