for me being Indonesian is such a bless, I have big family here and i live with many different people just in one city here, Jakarta. Knowing Indonesia has lot of cultures, languages, tribes, islands and many different things even make me so grateful to know different people everyday, i understand how to treat different people in a different way but it's not harsh to them because i do it in their way. I am proud to be Indonesian.
so here's my students' testimonial about Indonesia, whether they really like it or just like it being Indonesian and being here. i taught 4 classes when Sumpah Pemuda Day was hold so i ordered them to write about it. here's 4 winners represent 4 classes where they are belong :
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LUTHFA SABRINA
(she is one of the potential girl in the class. she is nice girl and she also had been living in Japan)
her Opinion :
" It's not true Indonesia is always bad. And as we all know, the bule (as we called it for Foreigner) knows Indonesia as 'Bali'. But it is not true. Bali is in Indonesia, not Indonesia in Bali. There is so many places that more gorgeous than Bali, such as ; Sikuai Island in Padang, Lombok, Bunaken and other places, so go visit them too. It's true that we are not a rich, clean and good country that the world wants to be proud of , but me and my friends and also all the people here proud to be Indonesian. We have so many heritages to be proud of in our homeland. it's like green action and take care of ourselves like studying if we are a students and to tell all people in this world that we have genius brain that you can't defeated. We have a friend that won the games in China. We have a friend that inspiring the foreign scientist and so we are. So, if you want to come here,
Don't afraid, we have nice people to welcome you, we have thousand cities that will make you surprised and we have lots of things that you don't even know, so Explore Indonesia as same as I like to Explore the world. It's the prove, not a promise. INDONESIA, the REAL ASIA"
2 SOCIAL 3PRAMESWARI
(she is really supportive students and interested in English)her Opinion :"I think Indonesia is very Unique and the people is friendly. Although Indonesia has many kind of traditional culture, but Indonesia still unites. I like my country culture from Sabang until Merauke. we have different culture like from the food, the clothes, the tradition, the traditional song, the dances and so on.Indonesia has a lot of interesting place from land to sea. it is very beautiful. i am sure if YOU come to Indonesia, you will be back to Indonesia again to see beautiful scenery in other place here, I hope!Indonesia is still one until now because the young people in Indonesia has a promise, we called it "Sumpah Pemuda" with its essential meaning that We are ONE.and i think the spirit of Sumpah Pemuda still and always be in our heart."2 SCIENCE 1
KONITA NATSIR(She is calm and grasp everything really well in English class)
her Opinion :
" Indonesia has its good youngster who have a spirit to struggle and it is proven with our 'Sumpah Pemuda'. It is a spirit of young people of Indonesia for helping to get free from colonizer and they promised to have one mission which is one promise, it was 80 years ago. bun now, 'Sumpah Pemuda' is just a history. everyone doesn't pay attention to it anymore.
But, for me 'Sumpah Pemuda' is still important day because it is the important point of Indonesia. I want to be young Indonesian at that time, but it's impossible because now, the situation is different. Indonesia is Independent country and
I am just trying to study harder to make Indonesia better than before."
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DANIEL(he is nice and very quiet boy in the class but he got potential but he hasn't realize it yet)his Opinion :
"Indonesia is a beautiful country. It's big country with more than 13000 islands and a lot of water (sea, i mean). this country has a big history. It took more than 300 years to get our freedom from colonizer (the Dutch and Japan). We had to fight and a lot of our family died on the fight against the colonizer. We used pointed bamboo stick to fight, of course we lost too many fighter because they got shoot by the colonizer. but after all over, we got our freedom. We declared our Proclamation loud and clear i front of all Indonesian people. We proud of it, that's way we love our mother country. RED like our BLOOD and WHITE like our BONE, it's always be a spirit that boost us when we are looking on our country flag."
my comments to each of the winner :Luthfa, you have really good explanation about our presence and i am impessed by your invitation to all bule to come to Indonesia, Good Job!
Prameswari, Indonesia will be proud knoowing that you are one of youngster here, keep loving our country, yeah!
Konita, you are really grasp well in every explanation that i gave to you and now you're the winner of your class meaning that you have potential, so speak it, girl!
Daniel, you are our history teacher and knowing you still remember our history is realy good to know, nice!
So, Indonesia comes together to make our country better, Don't make it any worse!
Love yourself and love our country!
peace!