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The Announcement of Pedurungan "Rumah Sehat" Contest 2015 Is Questioned

The contest of Rumah Sehat 2015 in Pedurungan sub-district area was held on February, 25th 2015. One of candidates joining the contest was Mr. Duduh Santosa's house.Mr. Duduh's house was represented as Tlogosari Kulon area's.

The judging time should be announced officially in two weeks after the house had been seen by the judges. However, there were some miscommunication which caused Mr. Duduh could not get the information of the winner of the contest. It had been reported how Mr. Duduh was unable to get the information from the sub-district officers.

"Unfortunately, there were no information from the sub-district officer to announce who the winner of the contest is", said Mr. and Mrs. Duduh yesterday (22/4), "At least, give us the information via phone or SMS. They even didn't do these kind of things. We are disappointed of this scheme, to be honest."

According to several neighbors, one of them was the head of Genuk sub-district, the contest were now in the process of the city level. That was why, Mr. Duduh assumed that his house had been lost from the contest. "I declared at the society's meeting several days before that if we lose this contest, we will be okay since we had gained the winner's place in 2002 in the city level", said Mrs. Duduh when I asked the question of their acceptance," However, the thing we are disappointing is that the sub-district officer have no informations to us about the result. That's all"

They also informed how the judging points were not transparent. One of the neighbors, who also worked as government officer, once declared that Mr. Duduh's house would gain no winning points since Mr. Duduh has 3 children and the house itself has a large garage. The condition of those might give the judges assumptions of a rich family. That was why the neighbor said Mr. Duduh had to prepare the losing itself before.

Since there were no information and exact points for the judging scheme, Mr. Duduh only hoped that the next Rumah Sehat Contest should be better than this. He only demanded the officer to give information completely to the contestants and also transparent judging points so it would give a fair description to the contest itself.

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