A Small Coin - An Inspiring Lesson

Published in Sunday Post, September 29, 2013

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.  Henry Miller

Traveling has always fascinated me. I have embarked on many journeys. And the best ones have been those that have revealed facets of life to me.

Becoming a speaker in Talk Show and Awarding Green Competition 2013

Energy is an indispensable source of development. Worldwide billions of people have no access to reliable forms of energy. The Indonesia Domestic Biogas Programme (or commonly called BIRU) is the initiative of Hivos and its partners in promoting access to modern and sustainable form of renewable energy for rural people.

From Europe, With Hope

Published in Ask Anggi Column, Speak #July# 2013

Youth leadership is a hot button issue these days, and young people are more welcome than ever on the world stage.  In fact, even the United Nations is scaling-up its commitment to put youth on the global map. You’d better believe it, because my own experiences proved it.

I was granted a slot to deliver a presentation at the 4^th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva, Switzerland, in May,  sharing the stage with senior delegates from no fewer than 173 countries. I was representing my school SMAN 98 Jakarta, and I was  the youngest delegate to speak at the conference, which was officiated by the President of Switzerland, Ueli Maurer.

A Different Kind of Holiday

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Yogi is busy cutting down  a tree. It’s  taking him lots of time to cut the trunk and the branches, and he doesn’t know why. Stepping back to figure it out, he realizes that the chainsaw has gone blunt because of overuse. An old man who passing by stops and tells the young worker to take some time out to sharpen the chainsaw.

“I don’t have time to take a break old man!” says Yogi. Can’t you see that I’m busy cutting this tree?” The old man just smiles. “If you take few minutes to sharpen your tool,  you will be able to cut down that tree a lot faster.”

Peace Festival 2013 : Let's Celebrate Diversity

Thanks to Nunu Nuramanah,  I had a wonderful time last Saturday, Juni 15, 2013. Along with FOSCA (especially with GN team, Grosteen Neasta - FOSCA Jakarta Timur) I attended the "Peace Festival 2013 - Let's

Celebrate Diversity" at Singapore International School,  Jakarta. The event was intended for teenagers who want to know more about what bullying really is and how we can stop it.
Bullying is something unwanted; aggressive behavior among school children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors,
attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.

There are many other types of aggressive behavior that don’t fit the definition of bullying.
This does not mean that they are any less serious or require less attention than bullying.

So glad I could meet personally with many inspirational persons, especially Inayah, the youngest daughter of Abudrrahman Wahid, the Wahid Institute's founding father as well as the the 4th President of Republic Indonesia.

At the closing sesion, all participants made handprints in a 3x4-meter banner to spread the promise of stop bulying and create Peace start from  ourselves!

Meaningful Trip

Still on a jet-leg, and dunno what to do, I decided to update my blog.

Lot to say, though. About the flight from Jakarta to Geneva that took 18 hours (and vice versa). About elegant mosques in Turkey, historical places in Germany,

beautiful gardens in Austria, and of course about the UN Conference followed by a field trip in Switzerland. In fact, it was the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction hosted by UN-ISDR that granted me a session to deliver a presentation on the IGNITE Stage.