Education for All!
Education is primary for everyone. It is the foundation in human life. Education is the root for all possibility of development in certain country. The existence of proper education is becoming an expensive thing in Indonesia. Moreover, Poverty and hunger continue to stalk Indonesia despite the rapid economic growth over the past few years. By most estimates, more than 50 percent of the country’s 240 million people still live on $2 or less a day.
This condition makes change in society's priority to get food over education in their lives. The compulsory education statement that government stated in Indonesian's constitution has the less hope by realizing that many people cannot have the access to the school. Consequently, many potential children are far from expectation. They cannot go to school just because they cannot pay the high tuition.
Everyone has the same opportunity and right to get access the education in their lives as Indonesia's constitution guaranteed.
The Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia of 1945
SECTION XA - FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTSArticle 28C
(1) Every person has the right to self-realization through the fulfillment of his basic needs, the right to education and to partake in the benefits of science and technology, art and culture, so as to improve the quality of his life and the well-being of mankind.
(2) Each person has the right to self-improvement by way of a collective struggle for his rights with a view to developing society, the nation, and the country.
It is undeniable that we, as human, should make the dream come true by providing the alternative way to facilitate, teach, and give them access to the knowledge. Not later or tomorrow, but now! We invite you, as young generation, to be a volunteer teacher for Street Children Commuity of KABASA in Kampung Mede, East Bekasi, Indonesia. Join us by clicking the link here.
My Book, My Tool for Sharing
There are thousand perspectives about life, effort,
happiness, and successfulness. You could assume one but the meaning may vary
from what you believe and understand. There are 25 writers who tell you with
words through the book entitled Jejak Jejak Perantau about life, effort, happiness,
and successfulness. I am one of them who tell about the incredible community
which never give up in life in order to reach the better education for better
life. I share the wonderful and tough person in my book who enlighten street
children’s life through valuable training, education, and religious approach
into the meaningful tolerance and better understanding about life, differences,
thankfulness, and the power of one.
All my words in this book are honest and fair-to-fact as the
point of interest to prove the existence of amazing community that never gives
up in life. Moreover, my appreciation will be seen by the valuable activity of
teaching English for them who live in that community. Shortly, there are also
24 greater stories that writers want to share to you. I do appreciate if you
could read this book for your better understanding about the phenomenon in our
society facing the successfulness in life.
KABASA, All in Love, Pluralism, and Tolerance
KABASA is
the valuable community. I am writing here to tell you honestly about my
activities and the incredible moments of KABASA. KABASA is the Street Children
Community that built with the love and hopes for betterment. They are totally
more than 100 children that come and learn here as the secondary place of
shelter and loving care.
There are
two kinds of children here. They are treatment and non-treatment children. The treatment
children are those who have been under treatment of basic education such as the
philosophy of life, sense of religion of Islam, ethics of human being, and
tolerance. They live in a house that we call it as KABASA or Mede (The name was
taken from the location of this community). They are slowly leaving the street
for begging or asking for money. They are settle and ready to be a new person
of betterment. They start creating some good songs and other arts to be
published as the form of creativity and freedom. Furthermore, those who are
potentially good will be sent to one of the formal schools in Bekasi. This cycle
runs constantly without prejudicing in one or more things.
Non-treatment
children are those who haven’t treated yet. This means that they are still
living on the street and asking for money, but they come to Mede sometimes to
eat, learn, or share many things. They are not settle yet to leave street and
live in Mede. They sometimes come to meet their friends who have been living in
Mede. They still want to live with their friends on street outside to earn the
money by singing some songs.
Both
treatment and non-treatment children have the high motivation to learn and
share. They get the lesson on how to share in limitation because they always
have something that are not really much. They learn the lesson on how to love
one another as the unit of family in any condition and situation. They learn
the lesson on how to thank God as the prevalence of blessing on them. They learn
to respect differences in terms of backgrounds and religions because they come
from different place, individual, skin color, behavior, and character.
My teaching
English here is to bridge them to the international language that automatically
builds their sense of respect and tolerance among all humans in the world. We mingle
together, ask and answer together, learn and write together, listen and repeat
together, exploring new culture in each topic together that reflected the
successful of tolerating and respecting one another. I never stop this positive
movement because my neighborhood needs to know and understand that tolerance
and respecting one another are two things which should be exist in all parts of
life. You should not condemn Bekasi as intolerance city just because you heard
it on media that are prone to the limited shoot of fact. In the end, you should
appreciate my project continuously to aware more people that we, people of
Bekasi, still have the chance of betterment to be tolerance city that respects
differences in life.
Thousand Moments in Ramadhan
Ramadhan is
coming. The holy month for Moslem all around the world is surrounding. There
are unlimited thanks from human to Allah for the greatest chance of facing the
blessing month this year. KABASA has many moments for us to share with. An
amazing picture from what they are doing directly inspires us about the belief
of human in heart of existence of God and the rules that have been creed as the
former to us until the end of the day.
People in
KABASA tell us that humans always need the care and sovereignty from God for
the better life and as the thankfulness of the blessing. Moreover, their
beliefs of blessing and loving care of God craved in every single activity
during Ramadhan. Even the Ramadhan just come, their enthusiasm are blowing up
into the spiritual activities in that month.
KABASA always
perform the short dialogue before sun rises in the early day as the preparation
of what they have to do today. In the afternoon, they learn some lessons to
enrich their knowledge. They read the holy Koran (Al-Qur’an) in every single
moment they could have. Furthermore, my mission of making them good at English
is still running to color their activities. The picture of happiness and
thankfulness of God even in the limited access to the wealth are converted into
the amazing blessing in the limitation.
When the
fast breaking comes, they are sitting and praying to the God together as their
wish and thanks of blessing and the food today. They are smiling and starting
sharing about todays’ best activities one another. Their smiles are blended
with the warm situation around them as the great power of movement to the
better future. They pray for hope, thankfulness, blessing, and unlimited love
from God to them hereafter. May today’s time is full of colors, tones, and
stories that they can tell us about. Happy Ramadhan, KABASA and for all Moslem
in the world.
With Art, by Art
When we are in our home of city, we should remember the things of the place we have grown and the environment we have interacted with. That’s the incredible point of how preserve the great thing about our culture. Without that, we will easily forget our beautiful traditional custom and art.
Learning is not enough without great understanding about our
locale. Learning is not perfect without special art of our locale. Learning is
not enough without deep feeling to our culture. All things grow us with the
richness of tone, pattern, feeling, and sense of one. The valuable art and
manner should be brought in every step we take.
Silat is the traditional art of West Java. When we come to
Bekasi, there are thousand things represent West Java. Silat contains the
spiritual side in every movement and tone. It also contains the healthy side of
practice like sport. When all members of Islamic Street Children Community
practice Silat, they learn how to maintain the relationship between spiritual
and physical things in the same time. The way of maintaining is through
incredible movement and every step in that art.
Now, children in KABASA learn not only the majority lessons
what other people do, but also the incredible traditional art that most people
of Bekasi almost forget it. This is art;
art of life, art of happiness in our beloved city, Bekasi.
Start Building, Start Sharing
Islamic
Street Children Community is growing further become a home of schooling, educating,
sharing, expressing arts and other fundamental life for many unprivileged
children. The name changed into KABASA (Karya Anak Bangsa) which conveys the
deeper meaning for tolerance, freedom, education, life sharing, art, and
visualization of life under the gracious religion of Islam. The commitment embedded into the meaningful
goal to bridge those who need education and understanding of real life.
I also
contribute more in realization of their ideal dream of betterment. All members
come with me to embody the further form of new environment as realization of
education in many aspects, tutoring in art performances, understanding
differences and the concept of tolerating in our surroundings. Some programs
are running now with some learning points such English and German language,
Information and Technology approaches, sharing and Islamic leading comprehension,
Silat (traditional art from West Java), theater performance and practices, and outing
class (visiting some places as refreshing for additional knowledge).
KABASA is
now expanding into the meaningful and valuable community for street children to
reach their dreams. My efforts will be unlimited to continue the first
commitment of betterment for environment especially Bekasi or even wider. All
people here will welcome you friendly as your positive movement and idea significantly
give the great effect for our life within all false tunes.
Another Life
“When we aware for even a little of attention, you will find life with
every kind of its type”
Most people think they have to do because it is good for
them, but they miss one thing that life is not all about themselves. They have
to know that life is for you, her, him, them, and all people all around the
world. We have the same opportunity to pursue our future in any conditions and
situations.
We have grown in the neighborhood that accommodates the formality
and standard in some respects. We eat it because most people eat that. We go to
school because from the first beginning our families have done that. We play
something because the previous and the trend are now included. We act like
other people do, and these are what we believe as life-in-time.
We all
forget that life is for not only going around and hanging out for something,
play and laughing all time, shopping for many things, spending money with
thousand ways, and stating that your life is better than others. We really
forget the real essence of life in our mind and heart. We cannot open our eyes wider than before that life is all about the lung of humanity.
Islamic
Street Children Community tells and shows us the incredible and valuable
matters for us to rethink about our previous perspective about life. I am with
them in some activities such as practicing drama, eating lunch or dinner,
sharing and learning, and composing and singing the song. I find amazing scene
that I captured as the phenomenon of real life in our neighborhood. They respect,
tolerate, help, feel the same way one another as the unit of the agent of
entity for majority to confess minors as member in life.
They are
here with us for the same hope to grow, go to school, learn many things, and
reach the dreams like others do. Their solidity of loving God and others, tolerating one
another, and sharing in limitations are increasing as their belief to be the better person
in the future. They just want to show us that the valuable manners are embedded
in their activities to reopen our eyes and mind that the shallow perspective
about life is not showing us the real life, so the reality should tell us more
than what we see and judge.
