AIESEC UNDIP - 18 Japanese in "Indonesia-Japan in Action!"

AIESEC UNDIP - Indonesia - Japan in Action! poster

AIESEC UNDIP - On September 11th 2011 at 11 am, AIESEC LC UNDIP held an event that gathered 300 Semarang people with 18 Japanese people in Parking Lot Sri Ratu Pemuda, which was InJaption (Indonesia - Japan in Action!). This event aimed to increase the awareness of Semarang people about the diversity of the world, share culture between Indonesia & Japan, and broaden the mindset of Semarang people. A lot of performance between Indonesia and Japan culture were showed in this event.

7 booths participated in this event. Booth of AIESEC was the booth to let people get info about AIESEC. Origami booth let people learn about art of flip the paper. Calligraphy booth let people to get Japanese letter (Hiragana and Katakana) of their names. People also could play both Japanese and Indonesian traditional games in Games booth. People can compare between the Japanese real comic and the Indonesian ones in Manga booth. Want to wear traditional Japanese outfit? There was also booth for Photo Session with Japanese outfit. Not only share culture, there was Exhibition booth that can let people to read the real condition of Japan after hit by tsunami and earthquake.

Coming as Study Tour students, 18 Japanese performed also in this event to show their culture, such as dancing Soran-Bushi (dance for fishing), Para-Para (flirting the boys), and singing Japanese songs. 18 Japanese also got new culture from Indonesia with Semarangan Dance and Traditional Song choir. Not to forget we also have Parade Band to let youth in Semarang who interest with Japanese culture performed their band to our friends from Japan. And also Cosplay Competition with 18 Japanese as the judges.

Fahry Maulana as the Organizing Committee President of InJaption said that it's the last event of his series of project. As a closing of his project, he has done several events such as Breakout Youth Camp, Roadshow to High School about HIV/AIDS, Video Making Competition, and Exhibition Day. Hopefully, this last event will give an impact to society for the awareness of making peace through countries.

Read the news also in Suara Merdeka, September 12th 2011 here http://bit.ly/injaptionSM

AIESECly Yours,

AIESEC UNDIP - 18 Japanese were dancing Soran-Bushi

AIESEC UNDIP - 18 Japanese sang songs together with Semarang people