10 Korean Students Visit BKPBM

Yogyakarta, MelayuOnline.com- Saturday (5/7) afternoon, 10 Korean Students of Korean Literature Department of Gadjah Mada University took a visit to Balai Kajian dan Pengembangan Budaya Melayu – BKPBM (the Center for Research and Development of Malay Culture) as a part of their field trip in Yogyakarta. The fieldtrip aimed to observe Malay properties and atmosphere in Balai Melayu.

The entourage was headed by Suray Agung Nugroho, the Chairman of Korean Literature Department. They came to Balai Melayu at 00.30 p.m. and were welcomed warmly by Yuhastina Sinaro and some other MelayuOnline.com‘s crews. They were guided to look around Balai Melayu and all Malay ornaments decorated it.

After looking around Balai Melayu, they were led to an informal meeting opened by Yuhastina Sinaro. Since then, Suray let his students to introduce their selves in Bahasa Indonesia. “My Korean name is Cue Jay Yeung, and my Indonesian name is Sekar” one of the Korean students introduced herself in Korean accent.

The meeting was continued by a short presentation about BKPBM‘s portals namely MelayuOnline.com, MalayTourism.com, and RajaAliHAji.com. The last two mentioned portals have been just recently launched last night on Friday (4/7) along with the fifth anniversary of BKPBM. Hopefully, from this presentation, these Korean students would curious to know more about Malay culture and seriously deepen it in the future. “BKPBM opens widely and cordially for everyone who want to study and learn seriously Malay culture and language. We will warmly welcome and help you interesting on it.” Yuhastina Sinaro began her remark.

“BKPBM continuously documents and develops everything relating to Malay culture. We collect ceaselessly Malay material culture scattering in entire part of the world and publish them in two ways: Malay museum and portals on the internet.

Nursaed Ali Rido – chief-in-editor of MelayuOnline.com – added, “For you, Korean students who want to learn Bahasa Indonesia, you may click Malay folk story as you can learn simple Bahasa Indonesia by reading Malay folklore.”

At the end of the meeting, Suray suggested that those 10 Korean students were given one more chance to observe Balai Melayu. “Since they are studying Bahasa Indonesia and Melayu, let us observe Balai Melayu one more time after this meeting.” Suray said.

(KM/brt//07-08)

(NI/ter/07/07-08)

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