Abdul Rozak Tanjung Syndicate

9 July 2008

GENERAL INFORMATION OF INDONESIA:1. THE PRESIDENTS OF INDONESIA RESPECTIVELY : SOEKARNO (1945-1966),SOEHARTO (1966-1998), BJ.HABIBIE (1998-1999), KH.ABDURRAHMAN WAHID (1999-2001), MEGAWATI SOEKARNO PUTRI (2001-2004), SUSILO BAMBANG YUDOYONO (2004-PRESENT) 2. INDONESIA HAS APPROXIMATELY 13.677 ISLANDS, THE FIVE BIGGEST ARE KALIMANTAN, SUMATRA, SULAWESI, IRIAN JAYA AND JAVA. 3. THE FIVE BIGGEST POLITICAL PARTIES IN NATIONAL PARLIAMENT ARE: GOLKAR, PDI-P, PPP, PD, PKB AND PAN 4. INDONESIA HAS THIRTY THREE PROVINCES WHERE TWO OF THEM ARE AUTONOMIES PROVINCE VIZ. ACHEH AND YOGYAKARTA 5. ABDUL ROZAK TANJUNG SYNDICATE PROVIDES ARTICLES IN ENGLISH, INDONESIAN AND MANDAILING LANGUAGE. THE BLOG’S OWNER EXPRESSES HIS DEEPEST SORRY FOR A GUEST WHO DOES NOT SPEAK INDONESIAN AND MANDAILING. HE IS GOING TO UPGRADE AND UPDATE THE BLOG TO BE MORE CONVENIENCE TO SEE AND USE IN NEAR FUTURE.

Who Am I ?

Abdul Rozak Tanjung was born on 9 th October 1980 in a very small but quite nice village namely Sibanggor Julu on Madina Regency in North Sumatera Province of Indonesia. His father’s clan is Tanjung which is originally Tobaness family name and his mother’s clan is Nasution which is Mandailingness family name. He did both primary and secondary school in Mandailing-Natal Regency. Studying at primary school at Grade 5, he also followed afternoon class of Ibtidaiyah Islamic Boarding Scholl.

After his graduation from secondary school in 1996, he then left Mandailing and continued studying on general high school level at SMUN 3 Sipirok in South Tapanuli Regency. Having been three years at the general high school, he then enrolled to Public Administration Studies at North Sumatera University (NSU) and completed his bachelor degree (B.Soc) at the university in 2004. He followed two short course terms on Governance and Decentralization at PSKK Gajah Mada University of Yogyakarta in 2004 and 2006 respectively.

His professional career was begun when he worked as a lecturer assistant for research methodology and state-ownership enterprises subject at NSU in 2004. In 2005, he worked as The Jakarta Ridep Institute's local partner and researcher when at the same time he was also a part time consultant for North Sumatera Province Research and Development Board.

In 2006 he then jointed to be PSKK team and was a supervisor for North Sumatera team on Governance and Decentralization Research. He was in charged to manage field research study in the tsunami-affected areas namely Nias and Acheh-Simeulue Island.

Starting from April 2nd 2007 until the right now, he has been working at Norwegian Red Cross’ livelihood programme which has main mission to enhance society economic conditions. The livelihood programme consists of mat-weaving, microfinance, fishery, agriculture and traditional market establishment.
Besides of his mentioned above business, he has written two books (one is compilation), three research reports, two handwritings for national seminar and ten articles for one of national bulletins for Indonesian police reform and one article at Waspada daily news. Both of books, handwritings as well as articles have already published.

For information and enquiries, he easily can reach at

http://artanjung.blogspot.com/ and http://www.mandailing.org/ or by email at abdulrozaktanjung@yahoo.com. He also can be reached by phone at (+6281-361160937) or at (+6261-77294600).