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News Reporting: Color Story

Dugderan Festival: Trash and Traffic Jams On the Way!

As usual, welcoming Ramadhan month is a must for every people, not to mention Semarang people. People in Semarang has a unique festival in order to welcome the fasting month called Dugderan. Dugderan comes up from the words "dug" means "the voice of Bedug" and "der" means "the voice of fireworks". For this year, the festival is held in Simpang Lima Semarang.

A lot of people coming, many of them are from students, especially Elementary School students.They bring those paper-made big doll, and then ride on the pick-up cars, and then walking surrounding Simpang Lima. There were a lot of people watching the festival itself, plus those 1000 students who are joining as the participants of the festival. How hard it is to be in the condition of this hot weather!

The hot weather can be compared with how it is so crowded! However, the performances from each region of Semarang could make the spectators feels relieved and it makes the condition of the festival more fun. Many shouts, many smiles even many instrumental sounds are heard loudly. It also, of course, followed by a long traffic jams surrounding Simpang Lima.

All participants even bring kembang manggar on their hands and waving it like crazy when they do the kirab. However, this situation makes the condition after Dugderan worse. Why? Because there are many trash caused by kembang manggar which were thrown everywhere. It makes the condition of Simpang Lima surrounding, for example Pahlawan Street, becomes awfully messed up. It was fun, the festival, however, the condition after the festival itself makes the fun felling of the festival gone.

News Reporting: Human-Interest Story

Korean Entertainment Industry: Being Independent and Hardworking is Important!

People might say how living as a celebrity, in this case Korean Halyu idols, can be interesting since the payment will never be in the same level as common workers. Not to mention how beautiful and handsome they are compared to common people. However, public will never know how each person has to struggle their life first before debuting as Korean Halyu star.

Remember as Leeteuk Super Junior said how he had to endure to be a trainee for 7 years, the same case as Suho EXO. For being trainees that long, they might think how they cannot end up as celebrity. They know how to endure that pain. And, now, look at them, being amusingly famous for their voices and their performances as celebrity.

The same case also came to Choa, a member of girlband AOA. She revealed in Radio Star, an MBC’s TV program, that she used to be a salesperson before debuting as AOA’s member under FNC Entertainment. She stated, "Though it is against labor laws, I worked twelve hours a day because that is the nature of business and because it was my chosen field. There were even times I raked in nearly $5,000 per month." It shows how she was a good hardworker in order to make her dreams come true.

Many audiences shocked and felt proud of her because Choa proves how to be an idol is not that as interesting and easy as people thought. Many of them said that they cannot even imagine how to earn so much money before 20 (when Choa worked, she was below 20 years ago at that time). Audiences were proud because Choa shows the struggle of being an independent and hardworking young woman. And even now, she becomes a famous Korean Halyu idols with her group, AOA

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News Media and Web Journalism: Interpretive Story

Psychopath: Angeline’s Mom’s Side Character?

Angeline’s death had been a big issue in Indonesia, since the motive of her death had not been figured, yet. She had been found buried in her own step-mom’s house yard, hugging her doll in an awful mess condition. She was found after for about one month reported to be missing by her step-family.

            Police had found that the prime suspect of Angeline’s death was the servant in Angelinse’s step-mom’s house. He was AG, said the police, who murdered Angeline and then buried her in the yard.It had been reported that this man worked for Angeline’s mom for a while ago.

            However, the public were still curious whether AG was the prime suspect of this case or he was just being the shadow of the prime suspect. The curiosity came up because of Angeline’s step-mom’s behaviour was questioned. Public still remembered how her step-mom had rejected the visitation from two of Ministers in order to give condolences towards her. It is suspicious, since a mother would be sad, even needed condolences, if she had to face that her daughter was gone or dead. But, Angeline’s step-mom did not show that she was upset or sad for her daughter’s death.

            Another suspicion came up after there were some blood marks inside Angeline’s step-mom’s room. It could be that AG was only ordered to bury Angeline, but the one who killed it was her step-mom. The condition could be like that, if only there was an evidence that Angeline’s step-mom had a disorder of being psychopath.

            Psychopathy is traditionally defined as a personality disorder characterized by enduring antisocial behavior, diminished empathy and remorse, and disinhibited or bold behavior. It may also be defined as a continuous aspect of personality, representing scores on different personality dimensions found throughout the population in varying combinations. The definition of psychopathy has varied significantly throughout the history of the concept; different definitions continue to be used that are only partly overlapping and sometimes appear contradictory.

            It could be that if Angeline’s mom had this kind of disorder then she could do everything in order to satisfy herself, one of the way is by killing a person. It could be that in order to make herself feels peace, she killed Angeline because she thinks of her as threat to her life. This is called psychopath. Police and psychiatrict still conduct their research towards Angeline’s step mom.

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News Reporting Investigation

SM ENTERTAINMENT ARTISTS: PROFESSIONALISM?

                Tao’s withdrawal was followed with a lot of speculation “why such a friendship among EXO members could be worsen by the withdrawals from most of Chinese members?”, “how can the company let most of Chinese members out from the group?”, and “why Chinese members one by one do the withdrawals to one of the biggest companies like SM Entertainment”. These speculations were spoken by all netizens in the whole world until now.

                As we all know that SM Entertainment is one of the biggest entertainment companies in South Korea, together with YG Entertainment and JYP Entertainment. A lot of Halyu (Korean wave) artists, models, actors and actress, even comedians are debuted under this company, whose CEO for now is Lee Sooman. Not only debuting those Korean artists, but this company also debuting those artists from Chinese. And now, SM Entertainment becomes one of the companies debuting its artists to be global artists, not only as national artists.

                There are some of those Chinese members who had debuted: from Super Junior there are Hangeng (who has already been not joining from 2010), Zhoumi, and Henry, from f(x) there is Victoria, and from EXO there are Kris, Luhan, Tao (whom still in the progress of doing withdrawal of their contract to SM), and Lay. Not to mention, there is also a solo singer named Zhang Liyin who is still doing her celebrity business with SM.

                Fans are now speculating why those Chinese members are slowly doing the withdrawals with SM Entertainment. Some say that SM Entertainment pressures too much to those artists, which make them rebelling and do the cancelling of their contracts. In order to get high income, SM tends to push its artists to do activities, eventhough their conditions are still down. This is what comes into fans mind since there are a lot of evidences to strengthen their opinions.

                In Tao’s case, for example, he posted some of his foot’s injury in his social media which led people argumenting about how SM did not give their artists some break time in order to recover their health. The previous cases happened also in Kris and Luhan, which made them decided to cancel their contract with SM. However, their arguments of health conditions are simply objected because they are now promoting in their homeland, China, as artists. That is why, another speculations raised up like maybe they just wanted to be out from SM and started their promotion theirselves in China. This argument is followed by Kris and Luhan’s issues about them signing new contracts with another agencies in China. But, there is still an unsure of Tao’s decision whether he is still in SM or now he is out.

                In order to make another netizens know about the reason of maybe the Chinese members want to promote themselves in China, there is another evidences should be read. Hangeng, as we all know the reason of him leaving Super Junior and SM was because he was unwell. However, later on, he was known as a solo singer and artist in China. It means that he just wanted to be separated from the group itself. Not to mention of how Kris and Luhan which had the same issue of health, in their leaving, now they are even filming some movies after their departures from SM and EXO. Kris is now promoting himself as ‘Wu Yifan’ (his Chinese name). Meanwhile, Luhan only erases his ‘EXO’ title from his name, so now he promotes himself as ‘Luhan’ only.

                Another speculation also comes up for them promoting in China is because of higher payment in China than in Korea. Even Tao, who was being a model of one of a Chinese game program, got a high payment eventhough it was only a session of photoshoot. The comparison between him promoting in a big group EXO and him promoting himself in China is different. That is why the one reason of him cancelling of his contract can be because of this, too.

                The next reason of why such big company can get a case with their own artists is because of the unsettlement of their career project. Some people might do not know that actually SM Entertainment has settled an agreement with Tao’s party at the first time to make him a special studio in China so that he can do promotion in China, together with other members. However, the conclusion came that Lay was the one getting the special studio in China. The desperation in Tao’s party led them to cancelling the contract with SM. In addition, they wants to reveal how SM is not fair towards its own artists.

                The professionalism between him being a member of Korean idols and him being Chinese soloist is also questioned. The one who said about never leaving the members of EXO and would stay no matter what happened is the one who betrayed and now in the middle of leaving Exo itself. Many fans of EXO, EXO-L, even now are questioning “is there any relation like brothership in all of EXO members, or not?” because in screen, we can see how EXO members always show the affections between each other like brothers. But, after knowing one by one Chinese members are leaving giving such reason to know that SM artists are just doing the best for their professionalism, not because of the feeling of being family.

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News Reporting

UNNES KKN Presentation: Second Day

The second day of KKN presentation was held in UNNES Central Library, 4th June 2015. The occasion officially started from 7:30 in the morning. There were a lot of UNNES students who prepared for this occasion, even from the morning.

It was seen that not only those who are now in the sixth semester joining for the presentation, but also those who are now in the eighth semester, even tenth, joining the occasion. Together with members, each group should at least come completely in order to support the whole group in the presentation. That was why, there were seen a lot of students, sitting here and there, chatting here and there, and walking here and there in the Library hall and outside the Library itself.

The presentation was held in 4 rooms, to be exact. One of the group, Fahmi's group, held their presentation in room 2. Together with 5 of his members, Fahmi did the presentation. In the room itself, only two judges: one was a lecturer from the Law Department, a woman, while another one was a man. The situation, both outside of the room and inside the room, was a little bit tensing. It could be said from all the faces of Fahmi's group and those students waiting for their chances to bring the presentation.

The weather was so nice, yet, the students outside of the room, even outside the building felt different. They didn't look so good since the nervous feeling they had. They were grouping like ants, stayed in the same group without having no willing to move to other places (if it had no need to do that, they would never do it).

However, after doing the presentation, one by one Fahmi's members out from room 2. As soon as they reached the front of the Library gate, they smiled brightly. Even before reaching the front gate, one or two students asked what kind of presentation they had bring inside the room, and etc. Fahmi and group explained it one by one to them, sharing their experience inside the room in order to make the other groups felt at ease that the presentation were not that scary. The second day of KKN presentation was going on like that.