Friday, 12 May 2023

Kasus Perjokian UTBK-SNBT di USU Diduga Libatkan Tempat Bimbel

Kasus Perjokian UTBK-SNBT di USU Diduga Libatkan Tempat Bimbel

Kasus Perjokian UTBK-SNBT di USU Diduga Libatkan Tempat Bimbel




Sebanyak 7 peserta UTBK-SNBT 2023 di USU diamankan petugas pengawas ujian karena melakukan kecurangan






Kasus perjokian dalam pelaksanaan Ujian Tulis Berbasis Komputer-Seleksi Nasional Berbasis Tes (UTBK-SNBT) di Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) memunculkan nama salah satu tempat bimbingan belajar (Bimbel) di Kota Medan.







Peserta yang diamankan terkait aksi perjokian tersebut disebut merupakan peserta Bimbel berinisial EM. Aksi perjokian ini disebut difasilitasi langsung oleh orang-orang yang berkecimpung dalam Bimbel EM.


Berdasarkan informasi menyebutkan, jauh sebelum jadwal pelaksanaan ujian di USU, mereka sudah mengikuti bimbel di EM. Mereka mengikuti bimbel agar lulus seleksi di fakultas favorit mereka.


Kemudian, sebelum mengikuti ujian di USU, mereka dikumpulkan di salah satu hotel di Jalan Pattimura Medan untuk dibriefing terkait aksi perjokian yang akan dilakukan. Mulai dari hal teknis termasuk penempatan sejumlah alat komunikasi di tubuh peserta.


Menurut sumber Kantor Berita RMOLSumut, ada 13 orang calon peserta ujian yang dikumpulkan oleh para joki di hotel tersebut. Umumnya mereka memilih jurusan favorit yakni Fakultas Kedokteran di Pulau Jawa.


Dari penelusuran, tempat bimbel yang beralamat di Helvetia Tengah tersebut selalu menggaransi peserta mereka lulus di jurusan favorit masing-masing. Bahkan tingkat kelulusannya hingga 110 persen dengan jaminan uang kembali jika peserta tidak lulus. Redaksi mencoba menelusuri nomor telepon yang tertera pada bimbel EM tersebut namun tidak dapat dihubungi.


Dugaan praktik perjokian ini dibenarkan oleh Wakil Rektor I USU, Dr Edy Ikhsan yang mengatakan terbongkarnya praktik ini berkat kejelian tim pengawas dalam mengawasi para peserta.


“Saat ini para peserta yang diamankan sudah kami serahkan kepada pihak kepolisian. Pemeriksaan selanjutnya tentu kita serahkan kepada mereka untuk mengungkap adanya dugaan sindikat pendidikan dalam kasus ini,” jelas Edy.


"Kita (USU) berharap polisi bisa membongkar kasus ini, karena ada dugaan sindikat bimbingan belajar yang bermain," kata Kepala Humas, Promosi, dan Protokoler USU, Amalia Meutia, pada hari Kamis, 11/05/2023.







Sebanyak 7 peserta UTBK-SNBT 2023 di USU diamankan petugas pengawas ujian karena melakukan kecurangan pada Rabu, 10 Mei 2023. Masing-masing 4 peserta dari Fakultas Kedokteran, Fakultas Keperawatan 1 peserta, FISIP 1 peserta, dan Fakultas Psikologi 1 peserta.


"Kami apresiasi pengawas ruangan yang sigap melakukan pemeriksaan sehingga upaya kecurangan bisa digagalkan," ujarnya.


Ke depan, menurut Edy, USU akan memperketat prosedur pengawasan. Pimpinan USU berharap aparat kepolisian bisa membongkar kasus dugaan kecurangan UTBK itu karena mereka mensinyalir insiden itu melibatkan sindikat bimbingan belajar.


"Kalau kami lihat pola-pola yang dilakukan seperti ini memiliki jaringan. Alat yang mereka gunakan, pakaian yang digunakan, serta keterangan dari beberapa pelaku yang seragam, mengarah kepada hal itu. Tapi, sekali lagi ini ranahnya pihak yang berwajib," katanya.


Edy yang juga ketua Panitia Pelaksanaan UTBK 2023 di USU mengatakan kasus ini juga sudah dilaporkan kepada Balai Pengelolaan Pengujian Pendidikan (BP3) Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan yang menjadi penanggung jawab pelaksanaan UTBK secara nasional. Menurutnya, seluruh pengawas yang bertugas di UTBK USU sudah dibekali dengan pemahaman dan pengenalan alat-alat yang biasa digunakan dalam tindak kecurangan UTBK.


"USU juga menyediakan metal detector untuk mendeteksi kandungan logam yang terdapat pada alat-alat elektronik, seperti telepon seluler serta alat rekam visual dan audio," jelasnya.


Wakil Rektor USU juga mengimbau para peserta UTBK untuk tidak percaya kepada oknum-oknum yang menjanjikan kelulusan, apalagi sampai terlibat praktik curang. USU tidak memberikan toleransi terhadap tindak kecurangan dan akan mengambil langkah hukum yang diperlukan untuk memberi efek jera kepada para pelaku.


"Pengungkapan kasus ini juga diharapkan menjadi pembelajaran kepada panitia UTBK di lokasi ujian lainnya untuk lebih waspada terhadap praktik kecurangan," kata Edy.


Sesuai jadwal, USU masih akan melaksanakan UTBK hingga 13 Mei 2023 pada gelombang pertama. Selanjutnya, gelombang kedua digelar pada 22 hingga 28 Mei 2023.


Pelaksanaan UTBKdi USU dibagi dalam dua sesi, yakni pagi dan siang. Jumlah pesertanya mencapai 38.260 orang.






















Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 28 as its offensive enters third day

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 28 as its offensive enters third day

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 28 as its offensive enters third day










A rocket launched from the Gaza Strip hit a residential building in Israel on Thursday, killing one, amid stalled attempts to agree a ceasefire after days of violence between the two sides that have left at least 28 Palestinians dead.







The rocket hit a four-storey apartment building in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv, and wounded five people, the Magen David Adom medical service said.


At least 547 rockets were fired from Gaza toward Israel as of 2:30 p.m. local time (7:30 a.m. ET), according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), as Palestinian militants retaliated against ongoing heavy airstrikes from the Israeli military. The IDF has been targeting what it says are Islamic Jihad operatives and infrastructure along the strip since Tuesday.


Four leaders of the Palestinian militant organization have so far died in the bombardments. Al-Quds Brigades Commander Ali Hassan Ghali, who was in charge of the Al-Quds Brigades rocket unit, died in the strikes Thursday morning, the militant group said in a statement.


The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had already tweeted early Thursday that they had “targeted Ali Ghali, the commander of Islamic Jihad’s Rocket Launching Force,” along with what they said were two other Islamic Jihad operatives in Gaza.


Among the 28 Palestinians killed since Tuesday, 15 people died on Tuesday, seven people on Wednesday, and six on Thursday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.


A further 86 people have been injured since airstrikes on Gaza started at dawn on Tuesday, the ministry added.


While Iron Dome and David's Sling interceptors have shot down 96% of rockets engaged, according to the military, one hit a residential building in Rehovot on Thursday. Medics said an elderly man was killed, the first person killed in Israel in the latest round of fighting, and five other people were wounded.







After more than a year of resurgent Israeli-Palestinian violence that has killed more than 140 Palestinians and at least 19 Israelis and foreigners since January, the latest escalation drew international calls for a ceasefire.


But Cairo, which hosted senior Islamic Jihad official Mohammad al-Hindi for talks, was circumspect about prospects.


"Egypt's efforts to calm things down and resume the political process have not yet borne fruit," Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told reporters.


Meeting Jordanian, French and German counterparts in Berlin, Shoukry urged "peace-sponsoring countries to intervene and stop the attacks" and said Israel must "stop the unilateral measures that aim to destroy the future of the Palestinian state".


Islamic Jihad spurns coexistence with Israel and preaches its destruction. Among terms for a truce, it wants an end to Israeli strikes against its leaders. Israel has rejected that.


"We have resumed the 'elimination' policy - big time," Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen told Channel 12 TV. "If and when we enter a ceasefire, it won't be with preconditions."


Israel appeared to be hoping that Islamic Jihad, depleted of rockets and commanders, would halt hostilities unilaterally. Hagari declined to be drawn on the faction's remaining arsenal.


Both in blockaded Gaza, where residents have been experiencing decades of a worsening humanitarian crisis, and in surrounding Israeli towns, schools and businesses remained shut.


"We can't sleep at night because we worry about bombardment," said Mohammad Abu el-Subbah, 24, outside a bakery in Gaza City. "People have no clue what will happen next, whether there will be a truce or the war will continue."








At least 80 people were wounded in the air strikes that destroyed five buildings and damaged more than 300 apartments, said Salama Marouf, chairman of the media office for Hamas, the group that rules the densely populated coastal territory.


Israel's military said over 100 rockets - many of them improvised - had fallen short, killing four Palestinians, including a 10-year-old girl. Islamic Jihad denied that.


"Once again Israel tries to escape its responsibility for the killing of civilians through fabrications and lies," faction spokesman Dawoud Shehab said.


Israel has kept crossings for the movement of people and goods closed since Tuesday. Israeli authorities estimated that between 30% and 60% of communities around Gaza have evacuated as a precaution. On Wednesday, sirens sounded as far as the commercial capital Tel Aviv, 60 km (37 miles) north of Gaza.


As the firing continued in Gaza, the military said it had arrested 25 people in the occupied West Bank associated with Islamic Jihad. In the West Bank town of Tulkarm, the Palestinian health ministry said Israeli forces shot dead a 66-year-old man. The military said troops returned fire after one of them was shot and wounded by gunmen.


Israel captured Gaza and the West Bank, areas Palestinians want for an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital, in a 1967 war. Israeli forces and settlers withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Statehood talks have been frozen since 2014.

















Thursday, 11 May 2023

SEA Games - Bulu Tangkis Tim Putra Indonesia Raih Emas

SEA Games - Bulu Tangkis Tim Putra Indonesia Raih Emas

SEA Games - Bulu Tangkis Tim Putra Indonesia Raih Emas




Muhammad Shohibul Fikri / Bagas Maulana saat berlaga di final bulu tangkis putra SEA Games 2023 di Morodok Techo, Kamis (11/05/2023) sore WIB. (c) Bola.net/Abdul Aziz






Tim bulu tangkis putra Indonesia SEA Gamez sukses mendulang emas setelah di partai final setelah mengalahkan Malaysia, pada hari Kamis sore, 11/05/2023.







Parta final yang digelar di Morodok Techo Badminton Hall, Phnom Penh, Kamboja. Tim Indonesia berhasil menghempaskan perlawanan Negeri Jiran dengan skor 3-1.


Sempat dibuat sport jantung, ketika partai pertama direbut Malaysia. Tunggal putra pertama, Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo yang mengawali partai pembuka sempat kalah dua set langsung dari Leong Jun Hao.


Di set pertama, ia kalah dengan skor 16-21. Di set kedua, Chico kembali tumbang dengan skor 13-21.


Tertinggal 1-0, ternyata tidak mempengaruhi mental pemain di nomor berikutnya, pasangan ganda putra Indonesia, Muhammad Shohibul Fikri/Bagas Maulana membuat hasil imbang 1-1. Mereka menang mudah dengan dua set langsung atas pasangan Beh Chun Meng/Goh Boon Zhe.


Di partai ketiga, tunggal Christian Adinata yang berhadapan dengan Lee Shun Yang. Laga kali ini berlangsung sengit di set pertama.


Namun Christian Adinata bisa menang 21-17. Di set kedua, ia langsung melahap Lee dengan skor 21-9. Skor berubah untuk Indonesia menjadi 2-1.


Ganda Putra Kedua Penentu Kemenangan Indonesia


Di partai keempat, ganda putera Indonesia, Pramudya Kusumawardhana/Yeremia Rambitan. Mereka harus menghadapi ganda Malaysia Chia Weijie/Liew Xun.


Laga ini pun berlangsung alot. Di set pertama, Pramuda/Yeremia kewalahan dan tumbang dengan skor 13-21. Namun di set kedua mereka bisa bangkit dan menang 21-16.


Di set ketiga, duel kembali berlangsung alot. Namun Pramudya/Yeremia akhirnya bisa menang 21-16.














Tukul Pelaku Utama Pembacokan Pelajar di Simpang Pomad Bogor Diringkus

Tukul Pelaku Utama Pembacokan Pelajar di Simpang Pomad Bogor Diringkus

Tukul Pelaku Utama Pembacokan Pelajar di Simpang Pomad Bogor Diringkus




ASR alias Tukul, pelaku utama pembacokan pelajar di Simpang Pomad, Bogor Utara, Kota Bogor saat diringkus polisi di Bantul, Yogyakarta. /Foto/Ist






Polresta Bogor Kota berhasil menangkap pembacok Arya siswa SMK di Bogor hingga tewas pada 10 Maret 2023 lalu. Pelaku pembacok ditangkap di Bantul, Yogyakarta setelah buron selama dua bulan.








Pelaku pembacokan berinisal ASR alias Tukul itu ditangkap di Yogyakarta setelah buron selama dua bulan.


Tukul tiba sekitar pukul 19.22 WIB. Berbaju hitam dan menggunakan masker warna hitam, Tukul langsung digiring ke ruang Satreskrim Polresta Bogor Kota dengan tangan terborgol.


Tukul yang sempat ditanyai wartawan, tidak banyak memberikan komentar. Ia terus berjalan sambil terus diapit dua buser Satreskrim Polresta Bogor Kota.


"Iya sehat," kata Tukul sambil terus berjalan menuju ruang pemeriksaan Satreskrim Polresta Bogor Kota.


Residivis kasus pencurian dan penjambretan ini mengaku tidak ada pihak lain yang membantu pelariannya.


Kapolresta Bogor Kota Kombes Bisno Teguh Prakoso mengatakan, saat ini Tukul masih menjalani pemeriksaan lebih lanjut.


"Ini baru saja kita tangkap dan baru tiba di Mako Polresta Bogor Kota tersangka ASR alias Tukul yang merupakan eksekutor atau pelaku utama pembacokan terhadap almarhum aria di Simpang Pomad Bogor Kota. Jadi kita amankan dari Jogjakarta dan hari ini sudah di ruang reserse, kita akan lakukan pemeriksaan," kata Bismo di Polresta Bogor Kota, Kamis malam, 11/05/2023.


Diberitakan sebelumnya, ASR alias Tukul, pelaku utama pembacokan yang menewaskan pelajar di Simpang Pomad, Bogor Utara, Kota Bogor, ditangkap. Tukul ditangkap setelah menjadi buron selama dua bulan.


"Kita sudah menangkap tersangka DPO pembacokan Pomad inisial ASR alias Tukul," kata Kapolresta Bogor Kota Kombes Bismo Teguh Prakoso, hari Kamis, 11/05/2023.


Tukul merupakan orang yang membacok korban bernama Aria Saputra, pelajar kelas X SMK Bina Warga Kota Bogor pada Jumat (10/3) lalu. Saat kejadian, korban bersama rekan-rekannya sedang menyeberang jalan di Simpang Pomad, Bogor Utara, Kota Bogor.


Tukul beraksi bersama dua rekannya sambil mengendarai motor. Korban tewas dengan luka di leher setelah terkena sabetan golok gobang buatan Rumpin. Tukul merupakan residivis yang pernah dipenjara karena kasus penjambretan.




















LIVE UPDATES - Russian Assault Teams Push Ahead in Artyomovsk Offensive

LIVE UPDATES - Russian Assault Teams Push Ahead in Artyomovsk Offensive

LIVE UPDATES - Russian Assault Teams Push Ahead in Artyomovsk Offensive




©Russian Defense Ministry






Russian assault teams continued offensive operations in the northwestern and western outskirts of Artyomovsk over the past day during the special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Wednesday.








‘In the Donetsk direction, the assault teams continued their offensive operations to capture urban areas in the northwestern and western outskirts of the city of Artyomovsk. Airborne Force units immobilized the enemy on the flanks," the spokesman said.


Russian operational/tactical and army aviation and artillery struck units of the Ukrainian army’s 67th mechanized, 80th air assault and 5th assault brigades near the settlements of Krasnoye and Stupochki in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the western outskirts of Artyomovsk, the general specified.


"Aircraft flew ten and helicopters two sorties in that area over the past 24 hours. Artillery of the southern battlegroup accomplished 98 firing objectives," Konashenkov reported.



Kremlin Vows Response Against UK's Long-Range Missiles Bound for Kiev



Russia is against the UK's decision to send Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine and will deliver an adequate response, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.


Earlier in the day, American media reported, citing Western officials, that the UK had sent Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine after received guarantees from Kiev that they would not be used against targets in Russia.


Another news outlet reported earlier this week, citing an International Fund for Ukraine procurement notice, that London appears poised to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles, the weapons Kiev has long sought and the Biden administration has declined to provide. UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Tuesday declined to confirm that London is readying to send long-range missiles to Kiev.


US Defense Secretary Benn Wallace confirmed that London will transfer Storm Shadow LRMs to Kiev.



Special operation, May 9th. Main:



A war has been unleashed against Russia, but she will cope with this, Putin said, speaking at the Victory Parade;







▪️The battles decisive for the fate of Russia have always become sacred, the country is proud of those who participate in the special operation, now there is nothing more important, the president said;


▪️The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that as a result of a strike with precision-guided weapons, the advancement of Ukrainian reserves and the delivery of ammunition to the combat areas were prevented;


▪️Assault detachments continue to fight in the western part of Artemovsk, the Airborne Forces are assisting them, the military department said;


▪️Kyiv does not yet have a final counteroffensive plan, options for the development of events are being developed, said Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine;


The Pentagon has announced a new $1.2 billion military aid package for Ukraine.



Special operation, May 10th. Main:



▪️Russian artillery thwarted 3 attempts by Ukrainian troops to rotate units in the Kupyansk direction, RIA Novosti was told in the Russian Defense Ministry;


▪️ During the day in the Donetsk direction, Ukraine lost more than 240 military and mercenaries, in the Kupyansk and Krasnolymansk directions, Kyiv lost 110 people per day;


▪️The Kremlin recorded that the West did not respond properly to the words of the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence Budanov about the murder of Russians, Peskov said;









▪️An attempt on the head of the police department in the village of Kirillovka in the Zaporozhye region was prevented, the FSB reported;


▪️Drug addiction is considered the norm among the soldiers of the Ukrainian army, whom the West drives to the slaughter, said the Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation;


▪️A native of Ukraine, who was planning a terrorist attack at an anti-fascist festival, was detained in Samara, she was taken into custody, the FSB reported;


▪️Negotiations on a grain deal in Istanbul will be decisive, there is no need to talk about consensus yet, a source told RIA Novosti;


▪️Ankara hopes for a positive outcome of the negotiations on the "grain deal" in Istanbul, expects an extension of at least two months, the Foreign Minister said;


▪️the chiefs of the general staffs of the NATO countries at a meeting on Wednesday did not discuss Ukraine's requests for the supply of weapons, including military aircraft, the head of the committee said after the meeting;


▪️The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Zaluzhny, refused to speak to the NATO military committee due to the "difficult operational situation," said the head of the committee, Bauer.




















Video - Unknown Burning Objects Spotted Over Japan's Okinawa

Video - Unknown Burning Objects Spotted Over Japan's Okinawa

Video - Unknown Burning Objects Spotted Over Japan's Okinawa




©Twitter/Mary McIntyre FRAS






Burning objects of unknown origin were spotted in the sky over Japan's Okinawa island on Wednesday night, the US broadcaster reported.







According to the report, the objects were spotted around 8.30 p.m. local time (11:30 GMT). A posted video shows at least two burning objects slowly moving in the sky.


The Weathernews portal reported that the trajectory of the objects was different from a comet, and the fiery tail was longer than that of a meteor.





Mysterious balls of fire have been spotted in the sky over Japan’s Okinawa prefecture moving east. On this subject informed Kyodo News.


An employee of the Ishigaki branch of the National Astronomical Observatory told the Japan Times that the objects that streaked across the sky were most likely rocket debris. “The slow speed and the way the light moved – the strings of lights moving in parallel – looked exactly like rocket debris falling through the atmosphere,” the source explained.


He added that it could be a Chinese missile launched in November. Reportedly, parts of it may have returned to the atmosphere as fireballs were seen in the sky.


The observatory employee noted that the wreckage had probably fallen into the ocean and presented no danger.




On the evening of April 19, a bright flash appeared in the sky over Kyiv, local residents heard an explosion. The military administration said a NASA satellite fell to Earth, but the US space agency denied it. Later, the International Meteor Organization reported that the flash over Kyiv was caused by a fireball.







Strange fireball-like objects were seen flying over Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture on Wednesday night, according to local news reports, with several eyewitnesses taking to social media to share clips of the spectacle.


A video captured by an NHK reporter around 8:30pm local time shows the objects blazing through the sky near Naha City in Japan’s southernmost region. The journalist said they were “surprised” by the sighting, noting “At first, I thought they were fireworks, but I didn't hear any sound and they moved in a straight line.”




The Ishigakijima Astronomical Observatory, located in Ishigaki City on the Okinawa island chain, later confirmed that it spotted a “streak of light” in the sky north of the facility at 8:33pm on Wednesday.


A number of locals also filmed the fireballs and uploaded the footage online, with one video created by the Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper compiling a series of clips shared by residents. On social media, some observers speculated the lights were pieces of a meteor or shooting stars.


However, while the objects have yet to be identified definitively, the Ishigakijima observatory offered a plausible explanation, noting that debris from a Chinese rocket launched last November was expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere on the night of May 10. The observatory predicted the space junk would “pass directly over the main island of Okinawa,” or just north of it, NHK added.


“Fireballs and meteorites can be expected to hit the Earth vertically or obliquely, but debris from satellites and rockets are orbiting the Earth,” the observatory said. “So it's possible that [the debris] will look like this because it's going to slowly plunge in, near parallel to the Earth, and burn up over a long period of time.”


The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is also in progress – active this year between April 15 and May 27 – however the event’s peak already passed last week, when about five meteors were expected to be visible in the skies over Tokyo. It is unclear whether the shower would still be perceptible from Okinawa at its current stage.