Ini adalah interview kedua saya melalui telpon dengan stasiun radio. Pertama kali adalah dengan BBC Five Live tentang gempa bumi di Jogjakarta. Waktu itu sang produser kontak saya dengan nomor hp dan memberikan gambaran pertanyaan yang akan diajukan. Saya muncul di berita pukul 8 malam dibagian Indepth News atau sesi setelah headlines.
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Interview Trijaya FM – Indobackpacker September 4, 2006
Earthquake in Jogja, Java May 27, 2006
Just got call from a friend in Birmningham informed me about a massive earthquake in the city of Jogjakarta. It was hitting at 0554 local time (2253 GMT Friday), around 25km (15 miles) south of the city of Yogyakarta. I worried about my family who living in Bantul area where most the damaged occured. They are living in Banguntapan, near Kotagede in the border of Jogja-Bantul. I straight to go online news from local media (Liputan6 -this with video streaming, Detik, Kompas) to get of glimpse what happen. It looked terribly bad.
Frantic with news I called them through Skype to landline phone. I believed that would be no electricity nor mobilephone service on those affected area. The line went OK then I got my little sister. She said that everybody OK. My mum dan other sister went to Magetan (110km from Jogja) on that time, so there were only her and my dad at home.
She said the earhquake was tremendousely big, shaked the house badly. She was in her breakfast and did safe run with my dad. Bless them ! No damaged on their house, it just the roof tile cave in and broken plates. Several earhquakes followed after the 6.2 magnitute one.
On the time I wrote this, BBC News reported in a few details. If you want to see more technical information about this earthquake you can visit United State Geological SurveyUSGS -a government body in USA which monitor the geological movement covers whole the world.
My condolence to people who died in this natural disaster.
Updated 1514(GMT) or 2114 (West Indonesia Time) :
- BBC Journalist (Online Service) in UK asked me to interview my family. Not sure about this because I think they are not credible sources. So yeps…the BBC desperate to get news from Bantul. Anyone from that area please speak up !
- At 22:05 (GMT) I did short interview with BBC Five Live about the situation in Java. You can hear it on Multiply (audio).
Cory’s campaign in Singapore (part1) September 4, 2005
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Yes.. Cory Doctorow in Singapore for Singapore Writers Festival this weekend. His session : Copyright and Future Media turn out with various issues such as why he published his science fiction novels free in internet, what actually a battle ground of copyright and about Creative Common License. As a co-editor of Boing-Boing (urghhhh… the most popular blog in this planet) he also works for Electronic Frontier Foundation to promote civil liberties related with technology. Sorry for shaky footage Corry…anyway loved your shirt, I shall get one from here.
Nias Journal 3 Kids Kids Kids August 25, 2005
morning exercise at pre school in Afia Camp
In Gunung Sitoli we taught English and Math in three camps. Supomo and Remeling were only walking distance from PKPA Nias. But Afia Camp was 30 minutes by car. Normally Dewi and Fitri (two volunteers with headscarf) using public transport goes every Thursday Friday and Saturday on two sessions . First for pre-school and about late afternoon for Elementary school. Here we did exercise, playing and singing the song.
orphanage of OMO Tomorrow Hope
We visited an orphanage on top of the hill in Gn Sitoli. When we were there, they already finished dinner. The place are well constructed, barely could see any damaged by earthquake. The kids were so cheerfull, had a lot questions about our team. Rahim, Ady and me were lucky that we can understand what they said. But some of them were really good in English. Translator were not needed here !!
A funny story about the way we went that me and Sue Jan had to walk to this place. Our becak (bicycle turn into three wheels ride) decided to break its wheels. Shame though. I guess not because I am too fat ! I had similar incident in Medan on our last day in Sumatra. We went to a supermarket in town then the chain of motocycle loosened. It just stopped . Oh how lucky I was…
our class in sirombu (click the image for video)
The English classes that run in Sirombu were in temporary shelter in the front of SD (Sekolah Dasar=Elementary School). The structure of the shelter made from bamboo, the roof from palm leaves (rumbia) without wall perfect for hot and humid Nias. The kids were great. They learnt very quickly. We had several competition to build up their short of achievement. It was wild !!
Nias Journal 2 Sirombu activities August 25, 2005
road to sirombu (click the image to see how we crossed this bridge)
Sirombu was 84km from Gunung Sitoli. It was an area that suffered by tsunami and earthquake. We were there to support PKPA’s suplementary class in English. Also supported pre school class that run in emergency shelter. We travelled with an ambulance in very very bumpy road. It took nearly 4,5 hours. We actually crossed Nias island shore to shore through several hills and valleys. We had to stop about 45 min in this bridge just tried to get through. I stopped a man with full of durian to take picture of his adorable fruit.
morning sesson with pre-school (click the image to see on video)
We held play sesson, drawing, singing the song, etc. Playing cat and mouse really amusing. We made a circle and the cat tried to catch the mouse inside it. Erni (with headscarf) the local volunteer helped us to get along with the kids. It was fun though !!
dinner with all PKPA members
This is what we done every evening. Dinner together with plastic dishes in plastic mat. The food were fantastic ! lots of seafood and really really spicy. Umi the chef treated us very well. We (the girls) aslo slept in this room where in the day became a kitchen for Umi.
our water for toilet
Water was not a big problem in Sirombu. The quality so poor, contaminated by salt . But you can find water sources easily. We used the bucket to get the water. Around 2-3m deep. I had to learn to do this. Everytime I put the bucket down, it was back only half full ! This is also a communal toilet. So there would be a few people showered together in same spot. Hah…
Flowers for Mums : vlog June 27, 2005
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This is another v-blog. From a BBQ party at Toa Payoh with Indonesian ladies. We cycled down there from Tanjong Rhu. It took only a half an hour with several bridge crossing (means you have to carry your cycle along). Taken with Nikon CP5700 with poor battery. I tried to follow Hanan as my point of view but my camera went dead after few seconds.
Anyway thanks for great welcome. Enjoy !!!
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Down the Mountain-third vblog June 22, 2005
Third v-blog. With size 5.5MB won’t take very long for upload into ourmedia.org. Only 1.09minutes long of last year climbing at Nevis Range in Scotland with friends : Debbie and Jon. Learn how to stop sliding from top of the mountain. Fun though…
Taken with Nikon Coolpix 5700 which didn’t work very well at low temperature. Soundtrack : Flat Bottomed Girls from yesss the Queen !!
Our first video blog June 7, 2005
This is our first v-blog. Showing Indonesian dancer at Birmingham UK in the Indonesia Night 2004. The dancing is called Jaipong Adumanis from West Java.
Good source : freevlog and videoblogginginfo
Thanks also for William
News about vblogging : The Times Online and Technocrati
