On August 02, 2009 Aceh International Expo was started. In the morning the culture parade starts from Blang Padang to Taman Ratu Safiatuddin. The parade was so amazing, I realize that my hometown is very beautiful, not only the land but also the culture. Unique, fantastic and wonderful. You can see from the pictures, the people's enthusiasm of waiting for the parade. In the parade there are lots of people wearing their traditional clothes, traditional musical instruments for example "rapa’i geleng", and traditional arts such as "debus," "tari seribu tangan" and others. You also can see some animal in the parade such as, elephants and horses. The parade make me proud of my hometown, I said in my heart “ what a wonderful country!!”
Achenese people really proud with their culture, we said “mate aneuk neupat jirat, mate adat hanapat tamita” its mean if your child died we know where the graveyard, but if the culture died we don’t know where to find. I also love my culture, I can sing achenese song and I can dance, traditional dance like rapa’i geleng, likok pulo and saman.
The parade indicate that the Aceh International Expo start. In the expo all kind of handicrafts are sold and promoted. All districts show their traditional culture, handicraft, photos and many else.
From the Aceh International Expo, At least it prove that :
1. Islamic Culture
Islam came to aceh since 1 Hijriah or year 579. The merchantmen brought Islam to Aceh. Since that time, all of activity that achenese did based on Islam, included the culture. All of songs in aceh tell about Islam, the traditional dances are made to overspread Islam. The poem shown Islamic behavior. Like I wrote above I can dance traditional dances and all of the dances tell about Islam.
I don’t know why the culture of Aceh reflect to Islamic behavior. But, when I was in junior school my teacher ever said that Aceh people love Islamic culture because Islam is the first religion came to Aceh. The characteristic of aceh people are mulishness, so they believe and the first religion that came to Aceh and they did not believes religion except Islam.
2. Aceh is safe
We realize that conflict has brought Aceh to the darkness, but we passed it away. The Memorandum of Understanding that signed in Helsinki makes aceh face new era. The peace era, when the citizen can do what they want, and because of the peace sometimes they also can do negative activity that never did before. There also negative side in every choices right..?
Actually, I’m really happy with the situation right now. Every father can work to earn money, teacher can teach in schools, lecturer can attend the class (sometimes, even the peace come some of lecturer still didn’t attend the class), student like me can surfing in the internet and many else activity can done in peace era. Our job rights now are to keep this peace and make it really useful for us and for our prosperity.
Achenese people really proud with their culture, we said “mate aneuk neupat jirat, mate adat hanapat tamita” its mean if your child died we know where the graveyard, but if the culture died we don’t know where to find. I also love my culture, I can sing achenese song and I can dance, traditional dance like rapa’i geleng, likok pulo and saman.
The parade indicate that the Aceh International Expo start. In the expo all kind of handicrafts are sold and promoted. All districts show their traditional culture, handicraft, photos and many else.
From the Aceh International Expo, At least it prove that :
1. Islamic Culture
Islam came to aceh since 1 Hijriah or year 579. The merchantmen brought Islam to Aceh. Since that time, all of activity that achenese did based on Islam, included the culture. All of songs in aceh tell about Islam, the traditional dances are made to overspread Islam. The poem shown Islamic behavior. Like I wrote above I can dance traditional dances and all of the dances tell about Islam.
I don’t know why the culture of Aceh reflect to Islamic behavior. But, when I was in junior school my teacher ever said that Aceh people love Islamic culture because Islam is the first religion came to Aceh. The characteristic of aceh people are mulishness, so they believe and the first religion that came to Aceh and they did not believes religion except Islam.
2. Aceh is safe
We realize that conflict has brought Aceh to the darkness, but we passed it away. The Memorandum of Understanding that signed in Helsinki makes aceh face new era. The peace era, when the citizen can do what they want, and because of the peace sometimes they also can do negative activity that never did before. There also negative side in every choices right..?
Actually, I’m really happy with the situation right now. Every father can work to earn money, teacher can teach in schools, lecturer can attend the class (sometimes, even the peace come some of lecturer still didn’t attend the class), student like me can surfing in the internet and many else activity can done in peace era. Our job rights now are to keep this peace and make it really useful for us and for our prosperity.
