Poco-Poco Dance Enters Guinness Of World Record In Today's Memory, August 5, 2018

President Jokowi and Vice President Jusuf Kalla participated in breaking the Guinness World Records for the Poco-Poco dance with the most participants in the world. (ANTARA)

JAKARTA Memories of today, six years ago, August 5, 2018, tens of thousands of people participated in breaking the Guinness World Records world record for the Poco-Poco dance with the most participants in the world. The celebration took place in the area around Monas to Gelora Bung Karno (GBK).

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and First Lady, Iriana participated. Previously, Ternate artist Arie Sapulette created a poco-poco song. In fact, the song is not only good to listen to but is able to invite people to sway. Recently, poco-poco has become a gymnastics companion song.

Efforts to work on creative routes are not easy. They must be able to pursue a field with great love. After that, success will accompany. That's what happened to the artist from Ternate, Arie Sapulette.

He initially wanted to create a regional song. Poco-poco, his name. The song was tried by Arie and her other siblings in a group format called Nanaku Group in 1993. At first Arie wanted the song to penetrate Eastern Indonesia.

Dewi Fortuma was also present. The poco-poco song is actually famous throughout the country. All because the poco-poco songs are nice to listen to and the regional languages used are easy for many to understand. Hadi people often hear the song.

Singer Yopie Latul to kepincut wanted to bring back the poco-poco song in 1995. Lately, the song has often been a companion to gymnastics. The TNI and Polri are the most active institutions using the song for gymnastics.

The results are brilliant. Instead of just being heard as a mere song, the image of poco-poco as a dance is actually the best known. Poco-poco began to be adopted as a dance in various regions. Government agencies and education began to use it.

Pakem movement poco-poco antar satu daerah dan lainnya muncul satu-satu. Popularitas poco-poco sebagai dance semakin mengangkat karena pemerintah banyak menggunakan poco-poco sebagai rangkaian darisoft power diplomacy di luar negeri. Para duba besar sering mengadopsinya ketika ada kegiatan penting di luar negeri.

"Because I like to dance, if there is an ASEAN Family Day event, for example, I immediately lead the poco-poco and sajojo dance events. As a household containing a big family, I always try to get all my household members (KBRI) to get enough attention."

For example, eating and eating meetings are events that are routinely carried out so that the relationship continues to run well and the synergy of work can be taken into account. I always remind my staff that the function of the Indonesian Embassy abroad is a function of promotion. We must show that we are a rich nation in every way," explained Kartini Sjahrir, who once served as Indonesian Ambassador to Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay from the 2010-2014 era in the book Rumah Janda (2014).

The existence of poco-poco as Indonesia's proud dance is unquestionable. The Indonesian government also tried to invite all Jakartans to break the Guinness World Records record for the Poco-Poco dance with the most participants in the world.

The long-awaited day also arrived on August 5, 2018. Tens of thousands of participants consisting of 200 points from the Monas cross to Gelora Bung Karno began to play poco-poco dances. They include students, students, civil servants, the TNI/Polri to the community at the neighborhood level.

Interestingly, President Jokowi and First Lady Iriana were also present. Vice President Jusuf Kalla and his wife, Mufidah also did not want to miss the crowd.

The world record was broken. The presence of Guinness of World Records for poco-poco is proof that the dance has an important meaning for Indonesia. The government also does not want the poco-poco dance to be claimed by other countries. For this reason, the government invites all elements of society to maintain the masterpiece of the Indonesian nation.

"Congratulations on poco-poco. I hope we are healthy, our people are healthy, our country is strong," Jokowi was quoted as saying on the CNN website, August 5, 2018.