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Today I have my Mid-Semester review, which consists of writing a review on a Jakarta Post article. A review that I very much like, because since the age of 8, I've started reading The Jakarta Post, so I'm good with it. The article that I chose is "UN to grill RI on rising rights abuse" by Hans Nicholas Jong. I chose this because A) I love the UN, B) Nara Masista, my new favourite Indonesian figure is mentioned and C) I'm a huge human rights defender (I wouldn't call myslef an activist, because I haven't done anything significant yet). The sentence that intrigues me the most is the mention of violation of religion, because I'm not a Muslim, so in Indonesia I'm quite a minority. Ifind itnot very shocking that Indonesia seals down other religious worshipping places because I have heard of it. My ears aren't a stranger to religious violence or even the executions in Aceh which they consider is right according to Sharia,  the religious law of Islam...

8 September kemarin, aku Fikri dan Sha datang ke ISBI untuk riset lebih lanjut mengenai Pagelaran Budaya Nusantara, dengan riset, yang dimaksud adalah membaca buku-buku di Perpustakaan ISBI dan meriset beberapa mahasiswa yang sedang ada di kampus. Dari sekolah, aku Fikri dan Sha berjalan lewat Babakan Jeruk dan menyegat angkot jurusan Gn. Batu-St. Hall bersama Nathan, Tia dan Nathan. Saat kami melewati Giant , kami melihat bahwa dua kelompok lain masih menunggu angkot. Angkot kami sudah penuh, jadi mereka hanya bisa menunggu angkot selanjutnya. Setelah sekitar 20 menit, kami tiba di kawasan Kebon Kawung, di mana kami turun dan naik angkot jurusan Gede Bage-St. Hall. Sampai sana, harga angkot per orangnya Rp3.000. Lalu, kami  naik angkot Gede Bage-St. Hall. Harganya jatuhnya lebih mahal; Rp5.000 karena jaraknya lebih jauh ketimbang angkot pertama. Supir angkotnya bilang juga, kalau ke Buah Batu memang mahal, karena kalau sudah di daerah sana, baliknya jauh dan macet lagi. Setelah s...