Indonesian Teenagers Nowadays (Final Draft)

2011 has became the year where many things completely changed. Culture changed, people changed, and so teenagers changed. Technology becomes the most powerful influence. Like Blackberry, social networks, TV programs, and many others. Those things are causing many negative effects. What about the benefits of using those technologies? Is technology the only influence?

Teenagers have changed. They used to study at school, go back home, then help their parents. In indonesia, before technology has blowed up everywhere which is like now, teenagers were usually playing in their backyard, they usually play football, marbles, hide & seek, and many others. But they manage their time perfectly. So they have 65% time for study & do the chores from their parents. And they have 35% time for play with their friends. That's so different with teenagers nowadays, right? Nowadays, teenagers are being so naughty. It has changed 180 degrees. They like to skip classes, hang out, smoke, partying, and go home late. Sometimes they had a fight with their parents, they're dating but it's in "negative way" and it just way too much for teens, they don't want to study, they go to the club, and get drunk. They're just uncontrolled, they don't have manners, and they're like.....have no dreams to achieve.

However, technology is actually good for us, only if we use it for required things. Like internet. We can use it for doing homework, go for a research, knowing the global news, and many others. Technology is actually help us. Can you figure it out what would the world be without internet or technology? It might be so complicated, and everyday feels so tiring.

I think beside technology, there are many other things which caused Indonesian teenagers were being like this. Like broken home. They might be sick of it, they're stressed at home then being so wild in outside. Or they're influenced by western style. That's totally not good, because we're supposed to keep Indonesia immoral, just let western teens be as they want to be. And we, Indonesian teenagers have to be ourselves, keep the national characters and national spirits. 

It's so simple actually if we want to change our self, to start everything over or to make it gets better. Start from a little thing. Like be nice to our parents, our friends, and other people. Don't ever be rude, especially to people who older than us. Don't be selfish, arrogant, emotional, and/or greedy. Be as generous as you can be to poor people. Don't be pessimistic, be optimistic. Be as diligent as possible, so you can make your dreams come true and be a successful person. 

It's too bad to see Jakarta nowadays, everything has ruined this beloved city. We have to change our self as the next generation of this city, and of course this country. Together we can handle it, fix it, and make it all better :-)


Corrected by : Maryam Nazihah XE 

Will There Still be Schools and Teachers in The Future?

In this last few years, many technology has been created. Many people think it is very useful for them because it makes their life way easier. Yes, now technology helps human in every single life aspects. Some technology like vehicle-especially motorcycle, notebook or netbook, and handphone can be bought by a cheap price or long-time-installment (credit). It makes human used many technology for their social life, health life, even education.

Education needs technology. Why I said like that? Because now some newest informations and knowledges can not be found in books anymore, but internet. Internet is a technology, and to access the internet we need computer/laptop or mobile phone. Beside that, in some schools we can find some learning activities use a projector, so the teachers connect their laptop to the projector and every students can see the presentation. It means technology helps human in their education.

It is very possible for technology to replace the presence of schools in the future. Human will use the technology like internet to study. If in the future internet is a cheap technology and all human can connect to the internet at their home, may be they will not interested again with school. They wil choose to stay at home and searching informations in the internet.

But, we still need teachers. We can search anything in the internet, but sometimes we do not understand. And to understand it, we need someone to explain it. And that someone is teachers, because teachers more understand some subject than us. Human can use technology to communicate with the teachers. We use mobile phone to call them or use email, or use the e-learning system.

The conclusion from me is: we can use all the technology to study at home, but we still need someone to make us more understand about the subjects. And if in the future there is no schools anymore, I hope there is no individualistic in ourselves.

By: Maryam Nazihah XE

Will there still be schools and teachers in the future?

Today, technology has been dominating almost our life aspect include in education world. In several schools, students should not come to school. They collect the assignment with an email. They use webcam to interface with there teachers.

Recently, our education worlds introduce a new school system. It was homeschooling. This system opposite with normally school. In this system, teacher comes to student.  Most reason for homeschoolers is healthy factor.

In the future, any chance there is no school. All student study from home and the teachers teach them with webcam or something else. To collect the assignment, students can send it to there teacher’s email.

To conclude i would to say, it is like impossible to clear teacher’s role. There will be a big space from smart and un-smart students. Here is unchangeable teacher’s role. The teachers can stabilize it.

Behind The Scene of Indonesia Football (2)

A few weeks ago, our nation became the world spotlight. Not a terrorist or natural disaster but only a football congress. It almost makes FIFA angry and makes a punishment for our nation. Fortunately, the last congress going on nicely. After the congress, Indonesian Football Association make shocking decisions, change our coach Alfred Riedl with Wim Risbergen. In that time our nation team have doing preparation to face Turkmenistan in qualification world cup. For a second time, Indonesia lucky and get a place in next phase qualification world cup.

            The early matches, Indonesia became a part of Netherlands team and became the first Asian team to participate in World Cup 1938. A 6-0 loss to eventual finalist Hungary. In 1956 Olympic games, Indonesia can reach quarterfinal round. In 1958, Indonesia have a chance to comeback to world cup. They can past easily China, but after that they refused to play against their opponents Israel due to a politic issues. Because of that, we suffered a ban to from FIFA world cup from 1958 to 1974.

A few years next, in 1979 be runner up in South East Asian Games. Almost 10 years next, Indonesia back to this tournament and can be the winners. Not enough, Indonesia be a winners again in SEA Games 1991 in Philippine.

            Our nation can do again what I’ve been write above as long as we have a planning, a good work, and good vision. We must keep our hard work culture. In Papua there so many talents. But lack of attention from our scout makes them unused. So if we want replay our history, we must improve our young training and also improve the current team.

          corrected by: Rheza Daniswara

Will there still be schools and teachers in the future?

Everybody knows exactly how easy technology can be produced. Every second, every minute, every hour, everyday we have some new inventions. It seems so easy for scientists or inventors to find something new or create new stuffs. In this era, almost everything has found or invited. We, as a student, just have to sit and learn it from the teacher.

Technology might be replace teachers. We all know that robots have been invited since the 20th century. And we all know robot's job is to help human or make our problems not-so-complicated. So, it is not impossible to have a robot as a teacher in the future. It would be more effective, but for me, how come if in the middle of class the robot is out of energy? how come if the robot has to teach at kindergarten then there's a little girl crying and some other kids were fighting and lot more? How come if the robot (which made of iron) got wet and it burns out? And there's a lot more injury that could possibly happens.

School is important for kids and world is nothing without knowledge. Every kids should study to be as clever as they could be and to catch their dreams. But will there still be schools in the future? Many people think it is possible if there's no more schools in the future. Because almost every single thing has found and what else that we need? Or maybe...there will still be schools in the future, but in different way, there's a little changed. Children could just listen to CD, look at the computer and learn it on the internet, or they just call the teacher to their home. That's what we know as homeschooling.

The conclusion from me is..whatever it is, keep studying, keep practicing and nothing's impossible, you can't always depend on technology. We still need a brighter future.

Transportation in Indonesia (Final)

What is the first thing in your mind when you hear the word ‘Indonesia’? Yes, may be you will say that Indonesia is a freedom country, located in the southeast Asia, has a red and white flag, or a country with many terrorist or corruptions problem. But here, I will tell you some facts about Indonesian cultures, especially in the transportation facilities.

Indonesia has so many types of transportations, from the traditional one until the modern one. First, I want to tell you about Indonesia’s traditional transportations. I will not tell you all the traditional transportations, because it will take a long explanation. But let’s see some examples, like Becak, Andong, Delman, Cidomo, and Jukung. May be some or most of you already know Becak, Andong, and Delman, because they are already familiar in our daily life. But for you who do not know, Becak is a transportation with two wheels and rode by a person, then the passengers are sit in the front side. Becak only needed 100% human’s energy because it does not have any machines. Becak now usually used by people for going to some place, or markets. The existance of Becak is rare now in some big city especially Jakarta, but it’s still easy to find Becak in other city like Malang, Banjarmasin, etc. Then, Andong and Delman is similar, it is a traditional transportation with two wheels and pulled by one or more horses. This transportation can be used for routine transportation or just for recreation at some recreation park in Indonesia.

How about Cidomo and Jukung? Have you ever heard those transportation words? Cidomo is a traditional transportation from Lombok Island and Gili Island. It is same with Andong or Delman. The difference is located in the type of wheels it used. The name Cidomo is derived from the Sasak word cika or cikar (a traditional handcart), dokar (Balinese for pony cart) and mobil for the wheels used to move it. And Jukung is a small wooden Indonesian boat. This transportation can be found in Banjar or South Kalimantan. Local people called it Klotok. This transportation often used by people in their daily routine because South Kalimantan is full of rivers, swamp, and other water districts. This Jukung used by people to go to Terapung Market, or many tourists also used this transportation to visit some historical building, Kembang Island, or just cross Barito River.

Move to the Modern transportation. May be Indonesia do not have a very modern or high technology transportations like subway, monorail, MRT, etc, yet. But the other vehicles like motorcycles, cars, ships, buses, trains, are the examples of modern transportations in Indonesia. Some modern transportations like motorcycles and cars have replacing the position of traditional transportation because people think in using these transportation (modern one) is more effective.

Beside that, now in Indonesia, especially big cities, there are so many people riding bicycle in their daily life like working, going to school, or doing sports. Besides bikes, there are skateboards and roller blades/skates.

From that report, I can take the conclusion that Indonesia is rich in types of transportations facilities. Our obligation is to keep our culture, to keep our traditional transportations to stay alive forever. But we still have to think modern, build or make the other modern transportation. And in the future, I hope we will have our own modern transportations. Then together, we build Indonesia to become a developed country.

by: Maryam Nazihah (corrected by Nadya Luthfiyah)

which one is better, socializing with social network or in directly?

Goblalization now has made many changes, no exception to socialize. Most teenagers in the world use the internet to socializing. Now we can find the social network like facebook, twitter, skype, yahoo, and many more. And now, how about socializing with our neighbors? 

Especially in big cities, believe it or not, you will find the teenagers don't know their neighbors although they live together as neighbor. Teenagers prefer to socialize with social networking than socializing with neighbors. They consider socializing with social networking more fun. Because they can play, browsing and chatting with people without fear of being ignored. Then, which one is better, socializing with social network or in directly?

You've to know, human has been created to knows others, to recognize their environment, and more things about this world. We all know that technology is more advanced. And we know that the technology was created to facilitate the humans activities. But, we should too know that we still have a friends around us. Example like neighbors, food traders, security guards, and many more. We have to build our good relation with other without any intermediator. Including the social network. That's where we'll had a good relationship with our environment. Advantages of having friends in our environment is, if we suddenly need help, they will be happy to help us because they know us. Example, if we suddenly ill and needed help the hospital immediately, they would be willing to take us to the hospital. 
So, we may socializing via social networking, but we should too know that,socializing with our environment is also important. And we will get a lot of advantages if we could open ourselves to knows our environment more closely.