Indonesian English-Media's E-mail

1. The Jakarta Post
    E-mail: editorial@thejakartapost.com

2. Jakarta Globe
    E-mail: newsdesk@thejakartaglobe.com
               www.thejakartaglobe.com

3. Kangguru Magazine and Radio
    E-mail: Kangguru@ialf.edu
    Website: www.kangguru.org

4. Inside Indonesia 
    E-mail: editor@insideindonesia.org
    Website:  www.Insideindonesia.org 

Sonya Aresta: The Struggling Identity

                Society may find it hard to accept them, but they exist, and they live.

Honestly speaking, I’m new to this topic related to LGBT (acronym of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender).  When I first heard the term, I asked my friend “What is that?”, and she answered “It’s acronym of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender”.  I asked her once more “What is that?”, and she replied “A community”. Hearing her answer, I was like ‘wow! Is there really something like that?’. I have been staying in the safe zone all of my life, and I know how people around me usually underestimate them due to social norms and religion reasons. When mbak Abmi invited mbak Sonya to our class last Monday, I thought it would be a great opportunity for me to see them from different perspective.

Movie Review: Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic? (2010)

"You meet someone for the first time and everywhere you go, there's that person. That's what it was for me with plastic bags--they're everywhere!"-Jeb Berrier (Bag It, 2010)

Basically, I never thought that plastic can be as harmful as any killing weapon, but this “Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic?” (2010) film changed my opinion at all.

SIA-SIA by Chairil Anwar

SIA-S

Penghabisan kali itu kau datang

Membawaku kembang berkarang

Mawar merah dan melati putih

Darah dan Suci

Kau tebarkan depanku

Serta pandang yang memastikan: untukmu.

Lalu kita sama termangu

Saling bertanya: apakah ini?

Cinta? Kita berdua tak mengerti

Sehari kita bersama. Tak hampir-menghampiri

Ah! Hatiku yang tak mau memberi

Mampus kau dikoyak-koyak sepi.

Choco Cheese Pancake with Ice Cream: The Best Food to Boost Up My Mood

This is not an expensive nor exclusive food, but its taste can always boost up my mood.

Yes, it is a chococheese pancake served with one or two scoops of any flavor ice cream in which I will never say never. The taste is so ummm... yummy~

The first time I ate it was three years ago, during my college orientation days which I didn't enjoy at all. It was tiring and somehow boring, so after the activities were over, my friends and I went to  Pancake Company in Jalan Sagan. I initially didn't like cheese because it smells a bit annoying to me, but my friend insisted to order two chococheese pancakes and pursued me to try what I have always didn't like. So, I tried it, and gotcha!! I really like how the cheese, chocolate, and ice cream melted on my tongue.

Since then, I love this food so badly and has been addicted to every food with a 'chococheese' on its topping. Of course it doesn't mean that I don't like any other food. I like food, I am an omnivore. I tried a lot of new foods, but this one has been the most recommended for you to enjoy :)

2010 Eruption of Merapi

          November 2010, every inch of Yogyakarta was covered by ash.  Mount Merapi whose seismic activity had been increased from mid-September started to spew hot gases and ashes, killing more than 100 people in numerous villages. An estimated 75.000 residents were evacuated from the affected area.

A Letter to A Dear Writer Out There

           Hello mbak Dina, it’s really nice to have a chance to communicate with you through this letter. I have read your story and I got to admit that I immediately admire your success in dealing those problems. Don’t be sad. Don’t regret your life because what called as a life is when you must go through pain to gain. It is when you understand what happiness is after tasting the bitterness. Ah, but there is no need to define what life is because as you spend time to define, life keeps going on.

A Dialogue through the Wind

Me       : Good morning, cloud. How are you today?

Cloud  : Not awesome, girl. I got to pour rain frequently as the weather is very hot lately.

Me       : It’s good then. Why do you look sad?

Cloud  : Good? What’s good about shattering yourself into raindrops and scattered apart by the wind?

Malioboro From Time to Time

Do you know what picture is this?

[Creative Writing] A Little Piece of My Story

        Firstly, let me tell you that this is going to be a very long, plain and boring story with no prologue, climax nor ending.  I won’t beg you to read until the very last word, so please just click the x button right away when you find this dull and monotonous because this is an ordinary story of an ordinary girl from an ordinary family. Nothing alluring. Nothing inspiring.