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Team Simbu bike riders take time out at Sipaia beach

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Team Simbu bikers at Sipaya beach, Morobe Province

Team Simbu motorbikes at Sipaya beach front on Saturday November 15, 2014.

It took almost three nights to get from Simbu down to Lae to support as part of the Team Simbu contingent to the 6th PNG Games staged in Lae, Morobe province.

18 bikers in the true spirit of support towards their team braved the long and winding journey and had to refill twice before reaching the games’ host city.

One of the bikers Michael spoke briefly about his trip saying the initial 35 bikers was reduced to 18. The whole trip consumed over 60 litres of fuel with a few stops along the way.

The team said the weather in Lae was much warmer and windy compared to Simbu.

Lae hosts 6th PNG Games

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Lae the second capital city of Papua New Guinea played host to the country’s 6th PNG Games to over 1, 000 in various sporting codes.

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Balloons released at Sir Ignatius Kilage stadium in Lae during the official opening ceremony of 6th PNG Games

The opening ceremony was hosted at the Sir Ignatius Kilage stadium where tickets ran out before the actual opening ceremony. Crowds lined up outside the stadium to catch a glimpse of the grand entrance by all provincial teams as their graced the afternoon with their provinical colours.

The PNG Games takes place every two years and a host province gets to host with the aim of identifying sporting talents from rural areas who take in these national sports event. From this event talented Papua New Guineans are selected and get the chance of being selected to represent PNG in international sporting events such as Commonwealth and Olympics.

Many people braved the intense heat just to see their favourite band Jokema perform live alongside Australian female artist Christian Anu and local artists in the likes of Anslom Nakikus and Keidumen.

Tickets sold out and forced these people to stand outside find every space to watce the 6th PNG Games in Lae

Crowds outside Sir Ignatius Kilage stadium outside official fence after tickets ran out before official opening ceremony

Present during the opening ceremony were senior government officials, games committee and other invited guests including PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. Continue reading →

Foto : Panggil saja Laura…

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Perempuan cantik satu ini tidak boleh lepas dari cerita. Dia punya peran penting dalam pelatihan APJC yang saya ikuti selama tiga puluh hari lebih. Panggil saja Laura. Itu, nama pendeknya. Nama lengkapnya Laura Gilmartin. Ia memulai bekerja di APJC sejak tahun 2011. Untuk program APJC tentang Mining, Media dan development tahun 2013, Laura punya peran penting. Di APJC, posisi Laura sebagai Program Officer.

Sejak sebelum saya berangkat ke Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Dia yang selalu aktif berkomunikasi untuk membimbing semua hal yang harus dipersiapkan. Mulai dari apa saja yang yarus dipersiapkan untuk bisa ke Australia, apa saja yang dilakukan ketika di Australia, Laura selalu mengarahkan dan memandu saya dan peserta lainnya dengan sabar dan gimana gitu yah (tidak bisa diungkapkan deh). Itu dulu deh ya tentang Laura. Terima kasih, Laura.

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Laura Gilmartin

Belajar di Negeri Kangguru

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OLEH: Duma Tato Sanda

Ini sesi bersama Suzy Woodhouse

Ini sesi bersama Suzy Woodhouse

BERUNTUNG, mungkin itu kata yang tepat untuk menggambarkan kesempatan 11 jurnalis dari kultur berbeda di 4 negara di Asia – Pasifik: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon dan Fiji untuk belajar jurnalisme di negeri kangguru, Australia.

Peserta dari Indonesia adalah Lovina Soenmi, Tommy Apriando, Achmad Choirudin, Dian Muhtadiah Hamna, Wan Ulfa Nur Zuhra dan saya. Gynnie Kero, Gabriel Bego termasuk Mapun Pidian dari Papua New Guinea, Rickson Jorban Bau asal Solomon, sementara Tevita Komaidruka Vuibau datang dari Fiji.

Cahaya Papua adalah media cetak tempat saya bekerja, di ibukota Papua Barat, Manokwari. Tommy kontributor portal berita lingkungan mongabay, Achmad bekerja di Selamatkan Bumi, Wan Ulfa kontributor Lentera Timur, Dian di Fajar Makassar, Lovina di Riau Corruption Watch, Gynnie kerja di The National, Gabriel  dan Mapun di NBC, sedang Tevita di Fiji Times.

Para jurnalis ini tiba di Melbourne 24 Agustus 2013 lalu, mereka akan kembali ke negara masing-masing pada 28 September 2013. Selama di Australia, mereka akan cerita pengalaman dan belajar jurnalisme dengan tema: Mining, Media dan Development yang difasilitasi oleh Asia Pacific Journalism Centre. APJC adalah sebuah organisasi yang konsen pada peningkatan kualitas jurnalis di Asia – Pacific. APJC berkantor di Melbourne, Australia

Para jurnalis akan bertemu para ahli di bidang jurnalisme baik praktisi maupun pengajar di sejumlah universitas di Australia ketika mereka belajar. Mereka juga akan kunjungi sebuah tempat berbeda di Australia dan langsung ke pengalaman untuk lihat praktek pengelolaan tambang perusahaan Tambang di Australia.

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Sesi pertama, Suzy Woodhouse. Ia coba beri pemahaman tentang kepemimpinan, terutama dalam posisi kita sebagai jurnalis yang punya pengaruh besar buat lingkungan sekitar.

Susi bilang wartawan harus bisa identifikasi dirinya, baik yang terlihat atau tersembunyi. Ini penting sebab wartawan bisa mengendus lebih dalam soal diri orang lain atau narasumbernya setelah dia bisa bedakan mana yang terlihat atau tampak dan mana yang tersembunyi atau disembunyikan. Metode ini dia sebut Johari Window.

Ia juga bagi materi tentang MBTI, ini sebuah alat untuk identifikasi diri. Susi bilang alat ini cukup berguna karena bisa dipakai untuk melacak sedikit kebiasan narasumber kita. Ini baik karena kita bisa tahu bagaimana memposisikan diri secara luwes ketika berhadapan dengan para sumber berita. Singkatnya alat ini bisa bantu kita lakukan wawancara dengan baik.

Banyak cara lain yang Susi sampaikan juga. Ia coba buat kita bisa bekerjsama dengan tim secara baik. Kerja tim menurut Susi penting ketika kita bekerja sebagai jurnalis. Cara ini ia bagi dengan melibatkan kita pada kelompok berbeda untuk bahas topik berbeda. Sesi materi Susi 4 hari.

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Sesi kedua disampaikan Nigel McCarthy. Ia adalah instruktur jurnalisme bisnis di Australia. Nigel banyak berikan cara praktis menulis berita, seperti cara mencari informasi dari sumber terbuka yang bertebaran di internet. Misalnya, Nigel bilang laporan tahunan atau laporan keuangan sebuah perusahaan yang di posting di website perusahaan adalah contoh informasi yang bisa dipakai sebagai informasi awal untuk menulis berita.

Dalam sesi Nigel, kita juga dikenalkan tentang : Civil Society and the Extractive Industries Transparancy Initiative oleh koordinator Advokasi Tambang Oxfam Australia Serena Lillywhite. Serena cerita soal peran perusahaan tambang bagi komunitas lokal di sekitar tambang. Bagi Serena Tambang belum bisa memberi peran yang berarti kepada perempuan, yang merupakan kelompok paling rentan dalam eksploitasi.

Professor Jurnalisme dari Monash University, Philip Chubb dalam materi Mining, Media dan Climate Change banyak ceritakan soal relasi media, tambang dan perubahan iklim di Australia. Sesi ini ia cerita panjang, tapi banyak dalam bahasa Inggris yang sangat baik. Intinya di Australia hubungan tiga bidang itu cukup rumit. Isu perubahan iklim telah membuat sejumlah kelompok politik di Australia saling berhadap-hadapan.

Akhirnya saya harus katakan, tulisan ini adalah tulisan saya dalam sesi belajar Digital Journalism, Jumat, 6 September 2013, yang akan diposting di weblog saya, hehehehe…. Sesi ini dipandu oleh Renee Barnes.

Ini sesi Digital Journalism. Renee Barnes sedang berbicara kepada peserta workshop.

Ini sesi Digital Journalism. Renee Barnes sedang berbicara kepada peserta workshop.

People who gets travel a lot will have a lot to tell, especially about their experiences, travelling abroad. Ask someone who travels a abroad and he or she will tell you about it. You can also hear them referring to those experiences, for instance in debates or forums on certain topics of interest.

What I am about to tell you are my own experiences, more especially the lessons I’ve learned since being in Australia for the past two weeks. I am focusing specifically on infrastructure.

Arriving at the Brisbane International Airport on Friday 23rd August, 2013, I checked into one of the Pullman Hotels.

I was supposed to have a Brisbane-Melbourne connection flight that evening but none was available since we arrived late into the evening. The lateness was a result of a technical problem developed by the Solomon Airlines aircraft we boarded at the Honiara International Airport, Solomon Islands.

However, cutting the story short, a well advanced infrastructural system is vital for the development of any country.

Waking up to see the streets of Brisbane, the tall buildings, the sealed roads and rail ways makes me think of the dusty streets of Honiara, where sealed roads could only go far enough and where dirt rough roads are all over.

This teaches me the lesson that an advanced infrastructure system of roads, bridges, airport runways, rail ways, sub-ways and other transport infrastructures are a vital part of development for a country.

Solomon Islands gained its independent state since 1978, but up to now there hasn’t been much work done to improve its transport infrastructural system, and to make things worse, less restriction on transport imports into the country has led to traffic jam problems, unlike in Australia, where both pedestrians, transport owners and providers follow traffic lights.

However, with all these amazing infrastructure, I would be interested in getting to know whether there are also related implications, and what’s the transport laws in Australia like regarding the importation of cars, buses and others.

Below is an example of infrastructure in Australia.

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Exciting Experience in Australia

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Have you ever been to Melbourne or Brisbane? Well if you have been to this two cities of Australia, you would have tasted and experieced the lifestyle and feel the cool and warm climate of this cities.

It was my best ever experience for a month tour in this two cities, attending the Mining, Media and Development Regional Knowledge Sharing Training, organized by the Asia Pacific Journalism Centre (APJC).

The training started on  the 24th of August and run for a month – ending on the 28th of September 2013.

The beautiful scenery of the Brighton beach – east brighton melbourne, the ghost haunting tour,  the melbourne writers festival and taking walk around the yarra river and melbourne city as well as visiting the Bengalla mine site in Muswellbrook in Scone and touring the Port Waratah are the excitment and experience I will never forget in my lifetime.

At least having a different feeling of the environment away from a day to day style of newsroom routine in my NBC Newsroom in Port Moresby was something I thought of and have convinced my bosses to send me to attend the APJC training. And with no doubt, the Melbourne and Brisbane cities provided me much to relax and refresh.

Not limited to this, but the APJC Training on Mining, Media and Development Regional Knowledge Sharing Training had been the best ever training in my life, apart from other trainings I attended since my five year carrier as news reporter with the PNG’s Public Boadcaster (NBC).

The training broadend my knowledge on business reporting, online media, getting to know better of myself and my carrier and having to know APJC Staff and prominent persons like Professors from the Monash University Prof Erik Eklund, associate Prof Philip Chubb, Suzy Woodhouse – Professional Development Instructor, Deborah Steele – Editor ABC Asia Pacific News Center, Nigel McCarthy- Business Journalism Instructor, Serena Lillywhite – Oxfam Australia Mining Advocacy Coordinator, and Renee  Barnes – Lecturer in new media journalism, University of the Sunshine Coast.

I recommend for more of such trainings in future for upcoming pacific island countries journalists to broaden their knowledge in business reporting, especially in the mining and resources sector because of lack of public knowledge on the impacts and benefits of mining in the region.