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Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Five people were killed in clashes between rival forces in the Yemeni capital Sanaa as nationwide protests against the government continued Wednesday.

Of the dead in Sanaa, two were loyal to Gen. Ali Muhsen Al-Ahmar, who has defected to the opposition, a government security official said. The other three were regime soldiers.

Government forces were sending in armored vehicles as reinforcements to the demonstrations in Sanaa, the official said.

Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets in Aden, Taiz, Hodeida and Dhamar.

In addition to the dead in Sanaa, two people were killed in Aden, according to medical staff at the city's Naqeeb Hospital.

Meanwhile, Yemen's attorney general threatened to resign unless the government went after the killers of anti-government protesters last month.

Abdullah Al-Olufi said "those who were responsible for killing almost 60 protesters and injuring hundreds of others should be identified and brought to justice soon."

"If the security authorities don't identify those responsible for the massacre including those who were masked, I will step down," Al-Olufi said as public and external pressure mounts on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.

Protests erupted in Yemen this week despite an attempt by Persian Gulf nations to decrease tensions.

The Gulf Cooperation Council has urged Saleh to transfer powers to his vice president, a move that falls short with the protesters who returned to the streets for marches. Opposition leaders vowed not to back down.

The Joint Meeting Parties bloc, Yemen's largest opposition group, said the Gulf initiative "does not clearly state that Saleh must step down and only focuses on Saleh's transferring power."

"We all know the VP is not strong and will never be able to tell Saleh no, even if all his powers are transferred," said senior bloc official Hasan Zaid.

Saleh, in power since 1978, said he welcomes the council's efforts to help resolve the political crisis in his country. He has said he intends to step down but only under a peaceful and constitutional transition process. He has already promised not to run in the next round of elections.

The United States, which has been allied with the Saleh government in its fight against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has welcomed past Gulf council initiatives to resolve the crisis in Yemen.

Tokyo (CNN) -- Japanese regulators discounted concerns about damage to the still-potent spent fuel from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's No. 4 reactor Thursday, saying high radiation levels reported earlier this week "most probably" came from outside debris.

A high reading above the pool prompted the plant's owner, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, to take a sample from the spent fuel pool on Tuesday. But the radiation levels are far lower than they would be if there were damage to the fuel rods, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, the chief spokesman for Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Commission.

"We need more analysis to identify the precise status of the spent fuel in unit 4," he said.

Tokyo Electric said Thursday night that the sample was the first time they have taken a reading off one of the spent fuel pools. The water temperature in the No. 4 pool was 90 degrees Celsius, more than twice a normal reading, and more coolant water was poured into the reservoir on Wednesday.

The company said it suspects the fuel rods were damaged due to insufficient coolant at some point since the crisis began, but could not clarify the timing.

Nishiyama told reporters Thursday evening that the fuel rods have not suffered "any particular damage." Officials are still looking at the readings from that water sample before reaching a final conclusion, but said the radiation reading was "most probably due to debris" blown into the badly damaged housing around the No. 4 reactor.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company reported a cumulative radiation reading above the pool at 84 millisieverts on Tuesday, about a third of the annual allowable dose for plant workers during the emergency. Water samples from the pool showed a concentration of radioactive iodine-131, the most commonly measured reactor byproduct, at 220,000 bequerels per liter -- more than 730 times the amount considered safe for drinking water in Japan.

Outside observers have expressed concerns about the status of the spent fuel in reactors 1, 3 and 4 several times during the month-long crisis at Fukushima Daiichi, about 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo. Temperature sensors in those pools have been out since mid-March, and workers have been spraying water into the damaged housings of those reactors on a near-daily basis to keep them topped off.

The battle began March 11, when the tsunami that followed Japan's magnitude 9 earthquake knocked out the plant's cooling systems. Tokyo Electric estimated the height of that wall of water at 14 to 15 m (45 to 48 feet) -- a level Nishiyama said would be the new standard for barriers around Japanese nuclear power plants.

The sea wall around Fukushima Daiichi was 5 m. In the aftermath of the tsunami, the cores of three of Fukushima Daiichi's six reactors were damaged by overheating and resulting hydrogen explosions blew apart the buildings surrounding reactors 1 and 3.

The vast amount of radiation released from the plant, largely in the first two weeks of the disaster, prompted Japanese authorities to rate the crisis at the top of the international scale that measures nuclear accidents. The Level 7 designation puts Fukushima Daiichi on par with the April 1986 Chernobyl accident in the former Soviet Union, though Japanese authorities say their plant has spewed only 10 percent of the radioactivity that was emitted from Chernobyl.

Plant workers have been pouring hundreds of tons of water a day into the three reactors that were damaged in the aftermath, and at least one of the reactors, in unit 2, is believed to be leaking highly radioactive water. Radioactive contamination spread across a wide swath of land around the plant and into the adjacent Pacific Ocean, though data released by government ministries has shown a decline in radiation levels in recent weeks.

Engineers have taken steps this week toward containing the disaster, pumping radioactive water from service trenches and tunnels into a storage reservoir for No. 2 reactor's steam condensers. And they are laying the piping needed to transfer an estimated 10,000 tons into a facility designed for treating low-level radioactive waste Tokyo Electric said Thursday.

The company dumped more than 9,000 tons of less-radioactive water into the Pacific last week to make room for the more-dangerous fluid believed to be leaking from reactor No. 2 -- a move Japanese authorities described as an emergency measure, but one that enraged the country's fishermen.

The government issued expanded evacuation orders Monday for several towns outside the 30-kilometer radius that was declared a danger zone in the early days of the disaster, warning that prolonged exposure to radiation levels there could pose a long-term danger to human health. And Japanese government data this week reported finding low levels of radioactive strontium, another reactor byproduct, in two of those towns in the days after the disaster.

Strontium-90 is considered a health hazard not only because of its 29-year radioactive half-life but because a portion of it gets absorbed by bone if ingested, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. There is no acceptable standard for strontium under Japanese regulations, but Japan's science ministry said the reported figures were not high enough to pose an immediate danger to human health.

The Japanese government has tried to limit the damage done to farmers in Fukushima and other prefectures where contamination from the plant has been found, lifting bans on farm products from surrounding areas if they pass three tests in three successive weeks.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, the government's point man on the crisis, announced Thursday that kakina, a leafy green, from Tochigi Prefecture was now safe for shipment. The move follows a ban on outdoor-grown shiitake mushrooms from 16 towns and villages neighboring damaged plant to the country's banned food list Wednesday.

Penulis: Felicitas Harmandini | Editor: Dini
Kamis, 14 April 2011 | 18:58 WIB


KOMPAS.com — Anda sirik enggak, sih, melihat teman Anda yang selalu terlihat ramping? Padahal, mereka tidak terlihat repot berdiet atau olahraga untuk mempertahankan berat badannya.

Sebenarnya, mereka bisa tetap langsing bukan sekadar karena gen, tetapi juga karena kebiasaan-kebiasaan mereka. Penelitian terbaru menunjukkan bahwa perubahan kecil dan seolah tanpa upaya (seperti yang dilakukan perempuan-perempuan langsing ini) yang terjadi setiap hari, bisa membuat berat badan turun perlahan dan berkelanjutan. Artinya, tidak menjadi diet yo-yo di mana berat badan cepat turun dan cepat naik lagi. Yuk, kita lihat saja bagaimana kebiasaan mereka.

Senang minum teh
Teh memiliki kandungan catechin, antioksidan di dalam teh yang mempercepat pembakaran kalori. Perempuan yang mengasup catechin dalam level tertinggi berat badannya cenderung akan berkurang selama 14 tahun, daripada mereka yang jarang minum teh. Menurut studi yang diterbitkan di The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, kandungan catechin tertinggi ada pada teh hijau dan teh putih.

Memilih makanan rumahan
Cobalah menu hidangan ala dapur orang Jepang, yang banyak menyajikan masakan dari ikan, sayuran, nasi, kedelai, mi, teh, dan buah. Semuanya diolah dengan cara sederhana. Cita rasanya yang khas berasal dari minyak kanola, bawang, wortel, dan bokchoy. Tetapi, kurangi sodium (yang merupakan kandungan dalam garam), begitu saran Lilian Cheung, RD, DSc, Direktur Health Promotion and Communication di Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health.

Rutin sarapan
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition melaporkan, orang yang terbiasa sarapan cenderung memiliki lingkar pinggang 5 cm lebih kecil daripada mereka yang enggan sarapan. Sarapan bisa mendorong metabolisme, menyebabkan Anda mengurangi produksi enzim yang meningkatkan kolesterol.

Nikmati makanan Anda
Makan dengan perlahan bisa membantu Anda untuk tetap kurus. Mereka yang membutuhkan waktu 30 menit untuk mengonsumsi semangkuk es krim akan menciptakan lebih banyak hormon "kenyang" daripada mereka yang terbiasa makan dengan cepat, demikian hasil penelitian yang dimuat di The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Saat bersantap, hindari sambil nonton TV agar Anda bisa berkonsentrasi dengan makanan lezat yang ada di hadapan Anda.

Biasakan melakukan hal yang rutin
Misalnya, makan pada jam yang sama setiap hari. Para peneliti dari Salk Institute for Biological Studies di La Jolla, California, mendapati pada tikus yang makan sesuai jadwal dan berpuasa selama 12 jam pada malam hari, livernya mengaktifkan gen yang membakar lebih banyak gula dan lemak. Percobaan ini memang tidak diujikan pada manusia, namun jika membiasakan diri untuk makan malam pukul 19.00 tiap malam bisa membantu menurunkan berat badan, kenapa tidak?

Awali dengan air putih
Minum dua cangkir air putih sebelum makan akan membantu Anda menurunkan berat badan 2,2 kg lebih banyak daripada mereka yang tidak minum air sebelum makan. Penelitian dari Virginia Tech ini juga mengungkapkan, air bisa membuat Anda kenyang sehingga Anda cenderung mengurangi makanan hingga 75-90 kalori. Untuk memulai kebiasaan ini, coba minum air putih saat Anda masih menyiapkan makan atau menunggu pesanan Anda tiba di restoran.

Menimbang badan
Menimbang badan ternyata perlu dilakukan secara rutin, setidaknya sekali dalam seminggu. Sebab melihat jarum timbangan bergerak ke kanan bisa menjadi sinyal bahwa Anda perlu mengurangi makan dan mulai berolahraga sebelum berat badan terus naik. Kebiasaan inilah, menurut Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, yang membantu Anda untuk mendapatkan berat yang stabil tanpa berdiet.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, once the richest man in the world, knows a good deal when he sees one. Since 2010, Gates, whose foundation supports education, has heaped praise on khanacademy.com, a Web site banking more than 2,500 free mini-lectures on subjects from history to math.

Featured by most major news outlets from CNN to National Public Radio, the one-man show behind the Web site is its prolific founder Salman Khan, a MIT and Harvard-educated former hedge fund manager. Since 2006, the New Orleans native of East Indian and Bangladeshi descent has generated videos of his step-by-step instructions he places on YouTube from a walk-in closet turned home office in his Silicon Valley ranch-style house.
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As with many good ideas, Khanacademy.com started close to home when Khan’s cousin, who then was in the seventh grade, approached him for tutoring in math. He agreed to do it remotely, and an avocation was born.

In 10 to 15 minutes, visitors can catch up on just about anything. The math-challenged can get up to speed on quadratic equations, conic sections or calculus derivatives. Though Khan still is working on his lectures on the history of the world, he appears to favor the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the Haitian Revolution.

Khan has the background to support his gift to humanity. At MIT, he earned bachelor’s degrees in math, electrical engineering and computer science. He earned an MBA at Harvard.

If Gates thinks this site is good enough to use for his three kids, it might well be worthwhile for anyone to check it out.

Mentawai tsunami death toll triples

The lucky ones: Survivors Daniel Scanlan (left) and Robert Marino walk on the pier upon their arrival at a port in Padang, West Sumatra, on Wednesday. The group of Australians said they were on the rear deck of their chartered boat, anchored in a bay, when Monday’s quake and tsunami struck. The 3-meter tsunami swept away hundreds of homes, and killed hundreds of villagers. AP/Achmad Ibrahim After a tsunami hit the Mentawai Islands on Monday, one villager struggled through 30 kilometers of forest to reach Sikakap, abandoning dozens of bodies that lay strewn in his flattened hamlet.

Brenti’s home in Muntei Baru-Waru in Batumonga village on North Pagai Island — one of Mentawai’s three main islands, was devastated by an earthquake-triggered tsunami on Monday night.

More than 300 people were killed by the tsunami and about 100 more missing, according to authorities. They said earlier that 113 had died.

Brenti said the first wave was eight meters high and engulfed half of the hamlet. But the second wave struck like a giant wall and was higher than a coconut tree. It struck harder and deeper, eventually reaching the slopes of a hill more than 800 meters inland.

“Only 40 people survived. All 73 houses were gone. The night after the disaster, we — the injured and babies — slept under the rain on a hill in the back of our hamlet,” the 40-year-old said, as quoted by Josh Kamatis, a disaster post coordinator for North and South Pagai Islands in Sikakap, who shared Brenti’s story with The Jakarta Post.

“Those who survived were those who ran to higher ground after the first wave struck, while the dead were mostly those who could not escape the second wave.”

Brenti’s wife and two children were swept away in the tsunami.

When Brenti left his ruined hamlet, dozens of bodies lay scattered on the ground and over 100 people were still missing.

He said that most residents had not felt the 7.2-magnitude quake as they were inside their homes due to rain. Residents were shocked after hearing a thundering sound that resembled loud wave breaks about 15 minutes after the earthquake.

Soon afterwards, the tsunami swept the hamlet.

“The hamlet is just a name now. No more buildings. On Wednesday, 80 dead victims were found and 102 still missing. There were only 40 survivors,” said Kamatis, adding the dead had been buried the same day.

Two days after the disaster struck, the death toll continues to rise, with the disaster post listing 282 dead and 411 missing.

The tsunami badly damaged 25,426 houses, flattened six hamlets and forced 4,500 residents to evacuate to makeshift shelters.

Rescue workers and relief supplies intended for more than a dozen villages on the islands arrived by plane and helicopter on Wednesday.

West Sumatra Disaster Mitigation Agency Operational Control Center head Ade Edward defended the agency’s decision to lift a tsunami warning that had been issued immediately after the temblor struck.

He said his office had not established a tsunami early warning system for Mentawai Islands, adding that even the most advanced equipment could not have processed warning signs fast enough to avoid disaster in the regency after the earthquake.

“The [epicenter] was very close and the tsunami arrived in just 15 minutes, so it was unnecessary,” Ade told the Post on Wednesday.

“The most sophisticated system currently available needs five minutes to process information from an earthquake before issuing a tsunami warning — and a issuing a command to respond to the field would take more than 15 minutes. It would have been too late for Mentawai.”

An early warning system would have been effective for the provincial capital, Padang, and for other areas along West Sumatra’s western coast that were more than 200 kilometers from the epicenter, he said.

When the earthquake hit on Oct. 25, Ade said his office had processed information from weather stations but did not issue an evacuation order since the sea level had not decreased. “In 15 minutes, we decided that a tsunami would not hit the west coast of Sumatra and informed the public by radio that there was no need to evacuate,” he said.

Mentawai Islands regency lawmaker Jan Winnen Sipayung said that some victims might have been asleep when the earthquake struck.

“Nearly all of the villages that were devastated by the tsunami were unconnected to the power network, so most residents went to sleep early. Some of the people likely failed to flee to safety after the quake,” he said Wednesday.

Merapi claims more lives and its guardian

Blanketed: Rescue workers evacuate the people from Kinahrejo village, Sleman, Yogyakarta, on Wednesday. Volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Merapi blanketed the village. At least 31 people were killed in Tuesday’s deadly eruption. JP/Indra Harsaputra

Rescuers combed the slopes of Mount Merapi on Wednesday, one day after the country’s most active volcano was rocked by an eruption that spewed hot clouds, killing 31 people, including a man known as the volcano’s guardian.

Hot clouds — known as wedhus gembel, a Javanese expression for sheep-shaped pyroclastic clouds — were expelled from the mountain at an estimated speed of 300 kilometers per hour at a temperature of 600 degree Celsius.

On Wednesday, the stench of sulfur and dead livestock was in the air with thick ash covering flattened houses, turning the area eerie white.

Most fatalities came from Kinahrejo hamlet in Cangkringan district, Sleman regency, Yogyakarta, or the home of the volcano’s spiritual keeper Ki Surakso Hargo, better known as Mbah Maridjan. The 85-year-old’s body was found at his home in the hamlet, located 5 kilometers from the mountain’s raging crater. The burnt and prostrated body, presumed to be in prayer, was identified by relatives and this image was instantly circulated through mobile phones.

The disaster also killed vivanews.com journalist Yuniawan Nugroho and two volunteers, Tutur Priyono from Bantul Red Cross and Slamet Ngatiran from Tagana (Taruna Siaga Bencana) Yogyakarta.

Rescuers only managed to evacuate 12 of 15 bodies from Maridjan’s house Tuesday night due to bad weather, hot cloud and ash. The rest were evacuated early Wednesday.

Yogyakarta Police Disaster Victim Identification Unit spokesman Comr. Agung Hadi Wijanarko said identification of the victims was expected to be completed late Wednesday.

“We hope the identification will have finished for the scheduled mass funeral tomorrow at 10 a.m.,” Agung said at Yogyakarta’s Dr. Sardjito General Hospital Wednesday.

Most victims suffered 70 to 80 percent burns to their bodies and were hardly recognizable.

Head of Dr. Sardjito’s public relation division, Heru Nugroho, said the hospital received 13 bodies until after midnight on Tuesday and received another 12 bodies the following morning. Twenty victims were men and five women. The number of fatalities may increase.

The volcano is situated in four regencies – Sleman, Magelang, Klaten and Boyolali – in Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces.

Merapi’s eruption, which took place the day it was put on top-alert status, took residents by surprise, forcing many, including those living outside the 10-kilometer danger zone, to flee to shelters.

Resident Tukirah of Pangukrejo hamlet in Cangkringan, said the disaster happened quickly. “Suddenly we heard loud roars followed by sirens,” after which everyone fled.

About 19,000 residents took refuge in seven shelters in Yogyakarta, which in all can only accommodate 12,000 evacuees. Some 30,000 others took to 39 shelters in Magelang.

Many locals from Yogyakarta who arrived in the shelters after the 5:03 p.m. eruption on Tuesday were not provided with food supplies.

“Supplies such as bottled water arrived at shelters at 1:30 a.m. [on Wednesday],” said Agusti Handayani, who took refuge with her family.

Sleman Regent Sri Purnomo expressed regret that a high number of fatalities resulted from reluctance to evacuate. “Residents should have obeyed instructions to evacuate since it was made based on scientific calculations. We can’t fight nature but we must avoid disaster.”

BANDUNG, Indonesia – For some, creating apps or games can seem like a daunting challenge. However, Fahma Waluya Rosmansyah spends his free time creating games that help Indonesian children learn the English language or even basic maths skills. That in itself is worthy of a round of applause, but we forgot to mention that Fahma is only 12 years old. Now that’s amazing.

Fahma was born in Indonesia in 1998 and like most kids, loves playing with his games console, PC games and with mobile phones, and it was when Fahma reached fifth grade that he began to learn how to develop with Adobe Flash. That same year he created his first application called BAHANA which allows young children to learn the alphabet, numbers and colours – all from a Nokia E71. In his sixth grade, he developed over 5 more applications, one of which is downloadable from the Ovi Store. ENRICH enables children to translate Indonesian words into English using colourful images and clearly pronounced words. MANTAP is a similar app but instead teaches Indonesian children Maths, and should be available from the Ovi Store in the coming weeks.

Fahma tells us he can create an application from scratch in less than 12 hours, with the help of his younger sister, Hania, who provides some of the sound content. She is also his main source of inspiration and beta tester. Having recently been awarded the Indonesia ICT Award 2010, Fahma plans to continue developing apps for local Indonesian children and even hopes that one day his apps can be made available to every child, globally.

For a 12 year old, currently going through school, we find this an incredible story and shows what the young mind can achieve, and what’s even more commendable is that these apps are used to help young children learn some valuable life skills. Download ENRICH for free, from the Ovi Store.

KOMPAS.com - Tahun ini, Laboratorium Teknologi Bahasa DFKI sedang mencari satu atau dua peneliti untuk memperkuat tim dalam bidang sistem kognitif dan interaksi manusia-robot. DFKI GmbH atau Pusat Penelitian Artificial Intelligence yang berada di Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen, dan Berlin merupakan lembaga penelitian terkemuka Jerman di bidang teknologi software yang inovatif.

Penelitian tersebut akan dilakukan dalam sebuah proyek baru Uni Eropa. Adapun untuk dua kandidat PhD akan bekerja pada pemahaman bahasa lisan dan manajemen dialog. Kandidat ideal harus memiliki latar belakang dalam pengetahuan robotika atau komputasi linguistik yang berpengalaman. Mereka harus memiliki kemampuan pembuatan program yang sangat baik.

Bagi yang berminat, kandidat harus memiliki gelar MSc di bidang Ilmu Komputer, Komputasi Linguistik atau disiplin lain yang terkait. Sangat dihargai kualitas pribadi termasuk kreativitas, keterbukaan pikiran, motivasi tinggi, inisiatif, semangat tim, serta kesediaan untuk menghadapi tantangan baru di wilayah ilmiah yang tidak diketahui. Para calon juga harus fasih berbahasa Inggris lisan dan tertulis.

Informasi lebih lanjut mengenai beasiswa penelitian ini bisa mengakses http://talkingrobots.dfki.de

ENERGI BERKELANJUTAN
Dibuka! Beasiswa S-2/S-3 dari e8
Kamis, 14 Oktober 2010 | 15:28 WIB

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com — e8 Scholarship Programme kembali dibuka bagi mahasiswa-mahasiswa berprestasi di bidang studi Pembangunan Energi Berkelanjutan (Advanced Studies of Sustainable). Kandidat yang dicari adalah lulusan terbaik dengan nilai yang sangat bagus dan masuk dalam jajaran top 20 di kelasnya.

Tawaran beasiswa ini berhak diikuti oleh para mahasiswa yang memiliki rencana untuk meraih gelar S-2 dan S-3 bidang Pengembangan Energi Berkelanjutan di negara-negara berkembang. Selain bertekad kuat memajukan pengetahuan tentang energi dan mengembangkan energi berkelanjutan, kandidat harus memiliki komitmen untuk kembali dan berkontribusi di negara asalnya.

Adapun skema beasiswa yang diberikan senilai 23.000 dollar AS per tahun selama dua tahun. Informasi dan tata cara pendaftaran selengkapnya untuk beasiswa ini dapat diperoleh di www.e8.org.

Bagi yang berminat, tenggat waktu pengiriman aplikasi sampai 11 Maret 2011.

Jenis	Perguruan Tinggi Swasta
Presdir	Ir. Untung Rahardja MTI.
Direktur	Drs. PO. Abas Sunarya MSi
Lokasi	Tangerang, Banten
Situs Resmi	http://www.raharja.ac.id

Perguruan Tinggi Raharja adalah sebuah perguruan tinggi swasta di Tangerang, provinsi Banten, Indonesia, dengan konsentrasi pengajaran manajemen dan ilmu komputer. Semboyannya adalah “Get the Better Future by Computer Science”.

Perguruan Tinggi yang bergerak di bidang Teknologi Informatika yang Mempersiapkan SDM yang dapat bersaing di dunia penrindustrian IT di Dunia.
[sunting] Sejarah singkat

3 Januari 1994
LPPK (Lembaga Pendidikan dan Pelatihan Komputer) Raharja berlokasi di Jl. Gatot Subroto km. 2 Harmoni Mas , Tangerang merupakan cikal bakal Perguruan Tinggi Raharja. Diresmikan oleh Bapak Walikota Tangerang, Drs. Zakaria Machmud dan terdaftar dengan nomor 201/PLSM/02.4/L.93. LPPK Raharja juga sebagai pelopor penggunaan sistem operasi Windows di daerah Tangerang dan sekitarnya.
24 Maret 1999
Lembaga di bawah Yayasan Nirwana Nusantara ini berkembang menjadi Akademi Manajemen Informatika dan Komputer (AMIK) Raharja melalui surat keputusan Menteri Pendidikan Nasional No. 56/D/O/1999 dengan jurusan Manajemen Informasi.
7 September 2000
Menjadi satu–satunya perguruan tinggi yang menjalankan studi formal untuk program Diploma I (DI) dengan gelar Ahli Pratama, Diploma II (DII) dengan gelar Ahli Muda dan Diploma III (DIII) dengan gelar Ahli Madya. Dengan surat keputusan Direktur Jendral Pendidikan Tinggi Departemen Pendidikan Nasional Nomor 354/Dikti/Kep/2000, menambah 2 program yakni D3 Teknik Informatika dan D3 Komputerisasi Akuntansi.
20 Oktober 2000
Yayasan Nirwana Nusantara dengan surat keputusannya No. 42/01/YNN/PR/II/200 mendirikan Sekolah Tinggi Manejemen dan Ilmu Komputer (STMIK) Raharja dengan jurusan Sistem Informasi (SI), Teknik Informatika (TI), dan Sistem Komputer (SK) melalui surat keputusan Direktur Jendral Pendidikan Tinggi No. 5706/D/T/2000. Untuk selanjutnya, STMIK dan AMIK Raharja lebih dikenal Masyarakat dengan sebutan Perguruan Tinggi Raharja.