Hi, my name is Aura Satya Pinasti.

I am a student English Education Department at the

Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto. Im from five B class, my last student number is 43.

At the beggining, lets see this video. Have you ever seen or heard of this area? A small town
with lots of cool and very exciting tourist attractions to visit, presenting lots of natural attractions with
amazing panoramas. Various nicknames are given to this city in the southern route of Central Java,
starting from a tourist town, a city of chips, a city of transit, a city of education to a city of retirees
because so many state officials retire and eventually settle in this city.The ngapak language that
characterizes this city, Do you know this city? Yes its Purwokerto.

I will to tell you about my hometown. I was born and raised there and I can say it is
definitely my favorite place, my hometown is called Purwokerto. Purwokerto is a small city, It is
both traditional and modern because of having several festivals celebrated by the locals, and
at the same time it is starting to be developed with increasing number
of infrastructures and establishments. Purwokerto is a capital city of Banyumas Regency,
Central Java, Indonesia. It has 4 subdistrict and 27 village. Purwokerto is bordered by Brebes
Regency in the north; Purbalingga Regency, Banjarnegara Regency, and Kebumen Regency in the
east, and Cilacap Regency in the south and west. Purwokerto located in the south part of Slamet
Mountain, the biggest mountain in Central Java.

Purwokerto has two major streets, they are Jl. Jendral Sudirman and Jl. Gatot Soebroto.
Purwokerto also called as Purwokerto ‘SATRIA’, it stands for Sejahtera, Adil, Tertib, Rapi, dan,
Aman (prosperous, fair, order, neat, and peaceful).

Purwokerto has some interesting place such as Batturaden which located five teen km
to north, it has Pancuran Pitu, Baturraden Botanical Gardens, and many famous waterfalls
such as Curug Telu, Curug Jenggala, Curug Bayan and Curug Gomblang. Baturraden has
fresh air, because it is located at the foot of Mount Slamet.

Baturraden also has a very nice pine forest, it’s Limpakuwus. From Limpakuwus you can see
the green expanse of trees, if you are lucky you can see a herd cows like in New Zealand. The
forest, which is overgrown with pine trees that are more than 30 years old, is an attraction for
tourists, because of its cool and beautiful environment. Along the way, the trees were
towering. In fact, next to it there is a large grass field for the cows to roam.

Old buildings also still exist in Purwokerto such as museum, the BRI Bank Museum
was built in this city because, the first time Bank in Indonesia was located in Purwokerto, and
the founder is R. Wira Atmadja, the native.
 There are some city park inside the city, Alun-Alun, Andhang Pangrenan, Bale
Kemambang. Barrage. Purwokerto also has sports facilities in GOR SATRIA, there is
Football Stadium, Basketball Stadium, Volley Stadium, Futsal Stadium, Roller-skate circuit,
Shooting ground, Tennis Stadium, and wall climbing. There is one famous badminton player
named Christian Hadinata who was born in Purwokerto.

Purwokerto has known as the one of 'Student City' in Java, because there are many
universities such as, Jendral Soedirman University, Muhammadiyah University of
Purwokerto, Wijayakusuma University, Telkom Telematics High School of Technology,
State Islamic College (STAIN), School State Police (SPN) Polda Central Java, Health
Polytechnic of the Department of Health Semarang - Purwokerto Campus, STIMIK
AMIKOM Purwokerto, Bakti Husada College of Health Sciences, Harapan Bangsa College
of Health Sciences, AMIK Bina Sarana Informatika Purwokerto.
 Significant changes occurred starting in the 2000s, when the city began to be flooded
with students from various cities on the island of Java and outside Java. The development of
the city of Purwokerto can be said to be very rapid, almost all facilities are present in this city
from shopping centers, fast food restaurants, shopping centers, sports facilities, culinary
tourism centers, star hotels (international class), family recreation facilities, health service
centers, and so on.

Purwokerto has special foods including

soto, soto made from meat or chicken and vegetables.

Gethuk goreng or fried getuk, made from cassava

mendoan, made from fried tempeh in flour

nopia, food containing brown sugar