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TRIBUNJATENG.COM - Mantan Gubernur DKI Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama alias Ahok resmi ditunjuk Presiden Joko Widodo dan Menteri Badan Usaha Milik Negara (BUMN) Erick Thohir menjadi Komisaris Utama (Komut) Pertamina.
Pekan ini, rencananya Pertamina bakal menggelar Rapat Umum Pemegang Saham Luar Biasa (RUPSLB).
Jauh sebelum kepastian muncul, saat desas desus Ahok akan jadi bos perusahaan pelat merah itu, pro dan kontra telah bermunculan. Banyak yang menentang namun tidak sedikit pula yang mendukung.
Sejauh ini, di luar kasus yang menyeretnya hingga mendekam di penjara, Ahok dikenal sebagai sosok yang tegas dan keras.
Bahkan, peneliti Alpha Research Database Indonesia Ferdy Hasiman menitipkan harapan agar Ahok segera memberantas mafia migas dari hulu hingga hilir.
Tugas pertama Ahok menurutnya adalah memberantas mafia migas hingga ke akar-akarnya.
Meskipun Presiden Jokowi telah melikuidasi Petral melalui Tim Reformasi Tata Kelola Migas di awal pemerintahannya, namun, mafia migas disinyalir masih ada.
Untuk itulah kata Ferdy, Ahok bisa menjadi tangan kanan Presiden RI dalam memberantas mafia seiring dengan jabatan Komut yang diembannya.
"Mafia ini masih menempel sambil mencari celah bagaimana mereka mencoba bermain kembali dan bagaimana Presiden Jokowi bisa melunak," ungkap Ferd seperti dilansir Kompas.com, Minggu (24/11/2019).
Oleh karena itu, Ahok harus menunjukkan taringnya. Jika sudah demikian, tentunya keberadaan Ahok di Pertamina akan cukup menggentarkan mafia migas yang diduga masih eksis, maupun oknum orang dalam yang main mata. Meskipun, dengan posisi Komut, Ahok tidak mengurusi operasional, hanya pengawasan terhadap direksi dan mengevaluasi program kerja.
Selasti Panjaitan is a Senior Equity Research of Vibiz Research Center and also as Partner of Wealth Planning Services at Vibiz Consulting
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GridOto.com - Seperti kita tahu Ford memang tidak pernah berencana untuk mengeluarkan Ford Fiesta versi performa berlabel Fiesta RS seperti halnya Focus. Hal ini jugalah yang menggugah Maxton Design yang begitu penasaran untuk mewujudkan sebuah kreasi Ford Fiesta RS. Langkah utamanya tentu dengan mengubah beberapa bagian bodi biar lebih agresif dengan body kit bergaya Focus RS. ( Baca Juga: Inspiratif Nih Deretan Modifikasi Ford EcoSport, Dari Sporty Hingga Bergaya ALTO )
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Mulai dari tampilan depan diganti bagian bumper depan diganti lebih menganga. Namun tetap dikemas clean beserta gril yang lebih lebar warna hitam. Tidak hanya bumper, area kap mesin juga sudah diberi sisipan hood scoops agar aura sportynya makin keluar.
Tuah dari bodi kit ini tidak saja meningkatkan kualitas fascia namun juga area sisi yang diberii elemen aerodinamis lain berupa ventilasi udara samping.
The watch subcategory within the Internet Retailer 2019 Top 1000 grew web sales $1.71 billion in 2018, up 21.6% from $1.41 billion as a category in 2017.
The 16 retailers in this category have a few notable metrics, such as a high average order value, with three watch retailers having an AOV higher than $5,000.
The largest online watch retailers, Jomashop.com, Fossil Group Inc. and WatchBox accounted for 46% of the category’s total sales, with each retailer generating well over $150 million in online sales.
The infographic below contains data on watch retailers in the Top 1000, including total 2018 web sales, median conversion rate, the fastest-growing retailers in this subcategory and the watch retailers with the largest average order values.
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Phil Spencer, executive vice president of Xbox Business for Microsoft Corp., speaks during the ... [+] company's Xbox One X reveal event ahead of the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on on Sunday, June 11, 2017. Microsoft announced a worldwide release date of Nov. 7 for what the company said will be its smallest and most powerful video-game console ever, the Xbox One X. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg © 2017 Bloomberg Finance LP
The future of the video game industry is becoming increasingly complicated as the years wear on. These days, it’s not just two console giants going head-to-head with PC floating around beside them. We have consoles from Sony, Xbox and Nintendo, PC, the entire mobile games industry, Virtual Reality and now, game streaming offerings from Google, Amazon and some of the console manufacturers themselves. Things are getting…crowded.
So, sometimes you have to make a call about the direction you’re going, and Xbox’s Phil Spencer has made his thoughts pretty clear about VR and how it pertains to Xbox’s next console, Scarlett. In an interview with Stevivor, Spencer says that he doesn’t like how his past quotes about VR sounded, that VR would come to Xbox One X when it was more than “demos and experiments,” because he thought that may sound demeaning to those working hard on VR.
Well, the VR industry might not love his new comments either.
“I have some issues with VR — it’s isolating and I think of games as a communal, kind of together experience. We’re responding to what our customers are asking for and… nobody’s asking for VR,” Spencer said.
He goes on to say that there are plenty of places to get VR experiences on PC and elsewhere. He doesn’t mention Sony’s PSVR, Xbox’s main rival, but Sony appears to have seen the quote and it’s caused Shuhei Yoshida to chime in with some thoughts of his own in a tweet:
We don’t actually know if Sony’s PS5 will be going deep on VR in any capacity, though PSVR, which has sold 4.2 million units the last time we saw figures in March 2019, has been the best-selling VR headset out there due to its price and ability to work with PS4, rather than a pricier gaming PC. But with 102.8 million PS4s sold, that’s a 4% attach rate over the course of the entire generation. And we are currently in a phase of VR where Valve debuts Half-Life: Alyx and everyone says “Ah, *this* could be the moment VR takes off!” because well, that hasn’t happened yet, and it remains a niche scene, rather than an industry-transforming revolution.
So, of the dueling philosophies here between Spencer and Yoshida, who is right?
That’s a complicated question. I personally believe that Spencer, despite these somewhat clumsy quotes, is right to conclude that Xbox Scarlett probably does not need to focus on VR, and Microsoft’s efforts are better spent developing things like Game Pass and xCloud which fit into the existing console ecosystem better.
An employee of an electronics retail shop sells the new Sony PlayStation virtual reality (PSVR) ... [+] headset before its opening in Tokyo on October 13, 2016. The electronics giant - which has been leaning on its videogames business to claw back to profitability - started selling its PlayStation virtual reality (PSVR) headset on October 13 in the Japanese domestic market and North America. / AFP / KAZUHIRO NOGI (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images
Yet I also agree with Yoshida that you can’t always just make things that people are asking for and nothing else, as you miss out on innovation that way. I would actually cite Nintendo as a prime example of this hit or miss philosophy where in experimenting with new ways to play that no one is “asking for” per se, you get hits like the Wii and Switch, though also occasional misses like the Wii U. Sony, generally speaking, plays it pretty safe in terms of its consoles at least, and a “departure” like PSVR isn’t exactly some runaway success story. But I think in terms of its first party games you can see building things fans aren’t expecting working well, from wild concepts like Horizon Zero Dawn to unexpected reworkings of existing series like God of War.
I will be genuinely curious to see if Sony has VR plans for the PS5 going forward, as I wouldn’t be surprised if we did not actually see a PSVR 2 this time around. But we have at least a year before we know that for certain, and at launch at least, it seems like we’ll just get two powerful consoles launching head-to-head.
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With Hot Stove season underway, NBC Sports Chicago is taking a look at some of MLB’s top free agents and how they’d fit with the Cubs.
Anthony Rendon is the top position player on the free agent market. Because he’s a third baseman, there’s no shot the Cubs — who have former MVP Kris Bryant manning the hot corner — sign the longtime Washington National, right?
There is a scenario where the Cubs could pursue Rendon. Let’s start with what makes the 29-year-old a desirable free agent.
In seven seasons, Rendon holds a career .290/.369/.490 slash line (.859 OPS), 126 OPS+ (league average is 100), 134 homers and 546 RBIs. He’s gotten even better since 2017, asserting himself as one of the game’s best third basemen. His averages from 2017-19:
.310/.397/.556 line (.953 OPS), 143 OPS+, 28 home runs and 106 RBIs
Rendon is also a solid defender and was named a 2019 Gold Glove Award finalist. Between his glove and bat, it’s easy to see why the Nationals offered him a seven-year extension worth $210-215 million in September — according to the Washington Post.
Roster Resource projects the Cubs’ 2020 payroll to be about $220 million, not counting any potential offseason moves. Unless they shed a bunch of salary this winter, the Cubs will exceed the luxury tax threshold for a second-straight season.
For the Cubs to sign Rendon, they’d have to clear salary and open up third base. Accomplishing both is possible by trading Kris Bryant, something the Cubs aren’t jumping up and down to do.
However, Bryant, Javier Báez and Kyle Schwarber are all set to his free agency after the 2021 season. The Cubs will eventually pick up Anthony Rizzo’s 2021 team option, the last year of his contract. Willson Contreras is a free agent after 2022.
The Cubs have approached members of their core in the past to discuss contract extensions. They successfully extended Rizzo in 2013, buying out his arbitration years. In February, they agreed to a four-year extension with Kyle Hendricks, who otherwise would’ve become a free agent after the 2020 season.
The Cubs will follow suit with the aforementioned position players and have reportedly begun negotiating a long-term deal with Báez. If Theo Epstein and Co. can’t extend him — or any of their stars they must consider trading them to ensure the Cubs don’t lose them in free agency for nothing.
Bryant filed a grievance against the Cubs in 2015 following the organization’s decision to keep him in the minor leagues one day past the service time threshold. Doing so meant Bryant wouldn’t hit free agency until after 2021, not 2020.
If Bryant wins his grievance case — which will be resolved this offseason — he’ll become a free agent after next season rather than in two years. This would put the Cubs in a tough spot, as Bryant could depart a year from now, should he and the Cubs fail to negotiate a long-term deal.
The Cubs still have time to negotiate a long-term deal with Bryant. Plus, his agent — Scott Boras — laid out at the GM Meetings why it’s unlikely the Cubs will deal the 27-year-old.
Nonetheless, the Cubs can’t risk losing Bryant (and others) for nothing. If they feel Bryant is unlikely to sign an extension, a trade can’t be out of the question. But that’s the only way to fit Rendon on the Cubs for the next half-decade plus, as he'd provide the club with cost certainty moving forward.
SA’s prevalence of entrenched poverty is exceedingly high — even relative to this region’s norms — and extremely rare beyond this region. Postapartheid poverty reduction efforts have relied heavily on transfer payments, quotas and expanding the government’s wage bill. This maximised dependencies while blocking paths to broad prosperity. Unsustainable early progress has been reversed. SA’s poverty has been rising for more than a decade with no end in sight.
SA’s vulnerabilities to dependency-inducing policies include: considerable reliance on resource extraction; an absence of foreign military threats; the lack of a regional economic challenger; and no country is as distant from the world’s top three economies. As global integration reduced the world’s poverty to about 5%, excluding this region, SA’s dependency politics became increasingly unaffordable.
How can it be that 60% of South Africans — more precisely 70% of blacks — live on less than R50 per day? Whereas economies focused on manufacturing and services are economically nimble and defiant against dependency-provoking politics, economies relying on extraction and agricultural exports are the opposite. The disruption-driven global economy rewards responsiveness and punishes laggards.
Not only is SA not going to be invaded by a foreign army, the door is open to our achieving deep global integration, which sustained high growth requires. Instead, with external pressures lacking, the focus has been inward as political power could be clinched by creating dependencies. This strategy was, however, always destined to backfire. Our realisable mineral and agriculture export potential is modest relative to the nation’s compounding poverty and borrowings.
Women’s progress
Until only about a century ago women’s lack of voting rights was nearly universal. Their second-class status stemmed from inferiority at hand-to-hand combat. As technologies downgraded human strength’s military and commercial relevance, societal blockages weakened and women’s roles greatly expanded. In an increasing number of societies, women are now the majority of college graduates. The future is not bright for old-boys clubs, rather women’s rising prominence is a hallmark of this era.
Reducing discrimination-induced inequalities greatly enriches societies. and women’s progress will continue as political and economic forces favour their interests. The real game changer, however, has been women becoming economically independent. Independence happens at modest income levels. Yet when allowed to compound, such “freedom dividends” overwhelm restrictive social barriers. This becoming increasingly common has helped make peace and prosperity the global norm.
Conversely, SA’s crony crowd frames economic issues around race while exploiting inequalities to camouflage dependency-entrenching policies. This elite-entrenching strategy was never economically sustainable as continually expanding income transfers chokes growth. The politics of confronting the government’s wage bill pits President Cyril Ramaphosa’s camp against the unions and workers, who will now side with the ANC’s aggressive patronage faction.
That far too many people’s incomes trace to government policies is explained by political patronage, not viable efforts to redress inequality. High-volume, high-vulnerability dependency is precisely what patronage systems seek to achieve. A healthy economy would allow the private sector to steadily grow employment, thus undermining government dependency. Apartheid’s legacy of massive race-based poverty alongside its social scars provided the ideal political cover to package dependency-inducing employment as redress to historical inequities.
By Arjun Panchadar
Nov 26 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures treaded water on Tuesday, a day after Wall Street closed at record highs, as investors waited for the latest on the trade talks between the United States and China.
Beijing said on Tuesday negotiators had reached a "common understanding on resolving relevant problems", but did not indicate if an agreement was in the offing.
The three main U.S. stock indexes have rallied this month, fueled by optimism over a deal to end the damaging trade war, a third-quarter corporate earnings season that has largely topped lowered expectations and upbeat domestic economic data.
But prospects of a pact, which was expected by mid-November, have been clouded by a U.S. legislation on human rights in Hong Kong. China said on Tuesday it had summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest against the bill.
A third interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve this year has also been instrumental in lifting risk appetite. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said on Monday monetary policy was "well positioned" to support the strong labor market.
Focus now turns to the Conference Board's U.S. consumer confidence survey for November, due at 10 a.m. ET. The reading is expected to rise to 127 from 125.9 in October.
At 7:17 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis 1YMcv1 were up just 7 points, or 0.02% and Nasdaq 100 e-minis NQcv1 were up 0.75 points, or 0.01%. S&P 500 e-minis EScv1 were down 0.75 points, or 0.02%.
Shares of Best Buy Co Inc BBY.N jumped 5.3% after the consumer electronics retailer beat expectations for quarterly same-store sales and forecast strong holiday quarter earnings.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co HPE.N fell 4.6% as the enterprise software maker missed fourth-quarter revenue estimates, hit by lower demand for its servers and storage products.
Cyber security firm Palo Alto Networks Inc PANW.N tumbled 8.7% after forecasting second-quarter profit well below expectations, as it grapples with higher costs and rising competition.
Shares of Global Blood Therapeutics Inc GBT.O rose 6.8% as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its drug to treat sickle cell disease in adults and children 12 years or older.
(Reporting by Arjun Panchadar in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
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