Jakarta Sister City - Beijing 2013

Hello world!

It’s a wonderful chance to share again :D

And if you realize, my blog has been converted to personal website. How happy merry I am!

With this excitement, I am writing to share the most precious moments I had in this year of 2013!

They are unforgettable experiences to becoming one of youth delegations for Jakarta Sister City program to Beijing & Tianjin, China.

Well, apparently I have been using too much exclamation mark (!).

It is, however, my honest expression of feeling great.

True, I was very merry, getting an opportunity to learn a lot from this program in my youth.

Before you wonder what I have learned, I believe it will be much better to firstly know what Jakarta Sister City Program is.

From its name, Jakarta Sister City is a collaboration of Jakarta with its sister cities in countries all over the world. One of the sister cities, that Jakarta has significant relations, is Beijing, China.

Through this very first program initiated by Dinas Olahraga dan Pemuda DKI Jakarta (Jakarta Bureau of Sport and Youth), the local government had a purpose to establish the existence of a harmonious relationship between Jakarta and Beijing youth. You may wonder, “Why youth, not the elder ones?” Remember, because the next generation which will continue the collaboration and cooperation across countries, is YOUth! It could be you and me.

Therefore, it is not surprising that government has prepared and implemented many programs for developing the potential of youth within the city, or national scale.

By having participated this program, the youth delegations also conducted researches concerning Nationalism, Entrepreneurship, Art & Cultures in Beijing & Tian Jin, China.

The finding results of the research are dedicated and will be presented to DKI Jakarta Governor. Besides, these young people involved will too, contribute to nation at the end.

You may challenge them anyway. Including me? Yes.

Well now,

Since you have known a piece of information about this program, you may desire to know more on how the delegations involved (in total: 17 persons) could participate this awesome program. You can just open http://www.disordadki.net . It is an official website where all the sources were from.

Trust me, there are so many programs you may never know before, provided for youth and enabling young people to optimize their potential. It is more than seminar, yet some events that will maximize your talents, such as Forum Muda Remaja Ceria, Kapal Pemuda Nusantara, Youth Exchange Program across countries (Canada, SSEYAP, China, Korea, Malaysia, etc), a lot of sport competitions opportunities, and now Jakarta Sister City (JSC) Program for sure.

Go back to the story, I personally felt blessed, since I got involved in Ministry of Youth and Sport before to join Kapal Pemuda Nusantara (cruise destination from Jakarta – Ambon – Sorong – Raja Ampat – Ternate – Morotai – Makassar for a month, in 2012), thus I knew this program from my senior and staffs in Dinas Olahraga & Pemuda.

I applied for JSC program without comfort, seriously. I competed for 2 days with young people with brilliant ideas, competencies and capabilities to get one place out of 8 females only provided. I think I am going to share this completely in the next posting after, so then you may prepare yourself to have your guns before the war (if you plan to join next year, for sure). Then, finally, when it came to the announcement, I was very merry to get the third place out of 8 that would really go to Beijing, China!

 

It’s not the end. It was just the beginning.

Me and other 16 people selected, should be in training for a month, every weekend (Saturday & Sunday), and be ready in the morning till evening.

It was such a tiring activity. We practiced traditional dancing, singing, etc as the preparation we would have in China. We often chose not to wear sandals or shoes once we practiced.

Then, no longer during the training, we got such a great news that we would be sponsored by PRECISE SHOES!

Yes, soon, we got such a very nice pair of shoes.

All the delegations got different type and color of shoes.

You may imagine how colorful it is. And inevitably it colored our days too.

I should thank you PRECISE SHOES!

Oke, finally, we had the official Pre Departure Training for 3 days.

3 days after, we were ready going to Beijing, China.

To be continued…