tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61435916455164298972024-03-12T16:52:44.478-07:00project.life ~ miss.apriliathesa aprilia's journal and work projectthesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.comBlogger242125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-22908375254001990562021-12-23T03:19:00.000-08:002021-12-23T03:19:13.132-08:00<br /><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiX8ofvzvSlSBkkq48WlPnQ56Ux5nHw3AOMmxrHq2I0H4z1E_9u9fGxyCMuKKXEqeAhoYTNocx4S0RiJocnNqT9qeSiFgJ3MOiWih7gawEzguqC-V-w9KENc_ZxfB_juowSKmKP1nkbJdVtC6VHCVn-PU2ML1dT8x-oid-VKp3ErzX8mhwV41kDdSVdVQ=s750" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="459" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiX8ofvzvSlSBkkq48WlPnQ56Ux5nHw3AOMmxrHq2I0H4z1E_9u9fGxyCMuKKXEqeAhoYTNocx4S0RiJocnNqT9qeSiFgJ3MOiWih7gawEzguqC-V-w9KENc_ZxfB_juowSKmKP1nkbJdVtC6VHCVn-PU2ML1dT8x-oid-VKp3ErzX8mhwV41kDdSVdVQ=w690-h459" width="690" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Continuing the "Lean In" with "Option B" is something for me. It narrates a lot about her grief after her husband's sudden death from a heart attack while they're out of town for a special event. I should admit, I cry a bit many times while reading, anyway I am a drama queen if see or hear about sadness-stories. But the story of her warms my heart.<p></p><p>I have been experiencing a lot of loss since I was a teenager, whether the death of beloved ones caused it or just broke up with ex's, the feeling of abandonment and/or a pressure to be precocious. The book reminds me of the period that pushed me to be what I am now, it reminds me of how I survived teenage time without my Mom which..anyway she had passed away due to cancer when I was in 1st-grade Senior High School. Since then, I learned to accept the situation that I had to be fully raised by My grandparents. I have to adjust my financial condition cause living with grandparents = we depend on pension-fund only. Most importantly, like it or not, I had to overcome any complicated situation and emotions alone without adults' clear and comprehensive guidance and communication. I had passed my option B.</p><p>What Sheryl speaks reflects some of my condition when I was younger. I agree with her that experiencing loss and grief sometimes brings massive trauma. May part of it (the trauma) lead us to positive acts, such as performing preventive actions to avoid similar events coming again, sometimes it comes up bad by shaping a more complex condition in ourselves.</p><p>I like when she mentions knowledge by multiple resources, as I found Kubler-Ross's Theory about grieving. We are supposed to start in denial and move to anger, then to bargaining and Depression. After we pass, Depression through these four stages we can find acceptance. </p><p>Kubler-Ross Theory about Grievance: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.</p><p>This book might not be for everyone, but some of the key 'healing' point out some of the critical actions that the organization/company could adapt as Sheryl relates her way to overcome the situations with how she reacts and acts as the COO of Facebook. </p><p>Even the book is very personal about her story, I might highlight a point about shaping a resilence mind. The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health recommends meditating, reframing the situation, leaning on your social network, cultivating positive thinking, laughing more, and being optimistic.</p><p>#Grievance #resilence #book #books #bookshelf #bookworm #bookwormproblem #bibliophile #bookstagram #bookstagramindonesia #sherylsanbergbook #optionB</p>thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-71196986837279312282016-05-18T19:26:00.003-07:002016-05-18T21:04:31.629-07:00Lombok Diary : Bring up an Attractive Visual Display for The Villagers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On my previous post, you would see what I've been doing in Lombok, yap..educating the member of cooperatives to be in touch with technology and get used to the gadgets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nowadays, again we might say that smartphones or tablet and internet is the basic
needs for us after food, clothing and housing (you know how it feels when
you’re not connected to internet for only a few hours, it seems like we’re away
from the universe :p), there are areas that still not connected to the world,
or perhaps actually they know about the era of gadget and technology but they
have no idea how it can affect and improve their life because they don’t have
any access to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has tens of thousands islands spreading from Aceh to Papua, separated by the
ocean and a vast distance, where the technology (and any other parts such as
economy and education) are not developed at the same level, we’ve been facing the
above challenges down here. We realize that we have to start something to steal
a glance at these circumstances and do something to bring these people up to
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our support for small-medium enterprise business in Indonesia under OVOP
Program (One Village One Product), we constantly conduct the education in the
form of training or workshop for the cooperatives. Our objective is to grow the
team by injecting technology and equipped them with the skills needed so they
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successfully hold range of digital and marketing trainings since October 2015,
and being recognized at The 8<sup>th</sup> Global CSR Summit Award 2016 on
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are back to provide trainings that more varied in this year starting from
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these cooperatives– Koperasi Harapan Bersatu (Ketak-handicraft) and Koperasi
Stagen (hand-woven textile) at Central Lombok, the artisans have limited access
to technology and have no enough knowledge about marketing, but now they are improved
and getting used to the tablet that my company has given. The order starts to
increase by people who see their Facebook fan-page - bringing some fresh air to
the cooperatives. In other hand there are still ‘the off-line’ relevant
capacities that need to be developed such as the ability of display management
including to choose the best product to be displayed to attract potential
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industries –such as handicraft, foods, printing and other hand woven textile
cooperative. They have learnt about basic marketing principals (4P) by defining
the product they wanted to sell, the price, the promotion strategy and the place.
Visual merchandising theory was also being taught at the first day to open
their mind what else is needed to sale the product. We also conducted a focus
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discussion at the end of the sessions. The class is fun knowing that
participants are not only learned about the topics given, but also they are so
eager to discuss about tourism development in Lombok. They point out some current
issues to be discussed and try to brainstorm about what they can do to
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Cooperatives supported by my company to build a display corner. The member of each
cooperative were asked to gather any kind of things around the house that can
be useful for display materials such as earthenware, bamboo stairs, wooden
chairs and weaving-racks, we also bring them some interesting samples such as a
weaving mannequin and other materials. We encourage them to find the recycled
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up, more digital workshops aim to push them to be able to blog which is more
than to sell the products but also to focus on presenting the unique story
behind the product contains of the richness of Indonesian culture. We are also
working on the eco-production workshop and put an effort to link them to
Indonesian market. Hopefully, the cooperative will be independent in the future...:) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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weaving Ketak handicraft, home industry allow them to take care of their
children when working. Now, there are more than 100 women in Janapria Village
incorporated in Harapan Bersatu Cooperative.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">It was sunny day at </span></i><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Central Lombok, the temperature increased by
hours up to 34<sup>o</sup> C. We were still get excited for the workshop hold on
that day, even there wasnt air condition inside the room, well, it was there
but it didn’t work at all. Thank God, the Bureu’s people helped by lending us
many of fans to cool the condition. Yes it helped a lot. Around 20participants from
two cooperatives were sitting on the U Shape desk style provided and trying to
operate the 7 inch 3V tablet with their fingers. Many of them looked a little
bit nervous to touch the screen since they were not familiar with these gadgets
and some of them operated properly for
browsing or log in to their social media account.</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lombok spotted as one of travel
destination in Indonesia offers the world class underwater view and picturesque
sceneries of Mount Rinjani or Gili Islands. Furthermore, Lombok also a plethora
of handlooms, weaves and handicraft which are still rich of local culture.
There are Ketak handicraft – woven made from ketak or rattan, Cukli – furniture
supplies made from wooden mixed with shell and of course the famous hand-woven
fabric, Tenun Ikat. These weaves and handicraft has been preserved by local
people in Lombok whom inherited by their ancestor and developed as local
commodity.</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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activities of the artisans at Stagen Cooperative. This is called </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Mengani
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rolling up the thread in smaller pieces using wooden materials manually, the
process before step into weaving activities.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These local commodities have been
developed through “the cooperatives, a private business organization that is
owned and controlled by community who’s originally aimed to provide, supplies
and service for their own community, but it is now changed by providing the
demand also to outside community. We have chosen to focus on two cooperatives
in Lombok, Stagen Cooperative and Harapan Bersatu Cooperative that have been
monitored by local Bureau of Cooperatives, Industry and Trade (Diskoperindag).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The members of Cooperatives are still
adhered to the old way of doing business. They just simply wait for the order
from some people or tourist who come to their workshop, or they just put the
products in local art shop and wait for people to come and buy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unfortunately, this old-way of selling
didn’t bring any advantages for them. The lack of knowledge made it’s difficult for them to <span style="background: white;">keep up with the changes of business trends, their
work takes too long to be responsive, and so they have been left behind</span>.
Hence, Samsung is there to foster and encourage them by bringing digital waves
which will offer a promising future for home industries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">I now running a program for these Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) called "One Village One Product" (OVOP) with the company where I've been worked for. A program that is driven to improve the ability
of locals in rural area across the country to utilize the cultivate
local-wisdom and culture in order to develop small medium economy to be
financially independent. The
OVOP movement was started at Japan (Oita Perfecture) in 1979* and became one of
the successful regional economic program due to its unique approaches in
transforming local products and industry into competitive products both in
local and global markets. This movement has been proven as an effective tool in
improving local economy and welfare of rural people, local income and social
solidarity by creating unique and value added products. With the missions to
familiarize technology and how it can improve their life and business.</span></span><br />
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start by providing production equipment’s that are much needed. After all
equipment are set, we continue with the some training session that comprised by
3 sessions that took up to two days for each session. The training given
starting with introduction of basic marketing, social media introduction
(including the tips how to take nice pictures and interesting wording),
continued with basic web development.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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machineries and additional electricity to facilitate the production process. By
adding more equipment, the cooperatives expected to be more productive and it
is enable them to run the side-business such as providing raw materials to be
sold to surrounding community with affordable range of prices.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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tablets to each cooperative aiming that every cooperative could be updated in
using gadget, internet of things and online selling.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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during basic web development we taught them how to make an account in wordpress
where we saw most participant looked so stress but curious in setting up the
layout and putting the words in it. We understood the situation as we realized
that web development is a little bit complicated than facebook, instagram or
twitter. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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with Indonesian Government’s vision we also would like to </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">integrate
our sustainability priorities in community development, education and
technology. This program expects how technology and internet usage may drive
the community in rural areas to be competed in the digital world. At the first
glance, this program appeared by
introducing device as a powerful tool to enhance knowledge about social media,
but sure it could do more. Mostly run by women, our support empowers community to use technology for business
purpose that aims to increase local economic well-being, helps to spur growth
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It was a smoky day when we landed in Pangkalan
Bun, Central Borneo – the green land, the heart of world’s lung inhabited by
multiple primates and the most-famous endangered species, Orangutan on Friday
noon. The smog that has been covering many areas in Indonesia including
Kalimantan since mid 2015 has lead to the chaotic of flight schedule, and it
was also impacted to our flight on that day which delayed for about 6 hours.
But thank God! After all the drama, we arrived at Central Borneo and ready to
explore the forest! Our landing is not that smooth as we have expected. I
though it will be my last day, we couldn’t see anything on critical eleven
moment-when the pilot announced ‘landing position’, plus the smell of smoke
occurred during our landing made us extra anxious, furthermore we couldn’t see
the land, it’s all white outside covered by the smoke. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Pangkalan Bun is a small city with limited
infrastructure, visiting this area feels like back to 80’s or early 90’s, but
no worries, at least you can find taxies around the airport ready to take you
anywhere. Most people here worked in agriculture area, mostly are working for
oil palm plantation. With population around 250,000 (based on Indonesian Body
of State data in 2010), Pangkalan Bun is served by Iskandar Muda Airport. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I really surprised that I finally here in
Pangkalan Bun to experience the wild encounters of Borneo. I firstly noticed
about Tanjung Puting story in a novel I adored so much, “Partikel” – the 4<sup>th</sup>
sci fi series of Supernova by Indonesian author, Dewi Lestari. There was Zarah
– a main character of the story who discovers herself by travelling along
Sekonyer River and became a volunteer in Camp Leakey. Zarah continues her
travels and finally reach her dream to be a photographer of National Geographic
and recognized as ‘somebody’ in international level.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After safely landed, we were head to Kumai, a
small harbor located at the side of the beach at south Pangkalan Bun to hop
into our “Klotok” ~ a river boat which
the machine sounds “tok…tok..tok..”, so the Kumai people say it Klotok. The
Klotok could be occupied by 8-10 people, 4 of them is the boat crew consist of
the tour guide itself, the assistant of tour guide, the chef – to prepare our
dishes during our trip off course, and the Capten – who operates the boat. Our
“area” was the top floor of the boat where there was a bed and mosquito net, a
table with chairs, and some lounge chairs out on the deck. The bathroom was a
flush toilet on the first floor– where the contents are flushed to is another
story and a another mystery for another day (LOL!). I stayed in this Klotok
with 3 of my friends and other 2 visitors. So there we went…sailed the Sekonyer
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Since the sun went down, we’re not able to
visit any destinations in our first day, so we’re just simply immersed in the
night, starred up the vast skies and glittery fireflies decorated the forest at
the side of the river. The sounds of crickets and the song of the nocturnal
creatures accompany our journey to the heart of Tanjung Puting, composing a
drama that contemplating the night into something special that we’re not always
experienced at our home or town, a beautiful “Jungle Sympony”. I took a sip of
tea and enjoying the circumstance, forgetting about twittering or posting in
Path (and by the way, mobile phone signal was not available) and all it had to
offer. Our tour guide talked to us about the difficulties of finding jobs in
the local economy, trying to choose between acting as a tour guide in the part
(few jobs) versus perhaps getting a better paying job in one of the palm oil
plantations that were encroaching on the part. Our tour-guide, Pak Pi’i moved
from East Java and has been stayed at Kumai for more than 4 years, he used to
be a chef for the boat but later on, he learnt to be a tour-guide, so there he
was with us shared his experiences of being a tour-guide after 2 years. He also
talked about the forest fires which happened almost every year in Borneo,
droughts and drying peat-lands has put them in flammable condition, small
friction between the dry twigs could easily causing fire and burn the forest
creating harmful smoke, the worst location at that time was in Palangkaraya –
capital city of Central Borneo.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The night was getting cold, the smog still
blanketing our way along the river. After finished the dinner, the boat crew
prepared our bed. They rolled the mattress and covered each with the
mosquito-nett neatly. Hmm..I missed to tell you something, Tanjung Putting is
one of the location of endemic malaria, so for a better prevention, I suggest
you to take some treatment like consuming anti-malaria such as Reschocin or
other prevention method before arrived in the location. We were so fortunate
that we came in dry season, so there were almost no mosquitos at night and I
could sleep well as a princess with the forest lullaby. We tighten our Klotok
at the dock of Sekonyer Village, covered the half boat with tarp to avoid the
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<b>MISTY MORNING AT SEKONYER VILLAGE <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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It’s usually hard for me to wake up early in
the morning, but at this time, sure I didn’t want to miss our mystical morning
at Sekonyer River. The morning alarm
call is a shriek and a clatter. It is a noise that – I can only imagine – was
the result of birds and monkeys inside the forest. The sound was amplified in
the morning stillness, but by the time I have parted my mosquito net and leapt
from bed to investigate outside near our Klotok. It’s quite peaceful moment looking
around the river, the (local) women washing their clothes at the river-side,
some children playing around…Most of people in Borneo are highly dependent to
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After a breakfast
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into life, and we proceed past banks lined with mahogany trees, palms and
bandas fruit - a favorite of the orangutans. People used to see the alligator
or other kind of reptiles such as crocodile or snakes, but we weren’t that
lucky to meet all of them during our journey. We meet some of them, monkeys and
Orangutan hanging on the trees, all the boats stopped for a while, the visitor
popped into the nearest boat and started to shoot with their DSLR. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We spent our days traveling to the two
platforms on the second day. The boat would dock and we would hike into the
woods where some make-shift wooden benches were set-up for viewers. There were
quite a few boats out on the river during our time in the park, but we never
felt crowded. We were in our little oasis, taking pictures of monkeys and trees
and birds and yah.. the forest was hot. We were sweaty after only short hikes
out to the platforms. We waited with baited breath while the park rangers
brought out bananas and coconuts and called for the orangutan with special and
unique sounds, but unfortunately after waiting for 2 hours, no one came out,
huft! The first platform was failed, thus we continue our journey to the second
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It needs about 2 hours to go to the next
destination, the boat-crew served our lunch with vegetables and fried-chicken
and spicy-sauce. We tighten the boats and hop into another boats parked at the
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conservationist Dr.Birute Galdikas in 1971. Galdikas is </span>a primatologist,
a protégé of legendary paleontologist Louis Leakey and the founder of Orangutan
Foundation International (OFI). Dr. Galdikas has joined so many expeditions and
streched her efforts to save the orangutan from extinction through rehabilitation
and habitat preservation. Camp Leakey itself <span style="background: white;">is
the oldest orangutan research and conservation centre in the world – and it has
been critical in helping sustain their numbers in the wild. Other sanctuaries
and feeding stations have been established along the river where these
endangered animals eat harmoniously together. We met group of Orangutan after
about 30 hours trekking from the front to deep down the forest.</span></div>
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with the primates just a few meters from where I stand, live from their
habitat!</span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Camp Leakey was seeing infant orangutans in the arms of their mothers where
they belong. Not only have ex-captive orangutans been able to successfully
reproduce in the wild, their offspring have the chance to be truly wild. In
Camp Leakey, orangutans are free. Free to forage for their favorite fruits.
Free to build night nests wherever they choose, free from harmful poachers,
illegal loggers and palm oil plantation. Free to be wild!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Leakey and its queen – Siswi the female orangutan, during their ‘lunchtime’.
Tom replaced Kusasi which was no longer a King. Kusasi’s reign ended when Tom
was able to prove his dominance. Tom is an enormous cheek padded male who has a
very different personality from Kusasi but was no less qualified for the role.
The only circumstances that frustrate Tom were only when females ignore him or
when the wild pigs try and steal his foods (LOL!). When Tom is nearby, the
other resident orangutans acknowledge his royal presence by getting out of the
way. The field-staff said Tom’s face didn’t yet have scars that tell the
stories of epic battles for supremacy or winning the attention of females like
his predecessor, but Tom is still young and many years ahead of him, he’s now
30’s something.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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After hours witnessing, photographing and
video’ing Tom, Siswi and other orangutans near them, we head back to the boat
and found some monkeys playing around us, some of them tried to get into the
other boats and steal foods, but our boat were safeee…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sweaty and filthy, the tour guide then finally
find the best place for us to take clean water and…took a bath after 2 days
cleansing only with wet tissues! Fyuh…the water was actually still taken from
the river, the boat crew convinced us that it’s clean and fresh, so I just
pretend the water is safe by pouring some disinfectant that I bought from
Jakarta, wash my hair and refreshing the body. We stayed for one more night
before heading back to our town.</div>
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I believe that to see these unique primates is
in their habitat, not at the Safari or Zoo or even at the circus, experiencing
the forest with them hanging on the trees left a precious moment for us. I
would say, a trip to Tanjung Puting National Park will change your life. You
will understand just how small you are in this huge, huge world. It is a place
for contemplation, reflection, and appreciation. If you are a wild one at
heart, I strongly encourage you to do so, to go to Tanjung Puting National
Park. Go, experience the world and the pure awesomeness that the park emanates,
but please remember to leave only your footprints and take nothing but memories
and off course photographs!<o:p></o:p></div>
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You could contact tour and travel
agents which open for group or private trip, most of them managed by NGO’s or
local people. Don’t worry about where to stay before or after the klotok
moments, there are good hotels available like Swiss Bell Hotel which located at
the town. Or if you thought, sleeping in the Klotok won’t enough, you could stay
at eco-lodge spread at Kumai, Sekonyer Village or Pangkalan Bun. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Pangkalan Bun could be reached for about 8-10
hours by bus or car from Palangkaraya (the capital city of Central Kalimantan)
where you can take listed airlines like Garuda Indonesia or Lion Air from other
areas. Since the airport is small, Iskandar Muda serves only pioneer aviation,
like Trigana Air or Kalstar Airlines.</div>
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Rumah Panjang – Traditional house of Dayak,
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The live of people in Sekonyer Village which
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3D2N Trip : US$ 132 (all in, incl. foods and
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The tour is varied, it’s also available for
you to explore Dayak Village with 5D4N tour or more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Airlines Ticket (round trip Jakarta – Pangkalan
Bun and return) : US$ 115 (Trigana Air or Kalstar Airlines)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Contact Person: Pak Pi’i – my tour guide ~ +6281352759739
or Pak Zulham ~ +6281299372424<o:p></o:p><br />
Or you can also contact Mas Indra Setiawan from Tour Tanjung Tour ~ 0856651202195<br />
Check www.tourtanjungputing.com for further info :)</div>
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thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-3400472502022943292015-07-02T20:24:00.000-07:002015-07-02T22:27:22.124-07:00Witnessing The Crafts-making at Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> A crafts-woman processing Ketak to be a handicraft</span></i></div>
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here are actually taken for my report when I was visiting some craftsmanship
making in Central Lombok. I went there to observe how these ladies work
together with surrounding community, creating something valuable for their
lives, for earning money purpose, or we called it Microeconomic Development. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There were many things I have
seen, the humanity, about how people in rural areas now have courage to preserve
the habit that traditionally done since long by their ancestor. I felt so lucky
that I have been there to witness how they develop the small business with
limited knowledge and resources through preserving the culture. I snap some of
what I’ve been seen during our trip, hoping from one village to another
village, passing the verdant, rice field, traditional market, hustle and bustle
by the local villagers and off course stumble upon to what was actually their daily
habit. They living a simple live, still depending to the nature and off course
slightly touched by the technology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My first destination is‘Cooperation’
(Koperasi) – a small economic institution initiated by the local that built to
gather the craftswomen from surrounding community to drive local economy. This
Cooperation has been made “Ketak Handicraft” as local commodity. Have you ever
seen Ketak? If you ever go to Ubud Traditional Market, Bali, you might be familiar
with this kind of handicrafts. Ketak is one of popular handicraft from Lombok
made from Ketak – a kind of grass which grows in swamp area. Ketak looks like
the roots of rattan with wavy shapes, but actually rattan and Ketak are 2
different plants. They usually took the raw materials from Kalimantan and
Ternate, Sulawesi – the place where Ketak and rattan has grown well, bring it
to their workshop then crafted in to various captivating pretty shapes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unfortunately, due to the limit
of facilities, they can only shape the basic forms without good finishing which
made its price is very cheap, cheaper that you’ve seen in the market. Per
craftswoman may only make the profit up to Rp 200,000 – Rp 250,000 per month
(US$ 19-20). Actually, Ketak could possibly more famous and more valuable than
we could imagine, but due to limit of knowledge and infrastructure, Ketak
(without finishing) can only be sold to the collector with very low price.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I hop to the second destination,
Tenun Ikat Cooperation or Ikat weaving, a traditional handmade fabric made from
special string and made by the valuable craftsmanship. Tenun Ikat has been very
popular as one of cultural richness of Indonesia, it has inspire many of famous
designers to create the fashion trend from this beautiful fabric. It’s not only
about the pattern or the effort to craft the fabric that made Tenun Ikat famous
and high valued, but also the history behind a piece of this fabric.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This woman has left by her children who work as a labour in Saudi, her child has never been never came back for years, she didn't even know where her daughter. To overcome her bad situation, she start join the Cooperation (Koperasi Stagen) for weaving and forget about her sadness.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's not easy to made a piece of fabric, they start to set the string then weave them</span></i> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>This girl is 12 yo, she helped her Mom to weave the fabric during her holiday, Her Dad has passed away since so long, so her Mom has to be a single parents and earning money by herself to bring this girl to School.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the Sasak- the original tribe from Lombok, Tenun Ikat is
a part of culture that means a lot for them. Its pattern inspired from animals
and plants that they have been witnessed in daily life then attached to the
fabric, the pattern is actually expressing the animism and dynamism and their
praise to God, each pattern even has a special meaning, taken from Sasak’s
ancient culture. Actually, The Sasak has to do a special ceremony before start
weaving, but they don’t do it again at this time. Furthermore, a Sasak women
will be allowed to marry if they can weave,
at least they have to weave a piece of fabric by their selves for their
marriage ceremony.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It needs minimum a week to create
a piece of fabric with standard pattern, or could be more like months for the
special pattern made from silver or gold string which usually created for
special purpose such as traditional ceremonies or special order. All these
historical culture has shaping Tenun Ikat as a precious thing, which is why it
has the high price and highly valued.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a great trip! #happy</span></div>
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thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-83830876027328107712015-05-13T00:58:00.002-07:002015-05-14T21:12:15.767-07:00Derawan : The Ultimate Gem from East Borneo, Indonesia<div class="almost_half_cell" closure_uid_106730472="19" id="gt-res-content">
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Gongozole Island, Derawan</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What is firstly come into your mind
seeing the picture above?? I’m sure that most people will think about
‘beautiful-pretty-idyllic-landscape scenery’ that looks like heaven!
*exaggerated <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span> LoL*. But, yap! Actually the beach
is quite moreeeee beautiful than you’ve seen above. The sun was shining so
bright, the seashore, sea water and the blue sky ~ all blended in a beautiful
ambience, bring us the piece, recharging and indulgent our mind and
soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s Gongozole Island on the picture
above, the land which arrised when the tide is low, this still a part of Derawan
Islands. Three hours by speedboat from Tarakan, East Borneo, Indonesia, Derawan
is a tiny island holds an abundant of charm both its landscape view and the
underwater scenery. Small community inhabits this island and forming a very
strong kinship and welcomes travelers with open arms, they are called The Bajau
~ the native tribe from East Kalimantan or known as “The Gypsies from Borneo”.
The majority of Bajau people of Maritime Southeast Asia can also be found in the
Philippines and surrounding islands of Malaysia. The Bajau, who live on houses
on stilts or house boats, have almost completely severed their ties with the
land. They even measure the passage of time by the rhythm of the tides rather
than conventional minutes and hours. Visiting the land very rarely, every member
of this unique community has a close relationship with the ocean instead, that
is what I have found in Derawan.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The view at our lodge, Derawan</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bike Rent Location at Derawan, only Rp 20,000/2 hours (US$9)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I took an open trip with friends,
staying in the simply stilt-lodge for a few days. You can jump into the tranquil
and crystal clear water from the balcony and enjoy snorkeling or swimming with
the turtle when you get up, quite interesting! Now, almost all the lodges are
equipped with air-cond and comfy-bed, if you want to enjoy the real temperature
of the beach, there still lodge with fan. Derawan, although there built with
limited infrastructure, this island has been developed well as the tourist
destination. If you ever been to Gili Trawangan, you could also see the same
ambience here..there was no cars available, only bike or motorbike passing along
the way, people are going anywhere on foot- they usually greet each other as the
relecftion of strong kinship. Bike rent also available for tourist with price
IDR 20,000 or US$ 2/2 hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the second day, we went for island
hopping, leaving Derawan on 8 am by speedboat and head to ‘Labuan Cermin’ or
known as “a lake with 2 different taste” which took about 3,5 hours to get here.
‘Labuan Cermin’ is the lake with consist of 2 layers of water, the freshwater on
the upper layer and the salty water at the bottom. The perfect time to visit the
lake is from 10 am to 2 pm. Local villager said that it used to have a very
beautiful reef but unfortunately it was destroyed. The surrounding island
(Kaniungan besar and Kaniungan kecil) is also attractive, perfect placing to
peace our soul; we can do some sport activity like snorkeling and diving. Local
said there are also whale shark’s seen at certain times at the entrance lane to
the lake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Snorkeling at one of the spot </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Witnessing the landscape around
Labuan Cermin, was also indulgent our eyes. We were offered by the scene of
fisherman’s daily life which moves along the river lane. Done strolling around
at Labuan Cermin, we continue our journey to Kakaban Island- the main
destination of our trip, It took about 1 hour by speedboat to get to Kakaban
Island. We were welcomed by the low tide when arrived at the harbor at Kakaban,
so we have to swim about 50m to the reach the land. I reflexively switch on my
pocket camera, didn’t want to miss the scene of idyllic landscape at the beach,
and one by one of the team arrived at the beach and pose! Kakaban surrounded by
high cliffs that are steep, so a landing had to achieve from flat and open
areas. After going through the wooden stairs then the visitor will find one of
the world's heritages, the home of "Stingless Jellyfish". <b><i>Ornate Cassiopeia</i></b> or known as
Stingless Jellyfish living in close environment make the jellyfish do not have
threat from vertebrate. Therefore this type of jellyfish does not need stings to
protect themselves. Furthermore, these jellyfish will also issue a colorful
light when it was getting dark. This jellyfish swim upside down with tentacles
facing upwards. This is because a closed environment, so that food in the water
becomes limited. Therefore, the jellyfish do symbioses mutualism with algae.
Algae need sunlight to produce food. In the world, there are only a few places
which is the origin habitat of Stingless Jellyfish, here in Kakaban Lake, the
other one is in Palau, Chelbachev Filipina, It’s also can be found in Togean,
South Sulawesi and Weh Island, Aceh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Swimming and walk to reach the beach at Kakaban Island</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There were 4 types of Jellyfish
inhabited here, the usual jellyfish you seen in the picture (above), the
jellyfish which moves inversely, the transparent jellyfish and the needle
jellyfish-which has the smallest shape and only can be found at the bottom level
among the seaweed. Since I’ve been snorkeling a lot, off course this’s not my
first time seeing this creature, but because it’s stingless which is enable us
to touch it, this was new for me and ya..they were so cute, touching them is
like holding the jello <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span>, feels like I want bring it into my
mouth and chew :D . Since the jellyfish is a sensitive creature, we’re not
allowed to use fin here, because the moves of our feet with fin will harm
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Done playing with the jellyfish, we
moved to the outside of Kakaban Island to snorkeling around the trenches. I
might say this’d the best spot for snorkeling or diving we ever experienced. The
trenches decorated by beautiful corals and kinds of colorful fish and other
marine creatures like the endangered green turtles, lion fish, kite fish and
other fishes. The water around was sometime feels cold and sometimes feels warm,
it triggered by the diverse temperature of seawater.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a> The
beautiful trenches with pretty coral reefs stretch along Kakaban Island, local
said it has 300 m depth and inhabited by various fantastic marine celebrities
more than we’ve seen on the surface.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">We continue our journey to another
spots for swimming or snorkeling and stopped by at Semama Island which has a
loooot of coconut tree at the beach. The guide forbid us to swim, because there
were a lot of Stingray, so we were just strolling around at the beach and took
photos, one of our guide climb and plucked some of coconuts for us. Seeing a guy
climbing the coconut trees was an unusual view, it became a very interesting
spectacle and amazed us, knowing that we’re coming from the town where we tend
to see people in a rush to catch up the public transport or lift instead of
climbing the tree.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Strolling around at Semama Island, looking for the perfect coconut tree ;)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Dani, one of our tourguide. He climbed the tree and serve the coconut for us. Dani has a fantastic story of his life as a fisherman, he is a Dayak - the origin tribe of Borneo. His experience over the ocean amazed us!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The sun began to sink and the waves
move faster, we took the anchor and sailing away from Semama Island to return to
our lodge at Derawan. That day will never be forgotten, we also got bonus a
dolphin show – live from their habitat, the flock of dolphins caught up playing
around us in certain spots, nice…!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Besides of its wonderful sceneries,
Borneo also famous for its gem stones. I took myself walked around the village
after finish my dine and seeking for souvenir shop which could be found at
anywhere. It’s not that pricey, you could purchase the gems with range price
between Rp 100,000 – 500,000 (US$9 – US$48).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The sunset near our lodge at Derawan</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the last day, I accidentally woke
up earlier in the morning to walk around the village and capture some local
activities. It’s breathtaking seeing the village was so clean and pretty neatly
arranged, passing the old man sitting at the front of his stilt-house enjoying
his coffee and cigarette, meeting with the mother feeding her child who would go
to school, and greet some people-having short chit-chat. They asked me why I
went there to Derawan besides Bali which has a lot more attractive places. I
said it’s quite different, meanwhile Bali has been crowded by tourists and
infrastructure, Derawan offered a wonderful and quite atmosphere, far from the
bustle of holiday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Going Home ;(</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Let's follow us to find another paradise :)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Picture taken at Gongozole Island</i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How to get to Derawan :</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Take flight with Garuda, Lion Air or
Sriwijaya from Jakarta to Tarakan, then take the boat to Derawan Island, or you
could stay at prestigious lodge like 'Maratua Paradise' Lodge which cost
US$99/person/night. Rent a car from the airport to the Harbour- it takes about
30-40 minutes to get to the harbour, or you could stop by at Tarakan Mangroove
Center before get to Derawan. There's the abundant of seafood anywhere cost
about 40-70/person/package, but you have to wait about 30 - 60 minutes to get
the food, <span closure_uid_106730472="17" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps" closure_uid_106730472="134">they</span> <span class="hps" closure_uid_106730472="135">still</span> <span class="hps" closure_uid_106730472="136">have not</span> <span class="hps" closure_uid_106730472="137">gotten used to</span> <span class="hps" closure_uid_106730472="138">provide food</span> <span class="hps" closure_uid_106730472="139">in a</span> lot of portion, so it took quite long
for them to serve the food. </span></span></div>
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<span closure_uid_106730472="17" lang="en" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I recommend my tourguide, you could contact Pak
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s too late to state this about
“Reminiscence from 2014”, but am sure it'll never be too late to bring you the
interesting stories from what I’ve been witnessed on my trip to Belitung last
year. If you have noticed, that I’ve been posted about the beauty of Belitung-
the Island located in east Sumatra, where you could take direct flight from
Jakarta just for about 45 minutes, now I will focus on the subject, the local
figure who has successfully brought this tiny island to the world. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Belitung
is less traveled as before the book “Laskar Pelangi” or “The Rainbow Troops”
released in 2005. Andrea Hirata is the man behind this Indonesia biggest’s –
selling novel, the author of “The Rainbow Troops”, which has sold millions
copies at home and abroad, translated into 34 languages and available in 87
countries in the world, It’s also made its US debut in 2013. The book is the
story about 2 village teachers and their 10 local-elementary-students who
struggle with the constant threat of their school closing. Together they were
combating the poverty, crumbling infrastructure and the government corrupt to
keep studying inside the dilapidated school building. The fight and effort they
made has draw the great inspiration how children in another part of our Islands
still struggling to get the education meanwhile we’re sit in a comfortable
chairs in our school here in a big cities. Hirata called this story as
“semi-autobiographical novel”, where actually it’s the true story about his
school-life when he was young. The story of the students told that many of them
had made success by following the college scholarship to Sorbonne, Paris – which
is the true story of Hirata himself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“The
Rainbow Troops” filmed and released in 2008, clarifying the fighting of children
in Belitung and showcased the fascinating view of Belitung (or Belitong). The
release of the movie has drawn a big impact to tourism development in the
Island. People started talking about the idyllic view of Tanjung Tinggi which is
located in West Belitung and the most popular place-where they came from,
Gantong Village (East Belitong) and other magnificent beaches around there. Then
people keep talking about going there, to witness the view where ‘The Rainbow
Troops’ grow and filmed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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about Hirata’s hand and his style of writing which takes great care and effort
to illustrate the vivid picture of the landscape, the local culture, the people
and their way of life, and anything about the Island. Then he build “The
Literacy Museum” known as the 1</span><sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">st</span></sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> literacy
museum in Indonesia, now the museum or “The Andrea Hirata Museum of Words” has
been one of tourist destination in Belitong. Built in Kampong Gantong, the
village where he was born and where “The Rainbow Troops” has been growth, the
museum standing with 150 literacy from the authors around the world, the small
museum holds poetry reading and talks, encouraging the visitors to be creative
and love to read books/literacy. The museum built with colorful interior
reflecting the fun of literacy, it also showcased local culture, for instance
how local serve and consuming coffee, all built with simplicity and expressing
how Hirata grow with limited facility of education but go globally.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At first I stepped in to the gate to the museum (in my last trip to Belitung), what I’ve been
seen was the creative-simplicity of them. The gate made from colorful mosaic
with unique words hanging on it, stepped inside I saw the installation artworks
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the front room, they showcased
about “The Rainbow Troops” at a glance and many of souvenirs like t-shirts or
caps or tiny handicrafts displayed on the shelf. On the next room, there were
colorful copies of various cover from “The Rainbow Troops” translated
to various languages, the room with the only one chair facing the window—wooh..this’s
my favorite spot, it illustrates how people may have the inspiration just by
seeing the outside view through the window (which is so drama..), many of old
equipment's and furniture’s reflecting the simplicity of how Hirata got the
inspirations. There also many of plaques Hirata has been achieved from literacy
award both in national and international level and well..One of them is from
New York Literacy Award (so proud!). </span><br />
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the school – where the children studying at theback of the museum building then The postcard corner- where you can purchase
the postcard only for Rp 10,000 (US$ 1) and write anything and send to the
world from Belitong. There was also a library corner, coffee corner where you
can order local coffee and noodles, there was a garden as well with local plants and
vegetables. At the end of the showcase there was a huge room, a colorful
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I drove the car about 15-20 minutes to go to the school, passing the villages
and ya…the school standing with rickety with patches here and there. There was
also a garden with tables and chairs where kids can play around or… I thought
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that’s all about ‘Andrea Hirata, The Museum of Words’ – built with his passion
about literacy. Arguably..through his hand, Hirata has made a huge impact to
grow the tourism. Local communities are really appreciate his works and his
value by putting "The Laskar Pelangi" words to any souvenirs and information. If
you go to the UKM (Craft-Shop or Souvenir’s Shop), I bet you’ll always find
something with “Laskar Pelangi” words printed on it ;)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I have mentioned before, from my previous post about Belitung, you can take
direct flight from Jakarta, Medan or Singapore to this Island (Tanjung Pandan
Airport). For the ride- there are lots of car rent available with range Rp
250,000 – 500,000/day. I recommend to explore the west side first, island
hopping to Lengkuas Island, there's Tanjung Tinggi beach – the place where “The
Rainbow Troops” take place for shooting and many other beaches. On the next day,
you could go straight to the East Belitung, about 3-4 hours driving with the
iddylic view along the way,beautiful verdant and oil palm plantation and also
Kaolin Mining Lake - This is not really a nature-tourist attraction, the
unnatural bright blue lake was formed due to Kaolin mining. Kaolin is fine white
clay normally used to making pottery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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forgot how to start to write haha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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months, off course it’s because I have some projects to be done within those
months, not holiday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I re-digging my time in SG, exploring an island called Pulau
Ubin or Ubin Island. First, I was captivated by the Island, the fact that Spore
has this kind of place near the town (well it’s not really near the town, it
was about 1 hour bus tour from Geylang to Changi Ferry and then took a small
boat to reach the Island).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Singapore and often considered the last 'kampung' (village) in Singapore. A
stroll through Ubin takes me back to Singapore in the 1960's with the simpler
pleasures of life. The slow lane starts as soon as you join the queue for the
bumboat at Changi. <br />
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Ubin Island is a great day trip spent walking or pedaling through rustic roads
under swaying coconut palms, exploring shady trails in overgrown rubber plantations,
checking out the coastal and flourishing mangroves. In Ubin Island, the air was
fresher and sights and sounds so soothing to the soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bestfriend, we took a bus near our hostel-dorm in Geylang Road. Well, I tell
you something special we’ve been found near the MRT Station. It’s a delicious
soy-pudding stall beside the MRT entrance which is soooo yummy, you could taste
a healty-tasteful pudding with just SG$ 2,5 with many variant like Taro, Green
Tea, Chocolate and Original, and we love the Green Tea. The stall started open
on 8am or 9am to 9pm. The bus station was near to the MRT station, so no
worries..we finish our pudding a few second before the bus arrived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and continued with the small boat.After bought some food (Nasi lemak up to
SG$4), we stepped in to the harbor and pay the tickets SG$2,5 /person. At first
stepped in to the Ubin Island, it looks like Harapan Island (thousand island
located in Jakarta), The sun-light embrace us with its warmth and encourage us
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biking ~ no worries..you don’t have to bring you own bike because they rent the
bikes with price SG$8 for all day long. So, we choose the bike fits us and
start to explore the forest and mangrove area..We stopped by after about 1 hour
biking, parked our bike at specified area, and start entering the coastal,
yep..the coastal with a long long bridge and beautiful view showered by the
sun-light which got warmer hours by hours. Anyway, there so many
marine-creatures pictures hanging on the bridge, mostly has been photographed
by the winners of kind of photo contest rolled out by the government. Unfortunately
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brought at the harbor, any food taste sooooww good when we’re starving, right?!
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thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-58402461678677449052015-01-01T19:56:00.001-08:002015-05-13T01:48:33.413-07:00Reminiscene from 2014 : Gasped During Our Visit to Gardens By The Bay Part IOla Singapore!<br />
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It's nice to meet you again. As I have stated before that I heart this city, I love how they manage the excellent infrastructure and property...and the technologies with IoT (Internet of Things), easy access to get anywhere with easy direction! Ah, I love all these convenience...</div>
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My pray to have a permanent residence is getting harder year by year..:p Although, as we know that the living cost is quite high, but that's oke. If the living cost is high, there will be a way to get a better job with better income.</div>
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I was there for 4 days, for business trip purpose and then extended to weekend. It was nice to meet other member of my company from South East Asia and Oceania, we have one day workshop reviewing 2014 activities and sharing the improvement of social investment program for next year.</div>
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Alright, what I pointed here is the extended days where me and my friend had so much fun and edu-trip.<br />
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My happiness started from had my fav dish for dinner at Al-Tasneem Restaurat located at...I forget, it's in Arab Street area at the junction. Have been missed the chicken briyani and it's tarik tea. I was so happy came back there!<br />
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We called us as a park hopper and museum explorer. Asian Civilization Museum is our first destination, they have excellent infrastructure and display and off course collections from across Asia. We found Batak Sculpture exhibition which showcased the magic sculptures and megalithic equipment. I like the museum, the display is good and the information is well-prepared enough. I saw many guys sitting in front of the museum, doing doodle things...interesting!<br />
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Well then, asshhhh....I madly amazed to The Gardens Bay The Bay- I couldn't resist to gasp during our visit. As you have been experienced by yourself, Gardens By The Bay consist by 2 domes, quite hugeeeee domes with excellent infrastructure and eco-life management. My favorite plants is Baobab- the tree looks like a bottle brought from Africa.<br />
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I will recommend all people to come to visit Gardens by The Bay (make sure you bring your kids here instead of take them to Orchard for shopping and spending purpose :p), as this place showcasing so many education things especially sustainable management and eco-life. I amazed how the engineers has dedicated their ideas and mind to establish and manage this facility, how they manage the temperature inside the domes, how they create another tools like The Super Tree Grove to catch the raindrops which used for watering the plans inside the domes, yap..and all the facilities which linked with one another. I imagine, somehow in the future we will establish this kind of things (the artificial eco-life) and use it as a habitable place to life for humans like we seen in Elysium Movie.<br />
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The christmas ambience inside the dome, that's cute!</div>
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We have our Saturday night at Esplanade, ah I like it..finally I have my sat night here. We took a detour from Marina Bay Sands passing Art Science Museum to Esplanade, had our dinner at nearest Food court beside the building and watched an Arabic band performances. I wish we could stay longer at Esplanade as they have so many art performances from around Asia, but unfortunately it was too night already and the theater has closed.<br />
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The Arabic Band Performances at Esplanade</div>
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To be continued with our biking activity at Ubin Island<br />
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Gardens By The Bay SG$ 27 for visiting 2 domes<br />
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beaches, the warmth of the sun and sand’s color, the smile of local residences
and the blue skies, all blended with the beauty, offered picturesque landscape
scenery which was successfully made me speechless with outstanding admiration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I went to Belitong for Christmas holiday, Belitung or in English
you could say Biliton is an Island on the east coast Sumatera, Indonesia. This
island has known for its tin, coffee and pepper. Belitung was in the possession
of the British from 1812 until the British ceded control of the island to the
Dutch in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Dutch_Treaty_of_1824" title="Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824">Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824</a>.
Its main town is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanjung_Pandan" title="Tanjung Pandan">Tanjung Pandan</a>* (The west of Belitung). It’s
also started to become popular in Indonesia (even the world) since one of
Indonesian- great movie “Laskar Pelangi” or “The Rainbow Troops” firstly
released in local cinemas in 2008. The movie adapted from a novel “Laskar
Pelangi” by the author Andrea Hirata, a true story about a group of children
living in rural area (which is here in Belitung) who live with limitations
especially in education and finally reach their dreams. Since the movie first
playing, people start to come to Belitung because of it’s magnificent beaches
seen in the movie, which has been turned local tourism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the busy of year end job :D). It’s hard to finally get a car rent, hotel to
stay and somebody who could take us for hopping the islands, but thank God we
made it well. We started from Tanjung Kelayang Beach for hopping island and hop
to Lengkuas Island on the first day, all the way to get there, we’re all
welcomed by enchanting sceneries. The turquoise ocean and beautiful stones
combined solidly, it looks like heaven here, seriously... It needs about 30 -
45 minutes to get to Lengkuas Island.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ethoven Lighthouse-which firstly built in 1882 during the Dutch colonial era.
The tower has 50 m high with 18 levels, is it possible to get the top level of
the lighthouse? Yes, we could get inside by paying IDR 5,000/person. Make sure
you have take off your shoes and clean your feet before get in. It’s not that
easy to reach the top of the lighthouse, because it’s exhausting to pass 18
stages! But it’s all paid off with the idyllic view from the top! It’s
heartbreaking, I mean it…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the history of the Colonial era in Belitung and turtle sanctuary, you could
swim at the beach or you can just sit with rented mats/pads from local
residences. Go for about 400m far from the beach, go down for snorkeling! Aha!
This one is my fav, I want to see how about the underwater, and oke it’s
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From Lengkuas Island, we started to hop-hop to other islands, like
Big Pig Island (Pulau Babi Besar)-where there is a restaurant with music and
beers, they even have Baileys and any other liquors which is good ;). Off
course the meals is not cheap, you could bring the meals bought at Tanjung
Kelayang before you sail away and enjoy it here for saving purpose, it’s more
cheap. To have your seat, you just have to pay about IDR 10,000/per person- you
can have free coffee and tea. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We continue to hop to Little Pig Island (Pulau Babi Kecil) – which
looks like Spongebob Island, the island is quite small with just inhabitant by
Coconut Trees and small plants covered by the stones. But the beach is…ah!
Lovely turquoise scenery…we swam for many hours here and playing with Patrick,
I mean the starfish which found a lot at the beach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kelayang by passing The Rock Sailing Island (Pulau Batu Berlayar) which is the
stones looks like the sail blown by the wind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Return back to Tanjung Kelayang, where we parked our car, you
could sit at the beach or local stall enjoying the afternoon breeze with
coconut for your meals. This was a good moment we had, when we talked with
local, inadvertently we met somebody told us about Belitung, his name is Agus
Pahlevi. Agus is so kind and gave us so much briefs, mentioned many spots we
should visit. Later we knew that he is one of important person in Belitung, a tour
leader, a well-known tourism practitioner who has been growing the tourism in
Belitung. We’re so lucky by meeting him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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warmth of local residences told us not only about the general things of each
place but they also passionate to bring us to the old era of Belitung. This
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thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-37716376128608674292014-09-10T05:23:00.002-07:002014-09-10T05:23:50.989-07:00....I find my self intrigue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Reading Fifty actually has been changed my mind<br />
About falling in love (too drama, huh?!)<br />
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Well, I find him...<br />
Somebody put me into intrigue, drag me to into curiosity<br />
those kind of stuff<br />
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Tell me, how to cross the street to meet and talk to you<br />
Because we've been separated by the borders<br />
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<br />thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-85363250604057499932014-08-26T00:53:00.003-07:002014-08-26T00:53:49.021-07:00...My Fifty Shades of Story...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Kind of nerd, I’ve been spent most of my whole day by reading book and
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Fifty Shades Trilogy has attract me so much, especially about the way
Christian Grey treat his love, Anastasia Steele and how he took control the
whole life to make it stand still ;p (an exaggerated comment, right?!)</div>
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And the story is…this’s funny how that book affects me so much to move
forward and left all those fuckin memories behind. Once upon a time, I have
received a text came from him…wants to meet me before his wedding ceremony
which will be held in a 2 months. How ashamed while he said it’s too costly to
meet me…and actually that statement has dragged him down (in front of me). I’am
not comparing him with Grey..yes, because it’s stupid comparing human with fiction
figure. Well but, by reading that book, I’ve learned how a man suppose to treat
a woman…furthermore..about manhandle-thingy…</div>
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But, after all this time, I feel he’s not worth…</div>
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I remember how I fly to Jakarta from Bali, just to meet him, met him
for 2-3 hours…he talked about how high the cost to come to Jakarta, it’s such a
coward…ah allright, that’s fine…time to move forward</div>
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Christian Grey, reminds me about the men in the past…how he control the
situation and very overprotected to me. Sometimes I missed the way he treats me
about…</div>
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~All of sudden, in a night…he suddenly stand in front of my dorm-gate,
waiting me to open it, coming from Bali to Surabaya…hahaha, give me a lot of
surprise and made me up and downs…</div>
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~Beatrice and Virgil which is expensive but he finally bought it to me as
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No matter how bad he is, I have appreciated everything good he did to
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I wish I’ll meet somebody good somehow…my vanilla conquest!</div>
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thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-1170639685696803362014-08-18T01:21:00.002-07:002014-08-18T01:25:55.881-07:00...talking to grandmom<div class="MsoNormal">
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Well, I have never been crying like that, am too shy to cry
for help, even to my grandma-the only one Mom I have after mother’s gone years
ago. I’ve been write his name down in a piece of paper, hoping for grandmom to
acknowledge and research…</div>
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It feels so hard, yet I don’t have any idea, what effort I
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Here we were, she said there’s nothing I can do. Parent’s
blessings are very crucial and lead the future life. Then I cry harder, like
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At least I’ve tried. I withdraw the paper with his name and went
back to Jakarta, still with cry…throw back the paper somewhere, in public
toilet.</div>
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Jeez, I’ve never been this hurt…</div>
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I've been thought with logic, strive so hard to consider this's the best I got.<br />
But, heart speaks louder than mind...<br />
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thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-1297744674600350622014-08-15T00:53:00.002-07:002014-08-15T00:53:16.738-07:00...be where you are<div class="MsoNormal">
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It’s sometime hard to apply these words. </div>
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Nisa Mitchel said in her song Neopolitan Dreams - “you’re
not 100% not the room”. Have you been there, in those kind of situation?”. Me?
It is often happened. I thought it’s been towards 2 years, since I thought I
lost my happiness.</div>
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I have been moving over 2 locations, first moving to Bekasi
and now I’ve been in a new job, in central mother city. But it feels like I’ve never been here, my mind.
So where am I? It feels like I’ve never belong to this place, these locations…I
sheltered once but those pretty live has been gone (towards forever).</div>
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Yet, I have never been found any rather place to go or
belong. Towards 2 years and now, all those expectation, umm..no not expectation-because
I have no courage to hope anymore…all those things in my mind-will be gone
forever.</div>
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I’ve been travelling to many places in this current years,
seeing new people-seeing new places and been tried to discover my self among
those kind differences, lost in diversity. Ya that was fun…and giving me much
experiences couldn't be valued by money. But when I get back to where I
supposed to be, home…work place…people…I feels like I were not even be there
where I set my feet.</div>
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How insane, where we went anywhere and feeling happy but when
getting back home, It’s like I feel not went home-not return to the place where
I belong…And this feeling continues for many times. It’s like holiday doesn't works
and you are start craving for a…MIND ESCAPE!</div>
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So, where to go?</div>
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Where should I belong?</div>
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thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-67070924079224762142014-08-13T21:38:00.002-07:002014-08-13T21:39:08.655-07:00...when I'am with you, there's no place I'd rather be...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-43621734187303329012014-08-13T00:32:00.001-07:002014-08-13T00:34:31.706-07:00..CSR again and again<div class="MsoNormal">
When I applied a position in this new company (where I
working at, now), Media Relations is vacant position opened and I thought I
could be like crossing the line into other specific field to be a “communication or media person”.
But, all experiences written in my resume are about CSR and Community
Relations, so a month after my application submitted, they called me to be
interviewed for CSR specialist position.</div>
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Well, actually…(perhaps if you see my previous post) I have
been posted another page about how I now in the place where I’ve been expected
about 7 years ago, about being a CSR specialist. Moving here is like simplify
my job. Before, in the previous company, I’ve been like handle everything, from
Government Relations, Media Relations, and Community Relations, and Issues…hmm..and
Bandung-the location where I’ve been handled was quite complicated with all the
community drama and community thingy.</div>
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Here, in the new position as a CSR Senior…it’s only CSR I
need to watch, without media screening every single morning, without disturbed
by Pak Rw, Pak Rt or any kind of sucks NGO’s…it’s only CSR, strategic and execution
plus partner monitoring. Interesting and focus!</div>
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Probation months has left, I’m now permanent employee here.
Months handling CSR, I end up bored. Because CSR is kind of a long term program,
like plant trees-the result will come in a few years ahead, which is a field with
slow-progressed rhyme. I’ve been thought, CSR will be my passion, but I’ve been
thinking many times in these recent months, will I stay in this position longer.
Because, I realize now I’d rather choose a very dynamic situation where everything
move faster and changed so often.</div>
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Relational Campaign, or Digital Marketing Communication. It seems quite more
dynamic!</div>
thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-61788907530057220302014-08-12T21:57:00.001-07:002014-08-13T00:00:42.547-07:00...Krakatau Trip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not as fun as when we went to Pahawang Island, Lampung, but
Krakatau offers great landscape scenery amazed me. We spent a lot more time inside
the boat, moving from one beach to another one, it took 2 hours to get to our snorkeling
spot at Sebuku Island and 2 hours more to get to Sebesi Island-where we stayed
in a quite simply homestay, another 2 hours to get to Mount Krakatau and 2
hours get back to homestay, and 2 hours (again) to get back to Canti-Harbour at
Lampung, fyuh!</div>
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explored, but it was only one which has underwater picturesque. Most corals are
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New employee, as I said before, we don't have any leave in our first year<br />
I though I will die realizing I don't have time for travelling, at all for over a year ahead<br />
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But, this snorkeling club office helps!<br />
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I leave snorkeling since I have been moved to Bandung 2 years ago, yes..beach-I mean pretty shore with enchanting sands is quite faraway from my hometown.<br />
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Last time snorkeling was in Amed in 2012, located in north-east Bali, Amed which close to Tulamben-an incredible paradise for divers offers a good enough underwater-sceneries and quite water. Unfortunately, it was raining season when I went to Amed, so the beach is somewhat turbid near "The Ship-wreck" location.<br />
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This snorkeling club established as a platform for the employee for stress relief-program. Such a good extracurricular for busy-Korean-company :p<br />
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My first trip was great, we went to Pahawang Island in South-Lampung. I remembered the best spot is Lok Beach (picture above), a magnificent beach white sands, blue water and warmth-weather. Lok beach located in an individual island offers picturesque sceneries...we found an-old-couple stayed there, they said the island belongs to somebody who employed them to stay there.<br />
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The other one is Tegal beach, where it has very clear water and idyllic underwater view (with quite a lot jelly fish population as well -__- ).<br />
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The most important, I've got a lot of new-buddies with similar hobby, they are fun and friendly. We plan trip in monthly basis. Our next trip is to Krakatau- islands between Lampung and Java. Krakatau is an-active volcano located in Sunda Strait.<br />
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I return back to Jakarta, and it was 6 months since I move from one place to another one<br />
Been 2 years in Bandung, and had got more and more experiences, my previous company policy brought me back to Cibitung.<br />
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what?!?!?!<br />
Cibitung...<br />
Yap! and It was one of the hardest moment, when I have to get to office by I-don't-know buses or public transport and seeing so many chaos along the road. But, actually there was still fun-side right there...I've tried to enjoy like Malayu-Music to Dangdut surrounded during my trip to office every-morning<br />
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The condition is a bit chaos, so many unresolved issues. The worst is, my head - my heart were never been there.<br />
So Cibitung was the end point. I'm quit...<br />
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Another worse is...I was accepting in other company- which is good for my career...but it's located in Central Jakarta where you 1000 percent possibly find traffic everytime...which is hell!<br />
This holly-molly-shitty moment was stressed me out, made me dreamed about return back to Bali. But those condition, new condition, make me stronger!<br />
Ya, at least I would never see or noised by Rw 3 (again) LOL!<br />
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As a new employee-we're not allowed to take leave in our first year. Second thing stressed me out, Lol...It supposed to be Thai or Vietnam this year, and following a special cultural festival in Nusa Tenggara. But, yah..thank God I still could made to Kuala Lumpur and Bali during 2-weeks-jobless moment.<br />
Anyway, we're travelling more often here in new company, so no worries...I though I wouldn't be that boring :)<br />
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Since my job here is not as busy as when I was in previous company (like babu), I have much spare time and get a long-moment with friends, easier access to many good places and local cuisine, life is good ;p<br />
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For anything I've been done in this current year, I should be happy (minus you) and believe there will be a better thing day by day...Include, should be happy by not entering Master Degree Program which I have applied last year...fyuh!<br />
<br />thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-28802859637958426592014-07-29T07:59:00.000-07:002014-07-29T07:59:04.273-07:00....am back!Seriously...<br />
There's no update for a year....<br />
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Ok.<br />
So many things has been changed<br />
Let I return and share so many things in my mind again<br />
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I need days to recover my blogs, riddiculous...I've been forgetting my password and wrong account signed<br />
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*sigh<br />
But anyway,Am back...thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-66343282707369324362013-03-25T00:30:00.001-07:002013-03-25T00:30:48.169-07:00...boredom killing...<br />
my sketchpost...<br />
boredom killing (again)<br />
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<br />thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-22578308489720853862013-03-20T20:07:00.004-07:002013-03-20T23:03:53.434-07:00...a killing time project on Behance<br />
wowowowo...<br />
I finally create a Behance account<br />
all linked to my linkedIn<br />
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check out my new account<br />
well I just already add few of my sketches...and would add more later on<br />
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<a href="http://www.behance.net/thesaaprilia">http://www.behance.net/thesaaprilia</a><br />
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enjoy!<br />
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<br />thesa apriliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208915798887767368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143591645516429897.post-28977184535391188972013-03-19T22:06:00.003-07:002013-03-19T22:06:46.413-07:00...Latepost : #northsumateratrip<br />
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<em>Menara Pandang from Tele</em></div>
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<em>Sipiso-Piso Waterfall</em></div>
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<em>Ulos I bought from Samosir</em></div>
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<em>Gundaling Mountain, Berastagi</em></div>
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<em>Lake Toba</em></div>
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<em>Cactus I found and bought from Berastagi</em></div>
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<em>So many fresh-organic fruit at Berastagi</em></div>
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I've been travelling much more, currently<br />
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one of them is North Sumatera<br />
I've been there for 2 days only, stayed with friends and went to many beautiful places<br />
Actually this's my first time travelling to Sumatera Land<br />
sure it has a beautiful view...green everywhere and so many mountains<br />
I just couldn't describe how adore I'am to Sumatera's view and landscape<br />
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I went to Samosir Island in the first day, where we found Danau Toba (Lake Toba)-the largest lake in Indonesia.<br />
There were need more than 4 hours to get there<br />
we dropped by at "Sipiso-piso" waterfall-which has beautiful rainbow above the flow...<br />
then passed by Tanah Karo, Bukit Barisan, Berastagi (highland in North Sumatera) and finally Tele-which has Menara Pandang or Landscape Tower-where we could go up the tower and see the beautiful view of Lake Toba.<br />
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We arrived at Lake Toba at 3 pm, stay for a while just for had lunch at Tabo Resort<br />
along the street at Samosir, we could see the waterfall from the roadside<br />
actually, I planned to stay for a night at Samosir...but my friends prefer to get back in the same day, so I followed them<br />
then went to local market, bought some local fabric called Ulos (the most popular from Indonesia)<br />
Look after Sigale-Gale-local noble's cemetery and local dolls<br />
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then crossed the lake with ferry to Prapat, it needs up to 2 hours to cross the lake<br />
back to Medan 6 hours later at 1 am...<br />
fyuh, such a long long and tired journey, but worth it!<br />
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Next day, we had culinary day... and city tour, cafe's and Museum Tour<br />
I visited Rahmat Wildlife Museum-where we could find soooo many wildlife creatures and animal, from tiger, phyton from Amazon, polarbear, deer from Australia, Kangaroo, to little tiny preserved animal like mosquitos, butterfly and crustacea...great, I though there were thousand preserved animal there...(entrance only IDR 30k)<br />
happy!<br />
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I like Medan as I love Surabaya, they have the same character of city view<br />
oldtown but clean...<br />
I hope I could stay in Medan for just a few months, I just love the city...:)<br />
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this month, I plan to travel to Thousand Island...cheap and near from my city...<br />
gonna catch snorkeling activities and outdoor sport...<br />
yaiy!<br />
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*cheers!<br />
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