Ini Dia Cara Dunia Menghentikan Serangan Israel Ke Gaza

Perdana Menteri Israel, benjamin Netanyahu, belum memastikan, kapan akan menghentikan serangannya ke jalur Gaza, Palestina. Ia mengatakan hal tersebut kepada para menteri.

Melansir Al Jazeera, sebenarnya Menteri Luar Negeri Amerika Serikat (AS), John Kerry telah menelepon Netanyahu, untuk menawarkan bantuan, sebagai penengah dalam gencatan senjata. "Tampaknya AS khawatir, tentang meningkatnya ketegangan di lapangan," kata seorang pejabat senior Departemen Luar Negeri, Senin (14/7).

Demi menghentikan serangan roket yang mengakibatkan korban warga sipil, Kerry juga mengatakan, ia akan melibatkan para pemimpin regional. Hanya saja, belum ada penjelasan lebih rinci mengenai hal itu.

Pihak Palestina pun berusaha menyelesaikan permasalahan ini. Rencananya Presiden Palestina, Mahmoud Abbas bakal meminta Sekjen PBB, Ban Ki-moon, agar menempatkan negara Palestina di bawah sistem perlindungan internasional PBB, demi mengatasi kekerasan di Gaza.

Solidaritas untuk Gaza, memang terus mengalir dari seluruh dunia. Paus Franciskus bahkan mengimbau kepada para pemimpin dunia, agar terus berdoa, serta membantu diplomasi untuk menghentikan pertumpahan darah. Kabarnya, Menteri Luar Negeri Jerman dan Italia, tengah bersiap ke wilayah tersebut, dan turut mengupayakan gencatan senjata.

Demi mendukung Gaza, di Paris, ribuan orang berunjukrasa memprotes tindakan Israel. Di Hongkong, India, Jakarta, dan kawasan asia lainnya pun aksi mendukung Gaza pun digelar. Sebanyak 3.000 warga Australia juga ikut mengutuk perbuatan Israel. 

Sumber : http://www.republika.co.id

Wanita Ini Dinobatkan Sebagai Pramugari Tercantik di Dunia

Ternyata dalam dunia penerbangan, tak hanya maskapai saja yang bersaing untuk jadi yang terbaik. Para flight attendant atau pramugari pun juga ternyata bersaing menjadi yang terbaik.



Tak hanya terbaik, pramugari satu ini juga mendapat predikat pramugari tercantik di dunia. Liu Miaomiao ada seorang pramugari asal Xi'an, Shaanxi, Tiongkok, yang belakangan jadi bahan perbincangan. Dia baru saja dianugerahi gelar terhormat sebagai pramugari tercantik di dunia.

Gelar ini didapat setelah Liu mengikuti kompetisi pramugari yang diadakan oleh World Air Stewardess Association (WASA) di awal tahun ini. World Air Stewardess Association (WASA) adalah lembaga yang menilai ranking maskapai dari seberapa cantik pramugarinya.

Shenzhen Airlines menempati peringkat 3 pada tahun 2012. Liu menjadi awak pesawat Shenzhen Airlines pada 2010 setelah melewati berbagai tes ketat. Selama masa training 3 bulan, Liu dan para rekan kerjanya harus belajar banyak hal.

 

Satu di antaranya, dia harus membuat rambut cepol yang seimbang untuk membuatnya penampilannya sempurna. Liu juga harus rutin menggigit sumpit untuk berlatih mendapatkan senyuman sempurna.

Beruntung karena kemampuan dan kegigihan dalam pekerjaannya, Liu dipromosikan menjadi kepala pramugari pada 2014. Pekerjaannya tentu bukannya tanpa tantangan.

  Dalam dunia penerbangan Tiongkok yang sibuk, Liu menjadi pramugari yang tetap tenang. Pada suatu hari, sebuah penerbangan dari Beijing mengalami keterlambatan.

Hal ini menyebabkan para penumpang marah. Namun, Liu mampu menenangkan mereka dengan senyumannya, melansir China Daily. Bahkan pada akhir perjalanan, para penumpang meminta maaf karena sudah bertindak buruk.

   
Dalam dunia penerbangan Tiongkok yang sibuk, Liu menjadi pramugari yang tetap tenang. Pada suatu hari, sebuah penerbangan dari Beijing mengalami keterlambatan.

Hal ini menyebabkan para penumpang marah. Namun, Liu mampu menenangkan mereka dengan senyumannya, melansir China Daily. Bahkan pada akhir perjalanan, para penumpang meminta maaf karena sudah bertindak buruk.

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Dewi Perssik ke Margin Wieheerm: Aku Kayak Lagi Ngaca

​ Sekilas, wajah Margin Wieheerm sangat mirip dengan Dewi Perssik. Bukan satu-dua orang yang berpendapat demikian. Bahkan, Dewi Perssik sendiri mengakuinya.

"Iya, dia (Dewi Perssik) bilang, 'Kamu kayak aku waktu muda ya, aku kayaknya ngaca deh lihat kamu'. Katanya gitu," cerita Margin Wieheerm, ditemui tabloidbintang.com di Studio Persari, Jakarta Selatan. Margin sempat berakting bareng Dewi Perssik di sinetron Centini MNCTV.

Banyak yang bilang, bagian tubuh Margin Wieheerm yang paling mirip dengan Dewi Perssik ada dagu dan pipi.

"Kalau dulu pas aku masih chubby emang mirip banget. Sekarang udah mulai diet, ke sininya nggak terlalu dibilang ke situ (mirip)," jelasnya.

Margin Wieheerm sendiri tak mau selalu diidentikkan dengan orang lain. Bintang sinetron Cahaya Cinta ANTV itu ingin jadi diri sendiri, tanpa mendompleng nama artis lain.

"Saya mah nggak diambil pusing. Orang bilang suka boleh, nggak suka juga nggak apa-apa," kata gadis 17 tahun itu.

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Sarah Hyland Wins ‘Lip Sync Battle’ With Help From Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger

Thursday night’s Lip Sync Battle was between Modern Family star Sarah Hyland and Los Angeles Clippers star DeAndre Jordan. After the almost-7-foot-tall DeAndre got tiny Sarah a box to stand on so they could be closer in height, the battle got underway.

Sarah started off with a grungy performance of Alanis Morissette’s hit “Right Through You,” and DeAndre brought it with Seal’s “Kiss From a Rose.” For his second performance, DeAndre was the world’s tallest panda as he lip-synced Desiigner’s “Panda,” and he even got some advice from his Clippers teammate, Chris Paul. Chris told him, “You know the reason why I lost. I didn’t start stripping.”

Sarah got some help for her final performance from Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger, who joined her for the song “Don’t Cha.” In the end, Sarah and Nicole’s Pussycat performance was too much for DeAndre to overcome and the Modern Family star took home the Lip Sync Battle belt.

Lip Sync Battle airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. on Spike.

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Prince Harry Reveals the Place ‘I Feel More Like Myself Than Anywhere in the World’

Prince Harry Reveals the Place 'I Feel More Like Myself Than Anywhere in the World'

Prince Harry may be a British royal, but he feels most at home at a location a little further south.

That place is Africa, a continent Harry has traveled to (and worked in) multiple times over the past 20 years. His first visit came just after his mother’s death in 1997, when his father, Prince Charles, took him and his brother, Prince William, to clear their heads after tragedy. Now, he makes the trek annually.

“My dad told my brother and me to pack our bags—we were going to Africa to get away from it all,” he told Town & Country in their February cover story. “My brother and I were brought up outdoors. We appreciate nature and everything about it. This is where I feel more like myself than anywhere else in the world.”

His most recent trip to Africa came this past August, when he visited Malawi to participate in the 500 Elephants relocation project with non-profit conservation group Africa Parks. Town & Country documented Harry’s time in Malawi over six days of his three week trip in the thick of the animals’ migration — one of the largest human-led relocations in history.

The 500 elephants and 2,000 other animals — a mixture of buffaloes, zebras, warthogs and others — were relocated from an area where they’re in high supply to another park, Nkhotakota, where the population has diminished due to poaching.

Harry became acquainted with African Parks in the summer of 2015, but this is his first time working with them on-site. The organization works not only with animal conservation, but with preserving Africa’s wildlife habitats — many of which cannot be sustained without a wildlife population.

“I completely fell in love with African Parks, because they get things done,” he said. “They make tough decisions, and they stick to principles.”

In the group, Harry is just one of the crew — people even address him as such, by his first name! He sleeps in the same tents, and wakes up with the sun like the rest of them.

“I love spending time with these guys,” he told T&C of the experience. “Night after night, chewing the fat around the fire, about the pros and cons of the legalization of rhino horn, or the historic migratory paths of elephants, or the population explosion on the African continent. And also conservation back home, which is hugely important.”

Harry’s passion for conservation isn’t the only thing that keeps him coming back to Africa. He says when he’s there, his mood shifts, his worries float away — in particular, due to the anonymity he’s able to have there.

“I wish I could spend more time in Africa,” he said. “I have this intense sense of complete relaxation and normality here. To not get recognized, to lose myself in the bush with what I would call the most down-to-earth people on the planet, people [dedicated to conservation] with no ulterior motives, no agendas, who would sacrifice everything for the betterment of nature… I talk to them about their jobs, about what they do. And I learn so much.”

And of course, he takes what he does in Africa and brings it back to Britian, too.

“I go home and bang the drum. So that we can all try to make a difference.”

Keberatan Ditolak, Ahok Akan Ajukan Banding?

Ketua tim pengacara Basuki Tjahaja Purnama atau Ahok, Trimoelja, akan mengajukan banding atas keputusan majelis hakim yang menolak nota keberatan kliennya.

"Ya, jadi kami akan menempuh upaya hukum terhadap keputusan itu," kata Trimoelja D. Soerjadi, setelah sidang putusan sela di Pengadilan Negeri Jakarta Utara, Jalan Gajah Mada Nomor 17, Jakarta Pusat, Selasa, 27 Desember 2016.

Trimoelja mengungkapkan, pihaknya kecewa atas keputusan tersebut. Sebab, kata dia, majelis hakim sama sekali tidak menyinggung putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Nomor 84/PUU-X-2012 bahwa Pasal 1, 2, 3, dan 4 dalam Undang-Undang Nomor 1/PNPS/1965 tentang Pencegahan Penyalahgunaan dan atau Penodaan Agama merupakan satu kesatuan.

Sebab itu, dia menuturkan, ketika Ahok dijerat dengan Pasal 156 a KUHP, mestinya diawali dulu dengan peringatan keras. "Makanya di dalam pendapat atau tanggapan JPU sama sekali tidak menyinggung, keputusan majelis juga tidak menyinggung, heran," ujarnya.

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Kendati begitu, ia tetap menghormati putusan pengadilan dan akan mempersiapkan persidangan selanjutnya dengan agenda pemeriksaan saksi. Untuk saksi yang meringankan Ahok, pihak pengacara akan mendatangkan lebih dari sepuluh saksi. Namun, Trimoelja enggan menyebutkan identitas para saksi karena alasan keselamatan dan keamanan.

Dalam sidang putusan sela yang dibacakan hari ini, majelis hakim memutuskan menolak seluruh nota keberatan yang diajukan Ahok dan kuasa hukumnya. Hakim juga menilai surat dakwaan jaksa sah menurut hukum, sehingga persidangan perlu dilanjutkan untuk pembuktian.

Atas keputusan tersebut, tim jaksa penuntut umum yang diketuai Ali Mukartono mengapresiasi dan berterima kasih. Pihaknya optimistis dapat membuktikan bahwa Ahok bersalah dalam kasus penodaan agama atas ucapannya yang mengutip Surat Al-Maidah ayat 51, di Kepulauan Seribu, pada akhir September 2016.

Selain itu, tim jaksa juga mempersilakan bagi pihak Ahok dan pengacara untuk mengajukan banding. "Silakan, nanti hakim kalau ada upaya hukum akan disatukan dengan pokok perkara ketika perkara itu banding. Tidak menghalangi untuk (persidangan selanjutnya) pemeriksaan saksi," 

Ten things Trump and the Republicans can't take away from us

1.) White America: now 20% woke-er. The election and re-election of our nation’s first black president drove a ton of white people absolutely batshit around-the-bend crazy — including a bunch that voted for him, some of them twice! But a lot of us also went “Yass bissh.” Until someone clued us in that this was a weirdly appropriative thing to say, and so we were like “Sweeeeet” instead. A lot of white people were and are enthusiastic about Barack Obama for both the symbolic value of the fact of his presidency and the extraordinary substance of the man and his accomplishments. This is important, because even as most whites spiraled into a “racial aversion crisis,” many bought into a pluralistic vision of America where people who look like them aren’t always in charge of everything and that’s fine. The conversations around race that his presidency engendered have made all of us who weren’t hiding under our beds for fear of a New Black Panthers-led race war a bit less ignorant about the world Americans of color live in.

2.) Americans, even many Republicans, will remember Obama the way people remember Reagan and JFK — as a transformational president who restored dignity to the office and the country. Ironically, people will look back and credit him — and not his successor — with making America great again. This is especially true since unlike Reagan, he’ll be succeeded not by a vastly less-charismatic co-partisan hack who’s doomed to a single term, but rather by the worst president in the history of America who’s doomed to a single term.

3.) For the first time since Reconstruction, black people are being recognized as essential participants in a major party political coalition — not as junior partners to be shunted into the cheap seats and wheeled out for the occasional Sister Souljahing when the party wants to appeal to white voters who don’t like black people. Hillary Clinton spoke directly to black communities about issues of concern to them. For all the idiotic post-election blather about “identity politics,” nobody — not even the wrinkled old talking heads on the Sunday morning shows — grumbled about “pandering” to “special interests,” etc. This is how it is now. People of color have seats at the head of the Democratic Party table.

4.) Can’t put those LGBT people back in the closet. Nope. They’ve been coming out for decades, and nearly every Trumper knows and loves at least one. And since 2015, every state in the nation has had to recognize their marriages, which means that many Trumpers’ favorite gays have brought partners and cute children into their lives. Which makes it damn near impossible to go back to the old Christian right playbook of portraying LGBT folks as sex-crazed, disease-addled subcultural degenerates skulking in the shadows and stealing all the good orgasms from honest, hard-working American straights.

5.) Our culture is now overtly authored largely by blacks, Latinas and other people of color, women and LGBT folks. I mean, they’ve always been the primary engineers of cultural production in America, but when I was a kid, the labels and the studios always made sure that a white dude got credit, or at least a strong supporting role, because white fragility. In the Rap Age and the Obama Age, all that’s changed. Trump can call himself president but Queen Bey rules our hearts and holds the codes to American cultural hegemony, which will soon be weaponized and used to troll Trump and the Republicans mercilessly.

6.) Access to healthcare has been established as a basic right. Republicans can and will destroy the law that would have achieved near-universal healthcare. They will pay a price, because all those Obamacare beneficiaries that voted for Trump in Kentucky are not about to just accept that the sanctity of the free market demands they die in a ditch from a treatable illness because capital does not value their labor.

(Yes, Berners, we’ll replace it with single payer ASAP. Yes, we should have done that in 2010 BUT WE COULDN’T BECAUSE LIEBERBAUCUSDEMS WERE YOU EVEN PAYING ATTENTION DID YOU MISS THE WHOLE SAUSAGE-MAKING PARTY phew OK better now).

7.) The sanctity of political protest, it’s essential function in our democracy and its value as an engine of social progress have been affirmed repeatedly during our Community Organizer-in-Chief’s tenure. Protestors will now be depicted by the incoming regime as fanged Bolshevik Fifth Columnists, paid by George Soros, seeking to subvert the popular will, undermine America from within and destroy all that is holy and good, but Obama and the movements of his day — Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the Fight for 15, even, to the extent that it was an organic grassroots movement and not just a rightwing astroturf operation, the Tea Party freakout — have reminded us that American democracy is supposed to be loud and giant puppets are as American as apple pie.

8.) Our cities, the archipelago of blue, have assumed the role the framers envisioned states taking as laboratories of democracy. Here in New York, we’ve seen big wins with a minimum wage raise, universal pre-K and criminal justice reform in recent years. Urban America can’t go it alone for the long term — we need to eat, and our party needs to become competitive in at least enough rural areas to get us past 270 electoral votes in four years. But in the interim, cities will serve as blue bastions, impeding some of the Trump regime’s worst abuses, such as its planned purge of immigrants, and generating a wave of innovative policies that can be scaled up nationally when politics allows.

9.) We are the majority. A plurality of voters, a majority of the nation’s population. Oh, we’re not always as organized as those elderly white Republican voters. We may suck at voting in off-year elections, and just a few too many of us sometimes can’t be bothered even in presidential years. But any demographer will tell you that the Republican coalition is now outnumbered, and all the voter suppression and deportations in the world won’t protect the Republicans’ gerrymandered-to-the-hilt legislative majorities for very long. Many don’t think they can win the electoral college again in four years, either. Maybe Trump will pull a Putin, or the Republicans will figure out a way to perpetuate their power for another election cycle or two, but absent Soviet-style authoritarianism, there’s just no way a white nationalist party can stay in the game as a national political party.

10.) My son is growing up with the knowledge that women are powerful.Not just women like Ivanka and Melania, who are born into or marry into wealth, but also the working class young women of color he knows from school. He and his generation will grow up with many, many fewer stupid preconceptions about gender roles than me and mine did. The women won’t demand equality — they’ll assume it as their birthright, and the men that didn’t get the memo will have to move the fuck over and accommodate them. Even the troglodytes of Generation Z Or Whatever It Is We’re Calling Them Now will take it as a given that women will run shit and hold positions of power, up to and including the presidency.

Blogger militant's death underlines the tragedy of Kashmir

Blogger militant's death underlines the tragedy of Kashmir

I am from the country known as land of peace."

"What is your name?" the question followed. "My name is humanity."

Now I asked, "Who were the people beating me?"

"Men in uniform," the man replied.

Again I asked, "Why were they beating me?"

"They were not beating you. They were just relaxing their muscles."

This dialogue is part of the last blog written by the Hizbul Mujahideen militant Basit Ahmad Dar, 22, who was killed by the security forces in the south Kashmir village of Hadigam this week.

The encounter was brief, lasting less than an hour. Dar had rejected the appeal for surrender. But his rudimentary military training ensured that he couldn't hold off the inevitable for long, unlike his counterparts from across the border. The security forces faced little difficulty neutralising him.

The encounter was brief, lasting less than an hour. Dar had rejected the appeal for surrender. But his rudimentary military training ensured that he couldn't hold off the inevitable for long, unlike his counterparts from across the border. The security forces faced little difficulty neutralising him. Soon afterwards, a photograph that went viral on social media showed his body sprawled on an open ground and encircled by the security forces. Half his head had been blown off even as the rest of the body and his Kalashnikov was intact.

Soon afterwards, a photograph that went viral on social media showed his body sprawled on an open ground and encircled by the security forces. Half his head had been blown off even as the rest of the body and his Kalashnikov was intact.

Dar had joined the militancy just three months ago, at the height of the current agitation. He was a B Tech student at the Islamic University of Science and Technology. He was also a blogger, and wrote short narrative pieces on the situation in Kashmir.

The last blog entry, posted on June 30, was titled 'Yes, This is Kashmir". Its content offers an insight not only into his thinking a month before he took up the gun but reflects in part the prevalent discourse among Kashmiri youth. It relates an incident of his alleged beating by the security personnel for failing to produce his identity card.

"Show me the identity card," he asked with eyes turning red with anger.

"I asked - for enjoying nature we need an identity card? What is the identity card? But there was no response. He then asked me to get up and began to beat me like I was a drum being beaten on someone's marriage."

Dar's tragic end symbolises the tragedy of today's Kashmir, especially of its youth. Here was another educated young man with myriad possibilities of a bright future ahead of him getting consumed by the lingering conflict over the state.

Dar's tragic end symbolises the tragedy of today's Kashmir, especially of its youth. Here was another educated young man with myriad possibilities of a bright future ahead of him getting consumed by the lingering conflict over the state.

Over the past month alone, ten Kashmiri youth have been killed in various encounters after the security forces resumed Cordon and Search Operations following the suppression of four months of a mass revolt. Two of the youth were charred to death after the house they were holed up in was burned to the ground.

In the first six months of this year, before the current unrest began in the wake of the killing of the popular Hizb commander Burhan Wani on 8 July, 84 militants, mostly local youth, died in gunfights with security personnel.

But it has hardly acted as a deterrent. According to the J&K police, 60-70 youth have gone missing since the current turmoil began, the highest such figure in such a short period since the early 90s. Most of them, if not all, are apprehended to have joined the militant ranks, a fact also borne out by the new militant videos on social media which have shown some new faces. At least 13 of the new militants are said to be from Baramulla, a district in north Kashmir that has seen little local militancy in recent years.

This has led to a conspicuous rise in the violence. As against 174 fatalities in 2015 - 113 militants, 41 security personnel, 20 civilians - J&K has seen 260 killings this year - 163 militants, 84 security personnel and 13 civilians.

The current spell of unrest has given a fillip to local militant recruitment, which is complemented by the infiltration of jihadis from across the border who generally carry out fidayeen attacks on the security forces camps. In the thick of the strife in July, slogans like "Take up the gun again" were shouted by the youth in rallies across Kashmir.

"The lingering conflict, the political uncertainty and the consequent hopelessness has become a toxic brew," says Naseer Ahmad, a local columnist. "There seems to be no way out. Far from subduing youth, the rising number of killings of the militants and recently of civilians during the unrest is only fanning further anger and inspiring more people to take up the gun."

Dar's blogs adumbrate this state of affairs, an acute perception among the youth of an injustice that is common to all. And in terms of this perception, even smaller incidents of the excesses by the security forces assume a much larger dimension. This dialogue from Dar's blog drives this point home.

"What is this place called as?"

"This is called the Paradise on Earth," the man replied.

"What? No, it can't be true." I began to ask everyone present in the room and everyone answered, "Yes this is Kashmir."

Inilah Wanita Pertama Yang Berani Menolak Bila Seandainya Ia Dilamar Oleh Soekarno

Gusti Nurul, adalah seorang perempuan yang di masa mudanya tersohor karena kecantikan, kecerdasan, dan keteguhannya memegang sikap. Dia mendapat julukan ‘De Bloem van Mangkunegaran’ atau kembang dari Mangkunegaran.

Gusti Nurul lahir di Istana Mangkenegaran pada 17 September 1921, buah pernikahan Sri Paduka Mangkunegara VII dengan Permaisuri, Gusti Ratu Timur. Di masa remaja hingga menjadi gadis, dia dikenal karena kecantikannya yang mampu memikat para pria, aktivitas sosial, bakat menari, kemampuan sastra, hingga prinsip hidupnya yang membuat banyak orang mengacungkan jempol.

Pada tahun 1937, Gusti Nurul memenuhi undangan Kerajaan Belanda untuk menari di istana kerajaan dalam rangka pernikahan Putri Juliana.

Sang Putri dari Solo ini  menari sendirian. Karena tidak ada gemelan pengiring di Belanda dan keterbatasan teknologi saat itu, iringan alunan gamelan dimainkan dari Pura Mangkunegaran dan dipancarkan secara langsung ke Belanda melalui Solosche Radio Vereeniging, radio yang dirintis Sang Putri.

Solosche Radio Vereeniging, merupakan stasiun radio pertama di Indonesia. Di kemudian hari radio ini dikembangkan dan menjadi cikal bakal Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI).

Sang putri juga dikenal sebagai aktivis sosial di masa mudanya. Dalam sejumlah catatan sejarah, Gusti Nurul juga memberikan sumbangsih pemikiran yang sangat penting di masa pergolakan fisik pasca kemerdekaan, terutama di Solo dan sekitarnya. Karenanya tak heran jika Ratu Ratu Wilhelmina dari Belanda memberinya sebutan ‘De Bloem van Mangkunegaran’ karena terkesima dengan kecantikan dan kecerdasannya.

Selain itu dia juga terkenal sebagai seorang putri yang mahir bermain tenis dan mahir mengendarai kuda. Dalam cerita pada masanya, jika Sang Putri berlatih mengendarai kuda di lapangan depan istana, ratusan pemuda di Solo rela berdesakan menonton agar bisa melihat langsung paras Gusti Nurul.

Meskipun dibesarkan di dalam istana kerajaan lekat dengan pandangan tradisional, Gusti Nurul lebih memilih hidup dengan pemikiran yang melampaui jamannya. Dia menentang keras praktik poligami. Dia dengan tegas menolak lamaran Bung Karno, Sutan Syahrir, Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX, maupun Pangeran Djati Kusumo (KSAD pertama, Putra Susuhunan Paku Buwono X).

Presiden Soekarno memang tak secara langsung menyampaikan keinginannya untuk meminang Gusti Nurul si Kembang Mangkunegaran. Melalui sejumlah rekanlah Gusti Nurul tahu bahwa Bung Karno menaruh hati padanya.

Sebelum Gusti Nurul menikah, Bung Karno memang pernah berusaha mendekati putri Mangkunegara VII itu.

Salah satunya dengan mengundang Gusti Nurul dalam sebuah jamuan santap siang ke Istana Cipanas di Bogor, Jawa Barat. Ditemani sang ibu, Gusti Kanjeng Ratu Timoer, Gusti Nurul memenuhi undangan Bung Karno.

Bung Karno sempat mengajak Gusti Nurul berjalan-jalan berdua mengelilingi ruang dalam Istana Cipanas. Mereka melihat-lihat koleksi lukisan yang terpasang di dinding Istana. “Di Istana aku sempat melihat lukisan pemandangan bersama Presiden Sukarno,” tutur Gusti Nurul.

Di Istana Cipanas itulah Bung Karno meminta Basuki Abdullah melukis wajah Gusti Nurul. “Setelah jadi, lukisan tersebut dipasang di kamar kerja Presiden (Sukarno) di Istana Cipanas,” kata Gusti Nurul.

Setelah melalui berbagai pendekatan itu Gusti Nurul mengatakan bila seandainya Bung Karno melamar dirinya,  Gusti Nurul pasti akan menolak.

Alasannya sama seperti saat Gusti Nurul menolak pinangan Sutan Sjahrir. “Sebagai tokoh Partai Sosialis Indonesia, ia (Sjahrir) tidak mungkin menikah dengan putri bangsawan yang dianggap feodal,” kata Gustu Nurul.

Hal yang sama juga akan dikatakan Gusti Nurul seandainya Bung Karno jadi melamarnya. “Sebagai tokoh PNI, tak mungkin ia menikah denganku,” tuturnya.

Namun penolakan terhadap Bung Karno tak hanya karena alasan ideologi. Sikap tegas Gusti Nurul yang menolak poligami menjadi alasan dia menolak Bung Karno yang saat itu sudah menjadi suami Fatmawati.

Sikap hidupnya yang tegas menolak poligami itu tercurah dalam salah satu puisi karyanya:

Kupu tanpa sayap
Tak ada di dunia ini
Mawar tanpa duri
arang ada atau boleh dikata tidak ada

Persahabatan tanpa cacat
Juga jarang terjadi
Tetapi cinta tanpa kepercayaan
Adalah suatu bualan terbesar di dunia ini

Selanjutnya dia justru memilih menikah dengan Soerjosojarso, seorang perwira menengah tentara yang justru sejak awal tidak memiliki karir yang moncer, namun dia merasa menemukan kesetiaan cinta pada diri sang perwira.

Setelah menikah hingga wafatnya dia memilih menetap di Bandung, menjauhi hingar-bingar dan kemewahan kehidupan di dalam istana.

Sang legenda itu tutup usia pada Selasa (10/11/2015) pukul 08.20 WIB di St Cartolus Bandung. Dia meninggal dalam usia 94 tahun dengan meninggalkan 7 orang anak, 14 cucu dan 1 cicit.