17 Agustus 2007: Itulah Hari Kemerdekaan Kita!

Jumat, 17 agustus 2007 baru saja kita lewati. Dihari yang sama, Jumat, 17 Agustus 1945 pukul 10.00 WIB di Lapangan Banteng, Ir. Soekarno membacakan naskah proklamasi yang menyatakan kemerdekaan Indonesia. Saat kita lihat hari ini, kemerdekaan tampak selayaknya seperti catatan dalam tissue yang terkena percikan air. Semakin pudar dan terlihat layu.

Dimana kemerdekaan yang telah kita tempa selama enam puluh dua tahun ini? E-world sepertinya mengalahkan persatuan kesatuan yang dibacakan Sang Orator pada tanggal yang sama. Penyimpangan nilai-nilai serta norma-norma yang sejak kecil dididik oleh para orang tua diabaikan begitu saja, dengan alasan film-film serta media yang semakin mengampanyekan kemerdekaan dalam hal yang menyimpang.

Kapitalis sepertinya mulai dibangun dari mulai penjajahan ekonomi yang menimbulkan kesenjangan sosial serta pembentukan kelas-kelas sosial yang semakin kontras dan polemik. Hasrat satu nusa-satu bangsa telah berubah menjadi satu raga, satu suara. Berbagai perbedaan sosial yang mementingkan diri sendiri, justru mengangkat kemerdekaan-kemerdekaan antar daerah yang menyebabkan konflik serta perpecahan satu sama lain. RMS, GAM, Papua merdeka, dan segala macam front-front yang ingin memisahkan diri dari bumi pertiwi ini bermunculan dengan alasan-alasan yang semakin kongkrit. Disisi lain, negara-negara maju semakin mendukung keberhasilan front-front tersebut untuk dimanfaatkan secara geografis, untuk kepentingan kapitalis lainnya.

Pemanasan global serta pertumbehan penduduk yang semakin tidak terkontrol, membuat Indonesia kembali galau mengambil segala keputusan. Suatu negara akan terlihat di kancah internasional melalui bidang-bidang yang mempunyai ciri khas suatu negara tersebut. Bagaimana Indonesia bisa menunjukkan ciri khas bangsanya jika perbedaan pendapat serta kebebasan yang disertai dengan pendidikan yang tidak merata, masih menjadi benang yang terkena rintik hujan?

Pendidikan, inovasi, implementasi, serta semangat kebangsaan persatuan dan kesatuan adalah jawaban dari pertanyaan, apa yang harus kita lakukan agar kita bisa keluar dari berbagai macam bencana serta masalah yang dihadapi. Sekarang, ayo kita gunakan kesempatan kita sebagai mahasiswa ITB yang telah mempunyai contoh almamater-almamater yang berjuang keras membangun bangsa ini menjadi bangsa yang mandiri, serta nilai-nilai sejarah yang telah menghantarkan bangsa kepada kemerdekaan ini untuk bekerja keras secara intelektual, bersaing secara global, serta sehat. Caranya adalah, tuntutlah ilmu setinggi-tingginya untuk hal-hal yang menunjang implementasi yang bermanfaat untuk bangsa ini. Bangsa ini mempunyai pemuda-pemudi yang telah menoreh nama-nama baiknya di kancah nasional serta internasional, dan kita, sebagai mahasiswa terbaik bangsa, mempunyai kesempatan untuk itu. Seperti kata Triharyo Soesilo, lulusan Teknik Kimia 1977, Direktur PT Rekayasa Industri, 100% pupuk yang kita gunakan di Indonesia adalah pupuk buatan Indonesia. Serta 70% minyak yang digunakan di Indonesia adalah minyak produksi menunjukkan salah satu contoh pengabdian bangsa Indonesia melalu intelektualisasi serta kontribusi. Sekarang mari kita manfaatkan momentum kemerdekaan kita ini untuk lebih mengarahkan cita-cita kita lebih kepada kontribusi terhadap bangsa. Merdeka!

Writing, Writing, and Writing

Writing now days, seems like is the most expressional media to “speak up”. By the composition of good language and well-structural text writing is the most reliable thing to do. The development of technology makes writing is more easier, faster and cheaper, to be published in public. Let’s say this blog for example. More people are interested to express their mind in blog, proofing the big number of blog providers on the Internet. Some people use it for persuasion, promotion, propaganda, but most of people uses as the place to tell their daily stories.

The most interesting about writing is, we can keep it as our history. Writing could document people activities from they were a child until they’ve grown up. It also taught us to be creative and more diligent in using the correct words for each expression that we want. It could trigger a lot of new kind of word expression. Just read a lot of local or international magazine. They could express the news to be easier to read, from the usual complicated and pandemic tragedies. Or, let’s say a hip-hop musicians, who are usually use a lot of “slang words” to express their critics or lifestyle.

The development of writing is one cause of the development of information technology of the globalization era. Like my quote I added in the sidebar, tells you that now days, being smart is easy, cheap and reliable. The information just could be read by anyone without seeing the class of social statue. People will be satisfied with something in short length that drives you into the pop culture.

The thing that I usually concern is about the content of the writing. With more easier we express and our mind in writing, and publish it, the more less we could find any deep and meaningful content of writing. This has the same effect as the other type of medias, such as television and radio broadcast. The content is about satisfying the commercial advertisement or other business action. If this just go on, the “korban media” / “victims of media” could drives people into commercial minded. That’s why a lot of teenagers now days are searching for some more idealist artist to favor. The smarter teenage with all the expose of information by the development of information technology, they seems ignoring the action of commercialism. It’s because they’re already known what is the purpose of each commercial’s propaganda’s and persuasions to pursue people.

From this situation, we could possible seeing the kids are reading some politics news or magazine, such as Time or Tempo. It’s because the children who always want to know, are searching for the new “trends”. Yes, I say “trends”, because the “do it yourself” and “gue banget” spirit / “it’s my style” spirit is being taught and integrate to the children by the free and reliant of information. They want to be different by knowing the information that is usually consume by the experts. Kids next we can found who has the ability to talk like a lawyer, or to promote like an undergraduate marketing major.

Well, for instant we could see that it’s full of satisfaction. Especially for parents who realized / doesn’t realized that they have very smart and talented children. The point is, if the information isn’t being “drink as dosage”, it will harm children’s psychology. The children wouldn’t feel happy in their kid’s life, because they’ve consume a lot of information in their young life. It could distract their attention to their formal study, which is their first priority t school.

The appreciation of study (which could be seen on the media) seems are getting more and more less. Media, which is getting more freedom to talk, just expose the commercial purposes that will came up money. The commercial things should be carefully taught to the kids, to make them not ”commercial minded” in their young age. To the teenage, I suggest that, we should be more creative and close our mind to God to give us the good way to run life.

Write in the good way to make the children study in the right way!

MP3 Players Would Make People Anti Social

The availability of MP3 Player in this world seems make a lot of phenomenon that we can get. Beside, the MP3 itself that cause songs to be “free to get” or “un-priced”, it seems that the MP3 phenomenon has also changed people way of life. The innovation of MP3 Player has changed the people way of listening to the music to be more “popish” and “easy to get bored”. Just see the availability of Ipod in this world. People nowadays, are easy to get this kind of technology in their daily environment. Most of the consumer is also teenagers and kids (although some adults are having it also).

If you see from the people physiology, if they are listening to the music, they would usually don’t care to their situation around. They just enjoy their music from their MP3 Players without having any responses to others. Well, maybe it’s because they cannot listen to other conversation (or maybe they are just ignores it) because they are too serious to listen to their music. Why at this term, I talked about MP3 Players, rather than CD players, or Tape Recorder? Because now days, MP3 Players are more easy to get, and usually cheaper than the other type of music players. It’s usually reachable for the middle and the high class of economy in the past, but I think now, the low class economy can afford to get those kinds of gears.

This is actually able to be some kind of threat to the youth. If we saw down the street, teenage are now are “close eared” with a pair of earphones, with some music played in their ears. As music lovers, I think that music are settled if we hear it in some kind of serious place, or at least in a place that we were able to relax and enjoy the music. Not in the public places / place where we hang out with friends or family. Music is a personal activity. If we were listening to it, we would despair the environment around us, and the activities among us.

I totally agree if those actions are important to increase the soul of the music. But I think if it’s “too much” and set in a wrong place, it will harm people psychology. People (teenage especially) who have to prefer communicate with others, are like being “walled” by music. The time for socializes, seems to be ignored, and they would prefer to listen to their favorite songs from their music players. Our youth will be lack of socialize, and develop some kind of an individualist character of people!

Giving the children some significant place to socialize and changes minds to others should stop this. The environment and the development of technologies now days seems didn’t care for children way of thinking as the youth of the nation!

We should be aware of this!