Every year in Indonesia, precisely on August 17, the people of Indonesia simultaneously celebrate the independence day of the Republic of Indonesia and in 2022, Indonesia has entered its 77th year of independence, which is old when compared to human age. With this year's theme, "Recover Faster, Get Up Stronger". The meaning of this theme is, because the Indonesian people and even the world have struggled to fight the Covid-19 Pandemic, the past two years there have been no meaningful celebrations and freedoms and have curbed people's freedom to actually meet each other, chat and talk like normal humans, these two years all have to fight and survive to fight CoVID 19, even though many have died due to this pandemic, so this theme is very suitable for recovering from Covid and resurrecting the economic downturn due to Covid 19. That's the conclusion of this year's theme.
The mandatory thing in the morning on August 17 is the flag raising ceremony. And unlike the ceremonies on other days, on August 17 every year there will be a flag-raising troop wearing white and white clothes. Usually they are more than 10 people and formed in a military style to raise the red and white flag with unique formations.
Not only pucang climbing, there is also a futsal competition using gloves with the aim of exclaiming, then there is also a pipette relay competition, the method of this game is in teams, each team can be 3 to 4 or 5 people depending on the organizing committee, the first person will take a pile of rubber bands in a bowl that has been held by the committee after that the first participant will distribute it to the second participant to the last participant and hand it back to the committee and the fastest they are the winner.
There is another competition to eat crackers that are hung on a rope, this competition is usually for children of elementary school age. And there are many other exciting competitions. Like at my school, which this year held a competition, namely a fashion show for the creation of batik-patterned long loose fabrics. They are required to make this long cloth into clothing without being sewn. This competition has only been implemented in 2022, hopefully in the future it will be much better and more exciting.
And there is also a futsal competition using gloves.. this competition is just for entertainment. And all competitions even though the prizes up for grabs are not many, but the impressions and moments created will be taken. How about in your country? Greetings from us Tomi and Maya from the City of bInjai Indonesia