Melbourne Street Festival (Kartini's Day) 2012

Kartini's day is a day where Indonesia celebrate the birth day of Kartini, Indonesia's emancipation heroine. The celebration is held every 21st of April.

In Melbourne, Kartini's day is celebrated in a different manner like in Indonesia. 29 April 2012 was hold Indonesia Street Festival. The event was held in Queen Victoria market, Melbourne.

How to understand a culture in an quick way? By a culinary experience.

Stands sell foods like sate, Empek-empek and beverages like Teh Tarik.

Visitors seems very exited with sate by the Indonesia Moslem Community Victoria, lots of people queue to get their order.

There were also other fellow southeast Asian countries like Malaysia and Singapore presenting Nasi Lemak and Chicken Rice.


Theres also a live performance on stage. When I first arrived, the sound mixer was playing Mulan Jameela :p
When somebody does a performance, he sang an english pop song.

When I was walking around, I saw a advertisement of Indonesia Satay Festival for couple of weeks ahead.

Well, you just wait for the coverage from me. :)

And the post has finished (hell yeah!) See the post through this link .

Questionnaire Publication II: The Tiger of Asia

How to measure country development level is by compare it with other country.

This blog is the second part from the “Questionnaire Publication”

The Tiger of Asia.

I think every magazine always compare countries in Asia,

“Here is the tiger of Asia”

“Here is rising tiger of Asia”

“This was the tiger of Asia”

I think that there is three ways for any country to become the tiger of Asia,

First is to have a strong-semi authoritarian government, or

second, has willingness to step further or

third, do both.

If we monitor Southeast Asia, all the great 3 countries (Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore) have strong-semi authoritarian government. Although Thailand was shaken by the red-shirt movement to shake the current prime minister, Thailand’s monarchy stand still and with the military forces backed up. In case of Malaysia’s government, it’s dominated by the UMNO.

Both Malaysia and Singapore is backed up with Internal Security Act that allows the police to arrest person or a group up to 30 days (Singapore) or 60 days (Malaysia), to counter any Coup de etat or terrorism action. Seems that’s not humane, but that’s country prerogative. 

Those southeast Asian countries has semi-authoritarian government and succeeded lead the nation as the tigers of (southeast) Asia.

If we observe East Asia countries like Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. They are the tiger of Asia. 
 

One “happening” country is South Korea, from Kimchi to LG, south Korean product, food and lifestyle is everywhere. What happened to South Korea today is not happened in the blink of an eye.

South Korea is one of the victim of the cold war, it’s also been into dictatorship government under Syngman Rhee (The First Republic), The Second Republic and The Military Rule lead by Park Chung-hee.

The third republic established populist program in economy extended its governance up to the fourth republic but then his government went corrupt and after 18 years, he was murdered by Kim Jae-kyu, ended also the military rule in the fourth republic.

The fifth republic still marked with protest, political unrest and house detention for the opposition leader, started with Coup de etat on the current prime minister by Chun Doo-hwan in 1979. His government promised new era of economic and democratic justice, marked by the rise of South Korea’s economy, but also widen the gap between the rich and poor.

The fifth republic success marked by Asian Games 1986.

Remember back that the fifth republic was build from Coup de etat, it means that the government is still based on military government, not civilian. And again, another protest occurred caused by the Gwangju Massacre in 1987.

June 1987 marked the rise of the Republic of South Korea lead by Roh Tae-woo.

This status still remains until now.

1988 Olympic game was held in Seoul, after Roh Tae-woo step down, Kim Yong-sam was the first civilian president since 30 years, he did many breakthrough in economy and law, took former president Cun and Roh to court for bribery.

South Korea also suffered from the 1998 economic crisis,  as a great challenge for the new president, Kim Dae-jung. The government is doing aggresive effort in investment attracting, gold-collecting campaign and industry cooperation. South Korea succeeded out of the crisis in a relative short time.

In Kim’s era, industrial reconstruction with the big conglomerates were pursued, the national health system was introduce, education reform was introduced and the IT field is increased. 2002 cooperate south Korea with Japan as host for FIFA World Cup.

Roh Moo-hyun took the presidential chair in 2002, hee is succeeded to settling Korea-USA FTA issue and launch the high-speed train system. But then he was accused in corruption and bribery. Korean stock market was rose, but the unemployment and the housing prices were also high.

The lawsuit ended when he commit suicide in 2009.

Until now, the president of South Korea is Lee Myung-bak.

 (Source and summarized from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Korea)

(See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_South_Korea)

What can we learn from South Korea’s history?

1. South Korea also have the dictatorship and military era. 
2. What determine South Korea is that they has the continuity in its economic policy (strong government determination since 1960 until now), although each government era was the opposition that took place.
3. The suppressive power cannot hold the people, corrupt government will force the people of South Korea to have another demonstration. 

How about Indonesia? Indonesia also has almost the same fate with South Korea, Soekarno's been close to the socialist block, after been coupe by Soeharto, Indonesia has similar progress with South Korea. But what differentiate them with South Korea is determination and continuity. Click here for international news about Indonesia's current President.

Questionnaire Publication

I prefer to write it in English so I can reach more reader to read, reflect or took ideas from this blog.

After I’m done doing a mini research from Facebook, the question is about “Why Indonesia is least developed, compare to other countries, which internal factor that respondent think that has greatest impact to the underdevelopment of Indonesia”
From the questionnaire result above we can see that:

In English, the result translated like this:

1. 0 respondent (0%) answer “the public official is lack of professionalism”
2. 0 respondent (0%) answer “the president is always rhetorical, no action”
3. 2 respondents (22.2%) answer “the parliament is useless”
4. 2 respondents (22.2%) answer “there is no intelligent person that can lead the nation”
5. 3 respondents (33.3%) answer “systematic corruption is everywhere, the law system is disorder”
6. 1 respondent ( 11.1%) answer “it was meant to be”
7. 0 respondent (0%) answer “the dark cycle of parties money politics”
8. 0 respondent (0%) answer “terrorism”
9. 1 respondent (11.1%) answer “cultural issue”

This survey has flaws, first, it is not represent the opinion from the Indonesian, it only catch 9 respondent from number of respondents that writers think he/she is active enough in Facebook (check his/her account).
The second flaw is that this survey provided by Facebook has limited questions that can be asked, a good survey should ask respondent in systematic way.

From this questionnaire we cannot conclude any clear argument, “what caused the ‘chaos’ in Indonesia?”

If I participated in this questionnaire, I would love to blame the president for all the mess now.

This writing continue to another blog, “Questionnaire Publication II: The Tiger of Asia”

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PPIA Victoria Gathering 2012

Most abroad students like to meet and greet their fellow country students, and students from some countries has a creativity, created a group to coordinate, meet, sharing and other activities.

Yup, human is an social creature, although abroad is an individual-culture countries, we still like to meet individual from same country, language and city. Around weeks ago I'm lucky to have a quick view (sorry, only a quick view) in one of their gathering activity, the community name is PPIA Victoria (Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia Australia cabang Victoria) or in English The Indonesia Students Association of Australia Victoria. 

The gathering was done in The Indonesian Consulate General Republic of Indonesia front yard, Queen Rd Albert Park Melbourne. 

This gathering begin with introduction from PPIA representatives from campuses in Victoria. 

There are also food stall like somay, pempek and many more. 

Also there art performance, mural and a mini concert. Some teens dress like an Indonesian elementary school, with red skirt and the short sleeve with OSIS badge on it.

The weather is cloudy, and a light rain occurred. But it doesn't make the guesses ran away. 

You can see the banner outside, behind that was the circuit of F1 Albert Park.

From my opinion, this activity is a great idea to gather up Indonesian students in Victoria, maybe the committee to improve the rundown, to make it better. (No hurt feeling guys :) )

Actually they have a bigger events at the first week of April called Indonation, its about charity night and they invite Andra and The Back Bone have a concert in Melbourne, and I'm totally forgot about it. damn -___-

Its an International World

No more heavy substantial topic. This time only for fun.

Here is some of the “international world” evidence.

Design in California, made in China

 I bought the iPad in Germany, and the iPhone in Jakarta.

 

Coffee bean from Brazil, manufactured in Taiwan, sold in Melbourne.

 

This product is more way confusing, consist of imported coffee bean, roasted and packed in Germany and then imported by a company from Victoria, Australia.

FYI, blue mountain is one of the famous coffee beans originated from Jamaica, click here.

Its an international world.