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Community News · Kirim kabar

Share your news

Have a community story, achievement, or event recap? Send a few details and photos. English or Bahasa Indonesia is welcome, and we can help write the story. Our volunteer team reviews every submission before anything is published.

How it works

  1. You send the form

    A few sentences are enough. You get a reference number on the next screen.

  2. A volunteer editor reads it

    If something is missing, we email you from imatx.sec@gmail.com. We check names, dates and photo permission.

  3. We prepare the story

    We may shorten it, translate it, or fix spelling, and keep what you meant. For a personal story, or if we change the meaning, we ask you before it goes up.

  4. An IMATX officer approves it

    Then it goes on the News page. We email you the link. If we decide not to publish it, we tell you.

Your story

Questions marked (required) must be filled in. Everything else is optional.

About you (only the editors see this)

Only for questions about your story. We do not add you to any list.

The story

Who, what, and why it mattered. A few sentences are enough, in English or Bahasa Indonesia. Please do not include anyone's phone number or home address.
A date, or roughly: “Sat 18 Oct” or “early October”. Not sure is fine.
City or public place, like “Round Rock” or “ICBC”. No home address, please.

Photos (optional)

Google Photos, Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive. Share it with imatx.sec@gmail.com, or as “anyone with the link”. Please do not make it public or searchable. No link? Leave this empty and we will ask for the photos when we reply.
Can children be recognized in the photos? We only publish a photo where a child can be recognized when a parent or guardian agreed.

Links (optional)

A flyer, the masjid's post, a news article or a video.

Public credit

Whose name should we show with the story? (required) Your email is never shown. You can change your mind later.

Just for the editors (optional)

The form not working? Email your story and photos to imatx.sec@gmail.com instead.

What happens to your information

  • Your name and email go only to the IMATX volunteer news editors and officers. They are never published.
  • Only the approved story is published, with the credit you chose above.
  • The form is kept by Netlify, the company that hosts this website. The editors copy it into a private IMATX tracker on Google Workspace that only they can open.
  • Editors may use an AI writing assistant (Claude, by Anthropic) to help shorten or translate the story text only, never your name, email or private notes. A person checks every word.
  • We keep your submission for 12 months after the story is published or closed, then delete it and your contact details.
  • To change or withdraw your story, email imatx.sec@gmail.com with your reference number.

More in our privacy note.