Indonesia Indonesia, the one of beautiful place in the world. It is consist of many islands and archipelago. An Indonesian are friendly. I’m happy to live in this country and I’m proud to be an Indonesian. I often see tourist in this country. In fact, they are often visit my country. I guess, There are three reason why they are visit my country.Indonesia is an interesting country. Geographically, Indonesia is located between two continents, there are Asia and Australia. And between two oceans too, there are Pacific Ocean and Hindia Ocean. Indonesia has many various natural resources. For example, beach, forest, mountain, etc. Indonesia has many delicious food. Rendang, Sate, and Fried Rice are some of Indonesian delicious food that include in category of CNN Research. Indonesia has many traditions and culture. here are many of traditions and culture in Indonesia that tourist amazed of it. Such as, Reog from Ponorogo, Kecak from Bali, Saman from Aceh, etc. Unfortunately, some of traditions and culture inIndonesia was claimed by other country In conclusion, Indonesia is appropriate for tourists visited. Tourist visit this country because Indonesia is interesting in natural resources, food, traditions and culture. Some of tourist said that they are proud and amazed of Indonesia. We as Indonesian must be prouder.

New 2013 Curriculum for New School Year in Indonesia The school term just started about three weeks ago. This year, government finally decided to try out the new designed curriculum, the 2013 curriculum. Thousands of schools, ranging from elementary (SD), junior high (SMP), and senior high (SMA) have participated in this try out. Despite the debate on the lack of preparation and infrastructure, the 2013 curriculum offers many new features in our education system. Unlike the previous one, the 2013 curriculum will be IT-based. Ministry of Education and Culture has set up a website to oversee the implementation of the 2013 curriculum. The website provides details of curriculum implementation, including teachers guide and subject materials. The curriculum, however, scraps Computer or IT from the compulsory high school subjects. Students are not required to sit in the class for computer subject, rather, they can learn it outside classroom. In return, science subjects (mathematics, physics, biology and chemistry) and religion subject have additional one hour contact time each. For senior high school students, the 2013 curriculum gives them opportunity to learn another subjects from the other major. For example, a student from natural science major can take some subjects in social science or language/culture major, such as sociology or economy. Students can take whichever subject that they like. In fact, students are free to choose major and up to two cross-major subjects as early as they enter senior high school. With this new feature, the Ministry hopes to abolish the paradigm that the students who get into natural science stream are smarter and better than the others. To implement this new curriculum, the government has budgeted over IDR829 billion. This is part of the 20% of national budget for education sector. Most of the budget is intended for infrastructure such as teachers training and books. However, books distributions are so disorganized that a number of schools do not obtain the books yet. In addition, teachers training was done just several days before the school started. It makes teachers’ preparation for the new curriculum too rush and ineffective. Many criticisms were leveled against the Ministry for the 2013 curriculum implementation. As the cost is high, lack of preparation has stirred dissatisfaction in the society. Multiple doubts are directed towards the effectiveness of the curriculum in enhancing students’ skills in the face of less-than-ready teachers and infrastructure. Some even voices their concerns over the possibility of the implementation of the 2013 curriculum as a way for the current government to take credit and use it as a tool for political campaign in 2014. Regardless of the intention of the government, in my opinion, the 2013 curriculum has shown substantial conceptual improvement from the previous one. Before the government decided to implement the curriculum in 6,326 schools and asked 74,289 teachers to participate, they have consulted education experts and underwent long development process. It began from internal discussion with the education experts, to presentation to the vice president and parliament, and finally, public examination. In this light, the concepts themselves must not be that bad. The more pressing and pertinent question therefore is the implementation. How can the government ensure the implementation is fully carried out in accordance to the concepts written on the paper?

PREWRITING : Reasons with supporting ideas 1. Additional Practice . 2. Classes too short for adequate practice 3. Independent practice 4. Time For Longer Assignment . 5. Compositions. 6. Reports and special projects . 7. Students’ different working speeds . 8. Review . 9. New material and old material . 10. Tests and grades. Homework Homework is an important part of the learning process in middle school. One reason is that homework gives students additional practice of skills covered in class. Middle school classes are too short to teach a new concept and practice it sufficiently for students to master. Students need both guided practice in class and independent practice at home. Another reason for homework is that it provides time to complete longer assignments. For example, the ideal composition process allows time for students to think and to reflect on their ideas, as well as time to revise and to proofread their writing. Also, reports and special projects often require research that can not always be done at school. In addition, since all students do not work at the same speed, giving students time at home to finish work keeps them from falling behind. Finally, the most important reason for homework is that it ensures review. New material and old material are practiced in daily assignments. Students who do their homework daily are prepared for tests and make better grades. In conclusion, not only is homework essential to mastering new skills and maintaining previously learned skills, but it also guarantees constant review and provides time for longer assignments, as well as additional time for students who need it. Students, do your daily homework, make better grades,and learn more! DISCUSION TEXT

There are several ways to approach writing in the classroom. It should be said at the beginning that there is not necessarily any ‘ right ‘ or ‘ best ‘ way to teach writing skills. The best practice in any situation will depend on the type of student, the text type by studied, the school system and many other factors. Thus, this article cannat prescribe a system for the teaching of writing that optimal for all teaching situations, Rather, I hope to describe and contrast two popular, yet very different, approaches and examine how both can be used in the classroom. This is a traditional approach, in which students are encouraged to mimic a model text, which is usually presented and analysed at an early stage. A modal for such us an approach in outlined bellow : Model text are read, and then feautures of the genre are highlighted. For example, if studying a formal letter, students’ attention may be drawn to the importance of paragraphing and the language used to make formal request. If studying a story, the focus may be on the techniques used to make the story interesting, and student focus on where and how the writer employs these techniques. Process approaches to writing tend to focus more on the varied classroom activities which promote the development of language use : brainstorming, group discussion, re – writing. Such an approach can have any number of stage, though a typical sequence of activities could proceed as follows ; Generating ideas by brainstorming and discussion. Student could be discussing qualities needed to do a certain job, or giving reason as to why people take drugs or gamble. The teacher remains in the background during this phase, only providing language support if required, so as not to inhibit students in the production of ideas. PROCESS AND PRODUCT TEXT

TECHNOLOGY Technology is the collection of tools, including machinery, modifications, arrangement and procedures used by human. Engineering is the discipline that seeks to study and design new technologies. Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species’ ability to control and adapt to their natural environment. The term can either be applied generally include construction technology, medical technology and information technology. Technology advabce show the people amore efficient way to do things, and these processes get results, For example, education has been greatly advanced by the technological advances of computers. Students are able to learn on a global scale whithout ever leaving their classroom. Agricultural processes that once required dozens upon dozens of human workers can now be automated, thanks to advances in technology, which means cost – efficiency for farmer. Medical discoveries occur at a much more rapid rate, thanks to machines and computers that aid in the research process and allow for more intense educational research into medical matters. The more advanced society becomes technologically, the more people begin to depend on computers and other forms of technology for everyday machine breaks or a computer crashes, humans become almost disable until the problem is resolved. This kind of dependency on technologyputs people at a distinct disadvantage, because they become less self – reliant .

Students’ Difficulties in Speaking English and How to Solve It Since English is foreign language in our country, moat students especially senior high school students are not familiar with it ( Hetrakul,1995 0. Kavin Hetrakul also said that they use English more frequent only inside the class and less frequent outside the class. Whereas, students’ have limited time to learn English in class, and they still do not have enough encouragement to practice English outside the class in order to get familiar with English. This case brings a problem that make senior high school students’ have difficulties to communicate in English. This article will analyzed the causes that make the students’ difficult to communicate in English and suggest some solutions that can overcome the difficulties. The first cause that makes the students difficult in speaking English is that environment does not support the students to speak English frequently. The environment here means the people outside the class. Those people may think that the students just want to show off when they speak English for daily conversation. The response that the students get makes them loose their self – confidence to improve their speaking. Since the students do not want to be rejected by the people around them, so they use their native language in daily conversation. That makes the students unable to communicate in English fluently outside the class. The second cause is problem with grammar. English always deals with reference of time while Indonesian does not have one. Moreover, there are singular and plural forms that the students have to distinguish and still many forms that have to be learned. Most students are very easy to get confused with English grammar, while grammar is very needed to form a right sentences. if the students do not have grammar mastery, of course they will not be able to produce sentence that right. Realizing that the grammar students have is very weak, so they feel embarrassed when they want to produce English sentences orally. Now, English is an international language. Even technology and working world use English. It is believed that the students want to be the winner in working world competition that is getting tight day by day. One of the conditions that the students must require is having ability to speak English fluently. This skill will be their plus point in facing the working world. From now on, the students have to try hard to overcome their difficulties to speak English fluently. There are two ways to encourage students to overcome their problem. The first one is a way for the teacher to do. It is considered necessary for the teacher to force the students only to speak English during the class. The teacher may fine the students every time they speak their native language. The teacher himself must be able to convince his students to be brave to speak English, does not matter if they have very bad grammar. Just say whatever the students want to say and the teacher must convince his students that making errors is a normal thing in learning. This way will raise students’ confidence to try to speak English. It will be better if the teacher does not give correction every time his students make errors, but the should give feedback and give explanation finish their speech. The second solutions for the students themselves. They can have an English conversation club that consist of their own classmates. They can share and talk about anything in English during that time. In this club, they can learn together. Students can correct each other without feeling embarrassed. English will become students’ routine by doing that activity ( Hetrakul,1995 ). Every problem can be solved, likewise the problem to speak English during the class and having conversation club will solve their difficulties to speak English. PROBLEM AND SOLUTION TEXT REFERENCE : Hekul, Kavin. 1995. The Second Language. http: ) // eserver.org/courses/spring95/76 – 100g/ KavinHetrakul.html ( Accessed on October 28, 2005 ).