My littLe wOrld

My experience

2008-02-05T06:01:00.000-08:00

My Experiences in Culture

In the past, when I was in third grade at elementary school, I played angklung for welcomed guest from Japan. I was happy because I could be one of the envoy that introduce Indonesia folk art to the other country. Tahn in next grade I joined with gamelan Java group. In that group I played kenong. In the first time, I felt it was so hard but I had tried to enjoy. Ofcourse didn't forget to kept exercise.
Because my dad had studied at Cepu, so my family and I must moved to Cepu for a year. At Cepu, I was in fifth grade. At there I learned Mocopat. Mocopat was the middle Java folk song. After it, I danced Indang dance from Padang. I was very excited with that.

In junior high school, I got experience like that. When I was in first grade, I danced Malereng from Padang for celebrated anniversary of my school. And than in the end of first grade, I danced contemporary dance. I called it was Dayak dance. I was very spirit when I danced. The dance was perfoming for boyscout competition at Bontang. Finally, in third grade I danced Jepen dance from East Kalimantan for school event. Yeeh, it was the last dance that I danced.

I hope next time, I'll get a new experience...I have plan that in senior high school I'll try to play kecapi sunda. I hope my wish will come true.

By : Nabilla Rhamdani

a part of Indonesia

2008-02-05T05:48:00.001-08:00

Forest Loss in Sumatra Becomes a Global Issue

Ed Wray/Associated Press

A burned stump from a once dense forest stands in a field being cleared for a palm oil plantation in Sumber, Indonesia.

By PETER GELLING

Published: December 6, 2007

Pulp and paper companies have descended on Riau.

Cutting timber from forests like the one in Kuala Cenaku, Indonesia, accounts for 20 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.

A look at this vast wasteland of charred stumps and dried-out peat makes the fight to save Indonesia’s forests seem nearly impossible.

“What can we possibly do to stop this?” said Pak Helman, 28, a villager here in Riau Province, surveying the scene from his leaking wooden longboat. “I feel lost. I feel abandoned.”

In recent years, dozens of pulp and paper companies have descended on Riau, which is roughly the size of Switzerland, snatching up generous government concessions to log and establish palm oil plantations. The results have caused villagers to feel panic.

Only five years ago, Mr. Helman said, he earned nearly $100 a week catching shrimp. Now, he said, logging has poisoned the rivers snaking through the heart of Riau, and he is lucky to find enough shrimp to earn $5 a month.

Responding to global demand for palm oil, which is used in cooking and cosmetics and, lately, in an increasingly popular biodiesel, companies have been claiming any land they can.

Fortunately, from Mr. Helman’s point of view, the issue of Riau’s disappearing forests has become a global one. He is now a volunteer for Greenpeace, which has established a camp in his village to monitor what it calls an impending Indonesian “carbon bomb.”

Deforestation, during which carbon stored in trees is released into the atmosphere, now accounts for 20 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to scientists. And Indonesia releases more carbon dioxide through deforestation than any other country.

Within Indonesia, the situation is most critical in Riau. In the past 10 years, nearly 60 percent of the province’s forests have been logged, burned and pulped, according to Jikalahari, a local environmental group.

“This is very serious — the world needs to act now,” said Susanto Kurniawan, a coordinator for Jikalahari who regularly makes the arduous trip into the forest from the nearby city of Pekanbaru, passing long lines of trucks carting palm oil and wood. “In a few years it will be too late.”

The rate of this deforestation is rising as oil prices reach new highs, leading more industries to turn to biodiesel made from palm oil, which, in theory, is earth-friendly. But its use is causing more harm than good, environmental groups say, because companies slash and burn huge swaths of trees to make way for palm oil plantations.

Even more significant, the burning and drying of Riau’s carbon-rich peatlands, also to make way for palm oil plantations, releases about 1.8 billion tons of greenhouse gases a year, according to Greenpeace officials.

But it is also in Riau that a new global strategy for conserving forests in developing countries might begin. A small area of Riau’s remaining forest will become a test case if an international carbon-trading plan called REDD is adopted.

REDD, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, is to be one of the central topics of discussion at the Bali conference. Essentially, it would involve payments by wealthy countries to developing countries for every hectare of forest they do not cut down.

Indonesia, caught between its own financial interest in the palm oil industry and the growing international demands for conservation, has been promoting the carbon-trading plan for months.

But there are plenty of skeptics, who doubt it will be possible to measure just how much carbon is being conserved — and who question whether the lands involved can be protected from illegal logging and corruption.

Illegal logging is commonplace in Indonesia, and though the government has prosecuted dozens of cases in recent years, it says it cannot be everywhere. Companies in this remote area are cultivating land legally sold to them by the Indonesian government, but maps of their projects obtained by Greenpeace indicate that many of them have also moved into protected areas.

Critics say corruption is their biggest concern. The most famous illegal logger in Indonesia, Adelin Lis, who operated in North Sumatra, was arrested this year, only to be acquitted by a court in Medan, the provincial capital. He then left the country.

The attorney general’s office has opened a corruption investigation into judges and the police in Medan, and says there are many similar cases. “There are a number of ongoing investigations into corruption that has allowed illegal loggers from all over Indonesia to go free,” said Thomson Siagian, a spokesman for the attorney general. “In such a lucrative industry, payoffs are common.”

At the Bali conference, the Woods Hole Research Center, an environmental group based in the United States, has presented research showing that new satellite technology can make it more feasible to track illegal logging. Reports “show that radar imagery from new sensors recently placed in orbit can solve the problem of monitoring reductions in tropical deforestation, which previously was a major obstacle because of cloud cover that optical sensors can’t see through,” said John P. Holdren, the center’s director.

Such developments are good news to Mr. Helman, the villager in Riau who, using his wooden boat, has been ferrying a steady stream of foreign environmentalists and journalists in and out of the forest in recent weeks.

“I am so thankful for the recent attention,” he said, tinkering with the sputtering engine. “At times it seems too late. But I see some hope now.”

Global Warming Issue

2008-02-05T05:08:00.003-08:00

Polar bear paddle boat protest

Bush Administration delaying listing as endangered

01 February 2008

Greenpeace activist Tom Wetterer dressed in polar bear costume is arrested by outside the US Department of the Interior.

Washington, DC, United States — What's a polar bear to do? Your ice is melting, politicians won't listen, and the government is dragging its feet about listing you as endangered... Off to Washington, to start your own floating vigil! Uh oh, here comes the fuzz.

OK, it was one of our activists in a costume - peacefully protesting the Bush Administration's delay in issuing a final Endangered Species Act listing for the polar bear due to global warming. Yesterday, the activist, dressed in a polar bear suit, sat quietly in a paddleboat in a park pond in front of the Department of Interior. (Until the police took him to jail, where he remains as of writing.)

Full steam ahead for new oil

While the Department of Interior is dragging their feet on protecting polar bears, they are moving full steam ahead on plans to drill for oil in prime polar bear habitat. New oil leases are opening up in the Chukchi Sea and oil companies are lining up quickly to obtain licenses to drill. A fifth of the remaining Arctic polar bears depend on Chukchi Sea ice in their hunt for food.

In December of 2005, Greenpeace and two other conservation groups sued the Bush administration when it missed its first legal deadline to respond to the petition for an endangered species listing. On December 27, 2006, the Service announced its proposal to list the species as "threatened" and had one year to make a final listing decision. The legal deadline for doing so was January 9, 2008.Every week it seems there is new evidence that the sea ice is melting and that the polar bear’s habitat is disappearing. The US Geological Survey released a report this past September predicting that if current warming projections continue, two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will likely be extinct by 2050, including all of the polar bears in Alaska. With a timeline like that, it is hard to understand how the polar bears aren’t already protected.

Why Listing is So Important?

If the polar bears were listed under the United States Endangered Species Act - a safety net for plants and animals on the brink of extinction - they would be granted a broad range of protection. The protection would include a requirement that United States federal agencies ensure that any action carried out, authorized, or funded by the United States government will not "jeopardize the continued existence" of polar bears, or adversely modify their critical habitat.

It’s the report from polar bear,if you want to know about polar bear more than it or our environment condition. May be you wanna do something for it,,So you can visit www.greenpeace.org

Recipe..yummy><

2008-02-04T20:43:00.001-08:00

Now, the weather isn’t too good. Therefore, it’s a good idea if we try to make pudding. Because it’s not only healthy for our body but also delicious and easy to practice it. So, let’s we try it…

Steam Caramel Pudding

Materials of Caramel :

1. a glass of sugar

2. a glass of hot water

Materials of Pudding :

1. Nine eggs.

2. a can of evaporated milk

3. Eight spoons of sugar

4. Three tea spoons of custrad powder.

5. a spoon of mocca pasta.

6. a glass of water.

How to make ?

Caramel

1. Heat up the sugar in the pan with the small fire. Wait until the sugar is melt and changes to be caramel. Don’ t stir it.

2. After the sugar to be caramel, include a glass of hot water little by little.

Pudding

1. Stir all of the pudding materials, and than filter it.

2. Divide the dough into the same part.

3. Add a spoon of mocca pasta into a part of dough. Let the other part keep white.

Finally

1. Heat up the water in the steamer until the water is boil.

2. When, we start to cook the dough smaller the fire. So that the pudding isn’t pore.

3. Pour the caramel into the pyrex or some little cup.

4. Than,pour the pudding white dough. After that, put it into the steamer, cook during 10 minutes.

5. After 10 minutes pour the pudding mocca dough on the first dough little by little. Cook again during 15 minutes.

6. Put off the pudding. Wait until the pudding isn’t too hot. Than take in the refrigerator.

7. After several hours, take out from refrigerator. Give cherry or fruit cocktail on the top of pudding.

Now, serve it up !!!

By : Ides

2008-02-04T20:21:00.000-08:00

Canopy Bridge

Last year, I went to Samarinda at East Kalimantan with my friends and my teacher in boyscout. We went to Bengkirai for camped during three days. At there, we walked to the forest and then visited Canopy Bridge.

Canopy Bridge is a big three bridge. It is in the middle of forest. It relates the four big tress. Those trees are so high. There high are about five metres. So we must ascend ladder before we cross on the bridge. The ladder and the bridge are make from ulin wood. Therefore, there’re stand sturdy in the Bengkirai forest. At the top of ladder, I can see sun rises in the morning. It’ s so beautiful. Not only sun rises ,but also view of Bengkirai. When we cross on the bridge we don’t scare. Because of the bridge have handle. So if, we have phobia to height we can hold the handle. Canopy Bridge is amazing place. I am really happy to visit it.

By : Nabilla Rhamdani

Legend of Talaga Warna

2008-02-04T20:01:00.000-08:00

Talaga Warna

Long time ago, there’s a kingdom in West Java. That country was lead by a king. Prabu, that was he called. He’ s a kind and wise king. No wonder, if the country prosperous and peacefyl. There’s no hungry residence.

Everything really enjoyful. Unfortunetely, Prabu and his wife not had child yet. That made the kingdom couple sad. Prabu Conselour suggested, so that they adopted child. But, Prabu and his wife disagree. Queen was gloomy and cried. Prabu became sad for saw his wife. Then Prabu went to the wild for asceticismed. In the wild, Prabu keep prayed, so that he’s given a child. The following month, their wish came true. The Queen pregnant. Whole people in the kingdom felt happy. They filled the kingdom with presents.

Nine months later, Queen gave birth to her daughter. Prabu and Queen really loved their daughter. Thay gave their daughter whatever she wanted. But it made her became spoiled girl. If, her wish not to be filled was angry. She even said rought. Eventough like that, her parent and people in that kingdom loved her.

The Princess grew up to be the most beautiful girl in whole country. In few days, princess would have an age 17 years old. So people in the country went to the kingdom. They brought many kind of beautiful presents. Prabu collected the presents, then kept it in kingdom hall.

Prabu took some diamonds. He brought these to a necklace maker to make the most beautiful necklace in the world , because he loved his daughter very much.

Then, the birthday came and the residence gathered at kingdom hall. Prabu rised from his chair and presented a beautiful necklace to his daughter. “The necklace is a gift from people in the whole country. They love you. They present this gift, because they happy to see you grow mature. Use this necklace, Dear.” said Prabu.

Princess received the necklace then she looked at a glance. “ I don’t want to use it. This necklace is bad !” said Princess. Then she threw the necklace. The beauty necklace also rotten. Gold and diamonds spread in the floor.

That really surprised. Nobody supposed, Princess would do that. Nobody talked. Suddenly heard Queen was crying. Her tears was being followed by whole people.

Suddenly appear tears from kingdom yard. Originally to from small pool. Then the kingdom started flood. The kingdom was also filled by water like lake.

Now, the lake called Talaga Warna. The lake to be in the top. We can see the lake full of beautiful colours and amazing. The colour come from whild shadow, plant, flowers, and sky surrounding the well. But people said, the colours came from Princess’ s necklace that spread in bottom of the well.

www.reisimpressies.eu

Legend from West Java

It's a little bit about me

2008-02-04T19:49:00.001-08:00

Let me introduce my self. My name’s Nabilla Rhamdani, but just call me Ike. I come from Bontang at East Kalimantan. It’s a nice city. I was born in Bontang on March, 15^th 1992. But last year I moved to Bandung After moved, I live at Permata Biru. I gratuated from Vidatra Junior High School. And now I study in 1^stgrade 24 Bandung Senior High School.

Okay..I want tell a little bit about me. In my family I’m the youngest. I’ve one older sister and one older brother. My dad’s job is an employee and my mom is house wife. My Older sister, Uli is a college student of Padjajaran University and my older brother, Ega is like me. He’s a student at Senior High School. My hobbies are reading,drawing, cycling,adventuring, watching movie, and because I like eat so I like cook. May be sometimes if you’ll come to my house, I’ll cook for you. And I hope it will eatable… Now, I’ve a new hobby. I like write poem. Yeahh, because l like read poem so I have tried to make it.

Every human has there wish or dream and ofcourse I’ve too..I wish I can be a nice doctor. Which can help the others and give the best that I will..And the next my dream I will go to an inland and will exchange knowledge or story about our life.. If I have enough money, I’ll go to Palestine,it is the one country that I want to visit. Because I think Palestine has many mysteries about some holy places at there. Like Al-Aqsa mosque, Sapeker cruch,, Besides that I wish I can be chocolate entrepreneur because I like chocolate so much. I think it’s very fun If we can have Chocolate factory like Willi Wonka’s chocolate factory.. But, the most important I hope I can be a good person.

Okay,,,There’s a bit about me….