Indonesia and the educational system

As we know here in Indonesia, students take about 12-14 years before they go to college. There are at least 4 grades before they go to college. It is kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school and senior high school. Indonesian system is almost the same like education system in United States while in United States students spend their first two years at an infant school, then the next four at a primary school and after that they start a secondary school before they take an examinations called GCSEs. In Indonesia students who graduated from senior high school can continue their education level by take the college form. It takes about 3,5 years or more depends on how diligent the student is.

According to me, the education system in Indonesia is much more complicated than in United States or United Kingdom. Besides, the cost of taking an education in here is still expensive. That’s why the rates of children who don’t go to school for an education are still high also. Poor people who can’t afford to pay for their children’s education payment can’t get facilities like school for free or something like that. And that fact should be seen and concerned by the government because the more children that can’t get an education in school, the less qualities that Indonesia get for the education point of view. I hope there will be more scholarships for the poor people and more interesting system for the education so Indonesia can raise the quality of their youth and also for the other part such as economic, social and politic.

if you want to be healthy......

If you ever heard people say that health is expensive, I think I agree with that idea. Especially here in Indonesia, if you want to get a good service then you have to pay for it.

Sometimes poor people have to face the truth that they can’t get amenities as good as those rich people can get. In bad situation, some hospital ignore those people who cannot pay much even though that people are nearly to death.

From my own experience, I can tell you the condition of  Indonesian’s public healthcare. It’s when my grandfather was brought to the hospital in 26^th October 2010. He got stroke so he had to be operated immediately. But the administration was too complicated and I felt so mad of that. Fortunately they could handle it on time so the operation wasn’t too late. My grandfather was in HCU (High Care Unit) for about 5 days and during that time we could get a good amenities – of course after the hospital made sure that we could afford to pay the cost of my grandfather’s medication. At last, my grandfather passed away in 31^st October 2010 but I feel so thankful because at least the doctors have tried the best for him. But from what I see during my time there, some nurses are still careless and lazy. So I hope they can reform and give a better amenities to the society.

I love this city

Jember...

This is the place that I've been living for almost 20 years. I was born there and spent the rest of my teenage time in this little awesome city.

Actually my big family are staying in Jakarta but I prefer to live here because it's too crowded to live in such a big city like Jakarta.

Now let me tell you why do I prefer this little city to live..

First of all because there's no traffic jam in Jember. We still can easily go everywhere without thinking about the traffic jam. Second one is the condition of this city itself. Calm, not too crowded but not too quiet also. Third; last but not least is because there are a lot of natural places that me and my family like to go to camp.

We don't really like to go to a common place like Rembangan, Watu Ulo, etc but we choose a quiet place. Mostly the place is hard to be reached. because my father taught me " If you want to get something nice or good, you have to affort for it"

That's why I never feel tired although I have to walk for a thousand miles to go to that place =)

Now let me show you some pictures of those beautiful place I mentioned above.. Let's say it the place that "somewhere only we know"..

 Nanggelan beach, Pisang beach, Pasir Gotri (Near Alas Purwo Forrest)

Well, I think those pictures pretty much explain why I love to live in Jember. I hope I can share more stories soon when I go to the other places.

Thanks for reading.. =)

me, my self and I story

Hi.. Well this is my first writing in here, so I'd like to tell you my name first. My name is Maltha Cassandra Hilda and you can call me Maltha. I'm 19 years old - and too bad I'm on my way to 20. Haha.. I'm the first-born child and I have one little brother named Max. It's not only two of us that makes my parent's life happier, but there's also one gorgeous Golden Retriever plus 4 extremely cute puppies that you'll find if you visit my house ;)

So if you want to see how beautiful they are, just come to my house at GunungBatu G-34 Jember.. But don't forget to bring something for the puppies - kidding guys, don't take it seriously. =)

Hope to see you soon. This time I'm serious =)