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The Kang Guru Radio English magazine is produced each April and October. The magazine is a compilation of articles and information taken from the Kang Guru Radio Program with additional material included for special purposes. Send us a letter or E-mail, written in English, and we will gladly send you your own copy of our latest magazine- FREE!. Our new magazine is out NOW and is full of great information, photographs and activities for you to enjoy.

October 2000
We here at Kang Guru are very happy to present our latest magazine for you. As you will notice , the cover has two sunset photographs in the same golden tones. The top photograph is of beachside huts in Melbourne whereas the bottom photograph is of an evening fishing boat heading across the water at Senggigi Beach, Lombok. A part of Mt. Agung in Bali is seen in the distance.

There are many of the usual Kang Guru features in this magazine including Listeners' Letters, Aussie Music, Lizzy's Listening Tips and Idioms Inggris. In this edition we feature a special segment about the Olympics Games which finished in Sydney on October 1st. Dr. Pintar talks about Aussie food and the infamous Dole Queues. There is information about the Torch Relay, the athletes and also about the Paralympics, which will begin on October 18 in Sydney.

We also have some new segments as well. 'A Slice of Life' began recently on Kang Guru Radio English and in this edition of the magazine you can read about Wendy and her house in Melbourne. This segment will be a regular segment on Kang Guru and will take a look at different aspects of the lives of ordinary Australians. Gender Equity will also continue to be a featured segment in future radio programs and in the magazine.

The work of AusAID looks at 'Training for the Future' with the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Project in South Sulawesi, HIV/AIDS personnel studying in Melbourne last July, IASTP II across the archipelago and the Indonesian Land Administration Project. The Aku Anak Sekolah Program is there as well. The supply of medical equipment and supplies in Praya, Lombok along with a special consignment of emergency medical supplies to the Maluku Islands completes the AusAID page for this edition. Interesting reading for all.

We have news of this new website, and of the formation of Listeners' Clubs for English language learners in the coming months. There is also exciting news for English language teachers as well with an offer for them that is too good to miss. There are new competitions and the results of our Kang Guru 2000 Competition. We also have news and photographs of Bunaken and the Great Barrier Reef, Lake Toba, Aussie food and Aussie vets at work in Bali.

A special thanks to the people who endorsed our magazine - you can see them on the inside front cover. We haven't forgotten about RRI either with a special thank you to RRI in Makkassar, Kendari, Mataram and Denpasar.

So all in all, another great magazine for you to enjoy. Write and tell us what you think of it.

'Describe Your House' Competition
Many listeners have send in descriptions of their houses. Read them below and see pictures as well. Kang Guru T-shirts will be sent out to these winners.

Muhammad Iqbal in Bandung I have lived in this two-storey house since I was born 18 years ago. I really love this house because of its comforting design. Shortly, this house is just like my own heaven. The design is simple, elaborate and stylish. Each room has enough space so it can be used for doing almost everything; lying on the floor while listening to the radio or even making rujak in my bedroom. The most interesting thing from my house is the inside garden. There are two inside garden. First is next to the family room and the other is next to main bedroom. This inside garden has brick wall where my mum hangs jasmine and nail for bird cage. My uncle also puts his pets in the wall plate so we are able to hear the birds’ songs every time. The inside garden’s roof looks like a plain window separated by several rafters. We can see the beauty of night with its darkness or even can take sun bath when the morning comes. The family room and the lounge room are separated by such kind of traditional design of wood painting wall. My mum said it is inspired by traditional design art of Kalimantan.	Actually, the lounge room is not just a lounge room, the lounge room has no border with dining room, the lounge room and the dining room is designed as one wide space. It can be used as a big room fitted by more than 25 persons for holding selametan or buka shaum bersama (breaking fast together) with my classmates. There are six bedrooms - four bedrooms are located in the first floor and the others are in the second floor, three bathrooms, a living room, a study room that is also our little musholla, a kitchen and a garage. The garage can be used to park two cars. It also has a tiny garden. There is front yard where I used to play hide and seek with my brother. I also buried my beloved tokek (house lizard) and cat there. I sometimes feel this house is too big for my family and me since there are only four person lived in this big house and also to clean the entire house needs time. Nevertheless, this house is the most valuable thing
Asni Purba in South Jakarta I live in one of housing in Bojong Gede Kabupaten Bogor, the small town in south of Jakarta. I’ve stayed there since December 1995. My house is not great. It is duplex house, consisting of two or more houses with a common wall. In Jabotabek (Jakarta, Bogor, Tangerang, Bekasi) it become famous, it is called ‘a quite simple home’ means Rumah Sangat Sederhana 21/60 type.	There are only two small bedrooms, a bathroom, no family room, a small kitchen and a small lounge room. The floor is made of white ceramics. I love that colour because I have to keep it clean all time. In my house there is water pumped from ground. I can use water for my daily needs i.e. for taking a bath, washing but I have to boil it for drinking water. My house is located in the first of houses row, so I have two doors in my house. The first door is in the front of the house and the other one is in the left of the house or in the kitchen. Lots of people have only one door in their house.
Taufik Hidayat in Bogor, West Java I have just moved into a new house. It is a Rumah Panggung (stage home). Rumah Panggung is not very popular in my country because the Indonesian people love modern house. My new house is the most beautiful in my eyes. There are three bedrooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. My new house is so perfect because it is back to nature. We built it on the fish pond. The base of the house is made of batu kali (rock river).The wall and floor are made of bamboo tree.	The wall is named Bilik bambu or anyaman bambu. The floor is named Talupuh or Tepas. Anyaman bambu is thin but tepas or talupuh is thick and strong because it is from bamboo which is chopped up. The ceiling is made of bamboo too. How about the roof? It is made of leaves of coconut palm tree but they have to be changed if it is filled with mildew. The flowers are around house. They are Dahlia, Jasmine, Kesumawijaya, gardenia. I always open the window every morning in order to feel the morning sun and to smell flower’s fragrant as natural perfume and I look at the various fish on the pond such as golden fish, gurame, mujair and lele. I also hear small birds sing for us. I’ll never let it go by. I love it all. They live around my house and we need each other.
Adriana in Tana Toraja I come from Toraja and I live in the remote area of Toraja but because my education I should abandon my hometown. During the long vacation I stay together with my big family in traditional house that is called Tongkonan. Tongkonan is heritage of traditional for one big family. The Torajanese traditional house is like a boat and it is usually face to the north. These things connect with where our ancestor came from. Tongkonan consists of 3 parts ; in the northern part is a place for worshipping God, for ceremonies of families and as a living room. In the middle of the room for children, and the southern part for parent bedroom and a place to keep ancestral things. So the function of Tongkonan is used for traditional ceremony.	The Tongkonan house is made of wood, but the roof is made of bamboo arranged regularly. Outside wall is made of carved which has meaning symbolized itself. We only have 2 seasons they’re rainy season and dry season, so we just need lighting and watering for daily life as we live in hinterland. We can find many more Tongkonan at some places by mile from crowded.

In Kendari, the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Project has been very busy training local midwives in the management of childhood illnesses, safe injection practices, new delivery practices and the identification and referral of high risk pregnancies.

Puskesmas people are also trained to supervise the midwives. Besides the training, midwives are also equipped with a Bidan Kit, given assistance with transportation and most importantly are also provided with a place to work from, the Polindes (Pondok Bersalin Desa) such as the one in Belatu village. Community Involvement is strong and the benefits to the surrounding communities are very much appreciated.

'We are working with Depkes from the province of Southeast Sulawesi. I work with a team of trainers who the project has trained and these trainers are from the various departments of Depkes. They are from the KIA or Maternal and Child Health Department. Our job is to trying build the capacity of the village midwives or Bidan di Desa. At present we are focusing on the district of Kendari and the district of Buton.'
- Gillian Lang is Training Advisor for HMHB

Diana Octavia from Boyolali, Central Java asked Dr. Pintar about food eaten in Australia. How does this compare with what you eat?

'A bonza question Diana. Australians like to eat all sorts of food and at all times during the day. For breakfast they often have fruit juice, cereal or muesli with milk followed by toast and coffee or tea. People from the country often like eggs and bacon with toast. Cakes and other snacks are eaten during the day by many people. Many Aussies, even men, love cooking, so lunch and dinner may be Italian or Indonesian, Thai or English. Aussies like to try new types of food.'

	'Potatoes and other vegetables are very popular and rice is becoming a normal part of Aussie meals. The Aussie BBQ is common too. People cook outdoors on grills, usually cooking meat and vegetables.'
Puput Yogi S. writes from Yogyakarta and wants to know about dole queues' 'People would line up at the office and that was called a Dole Queue - a line of unemployed people waiting to apply for the dole money from the government. It wasn't too long before the term dole queue had the same meaning as unemployed.'

Do they still have dole queues in Australia? They do but luckily the queues aren't as long as they used to be because there are less unemployed people now than before.

Medical Assistance to Lombok
"The Supplementary Medical Supplies program was established as a response to a request from the Indonesian government to the Australian government. The Australian government, through AusAID, responded in various ways during the economic crisis and this particular project grew out of that. The project goal is to provide supplementary medicines and medical supplies to Puskesmas and to district hospitals. The government provides medicine and medical supplies throughout the whole nation and this project supplements that system. The Australian government provided funding and technical support to Indonesian groups such as the district pharmaceutical warehouses and the type C and type D hospitals and the medicines and medical supplies produced by Indonesian pharmaceutical companies".
- Dr. Phillip Passmore - Project Team Leader.

"I happen to be on duty since August 99 and my duty area is in third-class ward which specially taking care of poor patients. Indeed until now, medicines assistance given by the Australian government is very useful for poor patients mostly with cases of diarrhoea both adult and children, acute respiratory infection in children also malaria and typhoid besides other cases."

BUNAKEN and THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
The oceans surrounding Indonesia and Australia are a nature wonderland filled with animal and plant life of all descriptions. These wonderlands are valuable resources for both countries and need to be looked after by everyone. Besides being a source of food for millions of people, these areas are also great places for leisure and recreational activities.

BUNAKEN
Directly north of Manado lie five islands that are the Bunaken Marine Park. As far as variety goes, you cannot get a better place to dive in Indonesia. There are over 3000 species of fish and over 500 types of coral. The deeper areas are good for sharks and eagle rays. Shallow areas allow people to snorkel and therefore see a whole variety of underwater animals, up close. There are wrecks of old ships as well with a famous one being a World War Two cargo ship sunk by a torpedo. In Indonesia there are many beautiful coral reefs and protection of these marine environments is very important.

The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of Queensland and is also well known over the world for excellent diving. It's the Bunaken of Australia. The Great Barrier Reef is sometimes called the eighth wonder of the world. It is hundreds of miles long and dotted along the reef are hundreds of islands. It is a very popular tourist destination for people from Australia and from all over the world. The marine park is over 345,000 square kilometres in size. It is a lot bigger than Bunaken, however the range of fish and coral there is very similar to Bunaken.

Lake Toba is in Sumatra and it is one of the most popular destinations for tourists, both domestic and international. Did you know that Lake Toba was formed 75,000 years ago when an enormous explosion occurred. Such a huge eruption probably lasted nearly two weeks.

Very few plants, animals or humans around this part of Indonesia would have survived. Toba was an enormous volcano before the explosion. The result of the explosion a is magnificent lake inside the old volcano.

Toba is probably the largest caldera on Earth. Lake Toba is 100 km long and 30 km wide. There have been no eruptions of Toba since then, but large earthquakes have occurred, the most recent in 1987 along the southern shore of the lake.

Listeners' Letters - write a letter to us soon!

First, I say thank you very much for sending me your April 2000 edition. I have collected four Kang Guru magazines. I like them all. I think learning English through the Kang Guru magazine and Kang Guru radio English is an easy and quite a cheap way. So I have told our students about your existence in order to contact you if they want to increase their English mastery and I appreciate your co-operation.

As you always say "good neighbours make good friends". I hope you don't mind sending me two magazines at one blow. The other one is for our school's library. I am sure this way the relationship between Australia and Indonesia can be kept forever because Indonesian's young generation realize how the Australian Government is extremely concerned with Indonesian poverty problems and give the solution.

Good luck for Mr. Kevin, keep on providing Kang Guru magazine, I will be waiting for the next edition. Thanks a lot, see you later, good bye. Faithfully yours,

To KG By Email!
Thank you for your kind e-mail message. It was very nice to get it. Anyway, how's life in Bali? Hope you are always being healthy, so you can send some RRI Kang Guru promotional material and stickers, but I am just kidding! Actually, I would like to help you by giving them out to my friends and putting them somewhere very accessible in my university. I am very pleased and honored to help Kang Guru!

Thanks for always trying to include the information about one of my favourite countries, Australia, in your radio programs and I promise I will keep on listening to them. Well, I would love to know more about your fabulous country and Australians! By the way, I would like to ask you why Kang Guru is published only in April and October and why it is not published every month? Have you visited RRI Jakarta to meet your listeners? I would like to meet you here in Jakarta. I do hope we can be good friends and stay in touch for good. Please write back soon. May God Bless Australia and Indonesia, May God Bless Kang Guru. Long Life Aussie - Indonesia!

This is my second letter for Kang Guru. You've sent me your magazine three times and I would like to say thank you very much for your kindness. Frankly, I enjoy reading it very much. I get much knowledge from it. I can add to my vocabularies, my knowledge about Australia, I can know cultural differences between Indonesian and western people especially Australians, through funny stories and many other things. Indeed I have an idea to be an English expert. I have a funny story when I studied English. At that time, I imagined myself as a broadcaster of English program. I was reading your magazine loudly. By accident, there was a man who heard me, then he asked my younger sister, "Is it a television program?". He thought my voice was from TV and I was a reporter. My sister and I laughed but all at once I felt proud because I could be like a reporter whereas I feel my English is very bad. OK, I think it's enough my letter for this time. Thanks for your kind help.

I have been a reader of "Hello" for several months. I live in small town in Cilegon. "Hello" is my beloved magazine because it can improve my English, enrich my vocabulary and besides that giving me entertainment on my leisure time. To tell you the truth, in Hello's April edition, I'm very surprised because I find one page that contains English Program, namely "Kang Guru Radio English". I'm very interesting with this program. Why? The reason is: Now, I'm working at Centre of Excellence for Chemical Technology as a Secretary and luckily my boss just same as you, he comes from Australia too. He always gives me handicraft/gift when he comes back to Indonesia. But until now, I still looking for another magazine consist of Australia news, Indonesian and Australian relations, the nicest places, the historic places, etc. Luckily, when I read this April's "Hello", I think this is my opportunity to find out what I wanted (but actually, my main goals/aim is to widening and improve my English). Honestly speaking, this is a good program and I think other readers will agree and have the same idea as me. Before ending this letter, I would like to say thank you, be successful forever and I still keep my expectation to get your magazine.

Lizzy's Listening Tips

'Hi everyone. Kevin has been telling me that he often receives letters and emails about Listening. You want to know ways in which your listening skills can be improved. My Language Tips on the radio show from October until March 2001 will all be about Listening'.

First, prepare yourself for the listening activity before it begins. Try to predict what you are going to hear.

For example, if Kevin tells you that one of the segments on Kang Guru Radio is going to be about Australian animals, then before listening to it, quickly think of some of the vocabulary that you think you might hear - koala, kangaroo, emu, and so on.

Second, listen for the main idea or ideas and do not worry about hearing every detail. After listening, write down the points you felt were most important.

Third, listen for signposts. Signposts are those words that tell you about the organization of the talk - words like first, secondly and finally. These signposts will assist you to listen more effectively by making the talk easier to follow.

A fourth important listening skill is being able to listen for specific information and for detail. These are linked with prediction. The ability to hear certain pieces of information amongst the whole text is very important, for example, in answering questions in a listening test.

'Kevin and I will be giving listeners plenty of opportunities to practise these four skills on Kang Guru Radio English. I won't be on every show but Kevin tells me that my Listening Tips should be on Kang Guru every second or third week between October 2000 and March 2001.'

The Olympic Games finished in Sydney on October 1st. But that was not the end for Olympic sports in Australia for 2000. On October 18th, the Opening Ceremony for the 11th Paralympic Games will be held in Sydney.

The Paralympic Games are a competition for the world's top disabled athletes. Athletes who are blind, in wheelchairs and athletes with intellectual disabilities will participate in a wide range of sporting activities. Sports include sailing, shooting events, power lifting and wheelchair rugby.

Organisers expect 4000 athletes from 125 countries to attend these special Games. Sporting facilities used are basically the same as used in the Olympic Games.

'A Slice of Life'

Wendy lives in the Melbourne suburb of Narre Warren and she has just moved into a new house.

'I have just moved into a new house. It's a brick veneer home. Brick veneer homes are very popular in Australia. My new house is great. There are three bedrooms, a lounge room, a kitchen, a family room and two bathrooms. I love to entertain so I have also built a pergola area outside the house. I have the famous Aussie barbecue there for cooking chops, sausages and other food. It is great in the summer, especially when friends visit me.

My house is not air-conditioned but I have ceiling fans for the summer weather. In winter we use ducted heating to warm the house up. The heating unit is in the roof and the warm air goes to all rooms in the house. It is a gas heater. That's a lot cheaper than electricity. I also have hot water. One thing I don't have are electric blankets. Lots of people have electric blankets for the cold winter nights'.

KG Note: In Australia, the 'triple-fronted brick veneer' is almost an Aussie idiom. It means that a house is ordinary, nothing special, a standard type of house.

Vocabulary help:
brick veneer - rumah yang terbuat dari batu bata dan diatasnya
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