Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Again, high profile figures turn down Bakrie Award

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Again, high profile figures turn down Bakrie Award

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 07/29/2010 9:34 AM

Noted poet Sitor Situmorang and social scientist Daoed Joesoef, also former education and culture minister, have joined a group of intellectuals who refused to receive the Achmad Bakrie Award.

Sitor was named a winner for the award this year for his exceptional works in literature and Daoed for his contribution to social thinking.

This has added to the list of high-profile figures who turned down the award. Earlier in June, poet, journalist and cultural critic Goenawan Mohamad returned the same award he was presented in 2004.

In 2007, Catholic intellectual Rev. Franz Magnis-Suseno declined to receive the award because of Bakrie’s connection to a mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, East Java.

Scientists have blamed the mudflow on PT Lapindo Brantas, a company owned by the Bakrie Group, controlled by Aburizal Bakrie’s family.

Nong Darol Mahmada, program manager of the Freedom Institute, the organizer of the Achmad Bakrie Award, said Daoed had declined receiving the award immediately.

“After our judges concluded the winners in late June, we traveled to his house in Kemang to share the news… It was then [that he declined],” she told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.

Sitor, she added, sent the organizer an email stating his refusal in mid July. The senior poet now resides in the Netherlands.

Nong, however, refused to detail the reasons expressed by either Daoed or Sitor for declining

the award, which comes with a trophy and Rp 250 million in prize money, up from last year’s Rp 150 million.

In late June, Goenawan said he could not help but associate the award with the recent controversies surrounding businessman Aburizal Bakrie, son of Achmad Bakrie.

Nong said Daoed and Sitor’s refusals would not affect the eight-year-old award.

“We will continue with what we are doing… for years to come, because this kind of award is very rare in Indonesia,” she said, adding that the organizer sought to add new award categories each year and increase the prize money.

She also said the other four winners had confirmed they were to receive the award in a ceremony to be held on Aug. 5 at the Balai Sarbini convention hall in Jakarta.

This year’s award will be presented to S. Yati Soenarto, who will be awarded for her outstanding research in health and Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad for his breakthroughs in technology.

Daniel Murdiyarso, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will also be awarded for his achievements in science, while Ratno Nuryadi will receive a special prize for developing an atomic force microscope.