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opening of asean scoot jamboree 2008
			OPENING REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA AT THE OPENING OF ASEAN SCOUT JAMBOREE 2008 IN BUMI PERKEMAHAN PRAMUKA, CIBUBUR, JAKARTA OCTOBER 19th 2008   Bismillaahirrahmaanirrahiim,   Assalaamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakaatuh, Peace be upon us,   Excellencies, Ministers, and Ambassadors,   Chairman, National Board of Commissioners of the Gerakan Pramuka,   Chief Commissioners and Chairman of NSO organizations of ASEAN member countries,   Scouts, participants of the ASEAN Scout Jamboree 2008,   Ladies and gentlemen,   Salam Pramuka!   First of all, please allow me to welcome you all to this beautiful part of Indonesia. It is indeed a pleasure and priviledge for me to speech you for this annual gathering of future leaders and visionaries. At last, our scouts across the region have his own platform and vision, one that will guide us through the 21st century. We all face a great new world. One defines by interconnectivity and borderless sinergy and also by danger and uncertainty. If you or your family invest in the stockmarket, you only little look at your stock portfolio to understand how uncertain the future looks.   Many countries are facing both an energy and a food crisis. Economic turmoil of the part political instability and we all fear that prospect. But when I look at all your faces, I feel so much hope because in your faces I see the accomplishment of history and a promise of the future. I don’t need to tell many of you how noble scouting is. In Indonesia, its development has reflected the goal of our nation. Our first scouting associaton was established in 1912, and hundreds of other associations across the archipelago. After Indonesia declared sovereignty, the various scout groups became one, symbolizing the unity of Indonesia. Throughout the years Gerakan Pramuka in way big and small had embodied our nationalist spirit, teaching our children the importance of working together or helping others or bravery, integrity, humanity, and physical, and mental rebellion.   Gerakan Pramuka has taught Indonesian throughout the years, the fulfillment that come with serving your family, your neighbour, your community, and your country. Gerakan Pramuka teaches that the inner peace come not just with respectful one another, but also with a respect for nature and for one’s deeds and actions. Indeed, Gerakan Pramuka is a holistic endeavour. After all, its emblem is the coconut. In Indonesia, all part of the coconut are used in everyday life. So, it is great as scout who must need the most out of every aspect of his or her life. Indonesia would not be what it is without Gerakan Pramuka.   And look at what it is now. The world largest scout association with more than 8 million members that ASEAN organizing achievements. That legacy can’t be replicated. I am sure it has been in many communities across ASEAN, none of our country would be what we are today, without men and women, young and old, induce inclination toward service. Indeed, for many of us, it is an impulse. Sounds of its service a better world for all, and a better world for my family. This unspeakable sense of service has benefited all of us, ASEAN should benefit too. For many years, communities across South East Asia has not understood ASEAN very well. It is foreseen simply as a club for elite officials.   Yet, looking at all your faces, it does not feel that way. Indeed, gathering like this can change the face of ASEAN, so that people will view ASEAN as a forum for everyday people. Gathering like this provide us opportunity to better understand one another, to share our thought and aspiration and to work together to achieve our set dream of prosperity for all. As they say, to have or in this case hundreds and thousands are better than one. Let us not feel just one nation, let us feel a regional community. One that will help its citizen overcome the challenges of globalization. Some of you may ask surely the problem of the world can not be solved by a few weeks of camping. But let us consider that the glass is halfful. I can’t think of no better way to have our son and daughter face our uncertain future than to arm them with a moral compass based on mutual respect and friendship, based on goodwill and solidarity. A moral compass provided by our scout association.   I can’t think of no better way to have our children save their world than by linking them with youth from other nation to share their hopes and values. Politician often speaks of investment, I can not think of a better investment than an investment in our younger citizens. Yes, you need factory, and road, and bridges, and powerplant. But, who builds powerplant, who operates factories, who designs bridges and tunnels, people? The answer is people, young men and women who believe in hardwork, in excellence, in cooperation, and in overcoming problem. This jamboree is only one investment in our youth. I hope we will have many similar investments in the future.   Delegation often talks of peace. Standing here under a bright blue sky and among clouds scenery, we actually feel of this with nature and with ourselves. We can in a vision of a more peaceful world. This jamboree can be the incubator for this can do spirit, for this unspeakable belief in our power to change the world. What I call in Indonesian Semangat Harus Bisa. Let me share with you some wise words that I hope will go part in your life: What your thought because they will become word, what your word for they will become your actions, and what your actions because they will become habit, what your habit because it should your character, finally, what your character for it become your best thing.   This gathering is a celebration of promise, of the promise of our youth, of the promise of our nation, of the promise of regional cooperation and globalization. This gathering is also a celebration of wisdom, the wisdom of our allure that work established scout rules and the wisdom of nature. Let us hope that the celebration begins and even brighter new era for scout rules across the region.   Before I conclude my speech, I believe all of you agree that we were all impressed by the theme song of the ASEAN Scout Jamboree 2008: Wake up! I may call Wake up everybody! Wake up scouts! Wake up ASEAN! Wake up the world! Let’s save our future! Let’s save humanity! And let’s save our planet! Finally, I wish to thank all of you who have worked hard to make this jamboree a reality. To all participants of this ASEAN Scout Jamboree, let me congratulate you on this momentum occasion and by saying bismillaahirrahmaanirrahiim, I hereby declare The First ASEAN Scout Jamboree 2008 opened. Thank you.   Wassalaamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakaatuh.