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Sunday, February 1, 2009

IT'S OUR CITY JAKARTA.








talking about indonesia, everybody always said bali or JAKARTA.
jakarta is the place where i born and spend all my life there.
my father races is Betawi.
this morning i read about a notes from a junior high school student,
he wrote about jakarta.
and i got amaze by this kids. he can explain about jakarta so clear for a junior high student.

he wrote about everything happen in jakarta, the crime the traffic jam.
even the crime show "buser".
he mention the urbanization too.
jakarta show a sparkling things for the people see from another town in indonesia.
but when you live there it's not always a sparkle there.
jakarta have a dark side too.

in this note i read she mention a good side of jakarta too, and i realized
in jakarta people can live together, and we can accept a differences.
like in my family, my father's brother have a Chinese wife, we can accept this.
we life in harmony.
we can play, be a friend without see the races.
actually it's a natural thing that all indonesian have a friendliness.

jakarta is the place where all kind of races living there.
like in tanah abang a lot of arabian peole there, the native people( we called betawi ), african people too.
in around glodok the chinese and betawi people living in harmony, helping each other.

my grand mother tell me a story about jakarta long time ago.
she said that betawi people it is actually mix.
a mix betwen chinese arabic and dutch people.
betawi it is the native people of jakarta.
so no wonder that we are JAKARTA PEOPLE so friendliness.

but sometimes now, because aculuturation.
people in jakarta become selfish.
we can't feel that harmony sometimes.

but in some place still can feel this harmony.

we can stil see how betawi people live.
we still have betawi village.
in Condet and in my great grandmother live "kerukut".

jakarta change into a big city now, but us never change we still can feel this atmospher friendliness.

we as a people live in jakarta must feel proud of what our great great grand mother entail.
we should proud of monas and the old town of batavia. we should proud of the museum there.

we should proud of jakarta.

and a can say this loud


I'M PROUD BEING A BETAWI AND I PROUD BEING INDONESIAN.

xoxo



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