Ministry announces winners of student science contest<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Ministry of Education and Culture and the
\nIndonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) announced the winners of
\ntheir scientific contests for teenagers yesterday.<\/p>\n
Faizal, a high school student studying aviation technology,
\ntook first prize in the ministry-sponsored contest, with his
\npaper entitled An electronic security system for a single railway
\ntrack between two stations.<\/p>\n
High school students Rini Yunianti, from the Central Java town
\nof Klaten, Yati Enoch and Tanti Verawati, both from Merauke,
\nIrian Jaya, won in the categories of social sciences and
\nhumanity, natural science and technology, respectively.<\/p>\n
Faizal told reporters during the ceremony, which took place at
\nthe ministry, that he was inspired by a train accident in
\nBintaro, south Jakarta, eight years ago. The head-on collision,
\nwhich happened on Oct. 19, 1987, killed 129 passengers.<\/p>\n
Twenty-five high school students from 14 provinces
\nparticipated in the contest, which was divided into 12
\ncategories, including biology, sociology, agriculture and
\nliterature.<\/p>\n
Another contest<\/p>\n
Rini Yunianti presented a paper entitled The impact of sand
\nquarrying in the Woro river in Manisrenggo village, Klaten.<\/p>\n
Yati Enoch, the winner in the natural science category,
\nentitled her paper White clay colloid as a basic wall paint
\nsubstance.<\/p>\n
In the technology category Tanti Verawati discussed the
\nprocessing technology of residue from Lates Calcarifer fish.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, one of the 31 LIPI-TVRI contest finalists, an
\nelementary school dropout, took runner-up in the social sciences
\ncategory.<\/p>\n
Alamsyah surprised members of the jury with his well-written
\npaper entitled The social, economic and environmental impacts of
\ncoral-reef mining in Lombok,.<\/p>\n
To date he is the only dropout to have participated in the
\ncontest.<\/p>\n
Alamsyah, who joined an NGO in Mataram, Lombok, conducted the
\nresearch based on his own experience and defended his paper at
\nthe final on Monday.<\/p>\n
Adhiatma Prakasa, a junior high school student in Surabaya,
\nand Baiq Rani Dewi Wulandani, a high school student in Lombok,
\nWest Nusa Tenggara, were the first and second runners-up.<\/p>\n
The second prize went to Dwi Kusuma Wahyuni, a student from
\nJombang, East Java, and the third prize went to Delpi E.K.
\nSianipar, a student from Balige, North Sumatra.<\/p>\n
At the same occasion the ministry also announced Dwi Hartanti
\nfrom Surabaya and Roby Ikhsan from Banda Aceh as the country's
\nmodel female and male junior high school students.<\/p>\n
Model students at the high school level were Astrid Kartika
\nfrom Yogyakarta and Erwin Karouw from Manado, North Sulawesi.<\/p>\n
Ideal teachers were also announced yesterday. They are
\nKartiwiningsih of Jayapura, Irian Jaya, in the kindergarten
\ncategory; Suhardi of Bondowoso, East Java, and Saryanto Andi
\nPrabowo from Magelang, Central Java, in the elementary school
\ncategory.<\/p>\n
Riyanto, a teacher from the Jayawijaya district in Irian Jaya,
\nwas named model teacher in the junior high school category, while
\nIbnu Hajar from Ngawi, East Java, won for model teacher in the
\nsenior high category.<\/p>\n
Minister of Education and Culture Wardiman Djojonegoro
\npresented an award to the Sopo Surung Foundation for
\nestablishing a boarding school in Balige, North Sumatra, in
\ncooperation with the Ministry of Education and Culture.<\/p>\n
Wardiman said that the quality of the four-year-old school is
\nso laudable that 36 of its 40 graduates were admitted to state
\nuniversities.<\/p>\n
All contest winners have been invited to attend the
\nIndependence Day celebration at the Presidential Palace tomorrow.
\n(05)<\/p>",
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