Friday, May 1, 2009

GAMELAN DIKENALKAN KE PELAJAR AUSTRALIA DI DARWIN

Para siswa Australia dari sejumlah sekolah menengah di kota Darwin mendapat pengenalan permainan "gamelan" melalui kegiatan lokakarya seni budaya Nusantara oleh Konsulat RI Darwin.

Sekretaris II Fungsi Pensosbud Konsulat RI Darwin Arvinanto Soeriaatmadja mengatakan, pihaknya, Jumat, menggelar lokakarya gamelan di Kormilda College.

"Jumat ini kita mengadakan lokakarya galeman di Kormilda College dan pada 3 Mei tim konsulat diundang manggung di festival lagu-lagu etnis di Katherine. Kita akan mempromosikan alat musik Kolintang melalui dua kali penampilan di acara itu," katanya.

Program promosi seni budaya Indonesia di sekolah-sekolah di Darwin akan dilanjutkan di Darwin Middle School, SMA Darwin, dan John Olighin Catholic College, katanya.

"Beberapa sekolah lain juga sudah meminta kita mengadakan 'workshop' (lokakarya) gamelan dan kolintang bagi para siswa mereka," kata Arvinanto.

*) My news for ANTARA on May 1, 2009

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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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