Friday, May 20, 2011

Wake Up Indonesia!

On 20 May 1908, a group of young people led by Dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo established the Boedi Oetomo movement that aimed to awake the people in the Dutch colony of East India about their rich cultural heritage and values.
  
This step has unite young people from various cultural and religious backgrounds in the country to take a bigger step on 28 October 1928 when they pledged that they are part of one nation called Indonesia, using one language called the Indonesian language, and living in a country called Indonesia

On 17 August 1945, the independence of Indonesia was declared, and after four years of guerrilla warfare, in the late 1949 the Indonesian people drove away the last foreign soldier from Indonesia.

Due to the above mentioned facts, every year the people of Indonesia commemorate the 20 May as the National Awakening Day.

I hope that this year's commemoration of the National Awakening Day would awake government officials, the courts of justice and the national and regional Houses of Representatives in Indonesia to work much harder, smarter and more serious in eliminating Poverty, Injustice, Corruptions.

22 comments:

TUKANG CoLoNG said...

tapi yang udah meninggal jangan bangkit lagi ya.. :D

colson said...

On behalf of Indonesia and Indonesians I of course share your hope. Though the National Awakening Day is not for ministers and politicians only; the wake up call is/was directed at all Indonesians.

Unknown said...

@TUKANG CoLoNG,
Wah kalau yang sudah meninggal bangit lagi mengerikan dong.

@Colson,
Although the wake up call is for all the people of Indonesia, but people who has the potential to gain from state money and tax payers money : officials & politicians, must be awakened first.manat

triesti said...

@harry kalau zombie itu urusan CDC ;)

Unknown said...

@Triesti,
Oh zombie itu ada juga yang mengurusnya (CDC?)

sawali tuhusetya said...

mas harry, meski pesimisme kini merebak di mana-mana, kita masih berharap agar kaum elite kita tidak melupakan sejarah bangsanya sebagai pilar mendasar utk membangun indonesia. bangkitlah indonesiaku!

attayaya-mading said...

mari majukan negeri ini
dengan karya terbaik

Unknown said...

@Sawali,
Moga-2 kaum elit kita tidak lupa akan perjuangan dan pengorbanan pahlawan2 kita.

@Attayaya-Mading,
Setuju! mari kita bekerja keras dan pintar.

Unknown said...

How did the name 'Indonesia' come about?

r10 said...

Boedi Utomo awal kebangkitan pergerakan nasionalisme bangsa

Setyo-Utomo Said said...

After the Awakening Day, I hope we are not going to sleep again to have nightmare !

Unknown said...

@Peter/Kiwi,
The word 'Indonesia' originated from Latin words Indos Nesos' meaning
island nation.

@R10,
Kita harus lestarikan pemikiran Boedi Oetomo

@Utomo,
Let's hope there will be no nightmare
Pak Utomo

Kamal Hayat said...

semnagatkan dirimu untuk negeri ini

smp3lembang said...

Hari Kebangkitan Nasional Disambut dengan kisruh Kongres PSSI, akan lari kemana bangsa kita kalau selalu ada yang mau memaksakan kehendak

WebbieLady said...

Happy Awakening Day! Actually leaders are responsible but people themselves should start doing good as well. I mean, not 100% of the efforts come from the government....the public has to do theirpart in succedding economically, culturally,politically...etc... This goes to my home country too!

Webbielady

Unknown said...

@Kamal Hayat,
Benar kita harus selalu bersemangat.

@Smp3lembang,
Semoga dimasa depan kita punya pemimpin yang sejati.

@Webbielady,
I agree that people should play their role a.o by obey the laws, help control the implemntation of govt policies, actively participate in the development of the country etc.

Webbielady said...

Yup, that's true... I am tired of whining about the government by the same people who I see also don't do their part as members of the society...

Unknown said...

Webbielady,

Many of them just complain and protest but do not give solution.

choirunnangim said...

wah semanbgat kebangsaan yang berkobar. bak bara api yang tak pernah padam....

Unknown said...

@Choirunnangim,
Sebagai warganegara kita harus bersemangat.

Meutia Halida Khairani said...

happy awakening day. hehe
pantesan temen2 PNS pada beli seragam korpri buat upacara..

Unknown said...

Hi Meutia,
Happy belated awakening day. Thanks.