Dear Muslim Sister - Ep 2 Worship is Your Power

Faith isn't suppersism, its strength. 

Somehow faith is being repackaged as weakness especially for women because it's maybe cultural messaging or patriarchal practices masked as Islam. 

Faith is like poised of freedom. 

Seek العلم / ilm / knowledge from trusted scholars or women of Quran, etc. 

When you pray > you're guiding your heart. 

When you fast > you mastering your soul, etc. 

The right of Muslim women to learn, to worship, to own property, to testify, to work, to accept marriage, to refuse marriage, to seek divorce, to inherit  were not  granted by human or a government or a movement. 

They decreed by the Lord, our creator. 

Worship is coming to الله with your sadness etc. It's presence, not performance, & keep asking الله. 

Dear Muslim Sister - Dr. Rania Awaad - Episode 01 Know Your Lord

Knowing Allah intimately with awe closeness, not just believing in Him. 

ربك = Your Lord

The word Lord just doesn't mean Lord, but it means The One who created you, nurture you, & continuously cares for you. 

In nearly surah, الله always begin with بسم الله الر حمن الر حيم 

And how to start knowing Allah? 

By knowing His name & His attributes (99 names of ALLAH). 

The more you know Him the more you love Him & the more you easier to place your trust in Him. 

The real tawakkal isn't mean passive or ignoring, but it walking through it knowing your Lord has written your provision, healing, ease. 

He is الله never late. 

When you truly know Him, you will never feel alone again. 

When you trust Him, your heart find peace that the world can't offer. 

ربي جعلني من العا ر فين بك المحبين لك المتو كلين عليك 

The Chalk Giant

What do you know?

The story tells about the giant sibling who have a unique names. The female giant was called Shine bacause she was born, the sun rose, and wherever she went, the sun followed. The boy was called Dum becasue the first time he opened his mouth it was to sing: Dum. I thought they were happy because they playing hide and seek. 

Why do you want to know?

I was curious to this short story because of the title ‘The Chalk Giant’. the title’s interesting and make an impression to the reader about caring, love, warmth and affection between brother/sister.

What do you learn?

The story teaches the reader to love and help each other.

This is evidenced by when Shine and Dum played hide and seek, Shine was lost for months. Then, Dum triying to find her. 

Talitha S. Biela

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Mpu Tantular

Sidoarjo is known to as a delta city because it is located between 2 major rivers from the Brantas river, namely, the Mas River and the Porong River. However, one of the places that I will explain is the Mpu Tantular museum which is located in the Buduran sub-district, Sidoarjo, East Java.

On the other hand Sidoarjo which is known as an industrial area. The tourist can visit one of the educational tours, namely the Mpu Tantular Museum. This museum is located in Buduran sub-district, Sidoarjo, East Java. The Mpu Tantular Museum was built in 1933 by the cultural institution Stedelijk Historisch Museum Soerabaia by Godfried Hariowald von Faber, a German citizen of Surabaya. From the construction of this cultural institution which became the forerunner of the history of the Mpu Tantular Museum, it was inaugurated on July 25, 1937.

The museum, formerly the Stedelijk Historisch Museum Soerabaia, on November 1, 1974 officially became the East Java State Museum of Mpu Tantular. The inauguration received a handover from R. Banu Iskandar to the Director General of Culture, Prof. Dr. I.B. spell. The name of the Mpu Tantular museum is taken from the name of a famous poet during the reign of King Hayam Wuruk. One of his famous works is the Kakawin Sutasoma Book because half a stanza from this kakawin has become Indonesia's national motto: Bhineka Tunggal Ika. The name Mpu Tantular has its own meaning, Mpu is a title and it means an intelligent person, while Tantular means uninfected, unaffected, undeviated, unchanging.

The collection of the "Mpu Tantular" Museum is approximately 15,000 pieces which are classified into the collections of Geology, Biology, Ethnography, Archeology, History, Numismatics, Heraldry, Philology, Ceramics, Fine Arts and Technology. The collections exhibited in the permanent exhibition room of the museum consist of collections from Prehistoric, Classical (Hindu-Buddhist), Islamic, Colonial and Modern times, including the science and technology collection. Because the collection of the Mpu Tantular Museum continues to grow, the location of the museum has moved from its original location three times. The Mpu Tantular Museum was first located on Jalan Pemuda, then in 1975 it moved to Jalan Taman Mayangkara. Then in 2004, they moved to Jalan Raya Buduran, Sidoarjo. In addition, the location of the Mpu Tantular museum is in two points, namely in Surabaya and Sidoarjo. The museum collection in Sidoarjo focuses on culture, while in Surabaya it focuses on history.

To visit the museum, tourists should pay around Rp. 3,000. In addition, the museum has an area of 3 hectares which contains exhibitions of pre-historic times such as the era of the Majapahit kingdom, in the form of ancient money, fossils, and the history of Majapahit. There is also a diverse collection of weapons, honours, ceramics, and ethnographic objects. This is marked by the early entry of Europeans to Indonesia in the early 15th century. On the other hand, this museum has a collection of mostly Buddhist and Hindu statues such as the Ganesha statue, the Durga Mahesasuramardhini statue, the Shiva statue, and so on.

In addition, outside the Mpu Tantular museum there are street vendors. They sell in front of the museum gate, so that visitors can buy snacks when hungry or thirsty. The price offered is also friendly in the pocket of students. Most of those who visited the museum were schoolchildren with different backgrounds, ranging from kindergarten to elementary school children. So, parents need not fret when their children are hungry or thirsty.

Help! Ben Is In The House

The sound of slamming the door sounded loudly from the direction of my room that morning.

  "Bas! Bas! Wake up, Bas!" Exclaimed Arka while shaking my body which was still covered with a thick blanket.

"Hm.. what happened? If you wanna go toilet, go there alone!" I try to brush off Arkas’ hand.   

    "No, Bas.  The house looks like messed up. I'm confused,"

    "Hm.. what the * is it, there to the toilet alone!" My murmur blew arka's hand.

    "Ahhh, you are disturbing me!??!"

Slowly, I sat down and did a little stretching by raising my hand. Arka, now is trying to wake up the some people. When I went out, the living room and kitchen were very messy.

I look Ben, the nephew of Radhif who was drinking in a brown milk puddle, maybe he spilled himself on the floor, along with cereal scattered as an additional toping.

    "oh my god. That is my chocolate milk!!" Yugo shouted from behind me, when I saw his two large boxes of chocolate milk spilled by Ben.

    "Hm..i give him the chocolate milk. As you see, I was panicked when he was crying, so that i give him your cereal with milk. I think he could pour those cereal itself."

    Then we look on Arka. "Stupid!" We're yell together.

"You know, I still pouring Raina food," Awan added.

“That’s weird. You should clear the problems. I wanna sleep again.” Said Arka while leaving us in the living room.

    Yesterday, Radhif's brother did come to Jakarta with one of his young children, namely Ben. This morning, Radhif’s brother said goodbye to us and having a yoga class and leaving  Ben while sleeping. Likewise, Radhif, he went to the studio early in the morning. So the moment was like this, six men are left with one little boy whose naughty boy.

*

Ben suddenly cried loudly. We looked at each other, not knowing what to do. Torik took the initiative to clean up the mess on the floor while Al lifted Ben onto the sofa.

Me, Al and Yugo sat on the table, looking at Ben who was crying on the sofa. Al look like a police that having introgation session and folded his hands and said,

    "What do you want??" 

    "Aaaaa huaaaa.." Ben is crying loudly.

    "Is he hungry? But he ate lately" Asked Yugo to me.

     “Okay, I will make a Indomie. Wait for a minute.” Said Al and go to kitchen.

He is crying louder, Yugo had also repeatedly tried to contact Radhif's brother, but Radhif was not picked up. Then, my phone rang from inside the room, it turned out that my office friend called, I picked it up.

There was Sarey's voice from a phone,

'Hello Bus, I'm in front of your house. I bring your file ---'

    "SAREY!!!" I opened the front door and saw it.

    "Huh! Oh my gosh, shocked! what the hell!" His reply was a little aghast at the door that suddenly opened.

*

“You should know! Even if you are a man.”

Sarey painstakingly replaced Ben's diaper. Every once in a while her hair fell beautifully, she had never been so attractive before. In fact, it only replaces baby diapers.

    " Oh my, you look attractive. I mean I know how to replace baby diapers.”

“Please!! Look at this! How I replace the baby diapers!” I yelled to Arka and others.

“Yeah, I’ve already replace this. Uh, Ben such as cute boy.”

Everything Was Nothing

Maybe, I'm fallin' for you

I see the waters and make you shine

Seeing the rain and remember you

How we could met

And starting talk each other

Pretending to be shy

I saw you blushing

It makes me blissful

I know getting late, getting late

Everything was nothing

Now i missed you really bad

There's no moving on

You might love her now

But you loved me first

Then,

I let you go

And I ready lost you

Eksil Tahanan Politik

Judul : Pulang

Karya : Leila S. Chudori

Halaman : 552 hlm

ISBN : 978-979-91-0515-8

Novel Pulang yang berlatar belakang kisah G 30S/PKI, menceritakan beberapa kekejaman pada masa orde baru. Leila sangat membuat para pembaca bergetar ketika mengetahui betapa pilunya nasib eks tahanan politik. Semua yang dipaparkan  menceritakan benar apa adanya, karena isi dari buku tersebut adalah hasil wawancara dengan eksil politik dan eks tahanan politik dengan narasi yang menggunakan sudut pandang berbeda. 

Dimas  Suryo sebagai tokoh utama harus melewati pilunya hidup di masa itu. Dimas menjadi tahanan politik dan buronan karena dianggap pengikut PKI sebab tempat dimana mereka bekerja, pemimpinnya adalah pro PKI, kecuali Tjai sehingga mereka terkena dampaknya. Akibatnya Dimas kehilangan hak asasi dan juga kewarganegaraan. Padahal, Dimas adalah seorang tendensi politik netral. Ia bergaul dengan simpatisan komunis dan juga banyak berdiskusi dengan orang lajur kanan. 

Diluar sana, juga banyak orang Indonesia yang ditangkap tanpa alasan dan tanpa proses pengadilan. Sebagian dari  mereka dianggap pro PKI seperti Dimas sangat dikucilkan masyarakat, KTP berlabel khusus PKI, tidak dapat pekerjaan, tidak mendapatkan hak bersuara, dan korban membatasi diri dari pergaulan sosial.

Diskriminasi juga terjadi pada keturunan mereka secara turun menurun. Seakan-akan itu sudah menempel permanen di wajahnya, yang tidak terlibat menjadi korban dan merasakan dampaknya. Mereka ditangkap, dituduh, kekerasan tanpa alasan yang jelas dan tidak diselidiki lebih lanjut.

Akibat paspor yang dicabut, Dimas menggembara ke beberapa negara hingga akhirnya menetap di Prancis. Tetapi keadaan di Prancis tidak jauh dengan Indonesia, bulan Mei 1968 di Prancis terjadi revolusi mahasiswa. Sedangkan, di Indonesia pada September 1965 juga terjadi pemberontakan mahasiswa untuk melengserkan pemerintah Orde Baru dan di tahun 1965 terjadi peristiwa G 30S/PKI. 

Beberapa mahasiswa yang dikirim ke luar negeri di cap sebagai komunis. Mereka hidup dalam bayang-bayang rezim Soeharto, gerak geriknya diawasi dan tidak boleh terlibat politik, serta wajib mempromosikan nama baik Indonesia. Meskipun tinggal di luar negeri, di kantor kedutaan mereka diperlakukan seperti pelaku kriminal dan diinterogasi oleh militer. Selain itu, duta besar rezim Soekarno diturunkan oleh Soeharto, mereka para eksil tidak dipulangkan karena rezim Soeharto takut hadirnya intelektual yang loyal pada Soekarno. Bahkan eksil tersebut berseberangan ideologi nya dengan PKI. 

Di zaman Soeharto siapapun bisa ditangkap dan dibunuh tanpa alasan yang jelas atau tuduhan pro PKI ditahan bahkan dimusnahkan. Seseorang yang mengeluarkan suaranya dituduh sebagai makar, rakyat harus patuh kepada pemerintah dan tidak perlu adanya perlawanan. 

Kasus makar dan eksil tahanan politik menjadi polemik sendiri. Hukum yang diberikan pada mereka berlebihan, sebab beberapa tahanan politik dihukum seumur hidup atau keringanan. Ini akan melanggar hak asasi apabila tuduhan yang diberikan tidak benar dan tidak ada tindakan makar. Semestinya diklarifikasi dahulu adanya tindakan atau tidak. Kalau asal tuduh semua orang unjuk rasa dinilai makar ya. Pemerintah terlalu paranoid jika rakyat melakukan makar.

Kesalahpahaman seperti yang di alami oleh Dimas, juga pernah terjadi pada saat ini. Beberapa mahasiswa papua diduga melecehkan tanah air dengan cara merobohkan tiang bendera Merah Putih. Adanya tuduhan itu, pemuda, aparat, dan TNI mengepung asrama mahasiswa Papua mengolok-olok mahasiswa ‘monyet’ yang menunjukkan tidak ada rasa kemanusiaan. 

Spontan aksi unjuk rasa anti-rasisme merebak di berbagai kota. Saat unjuk rasa terjadi, salah seorang aktivis perempuan ditahan dan dituduh sebagai makar. Perempuan itu ditahan selama tujuh puluh tujuh hari dengan alasan melakukan tindakan makar memegang bendera Bintang Kejora di unjuk rasa. Ada lima orang yang dituduh demikian, semua disangkut pautkan pada makar. Padahal perempuan dan aktivis lainnya hanya mengikuti dan menanggapi protes kasus rasisme di Surabaya, tanpa bertujuan makar dan sebagainya. Semestinya yang diusut adalah pelaku ujarannya ‘monyet’, bukan para demonstran yang melakukan unjuk rasa di publik. 

Adapun gerakan separatisme di Papua oleh Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM) dengan tujuan memisahkan diri dan mencapai kemerdekaan. Gerakan separatisme ini mengingatkan dengan ideologi PKI yang  memilih memisahkan diri dan mengganti ideologi negara. Tetapi, OPM ini ada karena faktor kurangnya pelayanan pemerintah, kepentingan politik, kebijakan yang tidak berpihak rakyat, dan sebagainya. Supaya tidak terjadi demonstrasi atau pelengseran, separatisme, dan tahanan politik, diperlukan kesadaran dari pemerintah ke rakyatnya.

Dengan adanya novel Pulang merefleksikan masa Orde Baru dan menjadi tamparan bagi pemerintah untuk menangani tindakan represif tahanan politik sekarang. Kurangnya literatur tahanan politik membuat masyarakat tidak mengetahui dan abai. Sampai tetek bengek PKI yang melakukan kudeta presiden Soekarno, hingga chaos-nya Indonesia. Novel ini memberikan pengetahuan baru, kesedihan sanak keluarga tapol tidak luput dari interograsi dan sikap pemuda yang kritis pemerintahan yang tidak tertulis dalam buku sejarah sekolah.

Selain itu, perlu adanya penjelasan konktrit terhadap suatu masalah yang terjadi, jangan asal tuduh tanpa ada kebenaran. Leila juga mengingatkan bahwa perlu adanya bentuk perlawanan sehat terhadap kasus yang tidak sesuai dengan kenyataan atau tuduhan seperti, menyuarakan suara rakyat tanpa takut untuk dibungkam.