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Australian Consulate, 12nd of November 2009

By Asep Haryono

As I have promised before today's posting is about the ultimate program of that 20 years of celebration of the Kang Guru Indonesia participation in Indonesia, was a welcome party conducted at Australian Consulate in Sanur, Bali.

You could have read my posting about 20 years of Kang Guru Indonesia articles I have submitted before in the part one , part two , and part three to get a better idea of the entire stories. Anyway is all up to you. I would like you all to read my posting with fun and joy and never be in my mind to make trouble in every way.

The celebration and party of the 20 years Kang Guru Indonesia held at the IALF starting from noon until the afternoon, and to be continued by the last day at the Australian Consulate. By the way, if you want to know who we were, 7 KangGURU Indonesia Champions could be seen here, and you will understand who we were all and where we came from :)))

As I have posted in my previous articles before that some of interesting programs have been successfully conducted at Kang Guru Indonesia head quater at Indonesia Australia Language Foundation (I/A/L/F) building located at Jalan Sesetan, Denpasar Bali. While the Australian Consulate in Bali located in Jalan Tantular, No. 32, Renon, Denpasar, Bali.

The programs delivered in happy and fun ways including games , food , baloon party , door prizes , singing , dancing and also exhibition during the celebration at the IALF Building. Some of the participants were from the winners from Kang Guru Indonesia competition winners, along with Kang Guru Indonesia champions all across Indonesia for sure.

The invitations stayed at the same Hotel, Puri Dalem , with Kang Guru Indonesia Champions, and we all took the same IALF bus to take all of us to the Australian Consulate located in Sanur. It just took a few minutes driving from the IALF head quarter, all participants and Kang Guru Indonesia champions standing in line for security checking at the entrance gate by the Australian Guards.

Speech, Games, Food

As I have mentioned before that the celebrations were held in Bali to mark 20 years of English language learning and people-to-people links between Australia and Indonesia through the Kang Guru Indonesia program. The Kang Guru Indonesia itself funded by Australia since 1989, Kang Guru Indonesia has helped hundreds of thousands of students, teachers and communities across Indonesia to develop their English language learning.

The Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, Bill Farmer, attended on that day's celebrations at the Australian Consulate-General in Denpasar, Bali. Mr Farmer acknowledged the program's significant efforts over the last 20 years.

On his speech , Mr Farmer said that Kang Guru Indonesia brings together interesting people to people activities which really reflect the close bonds that exist between the people of both of our countries.

Ririn , Kang Guru Champion Jakarta, also donated her lovely voice by singing in front of the audiences and participants of the celebration there too. She sang one song only to give other participants and people to stand up at the stage.

Back to Mr Farmer said that Kang Guru Indonesia did a great job, and he extended his great appreciation to all Kang Guru Indonesia team to get together to give good efforts to foster the friendship between Indonesia and Australia.

Mr Farmer said that the Kang guru Indonesia also brings together interesting people to people activities which really reflect the close bonds that exist between the people of both of our countries. This program is helping to ensure future generations of Australians and Indonesians know and understand each other better, further strengthening our friendship,” he said.

The following are some photos taken from the courtesy of Indonesia Australia Language Foundation (I/A/L/F) which delivered as follows :

The Australian Ambassador, Bill Farmer, speaking at the counsulate. Next to him is Mr Lext Bartlem, Australian Consul-General and the KGI team. Photo Courtesy of IALF Jakarta

The Australian Ambassador, Bill Farmer , along with Kang Guru Champions Asep (Pontianak), Fadel (Mataram), Keyko (Semarang), Ririn (Jakarta), Wibowo (Medan), Suryadi (Madura) and Syahrir (Makasar). Photo Courtesy of IALF Jakarta

The party at the Australian Consul-General in Bali. Photo Courtery of IALF Jakarta

The Australian Ambassador, Bill Farmer and his wife, Elaine, Singing the song they wrote to celebrate twenty years of Kang Guru. Photo Courtesy of IALF Jakarta

Some participants and invitations during the 20 years of Kang Guru Indonesia celebration at the Australian Counsulate in Bali. Photo Courtesy of IALF Jakarta

Beside an interesting games played by all participants of the party, there was another speech from the consulate. Food and drinks were available during the party, and we noticed the food were excellent, and absolutely free for everyone. Just be aware of the food here due to some kinds of the food are made of pork which abandoned or prohibited for Moslems.

This party has been successfully held at the Australian Counsulate on Saturday 21 November 2009, and Kang Guru Indonesia would like to thank the many people who have contributed to KGI’s success on the party of the celebration. The informal afternoon of fun and games, as well as good food. An Indonesian group played didgeridoos and drums and Adi and Ayu from IALF Bali organised games and quizzes, with prizes including Macquarie Dictionaries, mobile phones and iPods.

In closing speech, Kevin Dalton, Project Manager of the Kang Guru Indonesia Bali thanked the Kang Guru Indonesia team for all their valuable assistance and hard work for years, thanked addressed also to the Ambassador Mr Bill Farmer and wife that time and the Australian Embassy for their support. The project manager also extended his trully appreciation to all participants of the celebration whose contributions were great and get respond so positively to the activities and opportunities provided by KGI. (Asep Haryono)

PHOTO GALLERY

Kevin Dalton, Project Manager of Kang Guru Indonesia introduced Kang Guru Indonesia champions to audiences. Photo by Sue Rodger/Kang Guru Indonesia

PHOTOS : This is narsis people in action whenever camera is on. From left to right : Agung Mahendra (Technician Kang Guru Indonesia), Ana (IALF) , me myself and Ririn Pudya (Champion Jakarta). Photo Darmika/Kang Guru Indonesia

PORK : Wanna try these Australian Sandwiches? Nope. Ririn Pudya, Champion Jakarta, shows the sandwiches.
The food made of pork. Moslesm are not allowed to have this.
I am bloody serious. Photo by Asep Haryono

WINE : Wanna drink wine? This is Australian Party. Many alcohol and wine availabe here for every one. Again Moslems are not allowed to drink the wine and beers. I chose Teh Botol during that time. Photo by Asep Haryono

WITH BILL FARMER : With Australian Ambassador to Indonesia that time , Mr Bill Farmer. The photo taken 12nd of November 2009 at the Australian Counsulate during the party. Photo By Darmika/KangGURU Indonesia

Tag : Malaysia - Asep Haryono | My First Time In Malaysia, 1994 - Powered by Blogger

Traveling to abroad is one of my ultimate dreams for the rest of my life. I will do anything to support this initiative which can be very wonderful thing to be done to make my life is happy and rejoicing. For those whose financial support was enough to support their trips to abroad , I just can say congratulations to them.

For those whose family are not from wealthy parent like me , there will be lots of things I can do to make the dream come true such as through contest , scholarship , and with my own budget after all. I still remember my bad times in Youth Exchange Program selection process conducted in around 1995-1996 where I failed twice in the selection. I never forget the moment my name was not on the winner list to go abroad. You wanna know?

in 1995 , when I was still at University of Tanjungpura Pontianak, there was an offer from the Youth Service of the government of Indonesia in Pontianak for the youth to participate in the Youth Exchange Test selection process. There were three programs offered : Canada for 9 months, SSEAYP (Ship For South East Asia Youth Program) for 6 months and the last one for Australia for three months. I choose Australia and I failed at that time.

The second chance was one year later, in 1996, and I failed again. My second failure in the youth exchange test when I chose SSEAYP program, and my name was nearly to the winner of the program. I was on runner up only. My heart was broken that time, and I felt the world was not pleased to welcome me to travel the world at the time. I was feeling desperate and not doing the right things ever since.

First Time In Abroad

At the time I was feeling desperate, there was an offer from Senate of FKIP Untan to go Malaysia to conduct "Titian Muhibah Seni dan Kebudayaan" or "Cultural and Art Exibition" to East Malaysia, particularly at Institute Techonology Mara or Mara Institute of Technology (AIT), Kuching, East Malaysia located in Sarawak, Malaysia.

I have never been in that country and I felt something new in every thing. I though Malaysia is the real abroad, and I felt be happy of hearing that I was accepted to join with some students from different faculties of the FKIP Untan to go Malaysia that time.

The time has come, and in 1st to 10th of February 1994 ,the chance has come to me finally. Having disappointed two times on the youth exchange selection process at dikbud Pontianak , I did not think twice to accept their offer and join with the Senate of the FKIP Untan to trip to ITM Sarawak in East Malaysia.

I still remember some names in our groups that time, they are Sukiman, Sukarti , Sukiman, Delisbeth, Aisyah, Utin Laviana, Yeti Suyasti, Sri Nuraeni, and Eni Rosnija. I forgot some other names due to it was very long time ago. We all took a DAMRI BUS to take us to the country.

I did not remember again how long it took to the gate of Malaysia border in Entikong, but one thing to be sure of the journey we were doing was very tiring and also interesting. I saw many beautiful places, people and land scape around the area of the trip on our DAMRI BUS, and then we were finally reached the Entikong border.

I did not pose a passport that time, and just had "Surat Perjalanan Laksana Passpor" or abbreviated with SPLP issued by the immigration department in West Kalimantan for once usage only. This SPLP or well-known as "Travel Document in Lieu of a Passport" is an Indonesian travel document issued to persons who do not have other appropriate travel documents, for the purpose of proceeding to and from Indonesia. This definition derived from Wikipedia online today.

I brought my old fashion film camera ( I did not use digital one like these days-red), and the camera was FUJI DL-25 series only. I still remembered the type of the camera during my trip to ITM Sarawak with the senate of the FKIP Untan last February 1994. The photo I have taken during the trip have been published to all of you , my loyal readers. The following photos can be viewed as follows :

Me and friends after visiting to Kuching Muzeum under the bridge of 2020 campaign of Malaysia development.

Museum Sarawak (Sarawal Muzeum) was behind me. I was impressed with good and greeny grass in front of the muzeum and decided to take a photo in front of them

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The building behind me was Riverside Majestic. Awesome

A moment with a staff of Dewan Bandaraya Kuching Utara (North Kuching City Hal) with Ending Panglima. I remembered his name quite well. I hope I will meet again someday

My room mate at ITM Sarawak Malaysiang, ZOe and Hasyim at Kolej Putra (Student Dorm) Bilik 3 Wing 4. I got excellent BATIK from Zoe I kept today. Thanks Zoe.

Me and the Senate of FKIP UNTAN with some student from ITM Sarawak in front of Kuching Muzeum. The muzeum was still under construction during we visited the building.

During visiting to Sarawak Cultural Village or ampong Budaya. In Indonesia we may call "Taman Mini Indonesia Indah" or the beauty Indonesia Miniature. Not bad

I have several photos I took during this moment, but unfortunately I did not remember where I put the files and negative slide of the photos. If I have found them again someday, I would do my best to upload and compete the rest. During this visit, I was lucky to meet Ending Panglime ,a senior staf at DBKU or Dewan Bandaraya Kuching Utara (North Kuching City Hal) with Ending Panglima. I remembered his name quite well. I hope I will meet again someday.

The programs conducted during this cultural and art exhibition have been conducted successfully with the students of the ITM Sarawak, and I made many personal contact with some of the students especially with those room mate Zoe and Hasyim. We visited many tourist spots in Sarawak such as Sarawak Cultural Village (SCV) , Fort Margrita , Kuching Muzeum and Water Front.

Special moment I got from my friends there , two young ladies of AIT students, Magdalena Jimos and Angela Samson. I got small souvenir from Angela Samson in person as token of appreciation.

As i have mentioned before that I met Ending Panglima, a senior staff at Dewan Bandaraya Kuching Utara (North Kuching City Hal) , and based on his clue, I finally met his younger brother, Teguh Tessa in Pontianak. "Please met him when you're back to Pontianak" said Ending Panglima that time.

Have you seen the photo of me and Teguh Tessa on this page? I think you already have seen it. I met Teguh Tessa, or prefer to be called as "iloek" , is original Malaysian and I met him many times. The recent meeting accidentally happened in the last 2005, when he made a visit to my office at Pontianak Post Jalan Gajah Mada. I took a photo together with him.

I think that will be all for now. The next posting was still in my trip to Malaysia, especially in Kuching again. The program under BKKBN or Natronal Family Planning Coordination Board on last 8th to 10th of June 2007, Insya Allah. Cath you later ya. (Asep Haryono)

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Food, Party , Prizes And Games

By Asep Haryono

As I have mentioned in my previous posting part one that all Kang Guru Indonesia champions and also another 15 special guest , competitions winners, are ready to celebrate 20 years of friendship on Kang Guru Indonesia at IALF Bali .

The project coordinator of the Kang Guru Indonesia , Ogi Yutarini , have planned to bring us to the celebration party held at the IALF Denpasar Bali located in Jalan Sesetan, Denpasar Bali.

As I have promised before this posting is the part two of the previous one. All this event have been successfully conducted at IALF Denpasar Bali on 21st of November 2009. I am pleased to tell the stories for you all , my loyal readers wherever your are. I want you to feel happiness and joy of the celebration. All right.

I and all Kang Guru Indonesia Champions along with those special guests, winners of Kang Guru Indonesia competitions, Australia music dance group, and invitations get together in the party. We had also special appearance from Australian Traditional Instrument Musical group headed by Kang Ali Yina, Bali. The group presented songs, and traditional Australian music instruments. Awesome, Wonderful.

Celebrations were held in Bali that day to mark 20 years of English language learning and people-to-people links between Australia and Indonesia through the Kang Guru Indonesia program. Funded by Australia since 1989, Kang Guru Indonesia has helped hundreds of thousands of students, teachers and communities across Indonesia to develop their English language learning.

Kevin Dalton, Project Manager of Kang Guru Indonesia, gave simple opening speech to mark the party and celebration of 20 years Kang Guru Indonesia. Photo by Asep Haryono

Kang Guru Indonesia champions as "panitia" taking care of those participants with suggestions, ideas and help in hand. Photo by Asep Haryono

This program has provided assistance to thousands of Indonesians who would have otherwise been unable to access such language resources. Kang Guru Indonesia has also helped further strengthen understanding and the partnership between Australia and Indonesia.

Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, Bill Farmer, attended that day's celebrations at the Australian Consulate-General in Denpasar, Bali. Mr Farmer acknowledged the program's significant efforts over the last 20 years.

Party, Food and Prizes

Kang Guru Indonesia celebrated uts 20 years particiaption in Indonesia in a relax, cheapest and fun party held at the IALF Denpasar located in Jalan Sesetan Denpasar. The project Manager of the KangGuru Indonesia, Kevin Dalton, made his short speeches during the party.

Pak Kevin , or captain Kang Guru , also invited other important person from Kang Guru Indonesia, CEO, George Crewes , to join with him on the stage. Adi, ADS alumni, also conducted as MC along with Ayu Kusumastuti together too.

This program is helping to ensure future generations of Australians and Indonesians know and understand each other better, further strengthening our friendship,” said Pak Kevin on his speechs.

"Over the last two decades, the program has distributed magazines to over one million English language learners. It also broadcasts a weekly English language learning program through 170 radio stations across the country" said Kevin to audiences. He said that thousands of schools throughout Indonesia have also benefited from the program’s English language materials and online learning resources.

I have taken several photos to display for you all today. Just a memories from all of us here, we celebrated our 20 years of Kang Guru Indonesia participation in fostering relationship between Indonesia and Australia. Here are just a few of the scenes from the celebration given by me and courtesy of the Kang Guru Indonesia Denpasar Bali.

DOOR PRIZE : This participant was lucky to get prizes. Awesome. Congratulations. Photo by Asep Haryono

MUSIC : Australian Instrument Music Group presented by Kang Ali yina. Awesome. Photo by Asep Haryono

GOOD FOOD : Try western Food, Australian meals, here. You can taste Indonesian food too such as Sate, Soto , ABakso , Nasi Lengkap , Nasi Kuning, and Ice Cream. Let's eat them. Photo by Asep Haryono

WINNERS : These participants are Kang Guru winners all across Indonesia. Kang Guru covered their flight tickets, meals, and hotels to attend the party. Awesome

Yihaa let's dance. The celebration went through until evening. Yihhaaa. Photo by Asep Haryono

Walter Slamer, Former Kang Guru Indonesia Project Manager, gave his speech on stage. Photo by Asep Haryono

Kevin Dalton (left) and George Crewes, CEO IALF Jakarta (right). Photo by Asep Haryono

Do you want to try this good cake? awesome. Photo Darmika/Kang Guru Indonesia

This jackpot door prize , qwerty cell phone. Congratulations ya. Photo by Asep Haryono

George Crewes, CEO of IALF Jakarta confirm that further events celebrating this 20 year milestone are planned across the weekend, and will bring together various government, non-government and community partners and beneficiaries There are lots of party , games, food and quiz during the celebration.

The celebration and party of the 20 years Kang Guru Indonesia held at the IALF starting from noon until the afternoon. All participants of the party were great, antusiast , happy together, enjoying the party, dances, food , and also got many prizes. The party was not over yet, all those participants will be continued the celebration at Australia Consulate in the next posting. The part four of this trilogy 20 years anniversary celebration. (Asep Haryono)

To be continued

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Day 02 - Friday November 20th , 2009

By Asep Haryono

Having finished reading my part one before continuing this part three?. Well, I would like to suggest you all, my loyal readers, to get back a few minutes to read 20 years Anniversary Of Kang Guru Indonesia - Part One to get better understanding the entire stories

As usual like yesterday, I have to mix Indonesia and English to give a better understanding the entire articles for those whose reading habit is using Bahasa Indonesia.

As I have mentioned before in my previous posting that all Kang Guru Indonesia champions have been planned to stay at Puri Dalem Hotel located in Jalan Hangtuah, Sanur, Bali. We never ask why Ogi Yutarini, Project Coordinator , decided to choose the hotel. We never know.

Perhaps she tought that the hotel was very strategic location not too far to the Kang Guru head office based in Denpasar, and the hotel could be a good way of Bali’s exploring. The hotel, as far as we can see clearly , that offered Balinese decoration with traditional Bali architecture, and the location of the hotel was only around five minutes accessible to International Airport. So let's start the program now, ladies and gentlemen.

DAY 02- Jumat , 20 Nopember 2009
KangGuru Indonesia Office

The representative of Indonesia KangGURU, Champion, was getting ready at the Hotel Puri Dalem around at 08.00 morning , Bali's time. I and sthe other six Champions of the Kang Guru Indonesia had breakfast at the Puri Dalem Restaurant with a standard menu. The menu we ate during the time was quite great and really good.

The restaurant inside the hotel was also fully equipped mini WiFi facilities for Internet connections , but unfortunately not everyone can access the Internet at this hotel because it must have a special password to Log In to the hotel internet connection. The services only available for the hotel's guests only to get permission and allowed by the hotel management to access the internet.

Checking a little bit at Kang Guru Indonesia Recording room at 2nd floor in IALF Building. From left to right : Ririn Pudya (Champion Jakarta) , Agung Mahendra (Video Editor Kang Guru Indonesia) and Fadel (Champion NTB). Photo by Asep Haryono

NARSIS : We never let camera far away from us, and if we get spare and fun moments , we captured together, fun and fun picture. Photo by Darmika (Kang Guru Indonesia).

FOR FUN : The next Kang Guru Indonesia Project Manager. Just for fun only. Take a seat on my bos chair. Photo Suryadi/Champion Madura

Para perwakilan KangGURU Indonesia, Champion , sudah bersiap siap di Hotel Puri Dalem pada pukul 08.00 WIB. Saya dan 6 Champion KangGURU se Indonesia lainnya bersantap makan pagi (breakfast –red) di Ruang Restoran Hotel Puri Dalem, Menu menu yang lumayan istimewa dan cukup menggugah Selera.

Dalam resto Puri Dale mini juga sudah dilengkapi fasilitas WiFI untuk koneksi internet para penghuninya. Namun tidak semua orang bisa mengakses Internet di hotel ini karena harus memiliki password khusus untuk bisa Log In dengan koneksi internet hotel. Hanya tamu tamu yang menginap di Hotel Puri Dalam inilah yang diperkenankan oleh manajemen hotel untuk mengakses internet.

I checked my watch in my hand showed at 09.00 Bali's time and all Kang Guru Indonesia champions went immediately to the Indonesia Australia Language Foundation building (I / A / L / F) which located on Jalan Sesetan, Denpasar, Bali. We used a metered taxi, and we took two cabs all together to take me to the building.

We just paid only around Rp.40.000,- (Fourty Thousand Rupiahs) to take us into the IALF Building on jalan Sesetan , and the cost was fairly low, probably because of the distance between our hotel stay, Puri Dalem and the building IALF Sesetan close enough. The amount we spent for paying the cab around that Rp.40.000,- (Fourty Thousand Rupiahs) will be replaced by reimbursement system. we had to complete the payment prove stand alone or a a receipt, unless you will not get reimbursement for expenses that you paid.

BRIEFING : All Kang Guru Indonesia champions having meals at IALF canteen. We discussed some points before entering the meeting with Kang Guru Indonesia at 2nd floor at IALF. Photo by Asep Haryono

IALF CANTEEN : Many good foods available for IALF students here. Many students from ADS awardees having meals at this canteen. A great time for you to share about Australia scholarship with them here too. Photo by Asep Haryono

The next posting , part Three , were some stories of the celebration of Kang Guru Indonesia 20 years and there will more and more photos there too. Here also presented some parties held at the Australian Commission in Sanur in the different article. (Asep Haryono)

Tag : - Asep Haryono | My Blog Is Back Online - Powered by Blogger

I would like to apologize for not posting my latest articles for several days due to I have to finish my business with Rumahweb hosting and domain company based in Jogjakarta. As I have mentioned in my previous articles "My blog has been suspended" by the company due to overdue payment which have been limited in February 26th, 2012.

I am pleased to know that one of my primary blogs has been returned back online again since a few days ago. Having paid the amount of around $ 8,25 USD or equal to around Rp.75.000,- (Seventy Five Thousand Rupiahs) for payment of the next three months, now the system has allowed the blog to be recovered again. I am proud to announce to all people here that one of my blogs, www.asepharyono.com , has been returned back online again as usual.

History of my website

Actually I have a little bit confusing with the content of the website whose vision are similar to the webpage or homepage. In the other interpretation, the content is daily update which similar to blogging activities. Regarding the lay out or the architecture of the page could be in every way and you can name it after you have sen the lay out of the site.

I would like to invite you to visit Asep Haryono site before giving your opinions for a few seconds if you want. Having seen the site, then I will give you more and more time to decide is that a blog or a web page?. As website content updater or administrator of the site, I would like to stress that the type of the site is remain website not a blog however I might post or submit latest articles every day.

Basically it does not really matter for every one or blogger, right?. As long as you post or submit every latest article every day or a few couple days a week, they can be considered as blog. A blog platform now can be variety according your need. Some people said the type of the blog could be the same as website and vice versa; type of a website can be in the form of a blog pattern. It does not really matter for blogger. It just a name matter only.

I started design a website in 1995 (when still at univ-red) , and I worked on my own with using HTML (hypertext Mark Up Language) only. I have learned the code of the HTML when I was at univ at FKIP UNTAN. I used cyber Untan or BPJIU (Badan Pengelola Jaringan Internet Universitas) which located very close to the campuss of the FKIP Untan.

I would like to express my gratitude for some Cyber Untan staff at the time whose skills have been delivered to me for IT and website learning such as Irfan Rismayandi, Eko Wahyudi , Teguh Santoso , Zulkarnaen, and some other Cyber untan staff which I was not able to remember their name. I knew their face, but I forgot the name.

They taught me on website designing using the HTML code and allowed me to use the computers available on the Cyber Untan without paying much money. I still remember all users of the net should write down on the paper the time they start using the net, and must back again to pay for their net fees after finishing using it. I heard the sytem now being replaced by the billing system on the computer screen right?

RumahWeb Jogjakarta
I used free template , free domain names, and free hosting all together. I still remember the first time I used the geocities and angelfire free hosting services (now it disspear already-red) , for several years. I copied the source code of the website online, and I try to edit the code (because of I knew little bit about the HTML coding) and became a fresh and unique website with my creations. Huaaaaaaaa.

Time is changing very quickly , since around 2005, I registered my paid domain name and hosting "www.asepharyono.com" at Indosite Jakarta for five years. I was not satisfied with their services and support, then I moved all my data from the Indosite to Plaza Hosting domain services based in Bali for one year only. Again I did not get satisfaction with their services. A few months later, I decided to use RumahWeb based in Jogjakarta ever since.

I love using the rumah web domain and hosting services based in Jogjakarta, Central Java due to their excellent and awesome services for loyal customer like me. Ehm ehem.

They provided many kinds of contact information which can be used by customers such as email , telephone , faxes , or online contact form where we can chat up with their representatives online.

The rumahweb also provides tickets services which can be used as media to bridge their customers and providers get together in solving problems. Once you submit the problem with their ticket service, then their expert technicians will be back to you less than 24 hours. Awesome services.

The rumahweb is not only for maintaining business services between the customers and the company, they also provide some free information for the customers or non customers to get more information about the internet, CMS , tools and applications as well. I recommend you to use the rumahweb as one of your best hosting and domain references.

Fact About ww.asepharyono.com

I have seen many times about my website right here with the high level domain address at http://www.asepharyono.com and I have seen many changes since the website has been developed for years.

It came after making many revisions from old fashion and free hosting services such as Geocities , Angelfire, Tripod and also from Brinkster. All those free hosting services gave me much profit and benefits from creating free websites by using many free templates available on the Internet. What happen now?

I have developed my website in every way. First of all, I created many contents with HTML only and designed them by using HTML editor and put the HTML codes into those free hostings mentioned above.

I am not satisfied with their facilities in which I am not able to create many creative contents and features in addition to those HTML format. Times goes by , I redesigned the websites by using basic content management system in the year of around in 2009 or something. I cannot remember well though.

Since around 2008 , if I was not mistaken , I tried to redesign and edited my website like Pro by registering high level domain and hosting services from Indosite Jakarta for 5 years. I found many errors and got many trouble from this domain and hosting provider based in Jakarta.

A few years later, I moved all contents of my previous hosting and domain services in Indosite Jakarta, and moved to Plaza Hosting which based in Denpasar Bali. Again and again I got many troubles and difficulties in using services in the Plaza Hosting. Since around 2010, if I was not mistaken again, I moved all contents and hosting from previous the plaza hosting service into rumahweb based in Jogjakarta.

I was so happy in using the rumahweb based in Jogajarta, Central Java , for their best and good quality services for customer like me. The staff and Customer Services and admin personell are pro and capable of taking care of my trouble and difficulties.

I registered my website, www.asepharyono.com from that rumahweb hosting and domain providers based in Jogjakarta for many years until now. I changed the lay out and appearance of my website from local and simple HTML into simple and basic content management system (CMS) Joomla 1.5 version from Siteground I knew there are lots of joomla version, but I prefer to use the old fashion , Joomla 1.5, due to I was familiar with its contents, navigator, facilities and control panel

Traffic and Rank
It was not easy as I think about the traffic and rank of my website. I followed all information and instructions from many friends from several forums and also social network communities such as kaskus, sctv community, indosiar and many others forum.

I tried to find out many simple and easiest way of improving my website traffic including submitting many free website directories based on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The result might be different from many pro and outstanding website, I guess.

But who knows yah. I checked my page rank from many page rank checkers available on the internet such as Alexa , Rank Checker and Page rank checker tools. I found two page rank websites to check my website's traffic and popularity. I have enclosed herewith two results of those page rank checker that I have found which you might find interesting.

Checked with http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/asepharyono.com#trafficstats
Now you can see my Alexa Traffic Rank is 4.531.895, and 29 in Reputation

Checked with http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php
You can see very clearly that my page rank is 3 from the scale 1 to 10 or 3/10

Checked with http://www.rankchecker.com/pagerank-checker/#www.asepharyono.com
You can see that the domain is VALID and Traffic Rank is 4.531.895. This is very interesting due to the traffic rank here has the same result with Alexa with the total rank is 4.531.895. We can see that the traffic number is VALID too

Checked with http://checkpagerank.net

Now you can compare this website traffic with your own website or blogs. I am still looking for good back links and promote my website in every search engine which is free , of course , and also maintaining my website with regular updating and posting relevant topic with original content to improve traffic and hopefully will improve the page rank too. It was a great job and duty for the year 2012 to maintain my traffic remain 3, or even making it better become higher page rank at sometime in the future.

Could I add however that from the domain age and whois details, I am able to find out that my website domain age has been existed for 4 years 5 months 19 days (According to Whois created on 02.10.2007). and the website has been registered at 2007-10-02 and Expiration date at 2012-10-02 , well wonderful. Amazing. I cannot imagine that the domain name I used here has been lasting for around 4 years. . (Asep Haryono)

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Memories Of November 19th to 22nd , 2009
By Asep Haryono

Having returned from Kuala Lumpur , attending Youth Engagement Summit 15 to18 November 2009 at Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC) Kuala Lumpur Malaysia , my flight with KLM landed succesfully at Soekarno Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia. I have another plan to Bali tomorrow, so I did not have much time to return to my parent's in Bekasi.

I decided to stay one night at a friend located around the SOETTA to catch up the flight to Bali tomorrow morning. I was staying at Muhammad Arif Julianto (Seachange participant too-red) at her war house around Grogol.

I was not able to return home to Pontianak that day due to I had to catch up the flight to Bali to attend 20 years of Kang Guru Indonesia celebration. Today a little bit different posting due to I have to mix Indonesia and English to give a better understanding the entire articles for those whose reading habit is using Bahasa Indonesia. All this actual event conducted last November 2009, and I wrote again for my memories only. Basically you may read this one too absolutely

Ogi Yutarini , Project Manager of KangGuru Indonesia, have planned to give all Kang Guru Indonesia champions to stay at one of the budget hotels in Bali, around Sanur location , and the selection goest o Puri Dalem Hotel located in Jalan Hang Tuah 23 around Sanur. The Puri Dalem Hotel is just a short walking distance stroll to Sanur Beach where white sandy beach make the sunrise the most beautiful thing to memorize in Bali.

Staying At PURI DALEM

I flew from Soekarno Hatta International Airport exactly at 11.35 WIB , Thursday, at 19 November 2009, again with Garuda Indonesia Aircraft flight number GA 406. Flying to Bali can be reached around 1,5 hours from Jakarta.

Having landed smoothly at Ngurah Rai International Airport , I took a cab from the air port to take me at the Puri Dalem Hotel located in Jalan Hang Tuah. I paid around Rp.95.000,- , the driver took me to the hotel as I have planned before.

Telah menunggu di hotel Puri Dalem, 6 (enam) Perwakilan KangGURU Indonesia (biasa disebut dengan istilah Champion-red) antara lain Suryadi Ningrat (Champion Madura), Ririn Pudya (Champion Jakarta-Kediri), Fadhil (Champion Mataram – NTB), Saptari Wibowo (Champion Medan-SUMUT), dan Sri Keyko Rahayu (Champion Semarang- Jawa Tengah).

I was there quite late in the hotel, and there are my Kang Guru Indonesia champions were there already waiting for me absolutely. They were Suryadi Ningrat (Champion Madura), Ririn Pudya (Champion Jakarta-Kediri), Fadhil (Champion Mataram – NTB), Saptari Wibowo (Champion Medan-SUMUT), and Sri Keyko Rahayu (Champion Semarang- Jawa Tengah).

Selain dari para Champion yang memang langganan di undang ke Bali hampir setiap tahun oleh KangGURU Indonesia, dalam momen ulang tahun KangGURU Indonesia 20 tahun ini, hadir juga 15 orang yang merupakan para pemenang lomba KangGURU 20th Anniversary Writing Competition dari berbagai wilayah di Indonesia, beserta undangan lannya yang berasal dari Klub Bahasa Inggris KGCC KangGURU yang memang diundang secara khusus oleh KangGURU Indonesia.

Instead of the Kang Guru Indonesia Champions invited to Bali to attend the 20 years celebration of the Kang Guru Indonesia, there were also around 15 people special guest being invited by the Kang Guru Indonesia either. Those 15 people selected from the Kang Guru Indonesia member whose partcipation actively in many competitions and quiz held by Kang Guru Indonesia magazine and website as well.

Salah seorang pemenang KangGURU 20th Writing Competition, Iwan yang berasal dari Palembang “ Saya kenal KangGURU sedang tahun 2004 melalui majalah yang diterimanya dari seniornya saat membuat karya tulis, dan aktif di segmen Who Is Who yang ada di majalah KangGURU. "Kesan saya mengikuti kegiatan KangGURU sini sangat senang terutama karena kesan mereka sangat ramah terhadap saya yang baru pertama ke Bali dan pertama naik pesawat ini”. Dia berharap KangGURU memberikan workshop di daerah Palembang (Sumatera Selatan)

PURI DALEM : Salah satu sudut dalam hotel tempat saya menginap, Hotel Puri Dalem. Jalan Hang Tuah, Sanur, Bali (19/11/2009). One secret : I cannot swim. I really do. Photo by Asep Haryono

PURI DALEM : Salah satu sudut dalam hotel tempat saya menginap, Hotel Puri Dalem. Jalan Hang Tuah, Sanur, Bali (19/11/2009). My room located upstair with Syahrir Badulu from Makasar. Photo by Asep Haryono

By night, around at 19.00 Bali's time absolutely , all of us here got general information and briefing from Ogi Yutarini, Project Manager Of Kang Guru Indonesia as usual. She took care of every information and cover up many things needed to succeed our programs during in Bali for years. Having finished her briefing, we all have to have for dinner.

Menjelang malam hari, sekitar pukul 19.00 Waktu Bali (FYI waktu di Bali lebih cepat 1 jam dari waktu di Pontianak-Red), seluruh perwakilan KangGURU Indonesia mendapatkan pengarahan singkat dari Ogi yang merupakan project coordinator KangGURU Indonesia.. Ogi ini merupakan salah satu petinggi KangGURU Indonesia karena dari tangan dialah, seluruh keperluan Champion selama di Bali ditangani dengan baik olehnya.

Having finished her briefing, we all have to have for dinner. We went to Padang Small Restaurant "Sari Ratu" in different area of the hotel and can be reached within a walk. As I have mentioned in my posting before that having meals in Bali need more attention and handle with care. Regarding having meals in Bali should be very much my concern due to the area of Bali was not Moslem areas and all kind of the food available in Bali will be my priority to select from.

For Moslem like me is not allowed to eat pork, and all of the Kang Guru Champions are moslem too. We are not interested in "jajan" or buying some yummy food on the street like Bakso, Siomay, Batagor around in Kuta' street. We did not know for sure the material content of the meat they are selling, and well I think it is a good idea for us to find moslem warung around Kuta by noticing the "moslem mark" or moslem labelled in front of the warung.

DAY 02- Jumat , 20 Nopember 2009
IALF DENPASAR BALI

Para perwakilan KangGURU Indonesia, Champion , sudah bersiap siap di Hotel Puri Dalem pada pukul 08.00 WIB. Saya dan 6 Champion KangGURU se Indonesia lainnya bersantap makan pagi (breakfast –red) di Ruang Restoran Hotel Puri Dalem, Menu menu yang lumayan istimewa dan cukup menggugah Selera. Dalam resto Puri Dale mini juga sudah dilengkapi fasilitas WiFI untuk koneksi internet para penghuninya.

All Kang Guru Indonesia champions , including those 15 people special guest from all over Indonesia, the winners of KangGuru Indonesia competitions were ready to head to the Kang Guru Indonesia office located at IALF Building Jalan Sesetan Denpasar, Bali. We ate our free break fast first , with the voucher we had already , and we were having the break fast in relax way.

SIAP GO : Mau jalan ke IALF, moto dulu di depan air mancur Hotel Puri Dalem, Sanur Bali. Taksi sudah menunggu ku hehehe sabar ya Bli, moto dulu ya (20/11/2009). Photo by Fadel/Mataram

Namun tidak semua orang bisa mengakses Internet di hotel ini karena harus memiliki password khusus untuk bisa Log In dengan koneksi internet hotel. Hanya tamu tamu yang menginap di Hotel Puri Dalam inilah yang diperkenankan oleh manajemen hotel untuk mengakses internet. Jam ditangan saya sudah menunjukkan pukul 09.00 Waktu Bali, dan kami pun segera menuju gedung Indonesia Australia Language Foundation (I/A/L/F) yang terletak di jalan Sesetan, Denpasar, Bali.

Not all guest at the lobby of the hotel could get access to the internet facilities, and the services were only for the hotel members only. If you were staying at the hotel, then you were able to access free 24 internet access any time. If you were guest only, then you were not able to. My watch in my hand showed 09.00 WIB, and we all ready to go to the IALF with two cabs.

Dengan menggunakan taksi argo, kami pun menggunakan dua buah taksi guna membawa kami ke gedung IALF, dan ongkosnya pun terbilang murah, Mungkin karena jarak antara hotel kami menginap, Puri Dalem, dengan gedung IALF Sesetan cukup dekat, jadi kami hanya membayar sekitar 40.000 rupiah saja. Itu saja sudah lengkap dengan receipt (kuitansi) yang bisa didapatkan dengan mudah, Anda tidak akan mendapatkan penggantian atas biaya yang sudah anda keluarkan.

With those argo cabs, not the blue bird groups as usual we took , the driver took me and the other six Kang Guru Indonesia champions to the IALF Building, while the other 15 people were using a small minibus to the same direction. We just paid around Rp.40.000,- (forty thousand rupiahs) only to cover the fees due to the location was quite close with the place we are staying at.

REGISTER : Dua orang pemenang KangGURU 20thn Aniversarry Competition sedang mengisi
formulir registrasi kepada KangGURU Indonesia (20/11). Photo Asep Haryono

All guest of the Kang Guru Indonesia, 15 people from all over Indonesia , the winners of the Kang Guru Indonesia competitions, were requested to fill in the form of participation to attend the 20 years of Kang Guru Indonesia anniversary in Bali which will be conducted tomorrow morning at the IALF Bali and also at the Australian commissions. It will be posted in the next parts, Insya Allah

Tepat pukul 10.00 Waktu Bali, saya , Saptari Wibowo (Champion Medan), dan Suryadi (Champion Madura) memberikan presentasi kecil selama lebih kurang 30 (tiga puluh) menit di hadapan George Crewes (Manager IALF), Pak Kevin Dalton (Project Manager), Sue Rodger, Maggi , para Champion lainnya dan juga undangan..

Kami bertiga (saya, Bowo dan Suryadi) memberikan presentasi atas hasil hasil yang sudah dicapai saat kami bertiga mewakili KangGURU Indonesia menghadiri International Youth Forum (IYC) 2009 yang berlangsung di Banten dari tanggal 28 September s/d 2 Oktober 2009 yang lalu.

During at the IALF Building, around at 10.00 WIB, all the Kang Guru Indonesia champions get together again and received general briefing again delivered by Kevin Dalton , Project Manager of The Kang Guru Indonesia, at the building.

I , Suryadi (Madura) , and Saptari Wibowo (Medan) were requested to give around 30-minute-presentation about our attendance at International Youth Conference (IYC) which succesfully held in Bali last 28th September to 2nd October, 2009. The three of us were representative of the KangGuru Indonesia in the meeting.

Saptari Wibowo (Champion Medan) gave first presentation to the forum about his attendance at the IYC 2009 conference along with his awesome slide slow presentation. The next turn was me presenting the small presentation about my impressions during the conference and the last one was Suryadi.

The next posting were some stories of the celebration of Kang Guru Indonesia 20 years and some parties held at the Australian Commission in Sanur in the different articles. (Asep Haryono)

Bersambung - To be continued