Monday, October 11, 2010

Penarikan Indomie dari Market Taiwan?!

Post by: Indah P, Advisor

Kabar besar dari negeri Taiwan. Ditemukannya bahan pengawet dan bahan-bahan bahaya di dalam produk kebanggaan nasional Indonesia, Indomie, menyebabkan kasus produk tersebut di market Taiwan. Kabarnya Indomie instan ini mengandung bahan pengawet E218 (Methyl P-Hydroxybenzoate). Media massa di Taiwan telah memberitakan kasus ini secara luas, merendahkan reputasi produk Indonesia ini.

Tapi kalau kita lihat. Bisa-bisa saja ini adalah suatu rekayasa yang dilakukan oleh sebab kompetisi ketat di Taiwan dalam bidang makanan instan. Dari detik.com, dikatakan bahwa masuknya produk mi Indonesia ini bikin bisnis lainnya was-was. Karena kita menjual mi yang enak dan murah! Contohnya saja, di Malaysia, harga Indomia dinaikkan 27% setelah sudah masuk ke market selama 1-2 tahun. Aneh, kan? Mungkin saja masalahnya bukan di pengawet atau konten dalam produk mi kesayangan ini. Mungkin saja ini adalah masalah persaingan? PT Indofood juga menurut saya tidak mungkin berani inves banyak uang untuk mengproduksi produk Indomie dalam jangka internasional bila mereka tidak memenuhi peraturan departemen kesehatan negara tersebut. Kalo menurut saya juga, semua brand mi instan pasti mengandung pengawet.

Kasus ini sangat penting bagi anak2 mahasiswa Indonesia di seluruh dunia. Takut aja Kanada ikut-ikutan ngeri sama Indomie. Lalu produk Indomie ditarik distribusinya. Lalu gimana kita mahasiswa2 Indonesia yang hidup dengan "staple food" kita yang nomer 1, Indomie?

Kita berdoa aja Indomie tidak akan hilang dari rak-rak toko T&T. Kalo sampe Indomie dicekal, ayo, mahasiswa2 sekeliling vancouver, cepet2 kita borong Indomie dari toko-toko terdekat lokasi kita.

Source: detik.com
Photo Credit: Vantoria's Blog

Sunday, September 19, 2010

General Meeting + Icebreaker

THANK YOU!
for coming to our SFU Indonesian Association Fall 2010
Icebreaker and General Meeting!

We had a good turn out! There were around seven new SFU students that attended this Icebreaker event. Thank you for coming guys, and we hope you guys had fun! And it's always good to get to know new people, right?

We also had a re-election for 2010/2011 term executive team. Congratulations to Edwin Hendrawan, Michael Tjaya, Gregorius Hadiwijana, and Hendry Tanuarto for getting elected!

SFU Indonesian Association will hopefully be a more active organization in getting Indonesians in Canada together, and of course to get more of Indonesian culture abroad!

Thank you once again,

SFU Indonesian Association

P.S: We forgot to take pictures. :O

Newly Elected!

We have voted our executive team for 2010/2011!

The exciting line up for this year:

President: Edwin Hendrawan
V. President: Michael Tjaya
Secretary I: Gregorius Hadiwijana
Secretary 2: Christopher Dharma
Financial Director: Hendry Tanuarto

Looking forward to see the new team's exciting leadership!

SFU Indonesian Association

Thursday, September 16, 2010

SFUIA General Meeting

Hello beloved SFU Indonesian Association members! We welcome all of you new members to SFU Indonesian Association. And of course, welcome back to our members who have been with us since the previous semesters! We hope that you have had a pretty awesome first two weeks at SFU for Fall 2010.

The weather is cold and gloomy, nonetheless that doesn't gloom our excitement for meeting our old and new members. We will be holding our first general meeting and Icebreaker event this Sunday on September 19th, 2010 at 2PM! (execs got their meeting before this, BTW) This will take place at SFU SURREY campus since it's such a gorgeous place to be at, especially for new people who just arrived in Vancouver. We'll meet up at BLENZ coffee at the campus lobby. We will write detailed description to get to the campus below.

We'll be playing some Icebreaker games, get to know each other, and there'll be quizzes!~ Yay! Of course we'll also ask you guys to give your suggestions for events line-up. And if you got some great objectives and goals that we ought to achieve, we'd be more than happy to hear about that.

How to get to SFU Surrey Campus:

From SFU Burnaby:

Take Bus 145 to Production Way

In Production Way, take the Skytrain going to Waterfront (Westbound: Burnaby, Vancouver)

Get off at COLUMBIA Station

In Columbia you want to go to the other side of the platform

take the EXPO Skytrain going to King George

Stop at Surrey Central Skytrain station~

And the building is a mall, shiny, pretty looking thing.

From downtown:

Take the EXPO skytrain going Eastbound to King George.

Stop at Surrey central Skytrain station-

Again, the building is a mall, shiny, pretty looking thing.

Check out translink.ca for more info, if you get lost call Indah: 7788818145

Grand Summer Slam UPDATE

People! Long time no see. Grand Summer Slam turned out to be a successful event! Congratulation to the winners:

Singles
Nachiket Datar

Doubles
Jason Sunaryo and Denny Anggabrata

And not to forget, we have raised $82.14 from this event. This will go towards a charity foundation in Indonesia. We're thinking of either giving it to YKAI (Yayasan Kesejahteraan Anak Indonesia - Indonesian Child Foundation) or Rubel (Rumah Belajar - House of Education for kids living under the bridge).

Thank you all for the participation, we look forward to another charity season!

SFU Indonesian Association

Open Executives Positions!

We are currently not hiring.

For inquiries and more information about recruitments,
please email sfuia.contact@gmail.com

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

GRAND SUMMER SLAM

Grand Summer Slam
21 August 2010
10AM-Finish
@ SFU Tennis Courts
8888 University Dr
http://students.sfu.ca/recreation/facility/images/recmapsept2008.PNG

Male and Female SINGLES ($15) AND DOUBLES ($25)
group system - 3 sets/game
*this is part of our giveback events*

Contact:
Hendry - 604 781 7908
Edwin - 604 729 1890
to sign up

Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=140247202672692&index=1

See you soon!

Friday, June 18, 2010

Graduation Time

Congratulations to our fellow advisors who graduated this year
and just had their convocation!

Arya Sutedja
dan
Alex Nico Napitupulu

Semoga sukses selalu dalam semua jalan yang kalian tempuh. Dan semoga senior-senior kita ini gak akan melupakan waktu-waktu mereka di Simon Fraser University dan SFU Indonesian Association.

Photograph by Eric James

Photograph by Alexander Henry

Not to forget, congratulations to: Stella Nurina Susanto (photo awaits) and Yudianto Ong

Summertime 2010


Ah, it's finally summertime! It's time for some warmth, friendships, fun times, cold drinks, hot foods that will blow your mind away and ultimately parties! But then, we can still do some good in the midst of having all these fun times. Better yet, we can do it WHILE having fun. That's right! It's what we're aiming for again this 2010! We are doing out giveback program for all of you to enjoy. Yes, enjoy!

SFUIA is planning on throwing some events, including:
  • Paintball! - our popular event!
  • Nonton Bola Bareng (World Cup 2010) - watch the games together
  • Picnic - perfect event for the warm Vancouver summer (rain, go away~)
  • Tennis tournament - sweat your summer heat off!
Anyways, SFUIA is going to be working hard to raise funds for our summer events. We either will donate it to YKAI (Yayasan Kesejahteraan Anak Indonesia) or Rumah Belajar (that is coordinated by Technic students from Universitas Indonesia).

Alright guys, enjoy the summer breeeeze!

Photograph by Maula Rudini