Reog Ponorogo

Topic : Culture

              This time, i will tell you about my own culture, from Ponorogo east java, from spiritual soul and mixed to be one, and then Reog almost stolen by malaysian. Reog is an traditional Indonesian dance form, but the most notable ones are Reog Ponorogo and Reog Sunda (west java). Although both share a similar name, there is no connection nor similar theme among these traditions. Reog ponorogo seems to be the kind of dance that demonstrate physical strength and extravagantlion-peafowl mask and costumes, while Reog Sunda is a lot more like a traditional musical comedy and dance.Reog is a traditional dance that become the main identity for Ponorogo Regency. Reog National Festival is held every years along the anniversary of Ponorogo regency and Grebeg Suro celebration. Reog dance is also staged full moon nightly in paseban, Ponorogo town square. Reog told about the struggle for a prince who will propose to a beautiful princess. Reog Ponorogo tells the story of a mythical battle between the King of Ponorogo and the magical lion-like creature called Singa Barong. Singa Barong is a large mask usually made of tiger's or leopard's head skin, upon the mask attached a large fan adorned with peafowl feathers. The Singa Barong mask was notoriously heavy, the dancer of Singo Barong bear the mask about 30 – 40 kg weight and supported by the strength of their teeth.The origins and cultural ownership of the Reog Ponorogo dance have been the subject of a dispute between the neighboring countries of Indonesia and Malaysia, whose ethnic, cultural and religious histories overlap and share many similarities. Mostly because there is numerous descendants of Javanese immigrants in Malaysia, especially in Johor state, and they brought many Javanese-origin artforms such as Wayang, Reog and Kuda Lumping. So you can learn another tradition of Indonesia, there's a lot of tradition.

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Charity

Topic :  imagine you had a thousand dollar, but you couldn't keep it. you had to give it away to a person/charity who would you give it to?what would you want them to do with it?

          If i had thousand dollars, but i can keep it, i'll give that money to victims of natural disasters, because when i see them in camp, their story of life was so terrible, the hard to find some clear water and also they hard to find proper clothing, and also they didn't have permanent occupancy, but the government still close their eyes, even the victims of natural disasters is old people and children, i feel so sad when i see an old lady cry when she look to her old house was flattened on the ground,  her cow and chicken was died, and she have nothing to sell, she live with her husband, her husband can't do anything without her help, he only sleep in his bed and they need our help, if i  had really a thousand dollars, i will built a field of jobs, if i had some residual of money, i will built a new home for them, so they can find anything with easy, maybe a thousand dollars was not much, and there's a lot of victims of natural disasters, i have a lot of promises to they, i just want to see their smile again, not crying, because in the past their life was good like us, and then God just break their life and also we must help them for their better life.

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Bunaken

Topic : a foreign visitor has only one day to spend in our country. where should he do? what should he do? explain what?


Indonesia have a lot of Holiday place, a lot of beautiful place, like Bali, Lombok, Mt Jayawijaya, Gilimanuk, Ketapang, and many more, but this time I will tell you about Bunaken, you can snorkeling in there, Bunaken National Park extends over an area of 1000 KM² of which only 3% is terreterial including Bunaken island, as well as the islands of Manado Tua, Mantehage, Nain and Siladen, The waters of Bunaken National Marine Parks are up to 1566M deep in Manado Bay, with temperatures ranging between 27 to 29 °C. It has a high diversity of - corals, fish, echinoderms or sponges. Notably, 7 of the 8 species of giant clams that occur in the world, occur in Bunaken. It also claims to have seven times more genera ofcoral than Hawaii, and has more than 70% of all the known fish species of the Indo-Western Pacific. Oceanic currents may explain, in part, why Bunaken National Marine Park has such a high level of biodiversity. Northeasternly currents generally sweep through the park but abundant counter currents and gyros related to lunar cycles are believed to be a trap for free swimming larvae. This is particularly true on the south side of the crescent-shaped Bunaken Island, lying in the heart of the park. A snorkeler or diver in the vicinity of Lekuan or Fukui may spot over 33 species of butterfly fish and numerous types of groupers, damsels, wrasses and gobies. The gobies, smallish fish with bulging eyes and modified fins that allow them to attach to hard surfaces, are the most diverse but least known group of fish in the park. So this place was wonderful, I really wanted to get there, maybe live near the beach if I had money actually.

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