Best Forum Club is located at SMK Negeri 1 Makassar. You may visit us either at our language lab or at the school library. We have 50 active members and most of them are SMU and SMK students. They are in the range of post elementary to intermediate English proficiency level. BF members meet at least once a week on Sundays at 10am to 1pm. Our members are interested in a wide range of social interests and issues. So, we have got 15 favorite club activities which are fantastic that enable us to interact in English and enjoy doing our hobbies and pastime due to the various “BF COMMACT”.

MAKES stands for Al-Markaz for Khudi Enlightening Studies and each word has meaning namely: ‘Al-Markaz’ is from Arabic language means centre. ‘Khudi’ is from Persian language means spirit of revolution for reformation and self consciousness. ‘Enlightening’ is from English means to give somebody greater knowledge or understanding.

MAKES is not like a meeting club but is more like an organisation that concern to study and discuss about everything such idea around society maybe economics, politics, social, culture, religion, ideology and others. So MAKES wants to enlighten people who come to MAKES activities while they can improve their ability in English. Furthermore MAKES wants to give contribution to society, country, government even though only an idea about how to improve the country and society to face the future. MAKES also always suggest the member to study again and again by hunting scholarship to study abroad. So that they can enrich their knowledge. After that they come back and share their knowledge to society again.

Pioneer Conversation Club is located in Sungguminasa, Gowa. It's approximately 3 km west from Makassar. Firstly our members are college students but then separated after graduate. They moved back to their kampongs. Nowadays, after some efforts we get newcomers from junior and senior high school students. So our second base camp is located in SMUS Batara, Gowa, Sungguminasa right now. Students are offered learning English with motivation through KGRE Listening and Reading Class Set and other activities. As advisor I have obligatory to improve their proficiency in the 4 skills of English. Other thing, students also use their leisure time at home effectively by listening KGRE broadcasting at RRI every Friday. “Language is a habit, please do it as well as your ability, OK”. Never boring, make it progress!

Our Club is located in Bone town. We have 30 members and most of them are university students. Our club meets once a week namely on Monday at 2pm until 4 pm. Our members are very concerned with environment. And one of our favorite activities is discussing about something that occurred in our daily life such as our government situation and tourism.

Pasarwajo Speed English Club is a new member of the KGCC - April 2003. Our Club is located at Pasarwajo, an asphalt mining town 48 km from the capital of Buton Regency in Southeast Sulawesi. We have 56 active members now. Most of them are SMU - SLTP students, 4 SD and 4 other people. Our Club meets every Friday afternoon. Every month we visit one of the member's houses and discuss the Kang Guru magazine activities there. We have two committees: administrative (organise membership, Pouch, finance and correspondence) and KGRE activities committee (organise magazine activities, CAR, competition and excursion). Our club is around the coastal areas, so the members are very interested in discussing marine and ecosystem preservation. Our favorite activity is meeting and discussing the current issues such as coral reef preservation and drug abuse. We are an ‘off the beaten track’ club. By keeping in touch with Kang Guru, all become near and arouse our self-confidence in rural areas.

Thank you — KGRE.

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