9. One Thing to Represent Your Country

Batik

Indonesia has many things to show off to other country. Indonesia is very rich of the nature and culture. Many people from other country are impressing with Indonesia’s culture and of course the nature. Those are the reasons why they are curious about it and want to visit to Indonesia. Indonesia has many traditional dances, clothes and arts. Those are can being something to represent to other country. If I asked to represent one thing to other country, I will choose batik.

Batik is a craft that has a high artistic value and has become part of indonesia’s culture especially Java since a long time ago. I think batik has worldwide porpularity now because people from other country know about batik. For example, in Japan. I heard that Japanese citizen recognize that batik and its patters as a culture of Indonesia since hundred years ago. Batik clothing, especially shirts have been widely recognized by Japanese society. Japanese society often wear batik when the summer comes because they think that batik is simple, made ​​from thin material so, they like to wear it. It shows that batik is very famous and it also shows that batik as an Indonesia’ culture can impress other people in other country. We have to proud of it.

When I represent batik in other country, I will show the gracefulness of batik. Batik has many beautiful patterns and designs which can make other people more impressing in batik. I will tell them that when they wear batik, they will look very handsome and beautiful because batik can shows your handsomness and beautifulness. Agnes monica wore batik when she was being an MC of music program in America. She looks so beautiful with it. She designed it by herself and it looked so modern. When she wore it in America, other people around her admired her and her dress. She said that they also want to wear the same dress like Agnes because it’s so beautiful. It can be the way to represent batik to other country. Even some tourisms come to Indonesia to learn how to make a batik and as you know make a batik is not an easy thing. They want do that because batik hypnotized them. From that facts, we know that batik is very amazing and has a high value and as Indonesian we have to proud because have it.