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kids & education A vIRUs ThAT INvADEs ThE mIND “I’m hoping during this conference that you’re going to catch a virus. That you will all be infected deeply –and for your entire life- with this virus; that there will be no antidote available – it will never be developed; that this virus will spread like wildfire throughout the world; that people will catch this and understand that our world is in peril...” The above paragraph is fragments of a speech that might scare people, if it was not from Tim Carr, JIS head of School, who delivered it at the opening ceremony of the 4th Annual EARCOS Global Issues Network (GIN) Conference. Mr. Carr didn’t talk about a biological weapon that terrorists might use. He was talking about another virus. You mentioned about a virus that you wished people to catch at the GIN conference. What virus is it actually? First of all an awareness of the problems in the world. Some of the biggest global issues like poverty and the distribution of resources, the access to clean water, spread of desease, etc. So an awareness of those problems. And then it’s also an awareness that we can make a difference and that each student can make a difference about those problems even when they are in school. So the virus that we want is the GIN conciousness. It’s a combination of awareness, the problems, the capacity that each individual has, to do something about it and then taking action and trying to address that problem. Do you think the GIN Conference has spread a strong enough virus? I hope so. I think it would help, because it created a condition for the virus to spread. And I think it created a lot of enthusiasm. They were feeding the students for feeding off one another. The ideas that they were distributing infected them all the more now. So I think the condition for the virus to spread was passed on. Knowing that the world’s condition is getting worse, is this the point of the GIN Conference - that kids must not wait? I think that’s one of the big points, that they can take action now. They don’t need to wait and no matter what age they are, students can make a significant difference. If they are five years old, or even younger than that, it’s the conciousness, that they’re looking outside of themselves, they’re looking to the needs of other people around them, and changing their own behaviour so they can address these problems and live a more responsible lifestyle. During the GIN Conference, JIS became an environmentally responsible campus. Is this condition still maintained? This behaviour is going to need to evolve with time. I don’t think we are exemplary. I don’t think we are as strong in our green effort as we could be. But we just had an Earth Day celebration just last week after the GIN conference. And the Earth Day was influenced by the conference. So we did really interesting things on campus in each one of the divisiond in the elementary school, in the middle school, high school… Lots of hands on, (students) get their hands dirty trying to make things better. They learn how to compost, go to the local kampong here and find out what they can do to help their environment, or what they can improve a little bit. It’s already growing. It’s already been a catalyst for a change. What does the GIN Conference mean to JIS? Is it a part of the curriculum or school program? We are increasingly hoping that it will be a part of both the curriculum and cocurricular activities. So things that they choose to do outside the school, we try to weave it into the curriculum too. And that’s hard to be honest… It’s not easy to figure out how that will work at each grade level, and how we are going to weave in these global issues, but that’s what we are trying to do. What are the reasons for JIS to conduct the GIN conference? We are a part of the mission of our school that says ‘to be the best for the world’. So it’s really the core of what JIS is about as a school… It’s so that we can help these students to go and make significant differences in the world to make it a better place. That’s why we are here. That’s the mission of JIS. Is GINDO the extension of GIN in Indonesia? That (GINDO) was a creative idea. You should ask the students about this. I believe they (were the ones) who came out with this, ‘Let’s spread it around to local Indonesian schools and see if we can get them engaged about this issue’. And I think what they found is lot of interests, from Indonesian schools, national schools, national plus schools to participate in GIN-like activities. To do the same sort of thing, to identify global issues and then develop service, action and projects to address them. BY: FRANSISCA RESTIAWARDANI. PHOTOS: AGUNG NATANAEL. 94 | MAY 2011 www.nowjakarta.co.id www.nowjakarta.co.id MAY 2011 | 95
kids & education JSFA: Another FAntAStic SeASon oF FootbAll BY Brian Dallamore April 30 th sees the end of the Jakarta Schools Football League season for 2011 with the highly impressive Gala Day Awards ceremony hosted at The British International School in Bintaro. This event has, since the leagues inaugural season back in 2005, become a major highlight in the Jakarta schools football calendar as some 1,500 players and parents assemble in the BIS world Theatres to receive winner’s trophies and medals, sportsmanship awards and the like. The awards themselves are interspaced between highlevel entertainment from a variety of performers which this year again features PJ Roberts from ESPN TV in Singapore, Indonesian national team players and the now institutionalized array of dancers, drummers and ball jugglers to name but a few. Like the League itself, the Gala Day awards extravaganza seems to grow every year as more and more schools participate from just about every aspect of life in the city. Whether it’s the high-end and large international schools such as JIS or BIS, or faith schools like Al Azhar Bekasi or Al Rahman School, or the emerging National Plus schools like Sinar Mas World Academy or Dian Harapan School from Ciputat, you’ll find them all there every Saturday morning between January and April cheering on their teams to victory - and sometimes defeat. 2011 will go down in the annals of the JSFA as an outstanding season in a number of ways. This has been the largest football program ever staged in league history with close to 700 matches played over the 22 separate divisions at 7 different venues, involving some 2,000 registered players. The league maintains a panel of 50 referees who officiate each week in front of an estimated average parent attendance of approximately 750 across the various grounds. In the opinion of the JSFA committee ‘Big is Beautiful’ and it is difficult to see where the League will go from here. One important aspect of 2011 has been the involvement of children form the under-privileged community in using football as a medium to bring kids together from the vast divide of opportunity in Jakarta. Very much at the forefront of this has been the highly active Community Action Service (CAS) program run at The British International school whereby students create and manage teams drawn from orphanages, local kampongs and even street scavenger kids. These teams receive school sponsorship and League support extending to food, football kit, transport and, even for some, free education. 2011 reached out to 75 children in this way and forms a template for further schools to embrace a wider community spirit through sport. So who has done well this year? The big schools tend to have an advantage of course, particularly in the top divisions, where JIS and BIS together with Al Azhar and STB-ACS feature strongly. However, there are a lot of new names emerging in B, C and D divisions where smaller schools who have less students to choose from have done particularly well. It is one of the redeeming features of this league that less able schools due to size have an opportunity to compete on a level playing field together with larger schools 2 nd and 3 rd teams in addition to schools of equal footing. In fact BIS even fields an All Girls 5 th team in the Under 12 age category albeit that they had a very difficult season. League Winners/Runners-up in the Coca-Cola League was as follows; Under 8A Winners Jakarta International School Runner-up British International School Under 8B Winners Jakarta International School PEL Runner-up Sekolah Global Mandiri Under 8C1 Winners British International School Blue Runner-up Global Jaya International School Under 8C2 Winners NIS International School Runner-up Madania Progressive Indonesian School CUP U 8 Winners BIS Red v JIS PEL 96 | MAY 2011 www.nowjakarta.co.id www.nowjakarta.co.id MAY 2011 | 97 Runners Up Under10A Winner British International School Red Runner Up Al Azhar Bekasi Under 10B Winner Sekolah Global Mandiri / Jakarta International School PIE Runner Up Mentari International School Jakarta Under 10C1 Winner Global Jaya International School Runner Up Al Rahman Islamic School Under 10C2 Winner National High International Prestige School Runner Up British International School White Under 10C3 Winner Sekolah Victory Plus Runner Up Singapore International School Kelapa Gading CUP U10 Winners JIS PEL v JIS PIE Runners Up Under 12A Winner Jakarta International School Runner Up British International School Red Under 12B Winner Mentari International School Jakarta Runner Up Jakarta International School / British International School Under 12C1 Winner Deutsche International School Runner Up Singapore International School Kelapa Gading Under 12C2 Winner Dian Harapan School Runner Up Bulakan (CAS) Under 12C3 Winner Binus International School Runner Up Singapore International School Pantai Indah Kapuk CUP U12 Winners BIS Red v JIS Runners Up Under 14A Winner SMPI Al Azhar Runner Up British International School Red Under 14B1 Winner British International School Blue Runner Up Sekolah Global Mandiri Under 14B2 Winner Sekolah Victory Plus Runner Up Singapore International School Pantai Indah Kapuk CUP U14 Winners JIS A v AL Azhar Runners Up Under 16A Winner Sekolah Tiara Bangsa ACS/Al Azhar Runner Up Jakarta International School U16B1 Winner Sekolah Global Mandiri Runner Up Kampung Jombang Boys (CAS)/Madania Progressive Indonesian School U16B2 Winner Sekolah Global Jaya Runner Up Mahanaim CUP U16 Winners JIS v STB-ACS Runners Up
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