INDONESIA (HUMAN, NATURE AND CULTURE)

 Indonesia tanah surga, tongkat kayu dan batu jadi tanaman....

that's a few words from one of legendary music in Indonesia, meaning Indonesia is a heaven land that makes wood stick and stone becomes a plant, that's how we describe how fertile Indonesia land is!

Indonesia is Big, Rich, Beautiful and Diverse...

The Diverse of Culture, Heritages, History, Nature, Language, Religions, Ethnic, Mines, Oil make us RICH and DIFFERENT

That's why we as young generation has obligation to preserve our culture and nature...

Sometimes we never realize how precious our culture and nature till we lost it..

Till our culture claimed by other country , When other country really happy and respect our culture, unfortunately slowly most of our people tend to leave our culture....with the reason of modernization, coolness, traditional, old school?! it is not about cool or not cool, traditional or modern but it is about how we can always remember OUR ROOT, where we come from....

I still remember the day when I join exchange student, in the cultural night when all people wear traditional gown from each country, I bring the simplest batik from ton of my batik collection while my friends don't change their shirt, they only wear a casual t-shirt, and my friends from Singapore said something that really knock my heart and open my eye and mind "how lucky you are for having a lot of beautiful culture, unfortunately we are in Singapore we don't have that"

see how other people from other country really proud to see our culture...so I feel bad when people forget their root...

Till human only have the last tree and spring, they will never realize how valuable the nature is...Nature is a Giver, they give but never ask something in return...

I'm really sad seeing lot of people getting greedier, endlessly exploit it instead of preserve it...that's "the nature of human"...

That's why we need to come back to our conscience...KINDNESS AND EMPATHY

Indonesia has a noble culture that inherited from our anchestor....as I'm from Java, so my parents always said to me that "wong jowo ojo nganti ilang jawane">>>as javanese you should always remember our wisdom no matter how far you go....

In example..

WONG PINTER DURUNG MESTI NGERTI (Smart people not necessarily understand)

SUMELEH NRIMO ING PANDRUM (Be Grateful and Let Go, and Let God do the rest)

WONG SABAR REJEKINE JEMBAR, WONG NGALAH URIPE BERKAH (Person with big heart and patience will get lot of blessings)

URIP IKU URUP (Life must be give impact to others)

MEMAYU HAYUNING BAWANA (Preserving the universe, Resisting the Lust)

OJO LALI ASALMU BEN ORA ILANG SEJATINE AWAKMU (Always remember your root, where you are from,. so you wont loose yourself)

ADIGANG, ADIGUNG, ADIGUNA (Stay humble, keep your attitude)

OJO KAKEAN SAMBAT (Don't complain too much)

TEPO SLIRO (TOLERANCE)

To be continued....

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LIFE LEARNINGS FROM THE "VILLAGERS"

The last one year I mostly spend time around nature, mountains, and countryside as I love greeneries, besides that it helps me to gain back my "power" and "health" cause it makes me recharge, reenergize, recover, and most importantly DETOXIFICATION. 

Nature always teach me about staying grounded, interconnectedness, alignment and understanding life and their seasons. 

Beyond that, if you can look deeper, you can also learn live value lesson from the people living in the countryside. 

Some of them are belows...

1. Authenticity, Purity, Sincerity

This is the things that I hardly find in the city or advance country. People here are very genuine, not fake, full of sincerity to help others. And they ask nothing for reward. really a GREAT GIVER. 

2. Kindness and Empathy

No fake, no hidden agenda, compassionate with others

I ever comes to a point when I tired being a good giver and sincerity helping others, why?

so far i always think that if we good to people. people will good for me too, but in fact sometimes reality is cruel, people can still have heart to be sly and harm us even though we already doing good for them, and it makes me so suffer, painful, regrets, anger and always blame myself for being good person

fortunately i have a good family and positive people surround me that always give me support, my mother always said, always do a kindness, eventhough its small because you will reap what you sow, no matter how small it is, maybe not from the people that you've help out but from others, but every kindness will always comesback to you, and if people harm you, let god works for them, you stay kind, let god do the karma, not you

i also believe to this

those who hurt you, will screw themselves up and if you're lucky god will let you watch

3. Grateful

Still smiley even though facing in crisis, uncertainty, hard times, set backs

4. Live the Life Fully, Be Present

Not overthink/worry/anxious about the future

enjoy the present

5. Togetherness

"mangan gak mangan kumpul",>>> eat or not , most importantly we stay together. They wont leave other suffer alone, always sincerity help others

6. Beauty in Simpilicity

No overwhelmed towards something, simple yet beautiful. also no tired for giving kindness to others 

no tired for giving goodness and kindness

7. Care, understanding, empathetic

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