TIPS IN INDONESIA

Do
Introduce yourself and smile. Indonesians are a polite people and very tolerant towards foreigners and their manners, like to establish relationships. Greet and smile at everybody notwithstanding their level position, indicates friendliness, can make them comfortable.
If you ask simple question and call their name, you have done the ice breaking. Indonesians tend to duplicate the behaviour of the people they respect. To print name card for your employees, even if for those who in low level, can make them feel as your big family members. Provide a channel for their ideas as an expression of their morale in the company. If their ideas are underestimated, they will be passive and tend to hide their problem. Provide the opportunity to worship and respect their belief. They need the opportunity for worship. All Indonesians are religion embracers. Provide sufficient break time in Friday for your employees to give them opportunity to engage Friday prayer mass. The government has set public holidays for religious celebration.
For Indonesians, rice is staple food. They are not satisfied if they eat without rice. Don't offer pork or alcoholic drink (forbidden). If you want to buy food or drink for them, choose the food or drink, which are Halal certified. SARA (Ethnic Group. Religions, Racial Relation) issues are very sensitive in Indonesia. You should up date your company regulation with new government provisions. Indonesians usually call the tardiness as "Rubber time". Don't be late for meetings (even if they never start on time). Not all Indonesians acquire International Language, such as English. By communicating in Bahasa Indonesia, communication with Indonesians will be held understandably. Avoid dismissal of employees because culturally undesirable.
Understand status differences. Be polite. Be careful in handling the disobedience against company regulation. Transgression against company regulation must be handled carefully.

Don't:
The head is sacred and should be respected. Many Indonesians still consider communists their enemies. Waste your time and effort against Labour Union. In recent most cases, presence of 'authentic' local labour unions does help facilitate the negotiation process when Companies and workers are in disputes. If you need any assistance in Industrial Relation and Human Resource Development, you can use human resource and industrial relation service. Pointing your finger to people to show anger is impolite. Indonesians are also sensitive to the high stress intonation and impolite behaviour. Be offended if Indonesians ask question about your private life. Don't be offended if Indonesians inquire about your religion, your marital status or number of children.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a Pashtun Indian political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule in India.

Ghaffar Khan with Mahatma Gandhi‎
Ghaffar Khan forged a close, spiritual, and uninhibited friendship with Mahatma Gandhi, the pioneer of non-violent mass civil disobedience in India. On several occasions when the Congress seemed to disagree with Gandhi on policy, Ghaffar Khan remained his staunchest ally.
Ghaffar Khan was a champion of women's rights and nonviolence, strongly opposed the partition of India. Bacha Khan and his followers felt a sense of betrayal by both Pakistan and India.
Shortly afterwards he addressed the Pakistan constituent assembly and announced his support for Pakistan, while at the same time his Khudai Khidmatgar movement pledged allegiance to Pakistan and severed all links to the Congress Party.
In early 1956, he broke with his brother Dr. Khan Sahib and merged his group with leftist and Nationalist parties from other provinces forming the National Awami Party.
Ghaffar Khan's politics and role has been highly controversial especially in Pakistan. Ghaffar Khan has also been heavily criticized in his native Pakistan for being anti-Pakistan.
His third son Ali Khan was non-political and a distinguished educator, and served as Vice-Chancellor of University of Peshawar.

Marhaban Ya Ramadhan....

May Allah gives me the strength to carry on with my fasting till the end of this holy month.
May my son to be a good Moslem.
May Allah accepts what little deeds I am able to do at this time of my life.
May the Ummah to unite in peace and harmony, and for mankind to establish peace amongst them.

The True Faith of Islam

1. The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. Islam is peace. The word sharia, usually translated as "law," refers to the "path" or "way" governing the modes of behavior by which moslems are enjoined to seek salvation, reasoning is therefore "an open practice." In Islam's classical era, up until the tenth century, scholars exercised ijtihad—independent reasoning—in order to reach an understanding of the divine law. Full-blown democracy, where the moslem voice might simply be one among many, implying a degree of moral equivalence between Islam and other perspectives, would be dangerous, not only for the standing of the moslem community, but for the moral life of humankind.
2. The truth of Islam was vindicated on the field of battle. As Hans Küng acknowledges in Islam: Past, Present and Future—his 767-page overview of the Islamic faith and history, seen from the perspective of a liberal Christian theologian—Islam is above all a "religion of victory." Islam "restores" the true religion of Abraham while superseding Judeo-Christianity as the "final" revelation. The past and the future belong to Islam even if the present makes for difficulties. "In the history of religions," asks Küng, did any religion pursue a victorious course as rapid, far-reaching, tenacious and permanent as that of Islam? This formative experience of victory is what interests Michael Bonner in his scholarly essay Jihad in Islamic History. God grants the moslems permission to fight "those against whom war has been made, because they have been wronged."

Bangladesh Chronology

606-47
North Indian empire of Harsha
British Period
1885
Indian National Congress formed
1905
Partition of Bengal into separate provinces of East Bengal (including Assam) and West Bengal
Independent Pakistan
January 1, 1949
United Nations-arranged ceasefire between Pakistan and India takes effect
August 8, 1956
Moslem League leader Choudhry Mohammad Ali tenders resignation as prime minister and is succeeded the following month by Awami League (People's League) leader Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy
December 3, 1971
Pakistan launches preemptive air strikes against India
December 16, 1971
Pakistani military forces in East Pakistan surrender to Indian armed forces, marking Bangladeshi independence
Independent Bangladesh
January 25, 1975
Constitution amended, abolishing parliamentary system and establishing presidential system with de facto one-man rule under Mujib
April 21, 1977
Sayem forced to resign because of "ill health"; Zia becomes president
March 1982-December 1983
Interim presidency of Abdul Fazal Muhammad Ahsanuddin Chowdhury
May 7, 1986
Parliamentary elections give pro-Ershad Jatiyo Party (National Party) majority in Parliament

15th Century Islamic History

1405: In the Timurids empire, Death of Amir Timur, succession of his son Shah Rukh.
1412: In the Golden Horde empire, Deposition of Timur, installation of Jalaluddin.
1419: In the Golden Horde empire, Death of Edigu, overthrow of Chaighray, power captured by Ulugh Muhammad.
1420: In the Golden Horde empire, Ulugh Muhammad overthrown by Daulat Bairawi. Turkomans of the Black Sheep empire, Death of Qara Yusuf; succession of his son Qara Iskandar.
1424: In the Golden Horde empire, Death of Daulat Bairawi, succession of Berk.
1427: In the Golden Horde empire, Berk overthrown by Ulugh Muhammad who captured power for the second time.
1434: Turkomans of the Black Sheep empire, Deposition of Qara Iskandar; installation of his brother Jahan Shah. Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Death of Qara Othman, succession of his son Ali Beg.
1438: Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Ali Beg overthrown by his brother Hamza.
1441: In the Golden Horde empire, Crimea seceded from Sarai.
1449: In the Uzbegs empire, Abul Khayr captures Farghana. In the Timurids empire, Death of Ulugh Beg, succession of Abdul Latif.
1456: In the Ottoman Turks empire, Annexation of Serbia.
1462: In the Ottoman Turks empire, Annexation of Albania.
1465: In the Golden Horde empire, Death of Said Ahmad, succession of his son Khan Ahmad. 1467: Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Jahan Shah of the Black Sheep attacked the White Sheep. In the Burji Mamluks empire, Death of Khushqadam, accession of his son Saifuddin Yel Bey.
1475: In the Ottoman Turks empire, Annexation of Crimea.
1478: Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Death of Uzun Hasan, succession of his son Khalil.
1480: In the Golden Horde empire, Assassination of Khan Ahmad, succession of his son Said Ahmad II.
1481: In the Ottoman Turks empire, Death of Muhammad II, accession of Bayazid II.
1493: Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Death of Yaqub.
1497: Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Rustam overthrown by Ahmad.
1498: In the Burji Mamluks empire, Deposition of Nasir Muhammad, power captured by Zahir Kanauh.

Islamic banking 'goes mainstream'

A new High Street bank account compatible with Islamic sharia law has been introduced in 2005, follows the opening of a specialist Islamic bank in the UK in 2004. Gordon Rankin of Lloyds TSB said this account would make Islamic banking "mainstream".
Until the opening in 2004 of the first UK-based specialist financial institution - the Islamic Bank - moslems were able to access sharia-compliant current account facilities only through Middle Eastern banks with branches in the UK.