Bakso is one of the most favorable foods to Indonesian. Despite its delicacy, the price is also relatively cheap. Even Obama, the USA’s president, during his visit to Indonesia, said that Bakso is one of his favorable foods. Due to the high number of its consumers, Bakso is very ubiquitous. Bakso vendors can be found from an alley to the big market. For some people, Bakso has even been their daily food.

In fact, Bakso plays important role on poor economy cycle because most Bakso vendors are people with low income level. The high number of Bakso consumers provides job opportunities for Bakso vendors and it decreases the number of unemployment in this country.

In other hand, some of Bakso ingredients are believed to be harmful for people’ healthy. In order to give better taste, many Bakso vendors add additive substance to their product regardless of the nutritional values. One of the additive substances is MSG (monosodium glutamate). As a matter of fact, MSG may not be harmful if it is consumed in accordance with legal standard level by issued by the Government. In contrast, if it is consumed in excessive number, this substance will be accumulated in our body and will give various diseases. Therefore, the more frequent the consumers consumed Bakso, the more the MSG substance will be accumulated in their body.

Most of Bakso are made of beef meat that has cholesterol. Our body needs fat/cholesterol to support our activity, but it should be in proportional number. So it is recommended to consume Bakso inexcessively.

The consumers should also be aware of the hygiene of Bakso vendors. Some of them never wash the plates and spoons using pure clean water and it has a potential risk to spread various diseases. Although not all Bakso vendors are poor in terms of hygiene, being selective to the Bakso vendor is necessary if we care our health.

In conclusion, it is not prohibited to consume Bakso. However, people should consider how much they ate and hygiene or cleanliness of the Bakso vendors.

Written by Khairul Syahri | The Executive Board of HEC

The time is on! HEC’s opening up slots to fill in the Executive board! So for those of you who have been hesitant to join Hasanuddin English Community, this is your opportunity!

here is the details extended

Date : Sunday, january 3rd 2016
Time : 09.00 am untill 03.00 pm
Venue : Base Floor, Ipteks Building of Hasanuddin University

here is what you bring

* Stationery
* Curriculum Vitae
* Photos 4x6 (2 pieces)
* Fee (20K)

The test be divided into two phases. the first is writing test and the last is interview test. the test will only take about 10 minutes. afterwards, you can go home after finishing the test.

see you on D-Day!!


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Indonesia Students Orientation is widely known as OSPEK (Student Orientation and Campus Introduction) for tertiary student level and MOS for Junior and Senior High School. Before actively participating within learning process, the students are obliged to participate in this activity. The main purpose of the implementation OSPEK in university is as an introduction for freshman about the campus, academic activities and also extracurricular activities.

The Ospek and Mos have been practiced in Indonesia since the 1950s. Unfortunately, the major problem is this campus orientation practiced seemingly by imposing violance conduct physically and verbally. It is undeniable that one thing comes first when people imagine the student orientation it would be bullying, violence, harassment, coercion, oppression.

The senior students always become the committee of this orientation and most of them manipulates this activity. The freshmen are sometimes treated unethically. They are often ordered to wear unusual and weird accessories or hairstyles to embarrass themselves only to entertain the seniors. Far more profound, this tradition seems has violated the purpose of Campus Orientation and indeed, this has no relation to the introduction process of the campus. Punishments are also uncommon. The students are punished due to simple problems Another crazy thing is the seniors create regulation which is beneficial for them that consist of 2 statements: 1st seniors never wrong; and 2nd if the seniors are wrong, do apply the first statement.

In proportion to Indonesian Campus Orientation, western educational institutions provide a better and beneficial system of campus orientation. The aim of this orientation is truly to introduce the campus and its surroundings. Besides, the freshmen are asked to develop their critical thinking by dividing them into a group in order to know each other followed by discussion and presentation concerning certain issues. Surely, this will be an effective method to sustain the educational development.

As a final point, OSPEK practically gives more harm than good. Setting good values to the freshmen under the senior pressure would never be effective and it may cause the psychologial trauma. Therefore, it is believed that OSPEK should be banned and replaced with new orientation system.

By: Rozaini Abidin | Executive Board of HEC

Coal has composition which is similar to fuel oil, so that coal can be an alternative source of liquid fuels. Unfortunately the government solely exploits coal by the two functions, The first is exporting coal that ranges from 75%-80% and the second is the function as electric steam power plant. The writer believes that these potential resources are possible to be exploited more than those two functions, therefore The government should stop exporting coals to other countriy and process them as indonesian potensial enery.

The first reason is indonesia is not abundant in terms of non renewable resources including fuel but in fact, indonesia still becomes the major petroleum consumers. As a result indonesian government had to spent 20 Million USD in 2014 to import not only fuel but also refined oil.

The second reason is the availability of coal in indonesia which is very abundant and has been proven to reach 120 Tons of all over indonesia. Because of the highly abundance of availability, the government should be able to utilize it as an alternative to resolve the problem of the increasing level of high level fuel consumption in indonesia.

The third reason is to process raw commodities such as coal that will establish a new industry. Indsutries in indonesia seems to be a chain of interconnection. If a new industry develops, it will encourage the establishment of other industries. By developing new industries more employment will be provided.

As a final point, coal should not be exploited to produce processed materials for electricity purpose and for export use because coal could be utilized to prosper the society. The government should stop exporting coals to other countries and process them as indonesian potential energy. By processing coal in our country as fuel, the society of indonesia will not be difficult to buy and acquire fuel.

By: Rischa Pratiwi Sahrum | Executive Board of Hasanuddin English Community

As is generally accepted, people all over the world are in need of clothes. The clothes are very useful. It can cover our bodies and prevent direct radiation of Sun that is potentially harmful to our skin and so on. With respect to the fashion, people may also prefer certain characteristic or type of clothes differently. Therefore, importing second clothing or locally known as Cakar is one alternative to provide and distribute various clothes with low price that may seem to be interesting to the people.

Surprisingly, there has been an investigation that revealed the existence of alien substance such as micro organism and bacteria on these second clothes. In response to this investigation, people with low economy caste wondered about the new policy that has been issued to stop the distribution of this imported second clothing due to these potentially dangerous substances.

 In fact, the prohibition of imported second stuff including second clothinghas been applied in this country but unfortunately, it seems the government has no concern with this issue. At last, the minister of trade, RahmatGobel, took step to moderate this issue. “Imported second clothing isseriously dangerous and it may cause various diseases such as itch, skin transferred disease nad on the fatal level, it may cause HIV,” The Minister said.

  Absolutely, the pro and cons has become evident among the traders. They claim that they can only gain sufficient income to ‘make end meet’ from the trading of those second stuffs. The traders even explained further that the buyers could put their second clothing into the hot boiled water, so that there will be no microorganism remained.

 In addition, almost all costumer of this second clothing are those with low economy class. They assume it is the surest way to find clothes which have good quality and low price. They prefer to go to cakar rather than go to the mall to find qualified clothes due to lack of money.

  This new policy should consider the rights of both the buyer and the seller. It should also have solution to the merchants on how to gain sufficient income beside of selling second clothes. In the other hand, this policy automatically will increasethe national income (Cakar) because people buys their own local product.

Written By : M. Herdian Fajar│The President of HEC

Political system is a complete sequence which consists of various elements of government works and influences in order to achieve the political objectives. The aim of political system is to sustain national welfare, intellectual life of the nation, participation within the establishment of the world order in accordance with freedom of expression, lasting peace and social justice. Presidential system is the political system applied in Indonesia. It implies that the executive agents are directly elected by its people. Ironically, the cabinet as the executive agent is elected by the president.

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The Cabinet members are the agents who are responsible for the authority to intercommunicate with the president. It is believed that the Cabinet members should be elected by the people instead of the president because as is generally known, Indonesia is a democratic country and this identity should be upheld because the people of a country have rights to participate within the election of The Cabinet members with respect to the democratic value.

The second argument is if president directly choose the cabinet member, nepotism may happen. The president would elect the candidate who will not oppose to his policies. Therefore, it will be easier to manipulate financial sector. This indeed will obstruct the national development.

To sum up, the people of Indonesia must be aware of the transparency of the government and the participation in the political engagement including to elect the professional candidates who are able to assist the president.

By Fitriani  || Internal Of HEC 

Kemajuan teknologi dan tantangan global yang semakin meningkat, menuntut kemampuan generasi muda untuk memiliki skill yang dapat mengantarkan mereka menuju dunia Internasional. Salah satu skill yang patut untuk dikuasai adalah Bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa Internasional. Meskipun menguasai Bahasa Inggris bukanlah satu-satunya indicator keberasilan, namun penguasaan bahasa internasional merupakan salah satu titik awal untuk memasuki pintu gerbang menuju kesuksesan dan keikutsertaan dalam dunia internasional.

English competition yang terdiri dari Speech Contest, Wall Magazine, Writing Contest, dan Story Telling ini ditujukan khusus untuk pelajar pada tingkat Sekolah Menengah Atas (SMA) se-Sulawesi Selatan. Kegiatan ini dikemas dalam bentuk kompetisi ini diharapkan dapat memacu jiwa kompetisi dari para pemuda khususnya pada pelajar, di sisi lain dapat menjadi ajang yang dapat mewujudkan minat dan bakat dari generasi muda, serta melatih kemampuan berbahasa Inggris baik secara verbal maupun non verbal, serta sebagai wadah komunikasi secara aktif. Agar nantinya para peserta memiliki tambahan pengalaman dalam penerapan keterampilan berbahasa Inggris.

Berdasarkan latar belakang tersebut, Hasanuddin English Community sebagai salah satu komunitas yang peduli terhadap dunia pendidikan dan pengembangan kemampuan pemuda di Makassar bekerja sama dengan Unit Kegiatan Mahasiswa (UKM) English Meeting Universitas "45" Bosowa Makassar, turut bertanggung jawab untuk melaksanakan kegiatan English Competition ini.

      Nama kegiatan ini adalah “English Competition” yang merupakan salah – satu program kerja Hasanuddin English Community (HEC) yang dikelola oleh Program Director of HEC.

      Kegiatan ini bertujuan untuk

1.       Mengembangkan kompetensi Bahasa Inggris baik secara verbal maupun non verbal.

2.       Meningkatkan kesadaran akan fungsi dan peran bahasa Inggris terhadap pencapaian tujuan pendidikan. 

3.       Memperluas eksistensi bahasa Inggris utamanya di Kota Makassar. 

4.       Memperat tali persaudaraan antar pelajar dan mahasiswa se-Makassar. 

5.       Mengoptimalkan pengembangan minat dan bakat dan kemampuan bahasa Inggris di kalangan pelajar dan mahasiswa.

 PELAKSANAAN KEGIATAN

   Hari/Tanggal           : Senin, 14 September 2015

   Pukul                     : 08.00 Wita - Selesai

   Tempat                  : Gedung Balai Sidang "45" Bosowa

     Sasaran kegiatan ini adalah pelajar SMA/SMK/MA se-Sulawesi Selatan yang ingin ikut berpartisipasi pada kegiatan ujian English Competition ini.

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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but it is the light of the fire”, a quote from William Butler Yeats, implies that education should not be brimming water in a bucket. It even should be able to light a candle to lighten its surrounding. It seems this quotation truly concerned with Indonesian education system. Does the education system refer to ‘fulfill the bucket’ or ‘lighten its surroundings’?

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According to the survey conducted by Political and Economic Risk Consultant (PERC), Indonesia is now on the 12th grade among the 12 countries that illustrate significant decline on education qualities in Asia. It, in fact, implies that there are still many severe problems among all educational elements of Indonesian educational system including the management, facilities and teachers.

Assumptions and controversies in relation to Educational background and Teachers’ Professional Certification program (Sertifikasi Guru) are said to be the major cause of it,

In fact, there are approximately 13,8% of 1.2 million teacher in elementary school who are not certified (Balitbang Depdiknas: 1998). It is believed that Indonesian teachers do not fulfill the standard of qualified teacher. As the consequence, there are still many teachers are unable to manage the class effectively, for instance, to organize the teaching planning, to evaluate, and to test their students.

Moreover, after the government regulated the additional salary as an award for qualified teacher, all teachers suddenly committed to fulfill all the administrative condition expecting that they will be awarded in spite of their unworthiness. In addition, there are some teachers’ assumed that teacher certification  is addressed to those who seek for prosperity, meanwhile, the aim of teacher certification program to encourage them to be professional teacher.

Furthermore, certification issues also effect on the increasing number of students’ training and teacher ship program (FKIP) in some universities. The teachers even manipulate this certification. This phenomenon might be the causes of unsuccessful teaching process.

There is even a rumor that teacher is an easy work. As can be seen from our society, many teachers only hand over the modules to the student and they think their tasks are finished.

To sum up, our government, ministry of education still has many works to resolve those problems. I state that this state, Indonesia, need many great program to develop our education, but we have to realize that it is not enough, there should any controls among those program, to see the program enforcement. Especially, when teacher national recruitment comes, government must take a qualified teacher only, which has great academic background, experiences and personality. In addition, providing scholarship programs to excellent student who wants to be a teacher will be very supportive.

By Taufik Akbar│Advisory Board in HEC

Facebookplaces in the highest rank of used by all people in this world. Therefore Facebook is a an effective media to use keeping in touch with family, friends who are far away, or finding new acquaintances. Inside Facebook world, many communities offer  varied kinds of activities, we can easily receive many updated information instantly. However, many disadvantages are delivered from this most popular social media.Considering the negative impact it brings, Republic of China has  banned the use of facebook in their internet service.One of the most negative one is prostitution.

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Recently, prostitution in Facebook becomes the hottest issue that world people talk about.Since Facebook has become worldwidely-known, bussiness of prostitution can be done internationally, no more borders that lie over the dangerous bussiness.

Prostitution is a crime, a sexual slavery, which can threat and bring citizens in Indonesia to access easily than before because it has spredover the Facebook rapidly. Quoted from Jakarta Globe.com, According to Police General Office in Jakarta, prostitution ring is offering sexual service to customers through the use of a Facebook fitures.  Almost of the perpetrators of this crime are acted by teenagers, not only as the perpetrators but also as the victims who can be trapped in this hazardous ring.Furthermore, police has arrested students, aged around 16 to 17 years that suspected as the victim who are persuaded to take part.The reason why this happens because the tendency of bad effect from Facebook, friends on Facebook who commit such a cursed business, one of the whorst of Facebook friendship can bring, let alone other crimes like drugs, human trafficking, child abuse, fraud, etc.

This case makes parents should feel worry because all children, especially those actively interacting with internet in their daily activities, can potentially experience the bad impact of the biggest social media around the world. So, parents have to keep themseleves  aware of  the risk from the internet prostitution through facebook and other social media and increase protection and supervision for their children using internet. This reality makes us realize that how dangerous Facebook can run young generation’s psychology and the way of their thinking from this prostitution ring. 

Written By Hartina Mahardika : Executive Board 

The issue of friction between Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and National Police (Polri) has been popped up (v. muncul) in this country lately through their action in condemnation (n. penersangkaan) of their masters each other. This issue has brought society to nationally pay heed (n. perhatian) on the two big law institution of this country, even being confused.

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All was started by the desicion of the president Joko (Jokowi) Widodo to appoint (n. pengangkatan) Gen. Budi Gunawan as a single candidate to replace Gen. Sutarman as The Chief of Polri. Before the House of Representative (DPR) legitimated (v. mengesahkan) Gunawan’s to be General Chief of Polri,KPK turned out to condemn him being involved in a graft (n. suap)case. Gunawan actually was red-highlighted by KPK beforehand in ministry selection process.

This condemnation made the President suspend (v. menunda) his inauguration due to the investigation of KPK to his case. In the other hand Polri eventually proceeded a handcuffing (n. penangkapan) to Bambang Widjayanto, Vice Chief of KPK as a report fromSugianto Sabran, a member of IndonesiaDemocratic Party – Struggle (PDI-P), with accusation for beinginvolved in a case of perjury (n. sumpah palsu) in a regional election dispute (n. sengketa) in 2010.

Obviously seen from the events happening above, KPK and Polri attacked each other in responding their master’s condemnation. This far the rest three chiefs of KPK have been reported to Polri with respective (adv. masing-masing) criminal case.

Responding to this case, President Jokowi had summoned (v. memanggil) both institutions’ leader, ministry of POLHUKAM to discuss about the matter of what really happens between KPK and National Police. After the meeting, Jokowi turned to give his remark (n. pernyataan)in the Bogor Palace.In the remarks he suggested both intitutions keep proceeding the recent case objectively and in line with regulation.

According to the former of Antigraft Watchdog Corruption Watch (ICW) Danang Widyoko, Jokowi was wrong to issue such equivocal (adj. klise) statement. The statement he said was reflecting his doubtedness (n. keragu-raguan) in making firm (adj. tegas) decision to resolve the case since his party was still behind him controlling.

As an institution in the first line of corruption eradication, KPK slowly losses its strength in its function. The conviction (n. penuduhan) of Polri to the four KPK commissioneries is considered to be a dilutoin (n. pelemahan) and an effort to criminalize KPK. Absolutely the effort successfully puts off (v. menunda) KPK investigation to allegedly bribed Kapolri candidate, Gen. Budi Gunawan.

The complicated conflict has made Jokowi formed Tim Sembilan which consists of experts of Indonesia governmetal figures to investigate the case and hoped to give recommendation of overcoming (v. mengatasi) the problem. This step of President even makes things worse because the role of board of advisor (Wantimpres) that he just formed lately is judged useless. At last, President puts himself in problematic position, whether following his party coalition’s will or public’s will.

Meanwhile (n. sementara itu) as Jokowi was in elusive (adj. sukar) condition, Jokowi tried to approach his political opponents, KIH, to cooperate in settling (v. mengatasi) the conflict. Jokowi asked for support from its leader as well as his ex-competitor in presidential election, Prabowo Subianto. The support he finally gained (v. dapatkan) from Prabowo has told Jokowi implicated his planning to get over with KIH, his present party coalition.

Above all, public still puts big hope in president’s shoulder to finish the conflict between KPK and Polri. It has given many impacts for governmental programs though, including in enforcing (v. menegakkan) the law of this country. Furthermore, society along this porgram has learned about the dynamic of recent Indonesia politic. So that, hopefully, public can transform into smarter watcher towards government agenda to create prosperous democracy country in the future.

Author: Muhammad Arham | Fajar Radio Announcer

In this globalization era, there has been a considerable number of major changes occurred in the social life of the entire Makassar community. As can be seen from the recent phenomenon, one of the changes is the isolation of traditional games such as dende’-dende’accangke’, ma’guli’, bekel, and mabbenteng from the local children due to the emergence of modern games. With regard to this issue, there have been many controversies from various critics and comments which demand further analysis and good discussions.

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Indeed, these traditional games are not isolated from the children completely. These traditional games might be found in rural areas and still played by many children. In contrast, the change that signifies the extinction of traditional games gradually has become evident in many Indonesian metropolitan cities including Makassar. The wide spreading of this extinction even gradually infected the children in rural areas. It seems that the children nowadays have more tendencies to play the modern games rather than to play the traditional ones.

In response to this alteration, the generations of 19s will absolutely consider this change very pathetic. They think that their willingness to restore the ancestors’ heritage including traditional games should be practiced by the children. Besides the cultural values, it is believed that the sense of exploration will be further developed through traditional games. Far more profound, these traditional games will develop the values of creativity, solidarity, cooperation and happiness because  unlike modern games, traditional games cannot be practiced by only one person. Therefore, they will be more consolidated as they become more frequent practicing the games.

According to a research, the extinction of traditional games is due to the deviant sub-cultural socialization. The parents as the first social agent, has no serious concern to introduce their children to the traditional games. Furthermore, they are introduced to modern games such as Angry Bird, Clash of Clans and other modern games. In broader sense, the government has very less concern to promote the traditional games. They only place emphasis on promoting traditional dances, traditional clothes and other cultural objects that are considered the more influential cultural value than the traditional games. Besides, the national development causes the decreasing number of playgrounds which in turn, will annihilate the practice of these traditional games. However, in spite of the unsupportive agents, there is still a certain community which has serious concern to keep the sustainability of Makassar traditional games such as MTGF (Makassar Traditional Game Festival) which is conducted once a year so as to attract various elements of Makassar society to participate in maintaining the traditional games.

Far more profound, the impacts of modern games become tangible and they can be identified through the behavior of young generation. Indeed, there have been a number of behavioral changes concerning the social awareness of the children. Modern games do not provide social consolidation to the children because unlike traditional games, the children become addicted to play it individually and it does not need other player to play with. Therefore, one manifestation of the practice of modern games is the loss of many cultural customs such as Tabe’(giving permission) among the children. However, still it is questionable and further research needs to be conducted to clarify this claim.   

Written By: Muhammad Afdal