The Jakarta Post, Life - Toastmasters aim at producing better speakers. August 2008 . In the meantime there is already a Jakarta Bahasa and Jakarta Mandarin Toastmasters Club. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/07/07/toastmasters-aim-produce-better-speakers.html

Public Speaking for dummies, published by IDG Books Worldwide, Inc 1999 - author  Malcolm Kushner

Ten easy ways to get speaking opportunities.There is only one proven way to improve at public speaking – give speeches. As with any other human endeavor, you get better with experience and practice, so you need some opportunities to speak.The first way the book mentioned is : “Joining Toastmasters”.

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Speak to win, published by Amacom 2008 -  author Brian Tracy, public speaker who has spoken to 5 million people in 46 countries

Toastmasters uses the process of “systemic desensitization” . This means that if you do something over and over, you finally become desensitized to it. When you speak repeatedly in front of others, you eventually lose your fears and misgivings. (misgiving = worry , unease).

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Rich Dad’s Guide to investing. What the rich invest in, that the poor and middle class does not, published by Warner Books 2000 - author  among others Robert T. Kyosaki

After I began to overcome my fear of selling, rich dad had me join the Toastmasters organization to overcome my fear of speaking in front of large groups. When I complained to rich dad, he would say : “ all great leaders are great public speakers”…

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Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , published by FT Press 2007 – author  Jeffrey Gitomer , Chief Executive Salesman, presenting  an average of 120 seminars a year for the past 15 years.

To get your way, you have to possess persuasive presentations skills. An integral part of your ability to influence and convince  others is your ability to communicate your message. There are thousands of Toastmasters clubs and equally thousands of speech coaches and courses that you can take on presentation skills, yet it is the least studied and certainly the least mastered skill in the science of persuasion and the art of getting your way.