Vision and Mission of Candidates for President and Vice President of Indonesia

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TEMPO.CO , Jakarta - Reform of education is one of the main agendas which would be done by two couples of candidates for president and vice president if they win the presidential election on July. Each couple, Prabowo - Hatta Rajasa and Joko Widodo - Jusuf Kalla stated that there should be improvements of education system in this country. 

Jokowi-JK which supported by Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan, Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa, Partai Nasional Demokrat dan Partai Hati Nurani Rakyat judges that the implementation of the existing education system does not yet support the purposes of the country to educate the life of the nation. "The state should provide a great education for humanity, " said Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla in its vision and mission. 

Prabowo –Hatta which supported by Partai Gerakan Indonesia Raya, Partai Persatuan Pembangunan, Partai Keadilan Sejahtera, Partai Golkar, Partai Amanat Nasional, dan Partai Bulan Bintang put nine points for education programs include curriculum changes and educational fee discharge. 

Following is the vision and mission of the presidential candidates in the field of education as stated in the documents that have been submitted to the Election Commission. 

Vision and Mission from Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla 

1. Restructuring the national education curriculum with advanced aspects of civic education. 

2. Promoting the educational costs to be affordable for all citizens. 

3. Shall not impose uniformity in education such as removing national exam. 

4. Conducting curriculum which could balance the local and national aspects. 

5. Improving education facilities and infrastructure. 

6. Recruitment and distribution of qualified teaching staff (teachers) equally. 

7. Provide adequate life assurance to teachers in remote areas, provision of functional benefits and insurance administration. 

8. Equality of educational facilities across the region. 

9. Promoting the 12 years Compulsory Education without educational fee and other charges. 

10. Providing high attention to education. 

Vision and Mission from Prabowo-Hatta 

1. Strengthening national character education through the personality of five principles (Pancasila). 

2. Performing reallocation of the increasing efficiency of education expenditure. 

3. Implementing the 12 years Compulsory Education. 

4. Enhancing the dignity and welfare of teachers, lecturers, and education personnel. Sending an allowance for certified and qualified teachers directly to the teacher's account, recruiting 800 thousand teachers for five years, and increasing the average allowance into IDR 4 million per month. 

5. Revising the national curriculum. 

6. Improving the quality and educational facilities massively throughout the school through the allocation of Quality Educational Facilities Improvement Fund (Dana Perbaikan Kualitas Fasilitas Pendidikan, DPKFP) in average of USD 150 million per school. 

7. Providing computers in primary, secondary, and vocational school, giving scholarships and facilitating the new graduates with training. 

8. Providing incentives for the company which hold an internship program. 

9. Developing vocational school. 

IRA GUSLINA SUFA (Tempo)

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Historical Footbal Match, The Duel of Legends

Picture Credit: Super Soccer Boys From Manchester vs Persib Bandung Legends

Right on Saturday, May 24, 2014, football lovers in the Indonesia, especially the fans of Manchester United and Persib Bandung will be presented with a prestigious competition, namely The Boys From Manchester which reinforced by Paul Scholes cs would face Persib Legends which reinforced by most of the players who took Persib Bandung as Winner of the Indonesia League in 1995. 

 The legendary match will be held at the stadium Jalak Harupat Bandung. It’s a rare opportunity for the fans of MU to be able to witness the MU players which took MU as treble winners in 1999, like Dwight Yorke, Andy Cole, Jesper Blomqvist, Paul Scholes and other Manchester United legends. The greatness of the legendary Manchester United players will be challenged by the legendary Persib Bandung squad which won the Indonesia Leauge in 1995. 

Since then, Persib Bandung has not been able to re- win the Indonesia Leauge. So, this match could obviously bring back the memory of the triumph of the two teams to both fans of the teams. This game is more than just a friendly match. In addition, to the history of the two teams that will compete, Paul Scholes et al want to donate the proceeds from this match income to charity. 

Thus, by participating in the event Boys From Manchester or by downloading the application, we will also participate to help a charity foundation that supports families with autism who have been chosen by this legend. Nostalgia and having fun to be had, the social side is also not forgotten .

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Indonesia Could Adopt Thailand in Promoting the Culinary Traditional Treasures

Tom Yum, Thai Cuisine which can be found easily around the world
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REPUBLIKA.CO.ID , BEIJING - The author and pioneer of the establishment of the culinary community “Jalan Sutra”, Bondan Winarno, said Indonesia could adopt the Thai way of promoting the culinary treasures of traditional foods to introduce them to the foreign country.

Bondan said, Thailand proved successful to globalize traditional food through "Thai Kitchen to the World", a culinary tourism promotion program. The government and stakeholders of Thailand use culinary tourism as a media campaign which already makes great results. Thai restaurants are now available in various parts of the world.

"From a target of about 10,000 restaurants around the world, now only less than five years since the launching of the program, there are 20 thousands Thai restaurants in the world, " said Bondan, who’s in Beijing in order to attend the Gourmand World Cookbook award Awards.

"Thus, although people do not go to Thailand, people around the world can taste Thai cuisine. People from London, for example, they like to eat Thai food. Then they think to take a vacation in this summer to Thailand, because eating at the original place is certainly more palatable. Finally, it has impacts to the tourism," he explained.

Indonesia, he said, has more various foods than the White Elephant country and could use a similar way to internationalize a wealth of traditional food.

"In Sumatra, there is Padang cuisine, and also Kapau and other dishes. Each area has a different culinary diversity, " he said .

According to him, the vision of the government, private and culinary practitioner should immediately unite to bring the traditional culinary archipelago to the international community.

Governments and relevant stakeholders, he added, should sharpen the vision and determine the direction of promotion of Indonesian cuisine.

"It does need a strong commitment from all parties, not only the government, but also all relevant stakeholders," he said.

"Indonesia has set 30 icons of culinary archipelago to be promoted to foreign countries and it is very good. However the unity of vision is important so the promotion of 30 icons of culinary archipelago could get maximum results and have impacts for Indonesia," he said.

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This Football Player Died After Crashing on Air With Goal Keeper

Akli Fairuz(orange jersey)

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Reasons Why People Should (Could) Cry

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Crying is not contemptible. Even, it could be a must, when you are in some situations. Here are the situations in which you should (could) cry.

1. Crying kills the bacteria
    Our tears are natural antibacteria. There is lisozom in the tears which can kill about 90-95% bacteries from computer keyboard, baluster/banisters, sneezing and other bacterial places, only in 5 minutes.

2. Helping our vison
    The liquid from our eys can prevent dehydration on eyes membrane which could make our vision blurry.

3. Boosting our mood
    A human who cries could reduce his depression level, because his mood are boosted when he cries. Tears which caused by emotional crying contain 24% albumin protein which can regulate the metabolism system in compare with tears caused by irritaion.

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UGM Develops an Interactive Props Teeth

Illustration of Props Teeth
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Yogyakarta (ANTARA News) - The students team from Gadjah Mada University develop an interactive props teeth which equipped with microcontroller-based electronic systems, so that every part of the teeth which touched are capable of producing sound automatically.

"Development of props large teeth which named tootells or “talking teeth” is intendet to at assist the visually impaired people to know more about the importance of oral health," said team coordinator Apriliani Astuti in Yogyakarta on Friday.

According to her, if every part denture material made ​​from waste sawdust is touched, then you will hear an explanation of the parts or diseases of the teeth such as email, dentin, pulp, and hollow teeth about a minute.

"The prop teeth that we made is big and equipped with a touch sensor, once its part is pressed, then you’ll hear a sound," he said.

He said, the goal of making dental spoke originally reserved for the visually impaired people, but it’s possibel too if this props teeth is used as an instructional media for children and adults to know more about oral health.

"These props could be an alternative of an instructional media to study the anatomy of teeth," said the student of Dental Education Program, Faculty of Dentistry ( FKG ) UGM.

According to her, nowadays, the instructional media about teeth could not explain about the anatomy of the tooth to the blind students in detail because the props teeth are made in small size.

Besides that, the automatic description about the parts of the teeth will ease anyone to understand more about teeth.

"Therefore, we deliberately attach sensors and microcontrollers which equipped with speakers in the teeth, " he said.

He told that the speaking props teeth are already introduced to one of the special schools for the visually impaired people in Yogyakarta.

"Many visually impaired students extend a warm welcome the presence of the dental props. Besides enabling them to see more about the parts of the anatomy of the teeth, the students also could know some of the diseases of the teeth , " he said.

The student team members are Isti Noor Masita , Navikatul Ula , Hamzah Assaduddin, and Brisma Meihar Arsandi. ( * )

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Komodo is Famous For Travellers

LABUAN AJO , KOMPAS.com - Since being introduced as the new 7 wonders of the world, Komodo is recognized increasingly. That’s why the tourism of East Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Timur, NTT) Province more popular. Now, the travelers to Labuan Bajo, West Manggarai regency capital, increased. This is caused by the increasing number of flights at the city's western end of Flores Island.

Head of East Nusa Tenggara Tourism, Alexander Sena, in a talk with Kompas Travel, Saturday (05/10/2014 ) confesses that Sail Komodo 2013 made a significant impact on tourism in the province. The data show that the foreign tourist arrivals to NTT in 2013 reached 80,810, or increased 47,000 travelers from 2012. Meanwhile, the number of domestic tourist arrivals in 2013 reached 800,000 travelers, increased from 2012 of 349 000 tourists.

"We want to want to realize NTT tourism as one of the main tourist destinations in Indonesia, " said Alexander .

According to Alexander, the main icon  of NTT tourism is Komodo, Kelimutu Lake, Wae Rebo Village, Whaling in Lamalera, the Celebration of Semana Santa in Larantuka, and Pasola in West Sumba." Many tourist destinations spread across the islands in NTT. There is beauty in the island of Komodo, Alor, 17 Riung Island, Rote , and Maumere Bay. The national parks are located in Flores and Komodo. Even there’s wealth of marine life, " said Alexander, who occupied the postion as Head of Tourism NTT since December 2013.

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