ref: Dari tambang emas Freeport diberikan uang sebanyak US$ 2,6 miliar (royality, pajak perushaan etc tahun 2011) kepada kas NKRI, tetapi grup penyanyi dari universitas cendrawasih untuk pulang ke Papua membutuhkan sumbangan sukarela penduduk kota Cinicinati.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120716/ENT13/307160111/Indonesian-choir-way-home-from-World-Choir-Games?odyssey=mod|mostview Indonesian choir on the way home from World Choir Games 10:26 PM, Jul. 16, 2012 | 10 Comments (Left to right) Ningrum Sayida, Trias Roni and Rika Aprilia, members of the Gema Chandra Cendrawasih University Choir from Papua, Indonesia, play with Matt Bauknecht, eight months old, at Fountain Square on Monday. Matt's grandmother, Nancy Blyth, of Kenwood, brought him down to Fountain Square to see the choir perform. Show Caption Written by John Johnston a.. Filed Under a.. Entertainment b.. 2012 World Choir Games c.. Cincinnati Usa d.. Fountain Square Indonesian choir: Members of the Gema Chandra Cendrawasih University Choir from Indonesia perform a folklore dance at Fountain Square Monday. The choir was scheduled to participate in the World Choir Games but arrived late because of travel problems. Purchase Image Zoom The 49-member Gema Chandra Cendrawasih University Choir will embark at noon Tuesday on a 54-hour Greyhound bus ride from Cincinnati to San Francisco. / The Enquirer/Cara Owsley The Cincinnati USA Convention and Visitors Bureau says it will cover the $10,000 cost of the Indonesian choir’s bus ride to San Francisco, but donations also are being accepted from people who wish to help. Send checks to: 2012 World Choir Games Inc., 525 Vine St., Suite 1500, Cincinnati, OH 45202. Donors are asked to include a return address because if more than $10,000 is raised, money will be returned to donors. They’re going home, but it will take an Indonesian choir several days to get there. And in the process, they’ll see more of the U.S. than they ever imagined. The 49-member Gema Chandra Cendrawasih University Choir will embark at noon Tuesday on a 54-hour Greyhound bus ride from Cincinnati to San Francisco, where a previously scheduled flight will take them home. These are singers who, for eight months, rehearsed twice a week as they anxiously anticipated their first visit to the U.S. as competitors in the World Choir Games that wrapped up here this weekend. Then because of travel complications, the group almost didn’t get to make the trip. As it was, the choir from the Papua province of Indonesia didn’t arrive in Cincinnati until Saturday, the day of the Games’ closing ceremony. It was too late to compete. And it was unclear, exactly, how they would get home. But they did get to perform, and captured the region’s heart. “People welcomed us. They love us!” one of the members, 20-year-old Ningrum Sayida, said Monday. Indeed, generous residents and business owners rallied around the choir and its plight. On Sunday, the Cincinnati USA Convention and Visitors Bureau helped arrange performances at two churches and the Duke Energy Convention Center, where an appreciative audience donated nearly $3,000 to the group. Late Sunday, the choir attended a Reds game. Locals had planned a full day of activities for the choir today, too, including a 5-mile canoe trip courtesy of Morgan’s Brookville Canoe Livery and a visit to the Franklin County 4-H Fair in Brookville. Instead, word came late Monday afternoon – after another encore performance on Fountain Square – that the group would be taking a charter bus ride to the West Coast, compliments of the convention and visitors bureau. “If they don’t leave today, they won’t catch their flight on Friday,” said Julie Calvert, director of communications for the Games. That flight leaves at 1:45 a.m. Pacific Time. Calvert also is vice president of communications for the convention and visitors bureau, which is covering the $10,000 cost of the bus ride. Donations are also being accepted. “God bless Cincinnati,” Ralph Ravasy, the group’s 26-year-old leader, said. Choir members didn’t know it at the time, but Monday afternoon on Fountain Square was their farewell performance. They wowed the crowd of several hundred with spirituals including “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” Then they changed out of their formal outfits, applied paint to their faces and bodies and, wearing grass skirts, performed traditional songs and dances from their homeland. “Almost makes me want to go to Indonesia,” said Dave Kunkel of Montgomery. “This is moving. This unites people.” As if on cue, the Indonesians invited audience members to dance with them. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
