JAKARTA, Saco-Indonesia.com — Kabar melonjaknya harga jengkol disambut positif Ketua DPR RI, Marzuki Alie. Ia mengaku malah bersyukur harga jengkol naik di sejumlah wilayah Indonesia.
"Kalau harga jengkol naik, saya bersyukur. Artinya ada penghargaan atas produk lokal Indonesia yang sebagian warganya suka makan jengkol," kata Marzuki saat dihubungi, Rabu (5/6/2013).
Seperti diberitakan sebelumnya, harga jengkol di sejumlah wilayah terutama Jawa naik dari biasanya sekitar Rp 10.000 per kilogram menjadi Rp 50.000 per kilogram.
Menurut Marzuki Alie, kenaikan harga jengkol tidak akan terlalu mengganggu stabilitas ekonomi. Sebab, jengkol beda dengan komoditas lain seperti beras yang merupakan bahan pokok.
"Tidak makan jengkol tidak mengakibatkan rakyat menjadi lapar, tetapi justru rakyat atau petani khususnya yang menghasilkan jengkol dapat menikmati hasil kebunnya karena harga yang bagus," kata Marzuki.
Ketika ditanya kalau harga jengkol mahal bukankah akan merugikan konsumen yang menggemarinya, Marzuki menjawab, "Makan jengkol tidak banyak, enggak sampai 1 ons, bisa mabuk jengkol kalau banyak-banyak dimakan."
Editor :Liwon Maulana
Kata Ketua DPR: Saya Bersyukur Harga Jengkol Naik
WASHINGTON — During a training course on defending against knife attacks, a young Salt Lake City police officer asked a question: “How close can somebody get to me before I’m justified in using deadly force?”
Dennis Tueller, the instructor in that class more than three decades ago, decided to find out. In the fall of 1982, he performed a rudimentary series of tests and concluded that an armed attacker who bolted toward an officer could clear 21 feet in the time it took most officers to draw, aim and fire their weapon.
The next spring, Mr. Tueller published his findings in SWAT magazine and transformed police training in the United States. The “21-foot rule” became dogma. It has been taught in police academies around the country, accepted by courts and cited by officers to justify countless shootings, including recent episodes involving a homeless woodcarver in Seattle and a schizophrenic woman in San Francisco.
Now, amid the largest national debate over policing since the 1991 beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, a small but vocal set of law enforcement officials are calling for a rethinking of the 21-foot rule and other axioms that have emphasized how to use force, not how to avoid it. Several big-city police departments are already re-examining when officers should chase people or draw their guns and when they should back away, wait or try to defuse the situation
Police Rethink Long Tradition on Using Force