Anniversary

I want to invite you contemplating on Anniversary of this country from my point of view and my experience as an English teacher.

I always begin my English lesson at each class with my true story based on my own experience and my knowledge. The purpose is to motivate my students getting spirit (at least) to follow my English class and so I often tell my true story that I could go to Australia and Europe, not because I am a rich man, I went abroad because I speak English!

I often motivate my students with a history fact, that the Dutch could colonized this country more than 350 years while Indonesian leaders have just aware that they were colonized in around 1920’s, and about 25 years or a quarter century later Indonesia get a freedom. Before getting freedom, however, Read more »

Thematic Gardens in Cibodas Botanical Garden

Cibodas Botanical Garden was exist on April 11^th 1852 when Johannes Elias Tejsmann, a Dutch botanical expert and a curator of Bogor Buitenzorg Botanical Garden, pioneered to build Cibodas Botanical Garden at Desa Parakan Village, Kecamatan Pacet District, Cipanas area, Kabupaten Cianjur Regency, West Java. At that time, Elias Tejsmann named his botanical garden as Bergtuin et Tjibodas or a Garden on Cibodas Mountain. Read more »

Wiranatakusumah and Negara Pasundan

In the Revolution Era of 1947-1949, West Java was one of Indonesian importance province in the struggle for keeping its freedom. At the time, “Negara Pasundan” was twice founded. First, Pasundan State founded by Soeria Kartalegawa in 1947. Second, Pasundan State was produced trough West Javanese Conference with R.A.A. Wirantakusumahas the Governor in 1948. Read more »