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Judges of Tangerang District Court, led by Karel Tuppu stops the libel cases alleged to Mrs. Prita Mulyasari by Omni Internasional Hospital, Tangerang. Judges received the exception proposed by Prita Mulyasari and rejected the General Prosecutor indictment. Prita Mulyasari admitted that she is very grateful with the Judges's decision, but the prosecutors claims disappointed.

"We are not satisfied with the verdict," said Prosecutor Riyadi, after hearing on the Tangerang District Court, Thursday 25 June 2009. Prosecutors, Riyadi added, will submitting a verzet or resistance to verdict. How? "We will improve the indictment and re-alleges Mrs. Prita Mulyasari," Riyadi said.

By consideration in the gap decision, judges of Tangerang District Court considering that indictment against Prita does not comply with the actual criminal law is used. So, the Prosecutor's indictment has to be canceled in order to law, the judges decided not need to go to the principal points of this case.

Chairman of the Judicial Council Karel Tuppu said "Judges granted exceptions from Prita Mulyasari's legal adviser. secondly, fulfills requests from accused's legal adviser, and Third set all costs of this trial charged to the state."

Previously, Prita Mulyasari indicted with layered article, namely Article 310 of the Criminal Code on libel threat with the 1.4 year prison sentence, Article 311 Criminal Code on libel in writing with the threat of 4 years imprisonment, and Article 27 Paragraph 3 of ITE Law with the threat of 6 years in prison and fined Rp 1 billion.

This case began when Prita examined her health in the Omni International Hospital on 7 August 2008. Prita was complaining about the services provided by Omni International Hospital and the doctors who treated her via electronic mail to some of her colleagues.

Then Omni International Hospital felt that their company's good name has been stained by the electronic mail made by Prita spread in many mailing lists. Not only required to pay Rp 261 million, because she has been defeated in the civil cases, Prita also had a detention for 21 days since 13 May 2009.

Beginda Pakpahan, political and international relationship observers from Univesity of Indonesia (UI) said that Indonesia's negotiation team must be able to convinces Malaysia that Ambalat block is part of the territory of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI).

"The important tasks of Negotiation Team is how to convincing Malaysia that Ambalat is part of the NKRI, by showing the evidences," he said in Jakarta as quoted by Antara on Thursday.

The team not only from the department of foreign affairs, but also involving the Indonesian Air Force, and Marine Department which has a portfolio for the Indonesia's sea area.

"The negotiation team sent there must be came from the best men in the field and understand about the border issues, especially regarding international agreements and sea borders," he said.

According to Beginda Pakpahan, settlements of Ambalat cases expected to be taken via diplomacy in negotiations that based on the agenda will be held on 13-14 July 2009. "The case has lasted long enough or since 2002 and this meeting plan will be the 14th since this Ambalat controversies occured," he said.

In addition, Beginda said that this case is not expected to become a split-point between these two countries, but we can shows that these issues can be solved through diplomatic channels with the peaceful manners.

"We are still waiting for negotiations to be run. However, Indonesia certainly have to taking position that Ambalat Block is part of NKRI," he said. According to him again, in the negotiations Indonesia will submits early evidences where it is said there are about 16 ban boats as an Indonesia's territory.

These boundaries installed since long time ago and this problems occurred after the case of Sipadan and Ligitan then they claims Ambalat. "The most important things is we have evidences that Ambalat is included in our territorial area," he specified.

He said, the border region is including to the crucial areas, because it related to the sovereignty of each countries. So we must finishes it with a cold head and still provide a strong recognition that Ambalat block is part of the NKRI.

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Indonesian students team of a self-named Spoon Corporated group has been successfully achieved awards in international competition to become champion in the Global Enterprise Challenge (GEC) 2009. Team from Indonesia successfully overcome last years world champion, New Zealand, champion of 2007, the United States, and participants countries from five continents like Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Japan, South Africa, Korea, and Singapore.

Yohanes Surya, the Chairman of Surya Institute, in Jakarta, Wednesday (25 / 6), the result of Indonesian team victory was announced by NASA's astronaut Sandra Magnus, in a live web streaming at 14:30 GMT or 21:30 hrs WIB on 23 June 2009.

Spoon Corporated Groups represented by Wismaya Adi Purnama (SMA Taruna Nusantara Magelang), Lita Gunawan (SMAK Bandung Yahya), Rizki Satrio Nugroho (SMA Madania Bogor), Evelyn Antoinette (Bina Bangsa School Jakarta), Firas Al-Ashraf Abdurrasyid ( SMAN 1 Bandung), and Christa Twedrian yona (SMA Regina Pacis Bogor).

By becoming champion in 2009 GEC competition, Indonesia became the first Asian country to win since GEC was launched in Scotland in 2002. Indonesia participated in the GEC competition for the first time in the year 2008, but at that time Indonesia only can be in sixth rank after the successful defeat of Singapore. Meanwhile, Korea won the creativity category in GEC 2009, to repeat their last year achievements in the GEC 2008.

Indonesian Team members in the GEC in 2009 came from various backgrounds and schools, working together in a team to solve the challenge problems such as simulation, designed by NASA, which is broadcast via the internet at the same time to all participants at various competition locations provided in the world.

I just got a letter to the editor published in the journal Obesity. It's a comment on an article published in October titled "Efficiency of Intermittent Exercise on Adiposity and Fatty Liver in Rats Fed With High-fat Diet."

In the study, they placed rats on a diet composed of "commercial rat chow plus peanuts, milk chocolate, and sweet biscuit in a proportion of 3:2:2:1," and then proceeded to simply call it a "high-fat diet" in the title and text body, with no reference to its actual composition outside the methods section. We can't tolerate this kind of fudging if we want real answers from nutrition science. Rats eating the "high-fat diet" developed abdominal obesity, fatty liver and hyperphagia, but this was attenuated by exercise.

As I like to say, the problem isn't usually in the data, it's in the interpretation of the data. The result is interesting and highly relevant. But you can't use terminology that tars and feathers all fat when your diet was in fact high in linoleic acid (omega-6), low in omega-3 and high in sugar and refined grains. Especially when butter and coconut oil don't cause the same pathology. I pointed out in the letter that we need to be more precise about how we define "high-fat diets". I also pointed out that the study is highly relevant to the modern U.S., because it supports the hypothesis that a junk food diet high in linoleic acid and sugar causes metabolic disturbances and fatty liver, and exercise may be protective.