Made by my beloved father and I
Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen, the honorable Jury, the lectures, and for all participants. Let’s extend our prayers to
Allah SWT the One and the Almighty, so we are always given the salvation
in the world and the hereafter ... Aamiin.
For the first time, I am standing
here to present my speech about The Youth Pledge.
As a great nation, Indonesia of course. We have a
historical day that we have celebrated it every years. We have Sumpah Pemuda,
Youth Pledge in English, it is the day that celebrated on October 28
............ On October 1928, the young people from various region in
Indonesia, they joined in the congress in Jakarta to declare The Youth Pledge that we proclamed three ideas,
namely ...
·
We the sons and daughters of Indonesia, acknowledge one
motherland. Motherland of Indonesia
· We the sons and daughters of Indonesia, acknowledge
one nation, Nation of Indonesia
· We the sons and daughters of Indonesia, respect one
language, language of Indonesia
By The Youth Pledge, young generation could be given the
power physically and mentality in carrying to reach prosperous nation with
dignity. By The Youth Pledge, young people have a strong power for the Independence day
of Indonesia. By The Youth Pledge, young people have a spirit Bhinneka Tunggal Ika,
Various in Unity from Sabang to Merauke.
As we know that, our nation has many many language in
every region, so that we need unity in communication. From Sabang to Merauke,
we are united by Indonesian Language...
Then ... how is it with English language? ... Where is
position English language in Indonesia? ... Well,, English in Indonesia is in second
language after Indonesian Language ...
English is an International language, which every
nation use this language for connecting people between one nation to nation, or
from people to another people, both in communication and correspondence, both in government and in the
academic in the university.
The Youth Pledge is a spirit of struggle of
Indonesian people, could be made as an improvement in learning the
international language, namely English language. And we can speak that Indonesian
language is our language and English language is our language too. So we maybe use
both languages as communication in every moments when it is needed.
The Youth Pledge ... is ours. The Youth
Pledge is a
promise ... promise to ourselves ... where we always remember all the time
to our promise ... one motherland, one nation, one language.
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika is based unity of Indonesia.
“Various in Unity”.
Talking about Sumpah Pemuda or The Youth Pledge? It
will arise some question, Are we include in the such Pledge? even though we are
alive at present, not in the past time when The Youth Pledge declared ... Yes, we are include
inside automatically. We are the generation of young people of Indonesia, move
from generation to generation estafetely.
The Youth Pledge is an authentic evidence
of the Indonesia’s birth. So, Indonesia wasn’t born when the Independence declared on August 17th
1945, instead of
the day when Youth Pledge had been made on October 28th
1928. The cause of the Indonesia’s birth is
because the youths wanted to be free from the colonialism of Dutch.
In the history, The Youth Pledge was declared 86 years ago but the
spirit of the struggle never disappear up to present day. The Youth Pledge is spirit of Indonesian people
all the time.
Therefore, to aspire to become one
nation, Indonesian
people did not need to be of the same race, religion, culture or language. what
was required was the will of the people form one nation, together, based on
common sufferings experienced during a long period in history. Thus, the youth pledge was a
social contract pledged by ethnic groups inhabiting Indonesia, and embracing
various religions, who expressed the wish to become united in one nation, based
on the fact that day had commonly suffered through centuries under the yoke of
dutch colonialism.
The young generation is the back bone of the nation in
the future, so we maybe say that the development of Indonesia depends on the
young generation. If the young generation is good so is good for nation, but if no good of the young
generation, so is bad of the nation. So we have to say NO WAY FOR DRUG, because the drug is an enemy
of the nation, for whoever, wherever and whenever ... And it will destroy the life of the nation, from
generation to next generation. So we must care to our country to hide the
forbidden things that it will make us to do something out of control. And now we have to say Bravo Young
Generation,
Bravo The Youth Pledge, Bravo
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, Bravo Indonesia …
THANK YOU
