On 28 October 1928, young people from various parts of the Dutch Colony of East India held the first Congress of Youth at the capital city of Batavia.
The participants of the congress have pledged as follows :
1) We have one country = a country called Indonesia
2) We have one nation = an Indonesian Nation
3) We have one language = an Indonesian Language
This pledge has unified the people in the said Dutch Colony and inspired them to declare the independence of the Republic of Indonesia on 17 August 1945.
I sincerely hope that every citizens of Indonesia, especially those in the central and provincial governments and parliaments would always remember the Youth's Pledge.
Images : Courtesy of Jimmy Zakaria (below) and Tandainama (above).
I also hope the students better understand the meaning of youth's pledge before a demonstration into the streets.
ReplyDeleteReborn,
ReplyDeleteYes, I also hope so.
Selamat Hari Sumpah Pemuda
ReplyDeleteLanjutkan perjuangan membangun negara
Cucuharis,
ReplyDeleteOke, mari kita berjuang membangun negara kita.
On this day, the 28th of October, I gladly add my outsider's wishes to yours.
ReplyDeleteHowever I don't think there is any serious reason to doubt the ( multicultural)unity of the huge country, nation or the language. Is there?
Colson,
ReplyDeleteYes you are right, there's no threat to the said three principles.
There are few who wants to force a single culture concept.
But Indonesia is a heterogeneous society with 237 mio people consisting of many tribe with different cultures, living on more 17,000 islands.
Therefore different from countries which are smaller and homogeneous like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Irak and Afghanistan.
I just want to say let's unity say no to fight
ReplyDeletejust remember? :D I think students nowadays can't remember the national anthem I sincerely doubt they even know about Youth's Pledge Day...
ReplyDelete@Berpikir Positif,
ReplyDeleteYes we must be united and not fight with each other.
@Dream Catcher,
Considering that they learned national history at schools (SD,SMP,SMA) they should know
about it, only forgotten.
Turut mengucapkan "selamat hari sumpah pemuda" Semoga generasi kita bertambah kualitasnya :D
ReplyDeleteFir'aun NgebloG,
ReplyDeleteSemoga kualitas bangsa kita pada umumnya dan pemuda pada khususnya semakin meningkat.
Jadilah INDONESIA yang kaya akan Ilmu bukan kaya akan Korupsi
ReplyDeleteHai Pemudi also Pemuda... jadilah INDONESIA jangan jadi INDONSIAL
ReplyDelete@Enny,
ReplyDeleteSetuju sekali kita harus kaya akan ilmu.
@Kurniawan,
Benar kita harus tetap Indonesia