BSD holds reporting competition for Indonesian journalists

Multa Fidrus, The Jakarta Post, Tangerang
Wednesday July 1 2008 City

PT Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD), the management of BSD satelite city in Serpong, Tangerang holds a reporting competition called BSD City Award for all Indonesian journalists.

“This is the first reporting competition we ever hold for journalist at national level and the competition itself is aimed at encouraging Indonesian journalists to improve the quality of their skills,” Idham Muchlis, PT BSD corporate communication manager told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.

Idham said the first annual competition is themed “Serpong as a center for new economy growth.”

“This competition is open for all print media journalists and photographers while for TV journalists, we still confine only those who cover issues in Banten can join,” he said.

He said those who are intereted in taking part in the competition could chose two categories of coverage such as hard news and features.

According to Idham, the judges will short-list 12 out of all stories from print, online, TV and radio reports of each categoriy sent to the organizing committee to be the finalists and six of the finalists will be selceted as the winners. ]

“The six winners will receive trophies, diploma and cash of Rp 10 million each,” he said, adding that those who can join the competition must be active journalists and photographers who work for print, online media as well as Banten-based TV reporters.

Print journalists and photographers can send their works published by respective media between July 15 and Sepember 30 in the form of microsoft word copies and clippings while TV journalists must send their works in the form of DVD with unlimited duration.

“The organizing committee should have received the journalsits’ work by October 15 at the latest,” he said, adding that for further questions, participants could send email to humas@bsdcity.com or contact to organizing committee at (021)53152688.