Sabtu, 25 Oktober 2014

                                       
                                 THE MISER AND HIS PURSE

There was once lived a miser. One day he want to go shopping. He had a thousand rupees in his purse. As he was stepping into a shop, he felt for the purse in his pocket. He could not find it. “It must have dropped when I took out my handkerchief,” he thought. He hurried back along the street, looking for his purse. He could not find it. He was in great distress.

The miser rushed to the town crier and sought his help. “You must offer a reward to the person who finds the purse, “said the town crier, “or you won’t get your purse back.” The miser offered a reward of fifty rupees. The crier made the announcement.

The next day, a farmer came to the miser’s home. “I found this purse near the lamp-post over there,” said the farmer. “Does it belong to you?”

“Yes,” said the miser, and he counted the money in that purse. “Thank you very much for returning my purse,” he added. But he did not give the farmer his reward.

“May I have my reward?” asked the farmer.

“There was a sum of one thousand and fifty rupees in my purse,” replied the miser. “Now I find only one thousands rupees. You have already taken your reward.”

“But I haven’t taken any money from the purse,” said the farmer.

“You are lying,” shouted the miser and he left the farmer.

The farmer was vey angry. Then he went to the court of law. The judge heard the case and sent for the miser. He took the purse and examined it.

The court session was going to start. When the judgeman asked some questions to the miser, he explained directly, “There was a sum of one thousand and fifty rupees in my purse. And in the day of returning back my purse by that farmer, I find only one thousands rupees. I believe that that farmer have already taken my money.”

Then, the judgeman asked the miser, “You said that there was a sum of one thousand and fifty rupees in your purse, don’t you?”, the judge continued “This purse contains only one thousand rupees. So the purse can’t be yours.” And finally he gave the purse to the farmer.


The second Article :

                           4 Months in Jail Sought for French Journos
Prosecutors asked on Thursday the Jayapura District Court to sentence French journalists Thomas Charles Dandois and Marie Valentine Bourrat to four-month jail terms and fine them Rp 2 million (US$174) each for alleged visa violations.

Prosecutor Sukanda also asked that each of them be required to pay court expenses of Rp 2,000.

The sentence demand was delivered by prosecutor Sukanda during the trial presided over by judge Martinus Bala and judging panel members Maria Sitanggang and Irianto.

Dandois and Bourrat, said Sukanda, were proven to have violated Article 122 of Law No. 8/2011 on immigration, by carrying out journalistic activities while using tourist visas.

An aggravating factor is that both journalists could report negatively on Indonesia overseas, while a mitigating factor is that the defendants admitted to their wrongdoing and apologized for creating the case.

Evidence in the form of passports, laptops and press cards has been returned to its owners while other evidence, such as cameras, was seized by the state.

When asked why the prosecution had sought a five-year prison sentence but only demanded four months, Sukarna said the five-year sentence was just to act as a deterrent to ensure other foreigners did not commit the same violations when visiting Indonesia.

The defendants’ lawyer, Aristo MA Pangaribuan, appreciated the sentence demand but remained firm in his belief that Dandois and Bourrat should be released because they had not been proven guilty of misusing their visas.

“Based on witness testimonies and evidence presented in court, Dandois and Bourrat were not proven to have conducted journalistic activities. An expert witness from the Press Council also testified that both of them had only conducted research, and that conducting research was not a journalistic activity,” said Aristo.

Aristo appealed to the panel of judges to acquit his clients and restore their good names as well as dignity, and asked that the case expenses be borne by the state.

The defense lawyer presented expert witness Yoseph “Stanley” Adi Prasetyo, head of the Indonesian Press Council’s legal commission, who said the case against the French journalists was a red mark for press freedom in Indonesia, adding that he hoped it would be the first and the last such case in the country.

“If there are journalists who violate immigration laws, just deport them. Why should they be criminalized?” he said.

The activities carried out by Dandois and Bourrat in Papua, said Prasetyo, could not be categorized as journalistic because the pair was simply conducting research for a documentary project.

“If they were just conducting research, it’s not a journalistic activity. Anyone can do research. Journalistic activity is when they take pictures and publicize them in the media,” he said.

He cited that journalists and intelligence agents both gather data and then record it in writing, but that intelligence agents report to their superiors and do not publicize their work, while journalists write to publish, which he defined as journalistic activity.

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A. STATEMENT

    1. Direct speech :
        “You must offer a reward to the person who finds the purse, “said the town crier,          “or you won’t get your purse back.”

   
         Indirect speech :
           
          The town crier said that miser must offered a reward to the person who                        found the purse, or else miser wouldn't get his purse back. 
          

     2.  Direct speech :
         
          “But I haven’t taken any money from the purse,” said the farmer.
           
           Indirect speech :
              
              The farmer said that he hadn’t take some money from the purse.
    

B. QUESTION
     
     1. Direct speech :
         “May I have my reward?” asked the farmer.
          
         Indirect speech :
         The farmer asked that where was his rewards.

      2. Direct speech :
          
           Why should they be criminalized?” he said.
          
          Indirect speech :
       
          he wants to know why they to be criminal.


C. IMPERATIVE
      
      1. Direct speech :
      
          Journalistic activity is when they take pictures and publicize them in the media,”              he said.
           
          Indirect Speech :
           
          he asked that journalistic activity to take pictures and publicize them in the media.
       

      2. Direct speech :
      
          Mother said "close the window!"
      
          Indirect speech :
      
          Mother asked me to close the window.






Senin, 06 Oktober 2014


A story of romantic love
Prodita Sabarini, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sun, 28/09/2014 12:24 PM



Sweet Valentine: Baker Emily Jones decorates chocolate hearts at the Lake Champlain Chocolates factory in Burlington, Vermont, on Feb. 11.AP/Toby TalbotFor many, February is the month of romance.
Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14th gives people a momentum to celebrate love and express it to their object of affection.
The classic formula to mark the occasion usually includes a romantic dinner for two, red roses, chocolate, candy and a greeting card. For those with more money to spend, a holiday getaway and jewelry might come into the picture.
Those skeptical of the day’s hype might refuse to partake in the consumerist frenzy, saying that love should be celebrated on any day of the year. Romantics, who love the special occasion, meticulously plan their activities on Valentine’s Day. And there are those who don’t mind being given a reason to be romantic [6].
But for every type of person holding different opinions on Valentine’s Day, romantic love is more than dinner and gifts. It is the one drug that everyone loves — as long as it lasts. It gives people energy, sparks creativity, and makes a besotted person incredibly focused on one’s object of affection.
Romantic love is a greats motivator and a muse to every day[1]. The many poems dedicated to love is testament to that. Love drives people to go the extra mile. The fear of loosing love and jealousy can drive people to the worst of actions, from stalking to murder.
Beyond kowtowing to the demands of a commercialized Valentine’s Day, The Jakarta Post asked people what they did when driven by this intense emotion, and what their perception of romantic love was.
Most answered they wanted an everlasting relationship. A happily married mother of one said love was an illusion, referring to the roles of dopamine and serotonin in our brains. Others say they believe in love in a metaphysical manner. And an editor-cum-artist dreams of a noncommittal everlasting love.
The feisty, 25-year-old Bali-based editor Annisa Dharma said here feelings were driven by “assemble beautiful words that woo”[7]. It had also driven her to make what she called “grand gestures”.
“I’ve moved countries for a boy. I’ve made a song for a boy [8]. I’ve created art for a boy. I’ve let go of my ambition for a boy,” she said.
Annisa said her actions were driven by romance [9].
“I think romance is more of a language. Romance and love don’t go hand in hand,” she said.
“Personally, I can’t be romantic to someone I truly love, and likewise, when I don’t love a person, I can be the most romantic person ever.”
However if she really loves someone, she would not do anything to hurt or harm herself. “Because I’d trust them with all my heart,” she said.
Annisa added she would be meeting her love to last forever[2]. “Thus, no commitments…Free and liberating.”
She however would not mind getting married “if I found the right one, in which the relationship didn’t change regardless of the married status. That would mean getting married purely as an act of romance… which is fine,” she said.
For 28-year-old Yolanda Nirmala, love has such a powerful effect on her it made her think twice
about her religion and chose to live without it. She said she found peace as an agnostic.
“Would it makes sense to you if I told you that being in love once led to me being agnostic? That’s how powerful love is in my life,” she said.
Coming from a conservative Muslim family, Yolanda fell in love with a man who had a Catholic upbringing. She was in her early 20s, in college; meanwhile, her partner was in his early thirties.
Their families disapproved of their relationship because they came from different faiths. They continued to date in secret for fear of being separated [10].
She and her partner devised a plan to elope to Singapore and live abroad. She will be started to save up money for their planned future together tomorrow[3]
During this time, she started to question religion.
“I started to lose my faith in religion. I started to ask myself: ‘What is the point of religion have if it used to hate other people?’ Because of a different religion, one can hate and stay away from others?”
Life sent her on another path, Yolanda said, as her boyfriend was killed in a car accident in their two years of relationship.
“I was sad as sad can be. But the thing that didn’t die with him, was me being an agnostic,” she said. “I don’t feel there is a strong reason to fit in boxes that separate people.”
For 29-year-old Ramdan Sudrajat, love has made him do things he never imagined he could do.
“I cleaned my girlfriend’s father’s behind when he was ill after having a stroke,” he said.
“I even surprised myself. I have never even seen my own father naked. That’s the power of love,” he said.
The relationship with his girlfriend eventually fizzled. That was around 2006 he said, and he was over it.
“Failure is normal. Even though I regret the decision to break up. I still remember her as a part of the story of my life,” he said.
“I think love is when you put your trust and hope in someone whom you wish to be your life companion and who will be by your side until you get old,” he said.
While Ramdan is looking to forge a lasting relationship soon[4]. Yolanda said she was not in a rush and was looking for a mature relationship, with a solid long-term plan. “If a guy says sweet things to me such as ‘I like you’ or something similar, until he proves it I would say it’s bulls**t,” she said. And until she finds that love, she is happy with casual dates.
Maria Ferrari, 33, a mother and a singer, has a very rational perspective on romantic love. She believes it is an illusion, and the emotion comes from a combination neurotransmitters in the brain.
“In reality, [most] humans whether they realize it or not are self-centered,” she said. “For me, the deepest and craziest [thing one can do] for ‘love’ is to keep it unspoken.”
She believes a committed relationship occurs when two people agree to want to “know” their partners.
“The ‘want’ is full of conflict. And often it becomes a drama, just like sinetron,” she said. Maria added there was no time frame in getting to know one’s partner. “Because humans are dynamic,” she went on.
Despite her rational perspective, Maria enjoys being infected with the emotions.
“Being high and low is exciting. Because [sometimes] that is what people look for. So life doesn’t feel that bland,” she said.
Scientists have explained love through neuroscience. A professor of Neuroscience in Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, Larry Young. wrote in scientific journal Nature, that love could be explained by a series of neurochemical events in a specific area of the brain. From his research Young finds that oxytocin levels in the brain may enhance humans ability to form trusting relationships.
Meanwhile anthropologist Helen Fisher states that different neurotransmitters such as testorerone, dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin have roles in the phases of romantic love, which are lust, attraction and attachment. In her articles, Fisher wrote that when someone faces rejection, the body goes into protest and also a renewed passion that she coined “frustration attraction”, which results from the prolong effect of dopamine.
To cope with all the highs and lows of love, Maria suggested being conscious of all these emotions.
Taking advice from meditation teacher, she said: “Consciously enjoy everything, and observe”.

Penjelasan :
1.    Romantic love is a greating motivator and a muse to every day[1]
Kalimat Active voice di atas masuk kedalam bagian Present Continous
2.   Annisa added she would be meeting her love to last forever[2]
Kalimat Active Voice di atas masuk kedalam bagian Pat Future Continuous
3.   They started to save up money for their planned future together tomorrow[3]
Kalimat Active Voice di atas masuk kedalam bagian Future Continous
4.    Ramdan is looking to forge a lasting relationship soon[4]
Kalimat Active Voice di atas masuk kedalam bagian Present Continous 
6.    And there are those who don’t mind being given a reason to be romantic[6].
Kalimat Passive Voice di atas masuk kedalam bagian Present Continous.
7.    Dharma said here feelings were driven by “assemble beautiful words that woo”[7]
Kalimat passive voice di atas masuk kedalam bagian Simple Past
8.    I’ve made a song for a boy [8].
Kalimat Passive Voice di atas masuk kedalam bagian Simple Present.
9.    They continued to date in secret for fear of being separated [9].
Kalimat Passive Voice di atas masuk kedalam bagian Present Continous.
10.    Annisa said her actions were driven by romance [10].
Kalimat Passive Voice di atas masuk kedalam bagian Simple Past.