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I am Indonesian, I speak Indonesian

Saat pelajaran berlangsung, seorang mahasiswa Indonesia yang lagi kuliah di Belanda bernama “Ai” mengetahui bahwa orang yang duduk di sebelahnya berasal dari Suriname. Sudah lama Ai penasaran dengan negara yang terletak di Amerika Selatan itu karena konon banyak  warganya yang berasal dari Indonesia (Jawa khususnya-tempat Ai dilahirkan). 
Mulailah Ai menyapa orang di sebelahnya:
Ai : "Hi, my name is Ai, I come from Indonesia. Do you come from Suriname"?
As : "Hi, my name is As"
Ai : "I heard that a lot of Surinam are initially come from Indonesia and speak Javanese". 
       "Do you speak Javanese?" (setengah memaksa, pdhl tuch Surinamese berwajah India
         banget)
As : "Yes, you right, a lot of Surinamese speak Javanese, but unfortunatelly I’m not part of 
         them"
Ai : (walaupun udah nyangka sebelumnya, tetap merasa kecewa :D)
As : As melanjutkan. "Our country is multi-etnics, there is Africans, Indian, Ameindian, 
        Chinese and Javanese like you’ve said.   
Ai : "Oke... well, I thought  you can speak javanese" (tetep maksa ;p). "So, what language do
         you speak in Suriname anyway?"
As : "Dutch"
        "I heard a lot of Indonesian also speak Dutch. Is that right?"
Ai : "Nooo...  "When we are independence, there is a time that we reject all things about
         Dutch and we nationalise everything, including our language". "So, I think only very old      people can speak Dutch, but a lot of them is already past away now".
As : (ngebatin: what a long story) "So, what language do you speak in Indonesia"
Ai : "Indonesia Language" (Yey!!! merasa bangga punya bahasa sendiri :)
As : &^%%$@??? (rupanya As nggk punya gambaran seperti apa bahasa Indonesia itu, tp Ai
        nggak peduli :). Tetap merasa punya bahasa sendiri lebih membanggakan :)
 Hope you meet Java-Surinamese next time Ai  :):):)

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