Social Observer: December 2013

New Year Eve

by Sintia Farach Dhiba - December 31, 2013

The Last Paper on 2013

It feels faster that I remembered, I fell asleep in New Year eve while everyone turn the beauty firework, it was transition 2012 to 2013. Time goes by, I come to this time, the beautiful transition 2013 to 2014. I do not know what will I do in New Year eve, the best possibility answer is........

Sleep again haha.

I rarely celebrate New Year eve, reason :

1. My family is not lusty with New Year eve because it's not our culture.

Yes, we think that our calendar is not Masehi but Hijriah but we ever celebrate it on 2002 - 2004 and 2007 - 2009 (huhu mencla-mencle)

2. My house is far fromdowntown.

A sequel part above, on 2002 - 2004 we lived near downtown. By the time, we lived in Bintaro kota Tangerang Selatan, we also had a car so we could go around the town. As I remembered, we celebrated it around Bundaran HI Jakarta Pusat, hear the lovely noisy firework.

3. Depend with my surrounding

A sequel number 1, on 2007 - 2009. I still leave in suburban city. On those years, I did not go to the lovers of New Year eve like Ancol, Bundaran HI, Monas, etc. I just keep quiet on my house in kab. Tangerang. I and neighbour held acara bakar-bakar ever New Year eve, we grilled meat, fish or chicken. But here in Malang, people around me don't have lusty with New Year eve. So that's very different.

4. Stay up and talk all night, is very difficult

it's obviously that mentioned exact vicissitude new year eve is 00.00. It's normal for everyone whom go to bed maximum at 10 p.m because they adjust with their time to awake 6 till 8 hours later. And sleep more than 10 p.m, it feels so exhaustable considering everyone work a full day so they must take a rest firstly. It same with me that I don't have strength to open my eyes till midnight come. So even I say that I celebrated exact new year eve, I slept and my mom awakened me at 00.00, embarassing really :3

and I don't know what will be in new year eve tonight. To me, new year eve is not about turning light many fireworks but it about how we will face the new year in our life and fill it with a lot of great achievement.

I do to make it. Happy New Year 2014!

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Conduct UN, Please!

by Sintia Farach Dhiba - December 24, 2013

I'd like to talk about UN. Wait! You will think that UN is United Nation. No no no, you're right instead I'll talk about Ujian Nasional. Talking about UN, it means we face contentious issue in Indonesian Education System along the year. There are who pros and many are cons. And I'm pros one.

Actually I'm same with another SMA student, we hate study, challenge, earnest. When we know, we will get exam in our last grade, we hate it. We think that study for UN is wasting time (so what activities whose not wasting time?), we must decrease our time to hang out, happy, cheerfull.

So what I'm pros side?

As I've told you that SMA student like happy-world so we spend our time to make ourself happy indeed. We've plan to life hedonism for 2 years, why 2 years?

The answer is easy to predict, because the third grade is the time to repent and forswear. We do it because we afraid with the UN as our nightmare. How could be the nightmare?

We will have embarassing if we get worst minimum score, supposing when your friend and family ask your score but the score approach with minimum score that must we fill moreover if the result UN reveal we are not pass the exam (naudzubillah). We've went to school for 3 years, take of by luxurious vehicle, whiten make up, great pocket-money but we fail just because 4 days test? And moreover over over, if we are not graduate in UN, it can break the name of school almamater, great family, parents, ourself also because UN is precious exam. The result of UN is known, noticed, announced to everyone inside of the country. Everyone afraid to not graduate, the choice is grauate or die (mulai allay)

So for the last year, it can be proven that SMA student will improve themselves for the sparkling next, not embarassing.

SMA student will study hard, join extra course for UN, decrease time to hang out, organize behaviour, increase good morality. Everything will do in 3rd grade.

Nah, From that we know that the goal of education will be reached seems just in 3rd grade, haha parah. But it's better than never. I think if kemdikbud want see their success in organizing education. Kemdikbud must make one nightmare for SMA student merely to make them change to be better.

If the cons side try to neglect on the grounds of budget so that what is the function of UUD 1945 chapter 31 verse (3), it says Indonesia allocate 20% budget from APBN just for education. You know that our budget is Rp1.432 trillion so for the education is used approximately Rp. 286,4 trillion, it's big amount right?

Why we must economize it if implementing UN is the form of making success the education system. It's better using it for print paper for student around Indonesia than brigbed out by unresponsible one.

From those silly explanation, I do hope national examination for all students in their last grade of school will be exist forever. Please, it's my opinion for the best education of this country!

And based on meeting Kemdikbud and Badan Standarisasi Nasional Pendidikan last time, National Examination will be conducted for Junior High School and Senior High School next April, and for Elementary School the system would be changed for their last examination, however it could be.

Gott Sei Dank!