How do we use "look forward"

In our everyday life. We often find people saying "look forward". For example when you write an e-mail to someone in who invite you to come to her country. She writes an e-mail to you by saying: "I look forward to seeing you in Canberra on April."

SPEECH about MOBILE PHONE

Good morning friends,

It is a great pleasure for me to deliver my speech in this occasion. Let me begin by telling you my story. Last week, my grandmother asked me to accompany her to buy batik in Bringharjo market. After we got there, when we walked seeing various kinds of batik suddenly my grandmother said to me and mumbled: “Oh dear, the youngers become more and more crazy today”. Then I asked her why she said like that. Again, she replied my question: “Yeah, you can see there, a girl just talked alone without a partner, maybe she has been crazy, right?” I turn my head and see the girl then I laughed knowing what happen actually. Can you guess friends, why did the girl talk alone? Yes, of course she phoned to a friend by using a hand phone completed by a headset. That’s why she looked like talking with herself and my grandmother assumed that she is crazy.

Have you ever found the experience as I’ve just talked to you? For us especially as the youngers, talking through mobile phone by using a headset is a usual phenomenon, is it? From here, we know that headset is only one of the examples of tools developing mobile phone. There are so many other features that we can find today in the development of mobile phone. Those all to ease people even to make us easy in our activities so that we can reach our success. As we know, we are happy because we were born in a world with modern technology around us but we often forget that technology has changed our life and changed who we are. Here, I want to clarify how technology has changed our life through 4 behavioral activities, such as in our daily lives, our relation in society, our study even our fund management.

Dear friends,

To begin with, we all know mobile phones, cellphones, hand phones, whatever we want to call them are changing our lives. They have indeed changed the way we behave in daily activities. But perhaps we don’t realize how much we have become its slave. Consider other elements of the Siemens Mobile Survey: in every country surveyed the majority polled said they would go back for their mobile phone if they left it at home. I can’t think of anything I would go back for-except my wallet, may be, or my clothes. And even if we remember to bring it, we’re still not happy. Many of us get anxious if it hasn’t rung or a text message hasn’t appeared for a while. Once again of those surveyed, Indonesians (65%) and Filipinos (77%) get particularly jittery. Australians are more laid back about this (20%), but every other user in Asia seems to be glancing at the phones every few second. This statistic, I have to say, is highly believable, and the instinct is highly annoying.

Then, there’s the fact that mobile phones are not only enslaving the user they’re trampling the rights of everyone else. This is the impact of mobile phones to change our behavior in the way we socialize with our society. Around a third of folk surveyed acknowledge they get so engrossed in mobile conversations that they often unaware of making loudly while discussing their private lives in public. At least, most of us agree one thing: the increasing use of mobile phones has led to a decline courtesy and considerate behavior.

Dear friends,

Now, let’s move on to the impact of mobile phones to change our behavior in the way we study. Again, based on the survey by  Siemens Mobile Lifestyle III, it is stated that 60 percent  adolescent about  15-19 years old and students of university prefer sending and reading SMS (Short Message Service than reading books, magazines or newspapers. In this case, communication by using mobile phones like sending SMS turns to cause the decrease of reading motivation for their academic purposes.  That’s why friends, the culture of reading in student’s environment has been threatened today.

Okay, the phenomenon I’ve just stated is also related with my next point that is the impact of mobile phones to change our behavior in the way we manage our fund. From Kompas.com, it is stated that 73 percent of adolescent has spent their money to buy voucher every month about 100-200 thousands. It means that mobile phones can also lead us become consumptive person. Do you feel the same friends? Have you ever felt that you become so consumptive because of buying pulse for your mobile phone? I do hope you do not like that because you all are good students.

Well, As a final remark, I just would like to say the bottom line here is that we are more than a little bit out of control with modern technology sometimes. Mobile phones are great: but if we allow them to dominate our lives and change our good behavior then I can only assumed that in another 10 years, society as we know it will no longer exist. All we’ll see is a blur digital data going out and having all the fun, socializing, falling in love and taking sneaky pictures of each other. So, now consider how much your behavior has influenced by mobile phone. Then, use your mobile phone wisely to reach your success not to become the victim of your successful way.

SPEECH about EDUCATION

The honorable Mr. Samsul Maarif , the Chief of English Department

The honorable Mrs. Nunik Sugesti, our inspiring lecturer

and good morning for all freshmen of English Department YSU 2010

Firstly, Let me say welcome for the freshmen of English Department especially attending this occasion. I can guess what you feel from your face that today you are happy because you’ve become a university student, right? This college is your choice, but I don’t know if some of you are still disappointed with this choice. Some of you maybe consider this college is not the best one you choose. No matter for that, I only want to ask you now. Are you pride become a student of this college? Is there any freshmen here still ask like: what can I get from this university? If I were you I would reply that I am very lucky become a part of Yogyakarta State University moreover become a student of English Department. Why? Yes, of course. Because you have just enter to a university that has a status Road to World Class University or WCU. Actually, that is what I want to talk here, I’d like to introduce you what is world class university and what should we do to get its benefit while consider to support this program.

Dear freshmen,

To begin with, we all know that quality of education in Indonesia, especially higher education is still left behind compared with other countries. We need the right strategy to improve our quality of education. World Class University seems to be the main requirement for Indonesia if we want to compete with foreign universities. Nowadays, some countries have  made education as a reliable source of income. For example, our friends who study abroad would be asked to pay higher prices than usual. If we count, it reaches 10 times more expensive. Imagine, how much income from this field. It does not include the income that accompanies the field of education itself. Our government understand those, but it is difficult to get the financial sources to improve higher education because our government has focused to pay 9-year compulsory education. To overcome that, our government made a policy to change the college became a legal entity.. That’s why our college now establish BLU  or  Public Service Agency. It doesn’t mean that we are to face with education capitalization because the income from BLU will be used to improve our education in our college.

Dear freshmen,

Then, what can we do to support our college on road to WCU? In my opinion, there are at least six important roles we should play as a student. First, we need to minimalize demonstration as far as the problem can be solved by discussion. Second, It is important for us to take a part in larger society activities to enlarge our knowledge. Third, keep our self-image as a student of Yogyakarta State University wherever we go. Fourth, join many competitions, for example, joining debate contest, science Olympiad , promoting our dances and music, etc. Fifth, learn about research little by little from now because research is one of strategy to reach WCU beside it is also essential to give benefit to our society. The last we can do and maybe it’s familiar among us is that as a student whether student of English department or not, we need to practice our English more to help the progression of our college on road to WCU.

Dear freshmen,

Now let me reiterate, our quality of higher education is still left behind compared with other countries because of limited funds. If we let it happen continually, of course we’ll only become a stagnant country that can not develop its quality of education. To increase quality of education our college has encountered a new idea that is world class university, while to solve the problem of higher education funds we have established BLU or Public Service Agency. Both of them are still new for our college but we must be sure that one day we will be able to reach our dream to have the same level quality with foreign universities. Therefore, we must support this idea by those six roles I’ve encountered before because we are part of education components in this college. At last, there is a good quotation “one day, our children will feel that education developed today could give them better living”.

Thank you.

OMNI; WHY MUST WE STRUGGLE NOT TO STOP THIS CASE?

By

Maria Wulandari

            A difficult problem that is faced by the court in Indonesia today is Omni case, a case between ex-patient and Omni International Hospital, a hospital located in Tangerang, West Java. This case began when Prita had a medical treatment  in Omni International Hospital in August 7, 2008. Prita felt unsatisfied with the medical service and also the doctor  caring her.  She shared her feelings to some of her friends through e-mail. While Omni felt that their name has blackened because Prita’s e-mail has spread in some blogs. Omni brought this case to the police and sent Prita to the jail for about 3 weeks. Omni judge that Prita has collided with a regulation about Electronic Transaction of  Information. They also asked Prita to pay 261 millions. Knowing this irrational punishment, our society with a huge number of people criticism Omni’s action by supporting Prita through a social activity called ‘Coin for Prita’. They think, Prita just want to share her feelings. So, she’s not absolutely wrong. Actually, this is a simple case, but it becomes more controversial  in this recent time. Even, this case encourage SBY to show his attention to this case as a president. He said that to justify we must use our heart. However, from many opinions and judgments, it remains that we need to know the clear ending. Therefore, this case should be continued because of two reasons that is  to get the clear ending and to prove the law enforcement in Indonesia.

                The first reason is that it is still unclear who is  the right and who is the wrong in this case. In fact, Omni didn’t give Prita opportunity to explain this problem. Whereas,  if Prita brought to the court, so Omni should be brought to the court too. Both of them must be justified to clarify the fact. The chief of Law Enforcement Center said, for Prita, the court will do an inspection of matter to give a legal certainty and to prove whether she has did a defamation or not. If the information gave by Prita via e-mail is right, the court must take a decision to punish the doctor in Omni International hospital who did a wrong medical service. A legal observer, Ronald Simanjuntak also said that in this case, the process of matter is not easy. It is still difficult to know who is  the wrong and who is the right. There will be still a long process to find the final point between Omni  and Prita. It is a very important process aimed to know who should address an apology and what action is forgivable.

                The second reason is that this case shouldn’t be stopped to prove the law enforcement in Indonesia. It means, there is a good time for us to see how equitable is  the law can take a part in this case. In fact, Indonesia has a good law concept, but in application to the society sometimes it tends to have no attention to human rights. If there is an ordinary civil faced with a big power or institution, he/she will undergo a kind of injustice. We may see Prita’s experience, when   the police and the court receive an  information from Omni, they response it and brought Prita to the jail directly. Ironically, we may see at one time when the ordinary civil want to report a certain case, will the police or the court also response them as they response to Omni case? No, usually the ordinary civil tend to get the response with more complicated process. Even, the plolice or the court often decide a wrong decision. An example is Asrori’s case in East Java. He was brought to the jail because the court assumed that he had taken apart in a murder case. Whereas, he knew nothing about that and finally it is proved that he was not the wrong one. From this example, we can not trust our law directly. We need to take apart by controlling our law enforcement and this case shouldn’t be stopped. If the court finally gives a wrong decision, it is no doubt that the law in Indonesia is still deformity and we can not trust 100 % our own law and vice versa.

              In conclusion, because we need a clear ending and also need to prove our law enforcement, Omni case should be continued. Therefore, people should support the court and our government to achieve a good decision. We can take a part by controlling our law enforcement so it won’t collide with human rights.