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.

“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)

Source:
courtesy of THE JAKARTA POST

by The Jakarta Post

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