Monday, April 7, 2008

FESTIVAL INDONESIA DI TAMAN TUMBERLONG DARLING HARBOUR SYDNEY

Festival Indonesia (FI) yang diselenggarakan Persatuan Masyarakat Indonesia (PMI) di Taman Tumberlong Darling Harbour, Sydney, akhir pekan lalu (5/4) berlangsung meriah dan dihadiri ratusan warga asing, kata seorang diplomat RI.

Festival tahunan itu menarik perhatian banyak warga asing karena panitia tidak hanya menyuguhkan aneka pertunjukan seni-budaya tetapi juga panganan khas Nusantara, kata Kabid Penerangan KJRI Sydney, Minister Counsellor Pratito Soeharyo, dalam penjelasannya kepada ANTARA, Senin.

Dalam festival yang sudah berlangsung untuk yang kelima kalinya itu, para pengunjung dihibur oleh pertunjukan seni musik kendang, angklung dan dangdut dari "para seniman" komunitas Indonesia di Sydney.

Pagelaran angklung disajikan oleh para anggota tim kesenian Dharma Wanita KJRI Sydney, katanya.

Indonesia adalah salah satu dari sedikit negara yang diizinkan pemerintah kota Sydney untuk menggelar kegiatan seni budaya tahunan di Taman Tumberlong Darling Harbour.

Selain Indonesia, negara-negara lain yang mendapat izin adalah India, China dan Yunani, kata Pratito.

*) My news for ANTARA on April 7, 2008

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Hi, I am a journalist of ANTARA, Indonesia's national news agency whose headquarters is in Jakarta. My fate has brought me back to Australia since March 2007 because my office assigns me to be the ANTARA correspondent there. My first visit to the neighboring country was in 2004 when I did my masters at the School of Journalism and Communication, the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, under the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) scheme. However, the phase of my life was started from a small town in North Sumatra Province, called Pangkalan Brandan. In that coastal town, I was born and grown up. Having completed my senior high school there in 1987, I moved to Medan to pursue my study at the University of North Sumatra (USU) and obtained my Sarjana (BA) degree in English literature in 1992. My Master of Journalism (MJ) was completed at UQ in July 2005. The final research project report for my MJ degree was entitled "Framing the Australian Embassy Bombing (Jakarta) in Indonesian and Australian Newspapers". Further details about me can be read in a writing posted in my blog entitled "My Life Journey".

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