TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Nuffic Neso selects three students as Youth Writing Competition winners
Nuffic Neso Indonesia on Friday announced three senior high school students as winners of the Youth Writing Competition (YWC), themed “Education and the Netherlands”, held to coincide with the 2016 Dutch Placement Days on Oct. 31 in Bandung, West Java, and on Nov. 4 in Jakarta.
Change Size
Top three — Three senior high school students who won Nuffic Neso Indonesia’s 2016 Youth Writing Competition themed “Education and the Netherlands” pose at an event on Friday. Tobias Thariq Hartmann (second left), Dhiya Nadira (left) and Faris Abdurrachman (center) ranked first, second and third, respectively, while Nuffic Neso Indonesia director Mervin Bakker (second right) presented the prizes at the event. (JP/Elly Burhaini Faizal)
N
uffic Neso Indonesia on Friday announced three senior high school students as winners of the Youth Writing Competition (YWC), themed “Education and the Netherlands”, held to coincide with the 2016 Dutch Placement Days on Oct. 31 in Bandung, West Java, and on Nov. 4 in Jakarta.
“With a tight evaluation process, we selected three students as the winners of the YWC 2016,” Nuffic Neso Indonesia education promotion officer Inty Dienasari announced in Jakarta.
Tobias Thariq Hartmann, a student of HighScope Indonesia in Jakarta, came first, while Dhiya Nadira of state senior high school SMAN 8 Jakarta and Faris Abdurrachman of SMAN 3 Bandung ranked second and third, respectively.
Inty said the winners were selected based on three criteria, namely English proficiency, consistency with topics and creativity, by a group of judges from the Netherlands Embassy in Jakarta, The Jakarta Post and Nuffic Neso Indonesia.
They received the highest scores from a total of 47 participants from Bandung and 41 from Jakarta, she added.
“This competition aimed to make students get more motivated to write down their ideas in English. This is because a lack of capacity in writing in English has often become the biggest challenge Indonesian young people are facing in pursuing their studies in the Netherlands,” said Inty.
Nuffic Neso Indonesia director Mervin Bakker praised Indonesian students’ enthusiasm to participate in the competition.
“To sharpen their writing skills, we also gave them today a creative writing workshop with a hope that after this event, they can improve their writing skills.” (ebf)
