Reskrimum Polda Sumatera Utara menggeledah rumah AKBP Achiruddin Hasibuan yang merupakan ayah dari Aditya Hasibuan tersangka penganiayaan KA pada Rabu (26/4). Rumah yang berlokasi di Jalan Guru Sinumba, Kelurahan Helvetia Timur, Kecamatan Medan Helvetia, Kota Medan selama dua jam dari pukul 16.00 - 18.00 WIB. (Donny Aditra/Rizky Bagus Dhermawan/Hilary Pasulu)
"Namun saya yakin pasti ada dugaan campur tangan dari AKBP Achiruddin Hasibuan sehingga kasus penganiayaan oleh anaknya ini sempat mandek sampai 4 bulan. Sang ayah jelas terlibat," kata Sahroni di Jakarta, Rabu, 26/04/2023.
Untuk diketahui, AH merupakan anak dari perwira polisi Polda Sumatera Utara (Sumut), AKBP Achiruddin Hasibuan. AH menganiaya mahasiswa bernama Ken Admiral. Video penganiayaanya viral di media sosial (medsos).
Ahmad Sahroni mengatakan, langkah PTDH perlu diambil agar kasus tersebut tidak kembali menjadi "batu sandungan" bagi Polri.
"Saya minta Propam Polri pertimbangkan untuk berikan sanksi terberat berupa PTDH. Jangan sampai karena kasus oknum arogan dan tidak tahu batasan seperti ini, kepercayaan publik kepada Polri yang tadinya terus meningkat, malah kembali merosot," katanya dalam siaran persnya, Rabu.
Meski demikian, Ahmad Sahroni mengapresiasi respons cepat Kepolisian Republik Indonesia (Polri) dalam menangani kasus dugaan penganiayaan dilakukan pemuda berinisial AH.
"Apresiasi Pak Kepala Kepolisian Republik Indonesia (Kapolri) dan Kepala Kepolisian Daerah (Kapolda) Sumatera Utara (Sumut) yang gerak cepat respons situasi (viral) yang ada," kata Ahmad Sahrno.
Karena itu, dia meminta Polda Sumut memeriksa jajarannya yang mengetahui kasus tersebut sejak 4 bulan lalu, tetapi tidak menindaklanjuti kasus tersebut.
AKBP Achiruddin Hasibuan kerap ugal-ugalan
Lebih lanjut, Ahmad Sahrano menyatakan bahwa AKBP Achiruddin Hasibuan terlihat kerap memamerkan sedang mengendarai Harley Davidson secara ugal-ugalan di akun instagram pribadinya.
Hal ini tentu sangat membahayakan dan melanggar aturan berkendara. Apalagi AKBP Achiruddin Hasibuan diduga merupakan anggota dari Harley Davidson Club Indonesia (HDCI).
Sebagai Ketua Umum HDCI, Sahroni pun mengaku sangat kecewa dengan tindakan ugal-ugalan AKBP Achiruddin.
"Sedang kami cek apakah (pelaku) benar anggota HDCI. Kalau benar anggota, tentu kami akan langsung cabut kartu anggotanya," katanya.
Politisi Partai Nasdem itu mengatakan, perilaku AKBP Achiruddin tidak menunjukkan sikap seorang pengendara Harley sesungguhnya. Sikap arogan yang dia tunjukan di jalan, sangat tidak mencerminkan nilai-nilai di HDCI.
"Yang dipertontonkan hanyalah seorang pria yang diselimuti rasa arogansi harta, jebatan, dan kekuasaan. Sangat tidak layak dicontoh," kata Sahroni.
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Presidential Council for the Local Self-Government Development via avideo link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia April 20, 2023. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin via REUTERS
The Kremlin said on Wednesday it could seize more Western assets in retaliation for foreign moves against Russian companies, after taking temporary control of assets belonging to two European state-owned utilities.
President Vladimir Putin late on Tuesday signed a decree placing the Russian assets of Finland's Fortum (FORTUM.HE) and Germany's Uniper (UN01.DE), which both operate power plants in Russia, under Moscow's control. Russia made clear that the move could be reversed.
Uniper said it was reviewing the action against its Russian division Unipro (UPRO.MM). Fortum said it was investigating and had learned from its Russian subsidiary that the company's CEO had been replaced and the unit put under temporary asset management.
A spokesperson for Germany's Finance Ministry, which oversees the government's ownership of Uniper, said Berlin needed to assess the concrete implications of Russia's decree.
Finland's outgoing minister in charge of state holdings Tytti Tuppurainen tweeted that the information was worrying and that the state, as Fortum's majority owner, would follow the matter closely.
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Moscow has reacted angrily to reports that Group of Seven nations are considering a near-total ban on exports to Russia, while many have called for tougher sanctions to limit Russia's ability to fight in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the European Union is looking at using frozen Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine. Germany nationalised a former division of Russian energy giant Gazprom (GAZP.MM) last year.
"The decree adopted is a response to the aggressive actions of unfriendly countries," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "This initiative mirrors the attitude of Western governments towards foreign assets of Russian companies."
Putin's decree "does not deal with property issues and does not deprive the owners of their assets. Because external management is temporary and only means that the original owner no longer has the right to make management decisions," Peskov continued.
"The main purpose of the decree is to form a compensation fund for the possible application of reciprocal measures in response to the illegal expropriation of Russian assets abroad."
LACK OF CLARITY
Uniper owns 83.73% of Unipro, which operates five power plants with a total capacity of over 11 gigawatts in Russia and about 4,300 employees.
Fortum's Russia division has seven thermal power plants in the Ural region and Western Siberia, and a portfolio of wind and solar plants in Russia together with local venture partners. The book value of those assets was 1.7 billion euros ($1.87 billion) at the end of 2022.
Fortum is majority-owned by Finland, which joined the NATO military alliance early this month in a move Moscow called a dangerous mistake.
The Finnish foreign ministry would not immediately comment on how Russia's decision might affect relations between the two countries.
"Fortum's current understanding is that the new decree does not affect the title (registered ownership) of the assets and companies in Russia," the company said in a statement.
"However, it remains unclear how this affects e.g. Fortum's Russian operations or the ongoing divestment process," it added.
Both companies have been trying to exit Russia. In February, Uniper valued its Unipro stake at a symbolic 1 euro to reflect the likelihood that a deal would not take place.
Peskov said external management was being introduced for assets of "paramount importance to the stable functioning of the Russian energy sector" and that the list could be expanded.
The two entities' shares were placed in the temporary control of Rosimushchestvo, the federal government property agency.
New chief executives were installed, Vasily Nikonov at Unipro and Vyacheslav Kozhevnikov at Fortum in Russia, with both men moving from Russian oil companies at Rosimushchestvo's behest.
State-owned Russian bank VTB (VTBR.MM) this week said Russia should consider taking over and managing the assets of foreign companies such as Fortum, only returning them when sanctions were lifted. Fortum had previously flagged expropriation risk.
Asset sales by investors from "unfriendly" countries - as Moscow terms those that imposed sanctions against Russia - require approval from a government commission and, in some cases, the president.
Moscow's move creates a new headache for companies trying to extricate themselves from Russia. Companies with stakes in energy projects and banks already face more stringent exit pathways.
Wintershall Dea (BASFn.DE), [RIC:RIC:WINT.UL], which still holds stakes in a number of Russian joint ventures with Gazprom, called Moscow's policies "unpredictable" and "unreliable".
Moscow has taken note of Beijing’s willingness to make efforts to launch a negotiation process on the Ukraine issue but Kiev is unlikely to appreciate calls for peace, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on Wednesday.
"We have taken note of China’s willingness to make efforts to launch a negotiation process. We can see that our fundamental approaches are in line with the position paper that the Chinese Foreign Ministry released on February 24," she said, commenting on a phone call between Presidents Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine.
"So far, the Kiev regime has been rejecting all reasonable initiatives aimed at finding a political and diplomatic solution to the Ukrainian crisis," Zakharova added.
The diplomat noted that the Ukrainian authorities and their Western sponsors had already made it clear how they could put peace initiatives on the back burner. "By their own admission, they only needed the Minsk Accords to buy time and increase offensive capabilities. In the spring of 2022, they suddenly rejected the peace agreements that the parties were about to reach at Kiev’s initiative. Vladimir Zelensky even signed a law to ban any talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. That said, Washington’s puppets are unlikely to appreciate any calls for peace," the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman emphasized.
She also noted that Communist ideas and the Communist Party were officially banned in Ukraine, while Head of the Verkhovna Rada’s (parliament) Committee on International Affairs Alexander Merezhko had recently claimed that the international community’s recognition of Taiwan as part of China was "a Communist misconception."
The presidents of China and Ukraine held a telephone conversation earlier on Wednesday. Zelensky said on Twitter that the call had been "long and meaningful." He last communicated with the Chinese leader in early January 2022.
Xi Jinping tells Zelensky over phone that China will push for ceasefire in Ukraine — TV
Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky during telephone talks on Wednesday that China will push for the early ceasefire in Ukraine, China Central Television reported on Wednesday.
"China is determined to facilitate the peace process and a ceasefire as soon as possible," the channel quoted the Chinese leader as saying.
According to China Central Television, Xi Jinping pointed out that China hopes that all parties concerned would "critically ponder over the Ukrainian conflict" and through dialogue "pave the way for long-term peace in Europe."
Xi told Zelensky that “dialogue and negotiations are the only viable way out.”
“China will neither watch the fire from the other side, nor add fuel to the fire, let alone take advantage of the opportunity to make profits,” Xi said, as quoted by the Global Times. The Chinese president urged all sides to remain “calm and restrained” when dealing with the possibility of the conflict spiraling into a larger confrontation. “No one wins a nuclear war,” he said.
Xi promised to dispatch “a special envoy” to Ukraine and other countries to “conduct in-depth communication” regarding a resolution of the conflict.
In February, Beijing unveiled a 12-point roadmap for peace between Moscow and Kiev, expressing willingness to take part in mediating an end to the hostilities. China, unlike many Western nations, has refused to condemn Russia, its strategic partner, and to impose sanctions on Moscow.
Xi traveled to Moscow last month, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The leaders vowed to work to increase trade and other areas of cooperation. Xi said that the ties between the two countries have “acquired critical importance for the global landscape and the future of humanity,” according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
French President Emmanuel Macron paid a visit to China this month, where he urged Xi to “reason” with Moscow. The Chinese government criticized Russia for attacking Ukraine but also agreed with Moscow that NATO’s expansion near Russia’s western border was one of the core causes of the conflict.
China not to observe Ukrainian crisis quietly — Xi Jinping
Chinese authorities have no intention to quietly observe the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis, but at the same time will not fuel the flame, Chinese leader Xi Jinping said during a phone call with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky Wednesday.
"China is a permanent member of the UN Security Council and a responsible power," Xi Jinping said, according to CCTV. "We will not observe the ongoing fire quietly, and we will not fuel the flames."
The Chinese leader pointed out that Beijing "has no intention to benefit" from the Ukrainian crisis in any way.
Tucker Carlson posed a "threat" to those powers and institutions in the US that didn't want Americans to be transformed into "researchers and thinkers" by his broadcasts, according to US counter-terror expert Scott Bennett.
Tucker Carlson's ouster spells "the death of American media," Scott Bennett, a former US Army psychological warfare officer told Sputnik.
With his raw honesty, Carlson has been a leading conservative voice for Americans, bringing to cable news an “intellectualism, truthfulness, and an analytical depth that no other news personality has ever done in the history of the United states as far back as I can remember,” Bennett stated.
As such, the seasoned journalist had become a tremendous threat to the “powers and principalities, institutions and agendas that seek an unenlightened uninformed semi lobotomized quasi retarded population that do not question, do not research, do not analyze but simply digest and follow instructions,” and, accordingly, needed to be "silenced."
Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News has generated a huge splash in the headlines, both, in the US, and beyond. While the 53-year-old news anchor himself has yet to comment on his exit from the network, the decision to part ways was reportedly made on Friday evening by Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch.
Prime-time host Tucker Carlson, who joined the network as a contributor in 2009, and had hosted his talk show "Tonight with Tucker Carlson" since 2016, had been a strong opposing figure, and built up a wall against the 1984 George Orwell-type idiocy that the US elite and corporations have been trying to degenerate Americans into, believes Bennett. He added:
"And it is for that reason the wall had to be detonated it had to be secretly exploded and this secret explosion was engineered by the Dominion Voting Machines - Fox News false lawsuit which sought to cover up the election fraud against Donald Trump... "
Indeed, Carlson's ouster comes less than a week after Fox News agreed to pay $787 million in settlement money to Dominion Voting Systems as part of a defamation suit brought by the company in connection with former US President Donald Trump’s claims about the "rigged" 2020 election and the system's software.
“Tucker Carlson also exposed the fraud and money laundering racketeering crimes of FTX and the Democrat Party in Ukraine involving the United States government. He exposed the US biochemical labs in Ukraine and their connection to the Democrat Party, President Barak Obama, Vice President Biden, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Bill Gates, and other US government agencies and pharmaceutical companies.”
Scott Bennett is convinced that for all of these reasons Tucker Carlson “could no longer be tolerated by the corrupt American media and political establishment.” Speculating that senator Chuck Schumer had threatened and, no doubt, initiated secret government operations against Fox News involving CIA, FBI, IRS, and other agencies if they would not fire Tucker Carlson, Bennett said that all this affirms that "voices of truth are hated and opposed by the voices of lies and deception."
Pentagon top brass pleased with Carlson exit – Politico
Senior Pentagon officials have welcomed the departure of Tucker Carlson from Fox News, Politico has reported. The popular host regularly criticized the US military’s diversity and inclusivity policies, claiming they were imposed at the expense of battle readiness.
“We’re a better country without him bagging on our military every night in front of hundreds of thousands of people,” a senior Defense Department official told the news outlet, on condition of anonymity. The source claimed Carlson had “made a mockery” of the free press and “repeatedly cherry-picked department policies and used them to destroy DoD (Defense Department) as an institution.”
Commenting on Carlson’s exit from the conservative network, another official reportedly said: “Good riddance.”
The popular former prime-time host regularly accused the Pentagon of undermining US fighting capabilities for the sake of ideologically-motivated inclusivity, imposed under pressure from President Joe Biden’s administration.
In a March 2021 segment, Carlson blasted the introduction of flight suits for pregnant aviators, suggesting that Washington was heading in entirely the wrong direction – unlike its rival Beijing.
“While China’s military becomes more masculine as it assembles the world’s largest navy, our military needs to become, as Joe Biden says, more feminine,” Carlson said. “This is a mockery of the US military and its core mission, which is winning wars.”
The remarks triggered a rare direct rebuke by the Pentagon, with then-spokesman John Kirby responding: “What we absolutely won’t do is take personnel advice from a talk show host or the Chinese military.”
“We know we’re the greatest military in the world today and even for all the things we need to improve, we know exactly why that’s so,” Kirby insisted.
When asked by Politico what he thought about the reported glee at his departure among senior Pentagon officials, Carlson replied in a text message: “Ha! I’m sure.”
The news that Carlson and Fox News were parting ways broke on Monday, shortly before his prime-time show was due to be broadcast. Neither party has offered an explanation for the split.
Indonesian Government evacuates citizens in Sudan. (Photo by: PR of Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
The government rescues 542 Indonesian nationals during the first stage of evacuation from Sudan that is engulfed in military conflict since April 15.
"Some 542 Indonesian nationals are on the way from Port Sudan to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia," Protection for Indonesian Citizens and Legal Entities Director at the Foreign Affairs Ministry Judha Nugraha noted through a message, Tuesday.
Jeddah will be the stopover for Indonesian nationals evacuated from Sudan before they are flown to the country.
The number of Indonesian nationals evacuated during the first stage increased, from 538 people, according to the figure announced by Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi on Monday, to 542 people.
Nugraha explained that this additional figure came from Indonesian university students that join the Khartoum Embassy team and Indonesians in Port Sudan evacuated through other routes.
"Meanwhile, the second stage of evacuation is executed from Khartoum to Port Sudan," he remarked.
According to Marsudi, rescuing Indonesian nationals from Sudan is not easy since it is undertaken amid the conflict that continues to occur between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Given that the situation on the field shifts rapidly coupled with the issue of fuel limitation for vehicles transporting the evacuated nationals, Indonesia cannot evacuate everyone at the same time.
Within the second stage of the evacuation, the government plans to evacuate 298 Indonesian nationals.
However, the figure will increase after the minister urges other nationals to immediately report themselves to the embassy to be evacuated from Sudan.
According to the Khartoum Indonesian Embassy's data, it was recorded that 1,209 Indonesian nationals live in Sudan. Most of them are students that reside in the capital city of Khartoum.
The presence and safety of Indonesian nationals has become a cause for concern since Khartoum and its surrounding area is the main deadly battleground between SAF and RSF.
King Faisal Naval Base in Jeddah receives the largest evacuation yet from Sudan
A ship carrying another batch of evacuees from Sudan arrived in Jeddah early on Wednesday as the Saudi Arabian government continues efforts to move its citizens, as well as foreign nationals, into safety.
The ship transported 1,687 people from 58 nationalities from Port Sudan on east coast of Sudan on the Red Sea.
There were 46 Americans, 40 Britons, 11 Germans, 4 French, 13 Saudis, 560 Indonesians, 239 Yemenis, 198 Sudanese and 26 Turkish citizens on board the ship. The Saudi-flagged ship “Amana” docked at King Faisal Naval Base just before 5 a.m.
As passengers disembarked, they were welcomed by base officials and diplomatic authorities from various nationalities.
Saudi Arabia has received several rounds of evacuees by air and sea, starting with boats that arrived in Jeddah on Saturday carrying 150 people including foreign diplomats and officials.
On Monday, a C-130 Hercules military plane flew dozens of South Korean civilians to Jeddah’s King Abdullah Air Base, and a boat ferried nearly 200 people from 14 countries across the Red Sea from Port Sudan.
Dr. Abdulaziz Alwasil, Saudi Arabia’s Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations, earlier stressed on the importance of preserving the current truce in Sudan.
At the UN Security Council in New York, he said the Kingdom is working with all its partners to stabilize the truce in Sudan, praising the cooperation of the Sudanese parties to facilitate the evacuation of civilians.
Some former KFC restaurants began reopening in Russia on Tuesday (April 25).
But it isn't quite the same as it was before Russia invaded Ukraine.
While a franchise agreement means the KFC name will live on, the eateries have new owners.
And many have taken on the name Rostic's - a brand born after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Last week, KFC's parent company Yum! Brands finalized its exit from the country, and transferred its master franchise rights to Russian firm Smart Service.
The deal included all of its KFC restaurants there, and the trademark for the Rostic's brand.
Smart Service co-founder Konstantin Kotov:
"All the recipes in our menu are being kept the same. If you go and look now at the technology and the dishes that we prepare, they repeat the KFC menu one-for-one."
Rostic's launched in 1993 and was later bought by KFC.
The U.S. brand had more than 1,000 restaurants in the country before announcing plans to leave last year.
Kotov said he would would not force franchisees to drop the KFC name and become Rostic's, though it was preferable
"Our task is to encourage our partners to move over to Rostic’s, because we believe that future plans and development opportunities are possible only within Rostic’s."
The rebrand is similar to what happened with former McDonald's restaurants last year.
They were also taken over by a local licensee and rebranded as Vkusno & tochka, or 'Tasty & that's it'.
Yum! Brands did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
