Jonathanprawira

Branding  : HIROSHI.STORY

Birth Name  : Jonathan Prawira

Japanese name  : Hiroshi Tagawa

Chinese name  : 杨元汉 【Yang Yuan Han】

He was born in 1990 at his birthplace in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. He is mix-japanese and chinese descendant. His father is a Japanese-Chinese descent born in Indonesia, Judo Prawira 杨鑫祥 【Yang Xin Xiang】and his mother Indonesian-Chinese descent, 张桂英 【Zhang Gui Ying】. He used to live with his three siblings which all females and he is the only son at home.

His father passed away in 2001 at 58 years of age. He was a Boxing Referee and an official member of Indonesia Boxing Commission. He was a good and independent entrepreneur, handling a leather goods factory. He was also a chinese therapeutic medicine expert.

His mother has good and kind personality. She is very stoic and patient in facing anything even she might look sad outside. Hiroshi loves her mother more than anything.

Education

He terribly sad and lose his father figure. He promise to be a good man someday when he grew up. He lived in Bandung city until accomplished his degree in International Relations in 2012 at Parahyangan Catholic University before he moved to Jakarta. He gained his Master Degree of Communications study in 2019 at London School of Public Relation.

His passions in multicultural life has broadened his mindset to not live in racist situation as mostly Indonesian still live in racial issue because living in diversity. It is true that everyone lives in diversity, nevertheless there are pluralities in Indonesia. Even among local ethnic groups can often have different views. This situation made him more in love with Indonesia as his motherland.

Traveling as a Passion

To make his passion works, he initially travel around Indonesia and find his passion by traveling. He found his true passion through culinary, music, people and socio-culture.

In his childhood, he found his first experience with her father to Yogyakarta and Pangandaran Beach. He loves to collect shells and sands. Through his creativity, he crafted various art work with sands and shells.

Fortunately, at 22 he joined a company that placed him in Palembang, Manado, Samarinda, Makassar, and Batam which indirectly made him visited 5 biggest islands in Indonesia for 3 years. The first Experience of his travel signal is when he stayed in iconic city, Palembang, The capital city of South Sumatra. Pempek, Tekwan, Model, Pindang Patin, Mi Celor and etc are the best Palembang ‘s culinary he has ever tasted. Layering his mind with its unique own south-Sumatran style make him understand and open-minded about living in other cities.

The most amazing experience he might felt during traveling is when he was in Manado, the capital city of North Sulawesi almost 4 hours by flight to Manado made him even more curious what was in the city that far. The breathtaking moment was He once found his sweetheart in that beloved seashore- city that he proposed her in Garut city, West Java in order to give her a surprise.

Manado city offered many beautiful scenes and seashore lifestyle, fresh seafood such as Ikan Roa, Cakalang Fufu, Kakap Merah, Tude and also offered specified unique culinary such as Paniki, RW, Tinorangsak, Rage, Bubur Manado, etc. This East Indonesia’s culinary experience might weighing a lot for him.

In Makassar, the Capital City of South Sulawesi he found his life there for about 1 year. He built social life there, often visited Fireflies or TSM every weekend. He found his true passion by living close to the sea. He forgot about skin treatments, he focuses on how to make his life get happier. Almost every weekend he travelled along with office colleagues to different places such as Kodingarengkeke island, Samalona island, Tanjung Bira island, Toraja, Maros, etc. Most of the sea water is very blue from above and transparent when you dive in he wrote the caption on his instagram feed.

The Voyage

The voyage feeling brought him wherever he goes. He frequently created videos and feeds to fulfill his interests to any events. He loves to tell his travel story through instagram.