MEGANTARA

Every year, SMAN 3 Bandung always hold an Indonesian art, literature, and culture festival. This year, they chose MEGANTARA as the title of the festival. Megantara means “Nusantara (Indonesia) is a pretentious glow”. This event is a media for SMAN 3 Bandung students to show and persuade everyone to love Indonesian culture.

I was one of Megantara Committe. I was in photography division and I was also a “door to door” committe. Door to door committe came to students house to meet student’s parents and to persuade the parents to donate funds for Megantara. To held this event was not as easy as we thought. It was a very hard work from all the committe to made this very big event. They collected funds, decorated the stage and stands, made a banner to attract people to come to Megantara, and many more. They worked day and night for Indonesian art, literature, and culture festival,  “MEGANTARA”.

Megantara was held on September 10th 2016, at Bali Field, Bali street, Bandung. There were many stands in Megantara with attractive decoration. Such as Java, Sumatera, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Papua stand. Each stand sold food from each island. Such as Sumatera stand sold pempek, sate padang, and many more. In Java stand there was also a Batik stand, the visitors could learn how to make batik in the stand. In Kalimantan stand there was also a big photobooth with 3 traditional boat, made from bamboo, so everyone could take some pictures. In Sulawesi stand visitors could play some games from Sulawesi, and there was also a photobooth. In Papua stand there was a face painting stand, we could request a design to the painter and the painter would pain it on our face, and it only costed 10.000 rupiahs.

In Megantara there were a lot of performances, such as Reog Ponorogo, Traditional cloth fashion show, and Indonesian traditional dance. Some extracuricular in SMAN 3 Bandung were also performed in Megantara, such as Angklung, theater, vocal group, classic music, band, and sundanese culture extracuricular.

The visitors of Megantara were not only SMAN 3 Bandung students, there were a lot of students from the other school, and even more Bandung City Mayor, Ridwan Kamil, attanded this event.

I, as a committe, was very happy to see many visitors enjoyed this big event. They brought food from food truck, took photos at photo booth, played games at stand, and watched cool performances in front of the stage from morning until afternoon. In the evening, almost all the visitors gathered in front of the stage, because they wanted watch performances from professional musician, The Chancuters and RAN. The visitors really enjoyed the performance, they sang together, and danced together with the artist, the Changcuters and RAN really entertained all the visitors in Megantara, they couldn’t even lost their eyes from the stage because it was a spectacular performances with  very cool lighting. It was a very pleasing performances. My friends and I recorded some videos and took some photos. At the end of the performances there were fireworks and there were also colorful paper that shot to the visitors in front of the stage, it made Megantara more spectacular.

Megantara was a very big event from SMAN 3 Bandung. I was glad as the committe, that we’ve made a great event, it was tiring and also very challenging, I got experiences about how to make a big festival, and I learned about hardwork and big spirit from all Megantara committe. I enjoyed this event very much, and I thought, so did the visitors, and it was a pride to make an event that pleased many people. I hope there will be a very pleasing event like Megantara next year. See you at next SMAN 3 Bandung Indonesian Art, Literature, and Culture Festival!

Photobooth at Kalimantan Stand

Parade to attract people to come to MEGANTARA

Face painting at Papua stand