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impactingpurwokerto-blog · 8 years ago

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Hello, so first of all i’d like to introduce my self,well my name is Claudia Hapsari and you can call me Ody. Here,i’d like to share the reasons why i wanted be the one of host family in IGV project. Actually,I’m the one of manager in IGV 2016-2017 but in the middle of my journey i felt like i didn’t get 100% International Experience untill i realize that i could get it by being a hosftfamily for our Ep. So i decided to became a hostfam in last winter. And i got female Ep from India called Vino. Firstly,my mom and dad were very happy when i told them that there will be my foreigner friend live in our home. Untill vino arrived my home on December 5th 2016. We prepared everything for her to make her comfortable. From this experience i knew that the one who got international experience is not only me,but also my whole family. Basicly my dad often use english in his daily life so he didn’t get any communication problem with Vino,in the other side my mom,my little sister,my older brother and my grandmom were studying to speak in English to communicate with Vino. That time made me realize that my others family also learned other language to commnicate with our Ep,so we could sharing,Vino always told us about her culture in India,and we also told her a lot of story about our culture. Vino were reallllyyyyyy close to my dad. Everyday my dad always asked vino to go around to visit some places and try some traditional food. My dad bought a Indonesia Dictionary for Vino so she could learned Bahasa. Since my dad gave it ot her,she always said “Halo,Nama saya Vino,saya dari india” i still remember the way she did that. She is a very humble person,she’s not only close to my family at home,but she also reallyy close to my aunt,uncle and my dad’s friend. My mom liked to ask her out and she asked my mom to using traditional transportation like public car,and pedicab “becak”. She told me that she liked using these transportation. During her project here,she also teached my family how to speak in India and she showed us so many videos and photos about India’s Tradition. I was being her hostfamily for 4weeks untill January 5th 2017. And few hours before she left she give us some of things from India and she can’t stop crying. Untill we take her to the rail station. And untill now we still keep contact with her and she promises to visit us next time! So being a hostfamily realy give me international experience! About how communicate with the ep,sharing culture and information,etc!

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impactingpurwokerto-blog · 8 years ago

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ANOTHER EP STORY FROM WINTER 16/ 17!

MY STORY! This was my first time being an exchange participant in fact this is my First time travelling and living alone by myself. At first I thought I couldn't make it, I was so scared to start from India but I wanted to do it... to know how much I am capable of managing stuffs by my own. But it turned out into an awesome experience!!! I registered for a project called “Quality education”, i personally feel like teaching is the only way where you give a lot and get the satisfaction for giving… the school i worked in during my project are pandak and sumampir, by talking with the students i understood how much i know stuffs and how much i lack in understanding those fragile buds. At first felt like both the schools needs different methods of teaching but later i realised that every single kid needs a different way of teaching and i was surprised by the response given by the students they were really smart in learning a new language which is no way related to their own language. Days and weeks passed by and the kids were shining brighter day by day! i was staying is a host family and i think thats the best part of the whole program. Because this program is also a part of social and culture exchange. I think you can understand a country if you stay with the people there!!! No words for my experiences with my family they were just AWESOME! While coming back i felt like like i am leaving when i just got down in this place!! ahh.. it was so sad that my journey gets over soon but i promised my host family that i will definitely come back to see them again! I came back to india and i am still in touch with my host family in Indonesia… though i had to face any difficulties but the return what i got was ‘UNLIMITED HAPPINESS AND SATISFACTION” i was happy in there and i will be happy when i think about my days when i was in AIESEC Indonesia! Thank you, Vinothini krishna priya, India.

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EP STORY WINTER 16/ 17!

The trip starts with challenges. My first morning in abroad (Malaysia) starts with half blindness because I lost my glasses while sleeping. Anyhow I reach Indonesia but my flight was late any my train was on time. So here starts my race against time. Any guesses who won. Bingo, time won with a hair breadth distance of 5 minutes. But these five minutes costs me lot of problems, delays and obviously money. Yeah, some people would say experience would be the silver lining from this ordeal. However I met a very good, selfless and helping person ardeep (I guess I am correct) who was a staff of customer service in Jakarta railway station. He not only told me the route to purwokerto via bus, lend me his phone to make calls and even helped me to buy a local Sim of Indonesia. And last but not least Sasa without her I would have straight away went back to India. PS- i think the taxi driver was a scavenger who wanted to take advantage of foreign to make more money.

Next memorable event was

The debate and speech competition in UNSOED. I went there with friends from UNSOED. It was fun and very interesting because i got to meet many new people.

After that I started my project and it was really fun to teach the kids and to spend time with them. I met Tyo in the school through my EP buddy Afrian. Tyo helped me a lot in my stay in Indonesia, for everything he was there.

Other than that i had a lot of fun in aquarium, water park, karaoke, fireworks on new year and last not the least Bali.

That’s Neeraj’s story, our ep from India

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Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world, range from Sabang in Aceh to Merauke in Papua, which is made up of thousands of large and small islands, which are connected by the strait and sea. According to data from the Ministry of Interior of the Republic Indonesia in 2010 was as much as 17,504 islands. 7,870 of them have names, while 9,634 do not have a name.

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In the name of “Unity in Diversity” country, Indonesia

Bhinneka Tunggal Ika is the official national motto of Indonesia. The phrase is Old Javanese translated as “Unity in Diversity”. It is inscribed in the Indonesian national symbol, Garuda Pancasila (written on the scroll gripped by the Garuda’s claws), and is mentioned specifically in article 36A of the Constitution of Indonesia. The Garuda is a mythical bird and the mount of Lord Vishnu.

It is a quotation from an Old Javanese poem Kakawin Sutasoma, written by Mpu Tantular during the reign of the Majapahit empire sometime in the 14th century, under the reign of King Rājasanagara, also known as Hayam Wuruk. Kakawin contains epic poems written in metres.

This poem is notable as it promotes tolerance between Hindus (especially Shivaites) and Buddhists

Indonesia is one country in the world that recognized the de facto and de jure by all countries in the world. Indonesian cultures are very different from Western cultures as there exists a difference in experience, belief-systems, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, spatial relations, and much more. Moreover within Indonesian itself there exists a multitude of different cultures. This makes Indonesia a complex country, and therefore an interesting country. In this section we teach you some do’s and don'ts for successful and efficient participation (socializing) in Indonesian society.

Moreover before a national framework was laid upon them, the various regions experienced separate political and economic histories which still show in the current regional dynamics. Indonesia’s national motto Bhinekka Tunggal Ika (Unity in Diversity) refers to the variety in the country’s internal composition but also indicates that - despite all differences in its multicultural society - there is a true sense of unity (Indonesianness) among the people of Indonesia.

This Culture section of Indonesia Investments has as principal objective to provide the reader with essential background information on Indonesia with regard to various disciplines. This will significantly enhance people’s understanding of the country. Comprehension of cultural aspects and country-specific dynamics are essential for sustainable and successful investments or when moving to a foreign country either for business or private reasons. This is especially applicable to Indonesia with its enormous cultural diversity and complexity.

Religion plays an important role within Indonesian society and in the daily lives of the people. Indonesia is the country with the largest Muslim population in the world but it also contains millions of people that adhere to other main world religions as well as more traditional animist belief systems. This section gives a description of the main religions in Indonesia, to wit Islam, Christianity (incl. Catholicism), Hinduism and Buddhism. It gives a historic framework and describes the current role of religion in the country.

In areas actively being developed for “ethnic tourism” such as Toraja in South Sulawesi, locals find that their houses, villages, and even funerary monuments become removed from their control when these aspects of their lives are designated as “tourist objects” by planners from Java or the neighboring Bugis and Mandar ethnic groups (Adams 1990; Volkman 1990). In more remote areas that have not yet experienced a tourist influx, regional officials sometimes demand that local ethnic minorities invent represent their region in provincial and national culture contests (Acciaioli 1985). In areas such as Central Sulawesi where the indigenous techniques of barkcloth production have declined with development, new “traditional” costumes have been manufactured from imported sateen or Javanese batik cloth ornamented with plastic sequins for official performances (Aragon 1990).

Some scholars have suggested that the contrived aspects of these cultural displays and government-sponsored performances not only fragment and “aestheticize” the cultural identities of ethnic minorities but also serve to pry the indigenous performing arts away from the precolonial religious ideas through which the ritual arts originated (Acciaioli 1985). Other evidence indicates that even rites modified under the influence of political and world religion leaders still provide ethnic minorities a means through which to renegotiate their ties to their ancestral cosmology as well as to the outside political forces pressuring them to format their “culture” along nationally conformist lines (Aragon 1992 and forthcoming).

Despite the government’s emphasis on unthreatening aesthetic and portable material aspects of minority cultures, Indonesian education programs do formally encourage tolerance of ethnic and religious diversity and they instruct children about some historical and cultural features characteristic of the more populous or prominent ethnic minorities. Moreover, Indonesian educational and media programs are shrewd enough to discuss social differences as features of ethnicity (a flexible constellation of cultural features) rather than follow the United States’ misplaced anxiety about, and emphasis on, race (supposedly, a genetically fixed constellation of biological features).

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