Life is full of challenges

Leaving your comfort zone is the most challenging part of my life. I left behind a life that gave me so many loves and cares.

Not only leaving the comfort zone, but also overcoming the dislike of adapting to a complete new environment is my highest achievement since living a life.

Working on something I would never know before is something I need to catch on as fast as possible.

Burdensome is my new worries nowadays. I just hope I can be fitted to be his Assistant Manager and able to lead my comrade successfully.

Never ever give in.

Job Vacancies

Kantor Utusan Khusus Presiden RI untuk Millennium Development Goals has been transformed to CISDI (Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development Institute) and now ipens for some vacancies listed below.

Take the offer, and you will never regret for life. Trusted, tested, and true!

Misunderstood

It is true. I could not argue nor defend my opinion. I am not good at words and explaining things. People often misunderstood what i really mean. And i hate being misunderstood or dislike by others. I am a kind of a person that really care what people say about me. I know nobody's perfect, but i will have a very good feeling if people feel satisfy or happy because of me. Some people call it "people pleasure". But what about it? If it makes you feel happy with it, why not?

And when people misunderstood what i meant, it feels like something's off. Something is not right. And i will feel discomfort all the time until it gets straighten up.

I hope I can clear up this misunderstood with my brother as fast as possible. This is the first time that we have such thing. I'm not okay. And I know he is not okay.

Day 1 - 25 May 2014

TimeLine in thesis period

I did some obervation

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Business Trip

Business Trip might be something common for some people. BUT of course not me, a merely university student that is struggling to graduate.

However, I might be so lucky to have an internship at the Office of President's Special Envoy on Millennium Development Goals. Three months of my Internship, I got 2 Business Trips to Bunaken Island, Manado - Sulawesi Utara and Bali.

And now in a few days, I will be going to Padang, Sumatera Barat; Surabaya and Batu, Jawa Timur. I am so grateful that I can have these opportunities. 

I rarely had a chance to visit other cities from I was born. But God surely knows. He has another plans. So instead of my family who took me travel around the places, the office gets me the opportunities.

Although the Business Trips are so short , I am thankful that I can discover new places.

will be visiting 3 cities in 4 days only!

will bring this heavy suitcase!

and will be only the two of us!

Wish me luck!

A sudden notice

Congratulations!

Happy Volunteers Day

A letter from the Office of President's Special Envoy to Pencerah Nusantara 

Teman teman Pencerah Nusantara,

Surat ini mungkin sampai di tangan teman teman menjelang sore. Saat penat merapat, kaki keram, lelah melangkah seharian. Hela nafas pun semakin hari semakin panjang dan berat. Selalu ada titik dimana kita bertanya mengapa kita bersama mengambil jalan ini. Hiruk pikuk riuh sambutan di Jakarta selesai sudah. Gaungnya masih diingat tetapi rasanya beberapa mungkin sudah mulai tidak terasa. Pakaian sudah penuh peluh, alas kaki sudah rompal di sana sini. Padahal lintasan lari kita masih sangat panjang.

Sejak awal kita tahu bahwa kerja keras ini adalah kerelaan yang akan dilalui di lintasan yang tidak ramai dilalui orang. Bumi yang kalian jejak saat ini adalah “halaman belakang” Republik ini, sebagian tidak diminati, sebagian jauh masuk ke daerah terpencil dan perbatasan. Kita juga sadar bahwa iuran kita hanyalah kehadiran, tenaga dan keahlian. Tidak cukup banyak untuk melajukan kapal sarat muatan. Kemungkinan besar juga tidak bisa menyelesaikan segala persoalan.

Tetapi tidak kah kalian merasa langkah kita tidak lagi seberat dahulu? Lambat laun barisan kita merapat, tenaga kita menguat. Lebih dari dua ribu orang hari ini mengirim semangat dari seluruh penjuru negeri. Mereka pernah bersama kalian menyatakan ingin hadir, tetapi hanya kalian yang berkesempatan berangkat. Tiga ribu orang memperhatikan cerita kalian lewat linimasa setiap hari, beberapa diantaranya bangga, beberapa lagi bahkan malu karena belum berbuat apa apa untuk bangsa ini selain menuduh dan mengeluh.

Hadirnya kalian di pelosok itu adalah jawaban bahwa bangsa ini masih ada. Kalian membawa titipan rasa cinta dan kepedulian sesama warga negara yang seringkali tertahan di luasnya jarak yang membentang dari ujung ke ujung republik ini.  Walau karir yang kalian tempuh tidaklah normal dan penuh pertanyaan, perjalanan kalian sungguh penting untuk menjaga harapan.

Teman teman, setiap dari kita memiliki sebuah ruang dalam hati. Ruang ini tidak bisa diisi dengan imbalan atau pujian. Ruang ini dalam hati manusia berbeda ukurannya, bisa luas, bisa juga sempit, padahal dari sinilah rasa bahagia kita berasal.

Dan dalam setiap hitungan hari yang kita lalui di daerah penempatan, tanpa sadar ruang ini membesar. Kita tidak lagi memaki ketika listrik tidak tersedia sepanjang waktu, karena ternyata kebahagiaan tidak terletak disitu. Kita tidak lagi mengeluh ketika harus berjalan jauh atau mengarungi laut luas dengan kapal seadanya, karena ternyata ombak dan jalan mendaki itu justru memberi rasa bahagia. Kita bersabar ketika hanya bisa mengobati dengan peralatan seadanya, karena setelah itu ada tatapan mata penuh syukur dari warga yang kita bantu sehatnya. 

Teman teman Pencerah Nusantara,

Tim Pencerah Nusantara di Teuku Umar hendak menjabat tangan teman teman lebih erat sore ini, bukan untuk mengatakan “selamat bertugas, selamat bekerja keras..”, tetapi untuk  melanggengkan persaudaraan kita bersama dengan berucap “Selamat hari relawan sedunia, ayo kita berjuang bersama sama”

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Tim Pencerah Nusantara
"Tunjukkan Baktimu, Mulai Aksimu, Jadilah Pencerah Nusantara!"

Kantor Utusan Khusus Presiden Republik Indonesia Untuk MDGs

Jl. Teuku Umar No. 10

Jakarta 10350, Indonesia

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"It ain't over 'til it's over"

Life starts at the end of 9th inning after 2 outs.

As per results from so many researches, the hours needed to success in their field , is ten thousand hours, they say. The ten-thousand-hour principle. Mozart, Beatles, Steve Jobs, and Kim YunA, too. Their success was not due to prodigious talent or good fortune but due to their tireless hardwork and suffering of ten thousand hours. Perhaps that applies to work, relationship, and love. To finish with achievement, instead of waiting for good fortune or talent, one should put in endless efforts and must go through hardship.

"It ain't over 'til it's over." -Yogi Berra, New York Yankees'

December

A friendly reminder from our Head of Study Program.

May us all can finish what we started on time. 

Students of International Relations Batch 2010 will be graduated on May 10th 2014.

Amen.