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One of the music festivals in Jakarta that should not be missed is the Everblast Festival 2024. Targeting millennials, the Everblast Festival is a nostalgic music festival from the 2000s that is held annually. Last year, this festival was attended by thousands of people who wanted to see the Canadian band Simple Plan and the Alternative Rock bands from the United States, Hoobastank and The Rasmus. This festival presents international and local bands that were popular in the 2000s.

Everblast Festival officially announces Sleeping With Sirens as the festival's lineup. In addition to being seen on the Everblast Festival poster, this was also confirmed through the band’s official website, sirensmusic.co, which listed Jakarta as part of their tour. Not only Sleeping With Sirens, but a number of big international bands also took part in the lineup, such as Two Door Cinema Club, 311, and Depapepe.

Not only international bands, but Everblast Festival also features local bands such as J-Rocks, Rocket Rockers, Efek Rumah Kaca, and a number of other local bands. Everblast Festival 2024, which will be held on November 30, 2024, at Gambir Expo Kemayoran, Jakarta, will give the audience an experience of a night full of excitement with international and national musicians.

Welcome back to the special weekend edition of Miscellany! Indonesian students from the Faculty of Dentistry, Syiah Kuala University (USK), Aceh province, won a gold medal and a special award at the Inovas International Invention Show and Competition in Zagreb, Croatia, in October 2024. The innovative team known as BISCATUR created a biscuit product from eggshells, aiming to prevent stunting and osteoporosis. This extraordinary work outperformed more than 4,000 participants from various countries.

The BISCATUR team consists of students from the Faculty of Dentistry—Galuh Satwika Paramita, Deffan Dericco, Mohd. Fakhriza Naufal, and Diva Maulana—and one student from the Faculty of Economics, Muhammad Raiyan Fajri. They brought home not only a gold medal but also special awards from Canada and Romania. Their innovation focuses on utilizing eggshells, usually considered waste, into health-beneficial products. The team was assisted by the Vice Dean of Student Affairs of the Faculty of Dentistry, drg. Sri Rezeki SpPM.

For this success, the Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, Dr. Cut Soraya, expressed her gratitude, stating that this achievement will encourage creativity among other students at USK to innovate at the international level. The INOVA 2024 event featured 213 research teams from 25 countries, highlighting Indonesian students' potential to contribute to science and innovation, crucial for welcoming Golden Indonesia 2045. Hopefully, the success of the BISCATUR team will inspire other young generations to excel.

Traffic jams are a prolonged problem in the world's big cities, including in Surabaya, Indonesia. Therefore, a team of students from Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) Surabaya created an AI-for-integrated program called Surabaya Integrated Smart Road Infrastructure (SISRI) as a solution for traffic jams in Surabaya.

Head of ITS Go Gangster Team, Muhammad Afif, explained that Smart Transport and Smart Governance are two important pillars in the development of smart cities. The team created an adaptive traffic light based on traffic density. The app has five top features that can watch people's mobility patterns. One of the main features is SI-Eye, an AI-based camera sensor that can detect type, speed, and flow of traffic. The data collected by the sensor is sent to SI-Traffic that will then adaptively change the traffic light color. This can prevent congestion due to the duration of traffic lights. This innovation also has SI-Robu with an on-board unit. This is an instrument installed on vehicles and can send signals to traffic lights to make it turn green. This device is mainly installed on priority vehicles such as buses, ambulances, and fire trucks.

There are also additional features like SI-Air that monitor air quality on a real-time basis. This service is integrated with SI-Maps, so that SISRI can provide route recommendations with good air quality. Besides, SI-Maps also can show public transport position and route. With their innovation, the team won 1st place in the Smart City category in the Gemastik XIV Semarang State University (UNNES), recently.

Dear readers, wherever you are. We meet again in the program "Let's Speak Bahasa Indonesia," which introduces you to Indonesian vocabulary and guides you to use it properly. This program, "Let's Speak Bahasa Indonesia," is a collaboration between Voice of Indonesia, the Overseas Service of Radio Republik Indonesia, and the Agency for Language Development and Cultivation, the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology. Today's topic is “Di Labuan Bajo” (2x) which means In Labuan Bajo.

You will read a conversation titled “Ingin Menjadi Penyelam” (2x), which means (I Want to Become a Diver). This conversation takes place between Chris, a vlogger from Australia, and Nana, a tour guide at Manta Point, Manggarai Barat Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province. Chris mentions that since he was a child, he wanted to become a diver. Let’s read their conversation!

Tour guide (F): Chris, kamu sudah sering menyelam?
Chris (M): Ya, tentu. Saya sudah punya lisensi menyelam. Sejak kecil saya ingin menjadi penyelam.
Tour guide (F): Wah, hebat. Semoga nanti kita beruntung bertemu manta.

After reading the conversation, I will introduce you some vocabulary related to today’s material, “Ingin Menjadi Penyelam” (2x), which means I Want to Become a Diver. I will say it slowly, and you can repeat it after me.

"Sejak kecil" (2x) which means "since childhood"
"Menjadi" (2x) which means "to become"
"Penyelam" (2x) which means "diver"
"Sejak kecil saya ingin menjadi penyelam" which means "Since childhood, I wanted to become a diver"
"Menyelam" (2x) which means "to dive"
"Beruntung" (2x) which means "lucky"
"Bertemu" (2x) which means "to meet"
"Manta" (2x) which means "manta ray"

In the conversation, you heard the statement “Sejak kecil saya ingin menjadi penyelam” (2x), which means "Since childhood, I wanted to become a diver." In the context of the conversation, the word “penyelam” (2x) which means diver… In that expression, the word “penyelam” (2x) refers to a person whose profession is diving and is related to the word "menyelam” which refers to the activity of diving in water.

Another Example

Let’s read another example of words referring to people with specific professions.

"Penari" (2x) which means (dancer)
"Penari menarikan tari danding dari Manggarai." which means "The dancer performs the danding dance from Manggarai"

"Pedagang" (2x) which means "merchant"
"Banyak pedagang di kawasan wisata" which means "There are many merchants in the tourist area".

One of the popular tourist destinations in Komodo National Park, East Nusa Tenggara Province, is Manta Point. At Manta Point, visitors can dive and meet manta rays. Mantas are a type of ray from the species **Manta birostris**, which are shaped like a kite and have long tails.

Before we end today’s Let’s Speak Bahasa Indonesia, let’s read the example conversation once again for more clarity.

Tour guide (F): Chris, kamu sudah sering menyelam?
Chris (M): Ya, tentu. Saya sudah punya lisensi menyelam. Sejak kecil saya ingin menjadi penyelam.
Tour guide (F): Wah, hebat. Semoga nanti kita beruntung bertemu manta.

That was “Let’s Speak Bahasa Indonesia” with a conversation titled “Ingin Menjadi Penyelam” or I want to become a diver. We hope this edition is useful for those of you who want to know more about the Indonesian language. We will meet again next week with a different topic. Thank you for your attention, and see you next time!