Pidato Bahasa Inggris: Education in Indonesia

Asslamualaikum wr. wb.

The honorable ones the principle of SMA Negeri 01 Tanjung, all teachers and administration staffs of
SMA Negeri 01 Tanjung and all my friends from tenth until twelfth grade.
Before I begin to give a speech, I would like to invite you all to thank Allah the Almighty, Who has
given us Mercy and Blessing, so we can meet together in this blessing place. And also lets deliver
sholawat and salam to our prophet Muhammad SAW, Who has brought us from the darkness to the
brightness, so we are always in the right path.
Ladies and gentlemen
It be a great honor for me, to stand right here in front of you all to give a speech about education under
the title "Education in Indonesia" in this National Education Day or HARDIKNAS.
Indonesian is a great country. It has so many natural resources that can be used. It has so many
beautiful palaces that can mesmerize people. It is so beautiful to live here peacefully with different
cultures, languages, and religions. However, why are there still many people who live under poverty in
this country? The only answer to this question is because our human resources are still low in the term
of education.
If you have ever heard about the news about our international education rank, you would be surprised.
As quoted form Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report 2011 which is published by
UNESCO and launched in New York on Sunday, 1/3/2011, our international education rank is at 69th
place from 129 surveyed countries all over the world. This rank is lower than in 2010.
It opens a question that runs in my head, what happen with our education? Indonesia is a great
country with many talented young generations. It was undoubted again that there are so many
Indonesian students who win the international education Olympiads such as mathematics, chemical,
physics and other. But why our international education rank is still low. So what happen with with our
education?
Ladies and gentlemen
There must be a reason why our human resources and our global rank in education are still low. One of
the reasons is that our education is expensive. For middle up to high class people the cost of our
education is nothing. But for those who live in lower economic class, the cost of our education is
beyond their reach. Many of them even abandon their duty to go to school just because they have to
work to fulfill their needs.
Our government has made a policy recently to overcome the problem in our education. The policy is
increasing national educational budget up to 20% from APBN. This budget later on is used to make
education is reachable for low economic level society; to improve teachers quality with a program
which well known as sertifikasi; and to provide school facilities such as library, classroom,
laboratory, and sport hall.
Ladies and gentlemen
We hope the policy that the government made will make our educational quality better. Of course as a
student, we dont just sit down and relax without doing something. Good or bad the quality of
education of our country also depend us. If we want to change our bad educational paradigm, lets
begin with improving our achievement with studying hard for the sake of our education.
I hope this speech that I deliver today will be useful for you all. Thank you so much for your attention.
The last I say: Wasalamualaikum Wr. Wb

Getting Used to Run a Healthy Lifestyle

Assalamualaikum wr.wb
First of all, lets say all the praise and gratitude to Allah Swt due to all of His blessing, mercy, and
guidance upon all of us. Shalawat and salam may everlastingly be upon our Great Prophet Muhammad
Saw who have led and guided us from dark into bright path.
To all the ladies, gentlemen, and audience I proud of,
There must be no one here who wants to get sick. All we wish each day is being healthy. By being
healthy we can then earn the life for our daily lives. With healthy body we can then do all the daily
activities.
We all know when we are sick, its not only our own selves who feel it, but also our wives will get busy
to take care of us, our children will be ignored, and we surely will need enough money to cure the
sickness.
To be healthy all the time then we must take care of our health as best as we can. The way we can do
from now on is to get used to run a healthy lifestyle in our daily routine.
To all the ladies, gentlemen, and audience I respect,
Preventing is much better than medicating. We have ever heard many cases that people spent some of
their wealth just to cure their sickness, like heart disease, cancer they were suffering. However, health
is indeed costly. No matter how much the money we have spent to cure the serious sickness, even tough
it is cured, we could never regain our health condition just like the first time before we have the
sickness. The best way to be kept away from various chronic sicknesses is by preventing the sicknesses
to come. One of the best ways is by getting used to live a healthy lifestyle.
To all the ladies, gentlemen, and audience I love,
Surely we need to understand first what healthy lifestyle means
Healthy lifestyle is someones habit to run healthy life in daily lives and avoid bad habits that can
disrupt the health.
What is the consequence by not doing healthy lifestyle? It could cause numerous sicknesses, such as
heart diseases, hypertension, stroke, cancers, diabetes, chronic lung disease, obesity, osteoarthritis,
osteoporosis, and many more.
All of these sicknesses are caused by three main factors, namely smoking, lack of physical activities
and consuming fibrous meals. Therefore, to prevent all those illnesses we need to run a healthy lifestyle
everyday.
What are the benefits from running a healthy lifestyle?
Body will be healthier and stronger against sickness
Daily activities will run better and you look more attractive
More productive
Prevented from various contagions like heart disease, hypertension, stroke, diabetes, chronic lung
disease, osteoporosis
What is healthy lifestyle like?
1. Taking balanced and nutritious foods, high fiber, low fats
2. Doing physical activities for 30 minutes each day
3. Not smoking
Thats all the things I can convey on this good occasion. I wish from now on we can take care of

ourselves and our family from sicknesses by getting used to run a healthy lifestyle. I wish everything I
said can be all-to-the good for everyone. Please forgive me for any mistake on my words.
Wassalamualaikum wr.wb