MIMPI BESAR SEORANG KAKEK

#Chapter Three

Keadilan Sosial Bagi Seluruh Rakyat Indonesia.
by Netu Julianty

Alkisah,Om Pino memutuskan untuk mengadu nasib di ibukota.Berangkat dari Medan menuju tanah abang,untuk menjadi orang berhasil.Perjuangan Om Pino dimulai dengan menjadi pedagang emperan kutang ditanah abang.Setiap hari Om Pino giat bekerja(kepala dibawah leher dan kaki nginjek tanah) betul betul berat perjuangannya.setiap hari tereak tereak"Dipilih,dipilih,beli satu seribu,beli dua dua rebu,beli tiga tiga rebu.."kasihan modal pas pasan,suara cempreng,dan memang faktor lucknya kurang,akhirnya Om Pino gulung karpet.

Tapi untungnya mental baja perantauan sumatra masih bersemayan kepala Om ini,beliau pantang menyerah,melihat celah dunia kuliner,beliau memutuskan jualan martabak.meskipun saingannya berat(kebetulan ada anak presiden juga yang saat itu jualan martabak,kesian kali kau Om Pino,saingan kau bukan kelas bulu,tapi kelas barbel).
Tapi dengan kreatifitasnya yang ajib,Om Pino berhasil usahanya,beliau berhasil membuka banyak cabang dipelosok Jakarta,dari jualan martabak si om bisa beli ruko di tanah abang...
Sekarang.Horasss Bahhh kali Om Pino itu.Gayanyapun berubah dari rokok linting tembako,ganti Malioboro(sengaja disarukan biar gak disangka iklan terselubung) sekarang jadi rada perlente beliau...

Jiwa bisnis membuat om Pino melirik bisnis lain.jaman itu dunia fashion lagi booming kaos bertuliskan nama binatang imut"Kamfret"Om Pino punya ide untuk menulis binatang imut lainnya sebagai Icon Kaosnya yaitu 'Kecebong'
Ternyata daya jual Kecebong lebih hot dari pada Kamfret.sekali lagi kesuksesan ada ditangan si om.beli ruko lagi deh....kaya raya ceritanya Om kita ini,sekarang gayanya kayak Mafioso.dari Berastagi,pake topi,kacamata item dan rokoknya ganti jadi Cigar.....weehhhh wajarlah..soalnya Si Om bisa bantu orang beli..lamborghini dari setoran palakan...hebatkan?
Tahun Berganti,pemimpin jakarta juga silih berganti.hidup ini berputar.sejak.akhir tahun lalu,si om mulai kendor bisnisnya.karena pemimpin yang baru ternyata sangat penyayang..,usaha Om Pino yang ada didalam ruko di beberapa blok mulai menurun,soalnya emperan jalan diluar dijadikan tempat berjualan secara sah oleh pimpinan daerah yang berkeadilan sosial sangat tinggi.menyayangi Om Burhan dan Om Udin yang ujug ujug datang,dengan modal kecil...dibantu mendapatkan tempat ditrotoar.(katanya sih gratis,tapi ada yang bilang bayar sedikit,ada juga yang bilan setoran gede,gak jelas pulak..)Yang Jelas hanya satu...sang pemimpin ingin berbuat adil.kan kasihan yang modalnya kecil harus dibantu sampai keakar akarnya.Itulah keadilan yang sebenarnya Om,yang kerja jungkir balik dan yang ujug ujug datang harus rata penghasilannya.pemerataan begitu.sistem ini berhasil loh dibeberapa negara,cuma namanya apa ya?Teralis,atau atau Tongsis..ada is isnya gitu,lupa saiyahhh..nanti rumah kita bisa seragam ya....biar tidak ada kesenjangan.Begitu loh keadilan sosial versi jaman now.

Om,semua cobaan pasti ada hikmahnya.tak perlulah kau sesali atau nangis guling guling gigit bantal.kerja keras bertahun tahun ,terancam gulung tikar...Om juallah semua ruko di blok A dan G itu,om beli hape seken.mulailah om jualan online,pulanglah kau kemedan,tapi jangan sekarang ya om,Tunggu Mantan Wagub Jakarta yang inisialnya Djarot Saiful Hidayat Jadi gubernur disana,jangan sebut nama jelas ya gak enak...tar dibilang curi start pulak kita...kalau yang lain takutnya dapat gubernur yang terlalu penyayang,bisa pusing dua kali kau om,Pahamkan sayang?

Ini cerita analogi dari kata kata Babo Erizeli Jely Bandaro,di TKP sebenarnya kejadiannya begini;

'If You Are Qualified only for 2 millions,Itulah yang menjadi hak anda,dari kerja keras anda,Kalau anda mendapatkan 3juta artinya itu hak orang lain' anda bisa mendapatkan yang sesuai hak anda,,Uhuk Uhuuuuuukkkkk,Babo mulai batuk batuk sambil pegang dada,Sang moderator sibuk,Aeerrrr,aeerrr.minum dulu Babo,
'Emosi saiyaaaaahhhhhhh,kalo ngomongin yang beginian"...'itu dimanaaaaa letak keadilan sosialnya cobaaakkkkkkk....'Uhuuukkkk uhuukkkk..

Sabar ya Babo,tdk usah khawatir,Semua kecebong akan jadi kodok, DDBers akan ngumpulin cebongers yang .
Semua akan kecebong pada waktunya..

Untuk Indonesia Yang lebih baik.dukung orang baik.J2P

Salam Baik.

Note:kurangi merokok ya Babo sayang,biar lebih sehat...jadi pas kopdar tdk pake batuk

ODONG ODONG, A HAPPY CART AROUND HOUSING COMPOUND

Odong odong cart
 
Money can't buy everything including happiness. You may drive a luxury,  BMW car alone without a smile thinking hard how to pay your loan from the Bank. Your you may travel abroad and back home exhausted without a smile.

Take a look at above picture, a motor carry 3 - 4 carts occupied 20 children and women going circling around housing compound in Indonesia, full of smiling. The cart equipped with CD player, turn folk songs loudly, the song of local, common people sing.





We may jealous to watching them in happy atmosphere wear simple, colorful shirts, don't really care about the best cars passing by. They enjoy the fresh air in the morning sun or in late evening.

The multi colors cart just drive inside house compound, not in the public road for about 30 minutes since the cart not registered in the police office but allowed to carry passenggers, just kids, house wifes and house assitants.

Odong odong copied from the cart in the amusement center and pay the ticket very cheap because the passengers are low income citizen in the corner of the city.

INDONESIAN NIGHT in DAVOS, SWITZERLAND IN WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Saman dance, Aceh

In the middle of World Economic Forum attended by Ministers around the World, Indonesia take advantage to introduce the country by entertain them with Indonesia cultures, dancing, singing, products such as batik, jewelry, spa products, and also served various foods and Indonesian art performances, such as dances and music performances (angklung, violin)

Batik hand woven

The Indonesian Goverment supported by representatives of the Indonesia in Switzerland, Januari 24, 2013 once again held "Indonesian Night" in Davos, Switzerland.

"Goverment invited 2.800 guests of High officials, International Prime Corporates, International institutions head and News papers of World Economic Forum (WEF) 2013", said Gita Wirjawan, Minister of Trade. The event held to introducing uniqueness of Indonesia cultures to the World.

A lot of Indonesian foods menu also served by the best Chef from Grand Hyatt Hotel Jakarta, Mr.Ragil such as fish with hot saucage, fried shrimp, grilled (chicken, goat, beef), Manado fish soup, yellow rice, spice balado shrimp, Java noodle, Village fried rice, fried chicken, half done egg, vary vegetables, sour sop, roost spicy beef, fried banana, Aceh Gayo coffee. ma
Padang foods

Beside foods, the event perform mixing of traditional and modern dances
such as Garuda Wishnu dance, Saman dance from Aceh, Tifa dance Papua
and Bamboo Angklung Daeng Udjo.
Saman Dance, Aceh

"The first impression I got nervous", said Lea Simanjuntak who sing Indonesia song, Inani Keke and Yamko Rambe Yamko. But after a while the Ministers and guests came forward and sing together. The rigid atmosphere turn to a relax and entetaining. I am not only sing but talk diplomacy to let them know that Indonesia not under develop but a modern country just like them.


Lea Simanjuntak

KINDERGARTEN PAINTER IN JEPARA TOWN, CENTRAL JAVA

KINDERGARTEN PAINTER

God created human being with the different talents but still need to do practices regularly  to sharping the talent to make it more acceptable to the society, especially to the same community to get a real value of the talent.. Talent without  practice just like a mining under surface need to be exploited, manage to produce valuable things for the market. The talent may inherited from parents or grandparents or maybe automatic learning follow what heart and mind had to say.

Surprised to see a painting of my friend's account, interesting to know what the meaning of the painting, her answered surprised me that the painting belong to her daughter, SENANDUNG GITANDARU, who painted when she was 2,5 years old, now 4,5 years. The painting then I send to a senior painter friend, who said just one message :"Keep practice"

Fish

Today, Sunday 13, 2011 a friend in Haiku, poem communities posted a painted picture of a Dancer in abstract and asked the member of the communities to write down a Haiku based on the picture posted. I don't know why, then automatically my mind remembered a painting by a  small kindergarten lived in Jepara town at the North coast of Central Java, Indonesia. Then asked the mother a permission to write down this story in this Blog about her daughter and her paintings as well.

In her gallery at home, she look like a grown Lady with a lots of painting around where she seated still silent doesn't care of everything around, her tiny right hand fingers keep painting what she thinking about.. No one coming to disturb her concentration. In one sitting, mat spend 2 - 3 hours or more, she may sit alone in long time and will used a lots of white board papers in she will paint serials until produced several colorful paintings. For the time being the painting not far from her childish background.

Her mom generally buy prime color paints, then she will mixing the colors alone to find the best color as she think it right. In case she going along to the store with her parents, she will choose what color she like most.

In her ages, 2,5 - 4,5 years old, she should be play with her peers, but she preferred to play with the canvas, pens, tray and paint instead.She never asked foods or shirts if her mom going to the store or marke place. She kept asking books or magazines.

                             House in sea side

                         
Beside, she painted also a kind of sketch and  in any opportunities her hand itching to draw something out of her mind.
Beside play with a solid colorful, she also paint just the black line for the sketch pictures, like pregnant kangaroo (left)

Senandung Gitandaru

Beloved Mom

                                   Butterfly

When she saw something, her imagination fly far away somewhere or she will tell an adventure stories. This related to her hobbies of reading ancient stories or asking her mom to read or tell the ancient stories. This stories enrich her imagination when she sit down in painting moment.

She got the talent inherited from her Daddy, a man of automatic learning by feeling and from her grandparent from mom side. From the blood flown in her body,  it make sense if she dream to be an architecture and a painter too. 
                                                 Owl

If you had the opportunity to travel to Indonesia, take the opportunity to visit her gallery in North coast of Central Java. Make sure your itineraries included Ahmad Yani airport of Semarang city or Adisucipto airport of Yogjakarta city in  Central Java and spend a day or two visit Borobudur temple on your way to/from Bali or going home.
Just send me email to  Mr. Pinondang Situmeang: c2_pin@rocketmail.com

SPECTACULAR FLOBAMORA MUSIC AND DANCE

Through culture activities ANBI, children, descendants of East Nusatenggara province eager to elevate cultures, music, dances, songs and the spectacular tourist destinations to be promote through performance run by this ANBI group.

Sunday evening, August 14, 2011 is a 3^rd event held in Tholly karaoke building, Pancoran, South Jakarta, after a big one held in Atmajaya University with a big gathering, supported by Rp. 80 miillion budget with a successful history. Hopefully their dream come true to held another bigger, international event in the near future, take place at Motaain, border of Indonesia and Timor Leste country in Timor island, the district under Belu administration

The Band and the singers perform well with rock, mostly  with western songs and some local songs  also play a special NTT traditional instrument, Sasando. When  local song sing, the member of ANBI, man, women automatically come down in front of the stage to dance, pair by pair. The rock, step, hand movement  forward, back and forth, back and forth,  in similar movement.

What interesting to know is that since the event run in fasting month of Ramadhan, the event starting, open by fast break with  orphanage Muslim children for around 90 minutes before enter music and song. ANBI share their passion to the needy, even though most of the ANBI members are not Moslem. How beautiful the brotherhood in the mind of both communities.

                                Traditional dance

Unexpected, before the Band playing, a MC called my nick name, Savu name, Ma Woke Pino, wonder how come she know it. I realized then that a Lady, member of ANBI , who presented the name for me, is come along  among the crowd.

I came downstairs  from the 2^nd floor, step up to the stage after place my Savu scraf, similar to Ulos Batak in my shoulder, just like a Savu man. Reading my own poem “Cinta (love) Flobamora”. I pay a special attention to the environment, see the audience, including  orphan children, keep silent to hear what I am saying.

This time poem musicalization playing keyboard by Martino Therik , a man who accepted my request to read the poem in this event. This Poem Love Flobamora read for the 1^st time in front of NTT audiences. FLOBAMORA is abbreviation of bigger islands, Flores, Timor, Sumba and Alor, beyond smaller one like Savu, Rote Ndao, Semau, Komodo and many more.

                                Matino Andreas Therik

                                Ivan Nestorman and Boy Clemens

The  organizers mostly the youngsters  eager to perform their culture, song, music not solely for the sake of their ego to be well known in NTT or Indonesia, but also to promote the culture to show to the world that NTT  had various kind of cultures, special dance, songs and instrumen along with tourist destination, the most spectacular in the world.

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As I told before a MC call my nick name, presented  by a Lady who attend the event, that I knew only in the net, my Face Book friend  more than 1 year, but never met before.  I knew her face instantly when she passed by me, but she doesn't notice until Mr.Therik introduced  her to me. 

                                    Nia Erni Miha Balo and Ma Woke 

How succesfull the 2^nd event in a big gathering at Atmajaya  University, close to Semanggi interchange few months before,  that the event covered by 5 newspapers and one National TV, transmit life. The 

ANBI group just begin as a new music group, supported also by descendants, originally  from NTT in high rank officials and Government among other Gories Mere.

I feel at home when meet this communities even more when they present 2 traditional songs and dances group that I accustomed to watch when I was working at Timor island. I am not surprise when meet 2 (two) men among the crowd, that descendants of late high official of local Government, Mr.Therik and Mr.Abdullah Bali, ex Bank BRI branch manager.

The ANBI group is a dynamic music communities and eager to run very fast, but needed backing up and supported by descendants of Flobamora  communities and local Government as well,  in music and later on  developing, expand to other kind of cultural activities.

                                  Singers, dancers, photographer

  

               Babby N, Ervina M, Hani C, Apry M, Minno D, Nia EMB

LADY GAGA using...... INDONESIA DESIGN

Lady Gaga in Tex Seviro design

What fashion designers dream about in their life is if their designs could go international, using by International artists or could participate in the world fashion competition.

But a young Indonesia designer, TEX SAVERIO, 26 never dream of her name known all over the world until Lady Gaga fall in love with her design.

The designs created by Tex Saverio, who born in Jakarta August 28, 2011 used several times not as a full apparel, but just as pieces, except in one website Harper’s Bazaar, May edition, where Lady Gaga as Mode’s icon. In this edition, Lady Gaga use her design in Full apparels along with six world designers.

Lady Gaga staff model knew Tex’s design from Jakarta Fashion week 2010 photos. When Tex try to connected the staff on Face book account – become a friend - , instantly they send some one to picked up Tex design apparels. Unfortunately the shipment reach London late and can’t be used in Lady Gaga Album shooting.
                               Lady Gaga

YOU BELONG TO ME

The author of this Novel wrote by follow the sequence written by other artist who wrote a liryck song with the similar title You belong to Me. The murder start in Egypt along the Nile before the second murder in Bali, Indonesia. Sunrise on the tropic isle, she meant is Bali, an open resrtaurant, a romantic scene in Bali. She wrote couple of time Bali in 317 page.

In every place of murder she presented her victim with a turqoise ring, a cheap ring written "You belong to me" in the inner side of the ring. Only by the cheap rings he bought at Village in New York, the lonely, beautiful widow fall in love and voluntarily leave their cruise ship and joined him and later dissappear at the place written in the song, Eqypt, Algiers, Bali, Hongkong and the last should be in the forest, before he arrested. 

Why a rich gentlemen, dare to killed several lonely beautiful widows, you may read this Novel written by thriller queen author Mary Higgin Clark  

YOU BELONG ME 
by Vonde Shepard, USA*)

See the pyramids along the nile
Watch the sunrise on a tropic isle
Just remember that all the while
You belong to me 

See the market place in old Algiers
Send me photographs and souvenirs
Just remember when a dream appears
You belong to me 

I’ll be so lonesome without you
Maybe you’ll be lonesome, too
And blue 

Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it’s wet with rain
Just remember ’til you’re home again
You belong to me 

Maybe you’ll be lonesome, too
And blue 

Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it’s wet with rain
Just remember ’til you’re home again
You belong to me

Maybe you’ll be lonesome, too
And blue 

Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it’s wet with rain
Just remember ’til you’re home again
You belong to me 

*)  A lyric song

Vonde Shepard known in Comedy drama, Fox Network Ally Mc Beal

ROSE FROM THE EAST

ROSE FROM THE EAST

                                                                Maya Hasan

For the first time Indonesia honored by the opportunity perform in WEF, World Economic Forum in Davos Swedia in the last week of January 2011.

Indonesia will perform “Co Co night”, Collaboration and  Cooperation of all nations. Maya Hasan, daughter of ex Indonesia minister in Soekarno era, H.Mohamad Hasan, for the 1^st time ever perform on behalf of Indonesian agency.

In this event, Maya, well-known as a harp player, will plays her composition “Rose of the east” along with Sasando, Timor string instrument with Saluang, Minang pipe instrument, meet east and west of Indonesia.

                            SASANDO INSTRUMENT (ABOVE), SALUANG PIPE (BELOW)

This is a rare opportunity to saw the world that west instrument of harp to be Indonesian harp in Maya hand.

Maya eager to  saw that Indonesian recently created a fusion from traditional root and modern era.

She remembered of what her father said :”This is your country, do something even a small things, it will never be useless” , she said copied what her father said.

                                                                Maya Hasan

In her latest Indonesian Mega Show Megalitikum Kuantum both in Jakarta and Bali , Maya Hasan can boast of two new accomplishments; engaging with "sampeq" , a traditional three-strings guitar-like instrument from Kalimantan ( Borneo ), and turning her harp to the Slendro musical scale for collaboration with the gamelan performance during the last number of the show.

Unlike the most world harpists who insist that the harp must be played using certain techniques and in certain musical performances, Maya Hasan decided to buck the trend. It was after meeting harpist Carrol McLaughlin of the University of Arizona , that she discovered her individual harp style.

Born in Hong Kong on 10 January 1972 , she had initially learned the harp from Heidy Awuy in Jakarta after completing Junior High School. Later, her musical studies took her to the University of Willamette , Salem , Oregon in the United States (1990-1993) under the training of Laura Zaerr, in which she majored in harp performances. There, she appeared in the Salem Chamber Orchestra of Oregon, Oregon Ballet Teathre also featured in a local radio, tv channel, and The Senate of Oregon.

Since returning to Indonesia in 1993, Maya has been frequently invited to appear with the Nusantara Chamber Orchestra, Twilite Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Surabaya Symphony Orchestra, Erwin Gutawa Orchestra and is a member of The World Harp Ensemble representing Indonesia along with four harpist from Canada , Japan , Puerto Rico and The United States.

She has also appeared in a number of harp recitals, both solo and together with others. Maya Hasan has also been performing in other countries al well, from solo recital in Malaysia and USA to soloist and joining the Bolshoi Ballet from Tushkent in Malaysia as principle harpist.

For the public of Indonesia , she creates two programs annually for children and adults, in corporating traditional melodies and instrument, thus creating a brain new image of the harp. Together with her music group Celtic, Maya Christina Worotikan Hasan produced the Sea Breeze Album (2000), contributed to the recordings of the PADI band (Kasih tak Sampai, 2001) and participated in theatre stage appearances with EKI Production playing the Harp for Sale song that became part of the Gallery of Kisses album (2002).

LOS ANGELES RADIO, COASTING ALONG KAREN SHARP

LOVE SONGS in L.A Radio

 

Vivid memories of my childhood when I was in high school, The Radios were the common broadcasting available before TV set era. The electric types, bigger model more expensive but with a stereo voice and could reach worldwide. Battrey supported Radio power relayed narrower networks, locally and around Malaysia, Singapore and Australia

30 - 40 years later, high technology came out with tape recorder, Television set, transistors, handphones and lately Computer in chronological order. How advanced the technologies had been, the Radio function never left behind. Listeners kept their ears open, most of the time to the music, new realease songs, mostly to the top hit lovesongs by their favourit welknown singers. Some of them monitored the traffic condition ahead or to kept listening then boring on the bad traffic.

When I spent my long holiday, 6 months in La Habra city, South California, USA in the last 2008 winter, I spend the time turning a lots of channels to find out my favourite network before my ears stunned by a heavy, soft, slow voices from Radio Los Angeles KOST 103,5. The voice belong to Karen Sharp to accompany the listeners till midnight.

After that time, every evening before went to bed, I spent my time turned to Kost Radio when Karen on air with listener's requests songs. Some other time she talked a lot with the listeners to figured it out what the matter of the relationship of the listeners to his/her boyfriend/girlfriend, spouse, parents, kids, eventually she would come up with the best selective songs.

Karen Sharp didn't just sited there in  a cozy cool studio as a host to selected the songs, but she function herself as a simphatetic listener and console them in his kind, appropriate tone said: I love to do that for you, Will be so happy to do that tonight, You break my heart, Your story almost paradise, Keep smiling my dear, In love in next time around, Love unconditionally and similar remarks.

It happened once, I shedding a tear or two when a Father on the other side of the phone talked while wailing his griefing  that in that very day, his son who just died in Irak war,  was his birthday. I can't hold it any longer and wiped my eyes with my backhand. The father show his love in public by this Radio that listened out  Nationally. The local authority show their respect to their heroes by stand a lots of flags of Irak war's hero in the cities where they belong.

Most of the listeners sized the opportunity to show their love to some one - with the specific name - or to announce his aplogize for wrongdoings and begging for reconciliation. Astonizing, some successed on the air to got the answer or to strengthen their relationship, beside some couples took  another time to think over of their relationship. All relay on air Nationally.

In every single night I accustomed to hear the same ritual, the same songs by the differents spouse, merely a similar love relationship. Sometime I following closely the song by chanting or humming alone in my bedroom, never raised my voice.

Some songs that later I heard a lot at Jakarta Radio and wellknown in Indonesia as well among other things were : Because you love me, Power of love and Take change  by Celine dion, Forever and I will be there by Maria Carey, Will always love by Whitney Houston, No one by Alice Keen, Hello, Hello by Richie, You are my lady, We belong together, Butterfly kisses, Give me wing to fly,  My Valentine and lot more like the songs from American Idol casting.

What made me write this topic was an Universal of loving the Mothers. In one case a girls told how she love her mom and kept prayer and cared, who in coma in 6 months. Some of us in Indonesia, may affected or influenced by the Hollywood film that leaved negative impression, that grown children didn't care any more about their parents.

But from this KOST Radio I found out that lots of girls never forget, how they love their Mom and asking for forgiveness and request for her blessings. Occasionally with wailing and tears.

It was sound familiar and similar to our cultures. Yes it was Universal of mankind, everywhere.