Another English assignment from Ms.Yola..yay! Not really yay though. All of my classmates are paired into two, and here I am writing this open letter by myself. It is because my class have an odd numbered student which is 27. Ms.Yola paired us into two just in case we aren't ready to face the internet sarcasm for our open letter. So if you're reading this, please understand that I'm only 17 years old and trying to speak up my minds. If you got something to say, just comment and I'll gladly answer it.
An Open Letter to the City Mayor of Samarinda
Balikpapan City (Credit: Google)
I'm just a senior high school student of SMAN 10 Samarinda, but I hope
you would take my open letter seriously. I live in Samarinda since when I
was born, I do feel very happy to be here. But there is one thing that bothers
me, it is that Balikpapan is more adequate to be the capital city of East
Borneo than Samarinda. I have a lot of friends from all over Indonesia, and
they only familiar with Balikpapan. Some of them even tends to think that
Samarinda is a small and not well-developed city. From my very own perspective,
Balikpapan would be even more great in the future. Why? By now, Balikpapan
already got that predicate which is the most livable city in Indonesia even in the world and beats Paris. The
city structure, the rules obedience, even the people’s behavior is well
maintained. The street is very clean and neat, that’s why they got Adipura
award almost every year. Their airport, Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan
International Airport, ranked 16 on the best airport in the world. There are so
much more things to relate from Balikpapan.
And Samarinda? Eventhough the city
is already well organized time to time, but still it’s not as neat as
Balikpapan. As for the government, the community organization is taking more
role in everything than the city mayor did, such as Pemuda Pancasila,
Kopasti Gepak, etc. Also, we still could see so many beggars and street
musicians in the Samarinda’s traffic light which we can’t find in Balikpapan.
The tourist attraction in Balikpapan is also well maintained, such as beach,
mangrove forest, and education center. Meanwhile in Samarinda, we don’t even
know what is our tourist attraction. None of them are well maintained or even
interesting enough. The bad news is, from the last report I heard that Trans
Corp will build their famous amusement park, Trans Studio, in Balikpapan. As what
I’ve heard from the insiders that the People’s Representative Council or DPR is making it difficult for Trans Corp to build their park in Samarinda. They make so much excuses to gain their own benefit with this project. So the governor immediately move the
Trans Studio project to Balikpapan since Balikpapan has no problem or cumber
the construction. We can see that in the future, Balikpapan will be even more a
success city in Indonesia. Of course, that’ll be a huge step back to Samarinda. You can see the greatness of Balikpapan City on this link below. Really. It gives me chills. http://www.kompasiana.com/hilmanfajrian/balikpapan-dari-hutan-ke-kota-paling-dicintai-di-dunia_555ae7aef09273d2058d78b0
Why can’t we learn from them? I know it is a good thing that our neighbor
city is developing really well, but..we’re the capital city! I really hope that
there is something that I can be proud of from Samarinda. I want people to praise Samarinda like they
praise how great Balikpapan is. Please just let Trans Studio to be here in
Samarinda, so that we have something to be proud of. I beg you please city
mayor, please develop our city well. Make it obvious that we are the capital
city. I love Samarinda, and I want other people in Indonesia know that we are
the capital city of East Borneo. Wouldn't it be great if we can achieve what Balikpapan has achieve?
So that’s all I want to say in my letter. Once again, please note that I’m only a
senior high student that is doing her assignment. This is from my very own perspective
and if you have a disagreement with opinion please respect it.
