HOW TO PREVENT THE POWER OF "K-POP" FOR INDONESIAN YOUNGSTERS

The honorable adjudicators,

Distinguished audiences,

Dear my friends who participate  in this speech contest,

Assalamu’alaikum Warrohmatullahi Wabarakatuh

Ladies and gentlemen,

In this good occasion, I’d like to deliver a speech with a title, ” How to prevent the power of K-Pop for Indonesian youngsters”

Ladies and gentlemen,

Nowadays, K-pop has become a huge phenomenon in many countries including Indonesia.  Through K-pop boy or girl bands like Super Junior or SUJU, Bing Bang, Sinhwa, 2ne1 and the others, K-pop has become a very popular music in Indonesia. For Indonesian youngsters, K-pop finally has become a part of their life. It can be seen that  every K-pop concert held in Indonesia always reaches a great success. It’s proven the K-pop show tickets which are always sold out. It exceeds the target of Indonesian music concerts held in this country. Wow, it’s amazing ladies and gentlemen.

From the fact,  K-pop music has special place for our youngsters’ heart. Well, actually it’s okay if they take it as their favorite music normally. But the problem at this time is that they are so fanatic with the K-pop that finally their sense spreads to love the Korean cultures and products rather then their own cultures. Just see the reality, many youngsters in our country are more proud of imitating Korean hair style, wearing Korean fashion, learning Korean language, or even  consuming Korean foods. In such condition, a big chance is used by business actors to earn bucks in this country by selling Korean accessories, clothes or foods. Besides, Korean language started to open in many places in Indonesia. One more thing, Korean restaurants have been developed in many places to satisfy the youngsters’ will. With this facilities, our youngsters feel that everything with “Korean taste” gets closer to them. Consequently, they prefer Korean’s products to their own country’s ones. In their craziness of K-Pop, everything with “Korean taste” is more interesting than the others available in this country in their eyes. In this case, they start forgetting Indonesian cultures or products.

Ladies and gentlemen

Besides, K-pop makes our youngsters forget their own country’s music. As the effect of k-pop existence, they tend to listen to Korean song. They feel very proud of singing the songs rather than Indonesian ones. Consequently, Indonesian music progress are left behind the other countries’ ones. According to the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Mari Elka Pangestu, Indonesian music industry`s contribution to foreign exchange is relatively small, at only 0.73 percent. In fact, in the previous years,` evaluation indicated that the number of domestic music listeners had reached 80 percents. The domestic music industry is being threatened by the entry of K-pop.

Seeing the phenomenon, What can we do ladies and gentlemen?

Well, to prevent the spread of such exaggerated manners done by our youngsters , let me deliver my solutions

1.     Loving “Indonesian taste” should be implanted to our youngsters. It can be started from the little thing, that is, family. Then, it must be supported by formal education or school and environment. The awareness of loving Indonesia will prevent our youngsters to love the other countries’ properties, like cultures, products and the other things. Our youngsters should realize that they have everything cool here and various kinds of unique or interesting things can be found here.

2.     To make Indonesian youngsters love Indonesian music,  domestic musicians, song writers and the music industry must do something important in this country to compete against K-Pop, perhaps by creating Indonesian pop or “I-pop”. To make I-pop interesting for youngsters, it should be supported by qualified singers, boy or girl bands with Indonesian-oriented styles.  To support this, mass media should be involved to promote the existence of I-pop in this country. It’s expected that I-pop will be known and loved by our youngsters or even the people in other countries.  

Ladies and gentlemen,

To close my speech, as a good Indonesian generation, “Let’s love our country, Indonesia. Love what is inside Indonesia. Great things can be found in Indonesia, like cultures, products, music, and the others. Let’s say “Indonesia is our everything”. For the other country, just take it as references for coloring our life not more than a part of our blood.

That’s all my speech

Thanks for your attention