User:Eaglesea/Wina sw1

Wina SW1 Wina SW1 or Syafwina Sanusi Wahab, born in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 20 February 1969. A multi talented girl who loves to travel, take photos, reading, writing. She is one of Acehnese women poet. She wrote poems since at elementary school, and published in many anthology in Aceh. Her first Poems Anthology is GARIS (Lapena, 2007). Her famous poems are Seandainya boleh kutawar (1988),Garis and Kalau kau mau memaafkanku. The poem, Kalau kau mau memaafkanku(if you could forgive me), about tsunami disaster that destroyed her home town, Aceh, on December 2004. This poem was translated to Japanese and English. She had recited this poem in many places in Kansai Areas in Japan and in Hawaii. Wina SW1, born in a religious Islam family and grow in Aceh. She graduated from Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Syiah Kuala University, then worked as a journalist for Tiara Magazine (Gramedia Group) in Jakarta. On 1997, she became a lecturer staff at her university. She continue to study in Kyoto University and got Master of Agriculture from Graduate School of Agriculture. Her Master thesis is about bio ethanol. Now, she is doing PhD at Graduate School of Asian and African Areas Studies, Kyoto University. Her research is about post natural disaster management. On behalf of 42 youths from 21 countries, she made a speech in front of The Emperor of Japan and the ambassadors of the world in Tokyo on 1995. She was the Participant Youth (PY) of The Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Program (SSEAYP). She representative of Daerah Istimewa Aceh Province, Indonesia. During her stay in Japan, she teach Indonesian Language at YMCA Osaka and Kyoto Foreign Language Academy. She also introduce Acehnese cultures to Japanese by teaching, dancing and be guest speaker. She teach Indonesian Cuisine to Japanese. She was the chairman of PPI Kyoto (Persatuan Pelajar Indonesia- The Indonesian Students Association, Kyoto Branch) on 2001-2002.