Kang Guru Champions in Indonesia There are many wonderful people in Indonesia who help Kang Guru. The Kang Guru Champions are just some of them. This valued assistance often involves promotion of Kang Guru. This is very important as Kang Guru depends on this kind of support of spreading the word about radio programs, magazines and the website. It is a great way to help others who are interested in English. Other helpers lend assistance with teacher workshops, language clubs and Kang Guru's latest service providing assistance to a new band of interactive radio presenters.
In September 2006, three of these people were invited to Kang Guru. A visiting AusAID Review Team were also visiting Kang Guru at the same time to find out more about the work of Kang Guru in Indonesia. Ririn from Kediri, Syaharir from Makassar and Suriyadi from Prenduan, Madura, met with the Review Team and informally discussed the activities of Kang Guru in their areas. Their comments and responses to many, many questions proved very helpful to the Review Team. Ririn, Syahrir and Suriyadi are now Kang Guru's first official Kang Guru Champions. They will continue to ‘work’ for Kang Guru and we welcome them to the crew. Together with members of the AusAID Review Team at Kang Guru in September 2006. Suryadi is second from the left, Syahrir is third from the left and Ririn is third from the right.	Ririn lives and works in Kediri, East Java. Why is Ririn a Kang Guru Champion? Well, Ririn, besides being a keen and popular interactive radio presenter on Radio Bonansa in Kediri, she also works hard promoting Kang Guru to teachers and students in East Java. Ririn has plenty of good ideas too to help local students and her radio listeners, and is a great supporter of Kang Guru. Ririn spends some of her spare time travelling around East Java for Kang Guru. She helps local radio stations with their interactive English language programs so thanks Ririn and welcome to Kang Guru.
Suryadi is a very, very dedicated young teacher from PP Al-Amien in prenduan, Madura. He is also a keen Kang Guru supporter. In mid 2006 he and his team organized a wonderful KGRE Teacher Workshop and KGCC Get Together in Pemakasan, Madura. Suryadi has since run several further teacher activities and several language club activities too on his home island of Madura. Suriyadi is one of Kang Guru's official Champions in Indonesia. Congratulations Suryadi and welcome to Kang Guru. Great to have as apart of the team. Keep up the good work as a volunteer for Kang Guru. Suryadi is a shining example of friends helping friends, teachers helping teachers and champions helping everyone!	Syahrir has been associated with Kang Guru for over 5 years. He has presented Kang Guru on RRI Makassar for a long time. He has been leading The Best Forum Club, KGCC #003, for the past 5 years as well. They are definitely one of Kang Guru's MOST active and interesting language clubs. In that time he and his helpers from other Kang Guru Connection Clubs based in Makassar have organized 2 wonderful Club Get Togethers – fantastic!!! Syahrir works hard with local English teachers in Makassar and is always happy and keen to promote and support he work of Kang Guru. Welcome to Kang Guru and for being one of our Kang Guru Champions in Indonesia. Thanks for helping, yeah?
Keyko has been a keen supporter of Kang Guru for many years. Keyko is the leader of the very active English Society Club, KGCC #010 based at RRI Semarang. The club is always active. Recent activites have included working side by side with KGCC #032, the Student English Activity UMY (SEA-UMY) helping victims of the earthquake there in 2006. Keyko is always full of ideas and spends a lot of her time promoting Kang Guru in her area. Kang Guru is very please to have Keyko as one of our Champions and looks forward to her future ideas and activities. Read about Keyko's latest activity in Yogyakarta	Fadel has been promoting and helping KGRE for several years in his hometown of Mataram. Fadel is the interactive radio presenter on RRI Mataram's Friday and Sunday night programs. Fadel is the leader of the successful KGCC #013 ALFA English Club in Mataram. Fadel has been very helpful in recent years with organizing Listener Meetings at RRI Mataram, visiting local schools to promote Kang Guru and also assisting with visits to Lombok by Australian Education Center staff from both Jakarta and Surabaya and more recently by staff from the Australian Consulate in Bali. Welcome to Kang Guru and for being one of our Kang Guru Champions in Indonesia.
Asep works in Kalimantan at the Pontianak Post newspaper. He is their IT person and is pretty good at what he does. Asep has been supporting Kang Guru over a period of many years with ideas and suggestions mainly for the Kang Guru website. There's even a link from the website of his newspaper direct to Kang Guru. He has also embarked on a series of promotional visits to local schools talking to students about English and about how Kang Guru can help them. Asep has also assisted with visits by the staff of the Australian Education Center, Jakarta.   Asep has his own website and on it is lots of Kang Guru news

My name's Saptari Wibowo. I am the head of Medan English Speaking-Club (MES-C) KGCC #50. Our club has been linked with Kang Guru for more than six years, starting from 2001. I am also active as the English interactive presenter on RRI Medan (PRO 1) 94.3 FM broadcasting AFTERNOON CHAT on wednedays, at 16.20 till 17.00. Afternoon Chat broadcasts on Wednesdays after Kang Guru shows. I and Rani (official announcer of RRI) work hand in hand to help people in my area confident to use English, especially when I am on air with her. This interactive shows has been on air for almost nine months, starting in January.  There have also lots of activities I have done with our club members, especially students. Though we sometimes encounter some technical matters, but we still run our activities in Medan. I am proud of being one of the Kang Guru's Champions cause it's one of the most unforgettable achievements presented by Kang Guru. I could hardly believe how it could be. Kang Guru has been one of the most responsive organization helping people be confident and active with their English. His hobbies include watching news on Metro TV, surfing the Net, especially Kang Guru, and organizing the events in Medan.

Keyko Hard at Work - Friends helping friends with Kang Guru

Program : School Visit ( Rebuilt by AUS AID after Jogja-Jateng earthquake 2006)

Date : June 14' 2008
Time : 10.00 am till 2pm
Location : SDN Rejoso I & II
Dk. Rejoso, Ds. Rejoso, Jogonalan, Klaten, Jateng

Participants : Keyko KGRE Champions
Mr. Reaz Khan Foreign Student of Bangladesh
Mr. Tukutukuivalu Foreign student of Fiji
Yan Adityas ESC KGCC Semarang Reprentative
Manna UGM Representative
Isna Contact Person of SEA UMY
SEA UMY Members
Mrs. Kamti NGO Representative
Mr. Wartono Headmaster of SDN Rejoso I
Mrs. Lasmiyati Headmaster of SDN Rejoso II
Teachers of SDN Rejoso I & II
Students of SDN Rejoso I & II

Activities :
1. Visiting school which is rebuilt by AUS AID
2. Promoting KGRE
3. Social Work

Here is my report :

That activities was so special for me because I collaborated with many people from many background. Why I choosed that school because I saw their condition last 2 years was terrible but then nowadays I was surprise to see their conditon is great. The building is look strong and very comfortable for students and teachers do school activities there. It seems there is no earthquake witness in this school. Everything looking good and brand new. Yes that was because AUS AID, so we would like to thank AUS AID for all you have done for this school... It was GREAT!!!

Many students very anthusisatic with KGRE program and our guest Mr. Reaz Khan and Mr. Tuks were so surprised to saw them. At first the students were really shy but after Keyko and Manna invited and attract them to talk then they really brave. Some of them even sang for all of us. Manna taught them special dance COCONUT dance. All of the students including teachers and guest was following this dance. Thanks Manna for the nice dance hehehe....

SEA UMY and ESC members also helped by giving very nice games for the kids. And of course we gave the prizes from Kang Guru, so thanks Kang Guru!!! They love to got that :)) And we also have social work by giving the donation for this school.

The teachers and NGO also very cooperated on this program. They have special message for AUS AID and Kang Guru.
They really want to grateful to AUS AID because what AUS AID done for us was really TERRIFIC!!! They need it!!!.Especially to Mr. Andrew Mc Evoy the construction Manager of AUS AID project rebuilt this school last 2 years. They said the quality of this building is good and they feel very comfortable. Mr. Kevin Dalton for sending me (Keyko) as Kang Guru Representative. They said this is the first time they knew about Kang Guru.... They also gave the data about what AUS AID gave to them.

Blackboard&whiteboard 120cm x 240cm 2 unit Table for students 40 Unit Chairs 80 Unit Teacher tables 3 unit mebel (lemari) 3 unit Clening tools 1 set paint 2 liter trolly 1 unit cangkul and gergaji 2+1 unit Paving 600 m2 border building 3 rooms Infrastructures and instrumens

They hope that AUS AID will help them again on making library and also multimedia laboratory. They hope by making this report AUS AID will help them again. ( their wish).

They really happy with AUS AID attention for their school and hopefully AUS AID will always help all of people who really need help, like what Kang Guru said good neighbours make a good friends, right????

At last I would like to say thank you very much for all of friends and teachers and also NGO that helping me with this program. Thanks you for our guest Mr. Khan and Mr. Tuks. Thanks to Kang Guru for support me. And thanks for all students... I LOVE YOU ALL!!!

Keyko