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Watotena beach is located at the Southeast of Adonara Island, precisely in Nelerereng village, Ileboleng district, East Adonara, East Flores. The beach is still visited by few tourists so that the beach is appropriate to enjoy relaxation and beautiful scenery. Besides white sand and blue sea, the interesting beach has black stones or magma stones with various kinds of shapes and formations which decorate the seashore that add the beauty of Watotena beach and this beach is quite different from other beaches in Flores land. The name of Watotena means boat from stone, or stone which has shape boat. It can be seen from magma stone which has shape like boat. There are a lot of magma stones which appear on white sand surface. The exotics of the beach is more beautiful with Mt. Ile Boleng scenery behind it. You can do many activities over there, beginning from going down the beach, playing sand or water and looking for interesting spots to take picture. To play at the sea water, you should be careful because sometimes its wave is quite big. To get access to Watotena beach, you can use motor boat from Larantuka and anchor at Terong or Waiwerang port on Adonara Island. The beach has a distance around 6 kilometers from Waiwerang port and takes around 30 minutes from Waiwerang and entirely takes around 3 hours from Larantuka port. The most important point is that the tourists should pay attention to the cleanliness. They are prohibited to throw away garbage carelessly. Smoking is forbidden and no littering on the beach. This is certainly aimed at making the beach very clean without pollution.

Voice of Indonesia presents “Let’s Speak Bahasa Indonesian,” a lesson in the Indonesian language on the radio, introducing some Indonesian vocabulary and tips on how to use it in conversation. This segment is a joint initiative of Voice of Indonesia and the Language Development Agency at the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture. Today’s  topic is Musim  or ‘Season’.

Next  is a conversation between Tony and Tour Guide at Prambanan Temple area. They are talking about the season.

As usual, after the conversation, I’ll introduce some vocabulary and expressions related to the topic today. I’ll say each word slowly, and twice. You can follow after me.

There are two seasons in Indonesia, namely the dry season and the rainy season. In Indonesian language, you can say, Di Indonesia ada dua musim, yaitu musim kemarau dan musim hujan.

Another example to mention the season in your country: Di Amerika ada  empat musim, yaitu musim panas, musim semi, musim gugur dan musim dingin  which mean ‘there are four seasons in America, namely summer, winter, spring and autumn’.

The most famous two boy-bands from South Korea Selatan, Super Junior and TVXQ visited Indonesia starting from March 20-23. They promoted Indonesian tourism. Tourism Ministry also facilitated their attendance in Indonesia. Their attendance is expected to be able to make Indonesian tourism more well-known in the world. A number of destinations visited by Super Junior and TVXQ during in Yogyakarta are like Borobudur temple, Prambanan temple, Tamansari, Kalisuci Cave Tubing, Sultan Palace, Malioboro, Kampung Bule, Jamblang cave, Kalisuci cave, and Parangtritis beach. Head of Public Communication Bureau of Tourism Ministry, Guntur Sakti said on Friday, March 22 that their arrival was to make film and vlog content on channel and TV program TV which will be shown in September 2019.

Betawi’s culture showed its enchantment in Super Design Show. The event was held on March 21. This was a series of the largest design event in the world, Milan Design Week 2019. In the Super Design Show this year, Betawi’s culture was displayed by Indonesian Contemporary Art & Design (ICAD). ICAD collaborated with provincial government of Jakarta, with the theme ‘Essential Jakarta’. There were 8 icons of Betawi which were highlighted. They are Ondel-ondel, Kembang Kelapa, Gigi Balang ornament, Sadariah clothes, Kebaya Kerancang, Batik Betawi, Kerak Telor, and Bir Pletok. Then, the traditional foods, such as Gado-gado and Soto Betawi were served during the event. On the pavilion with 200 meters wide, ICAD explored Betawi’s traditional icons which succeeded to adapt with modern life. 

A singer from Indonesia achieved international award. After Agnez Mo achieved award in the United States of America, now a Dangdut singer, Via Vallen received an award as Special Guest from Indonesia from BraVo Awards 2019 which was held at The State Kremlin Palace, Moscow, Russia recently. Earlier, the award had been received by Sandhy Sondoro who achieved the award in International Professional Music Awards "BraVo" that was held at The State Kremlin Palace, Moscow, Russia last year.

The open campaign for the 2019 General Elections has begun since Sunday (24/3). This open campaign takes place from April 24-13. This campaign will be a crucial stage for both sides of the presidential candidate pair 01 Joko Widodo-Maaruf Amin and presidential candidate pair 02 Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno with their supporting political parties. Why is it called 'crucial'? Because this open campaign involves mobilizing large numbers of people so that violation or clash may occur. To avoid the mass meeting of the two candidate pairs, the General Election Commission -KPU has made a campaign schedule based on regional zoning.The open campaign is like a "war" to gain voters. All contestants try to optimally attract the groups of ‘undecided voters’ or ‘swing voters’. The great effort to gain voters’ support is a concern of the succeeding team. Those who have not decided their choice will be persuaded to vote according to the wishes of the majority.The succeeding teams, supporting political parties and volunteers are certainly legitimate to win the support of the undecided voters. However, it should be kept in mind that the efforts must continue to prioritize ethics and comply with the existing regulations so that clashes or violence can be avoided. For example, the competition situation during the campaign period since September last year has made polarization heated up in the society.All contestants should return to the campaign philosophy as part of the community's political education and the campaign must be carried out responsibly. However, violations during the open campaigns must be dealt with. Election law must be enforced. The open campaigns must avoid the practice of money politics, intimidation and violence.The main essence of the campaign is to provide literacy for prospective voters so that they can make choices rationally, instead of a campaign that simply uses the voters’ emotion. This is feared to bring about fanaticism that has the potential for conflict in the election. Thus, the participants in the election should consistently carry out integrity pacts that they have signed to create peaceful elections, without hoaxes, politicization of tribe, religion, race, and intergroup -SARA, and money politics.