2011 NSDC Championships - Aceh Team Edges over Bali in Close Final

Team Aceh triumphed over tournament favorite Team Bali in a very close match at last night's 2011 National Schools Debating Championships (2011 NSDC).  Debating the motion THBT Establishing Democracy through Military Force is Justifiable, the team from SMA Model Bangsa took 5 of the 9 adjudication votes from the SMA 4 Denpasar team, which recently won the ALSA UI (high school) debates.

The NSDC has been sponsored annually by the Indonesian Ministry of Education, in a program which started in 2000 (then called the High School Debating Camp).  The top speakers from the NSDC are included in a shortlist of candidates from which Indonesia's representatives to the World Schools Debating Championships are chosen. 

Congratulations to both teams, and to all the speakers who made it to the top speaker spots!

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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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