Child Labour Exploitation

Child labor is the employment of children under an age determined by law or custom. This practice is considered exploitative by many countries and international organizations. Actually, not all work is bad for children. Some social scientists point out that some kinds of work may be completely unobjectionable, except for one thing about the work that makes it exploitative. For example, a child who delivers newspapers before school might actually benefit from learning how to work, gaining responsibility, and earn a bit of money. The problem is most of them are being exploited because their work is not paid.
Most children work because their families are poor and their labour is necessary for their survival. As well as being a result of poverty, child labour also causes poverty. Many working children do not have the opportunity to go to school and often grow up to be unskilled adults trapped in poorly paid jobs, and in turn will look to their own children to supplement the family's income.
More boys than girls work outside their homes. But more girls work in some jobs, for example as domestic maids. Being a maid in someone’s house can be risky. Maids typically are cut off from friends and family. It is very harmful because they can easily be physically or sexually abused by their employers.

Palembang, The City of Pempek

Palembang is the capital city of South Sumatera Province. It was the center of Sriwijaya before the kingdom was destroyed by Majapahit. Based on ancient inscription that was found in 683 a.d. near Bukit Siguntang, Palembang is considered as the oldest city in Indonesia. Its age is about 1382 years old. Topographically, this city is surrounded by water. Moreover there is still some flooded area at about 52,24% of land. Therefore the ancestor called it as ‘Palembang’ which means an area that is flooded by water (in Melayu-Palembang, Pa means some place or some condition, and lembang means flooded).

The two part of Palembang, ‘ulu’ and ‘ilir’ area that is separated by Musi River, is connected by the Ampera Bridge. The orange bridge was built on April 1962 and was finished on May 1965. It has 1100 meter length and 22 meter width. On the top of the bridge, two tower height 75 meter were built. The Ampera Bridge can be lifted up when a big ship needs to passed by along Musi River.

Palembang has a major amount of Tinghoa community, besides the Malayan and other tribes. Masjid Agung, the most popular mosque which is built by Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II, is located in the center of Palembang as the heart of the city. There are some historical place that we can visit, such as Pulau Kemaro, Benteng Kuto Besak, Museum Bala Putera Dewa, Taman Purbakala Kerajaan Sriwijaya, Bukit Siguntang, and some archaeological tomb sites of kings and their families. The original food of Palembang is pempek, tekwan, model, celimpungan, burgo, laksan, kerupuk kemplang ikan, and some traditional cakes such as maksuba, engkak ketan, and 8jam cake. These foods (especially pempek) impress the Chinese taste of its society.

Palembang has been developed significantly since it became a host for National Sporting Event in 2004. Palembang Government is trying to develop its city even more as it may increase the revenue to Palembang itself. Moreover, Palembang has been settled as ‘Kota Wisata Air’ in 27 September 2005 by the president of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. He convinced that Palembang could be developed as a water recreation city just like Bangkok, Thailand, and Pnomh Phenh.

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Ampera Bridge is known as the icon of Palembang. The two part of Palembang, ‘ulu’ and ‘ilir’ area that is separated by Musi River is connected by this orange bridge. Ampera Bridge was built on April 1962 and was finished on May 1965. It has 1100 meter length and 22 meter width with 994 ton weight. On the top of the bridge, two tower heights 75 meters were built. The Ampera Bridge can be lifted up when a big ship needs to pass by along Musi River. It can be happened because of the mechanism of the 450 ton pendulum in each tower. The fastness of the lifting up process itself reaches 10 meter per second.

There are some special regulations of water in our house. It is started from the cold water supplies of PDAM (Perusahaan Daerah Air Minum). First, the cold water from PDAM is flown with a huge pipe and being fairly distributed to many houses. Based on the picture, the cold water is flown to the sink in the first floor and other appliances in the second floor. Then in the second floor, the cold water is distributed to cold water tank (for storage) and to the toilet, wash basin, and bath. Next, the storage water in cold water tank is flown to the hot water tank. In this tank, the cold water is heated and produces the hot water as the result. Then the hot water is also flown to the sink, bath, and wash basin. Thus there are two tap of water (for the hot and cold water) in those three appliances; the sink, bath, and wash basin. A lot of pipes are absolutely needed to make sure that the regulation of water is done well.

Definition and Process Paragraph

(1) Write a paragraph definition about special food, building or something unique from your home town.

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(2) Write a short description of how water reaches the house and how it is distributed within the house, remember to write about both the hot and cold water supplies.

Batipuh is My Hometown

Batipuh is my hometown. It is one of small district in Tanah Datar, West Sumatra. It locates in hill and near from Singkarak Lake. Batipuh is rounded by tropical rain forest. It is about 1,5 hours travel from Solok. Batipuh has cool temperature because of it's position.

My family have one house in Batipuh. It built beside my grandma's house in 2000. We can see football field in front of my home. Behind my home, there is my grandma's garden. Actually, we can't say it was a garden because it is almost not different from small forest.

People in my hometown are very kind. They almost talk each other if they are met, even just 1-minute-talk only. They help each other to make Batipuh better. In Thursday, people in Batipuh have tradition to join "Pasa Kamih". It is one-day-market. we can find many Minang foods or just looking around.

Actually, I don't born in Batipuh, but in Minang tradition, our hometown is based on grandma's or mother's hometown. So, I can't talk too much about Batipuh because I go there, when I celebrate Idul Fitri day. But it was happy to get holiday in Batipuh.

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