Konnichiwa! In this opportunity allow me to introduce Indonesian Students’ Festival called “Festina” that held on the last April at Sendai Fukushi Plaza Fureai Hall. This festival aim is to introduce the diversity of Indonesian culture. Hence, we hope that cooperation and relationship among Indonesian students and Japanese also other countries would be maintained even tighter as well.
This festival’s opening ceremony was chaired by Indonesian Ambassador, Mr. Muhammad Luthfi. After that, Prof. Kimura Toshiaki from Graduate School of Arts and Letters gave some experience when he stayed in Indonesia. He described a story about “how to learn local wisdom of Indonesia's society." Not forgotten by him to mention several Indonesian cuisines that “unforgettable” for him, because of its spicy taste.
Figure 1. Opening ceremony by Indonesian Ambassador and some experiences by Toshiaki Sensei
By the way, discussing about food, this festival also provided free meals for the guests before they entered the hall. It had several cuisine menus, such as “Bakso” or meat ball and “Tempe” or fermented soybean cake.
Figure 2. The guests make a line for the Indonesian cuisine. After that, Itadakimasu!
Figure 3. Some attraction of Indonesian’s culture diversity by Tohoku University’s Indonesian students.
The hosts were funny and the ± 300 audiences look enthusiastic, the festival gone well so far. It had several shows such as traditional music “Sundanese’s kulintang”, martial art “pencak silat” and dancing of “Aceh’s tari saman." I hope you can feel the joy of this festival, and also we hope that you would attend this festival next time. Ja! Mata ne!
~Bayu desu~