Pidato berjudul "Melestarikan Budaya Indonesia"

PRESERVING INDONESIAN CULTURE

Assalamu'alaikum wr.wb.
The honorable teacher, and all my beloved friends.

Good afternoon, everybody! So let's thank to God for all of His blessings so that we can gather here in
a good condition.

In this occasion, I would like to tell you all about Indonesian culture and how to preserve it. Before I
tell you about that, could you give me an example of Indonesian culture? Well, that's enough. But
don't you realize that the Indonesian language is also our wealth?

Last day I read a news about traditional languages in Indonesia which are threatened (in danger). It's
about more than 100 (one hundred) languages. After I read that, I inspired to tell you about this
danger.

Nowadays, we can see in our school there are 3 foreign languages which are subject for student to be
fulfilled. Besides, we still have Bahasa Indonesia as our primary subject. We need to be on guard to
face this situation. It's okay when you want to learn foreign language, but never, never to ignore our
language, our Bahasa Indonesia.

Well, we have talk about language. Now let's get into our best discussion. Have you ever heard about
Pendet Dance which is claimed as Malaysian culture? If yes, so what made it stolen? It's because our
apatism as young generation for this nation. We shall keep it in our hand, never loose it even a
second!

Our country always viewed bad by the others. We shall do a change to our country. First, we can
simply love Batik as our fashion. We know that Batik is already avowed by UNESCO as the World
Heritage. But ironically, why do teenagers still wear foreign fashion? It's the way of foreign country
to take power of us. They do good but the fact they have taken the power of our country.

Well, enough for it. Now we should think on how we can preserve our culture. First we get, to love
Batik as our fashion. And the next we can conclude that we should love Bahasa Indonesia as our
native language. Besides we should also love our regional language. For me, my regional language is
Javanese.

Maybe that's enough for us to know on how to preserve our culture. Now it's up to you, whether you
use my way or just use your way to preserve. I think it's enough for me to stand here because I've
done with my work. Thank you for your attention and your participant. Hope my words will useful for
us, for others and especially for our beloved Indonesia.

Those words are simple but you can develope it in your minds. Please apologize my mistakes and
goodbye, have a nice day!

Wassalamu'alaikum wr.wb.