Event

 August 17th

August 17th is the day when the Indonesia people celebrate our independence day. That is really important day for us. In that day in 1945 we were free from colonialism. That was not easy to be free from colonialism. Many patriots died. It spent a lot of time and a lot of money. To respect many patriots died. Every August 17th we always held many ceremonies, races, and parades

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Here some activities we do in the day, the first is flag ceremony. It is held in the morning. The ceremony usually takes long time, it is about six hours. In that ceremony we flutter our national flag. It is usually in large field.

After we are done with flag ceremony, we have some more fun. We held many races, such as climb nut tree (lomba panjat pinang), and eating crackers race (lomba makan kerupuk). I will try to explain to you one by one. The first is climb nut tree race .  Maybe for foreign people, it hears strange. What we need is a high nut trees, oil and prizes of course.

Nut Tree Race (Lomba Panjat Pinang)

All the body of the tree will fill by oil. And the prizes hang on the top of the tree. Everyone will try to reach the prizes. If you see it, you will laugh because everyone who will reach the prizes will be black, caused by the oil. The second is eating crackers race. What you need is crackers and rope. The cheap will hang on. And you will try to reach the crackers only with your mouth.

Eating Cheap Crackers Race (Lomba Makan Kerupuk)

Those are funny things what we do in Independence Day, but not only that we make our country to be better day by day. Because that is what our patriots wanted.