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EARTHENWARE FESTIVAL OF PEJAGATAN VILLAGE

May 13, 2018, Head of Kutowinangun Drs. Agus Susanto opened the Earthenware Festival of Pejagatan Village. The event organized by the youths of Pejagatan Village, which is held by Nanang Setiawan, was attended by Forkompimcam on the occasion also attended by ORI Director (Original Rekor Indonesia Award).

Concerned about the future of earthenware in Pejagatan, Nanang Setiyawan (24) took the initiative to hold a Earthenware Festival in Pejagatan Village. The purpose is to encourage the younger generation of pejagatan village and kebumen to develop and preserve the craft that has been inherited by the ancestors.

In festivals that take place in the field of Pejagatan village, villagers managed to get the award from Original Rekor Indonesia (ORI) in making the largest earthenware. Villagers of Pejagatan village managed to make earthenware from clay as many as 1439 with 100 craftsmen in a period of 3 hours. In addition to the record, there are 2 other record that solved, which is making the biggest serabi with a diameter of 1m and make the largest logo of clay with size 3x3m. Logo made is Logo Bokor Kencana is one of the palace food suppliers of the State and Taman Mini Indonesia Indah in Jakarta.

And then the Chairman of the Committee of Earthenware Festival Pejagatan, Nanang Setiyawan admitted grateful for the creation of 3 records. He also explained if the earthenware of the globe has its own uniqueness. In addition to the different shapes, the color is also black unlike other earthenware. That's because the workmanship is still manually by the hand of the artisans themselves. Differences in shape and color, it is caused by the burning process using dried bamboo leaves, resulting in black color that purportedly he said could be a bidder of toxins.

Head of Pejagatan Village, Mr. Hidayat Djuhri said that his party appreciated the activities that were implemented thanks to the cooperation of village government and youth organization. Hopefully, Pejagatan community economy can be better. "In addition, this black clay earthenware is increasingly recognized in Indonesia market to foreign countries," he said

               President of Indonesia's Original Record, Agung Elvianto, said the award is expected to bring a positive impact on the development of earthenware in Kebumen. "Our hope, after the appreciation of this earthenware will be a legend of the crafts of the work of local men, beating China in design and form. We also hope that the earthenware center in Kebumen can become one of the icon of Kebumen city and become world legend. So is the culinary as it is now by making the biggest serabi cake expected culinary tour Kebumen will influence to predict tourists outside or local. "He said. 

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“How to encourage English Department Students to speak English

more often and confidently”

Speaking English is a difficult thing that can be done by some people especially if the person is difficult to understand the lesson about English. However, it is not unusual anymore for English Department student to speak English. As an English Department student should be accustomed to speak English in the environment within the campus and outside the campus. Speaking English for students of English Department has also become a liability because of their chosen program study and their responsibilities as well. However, not a few students who are still difficult to speak English even still not confident to speak English in public. There are several reasons why some students of English study program find it difficult to speak English.

First, some students often find it difficult to say word for word correctly and clearly. They are often wrong in pronunciation and lack articulation so they lack confidence in their own words. Another difficulty experienced by students of English study program is the lack of vocabulary that they have. If we want to speak something using English but we do not know English from that word then we will difficult to speak English.

Second, feeling lazy. Lazy is always attached in the life especially the students. Not a few students of English Department who feel lazy to learn to speak English even practice to speak English. They think hard first before trying it. The lack of self-confidence of themselves also makes it difficult for them to try to speak English even to their own friends. Feelings of fear are wrong is another thing that usually makes English Department students difficult to speak in English. Starting from thinking wrong afraid to not want to try and continuously as it makes students difficulty in speaking. So never want to try and just silent as a passive student.

All these things can be solved with some of the solutions below. However, the main thing that needs to be done to change all that is from yourself. Intend to focus more in college and study courses and practice to speak English. Because if only because of coercion will make science is useless. There are several ways to make students majoring in English to speak more often and more confident of them are:

•        Give motivation to those who think English is difficult. Convince them if speaking English is not as difficult as they imagine. Encourage them to practice speaking English to make them more confident and passionate about practicing.
•       Habituate to communicate in English in school. Try every day in order to improve the ability to speak better and smoothly
•       Get used to communicating with close friends using English as often as possible because students usually talk more with close friends than others.
•        Join an online club that uses English in it. If you are embarrassed to know people, you can change your profile to a stranger. So, we will be more accustomed to speak English without our faces known. It can also increase confidence in speaking English to others even new people.
•     Reading English reading. Get used to reading novels, stories or fairy tales that use English to multiply our vocabulary. With so many vocabularies we have, we are able to speak English in public with confidence. No shortage of topics and can add insight also in reading.
•    Often listen to English-speaking songs. Usually people will more easily remember  something by listening, like listening to a song. They will be more familiar with the lyrics than they read the lyrics. Practice pronunciation by listening to English songs and trying to sing the lyrics.
•     Often also to watch English-language videos and pay attention to the way they speak. You can also learn how to speak English well by looking at the speech of an American. Listen clearly to their pronunciation and practice as often as possible so that our pronunciation will be better.
•       Do not forget to see the dictionary to see the correct and clear pronunciation. Initially it was hard to speak with a really clear pronunciation. However, if you train more often it will be easier and more fun.

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Communication forums of Kemawuran

Seeing there is no single association in hamlet of sufficient youth that can be adolescent activity especially positive ones. Where positive activities that can minimize the teenagers to perform negative activities such as hanging out, wandering the night, drinking and so forth. Before teenagers hanging out on the patrol every night. Mr. Supratman sparked the idea of making a table tennis or other activities. Then Mr. Supratman makes a proposal that is shown to teenagers and other teenagers who have wandered. Funds were raised and a table tennis was built. After Lebaran, as well as enliven the teenagers to race. For teens there is a race takraw whose prize is a rooster. That night the chicken was eaten together with other teenagers.

Over the course of a week or two a week, there was an idea to create a rather formal organization. However, it is not shaped like a cadet because the organizational structure is influenced by the village. Only a communications forum was formed in 2001 where the chairman at the first time was Mr. Supratman and his deputy, Mr. Bambang.

Then after the election sparked an idea that is read surah Yasin once a month. Where the chairman must give a welcome speech, then the host also must give a welcome speech, and discussions containing the evaluation of the activities that have been done and plans to be done. Not only that, the treasurer also reports cash flow.

The first activity that was done was a night of friendship that was done at Mr. Panji's house. Then other activities are read surah Yasin groups, installation of street lighting, planting teak trees. Before planting teak trees, the garden was first planted with banana trees that the results are sold and entered into cash. There is another collective electricity payment every month, withdrawal rice every week.

The vision of this communication forum is to form a generation of militancy in order to appear to actualize themselves in public. The mission of this forum is to carry out positive activities before becoming parents and helping parents' activities.

It is hoped that with this organization youths of youth can channel ideas that eventually trigger positive activities. And the important thing is that this organization can teach them to be more courageous to speak publicly.