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Get to Know More: Citra Nawasari, Miss Tourism of Central Java Semarang, Indonesia    /    Saturday, February 16th, 2019    /    21.51 SEMARANG - Citra Nawasari as the representative of Central Java has just attended Miss Tourism Indonesia (Putri Pariwisata Indonesia) Competition in Jakarta from September until October 2018.   Citra Nawasari, or Cimi, is a beautiful young woman who was born in Semarang 20 years ago. This pretty tall woman is now having her education program at Diponegoro University, Faculty of Economic and Business, in the major of Management. For her campus activity, she joined the Management Student Association as the public relation division. To spend her spare time, she uses it to be a freelancer model and joined wedding organizer team. She started her career as a model ever since she was in senior high school. There were so many competitions that she had joined. She even joined pageant cont...

News Analysis (3) for final test Former first lady Ani Yudhoyono diagnosed with blood cancer The Jakarta Post Jakarta/Wed, February 13, 2019/01:27 pm Former president and Democratic Party patron Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (left) and his wife Ani Yudhoyono show their ballots to reporters during the West Java gubernatorial election at a polling station near his residence in Cikeas, West Java, on Wednesday. (Courtesy of /DPP Demokrat) Former first lady Kristiani Herrawati, better known as Ani Yudhoyono, has been hospitalized in Singapore since Feb. 2 for blood cancer treatment. Her husband, Democratic Party chairman and former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said on Wednesday that she was currently under intensive medical care at National University Hospital in Singapore. “I ask for prayers from everyone that God will cure my beloved wife so that she can continue her activities back home,” he said during a press conference in Singapore.   ...

Transcript news (mid-test) ” Instagram Helped Kill My Daughter” – BBC News Molly Russell, 14, took her own life in 2017. When her family looked into her Instagram account they found distressing material about depression and suicide. “I have no doubt, that Instagram helped killed my daughter”, “She had so much to offer and that’s gone”, “I’m sorry, I did this because of me..” these are the first sentences from her father in the video, showing how sad he is. “We have news that phrase this is unimportant this is not life or death, well this is.” Said Ged Flynn who runs suicide prevention charity Papyrus. “Molly was the youngest of three sisters. At that time, she seems to be a very ordinary teenager. She was 14. She was future looking. She was enthusiastic. She headed to home again that night, she packed her bag and was preparing to go to school the next day. And then we woke up the next morning, she was dead.” Her dad stated. Around 200 British schoolchildren tak...

News Analysis (2) Jokowi approves release of firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir The Jakarta Post Jakarta/Sat, January 19, 2019/09:48 am Police officers escort terrorism convict Abu Bakar Ba'asyir to the Cilacap District Court in Central Java for a hearing on his case review. (thejakartapost.com/Agus Maryono ) Convicted terrorist Abu Bakar Ba’asyir will be unconditionally released from Gunung Sindur prison in Bogor, West Java, as he has received a pardon from President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. Abdul Rahim, a son of Ba'asyir, said on Friday that the family had received news of the pardon from the President’s lawyer Yusril Ihza Mahendra. Yusril had visited Ba’asyir to tell him that Jokowi had agreed to set him free despite him having over six years left to serve in prison. He would be released early next week pending an administrative process. “This is purely for humanitarian reasons. He is old, so the president will release him unconditionally,” Abdul said...