Thursday, October 2, 2008

Smoking in public area


Smoking is an old habit, it has been done by many people since hundreds years ago. We don't know when exactly it started and who created it. We just know that it become the most popular habit in the world now and it spreaded to every parts of our world. It is very difficult to control the expanding of this activity. Many problems pop up recently due to the disadvantages of smoking.

Some people said that smoking could increase their concentration while thinking about something. The inspiration could come easily to their brain and made them feel quiet. Furthermore, smoking tighten their relationship between smokers. There was a statement that chatting and talking without smoking same as food without salt. Sometime they prefer smoking to eating because the substance of cigarettes like nicotine has been addicted them. Besides that, other people who don't smoke said there was not worth smoking cigarettes, it could make us suffered by many diseases like lung cancer, heart attack, high blood pressure and others dangerous disease. Not only active smokers suffered by those diseases but also other people who didn't smoke called passive smokers. sometime non smoker who worked with smoker influenced greater than smoker. Nowdays smoking become the first factor cause people die in the world and it increase the amount of mortality especially in indonesia. Because of that, now many people through non government organizations demanding government to regulate this popular habit.

Some distrcts government for example Jakarta Special Distrct administration has been applied some regulation for smoker community. The smokers have been banned to smoking at some public places like mall, supermarket, public park, station, airport and etc. At those places, the government served the smoker with special places for them to smoke there. The places look like a small building covered by glasses wall and equipped by some chairs. People who wanted to smoke must use this place and kept the place clean from cigarette's butts. The problems now are the number of special places for smoke don't enough for all smokers and not available at every non smoking area. The administrations who in cahrge to control this regulation sometime aren't stick to monitor. It make many smokers now still smoke at public places eventhough there is a big sign not to smoke there.

Government must concern to this problems, Regulations must be applied hardly to the people. Besides serve more special places for smokers, the people who don't follow the regulations must be punished by hard sentence. But the most important thing that The Government must to do is closing the cigarette's fabric even they are the best money producer for the government. We don't care about the tax fee from cigarettes. Many others sector can give us greater than them like agriculture industry and textil industry. finally, we just waiting and encourage the government to run their programme to regulate this problem.

to be continued....

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

introduction



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Lebaran Day


Lebaran day is a special day for moslem people. After do fasting for a month, avoid eating, drinking, smoking and soon at noon they celebrate their succeed of defeating the devil. On Lebaran Day all moslems are back to zero. it mean God have forgiven us of all of their mistakes for the last one year.commonly, on Lebaran day they come back to their home town visiting their parents (if they still alive ) and their relatives. In Indonesia we called it "mudik" or going back to home town. one week before lebaran day, they start their travel to their home town. They use all public transportation available, trains ,buses, ships and aeroplanes although the condition of public transportations at that time are very crowded and ticket's prices are very expensive. they save their money for 1 year somtime in order to use it for buy the tickets when they celebrate Lebaran Day.

On Lebaran day, they usually meet at the oldest brother or sister. All the younger will come to the older and request for forgivness. They shake their hand and the younger kiss the hand of the older while saying some words ask for forgivness. Same as me, I and my family visited my parents in Lombok island which has beautiful scenery and full of traditional arts. My parents live in Mataram city which is Capitol of West Nusa Tenggara and they have been there since 1976. Almost All of my brothers and sisters met at my parents house except one of my sister because she followed her husband to Bandung to visit her parents in law. We woke up early, take a shower in turn, because my parents only have one bath room. We put on clean moslem dresses and clothes and prepared to do idul fitri pray. excatly at 07.00 the pray started in very quite situation, all participants followed the ritual seriously. After prayed, we make a line and forgive each other by shaking our hands. To complete our ritual, started from Lebaran day until 1 month later, we visit our relatives or friends house to keep our relationship between each other.

Lebaran day in Indonesia is almost same every where. We have same cultures and traditions. There are only a little bit differences between each part of Indonesia. As young generations , we must keep this traditions as our custom to make we different from other countries in the world.