1.

Smoking Prohibition by MUI

Recently MUI (Indonesian Ulema Council) issued a fatwa that smoking is forbidden
and should be avoided. The prohibition of smoking causes a variety of reactions in the
community. The society is divided into two groups in considering fatwa issued by MUI.
Most of the people agree with the MUI. However, the others do not agree with MUI.
The party who agrees with MUI assumes that smoking is very dangerous for humans
because smoking can cause various diseases and even cause death. The danger of smoking
is not only bad for the smoker but also bad for people around them. It can cause death,
impotence, internal organs damage, heart and many more. Based on this fact, MUI issued
that smoking is haram because basically anything that causes damage is unlawful and
should be avoided.
On the other hand, people who do not agree with the MUI assume that smoking is one
of their rights which could not be bothered. Most people who do not agree with the MUI
are the smokers. They have made cigarettes as a part of their lives. They reasoned that
smoking could help them thinking, increase creativity, soothe the nerves, and relieve
fatigue and sadness. Forbid them to smoke means breaking their privacy, and human rights.
The debate over smoking ban is hard to resolve. Many people remain in their opinion
considered correct. For us as who can think certainly can determine our position on this
issue. Its been scientifically proven that smoking is harmful to our health. Based on these
facts do we still think smoking is cool?

2. Indonesian Education Now

Education is a form of factor which can reflect hows the country looks like,
Development or developing? Indonesia is the developing country. We are not a poor
country like others countries in the Africa continent. Based on the fact, The education
which as the main factor to build the great generation
Education is the strongest way to be survive, as the key to assesses of someones
successes. On the scope of the state, education is the main instrument in the formation of
future generation. The success of a country depends on the quality of Human Resources
Indonesia, with one of the ideals contained in the preamble of the 1945 Constitution,
as like paragraph 4 the intellectual life of the nation as the promise of independence.
And the only exeptions to reach that goal is a knowledge.
But in 2010 there are 1.080.000 student quited their study because of the high cost
education. There prefer to not study and work to make a money rto survve their life. This
is a bad situation if Indonesia wants to be developed country, We must get the better
education first.
The Infrastructure being the second problems that Indonesia have in education sector.
This is so pity by seeing the region in the east of Indonesia that students there cannot go
to school comfortably and they get only a broken facility in their school, like roof, floor,
and also chair and board the school have.
The third is when looking the uneven distribution education in every region in
Indonesia. Not all the city can have the equals education. Means in the small village and
compare to big cities is totally different in all the aspect.
So this is the homework of government to solve the problemor case in education
sector in purpose to get better place in Indonesia especially Education.

3. The Influence Of The Internet

Technology development goes along with the development of the world. Currently the
technology is growing very rapidly, especially the development internet. Almost all of
areas of the world such as industry, business, education, entertainment, etc. use the Internet
as media to help their works. Internet has a variety of functions such as communication
functions, data exchange, source of media information and much more. One of the
functions which used by internet user the most is internet as source of media information.
By using internet, they can get information quickly and easily. Nevertheless, the ease of
information that can be obtained from the internet gives a positive and negative impact for
users of the Internet itself. Here are the positive and negative impacts posed by the Internet
that can be perceived by the consumer.
There are so many positive impacts which can be felt by internet users such as:
Internet users can get the information easily and quickly. By simply entering a keyword in
the search engines, they will get what they are looking for. Internet users can also view
location that wanted to see and very far without going to the location. This function can be
obtained by using features such as Google earth.
Moreover, Internet can be used by employers as media promotion. They can introduce
their products for free and easily on the internet. Internet users especially students also can
get so many references from books and material which is available on internet for free.
There are so many sites that provide a wide range of references such as scientific journals,
Wikipedia and many more. And the last, internet users can find out about the world and
interact with all of the worlds population using social media such as Facebook, twitter and
others.
Besides having a positive impact, the Internet also has some negative impact for its
users such as: the freedom of information that can be obtained on the internet can be
abused by its user. They use internet to open the forbidden sites such as pornography,
gambling and others. These sites are accessible to people of all of ages whenever and
wherever. Internet also can be used by people who are not responsible for hacking into
secret archives in cyberspace. Commonly the perpetrators of these crimes are called
hackers. They can even disrupt a country just by using the Internet.
In addition, Internet also can make most of students lazy to think about their task
given by teacher because almost all of lessons they can get on the internet. Internet also
decreases the role of library in real life. Library which is used as a place to read and find
information is no longer used. Today students prefer using internet by accessing online
media or references that they can get on the internet.
From the short discussion above, we can conclude that internet has a positive and
negative side that could impact its users. Therefore, by seeing the impacts caused by the
Internet, users have to be smart in using the Internet. We do not abuse the wealth and
freedom of information contained in the internet technology to do something negative.