2011 ALSA UI - High School Finals

SMA Negeri 1 Sidoarjo drew Proposition while SMA 4 Denpasar will speak as Opposition in this afternoon's High School Grand Final of the 2011 ALSA UI.  The motions were taken from a self-composed poem by the A-Core linked to 'geo politics':

Smile! The debate team from SMA Negeri 1 Sidoarjo strike a pose after learning they made it to the Final of the 2011 ALSA UI High School Debate Competition.

M1 - THBT countries should be able to sell their votes in international organisations.

M2 - THBT (sic) the ASEAN should have a single currency.

M3 - THBT Julian Assange deserves a Nobel Prize.

The teams vetoed M2 and M3,  to debate THBT countries should be able to sell their votes in international organisations.

SMA 4 Denpasar took the final, and was crowned the champion of the 2011 ALSA UI High School round.

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2011 ALSA UI Updates - Motions for Semis

The 2011 ALSA UI debate competitions for both high school and varsity levels opened to a significantly thinned-out crowd for today's semifinal rounds. 

Seminfinalists SMA 4 Denpasar (A & B), St Albertus Malang (A), and SMA 1 Sidoarjo chose from motions dealing with 'Feminism and Children's Rights':

M1 - THW give children the right to sue parents for lack of love.

M2 - THBT government must give wages to stay-at-home mothers.

M3 - THW allow (sic) the burqa in every EU member (sic) country.

Not that one! Semifinalists veto motions on 'Women and Children's Rights.

Meanwhile, Bakrie University (A), BINUS INTERNATIONAL (B), Universitas Diponegoro, and Universitas Indonesia (A) chose which of these former motions to debate for the midday Semifinal round at the varsity level:

M1 - THW ban prisoners from publishing (sic) accounts of their crime.

M2 - THBT war journalists should be forced to reveal their sources (sic) before international criminal tribunals.

M3 - That the trials of alleged (sic) rapists of female victims should only be tried by a female judge and/or female jury.

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