The "I" Tag

Virgie passed me this tag...

I AM…........ a woman
I WANT….. build a school
I HAVE…... so many things plan
I HATE....... rainy
I FEAR….... miscommunication
I SEARCH… for more money to success my planed
I WONDER.. if our plan will push thru, i wish...
I DANCE.......left and right and shake my body
I SING….......amazing grace
I CRY............my money not enough.
I WRITE…...anything that interests me
I WON..........a competition of life
I AM CONFUSED… about money.
I NEED…................. more energy to do all these tasks.
I SHOULD…...........be thankful and grateful.


I want to pass this on to: Nancy, Pinkchonixx,Standing In The Mirror and Blog Party

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Working for a litte bit money

This is that other Indonesia people who always working by them self, they are used tool like that to bring a little bit money. I always proud what they are conduct.any of money which can be strived can answer the demand life of them.

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Fires Again Ravage Indonesia's Forests

Asia: Farmers, timber companies set blazes to clear land
Haze threatens region already in economic crisis
Los Angeles Times
March 23, 1998
The fastest way to clear a rain forest for agriculture—or paradoxically, for timber production—is to burn it. Despite the fact that the devastating environmental impacts of burning have prompted bans on the practice, it is still widespread. In the drought-primed fall of 1997, environmentalists’ worst fears were realized when deliberately set fires spread out of control in Indonesia. The fires destroyed large areas of one of the last great rain forests on earth and blanketed Southeast Asia with a debilitating haze. In this Los Angeles Times article, journalist David Lamb reports on the resurgence of the Indonesian fires in spring 1998, their impact, and the political and economic reasons behind the fires.
By David Lamb
SAMARINDA, Indonesia — The man-made Indonesian fires that blanketed Southeast Asia last autumn with clouds of choking haze are burning again, raising the specter that another environmental disaster looms just ahead.
When that earlier haze—a regional euphemism for fire-caused pollution—swept over Southeast Asia, it closed airports, crippled tourism and caused serious health problems. Now, in every direction, flames and tufts of smoke are rising from the scorched and smoldering earth, and, acre by acre, one of the world's last great rain forests is being eaten away, leaving one German forest-management expert to comment: "We are at the point of no return."
On Sunday [March 22, 1998], the Suara Pembaruan newspaper in the capital, Jakarta, reported that smoke from the fires has caused 297 cases of pneumonia and that two people have died.
Here on the road to Balikpapan, the flames are no bigger than those from the coals of a barbecue grill, but they have given the drought-ravaged land an eerie reddish glow and, whipped to and fro by hot, heavy winds, have crept to the very doorstep of Omar Kamorusn's one-room wooden home.
"Of course I worry we will burn," he said. "But what can we do to stop it? Our nearest water is an hour's walk. My only equipment is a rake and shovel. But this is nothing new. We have fires every year. They are how we live."
If he didn't set fires, the 46-year-old Kamorusn said, there would be no way to clear the land for his crops of rice and peppercorn. He knows that the government has forbidden burning, but his family has been doing it for generations. And, when the land is less dry, the fires can be controlled with ditches and firebreaks.
He added, "If we do not burn, we do not eat."
In Samarinda, German environmentalists tracking the brush fires through satellite images have pinpointed 1,000 blazes here on the island of Borneo. Some were set by peasant farmers such as Kamorusn. But the majority, the Germans say, are on land leased by powerful timber companies—many with ties to the top levels of the Indonesian government—that still use slash-and-burn techniques as the fastest, cheapest way to convert rain forests into timber estates and palm-oil plantations.
Indonesia has more than 10% of the world's rain forests, and 40% of Asia's. And each year, says the international environmental organization Earth Action, the nation is destroying an area larger than Lebanon. Only Brazil's rain forests are disappearing at a faster rate.
One of the world's largest exporters of wood products, Indonesia desperately needs its logging income, particularly with its current economic crisis. Although the government has forbidden clearing land by fire, and some government officials have shown concern about the impact of fire and haze, the timber companies' links to the regime of President Suharto make corrective action difficult.
"The government has the exact coordinates of every fire and would like to make an example by closing down one of the companies," said Ludwig Shindler, a German fire-management expert. "But a lot of companies are protected and can't be touched, for obvious reasons."
Last year, 160 Indonesian companies were accused of culpability. Only 46 were fully investigated, and only five will be prosecuted. In Malaysia, the government fined 17 companies for ignoring a no-burn policy. Their collective penalty amounted to $8,000.
Among the companies accused last year of torching Indonesia's East Kalimantan province on Borneo was a subsidiary of Astra International, which is run by Mohammed "Bob" Hasan, Indonesia's timber tycoon and a member of Suharto's new Cabinet. He rejected criticism that the timber companies have been reckless.
"We want to develop our country on a sustainable basis," Hasan told the BBC. "But sometimes, NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] come in and say you are violating environmental rules … human rights." He rejected the accusations as the work of Communists.
The latest outbreak of fires, coming after last year's blazes were finally extinguished by seasonal rains, raises the threat that Southeast Asia, already laboring under a regionwide economic downturn, will have to endure another season of debilitating haze. It is a threat that could have political as well as economic repercussions.
Towns around Samarinda are already on red alert, and some days the haze is thick enough to close roads and reduce visibility to 60 feet. The Malaysian city of Kuching on Borneo recorded an air pollution index reading of 400 recently—four times what is considered unhealthy. When the prevailing winds blow toward the north in April or May, the haze could again be blown into Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines and peninsular Malaysia.
Malaysia is especially concerned. It has invested $520 million to host the Commonwealth Games in September, and a repeat of last year's haze could keep tourists away in droves and result in health problems for athletes.
And Singapore, among others, fears that if, as now seems likely, haze has become part of Indonesia's foreign policy and one of its exports, the regional economic recovery that is just taking hold in some countries will be seriously set back.
"If we do not help them [Indonesians], the economic losses to us and the entire region are tremendous," Singapore's environment minister, Yeo Cheow Tong, said. "Whatever we can spend to help will be money well spent."
In many ways, Western political analysts say, the region's financial crisis and the return of the fires stem from the same root: an unwillingness to enforce stringent regulations that apply to everyone, not just to those who have no links to the top levels of government. The fires, the analysts say, have just one underlying cause—poor forest management.
Environment ministers of the Assn. of Southeast Asian Nations have reacted more quickly to the latest rash of fires than they did to the disaster last year. Meeting in Kuching [on the Malaysian Island of Borneo] last month, they adopted measures calling on Malaysia to focus on fire prevention, Singapore to concentrate on satellite monitoring and Indonesia to stick to fighting the fires.
The problem is that Indonesia has no effective means to battle the blazes. Its effort to induce rain by using three planes for cloud-seeding proved futile, and its handful of tanker trucks is only useful fighting fires along roadsides. A crash program is underway to train 1,000 soldiers as firefighters.
But such steps may prove meaningless without new governmental directions. With Indonesia's population growing by 2 million a year, the government's official policy is to convert more than 40 million acres of rain forest to farmland and living space by 2020.
Source: Los Angeles Times. March 23, 1998.

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More Languages In Indonesia

About 300 languages and dialects are spoken in Indonesia, but Bahasa Indonesia is the official and most widely spoken tongue. Its common use has helped unify the country since independence in 1949. Bahasa Indonesia is based on Malay, long the market language of coastal towns, and it contains elements of Chinese, Indian, Dutch, and English. In 1972 Indonesia and Malaysia, where the Malay-based Bahasa Malaysia is the official language, agreed on a revised and uniform system for spelling Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia. Today, television programs, major newspapers, schools, and universities all use Bahasa Indonesia.
Other languages are also widely used, and many Indonesians speak two or more languages. These languages, as well as Bahasa Indonesia, belong mainly to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages family. They include Javanese, with more than 80 million speakers, and Sundanese, spoken by residents of the western end of Java. Acehnese, Batak, Minangkabau, and Malay are spread throughout Sumatra. Among the languages spoken on Sulawesi are Minahasan, dialects of Torajan, Buginese, and Makassarese. On the eastern islands, Balinese, Sasak (Lombok), and Sumbawan are spoken. The people of Kalimantan speak Malay dialects, Iban, and other dialects. Trans-New Guinea and West Papuan languages are spoken in Papua and in the northern parts of Maluku. English is in growing use as the language of business, while older people who were educated in Dutch schools before independence occasionally use Dutch.

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Badminton in Indonesia

In the city of Solo on the Indonesian island of Java, the town square is a smooth dirt surface illuminated by blue fluorescent lights hanging from electrical cords. Every day, from morning to midnight, townspeople sit on easy chairs and watch players whack a small object made of cork, goat leather, and goose feathers back and forth with flimsy-looking rackets made of wood. The game they play is bulutangkis, and it is a national obsession. Outside of Indonesia the game is known as badminton.
Badminton was invented in the 1860s by the daughters of the Duke of Beaufort, who entertained themselves with a version of the children's game known as battledore and shuttlecock. The game they derived for themselves soon became known for the house in which they played it, the duke's Badminton House in Gloustershire, England.
Before long, badminton societies and clubs were sprouting throughout England. In 1893 the first Badminton Association was formed. Six years later the All-England Badminton Championship was played. Eventually, the sport migrated to continental Europe. From there it reached India via British military officers and Indonesia by way of Dutch colonists. The far-flung expansion necessitated the formation of the International Badminton Federation (IBF) in 1934.
Badminton took root in many countries, including Australia, China, Denmark, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, and the United States. But nowhere did it catch on as it did in Indonesia, which ultimately became a global badminton superpower. In 1992, badminton's inaugural year as an official Olympic sport, Indonesians brought home the country's first gold medals.
Indonesia's tropical climate permits year-round outdoor play. The sport's low equipment cost makes it affordable to almost anyone. Two rackets, a shuttlecock, a long piece of string, and an empty piece of ground are all that is needed. Courts are often placed next to houses or apartment buildings because the structures serve as windbreaks. Fences covered with sheets of canvas also do the trick. In the absence of windbreaks, courts are oriented with prevailing winds blowing parallel to the court, not perpendicular.
Indonesian dominance of the sport began in the 1950s. In 1957 Indonesia competed in its first Thomas Cup, an international tournament named for IBF cofounder Sir George Thomas, a renowned badminton, tennis, and chess champion. Indonesia's stunning victory earned the country immediate entrance into the IBF.
Indonesia went on to win the triennial competition seven times in nine attempts from 1961 to 1984. The country also made its mark in other international tournaments, including the World Championship, the World Grand Prix, and the World Cup. Indonesia's best player during this stretch was also regarded as the best player in the world—Rudy Kurniawan Hartono, winner of a record eight All-England titles from 1968 to 1976. Hartono's victory at the 1980 World Championships before a home-country crowd in Jakarta keyed a dominant performance by the Indonesians, who won four of five events.
Starring on Indonesia's talent-rich delegation to the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, was Susi Susanti, winner of the World Junior Championships in 1990, 1991, and 1992 (and ultimately 1993 and 1994). Susanti won the women's singles competition, becoming the first Indonesian athlete to earn an Olympic gold medal since the country gained its independence 43 years earlier. “It was something very precious for Indonesia,” she remarked later, according to Sports Illustrated. Meanwhile, the Indonesian men produced a medal sweep in the singles competition, with Allan Kusuma capturing the gold, Ardy Wiranata the silver, and Hermawan Susanto the bronze. Indonesia also earned the silver and bronze in the men's doubles.
The badminton team returned home as heroes. Their achievements had the effect of piling additional pressure onto the squad heading for the 1996 games in Atlanta, Georgia. “Because we won two gold medals in '92, the government wants some more in Atlanta,” Kusuma told Sports Illustrated a few weeks before the Atlanta competition. “Well, it is easy to say but not so easy to do.”
Kusuma and the national team's 80-odd other members lived at a cramped training center on the outskirts of Jakarta where, according to Sports Illustrated, words of inspiration were painted on a wall: “Badminton is my soul. Sportsmanship is my breath. Red and white [the national colors] is the symbol of my fate.” The players were also motivated by material incentives. Their gold-medal efforts earned Kusuma and Susanti each a $200,000 bonus—about 200 times the country's annual per capita income. The stars also reaped handsome incomes by promoting cars, shampoo, and other consumer products.
All the words and money, however, didn't help Indonesia improve on its Olympic medal count in Atlanta. The only gold medal was brought home by the men's doubles duo of Rexy Mainaky and Ricky Subagja, the reigning world champions. The two narrowly defeated a Malaysian pair who ignored a fortune-teller's advice to take green bananas onto the court. After the victory Mainaky sobbed as the Indonesian faithful among the crowd sang and waved flags. “I thank God for giving us the power to win this game,” he told the ESPNET Sportszone Web site afterwards.
Despite their performance at the 1996 Olympics, Indonesians have maintained their first-class rank in the sport. As for badminton in general, the future looks bright.

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A glass of Milk

One day a impecunious child walking from house to house for the shake of defraying school. He feel hungry and thirsty, but unhappily he is only having a little bit of money. That child set mind on to ask some food from home closest. But, moment a young girl open door, he lose its bravery. Finally he is only asking for white water of glass to offering thirst. That young girl think surely this child feel hungry hence milk tumbler to bring for child. He drink slowly, then enquire, " How much my debt to you. "You do not owe any to me," " My mother teach me in order not to accept payment for deed both for us conduct. That child answer, " So, I am only can render thanks to you. Moment of Howard Kelly, that impecunious moppet, staying out he is not merely feeling its fresher body, but its confidence at God and fellow being become stronger. Previously he have feel hopelessly and almost surrender Year after year elapse. One day the young woman experience of pain hard. Doctor who handling it feel to confuse and finally send woman that to metropolis to get help of specialist. Dr. Howard Kelly called to consult.
When he hear the name of provenance town the patient, he immediately go to room where the woman taken care of. He direct recognize and setting mind on to conduct best matter which he can helping. After date that, he give special attention at this case. After passing struggle of length, that patient recover.. Dr. Kelly called by administration to sign expense which must be paid by the womant. He lay eyes on the receipt and then write down something. The receipt then in sending to room treatment of woman. The woman have cold feet to opening it, because she feel sure that she will not can pay for it. Finally she saw that receipt. A small note at receipt have drawn his attention. She read that note : " is paid by]keel with one glass milk.”
Sign, Dr. Howard Kelly.

Tear emit a stream of from his eye, in happy moment she prayer and praise :" God Thanks, Your Love have pass by hand and heart of human being.
A day positive Have.

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