Anomali YEC News

Anomali and US Embassy has always shared a progressively supportive relationship, but not until they offered a $ 10.000 for anomali to convene an English Speaking competition called Youth Speak Fun Day.

The idea of the Youth Speak Fun Day event was initially started by the Jakarta Post, a reknowned english language newspaper circulating in Indonesia. The US Embassy decided that they are going to take part in sponsoring the event, by giving the grant to Anomali.

After recovering from excitement, Anomali staffs discussed thoroughly regarding the allocation of the funds and decided to convene the Fun Day not only in English Debate Tournament but also Spelling Bee Competition. This is made under the consideration that Youth Speak Fun Day is made under the reason to create an event in which Indonesian Youth can speak English no matter what, thus Anomali considers that it would be appropriate to convene more than a debate tournament, even tough making a Spelling Bee competition was not inside our comfort zone.

Youth Speak Fun day was conceived as a one day event by the funding partners, however, Anomali decided to extend the event into three days due to the nature of debate tournament that requires preliminary rounds. Due to Anomali’s level of involvement, we were able to convince the stakeholders to extend the tourndament days into three days instead of one day, eventough we were initially proposing for five days.

The Youth Speak Fun Day was initially made only to cover schools in Greater Jakarta only, however since Anomali was convening the event, we managed to negotiate our partner schools from Bandung and Malang to be able to participate in the event as well, specificaly for the debate competition.

The registration for all the competitions under Anomali are free of charge, all participantes were invitation based. We had 24 teams for the debate competition and 54 individuals for Spelling Bee.

The first two days of the competition took place in Binus High International School in Simprug, Jakarta. All the participants, especially the ones that come from outside Jakarta were very impressed with the school’s facility, security and cleanliness. We would also like to point out the schools has an amazing view of Jakarta City Lights in the evening.

From Anomali, Mr. Erry Deodate assisted by Ms. Ria Kurniati acted as Chief Adjudicator and Deputy Chief Adjudicator for the debate tournament. To ensure the quality of the debate rounds,both of them have invited from universities across Jakarta, Bandung and beyond. These invited adjudicators are debaters with significant debating experience and have also adjudicating in numerous regional, national and international debating tournaments.

Mr. Erry have also insured the quality of the tournament by providing tough motions to be debated upon.

Preliminary Round 1 : US Foreign Policy

1. This House Would Use More Carrots Than Stick When It Comes To Iran

2. This House Believes That 2009 Troop Surge to Afghanistan Is A Bad Idea

3. This House Would Lift Embargo On Cuba

Preliminary Round 2 : Health

1. This House Would Tax Overweight People

2. This House Would Not Allow Advertisement to Enhance It’s Models

3. This House Would Move To Opt Out System Of Organ Donation

Preliminary Round 3 : Legas System

1. This House Believes That Parents Should Also Be Held Responsible For The Crimes Of Their Children

2. This House Would Give Harsher Punishment For Environmental Offenders

3. This House Would Not Allow Close Door Trial

Quarter Final Round : Media/ Journalism

1. This House Would Allow Citizen Journalism

2. This House Believes That Destroying Media Facilities During Battle is Justifiable

Semi Final Round : US Domestic Policy

1. This House Believes That Senate Should Abandon The Practice Of Filibustering

2. This House Believes That Merit Based Pay For Teachers Brings More Harm Than Good

The Grand final for the Youth Speak Fun Day english debate competition is held at International Sport Center Indonesia in Ciputat. The motion used in the final round is “THBT student athletes should have different academic performance standards” which was taken from the Education topic. The finalists were SMAK 3 Jakarta versus SMAN 3 Bandung, where SMAK 3 poses as the Propposition and SMAN 3 as the Opposition. The winner of the debate was SMAK 3 with a split decision between the adjudicators (3-2).

From the debate competition, we have received positive comments and feedbacks from all the participants, sponsors and even the volunteers. Almost all of them expects the same competition to be held again next year. We personally hope it can be an anual event, but it is still up to the US Embassy and Jakarta Post as the main sponsors to decide.

A little to the side note, Anomali also held a fund debate round within the debate competition just for the heck of it. The Motion was “This House would put a Bio-Hazard sign on Indomie package”. The debate turned out to be a fun and hilarious debate, in which most of the people involved still remember until this day.

We have also welcomed a “surprise visitor” from the teachers from Lamongan, coming to the event specifically just to see the debate. Since they came quite late and the debates are already in progress, we decided to hold a special round just for them. The teachers enjoyed the surprise treatment, the debaters enjoyed having been able to perform again, and we enjoyed to get the feeling that we are able to be flexible in hosting these unexpected events.

Aside from the debate, Anomali also host a Spelling Bee competition for highschools in greater Jakarta.

Overall Anomali would like to congratulate the winners, and also the volunteers for a job well done. But specifically thank you for The Jakarta Post and The US Embassy for sponsoring such a magnificent event.

The Welcoming Screen inside the Debaters Hall

Since its establishment in 2003, Phyxius Debate Association has become the most influential English Debate Society in West Java and even National scale in terms of activity and identity. Just recently they held the 4th Phyxius English Debate Championship, participated by schools from Jakarta and Bandung. For this special occasion, Anomali also assisted St. Albert school from Malang to participate in this competition, regardless of distance constraint. Our aim is for our new partner school in Malang to witness the debating experience in national scale and also to learn from Phyxius as a full-fledged and established English Debate Club.

The event turned out to be a massive blast for everyone who were participating. From Anomali side, we were glad to see our other partner schools from Bandung and Jakarta there. From our kids from Malang, they were surprised and astonished by the quality and the enjoyment of the tournament. Anomali would like to congratulate the committee for being able to create a platfrom of debate competition not just as an academical challenge, but also as a youthful and entertaining event. We think that the strategy used to introduce motions entertainingly and the strategy used to build tension and competitiveness amongst participants are good learning opportunities for other schools. More importantly Anomali would also like to congratulate PDA for being able to stay succesfuly independent and self-maintained for the past seven years as an English Debate Club. We are proud to have assisted you all steps of the way.

The Yet To Be Glorious Malang's St. Albert Team.

Our heartfelt congratulations also goes for the teams who managed to secure high-ranking positions in the competition, which just happened to be schools under Anomali’s partnership. We would like to congratulate SMAN 81 Jakarta as the champion, and of course Ruth as our favorite speaker (we have a good picture of her actually wearing a skirt!), also for Canisius College as the runner up. Good job for their coaches, especially Mr. Erry from Anomali as Canisius College’s coach. Malang’s St. Albert managed to secure the position as the octo-finalist, in which we deemed not bad as their first debate competition experience. Overall, the days of PEDC are really good days for us.

Wika, Reggy and April, the only delegate from East Java managed to enter Final Round

Aaaaand… we made it!! Ms. Wika and Ms. April who were under the assistance of Anomali managed to get the 2nd runner up in National University English Debate Championship (NUEDC). Being the best 3 from 92 teams national wide, they’re also ensured by DIKTI to be sent to Turkey to compete in Worlds.

It was a roller coaster ride for the team, having experienced a difficult time in the 5 preliminary rounds, in which they earned the total score of 11 from the maximum of 15. Their performance in the preliminary round positioned them in rank 7 from the total of 32 teams that managed to break into octo-finals. The team performance in the final rounds, however, were better and they even managed to reach rank 1 in semi-final. In the final round, they faced ITB, UI and Atma Jaya, and secured the third place. In the end, Bandung Institute of Technology got rank 1, followed by Universitas Indonesia, Malang State University and Atma Jaya Jakarta.

We are also happy that another team that we assisted, the team from Malang Muhammadiyah University (UMM), also managed to break into octofinal and secured rank 16 from the overall 92 teams. Good job Ms. Diah and Ms. Mia, you girls made us proud.

Anomali would like to congratulate all the finalists, which all will be sent to Turkey as well. For detailed information regarding the tournament, please visit http://nuedc2009.johnrendy.com/team.php

But what happened to the juniors?

The delegate sent to PIMNAS was not able to achieve significant achievement in the event, and even they turned against each other. Anomali is still in the process of reconciling the team members. Meanwhile, the rest of the juniors were sent to Java Overland Debate Championship (JOVED), in which they managed to win three rounds from the overall six preliminary rounds. Even tough it was not enough for them to break into final rounds, they enjoyed the competition and we feel that they have given their best in the competition. Anomali is certain that in the next tournament they will be better, and in due time they will no longer be over-shadowed by their seniors.

We realized its not always popsicles and rainbows in our assistance in debating, but the path to become true champion is meant not to be easy, as it should be. But we will enjoy leaping one sharp rocks to another until more Indonesian youth are empowered.

So, what happen to all Anomali officers that have left the main HQ to seek job elsewhere? Apparently, much to our delight, they are still consistent in coaching debate, wherever they are. This time, Anomali would like to salute four of our senior coaches who are away and spreading the awareness. We would also like to pay tribute to our emerging junior coaches that were once our students.

Mr. Aribawa Pratama Assidiq aka Coach Bowo, who are infamously known for his uncanny method in coaching debate, has long left Anomali in Malang to pursue his fortune in Balikpapan, East Borneo. Even tough he is busy with his new work in Balikpapan, Mr. Aribawa took an initiative to approach one of the public school in the city to coach debate in his free time. From this initiative, Coach Bowo has been coaching in Balikpapan for two years and counting. Due to the scarce opportunity of Parliamentary English Debate Competitions in Balikpapan, Coach Bowo decided to bring his kids to Jakarta to participate in All Law Students Association (ALSA) Debate Championship, a decision which was supported by the Balikpapan government in form of airfare tickets. The students managed to get the 2nd runner up place in the first performance in Parliamentary Debate, in one of the toughest competition there is in national scale. After that, the achievements just pouring in, and making Balikpapan Public School I in the map of one of the best school in Debating in Indonesia.

We would also like to congratulate Coach Bowo and his students of breaking into the Octo-Final round in Indonesian High School Debate Championship. Congratulations Safira, Ruth and Elza from all of our staffs.

Mr. Arie Sinardi aka Coach Widey has long been busy with his work in Jakarta, yet however, he still managed to go back and forth to Bandung to Coach the students in Indonesian Education University (UPI). Under his tutorship, UPI debaters have experienced a significant boost in their skills as proven by attaining the 1st Runner Up in National University English Debate Championship (NUEDC) region B1.

Ms. Andriani Pipit aka Coach Pip recently was the coach of Valiant Debate Club from Malang State University. She has maintained the high quality of debate in the university, mostly on her own expenses. When, Valiant debaters managed to reach the 2nd runner up in the Indonesian Inter-Varsity Debate Championship it was mostly the result of her handy work. She has recently moved to the Netherlands for some internship work there, and still plotting to coach debate the students in some high schools there.

Mr. Rizal Kuddah aka Coach Rizal is the only extension Anomali has in East Java region outside Malang Municipality. Not only that, but Coach Rizal is the only coach that manages to teach English Debate proficiency to the Indonesian Naval Academy sustainably. Under his tutorship, the Academy has been able to exist in Indonesian Debating world alongside other prestigious educational institutions. Moreover, Mr. Rizal also coaches the Public Highschools in Sidoarjo district area and sending their students to represents East Java in National Competitions. Thanks to coach Rizal, the Sidoarjo Public Schools have become prominent figures in East Java debating community.

We would also like to congratulate our junior coach, Coach Haris and Coach Asa. They were once students from Malang Public School IV under our tutorship, but now they have graduated and become the tutor themselves. It didnt take them long to prove their coaching abilities, since not long after, the debater from their school managed to won an all East Java Debate Competition held by Airlangga University in Surabaya. More importantly, CODE from Malang Public School IV has become a self-sustaining debate club.

The Team Members in Final Round Venue

In January Anomali has again produced a record in its achievement by attaining two national scale achievements in the same month. We assisted Malang State University debate team in attaining the 2^nd runner up place in Indonesian Varsities English Debate Championship and sent Mr. Reggy Hasibuan to compete in the Next Leaders TV show in which he managed to reach to the 2^nd place.

The Indonesian Varsity English Debate Championship is the largest scale National Debate Tournament held by Jogjakarta Muhammadiyah University and followed by 60 teams from all across Indonesia. Coaches from Anomali assisted the team from Malang State University to represent the University and Town to the National Tournament. With a 4-1 standing (4 wins-1 lost) in preliminary rounds, the team managed to get into rank 6 from all the 60 competitors and finally attained the 2^nd runner up place after winning the octo final and quarter final. Anomali would like to congratulate the members of the team;

• Ms. Nila Silviana,
• Ms. Rizqi Zhairisma and
• Ms. Roza Puspita

They have fought tooth and nail to maintain the prestigious achievement. Anomali would also like to congratulate Team UGM B and team UGM A from Gajah Mada University Jogjakarta as the Champion and 1^st runner up of the competition. All in all it was a good game.

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Anomali Youth Empowerment Center has successfully assisted the Indonesian US Embassy in convening the first ever US Election themed Debate in Indonesia. The event will be free of charge and to be conducted in four provinces in Indonesia which are West Java, Jogjakarta, East Java and South Sulawesi from October 24^th 2008-October 31^st 2008.

Hundreds of students from prestigious universities across Indonesia participated in this event along with some national and international level experts and notables. As the result Indonesian students have known better regarding the issues pertaining US policies from both the candidates’ perspective.

Testimonials from many participants stated that due from the tournament; they now understand American politics better than Indonesian politics.

We would like to thank the American Corner staffs for their cooperation in organizing the event. We would also like to thank the regional Tournament Directors for their great work. They are Mr. Mafatih Fadhly from Muhammadiyah University Malang, Ms. Maria Aleida from UGM Jogjakarta, and Ms. Fenica from Parahyangan University Bandung.

We would also like to thank you Mrs. Michelle Cenzer and Mr. Jason P. Rebholz from the US Embassy for the opportunity. This event is a landmark of Anomali’s sustainable cooperation with the US Embassy.

For more information and pictures of the competition please check our facebook group.

Muhammadiyah University’s annual English Economic Club Debate Competition was held in 16-18th April 2008 and participated by students from high school across Malang Municipality and surrounding districts.

Three debate clubs under Anomali won all three titles consecutively plus the best speaker title in the competition. EEC from SMAN 5 won the first place followed by CODE from SMAN 4 and St. Albert High school. Our sincere congratulations for the winners.Our congratulations also for Cinantya from EEC SMAN 5 as the best speaker for the competition.

St. Albert Highschool is Anomali’s newest client which about to make their own English Debate Club. Due to their increasing achievement in Debate tournaments under Anomali, the students are getting a moral boost to create their own English Debate Club. Anomali appreciates this initiative greatly and wishes that the presence of their English Debate Club may increase the overall Debate quality in Malang Municipality.

In October 26th until October 28th Anomali Youth Empowerment Center has successfully assisted the Indonesian Air Force Academy to hold the first All-Java English Debate Competition for Military Academies and Universities. This event was followed by cadets from all Indonesian Military Academies and students from Universities across Java. To ensure the quality of the tournament, Anomali has invited experienced debaters from all across Java to participate as adjudicators.

As the result of the event, the Champion title was taken by the Indonesian Naval Academy (AAL) followed by the Indonesian Military Academy (Akmil) as the first runner-up and Indonesian Air Force Academ (AAU) as the second runner-up. The First Best speaker went to Cadet Sergeant Panji from AAU, followed by Cadet Sergeant Aditya from Akmil and Ms. Marina from Indonesian Islamic University (UII)

Anomali would like to congratulate all winners and best speaker and especially Anomali’s own Mr. Rizal that has assisted the event thoroughly. Anomali would also like to extend our gratitude to all the universities that have participated in the event which are Gajah Mada University (UGM), President University, Indonesian Islamic University (UII), Surabaya Public University (UNESA), Jogyakarta Muhammadiyah University (UMY), and Surabaya Engineering Institute (ITS).

Malang Public Polytechnic has never failed to participate in the National Polytechnic English Debate Championship which is held annually for every Polytechnic Institutions all across Indonesia. This year, in August 19th-August 23rd, Malang Public Polytechnic managed to send two teams to participate in the event held by Bandung Postal Polytechnic and both teams have scored a remarkable achievement in the championship. Team A, whose members were Ms. Wika, Ms. Eren and Ms. Dizzi was crowned as the champion of the tournament, while team B, whose members were Ms. Aming, Mr. Ali and Ms. Vita was the 1st runner-up.

It was a perfect all Malang final, proving that Anomali has succeeded in assisting Malang Public Polytechnic to still be the best in English Debate in National level. This victory also marked as the third consecutive victory for Malang Public Polytechnic.

Anomali would also like to congratulate Mr. Aribawa as the coach for the teams. He is a very happy man right now. Oh, and congratulations as well for Ms. Wika as the Best Speaker for the tournament.

This event remarked the first cooperation between Anomali and Military Institutions. Anomali was requested to assist in the event through Mr. Rizal since this year’s PIKTAR would include an English Debate Competition for the cadets.

All military academies from all across Indonesia participated in the event such as; the Indonesian Military Academy (Akmil), Indonesian Naval Academy (AAL), Indonesian Air Force Academy (AAU) and Indonesian Police Academy (Akpol). As the result of the event, Akmil has come out as the champion followed by AAL as the 1st and 2nd runner ups. Cadet Sergeant Panji from AAL has come out as the Best Speaker of the tournament.

Anomali would like to thank you the committee from AAL for their warm welcome and also the tour to their campus. Spending our nights in barracks was simply unforgettable.