Friday, 21 February 2014
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POLITICS AND SOCIAL ISSUES TRAINING
Is Politics Important?
Satya Nugraha Hotel Yogyakarta, 14 – 16 February, 2014
Two thousand and fourteen is ‘the year of politics and the feast of democracy’ for Indonesians. The high animo to welcome the election of the people is inversely with the students’, showing apathy towards it. It is due to the abolition of political education and the absence of good public figures. The consequences of this condition bring students to answer ‘do not know’ or ‘do not care’ for their response when they have question what politics is. Whereas, they will be the successors of this nation.
To unravel the problems above and to give students some insight, Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta held a Politics and Social Issues Training, at Satya Nugraha Hotel, Yogyakarta, 14 – 16 February 2014. Having theme 'Politics: Is It Important?’, this training was held in the same time of Valentine Day and little catastrophe of ash rain due to the eruption of Mount Kelud in East Java. However the participant and the speakers show enthusiasm and great spirit to join the training. The speakers are Eko Prasetyo, SH. (Institute of Social Movement), William E. Aipipidely M.A. (National Coordinator of UNDEF), Miftah Adhi Ikhsanto, S. IP, Mi.OP (Gadjah Mada University) and Drs. John S. Keban (Golkar Party).
This training tried to reconstruct the participants’ paradigm to view politics, as uttered by Sih Ell Cahyadi Pamungkas (a theological student of UKDW and a youth activist of GKI Gejayan), “Formerly, I am not interested in politics, because politics is identical with a political elites’ unfair play. However, finally, I realized that politics is an important device used by people to fight their vision for the sake of Indonesians’ prosperity. Youth, as the main component of the nation should understand and use their political rights”. A similar idea also comes from Drs. John S. Keban, a legislative candidate from Golkar Party. He motivated participants to be smart in politics and to vote wisely, "Students should be 'literate' in politics if they want to be a light for their surroundings as actually we also do politics practice in our daily life, moreover for such a big deal of the national prosperity.”
Sofia Atalia, a student of Law Faculty in Janabadra University, and also the training coordinator said "I hope this event enables students to be aware of the importance of politics, and help them to make people aware of the current political issues, so the people have knowledge to vote in the national election. The right conduct of political practice is expected to lead for a democratic governance and social justice as mandated in Pancasila and the Constitution 1945."
This training also gave participants experiences to interact with the Election Commission, National Mandate Party (PAN) functionary, Gerindra Party functionary, and Eko Suwanto ST, M.Si, the legislative candidate from Indonesian Democratic Party – Struggle (PDIP). During the training process, participants had a time to reconstruct their former insight of politics and to get enlightenment. Salute for democracy!
Thursday, 6 February 2014
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C H R I S T I A N I T Y S E M I N A R
Youth: Faith & Action!
Aula LPP Synod of GKJ – GKI at Central Java
Samirono Baru, February 1, 2014
Christianity Training is a training revealing church's responses to social problems, exploring new paradigms and form of church transformative ministry and determining potency of young christian people as part of national building actors to work and contribute to society.
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 at the Auditorium LPP Synod GKJ – GKI Central Java, Samirono Baru, Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta held a seminar with a theme of Youth: Faith and Action! Esaol Agustriawan, MA., Rev. Paulus Hartono, M.Min., and Andreas Subiyono are the facilitators of the training.
Esaol Agustriawan, M.A, in his session, tries to assess the church response to the Issues and Problems of Society by exploring the participants’ involvement in church social activities and revealing the church's response to the social problems. Based on the parable of Good Samaritan taken from Luke 10:25-37, participants are learning the characters and the role of the actors in the parable in each position. Both sides of victim and helper in this story is the focus of the discussion. Participants reflect two different situations, namely "what is going on with The Helper if he is helping the victims" and "what will happen with the Victim if no one gives help?" These two situations make participants ponder the way of their thinking and persuade them to change it with a new paradigm, that formerly self-orientation into other else-orientation, as the foundation of diaconal service.
The session of Understanding the Paradigms and Forms of Church Service: Transformative Ministry is delivered by Rev. Paulus Hartono, M.Min. He said that a believer is the church itself, consisting of three interrelated aspects, namely faith (as a base), growth, and action. The church transformation needs attitude, skills, and knowledge. The interesting thing is when Rev. Paulus confessed his experience having interaction with people with different faith, even the hard-line group. He must have initiative to open communication, dialogue and maintain the network through social work collaboration such as building a livable house for the poor.
Andreas Subiyono from SHEEP Indonesia, with the theme of Knowing the Potency and Position of the Youth as Part of Nation Builders, expects the youth to be aware of their responsibility to the nation problems, such as, human resource, education, food, health, industry, and natural resources. At the end of the session, Andreas challenges the participants to have commitment contributing their intellectual capabilities to overcome the problems faced by Indonesia. It starts from a simple thing, for example, using water wisely, saving electricity, reducing plastic use, etc. *** (TRU)
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