Thursday, 26 June 2014
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The Youngsters Doing Actions in Sumba
The Participants of Exploring Sumba Program
Yohanes Dian Alpasa, a theology student of Duta Wacana Christian University Yogyakarta from North Bengkulu was very excited when he received an information about Exploring Sumba program. He has a desire to share his knowledge and skills especially in journalism and writing. His program was conducted in April – May 2014 with a theme of 'Sharing the goodness: Remembering the Wisdom for Writing Power in Sumba'. Yohanes invited students and young people in Sumba to sprout spirit to write and present it in meaningful writings.
Novia Sih Rahayu from Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta was enthusiastic to join Exploring Sumba program. Her knowledge and skills that she got from her college Akindo, was usefull to share among students and church youth in Sumba during her visit in April – May 2014. Novia expects two things when she promoted a theme 'Creating a Sense Of Belonging And Developing Sumba Potencies Through Public Speaking’. First, she can share knowledge and skills of public speaking and video-editting technique to young Sumbanese and it may be daily applied including to advance and promote the potencies of Sumba. Second, she knows Sumba and gets a lot of friends and relatives.
Hery Alberth Gardjalay, a student of Law Faculty, Janabadra University responded a challenge in Exploring Sumba program with a work plan to share his knowledge. As a student concerning on legal formal affair, he wants to build awareness of students and church’s youth in Sumba to possess personal civil documents, such as ID card and birth certificate. With a theme 'Build Society-Awareness to Gain Welfare, through the Realization of the Citizens’ Role,' Hery hopes especially young people to understand their rights and obligations as citizens, know and understand essential role as active citizens in addressing to society problems that happen around them. His experience when interacting with people in his homeland, Dobo, Maluku, certainly is a very valuable modal to explore Sumba in June – July 2014.
Stenly Recky Bontinge, from Luwuk, Central Sulawesi was encouraged to join Exploring Sumba program with his theme 'Logistics, Logic and Heart'. He bases his concept that a strong society is an independent society when they are free from starvation. Further, head and heart means that a society will be stronger after they have capability to fulfill their food, they will have strong knowledge and commitment. The combination of knowledge and experience during studies at Environment Engineering Academy and Magister in Systems Engineering, Gadjah Mada University, and his involvement in Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta become a complete modals for Stenly to work with students and young people of Sumba in June – July 2014. He hopes that students and young people in Sumba can be more productive by utilizing their land with local plants, able to identify environmental problems, able to do advocacy and to apply environmental engineering techniques, and finally able to strengthen community management.
Are you students? Are you interested?
Saturday, 7 June 2014
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Be Part of ‘Kamisan’ Action
with Social Movement Institute
Thursday, 5 June 2014, several activists of Stube-HEMAT took part in ‘Kamisan’ action held by Social Movement Institute (SMI) and KONTRAS. This peace action coordinated by Asman and Bandel Ilyas from SMI is held on Thursday every week. That day, there were 30 activists from several elements participated in the action. Each participant wore black suites plus black umbrella. According to Ilyas, the action coordinator, the black umbrella and suit symbolize the death of justice, law and the the law enforcement as black suit is normally used in mourning days during a burial ceremony.
The eleventh peace action was lasting for 40 minutes at Tugu monument of Yogyakarta. One big banner depicted some lost people that were assumed as victims of abduction done by the New Order, like Wiji Tukul, Munir, and Udin, the journalist. The banner said, ”We don’t forget and we don’t forgive”. Some stickers distributed to the surrounding people has Gandhi’s motto said, ”Violence is the weapon of the weak people”.
In the midst of the action, the coordinator said to Stube HEMAT activists that up to now, there are still many Human Right violations in Indonesia. The violation should not be forgotten even will not be forgiven. Ilyas also added that it’s such irony when a certain people said that they forgave such violations. They said that they want to forget all violantion cases with one reason that they want to welcome the future not the past. This thought is absolutely wrong! When a Human Right violation is not investigated properly, it will triger other violations in the future. It will be repeated again and again.
The thoroughly investigation of Human Right violations became a main agenda for the next president.Who will be the next president, either from military or civil, should have this agenda. If he doesn’t have such agenda, he is not deserved to be the president of this country. So far, Ilyas doesn’t know when such action will be finished. The same action is also done in Jakarta, even it has been lasting for eight years. In the future a committee will be founded as one follow up of the action and it will be an entrance point for the next other activists recruitment. There will be also a training of politics education for the activists.
Talking about HAM, without knowing the history of human right violations is like walking with one leg. So, learning history should be done continuously. For Stube HEMAT activists wherever you are, we should keep ourselves qualified and be aware of our national problems by learning history and promoting human rights. Simple action may be done and it will give significant impact when we consistenly do it. Finally, don’t just keep developing your personal ability but also be active to promote justice as it will guarantee the plurality in our society. ***
Wednesday, 4 June 2014
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MDGs Guarantees Mothers
and Children Health
Student Discussion at Omah Limasan, June 3, 2014
The commitment of each country and the international community to achieve 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a package of development and poverty reduction, should be a universal goal of all inhabitants in the world. This commitment includes some efforts to reduce more than half total of those suffering from hunger, to ensure all children complete their primary education, to eradicate gender inequality at all levels of education, to reduce child mortality by two third and to reduce half number of people having no access to have clean water in 2015.
Indonesia is involved in the efforts to implement MDGs. MDGs topic became one interesting issue in Stube-HEMAT Students’s Discussion held on Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Accompanied by DR. Murti Lestari, (board of Stube-HEMAT) as the speaker, the discussion highlighted the low level of mother and children health in Indonesia, even it is far from the expected condition, although some how, it is admitted that the government has been able to reduce it. However, an attention to women and children health is crucial for a nation to survive.
The discussion was attended by Angga, from Social Movement Institute (SMI), that will be a participant in Inter-religion Youth Forum in Germany next June 2014, talking over MDGs; Gus Roy from Pondok Pesantren Tebu Ireng – Jombang, East Java; Rev. Bambang Sumbodo M.Min, and some activists of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta. This discussion helped students to describe the condition of Indonesia in implementing MDGs.
It is not secret that MDGs issues have not been well socialized and understood by public, even students. So it needs a complete review of the implementation of a program to synergize stakeholders in order to achieve the goals and it must be a commitment among countries in the world. (Loce)
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