CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
As Indonesian people we know that Indonesia has many islands. In there have many culture, ras, and religion. Indonesia has many cultures in diversity, because of that, many people from the overseas interested to know and learn about our cultures. Cultures is the identity of nation that we must responsible it. Respect and protect it and then it should be preserved, so that our culture not lost and can be heritage to our children in the future. So, it’s the responsible for young generation and its need support from various parties, because the cultures endurances is the identity of state.
We must proud to be Indonesian people, because we have many diversity in cultures. We must survive or protect our culture, because we already have many cases that our culture has been stolen, because young generation didn’t care about it. And it is the valuable lessons because the culture of Indonesia has a high value in the view of human world. With conserve the local culture, we can protect our culture from the foreign cultures, and we must care about our culture so that the our culture not recognized by other country.
In the era globalization, people change their lifestyle more modern. Because of that, people prefer to choose the new culture that probably has simple values than the local culture. Many factor that make local culture has been forgotten because foreign cultures came to our nation. The influx of foreign culture is proper because the country will needs input like foreign culture with cultural requirements that have one line with our culture.
In the reality, the Indonesian’s young generation prefers to foreign culture that they consider that is more interesting, more unique and more simples. Many local culture has been lost because no one want to heritage it. The need to raise awareness that the culture of Indonesia is the local cultures that it is obligation to each Indonesian people, whereas every people have to try to heritage the local cultures.
PROBLEM
* How to protect Indonesian cultures from foreign culture? * As a student how should we do?
CHAPTER II
DISCUSSION
Firstly, we must know about our cultural properties. According by Wikipedia, Cultural properties of Indonesia are those items defined by Indonesian law as of "important value for history, science, and culture", and include both man-made artifacts and natural objects. The cultural properties number more than 8,000 and include ancient Hindu and Buddhist temples, mosques, historic colonial buildings, forts, art galleries, national parks and beaches. A number of the sites are World Heritage Sites. The current regime for the protection and promotion of the cultural properties of Indonesia (Indonesian: benda cagar budaya) is governed by the Law of the Republic of Indonesia No. 5, 1992, concerning Items of Cultural Property. Such measures are to be understood against the background of Section 32 of the 1945 Constitution, according to which "The Government develops the National Culture of Indonesia Regulation no. 10 of 1993 prescribes the registration of items of cultural property, which is to be undertaken by the relevant second level administrative area. As of 2008, some 8,232 immovable cultural properties and heritage sites have been identified, the last being those places in which items of cultural property are contained.
Indonesia is a country which have a thousand islands, because Indonesia is not country that just have one region. So, the culture of Indonesia is local culture. Every region has different culture, the differences will be national identity, so when the culture has changes or lost, the national identity will be lost too.
A great nation is a civilized nation. Culture is not a thought but all the power, creativity, taste and intention as united cultural elements. The resulting culture is not something easy, but the process is lengthy. The wise men are those who uphold culture as uphold him, wherever he was he would always bring their culture, because culture is national identity. A society even the country could disappear from civilization.
Excess original Indonesian culture of foreign culture are many people who thought that the Indonesian culture was very boring than other cultures. Actually, it is such a wrong assumption, because Indonesian culture is very unique and easily done by anyone.
No Original Culture Indonesia (Traditional) Foreign Culture (Simplified) * Can be done by all levels of society. Only certain groups can be carried out by the NII. * Only require a small fee. Require a lot of expenses. * Can be done with sophisticated tools. Requires a variety of specialized equipment. * Characteristically flexible. There are specific provisions.
So basically culture Indonesia was very flexible and easy. Foreign cultures just won the prestige of native Indonesian culture. However, in essence Indonesian culture over all aspects of a foreign culture. This is the reason why our culture repeatedly claimed by the state / foreign elements.
Many things can we do to appreciate conserve our culture, especially the region culture. Many activities to protect our culture came from many people. To protect the culture can directly and indirectly. For example, Solo city is the city’s culture which has many culture and tradition. In there, especially in education, some school every Thursday always wears traditional clothes from Solo city. I think that it’s the kind to show that we love, care, and conserve about our culture.
In addition, not only young generation that must conserve the culture, but the important things that government must have participant conserve our culture. However, government has role which enough strategies to conserve our culture. Government must implement the policies that lead to preserve the culture of nation. Government’s policy that must we support is show the region’s culture in every event national, such as traditional dancing, traditional song and etc. All of that can be the effort to introduce to young generation that the culture to heritage for the future. Beside it, the role from government must be more promote our culture, so that the country can be better and cozy than before for other nation. And the government can make big event about Indonesian cultures, have good relationship with other country in all sector even in the sector Pariwisata, politic or science. Government concern in the rural area, he/she must develop in the all aspect, especially in the sector economy, education, and technology.

To conserve our culture as young generation we should: * Knows, learn and understand about our culture. * We have responsible to introduce our culture to other people who didn’t know about it even to overseas. * Did activities that can conserve our culture, such as wearing batik or learn how to make batik. * Protect, caring the culture assets, so that our culture not lost and broken because of human and environment. * We must develop our cultures, we can do it with some research about our culture. * We must have activities that it can promote our culture, such as event about culture or other. * Work together with government to develop our culture in the rural area. * Wearing product from our country. * Must have tolerance, respect to each other * Maximal the potency our local culture. * Trying to follow the development of science and technology. * Implement the values of Pancasila. * Foster the spirit of nationalism.

Local culture’s Indonesia is the culture by Indonesian people and every culture have characteristic. Indonesia nation have a lot of local culture, because of that we as young generation have responsible to conserve it. We not allow to follow foreign culture because not all foreign culture have same with our personality, even foreign culture have negative effect. As the country that have a thousand island, it’s difficult to survive the integrity in the nation, but if we are respect to protect, learn, and conserve, our local culture will be nice and not lost even stolen by foreign country because the culture is the identity of nation.
CHAPTER III
CONCLUSION
Indonesia is the country which has a lot of cultures and that culture is local culture. The cultures are complex and we must protect and conserve, so all people can heritage it. As young generation, actually we must proud about our culture because our culture is beautiful, nice, and unique. Many things can we do to protect our culture. So, I as a international students, must conserve our culture even introduce our culture to foreign country.

RECOMMENDATION
From that discussion, as young generation we must protect our culture start from right now. We must awareness about our culture, and conserve with it. Beside it, to ignore our personality to join the foreign influence in the global era we must implement the values of Pancasila, we not allow to forget it. And maybe I and my friends as International students will make event about cultures of Indonesia. So, our friends from foreign country can know about Indonesian culture and learn about it. In there not just introduce the dance traditional, the foods, clothes and other but we attract the foreigner to do it. And I hope that government and University can support the young generation to introduce, conserve our cultures.
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