Emma Poeradiredja, Tokoh Sumpah Pemuda Penyaksi Tiga Zaman

Emma Poeradiredja diantara keluarga besarnya di Bandung. P erempuan adalah darah dan nyawa sebuah peradaban bukanlah hal yang berlebihan. Adalah Emma Poeradiredja sosok wanoja asal Tanah Pasundan yang turut menjadi pelaku dan saksi berdirinya republik Indonesia dalam tiga babakan zaman ; revolusi, rezim Sukarno, hingga Suharto. Lahir dan besar dalam keluarga priyayi tidak serta merta menjadikannya sosok manja dan menerima segala keistimewaan kelas menengah feodal di zamannya. Sebagai salah editor Balai Pustaka dan Redaktur Kepala untuk bahasa Sunda pada Pustaka Rakyat, sang ayah Raden Kardata Poeradiredja dengan istri  Nyi Raden Siti Djariah  membesarkan Emma beserta saudaranya dalam lingkungan yang memprioritaskan pendidikan. Tak heran saudara Emma seperti Haley Koesna Poerairedja menyabet Community Leader dari The Ramon Magsaysay Award tahun 1962. Adil Poeradiredja saudara lainnya menjadi politikus dan Perdana Menteri Negara Pasundan pro-republiken. Sedari remaja Emma sudah akt

After Rushing Hours To Paradise Van Java: perfect gateway enjoying spaces and times

Braga at night depicts its urban middle-class lifestyle. We can enjoy the nuances through its architecture heritages. Cuisines, modern spots, offices, inn and hotels, bar and clubs, into traditional stalls are available surrounded.

Every weekender the urban city peoples often sought options for leisure their times with family, relatives, or even they whom beloved. Its very human, moreover after daily routines from nine-to-five filled and spent with an extra hour in front of the office's desk. Wrote the papers, typing the contracts, maintaining relations with clients, or even arguing the ideas for the company's future with policymakers such as our big-bosses in internal meetings, etc. 

Those above-established portraits systems and cultures of many workers or habitat which picturesque our life in the modern age of urban living like in megapolitan Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Kalimantan, or named the other capital city in the Indonesia region. Trapped in routines at its peaks with flat-strict-life could be boring and stressful. Peoples do need social interaction, a friendly environment with touches of genuine cultures humidity, and of course suitable cost to 'breaking the ice' of tense nerves with fun holidaying. 

Gelora Bandung Lautan Api, shorthened as GBLA, is known as the present headquarter of Persib Bandung Football Club.

For those whose residence or work-living close enough in the capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta, they're highly recommended to directed their vehicles towards the flower city Bandung. Only about two hours with destined times could reach the city known as the city with so many beautiful girls as far as eyes can see even in public transport (called with 'angkot', shortened from 'angkutan kota') which rarely seen in other modern-capitalistic city life. It's hyperbolic but openly welcomed to verified. Go check it out. 
 
In-jokes terms, often, they always named it as the city with many beautiful 'peyeumpuan', defined from two words, 'peuyeum' an original traditional food which popular because its sweetness taste, and 'perempuan' means girls. Therefore we can imagine whats exactly the uniqueness of this linguistic and cultural turns into grammatical games. And interestingly that jokes became one the 'trademarks' icon indicated with the beauty of Bandungnese. 
 
Her Suganda, notable Bandung's specialized writer, mentioned in his books "Wisata Parijs Van Java" about this landmarks and other city's icons.

Bandung, at an old grammar, spelled also with Bandoeng, build in 1810 during the Dutch colonialism era with a comforting mild pleasant climate. Surrounded by hills across winds direction. At its green age, its beautifully surround with rice fields, waterfalls such 'Curug Cimahi' at the border of North's Bandung, and the new autonomic administrative city of Cimahi. Nowadays, the green environment still availably seen at the north such Lembang, east such Manglayang mountain, or even in protocol area such Babakan Siliwangi, etc.

As the capital city of West Java (Jawa Barat) Province (Provinsi), Bandung located in the interior of Java island on the northern edge plateau nearly 2,400 feet (730 meters) above sea level. Bandung is the center of Sundanese cultural life, the Sundanese who compose the largest West Java's population, differ significantly in customs and language from their Javanese neighbors from the center to the east. 

FAST FACT ABOUT BANDUNG: 

  1. Bandung is a modern city, with wide, tree-lined streets and many buildings and residences built in Western-style due to the impact of past world war colonization. The most iconic building of government offices is Gedung Sate, its popular in representing and recognize the city. 
  2. The notable building such the Gedung Merdeka and the Dwiwarna, site of the 1955 Bandung Conference of African and Asian nations, which took a strong stance of symbolic against Western colonialism. 
  3. Taman Sari, or Jubilee Park, is the finest of three large parks located in the center of the main protocol near the famous street, Dago. 
  4. The city's prestigious Bandung Institute of Technology, which originated as a college of architecture and engineering in the Dutch period, a place where the founding fathers and first president of Indonesia took his formal education. Other well-known are Padjajaran University (1957) at the Dipati Ukur area and the private Katolik Parahyangan University (1955) at Ciumbuleuit main road. 
  5. The Observatorium Bosscha is in the Lembang highlands, to the north. A large area is devoted to the experimental cultivation of vegetables and flowers. The Nuclear Research Centre (1964) houses an atomic reactor. 
  6. The respectable and most loved in the history of football team ever in Bandung is PERSIB, with millions of varied ages fanatic fans called 'bobotoh' (supporters) and organized in the local community called Viking.
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