Students at my lecture were very attentive, had so many questions that designated time of 30 minutes passed away quickly. They got interested in my topic of the relationship of carbohydrates and blood sugar levels. Even though rice, bread, and sugar dissolved water have the same amount of calories, the level of blood sugar rises differently; the faster the calories are absorbed into the body, the steeper of a curb up-and-down indicating the level of blood sugar becomes. White and brown rice containing much fiber shows gentle curve. This means that it takes time to feel hungry and our concentration will be maintained for a longer time. Also, blood sugar level maintaining a gentle curve means less insulin is used and one is less likely to become diabetes.

However, the excessive insulin sometimes leads to ineffectiveness of insulin, resulting into becoming diabetes in the end. In fact, this is the most serious health problem in Indonesia and I was questioned about it a lot. Nearly 90% of the population is in the Islam religion in this country. People do not drink alcohol; instead, they drink juice or tea with a considerable amount of sugar. Indonesia imports a large quantity of sugar. This also affects children because they drink sweet tea customarily from childhood. In the end, child diabetes have been in increase year after year.

Currently in Indonesia, GDP have achieved an economic growth over 6% annually. More and more people have shifted classes from low to middle. The growth rate of an average salary by the end of last year was 40%. Such rapid economic growth tends to connect directly to a trend in which junk foods are treated like fashion. This is also an indication that obesity and diabetes will increase as well. I strongly emphasized this point. High growth of economy usually set a passionate target toward investing into education for children in the populace. Children will eventually lose the opportunity to play around like they used to do. They will soon be obsessed with a handy video game that they play between classes. This may lead to increase the number of obese children. It was so impressive that I saw signboards of KUMON many places in Jakarta and Bali.

Students asked questions very actively. They were very curious about many things. I think this is what is lacking in Japanese college students. I had a thought that such pro-Japanese young Indonesian people would join in companies or educational facilities related to Japan in the future and provide us vigor and smile.

President Oroan has announced and started a new curriculum that all students are required to master English and Japanese in 2 years. Students in junior and senior years must take at least 2 classes of their specialized courses in foreign languages. Each term exams are of course in those languages and without passing the exams, they cannot graduate. This curriculum is to keep students at the forefront of globalizations. If this applies in Japanese universities, students will be required to master English and Chinese and take classes of their major fields in foreign languages before graduation.

There will be the times that we need to be able to survive through such severe circumstances if we want to work at the front line in the future societies. In Australia, the Japanese language is now a compulsory subject from elementary to high school. I am sure University of Darma Persada has a lot to offer Japanese universities to learn.