Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Young journalists get RI experience

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Young journalists get RI experience

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

A group of Australian university students is in Jakarta for the six-week Journalism Professional Practicum (JPP) program, which is designed to give them a greater insight into the realities of contemporary Indonesia.

"I want to get the cutting-edge, interesting stories that are of rare experience for young journalists in Australia," Charlotte Wheatly, 20, said at the program's opening on Monday.

Wheatly, who is working toward her undergraduate degree in journalism at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), said this was a great opportunity to understand more about Indonesia.

She was one of 26 students attending the opening of the JPP, organized by Atma Jaya University and the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS), at Atma Jaya University in South Jakarta.

The students will attend a two-week course on Indonesian language and culture, followed by a month-long internship at one of several media outlets, including Antara newswire, Tempo English magazine, The Jakarta Post, TVRI, Metro TV and Voice of Indonesia.

Australian Ambassador to Jakarta Bill Farmer said he expected the program to bring mutual benefits for both countries.

"Through this extremely interesting and important program, you will gain a lot about the reality that more Australians need to know about," Farmer told the students.

He said a recent public opinion poll in Australia found there were a substantial number of Australians who did not have "a clear view" of Indonesia.

"We have a mixed history with Indonesia, which comes naturally with being neighbors," Farmer said.

Some Australians, he added, might limit their perception of Indonesia to "suicide bombers, radical Islam and death row".

Professor David Reeve, the deputy of ACICIS, hoped similar programs could be carried out regularly in the future.

"We had our first Journalism Professional Practicum in Indonesia in 2001, but we had to wait this long (to do a second one) because of security reasons. I hope that this program is the sign of things to happen in the future," Reeve said.

JPP project officer Louise Williams took unpaid leave from her regular job to concentrate on the program.

She said, "I think that it is really important to develop Australian journalists who know about the culture of Indonesia."

Williams is a senior Australian journalist with considerable experience in the Asia-Pacific region and has received various accolades, including the Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Annabel Boyer, 26, a graduate student, said she was eager to get an inside look at the political scene in Indonesia.

"Writing about other cultures is always a challenging and rewarding thing. I'm interested in finding out about what Indonesians are really like," Boyer said.

Several of the students acknowledged they were unlikely to get rich working as journalists.

"But I'm not in it for the money," said Wheatly. "It's the thirst to find out more and understand new things. It's the passion." (lva)