Indonesian Independence Day

The Proclamation of Indonesian Independence was made at 10 am on the 17th of August 1945. For the Dutch, sovereignty was not formally transferred until the 27th of December 1949, although that day is not marked here.

There have been 77 of these Independence Days; I have been in this country for 21 of them [and there have been 30 of them since the first time I lived here.

This is still a relatively "young" nation where there is strong civic pride and 17th August is celebrated with widespread relish.

How does civic pride manifest itself where you live?

Do they cook outside on a BBQ grill, get drunk, light fireworks like normal people or do they do weird foreign stuff?

@gambrel said
Do they cook outside on a BBQ grill, get drunk, light fireworks like normal people or do they do weird foreign stuff?

@fmf said
Yes, except for the alcohol part. They are "normal people".

@gambrel said
So they hold off on celebrating with exhumed reletives till later? 😆😆😆

@fmf said
I don't know what you're on about so the emojis seem incongruous.

@fmf said
I don't know what you're on about so the emojis seem incongruous.

@gambrel said
"Indonesian tribe exhume their dead for harvest festival" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4872312/amp/Indonesian-tribe-exhume-dead-harvest-festival.html

@fmf said
The Proclamation of Indonesian Independence was made at 10 am on the 17th of August 1945. For the Dutch, sovereignty was not formally transferred until the 27th of December 1949, although that day is not marked here.

There have been 77 of these Independence Days; I have been in this country for 21 of them [and there have been 30 of them since the first time I lived here.

Th ...[text shortened]... August is celebrated with widespread relish.

How does civic pride manifest itself where you live?

@gambrel said
So they hold off on celebrating with exhumed reletives till later? 😆😆😆

@fmf said
The Proclamation of Indonesian Independence was made at 10 am on the 17th of August 1945. For the Dutch, sovereignty was not formally transferred until the 27th of December 1949, although that day is not marked here.

There have been 77 of these Independence Days; I have been in this country for 21 of them [and there have been 30 of them since the first time I lived here.

Th ...[text shortened]... August is celebrated with widespread relish.

How does civic pride manifest itself where you live?

@ponderable said
Celebrations in Germany are not very festive. We do have the central celebration of 3rd of October (legal reunification) but of course Germany lost a war that was the fruit of ooverborading Nationalism, so ...

In the years 1871 to (at least) 1914 Sedanstag (the anniversary of the battel of Sedan one of the most importnat battles in the Franco-Prussian war that led to th ...[text shortened]... ond Empire)) was celebrated with a lot of pomp (probably to be compared with the USA's 4th of July).

@fmf said
Is the 3rd of October embraced as a reason for celebration more by Germans who are in the part of the country that was East Germany?

@fmf said
The Proclamation of Indonesian Independence was made at 10 am on the 17th of August 1945. For the Dutch, sovereignty was not formally transferred until the 27th of December 1949, although that day is not marked here.

This is still a relatively "young" nation where there is strong civic pride and 17th August is celebrated with widespread relish.

How does civic pride manifest itself where you live?

@shallow-blue said
Interestingly enough, several months before yours, celebrating the 5th of May 1945, for obvious reasons.

However, there's not a lot of patriotic chest-thumping. We just have street markets and fairs and things like that. It's more "we're happy to be this country" than "this country is TeH GrEaTeSt". Some neo-nationalist politicians are trying to change that, making a ...[text shortened]... uld[/i] be celebrating the signing of the Peace of Münster, of course, but for some reason we don't.