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SAUDARA! Tangisanmu, adalah tangisan kami juga sama-samalah kita meneguk sedu. Kami tahu, Saudara-saudara adalah bangsa waja (bukan kembang yang mudah layu) walau dalam derita namun, tidak pernah menyerah. [ Brothers, your cries are ours too. Together we taste sadness. We know, you are steel-strong nation not a flower-nation that easily droops. Even in sorrow, you never surrender. ] The poem above was written after Tsunami had just hit Aceh and some part of North Sumatra, by Adi Rumi, a respected senior poet of Brunei Darussalam. He read it at a gathering of Indonesian and Bruneian writers. The poem was published, together with dozens of other Tsunami-related themes, in memorial volume entitled Episode Tsunami: Peringatan Ilahi , by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Brunei. In Indonesia, the book is on sale for Rp 250,000 ($42) — a stiff price for a book of literature in Indonesia.From the lyrics above, it is clear to us that in terms of format, theme, and style, most Bruneian works of literat

Seramai 30 orang pegawai perhubungan awam kementerian dan jabatan kerajaan menghadiri Bengkel Penulisan Berita dan Rencana di Bangunan Jabatan Penerangan selama 3 hari bermula hari ini, 26 hingga 28 Jun. Tujuan bengkel itu adalah untuk mempertingkatkan kemahiran pegawai-pegawai perhubungan awam dan pengamal perhubungan awam di sektor kerajaan dalam mempakejkan maklumat dengan mengutamakan bidang penulisan berita dan rencana yang terkini dan dinamik sebagai salah satu alat kerja-kerja perhubungan awam. Menurut Pemangku Pengarah Penerangan, Awang Haji Yussof Haji Ladi ketika menyampaikan ucapan perasmiannya, penulisan rencana dan berita merupakan satu cabang disiplin ilmu yang mencabar yang menuntut ciri-ciri ketajaman daya lihat, daya merasa, daya berfikir serta kesungguhan dan ketangkasan menggunakan mekanisme yang ada. Beliau juga menyatakan bahawa keberkesanan maklumat yang disampaikan kepada khalayak atau kumpulan sasaran banyak bergantung pada dua faktor iaitu kemantapan perisian d

BUDDING children's books authors should be careful to avoid discussing issues which may be too serious and too difficult for children to understand."An author of children's books should be able to look through the eyes and perspectives of children," said Ruzanna Zulkipli, who spoke on behalf of participants at the Writing Children's Novels Workshop, which drew to a close at the Language and Literature Bureau yesterday. Ruzanna suggested that the workshop become an annual event and further expressed her hope in seeing the organisation of a similar workshop for writing novels catered towards teenage and adult audiences. Authors inadvertently share the responsibility of promoting and strengthening the use of the Malay language in the country and should take care in crafting their novels, said the acting director of the Language and Literature Bureau. "The choice of reading material given to children will determine their ability to master language," said Ami

Projek Titian Puisi diteruskan lagi hari ini di kediaman rasmi Menteri Hal Ehwal Ugama Pehin Dato Seri Setia Utama Dr Ustaz Haji Md Zain Haji Serudin yang dikenali dengan nama pena Shukri Zain. Antara yang hadir ke majlis hari ini ialah Menteri Kebudayaan, Belia dan Sukan, Pehin Dato Seri Pahlawan Mejar (B) Haji Mohammad Haji Daud dan Timbalan Menteri Pendidikan, Pengiran Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohammad Pengiran Haji Abdul Rahman bersama Setiausaha Tetap Kementerian Hal Ehwal Agama dan Timbalan Setiausaha Tetap Kementerian Hal Ehwal Agama. Majlis dimulakan dengan ucapan alu-aluan yang disampaikan Ketua II Angkatan Sasterawan dan Sasterawani (Asterawani) Brunei Darussalam yang kemudiannya diteruskan dengan puisi penyambut Salam oleh Pehin Dato Seri Setia Utama Dr Ustaz Haji Md Zain. Majlis hari ini diteruskan dengan pengucapan puisi oleh Yahya Ms, Timbalan Menteri Hal Ehwal Ugama, Pehin Dato Paduka Seri Setia Haji Badaruddin Haji Awang Othman, Wijaya dan Zairis MS. Pehin Dato Seri Pahl

The Language and Literature Bureau plays an important role to produce new and young writers who will be able to assist and support as well as implement roles and responsibilities of the bureau in collectively spreading the Malay language and literature widely. In this regard, the bureau, through its Publication Planning Section, is currently conducting a workshop on Children Novel Writing, to help writers channel their work that is relevant. Facilitated by Mohd Zefri Ariff, the four-day workshop, which began yesterday at the Balai Sarmayuda of the bureau, aimed to produce talented new and young writers in the children literature genre and guide them to producing a quality children's novel. The workshop also introduced techniques of writing children's novel; introduce and draw children's interest to read and appreciate the message in the novel; and to provide an understanding of the process of publication. Yesterday's workshop touched on the introduction topics - compris