Pray For Japan

I send my deepest condolence for those who are in Japan. The world have been crying since Friday 11th March 2011. Our prayers are for them.

Here the article I read on The Jakarta Post website. The information about Japan.

Major tsunami damage in N. Japan after 8.9 quake

The Jakarta Post - Associated Press, Tokyo | Fri, 03/11/2011 2:13 PM | Headlines

Japan was struck by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, unleashing a 13-foot (4-meter) tsunami that washed away cars and tore away buildings along the coast near the epicenter. There were reports of injuries in Tokyo.

In various locations along Japan's coast, TV footage showed massive damage from the tsunami, with dozens of cars, boats and even buildings being carried along by waters. A large ship swept away by the tsunami rammed directly into a breakwater in Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture, according to footage on public broadcaster NHK.

Officials were trying to assess damage, injuries and deaths from the quake but had no immediate details.

The quake that struck at 2:46 p.m. was followed by a series of powerful aftershocks, including a 7.4-magnitude one about 30 minutes later. The U.S. Geological Survey upgraded the strength of the first quake to a magnitude 8.9, while Japan's meteorological agency measured it at 7.9.

The meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning for the entire Pacific coast of Japan. NHK was warning those near the coast to get to safer ground.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said a tsunami warning was in effect for Japan, Russia, Marcus Island and the Northern Marianas. A tsunami watch has been issued for Guam, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia and the U.S. state of Hawaii.

The quake struck at a depth of six miles (10 kilometers), about 80 miles (125 kilometers) off the eastern coast, the agency said. The area is 240 miles (380 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo.

In downtown Tokyo, large buildings shook violently and workers poured into the street for safety. TV footage showed a large building on fire and bellowing smoke in the Odaiba district of Tokyo.

In central Tokyo, trains were stopped and passengers walked along the tracks to platforms.

The ceiling in Kudan Kaikan, a large hall in Tokyo, collapsed, injuring an unknown number of people, NHK said.

Footage on NHK from their Sendai office showed employees stumbling around and books and papers crashing from desks. It also showed a glass shelter at a bus stop in Tokyo completely smashed by the quake and a weeping woman nearby being comforted by another woman.

Several quakes had hit the same region in recent days, including a 7.3 magnitude one on Wednesday.

Thirty minutes after the quake, tall buildings were still swaying in Tokyo and mobile phone networks were not working. Japan's Coast Guard has set up task force and officials are standing by for emergency contingencies, Coast Guard official Yosuke Oi said.

"I'm afraid we'll soon find out about damages, since the quake was so strong," he said

Source: The Jakarta Post

Undergoing the Two-Days Journalism Workshop Held by The Jakarta Post and Paramadina University

That was sooo fun. I really enjoyed it. Fortunately, my senior of English student also won to be the finalist, even she did not win the best six. So when attending the workshop, I was with her. At least, I was not alone to sit with. We were having fun, weren't we, teh Dea? hehehe

Between The Jakarta Post, Paramadina and Me

Once I had been told by my writing lecturer to join the writing competition held by The Jakarta Post and Paramadina University. She said that she can count on me on my writing ability. At first, she asked several students to join the competition, but at last, only me who joined it. My friends had no chance to join because of their own business.

There were two categories for the competition. A and B. A for senior high school and first year student of university, and B for the general, it can be students or maybe lecturers. My writing lecturer asked me to join the category B. of course, because even I am not a university student (I am study at Polytechnic), I did not a chance for joining the category A because I am not a first year student. I am the second year student at Polytechnic instead. Okay. I had to adapt to be like a university student. I had to be professional.

When I saw the pamphlet, first I was so nervous. I was not confident to join it. There might be lots of participant who are brilliant. I did not expect anything from this competition. Nothing. Producing the text is kinda interesting thing to do for me.

I did writing about the pro contra and argumentative essay. It was about the privacy of social media networking. FINALLY, I was called to undergo the two days- journalism workshop! Yes! I won as the finalist. Even it was still as the finalist, I still had a chance to go further. Kept fighting!

I underwent the workshop. The judges assessed the finalists from the activeness of the finalists during the workshop. Then they would call the next finalists to be the big SIX winner to be interviewed. You know? I was very surprised that I was being called to attend the interview. Alhamdulillah.

You know? there is a question that might do not satisfy the judges. When they asked 'what will you be in the next five years', I answered that I would become a lecturer. They might expect that the finalists would answer 'become a journalist' as the same as the theme of the competition which was about the journalism. But my answer was so far from that. Because even Paramadina University does not provide any majors in education. If I would become a lecturer, I would join the competition which at least provides majors in education. But in my mind, I just have one mission: I want to become a lecturer who will always encourage my students to write something, to express their feeling through their writings, and produce so many writings. Maybe my answer did not satisfy them. It did not a matter. At least I become the BEST SIX winner of the writing competition. I am very happy for that. Till now. Thanks God for everything you have given to me. Alhamdulillah.

I got the certificate of becoming the best six winner, the congratulation letter of having a two-days journalism workshop, the goody bag from the Paramadina University and The Jakarta Post, and the free-The Jakarta Post newspapers for four months. Congrats for me :)

Winners of the News Feature Writing Competition 2010

Congratulations!

Winners of the News Feature Writing Competition (2010)

Universitas Paramadina & The Jakarta Post

Universitas Paramadina and The Jakarta Post would like to congratulate the winners in our “News Feature Writing Competition, 2010”.

This first nation-wide writing competition has been joined by many Indonesian youth from various schools and universities in Indonesia and overseas. The competition was divided into two categories. The first category (A) was for Indonesian citizens currently studying in SMU or in their first semester of a university. The second category (B) included advanced undergraduate students, sarjana (S-1), and other Indonesian youth between 18 and 26 years old. Participants had to write a 1,000 word news feature article in English and include at least two original interviews.

After careful reading of many submissions, judges picked the 12 best participants (finalists) from each category to join the Journalism Writing Workshop on 5 and 6 November 2010. Category A submissions were reviewed by a committee at Universitas Paramadina, and Category B submissions were reviewed by a committee at The Jakarta Post. The workshop was conducted at Paramadina campus by experienced journalists from The Jakarta Post. During the workshop participants learned about journalism and styles of journalistic writing and had their samples evaluated for further selection.

Following the workshop and interviews with the finalists in each category, a committee from Universitas Paramadina and the Jakarta Post jointly made the final selections, and here are the results:

* Category A: For high school (SMU) students or university students in their first semester.

Prize Name School Article title
1st Ali Riza Lazuardi Global Islamic High School. Social Networking Services a Privacy Paradox
2nd Reininta Sylvania SMA Global Jaya Int'l, Tangerang. Social Networking: An Option for Change
3rd Callistasia A. Wijaya SMA Ora et Labora - Tangerang Be Your Own Privacy Protector!
Runner-up Shita Pina Saphira SMAN 2 Surabaya to be or not to be
Runner-up Chr. Timothy Wijaya SMAN 10 Malang. Share it as worse or keep it as secret?
Runner-up Meher Vaswani Gandhi Memorial Int'l School, Jakarta Is Social Media networking Changing the Way we feel about privacy?
Honorable Mention Sharifah Zainab Pratiwi Sem.1; Prodi Psikologi, Univ.Paramadina, Jakarta Drunk in the World of Social Media.
Honorable Mention Widya Mukti Pinandhitaningrum SMAN 98 Jakarta Timur Why is it difficult to curb Corruption within Bureaucracy?



* Category B: For university students (undergraduate level), sarjana and youth (age 18-26).

Prize Name University, or City Article title
1 st Putera Satria Sambijantoro Universitas Indonesia National Police, Govt Commitment in Eradicating Corruption is 'In Question'.
2 nd Bachrul Jefrey A. Sitanggang Unpad, Bandung Social Media Networking: Today's Amusing Park.
3 rd Dewanti Aditya Wardhani Univ.Gajahmada Social Networking revolution: Changing Our Definition of Privacy.
Runner-up Muhammad Bagir Assegaff Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia. Has Our Nation's Football Gone to a New Low?
Runner-up Hendra Saputra Denpasar, Bali Why Is It Difficult to Curb Corruption within the Bureaucracy?
Runner-up Pujiana Nurul Hikmah Parongpong, Bandung, Jawa Barat. Globalization Era Has No Limit, But Privacy Should Have!
Honorable Mention Dea Sardiyana Cimahi, Jawa Barat Corruption and Indie Films
Honorable Mention Lina Noviandari Sampoerna School of Education, English Dept. Jakarta. A broken-winged Garuda.

Prize for the three (3) winners:

* All the first prize winners will receive a full tuition scholarship at Paramadina University; Rp. 2 million cash prize; and certificate. (Scholarship is non-transferable and subject to terms and conditions.)
* Second prize winners will receive Rp. 1.5 million cash prize and certificate
* Third prize winners will receive Rp. 1 million cash prize and certificate

Awards for the three (3) winners will be presented at an Award Ceremony on:
23 November 2010, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, at Paramadina Graduate School, The Energy Tower, 22nd floor, Sudirman Commercial Business District (SCBD), Jakarta.

All winners, runner ups and honorable mentions are invited to attend the award ceremony mentioned above. RSVP by sms to 0818 655 616 by 19 November 2010, 13:00.


For further enquiries, please contact:

Marketing & Public Relations Division, Universitas Paramadina;
Emails: ajeng@paramadina.ac.id This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; or julisa.pratiwi@students.paramadina.ac.id This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ;
Phones: 021-7918-11-88 ext. 200 and 211
SMS to: 0815-918-1188 or 0818 655 616.

Source: Paramadina University

Finalists of the News Feature Writing Competition (2010) - Universitas Paramadina & The Jakarta Post

Universitas Paramadina and The Jakarta Post would like to congratulate the finalists in our News Feature Writing Competition, 2010.

Category A:	---	Category B:
Indonesian citizen, currently studying in SMU kelas 1-3 (equal to year 10-12 High School) or in their first semester of a university/college, either in Indonesia or Overseas. Ali Riza Reininta Sylvania Marjo Ramos Shita Pina Saphira Chrissela Austin Sentana Callistasia Anggun Wijaya Meher Vaswani Jessica Linoto Jessica Wantono Sharifah Z. Pratiwi Christian Timothy Wijaya Widya Mukti P.		Indonesian citizen, currently studying in Indonesian or Overseas University, undergraduate level, and Indonesian youth (age 18-26) having passion in writing (excluded professional and freelance journalists/writers). M. Bagir Assegaff Putera Satria S Bachrul JA Sitanggang Dewanti A Hendra Saputra Grace Susetyo Pujiana Nurul H Dea Sardiyana Silvia Dwika P Lina Noviandari Hanie Sulastri Aan Frisca DP

These twelve (12) finalists in each category were selected after careful reading of many submissions. Category A submissions were reviewed by a committee at Universitas Paramadina, and Category B submissions were reviewed by a committee at The Jakarta Post. Final selections were made by a joint committee of the two.

All finalists are now invited to a two-day Journalism Writing Workshop that will be led by The Jakarta Post on November 5-6, 2010, on the campus of Universitas Paramadina. In the coming days, finalists will be contacted by telephone by a committee member before November 1 in order to confirm their participation in the Journalism Writing Workshop on November 5-6 and to obtain basic information about their educational background and interest in writing. Unfortunately, as previously announced, we are unable to cover transportation costs for workshop participants. Finalists also will receive a four-month subscription to The Jakarta Post.

Following the Journalism Writing Workshop and a final interview, three prize winners in each category will be selected. First prize is a full scholarship (4 years of S1 for category A; 4 semesters of S2 for category B); the top three winners will also receive cash awards and certificates. Award winners will be announced November 15, 2010 and awards will be presented at a Ceremony on November 23, 2010, at Paramadina Graduate School, The Energy Tower, 22^nd floor, Sudirman Commercial Business District (SCBD).

For further enquiries, please contact:

Marketing & Public Relations Division, Universitas Paramadina;

• ajeng@paramadina.ac.id This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; or julisa.pratiwi@students.paramadina.ac.id This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ;
• Phone 021-7918-11-88 ext. 200 and 211
• SMS to: 0815-918-1188.

Source: Paramadina University

Winners of the News Feature Writing Competition 2010

Winners of the News Feature Writing Competition 2010

Globalization Era Has No Limit, But Privacy Should Have!

Now it is easy to understand someone’s feeling and to find where he or she is going to do and to go. Also, you do not need to pay for taxi fee or to buy ‘something’ for people you want to meet with to share your happiness or even your sadness. There is another simple and easy way to do Silaturahmi (say hello) without meeting face to face with someone: The more you learn about social media networking on the Internet, the more friends and relatives you will find.

Putting a name that you want to search for, then you will find that person and you can make him or her as your friend on this kind of social media networking: Facebook. It is the most famous social media networking in the world beside Twitter, and now most of Indonesian people in all ages can use it very well. Type what is inside your mind, and then all of your friends will read it.

Instead, you notice or not, those kinds of social media networking may disturb our privacy.

Is that statement for me?

The presence of social media networking makes us unconsciously sensitive. Although some people think that social media networking is really helpful to express what is inside our mind and our feeling, it can be a problem that people indirectly tend to be sensitive in what others people say because some of them always tell what they feel and they do on the box that we call as ‘what’s on your mind’ on Facebook or ‘what’s happening’ on twitter. So when others people who have a relation with us put a strange statement on their status update, we will wonder to whom that statement may refer to.

“I have had a fight on Facebook. I was in a desperate condition then someone commented my status by annoying words. Maybe he felt that my status was referred to him.” Dicky, a third year student of Sekolah Tinggi Akuntansi Negara (STAN), confessed. He is one of BlackBerry users who always frequently surfs the Internet and use the social media networking to share his feeling to his virtual friends than to ‘the real people’. Unfortunately, he got the result of kind of misunderstanding that we cannot deny at all because of sensitivity.

Oh, they spy on me!

Other people may think that social media networking gives us lots of new friends from other parts of Indonesia or even the world and connects us with old friends who we have not seen them for a long time, but it is beyond a question today that ‘the new friendship’ may lead to a threat.

Some people agree that we will not get a threat as long as we are wise to put our information on the social media networking, but how about the people who have a hurt feeling? We do not know if our saying hurts people or not, but after the presence of social media networking is getting familiar in society, some people use it for expressing how they feel about us about their disappointment and they do as if there were no more good ways to ask people to apologize.

It is easy now to threaten people in this high-technology era. Making a profile in kind of social media networking does not need an identity card, so one person can have two or more profiles in social media networking with different names, different biography, and even different faces for their profile pictures. For instance, you will find lots of ‘Britney Spears’ on Facebook Search Lists.

“He was following all of my updated status from my profile on social media networking to know about me, and then he responded my updated status with terrible words”, said Gemma, a supervisor of Sales and Marketing Department at PT. Dirgantara Indonesia (Indonesian Aerospace). This businessman who frequently uses his social media networking on the virtual world was followed by his old friend who actually had been hurt by him long time ago, but he never realised it.

People who we do not realise that we have made them hurt may take an action to disturb our life by using other names of their profile of social media networking that they have made. However we do not have any relations no more with them, they will give us a threat, or they even may curse us. We will be threatened by their comments and our life is disturbed. Now, is our privacy still safe?

Should not I be on my age?

We may be different from we are like in the real world and in the virtual world. People who talk less may always share their thoughts on social media networking. It is certainly true that we can share everything about us and we can share our thoughts there, but there are always people who have wrong opinion about what we are saying.

‘The different generation can be one of the factors that lead to the different perception. It results in misunderstanding’, said Ardian, a seventh semester student of Physics at Padjajaran University (UNPAD). He notices that there are levels of ages on his Facebook account and he has got a warning from his parents who are also in his friend list. They looked at Ardian as if he was a naughty boy, because they saw a joke that Ardian and his friends made on his profile on social media networking. “That was a joke that the young always do actually”, he added. Maybe they are conservative, but considering the facts that there is different generation of people in our social media networking is also important to say a statement on our ‘box’ wisely. You do not want people to have wrong opinion about you, do not you?

Thus, privacy has to have a limit to publish on social networking if you do not want to get sensitivity, threat or wrong assessment from your virtual friends. Even you are a frequently internet user, somehow you have to realize that this is one of media that can be surfed by internet network, so people can find everything that is available on our profile. Using your social media networking wisely is a way to avoid the bad effect of social media networking . All of bad effects that may happen to you depend on you; how you use your social media networking and how you react to your virtual friends. At least, you are ready to face all of the possibility that may happen to you.