Good morning

Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable juries, and my beloved friends.

First, lets say thanks to God, who has given blessing to us, so we can meet together in this place. Now,
I would like to give my speech under the tittle of Save Our Culture Through English.

I will explain about the meaning of culture. Culture means life method which grow up on the society area
which had generations to generations. We all know, we have a thousand legacy of culture which has a
high precious of art and an ancestral masterpiece such as music, language, traditional dance, and
cuisine. Along with the development of time, a passion for preserving culture is fading. Why? because of
the advancement of science and technology, the impact of globalization, lack of awareness, there is no
love for own nation.

Now that many teenagers are affected by globalization. For example, the teenagers when getting out of
bed just looking for handphone, notification, twitter and facebook, is it right? Now, Indonesian teenagers
love modern music and they forgot Indonesian traditional music, one by one and step by step. Can’t you
see that? Foreign culture almost changes all about Indonesians life style too, from relationship, Food
Fun and Fashion.

In this globalization era, west culture is easy to enter our country, even grow and keep growing very fast.
It seems we feel more confident if we try to imitate the west culture. The tragic case is, our cultures are
captured by another country. They claimed our culture as theirs, reog ponorogo, pendet dance, batik,
and many more, why did it happen? Yes, because we did not preserve, take care of them well. We just
be proud of the richness culture, but never, never to be aware. This can be a motivation to us as young
generation to be care about Indonesian cultures. We can’t just blame they who had stolen our culture.

English as the international language plays an important role in the world progress. People who master
it will have an opportunity in the fast-growing modernization. This language has been used in many
fields such as : science, economic, culture, health and many more. As the number one language in the
world, english enables its mastery to gain many benefits and take advantages dealing with many
improvements also mainly in culture.

Culture can’t be produced easily, and fast. There are many efforts to perpetuate Indonesian culture.
Besides creativity, promotion factor has a big role too. Promote it into international level with an
interesting and unique ideas can be a good way. For the reason, english could be a means of
communication which facilitate us to introduce our language to the other countries. The role of the
youngsteers in introducing our culture to foreign people can be honored as a hero for us. As an example
what had happened to our cultural delegations recently in Moscow, Rusia who performed many
cultural performances in “ Festival Indonesia” and got many appreciation there. Don’t be bored to
learn and make new ideas. Don’t ever be deceited by foreign culture progress.

I wish my words can open up our eyes and rise our spirits on to begin loving own cultures. I am proud of
my ancestors heritages. I love my mother lands heritages. I love Indonesia. Please forgive me for any
mistake on my words.