Friday, 13 June 2014

Economic Vision and Mission of the Presidential Candidates

These below are the economic vision and mission of the presidential candidates, Prabowo-Hatta VS Jokowo-JK. 

We start with Prabowo-Hatta first. There are 8 programs of populist economic development that are listed by KPU:
1. Prioritizing the allocation of the budget for the development of agriculture, forestry, fishery, cooperatives and SMEs.
2. Encouraging national banks and other financial institutions to prioritize lending to farmers, ranchers, fishermen, laborers, servants, small and medium industries.
3. Establishing Bank of Farmers and Fishermen.
4. Protecting and Modernizing tradiotional markets
5. Protecting and Fighting for labor's rights.
6. Minimum Budget allocates Rp 1 billion / rural / urban per year directly to the village / urban and implementing the Village Law.
7. Establishing institutions pilgrimage tube
8. Accelerating agrarian reform to guarantee the people's land ownership, improve access, and land tenure.

and these are Jokowi-JK's economic development programs:
1. Creating national security that is capable of mantaining sovereignty, sustain economic independence by securing maritime resources, and reflect the personality of Indonesia as an archipelago.
2. Creating advanced society, sustainable, and democratic state based on law.
3. Creating foreign policy free-active and strengthen identity as a maritime nation.
4. Creating the high quality of Indonesian human life, advanced and prosperous.
5. Creating the power of the nation-competitive.
6. Creating Indonesia maritime become independent, advanced, powerful and based on national interests.
7. Creating the personality in the cultural community.


Adjective Clause

What is Adjective Clause?

Adjectives clauses have a subject and a verb (or predicate). They will start with a relative pronoun, like: that, who, whom, whose, or which, or a relative adverb, like why, where, or when. Adjective clauses function as an adjective and modify nouns and pronouns. They are also called relative clauses. 



Adjective Clauses (or Relative Clauses) are a type of subordinate clause that act as adjectives.

The whole clause does the job of an adjective.








Adjective Clauses In Action
Adjective clauses do not change the basic meaning of the sentence. In some cases, when they provide more information into a sentence, they need to be set off with commas.
Here are several examples of sentences with the adjective clauses underlined:
  • Pizza,which most people love, is not very healthy.
  • The peoplewhose names are on the listwill go to camp.
  • Grandpa remembers the old dayswhen there was no television. 
  • Fruitthat is grown organicallyis expensive.
  • Studentswho are intelligentget good grades.
  • Eco-friendly carsthat run on electricitysave gas.
  • I know someonewhose father served in World War II.
  • Making noise when he eats is the main reasonwhy Sue does not like to eat with her brother.
  • The kidswho were called firstwill have the best chance of getting a seat.
  • Running a marathon,a race of twenty-six miles, takes a lot of training.
  • I enjoy telling people about Janet Evanovichwhose latest book was fantastic.
  • The peoplewaiting all night outside the Apple storeare trying to purchase a new iPhone.
  • "Hewho can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in aweis as good as dead." - Albert Einstein
  • “Thosewho do not complainare never pitied.” - Jane Austen
  • “People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thoughtwhich they avoid.” - Søren Kierkegaard
  • “Never go to a doctorwhose office plants have died.” - Erma Bombeck

Turning Adjective Clauses into Phrases
An adjective clause with a subject pronoun - such as which, that or who - can also be shortened into a phrase.
You can shorten an adjective clause in two ways:
  1. Omit the subject pronoun and verb.
  2. Omit the subject pronoun and change the verb to the form ending in "ing."
Here are some examples of how to create an adjective phrase:
  • Adjective Clause: The books, which are lost, are not really necessary.
  • Adjective Phrase: The books lost are not really necessary.

  • Adjective Clause: The girl who is running is my best friend.
  • Adjective Phrase: The girl running is my best friend.

  • Adjective Clause: His share of the money, which consists of $100,000, was given to him on Monday.
  • Adjective Phrase: His share of the money, consisting of $100,000, was given to him on Monday.

  • Adjective Clause: Something that smells bad may be rotten.
  • Adjective Phrase: Something smelling bad may be rotten.

Remember, the goal of an adjective clause is to add more information to a noun or a pronoun. You can add the information by including a few more words or by changing the adjective clause to a phrase.

Thursday, 29 May 2014

Economic System from Time to Time

1. The Old Order ( Ir. Soekarno)
In the old order government that led by indonesia's first president Ir. Soekarno, he wanted indonesia to be independent without relying on other countries. he was so strict. but that also became one of many factors that made our economic growth so low.

there are 4 reasons why Indonesian economic collapse in the old order:
1. high inflantion because the circulation of currency can't be controlled.
2. there were economic blockade by netherlands since novermber 1945
3. empty state coffers
4. exploitation on a large scale

But there were some efforts to overcome the economic troubles.
1. National Loan Program
2. Efforts to went through the blockade by did rice diplomacy to India.
3. Economic Conference in February 1946 with the aim of getting deal to overcome economic troubles that were so urgent.
4. reconstruction and rationalization the forces.


2. The New Order (Soeharto)
In 1966 indonesia got into new order that led by Indonesia's second president, Soeharto. The government payed more attention to the public welfare and also economic growth that based on open economic system so the good result made the west side believed in Indonesian economic prospect. moreover, the gorvernment composed five-year plan graudually with clear target. The effect of five-year plan towards Indonesian Economic was awesome enough especially in macro level. the growth went so fast with an average growth rate per year that relatively high. Because the increase in people's income, the technology transformation and industrialization policy since 1980, Indonesia Economic have changed the structure from the agricultural country to semi-industrial state. 

From too long in power and surrounded by sycophants, Suharto was no longer sensitive to the needs of the people. Food and energy prices, which for three decades in control, jumped. In this situation, it is easy in a rocking by students, activists, and political elites. 

Five-star general and even then finally stepped down Keprabon, May 21, 1998, accompanied blasphemy students and activists. He is reviled as a dictator-military security and political stability with the 'violence' by the power of reform. He abused as a fertile source of corruption.

but worsening economic performance and the proliferation of corruption for 10 years of reform forcing people back turned to Suharto. Good is not good, Soeharto was better. Suharto managed to build agriculture and manufacturing. He was able to reverse the position of Indonesia as the world's largest rice importer to an exporter of rice. Directed through the systematic construction of a lamp-by-lamp managed to reduce poverty, illiteracy, mortality, and population growth rate.

3. Transition Period (B.J Habibie)
when the authoritarian president Suharto resigned during an economic crisis in 1998, automatically the vice president B.J Habibie sabtituted his position. 

to overcome the monetary crisis and economic improvement, B.J Habibie took some steps:
1. Restructuring and banking recapitulation through the establishment of IBRA and the State Asset Management unit
2. Liquidating some troubled banks
3. Raising the value of the rupiah against the dollar to below RP. 10.000,00
4. Forming the monitoring agency and the foreign debt problem resolution
5. Implementing economic reforms required by the IMF
6. Passed Law. 5 of 1999 on the Prohibition of Monopolistic Practices and Unfair Competition
7. Passed Law. 8 of 1999 on Consumer Protection.

In the economic recovery, the government succeeded in significantly reducing the rate of inflation and monetary fluctuations than at the beginning of the crisis. However, the economic policy measures have not been fully considered mjempunyai encouraging as concrete and systematic policies like the real sector has not recovered.

4. Reformation Era (K.H Abdurrahman Wahid)
Occurs there is a lot of weirdness and economic policy. In the past Wahid, Indonesia's credit rating has fluctuated, from CCC ratings fell to DDD and climbed back to the CCC. One of the main causes is the impact of the financial crisis in 1998 which was brought up to reign.

5. Megawati Era
In fact, Megawati government privatization policy run by the insistence from outside, in particular the IMF and the World Bank. The difference, if Megawati just made ​​a deal to continue the previous government, Habibie, through stuctrual adjustment program (SAP).  In addition, consideration of privatizing megawati era is to find funding to cover the state budget deficit. As is known, Megawati inherited an economy in tatters due to the economic crisis in 1997.
Based on our records, the period 1991-2001, the Indonesian government 14 times privatize SOEs. Privatized 12 SOEs.In the reign of Megawati, economic and political co-operation was also conducted outside the U.S. and its allies blocks, such as the purchase of Sukhoi cooperation with Russia and trade cooperation with China. in addition, the Megawati administration tried hard to get out of the trap of the IMF. However, the effort was refracted by Boediono, finance minister at the time, to sign a post-program monitoring (PPM) which means continuing the IMF intervened clandestinely. For the protection of women and migrant workers abroad, megawati government never filed three bills, namely the Draft Bill (Bill) on the Protection of Victims of Violence in the Workplace and Domestic, Overseas Workers Bill, and the Crime of Trafficking in Persons Bill.

6. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Era
The Indonesian economy is on the SBY government has developed very well . Indonesia's economy grew rapidly in 2010 as the world economic recovery after the global crisis from 2008 to 2009 . Evidently , the Indonesian economy is able to withstand the effects of the threat of economic and financial crisis that occurred in the European zone . The Indonesian economy will continue to grow well , but must be adapted to the global conditions are volatile . Indonesian economy will continue to grow , especially financial markets , although the crisis had affected , but it has proven able to survive . Meanwhile , the global economic recovery had a positive impact on the development of the external sector of the Indonesian economy . The administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ( SBY ) managed to break the deadlock and became the catharsis . Corruption and poverty remains a problem in Indonesia . But after a few years in a national leadership is erratic , SBY has managed to create a political and economic stability in Indonesia .

the president's step to embrace the political parties which lost the 2009 elections are part of a policy of Soft Power, or policies to work together in building the nation and the state. This is similar to the Cabinet Mutual-Aid in the past. The state of the economic system of Indonesia during the rule of mutual aid has the following characteristics:
1. low economic growth due to the development of investment is still lacking mainly due to the still unstable political and social conditions in the country.
2. In terms of exports, since 2000, the value of Indonesia's non-oil exports continued to decline from 62.1 billion dollars to 56.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2001, and in 2002 to 42.56 billion U.S. dollars.

Saturday, 26 April 2014

Direct and Indirect Speech

There two ways to convey a message of a person, or the words spoken by a person to other person. Direct speech and Indirect speech.

for example: 
Suppose your friend whose name is John tells you in school, “I will give you a pen”. You come to home and you want to tell your brother what your friend told you. There are two ways to tell him. 
Direct speech: John said "i will give you a pen".
Indirect speech: John said that he would give me a pen.

Fundamental rules for indirect speech.

  1.  Reported speech is not enclosed in quotation marks.
  2.  Use of word “that”: The word “that” is used as a conjunction between the reporting verb and reported speech.
  3.  Change in pronoun: The pronoun (subject) of the reported speech is changed according to the pronoun of reporting verb or object (person) of reporting verb (first part of sentence). Sometimes the pronoun may not change.
In following example the pronoun of reported speech is “I” which will be changed in indirect speech into the pronoun (Subject) of reporting verb that is “he”.

Example.
Direct speech: He said, “I am happy”
Indirect Speech: He said that he was happy.
Direct speech: I said to him, “you are intelligent”
Indirect Speech: I said him that he was intelligent. (“You” changed to “he” the person of object of reporting verb).

  1. Change in time: Time is changed according to certain rules like now to then, today to that day, tomorrow to next day and yesterday to previous day.
Examples.
Direct speech: He said, “I am happy today”
Indirect Speech: He said that he was happy that day.
  1.  Change in the tense of reported speech: If the first part of sentence (reporting verb part) belongs to past tense the tense of reported speech will change. If the first part of sentence (reporting verb part) belongs to present or future tense, the tense of reported speech will not change.
Examples.
Direct speech: He said, “I am happy”
Indirect Speech: He said that he was happy. (Tense of reported speech changed)
Direct speech: He says, “I am happy”
Indirect Speech: He said that he is happy. (Tense of reported speech didn’t change).

Table for change in tense of reported speech for all TENSES.

TENSE CHANGE - IN - INDIRECT SPEECH
Present simple tense into Past simple
Present Continuous tense into Past continuous
Present Perfect tense into Pas perfect 
Present Perfect Continuous into Past perfect continuous
Past simple into Past Perfect
Past Continuous into Past Perfect Continuous
Past Perfect into Past Perfect
Future simple, will into would 
Future Continuous, will be into would be
Future Perfect, will have into would have


Note: The tense of reported speech may not change if reported speech is a universal truth though its reporting verb belongs to past tense.

Examples.

Direct speech: He said, “Mathematics is a science”
Indirect Speech: He said that mathematics is a science.
Direct speech: He said, “Sun rises in east”
Indirect Speech: He said that sun rises in east. (Tense didn’t change because  reported speech is a universal truth thought its reporting verb belongs to past tense)

Indonesian Legislative Election, 2014



Legislative elections were held in Indonesia on 9 April 2014 to elect 132 members of the Regional Representative Council (DPD), 560 members of the People's Representative Council(DPR) and members of regional assemblies at the provincial and regency/municipality level.

paties contesting the elections

A total of 46 parties registered to take part in the election nationwide, from which only 12 parties passed the requirements set by the General Elections Commission (KPU). To contest the elections, all parties must have:
1. A branch office and branch in every province
2. A branch office and branch at least 75% of the regencies or municipalities in every province
3. A branch (but not necessarily a permanent office) in at least 50% of the districts in every regency or municipality
4. At least 1,000 registered members
5. In addition, at least one third of each party's candidates must be female


The 12 national and 3 Aceh parties, together with their ballot numbers are:
1. Partai Nasional Demokrat
2. Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa
3. Partai Keadilan Sejahtera
4. Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan
5. Partai Golongan Karya
6. Partai Gerakan Indonesia Raya
7. Partai Demokrat
8. Partai Amanat Nasional
9. Partai Persatuan Pembangunan
10. Partai Hati Nurani Rakyat
11. Partai Damai Aceh
12. Partai Aceh
13. Partai Bulan Bintang
14. Partai Keadilan dan Persatuan Indonesia

Sunday, 23 March 2014

Paasive Voice!!

1. Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.

2. Passive voice consist of a form of the verb "be" and "past participle"

Problems with the passive voice:
- it is vague, because no actor is identified
- it is wordier than the active voice because, especially if the writter names the actor in a prepositional phrase at the end of the sentence.
example: 1. the speech was made. (who made it?)
              2. The speech was made by Ryan (this is wordy and less direct than the active voice version of the same meaning: Ryan made the speech).

1. Simple Present
active: Tom cleans the house once a week
Passive: The house is cleaned by Tom once a week.

2. Present Continuous
active: Sarah is Writting the letter right now
passive: The letter is written by sarah right now.

3. Simple past
active: Sam repaired the car
passive: The Car was repaired by Sam

4. Past Continous
active: The salesmen was helping the customer when the thief came into the store
passive: The customer was being helped by the salesman when the thief came into the store.

5. Present Perfect
active: Many Tourist have visited that castle
passive: That castke has been visited by many tourist

6. Present Perfect continuous
active: Recently, John has been doing the work.
passive: Recently, the work has been being done by John.

7. Past Perfect
active: George has repaired many cars before he received his mechanic's license.
passive: Many cars has been repaired by George he received his mechanic's license.

8. Past Perfect Continuous
active: Chef John had been preparing the restaurant's fantastic dinners for two months before he moved to Paris.
passive: The restaurant's fantastic dinner had been being prepared by Chef John for two months before he moved to Paris.

9. Simple Future
(will)
active: I will do the Housework.
passive: The housework will be done by me.
(going to)
active: Sally is going to make a dinner tonight
passive: The dinner is going to be made by Sally tonight.

10. Future Continuous
(will)
active: I will be watching television at 8 PM.
passive: The television will be being watched by me at 8 PM.
(going to)
active: i am going to be studying mathematics when she arrives tonight
passive: when she arrives tonight, mathematics is going to be being studied by me.

11. Future Perfect
(will)
active: They will have completed the project before the deadline.
passive: The project will have been completed by them before the deadline.
(going to)
active: They are going to have learned mathematics before they have final examination.
passive: Mathematics is going to have been learned by them before they have final examination.

12. Future Perfect Continuous
(will)
active: i will have been studying english for more than hours when you finally come
passive: english will have been being studied by me for more than hours when you finally come.
(going to)
active: She is going to have been learning james blunt's song for one hour
passive: James Blunt's song is going to have been being learned by her for one hour.

13. Used to
active: Jerry used to sing this song
passive: this song used to be sung by Jerry

14. Would Always
active: My father would always make the pies
passive: The pies would always be made by my father

15. Future in the past
(would)
active: I knew you would finished the work by 5 PM.
Passive: I knew the work would be finished by you by 5 PM.
(was going to)
active: I thought Dina was going to make a dinner tonight.
passive: I thought a dinner was going to be made by Dina tonight.

unforgetable memories with high school friends

So, on 19 may. 2013, me and my senior high school friends and teachers went to Seruni Hotel at puncak. We were going to attend our prom night. So, we left at 9 a.m from here and arrived at 12p.m. the traffic was crowded enough. when we arrived, the teachers distributed the rooms for the students, but we could choose who our roomates are. After the teacher gave us the keys to the students, we immediately went to our own room to put out suitcases and other stuffs.me and my friends prepared our dresses, heels &make up for promnight. before we had lunch, we walked arround the hotel. the hotel has a beautiful view. my friends and i took so many pictures. some of my friends swam and did exercise in the gym, and the rest just walked arround just like what i and my friends did.

this is the view from my balcony room.
me and some of my friends when we walked arround the hotel
so, before dinner time we had to be ready for the prom night, but me and my girls were late because we did make up too long. so, we missed the dinner and we went straight to the ballroom. and the prom has started when we came. 

me and my girls after the prom
me and my javanesse girl when we went back to our room after prom.haha
we went back home the next day after lunch.

I still feel it like it was yesterday, i'll remember that night when i'm old and grey :)