Sometimes I Love Indonesia

I have lived and growth in a country which spread out in south east Asia, near Australia, and Pasific ocean. Actually If I think critically, nothing that I have to be proud from my country. I categorize my country as a fragile states. Politically and Economically my country is under average than the others. Indonesia also do not have many of good human resources, lack of capability make a good system fulfill its society needs, its regulation, fulfill its sustainable development, and the other planning. I dont want to besmirch the performance and ability of my country...just to revise my thought about it. But, beside its lacking than developing countries, I have another opinion about Indonesia...my other thought that sometimes makes me proud and love my country..
Something that always exist and everlasting in Indonesia until present is a its enrichment in natural resources and its diversity, that may be we can see it as a culture...
Archipelago country, this is the name of Indonesia, which describe how much of Island and sea that Indonesia has. Many Island scattered over Indonesia with its distinctiveness. And we see the diversity in it. Indonesia has a lot of ethnic, which stay in those island, and of course every ethnic has different traditional song, traditional dance, has a traditional house, and...their own language.. I really proud when I aware that Indonesia has its own language that we called ' Bahasa Indonesia'. It's a really great when I compare with another countries that most of them using their own colonial language. There are many country which have their own language like India use Hindi, Japan use Japanese with Katakana and Hiragana letters. But much of countries using English, or France, Spanish, and Arabic... the cultural enrichment of my country can be proved when I see my self , I see my self as a Javanese. I am a Javanese (one of ethnic in Indonesia). I have my own traditional clothes, we call it Kebaya, I have own traditional song, dance, and I have own language.. I speak Javanese sometimes beside Bahasa Indonesia. And, you know that Javanese have own letter, like Japanese, Arabic, Mandarin etc. It's called as "Aksara Jawa" Aksara Jawa; the Javanese Letters

So, may be my country is not too famous or rich like others ,and may be my country not like Russia who really big, have a great area, also have a diversity of culture and ethnic... But my country have a lot of ethnic too, good culture, language, which different in every area and island.. whereas It can show that how big Indonesia is..., and prove that we still have many things to be proud...
This really make me that sometimes I think that I Love Indonesia.....

Sunday Morning

Every Sunday morning.... get up at 5 o clock a.m, I prepare to go to the Town Square, a Central Park of my Town.....

Waiting for my friend to come, and we go there together just for do some exercise or buying yummy food...^-^ My Town Square is really cozy place for relax or jogging or just look many people who sell something...and, it's become so crowded in Sunday Morning... Children Ground...

Such a cozy place...

Difficult To Meet

I am starting to amazed, why it's so difficult to meet blogger from some countries like African countries, from Armenia, Georgia, Burma, or maybe from Kurdistan, from Pasific countries, from Nepal, or Mongolia....
I have some blogging friends who most of them from US, China, Philippines, and Australia, UK, and I really glad to recognize them ( I mean you all..), really interesting to read every posting they write, and knowing some of their life or activity.
But, I also wanna know and may be can sharing with someone from the places like I mention above..
Hopefully I can meet you...

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at a Glance

My blogging friend, Tikno has written about refugee with very well review, and then Jim Belshaw also followed him to wrote about refugee, and he wrote it well too. So, I rather lost my idea to write it, because honestly I like to make a review about it too.
But my mind remind something when I remember that I have learnt about Uganda armed conflict and its effect. The effect of conflict for civilians and children. Especially for them who become Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

IDPs camp in the KouKou, Chad

I don’t wanna talk too much just want to recognize you about what IDPs is. Well, IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) is almost same with refugee, but actually it’s different. The different of among them is IDP are people who forced to flee their homes, but unlike refugee. IDPs move just still in their country border. They do not flee to other country, and stay in the safe area.
People become IDPs when they get a violence in their place like armed conflict, so they have to looking for the safe area, and leave their homes. IDPs make their own shelter by create a camp. And I’m certain that the total amount of IDPs in the world is larger than refugee.
Of course people who become IDPs often live separated with their family. They live separated with their children, because of emergency situation.
Afghanistan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Iraq, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Sudan were among the many countries in which countless women, men and children had their lives torn apart by armed conflicts in 2007. Direct attacks on civilian communities, general insecurity and the destruction of livelihoods forced innumerable civilians to flee their homes.
Giving a help or relief for IDPs is also not as easy as we thought. It is also difficult to get accurate figures of IDPs, because population is constantly fluctuating. Some IDPs maybe returning home while others are fleeing. The safety of IDPs is also not guaranteed. Many IDPs sometimes get a threat. Like in Uganda, many IDPs often get a threat and attack from rebel. They also often loss their children which is being abducted to be a child soldiers. The other threat is also in the form of cannot get an enough food, sanitation, and fragile to be contaminated by the diseases. Iraqi Internally Displaced Persons
Like refugee, IDPs has a regulation by international law for assisting and promoting the rights of refugee. It is written in the 1951 United Nations Conventions Relating to the Status of Refugee and its 1967 Protocol. But, Unlike the case of refugees, there is no international humanitarian institution which has the overall responsibility of protecting and assisting the refugees as well as the internally displaced. A number of organizations have stepped into the breach in specific circumstances.
Looking back to the destiny and the poor experience that IDPs get, I give my conclusion that refugee maybe has a better placed than IDPs. the Emergency life of IDPs is high . IDPs really need special protection, not only rights and liberty. They just can live in camp, easy to get an abusive, violence, and starving, diseases and lack of control from government.
That’s all about IDPs

(thanks for the information doctorswithoutborders.org, icrc.org, hnn.us)

Begin to Love Bloging

I just feel at a present that I begin to love blogging. Cause by it I can continue writing and always writing in my post graduate situation, can express my feeling, and can recognize you, my beloved readers and blogging friends...
just feeling, something that I feel at a present....

Global Water Crisis ?

Of course I wish I were in School. I want to learn to read and write...But how can I? My mother needs me to get water -Yeni Bazan, age 10, El Alto, Bolivia-

Trapped by heavy rain, and unconditional situation to back home, I decide to just stay in a center library in my University for a while...one of the chamber on the third floor of this library seems so quiet. There are no many people familiar to this room. But not me, It's my favourite room in this library. With 2 people here I try to continue surrounding every shelf which fulls of journal and report, and hope can find something that can help my friend to fills its thesis. I stop in front of the row of UNDP journals that really fascinate to be opened. I take one which is launched in 2006, and see the theme in the cover ' Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and Global Water Crisis'...
I try to understand its contents which seems so complete, and make my new planning to write in my new posting. a child enjoys clean water in Ethiopia
the existence of water is a very vital things for every mankind. Like oxygen, we also need water to sustain our life. Without water life could not exist, and beside that, people really need clean water to sustain their health, and maintain their dignity. Beyond the households water also sustain ecological system and provides an input into the production systems that maintain livelihoods. Water pervades all aspects of human development. When they could not get access of clean water, or they lack access to water as productive resources, their rights and freedom will be constraint by ill health or endemic diseases, poverty, and vulnerability. Water gives live to everything, including human freedom and development.
But it turn out, the natural resources that we supposed to always abundant and never going to scarce, at the presents become a dilemma that disturb human security. The world today, especially in the poor countries experience water crisis. The presence water today is unhealthy and limited, and the existence of unhealthy water in many developing countries is a threat which is much greater than armed conflict.

It's about one third of world population were lived in the water crisis countries. Over two million people die every year because of water borne illness, that's almost 4 per minute. Million women and children must hike an average about 4 miles per day to get water, and the water they get is extremely polluted. The boy drinking the last water in Dhaka

The poor are the one who suffer most. Water shortages can mean do a long journey to fetch water, high prices to buy it, food insecurity, and diseases by drinking dirty water. In high income area around Asia, Latin America, and Sub Saharan Africa, people enjoy access several liters per day which delivered into their homes at low prices by public utilities. But the poor in the rural area or slums have access too much less than 20 liters of water per day, per person.
The problems of water sometimes come from inequality among the society. Much of water are used just for world agriculture, industry, and another domestic purpose. Like in India, Irrigation
pumps extract water from aquifers 24 hours a day for healthy farmer, while smallholders depend on vagaries of rain. Here too, the underlying causes of scarcity in the large majority of cases is institutional and political, not a physical deficiency supplies. For the add, at the essentials, water scarcity is a consequence of imbalance between resources utilizations, distribution, consumption, and production under global capitalism. It is not simply as natural phenomena or a matter of increase demand or decrease supply. It is acrisis endangered by political, cultural, and economic practices.
In any cases, not only a human that need water but also the other species which live in this planet. The shortages of water disturbing the ecosystem and environment. The emergence of global warming also donor some impacts, like the rain falls in some area , while the others get drainage.
At least but not last, the urgency of water crisis is undeniable . But I still hope that there is an aware from communities, individuals, or best solution to solve or reduce this problem. Because access to drinking water is a basic human rights...
That's all the condition of water in our world at a glance...Thank you for read it..
(thank you for the information: Human Development Report UNDP 2006, http://www.news.moe.org/, http://www.bbc.co.uk/, http://www.daylife.com/, http://www.needmagazine.com/, http://www.allacademic.com/, http://www.un.org/)

Become a QuickCounter

Yesterday, the Governor election has committed in my province, east Java province. And in this part, I got an assignment to become a quick counter by Indonesian Research Foundation or Lembaga Survei Indonesia (LSI).
Quick Counter is a someone who become a part of a quick count activity to help the election process in order to can perform well and faster. All of the 400 member quick counter were disseminated over the east Java Province to control election places in some area. Majority of them is a student who study in a social political faculty.
I worked in the Kemuningsari Kidul village, in Jenggawah area. It such a remove area in a Jember city, which is lack of transportation and public services. But I quite satisfied because I did not located in out of my town, cause it make me confuse to looking for the area.
I enjoy this experience...