CULTURE 

Ladies and Gentlemen, we all know that Indonesia is a beautiful country, it has so many natural and cultural wealth. Culture itself is the customs, arts, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. Actually, there are more than 100 cultures in Indonesia, like traditional dance, traditional songs, many ethnics, Wayang, Batik etc. But unfortunately, young generation nowadays is living in a globalization era. They don’t have any interest with their own culture. They believe that this world is borderless, and we can access any information, talk with anybody without a limitation. And because of this globalization era too, the young generation now a day is having a mind set about “International Scale” anything they do is all about western thing. They behave like a western style, they like break dance, R&B, hip-hop song more than their own songs.

And young generation nowadays tend to use English or Korean and other language more in social media because they think that Indonesia language is old-fashioned. And also, teenager nowadays is using internet and social media such as YouTube, Twitter or Instagram to see about the western or other foreign culture like break dance, street dance and etc. They don’t want to learn traditional or sing traditional dance because they think those are not trendy, right?

So, ladies and gentlemen I’m standing here to tell you all, how important culture awareness is. Why do I say like that? Because if not us, the teenagers, the young generation that take care our culture, then who else will do it? Are we going to let our culture extinct? Of course, no. We don’t want to let that thing happen, right?

Dear happy audience, culture awareness is important for us because our culture shows about characteristic of our country. For example, that people see about Reog Ponorogo and batik, traditional dance they will recognize our country.

So, ladies and gentlemen, because of that important we have to save our culture. Here I want to tell you all the way we can improve the culture awareness for young generation.

First, be proud to be Indonesian. We don’t have to be ashamed to be a part of Indonesian. Instead of just learn about foreign skill we can increase our Indonesian language more and trend it. For example, if we make a hashtag on twitter like #IndonesianLanguageDay or #MyLocalLanguage. We can also attract other people to know about it and join it.

Second, make the teenager nowadays love our dance and music. We have to make them realize that our music and dance is also great and not old-fashioned. And also, we can create something like mix our culture, mix between jaipong dance and another dance and make it more fun.

And the last and the most important thing we have to educate and inform them about Indonesian culture. Because their careless is due to the fact that nobody inform them about our culture.

So, ladies and gentlemen don’t be the generation that will destroy our culture. But let’s be the generation that save our culture. Because if not us, the young generation, who do it, then who else? So that’s all from me. Thank you very much.