International Multicultural Festival in Widya Mandala

It was an amazing festival. There were some countries presented their culture at there. Some of the representatives of each countries came from what country they presented. There were six foreign countries exactly which were present the culture to us on last Friday. However, there were three countries which were presented by the native, and the others were people from Indonesia who know well about the country, the language, and even the language.


The first presentation was from China. The representative was a Chinese people from Indonesia, and she know well about China. She shared her knowledge about China very well. She shared about the ethnic group of China. Actually, I just knew that there were so many of ethnic group in China. And she also showed us about calligraphy and other handicrafts from China.

And the second presentation was from France. The representative was not a native people from France, she was from Indonesia, I forgot where she come from exactly. She did not tell many of the culture there. She told us about the levels of learning France and some language of France.

Then, the third presentation was from Belarus. The representative was neither a native. She told us about some histories of Belarus which is used to a state of Uni Soviet. Actually, I have not known about Belarus before. It was my first time hearing the name of Belarus. However, I was surprised when she was playing the trailer of the country. The view of the country in the trailer was amazing.

After that, there was a short presentation about Indonesia. The representative presented “Pecel”. She shared about several facts of “Pecel” which is actually from Madiun, but it is easy to find it in many places in East Java. However, “Pecel” has different ingredients in some places. 

The fifth presentation was from Spain. The representative was from Spain. He presented about the cultures in Spain and showed us the view of Spain. Then, there was a salsa dance which is a dance from Spain. There was a couple of trainer who were lead the audience to learn Salsa dance there. Some audience were so excited and joined dancing together on the stage.

After we had danced Salsa, we had a break. We were allowed to look around each country’s booth where there were some souvenir to bring it to home and some food and drink to have a lunch. While we were having lunch, there was a performance from the students  from fourth semester. They sang some traditional songs from some places in Indonesia.

After having break, we had a presentation from Germany. The representative was a native speaker from Germany. However, she could speak English and even speak Indonesian fluently. She played a trailer about Germany which was contain several facts about Germany. Here is the several facts about German that were in the trailer. They are prefer coffee than beer, they love to go somewhere by bike, and a boy said that the highways do not have a speed limit so we can drive as fast as we could there. Hehe. She also shared to us about something famous thing from Germany.

And the last country we had last Friday was Netherlands. The representative was not from Netherlands. He is from Indonesia, but know well about Dutch. He even know about the cultures there. He played a trailer about Netherlands at that time. The trailer was contain about some cultures from Netherlands. And he also shared how to Dutch is spoken.

It was an exiciting festival. We would know about other countries’ culture through it. It is held every year, actually in even semester. I hope I could see the culture of another countries through the festival next year.

The festival is not only for the student of Widya Mandala University, guys. There were some high schools which were joining the event. So, if you are interesting in taking apart with the event, just do the registration and join the event with us. See you there.