Good News From Indonesia

Sebagian orang cukup menulis Solomon saja, tapi itu tidak cukup, karena Solomon bisa berarti nabi Sulaiman. Pastikan anda menulis SOLOMON ISLANDS, sebuah negeri cantik nun jauh di tengah-tengah keteduhan samudera pasifik, tempat yang menjadi inspirasi film-film tahun 50-60an. Film film Elvis dan James Bond lama sangat “memuja” keindahan pulau pulau kecil di samudra pasifik, dengan [...]

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Makassar, 15 Agustus 2031 “Tinggi juga gedung ini” pikir saya. Meski Archipelagic Tower ini bukan gedung tertinggi di Makassar, tapi tetap saja lift ini membawaku naik ke lantai 64 cukup lama. Archipelagic Tower adalah gedung tertinggi ke 3 di Makassar dengan total 70 lantai, dan baru saja diresmikan 2 bulan lalu. Gedung tertinggi di Makassar [...]

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Indonesian students have won so many medals from international competition around the world including in Indonesia itself. Let’s start from the competition which was held in our beloved country, Indonesia. Indonesia International Mathematics Competition 2011, held on 18-23 July 2011 in Bali. 1. Elementary School Anthony William Brian, Gian Cordana Sanjaya, Alicia Maydeline (gold medals) [...]

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Have you ever heard about Budi Soehardi? if you are a CNN reader then you must be familiar with his name. Budi Soehardi is a 53-year-old pilot from indonesia who lives in Singapore and works at Singapore Airlines. His heroic story began when he realized how high the level of poverty in East Timor. Seeing [...]

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Di suatu malam yang cerah ceria, 2 Juli 2010 di Bentara Budaya Bali (BBB) pada sebuah pameran foto oleh seorang fotografer jurnalistik KOMPAS terkenal, Julian Sihombing, untuk pertama kalinya saya [RA] bertemu dengan Elisabeth Hetty [EH]. Memang masih belum banyak yang tahu siapa seorang Elisabeth Hetty, tapi di Bali, perempuan ramah, murah senyum dan rendah [...]

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As the night comes I find myself sitting around some young Indonesian whose voices are soaring in the air, as if resisting to the sound of music coming from the next room. They are discussing and delivering words to each other. They are 20-something, high-spirited, optimistic and encouraging each other toward a better Indonesia. I [...]

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Hosting some of the best beaches and ocean waves in the world, Lombok is still often overlooked, out-famed by its neighbor, Bali. Nevertheless, its exotic culture and nature sure attract lots of attention. There was once Gavin Birch, or later known better as Husin Abdullah, a New Zealand man who then fell in love with [...]

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Pernahkah kalian membayangkan akan bernazar untuk bersepeda dari lokasi kalian tinggal hingga ke tempat kalian kuliah yang jaraknya bukan lagi hitungan jari melainkan ratusan kilometer? Membayangkannya saja mungkin kalian sudah lelah, apalagi menjalankan nazar tersebut. Namun, percayakah kalian seorang anak yang berasal dari kota di Jawa Tengah berhasil melaksanakan nazar dengan melakukan perjalanan Pati-Depok karena [...]

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Hotel Nikko, Jakarta, (Selasa,19/7) menjadi saksi sejarah kemenangan team Public Relations Fakultas Ilmu Komunikasi Universitas Padjadjaran dalam meraih posisi pertama di PR Week Campaign Competition 2011. Acara ini diselenggarakan oleh EGA Briefings bekerja sama dengan MM Communication Trisakti dan Supporting by IPRA dan Perhumas. PR Week Indonesia ini merupakan adaptasi dari PR Week US. Tujuan [...]

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Indonesia’s Seven Summits Expedition Team from Mahitala University, Bandung , finally successfully tread the top of Denali, the highest mountain in the Americas on Friday (07/07/2011) around 11:00. With this achievement, they became the first Indonesian to reach the seven highest peaks on seven continents. Fourth Mahitala climbers who have reached the top seven was [...]

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