SOAL TO BAHASA INGGRIS KELAS 12

2152 East Teak Wood

5^th of December, 2016

Dear Valery,

In today’s fast world it’s difficult to find a true friend like you. I sometimes think I am very lucky to get you as without you life would have been very boring. I still remember the first day of school when we were young, you called me and gave a seat besides you. It’s now almost 15 years and our relationship has grown in past years. I would like to thank you for being there for me for the ups and downs of my life.

Last year when my father passed away you were a support to me and my family. I don’t know what I would have done without you then. You were more helpful than my relative. I can never forget how you stayed back in the hospital late night just to support me and my mother.

I cherish every moment of life we spent together. Though you are away from me I still feel that you are close to me. How are your studies going? Last time when you wrote you seemed little worried about the portions. I know you will easily pass your engineering also with flying colors.

When are your next holidays? I am eagerly waiting to meet you and spend some good time together.

I would like to thank you for being my friend and being there for me.

With best wishes,

Truly yours,

Shavira

CUT NYAK DHIEN

Cut NyakDhien was born into an Islamic aristocratic family in Aceh Besar in VI mukim district in 1848. Her father, TeukuNantaSetia, was a member of the ruling UlèëBalang aristocratic class in VI mukim, and her mother was also from an aristocrat family. She was educated in religion and household matters. She was renowned for her beauty, and many men proposed to her until her parents arranged for her marriage to TeukuCek Ibrahim Lamnga, the son of aristocrat family, when she was twelve.

On 26 March 1873, Dutch declared war on Aceh. During the first part of this war, the First Aceh Expedition, Aceh was led by PanglimaPolem and Sultan Alauddin Mahmud Syah II. The Dutch army sent 3,000 soldiers led by Johan Harmen Rudolf Köhler to take the Sultan's palace. The Sultan, however, received military aid from Italy and the United Kingdom, and the Aceh army was rapidly modernized and enlarged from 10,000 to 100,000 soldiers. Dutch forces were successfully pushed back, and Köhler died in action.

In November 1873, during the Second Aceh Expedition the Dutch successfully captured VI mukim in 1873, followed by the Sultan's Palace in 1874. In 1875, Cut NyakDhien and her baby, along with other mothers, were evacuated to a safer location while her husband Ibrahim Lamnga fought to reclaim VI mukim. Teuku Ibrahim Lamnga died in action in GleTarum on June 29, 1878. Hearing of this, Cut NyakDhien was enraged and swore to destroy the Dutch.

Some time after the death of her husband, an Acehnese hero Teuku Umar proposed to her. Although she rejected him at first, she accepted his proposal when Umar allowed her to fight, and they were married in 1880. This greatly boosted the morale of Aceh armies in their fight against the KaphéBlanda, or Dutch infidel. Teuku Umar and Cut NyakDhien had a daughter together named Cut Gambang. Dhien was very determined to stay in the war that so took her daughter in with her.

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Yogyakarta is one of the foremost cultural centers of Java, the seat of the mighty Javanese empire of Mataram from which present day Yogyakarta has the best inherited of traditions. The city itself has a special charm, which seldom fails to captivate the visitor. Gamelan, classical and contemporary Javanese dances, leather puppet, theater and other expressions of traditional art will keep the visitor spellbound. Local craftsmen excel in arts such batiks, silver and leather works. Next to the traditional, contemporary art has found fertile soil in Yogya's culture oriented society.

Yogyakarta is often called the main gateway to the Central Java as where it is geographically located. It stretches from Mount Merapi to the Indian Ocean. There is daily air service to Yogya from Jakarta, Surabaya and Bali as well as regular train service and easy accessibility by road. Yogyakarta is commonly considered as the modern cultural of Central Java. It is a very lively city and a shopper's delight. The main road, Malioboro Street, is always crowded and famous for its night street food-culture and street vendors. Many tourist shops and cheap hotels are concentrated along this street or in the adjoining tourist area such Sosrowijayan Street.

The key attraction of Yogyakarta is 'Kraton' (the Sultan's Palace), the centre of Yogya's traditional life and despite the advance of modernity; it still emanates the spirit of refinement, which has been the hallmark of Yogya's art for centuries. This vast complex of decaying buildings was built in the 18th century, and is actually a walled city within the city with luxurious pavilions and in which the current Sultan still resides. Yogyakarta is also the only major city, which still has traditional 'Becak' (rickshaw-style) transport.

Sluggish oil markets will continue to cloud the upstream industry this year and prompt a majority of oil companies in Indonesia to implement decreases in their workforce, a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Indonesia has indicated.

In an overwhelming majority, 91 percent of respondents believed that employment in the oil and gas industry would decrease this year, highlighting the continuing effect of the slide in the oil price.

“Almost 75 percent of the respondents expect their company to reduce their expatriate workforce, with 53 percent expecting a decline in the number of local hires,” said SachaWinzenried, PwC Indonesia’s lead advisor for energy, utilities and mining, said in Jakarta on Thursday.

Likewise, future spending is expected to slow, particularly for exploration, compared to previous years. Only half of those surveyed expected that their company would increase exploration activities globally and in Indonesia in the next three years.

As for general capital expenditure, respondents were broadly divided into three similarly sized groups: one-third would decrease capital expenditure, one-third would increase it and one-third would maintain it as is.

Sangkuriang

Once upon a time in West Java, Indonesia, lived a princess named DayangSumbi. Her hobby was weaving cloth. One day her weaving tool fell but she was too lazy toget it herself. She shouted out, ‘Anybody there?  Bring me my tool.  I will give you special present.  If you are female, I will consider you as my sister.  If you are male, I will marry you’

       A male creature came, but it was a dog. His name was Tumang. He happily brought her the tool to her. DayangSumbi was very surprised but she kept her promise. She married the dog. Tumang was actually a man who had been cursed by a witch to become a dog. But at certain times Tumang could turn back to be a normal man. Their only son, Sangkuriang, was soon born, and he grew up to be a handsome and healthy boy. He always played with his very loyal dog, Tumang. He did not know that he was actually his father, because DayangSumbi hid the secret from him. Sangkuriang liked to hunt in the woods, of course with Tumang.

      One dayDayangSumbi asked him to bring home a deer’s heart. Unfortunately, he could not find any deer in the woods. He did not want to disappoint his mother and was thinking hard how to bring home a deer’s heart. Suddenly he had a very bad idea. He killed Tumang! Then he brought his heart home and gave it to DayangSumbi. Sangkuring could not cheat her. She knew it was Tumang’s heart. So, she got very angry and hit Sangkuriang’s forehead with a piece of wood and told him to leave the village.

       Many years later, Sangkuriang grew up to be a powerful man. One day he went back to his village. He met a beautiful young woman there, and he fell in love with her at the first sight. It was DayangSumbi! She never got older because she had been granted eternal youth by the gods. Sangkuriang did not know that she was his mother, so she came to her and proposed to marry her.

       When he walked closer to her, DayangSumbi got very surprised. She saw the scar in Sangkuriang’s forehead, and soon she knew that he was her son, who left her a long time ago. She told him the truth and tried hard to explain it to him, but he did not believe her. She accepted his proposal but gave him an impossible thing to do. She wanted him to build a lake and a boat in just one night!

       Sangkuriang agreed, because he knew that he could make it with the help of his genies. By midnight he finished the lake and then started making the boat. DayangSumbi was thinking hard to find a way to fail him. Before dawn, she asked the people in the village to burn the woods in the East, and the light made all the cocks crow. Thinking that the night would be over soon, the genies ran fast and left Sangkuriang before the boat was finished. Sangkuriang realized that DayangSumbi had cheated him. He got very angry and he kicked the boat upside down. It gradually became a mountain and it is now known as Mount. TangkubanPerahu.

Last year I went to Jamaica with my boyfriend.It was my favourite holiday. We went there by plane in October.

The trip was very long and hard. The seat was very small and uncomfortable.

We stayed in a hotel in Montego Bay. The hotel was very big and beautiful. There were three swimming-pools, big gardens, a disco, a gym and five restaurants. We met a lot of Spanish people at the hotel. It was very hot.

We got up early in the morning because we went to an excursion. We visited a lot of beaches. The beaches were very nice in Jamaica. We went to a small safari. We saw birds, crocodiles.

In the afternoon we went shopping. I bought t-shirts, pictures, towels, coffee and figures. We went back in the evening and had dinner in the hotel. The food was very good. There was pizza, meat, fish, fruit, typical Jamaica´s food, ice-cream, etc.After that we went to the disco and went to bed very late.

We stayed in Jamaica for seven days. We came back to Spain by plane. We were sleeping the entire trip. I loved Jamaica.

The West Sumatra provincial administration plans to promote the tourism potential of wild boar hunting in an effort to improve the welfare of local residents.

The plan has won the support of Governor Irwan Prayitno.

"The unique wild boar hunting activity has the potential to be developed as a leading tourism event in West Sumatra," he said in Padang on Monday.

Irwan added that boar hunting, aided by dogs in Matur Mudiak village in Agam regency, had attracted a large number of participants and spectators.

According to him, by setting up food and beverage stations near hunting areas, boar hunting could help spur local economies.

"We hope this kind of activity can also be developed as a tourism attraction in other regencies in West Sumatra," Irwan said as quoted by Antara news agency.

Irwan noted that the boar hunting in West Sumatra had been popular for several decades.

Agam Regent Indra Catri said that Sunday's event included participants from across West Sumatra and the neighboring provinces. 

After fake vaccines, the alleged use of expired food ingredients and now expired medicines, what else will happen? Over the last month, consumers have had to face the risk of falling victim to dirty business practices that could harm their health or even endanger their life.

And one may ask, where is the state? According to the preamble of the Constitution, the state is responsible for protecting its citizens. This may be merely a rhetorical question because it is impossible to expect the state, through its various agencies, to guard every citizen 24 hours a day.  

But as seen by the recurrent blame games and denials made by government and state agencies responsible for food and drug monitoring whenever a scandal arises, the state’s protection of consumers is regrettably lacking. Law enforcement is therefore the only way to prove the state’s care for the safety of consumers and its interest in preventing more people from becoming victims.

The police are now examining samples of ingredients used by two popular restaurant chains in Jakarta, which had already passed their shelf-life date. It will take the police quite some time to finally act against the owners of the restaurant chains and for the courts to determine their fate.

Last month, the police arrested a number of people, including doctors, after the discovery of the distribution and use of bogus vaccines for children in Jakarta, West Java and Banten. The Health Ministry recorded that 1,500 children had been exposed to the fake vaccines from 2014 onward and ordered free revaccinations for them.

Indonesia does not fall short in legislation to protect consumers. The only problem is how the laws, ranging from the Consumer Protection Law to the Criminal Code, and their operational regulations, are enforced.

Rarely is the law strictly enforced in the form of maximum punishments. We have never heard of a company having its license revoked or its owners imprisoned for lengthy periods of time for cheating their consumers. Rather, because the Consumer Protection Law does not mean to kill business, it is more likely a company will be given an opportunity to renew its permits despite having a stained track record.

Consumers in general cannot afford to fight the financial might of producers, which is why the state has to support the weak to ensure fairness. Educating consumers of their rights is the least the state could do.

Mongoose is common name for several small carnivores found in Africa and Asia. They are generally terrestrial mammals, but some are semi-aquatic, and others are at home in the treetops.

The head and body of a typical mongoose are a total of 23 to 65 cm (9 to 26 in) long and grayish or brownish in color. The animal has a tapered head, long tail, and short feet. Mongooses live about 7 to 12 years in the wild, but in captivity they may live to more than 20 years. They have one to four young in each litter. They subsist on rodents and snakes and are renowned for attacking even the largest and most poisonous snakes—to whose poison they are not immune—by an agile avoidance of their strikes. Mongooses have been introduced to many areas of the world in order to control rodents and snakes, but importation of mongooses into the United States is prohibited because they also destroy many useful animals.

A common species of mongoose inhabits India. The common Egyptian species, the ichneumon, was worshiped by the ancient Egyptians. A related animal, the suricate, or slender-tailed meerkat, of southern Africa, is easy to tame.

Scientific classification: Mongooses belong to the family Herpestidae. The Indian species is classified as Herpestesedwardsi, the ichneumon as Herpestes ichneumon, and the suricate as Suricatasuricatta.