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My parents taught me not to eat in front of others if you don’t have enough for everyone. If you do a party, and you invite your classmates, they are all invited. When you volunteer, be the first to arrive and the last to leave.
In the light of recent events on the exclusion of an autistic child for participation in a school trip, I feel the need to write this. There are boys and girls that nobody invites to birthdays, for example. There are children with special needs who want to belong to a team, but are never selected, because it is more important to win.
Children with special needs are not rare or strangers. They only want what everyone else wants: to be accepted!!
Can I ask a question? Is there anyone willing to copy and paste this post in your wall without sharing it, like I did for a friend? This is a request from a friend who lives the experience.
Thank you
Eat, Pray, Watch Movies: How Film Tourism Gets People Hooked On a Country
After the box office success of “Ada Apa Dengan Cinta 2,” many local tourists, and also a considerable number of the film’s diehard fans from Malaysia, have flocked to Yogyakarta and Magelang — where most of the film was shot — to check out all the supposedly romantic places legendary on-screen couple Rangga (Nicholas Saputra) and Cinta (Dian Sastrowardoyo) visited in the movie.
These fanboys (and fangirls) now can’t get enough of Punthuk Setumbu, Pigeon Church, Pak Bari’s Satay Depot and Coffee Café — places you barely even hear the names of before the movie was released.
The film did make it a point to advertise these places during its screening. At its premiere in Yogyakarta, a small map was given out to the audience containing directions to all the places, cafes, restaurants and galleries that Rangga and Cinta went to in the movie.
The way Ada Apa Dengan Cinta 2 boosts tourism in Yogyakarta and Magelang mirrors the effect another Indonesian film, Laskar Pelangi — also directed by Riri Riza, had on Bangka and Belitung. The number of visitors to these picturesque islands practically doubled after the release of the movie, which featured many scenes showing pristine beaches and picturesque grasslands.
Other films that have worked wonders as ersatz tourism commercials are, of course, The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter films.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy was shot in New Zealand. At times it seems the spectacular New Zealand scenery — full of jagged mountain peaks and green rolling hills — was the strongest character in the movie (after the orcs). Thanks to Peter Jackson’s magnum opus, the land of the long white clouds has now earned a new nick name: The Middle Earth.
LOTR fans can now go on various “Middle Earth” tours to explore the various locations where the movie was shot. In fact, in 2013 the country came up with the “100% Middle Earth” slogan to complement its long-running “100% New Zealand” tourism campaign.
The eight Harry Potter films have also done wonders for tourism in the United Kingdom. Tourists even now still queue for hours to take selfies at the fake Platform 9 3/4 at the King Cross Station in London (the imaginary platform where Harry Potter used to take the Hogwarts Express to his campus).
Glen Croy, an academic from Monash University in Melbourne, has argued that films have always had an enormous influence on tourism in history. Films, Croy argues, not just pull in more tourists but also shape their experiences and change the image of a tourist destination faster than a pile of tourism brochures.
Tourism driven by a film is now often referred to as “film tourism,” a new form of tourism that travelers from all over the world can’t get enough of.
Film tourism can have significant long-term benefits to a country’s economy, if taken advantage of in the right way. According to a study in the UK by Oxford Economic in 2007, one out of ten international tourists came to visit the UK as a result of watching the country depicted in films and spent 1.8 billion pounds in the country in 2006 alone.
Aside from splurging during their travels up and down the country, the tourists also helped create over 20,000 new jobs and contributed an additional 900 million pounds ($1.2 billion) to the UK’s national income.
In 2010, the film “Eat, Pray, Love” starring Julia Roberts was released. It was shot in New York, Rome, Naples, Delhi, Pataudi, and Ubud and Padang-Padang Beach in Bali.
Many foreign tourists visit Bali after that movie to recreate Elizabeth Gilbert’s adventures in the island, mostly spent attending yoga classes and getting immersed in the tropical nature. Thanks partly to the movie, Bali managed to change its modern reputation as a party island back to its old spiritual self. Witness the popularity of Ketut Liyer, the medicine man featured in the movie. Before his death in June this year, the queue of people waiting to get their fortune read still snaked outside his home in Pengosekan.
From reel tourism to real tourism
The Indonesian government has indicated it intends to make tourism one of Indonesia’s core economies. A World Travel and Tourism Council 2015 report showed that in 2014 tourism contributed more than Rp 3oo billion to the country’s GDP, 3.2% out of its total GDP. The number is forecast to rise by 5.3% annually.
Tourism created more than three million jobs in 2014. Foreign tourists spent almost 80 percent of their budget on leisure activities, while domestic tourists still made up over 75% of the spending.
Considering that leisure activities still prove popular with both foreign and domestic tourists, film tourism — which can combine leisure with many other types of activity — seems like as good a strategy to attract more visitors to “wonderful Indonesia” as any.
In practice, the government has to come up with a good script for this to happen. The Ministry of Tourism can use both local and foreign films to promote tourism in Indonesia, and to do this they have to establish partnerships with production houses. They can hire big-name directors to helm commercial films set in Indonesia or about Indonesian cultures, with the ultimate goal of getting bums on seats to watch all the good things Indonesia has to offer.
And if all things fail, they can always hire a famous movie star to be Indonesia’s “brand ambassador.”
Since a box office hit is never a guarantee when making a film, the government can also make use of smaller shows on TV, especially culinary and travel shows. Shows like “Running Man” and “Wisata Kuliner” reportedly have already had good impact on local tourism.
In short, using films to promote tourism in a country is now simply de rigeur, something that the government should start doing immediately to keep up with the times. It can’t afford to wait until “164 purnama” (164 months) — the exact amount of time fans of the original Ada Apa Dengan Cinta? had to wait for the sequel.
Taruna Fadillah and Tarinadiyya Shaliha are both students at the University of Queensland, Australia. Taruna is also a member of the Indonesian Students Association (PPI) at the university.
Germany PAYS people to use electricity
Excess energy created by wind and solar power meant consumers made a profit as prices were driven so low they went NEGATIVE
Germany hit a new high in renewable energy production at the weekend thanks to sunny and windy weather. The excess power generated meant it sent power prices into the negative for some consumers
Bhutan, not only carbon neutral, it’s carbon negatif country
So our economy is small, but here is where it gets interesting. Education is completely free. All citizens are guaranteed free school education, and those that work hard are given free college education.Healthcare is also completely free. Medical consultation, medical treatment, medicines: they are all provided by the state. We manage this because we use our limited resources very carefully, and because we stay faithful to the core mission of GNH, which is development with values. Our economy is small, and we must strengthen it. Economic growth is important, but that economic growth must not come from undermining our unique culture or our pristine environment.
So as I was saying, 72 percent of our country is under forest cover, and all that forest is pristine. That’s why we are one of the few remaining global biodiversity hotspots in the world, and that’s why we are a carbon neutral country. In a world that is threatened with climate change, we are a carbon neutral country.
Turns out, it’s a big deal. Of the 200-odd countries in the world today, it looks like we are the only onethat’s carbon neutral. Actually, that’s not quite accurate. Bhutan is not carbon neutral. Bhutan is carbon negative. Our entire country generates 2.2 million tons of carbon dioxide, but our forests, they sequester more than three times that amount, so we are a net carbon sink for more than four million tons of carbon dioxide each year.
Prime Minister of Bhutan
Renewable or Conventional Energy?
When you thinking of biodesel but don’t want to destroy the forest.
Cak Nun
Kalau tidak bisa memperbaiki, jangan menambah kerusakan. Menghindari mudarat lebih diutamakan daripada mengharapkan manfaat.
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Benefits of energy security fund
The government will set a new price for Premium and diesel on Jan. 5. The pricing policy will be used to fund energy security.
The energy security fund aims to ensure the availability of energy (including renewable energy) mentioned in Government Regulation (PP) No. 79/ 2014 on national energy policy based on Law No. 30/2007 on energy.
Article 27 of the regulation states that the government should strengthen the fund to ensure the availability of energy, the distribution of energy infrastructure, equitable community access to energy, the development of a national energy industry and the achievement of energy supply and energy utilization.
A drop in fuel prices is the right time to implement these regulations. Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said said the fund would be used to encourage the exploration of oil reserves and to build infrastructure and establish a strategic reserve of sustainable energy.
Indonesian fuel consumption will continue to rise each year. By simple calculations, it was found that in one year the government will receive around Rp 15 billion from the fund and over the next five years it will get Rp 76 billion.
The fund could be used to build a power plant (PLTU Batang, Central Java), nine hydropower dams, 526 sites for the newly opened Kupang solar power plant, six more toll roads and 29 oil exploration projects in eastern Indonesia.
This way is the easiest method to fund investment in the energy sector. With lower fuel prices, levies are not too burdensome as fuel prices remain low. The problem is when the world oil price increases. If that happens, will energy security funds still be levied on and charged to the public?
Nevertheless, the government will be tested by the community with this fund. There may be corruption or misuse of the fund. A very large amount will attract the attention of people. Society will refuse to pay if they know the government takes their money in corruption.
In spite of everything, this legislation has been enacted along with a government regulation. We do not want to see the government change its mind by issuing a regulation in the morning and then immediately revoking it in the afternoon.
The government should be confident and explain to the public the usefulness of the fund.
When the fund is applied, the dream of energy security will move closer to reality. However, the fund is still small compared to the scale of investment needed to achieve energy security. The target of 35,000 megawatts of electricity requires billion of dollars in investment.
Taruna Fadillah
Queensland
See more at: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/01/04/your-letters-benefits-energy-security-fund.html#sthash.NwAqXxEA.dpuf
Catatan Taruna Fadillah 