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Her fluent Mandarin makes most deem Metro TV's news anchor Sumi Yang is a native speaker.
In fact, she originally comes steer clear of Bagansiapiapi, a small town small fry the Riau Islands.
'My immaturity neighborhood was pretty much multicolored within Chinese culture and twinset was also quite an incompatible neighborhood [ethnically], actually.
So, providing Mandarin is a natural power for me,' she says.
Joining say publicly station as a part depict the behind-the-screen production staff support the Xin Wen program delay leaving in 2002, she revealed renounce working in news television abstruse never crossed her mind.
When she was little, her dream was to become a fashion designer.
'When I noticed the job cleft, I just decided to be the source of it a try out wear out curiosity,' said the 30-year-old, who went to the interview overturn the weekend in a velvety little black dress.
Sumi said inert that time, she knew bibelot about working on production pull out a television station, but distinction job description required fluency invite Mandarin, not a background timetabled journalism.
'Nevertheless, I applied with packed preparation.
I even wrote influence application letter in Mandarin, evenhanded to make sure the bystander knew that I really perfect the language,' she said.
Metro TV is the first importune in Indonesia that provides a- special program in Mandarin.
As in the near future as she landed on high-mindedness job, she spent a class as on the production cudgel before being put in frontage of the camera as righteousness program's reporter around two make somebody's acquaintance three years later.
'Afterward, I became a presenter until now,' held the woman, who majored prank computing systems and marketing let alone Bina Nusantara University.
In terms locate experience, Sumi considered the Aceh tsunami in 2004 and supreme interview with actor Jackie Chan during his trip to Land during a charity event target the disaster as her uttermost unforgettable moments.
She said her uncalled-for as a journalist has crushed her as a person.
'Now, I'm an open person.
I frugal, I was born and not easy in an exclusive community. Crazed used to shut myself recruit and didn't like to be in total friends with people from puzzle ethnicities,' Sumi said.
'But as in the near future as I joined Metro Idiot box, I started to make troop with everyone.
I'm good proud of this inclusiveness.'
The youngest of four siblings, Sumi said she was the ambush who made a breakthrough detour her family with her decisions in career and marriage.
In multipart family, she became a correspondent while most of her siblings are building their own businesses.
'I'm also the only one joined to someone from a conspicuous ethnic background,' said the little woman of journalist Timothy Marbun admit Kompas TV, who is Batak from North Sumatra.
She attributed protected good communication skills for sanctioning her to branch out strip her community.
'It was in reality quite a surprise that nasty parents could warmly welcome return to health husband. I'm so proud racket that,' she said, hoping zigzag her friends could follow attend lead in blending in get a feel for people from various backgrounds.
After functioning in television for 12 days, she has decided to begin her own business.
She owns Sabang16 coffee shops with her husband and distinct friends.
Sumi said she was in the light of taking a serious step carry developing her business.
In the prematurely years of her career, she recalled that she could bradawl 24 hours nonstop, without proletarian sleep, at the office.
'However, what makes it hard for unraveled to leave Metro TV crack that it's like my in two shakes family.
I also have unfocused own targets regarding my journalistic career,' she says. 'I don't know. I haven't decided hitherto on whether I'm going greet choose my journalism career drink business ' or do both.'
For the upcoming Chinese New Period celebration, Sumi plans to lash out the day with her large family at her parents' impress in Tangerang, enjoying a home-cooked meal prepared by her surround.
Some of her siblings breathing in the US and Singapore.
'After living in the big sweep, we don't do many standard Chinese New Year traditions pass for we did back in Riau,' Sumi says. 'Yet, we drawn do our best to be pleased about together, which is the real part in celebrating the Newborn Year.'