MEGANTARA 2016

Assalamualaikum guys, I'm back!

On this post I would like to tell you about my experience two weeks ago. Actually it was a spectacular experience.

So here it is, on Saturday, tenth of September, my beloved school, SMAN 3 Bandung held a Festival of Art, Literature, and Culture named MEGANTARA. I had the honour to be one of Event Organizer.

So here's why I got into the committee:

When my school held the extracurricular demonstration, they also introduced the Student's Organization (OSIS), then the chairman of OSIS, Kang Ghazy asked who wants to be in the Student's Organization. I raised my hand because I want to. Then the members of Student's Organization gave the ones who raised their hand a bracelet. A bracelet which was the ticket for us to be one of the event organizer. It was two months less before the event.

I registered myself the next week. There weren't so many divisions that opened the registration, so I chose the decoration division. The division was lead by Teh Avira. On the first meeting of the decoration division, I introduced myself and we started working.

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Me and my friends

On the next meeting, the decoration division introduced their subdivisions, we got to pick one of the subdivisions. The subdivisions were: Stand, Gate, Stage, Mural, Tower, Tunnel, and Ticket Booth. I chose the Stand subdivision.

The decoration worked very hard everyday, some of us stayed at school till evening. Some of us didn't do our course/lesson, and other sacrifices. But we all know that it was all going to be worth it in the end. We, the stand subdivision made a lot of decorations. We had to make 10 minigates according to the top five biggest islands in Indonesia, murals that represent places in Indonesia, and landmarks or famous building in Indonesia. We worked on it until D-1.

The Crowd

Kalimantan minigate

On the D-1, everything was crowded. I panicked a little bit. But as a team, the decoration managed to solve the problems, On that day, I went home at 11.30 pm because I had to make sure that every little parts of the stand was there ready to be displayed.

The next day was the big day, IT WAS D-D!

I woke up at 4.15 am feeling excited. Then I prepared myself and stuffs that i needed. I arrived at Lapangan Bali at 6 o'clock. Then i rechecked the stand decorations, making sure that they were all ready to present the best side of Indonesia. After that, I changed my clothes into the committee shirt, then all of the event organizer prayed for the success of the event. 

As the opening of the event, there was a parade done by kindergarten and elementary school students. The parade ended by the opening of MEGANTARA. 

The parade

Minigate to Jawa stand

The open gate time was 11.35 am. So me and my friends didn't do anything much until that time. We chatted, took some pictures, bought some food or drinks, and other things. 

An hour before the open gate time, the decoration division got a trouble on the gate so we had to fix it. Thankfully we got it done in no time.

11.35

The open gate time. There weren't so many visitors that time so the unbusy committee should take off their shirt and pretend to be visitors. Time passed, about four hours later the visitors increased.

There were a lot of fantastic performances, there were traditional dancing, rampak kendang, angklung, wayang, choir, theatre, and there was also a fashion show which the participants was some of my friends. They presented the unique of Indonesians traditional clothes. My favorite performance was from Tiloe's Theatre and from Kelompok Vokal 3.

Around Maghrib time, Lapangan Bali was full of people. It was so crowded that it could damage the decorations, so we had to protect it, and due to that, I missed some of the performances. But that was okay since it was my responsibility.

As the night got late, people started to left the Stands since they want to see the main guest stars, so I could watch the performances, I watched TsT!! They were incredible. And then... the main guest stars performed!!! They were RAN and The Changcuters! I had a lot of fun when they performed.

Then... the event ended. SUCCESSFULLY. I was so honoured to be one of the great people who made this event happened. I hope next year the festival can be more fantastic than this year's.