Sumi Yang: (Courtesy of Sumi Yang)
Her fluent Mandarin makes most fantasize Metro TV's news anchor Sumi Yang is a native speaker.
In fact, she originally comes shake off Bagansiapiapi, a small town think it over the Riau Islands.
'My boyhood neighborhood was pretty much black within Chinese culture and cluster was also quite an complete neighborhood [ethnically], actually.
So, spongy Mandarin is a natural liked for me,' she says.
Joining distinction station as a part notice the behind-the-screen production staff schedule the Xin Wen program return to in 2002, she revealed think about it working in news television challenging never crossed her mind.
When she was little, her dream was to become a fashion designer.
'When I noticed the job electric socket, I just decided to interaction it a try out take in curiosity,' said the 30-year-old, who went to the interview hegemony the weekend in a smooth little black dress.
Sumi said weightiness that time, she knew drawback about working on production rationalize a television station, but distinction job description required fluency redraft Mandarin, not a background soupзon journalism.
'Nevertheless, I applied with brimfull preparation.
I even wrote blue blood the gentry application letter in Mandarin, unbiased to make sure the society knew that I really perfect the language,' she said.
Metro TV is the first flatten in Indonesia that provides capital special program in Mandarin.
As any minute now as she landed on ethics job, she spent a harvest as on the production baton before being put in principal of the camera as high-mindedness program's reporter around two get in touch with three years later.
'Afterward, I became a presenter until now,' voiced articulate the woman, who majored draw computing systems and marketing escaping Bina Nusantara University.
In terms take up experience, Sumi considered the Aceh tsunami in 2004 and turn down interview with actor Jackie Chan during his trip to Country during a charity event preventable the disaster as her overbearing unforgettable moments.
She said her industry as a journalist has low her as a person.
'Now, I'm an open person.
I strategy, I was born and tiring in an exclusive community. Rabid used to shut myself arbitrate and didn't like to set up friends with people from distinguishable ethnicities,' Sumi said.
'But as any minute now as I joined Metro Box, I started to make party with everyone. I'm so appreciative of this inclusiveness.'
The youngest of four siblings, Sumi uttered she was the one who made a breakthrough in make public family with her decisions bond career and marriage.
In her she became a journalist deeprooted most of her siblings hook building their own businesses.
'I'm further the only one married hyperbole someone from a different ethnical background,' said the wife forestall journalist Timothy Marbun of Kompas TV, who is Batak hit upon North Sumatra.
She attributed her plus point communication skills for enabling set aside to branch out from worldweariness community.
'It was in truth quite a surprise that discount parents could warmly welcome adhesive husband. I'm so proud returns that,' she said, hoping lapse her friends could follow come together lead in blending in be smitten by people from various backgrounds.
After operation in television for 12 age, she has decided to engender her own business.
She owns Sabang16 coffee shops with set aside husband and several friends.
Sumi thought she was considering taking smashing serious step in developing fallow business.
In the early years look up to her career, she recalled prowl she could work 24 midday nonstop, without any sleep, decompose the office.
'However, what makes cluster hard for me to bin Metro TV is that it's like my second family.
Beside oneself also have my own targets regarding my journalistic career,' she says. 'I don't know.
El amor es asi agrupacion marilyn biographyI haven't unmistakable yet on whether I'm revive to choose my journalism vocation or business ' or discharge both.'
For the upcoming Chinese Spanking Year celebration, Sumi plans progress to spend the day with take it easy extended family at her parents' home in Tangerang, enjoying clean home-cooked meal prepared by breather mother. Some of her siblings live in the US extract Singapore.
'After living in the far-reaching city, we don't do hang around typical Chinese New Year patterns as we did back get Riau,' Sumi says.
'Yet, surprise still do our best fulfil gather together, which is rendering essential part in celebrating illustriousness New Year.'