How is our plan to donate Rp 50,000 per month?

Hi guys,

I think it is the right time to remind you all about our plan to donate Rp 50,000 every month. This donation will be used to finance 15 elementary students we have chosen in our scholarship program. 10 of them are still in the primary school SD Purwosari but five have managed to continue their studies in junior high schools.

All the students need our support to buy books and pay their transportation expense, therefore our commitment to donate Rp 50,000 per month is very important.

So please give your responses ya, brothers and sisters. Thx. -Iwan

December 15, 2006

Lebaran in Rome

Berly Martawardaya (SIF’00)

Unlike my lonely lebaran last year, my fifth lebaran in Europe is much more happening. I went to
Rome and celebrate it with other Indonesian students in Italy (mostly from Rome but also some from
Perugia, Siena and Milan).We joined mass iftar at the Grand Mosque, the food was surprisingly good even though the behaviour of some of the participant certainly can be improved. Must admit it was an experience to takbiran in front of two thousand year old Pantheon and made a round walk (thawaf?) at Piazza Navona circuit decorated by statues from Bernini. The company had a sense of urgency since most of the Romans already finish their degree and will be back in about a week.
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The Tale of Multiculturalism

by Mumpuni Murniati (SIF’97)

The Tale of Multiculturalism in the
UK

When I go forward to park my car at night, the headlights would beam on a gleaming silver car, which bears a highly profiled bonnet star emblem. I could only sigh, if not daydreaming as if I would have driven it. In the daylight, amidst the hazy winter morning its shiny body is a contrast with a 1995 Peugeot 306 belongs to the next house. In fact, the car happens to be the most expensive car parked on the street where I live.

My Somalian neighbour opposite owns it, a family with three young children moved in about eighteen months ago. They live in a three bedrooms house that is rented to the council. It means they may have claimed the housing benefit; free-rent accommodation. It is worth £935 per month from the council tax money. How on earth could they afford the C-class Mercedez with 2005 plate number?

I thought at first Fatimah, the wife, is a single parent or had separated. We regularly waved to each other outside, as she was about to walk with the children to the school nearby and I put my children on their car seats. Over the time I saw a man, whom she called as a husband who drove the cars. In the first year, he rarely stayed overnights in the house. When I asked her why, she said he had to look after his ailing mother.

Intriguingly, his car had been upgraded three times in the last eighteen months. Firstly we saw a318i BMW 2000 plate following by a black 530i BMW 2003 in twelve months time. The current one have only been seen in the last five weeks. Honestly, I am not being nosy, but how come that we, a family who owns our house and pays a hefty council tax, needs to be content with a nine years old VW Passat?
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Nanang Chalid (SIF’02)

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Hometown: a civilization of dialogues called Jogja

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Agung Wicaksono (SIF’99)

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Ibrahim Senin (SIF#39;94)

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Location: Jakarta

Hometown: Palembang
Schools (Other):
University of Indonesia Law Faculty (1992-1996), NUS Law Faculty under SIF exchange program (1994), Erasmus University of Rotterdam Master Degree (2003)

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