Ministry announces winners of student science contest

Ministry announces winners of student science contest

JAKARTA (JP): The Ministry of Education and Culture and the
Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) announced the winners of
their scientific contests for teenagers yesterday.

Faizal, a high school student studying aviation technology,
took first prize in the ministry-sponsored contest, with his
paper entitled An electronic security system for a single railway
track between two stations.

High school students Rini Yunianti, from the Central Java town
of Klaten, Yati Enoch and Tanti Verawati, both from Merauke,
Irian Jaya, won in the categories of social sciences and
humanity, natural science and technology, respectively.

Faizal told reporters during the ceremony, which took place at
the ministry, that he was inspired by a train accident in
Bintaro, south Jakarta, eight years ago. The head-on collision,
which happened on Oct. 19, 1987, killed 129 passengers.

Twenty-five high school students from 14 provinces
participated in the contest, which was divided into 12
categories, including biology, sociology, agriculture and
literature.

Another contest

Rini Yunianti presented a paper entitled The impact of sand
quarrying in the Woro river in Manisrenggo village, Klaten.

Yati Enoch, the winner in the natural science category,
entitled her paper White clay colloid as a basic wall paint
substance.

In the technology category Tanti Verawati discussed the
processing technology of residue from Lates Calcarifer fish.

Meanwhile, one of the 31 LIPI-TVRI contest finalists, an
elementary school dropout, took runner-up in the social sciences
category.

Alamsyah surprised members of the jury with his well-written
paper entitled The social, economic and environmental impacts of
coral-reef mining in Lombok,.

To date he is the only dropout to have participated in the
contest.

Alamsyah, who joined an NGO in Mataram, Lombok, conducted the
research based on his own experience and defended his paper at
the final on Monday.

Adhiatma Prakasa, a junior high school student in Surabaya,
and Baiq Rani Dewi Wulandani, a high school student in Lombok,
West Nusa Tenggara, were the first and second runners-up.

The second prize went to Dwi Kusuma Wahyuni, a student from
Jombang, East Java, and the third prize went to Delpi E.K.
Sianipar, a student from Balige, North Sumatra.

At the same occasion the ministry also announced Dwi Hartanti
from Surabaya and Roby Ikhsan from Banda Aceh as the country's
model female and male junior high school students.

Model students at the high school level were Astrid Kartika
from Yogyakarta and Erwin Karouw from Manado, North Sulawesi.

Ideal teachers were also announced yesterday. They are
Kartiwiningsih of Jayapura, Irian Jaya, in the kindergarten
category; Suhardi of Bondowoso, East Java, and Saryanto Andi
Prabowo from Magelang, Central Java, in the elementary school
category.

Riyanto, a teacher from the Jayawijaya district in Irian Jaya,
was named model teacher in the junior high school category, while
Ibnu Hajar from Ngawi, East Java, won for model teacher in the
senior high category.

Minister of Education and Culture Wardiman Djojonegoro
presented an award to the Sopo Surung Foundation for
establishing a boarding school in Balige, North Sumatra, in
cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Wardiman said that the quality of the four-year-old school is
so laudable that 36 of its 40 graduates were admitted to state
universities.

All contest winners have been invited to attend the
Independence Day celebration at the Presidential Palace tomorrow.
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