The Ethnic Diversity in Surabaya (By : Aulia Anis)

    The multicultural system in Indonesia make its people live in diversity, including in Surabaya, the people are classified depend on its ethnic. Everybody knows that Indonesia is very famous because of its multicultural and its various of ethnic. Actually, there are two types of ethnical in Indonesia. First the ethnics who is originally and truly Indonesia. They are a 100 percent pribumi Indonesia. In fact, our beloved country has more than a hundred original Indonesia ethnics which separated to more than thousand island, for example Javanese, Batak, Dayak, Papua, they called suku. Another type is an descendant people, who usually come from foreign country and lived in Indonesia for a long time. The three biggest ethnical in Surabaya itself divided into Indigeneous people, Chinese people, and Arabic people.

            The majority of Surabaya citizen, of course, is Indigeneous people. Like it is mentioned before, an Indigeneous people is the people that truly and originally come from Indonesia. Even that, they also come from various region from around Indonesia. Wherever island and ethnical they are come from, they called as Indigeneous people. Because Surabaya located in Java island, most Surabayan is Javanese, especially eastern java. But still, there are many Indonesian ethnic who live in Surabaya, such as Madura people, Batak people, Jakarta people, Kalimantan people, etc.

            The second ethnic who live in Surabaya is Chinese people. Chinese people are descendant people who live in Indonesia, even they also called as an Indonesian because they had been here for a long time since eleven century. They are Indonesia but have a blood of Chinese. This ethnic known as the high class community who success in economical sector here, in business and commodity. But Chinese people usually live in a group with other Chinese, that makes them look  different. Beside that, the physical appearance of Chinese people, white skin and usually wear mini dress, also looked in society.

            Arabic people is the third ethnic who live in Surabaya. Like Chinese, they are Indonesian but Arabic descendant and have Arabic blood. This ethnic had already been in Indonesia since 8 century. This is a big foreign group in Indonesia since Islam came to Indonesia, and become the biggest religion. Arabic descendant usually come from Saudi Arabia, Maroko, Turkey, and other middle-east country. The Arabic centre in Surabaya is in North Surabaya, usually well known as Ampel. You can find many kinds of Arabic there. One thing that make Arabic famous is because they have their own culture and habit, especially the food culture that attract many Surabaya people.

            We can know that Surabaya has diversity in people culture and ethnic. Like mentioned above, Indigeneous people is the majority citizen in Surabaya, Chinese people become the second ethnic, and the third is Arabic. The diversity of Surabaya Citizen state above, make Surabaya rich of cultural thing. The most important value that can be learned is even they have different culture, they can live together and become one Surabaya Citizen.

Indonesian Superhero and American Superhero (By : Nadia Maya Ardiani)

Who never heard about the term “superhero”? Everbody must be know what  superhero means. Almost every child in this world everdreamed about being a superhero when they were still little. Having a superpower, being able to be invisible or moving things from the distance seems so tantalizing to us. All countries have their own superheroes. But, since the world citizens are not homogenous, so does the superheroes. In example, Indonesian superheroes and American superheroes are different in some spesific characteristics. Beside the diversities, they also have some similarities.

First, it is about their power. American superheroes usually have physical or chemical powers such as laser eyes, being invisible or having an elastic body. Indonesian superhero tend to have metaphysical or supernatural powers, such as Gathotkaca’s or Sukir’s power.

Second, their weapon. American superheroes have some very sophisticated weapons. Just like Batman, we can see that he has Batmobile (his car) and other machinery. Instead sophisticated weapon, Indonesian superheroes tend to bring some traditional weapons like keris or arch and bow.. Some Indonesian superheroes don’t even have any weapon.

The following difference is how they got their power. Indonesian superheroes usually got their power from birth. American superheroes usually got their power because of mutation.

Beside those three differences, they also have some similarities. Here are the similarities.

Both of them have a good purpose in doing their action. They want to help people, defend, and protect them from bad things.

And then, both of them are ordinary people in their daily life. If nothing’s bad happen, they won’t reveal their superhero identity. They prefer to keep their superhero identity unexposed.

Even if they’re different in some ways, Indonesian and American superheroes are good and unique un their own way.

Korean Drama and Indonesian Drama (By : Rika Tri Ariani)

Korea culture is spread out around the world, included Indonesia. This wave is mostly known as Korean fever. This phenomenon stars grow faster around the world since the beginning of 1990s with electronic media especially televise and internet as the mediator. The boom of Korea drama is one of the indicators of the Korea fever. In Indonesia itself the phenomena of Korea drama especially attack teenager. As the consequence, Indonesia people start to compare Korea drama and Indonesia drama. It become a big question, why Korea drama can become popular around the world, include Indonesia, then Indonesian drama itself does not really only liked by part of Indonesia people itself. Actually, there are some similarities between Korea and Indonesian drama such as the existence of love scene in all kinds of drama and the type of actor and actress which play in drama. Then, they also have differentiates that make Korea drama can become more popular than Indonesian drama, such as the conflict in story and amount of the episodes.

 Korea and Indonesian drama have similarities in some way. First, not only Korea drama but also Indonesian drama mostly contain romantic or love story. They must be having love scene although the drama is not about love theme. Yet, the drama always shows a kind of scene when there is man who falling in love to woman. Even though the frequencies of these love scenes are not as many as the real romantic drama but Indonesia and Korea must be having this scene. For example, a Korea history drama title Great Queen Seon Deok which tell about the history of first women leader in Korea, also has some love scenes although this drama actually tell about the history of South Korea kingdom.

Second, both of Korea and Indonesian drama always use the same type of actress or actor. The players of drama always people who are handsome and beautiful who have high standard beauty than common people. The main character of drama is never played by actor who only has standard of beauty. It is like an obligation for drama to use handsome actor and beautiful actress as the main character who always happy and important person then people with standard beauty always portrayed as unimportant people. However,  in reality, not only handsome and beautiful people in the world who become important person. Yet, many ugly people in the real world who becomes an important person such as Einstein, he absolutely has standard appearance but he is important figure. So in the other word, Korea and Indonesian drama similar to make unreal story to their viewers not only by the choice of the actor but also by other points which can be difficult to explain one by one here.

After two similarities which Korea and Indonesian drama have, absolutely they also have some differentiates. The differentiates must be quiet big because in the reality Korea drama success spread out around the world and become a phenomena then Indonesian drama just known by Indonesia people. Moreover, Indonesian drama itself does not really liked, even hated, by some of Indonesia people.

The biggest differentiate between Korea and Indonesian drama is the amount of episodes. Korea dramas usually just contain about sixteen until twenty episodes. There are some Korea dramas which contain more than twenty episodes, but it will not be more than fifty episodes. Then Indonesian drama can has more than hundreds of episodes. For the example Cinta Fitri, one of popular drama in Indonesia, it already has had more than 800 episodes and the story has not finished yet. The total of episodes can give direct effect for the viewers. More long the episodes, people become lazier to watch the drama because it is like the story will not have ending and just spend our time useless. Then, Korea drama with fewer episodes than Indonesian drama is easily to follow and it is not spend much our time just to watch drama.

Second differentiate between Korea drama and Indonesian drama is the conflict in the story. Korean drama is always focus on the single main conflict and another just some plots which guide the viewers to the main conflict then viewers can understand the main conflict and the story well. Instead Indonesian drama always has multiple conflicts which become more complicated episode by episode. This multiple conflict makes the viewers confused to decide which the biggest conflict and which is the main resolution for each conflict. So, in Indonesian drama when one conflict has been solved then it will appear new conflict which more difficult and big. Otherwise when one conflict has been solved, it will lead to another conflict which more complicated. The inconsistence and complicated of Indonesia drama make viewers underestimated the quality of Indonesian drama and give more attention to Korea drama which give most simple conflict but packaged in good ways. The complicated and confusing conflict make Indonesian drama is not interesting to watch.

Finally, Korean drama and Indonesian are similar in some way but also differ in the other way. Between Korea and Indonesian drama have some points which are same such as love story and romantic scene in all type of drama, even the theme of the drama is not love. Then both Korea and Indonesian drama always use actor with high standard of beauty as the main character. Yet, Korea and Indonesian drama also differ in some important point such as the conflict in the story and amount of the episodes. It is supposed to be better for Indonesia drama to learn from Korean drama the keys that make Korean drama can be so popular. Due to if Indonesian drama can become as popular as Korea drama, it can be used as media to introduce and spread Indonesian culture.

Laptop and Notebook (By : Anita Eka Puspita)

     Nowadays technology is growing up such as laptop and notebook which change computer. As we know in modern area everything is gonna be simpler and more flexible. So, computer has some new styles now. Even laptop and notebook are similar, both of them have some differences.

     First of the differences is the meaning of the name. Laptop is from the words LAP and TOP. This thing is on the lap of the user. Beside that notebook is from the words NOTE and BOOK, means kind of a note which we carrying everywhere but effective. So, the LAPTOP and NOTEBOOK not only a name but have a meaning of the thing.

     The second difference is physical of them. For laptop, it has bigger LCD around 13,5” – 17”. On the body it has more port USB and inside it there is bigger SPEC. And when laptop broken it’s easier to fix and the last for the strength it more heatproof. On the other hand, notebook has smaller LCD around 8,5” – 12”. On the body, notebook has less port USB and there is smaller SPEC inside. Of course it is more difficult than laptop to fix when broken and also les s strength in heat.

     Talk about physical, don’t forget about the price. Laptop is more expensive because from the physical laptop is better even more heavy. Then laptop is better for you who has a skill in design and graphic. So, notebook is cheaper because the real function of notebook is simpler and not really heavy.

     The last difference is the effect for our eyes. It is the most important thing that you have to attend when you want to buy laptop or notebook. Laptop is better for our eyes when we use it for a long time than notebook. Notebook makes our eyes tired faster or easier when we use it for a long time.

     Now we know about the differences between laptop and notebook. Choose the best one for you. Don’t forget to consider both of them which one do you prefer? Laptop or Notebook? You’re the owner and that’s your decision.

Effects of Delaying Work (By : Nadia Maya Ardiani)

            Sometimes, when we just got home from work or from school and finding that there are so many things to do at home we will say, “Ah, we can do it later!” or “I’ll do that tomorrow.” Then, tomorrow we will simply delay to do that again. Then suddenly it’s already Sunday night, and we get panic because our tasks are not finished yet. See, delaying our work or task have absolutely so many bad effect in our life! Here are four effects of delaying your work.

    Delaying one task is like a domino effect, you will delay another task and so on and so on. First, you delay your dishwashing chores. Then when you finish washing your dishes you will feel tired, so you decide to delay working on your paper. In the end of the week, you’ll find that you have so many unfinished task that you should do. It will be very exhausting to do all that stuff in a very short time.

     The second effect of task-delaying habit is it stimulates you to become lazier than before. First, you delay one task. Later, you will feel that it’s ok to delay one more task. At the end of the day you’ll find yourself doing nothing for that day. It’s very dangerous if it becomes a habit.

     Delaying your task will also ruin your scheduled agenda. For example, you must attend your relative’s wedding at Sunday. You have four home works and assignments to do at Wednesday, and it must be collected next Monday. You delay to do that until Saturday, and Sunday morning you don’t finish even one of your assignments. So you don’t come to your relative’s wedding because you don’t finish your assignment yet and you have to finish it soon.

     Last but not least, it will threaten your health condition. Doing so many assignments in only one night makes your head feel dizzy. You’ll feel so tired so the next day you’ll feel not fresh.

     Shortly, delaying your work has no benefit for your life! So, start your engine now, and do what you can do today!