Medan, Between Modern And Conservative

Medan is my hometown and also one of the biggest cities in Indonesia. This city is located in the Sumatera island. As the capital city of North Sumatera province, Medan needs to keep develop in order to facilitate the needs of its people whose lifestyle has become more complex and more specialized. This made Mr.Abdillah as the major of Medan city always tries to build the city become a metropolitan city. There were many new constructions were built in the city in order to facilitate the citizens’ activities. Buildings likes plazas, apartments, or offices which have been constructed rapidly not only in its quantity and but also in its quality. The new plazas in Medan such as Sun Plaza, Grand Palladium, or Medan Fair Plaza have become an important activity place for the modern lifestyle citizens. These plazas provided luxury and comfort atmosphere rather than just a shopping center. These are the ways to prepare Medan into a metropolitan city.

In the other hand, there are also another faces of Medan city which are totally different from the modern city image. In the middle of the rapid progress of some new buildings, this city still have some historic areas which contain the historic building that tell us more about what happened in Medan in the past. Theses preservation buildings contain of houses, offices – some of them are still function as office until now -, bank, post office,etc. Most of them can be found in the kesawan streets and Balai Kota streets. Kesawan streets itself was known as the crowded merchant area during the end of 19^th century. Nowadays, the buildings in this area still exist like the way it was in the past and it also still function as a merchant area. The sport equipment shops can be found along this street. Besides functioned as the merchant area, kesawan streets nowadays also functioned as a dining place in the night. There will many food stalls offer many kinds of food in the night. Here, people are having meal at the street and will be entertain by live bands or other performances. Besides that, people can also feel the romantic atmosphere while dining in the middle of the preservation building. It is supported by the lightning along the street which contribute much in creating this atmosphere. This attractive way for dining is favored by most of the people. That is why kesawan streets is one of the favorite dining place in Medan. I am so salute to the Medan’s government who have the idea to create such an conservative image

Moreover, this two different faces of Medan has already made this city became more attractive and more lively. Although there are still some troubles which are happening in this city, such as the insufficient electric supply or the hot weather, I am still proud to be Medan’s citizen. I am proud that I was borned and grow in this peaceful city. This situation is created by every citizen of this city which can keep the tolerance between themselves although they come from different ethnics and different religion. I believe this good image that has been created and has been kept by the citizen will attract more people to come and to enjoy Medan.

Actually this writing is one of my assignment in my writing class. Since I need to explain about my hometown, I post it again in my personal blog. I promise I will post other stories about my hometown later.

Hello

Hi!!! Let me introduce myself in my first edition in my blog. I’m renalto and I born in Indonesia. Right now my status is a second-semester-architecture-student in one of government universities in Bandung. Although I study in Bandung, actually I grow up in Medan. After graduate from high school, I, just like many other students outside Java, try to continue my education one of university in Java and luckily (really….) I passed the exam and afford the opportunity to get education in one of the government institute.

Since I live in Bandung for almost one year, I got many life experiences in my effort to adapt into a totally new environment and new atmosphere. I learn that only because of toleration and willingness to understand other that can help us to minimize the differences in old and new environment. Besides learning about tolerance, I also learn many other new things. That’s why I’m encouraged to write and share my experiences in this blog.

However, writing a blog for me is not an easy thing since when I decided to write it in English which is not a major language in my country. I try to use formal English in my blog in order to train my capability in English. I’m very glad to receive correction about my grammar and I’m also very glad to get responses and questions from my reader. Ok!! I think this is enough for my introduction. Thanks for reading.