Indonesian Culture

The honorable, my English teacher........., and my beloved friends, good Afternoon. First of all,
thank you for having me here in this time. I hope we are all in the good health.

Dear audience, as we know, Indonesia has many cultural backgrounds, tourism sites, wonderful
scenery, spices, and friendly people. At traditional history context, Indonesia has a long story,
but unfortunately, all of kinds of Indonesian cultures that should have been a pride of this
country, accidentally are broken by era. Why? Because the tradition of our country was stained
by the foreign culture that influenced the youth thinking, until we are far from tradition
arrangement that has built. For example, some youths of Indonesian feel shy when wearing the
pride traditional clothes that should have worn by them. One of their reasons why they don’t
want to wear the traditional clothes is because the traditional clothes are not funky and they
think it is out of date, so they prefer to choose the other culture that doesn’t come from
Indonesia and show the bad moral.

                What is our reaction as regeneration of this country to continue our leading about this
case? We should realize about that all. It’s a power of our country that should have praised. For
example, Batik is one of kinds of Indonesian traditional clothes which interested by many
people all over the world, of course we are proud of it but unfortunately, the characteristic of
nationalism still little.  And now let’s see the east traditional clothes of Indonesia which is still
sterile of culture, exactly Papua. They still preserve their culture although it’s impolite, but
that’s the real culture, right? Proudly they preserve their culture, without shy at least.

                As a teenager we should realize these things, to grow the nationalism and to grow the
love for Indonesian culture which is really unique. Indonesia is rich of cultures, like the
traditional foods, traditional dances, and also songs and all things that Indonesian has produces
and keeps it well to be the culture of this country. We should proud of this. And now, it’s time
for us as a regeneration of this country to grow the nationalism and try to respect all of
Indonesian culture and proud of it.

As teenagers, we must not be ashamed and forget about Indonesian culture, if we are not the
younger generation who preserve Indonesian culture, then who else?

                I think that’s all about my speech. Thank you very much for your attention, and I’m
sorry if there are some wrong words I’ve said. So let us love our culture, save it, grow it and of
course be proud of Indonesian Culture! Thank you.