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INDONESIA CULTURES, SOURCE OF MY LOVE TO INDONESIA

An elegant Archipelagic country which are rich of cultures, rich of spices, rich of natural wealth. The country which stand between two oceans, namely Indian Ocean and Pacific oceans. It was Indonesia , a country which  famous about  its rich cultural tradition and has religious values and decency. How rich Indonesia, so that, many other countries who want to master it, like the Dutch who had colonized Indonesia for 350 years and Japan that had also been colonized during the 3.5 years. That’s all caused because threy were tampted exist things in Indonesia. With the fighting spirit of the hero, all of these invaders could chase away, and can stand sturdy outrigger until now .

Indonesia's cultural variety is something that can not be denied its existence. With a population of 200 million people where they live scattered in islands of Indonesia. They also inhabit the region with variety of geographical conditions. Starting from mountains, forest edges, beach, lowland, rural, to urban areas. This also relates to the level of civilization of ethnic groups and different communities in Indonesia.

Meetings with outside cultures give the affect to the process of cultural assimilation in Indonesia. Then, developing and expanding major religions in Indonesia also supports the development of Indonesian culture so it can proof particular religious culture. It could say that Indonesia is one country with cultural variety level or high level of heterogeneity. Not only the cultural variety of ethnic groups but also the cultural variety in the context of civilization, to modern tradsional, and zoning. the variety of Indonesian culture can be said to have advantages compared with the other countries. Indonesia has a portrait of a complete and varied culture,
and last but not least, the social-cultural and political fabric of Indonesian society has a history of inter-cultural dynamics of the coupled interactions since the first. Interactions between culture includes not only inter-woven ethnic groups differently, but also include inter-civilization existing in the world.

Got a few years ago,some cultures of indonesia almost recognized by other nations as the cultural ancestors of these peoples, such as Reog Ponorogo, batik, etc. Pendet. But it was fiercely opposed by the citizens of Indonesia, so that indigenous Indonesian culture can still owned. Batik has now been patented by the United Nations organization named UNESCO as cultural heritage Indonesian ancestors. So many cultures in Indonesia, make me, as the next generation of indonesia feel pround to my country, we have many  cultures, so we have to keep it. I love Indonesia and  I love Indonesian Cultures.