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MURNI RAMLI

Gender : Female
Institution     : Education
Occupation : Lecturer
Residence : Surakarta, Indonesia; Nagoya, Japan
Email : moernier [at] gmail {dot} com

My grandfathers were traditional farmers and fishermen in Bone, South Sulawesi, and I spent my childhood among the green rice field and the fishy house. My childhood experiences embedded strongly to my next life. I decided to attend Bogor Agricultural University, the biggest and the best one in studying agriculture in my country. Majoring in seed science and technology, I did a very long and tired experiment on  the effect of shading intensity in Capsicum annum‘s seed production for my final work to obtain the  Bachelor degree in 1995. While teaching agriculture in one polytechnic located in suburb Bogor,  I also continued my study at graduate school of the same university and concentrated on plant breeding. My master thesis was on blast disease resistance selection of some cultivated and wild species of Oryza sativa, I did unfinished works on plant breeding. Hope that someday, I’ll continue researching the rice cultivation or becoming a farmer 🙂

Possessing master degree is not a guarantee that someone absolutely masters his/her major. As many students who learn agriculture only from the classroom’s lecturers, I have nothing compare to experienced farmers. Hence, the lack of self-confidence encouraged me to challenge myself in practicing a very small indoor plant rent business. And together with my students, I cultivated sweet corn, soy bean and some quick yielding vegetables, then we invited some buyers and challenged price negotiating. We were tired of course, but we still can enjoy less money and a good farming training as well !

If you’re a busy person, sometimes you’ll feel that you have no time, but in fact, you have a lot 🙂  That’s why, when one new madrasah in a kampong, near Bogor asked me to semi-voluntary teach there, I decided to join . Working there for 6 years and earning abundant teaching experiences to high school students. I also attended a Pesantren (Islamic boarding school) during my undergraduate. Alhamdulillah, that I also got a scholarship from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to study Islamics Studies and Arabic Language at LIPIA Matraman Jakarta, when I  did my master at IPB.

In 2004, I applied the scholarship for  Teacher Training Program sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan for a very simple reason, that is to challenge myself, because my best friend applied for three times, and she failed !! I didn’t have any expectation but just tried. And the pendulum swayed and stopped to me.

Soon after completing the TT program, I started my doctoral program from 2006  in Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, Japan. Spent 4,5 years to get my doctoral degree and did tough and long historical research regarding the establishment and conceptional transition of secondary education in Indonesia.

Most of stories in this blog are reflections of things surrounding. There are such abundant meaningless features when just looking at, but there are an energy, spirit and wisdom when start to think, taste, and sense them deeply.

I do not claim I’m a good teacher but I’m who really love to teach and to learn.

You also can find me here :

1. BENIH

2. Berislam

3. Bilik Belajar Murni Ramli

And left some pictures here :

1. Murni Ramli’ s photo

2. Murni Ramli photoblog

3. murniramli’s flickr

4. murni’s Fotothing