This report was created in order to present to you the lifestyle of nowadays teenagers. In order for us to acknowledge such matter, we were interviewing some of our friends in Labsky in regard of their preference choice of food, sport, movie, as well as musician. For food, most of them favored Japanese food because not only it tastes amazing, as they say, but it also nutritious. They don’t even mind the fact that Japanese food is generally more expensive than any other type of foods. Aside from Japanese food, many of them also like to eat western food such as steak.
For movie, the choices are more widespread, with some of them prefer action movie, while the others prefer comedy. Either way, most of the movies that are played in the cinemas are Hollywood movies. Indonesian movies are less popular among the teenagers because most of the movies are cheap horror themed related movies. Many of my friends were very upset and disappointed when the cinemas stopped playing Hollywood movies due to the tax related problem.
Several music genres such as RnB, pop, and jazz are very popular among the youth. There were so many world class musicians that had performed in Indonesia, particularly Jakarta. Among the many are Kylie Minogue, Maroon Five, 30 Seconds to Mars, John Legend, David Foster,… and so, the list goes on. Indonesia or at least, Jakarta itself is pretty popular among the world class legendary jazz musicians because of the prestigious jazz event that was held regularly every year. Rumor has it that Paul McCartney, is set to perform at the 2012 Java jazz Festival
Sport is also become part of “the young and the restless” generation’s lifestyle, as it balances their academic activity and also as a way for them to have fun and releases. Many of them do a little bit of everything, yet not a few focuses in just one particular sport. Sports such as swimming, baseball/softball, basketball, and soccer are the most popular. Sports can be also a way for the youth to actually be good in one sport and score a medal. This can be channel by joining many sport clubs such as Indonesia Muda Basket Ball Club, SSI Arsenal, and many others. The government and the profit making organization also seem to agree with the youth as both of them provide many sport facilities, such as the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium and even commercial gyms that can be found in almost every mall in Jakarta.
In addition, our group asked question about their kind of perfect girlfriend type and several of them dreamed of having a white skinned girl who are smart and easy going. I know there is a little bit of gender issue going on here, but we did only asked the boys, so we do not know what are the girls’ preference on their kind of perfect boyfriend.
Finally, looking at the answers and the reality, I believe that the lifestyle that is adopted by most of the teenagers in Indonesia is heavily influenced by the western culture, transmitted to our society trough globalization, by the advancement of mass media such as internet and imported magazines.
Yura Prasadhana-XC
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