On Wednesday, October 28, 2009, to coincide with the Youth Pledge Day, held at the University KhaIrun (Unkhair) the Ternate, North Maluku, as many as 80 people are more participants consisting of senior high school Geography Teachers, Junior High and Vocational in Ternate, Lecturer Unkhair follow this Workshop Read maps, held in cooperation with Unkhair BAKOSURTANAL Ternate.
In his welcoming speech, Vice Rector for Institutional Cooperation Division IV Unkhair, M. Rida Ajam, said that until now still many people who do not get to read a map. In harmony with the objectives of this Workshop Reading Map BAKOSURTANAL programmed for Teachers of Geography of the Archipelago, Unkhair strongly supports these activities. To forward Rida Ajam, hoping that all District in North Maluku province are invited to participate in similar activities.
In a welcome return, Head of Information Services and BAKOSURTANAL, Kresnawati Diah Kirana, saying that the purpose and objective of the workshop read this map is to provide knowledge about what it maps, how to read, how to make and mafaat map itself to the public, especially for Geography Teachers The next will be revealed to the students at the school in order to know the map, and ultimately the next generation understand the geography of its own territory in particular and the territory of the Unitary Republic of Indonesia. For example, earthquakes in Padang ago, BAKOSURTANAL provide and deliver the seismic zone map is quite detailed, it turns out there are still many people who can not read and understand maps so that only a small part that can take advantage of the geospatial data.
The material provided in this activity including Topographic Map Making Techniques, presented by researchers BAKOSURTANAL Bambang Riadi, Reading Topographic maps with presenters FX. Subiyanto and presenters from Ternate Unkhair explaining the Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, Applications and Introduction to Topographic Maps Field Use of GPS and GPS, respectively by Salnuddin, Ramli Hadun and Nurhalis Wahidin, submitted by the panel.
The participants were very enthusiastic with a variety of material presented, ranging from how to make maps, read a map to Topographic maps application. Every session there are always questions addressed to pematerinya and until the final session participants are still in the spirit of following the workshop.
By: Yudi Irwanto
