TASK 1 ACADEMIC WRITING 09_ITB by Alkautsar

TASK 1 ACADEMIC WRITING 09_ITB


Bogor, the city of green or the city of green?
written by Alkautsar

During the old times, Bogor was famous because of the greenish color when Bogor was viewed from the heights. The most famous attractive place in Bogor until now, the Botanical Garden, with the trees and grass inside the area, created the beautiful and fresh green color that increases the romantic and cool aura of the city.

Nowadays, Bogor is still a green city. Anyway, what’s the meaning of this green city after all? A green city still has it characteristics from a greenish color. But, in this case, it’s a pity that Bogor has it greenish color from the public transportation, or angkot (angkutan kota), cars or minibuses (angkot in Bogor are all minibuses) used for public services which are coincidently painted green. In Bogor, these cars invade the streets everyday. And the worse fact is that these cars were the traffic jam makers because there are too many of these cars in the streets.

When the traffic jam happens, the people will see and realize that Bogor is still a green city if they look from the heights. And maybe people who view it will be quite disappointed since knowing that the green color was caused from the green cars operating in public, not from the trees and grass.

I’m proud by the fact that Bogor is known as a green city, but I also feel ashamed when I knew that the green color is unnatural. These two facts make a harmonized irony for me, as one of the students at ITB who comes from Bogor.

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