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"People Get Only One Job, I Get More"

A middle-age man was seen in front of a house. He wore a peasant clothes: only short pants and red worn-out T-shirt. His hair looked white. He was still painting the wall, not too long after he finished arranging the plants. People passing by will shout to him, "Work well!" For no reason, everyone would believe that this man was working in that house as a servant or gardener.

However, the judgment would change after knowing this man. His name is Duduh Santoso, who is now in his fourty-ninth. He is actually the owner of the house, not the servant or the gardener as what had been believed by some passer-byes. He lives in this house for 24 years now.

"The reason why I wear a common, even worn-out, clothes is because it is comfortable to use when I do painting or gardening. I usually wear this kind of clothes since it is my style at home", answered Mr. Duduh in the conversation. "I wear this kind of clothes, too in my office if I get to arrange the garden of the office. I am as responsible for about 50 ha office area, so that is why eventhough I am now occupied as the Building Maintenance System of PLN Corporate University Kedung Mundu Semarang, I have to not only ordering my men to work but also to be together with them doing some of the works."

Another unique thing about Mr. Duduh, in a glance, people might say that he does corruption so that his home will be this big and large. By judging from his occupation, his salary will never be that high to build a large house like this. "My neighbors will always say that this home is built because I do corruption. In fact, no, I'm not. People get one job, I get more. I am not only as officer in PLN, but also as motorcycle broker, you know, the one who buy one certain motorcycle then re-selling it to another people. Besides that, if there is guests or students coming from outside Semarang, I am then appointed as chaffeur to pick them up. People who have the same job as mine might object to be the chaffeur, but me, not. I do that because despite the fact that it is my boss' order, the payment is good", explained Mr. Duduh, "I was also graduated from Vocational High School majoring Building. So, in the weekend, if there is any of my relatives or my neighbors needing my help to fix or build their home, I will do it."

The reasons of Mr. Duduh is simply judged is actually interesting: how his common clothes style makes him to be judged as a servant in his own house. Even, his surrounding judgment of his large house as his result of his corruption will be rejected by his explanation that he has more than one job to give him proper payment to build the house.

News Reporting

University Level: Gives You Better Life or Not?

As people in Indonesia believe, that having a higher level of education is more respectable than others who only get to have the education itself until High School level only. Those students from University, in the society’s point of view, will always have good opportunity to get better jobs in the future. In their minds, university sertificate will give you guarantee for a higher position or better place in the business world.

However, those perceptions of the society can be objected by the experiences of a simple energetic girl named Pradita Ningrum. Dita, as she usually called by her friends, is a 7 Vocational High School-graduated student in 2012. She was majoring in Computer and Networking Department. Together with her friends, she finished her study in her Vocational High School after 4 years learning every skills given to her.

News Reporting mid term

Terrorism Issue

Terrorism issue is one of the biggest issues in Indonesia, besides drugs abuse and also corruption. This issue was also discussed in the Asian African Conference Commemoration 2015, which was held last week in Bandung. Indonesia tried to persuade the AAC’s members to discuss about this matter since it was categorized to be handled as soon as possible, as what had been told by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Retno Marsudi.

Terrorism should be banned, however, in order to make a country feels safe. “Terrorists are actually a group of people who are dangerous since they are threating another communities”, said M. Aulia Rudi, a student of governmental science major in Diponegoro University. In the previous interview with him today, 30^th April 2015, he explained some informations related to his experience about terrorism in his activity related to terrorism itself.

“In my recent activities, I joined an event in Surabaya which its theme was about peace across religion. It was attended by 7 communities, each community was represented by one person. I was the representative of my community, Indonesia Youth Political Institiute, to discuss about religion conflict. However, we also talked about the terrorism done by ISIS, too” Rudi explained about his recent activity.

According to him, terrorism actually should be banned, since it will harm the society which had no relation with them.  “It should be banned, terrorism. But, regarding to the media itself, I can’t agree with the stereotype given to society as terrorists are those who are coming from Asia or Africa. It should be in the last AAC, they should discuss how to decrease the effects of terrorism in the area of Asia and Africa”, Rudi declared to the issue of terrorism regarding to the recent AAC.

Furthermore, he also explained any kinds of factor might happens for telling society that terrorists are Asian and African people. “It might be any reasons for telling society that terrorists are Asian and African people. It might be that there is a propaganda, or some other reasons which has not revealed yet”, said Rudi to this.

However, in order to decrease the impact of terrorism itself, the commitment among countries in this world should be reached first. “No matter how, in order to make a decreasing point of terrorism, the govenment should reach a commitment to other country leaders to do this. Do not ban the terrorism in an open way, since if this happens, the terrorists will have revenge to the government and to the world. This should be avoided if we want to have a peace. This is what I discussed in the event, too”, Rudi gave a more explanations towards this issue, regarding to his experience.

In the end, Rudi only said that actually terrorists should have a motive behind their activity. It is the government’s duty to acknowledge their motives as well as try to solve what kind of motive they want to apply. This is the most important thing, as it should be discussed in the international meeting like the recent ACC.

By: pustaka sari