Salam

We have done it. ICC  biggest event for 2012 so far was stage-managed safely and successfully.   Alhamdulillah. We would not have done it without sacrifice and countless time from all volunteer before, during and after event.

I personally thank you to all and here are my thoughts from Indonesian Night 2012 speech:

Peace to us all, salam sejahtera untuk kita semua

Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Good evening, this is a very outstanding moment for me to be with so many dedicated and helpful people, I feel overjoyed.
Let me express my deep honor and pleasure at being here. It is with gratification and interest, as President of ICC to welcome you today on the occasion of the Indonesian Night 2012 presented by Indonesian community in Ottawa – Indonesian Canadian Congress or ICC as part of Asian Heritage Month Society in Ottawa.

We are happy to have full support and cooperation from the Indonesian Ambassador Mme. Dienne and her diplomatic and local staff. We are also acknowledging the financial support from our main sponsor BMW lead by Mme Huguette, Interlanguages International Language School, FH Rowat Insurance Agency and Cowater International. Other financial and non-financial items are also donated from anonymous friends, The Bay, Independent Mary Kay, East View Travel, J Michaels, Vernini Man’s Wear, Palais Imperial Restaurant, Mandarin Ogilvy Restaurant, Yang Ming Buffet, Mampong Grocery. I would like to express my sincere appreciation and thank you for all their supports.

We will share portion of sponsor and revenue from tonight to be donated to Indonesian orphanage in Indonesia and here in Ottawa to Ottawa Food Bank or the Mission. Some box donations are outside and all donations proceed from there will go toward those charities directly.

However this event will not be possible without support and countless time of community volunteer. Apologize if I miss anyone but in this regard, I would like to express my gratitude to all volunteer and committee from adviser lead by Mr. Agoes, manager/co manager ibu Retty and ibu Ida, coaching from ibu Fanny,Mas Eko, ibu Ririn, make up lead by by ibu Nellie, ibu Liswati, stage decoration  lead by Mas Bas, ibu Soesi, transportation pak Budi, pak Amin, guest reception and hospitality lead by Ibu Nina, team photography pak Dino and pak Robert from RSV Photography, publication and IT pak Pande, to all performers, all board of member, and very importantly our team of ladies on food and refreshment lead by ibu Susi, ibu Endah, ibu Budi,ibu Nur,  ibu Meta, ibu Iis, with food donation from Chahaya Malaysia, Matar Market, Thai Express and Vanellis from St Laurent Mall Food Court and other individual for all their considerable efforts to help us satisfied tonight.

This evening we will celebrate friendship, culture richness, and blessed living in Ottawa, beautiful Canada capital. I stand here today humbled by generosity and cooperation from everyone youth and their parents to come practice and help from everyone to plan and make this event a success.  The Indonesian Night 2012 theme Friendship is core of our relationship with everyone including Canada. As ICC Vision is to establish a forum among countries, especially between Canada and Indonesia, in all aspects, including education, technology, and social, through community involvement, so that together we can shape our world for a better future for our younger generations to come.

We are greeting our guest with Balinese Gamelan Semara Winangun  - Mrs. Yukie W  and from the line up program we have selected performer youth and adult with song and choreographer, dance from Indonesia, Asean countries Thailand, Sajojo and world from Latin Americas Salsa with song Alusiau from Batak Sumatra as line dancing, from Indonesian muslim community rebana Pesona Nusantara and fashion show to showcase how diverse and rich Indonesian Culture is with more than 13 thousand island, multi ethnics, one of biggest democratic countries with abundance human resource potential. In addition this year we will also recognize one of our community members from her initiative to initiate and maintain Ottawa Scholarship for many many years and hopefully many years to come.

This year we will also celebrate the 60th anniversary Indonesia and Canada and 35 year Asean – Canada relationship then later this year the Indonesian Embassy will host even bigger event, looking forward to it.
It is my sincere hope that this event will entertain as well connecting and make friend for all attendance to exchange conversation and share experiences

Enjoy the evening.
Thank you very much, terima kasih banyak and finally my salam to all of you.

Regards,

Sanda