Tugas ke-3.3 Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 2

The Bekasi Catfish Statue

           Catfish statue used to be in the middle of the city of Bekasi. This be advanced direction that commonly used because it is in the middle of the road and easy to see. Catfish statue is between Train Station, Largest mosque in Bekasi, Regional General Hospital and Bekasi Police Department.

            This statue actually a catfish and lute fruits shaped, but better known as the statue catfish. The concept was initiated by the current Mayor of Bekasi M. Djamhari considering catfish and lute fruits are animals and plants that numerous in Bekasi. And as this is the statue has become an icon and landmark in the city of Bekasi, which lasted for seven years.

            But some people dont like it which resulted in the statue burnt. This is because people feel embarrassed that Bekasi denoted as catfish which are greedy and nasty fish. It's as if describing how the people of Bekasi is.

 

            After that now a Great Clock replaces the statue now

Tugas ke-3.2 Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 2

Great Post Road

            The Great Post Road (Indonesian: Jalan Raya Pos or Dutch: De Grote Postweg), is the name for the historical road that runs across Java that connects Anyer and Panarukan. It was built during the reign of governor-general of the Dutch East Indies Herman Willem Daendels (1808–1811).

            La Grande Route, as Daendels called it, was a military road which was laid down under the order of King Lodewijk Napoleon the ruler of Holland that time. France was at war with England and the road was intended to ease military support, to defend Java. Before the road was constructed, connections paths between Anyer and Panarukan was available at that time. However, it were not easily passable as heavy tropical rainfall frequently destroyed them.

            Daendels faced some problem when he was starting the road construction. The difficult one is financial situation. Because of that he use Javanese unpaid forced laborers to do the heavy work, which resulted in thousands of deaths.

            Many of Daendels' opponents became historical sources of the harsh condition during the road construction. 

            Today the Java Great Post Road consist the most parts of present Java North Coast Road (Indonesian: Jalan Pantura, abbreviation from "Pantai Utara"). The road initially served as the backbone of Java's transportation and logistic. It connects some of the largest cities in Java.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Post_Road

Tugas ke-3.1 Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 2

In short this is the history of name Jakarta 

            From 7th to early 16th century port of Sunda is within the sphere of influence of Srivijaya maritime. The harbour area became known as Sunda Kelapa and by the fourteenth century, it was a major trading port for Sunda kingdom.

            In 1513 the Kingdom of Sunda made an alliance treaty with Portugal for the Portuguese to build a port in 1522 in order to defend against the rising power of the Sultanate of Demak from central Java. In 1527, Fatahillah, a Javanese general from Demak conquered Sunda Kelapa, driving out the Portuguese. Then Sunda Kelapa was renamed Jayakarta, and became a fiefdom of the Sultanate of Banten. And The Prince Jayawikarta from the Sultanate of Banten made trading relationship with the English and Dutch merchants.

            When relations between Prince Jayawikarta and the Dutch deteriorated, Jayawikarta's soldiers attacked the Dutch fortress. The victory consolidated Dutch power and in 1619 they renamed the city Batavia.

            During World War II, the city was renamed from Batavia to "Jakarta" (short form of Jayakarta) by the Indonesian nationalists after conquering the city from the Dutch in 1942 with the help of the Japanese forces.

            In 1966, Jakarta was declared a "special capital city district" (daerah khusus ibukota), thus gaining a status approximately equivalent to that of a state or province.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta#History