Report Text : The Komodo Dragon

Education English | Report Text : The Komodo Dragon | The komodo dragon is a vulnerable species of lizard that inhabits the island of Komodo, Rinca, flores and Elili Motang in Indonesia. It is the largest living species of lizard, growing to an average length of 2 to 3 meters and weighing approximately 70 kilograms. The largest verified komodo was 3.13 meters long. As a result of their large size, these lizards dominate the ecosystems in which they live. In the wild an adult komodo dragon usually weighs around 70 kilograms. In contrast, the captive specimen often weighs much more around 166 kilograms. The komodo dragon has a tail as long as its body. Their bodies are covered in hard scales. its saliva is frequently blood-tinged because its teeth are almost completely covered by gingival tissue that is naturally lacerated during feeding. Referred to as ora by natives of Komodo Island  the lizard does not have an acute sense of hearing. The komodo dragon is only able to hear sounds between 400 and 2000 hertz.
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Report Text : Orang Utans

Education English | Report Text : Orang Utans |  A crisist exist for the  orang utans. Orang utans are threatened by habitat destruction as people cut down trees for timber. Today, the survive only in the rainforest in Borneo and Sumatera Island. Their home is shared by many other endangered species such as tigers and rhinos. This forest is crossed by large rivers. Now, even their habitat on the remaining two islands threatened the loss of habitat is also the result of man's greed. The trade in baby orang utans continues to thrive today. Hundreds of infant oran utans are taken from the wild for the pet trade ecery year. This is done by killing the mother and taking the baby. When adult females are killed the babies can be sell and the skulls of the dead may used to create souvenirs that are sold illegally throughout Kalimantan.

It is estimate that  4 until 5 orang utans die for every baby reaching the market. They can die as a result of the trauma of seeing their mother killed. They can also die due to the poor condition in which they are kept following the capture.

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Report Text : The Chinese Influence in Indonesian Visual Art

Education English | Report Text : The Chinese Influence in Indonesian Visual Art | Chinese culture played a truly significant role in the development of visual art in Indonesia although not as strong as the Hindu, Buddhist or Muslim influences. Many Chinese culture form of artistic expression were adapted and assimilated into indigenous form. The Chinese influence was restricted to an adapted form.

The architectural elements in some temples for example, reveal Chinese influence. It is identical to the original models found in mainland China. In Gianyar Bali, strong links between the Chinese and local people are evidenced by the Chinese-style roofing on the palace that was rebuilt at the end of the last century. In Cirebon, China designs were copied by local ceramics and paintings. Chinese influence also occurs in textile, furniture and household objects.
Adapted from Indonesian Heritage: Visual Art, 2003

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Report Text : The Camel

Education English | Report Text : The camel | The Camel is a large, strong desert animal. Camels can travel great distances across hot, dry deserts with little food or water. They walk easily on soft sand and carry people and heavy loads to places that have no roads. Camels also serve the people of the desert in many other ways.

The camel carries its own built-in food supply on its back in the form of a hump. The hump is a large lump of fat providing energy if food is hard to find. There are two chief kinds of camels: (1) the Arabian camel also called dromedary, which has one hump, and (2) Bacterian camel, which has two humps. 

 

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Report Text : The Snakes

Education English | Report Text : The Snakes | Snakes are reptiles (cold-blooded - creatures). They belong to the same group as lizards the scaled group Squamata ) but form a sub group of their own. Snakes have no legs bu they are still able to slither along. They are covered in scales which are just bumps on the skin. Their skin is hard and glossy to reduce friction as the snake slithers along the ground.

Snakes often sunbathe on rocks in the warm weather. This is because snakes are cold blooded and they need the sun's warmth to heat their body up.

Most snakes live in rural areas. Some types of snakes live in trees, some live in water but most live on the ground in deserted rabbit burrows , in thick, long grass and in old logs. A snake's diet usually consist of frogs, lizards, mice and other snakes. The anaconda, for example can eat small crocodiles and even wild boars.

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Report text : Dance

Education English | Report text : Dance | Our body can perform some actions such as rotating, bending, stretching, jumping, and turning. With all these physical actions, we can create a number of body movements.

Every culture emphasizes certain features in its dance styles. For example, lilin dance from West Sumatra, has some candles carried by the dancer, or topeng dance from Betawi, uses a mask to perform its dance. And there are many more.

Basically, our body has the potential to be developed, usually through long periods of special training. For example, in ballet, the ballerina exercises to rotate, or turn out the legs at the hips and many more.

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Report Text : Percussion Instruments

Education English | Report Text : Percussion Instruments | Percussion means striking. All percussion instruments make musical sounds when struck by the hands, by the fingers, or by some suitable implement.

Bells and gongs, bars of wood or metal, and even bowls and thin stones make fine percussion instruments. The orchestras of Eastern people sometimes have a wonderful variety of these and other kinds of percussion instruments, including drums of every size and shape. But in

Western symphony orchestra percussion instruments are not very numerous. The bowl-shaped kettledrums, or timpani, are .almost always present. They give a clear, definite note and a sonorous tone that can be as soft or as loud as the player wishes.

Other types of drums may also be used. Cymbals are brass plates that are clashed or jangled together. The triangle is a metal rod left open at the corner. The xylophone is a row of wooden bars. The glockenspiel has metal bars that sound ringing and enchanting. It is often played by a keyboard, called a celesta. Only the kettledrums are regular percussion sections of the orchestra in Western music.
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Report Text : One Day Tour City of Sawahlunto

Sawahlunto is about 94km from Padang, 38 km from Batu Sangkar or 137 km from Bukittinggi. If you want to go to Sawahlunto, you can start from any these three places and take a bus, a taxi or jon a trip arranged by travel agency. If you start from Padang, you can get Sawahlunto in two hours.
If you take a bus from Padang, you will have to pay Rp8,000. A taxi will cost you Rp200,00. If you join a trip, you will have to pay the travel agency Rp20,000.
At present, the tourism Art and Culture office of sawahlunto municipality prepares a tourist package called "One Day City Tour of Sawahlunto". If you take this package, you will be taken around the town on a tourist train, locally known as dresin, or a tourist bus.
A tourist train is available every day at Sawahlunto station. It starts at 10:00 a.m and will take you to Muara Kalaban station, which is about five kilometers away. This tourist train can accomodate a maximum of 12 passengers and the return fare is Rp75,000.
On the way, you can see the tower of the old electric power plant and will be plunged into darkness as you enter the 900-meters-long tunnel.
If you wish to travel by bus, you can charter a  tourist bus. It is big enough for 25 people and the charter fee is Rp250,000. The bus will take you around the old town, visit the living museum, the former open mining pit, the location of Ombilin Mines Training College (OMTC) and the grave of Prof.M.Yamin in Talawi, was one of our national heroes and also one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Indonesia. He was the person who conceived the idea of the five principles of Pancasila. Yamin was also one of those who initiated the Youth Pledge and drew the picture of Gadjah Mada, the symbol of Military Corps.
When you visit OMTC, you will get infromation about mining activities through a simulation system of underground mining. You can also visit the geological museum and a coal mining laboratory.
At the end of your tour, you can by local handicrafts as souvenirs.
(Taken From : Bahasa Inggris SMA dan MA, 2008)

Report Text : My Village

I live in a small village named Sungai Gerong. It is 30 kilometers from Palembang City. Most of people in my village work as employees in a government oil company. Although the village is far from the city, it has all the facilities needed such as ; post offices, banks, supermarkets, schools, mosque, churches, police stations, bus stations, hospitals, and hotels. People in my village don’t come to the post every often. They usually come there when there is a big day, for example ; Lebaran or Christmas, to send greeting cards to their friends or relatives.

The bank in my village is not as big as the bank city. It is only a branch of a government bank. People must come to that bank if they want withdraw money because there is no automatcic teller machine in our village. Although we live in a small village, we can buy our daily needs without any problems because our village supermarket has everything we need.

There are four school levels in my village ; kindergarten, elementary, junior and senior high school. The school buildings are not far from each other. They are located in the same area. This condition makes the parents not spending too much time when they take or pick up their children to or from school.

Mooslem people in my village pray together in a big mosuque near the school. Meanwhile, the Christians pray in church in front of the bank.

To keep condition of our village secure, there is a police station near the village entrance. People who want to visit the village must get out from their vehicle and ask for permission. The police who guard the station always take their identification card and give it back after they leave our village. Besides all facilities mentioned above, my village also has some sport facilities. People use it to make use of their leisure time. They play football, volleyball, or basketball there. These sport facilities also become a good medium to strengthen people’s togetherness in our village.

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Report Text : Two Sculptor

Have you made a turtle or an elephant out of clay? This is the way many sculptors begin work on a large statue. They make a small model out of clay. Then they follow the same lines as they carve or mold their large pieces.

Sculptors often carve things they see around them. This might be a person or an animal. Some carve figures that show feeling, such as sorrow or happiness. Stil others carve figures that tell of an idea, such as power.

Marina Nunez del Prado, a famous sculptor of Bolivia, liked to make statues of figures from Bolivian Indian Stories. Her work remind us of  a long times ago.

Edmonia Lewis was a sculptor from New York. She had a black father and an Indian mother. Her Indian name was Wildfire. Edmonia wanted her statues to show feelings.

One of her statues is called Hagar in the Wilderness. Hagar, a woman of the Bible and her son were forced to wander in the desert. Hagar’s face looks tired and sad. People who look at Edmonia’s statue understand how all women felt who have suffered. Do you think a statue can show the idea ?

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Report Text : Rare Chance to Learn Nobel Secret

Five Nobel laureates and world renowned scientist will spend more some personal time with 360 high school students from across Asia Science Camp (ASC) 2008 in Sanur, Bali.
From this Monday until Saturday, 300 Indonesian students and 60 students from Japan, China, India and other Asian countries will have a chance to hear the Nobel winner's experiences and aspiration.
Christopher Andrian, 16, a second year student at high school in Tanggerang, Banten, said he hoped the rare experience would help him win a Nobel Prize one day. "This is place filled always been interested in science. It'll be great to hear them share some of their knowledge", he said.
Damar Parasdyaningtyas, 16, Christopher's schoolmates, expressed similar feelings. "I've always been interested in science. I want to know their (the Nobel Laureates ) secrets so I can learn to be a good brain surgeon in the future " he said.
Johannes Surya, who chairs the steering committee of the Asian Science Camp, said  he expected the event to guide the students toward a greater interest in science, "The whole event is designed to inspire Indonesian students to win a coveted Nobel Prize, or at least become more excited about the science, " Johannes said.
The five Nobel winners attending the camp are Prof. David Gross from the United States (2004 Nobel prize in physics), Prof. Masatoshi Koshiba from Japan (2002 Nobel prize in physics ), Prof. Douglas Osherrof from the United States (1996 Nobel prize in physics, Prof Richard Robert Ernst from Switzerland (1991 Nobel prize in chemistry) and Prof. Yuan Tseh Lee from Taiwan (1986 Nobel prize in chemistry )
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Report Text : What Are Thunder and Lightning?

Education English | Report Text : What Are Thunder and Lightning? | Lightning is a sudden, violent flash of electricity between a cloud and the ground, or from cloud to cloud. A lightning flash, or bolt, can be several miles long. It is so hot, with an average temperature of 34,000° Centigrade, that the air around it suddenly expands with a loud blast. This is the thunder we hear.

Lightning occurs in hot, wet storms. Moist air is driven up to a great height. It forms a type of cloud called cumulonimbus. When the cloud rises high enough, the moisture freezes and ice crystals and snowflakes are formed. These begin to fall, turning to rain on the way down. This rain meets more moist air rising, and it is the friction between them which produces static electricity. When a cloud is fully charged with this electricity, it discharges it as a lightning flash. 

 

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Report Text : Recent Developments at the Post Office

Education English | Report Text : Recent Developments at the Post Office | Post offices in industrialcountries havea policy to provide their customers with a better service. One of their better services is the handling of mail. Government also takes part to increase the function of post offices. Now, the postage rates have risen.

Private firms are not normally allowed to handle ordinary mail, although some private carriers have been increasingly in circulating catalogues, magazines, and merchandise samples. Private parcel carriers also compete with the post office The growth of electronic postal services has been a major development. In developing countries, the postal service is being extended to rural areas, and modernised into new technological developments. Many small nations earn valuable income from the stamp collectors. However, delivery of letters remains the main job of post officers and postal workers around the world.
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Report Text : The Car Of The Future

A pessimist is a person who always expects bad things to happen. Pessimists think that today’s car are in trouble because the use too much gas. They say the car of the future will be much, much smaller. The car of tomorrow will have no heater and no airconditioning. It will have no radio and no lights. Tomorrow’s car will be an open air car with no doors and windows. It won’t need a pollution control system because it won’t use gas. In fact drivers will push this new car with their feet. Very few people will be killed in accidents, because the top speed will be five miles per hour. However,pessimists warn us not to ask for pretty colours, because the car will come in gray only.

Optimists are sure that the future will be happy. They think that car companies will soon solve all our problems by producing the Supercar. Tommorow’s car will be bigger, faster, ad more comfortable than before. The Supercar will have four rooms, clour TV, running water, heat, air conditioning and a swimming pool. Large families will travel on long trips in complete comfort. If gas in short supply, the Supercar will run on water. Finally optimists promise that the car of the future will come in any colour, as long as the colour is not gray.

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Education english | report text : Woodcraft

Education English | Report Text : Woodcraft | The developing of wood in Indonesia from earliest times, provided the people with the raw materials to produce functional and artistic artefacts. Many motifs found in prehistoric artefact used bronze in woodcarving. Indian influences from around the first century AD led to the developing of a new designs.

Introduction of Islam in the 21th century made some of the designs were lost. The existing motifs that remain today are influenced most with religious style.

Climatic condition problem have eliminated some remain of wooden artefacts from a very early date, it’s not leaving many evidence, but it seemed the woodcarving was an early form of artistic expression. So, we have known now that woodcarving is an old art and keep developing into many form and designs.
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Report Text : Kangaroo

Education English | Report Text : Kangaroo | A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, although it has a smaller relative, called a wallaby, which lives on the Australian island of Tasmania and also in New Guinea.

Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, but very long, and very strong back legs and a tail. These are used for sitting up and for jumping. Kangaroos have been known to make forward jumps of over eight meters, and leap across fences more than three meters high. They can also run at speeds of over 45 kilometers per hour. The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo and the Red Kangaroo. Adults grow to a length of 1.60 meters and weigh over 90 kilos.

Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch on the front of her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny when it is born, and it crawls at once into this pouch where it spends its first five months of life. 

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Report Text : Rock Music

Education English | Report Text : Rock Music | Rock music is part of popular music today. It is played and listened in almost every countries in the world. Rock and roll was the name given to the music that developed in the early 1950’s. It is believed that the term rock and roll was first used by a disk jockey, Alan Freed.

In 1955, records of a young singer from Tennessee, Elvis Presley, were heard across the US. After he appeared on nation-wide television, Elvis Presley’s singing and his performing style came to mean rock and roll all over the world. Then came Bill Haley and

The Comets. Rock mainly became the music of the young. They understood its beat and sound, and its lyrics.

The 1970’s were the time of big developments in the rock industry. Rock became a very big business, earned more money annually than any other form of entertainment including the film industry.
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Report Text : Avian Influenza

Avian Influenza is an infection caused by avian (bird) influenza viruses.These influenza viruses occur naturally amongbirds. Wild birds worldwide carry the virusses in their intestines but usually do not get sick from them. However avian influenza is very contagius among birds and can make some domesticated birds, including chickens, ducks and turkeys, very sick and kill them.
Infected birds shed influenzes virus in their saliva, nasal secretions and feces. Susceptible  birds become infected when they have contact with contaminated secretions or excretions or with surfaces that are contaminated with secretions or excretions from infetced bird. Domesticated birds may become infected poultry, or through contact with surface (such as dirt or cages) or materials (such as water or feed) that have been contaminated with the virus.
Infections with avian influenza viruses in domestic poultry causes two main forms of disease that are distinguished by low and high extremes for virulence. The low pathogenic form may go undetected and usually causes only mild symptoms (such as ruffled feathers and a drop in egg production).However the highly from spreads more rapidly thorugh flocks of poultry. This form may cause disease that affects multiple internal organs and has a mortality rate that can reach 90-100% often within 48 hours.
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Narrative Text : A Folkflore From Nangroe Aceh Darussalam

Education English | Narrative Text : A Folkflore From Nangroe Aceh Darussalam | A long time ago, there was a kingdom in Semelue, Nangroe Aceh Darussalam. The king and the queen had a son. The king and the queen always gave the prince anything he wanted an that made him grew as a spoiled young man. The king known his mistakes. He wanted to give the prince a study. He asked the prince to leave the palace and became a merchant. "I will give you some money. Use the money only for trading, Don't back again until you are rich"! asked the king.

Then, after the prince left the palace and went to village. While he was walking, he saw some children were trying to shoot at bird using their slingshots "Stop! do not hurt the bird! I will give you some money if you stop hurting him," said the prince. After that he gave some money to those children.

Later he saw some men were torturing a snake. The prince asked them to stop hurting the snake. He also gave them some money. he kept on giving some money to people who tries to hurt animals. Finally, he did not have any money at all.

The prince was scared of going home. He knew his father would be very angry at him because he had no money at all. So, the prince went to the forest . WHile he was sitting under a big tree, a giant snake came to him, he was so afraid.

"Don't worry young man, I won't eat you. I am the king of snakes in this jungle. I heard you helped many animals from being tortured, Now I want to give you a gift. This is Mentiko Betuah, this magical stone can give you anything that you want," said the giant snake.

The prince was happy. He asked the Mentiko Betuah to give him a lot of money. Surprisingly, the prince later had a lot of money. SO he went home and made his father very proud of him for he was rich.

One day, the prince went to a goldsmith. He wanted to make the magical stone as a ring, Unfortunately the goldsmith stole the Mentiko Betuah. The prince was very angry. Luckily, he had mad friends to the animals.cat, dog and mouse went together to find the magical stone. They finally found the goldsmith. However they could not enter his house, only the mouse could. After waiting for a moment the mouse came out of the house, but he said he could not find the magical stone. After that they all want back to the palace.

The cat and the dog did not know that the mouse actually had found the magical stone, he hid it in his mouth. He then gave the Mentiko Betuah to the prince, he was so happy and said that the mouse was the hero. The cat and the dog were jealous and angry, They tried to kill the mouse. That's why until now between cat and dogs always try to catch mice.

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Report Text : The Indonesian Archipelago

Education English | Report Text : The Indonesian Archipelago | Indonesia is a country in Southeast Asia that consists of more than 13,000 islands. The islands lie along the equator and extend more than 5,000 kilometers. Many of the islands cover only a few square kilometers. But about a half of  New Guinea and three quarters of Borneo also belong to Indonesia. Those islands are the second-and-third largest islands in the world, after Greenland. Many geographers divide the more than 13,600 islands of Indonesia into three groups: (1) the Greater Sunda Islands, (2) the lesser Sunda Islands, and (3) the Mollucas. Indonesia also includes Irian Jaya, which is part of New Guinea.

The Greater Sunda includes Borneo, Sulawesi, Java and Sumatra. The Lesser Sunda Islands extend from Bali eastward to Timor. The Mollucas lie between Sulawesi and New Guinea. The western part of New Guinea is called Irian Jaya, an Indonesian territory. Compared to the other regions, Irian Jaya is the most thinly populated.
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