Vancouver Museums And Galleries

Vancouver Art Gallery

Located in Vancouver's downtown core, the Vancouver Art Gallery is the largest art gallery in Western Canada and is one of the most respected in Canada. The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to international travelling pieces from various artists as well as over 200 permanent pieces by the noteworthy Emily Carr, a local British Columbian.

As the Vancouver Art Gallery contains a deep collection of historical pieces, some refer to it as an art museum rather than an art gallery. Time-honoured architecture and a centralized location make the Vancouver Art Gallery a popular host to indoor & outdoor public events. This only adds to the city's character as all sorts of creative types entertain the passing crowd daily.

750 Hornby Street, Vancouver B.C.

Equinox

Equinox is the most popular gallery in Vancouver for those in the know. This gallery strives to only display art of the highest quality from internationally renowned Canadian sculptors, printmakers, photographers, and painters. Although not overtly controversial or tense, displays here range from high realism to abstract. Equinox is located across the Granville Street Bridge close to Broadway Street.

2321 Granville Street, Vancouver B.C.

Contemporary Art Gallery

The Contemporary Art Gallery has grown from a Canadian Government establishment in 1971, to the only independent non-profit public art gallery in downtown Vancouver. In 2005 the Contemporary Art Gallery collaborated with Rethink Communications to create a "Button Wall." Over 50,000 buttons were pinned to the gallery's exterior each with an individual word representing one of a hundred possible responses to contemporary art. People were permitted to take as many buttons home as they wished garnering the gallery loads of local recognition to further promote contemporary art.

The Contemporary Art Gallery stands apart from other Vancouver galleries as it not only exhibits visual art, it also facilitates education and outreach programs, organizes public talks, generates publications, and more.

Museum of Anthropology

Located at the University of British Columbia, the Museum of Anthropology focuses on local First Nations art. A stunning assortment of First Nation totem poles, tools, and weaponry can be appreciated here. Many of these items are held at the Museum's Visible Storage Gallery which is home to over 15,000 historic artefacts. The world's largest collection of works by Bill Reid, an internationally recognized Haida artist, can also be found here including his most popular piece, "Raven and the First Men."

6393 Northwest Marine Drive, Vancouver B.C.

Roedde House Museum

Built in 1893, Vancouver's Roedde House Museum is a late-Victorian home restored to represent the day-to-day life of a middle class family at the turn of the last century. Unlike other house museums, rooms here are not roped off or behind glass. Some of the house's objects can be touched and even handled with care.

The museum offers guided tours, lecture series', and elementary school packages. The house and surrounding park area, which is neighboured by other heritage houses dating from 1890 to 1908, can be rented for weddings, meetings, receptions, photo shoots, and other private events.

1415 Barclay Street, Vancouver B.C.

Museum of Vancouver

The Museum of Vancouver is the largest civic museum in Canada and home to over 100,000 objects. Located just across the Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver's Vanier Park, this museum boasts permanent exhibits which date back to the early 1900's. These exhibits help illustrate Vancouver's story and are used to provoke conversations on Vancouver's past, present, and future.

Visit the Museum of Vancouver's official website before heading out to see what's on display while you're in town. The Museum of Vancouver offers affordable family packages and is a great place to spend a rainy day in the city.

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A Journey Along The Stunning Coastline Of Yorkshire

Fishing villages and artists' haunts

If you are looking for traditional seaside cottages North Yorkshire is the place for you. Here you will find picturesque fishing villages such as Robin Hoods Bay, Runswick Bay and Staithes. The pretty-coloured cottages and their red pantile roofs of Robin Hoods Bay are huddled around a slipway at the foot of a steep ravine and climb up the steep hillside. Packed with secret passages and alleyways, it is easy to imagine the days when smugglers would slip their contraband up the hill under the cover of darkness. The village has always been connected with the sea and fishing was the main livelihood here until the end of the 19th-century. Today, you can still see fishing boats and fishermen at work. Runswick Bay is another picture-postcard setting loved by both artists and holidaymakers. Situated at the northern end of a beautiful sandy beach, its red-roofed cottages with pretty gardens appear to tumble down the cliffside. On the seafront below you will find colourful fishing boats. Located furthest north Staithes, unlike the other two, is tucked into a cleft of rock which forms a natural harbour in this rugged patch of coastline. There's a Mediterranean feel to the place with its crop of white-washed cottages and haphazard pantile roofs. Not surprisingly many artists have been drawn to the area down the years and some are still displaying their work in the village. Staithes, however, is still a working village. There are often many fishing vessels in the harbour, adding to the beauty of the place, and fishermen regularly catch cod, lobsters and crabs. When the tide is out there are also many rock pools to explore, which are great for families with children.

Britain's first holiday resort and eccentric seaside attraction

Scarborough claims to be Britain's first holiday resort, welcoming visitors for over 360 years. Today it is a bustling seaside town catering for the whole family. The safe, sandy beaches of the North and South Bays are broken by a rocky headland on which stands a reminder of the past - Scarborough's medieval castle. At its foot is the harbour where the boats still land their catch. Safe beaches, clifftops and a busy shopping centre stand only yards apart and are all reached by the famous Victorian cliff lifts. In fact, those same Victorians left a town of immense style with some of the finest parks and gardens in Britain, the elegant Esplanade, the magnificent Spa Complex and the large Grand Hotel overlooking the South Bay. The North Bay area is much quieter than South Bay, so if you're looking for a bit of peace and quiet away from the crowds, this is the place to be. At the end of North Bay is Peasholm Park with boats for hire on a tranquil lake. The lake is also the venue for the thrice-weekly 'Battle of Peasholm', one of the great eccentric English seaside attractions. The battle between model warships mostly manpowered has been delighting audiences for more than 80 years!

The resort that never was

I first visited Ravenscar, the resort-that-never-was many years ago when walking the Cleveland Way National Trail. The views from the cliffs towards Robin Hood's Bay were simply breathtaking. However it was the story of the failed development that intrigued me. At the beginning of the 20th-century an ambitious plan to build a holiday resort called Peak was begun. A railway line was being built to link the towns of Scarborough and Whitby, with Peak as the central point. Roads were built, sewers were laid and plots of land sold to city dwellers who liked the idea of living by the beach. However, the plan was badly researched as the route to the shore is precarious and the area, though beautiful, is very exposed. The project failed when the development company went bankrupt. The layout of wide roads remains and the houses built for a new town look strangely out of place on the cliff top.

Home to Dracula - and the best fish and chips

With its quaint cobbled streets and picturesque houses standing on the steep slopes of the River Esk, Whitby is dominated by its cliff top Abbey. Situated along one of Britain's finest stretches of coastline, with cliffs, lovely bays, safe sandy beaches and attractive villages, Whitby has been a port for more than 1,000 years and is still a seafarers' town today. The narrow streets and alleys winding down to the quayside still bustle as they have done for centuries. From these centuries-old streets, 199 steps (it's a tradition to count them) lead up to the parish church of St Mary, whose churchyard inspired Bram Stoker to write his world-famous novel, Dracula. If you decide to spend a holiday in Whitby, you really must try the fish and chips! The town claims to have the best in the country, and it is hard to disagree. Perhaps the most famous is the Magpie Cafe. Overlooking the quayside the restaurant usually has a queue, but believe me, the wait is worth it. Rivals have sprung up along the quay, many award-winners in their own right.

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The Power Of Mindset And How It Affects Your Business Success

What was the reason you decided to start your own business? Did you get tired of your corporate job and feel you could do it better? Are you home with your family and your hobby turned into a business? All of a sudden you were out of a job and needed an income?
Too often I hear from my clients they are working too hard in their business without seeing an increase in revenue. If you needed to create more income, would you be able to do this quickly? More often than not, we hold ourselves back. You talk about having a successful business, but some of the steps you have to take are scary. Because of this fear, avoidance occurs and you don't even realize this is happening.
Shawna is an organizer. She could walk into a home or office easily transforming it for her clients. She was ready to grow her business, but realized she was not following through with opportunities.
She helped her clients become organized. She knew she was appreciated by her clients. As much as she loves what she does, and could do it all day long, she didn't really value her talent. She continued struggling at the end of the month barely making ends meet. Shawna claimed she wanted success, but something was holding her back.
You see, Shawna had conflicting values. She wanted success, but she was resistant to wealth. Her beliefs about money did not allow her to get beyond a certain income level. Looking at the numbers she had remained at an income threshold for several years. This was not based upon reality. This was due to a belief Shawna created for herself. What happened to her is true for all of us.
We have beliefs which we developed when we were younger. Having beliefs which are in direct conflict with current goals will stop progress dead in its tracks or make progress very difficult. Worse yet, it could lead to sabotage.
Fortunately, beliefs can be changed. It is possible, but difficult, to change your mindset on your own. You become so used to seeing things a specific way that you become stuck.
You don't need to suffer through this. By working with someone else trained in addressing mindset issues and who knows how to help create breakthroughs, you will go through the process a lot more quickly. Sometimes you just need someone else to help you step out of the box and look at things from another vantage point.
As you can see, Shawna was getting in her own way. Her inner game and mindset about money was affecting her goals for success. She was holding herself back because having more money conflicted with her identity. If she became too successful and had too much money, she would change and not be the same person. Her bottom line will continue to remain the same until she adjusted her wealth beliefs.

As Shawna began to identify some core beliefs, she was able to understand how her mindset was holding her back. She needed to explore her beliefs and how they affected her perceptions and actions. The ones which no longer supported her goals to grow her business were explored even further. New alternative points of view were discussed. She now had choices of how she could proceed. Once her resistance was gone, she began to see the possibilities.
Shawna decided on a plan to raise her rates which felt comfortable for her. She admits having her rates go up was a big "gulp" for her. In fact she was coached to take a big gulp before she told her fees and then to just wait for a response. Getting her first client at her new rates was scary, but exciting.
Things began to turn around. Shawna began to see her income increase without having to work more. Shawna continued to work on her mindset about taking those next big steps to success. If it was just left up to her, she would still be struggling with success. By working with someone to develop new beliefs which complimented her goals, she was amazed it could be so easy.
Unexpected things happen all the time. That is part of life. Do you have the mindset to step out of your comfort zone and do things differently to reach your goals? In order to be a success, you must already believe you are a success. Mindset is crucial. Once you begin to step out of the box and stretch yourself your business will respond.
Activity: Get a sheet of paper and create two columns. Over the left column title it "Values" and list all of the values you have, your strengths and qualities. Now over the right title "Actions." Under the Actions the top half will be "Pros." These are the actions you are taking which support your business and getting to the next level of success. Then write the "Cons". The things you do which prevent you from growing your business.
Once that is done, go ahead and next to each Action, the pros and the cons, write which value it supports. After you have paired each action with a value, see if there is a pattern there. This will help you to see where your conflicting values lie and begin to understand why you might be holding yourself back from growing your business.

'Reckless' Playboy 'Killed Two Businessmen in High-Speed'

The horrific moment two British tourists were killed by a 'reckless' playboy taking part in the street race has been shown on TV in America.




Police have released surveillance footage video which shows businessmen Craig Elford and Kenneth Watkinson being tossed in the air after they were struck by a Porsche turbo racing at up to 100mph.



Both men, who were visiting Fort Lauderdale, Florida, died from the impact of the high speed collision.



The shocking video footage from a hotel security camera shows the men being thrown in the air as two cars speed along a deserted street.



Prosecutors say 35-year-old Ryan Levin, heir to a multi-million pound fortune, was behind the wheel of a $80,000 Porsche Turbo at the time of the accident in February 2009.



He has been charged with the manslaughter of 48-year-old Watkinson, of Leamington Spa, and 39-year-old Elford from Rayley, Oxfordshire.



At the time of the crash Levin was on probation for running over a police officer during a high-speed crash.



He claimed he was not driving the white Porsche having swapped vehicles with a friend Derek Cook prior to the accident.



Minutes before Elford and Watkinson died Levin was stopped for racing around the streets at speeds up to 100mph.



Levin, who lives in a oceanfront flat and has a generous allowance from his millionaire parents, was arrested after a year-long investigation.



The shocking video footage was released as part of the evidence obtained against Levin by police in Florida.



A telephone call recorded between Levin and his father has also been submitted as evidence.



In the prison call Mr Levin appears to say that his son was driving.



In the call Levin says: 'But you're living the life while I'm in...'



His father replies: 'Well, Ryan, I wasn't driving.'



Levin, who has over 50 motoring convictions, has claimed someone else was driving the Porsche.



His friend Derek Cook has denied being behind the wheel.



Porsche said the car was fitted with a high-tech anti theft device that would have prevented anyone taking the car without the keys.



Levin's lawyer said the video footage did not prove his client was driving.



'There is no way of telling who's driving the vehicle. There's no way of even telling what type of vehicle it is, except that it's a white small car, but can they prove that it was Ryan driving that car and not someone else, or Derek Cook, and if they can't, no matter how horrific this accident was, Ryan Levin is not guilty,' said David Bogenschutz.



Lawyers representing the British families accused Levin of being 'reckless' and a 'coward'.

Indonesia Rounds up 'Beach Boys' over Gigolo Film

Indonesia has detained 28 “beach boys” accused of selling sex to female tourists on Bali after a documentary on the resort’s “gigolos” hit the Internet, an official said Tuesday. The round-up of Bali’s so-called “cowboys” began as tourism officials fretted over the impact of the film on the holiday island’s image as a family destination.




“We’ve rounded up 28 men we suspect might be gigolos. They’re young, fit-looking and tanned, mostly surfer beach boys,” I Gusti Ngurah Tresna, the chief of security on Bali’s main Kuta beach, told AFP.



“We’re still questioning them. If we have good reason to suspect they may be involved in shady activities we’ll hand them over to the police,” he said, adding that the raids were ongoing.



The documentary, “Cowboys in Paradise” by Singapore-based writer and director Amit Virmani, was released at a film festival in South Korea last week. Segments of the film, which contains candid interviews with “beach boys” and the foreign women who fall for them, have gone viral on the Internet after appearing on YouTube.



Bali Tourism Board chief Ida Bagus Ngurah Wijaya said the “cowboys” had been fixtures on Bali’s tourist beaches for some time but had not attracted much attention until now.



“The film is over the top and only focuses on this group of people on the beach, but that’s not what Bali is about. If the film is shown to the world, Bali’s image will be tarnished,” he said.



“I hope the authorities will get rid of these cowboys because they’re of no benefit to us.” Tresna said the documentary ran counter to the authorities’ preferred image of Bali as a world-class destination combining unique Hindu culture and history with famous beaches and surfing spots.



“All this while we’ve been selling our beautiful waves, sunsets, turtles, culture and nature conservation, and suddenly now we’re seen to be selling gigolos? Such films are really harmful to our image,” he said.



The beach police chief could not explain what charges the “beach boys” could face and admitted it would be hard to prove they were selling sex.

“We’re always on the beach so we can guess which beach boy may be taking advantage of foreign women,” he said.



Similar arrests had been made in the past but the suspects had been released “with a stern warning”, he added.



“They will approach foreign female tourists, especially Japanese, on the beach, befriend them and the women will pay for their company and food during their stay here. Sex may be involved.



“It’s like prostitution which is hard to prove because the foreign women may be willing partners, too.” Filmmaker Virmani told the twitchfilm.net website that the men “have no reason to be ashamed and they know it”. “They’re proud of their ’conquests’, of being desired by so many. They’re always game for a little kiss’n’tell once they know you,” he said.



He said they were part of a “male sex trade” on Bali but could not be considered male prostitutes in the usual sense.



“They’ve blurred the lines that might invite shame or discourage women from being with them. They do without the cold transactional elements, for example,” he said.



“A lot of people scoff at the need to distinguish between cowboys and gigolos, but I see the distinction. It’s a very fine line, but it’s there.



“The cowboys are the most visible face of Bali’s male sex trade but they’re not sex workers. How’s that for a blurry line?"

Indonesia Launches Special Jail for The Corrupt

Indonesia on Tuesday launched a special jail for those charged or convicted in graft cases handled by the country’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). Prison authorities have come in for considerable criticism in the past for allowing wealthy or influential prisoners to live in considerable luxury, with karaoke suites, personal attendants and masseuses and even mobile phones provided in exchange for bribes.




The country’s prisons are also typically overcrowded. “There is a common problem of overcrowding in our prisons,” said Martua Batubara, the Justice and Human Rights Ministry’s spokesman, adding that the safety of the more affluent convicts, such as those found guilty of corruption, was a

consideration.



“We cannot mix criminal convicts with corrupt convicts if their safety is at risk” he said. “In prisons you will not get comfort, however safety is important.”



The new three-storey detention centre for the corrupt, built alongside an existing prison in east Jakarta, is designed to hold over 250 people. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, re-elected last year partly on a promise of tackling graft, is trying to push forward an anti-corruption agenda in order to attract foreign investment in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.



In January, Indonesians were outraged when a presidential anti-graft task force discovered that Artalyta Suryani, a businesswoman convicted of bribing a prosecutor, had a private prison cell with a queen-sized bed, TV set and air conditioner, as well as access to a karaoke room.

Saving Indonesia from Traps of Plagiarism

Plagiarism remains a serious problem in Indonesia’s academic life. Over the past three months, a number of plagiarism scandals involving academics from prestigious private and state universities in two "student cities", Bandung and Yogyakarta, were revealed to the public.




In February alone, the Indonesian public and academicians were shocked by the revelation of at least three separate cases, including the Anak Agung Banyu Perwita case. A full-time professor of international relations at Bandung-based Parahyangan University, Perwita was found guilty of plagiarism by the university’s senate after an article bearing his name that appeared in the Jakarta Post in November 2009 proved in reality to be a piece written by an Australian social scientist in 2007.



The Australian scientist was Dr Carl Ungerer, director of the National Security Project at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) who was also a former lecturer of international relations at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Two other cases of plagiarism were found in Yogyakarta, Central Java. In the city, two lecturers of local private universities were also allegedly plagiarists after claiming other people’s scientific works as their own for the sake of their professorship applications.



Due to the importance of this issue, Indonesia’s influential Kompas daily, for instance, had put it in its headline and editorial pages in its February editions. The acts of plagiarizing at the Indonesian higher institutions do not stop at these three publicly-revealed cases because, like the peak of an iceberg, another case is also found at one of the country’s centers of excellence.



Mohammad Zuliansyah, former PhD student of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)’s school of electronics and informatics, was convincingly found guilty of plagiarizing the scientific paper of Austrian scholar, Siyka Zlatanova, entitled "On 3D Topological Relationship". Zuliansyah copied Zlatanova’s research paper, which had actually been published eight years before he participated in the 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems in Chengdu, China.



Despite the fact that the IEEE had issued a notice of violation of IEEE publication principles for his article on its website on November 11, 2008, the Zuliansyah plagiarism case was revealed to Indonesian public and acknowledged by the ITB management in April 2010. The ITB Rector Professor Akhmaloka said the ITB had just realized about Zuliansyah’s plagiarism case after he completed his PhD program and obtained the degree in the end of 2009.



Before the case was revealed to public, he had become a lecturer candidate at his alma mater but, later, he reportedly withdrew from the candidacy. A series of publicly revealed plagiarism scandals have arisen deep concerns to the government and university people in the country.



In response to the plagiarism cases publicly revealed at certain private universities in Bandung and Yogyakarta, Education Minister Mohammad Nuh said the culprits need to be severely sanctioned.



"The sanctions can be social and legal, as well as the withdrawal of their academic degrees. The latter must be decided by the respective universities’ senates," he said.



Despite the fact that imitating other people’s works but then claiming them as their own works was just done by a very small number of Indonesian academics, this condition could not be ignored. To halt the acts of plagiarizing in the future, the education ministry would tighten its assessment procedures in evaluating the originality of lecturers’ scientific works through a peer review mechanism, he said.



Learning from the previous cases, Nuh argued that the main cause of plagiarism was related to the culprits’ poor personal integrity in their efforts to achieve the highest academic class as full-time professors.



"Other causing factors are related to the weak professorship assessment procedures and to financial consideration because being a professor, a lecturer will get incentives," he said.



Nuh said the authorities of universities and research centers in the country need to open the accesses to digital libraries and use such plagiarism checkers as "scanmyessay.com" to enable them to spot plagiarized papers in advance.



An alarming bell



For the university authorities, the revealed plagiarism scandals have become an alarming bell that needs to be responded with concrete actions, such as strengthening academic life and plagiarism checking system. The University of Gadjah Mada (UGM) and ITB have announced their plan to develop plagiarism checkers to prevent the same cases to happen and ruin the credibility and reputation of the country’s quality higher education.



According to ITB Rector Professor Akhmaloka, his institution had actually wished to have the plagiarism checking software for long time ago but due to its expensive proposition, the ITB could not acquire it. "Now we are going to develop the software ourselves," he recently revealed.



The plagiarism that potentially weakens a nation and ruins its credibility and reputation on the eyes of the world’s community is not typically Indonesia case but it has become an international issue for such a long time. Australia’s University of New England, for example, had ever handled an alleged acts of plagiarizing by its international students in 2007.



As revealed by the Chronicle of Higher Education in its December 20, 2007’s news story entitled "Australian University May Discipline Staff in Plagiarism Scandal, but Not Students", the university found the works of 210 examined international students had significant materials that they copied from the Internet.



In safeguarding their academic integrity and organizational reputation, such leading Australian universities as the University of Queensland (UQ) has used a plagiarism checker for years. An Indonesian scholar teaching at UQ’s school of geography planning and environmental management, Dr.Salahudin (Salut) Muhidin, said UQ lecturers had used a computer program called "Turnitin" to help them check their students’ academic essays to ensure their originality and proper citation.



UQ, he said, had seriously attempted to maintain the academic integrity of its students through "Turnitin" that had also been used by thousands of universities in more than 80 countries around the world. However, the "Turnitin" was no more than just a tool to trace the levels of plagiarism. It could not even spot someone’s acts of plagiarizing unpublished papers and Indonesian research papers whose plagiarized contents were then translated into English, Muhidin said.



Apart from the significance of such plagiarism checkers as the "Turnitin" and "scanmyessay.com", building a sound academic life at all universities in Indonesia is much more important amid their limited budget. In this context, ensuring the originality of works can be a starting point that needs to be made parts of Indonesians’ academic life. Through this approach, Indonesia can keep improving its higher educational reputation that has recently been damaged by the revealed plagiarism scandals.

How to Unite The World through "World Englishes across Cultures"

Today, English has become the language for communication spoken by native and non-native speakers worldwide. The tremendous demands for the use of English in the 21st century have forced language teaching experts and professionals to look into other concerns besides language teaching and learning alone but language teaching and learning in different settings, cultures, and linguistic backgrounds.

The profession of English language teaching today has to examine the pros and cons that deal with considerations of World English or World Englishes, English as an International Language, and acceptable standards that should be applied.

To keep abreast with what language teaching experts are concerned with, LBPP LIA (Lembaga Bahasa & Pendidikan Profesional LIA), the biggest unit of YAYASAN LIA, presents LIA International Conference 2010, April 28-30, 2010 in Sanur Beach Hotel, Bali with the theme : World Englishes across Cultures.

LIA International Conference 2010 hopes to provide a platform for language teaching experts and professionals to bring in and share new insights, current considerations and problems that impact on language teaching and learning in all of its aspects: linguistic, social, and cultural. LIA hopes that with this kind of dialog, the conference will bring about a better understanding and greater tolerance and acceptance of the differences in communication among world cultures.

The committee has received confirmed attendance from participants & presenters representing language institutions, colleges and universities from 20 countries. The featured speakers to talk about the implications of the existence of world Englishes among others are Andy Kirkpatrick, Alastair Pennycook, Jihyeon Jeon, etc, who are spesialists in multilinguals and English as a lingua franca.

The goal for LIA International Conference is to provide a platform in which experts and practitioners from all over the world share new insights, current considerations and problems within the realm of English language learning and teaching related to World Englishes in all of its aspects: linguistic, social, and cultural.

Directorate General of Higher Education-the Ministry of National Education in Indonesia-, fully supports LIA International Conference 2010 manifestated in Certificates of attendance for the participants which are co-signed by The Director General of Non Formal & Informal Education and The Director General of Higher Education.

Hafilia Ismanto, Director of Academic Affairs LBPP LIA as well as The Chairperson of LIA International Conference 2010, said that the committee felt proud to receive 190 abstracts submitted from all over the countries, eventhough after a selection only 90 presenter are confirmed.

Established on September 7, 1959, YAYASAN LIA started out with name Lembaga Indonesia Amerika, to be changed later to Perhimpunan Persahabatan Indonesia Amerika, shortened to PPIA. PPIA’s mission is to enhance friendship between USA and Indonesia through English classes, art-related events, music concerts, film showings, exhibitions and other cultural programs. In order to enhance its mission in education, in 1986 YAYASAN LIA was established as an entity legally separated from PPIA. Since then LIA has been the official name of the foundation, abandoning its mark as an abbreviation or acronym.

Whereas PPIA remain focused on its cross-cultural mission, YAYASAN LIA’s main involvement is in language education and professional training programs for such skills as required in computer operation, accounting and hotel management. LIA started its first activity by opening English classes for around 40 college students, a number at present stands at approximately 65.000.

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