Belitong Island

There is a really inspiring novel and then later adapted as a movie in 2009 that's called Laskar Pelangi. The book and the movie itself has been a phenomenon in Indonesia with high selling over the years and have got many awards in novel category and the movie award either. It is because the story is really good and inspiring every people that all the kids in the world whoever they are, rich or even be so poor, they have a right to get a education for their life. The story is about a group of a poor kid in the Belitong island where they have to struggle everyday just to study in their almost collapsed school. But they never give up even they have to help their parents such as become a laborer in a tin industry, a fisherman, either a worker in a traditional market when they are in holiday. But in the future, after their fight in their childhood time, one of the kid (the writer) got a international scholarship and go to Sorbonne, France to study in his only childhood dream. So this movie has a noble message for us. Everything begin with only a dream. And then you have to try as hard as you can to live up your dream.

In the movie when I watched, I was amazed with Belitong Island. So that was the reason why I would write a review about Belitong. Belitong is a island located in the east of Sumatra, Indonesia. This island is noted for its production of pepper and its natural resources such as tin. Most of the people in Belitong live in the coast. They go to fishing in the sea because the sea in Belitong has so many fishes on it. The one spot that is so spectacular in Belitong is the beach. Belitong itself is a beautiful island surrounded by unique beaches that you won't find another in the world. Something that very interesting is because in the beach, it has a lot of gigantic granite rocks on it. Imagine what you are gonna feel. It's something ordinary to find a beach with some coconut trees on it, but this one is decorated by natural gigantic granite rocks. This was my favorite scene of the movie. You can view pictures of beautiful Belitong beach at www.belitungisland.com. There are a lot great pictures taken by profesional photografer. The beach is still pure not polluted from the unresponsible people. Belitong Island itself perhaps hasn't been famous for its tourism as another places in Indonesia. But since the fenonenal Laskar Pelangi movie, so many people are curious about Belitong itself. It is no doubt that the movie is affecting people to so much to see Belitong. Well I see that that is understanding. From the pictures I've got in www.belitungisland.com, Belitong is so pretty at all that you have to come visit it.

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