Ibu Pertiwi is a popular Indonesian patriotic song composed by unknown composer around the 1950s to 1960s. The song's lyrics is about Ibu Pertiwi

Ibu Pertiwi

Ibu Pertiwi is a national personification of Indonesia and East Malaysia, the allegory of Tanah Air , the Indonesian Motherland. Since prehistoric times the tribes of the Indonesian archipelago often revered earth and nature spirits as a life giving mother, a female deity of nature...

, national personification

National personification

A national personification is an anthropomorphization of a nation or its people; it can appear in both editorial cartoons and propaganda.Some early personifications in the Western world tended to be national manifestations of the majestic wisdom and war goddess Minerva/Athena, and often took the...

 of Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

. It is normally sung by Indonesian children, elementary and secondary school students, or played during Indonesian Independence Day celebration.

Original lyrics

(in Indonesian

Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia. Indonesian is a normative form of the Riau Islands dialect of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries....

)

First verse:

Kulihat ibu pertiwi

Sedang bersusah hati

Air matamu berlinang

Mas intanmu terkenang

Hutan gunung sawah lautan

Simpanan kekayaan

Kini ibu sedang susah

Merintih dan berdoa

Second verse:

Kulihat ibu pertiwi

Kami datang berbakti

Lihatlah putra-putrimu

Menggembirakan ibu

Ibu kami tetap cinta

Putramu yang setia

Menjaga harta pusaka

Untuk nusa dan bangsa

Translation

First verse:

I see Mother Pertiwi
in sorrow

Your tears is flowing

Remembering your (lost) golds and diamonds

Jungles, mountains, paddy fields, and the seas

Storing the treasure (richness)

Now mother is sad

Sighing and praying

Second verse:

I see Mother Pertiwi

We come to serve (you)

Behold your sons and daughters

Will make mother happy

Mother, we stil love (you)

Your faithful sons

Guarding the heirloom

For homeland and nation

Adoption of Christian Hymn music

Although the lyrics was originally composed, the music and melody of this song somehow resembled the a Christian hymn What a Friend We Have in Jesus

What a Friend We Have in Jesus

"What a Friend We Have in Jesus" is a Christian hymn originally written by Joseph M. Scriven as a poem in 1855 to comfort his mother who was living in Ireland while he was in Canada. Scriven originally published the poem anonymously, and only received full credit for it in the 1880s. The tune to...

 originally written by Joseph M. Scriven as a poem in 1855. In Indonesia, the hymn is known as "Yesus Kawan Sejati" and is sung in Indonesian by Batak people in Protestant churches in Indonesia. The majority of Indonesians are muslim and consequently the hymn is not widely known. Probably prior 1967 the same music was adopted by an unknown composer of Ibu Pertiwi song.

External links

• http://organisasi.org/ibu-pertiwi-lirik-lagu-anak-anak-musik-nasional-lawas-indonesia