News article: Support your parents or the law may do it for you, says minister.
Summary
An act to ensures that parents are supported by their children may be amended to allow a third party to invoke it. Right now, the Maintenance of parents Act can be invoked only by parents themselves, who may be reluctant to do so. Minister in the Prime minister's office, Mr Lim, said that there was a need to redouble efforts in public to emphasise the importance of filial piety.
Opinions
1) The Maintenace of parents Act can be invoked only by the parents, but most parents are reluctant to do so. Even if the children do not treat the parents well, the children are still the parent's flesh and blood and I think that the parents do not want the children to have trouble with the law. So, most parents will just have to suffer in silence.
2)As a result of the good health care, people live longer. Many live beyond their retirement age. this become a big problem as lots of money is required to support them.
3)Due to the declining birth rate, most singaporeons have small families. So, the burden of taking care of the parents can only shared within the small family and these children may feel the financial stress in supporting their parents.
4)The goverment trys to alleviate these social problems by extending the retirement age from 55 to 62 and then 65, subsidies medical care by giving special discounts, cheaper transport fare for senior citizens, giving higher interest rate in the ordinary CPF account and invoking the Maintanence of Parents Act.
5) I think teachers and parents play a part in this issue. In school, we can have talks and workshops to educate the children about the importance of filial piety.
6) I tink that it is only right for us, children to support our parents when they are old. They broght us up from young and give us a good education so it is our duty as their children to support them when they are old. I think that those children who does not even support their parents and leave them to their own devices are very irresponsible and curel. They do not even have the heart to take care of their own parents.
Friday, June 12, 2009
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News article: Email complaint lands Indonesian mum in jail.
Summary
A mother of two toddlers was detained under a new Electronic Information and Transaction Law after she sent an email message to a group of friends complaining about the poor serice she received at a hospital. The email was passed on to many others, eentually into the hands of Omni International Alam Sutra Hospital, which promptly sued her, accusing her of slander. She was detained on May 13 and thrown into women's prison for three weeks. She faces a criminal court trail and could get up to six year's jail and a 1 billion rupiah fine if convicted. She sent the email in August last year after going to hospital for treatment. In the email, she wrote about her disappointment with the poor service and attitude of the management, and complained about the doctor's skill. But according to the hospital's lawyer, it was not only a claim of poor service. She also claimed that the hospital swindled her. Vice-president Jusurf Kalla said," It's going too far. It's about a trivial matter. They can't put her in jail. They could have put her under house arrest." President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expressed his concerns and had asked the Attornery-General and national police to look in the case and find a good solution.
Opinions
1) I think it is not right of Indonesia to put the mum in jail. She only wrote a complain letter, saying about her experience in the hospital. She has the right to express her opinions of the hospital. She was only stating a opinion when she said that that she had received poor service from the hospital and was disppointed in the hospital.
2) I agree with vice-president Jusurf Kalla that they have gone to far. The Indonesian has created a storm in tea cup over such trivial matters. It is only a case of a complain letter and yet, they had placed the mum in jail and she might face up to 6 years of jail and a fine of 1 billion rupiah. They could only have sentenced under house arrest for such trivial matters.
3) According to the hospital lawyer, the mum also wrote that the hospital has swindled her. I think it is not right of her to write this. She could have only stated about the facts(About the poor service she received, Poor attitude of staff etc). If she had added in that she was swindled, she was also in the wrong.
4) I think this incident happened as the mum wrote the email to her friends. Her friends then passed it on, and soon, it was a chain message. The message then spread like a wild bush fire. Soon, many people will know about it. Now, when technology is very advanced, we can email others who are at the opposite of the world where we are in a few minutes. Chain messages can also be spread from one person to twenty others within minutes. This is the reason why we can spread chain messages within an hour or two. Some chain messages even scares the receiver by saying that if they don't send the message to a certain number of people, something bad will happen to them. I think sending these chain messages is a complete waste of time. Not only will you scare the receiver, you will also spasm his email.
Summary
A mother of two toddlers was detained under a new Electronic Information and Transaction Law after she sent an email message to a group of friends complaining about the poor serice she received at a hospital. The email was passed on to many others, eentually into the hands of Omni International Alam Sutra Hospital, which promptly sued her, accusing her of slander. She was detained on May 13 and thrown into women's prison for three weeks. She faces a criminal court trail and could get up to six year's jail and a 1 billion rupiah fine if convicted. She sent the email in August last year after going to hospital for treatment. In the email, she wrote about her disappointment with the poor service and attitude of the management, and complained about the doctor's skill. But according to the hospital's lawyer, it was not only a claim of poor service. She also claimed that the hospital swindled her. Vice-president Jusurf Kalla said," It's going too far. It's about a trivial matter. They can't put her in jail. They could have put her under house arrest." President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expressed his concerns and had asked the Attornery-General and national police to look in the case and find a good solution.
Opinions
1) I think it is not right of Indonesia to put the mum in jail. She only wrote a complain letter, saying about her experience in the hospital. She has the right to express her opinions of the hospital. She was only stating a opinion when she said that that she had received poor service from the hospital and was disppointed in the hospital.
2) I agree with vice-president Jusurf Kalla that they have gone to far. The Indonesian has created a storm in tea cup over such trivial matters. It is only a case of a complain letter and yet, they had placed the mum in jail and she might face up to 6 years of jail and a fine of 1 billion rupiah. They could only have sentenced under house arrest for such trivial matters.
3) According to the hospital lawyer, the mum also wrote that the hospital has swindled her. I think it is not right of her to write this. She could have only stated about the facts(About the poor service she received, Poor attitude of staff etc). If she had added in that she was swindled, she was also in the wrong.
4) I think this incident happened as the mum wrote the email to her friends. Her friends then passed it on, and soon, it was a chain message. The message then spread like a wild bush fire. Soon, many people will know about it. Now, when technology is very advanced, we can email others who are at the opposite of the world where we are in a few minutes. Chain messages can also be spread from one person to twenty others within minutes. This is the reason why we can spread chain messages within an hour or two. Some chain messages even scares the receiver by saying that if they don't send the message to a certain number of people, something bad will happen to them. I think sending these chain messages is a complete waste of time. Not only will you scare the receiver, you will also spasm his email.
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