Indonesian Teenager’s Lifestyle

  The aim of this report is to inform about Indonesian teenager’s lifestyle. I make this report to show you how is  teenagers/high schooler life style in Indonesia. I’ve interviewed 4 friend of mine, here they tells us several things about their lifestyle.  The question that I ask consist of food, music, free time, school and romance.

  I bet all of you have your own lifestyle, right? But from a million of teenager’s lifestyle, half of them or maybe 75% of them have a similar lifestyle, why? We all must be know what “globalization” means. Globalization are means the increasing of connection and dependence among nations and among people around the world through interaction so that the boundaries of a country becomes narrow. From that explanation we all know why this could happen. In 2011 many things were changed including the teenager’s life style. I will tell you about their lifestyle based on the interview.

  Half of them tells that they like american food very much, for example a beef steak. Not just because the meat was grilled. They likes the combination of the dishes. Grilled meat with a barbeque sauce plus a bunch of fried potato and some vegetable made them to be the first choice. Unfortunately, because this food are from outside of Indonesia, the price are pretty expensive plus this food is not quite healthy. But the popularity have made people to place it as their first choice.

  3 of them likes pop genre of music, while the one like jazz. All of them idolized people outside of Indonesia. 3 of them idolized people from America while the one idolized people from Europe. The simple music but sounds good and enjoyable made pop genre have so many followers and fan. Bruno Mars is one of them. Almost the entire world know this American pop singer. Why it’s American again? Beside in my opinion there are so many local singer having  quality even higher than him. It’s all because globalization

  In their freetime. Most of them likes to hang out, because it’s very refreshing and exciting instead of being in their home. This habit leads to consumptive attitudes. The trends of lifestyle have made secondary things become primary things. Once again globalization speak the loudest.

  Now about teenage school and romance. Most of them thinks that study and date in teenage are equal. There are no study or no date. For me, this statement are quite satisfying. No one can live without good education nor affection.

  Here’s the extra information I get, because accidentally there was no girl I’ve interviewed. Based on the information, 3 of 4 said that white skin girl is their type! Is this because globalization or trends again? I hope not.

  From that report I can take the conclusion that most of Indonesian teenager’s lifestyle are affected by globalization which caused many of the local culture slowly fading away. It was proved in this report. I know that globalization isn’t all the bad things. Globalization marks that the knowledge and technology have making a progress. It’s all depends to us, how we are going to face it? I hope all teenagers think this way. It’s not about you nor me, it’s about us. It’s about how we build Indonesia in the right way.

Adhitya Bayu Siswonegoro/1 X-C