Finding Local Context and Its Youth   Four Students in Local Exposure Program        

Tuesday, 31 December 2019
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The important thing that is often be neglected is growing a 'sense of belonging' to the region of  young students who go to study outside their islands. This sense of belonging will raise concern and desire to do something for the region of origin, because these young students are regional assets. The study opportunities outside are valuable blessing because not every young person from the area can continue study due to economic limitations, geographical conditions and cultural influences. Managing regional assets with focus on human resources (HR) has become a concern for Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta as human resource development institution, especially students, by giving added value with knowledge, skills and attitudes to student activists in Yogyakarta so that awareness as agents of change for their home regions grows through Local Exposure program. The last Local Exposure program was followed by four students.

 

 

 

 

Putri Nirmala Valentina Laoli, a student from Nias who studies governance studies at STPMD APMD Yogyakarta. Putri was eager to come back to Nias during her campus break to observe the traditional local weaving of Nias in Gido, her hometown. It began difficult to find such woven craft because the craft-women were mostly elderly, and young people were less interested in pursuing this skills even though actually this woven, such as bolanafo and tufo, was needed in Nias traditional events and Nias special souvenir. Putri went around the villages of Somi, Gido, and Hiliganoita, Bawolato, to find woven- crafts women, and when she met, they were very old and no one had inherited this skill. Plants used as woven fibers are Keleömö (Eleocharis dulcis), it is a type of grass that grows in swamps. The plants then are dried and flattened, then given colors and finally woven.

 

 

 

 

 

She met her village officials for dialogue on village programs related to the preservation of Nias traditional weaving and there has been no specific effort to do, so she suggested them to pay attention to the preservation of local cultural heritage and empower the community with profitable handicraft business. She also motivated high school students to study well and carefully choose majors in campus, and taught English for children around her house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marianus Yakobus Lily Lejap, a youth from Lembata, East Nusa Tenggara who study at Janabadra University (UJB) Yogyakarta majoring Informatics Engineering. Marno, Marianus' nickname, returned to his hometown and shared his skills in operating computers for village officials in Omesuri and Lamagute, Ile Ape district. The mastery on technology is needed by them because the computer facilities are ready but have not been used optimally. It is due to less ability to operate computers, while the demands of village administrative services are based on technology and computer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is admitted that the difficulty in arranging the course schedule comes from the rapid activities of some village officials to take care of their farms. Further, even in other areas, the distance did not dampen Mariano's enthusiasm to come and to accompany them to practice. In the process, village midwives and youth community joined the computer course to learn how to make village administration letters, compile population data, create budget tables and design powerpoints. During the interaction process, the village officials expressed their hope that local students are willing to share their knowledge and participate in village development.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fei Anjelicha Tiladuru, student of Governance Studies at STPMD APMD Yogyakarta from Poso, Central Sulawesi, took advantage of the campus break to explore the concept and implementation of digital village in the Lamahu village, Gorontalo. The concept of digital village is interesting as a response to technology development and to improve the quality of village services to residents for computer-based correspondence and administration, complaint services and application-based health emergency and security, including increasing village income through village business units through restaurants and food stalls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Lamahu, Fei then looked for opportunities to implement digital village in her hometown, in Pendolo, Central Sulawesi. She met local village officials and youth organization, but the organization was not well managed and even so the activity were stagnant. As an alternative, she gathered young people independently and made informal dialogue about the reality faced by local youth about network and job opportunity, as well as building commitment to interact and exchange information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Riskia Gusta Nita, from Pugungraharjo, East Lampung, who is studying theology at STAK Marturia,  explored the dynamics of church service and actual issues related to inter-religious relations, which is currently rife with the issue of intolerance. She remembered that in her village there was a tradition of visiting each other during religious holiday, where the local residents visit those who celebrate it, no matter whether they were Muslim, Hindu or Christian, they remained well-connected and inherited this tradition until now.

 

 

 

 

 

During her campus break she returned to her village and explored the tradition of visiting each other, how it started, who played a role so that this tradition remained sustainable and what are the challenges today. It is recognized that this tradition is not originally from the local village because the village originally inhabited by transmigrants from Java, Bali and Lombok so that the population is so diverse. When the relatives visit each other even though they have different religions, such tradition develops into a need of the local community to establish harmony between religious communities, as an example by the existence of Building Harmony Movement (GMK) community. When joining the tradition, Kia dialogued with local church youth about youth participation in church services and good relation between religions. This experience became kind of preparation for the future to be a pastor how to deliver church messages about inclusive manner and how to be able to realize harmonious relations between religions in the community.

 

 

 

 


The efforts of students to preserve local weaving, to share computer skills, to improve village services and the role of youth, and to preserve spirit of tolerance through the tradition of visiting each other are the fruits of student awareness for their home regions. The contextual relationship between students and problems in their areas will move their hearts and encourage them to do something useful for their place of origin. (TRU).


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  Exploring The Exotic Motifs of Waropen Batik Joint activity with Youth and Sports Agency of Waropen Regency, Papua    

Saturday, 28 December 2019
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Waropen is a new district that established in 2003. Previously this area was part of Yapen Waropen regency. Waropen has potencies with vast mangrove forests and mangrove crabs fishery. This regency is known as 'the city of 1000 mangroves' because it is surrounded by mangrove forest almost on its coastline. A large potential asset that can be processed as source of regional income to improve community welfare.

 

 

 

 

 

Being a representative of Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta to Waropen regency to share knowledge and to transfer skills was a great gift and a very memorable experience, because it was the first time for me to set foot in the Land of Papua. Sharing with youth and community there about what batik is, how to make batik and its philosophy as well as exploring the potency of youth by having exotic motifs from Waropen into batik became an exciting activities. It cannot be separated from the program initiated by the Waropen Youth and Sports Agency in collaboration with Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta, a student service based in Yogyakarta with a program 'Batik Training and Batik-Based Productive Businesses'.

 

 

 

The journey to Waropen was really a challenge. Not just far in the eastern part of Indonesia, it took several flight transits and sea transportation modes. Accompanied by Mr. Enos Refasi (the division head of Youth and Sport agency of Waropen regency) and Mr Iron Kayai (the division’s staff), we started the journey on December 21, 2019 at 3 p.m by flying from Yogyakarta to Surabaya, then to Makassar. At 11.45 p.m WITA (local time), we arrived in Makassar and changed the plane to Biak. At 07.00 a.m local time, the plane landed at Biak, and still continued to Serui. It turned out that the trip had not yet finished in Serui, because we still took speed boat for two hours to get to Waropen. Finally, on 22 December 2019 at 3 p.m local time we really arrived at our destination safely. What an exciting journey to have experience about the reality of Indonesia's transportation within the archipelago frame!

 

 

 

 

 

 

A warm welcome of Waropen people with its traditional welcomes was so touching and made me forget the long exhausting journey. I also learned about the natures of Papua with its very dense forest. My tiredness was relieved by excitement when I met some participants who had ever participated in batik training at Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta last July 2019. We discussed together the batik activities that we would do tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The batik training was held on December 23, 2019 at 09.00 a.m which was officially opened by the head of the Youth and Sports Agency. At 11.00 a.m I started with introduction about batik to all participants by explaining the history of batik, the spread of batik motifs in Java island and showing tools and materials for batik. After the discussion about the process and materials for making batik, we continued to draw motifs on paper assisted directly by the participants who had been trained in Yogyakarta, by exploring local motifs from Waropen such as flowers, birds, crabs and some musical instruments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After lunch, the training continued with drawing motifs on the cloth following the motifs that had been drawn on paper, followed by pouring the wax and coloring process in two techniques, namely ‘colet’ (using brush) and dyeing. According to the participants, dyeing technique was easier beacuse it did not take longer process. For those having drawing hobby, they chose ‘colet’ technique because it has color variation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

From these activities, I found out the interest among youth toward batik and many potencies can be developed here. Its native natures, various plants, coral reefs, diverse fish and birds, and beautiful mangrove forests can be the inspiration for local motifs of Waropen batik that can be packaged in creative industries managed by youth. This can be known from the statements of those who have learned in Yogyakarta and actively shared about batik to their art group members.

 

 

Although just one day, I feel so satisfied that I have shared understanding and ways to make batik in order to produce products that are ready to be sold and accepted by all groups. Be creative youth so that you can transfer ideas to others and hand in hand to establish better Indonesia. (EP).


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    Sewing Fabrics &   Preparing the Future   Be independent by making bags        

Thursday, 5 December 2019
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A failure is a condition of inability to achieve goal that has been set before.  However, it is normal in life even it can be said that everyone has ever faced failure in his/her life. Even famous figures, can not be separated from failure as written in biography books which always contains stories from struggle, sacrifice, repeated failures and finally success.

 

 

 

Students commonly face failures, such as in study, in organization, even to fail to survive, especially students who go study in different island. The failure experiences are good reflection and good meaning as a stepping stone to success. With optimistic perspective, more failure will make one to be more mature and then it will forge him to think variety skills and abilities to overcome problems and how to anticipate it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional skills, besides the knowledge from campus become the strategies presented in ‘Learning from Failure’ training with a theme ‘Per Angusta Ad Augusta’ (from Difficulties to Glory) held by Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta on October18-20, 2019 at Villa Taman Eden 1, Kaliurang. The various life strategies that found in this training came from the 'sharing' experiences of the participants when they face failure and find solutions.

 

 

 

 

 

One group of students consists of Yoel, Maritjie, Thomas, and Eri Kristian was eager to have skills in sewing, as their effort to open opportunity to get extra pocket money. Yoel Yoga Dwianto as facilitator, already has expertise in making backpacks with a label ‘Anakita’ Bags, because currently Yoel works at this business as an employee. He likes to share with young people who are eager to learn, he is very open to anyone as long as he/she has strong will and passion. He trained them to arrange used fabric from bag manufacturer and learned how to operate sewing machines, make pattern on the fabrics, cut the fabric and sew the pieces. In fact, they needed only two meetings to produce one simple bag. In the first meeting, they learned to operate machines, and to sew used-cloth, then in the second meeting, they practiced to sew their own bags and they brought home their own bag at the end of the course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The difficulties faced by Yoel as a student from Kotabumi, Lampung, who is studying in Yogyakarta, such as limitation to pay tuition, people doubt his ability, and the dead of his father due to illness, had forced him for campus leave and started working for money to continue his study. He did many things, starting with cultivating vegetable garden, being professional jimbe player, opening barbershop, providing reggae hair and finally working on bag home industry. These difficulties forge him to be a person who is tough but still generous in sharing knowledge.

 

 

 

"I am open to anyone who wants to learn, but I also select those who have intention and passion to learn, because it is useless if I push someone to learn but he/she has no intention, the result will be not good. My enthusiasm is seeing friends who have big interest, then I invite them to learn together," he said.

 

 

 

 

Young friends, especially those who study in Yogyakarta, no matter how hard the problem you are facing during your study, never be easy to give up, but  try to dig out the roots of your problems and find solution by equipping yourself with various skills so you can do good things more, with spirit of Per Angusta Ad Augusta. (Mariano Lejap)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Sumba: Adventure and Longing   Participant’s Reflection on Exploring Sumba Program   (Susana Ulandari)

Thursday, 28 November 2019
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Tuesday, July 9, 2019 was the first time I set my foot on Sumba island, one of the islands in eastern Indonesia. I remembered one day before, I was so excited about traveling by a minibus from Yogyakarta to Surabaya and by plane from Surabaya to Waingapu. Along the way I was full of curiosity about new experiences that I would find there. After nearly three hours flight from Surabaya via Denpasar, the airplane began to have lower altitude and finally landed at Umbu Mehang Kunda airport in Waingapu. From the plane’s window, a view like Africa scenery that I saw only on television, now I could see by my own eyes. "Wow, amazing" a whisper in admiration came out of my mouth when I saw the endless hills and savanna.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Waingapu I stayed in Apriyanto Hangga’s family, one of Stube-HEMAT Sumba team, who provided information about Sumba and the village in where I would live for few weeks. Arriving in Tanaraing, I accepted warm welcome from the family of Rev. Katrina Remihau, the pastor of Church of Sumba in Tanaraing. The next day I attended Sunday service with local church members who welcomed me warmly even though I came as a stranger. The church youths also welcomed me well, introduced ourselves, chatted, joked and took pictures at the beach.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following days I did activities with local community and youth related with the topic 'Peer Counselors'. Being a peer counselor is not easy because there must be a mutual trust. During the program I always found something new and fun in every meeting. One time I did not understand what they were talking about but they said everything that was said was good about me. So, I tried to learn that I also had to trust others and in my opinion to trust others was not wrong.

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Peer Counselors' is very important to understand among teenagers so that they can pay attention to each other. When they are open with each other, they can manage their problems better, because they get input from their friends. In addition, they will be able to re-embrace church youths who previously rarely went to church to be active again in church environment, or teens who rarely talk in family want to commit pay more attention to their own families. Entrepreneurship activities formerly were not included in my plan but I suggested these when the church youth plan to raise youth funds and they could do it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For me, being in Sumba and living with the community are like a journey to find myself and life, to find myself exploring, to meet lots of people, to share stories and to laugh together. During my journey in Sumba, I felt sense of ‘Longing’ that always follows, sense of longing to the atmosphere of my home in West Kalimantan, the moment of having jokes with family members, having my mom's meals, massaging my dad, playing with my nephew and even fighting with my brothers. They are important people in my life and I want them to be happy as I feel. I hope that the feeling of togetherness and attention through 'peer counselor' will have impact to young people in Sumba, especially Tanaraing.

 

 

 

 


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Lembata Pangge Bale   (Lembata calls back)   Participant’s reflection on Local Exposure Program done by Mariano Lejap

Thursday, 21 November 2019
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Coming home during campus break becomes ritual for students like me who go to Yogyakarta to study. When I went back to my hometown, I was usually easily affected by local atmosphere so that it seemed no changes in me. I just did similar activities in every campus break, such as going back to village to visit relatives or gathering with young friends.

 

 

 

 

 

But now, I have different vacation, as a participant of Local Exposure program of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta, and a member of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta work team, I was challenged to do something different. My current vacation is a vacation plus, by giving contribution for my village by sharing computer knowledge I have learned in campus and it made me be closer to local community and know them better.

 

 

 

 

 

 

First, when I offered program to share my knowledge to the village officials, they had enthusiastic response, but they had difficulty to arrange the agenda of the training because various reasons, such as, having no free time because of village officials meeting, or doing their fields and family business. However, I did not give up. To reassure them, I kept in contact and suggested that the activities would be held at the nearest place, even though I had to travel further. Finally, computer training on Word, Excel and Powerpoint went well, even though only some of the village officials participated plus a midwife who took part in it.

 

 

 

Besides having computer training, I also intensely communicated with the community about the economic efforts done by the people using village natural resources, one of which was seaweed cultivation and swallow nests. From this dialogue I discovered new things about the potency of my village and the obstacles faced by the people to develop seaweed and swallow nests. It is normal because in reality the human resources in the village is very limited, but actually they have eagerness to learn.

 

 

 

As a student, I felt satisfied and proud when I had a chance to share my knowledge to village officials and they learned it enthusiastically. I started to realize and felt sad because many young people from my village who were studying in colleges, they did nothing during their home return in campus break. They did not use their time to transfer their knowledge to their community. Actually the village officials expected positive contribution from the students who study in different place to build their villages.

 

 

Hopefully my activities will be useful and the quality of village officials will be improved, especially to operate computers to serve the community and it will awake students’ awareness to serve the community through knowledge transfer for mutual development.


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Maintaining Tolerance in East Sumba   Participant’s reflection on Exploring Sumba program   (Mutiara Srikandi)  

Thursday, 14 November 2019
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My name is Mutiara Srikandi from Bandung, West Java, studying in Department of Interior Design, Indonesian Art Institute in Yogya. I got a chance to go to Sumba as a participant of Exploring Sumba program carried out by Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta. This is the first time that a Moslem participant took part in the selection and was sent to Sumba. The Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta work team always make sure whether I am determined going to a place where many pigs and dogs are roaming. I always strengthen myself again "yes it's okay, I'm sure". ‘Lahaula’, there will always be a way for one who strives for goodness.

 

 

 

Before setting foot on Sumba, I had a lot of things to prepare and to consider about. From the aspects of environment, lifestyle, and religion that would be totally different from Java culture in general. After getting information about the place and environment to live there, I prepared mentally and physically to ensure myself so that I can run the program well.

 

 

 

 

That day eventually arrived. From the plane’s window, I saw the savanna expanse from the height. It caught my attention. I could not wait to set foot directly. I felt a weird maneuver of the aircraft when preparing to land at Umbu Mehang Kunda airport in Waingapu, perhaps it was caused by the airport location that is between hills. Finally, the adventure in Sumba started.

 

 

 

In Sumba I stayed at Elisabeth Uru Ndaya’ house, one of the activists of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta who had returned home, in Karunggu village, Nggaha Ori Angu district (Nggoa), East Sumba. Staying in a traditional Sumba house was a memorable experience because when I arrived the temperature was freezing, so we had to use a four-layers blanket, but I liked it. A woman who was familiarly called 'mama Domi' was always carefully asking about the menu for me. She was hesitant to prepare corn rice because she was afraid I did not like it. She told me that when she cooked she separated cooking utensils away from animals, because dogs and pigs roamed around the house, even she explained in detail to convince me that the food served was prepared based on Islamic law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As a new person in this village, of course, my presence caught attention the people around because of my innocent behavior and questions that made them laugh and tell to their other families. Even though I am a Moslem, I did not feel isolated but they accepted me well and openly instead. Even when I was going to pray they sincerely fetched water for me even though the area was lack of water actually. I also came to church to introduce myself and program activity while in Sumba. Being known by the people formally in the church was an important part because the church plays role in the surrounding environment in the life of the community and the church can touch the lives of the community holistically.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Several times I attended traditional event of Sidhi (Christian confession), Belis (dowry) and other family events, and I found something unique about nose-kissing, by touching nose tip to other as expression of welcome and kinship. Further, at least five times I cut chicken in Islamic law, because they respected me as a Moslem at the event. Having meals and mingling with them in a meal looked so contrast when I ate chicken alone in the midst of people eating pork. At first people were hesitant, "Miss, is it okay for us to eat pork?" Asked one man who was hesitant to eat his meals. "It's okay, let's eat please," I replied, smiling at him. We had meals together deliciously, accepting the differences and respecting each other. They respected me for eating chicken alone, they did not let a drop of pork broth touch my plate. They looked after me well and I appreciated it, what a beautiful exchange that I saw in real.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Sundays, I stayed at home to wait for my family coming home from church, heard the church bells and felt the warm morning atmosphere. Every child who passed by say ‘good morning’ as a morning greeting and this recurred when people were passing by. They were very friendly, while glancing at me as a guest in the village. I loved to be in the midst of local people who were joyful even though they lived modesty. The warmth of family was so felt that made me jealous because I lived in a big city that has been more individualistic. Here, relatives worked together to send their relatives to school, and there was no worry about lacking of food because they could visit other family's homes. Another togetherness that I found was when the people sang along with the dances that easterners Indonesia used to do, each trying to harmonize the gestures into beautiful movements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The farewell really drained tears and my new family in Sumba thanked me for willing to accept their simple condition. I learned many things, in diversity I did not feel separated or alone, instead I had truly welcome and attention. Different cultures and religions do not become barrier but become a means of learning and building tolerance instead that enriches life experiences. May God keep us always in peace.

 

 

 

 


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No Surrender   though being separated (Way of blessing through green beans
and toasted bread) Herisen Witno Ngongare  

Monday, 28 October 2019
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Started with a brochure of event sent to my WhatsApp from my cousin, Erik, one of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta team members, the words "You Failed?" and "Per Angusta Ad Augusta" appeared and was highlighted. This made me curious, because it was my first time reading those words and I wanted to know more, so I finally decided to join the event.

It turned out that this event is a training about failure! However, it is not merely a failure but failure is seen from the perspective of the Bible and psychology with the theme ‘Per Angusta Ad Augusta’, which means From Difficulty to Glory. As my reflection, I found a new spirit and gratitude that God never left our family and we are confident to keep going, and have some encouraging reflections, such as "Keep going with the right foot towards the future and the left foot in the past" which means, if we stop moving, we are stuck between two periods that can make us waver, so we should keep moving ahead and face the life with God.
 
There was one session that impressed me so, which presented several people who had experienced failures and revived, such as Andmesh Kamaleng, who suffered grief but did not give up; Maria Calista, who uplifted her family through her talented voice; Marco C Alvino, dropping out of college but it did not make him give up; and Sudarmono who did not lose hope despite losing his two palms. Really, this training was very interesting because the participants had the space and opportunity to tell about the failures they had faced and how to formulate strategies to rise from the failures themselves.
 
The same with my life experience, in May 2006 before junior high school graduation day, my family and I faced a very hard situation when my father passed away and left us forever. He passed away when I still depended on him to help my school homework, while my brother still needed mental and financial support for college, and my mother who lost her husband, still needed life companion. When I heard my mother's cry, I felt brokenhearted. What came in my mind was a promise never hurt my mother. For years I helped my mother with domestic works and sold green beans ice and toasted bread. I had no doubt and ashamed to sell because this was the only way to continue our life and to pay my brother’s college tuition. Finally in 2010 I finished my high school and continued my study in Yogyakarta funded by my mother.
 
During my campus break I returned to my hometown, but instead I grieved my mother, I was dating with a girl, although my mother had ever reminded me not to date until I finished college, but I violated it. My mother was hurt again and tears came out because of my conduct. This situation reminded me what I had promised and felt that I had failed to look after my mother. I regreted and apologized to my mother. I kept this promise until I continued my graduate study and finished it.

Failure can not be separated from human life, not even no man without failure, but the importance is how to rise again from the failure.Further, I found the meaning of failure that makes me see it from a different perspective and do something with good motivation full of perseverence. Then God will allow us to pass  through. Success without God lasts temporary, but success with God is eternal. (A brief reflection after training Per Angusta Ad Augusta).




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Per Angusta Ad Augusta

Tuesday, 22 October 2019
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‘Per Angusta Ad Augusta’, is a Latin term having a meaning ‘from the difficulty to the glory’. These words encourage people to be tough during 'difficult time' by being optimistic until final success. Actually, failure can not be separated from human life, and how people respond to the failure in a constructive manner without losing good attitude is the very important, and most of all is how they learn from failure to find energy to start a new mood.

 


 

As an institution for mentoring students from various regions in Indonesia who studying in Yogyakarta, Stube-HEMAT understands that students going to study in this city bring their own burden on their shoulders. Hopes of success both from oneself and family, as well as relatives and local community become one of them. While during their study, they face competition, challenges, complexity, demands for high standard of human resources and changes that could obstruct them in realizing hopes of success. Many sad cases occurred in the midst of the process of realizing hopes, such as depression and even suicide. Through the Training on Learning from Failure with the title 'Per Angusta Ad Augusta' at Villa Taman Eden 1, Kaliurang, 18-20 October 2019, Stube-HEMAT invited students to build optimism to face all challenges especially how to respond failure.

 


 

 

Rev. Bambang Sumbodo, M.Min, the Stube-HEMAT board, opened the training by inviting students to be wise in making decisions. Making decisions is not easy. There are several types of decision making, namely, first, to make decision carelessly that tends to his own safety; second, to decide by considering the profit and loss of the decision, the most profitable will be taken; third, to make decision by considering the motivation of decision, based on true motivation. Nelson Mandela is one example of a decision maker based on true motivation, even though he had to bear 27 years in prison for his anti-racial struggle and discrimination in South Africa.

 


 

The efforts to define failure based on Christian perspective with Rev. Dr. Jozef MN. Hehanussa aroused participants’ enthusiasm to wonder if God had ever failed also? Some stories of figures in the Bible such as Adam and Eve who failed to keep God's commandment by eating the fruits of knowledge of good and bad, Moses failed to enter the promised land, Peter denied Jesus and Judas betrayed, became concrete examples of failure. If humans failed, it means God also failed in accompanying humans, doesn’t it? Exciting debates and discussions enlivened this session. If God really failed, what will be done? Go and turn away from Him? The story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Daniel 3: 17-18, "If our God we worship can release us, then He will deliver us from the fiery furnace, and from your hand, O king; but if not, let my lord know, O king, that we will not worship the god of my lord, and will not worship the golden statue that my lord set up", answering how to behave when God's plan is not in accordance with human desire, that is to remain faithful. God's plan never fails, only human inability to understand makes God seem failed and unjust. Truly this session provided insight and reinforcement to participants to face failure.

 


 

The psychological approach with Drs. T.A. Prapancha Hary, M.Sc, helped the participants explore their personalities through the drawings they had previously made. Not only that, participants also filled out questionnaires to uncover their own characteristics and tendencies, which later could be developed to complete their study and enter the workforce. Not a few of the participants recognized the suitability of the 'readable' self situation through pictures and accepted suggestions to be developed.

 


 

 


Understanding the causes and context of failure will help people avoid further failure and help find effective strategies. The experiences of several figures, such as Marco C. Alvino who dropped out of college but now live from corn business; Maria Calista, with her voice raised her family’s economy; or Sudarmono, a disabled person who makes living as a tailor, are real examples of people who rise from failure and have strategies in their lives. It is not easy to uncover failures because it means admitting mistakes and weaknesses, can bring down spirit and even open disgrace, even though this is a part to improve themselves and to find new provision of life.

 



 

Some of the participants' determinations to avoid failure are to expand their network by getting to know people, mapping out the causes of failure, sharpening skills to speak, practicing English, having sewing and business skills. So, young people remain optimistic to be self-equipped and to move forward to face the future. Per Angusta Ad Augusta! (TRU).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Scoring the Goal of Unity (Celebrating differences through Futsal)

Monday, 23 September 2019
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Diversity is both wealth and backfire. Wealth because of its variousity and on the other side it is a backfire  because of its potency to trigger conflict among their differences. Many elements of society try to educate that diversity is a very valuable asset and should be the pride of the nation and state. Responding to the rampant diversity issues, Stube-HEMAT took part in maintaining intimacy and unity all Stube-HEMAT activists from various regions in Indonesia from Sabang to Merauke from Miangas to Rote Island by playing futsal at Telaga Futsal 1, Babarsari, Yogyakarta on Saturday September 21, 2019.
 
 
Sport is a choice as a means to unite everyone in one field. From sports like futsal, people can learn the importance of teamwork regardless of origin, religion, ethnicity or race. The participants who were invited welcomed enthusiastically and attended it on time starting at 16.00 WIB wearing complete costumes. Thirty three students from various regions, religions and study backgrounds participated in this sport.
 
 
The match was opened with remarks from Trustha Rembaka, S.Th, the coordinator of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta, and the first kick from Rev. Em. Bambang Sumbodo, S.Th., M.Min as Stube-HEMAT board to start the futsal game officially. There were 4 futsal teams consisting of 2 men's teams and 2 women's teams, the women's team then played first with a duration of 10 minutes x 2, and 5 minutes for a break. The game went smoothly and all played happily as seen from the participants' faces, agility and spontaneous cheers from the players. They kicked the ball vigorously and kept trying to break into the opponent's goal post, finally, the score of five and two goals at the end of the women's team's match.
 
The men's team played in the second round and was divided into 2 teams with each team consisting of 8-10 people. Participants who played came from Halmahera, Maluku, Maybrat, Raja Ampat, Sulawesi, Sumba, Flores, Bogor, Cilacap, Bengkulu, Palembang and Lampung. Besides that they were from various campuses in Jogja such as UIN, UNPROK, ITY, UBSI, UJB, UST & STAK Marturia.
 
The familiarity should be maintained in the midst of diversity so that students are not easily seized by current rife hoaxes. The familiarity of the Futsal field is not just sport but teamwork to score goal of unity,  needed to build this country peaceful and comfortable for all ethnics, races, and religions. Indonesian young people are one nation having one language and one homeland with a motto ‘Bhinneka Tunggal Ika’, diversity but one. Let's learn to collaborate with responsibility as children of nation for the glory of this country. (SAP)

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Strengthening Network and Exploring Life in Indonesia

Saturday, 31 August 2019
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Two thousand and seventeen (2017), is the beginning of the interaction between Indonesian students and Student Christian Movement of India (SCMI) through South to South Exchange Program to India, which fostered enthusiasm to both sides to get to know and strengthen relationships as young people from countries in the same region, Asia. Both countries are struggling to improve the standard of living of the people by referring to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) despite of many social, cultural and community life challenges. The South to South Exchange program is expected to contribute knowledge and life lesson for students from both countries regarding to SDGs issues. The next South to South Exchange Program to Indonesia as the follow-up of 2017 program, was carried out on August 20-29, 2019 supported by Ecumenical Scholarship Program-Brot fur die Welt (BfdW), Germany.
 
 
This program gave participants opportunity to understand the reality of students’ life in Indonesia, the cultural diversity, issues and challenges related to natural resources; to observe sustainable alternative farming practices; and to engage in interfaith dialogue. SCMI participants consisted of two facilitators and seven students, namely, Tolly Yeptho, Rebekah Rajkumar, Larihun Lyngdoh, Minta Varghese, Santhi Perusetti, Sharon Christy, Imlikokba Kichu and two facilitators, namely, Inbaraj Jeyakumar and Ibatista Shylla.
 

 

Together with students of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta, they learned the city of Yogyakarta with its Philosophical Axis and visited Yogyakarta palace and Gembira Loka zoo. Regarding sustainable agriculture in Indonesia, they studied in Samas area, where dry sand land is managed in such a way using compost and pipe irrigation system so that it becomes productive agricultural land. Local farmers manage the sand ground to be productive agricultural land, by planting shallots, chillies, green beans, corn and eggplants. Further, to anticipate price fluctuation made by middle-seller, the farmers strengthen themselves through farmer credit union that facilitates capital loans and harvest sales.
 

 

 
 
As an introduction to culture and history, Indian students had an opportunity to visit Borobudur temple, the largest Buddhist temple in the world. As one of the world heritages, this temple is very majestic and unique where the formation of each stone interlocked each other so that the structure of the temple became stronger, while the ornaments and reliefs of the temple were carved in detail that made them amazed. Multicultural Training and Interfaith Dialogue in which dozens of students from various regions in Indonesia who study in Yogyakarta were gathered, became a valuable dialogue space because each participant from Indonesia and India learned and exchanged experiences about study, culture and life. The practice of writing batik typical of Yogyakarta, Indian 'henna'- a hand-painted art and typical Indian culinary such as puri, masala, chapati, yogurt or even chai tea completed the understanding of cultural aspects. Having dialogue with Indonesia Christian Student Movement (GMKI) and watching movie ‘Bumi and Manusia’ provided information about student movements and the history of Indonesians’ struggle during Dutch colonialism period, especially depicting the women’s life.
 

 

 

"This is my first time discovering a dry land farming system by processing unproductive land into productive one. I think this can be applied in India as an alternative farming on dry land and I want to share what I experienced in my area," said Imlikokba Kichu, one of the participants from India. There are many more experiences and positive impressions from SCMI students for the activities carried out in Indonesia such as city planning, cleanliness, facilities for the disabled, people hospitality and many others.
 
 
Meeting and direct interaction between students across the nations certainly gave added value to both sides. They learned from one another and improved themselves so that human resources can be more qualified to increase the standard life of human universally. (TRU).

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Connecting Soul,   Celebrating Diversity

Monday, 26 August 2019
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Being smart in managing the existing differences in Indonesia is the key to the country's stability and guaranteeing the security of the citizens. Religious symbols, ethnicity, race or certain groups make people divided in variety of differences, also prejudice and radicalism will add to the freezing gap of communication and interaction among community members. The training with a title in Indonesian language: Menghubungkan Jiwa, Merayakan Perbedaan (Connecting Soul, Celebrating Diversity), is one of the contributions of Stube-HEMAT for this nation.
 
Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta training on Multicultural Training and Interreligion Dialogue at Kukup Indah Hotel, Kukup beach area, Gunungkidul, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Friday-Sunday, August 23-25, 2019, became a forum for discussion and interaction of students from various regions studying in Yogyakarta. Delegations from Stube-HEMAT Bengkulu, activits of Stube-HEMAT Sumba and participants of South to South Program from Student Christian Movement of India (SCMI) took part in contributing ideas in the three-day training.
 
 

 

 

Connecting Soul Celebrating Diversity encouraged participants to get to know each other despite diverse backgrounds and together campaign for diversity acceptance in Indonesia. Ariani Narwastujati, Executive Director, conveyed the intricacies of Stube-HEMAT's servicess, as well as the diversity of networking at the international level, which requires each individual to understand their existence as part of diversity itself. The Student Christian Movement of India (SCMI) is one of the diversity of networks owned by this institution. Inbaraj Jeyakumar, General Secretary of SCM of India expressed the pleasure of meeting students in Indonesia and moving with SCMI to fight for equality for men and women, human rights, education, poverty alleviation and humanity.



 

Answering the Diversity of Religion and Culture in Indonesia, A Challenge or Opportunity? Wening Fikriyati, from Srikandi Lintas Iman (Srili) opened participants' thoughts by writing down their characteristics, for example ethnicity, skin color, religion, hair shape, and other characteristics. Next, participants are led to understand prejudice through 'games' guessing objects in a closed container. Participants managed to name a number of objects, but some were missed because of their small size and hidden. From here the participants learned that it is easy to judge something because they often meet but some are forgotten because they rarely meet. In one ‘container’ of Indonesia, cultural diversity, ethnicity, race and religion will not harmonious if it is not managed properly, and can even damage ‘the container’ itself. So, it must be maintained by getting to know and respect each other's existence through cross-cultural interactions across religions, cultural carnivals, and others.
 
 

 

 

As the evidence of the diversity, the participants wore costumes from their respective regions, such as Lampung, Sumba, Nias, Timor Leste, Kalimantan, Flores, North Sumatra and Java in a cultural parade walking around Kukup beach as a means of educating public how rich the cultures in Indonesia. This parade started the discussion about the Sekolah Kebhinekaan (School of Diversity) with Rev. Christiana Riyadi, Bilal Ahmad from JAI, Rev. Lucas, and Budi as PDHI representatives. The Sekolah Kebhinekaan was initiated by the Klasis Gunungkidul churches with NU, Fatayat, MBI, PDHI, JAI and other institutions as a means of education for interfaith youth about inclusive and tolerant characters in Gunungkidul regency through joint interactions, watching short films about tolerance, visiting places of worship, doing live-in with people with different religions and designing campaigns for diversity and tolerance.
 
 
Next, the participants explored examples of local wisdom in various regions in Indonesia such as Sandinganeng in Halmahera and Sintuwu Maroso in Poso. The cultural and art performance night was exciting with the participants’ performances  started from Aru Islands song and local Nias song, poetry, song and gestures from India and theater by the trainees. It made the feeling of togetherness among participants grew stronger.
 
 

 

 

The participants' follow-up actions with new knowledge and experiences that they have during the training were manifested in their action plans to voice tolerance, understanding inclusion and togetherness through diversity videos, writing about regional cultural heritages, student discussions and participation in interfaith and cross culture movements. Hopefully in the future everyone will find interrelation without prejudice and discover the beauty of diversity in Indonesia. (TRU).
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Wai Humba Festival We are not the Sumba toward Extinction  

Saturday, 24 August 2019
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Wai Humba Festival is a festival designed to bring people closer together with God the Almighty and the environment, while uniting four regions in Sumba island, namely East Sumba, Central Sumba, West Sumba and Southwest Sumba. The festival itself is a gratitude to God the Almighy for the blessing of water and reflection on the importance of preserving Sumba's natural environment.
 
Wai Humba is derived from word ‘Wai/wee’ means water and ‘Humba/zuba’ means Sumba. Many places found in Sumba are preceeded with prefix 'Wai' such as Waingapu in East Sumba, Waibakul in Central Sumba, Waikabubak in West Sumba and Weetabula in Southwest Sumba. For the Sumbanese, water is the source of all life on earth and they refuse to pollute water and pray to protect water, to be always blessed and protected, and to be kept away from the evil hands of humans who will destroy it.
 
As for the spirit of the festival is "We are not Sumba toward extinction", in local language 'Nda Humba Li La Mohu Akama (East Sumba)', 'Da Zuba Da Sagage Mod'da Damo' (West Sumba), 'Nda Suba Kima Pa Aro Modda Dana' (South Sumba). The spirit assures everyone that, as time goes on, the Sumba's civilization and culture will not be destroyed or extincted.
 
Since 2012 Wai Humba Festival has held in 7 locations across Sumba:
Wai Humba Festival I at Paponggu River, Tanadaru Mountain Area, Central Sumba, October 29, 2012.
Wai Humba Festival II on the slopes of Yawila, Umma Pande, Dikira village, South Sumba.
Wai Humba Festival III in the village of Ramuk, East Sumba.
Wai Humba Festival IV in Paponggu, Tanadaru, Central Sumba.
Wai Humba Festival V in Kadahang, Haharu, East Sumba.
Wai Humba Festival VI in Tabera village, Doka Kaka Village, West Sumba.
Wai Humba Festival VII in the village of Ekapata, Yawila, Southwest Sumba.
Wai Humba Festival VIII will be held in Kananggar, East Sumba, October 18-20, 2019.
 
The three days festival is designed with different events each year, such as fraternity vows, Sumba arts and culture, reforestation, ‘kalarat wai’ or rituals to bless water, Humba village discussions, village visits and Wai and Tana Humba awards. From this series of activities came recommendations to the local government, for example, in Festival VI resulted ten points of recommendation to the government, two of those were (1) recommending the government to do inventory and to protect indigenous people, culture ground and forest land in Sumba and to create a Regulation of Community Protection on customary law; (2) making Sumba language as local subject in all schools in Sumba.
 
The positive response came from the Sumba community, as the indigenous people, they are grateful because the festival provides space to network and strengthen bonds of brotherhood among Sumbanese as well as a place for exchanging views on issues and understanding related to Sumba; for the younger generation, the festival can enhance new understanding while growing love to land of Humba. Beside the Sumbanese, the visitors were also from outside Sumba. These activities are exciting and may give new insights about local cultures that differ from theirs.
 
Hopefully, the Wai Humba Festival brings positive impact on Sumba's development and unites the Sumba indigenous people even though they are spread in different administrative areas. We are not Sumba toward extinction! (Antonia Maria Oy)

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“Sandinganeng”   We Are Friends  

Thursday, 22 August 2019
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Every area has local wisdom that makes the area unique and more attractive. Local wisdom covers typical food, wise sentences, cultural relics, moral messages, ethics and much more.
 
We can also find local wisdom in one of the immigrant etnic group in the village of Puao. Puao is one village of the Central Wasile distric in East Halmahera Regency. This village has 635 population with area of 474.90 square. This village is inhabited by indigenous tribe namely Tobelo and migrant tribes such as Sangihe, Buton, Makassar, Java and Manado. The majority of the people who live in this village is Protestant Christians and some Muslims. The daily lives of the people here are working as fishermen and farmers.
 
 
Most people do both farmers and fishermen depending on the season. The Sangihe ethnic group is one of the migrant (1973) from North Sulawesi from Sangihe island we called (Sangir) who can be said to be successful to make personal approch to the indigenous and they could have some land to build houses and land for plantations. During the changing time they built villages  and in 2007 the village became Silalayang village.
 
 
The Silalayang village is a part of Puao villages of which the people are majority from Sangihe. They married with native ethnic group or fellow Sangihe. Since 1973, every year they started to come for work or simply migrated to the mainland of Halmahera, because the their main job is fishing as fishermen.
 
It was interesting when they entered the special Halmahera area in Puao Village, they brought the slogan of "sandinganeng" which means "we are friends", "group", or “friend". The motto makes the Puao native people opened and accepted them kindly. Sangdinganeng's motto also made the Sangihe ethnic group survived in the new area without feeling afraid and worried because they had been doing this slogan every single day in their life from the beginning.
 
We can see the real motto from the work ethic of the Sangihe ethnic group who migrated to the land of Halmahera. They are very hardworking people and always try to help people around them. We can find this when we are visiting the Halmahera region. In addition, the skill of making boats and fishing intelligence of the Sangihe ethnic group is no a doubt.
 
Until now the motto is still closely attached to Sangihe ethnic group in Silalayang village. The Motto is understood by never making a problem with the native people of the area. On the other hand, youth of the indigenous often make trouble in Silalayang village, but the Sangihe tribe does not respond to or grudge against them.
 
We can also see the sandinganeng motto in Silalayang village this time through the coming of many migrants from outside the region such as the Philippines, Manado, Java, Buton, Talaut, Makassar and some Tobelo ethnic group who also lived and settled in this village. Interestingly the Sangihe never made a fuss with them instead they lived in harmony. Sangihe until now still use the daily conversation of the Sangihe language (Sangir).

 
The Sangihe people who were previously migrants, now have become native residents of Halmahera and have contributed to ideas in supporting the progress of the village of Silalayang. The involvement of Sangihe and immigrants in Silalayang village can be seen from the selection of Silalayang Village Heads. Robles Makatika, a mixed birth of Sangihe and Manado which was chosen as the Head of Silalayang Village. He is a leader with good visionary and has role model for young people today at Central Wasile.
 
 
With the progress of the village today, in terms of village infrastructure development, starting from no village office, he built an office and got a good predicate as the cleanest and neatest office. Further, he built a market selling clothes, vegetables and fresh fish and also built a port for a berth for fisherman boats and sea taxi. In addition, the port is now one of the photo spots that must be visited when visiting Silalayang.
 
This village become a good example for all villages in Central Wasile District, as a new village that is growing most either for infrastructure or people economic growth. The motto of sandinganeng is not just a sentence but it is truly understood and  practiced in daily life until now. (ERI).
 
 

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Poso In Sintuwu Maroso

Saturday, 17 August 2019
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Local wisdom is often interpreted as local policy, local knowledge or local intelligence. Local wisdom itself is a view of life and knowledge as well as various life strategies carried out by local communities to answer various problems in fulfilling the needs of the community. Local wisdom also specifically related to a particular culture and reflects the way of life of a particular society.
 
 
Poso is a regency with noble cultural values that unite lands of Poso, while other people recognize Poso as a red zone of terrorism, land of conflict among religions, many cases of murder even when it comes to ideological conflict, it also played role in it. So in Poso, there has been an attempt to unite nationalist group into political forum to dispel primordial movements that could disrupt Indonesian pluralism and unity. Whatever the argument, the violence that brought the death of many people, including innocent people cannot be allowed.
 

 

Poso has one customary value, called ‘Sintuwu Maroso’ which comes from two words, ‘Sintuwu’ which means fellowship, unity, simplicity and ‘Maroso’ which means strong. So, if both are combined, they become a strong life community, where the life of the people is colored by harmony and tolerance.

Besides that, there is something interesting behind the philosophy of life among 'to Poso' (people of Poso) in Pamona local language, the word of 'Poso' in Indonesian means ‘broken out’, certainly it is contrast with the value upheld by people of Poso. It can be concluded that even though Poso faced intolerance issue, the people of Poso still keep the values of Sintuwu Maroso which mean, Tuwu Mombetuwunaka (respectful living), Tuwu Mombepatuwu (having mutual living) and Tuwu Mombesungko (giving help each other).


Actually people of Poso are not a society that is closed with tolerance because Sintuwu Maroso that unite the people’s lives remain peaceful and healthy. This is the dream of the entire Poso society from the past until now. (FAT).

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  "Napurantano-tano Ranging Masiranggoman, Tung pe Badanta Padao-dao Tonditta ma Masigomgoman"

Friday, 16 August 2019
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The culture of Batak ethnic group has various terms to appreciate life, one of which is about harmony in kinship and unity. Batak has 6 tribes in it namely Toba Batak, Karo Batak, Simalungun Batak, Pakpak Batak, Mandailing Batak and Angkola Batak. Each Batak tribe has a different language, culture and traditional clothing motif. A distinctive feature to know someone from Batak ethnic group is from his family name which is derived from father. After getting to know the name of the clan, it will be known that the person is from the Batak ethnic group and which area they come from. People from Batak are often found in many regions in Indonesia. This ethnic group is also well-known for its loud speech and ‘martarombo’, looking for relationship with the same clan. So don’t be surprised if there is a very close kinship among those clans.
 
 
There is a Batak term saying "Napurantano-tano Rangging Masiranggoman Tung pe Badanta Padao-dao Tonditta ma Masigomgoman" Tano = Land, Rangging Masiranggoman = mutually binding, Tung = really, pe = even, Badan = body, dio-dao = distant, tondita ma = soul. The translation will be "betel trees are growing on the ground, their trunks are mutually binding, even if our bodies are separated, our souls will remain united".  Even though we are in a different location, but ultimately we remain united.
 
This philosophy is taken from the local culture where the people there are used to consume betel nut. Therefore, this philosophy is taken from the betel tree. If we observed this tree trunk, when it grows, stems and ends will meet or unite. Just like when we go to a remote location to migrate to work or study, finally someday we will meet again. This meaning provides hope for those who have differences either areas or language and culture, that actually the differences are complements and unites us. In regional beliefs it also means when the body/body is apart with the soul, one day they will meet again.
 
The betel tree which although live by riding on another plant, does not take nutrients from the plants it is living on. Even the beautiful heart-shaped leaves will actually beautify the plants that they are living on. It is a such symbol that we can learn that actually it describes peaceful coexistence among diversity existing in the land of Batak, even in the entire territory of Indonesia. As a symbol of harmony and peace, it is not surprising that certain traditional customs are often carried out and present betel leaves as a meaning of harmonious and not harmful life.
 
One more a unique of the betel tree is, this plant propagates from the bottom up which means that in life and work, everything must be started from the bottom slowly and then becomes higher without harming others. It is best for us to understand and appreciate our noble national culture in order to create a harmonious peace and unity to maintain our brotherhood. (RBN).

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Stube-HEMAT    Mingles with Society 

Thursday, 15 August 2019
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Living together with community and learning local culture make life more meaningful wherever we are. Likewise Stube-HEMAT in the midst of Yogyakarta society, especially RW 19, Nyutran, always takes part in social dynamics. As in activity to welcome Indonesia's 74th independence, Stube-HEMAT participated in "Cultural Dialogue" event on August 14, 2019, at the residence of Empu Keris (heirloom expert of Keris), Eko Supriyono. It issued three topics namely; Understanding the philosophical axis of Yogyakarta, the History of  kampong Nyutran, and the Keris.
 
 
The topic of Understanding the philosophy axis of Yogyakarta was delivered by the Executive Director of Stube-HEMAT, Ariani Narwastujati, by showing a short video that was interesting and easily understood by the audience. The video is a simple basic reference about philosophical axis of Yogyakarta, which has been ranked at the 4th position out of 15 videos competition held by Office of Communication and Information, Yogyakarta Special Region. The videos with English subtitles can be accessed on the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jc211arVk Philosophical Axis of Yogyakarta City
 
The video on philosophical axis became the opening for cultural dialogue and made the audience  understand more and love Yogyakarta city which uphold the values of life, humanity and differences in creation. The audience reflected the essence of being born, filling life and the process of returning to the Divine.
 
The following topic was the history of kampung Nyutran by Endro Gunawan, the umpteenth generation of native residents who formerly lived in this kampong. Originally the place seemed a Madura soldier base camp, which was named the Nyutra soldier. The soldier became one group of soldiers of Yogyakarta Sultanate coming from various regions and islands in the archipelago to support the Sultan.
 

 

Continuing the history of the kampong, the dialogue about the heirloom of Keris conveyed by Eko Supriyono is no less interesting. Hundreds, even thousands of keris  has been produced from his hand since 1979. Eko Supriyono explained about the type of warangka (the keris storage) and also every shape of warangka has its own name. In the process, Indonesian-made keris was registered at UNESCO as one of the World Cultural Heritage in 2005.
 
 
The Nyutran residents were enthusiastic to participate in the dialogue and they have an idea to design such event regularly as public education media related with the history of Yogyakarta city, the history of Nyutran kampong and also about the keris which was also one of the accessories for Javanese men’s traditional costume.
 

 

Indonesia has been independent for 74 years, and the common reflection for such period is what contribution we can make for our nation and country? Loving culture, respecting one another and continuing to support one another are our choices, because our duty is opening chances for the birth of wise leaders regardless of ethnicity, race or religion. Let us be united because we are Indonesia which is full of diverse customs and local history. (SAP).

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 Ngerti, Ngrasa, Nglakoni  Understanding, Having Emphaty and Experiencing  

Tuesday, 13 August 2019
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One community group called Javanese society is a community that generally lives in the central part of the island of Java. Javanese people are known to have richness of culture, teachings and idioms that are diverse and can even be said to be complex because they are related to many things and get influence because of the history of Javanese society itself, for example Hindu and Islamic influences. Culture, teachings and idioms are guidelines for everyday life in relation between human with him/herself, human with the Almighty, human with others and human with the surrounding environment. All of this is a tool that is believed to maintain the balance of the order of life among society.
 
 
It should be admitted that there are various suggestions, advice and expressions that live and flourish in the midst of Javanese society. One of them is ‘Ngerti, Ngrasa and Nglakoni’. This advice was expressed by Ki Hadjar Dewantara, an Indonesian education figure and founder of Tamansiwa.
 
The simple meanings of 'Ngerti, Ngrasa and Nglakoni' are:
Ngerti (to understand):
This is a person's attempt to obtain knowledge of something that wants to be known or unintentional through the five senses. In this cognitive aspect hed/she will be able to recognize something, identify and make a concept from the new knowledge that he/she acquired.
 
Ngrasa (to feel):
This is the phase of affection where someone feels and lives up to what he/she already knows, not just knowing but finding meaning in it. This can be seen from the change in attitude because of new knowledge that has been obtained before.
 
Nglakoni (to do):
This part is the psychomotor aspect in which a person acts, does something or skills because of new knowledge that he/she learned before. This is a form of consistency and exemplary, doing what has been learned before.
 
This advice remains relevant until now because someone from birth passes through life stages according to his/her development towards maturity, always gets new knowledge, feels and does.
 
 
In terms of human life in a world filled with diversity, and diversity is the essential existence that exists in the world, including humans and the natural environment around it. Humans are in it and they try to recognize and know everything around them, and in reality they cannot get away from the surrounding environment. New knowledge and experience of diversity encourages one to reflect and live up to the reality. This is what makes a person determine his/her attitude and determine actions in response to them.
 
Especially in Indonesia with cultural, ethnic, religion and community diversity, the steps that need to be taken are ‘Ngerti’ which is trying to gain knowledge about diversity so as to discover and understand the values or philosophy of life, uniqueness and cultural expression of other communities. Then 'Ngrasa' or feel and appreciate diversity is not a threat but the reality and richness of Indonesia. Furthermore, 'Nglakoni' is manifesting in actions that show mutual tolerance, openness through cooperation, mutual cooperation, politeness and concern for humanity and the environment.
 
‘Ngerti, Ngrasa and Nglakoni’ are simple advices but require willingness, awareness and sincerity to be implemented in actions of everyday life. (TRU).
 

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Global Interaction For Sustainable Development

Sunday, 11 August 2019
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Global interaction is inevitable, and even becomes requirements, especially for students having advantage from technology advancements that enable communication and encounter limitation because of distance, space and time among people to transfer knowledge, to add experience and to expand networks for the improvement of human life quality itself based on the indicators of sustainable development purposes. Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta as a student mentoring institution opened to be the host students for students group from Department of Sociology at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University, Hannover. They learned Indonesia sustainable development, in Yogyakarta on August 8-10, 2019.

This activity became a means for Indonesian and German students to deepen their understanding of different cultures and political systems, share ideas and experiences related to aspects of sustainable development, such as health, environmental education and others. Stube-HEMAT Executive Director, Ariani Narwastujati, S.Pd, S.S, M.Pd, welcomed them and explained about the city of Yogyakarta through video and promoting the philosophical axis of the city. The Coordinator of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta, Trustha told about Stube-HEMAT activities in Yogyakarta, Sumba and Bengkulu. Andreas Kurschat, group coordinator from Hannover, introduced the group and explained the purpose of coming to Indonesia with several students to observe the social life and health of the Indonesian people, especially in Semarang, Central Java and to learn cultural uniqueness in Yogyakarta with Stube-HEMAT.

The practice of doing ‘batik’ became the first experience for students from Hannover, to appreciate the Javanese cultural heritage that UNESCO has recognized as the world heritage. The team of Stube-HEMAT accompanied them to make batik starting from determining patterns and drawing on fabric. They showed enthusiasm since the first time and poured liquid wax into cloth using ‘canting’ carefully. Even though the wax dripped outside the pattern lines several times, it did not dampen their spirits and continued to dye batik using the ‘colet’ technique.

Brief information about Philosophical Axis intrigued them to visit several locations of the Philosophical Axis from Krapyak Stage to the north to South square, then from Tugu to the south through streets of Marga Utama, Malioboro, Marga Mulya and Pangurakan, to North square of Kraton Yogyakarta on foot. The deep meaning of the symbols seized their attention to achieve the glory of human life, and the existence of various types of plants in the Philosophical Axis strengthen the concern on the environment.

The discussion with Bethesda Community Development in Yogyakarta, as one community assistance to improve the quality of health, gave participants an understanding about Healthy Indonesia Program through Family Approach (PIS-PK) which is realized by mentoring the health services for mothers, infants and families, nutritional adequacy and availability of health service facilities in several villages in East Sumba regency, Alor regency and Malaka regency. Those three areas are in East Nusa Tenggara Province.

Campus attention about the quality of public health was discussed with Medical Faculty of Duta Wacana Christian University in Yogyakarta, and doctor Teguh Kristian Perdamaian, who gives lecture in General Medicine and Public Health Sciences. He revealed the reasons why a person postpones health matters such as insurance, periodic examinations and medication. The reasons are ( 1) low education, due to low literacy and lack of health promotions, (2) financial limitations, related to non-medical issues such as transportation costs, accommodation during medical care and loss of income, (3) family and cultural influences, related with family decisions, culture background and alternative medicine, and (4) psychological aspects, such as emotional constraints and people's perception on their disease.

The visit to the Sultan’s palace completed a series of learning about the Palace's commitment to preserve cultural heritages in the form of teachings, life philosophy and various forms of art, as well as heritage objects such as the palace building and collections of literature and antiques.
 
Hopefully with a variety of experiences from cross-nation student interactions, field observations and discussions taught each student to respect human existence and life values for life survival on earth. (TRU).


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Faramau re Fatenow Farumi The Phrase of Unity

Monday, 5 August 2019
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The capital city of Maba distric is Buli Village. Maba distric has 408,50 km square large  (six percent for all East Halmahera), and it is located approximately 46.66 km away from the capital of East Halmahera Regency. Maba district consisted of 10 villages namely Buli, Buli Asal, Buli Karya, Wayafli, Geltoli, Sailal, Pekaulang, Teluk Buli, Gamesan and Baburino. The last three names are new villages which were formed at the end of 2012 (https://haltimkab.go.id/kecamatan-maba/).
 
Base on the administrative area the capital city of Maba district is in the village of Buli, but based on culture and structure, it's all centered on Buli Asal Villages. It can be seen when Buli people make gathering like wedding party, they still use traditional ceremony to welcome guest and they still speak Buli language. Based on traditional characters and ways to preserve their ancestral cultur, there are also interesting stories about local wisdom that are still maintained. One of them is local wisdom in uniting all ethnic groups, religions and tribes that are living in Maba district.
 
 
In addition to local Buli ethnic group who are Christians and Muslims, there are also a number of migrant ethnic groups, including Maba, Bugis, Sangir, Tobelo, Toraja, Java and some migrants from other Halmahera regions. Besides that, the biggest religion is Christian and Islam which still dominate this area. Buli is a rich with nickel, gold and copper mines. Since 1997 the Geomin Drilling Company has entered this area and has an office in Buli Village (now the village of Geltoly; which means intersection). In addition to the mining companies there are also Post Offices and several other Expeditions such as JNE and Lion Parcel to support the online buying and selling infrastructure in Buli. The office of the East Halmahera Regional Police Chief is still in Buli Village, not in the Regency Capital. In addition, there are currently 1 gas station, several shops and markets that sell clothing and also markets for fresh fish and vegetables to meet the people needs.

 

 



Those are the description of Buli now. The current situation of Buli cannot be separated from the efforts of the predecessor, especially the traditional elders of Buli who continue struggling to promote the philosophy of life in harmony and mutual respect. In 1998-2000 there was  vast riots in Poso, Maluku and Halmahera. The riots took many lives, destroyed family, property and tore the chain of brotherhood among brothers and sisters.
 
The first widespread cause of the riot was boundaries or land border problems between two villages, Kao and Malifut. However, the boundary problem turned into a riot that claimed the lives of many innocent people. The riot occurred almost throughout Halmahera island from North to South but not in Buli. Based on some literature, the riot broke out in January 1999 until the signing of Malino II Charter, on February 13, 2002 (https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerusuhan_Kepulauan_Maluku), then the situation began to be conducive.

The Buli area can survive and not to be affected by any riots at all because the local wisdom of "Faramaw re Fatenow Farumi" which means "being brothers and sisters", “We Are Family" was echoed by the elders of Buli area. The motto has unified people and kept to be life by all communities in Buli local area. Because it was the local wisdom that made Buli or Maba District were safe from the 1999/2000 riots. The motto is always spoken as the opening greeting in speeches at major events in the villages. The unifying language proved to be able to unite all ethnic groups, religions and race who lived and settled in Bulli area. In the village of Buli Asal, official ceremonies like weddings or releasing and welcoming pastors, the phrase above is still used as opening speeches.
 
Further, the phrase is always used when people will do cooperated-work in the construction of the church, manse or other public facilities. It is a such key to open everyone's heart to  help or to give support. We must keep the local wisdom and doing in our life, because now and in the future, we will continue our life  to be able to live side by side and to unite even though we are different in religion, ethnicity and race (SAP)

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Learning Tolerance   From Lamaholot Culture

Thursday, 1 August 2019
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'Orang Lamaholot' is a nickname to call of a person from one ethnic group in East Nusa Tenggara. The ethnic group is Lamaholot. The Lamaholot is indigenous people live in East Flores, Adonara, Solor and Lembata, with the characteristics of speaking Lamaholot Language as their mother tongue and for daily life as well.
 
Lamaholot comes from two (2) words namely Lama: kampung, Holot: series. So that Lamaholot is interpreted as series of village.
 
Every person born as a part of a large family members of Lamaholot truly believes that every fortune and convinience in any works is because of Lewotanah (hometown) and a blessing from ancestors.
 
Lewotanah molo nage kame dore, ti pana akene todok, gawe akene wallet (The hometown goes first, then we go after, so that our journey will have no danger and obstacle) Kame pana mai, seba wata piri tou, buku biliki teratu, balik maan gelekat lewo, gewayan tanah (We go to earn some rice for living, to search for knowledge, then finally to return to home for the awesome of hometown). This is a prayer of every Lamaholot when they are traveling. The prayer saves and at the same time gives fortune while people of Lamaholot are overseas.
 
Lamaholot's ancestors have inherited how to coexist without hostility. Religion comes later,  long after belief  "Taan kakan noo arin. Ake pewone geni" (Living side by side as fellow brothers. Don't hate one another).
 
The form of togetherness of people of Lewotanah, either those in their hometown or those overseas is by eating together. It is an awaited moment where young children, adults, young adults, men or women of all religions without exception, attend and merge together in celebration of  having meal together.
 
All Lewotanah children get a message to bring a mission of peace, unity and tolerance with other fellows wherever they are. Through sacrificed animals and eating together, parents give strength and blessing to all Lewotanah’s children to continue working  wherever they are.
 
 
Source : https://www.kompasiana.com/maksimusmasankian/5c2ef77f677ffb2639155386/lewotana-perekat-persatuan-dan-toleransi-orang-lamaholot?page=all

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Exploring Local Potency   for Waropen Batik Design

Saturday, 6 July 2019
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The desire to be independent as an entrepreneur became a meeting point between Stube-HEMAT, as a human resource development institution with Youth and Sports Office of Waropen Regency, Papua, which sent its youth to learn batik and productive businesses based on batik in Yogyakarta on July 2-4, 2019. The meeting of these two institutions cannot be separated with Roni Kayai’s role who had attended Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta training when he studied in this city around 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The distance and a long journey of more than 24 hours to Yogyakarta did not dampen their desire. "We want to learn batik in Yogyakarta and have entrepreneurial knowledge so that our youth will be independent and able to develop entrepreneurship in our region," said Enos Refasi, S.Sos, Head of the Youth Division in Youth and Sports Office of Waropen regency during the opening session of the training.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Participants began their exposure by visiting Yogyakarta Batik Museum located on Dr. Sutomo street no 13 A, Bausasran. With great attention, they listened to the museum staff explanation of the history of batik in Yogyakarta, Surakarta and on the north coast of Java which was influenced by other nations. Initially batik was used only by certain groups but now common people can use it. They also observed batik motifs that imply hidden messages or prayers from the creator and the users. For example an appropriate motif and moment, like ‘Sidoasih’ motif which is worn at the wedding, and ’Gringsing’ motif which is used when people are ill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Equipping them with desriptions of local potencies that can be promoted as batik motif, Stube-HEMAT brought participants to visit ‘Manggala’ batik studio in Kulonprogo. Pak Surasa, the owner, welcomed and expressed his pleasure to have a visit from Waropen youth. He invited them to observe various batik collections, the unique ‘Gebleg Renteng’ motif of Kulonprogo, abstract motifs and motifs with certain figures, the process of pouring wax, making patterns, and shedding wax. "We develop handmade batik and stamp batik because we want people from all levels to be able to use original batik. It's weird if we have batik heritage but cannot buy because its expensive price. So, we innovate to reduce production costs so that the prices are affordable. In addition, we promote batik to outside Java, such as Kalimantan, Sulawesi and even West Papua," he said.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kampung Batik Giriloyo, which has long been known as the center of traditional batik was the next place of learning. Said Romli (the person in charge for marketing division of the community) and Isnaini Muhtarom (Chairperson of Batik Giriloyo Community, as well as the head of the village) welcomed the participants and delivered an introduction, "Giriloyo batik center actually supports thousands of people in this area. This association gathers dozens of batik studios in Giriloyo so that they have competitiveness in the market and this gallery is a showroom to display collections of batik that mostly uses natural dyes," he explained.

 

 

 

When practicing batik the participants seemed awkward in puoring wax, but slowly they could do it even though wax droplets hit on the fabric. It is natural because it is the first time of practicing batik. The final step was coloring and shedding wax, and finally became their first work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many experiences in Yogyakarta provided participants with ideas of designing motifs for Waropen type. Finally, several batik motifs of Waropen ornaments appeared on the last day before returning to Papua.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Youth is identical with enthusiasm to learn new things. Hopefully, those will enable them to develop, to be independent and to contribute in advancing their region. (TRU).

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Sustainable Development Goals   Our joint responsibility

Saturday, 18 May 2019
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Seventeen of July 2019 is the deadline to send the draft made by Voluntary National Review or VNR which contains the review of Indonesian government’s achievement regarding the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to UN in New York. Before the date, the government collected the achievements in 2018 related to the issue to be reviewed in 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are five big objectives that will be reviewed, including the 4th goal of SDGs about education equality, the 8th goal regarding the decent job and economic growth, the 10th goal of reducing inequality, the 13th goal relating to the handling of climate change and the 16th goal on peace, justice and strong institutions.

 

 

 

These five objectives are the focus of Sayangi Tunas Cilik Foundation or Save the Children by conducting several dialogues with young people in Soppeng, South Sulawesi and Yogyakarta, in the middle of March 2019. The dialogue called ‘Youth Consultation for the SDGs’ was accomplished by sending several representatives to Jakarta to have an audience with the National Development Planning Institution (BAPPENAS) with a hope to deliver the results of consultations that have been carried out for two days in each cities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The meeting with BAPPENAS in Central Jakarta was held on Thursday, May 16, 2019 and the representatives were Debbi and Adi from Soppeng, Sarloce (Stube-HEMAT) and Ferdi (Gusdurian) from Yogyakarta. The representatives from Sayangi Tunas Cilik Foundation were Tata Sudrajad (Director of Advocacy and Campaign), Ratna Yunita (Advisor of Children’s Rights Management), Nurma Nengsih (Program Officer, Soppeng) and Ryan Febrianto (Youth Consultant). While BAPPENAS was represented by several members, namely Dr. Ir. Arifin Rudiyanto, MSc (Deputy for Maritime and Natural Resources), Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti, ST, MSi, M.Eng. Ph.D (Expert staff of Minister of National Development Planning for Economic and Financing Synergy), Ir. Wahyuningsih Darajati, M.Sc, (Director of Forestry Water Resources of Ministry of National Development Planning).

 

 

 

Dr. Ir. Arifin highly appreciated what Sayangi Tunas Cilik Foundation did in efforts to provide inputs on the VNR draft. Five major objectives are discussed with the challenges being faced, along with the recommendations. One of aspects voiced by Sarloce, the participants from Jogja, is related with land conversion in Halmahera and its recommendation that in the future the government should ensure legal status for the land that was forcibly taken on behalf of the state, but 2-3 months later the land was opened for mining. It happened in Halmahera region without exception. In addition, Sarloce suggested the efficiency use of village fund by sending expert staff to assist village head to distribute funds to the right  target, and to avoid corruption because of the village head's inability in distributing funds for job creation at the village.

 

 

 

 

In the meeting, the government was asked about its efforts regarding the preparation of VNR draft. Ir. Wahyuningsih Darajati, M.Sc said that the government had communicated with all stakeholders, also collaborated with several campuses through their SDGs Center that focused on solving problems for each goal. For example, University of Bengkulu focused on poverty, University of Hasanudin focused on health issues and so did some other campuses. These efforts were done to involve academics in solving problems faced by the nation, especially in vulnerable areas and limited infrastructure. Those were campus’ initiative if they were eager to be involved in reducing poverty and health problems. The government makes every effort and opens input from all parties to reduce problems currently faced.

 

 

 

 

 

The audience was expected to bring benefit for both parties and ended by gratitude closing from Tata Sudrajad, the Director of Advocacy and Campaign, Sayangi Tunas Cilik Foundation and then they took pictures together. (SAP).


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Family, Problems and Solutions Parenting Skills Program

Monday, 13 May 2019
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Family is the main foundation of the strength of one nation and state. Thus, knowledge of parenting and good relationship among family members, especially parents and children is not a trivial thing, moreover young people's lifestyle is more and more free. That’s why Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta innitiatted to hold the training. Some other reasons are; first, every student had experienced their parents’ parenting style with a variety of situations and backgrounds that affected their life and soul that will also bring influences in the parenting style for the next offsprings; second, each student will face two choices of having a family or to be single with its each consequences. Each choice requires preparation and readiness.
 
 
The training was attended by thirty students who gathered at Griya Sejahtera, Ngablak, Magelang (10-12/ 05/2019). They came from various regions in Indonesia who are studying in Yogyakarta. Despite having various study backgrounds, they were enthusiastic in participating in the training. The facilitators shared their knowledge and experience according to their respective competencies. As a biblical basis, Rev. Bambang Sumbodo, reminded participants of the threat of modern lifestyles to Christian families todays by taking the story of Moses and his family. Moses, who acted as the liberator of the Israelites from slavery at that time, must be very busy. By looking at the story of Imam Jethro's visit, Jethro is Moses' father-in-law, to the family of Moses, participants learned the need of mutual support and interaction between family members. Moses' success cannot be separated from the support of his family members.
 
 
Ariani Narwastujati, Executive Director of Stube-HEMAT, through a narrative invited the participants to look back the history of Stube-HEMAT, at the introduction session. The topic of Understanding the Children’s Rights and Children’s Growth Space was facilitated by Ahmad Damar Arifin, S.Pd., a PAUD facilitator, an observer of children and a storytellers. He revealed that everyone would become a parent, but not every parent understood how to educate their children according to children's intelligence. He provided participants with children's rights in accordance with UN Convention on Children’s the Rights in 1989, covering the rights to play, to have education, to get protection, to have name or identity, national status, food, to access health, to have recreation, to be treated equally and to take a role in development.
 
 
Next, Anggraeni Upik Pratiwi, S.Psi., shared Tips to Choose the Ideal Life Spouse, based on Psychological aspects, which include, first, to recognize oneself, both strengths and weaknesses; second, to determine the criteria of the expected spouse. Upik emphasized the importance of awareness of criteria that cannot be changed, for example physical and ethnic or descent, while the nature and hobbies are changeable; and third, expanding interactions to meet many people and know them deeply.
 
Technological advances affect family life, both ways of communication and interaction in the family. It is like two sides of a coin, on one side, technological advances make a person able to access unlimited information, even the person tends to be individualistic, but on the other side,  it is useful, such as for marketing family business, or doing face-to-face communication even though from a distance. Those were stated by Dr. Murti Lestari, M.Sc, UKDW Business Faculty lecturer and economics practitioner.
 
A talkshow on Family, Problems and Solutionsthat presented Drs. Bambang Hediono, MBA and his wife, namely Mrs. Lucia Nucke Idayani gave opportunity to the participants to have a dialogue about what happened actually in a family, the criteria for an ideal spouse, how to approach and to care for children. Both speakers agreed that life partners must be seriously maintained despite of differences between them, both should understand the strengths and weaknesses of each, trust each other, and let children to make decision.
 
 
Case analysis session led participants to explore a particular case in family and then discuss it in groups. They connected the cases with the training material and determined some efforts of prevention, resolution and assistance.
 

 

 

 

On the last day of the training, togetherness with the GKJ Gumuk congregation became a complement to the series of activities, where participants had opportunities to offer praise in Sunday worship and donate books and props for Sunday school.
 

 

As the output of the training, the participants wrote experiences of children in their origin and the family struggles they have ever observed. Riskia Gusta Nita, a student of STAK Marturia, from Lampung revealed, "This training approached the inner side of the participants. This is good because sometimes we do not understand ourselves, then we learned how to choose a spouse and design our future. I thing it is important to share what I get and feel during the training to other friends in my environment."
 

 

Self-recognition and the understanding of parenthood are good provisions to design and to enter the future. (TRU).

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Writing and Uncovering Anxiety Student Workshop on Writing Fiction

Thursday, 2 May 2019
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Writing activity that’s going along with one's life can be found from writing activities in the form of status and comments on social media, short messages, campus assignments and thesis. But there are also people who do not write anything to public for lack-confidence reason, unfamiliarity and fear. It should be understood that qualified writings come from practice and spirit not to give up easily. For this reason, Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta in collaboration with the Master Degree of Literature Team of Gadjah Mada University held a Writing Fiction Workshop (Wednesday, 1/5/2019) at Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta secretariat.
 
 
Twenty students from various regions, studying in various campuses in Yogyakarta attended the workshop. In the opening session, Trustha Rembaka, S.Th., coordinator of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta appreciated the enthusiasm of students to improve their fiction writing skills. Everyone has his/her own life story that’s valuable lessons for others, so be assured to start writing.
 
Achmad Munjid, M.A., Ph.D., a lecture at Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University, the workshop facilitator, was pleased to cooperate with Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta because he could interact with students from various regions in Indonesia. He began the workshop with a question: "If someone goes to swim and the trainer only gives a theory book to swim, he will be able to plunge to the pool and swim or not? He must practice how to swim, moving his hands, feet and breathing. It is the same with writing activity. Theory is not enough! He must write and continue to sharpen his writing skills."
 
There are various types of writing and one of them is fiction, a literary work that contains imaginary story and not real events. Despite an imagination, fiction writer must write interestingly, so the readers will be impressed with his/her fiction. The writer needs to realize that fictional writing is actually the author's thought because there is a conflict that makes him anxious. Then, he/she should determines the plot or storyline of conflict, crisis and resolution that contains 3D, namely Drama(attract attention), Desire (enthusiasm) and Danger(challenge), so that readers are interested in reading to completion. Another important parts are describing places, figures, events or things specifically and real that make the readers feel ‘as if’ they enter the story and meet directly with the characters. The author cannot write just "this food is delicious" because delicious is so relative. So, the writer must 'tell' the food, what the ingredients are, how they look, taste and flavour of the ingredients. If the reader feels like 'tasting' the food, it means that the writer is successful.
 

 

 

 
As an exercise, participants were asked to observe the painting and describe it in words and try to 'enter' into the readers' feelings. The facilitator revealed that writing is like someone digging a well with a needle, slowly digging the ground. It is the same case with writing that arranges letter by letter, word by word and sentence by sentence that finally becomes one complete writing.
 
"At first I liked writing diaries about my hearts and children stories, but I was shy and not confident when other people read them. However, in this workshop I got the answer that an author does not need to think about it. The important thing is writing down what is on my mind, telling the emotions and feelings, and  ignoring reader comments. Now I am confident enough to write," said Marina, a student of Mercu Buana University, coming from Riung, Flores Island.
 
Because this is just the beginning of writing fiction and still a learning process, it is necessary to write immediately and to train yourself. So, start writing, express everything that disturbs your heart! (TRU).

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Spirit To Achieve The SDGs Target In 2030

Sunday, 31 March 2019
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A sovereign country is a country having a commitment to bring social welfare for its people, through: alleviating poverty, education for all until Senor High School, good sanitation and health, also reducing the date rate of mother and infant. To achieve it, each country has to bring the same parameter. That’s why on September 2000, Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) were declared on High Millennium Conference by 189 country members of United Nation Organization in New York.

There were 8 main points to achiever until 2015, covering: (1) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; (2) Achieve universal primary education; (3) Promote gender equality and empower woman; (4) Reduce child mortality; (5) Improve maternal health; (6) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; (7) Ensure environmental sustainability; (8) Global partnership for development. In the process, the MDGs targets in Indonesia and in most countries in the world have not 100% achieved yet. The period of 15 years was not enough to meet the target, so UN country members agreed to continue the program called Sustainable Development Goals on September 2015 in New York. The achievement indicators of SDGs are more detailed in 17 points with an expectation that in 2030 all countries will be free from poverty, all children have qualified educational access with good infrastructure and human resource, and all countries may handle global climate change and problems of life sustainability and peace for all.

 
Related with Indonesia responsibility to UN in 2019, Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta wants to take a part by collecting aspiration and problems faced by young people throughout the islands, as 90% Stube HEMAT activist are coming from outside Jawa Island.


The discussion held in Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta secretary (31/03/2019) attended by 18 students and source person Dr. Murti Lestari, M.Si, Board-in charge of Stube-HEMAT, found that main obstacle is low quality of education bringing to low quality of human resource. Teacher quality, infrastructure, and school distance are main problems in many islands and remote areas throughout Indonesia. Further, un-renewable fuel like coal becomes agenda to reduce, to ensure environmental sustainability and ecosystem to get ideal climate, to reduce gas emission of greenhouse leading to the rise of sea level.

SDGs has been lasting for 4 years, and we still have 11 years more, so everyone is welcomed to involve and participate in each point and support the government to fulfill the 17 points, so that, Indonesia is able to achieve the indicators of SDGs in 2030. (SAP).


 


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Spirit To Be Politics Literate Among Javanese Church Members of Panggang

Sunday, 31 March 2019
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An intimate and warm atmosphere was felt when Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta team met the assembly and church member of Javanese Christian Church (GKJ) at Watu Payung, Gunungkidul (Saturday, 03/30/2019) in an activity entitled 'Learning Together about Politics' to welcome Indonesia's democratic party namely General Election. The participants consisted of church assemblies, adult citizen commission, youth commission, church elders and comission of testimony and service.


In his remarks, Prambudi Yakobus S, S.Pd, the chairman of the church assembly, expressed his gratitude that the collaboration network between the church and Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta continues to exist until now and becomes valuable modal for church to grow in the future. Next, Elisabeth Uru Ndaya, S.Pd introduced Stube-HEMAT as a mentoring institution for Christian students in Yogyakarta that equips them as blessing for churches based on their expertise. The church member building program is a form of sharing the blessing of knowledge for many people.
 
Furthermore, Trustha Rembaka, S.Th., revealed the history of church interaction with political power, starting from the time of Jesus and His disciples who were outside political power and even considered as rebels. In its development, the Christ belivers increased and they had their owned way of living such as living well in honesty and emphaty, and playing many roles in society. But the Roman authorities regarded this as a threat and began to hinder and persecute Christians. Nevertheless Christianity continued to develop, even at the end Christianity was adopted as the state religion. When Christianity began to mix with power, it began to lose its critical power gradually, to ignore humanity, poverty and injustice, because it had been already in comfort zone. The church reformation in 1517 became the peak of disgust for manipulative attitude of the church and leaders, then the reformation brought church back in voicing prophetic voices by struggling for humanity, alleviating poverty and fighting injustice.

An interesting game, called ‘Maju Mandeg’ was presented, where participants playd certain characters. The narrator said some statement statements and participants determined whether moving 'Forward' or 'Mandeg' (keep stopping). When participants felt that they are able to move they will 'go forward' or 'stagnate' when they felt inadequate. Finally, it was revealed that the participants are 'stagnant' because they were poor, low education and not confident. This made participants aware that they could have progress through their limitations if there was favor in political policy. This game aroused the awareness and enthusiasm of participants to participate in the Election by considering leaders who were able to bring favor for society.
 
Sarloce Apang, S.T., invited church members to take actions for the nation. They should think not only the church, but also the interests of the nation. She reminded that church members should not be politically blind, unwilling to see, to hear, to speak and to participate in political events. Everyone should be aware that various national policies were the results of political decisions, so apathy and not care to political world would prevent this nation from progress. The last session delivered by Marianus YL Lejap was about 'I and Election' as introduction for participants to know parties competing in election, election organizers and observing presidential candidates, Regional Representative candidates, Legislative candidates for national level, provincial  and regency of Gunung Kidul.
 
"Several years ago our church teenagers and youth expressed positive impression when studying together with Stube-HEMAT teams. So, when there is an opportunity to learn together with Stube-HEMAT, we accept it. In essence, we are thirsty for knowledge and learn new things", said Rev. Subagyo, the pastor of the local church at the end of the event.

A church with strong network, enthusiasm for learning new things, willingness to open its eyes, and politically literate is a growing church and it is a good modal to develop because this activities help church member to have clear understanding and intelligent to determine leaders who are able to bring prosperity to the society. Wish you all have the best choice in the election. (TRU).

 

 

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Understanding Politics   with Millennial’s View Follow-up activity of PMKRI & Mercu Buana groups

Monday, 25 March 2019
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To have political awareness of millennial group, campaign about it should be done continuously. This moment is used by afollow-up group called “ProductiveMilenial” belongs to Rusli, Riki, Marina, and Grace to campaign the importance of politics literacy among milenials. Having knowledge and information from Church and Politics training they followed before, they shared such topic with other student community. Placed at Nemo cafeNologaten (23/03/2019), it was started at 8.45 p.mwith 10 students coming from eastern Indonesia/NTTattended and actively participated on this small discussion.

Mariano Lejap, a team member ofStube-HEMAT Yogyakarta having role as group assistant, explained about the background of the discussion and introduced the service of Stube-HEMAT, a student service that gives empowerment to students through training programs. Many themes are talked over in Stube HEMAT to enlarge knowledge and to enrich students with many experiences.

The discussion had 2 main topic, that is, millenial and political participation; and the relationship between church and local areas political situation. Marina, a communication student of MercubuanaUniversity in Yogyakarta led the discussion and all participants were actively shared their experiences in local areas public space and what they viewed on church and politics. Riki started with the understanding of millenial and their political participation nowadays. Was it still relevant with what Soekarno thought? “Now Millenial tends to have instant process in everything, they are more familiar with online application like kitabisa.comwhen they want to involve in public space to collect social fund for natural disaster victims or school renovation. They have left old pattern with complicated procedures”, Mariano told.

In church and politics session, Rusli, an agriculture student of Sarjanawiyata University, as the discussion angler, asked the forum with a question. Will churches be involved in such issue of government policy that is rejected by the people because it doesn’t stand with them? Will churches be involved in politics?
 
Grace, one participant from Atambua, NTT shared that pastors in her region had ever preached containing a persuasion that church members should not vote candidates who are not active in church activities. While she thought that the assessment of one candidate cannot rely on such issue but the track record of the candidate achievement for people and society. Religious leaders should not be involved in political practice. Otherwise, Yodi, a student of Management in Sanata Dharma University thought that church should be involved in politics based on the example of Pope in Rome who leads church and does governance administration of Vatican. He told further, “If a church wants to involve in politics, it is better that church members do it not the institution. Next, as young generation, it’s better for young millennial to take a part in church activities to decide church policies”.
 
As a closing session, all participants agree that millennial generation should care of politics and they may participate based on potency that millennial generally has that is identical with technology and information. [ML]

 


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SDG’s and the Role of the Youth

Monday, 25 March 2019
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The agenda of 2030 for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) was made by United Nations as a worldwide agenda comprising of 17 goals and 169 targets that became guidelines for global actions in the next 15 years. Among them are no poverty; zero hunger; good health and well-being; qualified education; gender equality; clean water and sanitation; affordable and clean energy; decent work and economic growth; industry, innovation, and infrastructure; reduced inequalities; sustainable cities and communities; responsible consumption and production; climate action; sea ecosystem; land ecosystem; peace, justice and strong institutions; and partnership to reach the goals.

SDG’s applies universally to every country, thus all countries without exception has moral responsibility to reach SDG’s goals and targets. Every country must perform review on SDG’s with its achievement and make a document to be reported to global level. Further, knowing that youth has potential capability to influence policies, under cooperation with BAPPENAS, Save The Children Institute Indonesia, and Gusdurian network held a youth consultation on March 23rd to 24th, 2019 at Ibis Hotel Yogyakarta which was attended by 30 youth participants from various organizations, universities, and origins.
 
Ratna Yunita, an advisor from Save the Children Institute asked the participants to do a “river of life” by writing and describing issues or forms of injustice that they have encountered since their childhood until now. Afterwards, she explains the purposes and goals of SDG’s for youth and communities and the role of today’s youth. Ratna also explained the parameters of achievement, challenges for SDG’s implementation and emphasized that the government has created a coordination team up to regional level.

Accompanied by Ryan, one Youth Independent Consultant, participants formed a large group and identified issues at a much deeper scale for every reviewed- parameter based on the “river of life” before the presentation session. There are 6 parameters which are reviewed this year, covering qualified education; climate action; peace and justice; social inequality; partnership to achieve the goals; and gender equality. Participants also created parameters for SDG’s accountabilities and funding, discussed a set priority and the capital, and wrote a recommendation for each parameter at a major issue to be forwarded to BAPPENAS (National Development Planning Institution). On the last session, the participants were asked to discuss and choose one male and one female youth as the recommended representative to BAPPENAS-Jakarta in order to deliver the aspirations of Yogyakarta’s youth.
 
At the end of the two-days event, Ferdi from Gusdurian network and Sarloce Apang from Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta was chosen to represent Yogyakarta’s youth delivering ideas and inputs to Indonesian Ministry of National Development Planning at Jakarta around April 2019. (ELZ).

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Being Politically Literate and  Actively Participate in Church  Sumba Student Discussion about Church and Politics

Friday, 15 March 2019
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The follow- up of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta training on Church and Politics with a theme Young, Millennial and Politically Literate held last February 2019, awakened participants’ heart to share their experiences. The 'follow-up' group from Sumba took initiative to invite fifteen students to have a small discussion about political situation and church's role in politics in Sumba, at Kebun Laras café, Balirejo (03/14/2019).
 

 

Daniel Hamba Banju, a student of Village and Community Development Institute (STPMD), as the discussion lighter started the discussion by inviting participants to think about their understanding what politics was. Some said that politics was dirty, some said that politics was a way to attract people to follow what they want to achieve. Anton, an Agricultural student of Sarjanawiyata University, said that indeed politics was dirty, however, if all people thought it was dirty, who would change politics to be clean. So, young people should not be politically blind. Sarloce Apang, a team member of Stube HEMAT, who was also there to accompany, explained the difference between practical politics and theoretical politics.
 
After giving understanding about politics, the group then discussed the extent of Sumba churches to contribute in politics. Tania Taka, a student of Gadjah Mada University, shared her experience that year by year churches in Sumba continuously gave understanding about good politics and remained neutral. She also explained that her father was a pastor and ever elected to be a member of house of representative in East Sumba, and many of his programs were successfully carried out.
 
However, there were some participants who disagree if a pastor plunged into politics.  Alan Mehakati, a Forestry student of Gadjah Mada University, said that pastor was actually a trusted person in community, if he involved in politics, it would affect the harmony of the congregation that he served. From the discussion, Tania Taka also explained that there was regulation in Sumba synod that pastors who involved in politics,  were required to resign from their position in the congregation and were not allowed to preach.
 
Regarding young people’s role in church, the participants assumed that young people were still rarely involved in church service. They also revealed the situation of church in Sumba that used members’ offerings to start business, but brought no profit.  Such situation was so apprehensive, because offerings should not be used besides church service, because they were from the congregation and were used to do service for the Lord.
 
 
Based on the discussion, it was concluded that young people should not be apathetic to political situation, especially in welcoming democratic party. They are expected to know each candidate who will be voted,  to avoid miscasting. They also argued about a need for a change in church life, it is important for young people to take part in it, at least be active in church youth commission or be a church assembly to be directly involved in decision making at the church.
 
Let us participate and be involved in development, whatever your community is. (ELZ).

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 Being Politically Literate  Based On Information Literacy

Wednesday, 13 March 2019
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Media becomes very important in the globalization era, especially for young milenials who are politically literate. Because, media is very helpful and simplify people to access information quickly. But, there is something to be aware while accessing media, because there are often found false news or often called ‘hoax’. Along with democracy party or general election this year, all stakeholders needed to anticipate false news (dis-information) and news that is not complete (mis-information) that divisive, confusing or even build hatred.

A follow-up group of students called Sumatera and Purworejo movement (GSP), located in post-graduate hall at STAK Marturia Yogyakarta (12/03/2019), held a discussion which delivered four topics related with  political education based on information literacy. Information literacy itself is the ability to know when information is needed, identified, and evaluated effectively. Furthermore, the information is used to understand issue or even problem at hand.

 
Twenty two students of STAK Marturia attended the discussion. Four speakers, namely Christian Apri Wijaya (Vice secretary of DPD GAMKI DIY) delivered a topic on ‘Understanding Politics’; Sari Dwi Kristianto (STAK Marturia Yogyakarta Theology student) with a topic on ‘Church and Politics’; Erik Sihombing (Cadre Education Department of GMKI Yogyakarta) with a topic on ‘Election Socialization’; and Astiwijaya Setiandari Salmon (STAK Marturia Christian Education Student) with a topic on ‘Anticipating Hoax in Political Year’.
 
Previously, they had attended a training on Church and Politics with a theme "Young, Millennial, and Literate in Politics" carried out by Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta (15-17/ 02/2019). The discussion went well, the participants enthusiastically participated in every session by involving actively in Question and Answer session.


The participation of young generation in General Election on April 17, 2019, can be realized by voting for candidates for Indonesian leaders. As the closing statement of the discussion, the GSP group emphasized, ‘One voter greatly determines Indonesia to be more advanced in the future, and be sure to check the truth of the information obtained from media to avoid hoaxes’. Let us enjoy the democary party of Indonesia. (FAT).

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Going to Church  vs  Tourism

Monday, 11 March 2019
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Going to Church versus tourism has become one challenging not only for believers but for the leaders as well. Moreover,for believers and their congregation in a location that is used as a travel destination. Such issue has escalated into a long and perpetual discussion in certain villages at Raja Ampat District. One of which is the District ofKepulauan Sembilan, GKI Effata Wejim’s Congregation, Raja Ampat District, West Papua.
 
“Every Sunday, the youth lose their enthusiasm to go to the church, even when the church’s bell rang, it is not only sour to their ears but also it is not missed. Youth prefers to accompany tourists about to stay in resorts and requires their service. Manyworship places are empty and there is no spiritual growth because every Sunday everyone is occupied to welcome tourists. Then what will happen to the fate of the congregation, youth and even, the future of the church?” said Viktor, a college student in Yogyakarta which came from Kepulauan Sembilan District, expressing his worries.
 
Raja Ampat District is a resort with magnificent underwater paradise and is always flocked by either local and international tourists. The beauty of the sea with its archipelago is a very spectacular sight. There are stretching Karst formation and star-shaped lagoons. What a beautiful heavenlike-view.
 
Church andpoliticaldiscussions thatwere held by several college students (9/3/2019) took a reflectionof one readingentitled “When Thorn Bushes Became Kings” which was taken from the book of Judges, chapter 9:8-15. The discussion was very dynamic because all participants shared their experiences about their local churches. Anis Bame, a college student of Janabadra University from Maybrat, Papua led the discussion fluently. There are many issues occurring inside church life. “Other than the issue of the youth losing interest to go to church, the issues that also often occurs are pastors and priests jumping into practical politics, resulting in a conflict of interests. It became a fierce debate when a priest or pastor stays to serve his congregation while at the same time taking office as a legislative member. This has discomforted members of the congregation”, said Giovani, Chairman of Raja Ampat College StudentAssociation. “Until now there is no clarity inIndonesian Christian Church (GKI) of Papua, whethera priest or pastor can take office legislatively and still serve the congregation or they need to chooseone or another”, asks him. Sarloce, Stube-HEMAT working team and Kifli Senen, a college student from Halmahera informed that in Churches in Halmahera (GMIH) are already rules regulating that a priest who nominates himself as a legislative member must put down his priesthood. “All of us has the capability to work together to create harmony inside church and politics by separating church and political institution, but in practice, churches still need to convey God’s voice about injustice and inequality that connects with the political realm”, said Sarloce.
 
The case of going to church versustourism, actuallyit is highly connected with the lack of jobs, triggering youthgoing to work onSundays rather than going to church. It could also because priests and pastors don’t preach about welfare, poverty, socio-cultural issues, and economic issues, because they have entered the governmental system.
 
It becomes our struggle to fight establishment thatnever hear about people’s struggle, injustice, andinequality. (SAP)

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Young People Should Be Critical To Vote

Monday, 4 March 2019
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Follow-up activities of “Young, Millennial, Political Literacy” Training held by Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta, intriguing participants to share what they had received from the training individually or in a groups. Some participants who called themselves the PAPEDA (Papua Full of Peace) group consisting of Hanis, Ram, Yansen, Yubelina, Roni, and Frengki conducted a follow-up at the University of Janabadra on Saturday, March 2, 2019.
 
 

 

Ram Hara, a Janabadra student from Maybrat, West Papua who is also as the Social Minister of the student Executive Board of Janabadra University, said that this activity was a collaboration between the Ministry of Social Affairs of Janabadra University and the PAPEDA follow-up group.
 
Expectations of this activity is to share positive understanding and knowledge with other students about the politics gained during the Stube-HEMAT training. The content of the event became more complete with a discussion about reflection on Indonesian politics presented by Frans A. Djalong, M.A., a lecturer from the Department of Sociology at Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Gajah Mada University.
 
 
Located in the room 1.21 of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Janabadra, the event started at 10:00-13.15 Western Indonesian Time. Twenty-two students from various campus such as UGM, Janabadra, and APMD attended the session. Mariano Lejap, the representative of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta started the event with an introduction of the institution, followed by sharing experiences from the PAPEDA group represented by Yube, Roni and Yansen.
 

 

 

In his presentation, Frans Djalong reflected on the situation of the country's politics, starting from the beginning of Soekarno and other national figures in utilizing the Geopolitical situation and using it for Indonesian independence. The book entitled 'Di Bawah Bendera Revolusi' is one reference for students to read more about history. Furthermore, one of the points about political theory according to him is that there is no theory and practice, theory is the practice itself.
 
Does a farmer doing gardening have no theory? Actually, a theory is a set of thoughts that make a person acting regularly and systematically from time to time. The task of students is to check the theory behind a practice or action. So that students are required to be more critical in making political choices. In the current political situation Frans Djalong advised, "As students, we need to be critical, not deify Jokowi or Prabowo as personal, but what is behind that? Who is behind Jokowi? Who is behind Prabowo? What concepts do they offer to build Indonesia from Aceh to Papua?”
 
 
At the end of the session, Robinson, one of the Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta work teams invited all student participants, especially students coming from out of Java Island to check their names in ”Lindungihakpilihmu.com” and reminded participants not to abstain from the upcoming democratic party, April 17, 2019 by taking A5 Forms or information about moving voters and welcome them to the democratic party. (ML).

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I Hear, See and Do A Sharing about Church and Politics by Aru student community  

Saturday, 2 March 2019
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‘I hear then I forget, I see then I remember, I do then I understand'. This is an old saying from Confucius. It becomes a strong motivation for someone that learning is not enough just for listening but it needs to  observe and practice whathas been learned. When a person experiences his own learning process, he/she will understand.
 
 
The same thing happened in ‘Church and Politics’ training held by Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta on February 15-17, 2019 with a theme 'Young, Millennials and PoliticalLiterate', in which the participants gained new enlightenment and understanding of church history and political dynamics, how young Christians should behave in the context of today's politics. They were encouraged not only to be listeners but also to share their experiences with others, either personal or group.
 

 

One group of students from Aru islands initiated a 'sharing' with youth of Gereja Sahabat Indonesia (GSI) in Condongcatur on Friday, March 1, 2019. In this session Natasya Derman, who study Indonesian Language and Literature Education in UST, began the discussion by delivering her experiences when participating in Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta through its training, discussion and local exposure. Next, she invited participants to write their perceptions about politics. They wrote various opinions, such as power, corruption, ignorance and dirty. It is the same as what she has experienced before who did not know even apathy towards politics, but in the training she found enlightenment, it turned out that the essence of politics was not bad, dirty and lust of power, but actions to bring prosperity. The negative 'image' of politics is caused by individuals who have political power to commit corruption, collusion and abuse of authority. Therefore, we are called to improve the situation, one of which is participating in general elections to determine the next leader of this nation.
 

 

Related with church and political world, Lenora Nada, an Informatics student of Immanuel Christian University shared a topic on church interacted with political world. The early church was separated from political power, even considered a threat for the government. But even though the early church was hampered and persecuted, the church members played many roles among the community at that time because they were considered good people, had strong spirituality and were trustworthy. Inevitably the authorities at that time accommodated them to take part in the community. The development of Christianity is growing widespread. The peak was when Christianity became a state religion in the era of Constantine. People converted to be Christiansbecause they wanted to get rights to be Roman citizens. The church and political power merged and tended to abuse of power both church and political leaders. The Church no longer voiced its struggle on injustice, poverty and oppression, but instead perpetuated power. Finally church reformation busted out and then church positioned itself outside of political power, but it brings impact that church members afraid talking about politics.
 

 

Trustha Rembaka, the coordinator of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta, who accompanied the group, reminded participants as citizens to take part in general election by giving vote in the election. He also helped participants to check whether their names were registered already as voters or not. At the end of the session, Tasya again revealed that young peopleshould reflect on the values of Christianity and support the government actively to bring socialwelfare. (Natasya Derman).

 


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 Be Smart to Fight Against Hoax   The Imagination of Religion and Media in Politics   (Attending a discussion at Duta Wacana Christian University 02/23/2019)

Monday, 25 February 2019
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To imagine means we are imagining something fun in the future. Imagination also means that we have a hope in the future that is better than today. But what about the wild imagination that lead to disintegration and drive to a new conflicts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"This kind of imaginations are often found in this age and getting wild," said Dr. Zuly Qodir, a lecturer in Political Sociology at UMY and  the facilitator when he opened the discussion. He revealed some imaginations that now occur among people lives, such as the existence of religious imaginations in media such as Islam as religion, in western media it was labelled as ‘negative religion’. (Ahmed and Matthes 2017; Knott et al. 2013), while Jews and Christians are imagined as the main ‘enemies’ of Islam (Karim and Eid, 2018). Furthermore, there are other imaginations such as political imagination in media, imagination in religious politics, ‘other’ imagination about politics and so on. All those imaginations direct and make people choose one of these, will to think for the life of the nation and state or have to think for the welfare life of their respective groups. Our society is driven to be individuals who think only about him/herself and their-own groups. It causes our society to be inhuman, the increase of violence, the reduction of social response, the rise of ethnic groups, the resistance and various problems from the grassroots to get justice,” concluded Dr. Zuly.

 

 

 

"The occuring problems are getting widespread and escalating immediately when it gets fuel of hoax issues. The various limitations and lack of knowledge of our society about using social media make us an easy target of the spread of hoax news on social media,” Valentine Wiji, the Head of Secretariat of the Anti-Defamation Society of Indonesia or MAFINDO. MAFINDO itself is a group of volunteers who are moved to collect data and information in various mass media or social media, or commonly called digital literacy. The focus of this group is to fight against dis-information and mis-information.

 

 

 

MAFINDO was established on November 19, 2016 with the spirit of fighting hoaxes by embracing various groups of society, to continue sharing information. It also joined cekfakta.com and collaborated with more than 20 credible online media such as kompas.com, tirto.id, detik.com, antara.com and several others and supported by Google, AMSI, & First Draft. Besides that, MAFINDO has one Facebook group account which can be an information channel for all Anti Fitnah, Hasut, and Hoax Forums or abbreviated as FAHHH which has 61.995 members to date and Instagram @turnbackhoaxid with 3.659 followers.

 

 

 

 

Valentine Wiji invited participants to join the FB group, so that, they could share news and provide true information to their families and relatives. Because mass media now play important role in disseminating information. Make sure that our families are free from hoaxes. According to the global web index, per January 2019, platfom Youtube 88%, Whatsapp 83%, Facebook 81% and Instagram 80% are active and often accessed by Indonesians.

 

 

If the community is wise in using social media, it is expected to reduce victims of violence in the name of religion, ethnicity and races. Especially in current election year situation. Public is expected to be actively involved in fighting issue of hoaxes that are scattered on social media. Let us campaign ‘love reading’ so that we can be smarter and wiser in social media. (SAP)


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Young, Millennial and   Political Literate

Monday, 18 February 2019
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Thirty-nine students from various regions and campuses who are studying in Yogyakarta took part in Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta training held at Wisma Pojok Indah, on February 15-17, 2019. They are interested and curious about Young, Millennial and PoliticalLiterate, one topic of Spirituality program: Church and Politics. Most participants are young people whoare politically illiterate; even they can be said as ignorant and politically blind.
 
"This is a hot topic before April 17, 2019. The public has been enthusiastic to welcome hot atmosphere with political nuances, moreover theadvancement of information technology makes it easier for public to receive both factual news andhoax instantly. Ironically, not many young millennials are interested in politics, even more of them are apathetic and priori. Political literacy is important because inevitably the private and publiclife of society are influenced by political decisions. Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta as a mentoring institution for students from various regions in Indonesia who are studying in Yogyakarta realized the importance of correct political understanding among students because they will become agents of change," said Ariani Narwastujati, Stube-HEMAT Executive Director.
 
As the preparation to explore politics, participantslearned first the history dynamics of the relationship between church (Christianity) and politics delivered by Rev. Paulus Sugeng Wijaya, MAPS., Ph.D from Duta Wacana Christian University. Initially the church was separated from government politics, the church was on the different side of the government and even suppressed. However,churches kept growing and hold strategic position in the community. Galerius, the emperor of that time finally accommodated the church in people's lives. Even Emperor Constantine established Christianity as state religion. Since then church had mingled with various political interests and power, unluckilychurch began to forget  its mission to fight for liberation, injustice and poverty alleviation.
 
During the discussion with William E. Apipidely, M.A, Executive Director of Satunama Foundation, the participants' assumptions regarding politics were revealed. Some considered politics as art, influence and power, but others considered politics to be dirty, full of corruption and even apathetic towards politics. Bad 'image' of politics was occured because of lots of negative reporting about politics and there has been a distortion of political history in Indonesia. So, participants needed to understand the true meaning of politics. Aristotle revealed that politics is intelligent and integrated, politics is an effort to distribute justice and bring justice. Political action is an act of presenting justice. This became an enlightenment for them.
 
Some political practitioners and legislative candidates shared their political experiences. They are Chang Wendryanto, a DIY DPD candidate, Budi Oetomo from PKB campaign team, San Akuan, Sleman Regency Legislative candidate from Indonesian Solidarity Party and M Fuad Burhan, a National Legislative candidate from Democratic Party. Participants learned about the reality of political world because this dialogue revealed constancy, intrigue, lobbying and strategy in politics. Ahmad Shidqi, commissioner of General Election Commission(KPU) of Yogyakarta, encouraged participants to beproactive in participating the election because young voters, aged 17-30 years, are countedapproximately more than 60 million. So young voters held strategic position in determining the direction of the nation in the future.
 
Desi, a Biology Education student at Sanata Dharma University from North Kalimantan said, "It is an interesting training and the facilitators have added my insight. I discovered something new about church history, baptism because of political influence and political meaning itself. At first, I assumed politics was dirty, corrupt, etc., but the training changed my mindset that politics is  a communaleffort to reach justice and prosperity."
 
The participants' commitment to take part in elections and to share with others about the training experience aroused optimism for theawareness growth of political literate, and maturityto bring justice and prosperity for Indonesians. (TRU)

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Know and Do Action for Elections Student Exposure to General Election Commission of Yogyakarta Special Region

Tuesday, 29 January 2019
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More than thirty students from various regions and campuses visited General Election Commission (KPU) of Yogyakarta Special Region on Monday, January 28, 2019. They were participants of Stube’s Exposure, one of the activities in Church and Politics program of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta. This visit aimed to increase students' knowledge, understanding and awareness of their rights and obligations in the general election and protect students’ right to vote, especially for those coming from outside Yogyakarta, so they can still be able to vote at theupcoming April 17, 2019. Then, it also encouraged students to get to know the general elections commission, its duties, authorities, and all the activities of organizing elections.
 
 
At 1:00 PM Ahmad Shidqi, one of the commissioner members of KPU DIY, the division chairman of Socialization, Voter Education, Community Participation and HR opened the discussion and introduced two other members, namely Wawan Budiyanto, the division chairman of Planning, Data and Information; then Moch. Zaenuri Ikhsan, the division chairman of Organizational Technique division. He appreciated Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta’s initiative to take part in welcoming General Election by organizing students to visit KPU DIY office to learn things related to the General Election. Trustha Rembaka, coordinator of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta introduced Stube's institution and its concern on students and youth by giving added value to them related to certain topics, and currently related to elections and political issues.
 
In the discussion, Wawan Budiyanto explained how the students outside of Yogyakarta to vote in this cityby processing A5 form from their hometown and registering themselves to the nearest voter’s poll. He also invited participants to check whether his or her name was already registered or not. Furthermore, he also explained KPU's plan to visit campuses for socializing the elections. The votes’ counting techniques and how to distribute seats in the parliament were also explained in the session. Some questions on other topics came up such as, KPU’s opinion toward 'money politics', students who were apathetic with politics and chose abstentions andalso discussion on corruption inmates of somelegislative candidates.
 
Achmad Shalahudin, a student of UIN Sunan Kalijaga, from Parepare, South Sulawesi, asked the criterias used by KPU to select 16 political parties from many parties in Indonesia. "KPU selected political parties based on the Constitution No. 31 of 2002 concerning party requirements, covering of having management at each provincial level, having management at least 80% of regencies in Indonesia and enclose membership card of one thousand members," explained Wawan Budiyanto.
 
At the end of the session, Ahmad Shidqi gave space for dialogue if the participants wanted to know something further. He also hoped that Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta can work together to succeed General Election 2019. Trustha Rembaka expressed his gratitude because KPU has accommodated students to learn about elections. In addition, he also informed Youth, Millennial and Political Literacy training on February 15-17, 2019. Let this experience be a good first step for young people to know and do action in the coming General Election. (ELZ).

 


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