Pekalongan Book Fair 2016

Pekalongan – The office of Library and Archive of Pekalongan held Pekalongan Book Fair 2016 by presenting many cheap books. The head of Library and Archive office Pekalongan, Maryati SH MSi, said that the purpose of this event is to let the people who need book can buy books with low prices, there are a lot of discount up to 70%.

Pekalongan book fair this year is followed by dozens of booths in Gor Jatayu. This book fair will last for 7 days, beginning from Tuesday (12/4) until Monday (18/4). This exhibition is open to the public and free of charge, and also provided many gifts for the visitors.

The requirement is very easy, purchase of every book with certain nominal, visitors will get 1 coupon to be drawn when the last day of book fair.

“We provide cheap books for society of Pekalongan and around it, come take the advantages of this moment because this event comes only once a year. We hope it can make people of Pekalongan increase in interest reading.

This event is also supported with a variety of activities such as Young Dai Contest, Geguritan Contest, Hafidz Qur’an, Drawing, Colouring Contest and many more.

Source: Radar Pekalongan 

Why Forest Fire Happen

Forest fire is one of social phenomenon which influence and decrease the quality of soil. Some countries have been affected forest fire, one of them is Indonesia. This can happen intentional or unintentional. It can happen not only because of natural factor like the air that is very hot in summer, but also because of human error that doesn’t think about how important forest is.

There are some causes of forest fire. First is natural factor, it can happen because the air is very hot in summer, lightning strikes, or volcanic activity of the volcano. The second is human error, for example like throw the cigarette away or forget to put out the fire when they have camping activity. The last is to clean the agriculture land with burn it.

Forest fire is also give the effect. First of all is it can kill the animal, plants and trees that are live in the forest. The second is it can make bare forest. When forests are bare, it is easy to make a flood because there are no trees that can prevent rain water. Last but not least, it can increase breath infection and lung cancer especially for kids and adult.

Forest fire has so many effects especially for human. But, there are some ways that can be done to avoid forest fire. For the example like give the guidance about how important forest is. Then, forbid the activity of cleaning agriculture land with burning or give hard punishment to people when they do it. The last is don’t throw cigarette carelessly when you are in forest.