Rabu, 04 Juli 2012

Beckham's absence allows young stars to shine


David Beckham's shock absence from the Olympic football tournament has provoked a storm of controversy, but Stuart Pearce's decision to axe the aging star means the young prodigies of Brazil, Spain and Britain will take their rightful place in the spotlight.
Beckham was widely expected to make Great Britain's final squad as one of three over-age players, but the former Manchester United and Real Madrid icon last week received an unwanted call from coach Pearce to inform him that he hadn't made the cut.
The 37-year-old LA Galaxy midfielder was left out to allow Pearce to select Manchester City defender Micah Richards as his third over-age player along with Welsh duo Ryan Giggs and Craig Bellamy.
Beckham responded with a statement underlining his disappointment and it is believed leading figures in the British Olympic heirarchy including Lord Coe, who worked closely with the player during London's successful bid to host the event, were also unhappy that such a globally recognised figure would no longer be part of the Games.
While tickets for many of the Olympic events have already sold out, there has been less interest in the football, which is seen in Britain as a poor quality alternative to the Premier League and Champions League fare served up during the club season.
At one stage, there were over a million football tickets still available and Beckham would have sparked an increase in sales.
However, Pearce was well within his rights not to pick a player clearly in the twilight of his career and it is impossible to deny that his selection would have been motivated by profits rather than sporting merits.
"Right through this process I have had carte blanche to pick whatever players I regard as best," Pearce said.
"Form plays a big part and I don't think there is a manager around who picks on sentiment. I have to be comfortable when I have made decisions based solely on football grounds alone, nothing else."
Beckham's absence overshadowed Pearce's decision to include 13 Englishmen in his squad and no players from Scotland or Northern Ireland.
Team GB will hardly be a fully representative squad, but at least the likes of Chelsea's Ryan Bertrand, Manchester United's Tom Cleverley and Swansea's Scott Sinclair now have the chance to step out of Beckham's shadow and impress on a global audience with their precocious talents.
Pearce's side, shorn of the injured Gareth Bale, have been drawn to play Senegal, UAE and Uruguay in Group A in the 16-team men's event, but the favourites are Brazil and Spain.
Brazil could include gifted strikers Neymar and Alexandre Pato and aging legend Ronaldinho as the five-times world champions look to end their wait for Olympic gold.
The Brazilians won silver in 1984 and 1988 and bronze in 1996 and 2008 and it would be especially sweet to win this year's title as the current holders -- their bitter rivals Argentina -- failed to qualify.
"Of course the final goal is to win the 2014 World Cup, but we can't forget that in 2012 we have to go after an unprecedented gold medal," federation president Jose Maria Marin said.
"It's a title Brazil still doesn't have and I'll make sure I'll provide all the working conditions the team needs."
Spain, the current world and European champions, will also be a major threat, especially after naming Cristian Tello, Isaac Cuenca and Martin Montoya, three of Barcelona's rising stars, in their squad along with Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea.
Wembley, Old Trafford, Newcastle's St James' Park, the City of Coventry Stadium, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and Hampden Park in Glasgow are all hosting matches in the men's event and also the 12-team women's competition, which was won by the United States in 2008.

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Spidey relaunches with Tuesday record of $35M


LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Amazing Spider-Man" has swung into action with $35 million domestically in its first day — a record for a film opening on Tuesday.
The new launch for the Marvel Comics superhero outdid the previous best Tuesday debut of $27.9 million for "Transformers," which also opened the day before the Fourth of July in 2007.
Box-office trackers had projected that "The Amazing Spider-Man" might earn around $120 million in its first six days, through the end of Fourth of July weekend. But its strong start indicates it could do considerably more.
The original "Transformers" went on to do $155.4 million domestically through Fourth of July weekend, which included receipts from Monday night previews before its official Tuesday debut.
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" opened the week before the Fourth of July last year and pulled in $180.7 million in just over six days.
The opening-day results show the resilience of the Spider-Man brand, which set box-office records from 2002 to 2007 with the three films directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire as the web-slinging superhero.
After a falling out between Raimi and distributor Sony on a fourth film, the franchise started over, with Marc Webb directing and Andrew Garfield slipping into Spider-Man's red-and-blue suit.
"The Amazing Spider-Man" retells the story of how a bite from a radioactive spider endows gangly teen Peter Parker with super strength, agility and senses. The film co-stars Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen and Sally Field.
Some critics had argued that it was too soon to reboot the franchise, just five years after Raimi and Maguire's "Spider-Man 3." But good reviews for "The Amazing Spider-Man" and a solid box-office start should put the carping to rest on the film, which also had a strong head-start overseas last week with about $50 million in a handful of international markets.
Debuting on a Tuesday, "The Amazing Spider-Man" is far down the list of best opening days, since most movies premiere on Friday as the weekend kicks off.
Last summer's "Harry Potter" finale had the best single-day start ever with $91.1 million. It's followed by last May's "The Avengers" with $80.8 million on its way to a record $207.4 million opening weekend.
"Spider-Man 3" opened on a Friday in May 2007, taking in $59.8 million on day one and $151.1 million for the weekend, which was a record at the time.
"The Amazing Spider-Man" is the middle chapter in Hollywood's superhero summer, which opened with Disney and Marvel's "The Avengers," whose worldwide receipts have climbed to $1.45 billion. On July 20, DC Comics and Warner Bros. debut "The Dark Knight Rises," the third and final Batman movie from director Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale as the masked vigilante.

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Selasa, 03 Juli 2012

Education in Indonesia

Education in Indonesia

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Education in Indonesia
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Ministry of Education and Culture
Ministry of Religious Affairs
Minister of Education and Culture
Minister of Religious Affairs		 Professor Muhammad Nuh
Suryadharma Ali
National education budget (2006)
Budget US $4.18 billion
General details
Primary languages Indonesian
System type Curriculum
Competency-based curriculum October 14, 2004
Literacy (2005)
Total 90.4
Male 94.0
Female 86.8
Primary 31.8 million
Secondary 18.6 million
The students in pramuka (boy scout) uniform studying.
The students listen the explanation and examine the model of Jawi temple during their study tour at Trowulan Museum, East Java, Indonesia.
Education in Indonesia is under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education and Culture (Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan or Kemdikbud) and the Ministry of Religious Affairs (Kementerian Agama or Kemenag). In Indonesia, all citizens must undertake nine years of compulsory education which consists of six years at elementary level and three in secondary level. Islamic schools are under the responsibility of the Ministry of Religious Affairs.
Education is defined as a planned effort to establish a study environment and education process so that the student may actively develop his/her own potential to gain the religious and spiritual level, consciousness, personality, intelligence, behavior and creativity to him/herself, other citizens and for the nation. The Constitution also notes that education in Indonesia is divided into two major parts, formal and non-formal. Formal education is further divided into three levels, primary, secondary and tertiary education.
Schools in Indonesia are run either by the government (negeri) or private sectors (swasta). Some private schools refer to themselves as "national plus schools" which means that they intend to go beyond the minimum government requirements, especially with the use of English as medium of instruction or having an international-based curriculum instead of the national one.

Contents

History

Early kingdoms

Education system in the era of Hindu-Buddhist civilization is called karsyan. Karsyan is a place of hermitage. This method is highly religious, aimed to draw oneself closer to God.

Era of Islamic states

The emergence of Islamic state in Indonesia is noted by the acculturation of both Islamic tradition and Hindu-Buddhist tradition. At this time period, pondok pesantren, a type of Islamic boarding school was introduced and several of them were established. The location of pesantren is mostly faraway from the hustling crowd of the city, resembling the location of Karsyan.

Colonial era

Elementary education was introduced by the Dutch in Indonesia during the colonial era. Initially, it was reserved for the Dutch (and other Europeans) only. In 1870, with the growth of Dutch Ethical Policy formulated by Conrad Theodor van Deventer, some of these Dutch-founded schools opened the doors for bumiputera (lit. native Indonesians). They were called Sekolah Rakjat (lit. folk school), the embryo of what is called Sekolah Dasar (lit. elementary school) today.[1]
The Dutch introduced a system of formal education for the local population of Indonesia, although this was restricted to certain privileged children. The system they introduced was roughly similar to the current structure, with the following levels:
  • ELS (Dutch: Europeesche Lagere School) - Primary School for Europeans
  • HIS (Dutch: Hollandsch-Inlandsche School) - Primary School for Natives
  • MULO (Dutch: Meer Uitgebreid Lager Onderwijs) - Middle School
  • AMS (Dutch: Algeme(e)ne Middelbare School) - High School or College
  • HBS (Dutch:Hogere Burger School) - Pre-University
The segregation between Dutch and Indonesian in Education pushed several Indonesian figures to start educational institutions for local people. Ahmad Dahlan founded Muhammadiyah in November 1912, and Ki Hajar Dewantara founded Taman Siswa in July 1922. Pesantrens were also mushrooming rapidly during this time period.[2]
The Dutch colonial government also established a number of universities for native Indonesian on the island of Java, such as[3]:
  • School Tot Opleiding Van Indische Artsen or STOVIA, a medical school in Batavia
  • Nederland-Indische Artsen School, or NIAS, a medical school in Surabaja
  • Rechts Hoge School, a law school in Batavia
  • De Technische Hoges School, or THS, a technic school in Bandoeng
By the 1930s, the Dutch had introduced limited formal education to nearly every province of the Dutch East Indies.

School grades

The school year is divided into two semesters. The first commences in July and ends in December while the latter commences in January and ends in June.
Level/Grade Typical age
Preschool
Pre-school playgroup 3-4
Kindergarten 4-6
Primary School
1st Grade 6–7
2nd Grade 7–8
3rd Grade 8–9
4th Grade 9–10
5th Grade 10–11
6th Grade 11–12
Middle School
7th grade 12-13
8th Grade 13-14
9th Grade 14-15
High School
10th Grade 15–16
11th Grade 16–17
12th Grade 17–18
Post-secondary education
Tertiary education (College or University) Ages vary (usually four years,
referred to as Freshman,
Sophomore, Junior and
Senior years)
Graduate education
Adult education

Curriculum education

Type of Science Subjects Grade
# Name # Name Primary School Middle School High School




1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th (NS) 12th (NS) 11th (SS) 12th (SS)
1 Education 1 Religious Studies Green tick
2 Civics
3 Physical Education
4 Information Technology and Communication
2 Language (and Literature) 1 Bahasa Indonesia Green tick
2 English
3 Traditional/Local Language (Sundanese, Javanese, Balinese, et al.)
4 Foreign Language (Mandarin, Arabic, French, German, et al.)
3 Natural 1 Mathematics Green tick
2 Physics Green tick Red X
3 Biology
4 Chemistry Red X Green tick
4 Social 1 History Green tick
2 Geography Green tick Red X Green tick
3 Economics
4 Sociology Red X Green tick
5 Arts 1 Music Green tick Red X
2 Painting
3 Skill
4 Dancing
Total subjects 13 16 13

Early education

From the age of 2, some children in Indonesia attend pre-school playgroup, known as PAUD (Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini). From the age of 4, they attend kindergarten (Taman Kanak-Kanak). This education is not compulsory for Indonesian citizens, as it is aimed to prepare them for Primary Schooling. Of the 49,000 kindergartens in Indonesia, 99.35% of them are privately operated schools.[4] The kindergarten years are usually divided into "Class A" and "Class B" students spending a year in each class.

Primary School

Children aged 6–11 attend Sekolah Dasar (SD) (lit. Primary School). This level is compulsory for all Indonesian citizens, according to the Constitution. In contrast to the majority of privately run kindergartens, most elementary schools are government-operated public schools, accounting for nearly 93% of all elementary schools in Indonesia.[5] Similar to education systems in the U.S. and Australia, students must spend six years to complete this level. Some schools offer an accelerated learning program, where students who perform well can complete the level in five years.
Madrasah Ibtidaiyah (MI) is the Islamic schooling alternative to SD, following a curriculum with more focus on Arabic and Islam.

Middle School

Middle School, generally known by the abbreviation "SMP" (Sekolah Menengah Pertama) is part of basic education in Indonesia. After graduating from primary school, students attend Middle School for three years from the age of 12 to 14. After three years of schooling and graduation, students may move on to High School.
Madrasah Tsanawiyah (MTs) is the Islamic schooling equivalent of SMP.

High School

A public High School in Jakarta
In Indonesia, there are two types of High School. The first is generally known by the abbreviation "SMA" (Sekolah Menengah Atas) and second is SMK (Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan). SMA differs from SMK in their studies. The students at SMA are prepared to continue their study to university while students of SMK are prepared to be ready to work after graduation, even sans university education. SMA is the Indonesian equivalent of university-preparatory school while SMK resembles more of a vocational school. Students attending SMA will be divided into three group of studies in their 11th grade, i.e. Science, Social studies, and Linguistics. According to the Constitution, this level of education is not compulsory. Such a fact is reflected by the lower number of High Schools in Indonesia, which is slightly below 9,000.[6]
Madrasah Aliyah (MA) is the Islamic schooling equivalent of SMA while Madrasah Aliyah Kejuruan (MAK) is the equivalent of SMK.

Higher education

After graduation from High School, students may attend an institution of higher education of their choice. The higher education institution is categorized into two types: public and private. Both are supervised by the Ministry of National Education. There are four types of higher education institution: Universities, Institutes, Academies, and Polytechnics.
Type of Degree Indonesian Term Equivalent in English-Speaking Countries
Diploma 3 (D3) Ahli Madya Associate's Degree
Diploma 4 (D4) Sarjana Bachelor's Degree
Sarjana 1 (S1) Sarjana Bachelor's Degree
Sarjana 2 (S2) Magister Master's Degree
Sarjana 3 (S3) Doktor Doctoral Degree

Sekolah Luar Biasa

Students with disabilities/special needs may alternately opt to be enrolled in a separate school from the mainstream called Sekolah Luar Biasa (lit. Extraordinary School).

Foreign students

Most of the 6,000 foreign students studying in Indonesian universities hail from Malaysia. In particular, they are in the fields of Medicine, Pharmacy, Literature, Humanities, Islamic Studies and Engineering and majority are sponsored by the Malaysian government themselves. These foreign students are widely spread across Indonesia in almost all government universities such as Universitas Sumatera Utara, University of Indonesia, Gadjah Mada University and also in private institutions like Universitas Kristen Krida Wacana (UKRIDA) and Bandung Institute of Technology.[7]

See also

Portal icon Indonesia portal

References

  1. ^ http://infocondet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=108&Itemid=38
  2. ^ http://tinulad.wordpress.com/sedikit-uraian-sejarah-pendidikan/
  3. ^ http://attaubah60.multiply.com/journal/item/6
  4. ^ Kindergarten statistics between 2004-2005 http://www.depdiknas.go.id/statistik/thn04-05/TK_0405.htm
  5. ^ Primary School statistics between 2004-2005 http://www.depdiknas.go.id/statistik/thn04-05/SD_0405.htm
  6. ^ High School statistics between 2004-2005 http://www.depdiknas.go.id/statistik/thn04-05/SMA_0405.htm
  7. ^ http://waspada.co.id/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=195290:foreign-students-in-indonesia-mostly-malaysians&catid=30:english-news&Itemid=101

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Selasa, 12 Juni 2012

Obama Criticizes Republicans Over Student Loan Rates





Luke Sharrett for The New York Times
President Obama spoke on Thursday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, before 2,500 mostly young supporters.

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LAS VEGAS — After a day of fund-raisers in California, President Obama on Thursday traveled again to swing-state Nevada for the one event of his two-day Western trip that was designated as an official appearance, as opposed to a campaign stop. But it again illustrated that everything is political in an election year.

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Mr. Obama campaigned not against Mitt Romney but against Republicans in Congress, saying they “can’t just sit on their hands” and ignore his job-creation proposals.
He emphasized the issue of keeping college loans affordable, a topic which resonates with many younger voters whose support Mr. Obama needs for reelection. And he did so at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, before 2,500 mostly young supporters whose energy and chants of “four more years” gave the event the feel of a campaign rally.
According to the local newspaper, Mr. Obama’s arrival coincided with a new television ad here from his campaign that echoed the president’s message. In the ad, Mr. Obama urges Congress to pass the measures he first proposed last September, as part of his job-creation package, to help states pay for keeping teachers and first-responders at work and to finance public infrastructure projects providing jobs for construction workers.
But, he told the university crowd, “Making college affordable — that’s one of the best things we can do for the economy.”
Mr. Obama sought to spread the word that his administration is speeding a change in a 2009 law that will allow people who remain current on repaying their federal Stafford loans to have their repayments capped at 10 percent of their disposable income, down from 15 percent, so borrowers can more easily manage their debt. The change is to take effect in 2014 but the administration wants the cap effective for new loans after this year. Also, Mr. Obama promoted a new directive to his education and treasury secretaries to ease the process of applying for the repayment option.
But, he told the university crowd, “the No. 1 thing Congress should do for you is to stop interest rates on student loans from going up.”
The reference was to Mr, Obama’s fight with Congress over the interest rate on current Stafford loans. The rate, cut in half to 3.4 percent five years ago to help borrowers as the economy soured, is due to return to 6.8 percent on July 1, affecting more than 7 million student loans. While many Republicans, including Mr. Romney, say they agree that the rate should temporarily remain at the lower level, the parties disagree over how to cover the government’s one-year cost of $6 billion.
College debt has exceeded $1 trillion and surpassed total credit-card debt, elevating the issue’s political importance, especially at a time when financially strained states are raising tuitions.
Democrats have proposed to offset the cost of subsidizing the lower interest rate by closing a loophole allowing some wealthy taxpayers to avoid Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes by classifying their pay as dividends, not cash income. Republicans first called instead for eliminating a fund for preventive health services in Mr. Obama’s health insurance law — a non-starter for the White House — but recently sent the president a letter proposing several alternative financing measures.
“And what has the White House done? Nothing. The president has yet to respond,” the Senate Republican leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, said in a speech on Thursday in advance of Mr. Obama’s arrival in Nevada. “One can only surmise that he’s delaying a solution so that he can fit in a few more campaign rallies with college students while pretending someone other than himself is delaying action.”
On Wednesday, the House speaker, John A. Boehner, and the House majority leader, Eric Cantor, called on Mr. Obama to cancel his Las Vegas speech. “With all of the great economic challenges facing our country, there is no reason to manufacture political fights where there is not policy disagreement,” they wrote to the president.
Asked about the Republicans’ complaints, the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, said aboard Air Force One to Nevada, “We are working with Congress to get this done and we think it will get done.”
Since April Mr. Obama has raised the interest rate issue and criticized Republicans for opposing his version at college campus events in North Carolina, Colorado and Iowa — all swing states.
Before flying to Nevada, Mr. Obama attended an outdoor breakfast fund-raiser, after two each on Thursday in San Francisco and Los Angeles. About 300 people paid at least $2,500 each to attend the event at a home in a predominantly African-American enclave on a hillside overlooking Los Angeles owned by Charles Quarles, president of the Bedford Group, a real estate development firm.

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More Young Americans Out of High School Are Also Out of Work



Matthew Staver/Bloomberg News
High school students filling out job applications.

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For this generation of young people, the future looks bleak. Only one in six is working full time. Three out of five live with their parents or other relatives. A large majority — 73 percent — think they need more education to find a successful career, but only half of those say they will definitely enroll in the next few years.
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The survey found that 16 percent of the classes of 2009-11 had full-time jobs. Graduates at Joplin High School in Missouri.
No, they are not the idle youth of Greece or Spain or Egypt. They are the youth of America, the world’s richest country, who do not have college degrees and aren’t getting them anytime soon.
Whatever the sob stories about recent college graduates spinning their wheels as baristas or clerks, the situation for their less-educated peers is far worse, according to a report from the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University scheduled to be released on Wednesday. The data comes from a national survey of high school graduates who are not enrolled in college full time, a notoriously transient population that social scientists and other experts had been having trouble tracking. (In the two months since the survey was conducted, a large share of participants have had their phone numbers disconnected and could not be reached.)
For this group, finding work that pays a living wage and offers some sense of security has been elusive.
“I want more money, and I really don’t like what I do,” said Walter Walden, 24, of Wenatchee, Wash., one of the lucky members of this group who has a full-time job, in this case, at a restaurant. “I had to go back to school.” He now lives with his mother so he can take nursing classes part time.
Workers just a few years younger than Mr. Walden have been thrust into a daunting combination of a temporarily feeble economy and the longer-term elimination of traditional middle-class jobs.
Americans who graduated from high school just before layoffs started to swell — in this report, defined as 2006-8 — were having trouble making ends meet. Just 37 percent employed were full time and another 23 percent were working part time, usually because they could not find full-time work.
But among those who graduated after the financial crisis, the numbers are far worse: only 16 percent of the classes of 2009-11 had full-time jobs. An additional 22 percent were working part time, and most of them wanted full-time work.
Despite the continuing national conversation about whether college is worth it given the debt burden it entails, most high school graduates without college degrees said they believed they would be unable to get good jobs without more education.
“If I ever want to get out of retail,” said Bethany McClour, 21, a part-time worker at The Children’s Place clothing store in Medford, Ore., “more education is definitely important.”
Getting it is challenging, though, and not only because of formidable debt levels.
Ms. McClour and her husband, Andy, have two daughters under 3 and another due next month. She said she tried enrolling in college classes, but the workload became too stressful with such young children. Mr. McClour works at a gas station. He hates his work and wants to study phlebotomy, but the nearest school is an hour and a half away.
“My mother is my day care,” Ms. McClour said. “We can’t move that far away.”
Others surveyed said college was out of reach because of the cost or family responsibilities.
Many of these young people had been expecting to go to college since they started high school, perhaps anticipating that employers would demand skills high schools do not teach. Just one in 10 high school graduates without college degrees said they were “extremely well prepared by their high school to succeed in their job after graduation.”
These young people worried about getting left behind and were pessimistic about reaching some of the milestones that make up the American dream.
More than half — 56 percent — of high school graduates without college diplomas said that their generation would have less financial success than their parents. By contrast, just 14 percent said they expected to do better than their parents. (Another study from the Heldrich Center found that recent college graduates were similarly pessimistic about whether their generation would surpass that of their parents.)
Many young people were just struggling to keep up with their parents.
When he graduated from high school last year, Harley Sproud, 18, started working for the same construction company that employed his father. A few months later, when the company ran into financial trouble, he was let go.
“Thank God I had a buddy at Burger King who could help me out,” said Mr. Sproud, of Advance, N.C.
The frying-and-cleanup job did not exactly make full use of the skills he learned last fall in a nine-week culinary class, but it was the best opportunity he could find. He is now recovering from a car accident — which required him to move back in with his parents, both for financial and medical reasons — and is hoping to return to Burger King next month.
Like Mr. Sproud, many graduates are finding it difficult to track into their desired lines of work. Among the group of high school graduates surveyed by the Heldrich Center, just over half (56 percent) said they believed they would find a “job that leads to a career” within the “next few years.”
About the same share believed they would find work that offered health insurance within that time frame. Slightly less than half of respondents said the next few years would bring work with good job security or a job with earnings that were high “enough to lead a comfortable life.” They were similarly pessimistic about being able to start a family or buy a home.
The online survey was conducted between March 21 and April 2, and covered a nationally representative survey of 544 high school graduates from the classes of 2006-11 who did not have bachelor’s degrees. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 5 percentage points.
A version of this article appeared in print on June 6, 2012, on page B1 of the New York edition with the headline: More Young Americans Out of High School Are Also Out of Work.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/business/more-young-americans-out-of-high-school-are-also-out-of-work.html?_r=1&ref=education

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Kisah Tragis Dokter Muda Steven Wijata Yang Tewas Setelah Wisuda

Posted on September 29, 2011 | 1 Comment
Kesedihan tampak di Ruang Duka Mawar dan Dahlia, Rumah Sakit Cipto Mangunkusumo, Jakarta, Minggu (25/9/2011) pagi. Peti jenazah berwarna putih dengan kaca bening melapisi jenazah Steven Wijata. Dokter muda itu pergi selama-lamanya pada usia 23 tahun.
Warna putih pada peti Steven identik dengan profesi dokter. Kepergian Steven tidak disangka-sangka karena dia masih bersemangat mengangkat sumpah sebagai dokter bersama ratusan dokter Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Indonesia (FKUI) pada Sabtu pagi.
Sore hari, dia juga masih bertemu dan berkomunikasi dengan IM, kekasihnya. Menjelang pukul 18.00, Steven memilih untuk mengurung diri di Kamar 2410 Apartemen Salemba Residence di Jalan Salemba Tengah II, Jakarta Pusat. Kamar di lantai 24 itu adalah tempat tinggalnya selama menjalankan kuliah di FKUI sejak tahun 2006.
Siapa sangka, sekitar pukul 18.45, Steven ditemukan tidak bernyawa lagi di lantai dasar apartemen tersebut. Tidak ada yang tahu persis bagaimana saat-saat sebelum Steven mengembuskan napas terakhirnya. Dari Jakarta, Steven dibawa ke Cirebon untuk dikebumikan di kota kelahirannya.
Dokter dan pemain drum
Sejumlah kawan di kampus atau di gereja mengenal Steven sebagai sosok yang baik dan murah hati. Tidak jarang dia menjadi tempat bercerita sekaligus berkonsultasi bagi rekan-rekannya yang punya persoalan kesehatan.
Pria kelahiran 1 September 1988 ini dikenal memiliki ketertarikan tinggi di bidang kedokteran. Dua tahun silam, Steven mengikuti Kongres Internasional Ilmu Kedokteran di University Medical Center Groningen di Belanda untuk mempresentasikan hasil penelitiannya mengenai alat pendeteksi dini penyakit kanker.
Seperti ditulis dalam situs Tempo Online edisi 25 Mei 2009, Steven mengkreasikan sinar berdaya rendah dari spektroskop untuk membedakan antara sel normal dan sel kanker. Alat ini setidaknya mendeteksi awal pertumbuhan kanker sebelum penderita meneruskan ke pemeriksaan lanjutan.
Tidak hanya piawai di dunia kedokteran, Steven juga mahir menggebuk drum. Bersama sejumlah rekannya, Steven tergabung dalam grup band Made by Med. Keterampilan di dunia musik juga membuat Steven bergabung dalam kelompok musik di gereja.
Kejadian kemarin mengejutkan semua pihak. Polisi juga belum bisa memastikan penyebab Steven jatuh dari lantai 24 itu.
”Kami masih menunggu hasil visum dokter untuk mengetahui apakah ada penganiayaan atau zat berbahaya di dalam tubuhnya,” kata Kepala Polsek Senen Komisaris Iman Zebua.
Sejauh temuan polisi di lokasi kejadian, tidak ada bekas alkohol atau narkoba di dalam kamar. Korban juga sendirian di dalam unit itu saat kejadian serta kondisi kamar yang terkunci dari dalam. Polisi juga masih mengusahakan untuk mendapatkan rekaman kamera pengintai di apartemen itu untuk pengembangan penyelidikan.
Entah apa yang terjadi pada dokter genius ini, tetapi semua kerabat dan kawan mengiringi kepergiannya dengan doa. Steven Wijata (23) yang meninggal di Apartemen Salemba Residence, mengatakan sedang lelah, sesaat sebelum ditemukan tidak bernyawa di lantai dasar apartemen.
Pernyataan itu disampaikan Steven kepada IM, pacarnya sesaat sebelum kejadian. Informasi itu disampaikan lewat Blackberry Messenger.
Penghuni kamar 2410 itu diduga jatuh dari lantai 24. Saat ditemukan tempurung kepala pecah, usus terurai, dan tulang-tulang kaki patah.
Steven Wijata (23) ditemukan meninggal di tower A Apartemen Salemba Indah, Sabtu (24/9/2011) malam. Dugaan sementara, Steven jatuh dari lantai 24.
Pada Sabtu pagi, Steven baru saja diwisuda sebagai dokter dari Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Indonesia.
Belum diketahui apa yang menyebabkan Steven jatuh dari apartemen itu. Jenazah dibawa ke RS Cipto Mangunkusumo untuk divisum dan disemayamkan di rumah duka setempat.
Pada Minggu pagi ini jenazah dibawa ke Cirebon, Jawa Barat, untuk dikebumikan di kota kelahirannya itu.

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kinds of sentences


                                      KINDS OF SENTENCES  

A sentence is a group of words that consists of two main parts (i.e. subject and predicate); in addition, they should be grammatically and logically arranged. Every sentence must have a subject and a verb/predicate. A sentence may be a statement, question, command, request, or exclamation. The first letter must be capitalized, and the sentence must be ended with a final punctuation mark in the form of a period (.); a question mark (?); or an exclamation point (!).

Sentence can be classified into four categories according to the number and types of clauses that are in them. They are simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence and compound-complex sentence.
1.      Simple Sentence
Simple sentence consists of a subject and a predicate or an independent clause. Only independent clause can stand by itself to form simple sentence.
·        I enjoy studying English in my own library every weekend.
·        My friends always try to finish our task and duty as soon as possible.
·        John asked the questions and answered it in the same breath.

2.      Compound Sentence
Compound sentence consists of two or more independent clauses joined together in any one of the following three ways.
a.      By a coordinating conjunction (and, or, nor, for, so, yet, but, etc)
I enjoy studying English, but I hate studying math.
b.      By a sentence connector (furthermore, however, therefore, etc)
I enjoy studying English; however, I hate studying math.
c.      By a semicolon (;)
I enjoy studying English; I hate studying math.

3.      Complex Sentence
Complex sentence is the combination of an independent clause and at least one dependent clause. The independent clause expresses the main idea while the dependent clause expresses subordinate idea. Subordinator such as when, while, where, who, because, as, if, even though, so that, etc
·        Although I enjoy studying English, I hate math.
·        I hate math although I enjoy studying English.
·        As he loved his sister, he bought her computer, even though he could hardly afford it.

4.      Compound-Complex Sentence
Compound-complex sentence is a combination of two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
·        I hate math, but I enjoy studying English even though I am not very good at it.
·        I like you when you are cheerful but I hate you when you are grumpy.
·        Many people know that smoking is bad but they cannot stop smoking.
·        I enjoy studying English when I was teenager but I am not very good at it.   

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