Corrupt Bureaucracies Are Everywhere

  Jakarta Post. People in “developing countries” complain about corrupt, inefficient bureaucracy. Indonesia has sent many corrupt politicians to jail, but still scores high on the corruption scale. My colleagues and I do our share of complaining and compromising. In a “gift exchange culture” the line between tips, gifts and corruption is blurred. The problems are institutionalized from bottom to top. For example, the national...

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Implementing New Curriculum; Is it A Good Way to Do ?-faruqubaidillah.wordpress.com

Education does become a major concern and attention for government. As in nowadays era, this has also put forward several significance thoughts from professionals in education to implement new systems in Indonesia, which of course leads to a better condition. For instance, implementing new curriculum has become the ministry of education and culture’s straight forward plan over the past three years. In this year, 2013, this should have...

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Once Again RSBI's Conflicts- faruqubaidillah.wordpress.com

Have you heard the latest news about RSBI ?? I think all people, educational expert in particular, do know what’s going on with RSBI. Not to mention, Indonesian government once again creats a problem in our education journey. They first founded International Standadized School for several reasons. One of them is to ensure the quality of education in Indonesia in international eyes. This is run by supplying English books to all subjects taught...

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Pembekalan SWAET di A401 ESA UNISMA 2013

Dalam kebersamaa ESA, kegiatan pembekalan BAKSOS yang kita sebut SWAET (Social Work And Extra Teaching) di A401 menyisakan kenangna yang ebgitu mendalam. pengetahuan tentang pendidikan dan peserta didik begitu membuat teman-teman ESA sadar bahwa profesi keguruan sangatlah [enting dalam peran memajukan karakter anak bangsa. Kegiatan BAKSOS tahun ini dilaksanakan di Desa Kemlagi, Mojokerto (sampingnya museum Majapahit). Kegiatan terjun ke masyarakat...

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Censorship Screen for Sexual Movies on Indonesian Films; Does it really help?- faruqubaidillah.wordpress.com

Recently, in Indonesia myriad debates and criticism on Indonesian movies which expose artists’ sexual attitudes have been rising up over the past three years. This, certainly because such attitudes are extremely hazardous for people’s psychology especially the youths. The debates lead to a question on why this sexual scene is still permitted. On another front, many people arguably state that censorship for this scene is really needed to...

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Learning English through an English Student Body or ESA; A Promising Opportunity to a Better English Aptitude- faruqubaidillah.wordpress.com

A vast demand of globalization has led people to prepare themselves in English language mastery. Today’s commerce has also shaped English as an international language which dominates among other languages- Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, and so on. In education, English has been a primary need for all students either primary or secondary school level. On another front, curriculum has been designed to deal and to match English as a subject...

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The Powerful Words by Prof. Dra. Hj. Utami Widiati, Ma., Ph.D Guru Besar Universitas Negeri Malang- faruqubaidillah.wordpress.com

Yesterday, on Saturday 22, 2012, ESA Unisma has just concluded their seminar on “Building Up Confidence with English in Global Challenges”. This event was specially hosted on Mother’s Day as well. There are a lot of things I want to convey in this writing. I think, it is not fair to tell the goodness first. Well, this year’s seminar is the most shocking one ever since; and it is the greatest agenda ESA has ever had. Firstly, we, planned...

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