Museum celebrates Youth Pledge Day

Museum celebrates Youth Pledge Day

JAKARTA: The Youth Pledge Museum in Kramat Raya, Central
Jakarta, is holding a series of events to commemorate Youth
Pledge Day, which fell on Oct. 28.

Museum head R. Tjahjo Purnomo said on Thursday that poetry
recital contests for kindergarten and elementary school students
had started in May.

"We are also holding a drawing competition and seminar on
national literature," he was quoted as saying by Antara.

The prestigious works of Indonesian writers and poets -- Amir
Hamzah, Sutan Takdir Alisyahbana, Sanoesi Pane, Armijn Pane and
Muhamad Yamin -- are on display at the Literature Works for My
Country exhibition held by the museum until Saturday.

The museum on Jl. Kramat Raya No. 106 is the place where
dozens of young people swore 76 years ago to uphold the "language
of unity", the Indonesian language, and declared that the
Indonesian people were united as one nation. --JP