The respectable adjudicators,
Honourable audiences,
Assalamu’alaikum warrohmatullahi wabarokatuh.
Good morning,
It’s a great pleasure for me to
stand here for joining this speech contest, and in this good occasion, I’d like
to deliver a speech with a title “should local language subject be deleted in
curriculum 2013?”
Ladies and gentlemen,
Curriculum 2013 will be enacted in the new academic year, in July 2013. Reading the content of the curriculum, many
teachers, especially local language teachers are so surprised and confused. Why, ladies and gentlemen? Yeah, the reason is “Local
language is not included in the curriculum”. Just imagine if you were the teacher
of Local language, and your subject were not included in the curriculum? I think you would feel the same with what
they do. You would not be able to sleep all nights because you would be at risk
in losing your work, right?
Well, ladies and gentlemen,
That’s the description of local
language teachers responding to the content of curriculum 2013. With the
absence of local language, local language teachers are very concerned with
their work’s fate. It’s stated there
that local language can be intregated with the other lesson especially in
cultural art lesson. It’s hard to imagine, what the language of the students
will be if it is not handled by the language expert. And then where will the
local language go? In this case, local language
activists are also concerned with discourses or opinions related to the abolition of local languages in the new curriculum
2013generation will not know their mother tongue or
language of their region, even in their daily conversation if the curriculum is really applied in this
country. Then,
a big question will appear here. Who will preserve our local language? Well, at this time, the fact shows
that it’s difficult for children to learn the local language, especially in
their daily life conversation. Furthermore, if local language is really deleted
from school teaching learning, parents will tend to make their children
accostumed to communicate in Indonesian more often than the local language. As
the result, the local language which is one of national assets will be extinct
gradually and finally really extinct from this country. I believe , we all here
don’t want this happens, right?
Well, ladies and gentlemen,
In any circumstances, the local language is one of character building that
needs to be implemented to students. For example, Javanese, with its diversity and words level, this language
teaches us the values of virtue and decency which are not taught by any other languages in the world, including in our national language,
Indonesia. To
the old persons, as the example. We must use very polite language level to
respect them. Regarding to the uniqueness of our local language, like Javanese,
it is learned by other countries as well. We can see from the television a Japanese
woman can speak in a very polite Javanese level fluently and sing Javanese song
so beautifully. Wow, amazing, right? How about Javanese generations? Can they
do such a thing? Well, It’s an alaming thing if they will learn their own language
to the others who actually just adopted their langauge. Oh no, never make this happen, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, the abolition of local
language will not only give bad impacts to our generation and teachers but also
to college students who have studied and wanted to be the local language teachers at schools. I believe
that they learn it not only for being a teacher but also for preserving
Indonesian’s culture.Well, if local language is really deleted from curriculum
2013, How’s their fate? Well, their efforts are reasonable
to appreciate by this country, ladies and gentlemen.
Regarding to the consequences of the
local language abolition, It’s expected that our government
really considers the important things
that are not detrimental to students and teachers. There should be the best
solution for teachers if their subject is really removed.
Ladies and gentlemen,
In conclusion, local language is
really important to teach at schools. The local
language should not be deleted from the curriculum 2013.
If the removal of vernacular discourse in the curriculum in 2013 was fully
implemented, the government should consider the plan carefully and responsibly.
The fate of the teachers, students or
the others really depends on government’s policy. Those
who have attempted to preserve our local language by their own ways should be appreciated well. Without any instructions about local language to young people at schools, Indonesia will lose his one of cultural
wealths.
Ladies and gentlemen,
That’s all my speech. Thanks for your attention.
Wassalmu’alaikum warrohmatullahi wabarokatuh
