Dear PE Eckart

Dari: "Purwa"
Dear PE Eckart,

Thank you for your email. Yes, this is still a draft, a dream, a thought and an effort of actions, whithout which our district
just keep on talking and talking for more than 15 years already and no advancement.
All of the seniors in D3400 as well as International neighbours think that to make Rotary Bigger - better - bolder, one is
to make it into 2 Districts. Indonesia is too large to be handled by one District Governor (just to give you a not, the Philipines
is handled by 10 District Governors), and how is that possible ? They all work hard on their dreams.

This is still a long way to be able to eventually acknowledged by Rotary International, because a District should have at least
60 clubs or at least 2000 Rotarians.
I am trying to show Rotarians in Indonesia that with the figures below, we are still far to far, but I like that everyone start thinking
toward the goal.

The Objective of this is to try to meet the objective of RI:
Bigger --> to have more members
Better --> to balanced clubs toward the goals of effective clubs
Bolder --> Doing bigger, higher impact and sustainable projects to benefit communities. And tell the communities what
we have done.

I am trying to encourage the Rotarians to have higher spirit of giving as well as higher spirit of becoming bigger. In the past, when
a DG gave encouragements, Rotarians laughed and gave negative comments. To me it is OK, be it, but I still can hope that
I can and may inspire more positive thinking Rotarians.
Best regards,
DGE Al Purwa

----- Original Message -----
From: Eckart Schumacher
To: 2010PresidentsD3400 @yahoogroups. com
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: [2010-2011President sD3400] Indonesia Barat dan Indonesia Timur

Dear DGE Al,

Wow, what a Monday surprise ! But actually I am confused .........

I know there has been discussion about splitting D3400 into two districts for quite some time. Following your below email, however, for me it is not clear whether this now has been executed already. Or is it just a "draft" to show what direction a split could take ?
(I am sorry, I could not attend the DisCon/DistAs, so I might have missed the clarification on this issue there)

Anyway, since I have just passed my first anniversary of induction only, I certainly will refrain from "omong pintar atau kosong" in this regard.
As a club president for 2010/11 I would appreciate, though, to learn what consequences for my "daily work" a district split may have. And especially, what is the Objective behind that ?

As a general "concern", I still dare to say that a Rotary district split reminds me of Indonesia's tendency to create more and more provinces, regencies, and so on.
The probable benefits of these administrative split-ups have not really shown yet. But for sure the administrative costs and coordination difficulties have increased.
But again, I may have missed the communication on the objectives for the D3400 split (apologies !).

YiR,
Eckart Schumacher
- PE 2010/11 RC Tangerang -