Bali SPEAKS!
Say your ideas through a speech text in Balinese
At the near-end of 2024, BASAbali Wiki opens another Public Participation Wikithon competition. This Wikithon is an oration text writing competition. Twenty selected participants will advance to the final round of oral oration directly in front of the juries and prospective members of 2024 senate candidates. The topic of this Wikithon competition is:
How to Join
The “Bali Speaks” Wikithon competition consists of two sessions: the oration text submission session and the final session. The oration text submission session through the basabaliwiki.org website opens in mid-November, 2023–November 30, 2023 at 23:59 (Bali time). The final session (live oration and finalist judging) will take place live at the Wiswa Sabha Utama Building on December 13, 2023.
- The competition is entirely free of charge.
- Participants are individuals or groups (maximum 3 people).
- Write a minimum 3 paragraphs of speech text in Balinese within the scope of the topic question.
- The speech text should be plagiarism-free.
- Upload your speech text on the BASAbali Wiki page. Click here to enter the Wikithon page, and click “Create and Entry for the Wikithon”;
- Make sure you are logged in first. Check here if you need help creating an account/log-in;
- Complete the available fields, such as:
- A title for your work. Make it as unique/creative as possible in Balinese or Indonesian (English are optional).
- Write your name in the “Author(s)” field (you can use a pseudonym if you don’t want to use your real name).
- Write the origin of your agency, organization, community, school, or campus in the “Affiliation” field.
- Select the competition category you want to participate in the “Category” drop-down menu column.
- A representative image or photograph (will be the cover/thumbnail of your entry). You can use any photo or image that has been authorised.
- Write the source/owner of the image in the “Credit/Source” field.
- Upload the speech text you have written in the “Balinese Description” field.
- Click the “Topic” field and select “DPD Listens”.
- Make a short 1-sentence summary of your work in the “Summary” field.
- Remember to “Save Page” and click the Red Box containing the text “Participate in Wikithon”.
20 nominees from all categories will have a chance to give live speech before the juries in the final session on December 14, 2023 at Wiswa Sabha Utama Hall, in the Bali Governor’s Office.
Winner Categories
College/General
1st winner: Rp1,250,000
2nd winner: Rp1,000,000
3rd Winner: 800,000
(+trophy and certificate)
High School
1st winner: Rp1,000,000
2nd winner: Rp750,000
3rd winner: Rp500,000
(+trophy and certificate)
Life Participants
Total Rp1,000,000
This category is special for two BASAbali Wiki’s life-participants.
(+trophy and certificate)
The Best Comment
The community can add comments in Balinese language on the comment section of the Wikithon participant’s entries. Four best and the most inspirative commentators will get Rp125,000 each.
Click here to learn how to comment on Wikithon entries.
Jury
I Wayan Juniarta
Senior journalist in Bali
Gusti Ngurah Kama Wijaya
Education, Youth and Sport Agency of Bali Province
Dr. Luh Riniti Rahayu , M.Si.
Chairperson of Bali Sruti
BASAbali Wiki also invites 2024 senator candidates (DPD) of Bali Province as juries.
