Indonesia Mendunia, kenapa tidak?

Indonesia mendunia, kenapa tidak? Suatu pertanyaan biasa yang mengandung jawaban dengan bobot berat luar biasa. Mengapa? Pada kenyataanyan, pemerintah dan rakyat Indonesia masih mengalami probematika dalam pengolahan sumber daya alamanya. Sebagai bangsa yang gemuk  harusnya kita bangga akan hal itu. Sumber daya melimpah, hutan-hutan dengan pemandangan yang eksotis didukung oleh banyaknya flora dan fauna yang tak ternilai harga nya serta tanaman dan buah-buahan juga telah disediakan oleh Negeri gemuk ini atas ijin dari Tuhan. Dengan segala kelebihan inilah selayaknya kita harus  bersyukur dan memanfaatkanya dengan sebaik mungkin demi terciptanya kesejahteraan dan ketentraman yang merata bagi jutaan nyawa  yang menumpangkan tubuhnya di Negeri gemuk ini.

Apa yang perlu diperbaiki adalah bagaimana segala kelebihan yang dimiliki negeri gemuk ini diolah. Bayangkan saja, dengan potensi alam yang luar biasa serta didukung oleh masyarakat yang memiliki kemampuan untuk mengelolanya, mimpi Indonesia untuk mendunia akan menjadi kenyataan. Dengan pengolahan yang benar, saya yakin suatu saat negeri ini menjadi sebuah negeri yang rakyatnya sudah tak ada lagi yang mati kelaparan. Tak ada lagi bayi bayi menangis karna tak pernah merasakan hangatnya pelukan bunda yang sedang sibuk berkerja di ladang, tak ada lagi tolakan dari rumah sakit karna ketiadaan biaya hingga akhirnya harus tutup usia. Namun, apaboleh buat, berbagai kekayaan alam yang merupakan berkah untuk kita nikmati justru bocor ke Negeri lain. Tambang Emas serta blok-blok Minyak yang merupakan aset negeri ini seakan tak bisa kita rasakan manfaatnya. Elit-elit negeri ini sudah terlalu sibuk dengan isi dompetnya sehingga mereka sudah gelap mata dan tak bisa melihat potensi negeri ini.

Disaat negeri ini kokoh dalam keunggulan komparatif seperti sumber daya alam yang hampir tidak terbatas, negeri ini justru sangat lemah dalam keunggulan kompetitif yaitu kekuatan sumber daya manusianya. Jepang, Singapura dan negara-negara Eropa kita kenal sangat terbatas keunggulan komparatifnya, tetapi mereka kini unggul dalam banyak hal. mengapa hal ini bisa terjadi? Sudah cukup kiranya, kita, pemuda Indonesia mengelu-elukan kekuatan sumber daya alam yang dimilikinya, inilah saatnya pemuda Indonesia berpikir besar bagaimana meningkatkan kapasitas diri dan berperan signifikan dalam perbaikan bangsa. Bukan sekedar wacana, melainkan sebuah aksi nyata yang terukur dan konsisten. Indonesia akan memiliki keunggulan atau bonus demografi di tahun 2025, akibat baby booming yang terjadi di negeri ini dalam beberapa tahun terakhir. Diperkirakan jumlah penduduk muda (usia 17-40 tahun) negeri ini akan berada pada titik puncaknya pada tahun tersebut bersama dengan India dan Cina. Disaat negara lain seperti AS, Jepang dan negara-negara Eropa akan memiliki jumlah manula terbesar di tahun 2025. Ini keunggulan yang akan kita miliki, dapat menjadi kekuatan bagi Indonesia untuk menjadi negeri yang adidaya di dunia.

Pertanyaannya, apa yang telah kita siapkan untuk menyambut era keemasan tersebut ? akankah 2025 akan menjadi tahun kebangkitan tahap kedua negeri ini atau akan justru menjadi titik balik tenggelamnya negeri ini karena para pemuda yang besar hanya menjadi buih tanpa mampu merekayasa pembangunan ? Kekhawatiran yang muncul justru adalah, ketika jumlah pemuda yang besar di tahun 2025 menjadikan pemuda negeri ini sebagai budak kapitalis, dan menjadi pusat komsumtifme dunia. Mari menjadi pemuda Indonesia yang berperan sebagai arsitek dan pemimpin masa depan Indonesia, pemuda bukan hanya penonton yang hanya bisa bertepuk tangan. kitalah yang akan mendesain masa depan negeri ini, karena masa depan negeri ini akan di teruskan oleh kita, jangan memberikan izin kepada siapa saja yang nantinya akan merusak karpet merah yang akan kita isi dengan penuh integritas dan cinta akan tanah air. Kita harus bisa merencanakan apa yang terbaik untuk negeri di masa mendatang, bukan sekedar pengikut tanpa memiliki pendirian yang kuat. Harta dan tahta tidak cukup untuk membayar idealisme, maka pemuda juga harus membuktikan dengan maha karya besar untuk negeri.

Maka sejatinya mimpi untuk mendunia tidak hanya sekadar menjadi mimpi. Namun mampu diwujudkan dan ditunjukkan bahwa Indonesia layak mendunia atas perjuangan keras dan usaha tanpa batas dari para pemuda-pemudinya.

/bee/

My First Salary

How do you feel, friends?

It's long holiday here, almost all of my friends go back to their hometown but not  for me and my partner. So, I spend my first holiday stayed in my dorm, watched all of Harry Potter movies all day long, alone and I enjoyed it because of the daily task, I have no time to re-watch it again. LOL  

So, how about my second holiday?

The story begin.

I go to my partner's boarding house and stay there for maybe 3 days. I didn't check my phone recently and there's 3 missed call from unknown number. Then it's number called me again at 2 p.m. I answered it, it's a girl voice. Owh, it’s the girl whom  I met  when my partner  and I went to one of cafes in Prawirotaman.  She's an artist and also a painting collector (I think). She offered me a part time job.

Before that day, I ever imagine to take a part time job when I have a free time. Like in Friday/ Saturday. But I can't find any of it. And suddenly someone offered me a part time job. I just take it because I  want to try it. I want to challenge myself and proof to myself that I can. I thought part time job is not too hard, because it's not full time job, and to be a waitress, receptionist, (usually if you take part time job) is not that hard.

At 4p.m. I arrived in that Cafe, then I met the woman who called me, and she introduce me to all of her staffs.  Then one of it's staff  taught me "how to do that job" And I realise that......................

It is not as easy as I thought.

What kind of job that I took? I am a waitress, I am a receptionist, and also a cleaner.

I thought, that job put me as a recipsionist only, but suddenly the customers come more and more, the restaurant's crowded with foreign, and some Indonesian. So, I have to be a waitress  too and also a cleaner too. So tired honestly. I said to my partner, I almost gave up, I can't do it any longer, I want to  go home she said she felt the same way as I thought.

It's my first time to have a job. My first experience to work together with another- older- people. Something bad happened and I just take it as a new knowledge and happy to receive it. We (my partner and I) made a mistakes. Of course because its our first time, our first experience, I thought it is okay to make a mistakes. As long as we didn't do it constanly.  And they, I mean the other staffs, they're discussing it continuously. I didn't like how they treat 'new staff' like me and my partner. Every time my partner and I entered to the kitchen, We heard they're talking about our mistakes. You know how it feels right?

My partner said, "Why do they do it? I don't understand with people like them. They like discussing the other people's mistake."  

Yeah, me too honestly. I hate people who talk about other people's mistake and forget to take their own mirror. They're human too, they make a mistake too, and when other people's talking about their mistakes, they get angry. So what then? Please stop talking about other people's mistakes, it's fine to make a mistake, it will help us improve our skill and start to take our own mirror and think about how other's feel. Talk to yourself "how about if they put me in that situation?" Or "how about if other people treat me that way?"

"I didn't like it." "I don't want other people treat me that way"  So with that we can appreciate other people in a good way.

About the salary, it's not that much but I’m glad enough to make my own money with my hard work and now I know how it feel. Take a part in a part time job  and how hard it is, to make our own money. I promise to myself to spend my money wiser. I didn’t regret anything and I’m so happy to experience it. If in the future there’s a chance for me to take a part time job again, I’ll surely take it. I believe that new place, new people, in any situation will teach me another knowledge that I didn’t know before. I’m so proud now with myself because I am already  won against the bad side of mine.

/bee/

Classics Never Go Out of Style

Thursday April 21^st , 2016

There was a little party, (not really) it’s Kartini Day celebration for my Cross Cultural Understanding class.  In that event we wore a costume, each person must have one. All of my friend’s busy to prepare it. Most of them asked me about what kind of costume that I’ll wear on Kartini Day. I just said to them “I still have no idea about that”. Then I start to search about an Interesting, or Unique costume. Then I found an article about Fashion. I start to read it, very carefully and found something interesting. “Fashion has it’s own meaning”

I start to talk to myself, “Just wear anything you like, anything that make you comfortable, and make you looks great. Do not listen what other people said” Then I choose to wear Vintage-style for my costume.  I’m ready yet afraid to attend CCU class, why? People would claim me as a weird person when they see me in that clothes.

WOW! Everybody looks good on their own. Most of my friend wore Traditional costume from Indonesia such as Kebaya, but there’s also people who wore Kebaya Modern style and A friend of mine wore a traditional costume from Netherland. Quite unique I thought. She’s brave enough to wear the-extraordinary-one and show up with confidence. That’s the point that I got from Kartini Day celebration . We don’t need to be someone else to looks great. We can do it with ourself. Just put a big confidence and feel comfortable, and we will be great. Wear a clothes or anything you like and make youself look adorable no matter what. Eventhough it’s Vintage or known as an old-used-clothes.

I love the character of vintage clothing specialness the whimsy, but unfortunately people just see the garments. By wearing vintage clothing, I have the chance to experience true luxury construction  that many people wears in Europe around 1960’s. Every Vintage clothing come up with a story, and it’s mysery that make people wondering about it. It’s also invite meaningful conversation in ways that modern clothing doesn’t. And that’s correct. I make people guessing and wondering about what kind of clothes that wear at that time. One of my lecture asked me “What’s that?” when my Netherland’s girls-friend and I took a picture, and before class started, many friends of mine asked the same thing.

The other interesting things about vintage is, Vintage clothing help us to give our character and our own story. They become more valuable as they grow older. My lecture asked about the reason why I wore that vintage clothing- I said that I just want to express myself by wearing vintage clothes that most people didn’t wear to make my own character. Because most of the time I hate when I saw people wear a same clothes as mine, and with Vintage style, I’ll never find someone else wears a same thing as mine.  

Vintage’s more than old-clothes. It’s a history, art, stories of those who’ve come before us. By wearing them we keep those histories and artistry alive. Wear vintage clothing is to be wrapped in romance. It’s just simply special.

/bee, vintage lover/

a good-qoute

Vintage clothes

Why do we need a team?

I really want to write down about my feeling.  It’s annoying . Put me in a confusing-situation , Make me sad yet irritated about the problem,  with my team.

At that time, some questions come up to my mind. Why do I need a team?

The purpose for creating teams is to participate in planning, problem solving, decision making, support each other and to be able to reach our goals. French language has an excellent word to describe it “spirit de corps” this means a sense of unity, of enthusiasm for common interest and responsibilities.

So the ordinary thing in this world is sharing about the problem to my team because I already have it. I told my team about the problems and talking about the solution.

But  what happened?

I guess you know what has happened  if I told you this….

“Why do I need a team ? why?”

There’s no solution no clear point . And I tried to ask again with highest hope that person will give me a little way to solve it, but that person’s answer  is such no help and make the problem more complicated. Is this called teamwork?  

I am getting mad, but once again I told myself to keep calm and be patient. I told myself maybe they’re confused too so they didn’t know how to answer my question. When I’m mad anything I said possibly hurt the other’s  feel  so,  I managed to keep it inside because I don’t want to hurt them.  As you know, it’s painful. The only thing that usually called “painkiller” is to shout it out. Tell our friends about our feeling is better than keep it alone right?.  Of course to the right person and in a right situation . Why? Sometimes if you do it in the wrong situation or in a wrong person I’m sure that it’ll end with new problem.  But whenever I wanna do it, I mean tell my friend about my feeling, I think it in several time “is it right?”/ “is it okay to tell her/him now?” / “are they busy or not?”  that kind of question was always haunt me.   

Sometimes, the only thing that I wanna do is share it to my mom, or dad . That yes ­­-no answer always rotated in my mind then I refuse to do it. a simple reason, I just don’t want to bothering  them with my own problem because I know their problem’s heavier than mine and they’re not discussing it with me. 

You ever feel the same, don’t you?

Don’t worry, you’re just sane as I am. 

a bit advice from me . First, take a deep breath, tell yourself that everything will be okay

do not confused, life isn't that complicated which one is more urgent, solve it first as simple as that.

The important things is don’t  blame yourself, do not let yourself think it on your own. You need someone to talk with. (I’m sure you have one, who always there no matter what)  just tell that person that you’re not fine and ask that person to help you.

God’s always listening and understanding, friends.

and once more, it's okay to tell your friend if you are not okay. 

 PS: it's for me too, little bit hard, trying with a slow progress is better than do nothing 

with bee, 

see you