ISCO EVENTS (2009)
1. Art Class Workshop
In order to boost children’s self esteem and introduce them to traditional art, ISCO is conducting art class workshops, where children are taught to dance, play music, create handy-crafts, and do artworks.
The Art Class Workshop started in the last semester of 2009. ISCO is planning to organize an Art Performance in March 2010 where talented sponsored children would perform traditional dances and other performances and will also display their art works.
To make the upcoming event more successful, ISCO has involved several art tutors from professional art institutions to help these children with the preparation.
2. December 2009: Workshop for Children
After 10 years helping marginalized children from kindergarten up to secondary education level, ISCO realize that the earlier batch of our sponsored children now have different needs compared to children in primary level.
That is the reason why ISCO regularly provides workshop for children in secondary level to accommodate their needs and monitoring their developments.
The workshop theme this December 2009 was “TEMUKAN JATI DIRI!” (Finding Your True Self). The workshop was aimed to guide the children to know more about themselves, start planning their dreams and goals, put believe in themselves and have confidence and dignity as a bold, honorable, full human being.
  
August 8, 2009, Jakarta.
Dozens of ISCO sponsored children invited in International Kite Festival XV with Jakarta Blue Sky Theme in August 8, 2009. This festive was held with support from Le Gong Kite and Kite Society DKI Jakarta.
It involved 130 participants from 10 countries held in Karnaval Beach, Taman Impian Jaya Ancol, Jakarta.
ISCO sponsored children learned about variety of kites, and how to create the simplest kite, decorated it, and flied it to the sky.
In no time, Jakarta sky was filed by beautiful kites and the laughed of ISCO sponsored children, happy to be part of this wonderful festive.
4. ISCO INDONESIA INDEPENDENCE DAY 2009
  
August 16, 2009
To celebrate Indonesia Independence Day in August 17, 2009, ISCO Foundation and 100 sponsored children went to Ancol and competed in many games and fun in August 16, 2009.
Children, tutors, and ISCO staffs teamed up to win various kind of games, such as sarong race, marathon run squatting, balloon dance, banana feeding, kerupuk eat race, and other unique games.
Next, the children ran off to the beach to swimming, playing balls, and playing sands. The activities enclosed by distributed gift to the games winner, and praying in the hope for better Indonesia.
Jakarta, 15 February 2009:
ISCO invited their sponsored children who live in urban slum areas in North Jakarta to celebrate their high spirit and diligenceness in continuing attending their school classes against all odds. The celebration was held in Planetarium where children learned about planets, the sun, the milky way, and everything about the universe. But more importantly, other than this wonderful fun learning experience, was that the children learned how to share information by transferring these knowledge to their fellow friends who had not understood about it as they were still in pre-school. The children said their prayers before they ate their lunch, learned to say thanks to the people who had helped them show the way to the planetarium. They believe that one day, they will be as bright and shining as all the stars in the universe.
Congratulations for all ISCO children for your school achievement this past year.
You deserve the excitement to watch the stars, and we deserve to see you glow one day in the future.
(HAGIS--HAri Gembira anak ISCO or ISCO Children Happy Day is an ISCO program dedicated to ISCO sponsored children who had great school achievement over the year or those who had great spirit and determination to finish their school by attending both activities at schools and activity centers almost every day. The program invites ISCO children to celebrates the joy to see some educational places, learn, play, and feel blessed while having fun.)
6. Monday, May 18, 2009
Jakarta, 13 May 2009 — Urban poor children are hoping that the upcoming Indonesian president to be a good, honest, firm, and not corrupt leader, who cares more about children education.
These children's aspiration for the ideal president was written by dozens of street children in Tanah Merah, Semper slum area, on a piece of fabric. They are going to send the uniquely written fabric to the Presidential Palace, as expression of their concern for the nation, while doing a long-march .
These children are just a small part of 1,725 urban poor children supported by ISCO Foundation, from Jakarta, Depok, Surabaya, and Medan areas. They are receiving 12 years of free formal schooling from the Foundation, an NGO that has been actively helping Indonesian children for their right for education over the last 10 years.
The writing of these children aspirasion was held as part of the Recycled Material Handicraft Exhibition in Children Activity Center in Tanah Merah area. The government representative also came to see the children handicrafts handmade. They are Djafar Muchlisin, S.Sos, M.Si as the Head of Help Section of Social Catastrophy Victim, as representative from Social Section DKI Jakarta and Dr. Wahyu Hartomo, M.Sc as the Asisstant Deputy Children Social Issue, and also representative from The Ministry of Woman Empowerment, and the local authorities.
In this occassion,PT HERO SupermarketTbk handed the donation they received from their customers all over Indonesia, totaling to Rp 467 millions Rupiah, through their ”Small Money, Big Hope” program.
According to ISCO Executive Director, Ramida HF Siringoringo, the fund is going to be used to support children education in 4 shanty areas in North Jakarta, and West Jakarta, and 1 coast slum area in Medan.
Founded in May 1999, ISCO started their programs in two slum areas, sponsoring 58 children. Now, ISCO is sponsoring 1,725 children in 26 areas in Jakarta, Depok, Surabaya, and Medan.
ISCO is going to celebrate its 10th anniversary by conducting a special gathering in Jakarta, Surabaya, and Medan involving about 1,400 children in July 2009.
These gatherings are going to be attended by many of children, who will be doing various activities such as puppet show, children choir, and lots of educative games. In Jakarta alone, at least 800 children are going to celebrate the happy moment in Taman Bunga Wiladatika, Cibubur, East Jakarta in July 11th 2009.
”Four ISCO Main Programs are giving free education from pre-school to high school, establishing and running Children Activity Center (CAC), providing additional nutrition, and fighting for children education right,” Ramida said.
Every supported children has an obligation to attend CAC to reduce the possibility for them in becoming street children or children labourer. They are learning the values of life such as attitude, discipline, diligency, honor, as well as strengthening their school subject. They are also receiving additional food and nutrition, vitamins, and fruits to support their health condition.
ISCO chooses urban slum areas because the tendencies for children to become street children or child labourer in these areas are high. It is very easy for them to get exploited by their own parents, or influenced by their neighborhood to do negative activities.
“By following the CAC program, children will learn about some manners as queueing in line, being a responsible person, building self confidence, and achieving high school grades,” Ramida said.
She hopes that Indonesian government realizes how important the tasks to eliminate poverty is, where out of those 41,7 million poor people (which is about 21,9 percent of Indonesian population), 150.000 are street children.
7.Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Cipinang Besar Selatan, is ISCO's first sponsored area. Its location is in East Jakarta, close to the highways, traditional markets, river banks, and it is very very densely populated. Children in this area are very vulnerable to go to the streets and become street children, as they live very closely to the areas where most busy Jakarta people pass by and do their activities. The busy streets, buses, cars, motorcycles, bicycles, tricycles, carts, sellers, buyers, drivers, passengers, pedestrians, all are too attractive for these children to work as beggars, food hawkers or garbage collectors. They have often been sent out onto the streets by impoverished parents who can't support their families, and as a result, are deprived of an education.
ISCO sets up Children Activity Center in Cipinang Besar Selatan to attract these children to do fun and educational activities, and minimize their time spent on the streets. The tutors in the Center help these children with their school work or do some interesting projects together with the children.
The children seems to enjoy going to the Activity Center. They learn many things, school stuff as well as other important things such as self hygene, eating healthy food, taking care of the young ones, and other living values.
ISCO strives to keep these children stay at school,and to rise all kids upward to their highest results as most parents do, and our target is to provide formal jobs to all sufficiently educated. ISCO wishes to cut the poverty cycle through better education for these children.
8. Monday, February 16, 2009
 
It's a great day for ISCO children!
After completing semester 1 2008 - 2009, the chidren were evaluated based on ISCO system and those who managed to get to the top 10 rank in class and have 0 % absency rate -both at school and activity house-, were invited to join ISCO's Children Happy Day.
The event was held on Sunday, February 15, 2009. ISCO children from South Jakarta (Cipinang Besar Selatan, Manggarai, Depok) visited the Ragunan Zoo. They played, planted corn by themselves, and they were so amazed when they saw the lions and tigers...(zzzzhrrrr..)
ISCO EVENTS (2005-2008)
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Annual Gatherings |
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JAKARTA : July, 2008 |
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This time ISCO's annual gathering was held at Taman Bunga Cibubur. the children looked very happy with the event. They're all excited and enthusiastic to join individual as well as team games and challenges prepared in the game bases.There were also a give away gifts occasion given by the ISCO's donatur who cares about Indonesian children education.
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JAKARTA : July 15, 2006 |
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This time the event was held at Bumi Perkemahan Pramuka (Scout Camping Area) in Ragunan Pasar Minggu. The children were grouped into 2 groups : those up to 3rd grade, and those in 4th and 5th grades. The activities were also organized into these 2 categories to suit the children’s interests. Early in the morning these children had turned up in the area, and were very eager to take parts in the activities.
These children came from ISCO’s different sponsored areas, Plumpang-Tanah Merah, Duri Kosambi, Kp.Lio-Depok, Kp.Gege-Kebon Jeruk, Manggarai and Cipinang Besar Selatan.
The event was led by 2 cheerful MCs from ISCO, who started by singing along with the children, and asked the children to present their specific yells which they had prepared beforehand. Then, when all had turned up in the area, the children were free to go to any game base around the area, which interested them, according to their age categories.
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The children were all excited and enthusiastic to join individual as well as team games and challenges prepared in the game bases. They lined up eagerly to wait for their turns. They could earn as many points, as long as they participated in as many games as they wanted, and be the winner. |
Then the children had their lunch prepared by the organizer, while resting after very hectic yet joyful activities. Their tired faces suddenly changed back to cheerful and happy ones, as the organizer announced and presented the gifts and awards to those children with outstanding school performance as well as those with very good attendance rates to school and activity centers.
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MEDAN : July 2006 |
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In this year’s event, we did not invite the children’s parents, since we wanted to develop the children’s self reliance. Although many of these children experienced sickness during the journey to the location, they were very happy and excited as they reached the destination.
The event was held in Taman Dewi, about 100 km South of Medan. The children sang and danced together. Some of them performed traditional dances, such as “Sipatokaan” performed by children from Polonia, and “Boom-boom” performed by children from Belawan.
The children spent the rest of the afternoon playing children games together with their tutors and Project Officers.
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MEDAN : July 2005 |
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The annual gathering this time was a special one, because not only the children did the performances, such as dancing and poetry readings, but the parents also took parts in the activities. They performed some traditional dances, such as Tari Gondang Naposo (performed by parents from Polonia), and Tari Tor-tor “Anakhonki do hamoraon di au”.
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MEDAN : July 2003 |
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The event was held in Taman Sibolangit, where the children together with their parents spent time together with ISCO staffs and tutors. The children sang together, danced and read some poets for their parents. Of course their parents were so proud of their children, because they had never realized the potentials that these children had.
After lunch, the children spent the time by playing some games, activities and challenges.
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SURABAYA : August 26 – 27, 2006 |
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The event took a theme of ” Children Self Reliance”, and was held in Taman Flora (nursery garden), Surabaya. The children came to the location by local transportation means, and when they arrived they all sang the song “ The More We Get Together”, and its Mandarin version of the song “ Wu Men Tong Ta I Chi”.
The children from 4th and 5th grades had actually come to the location the day before, and spent a night in tents already prepared by the organizer. The children of younger ages came the day after, and spent time together with the elder ones.
The children also used the opportunity to explore more on their knowledge about flora and other botanical areas. While doing so, they had to overcome some children challenges, such as 1. Puzzle Challenge, 2. Crossing the bridge, 3. Crawling under the ropes, 4. Gymnastic challenge, 5. Walking with a ball, 6. Searching for a ball, 7. Getting a candy accross
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SURABAYA : July 16, 2005 |
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The event was held in The Ketabang Kali Playground and Kali Mas River Canoe Recreation. We involved the children in various activities, individual challenges as well as team challenges. All children took parts in the activities, since each child was given a gift or a present for each participation. Among the activities were crackers eating competition, marble competition, needle and thread, creativity games, gunny sack race, and eel catching.
The children then took a canoe cruise along the Kali Mas River, where they were so thrilled and enthusiastic looking at the scenery. They raised many questions along the way, about the brown colour of the water, the many rubbish all along the riverbanks, and they started singing “Don’t liter anywhere”
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SURABAYA : August 17, 2004 |
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The theme of this year event was “Art and Recreation”, and it was held in the swimming pool area of Water Park Kenjeran. Besides academic or school performances, we wanted to develop the children’s potentials in arts and creativity. These children came from different sponsored areas, and they had prepared some performances, such as dancing, singing, and poetry reading. From Pabean, the children performed a modern dance called “Oh My Darling” and “Pria India”, whereas form Genteng, the children performed a dance called “Ceret” and “Putri Panggung”. After lunch, they all went swimming together in the swimming pool.
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Annual Gatherings |
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JAKARTA : July, 2008 |
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This time ISCO's annual gathering was held at Taman Bunga Cibubur. the children looked very happy with the event. They're all excited and enthusiastic to join individual as well as team games and challenges prepared in the game bases.There were also a give away gifts occasion given by the ISCO's donatur who cares about Indonesian children education.
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JAKARTA : July 15, 2006 |
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This time the event was held at Bumi Perkemahan Pramuka (Scout Camping Area) in Ragunan Pasar Minggu. The children were grouped into 2 groups : those up to 3rd grade, and those in 4th and 5th grades. The activities were also organized into these 2 categories to suit the children’s interests. Early in the morning these children had turned up in the area, and were very eager to take parts in the activities.
These children came from ISCO’s different sponsored areas, Plumpang-Tanah Merah, Duri Kosambi, Kp.Lio-Depok, Kp.Gege-Kebon Jeruk, Manggarai and Cipinang Besar Selatan.
The event was led by 2 cheerful MCs from ISCO, who started by singing along with the children, and asked the children to present their specific yells which they had prepared beforehand. Then, when all had turned up in the area, the children were free to go to any game base around the area, which interested them, according to their age categories.
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The children were all excited and enthusiastic to join individual as well as team games and challenges prepared in the game bases. They lined up eagerly to wait for their turns. They could earn as many points, as long as they participated in as many games as they wanted, and be the winner. |
Then the children had their lunch prepared by the organizer, while resting after very hectic yet joyful activities. Their tired faces suddenly changed back to cheerful and happy ones, as the organizer announced and presented the gifts and awards to those children with outstanding school performance as well as those with very good attendance rates to school and activity centers.
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MEDAN : July 2006 |
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In this year’s event, we did not invite the children’s parents, since we wanted to develop the children’s self reliance. Although many of these children experienced sickness during the journey to the location, they were very happy and excited as they reached the destination.
The event was held in Taman Dewi, about 100 km South of Medan. The children sang and danced together. Some of them performed traditional dances, such as “Sipatokaan” performed by children from Polonia, and “Boom-boom” performed by children from Belawan.
The children spent the rest of the afternoon playing children games together with their tutors and Project Officers.
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MEDAN : July 2005 |
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The annual gathering this time was a special one, because not only the children did the performances, such as dancing and poetry readings, but the parents also took parts in the activities. They performed some traditional dances, such as Tari Gondang Naposo (performed by parents from Polonia), and Tari Tor-tor “Anakhonki do hamoraon di au”.
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SURABAYA : August 26 – 27, 2006 |
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The event took a theme of ” Children Self Reliance”, and was held in Taman Flora (nursery garden), Surabaya. The children came to the location by local transportation means, and when they arrived they all sang the song “ The More We Get Together”, and its Mandarin version of the song “ Wu Men Tong Ta I Chi”.
The children from 4th and 5th grades had actually come to the location the day before, and spent a night in tents already prepared by the organizer. The children of younger ages came the day after, and spent time together with the elder ones.
The children also used the opportunity to explore more on their knowledge about flora and other botanical areas. While doing so, they had to overcome some children challenges, such as 1. Puzzle Challenge, 2. Crossing the bridge, 3. Crawling under the ropes, 4. Gymnastic challenge, 5. Walking with a ball, 6. Searching for a ball, 7. Getting a candy accross
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SURABAYA : July 16, 2005 |
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The event was held in The Ketabang Kali Playground and Kali Mas River Canoe Recreation. We involved the children in various activities, individual challenges as well as team challenges. All children took parts in the activities, since each child was given a gift or a present for each participation. Among the activities were crackers eating competition, marble competition, needle and thread, creativity games, gunny sack race, and eel catching.
The children then took a canoe cruise along the Kali Mas River, where they were so thrilled and enthusiastic looking at the scenery. They raised many questions along the way, about the brown colour of the water, the many rubbish all along the riverbanks, and they started singing “Don’t liter anywhere”
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SURABAYA : August 17, 2004 |
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The theme of this year event was “Art and Recreation”, and it was held in the swimming pool area of Water Park Kenjeran. Besides academic or school performances, we wanted to develop the children’s potentials in arts and creativity. These children came from different sponsored areas, and they had prepared some performances, such as dancing, singing, and poetry reading. From Pabean, the children performed a modern dance called “Oh My Darling” and “Pria India”, whereas form Genteng, the children performed a dance called “Ceret” and “Putri Panggung”. After lunch, they all went swimming together in the swimming pool.
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Module Activity |
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JAKARTA : Sewing Activity |
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This acctivity was held on 20-21 November 2008, sponsored by Carrefour Indonesia. All children took parts in the activities, they learnt how to sew guided by Ms Grace from Bandung. They really enjoyed this activity and hoping that there will be more.
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Go to Laskar Pelangi Movie |
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February, 2006, ISCO's Children have the chance to watch Laskar Pelangi Movie in the cinema, this movie is so inspirational and tought children to have patience and hard work in orrder to succeed
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HAGIS (Hari Gembira Anak ISCO) |
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Hari Gembira Anak ISCO (or in English : ISCO Children’s Happy Day) is an activity organized every year by ISCO, usually around January, i.e. after the first school semester. This event is primarily to push the children’s motivation to do even better in the coming second semester, by giving awards to those children with high (>97%) school attendance rate, high (>85%) activity center attendance rate, and those in top-10 rankings in their respective classes.
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HAGIS was first held in January 2005, which took place in Youth Center Bulungan, South Jakarta. The auditorium was set-up in an amusement center theme, where ISCO placed many game corners around the room, and the children could choose any game they wished to play and win some prizes. The children also gave some performances in the form of an operetta, where they danced and sang. |
In January 29, 2006, the event took place in Bumi Perkemahan Ragunan (BPR), with a theme of “Ayo…Gembira Berkreasi bersama ISCO”. The place was an open area with a lot of trees and open grasses, so the children really enjoyed pruning around the area. There were alos game corners where children could join as many as they wished. Most games were physical and involved outdoor activities.
The event started at 9.00 a.m. and ended by 16.00. There were 271 children, 43 ISCO stafs and tutors, and also 10 volunteers joined this activity,
After lunch, we gave out the presents and awards for those children qualified for outstanding performances.
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Staff Workshop : Ciawi, September 8-10, 2006 |
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A workshop for ISCO’s staff was organized on September 8 – 10, 2006. The objective to have such workshop was to develop the staff compentencies, in terms of personal values as well as professional values. The evening sessions were used to discuss field operational issues, share knowledge and experience across fields, as well as free education advocacy programs that ISCO is moving towards next year. ISCO invited a volunteer from a Training Consultant, Management Development International, to lead the workshop.
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Every year, when the Ramadhan month comes, ISCO organizes dinner together in the activitiy centers, or usually named BUBAR (=Buka Bareng).
One of them was BUBAR in Children Activity Center Kampung Gege, and also in Duri Kosambi.The children were very eager waiting for the fast breaking time, around 18.00 p.m. The elder children started the “shalawatan” or prayers and praises, and then they had the entrée, before the main menu. |
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National Independence Day |
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Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!
The commemoration of the Indonesian Independence Day, on August 17, has always been a big event. Many games, challenges, and presents…. Not only the children participated in the activities, but also the their tutors, and ISCO’s staffs.
Independence Day Celebration in Duri Kosambi
From early morning, the children were already out in the park to see and also join the activities for the celebration. There were crackers eating competition, banana eating competition, and many others. Some children were jumping out of happiness, as they won many games, and some looked sad because they did not get any presents.
Beside children competitions, games and challenges, the parents in Duri Kosambi organized a cooking competition for the parents. The food prepared was not hamburgers, or fried chicken, but just humble meals prepared in the spirit of independence.
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Children Activities |
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In ISCO’s Children Activity Centers, we prepare many educational and creative activities to help children understand their school work in a more fun and play method. The activity modules were designed to motivate children to know more about the subject areas. Some of the activities involve visits to the museums, landmarks around the city, planetarium, or some institutions, like police station, fire department, TV station, and airport. We would like to expose the children to different occupations and professions, have a more broaden view on things around them.
At the airport Halim Perdana Kusumah, the children were so astonished to see big airplanes, and comfortable seats in the planes. They were even allowed to sit on the President’s seat. They were very thrilled… and all wish to be PILOTs some day….
In the TV station, the children took a studio tour, and saw TV cameras, big TV screens, and the TV crews. They were shown how the television station operates. |
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