Mbak Yenni & Mas Faris di pos pengumpulan koin untuk Ibu Prita - Wetiga, Selasa 8 Desember 2009; "Koin Keadilan untuk Prita` adalah simbol protes masyarakat, karena tak ada saluran bagi rakyat untuk menyampaikan aspirasi". Koin ini simbol protes bagi ketidakadilan terhadap pelayanan publik dan kepedulian kita semua terhadap rakyat

“My amount is little, but my support is sincere.” Koin 25 Rupiah yang dikumpulkan oleh warga di Wetiga - Langsat

Nia Fardina (29), ketua posko pengumpulan Koin Peduli Prita Aceh, memperlihatkan koin yang terkumpul di rumahnya di jalan Krueng Tripa No. 11 Geuceu Komplek, Banda Aceh, Selasa (8/12)

Chaideer Mahyuddin/ACEHKITA.COM – “Ini koin yang akan disumbangkan ke Prita” ujar Nia Fardina (29), ibu rumah tangga, di Jalan Krueng Tripa No. 11 Geuceu Komplek, Banda Aceh, kepada acehkita.com, Selasa (8/12).

Nia tidak sendiri, bersama rekan-rekannya di seluruh Indonesia mereka sedang berkonsentrasi membela Prita Mulyasari yang divonis bersalah atas kasus pencemaran nama baik Rumah sakit Omni Internasional.

Prita yang menulis surat elektronik soal pengalaman berobat di RS Omni, dijerat pasal 27 ayat 3 Undang-Undang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik (ITE) dan hakim memutuskan Prita wajib membayar denda sebesar Rp204 juta.

“Posko ini terbentuk setelah membaca milis Sehat dan kami mendirikannya atas inisiatif sendiri,” jelas Nia yang juga salah satu anggota milis tersebut. Dan Aceh, termasuk daerah ke-11 yang membuka posko peduli kasus Prita.

Sumbangan koin yang didapat saat ini hanya dari kalangan ibu rumah tangga sekitar komplek, dia berharap para blogger di Aceh bisa berpartisipasi. “Karena Undang-undang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik (ITE) ini berdampak kepada mereka nantinya,” ungkap Nia.

Posko ini akan dibuka sampai tanggal 14 Desember. Dia mempersilakan kepada masyarakat bisa menyumbangkan koin langsung ke alamatnya. Rencananya, hasil pengumpulan koin akan disumbangkan langsung ke markas Sehat di Jakarta »» Selengkapnya

a volunteer, counting donated coins for Prita Mulyasari in Jatipadang

thejakartaglobe.com – Support for Prita Mulyasari is continuing to pour in from across the country.

Barely a week after news emerged that the Banten High Court had upheld a lower court’s ruling in the civil defamation suit filed against Prita by Omni International Hospital and ordered her to pay Rp 204 million ($21,400) in damages, the 32-year-old mother of two has now been pledged more than 80 percent of the amount.

The “Help Prita” movement, an effort initiated by bloggers to collect coins to help pay Prita’s fine, has so far raised Rp 17 million, according to organizers.

Wicaksono, a prominent blogger under the pen name Ndoro Kakung who helped organize the effort, said that in one cafe alone — Wetiga in South Jakarta — more than Rp 5,280,000 in coins had been collected as of Monday afternoon.

“And this is only in Wetiga,” he said.

Wicaksono said that people outside Jakarta could now donate as well, with donation centers set up in Bandung and Yogyakarta.»» Selengkapnya

Koin Keadilan di Buah Batu - Bandung

Small change for a big case: A volunteer stacks small change collected from passersby in Tebet, South Jakarta, on Monday.

The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta – Rahmat, an office boy at a private Jakarta company, was in high spirits collecting coins for Prita Mulyasari, the housewife on trial for defaming Omni International Hospital.

“He asks people for coins to support Prita from the workers in my office. He told me that he understood the pain of being a powerless person like Prita,” said Lia, one of the coordinators of Coins for Prita, in a phone interview Monday.

“I am a mother like Prita and I cannot stand to think of her daughter who needs breast-feeding.”
Coins for Prita is a fund-raising movement organized by sympathetic Internet community members.

Some members volunteered their places as posts to receive coin donations for Prita, who has recently been ordered by the Banten High Court to pay Rp 204 million (US$ 21,633) to compensate the hospital.»» Selengkapnya

Para pemulung diwakili seorang kakek bernama Mundala (65) yang datang menyerahkan kotak merah berisi uang recehan ke Posko Koin untuk Prita di Jalan Taman Margasatwa Nomor 60, sekitar pukul 10.00, Senin (7/12). Kumpulan uang receh ini berasal dari komunitas pemulung di Srengseng Sawah.

Tak dapat menahan air matanya, Mundala mengaku turut prihatin dengan kasus yang menimpa Prita. “Mereka (rekan-rekan pemulung) sedih, demi keadilan, mereka berusaha mengumpulkan uang Rp 50, Rp 500,” ujar Mundala sambil menangis saat menyerahkan uang itu.»» Selengkapnya

Demikian informasi yang dihimpun dari Posko Jatipadang di Jalan Taman Margasatwa, Jakarta Selatan, Senin (7/12). Sejak gerakan “Koin untuk Prita” dideklarasikan pada Sabtu (5/12), berbagai kalangan masyarakat satu demi satu berdatangan ke Posko Jatipadang. Tidak ada satu pun dari mereka yang mengenal Prita secara pribadi. Mereka umumnya hanya tahu Prita dari pemberitaan media.

“Koin kan sederhana, siapa saja bisa bantu tanpa ada batasannya,” ujar Sisilia, salah satu pencetus ide. Ia mengaku belum pernah berkomunikasi dengan Prita secara langsung, tetapi ia tahu Prita hanya dari media.»» Selengkapnya

TANGERANG, Indonesia

PRITA MULYASARI became famous, as her lawyer put it, for going from “e-mail to jail.”

Her ordeal began when she sent an e-mail message complaining about the poor treatment she received at a hospital to 20 relatives, friends and co-workers. The message, forwarded from one mailing list to another, eventually fell into the hands of the hospital’s lawyers, who sued for defamation. In no time, Ms. Mulyasari, 32, a mother of two infants, found herself sharing a jail cell with murderers and facing six years in prison, seemingly yet another ordinary Indonesian caught up in one of the world’s most corrupt legal systems.

And yet Ms. Mulyasari’s story didn’t end there. After word of her predicament leaked out, support for her swelled in Indonesia’s freewheeling news media and blogosphere, forcing the authorities to release her after three weeks in jail.»» More