Jois dan Sang Malaikat

Cerpen Lily Yulianti Farid

Di awal musim semi, Jois mengisyaratkan kematiannya. Rintihannya yang parau berbaur dengan aroma semlal Pulanglah!”

Langit Stockholm runtuh dibuatnya. Suara itu sepertinya bukan milik pendongeng masa kecilku, yang mengisahkan negeri kurcaci, petualangan anak nakal yang lobs dari sekapan nenek sihir, serta lelaki bertungkai panjang, yang membagi kembang gula. Jois yang kukenal, lihai mengubah suara. Lembut, serak, merdu dan garang silih berganti saat berkisah. la yang terhebat. Yang mengayun imajinasiku ke segala penjuru.
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Jurnal Kritik Sastra dan Budaya

Student Journal
English literature and Culture criticism
Dimas Prasetyo Muharam
Class of 2011
0706295475
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Implikasi Power Relation terhadap pembentukan karakter individu dalam multikulturalisme Asrama

Universitas Indonesia sebagai institusi kebanggaan bangsa, sudah barang tentu menjadi prioritas bagi para pelajar di seluruh nusantara. Para mahasiswa yang belajar di dalamnya tidak hanya berasal dari sekitar kota Depok saja, namun tercatat pula ada mahasiswa yang berasal baik dari ujung barat atau timur Indonesia. Tak elak lagi, asrama UI sebagai tempat tinggal sementara mahasiswa baru UI menjadi saksi sejuta keberagaman budaya Indonesia. Mereka dating dengan kebudayaan dan kebiasaan masing-masing. Salah satu hal yang amat jelas mengidentifikasi asal daerah mereka adalah bahasa. Bahasa daerah yang menjadi bahasa ibu mereka acap kali digunakan saat berkomunikasi baik ke mahasiswa dari satu daerah atau bukan. Bahkan ketika mereka berkomunikasi dengan Bahasa Indonesia pun, masih kentara aksen asal daerah mereka. Namun ada pula kecenderungan dari kebanyakan mahasiswa baru yang berasal dari luar daerah Depok dan sekitarnya untuk mengadopsi common culture di asrama. Seperti yang biasanya mereka menggunakan kosakata seperti “aku” dan “kamu”, tak lama setelah dating di asrama beralihmenggunakan kata-kata “gue” dan “lo” meski dengan dialeg yang kental. Dari hal ini dapat kita identifikasi bahwa ada pengaruh power relation dalam pembentukan perilaku seseorang dalam masyarakat yang multicultural.
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Reflective Essay The great backslash in 1979

Caryl, Christian. “1979: The Great Backlash”. Retrieved October, 25th 2009 from http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/18/the_great_backlash_1979
Pauker, Guy J. “Indonesia 1979: the record of three decades”. Retrieved November, 8th 2009 from http://www.jstor.org

All the great things in the world must have certain reasons. The fall of Soviet Union, the capitalization in China, and the shifting power from the west to the east, don’t they have any trigger? Christian Caryl, a contributing editor of Newsweek, says in his article titled “1979: The Great Backlash” that the most important moment that effect the world condition nowadays is in 1979. This is year when Ayatollah Khomeini seized the Syah Iran to bring the Islamic Revolution, and built the Islamic Republic of Iran. In this year also Den Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher reform the economic system to be more liberal. The other happening that also brought the great effect is the pilgrim of Pope John Paul II to Poland that initiated the Central Europe countries struggle against the communism system, and at the end, demolished the Soviet Union in 1989. However, what happen in Indonesia at that very important year?
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Ariel and the Ads of Sunsilk Shampoo

Nowadays, advertisement is something important to the mostly of mass media, especially television. As the media that combine sound and visual matter, television become the most effective place to inform people about something (widyatama, 2005). The ads supports the television station by sponsoring some programs provided. As the compensation, the company or institution that pays certain television station to put their ads on it will get more customers who see the ads. Moreover, the advertiser also makes the ads as attractive as possible, and one of the tricks is by using a celebrity or public figure as the model (warto, 2007). This strategy is used to construct a certain image toward the product (suasana, 2001). However, there is also some deviation which is used by the advertiser to strengthen the message from the commercial. One of the recent examples can be seen at the Sunsilk shampoo ads. Instead of using perfect woman as the main figure, this ads brings the handsome vocalist Ariel Peterpan. This tactic must have particular reason to increase the product selling indeed. In this essay, we will see the effect of the ads in constructing the gender identity to woman as the main consumer of the product, and also, How Ariel as the main figure impact the women position in gender relationship.
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Universitas Indonesia Turns to a Liberal Arts College?

In recent years, there is an issue in Indonesian academic to apply the Liberal Arts Education method in universities. This idea comes among the lot of criticisms toward the national education system. Some people say that our current curriculum or system does not build the students to be well-rounded person. School or college are considered just teaching one major, and forces the student to become experts in that place without mastering the other things. Also, they believe that students can not only take a number of classes which are directly related to the student’s career goal. They argue that Students should also study other lectures outside the major. It’s aimed to create students who are able to do multitasking job, so they will always be ready whatever the field is. The Rector of Universitas Indonesia, Prof. Gumilar Rusliwa Somantri, also has an interest on the Liberal Arts method. Just after the inauguration of being the rector of Universitas Indonesia, he stated his intention to apply the method in the university. However, we also need to consider the objective of Liberal Art Education with the demand of the global world toward the skillful workers nowadays. This essay will discuss whether the Liberal Arts education is still relevant to be applied in Universitas Indonesia as the first class university in Indonesia by considering the job competition, educational fund, and the human resources availability.
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What Does Woman Achieve from Her Body?

Nowadays, advertisement is something important to the mostly of mass media. It supports the mass media by sponsoring them to keep in circulation. As the compensation, the company or institution that pays certain mass media to put their ads on it will get more customers who see the ads. Moreover, the advertiser also makes the ads as attractive as possible, and one of the tricks is by using woman as the model. This is a common phenomenon in our advertising world. The advertiser often uses Woman as the model even though the product is not aimed to woman kind. Some feminist consider this as the form of woman exploitation, because the company “sell” the woman’s body to market the product. However, Woman’s body exploitation could also give woman any benefits such as the freedom to express themselves, access the public area, get a better finance, and build the gender equality between man and woman.
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Finding New Home

Perhaps you are a person who is getting bored with your society and country. Actually, this condition is often occurring among Indonesian people. The messiness, untidiness, and the hypocrisy bring people to the peak where they want to leave this country as soon as possible. However, to migrate to another country or continent, you must learn the language and custom first, except if you decide to move to mars or moon. Furthermore, learning the language is not enough at all. Sometimes some misunderstandings occur while communicating with the locals who have extremely different cultural background with us. One of the trick is by mastering the body language, and seeing any similarities and differencies between them. Therefore, let’s take two countries which come from different continent to review. On this essay, I’ll choose Russia which is located at Europ, and Egypt in Africa. Although they absolutely have different location, we’ll see whether both people still have some similarities in their body languages or not including the spatial concept, gender relationship, and dinning ethic which will be our consideration to deciding new home.
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