{"id":1553,"date":"2020-03-30T12:21:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rumahrelawanremaja.or.id\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2020-04-06T15:04:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T08:04:39","slug":"1553-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rumahrelawanremaja.or.id\/en\/1553-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sidestep for a Move Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The foundational ideology of a poet is to arrange some beautiful phrases to\nspark the excitements of its readers. The foundational ideology of a company\ndirector is to achieve the weekly targets they have set. However, the ideology\nof a child that is newly introduced to this world is their admiration for the\ncaptivating beauty this universe has to offer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like a little kid, I love to question everything that is transpiring before me and the issues that I or people have with us. Day turns to night, night turns to days, time left us with a trail of mysteries and memorable encounters. Every step that I took along this road is a new experience that should only make me grateful for these life opportunities. Need not to care if the journey is not the same with what I had previously in other places, the change of our surroundings is not supposed to be cried or even to be avoided. I see this as a happiness that is not easily granted. And I could only sense the feeling in this particular moment. It is extraordinary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journey to cross the river took us for almost 3 hours. There is nothing\nto gain for the people who chose to be ignorant of the livings. Basing on my\nadmiration that seems unquestionable for most of the people, this particular\ncase where people would regard this way of living is normal is more worrying to\nme.  Just because one has reached\nmaturity, they behave as if they already knew everything. Some people\nespecially the ones that take interest in publicity might become weary of the\nabsence of reception. After all, who is able to stand staying in remote places\nwith no reception, because it would only create boredom for anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This particular living condition is no horror story. Even with the\nexistence of technology that has been beautifully decorated this world, that\ncould guarantee a more convenient life, however cooking with firewood, foraging\nfor the wood and any nature activities were among the activities that should be\ndone. We couldn\u2019t guarantee that everything will be fine by solely relying on technology.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything in this place seemed foreign, and I call this a spiritual\nreflection. I learned to adapt to the villagers’ way of living by entangling\nmyself in any form of activities they did and one of them was to bathe in the\nriver. Bathing in the river, while the local children were swimming along the\nriver without any clothes on, I regarded this as a type of pleasure in life.\nThe housewives were bringing their jerry cans here, filling the container up\nwith waters as this river has become one of their main water supply. They drink\nthe water straight out of the river and there is nothing to be worry of because\nthis has become a tradition from their ancestors.  This tradition is with exception to the\nvisitors because it will appear as a mockery. And I also didn\u2019t regard it as a\nproblem because we were perfectly fine after taking a sip out of the water. I\nthink this is solely a matter of perception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is an expression that couldn\u2019t be described with words, but with\nimages and feelings. Everything lies in our own understanding of personal\nexperiences. And words here are defined as some fragmentary representations\nthat should not be taken as the benchmark for the aspects surrounding this\nworld. It is just parts of this beautiful story that are written. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found several kids stopped going to school, some of them didn\u2019t continue\ntheir studies after finishing elementary school or middle school. Instead, they\nwork for village infrastructure development. They even got the name \u201cthe\nvillage young men\u201d. Ever since they were children, they were trained to lift\nheavy burdens to form their muscles. Their physical built are able to keep up\nwith the demands of this work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we are faced with the unfamiliarity that some people reach their\nmaturity in a distinctive way from the city folks who are full of imaginations\nabout this universe, we often come across ambiguity in defining this life. And\nall the while, some of them didn\u2019t even regard education as the one-way ticket\nto feed themselves, and they even think that education wouldn\u2019t do much to\ntheir appearance. Because of these reasons, the local children especially the\nones that are in difficulty to have access to the school stopped pursuing their\neducation. And in the village, they are not spending their time standing idle,\nhanging out, or even turning themselves into narcotics because there are plenty\nof works to do. Some of them are also opting for marriage because there is a\nsense of encouragement from their environment to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of us has our own life references that are different from one another. When some people think highly of education and even place it as the only pathway to prosperity, it would contrast to the views that reject the idea of education. There is no concrete reason in defining life because there are always differences in the life phases we are in and it will always far from parallel in every society. For me, there is no consensus in understanding life because I believe my own self is the real meaning of this life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The forest that circles this place is thriving, sheltering and securing\nevery aspect of life for this society. They co-exist with nature without having\nthe need to worry about their days. We received a lot of gifts that are the\nfarming, foraging and fishing products of the villagers in particular venison,\nfreshwater fishes and vegetables. The moment when the local people brought\ntheir dishes to us is a pleasure beyond compare. Everything was gradually\nbecoming familiar to me. This journey is an adventure to find my other home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A story about The Placement in the Village of Sarah Baru, written by Kasumah<\/p>\n\n\n\n

translated by Priscillia Sharon\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \n \n  \n  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n \n  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \n \n \n \n  \n \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n \n \n   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n   \n \n   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \n \n \n  \n \n \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n \n  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \n \n  \n \n  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 The foundational ideology of a poet is to arrange some beautiful phrases to spark the excitements of its readers. The foundational ideology of a company director is to achieve the weekly targets they have set. However, the ideology of a child that is newly introduced to this world is their admiration for the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumahrelawanremaja.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumahrelawanremaja.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumahrelawanremaja.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumahrelawanremaja.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumahrelawanremaja.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rumahrelawanremaja.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/rumahrelawanremaja.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumahrelawanremaja.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumahrelawanremaja.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumahrelawanremaja.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}