“Last” ALSA’s Last Day

Hari – atau tepatnya malam – kemaren (karena sekarang udah ganti hari) wa balik lagi ke UI, di mana hari terakhir dari ALSA terakhir yang paling bisa wa ikuti (karena tahun depan wa udah kelas XII). Hari ini wa udah nggak lomba (karena E-MUN udah beres pas hari ke-4) tapi wa datang untuk menghadiri Closing Ceremony ALSA 14th National English Competition. Sebenernya males dateng juga, sih *ditabok panitia*, tapi karena pembagian sertifikat dan hadiah dilaksanakan pada Closing Ceremony, jadinya wa mau nggak mau kudu ikut.

So, dengan pakaian semi-formal (yea, seperti Friendship Night dan E-MUN, Closing Ceremony juga ada dress code-nya) wa ke UI and di sana wa ketemu: Bella Fairuz Rianda (delegasi Pakistan dari SMAN 2 Bandar Lampung), Cindy Irwan (delegasi Amerika Serikat dari SMAN 68 Jakarta), Dheni Saraswati Almara (delegasi Etiopia dari SMA Al-Azhar 4), Erlin Florence (delegasi Nigeria dari SMA Santa Ursula), Ervano Nurriyadi (delegasi Kanada dari SMAN 2 Depok), Juvenius Martin (delegasi Kenya dari SMAK 5 BPK Penabur Jakarta), Melisa Averina (delegasi Vietnam dari SMA Santa Ursula), and Ratna Kartika (delegasi Bangladesh dari SMA Al-Kautsar Lampung). Yup, ini urutannya disusun secara alfabetik. Selain itu wa juga ketemu delegasi-delegasi dari council laen juga, kayak delegasi Korea Utara, Mozambik, dll, yang nggak wa cantumin di sini namanya karena wa nggak tahu *digebukin ybs* (kecuali Mozambik, Giri Rindra Wardana dari SMAN 1 Tangerang).

Sayangnya, wa nggak ketemu Agustina Hermanto (delegasi India dari SMA Jubilee), Williem Karta (delegasi Cina dari SMAK 1 BPK Penabur Jakarta), Andrew Andreas Sadero (delegasi Finlandia dari FTUI), Gladyza Putri Vanska (delegasi Belanda dari SMAN 8 Jakarta), Alvin Aulia Ferdana (delegasi Brazil dari SMA Insan Cendikia), Sisiliana Diah (delegasi Zimbabwe dari SMAN 3 Depok), ama Balqasi Farhani (delegasi Sudan dari SMAN 1 Tangerang).

Nah, sebenernya wa dateng telat, tapi untung jadwalnya telat juga jadinya pas wa dateng Closing-nya baru mau mulai. Setelah dibuka dan diisi serta diselingi oleh berbagai acara – cepet aje, ya, wa ngetik ini jam 1 pas event-nya masih fresh di kepala wa yang sebenernya lumayan teler gara-gara jadwal sibuk (pagi berangkat sekolah–jam 4an pulang ke rumah–2.5 jam kemudian berangkat ke UI–jam 8an sampe di UI–kira-kira 3 jam kemudian baru naik kereta [yup, akhirnya dapet kereta juga! kurang asem, tuh, penjaga loket yang pas wa nyampe di UI bilang kalo tiket kereta ke Bogor udah abis! --a]–nyampe di Bogor udah nembus hari–jalan dulu kira-kira 40 menitan sampe dapet angkot–nyampe di rumah jam 1an–and akhirnya ngetik ini jam 1.20an) – akhirnya sampe juga, deh, di bagian yang paling dinanti, pengumuman pemenang ALSA 14th National English Competition Model United Nations! Silakan disimak:

DISEC
(Disarmament and International Security Council)
Best Delegate: Delegation of the Russian Federation; Jo Reiner dari SMAK 1 BPK Penabur Jakarta;
Best Position Paper: Delegation of the Republic of Panama; Dinye S. H. dari SMAN 2 Bandar Lampung;
Honorary Mention: Delegation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Satria N. S. dari SMA Madania;
Honorary Mention: Delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; Hayyo Imanda dari SMA Jubilee.

Kalau ada kesalahan nama, komen langsung, ntar wa perbaiki *slapped*

UNEP
(United Nations Environment Programme)
Best Delegate: Delegation of the Republic of the Philippines; Maleakhi Misael S. dari SMA N 1 Bogor;
Best Position Paper: Delegation of the Republic of Kenya; Juvenius Martin dari SMAK 5 BPK Penabur Jakarta;
Honorary Mention: Delegation of the People’s Republic of China; Williem Karta dari SMAK 1 BPK Penabur Jakarta;
Honorary Mention: Delegation of the Republic of Kenya; Juvenius Martin dari SMAK 5 BPK Penabur Jakarta.

Yup, UNEP memang council paling produktif dan ampe bisa menghasilkan delegasi yang memenangkan dua buah penghargaan sekaligus! Keren, kan? *stomped*

UNODC
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
Best Delegate: Delegation of the Republic of India; Karen Angelica dari SMAK 1 BPK Penabur Jakarta;
Best Position Paper: Delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany; Ernielly Leo dari SMA Santa Ursula;
Honorary Mention: Delegation of the Canada; Cynthia Wintery dari SMA Jubilee;
Honorary Mention: Delegation of the Republic of South Africa; Widya Maharisa dari SMAN 2 Bandar Lampung.

Seperti DISEC, kalo ada salah ketik, langsung kasih tau, ok?

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Akhirnya, dengan ini ALSA 14th National English Competition ditutup juga, dan semua urusan mengenainya (persiapan, kegiatan lomba, kompetisi, sampe sertifikat) juga selesai! One thing that struck my mind lately was my late promise to my LO, Fadillah Isnan, that accompanied SMAN 1 Bogor’s debating team (my debating team, to be precise) during the ALSA 13th National E-Comp, following:

Ok, wa nggak menang sekarang, tapi tahun depan wa bakal menang!

And itu juga diinget ama si Fadil yang ternyata jadi panitia yang bagi-bagiin hadiah! dalam tegur sapa singkat, dia ngomong, “akhirnya menang juga,” dan wa cuma senyum-senyum aja.

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Selanjutnya, wa males bahas karena sebenernya setelah itu wa cabut buat nyari tiket kereta terus setelah dapet balik lagi karena wa lom ngambil sertifikatnya si Arvina (ingetnya yang ikut E-MUN doang *digetok*). Pokoknya, pengennya tahun depan perlu ada E-MUN lagi, supaya junior-junior wa bisa ngerasain seperti ama MUN. Lagian, ternyata banyak juga anak kelas X di UNEP, wa jadi ngerasa tua –a urgh

P.S.
Buat delegasi di konsul UNEP, nama Moderator kita itu Willy Limiyady, dan nama Director kita itu Amri Pitoyo Priyadi. Go add ‘em all!

“Last” ALSA Day 4

Now, this is the last day of the last ALSA I’m attending and we got two sessions of E-MUN today where we have to pass a resolution for the issue we’re having now; water crisis.

So, I’ve already prepared detailed points from the Working Paper (WP) 1.2 that we’re working on, and I presented it to the other sponsors of WP 1.2 and we all agreed on some points and amended other poinst into a agreement. It was fun, and also this time the delegation of China comes up with another negotiation method, which was to put a real agreement on everyone and keep striking on me thanks to me as the Asian nations. But I have to stick to my policy and, so, sorry China It’s kinda a waste of time for you to try to negotiate me, but not a waste of time for me because I get points from your negotiation method. Points I used to set the Vietnamese delegation to stick with the African-Pacific Bloc until the Final vote. So, that’s another vote for the African-Pacific Bloc

Moving on, this time, China-India-Bangladesh alliance is actually getting stronger. I don’t know what’s with Bangladeshi delegation but she persisted that the Chinese (not Indian) government will help her because it’s their agreement, but you know, I doubt it and although in the end I can’t win her vote, but it was worth trying, actually.

The same goes with the Pakistani delegation. I just can’t win her vote because she … just … I don’t know, looks like she’s not feeling well so she can’t concentrate on the conference.

Good thing is, the African-Pacific Bloc finally get WP 1.3 and WP 1.2 merged, thus winning some votes by several developed nations. It’s cool and actually those votes are what we need because we can’t stand alone with only the votes from African-Pacific Bloc.

Carrying on, finally we submitted our resolution paper. Although it wasn’t finished, and I think my resolution won’t pass because of the persistence of several nations and the ambiguity of the developed nations that mostly signed both Draft Resolutions (DR). Especially when I can’t really get the USA’s point, I mean, she doesn’t really care about anything but her own interest, and even she got “selfish” near the last session by saying that “we also need to pick the people, so we’re not taking every human resources the developing countries are giving to us.”

So, actually the last session is pretty exhausting or boring, perhaps because we’re nearing the resolution and we’re focusing the DRs, and only use desperate efforts in lobbying people (by using pass notes, in instances). And then, the final vote comes up and:

The delegation of the Commonwealth of Australia, vote for DR 1.1.1
The delegation of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, vote against DR 1.1.1
The delegation of the Federative Republic of Brazil, vote for DR 1.1.1
The delegation of Canada, vote for DR 1.1.1
The delegation of People’s Republic of China, vote against DR 1.1.1
The delegation of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, vote for DR 1.1.1
The delegation of the Republic of Finland, vote abstain
The delegation of the Republic of India, vote against DR 1.1.1
The delegation of the Republic of Kenya, vote for DR 1.1.1
The delegation of the Federal Republic of Nepal is absent
The delegation of the Netherlands, vote for DR 1.1.1
The delegation of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, vote for DR 1.1.1
The delegation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan vote against DR 1.1.1
The delegation of the Republic of the Philippines, vote for DR 1.1.1
The delegation of the Republic of the Sudan, vote for DR 1.1.1
The delegation of the United States of America, vote for DR 1.1.1
The delegation of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, vote for DR 1.1.1
The delegation of the Republic of Zimbabwe, vote for DR 1.1.1

So there are 12 delegates that voted for DR 1.1.1 and 4 that voted against DR 1.1.1; 1 voted abstain and 1 didn’t vote. Thus, the resolution that passed was Draft Resolution 1.1.1 – which was the DR that I sponsored!!! It’s very glad to hear that because during the Final vote I don’t really know whether the UNEP council will be a productive council or an unproductive one, and I really hoped that UNEP won’t be an unproductive one; yet it is the most productive council instead because we finished first among the three councils. It was a memorable day where we finally set our disputes aside and just have good times altogether

Unfortunately we’re not attending the Friendship Night although we already dressed in reds because it’s too late. We’ve been waiting for hours and it even got late until about 1 hour – we waited until 8 PM and it hadn’t been started yet so we headed home.

Nonetheless, this last day of the last ALSA is really interesting and I really want to join next year’s E-MUN! Mark my words, if next year’s E-MUN is after the national exam (if it hasn’t got abolished). Thank you, committees, and also the students of SMAN 1 Cibinong, SMAN 1 Tangerang, SMAN 2 Bandar Lampung, SMAN 2 Depok, SMAN 3 Depok, SMAN 8 Jakarta, SMAN 68 Jakarta, SMA Al-Azhar 4, SMA Al-Kautsar Lampung, SMA Insan Cendeika, Fakultas Teknik Universitas Indonesia, SMA Jubilee, SMA Madania, SMA Santa Ursula A, SMA Santa Ursula B, SMAK 1 Jakarta, and SMAK 5 Jakarta, who played their roles as delegates, So, next year [if the condition applies ]!

“Last” ALSA Day 3

Rada-rada telat, tapi akhirnya ada waktu buat posting juga

Today, we’re having our first and second sessions of the UNEP MUN Conference, and it is really fun and exciting that I was pretty amazed how the committee can turn on the heat even more in the second session (as I thought the first session is good enough).

Nonetheless, it’s thanks to the delegation of China from SMAK 1 BPK Penabur Jakarta that’s really persistent and had played his role very well. He’s just like the real China delegate, you know? He’s very good that he even successfully persuaded Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, and Vietnamese delegates to support the controversial dam project during the break! Something I haven’t been able to do yet –a he’s also very confident with his words and you really need to be careful and analytical when he’s around or when you’re talking with him.

As for me, I don’t really know about it because I don’t know really well the foreign policies of Philippines that stuck onto the human rights first. I am also supposed to be USA’s oldest ally in the Southeast Asia, yet I haven’t even got a good communication with her. Of course I have contacted her, but I don’t really know whether I should take her side or not because I don’t see the decisiveness on the post notes.

So, basically, the council was split into two blocs, the Asian Bloc and the African-Pacific Bloc. The Asian Bloc (clearly, as the name suggests) consists of the Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Chinese, and Vietnamese delegates (all Asian nations present but the Philippines), that still sticking around the China-India-Bangladesh dam conflict, while the African-Pacific Bloc (which actual name perhaps only African Bloc, but I’m planning to get nations around Pacific Ocean into this bloc, so I added the word “Pacific” after the word “African” – of course, I would also like to get all the developed nations into this bloc and later change its name into a more general one) consists of the Nigerian, Ethiopian, Zimbabwean, Kenyan, Australian, Sudanese, Finesse, Dutch, and Filipino delegates (all African nations present with additional Finland, Netherlands, and Philippines), that persisted on creating a new section under UNEP and optimizes UNEP’s regional offices to comprehend each continent’s major problems (i.e.: the need of a good sewage system in Philippines, etc.) and later distribute the helps and aids from the developed countries (Finland, Netherlands, and we’re trying to lobby American, Brazilian, and Canadian delegates to sponsor this Bloc).

Some trivias, the Finesse delegate is the “shadow delegate” (previously mentioned as “ghost delegate”) in my council (UNEP) and he’s the speaker from the first seminar in the first day (Andrew Sadero) that also joined Harvard National Model United Nation in 2009. I really want to be in a council with him, so I just smiled to myself when the Chair introduced the shadow delegate. I hope he showed up again in the third and last sessions because he really helped us on making the solutions more detailed and precise, continuously pointing to the mechanisms and it really reminds me of the Mechanical Debates Another less important thing, the Vietnamese delegation from SMA Santa Ursula really reminds me of Salsabila Panji Arum in SMA N 1 Bogor the way she talked and her nervousness when she spoke in the Moderated Caucuses is just like Salsa You should look for it yourselves, I believe.

In the end of the sessions, we finally got three working papers (WP). WP 1.1 is the Asian Bloc’s WP, WP 1.2 is the African-Pacific’s, and WP 1.3 is the Developed Nations’ that I don’t really consider as a solid bloc because WP 1.3 only elaborates some points of WP 1.2 so the African-Pacific Bloc is planning to merge it by the next day. Just pray for our success to lobby them and perhaps the other Asian nations because I really feel like a betrayer that when I saw the Asian nations rounding up in a table in the Unmoderated Caucus while I stand among the developed nations or the African nations. I even have a dispute with some Asian nations like India and – but, of course – China that persisted on their dam programs. I also found out that the Netherlands are the “perfect” country in the council because she doesn’t have any significant problem with water and will even voluntarily build reservoirs in Bangladesh to sustain the flood coming from Tipaimukh Dam in India.

Last things, E-MUN is really interesting, so you better sign for one because it got all the other competitions in one less complicated way. You have debate, speech, paper presentation, [a kind of] battle of brains, [a kind of] news casting, and even [though it's not a real one, but it's still] spelling bee, all in one competition! So, next year, I believe it’d be best to send 2 teams instead of one

“Last” ALSA Day 2

Yup, it’s today, Friday, April 16th 2010! The second day of ALSA E-Comp 2010, the last ALSA I’m attending ) =))

ok, let’s skip the emots

Today I went to school like my usual day, and wearing the same attire (Western Business Attire) as I wore yesterday. Although it’s kinda disturbing to have people staring at me when they passed me, but I believe that’s what diplomats are, so no bother. I waited for Ami until 8 and we went off to UI by Mus *yea, snap the emots already*

Arrived, we re-registered ourselves and got into the room where there are 3 small groups based on the councils (UNODC, DISEC, and UNEP) consisiting of each delegates that already came to the room. I quickly got into the UNEP group and when Kenya’s delegate saw my badge (which is Philippines), he quickly assigned me to know the Vietnam’s delegate and told me that she’s supposed to be on the same bloc as I do coz we are in the same region. Ok, never mind that, coz actually, there are only two existing blocs in UNEP; it’s not based on the water crisis background types or anything, but on gender.

Ok, just kidding. Let’s move on *stomped*

Later delegates from other countries appeared. USA, then China (who was very persuasive that I can’t trust him when he’s talking about his Three Gorges Dam project), and last, India. FYI, I dunno if this is true or false, but the Indian delegate looks like Tina Toon. You know? That little girl with the whole “bolo-bolo” thingie? I don’t really know, but when I asked for her number she named herself “Tina” in my contact. I didn’t suspect her at all until Ami asked me whether she’s that Tina Toon or not. Actually, it’s just an FYI coz I don’t really care about it *kicked*

Then another seminar starts, this time about “How to Make A Resolution”, delivered by a man woman named Sangeh (yea, don’t erase the “h”) whose real name is Kristina Desi. Then, as yesterday, we have a long break (but this time due the Sholat Jum’at) that easily bored me to drowsiness. Fortunately, the next seminar came from two figures that worked as Indonesia’s Representatives in UN and ASEAN. It’s a good seminar – coz it came directly from the sources – and it really makes me think twice of joining UN. You know, it’s way complicated and it’s harder than I thought! Yea, it’s UN anyway, but we’re not gonna talk about that because the most interesting part today is on!

The simulation!

Yup, there’s a MUN simulation that have to be watched by us, the delegates, performed by UI’s FH, FISIP, FE, and FT scholars that attended Harvard National Model United Nation last year. It was great, and although I didn’t see the Secretary-General’s performance as a diplomat (one of the committee said that the Sec-Gen’s skills are the best among the HNMUN participants from UI) I found myself marvelled at other delegates’ performances, mostly from Libyan delegates, coz she’s just… yea, like Erwina Salsabila but in a more more diplomatic terms. Cunning and intelligent, she also dared another bloc in an Unmoderated Caucus about Working Papers and her draft resolution passed into a resolution – that ended the simulation. Another delegate is the South African delegate that sponsored the opposing bloc, and although his draft resolution failed, he’s still a formidable delegate. I also found D.R. Kongo, Nigeria, and Uganda’s delegates were interesting to see as well, but it doesn’t reduce my respect on other delegates You’re all great, guys, and I really hope that some of you can join my council – UNEP as ghost countries XD XD XD

After that, we went home and after we bought the post notes I got home. It’s been another great day, and I can’t wait for tomorrow coz the conferences start tomorrow!

So, delegates, let’s roll~! XD

“Last” ALSA Day 1

Ok, I know it’s kinda late, but just lemme post about ALSA 14th National English Competition that is held in 2010 that of course I’m attending to

This year’s ALSA is quite different. Why? Because the SMAN 1 Bogor didn’t send the Exquisite, but only Ayip Fahmi Faturochman (Ami), Tanita Dhiyaan Rahmani (Tita, which later dropped out of the competition due typhoid fever), Arvina Utami (a tenth grader), and me. Don’t ask me why, coz you gotta figure it out by yourself *slapped* so, I’ll just head straight to another point that makes this year’s ALSA different.

Now, the second thing is, there are no debaters here. Arvina is joining the Spelling Bee competition, while Ami and me joined the E-MUN. Ok, this brings us to the third point, which is there is a new competition in ALSA! It’s E-Comp Model United Nation (E-MUN, for short) and it is a competition that simulates the United Nation conferences to solve an issue through a resolution. At first, I was kinda excited with this kind of competition. I dunno why other members of XQS just think that this competition is too complicated because I believe they all have great minds and they’re just to “conservative”. If they embrace it, I believe they’ll love this competition.

Moving on, so here I am on the first day of my last ALSA (coz next year I’ll be a 12th grader and I can’t attend this event ). I woke up so early, and arrived at school wearing white long sleeved shirt, gray tie, black trousers, and black “pantofel” shoes, with a black oversized suit on my backpack. It was so early, around 5, and I witnessed every single students coming into the school. Yea, it’s not kinda important unless the waiting part that’s pretty boring, so let’s skip until I get to UI.

In UI, I registered and followed by Ami that came minutes later, and we waited for… I dunno, for a long time, of course, and we got ourselves engaged with series of seminars. For me, the seminars are quite good. I’ve read the VMUN’s (Vancouver MUN) Battlefield Earth handbook for MUN beginners and the committee told us that they had all attended HNMUN (Harvard National Model United Nation) in 2009, and they shared their experience to us, and it actually sounded like a rehearsal for me because I got more info and recognized others yet lost another (because there are some points of MUN that don’t exist in the E-MUN). But it’s fine, it also has a short simulation in the end of the day and I really like it

There’s also an announcement that there will be ghost countries. It’s like swing teams in debate, but I really hope one of those ghost countries are one of the countries that I expected to show up or I’m gonna be a dead fish But, it’s a good day, and I appreciate it very much. Thank you, E-MUN Committees, for providing a good day and sorry if I typed this so late and forgot some things