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Activity 1
The Legend of Bidar Competition
Once upon a time, in South Sumatera, there lived beautiful princess whose name was Putri Dayang Merindu.
Putri Dayang Merindu was loved by Kemala Negara and DewaJaya. Kemala Negara wanted to marry her. He talked to his parents and proposed her. However, he was rejected by King Sah Denar, the father of Putri Dayang Merindu.
King Sah Denar said that Putri Dayang Merindu was engaged to Jaya Dewa.
Kemala Negara could not accept Sah Denar’s decision. He challenged Jaya Dewa to fight, but both of them have the same power. No one lost in fighting. Then, Putri Dayang Merindu had an idea. She asked Kemala Negara and Jaya Dewa to have river boat competition.
Both Kemala Negara and Jaya Dewa agreed that idea.
People gathered along the side of Musi River. They were curious to know who would win the competition and would marry Putri Dayang Merindu.
Kemala Negara and Dewa Jaya started to row their own boat. However, those two strong men could reach the finish line at the same time. When people approached them, they were surprised finding both of them lying on their boats. They were very tired. They lost their strength and slowly died.
Putri Dayang Merindu was very sad. Her heart was broken due to the death of two men who loved her. She never thought it would happen. She said that she just wanted to die. She asked her parents to divide her body into two parts. One part was buried with Kemala Negara's body and one part was buried with Dewa Jaya's body. She wanted to be fair to both of them.
People were touched. To commemorate the incident, people always had a river boats competition in Musi River. The word Bidar was from Biduk Lancar or swift river boat.
Read the text and answer the questions below!
1. What is the purpose of the text?
a. To introduce Putri Dayang Merindu, Kemala Negara, and Jaya Dewa to the readers
b. To tell there was a great fighting between Kemala Negara dan Jaya Dewa
c. To explain the culture of South Sumatera d. To describe how Putri Dayang Merindu died
e. To entertain the readers
2. What is the main idea of paragraph one?
a. Kemala Negara was allowed to marry Putri Dayang Merindu
b. Putri Dayang Merindu was supported by King Sah Denar to marry Kemala Negara
c. Putri Dayang Merindu fell in love with Jaya Dewa
d. Kemala Negara’s marriage proposal was refused by Putri Dayang Merindu’s father e. Putri Dayang Merindu didn’t love both Kemala
Negara and Jaya Dewa.
3. How did Jaya Dewa respond to Kemala Negara’s challenge to fight?
a. He accepted it, and both of them fought b. He refused it, and there was no fighting
between them
c. He did want to fight, and asked Kemala Negara to have river both competition
d. He ignored Kemala Negara
e. He accepted it and could win the fighting
4. Who offered the idea of river boat competition?
a. King Sah Denar d. Putri Dayang Merindu b. Jaya Dewa e. The local People c. Kemala Negara
5. The word “Biduk Lancar” in the last paragraph refer to....
a. Competition b. Swift river boat
c. People who join river boat competition d. The river where river boat competition was
held
e. The grave of Kemala Negara, Jaya Dewa, and Putri Dayang Merindu
6. Where did the story happend?
7. Who is King Sah Denar in the story?
8. Why Kemala Negara rejected to marry Putri Dayang Merindu?
9. How did Putri Dayang Merindu felt after the competition?
10. How did the story end?