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friday | APRIl 12, 2013
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It is common that faculty members or lecturers are recommended to write their research and publish it in an academic journal. The journal publication tends to be increasing in numbers nowadays. Several academic journal publications through out the world have come up in the internets or websites. However, this creates crucial problems, especially in Indonesia. Recently in Indonesia, there has been a polemic concerning the faked journal publication published in other countries, the socalled international academic journal. This journal published an article sent by an author but this author didn’t use his own name. He used the two names
DR. DJUWARI STIE Perbanas (College of Economics and Business) Surabaya, Indonesia of authors and put them under the title. These two names are the names of the famous and top singers in Indonesia. Even the designation is not the true name of university. The name of the university written in the
article even cannot be found in Indonesia. He did this to test whether the journal really scrutinized the source of the article (the author) and the originality. The name of this university was written under the two names of the authors of the article. This article was reviewed and recommended for publication after the fee payment of publication was remitted. Later on, this article was published and then sent to the “author” (the sender). This published article has been sent to all the internets and emails through out Indonesia (universities’ faculty members). I also got this email and read the article. This PDf article has been widely spread
and this is popularly known as the “jurnal abal-abal” (Indonesian term for the faked journal). From this tragedy, the government of Indonesia—through the national education department— bans the faculty members to send their articles to the academic journals which are suspected to be the “journal abal-abal .” From the story above, it is difficult for the faculty members to find the right academic journals. It is difficult for them to send an article for publication. This is due to being unable to see which academic journals are not categorized into the faked journals. Mostly, all academic journals have their websites and list of See story/p.11
Beware of deceitful political ads
THE article “Get rid of these candidates,” (Mindanao Daily, April 9, 2013, Opinion p.4), solicited rantings from supposedly PR men of senatorial candidates. Actually, more Senatorial names should have been included in that article. It was unfortunate that the limited space allowed us only to mention names of Senatorial candidates with noticeable political advertisements. Cris Diaz What make these political advertisements noticeable ‘though were the obvious lies that it carried. To rephrase, “these political advertisements were not lies but they were certainly deceitful.” Perhaps, those were simple lapses committed by highly paid public relations officers of Cynthia Villar, JV Ejercito, Alan Peter Cayetano, and Jack Enrile to name a few. After all, these PR men think only of raking money without considering the effects of the campaign slogans, jingles, and advertisements on their clients. These campaign ads only give the general electorates reason to junk those senatorial candidates for the obvious reason that those political materials were deceitful and incredible. What is the motive of a campaign advertisement like that of Alan Peter Cayetano telling the electorates that he would work to lower prices of commodities? What has Cayetano achieved in the Senate for years? That political campaign ad simply affirmed that Cayetano
accomplished nothing in the Senate. Following that argument, the electorates have reasons to junk him in the coming May elections. The electorates should also junk other candidates in the likes of Cynthia Villar who could not even present a viable platform of government for the people of Mindanao. Villar’s platform of government focused only in the marketing of a family-owned foundation. Perhaps, Cynthia Villar is not aware that the inappropriate political advertisement would drag her to election defeat. Thanks to her creative PR men. Other ridiculous campaign ads were that of Senatorial hopeful Jackie Enrile. In that advertisement, Enrile promised to alleviate the plight of the poor once elected to the Senate. Jackie Enrile only confirms suspicions that his father Senator Juan Ponce Enrile has done nothing to improve the lives of the impoverished Filipinos. Based on that ad, the older Enrile served the country doing nothing for almost five decades! Who would believe Jackie Enrile? Certainly, these political campaign advertisements could provide the electorates a good idea of candidates worthy of support in the coming national and local elections next month. Of course, there are deserving candidates as much as there are hypocrites and pretentious candidates, too. Beware of candidates whose campaign ads rely on the endorsement of others. These candidates do not deserve support, too. Did we mean senatorial candidates Risa Hontiveros and “Koko” Pimentel? Guess it. React: crisguardian@yahoo.com
The truth in Paniqui policemen video
LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… Jesus said, `If you hold to my teachings, you really are my disciples. Then, you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free’…” (John 8:31-32, the Holy Bible). -oooTHE TRUTH RE: PANIQIUI POLICEMEN IN VIDEO: David Gates’ plaintive cry in the highly popular song “If ”, which decries his inability to paint his loved one despite the fact that just one single picture could paint a thousand words, seems to be haunting the three policemen from Paniqui, Tarlac who have been recalled from active duty by their superiors after a video showing one of them boxing a civilian went viral in the Internet and in social networking sites like Facebook. It would seem now that the video, accurate as it may have been in recording the
Kakampi mo ang batas Atty. Batas Mauricio manhandling of the civilian by a policeman in uniform, nevertheless failed to likewise show certain events that would explain why the policeman acted the way he did, notwithstanding that he was in full police uniform at that time, and notwithstanding that there were so many people watching what was happening then. -oooWHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN PANIQUI, TARLAC: If only those who uploaded the video in the Internet did even just a little sleuthing before uploading the video, they could have found out that the
civilian was dead drunk at that time, and was actually resisting arrest even as he was publicly badmouthing the policemen who were there because they merely responded to calls for assistance from a motorcycle driver who was himself mauled by the inebriated civilian much earlier. If only those who uploaded the video in the Internet only bothered to inquire first why a police officer who was in full uniform dared to lift his fists against someone in the full view of many people, in a place which served as the marketplace yet of the town, they
could have found out that, shortly before the incident where the policeman inflicted blows on the civilian, the civilian actually pushed and shoved the policeman, who was just asking him to go to the police station to resolve his dispute with the motorcycle driver. They could have also learned that the civilian, a known toughie who bullies everyone when he had one drink too many, had in fact been haranguing the motorcycle driver even while they were still before the barangay authorities of their barrio (called Bgy. Nipaco, Paniqui, Tarlac), for no justifiable reason other than the civilian being fully drunk. -oooPOLICEMEN MERELY REACTED TO ABUSE AGAINST THEM: How did I know this? Well, I talked to the three See video/p.10