Problematic: The Rise of Foreign Culture

Indonesian culture is a result of thousands of years of welcoming outside

influences and incorporating them into a larger story.
Dear, culture lover! As we know, culture has been one of daily need in
our life. Beside exist as an identity, everything seems beautiful with culture.
However, the development of culture itself trigger by domestic people who
posses it. Culture changes time by time, people has their different way to
beautify traditional culture; in order to make them still exist at least at their
original place. The problem is that, we can not even make sure that our own
culture already known well by its society. In fact, there are just several
people who really give good concern to learn about culture.
Based on geography Indonesia is big country and has a lot of varieties.
Indonesia has 300 ethnics and all ethnics have different tradition and culture,
examples languages in every provinces are different such as in north
Sumatra they using Batak languages, in West Sumatra they using Minang
language and Bali they using Bali languages. Indonesia also has different
traditional costumes such as in Java their traditional costumes is Batik, North
Sumatra is Kain Ulos, Baju Bodo comes from southern Sulawesi, Baju
Berkoteka comes from Papua and so on. Indonesia is really beautiful because
Indonesia has different- different culture and tradition, isn't it you think the
same way?
Language
The official language of Indonesia is Indonesian or Bahasa Indonesia. Its
universally taught in schools and is spoken by nearly every Indonesian in
business, politics, national media, education and academia. The Indonesians
also speak several hundreds of local languages like bahasa daerah as their
first language.

Religion
The government of Indonesia officially recognizes only six religions, viz Islam,
Hinduism, Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Confucianism. The
largest religious group in Indonesia is Islam with almost 86% of Indonesians
being Muslims. Indonesia is also the most populous Muslim-majority nation in
the world.

Literature
Indonesia has created many internationally famous celebrated authors.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, a well-known author won the Magsaysay Award and
was considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Chairil Anwar was also an
important figure in the literature world and a member of the Generation 45
group of authors who were active in the Indonesian independence
movement.

Music
Home to hundreds of forms of music, it plays an important role in Indonesias
art and culture. Traces of its origin can be made to the islands of Java,
Sumatra and Bali. Gamelan is the traditional music from Central- and East
Java and Bali. Another very popular style of music is Dangdut which is
accompanied with free dance style.

Dance
The traditional dances depict episodes from the Ramayana and Mahabharata
from India. Traditional Javanese and Balinese tinge is also seen in the dance
forms of Indonesian art and culture. The highly stylized dances of the courts
of Yogyakarta and Surakarta are some of the popular variations. Mythological
events
of
Indonesia
are
also
depicted.
Drama and Theatre
The Javanese and Balinese shadow puppet theatre shows wayang kulit
displaying several mythological events. A traditional folk theatre, Randai of
the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra, is performed during ceremonies
and festivals. Music, singing, dance, drama and the silat martial art are all
incorporated together and are based on the stories of the legend.

Architecture
Indonesian culture, especially its architecture has been to a great extent
dominated and influenced by the Indian, although European influences have
also been particularly strong since the nineteenth century. Traditional

buildings in Indonesia are built on stilts with oversized saddle roofs which
have been the home of the Batak and the Toraja.

Cuisine
Indonesians distinctive cuisine has been derived from centuries with the
influence of the Chinese, European, Middle Eastern and the Indians. The
staple food of most Indonesian dishes is rice served with meat and
vegetables. Spices, notably chili, and coconut milk are fundamental
ingredients in most of the dishes, especially fish and chicken.

Material Art
The arts of Indonesia are many, especially Indonesian paintings which are
unique works of art. The intricate and expressive Balinese paintings are quite
famous and often express natural scenes and themes from the traditional
dances. Indonesias art and culture is also famous for their unique batik, ikat
and songket cloth which is even popular today.

If we talking about culture, we also have to realize that culture has to

in line with development of art. Art in here means other part of culture in
society; for example the rise of modern music which is more interest for
young people. Widespread of modern art; especially what happen in our
society nowadays which are tend to give more concern to foreign culture
already told us to accept this challenge of preserving domestic culture. Lets
try to begin this with the most easy way; enjoy the traditional one. So in next
step, it will easier to know well about them. If all of young could prioritize
traditional culture as their need as art lovers, no doubt we can make sure our
next generation will also enjoy traditional culture and being its preserver.
These are what student as domestic culture preserver said about this issue:
For me, domestic culture is an identity which reflects entity of a
region. The existance of a domestical culture unites people in that
region and develops harmony between them. So, we do really need to
preserve our domestic culture. In my opinion, the way to attract them
in our domestical culture is to use our creativity in showing
thedomestical culture so that people get more interested in that
culture . For instance by mixing a traditional dance with some modern
dance in one preformance so that will become a contemporarry dance

without removing the uniqueness of the traditional dance. - Achmad

Akbar Rifanda, Purwokerto Orchestra
Indonesia has an exotic, unique, and precious culture. My suggestion
is Join domestic culture!! Be a dancer or chef or actor or an
organization about domestic culture. Go to the place that have a great
culture. For example traveling to Sumatra, when they see live the
culture in there for example "tarian sambutan dari suku baduy" or
tasting food from there, they absolutely love domestic culture. You
never cool when you haven't love our culture. We have a reallly
beautiful and great culture from ancestors. You are so lucky to be an
Indonesian because other country haven't so many culture like us. Be
thankful to our ancestors to do preseve our domestic culture - Rara
Ayu Rengganis, SAMAN Ratoeh Jaroeh.

10 Often Used Separable Phrasal Verbs

As you know, a phrasal verb is a phrase with two or more words: a verb and
a preposition or adverb or_both. An important point is_that_a regular verb+preposi
tion combination has two_meanings. A phrasal verb, that is, a verb+particle, has
a single meaning within
a sentence. Many phrasal verbs have a number of different meanings indifferent sit
uations. Yet the meaning of_the verb+particle can usually beexpressed with a single
Latin-based verb.

Here are two sentences with the same meaning:

"They tore down the old building."
"They demolished the old building."

Heres our list of 10 useful phrasal verbs:

Phrasal Ver
b
put on

Meanings

Example

wear, produce, fool,pre That cannot be true. Youmust be putting m

tend

e on.

put off

postpone, disturb

The report is due today.Stop putting it off

andturn it in.

put down

criticize, write

Her boss was alwaysputting her down so s

heresigned.

give up

surrender, stop trying

Your singing is beautiful dont give it up.

give away

give, offer

That radio station givesturkeys away forTh

anksgiving.

give back

return, restore

I got so much help from the town,

I want to givesomething back.

get off

leave, finish, send

Please get the letter off to them today.

get up

awaken, rise

Mom had to get us upevery day for school.

pick up

collect, lift, learn,bring, I picked the living roomup before our guest
clean
sarrived.

take on

assume, fight

The union took on thehuge oil company.

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