School: SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Yogyakarta
    Yogyakarta, D.I.Yogyakarta, Indonesia

4 students, ages 17 ,16, 15 worked together to complete this Doors to Diplomacy project on April 8, 2009. They have participated in Doors to Diplomacy in the following year(s): 2008

Classes and Teachers: Dalmono

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Our School's Web Site: http://www.smamuhiyogya.org

1. Description of Our Team

This Doors to Diplomacy team is composed of four students , that are Adhi, Anis, Lina and Riza. We joined together as a team because we care about global problem and wish to create better world for everyone We Adhi (16) as the web master and leader of the team. His full name is Nugraha Atmaja Adhilaga. He designed the website with adobe Dreamweaver cs3. Anis (17) as content searcher. She searched the data about impact and gallery of this website in the internet and by interviewed beggar around her. Nurlina Yustiningrum as known as Lina (16). Her role in this team is as content searcher. She talks about the causes of this web and gallery. Her hobby is browsing unique video in youtube.com, so all of her classmate called her “you tubers”. Riza (17) all of her classmate called her Ijak. Her role is as content searcher, she searched about home and solution.

2. Summary of Our Project

Our website discussed about beggar especially in Indonesia. We talk about the causes, effects, solution and case studies. Beg problem is so glowing in Indonesia. Many homeless people in our country don’t have any job. The only way for them to still survive for life is beg. Much poor kid cannot go to school because they cannot pay for school, so they help their parents to earn money by begging and singing around the city. This problem cannot be allowed just like that because if we continue giving them money, is just the same as teaching them laziness to the beggar

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:more than 50%

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:2-3

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dial-up modem

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:2-3

E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):

internet connection in our school doesn't always work well , so we use our own internet in our home.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

The most big problem to finish this project is to divide project time. Beside our projects, they were many task and homework to be finished. Examination is getting closer. It makes us, must to finish this project in a rush. Internet connection in school is not so good ,we cannot use the school’s facalities maximal, so most of us use our own internet in our own house.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

By this project, we can develop our knowledge about national problem. We can train ourselves to find out the solution for solving problems. Also we can appreciate each self-interest.

6. How did your activities and research for this Doors to Diplomacy Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

In this website, we talk about social problems, especially beggar problems in Indonesia. We only take the core of the problem to show on our website. The contents of our website includes home, which explains the introduction. Cause, which explain the background of problems. Impact, which explain the impact of this problem. What they say is about the results of interviews with the beggar. Solution, which contains the solution to ward that problem. Gallery, contains pictures of beggars, and about us, which contains introduction from our group members.

From this project, many benefits that we can get. Among them are we can add our perspective, we can increase our knowledge, and we can increase our experience. Beside that, we can socialize and communicate with the beggar with interviewing beggar to learn how to socialize in a beggar's daily life.

We do this project until late at night and must be completed in the specified time. We must have a smart and fresh idea, teamwork, work hard, and have a high spirit to do this project. The most important of this case, we should not have a lazy habbit because it will hamper the process of doing this project.

We are searching the data in internet and we translating the data in English. Sometimes we have trouble when we translating the article Indonesian to English.

The conclution of this project is we can increase our knowledge in how we react the social problems our country well and wisely. That thought will determine the future of the country better.

1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your Doors to Diplomacy project?

We use laptops and computers for making the articles, handycam for recording video , digital camera for taking pictures, modem internet for browsing in the internet. The softwares are : adobe photoshop cs3 and corel draw for editing photos, dreamweaver for making the website, microsoft word for making the articles, dictionary help us for translating words.

2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your Doors to Diplomacy project both on-line and in person.

Many beggar are neglected on the street without any attention from the goverment. Last Ramadhan month, we with our classmate, help the beggars distribute foods and money to them.

3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?

The rarity peoples in yogyakarta care about beggar problem. from this web, we want to make that 'rarity' to be 'majority' and pin down don't judge beggar before know what's their problem actually.

4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?

as helpers or volunteer, we involve a few beggars and street musicians. we ask them about their daily activity, where's their hometown and also the reason why they choose became a beggar or street musicians. we've opened eyes by asking them. we really know the reality and the real problem they've deal.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

we get many lessons by discovering beggars around us