Happy Idul Fitri

I would like to Congrulatulate You my moeslem people
Happy Idul Fitri.
Please Forgive All my sins that I have done
May we bless pure soul in the end.

International Nigth at PUSDIKBASA DEPHAN

On August 28th we had the special nigth that performed many cultures of foreign country. they were Australia, America, India, Pakistan, Japan, Philipines, China, Russia, Germany and Thailand. Each country has different culture. For example India, they performed the dance that came from Hindustan and also food that common in india like fried rice. Besides the food there were also the performance such as dancing, teathre and singing. Every one that participated in that program were mostly student of PUSBASA DEPHAN. They learn the leanguage of it's own country. The attendants on that show were variaty, the ambasador of it's country were invited and also the staff.
The benafit of the program were a lot. It could introduce to people the culture of it's country. if there is someone who has never gone to the foreign they could go there only by seeing the stand. for the students it could stimulate the creativity related to the performance and get to know each other among them.
I suggest for the next year we should try something different. that would be great if we could invite the artist from indonesia even from abroad. and the performance should be well managed because i suggest we should put the show on air, so that the viewers would have known the cultures of each country.

Illegal Logging

2/3 of green area in the world located in Indonesia. We have tropical Forests which will support the clean air. they located in kalimantan, sumatera and irian jaya. this forest must be protected because they will produce oxigen that we need. besides that forests also become the wildlife that protect rare animals and plants. the habitat for the animals and plants to live only in forests. if we continue to cut trees the animals and plants will extinct rapidly.meaning that we can't keep the ecosystem stable.
the advantages of this are a lot. first, we can save animals and plants from exthinction. second, we can get fresh air (oxigen) from the fotosystesys. third, we will earn devisa from the foreigner the research in our country.
The trees those were cut were sold ilegally to the others more expensive than the legal one. so this can be categorize ilegal logging. so the country could lost the assets. In just 50 years, Indonesia's total forest cover fell from 162 million hectares to 98 million. Roads and development fragment over half of the remaining forests. More than 16 million people depend on fresh water from Indonesia's 15 largest watersheds, which between 1985 and 1997 lost at least 20 percent of their forest cover. Loggers have cleared almost all the biologically diverse lowland tropical forests off Sulawesi, and if current trends continue, such forests will be gone from Sumatra in 2005 and Kalimantan by 2010.
Domestic wood supply in Indonesia was documented at 20 million cubic meters in 2000, while demand stood at some 60 million cubic meters. Thus legal supplies of wood fiber fall short of demand by up to 40 million cubic meters per year. Illegal logging fills the gap--accounting for almost 70 percent of wood supply. All told, illegal logging alone has destroyed 10 million hectares of Indonesia's rich forests, an area the size of Virginia in the United States.
In this country where illegal logging runs rampant, forest loss from tree felling and conversion to agriculture is cited as the cause of flooding, acute water shortages, rapid soil erosion, river siltation, and mudslides that have taken lives, destroyed properties, and wreaked environmental damage. We should take action on it as soon as possible starting from goverment strength policy. Let's do it.