The Splendor of the Celebration of Vesak

Magelang. Holy Tri Vesak Day Celebration 2554 in 2010 in several regions in the country whose top fell on Friday (28 / 5) took place lively. Besides praying in monasteries or temples, Buddhists celebrate Vesak with social work as a form of implementation of the teachings of the Buddha.

Vesak Day celebrations in the area of Borobudur Temple, Magelang regency, Central Java, with a sprinkling of hundreds of colored lanterns into the air when released by Buddhist monks and Buddhist representatives of Indonesia (Walubi) as the closing celebration of Vesak 2010 series, Friday night. "The numbers all 750 lanterns, was brought from Thailand," said ignition Responsible Vesak Lantern 2010 Walubi, Monk Subin, at Borobudur, Friday night.

They release the lanterns in four locations in the parking zone I Borobudur together starting at 07:24 pm until 08:20 pm, after the puja and devotional pradaksina largest Buddhist temples around the world. Lanterns with a circumference line about one meter in diameter and about 1.5 meters long was made of special paper. At the bottom was tied specifically to light a candle lanterns.

Impressed at the lively atmosphere of the Borobudur Temple, while the rays of the full moon dimly visible because of occasional thin clouds covered the movement. The temple is also the world civilization heritage, built around the 8th century dynasty that impressed Syailendra highlighted magnificent lights from the four corners.
The people and the monks came from different Walubi Sangha Council applauded when it was floating lanterns. General Chairman of the Central Council Walubi, Siti Hartati Murdaya, flying lanterns are the first time.

Meanwhile, Buddhists celebrate Vesak at Denpasar, Bali, especially with the solemn atmosphere at the Shrine of Sakyamuni Buddha Denpasar. Vesak celebrations started with meditation for an hour and was followed by a procession and graduation upasaka pujabakti Romo led Vesak Pandita Sutikno Gunawan.

Vesak celebrations ended with a procession abhaya funds or dispose of birds. Approximately 300 birds released by hundreds of children from families of Bali Theravada Buddhists. The release of the bird is a symbol of love and freedom. Compassion is the essence of Buddhism.

Chairman of the Shrine of Sakyamuni Buddha is the head of Bali Magabuddhi Sudiarta Indrajaya Romo Pandita said, in a message Waisaknya emphasized that these values are important dhamma or dharma maintained. By always maintaining the values of the Dhamma, is expected to human life will always be peaceful and happy.

Source : Harian Surya.

Composed for Writing Class 4 - News Assigment
Lecturer : Mrs. Diah Ikawati, SS, M.Pd

The Negative and Positive Effects of Television for Children

In the modern era like now days, every people need an entertainment like a television, especially children. Every time children almost spend their time in front of television. The television like one of necessary for them. It can give them a many information but, it can also make them lazy with another their activity. It means that television can give them the negative and positive effect for children.
Television today has a lot of positive effects on children. Television gives them helpful information various forms of educating and entertainment which are all a part of the positive effects the television. On a day to day, television keeps them informed with plenty of helpful information. The television has become one of most basic resources of information.
Furthermore, television often act as an dictionary and an eye in to the world around them. They can study about many kind of language on it. Beside that, They can see the beautiful of world from the television. They can know the each part and culture of the world just from television.
Beside the positive, actually television also has some negative effects, especially for children. According Mr. Seto Mulyadi as a Leader of The National Commission of Children Protection and Psycholog , “The children of today watch television for long hour. Many time, they spend their evenings watching their favorite program on TV. At time they stay up late to watch film on TV. This activity adds to their sedentary hours. The addiction to television deprives them of their time to play. Children should rather engage in physical activities during the evenings. They don’t want to go to the open space to play with friend or spend time reading some good books”.
In conclusion, television has negative and positive effects for Children. So, the parents must be careful and pay attention with their children activity.


Composed for Writing 4 Class.
Lecturer : Diah Ikawati. S.S, M.Pd.

Education in Indonesia

Education in Greek comes from the word padegogik the science guiding children. The Romans saw education as educare, which is issued and guides, action taken to realize the potential of children who are born of time in the world. German nation saw education as the equivalent Erziehung educare, ie: aroused or activate the hidden strength or potential strength of the child. In the Java language, education means panggulawentah (processing - Red), process, change the psyche, finalizing the feelings, thoughts, will and character, changing the personality of the child.

The Great Dictionary of Indonesian Language (KBBI) derived from the word education students (educational), namely: to maintain and provide training (courses, leadership) about the morality and intelligence of the mind. While education has a meaning: the process of changing attitudes and ethical behavior in individuals or groups of human mature businesses through the efforts of the teaching and practice, the process works, how to educate. Ki Hajar Dewantara defines education as an effort to advance the character, mind and body of children, in order to promote the perfection of life is life and turn the child that is in harmony with nature and society.

Of notions and analysis of existing then it could be concluded that education is an effort led anak from birth to reach adulthood physically and spiritually, in the interaction of nature and its surroundings.

In education there are two important things are aspects of cognitive (thinking) and affective (feeling). As an illustration, when we learn something in it not only the thought processes that take part but also there are elements associated with feelings such as passion, love and others. The substance according to Ki Hajar Dewantara education is to liberate human beings and according Drikarya is to humanize humans. This indicates that the experts also thinks that education is not just pay attention to the cognitive aspects alone but should be broader in scope.

What about education in Indonesia?
Do pay attention to the problems of education in Indonesia detail like this? This is one of the biggest mistakes that educational method developed in our Education Indonesia. is not respecting the affective (feeling), so we only printed as generations of smart but do not have the characters needed by this nation. Indonesia has 45 years of independence, and every year out of thousands to millions of intellectuals. But was powerless to change the fate of this nation. And surely there is something wrong with our educational system developed to date.

The second mistake, an education system that top-down or from the top down. Freire called the banking-system. In the sense that learners are considered as a safe-deposit box where the teacher transfer of teaching materials to students. And any time if it is needed it will be retrieved and used. So just to accommodate the students what the teacher without trying to think more about what it gets, or at least place the critical selection process of teaching materials that he received. In terms of education, such as Arabic is said to be taqlid. It means to accept or follow what is said by the educators. And this is inconsistent with the substance of education that frees the human (Ki Hajar Dewantara).
The third error, this occurs when narrowing the meaning of education itself when the terms started to poison the industry term educational terms. In mark the turn humans into Human Resources (HR).

Composed for Writing Class Assigment
Lecturer : Diah Ikawati, S.S,M.Pd.

FRIENDSHIP IS NEVER DIE

Jika ada jalinan kasih yang lebih kuat dari dua insan yang terikat oleh darah, maka itu adalah persaudaraan yang tumbuh dari hati para hamba Allah. Rasa cinta dan kasih sayang yang didasarkan pada keimanan kepada Allah. Karena energi yang ia keluarkan mampu melebur dinding-dinding perbedaan yang terbentuk dari ras, darah, ethnis, serta warna kulit.

Friendship is mutually cooperative and supportive behavior between two or more people. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, affection, and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis. Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of altruism. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. They will also engage in mutually helping behavior, such as the exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviors. Yet for some, the practical execution of friendship is little more than the trust that someone will not harm them.