Befriend with AEC

January, 1st 2016

This essays is simply a personal opinion, it describe what's in my own mind without represent points of view of the institution, organization, or community that I joined.

So guys,
Can you tell what I want to write here?
For a clue,
well, it linked to the date I wrote above, right today, first day of 2016
But no, I'm not interested in writing about new year with it's party, ceremonial, resolutions etc
So, what is it?

It's about AEC or ASEAN Economic Community. 

Okay then, what is AEC?
It's simply designed as a large community of economic sector where free trade among ASEAN countries happened, free mobilisation of human capital all around ASEAN, and everything about free access to one another country.
So, why?
Well, most of people talking about trading competition, competitive advantage of national product, national human capital quality, defense strategy and so on as if we're on our way to the world war.
Eventhough those things just end up being discussion topics and less real action. (Right?)
But, maybe I want to turned someone head around, here.
In our discussion, or maybe there'll already some action in smaller number, why are we ALWAYS talk about compete with other member of ASEAN?
as if they're all our rival and we absolutely need to take them down in order to survive or become the king of this region.
Well, competition might be exist but we shouldn't always be so alarmed and see this as a big dangerous challenge, a huge deathly alien that somehow can kill us. No!
This is a community.
Some people meets and form a forum with the same goal.
Why don't we simply become friends? Why don't we act friendly and offer unlimited partnership towards good deeds for every members?
Why don't we brightly smiling facing AEC as a good new friend?

Why don't we?

We will automatically survive if we set a positive mind. Everything will be alright because we're all friends, we have no intentions to hurt one another. We go on to unite these countries and form a good unity to one goal: ASEAN empowerment.

So, this is me facing AEC with enthusiastic smile, prepare my english to welcome my new friend from all around ASEAN. Then also prepare myself for rising my mobility to meet my friends on their countries and ask everyone there to befriend with me.
There will be no war between friends, there will be no sorrow, we are together, hand in hand, side by side towards a better ASEAN.

You don't need to be worry so much, just relax, then smile

My advice is: set your 2016 to be full of beneficial activity just like student dedication for citizens, self capacity building and so on. You don't need to pay so much attention at those parties just like last night. Well, what did you got from new year party truthfully? Haha kidding.

well, that's all, welcome AEC, lets find many more new friend from all around ASEAN and enjoy a sweet friendship^^

Annoyed

On my first year when I'm on the dorm, there's something like this:
I woke up in a morning, found out something moving near my foot and when I pull the blanket up, there it is! A startling cat that suddenly awake and run out off my room.

Some seconds I tried to asking how. How did it come in my room while it is always locked at the night? I think of it for a while and it end up by assumed that somehow at midnight my roommate need to go out, open the door and the cat got in the room before she close it. The End.
That's not a big deal for me anyway.

But it begin to annoy me when it happened for the second time, exactly same scene but it happenned on my nap on sunday noon. Anyhow, I let this one go too.

And, what's next?
It's this creature!!

I don't even know who owns this cat that really loves to sneak in my room, lying on my bed comfortly without making a single sound. I should be really annoyed but, what?
I didn't even do anything. I just let it sleep there. Once? Twice? Three times? It was already happened for many times.
Until one day the owner come to look for it and strangely talk to it. Yes! SHE TALKED TO IT!!
"Hey... kamu ngapain disini? Kamu berpindah ke lain hati ya?"
I was just widen my eyes hearing that sentence.
How come this cat have a same insanity with it's owner? I mean, do you think talking to a pet is somehow normal? I don't think that way.

But there it is, still laying there without even touched by me. Just a single shot by this camera.

Do this cat even know that I'm that lonely and need something alive being in the same room with me?
Yes, probably.
Then I can confess to everyone that I got another insanity by thinking that way. Haha.

Ran

"Don't we wanna talk about Joo?" Ran asked me in the middle of Basic Agronomy class.

"Nope. Do you?" I answered without turning my head from my notes.

"Neither do I" and she just smiled.

"Right, just let it go, we're not the one making fuss, and it's not a big deal." I looked at her.

"Yeah, you're right. Well, you're seems pretty fine, have you got any medicine from somewhere?"

"I even got a doctor." Referred to Dr. Eddy

"huh?"

"Forget it, there's nothing to do with it. Being so gloomy about something or just let it go away is purely our decision. Noone can forced it upon us. Don't forget."

"I have just known what that sentences really mean because I was just made a big decision."

I'm pretty startled and I was just put the pencil then completely looked at Ran's face. I'm so curious about what kind of decision she made. She's not the girl giving a lot concern to make a big decision in her own life. So, it's pretty interesting to me.

"I was just told him that I won't make any single interactions with him, anymore. Starting of today."

"What?? That futsal boy? From Glory University?"

"Can it be someone else?"

"Nope. So, why? I'm wondering."

"Well it's just ... this kind of girl, a flirting one, with that guy, is completely not my style. I'm sick of being someone else."

"Wow, I can say nothing but 'I think 100% so' to you. You already know yourself now."

"Yes, but you have contribution on my decision too."

"What? Me? How come?"

"Your stories about you're being punished by God."

"Aaahh.. well, I told you it's just me and probably it's nothing to do with someone else."

"But I believe that."

"Haha yeah. Where will you go after this class?"

"Basketball yard, and I won't go without you. Let's make another three point against those freshmen."

"Allright I'll surely join!"

"Kim, Ran, can you tell me how's oryza sativa's regeneration system?"
Our lecture suddenly asking something nonsense to us.

LACRIMAL FLUID [JOO PART II]

19.14 a.m.

I was just finished my college activity and running straight to the parking lot at the very back of the complex. No, I didn’t be there for picking up my vehicle, I haven’t one of them. I was there to meet Dr. Eddy as we’ve been promised two weeks ago. A treat on a cup of choco ice cream.

“Have you been well, Kim?”

“Hm? Ah… this wound? Don’t worry doctor, it’s completely vanished, I mean the scars. Thanks to you.” I answered then smiled.

“No, I’m not pointing at those scars, I’m a great doctor, Kim. I can assure you that it will be okay and your beautiful face will be back again.”

“Ah, then?”

“I’m asking you about Joo, of course. A friend you mentioned before. Have you met her?”

“Ah… Joo… well, yes, last Friday we met at the place that we’re heading to, right now.” I smiled.

Dr. Eddy gives me a little laugh.

“Is that your favorite place?”

“Yes, it was. But now, that’s just the only place I know so I don’t have another options but bring you there for fulfill my promise.”

“It was?”

“Yes, it ‘was’. Before the day I met her, of course.”

“What? Did something happened when you meet her there?”

“Nope. Nothing happened, but something revealed.”

“Seems like something big so it’s enough to make you think that your favorite place is no longer your favorite anymore.”

“Yes, just like that, doc. Assume it like that.”

“Okay, you can assume that I understand that. So, is there something that needs to be told? A girl’s sound of heart or something like that?  You can tell me anything, I’ll generously listen.”

“Haha, why should I?”

“On my mental analysis, you need to do that. I mean, telling someone what’s on your mind that keep bothering you.”

“Ok, then, why it should be you?”

“Cause I’m a doctor.”

“That doesn’t give me an answer, so what will happen if you’re a doctor?”

“At least I can give you some treatment when you’re suddenly got a heart attack while you’re emotionally telling a story.”

“What? Nonsense, doc, I’m sorry but I’m not on your joke.”

“Haha, ok, I won’t be joking now. Think about this. You need to tell me what’s bothering you because I’m no one.”

“Hm?”

“I’m no one on your life, nor Joo. I don’t even know who is Joo. And you’re just one of my patients, all I know about you is just name, college, age, and some medical records. So, anything you told me won’t take any effect on your life, nor Joo’s. That will just help you overcome your bothering mind.”

“You’re right, doc.”

Then, a deep silence comes through us. We were just kept walking for about five minutes. Walking through the edge of an evening road. Cars, buses, some motorcycles sounds so clear when we’re fall in to a deep silence. Even our steps heard like a ticking watch on our hands. Lamps were a beautiful object our eyes can catch. 

 “So, what’s going on?” doctor Eddy asking first. 

Break the silence.

“We talked, about so many things, each other things. something we don’t know of each other because of those freaking distance.” I answered.

“That’s good, right?”

“Not really.”

“Why?”

“Because, she wasn’t telling me all the truth. Most of them were lies.”

“How did you know that?”

“I accidentally found out about it, I don’t feel like I need to tell you about this because I still keep everyone privation save.”

“Okay, I can understand that. But it seems like a big problem to you.”

“Big problem? No, there’re no problem to be solved. All that left behind was a big pain, even bigger than any pain I have familiar to.”

My tears begin to fall as I try to speak. Dr. Eddy seems startled. He tried to calm me.

“Hey, Kim! Don’t cry, not here please, it will left a bad impression to everyone around, they’ll think I make you cry!” he said with low sound while his hand pat on my arm, three times.

I tried to stop but I just can’t.

“I’m sure you won’t understand why I cried.” I said it still holding my tears back, but it come out again.

“Yes, I don’t, I don’t understand.”

“You won’t understand just by knowing the story I already told you because that’s not the main thing, I cannot tell you what it is about. I really can’t tell but I really want to tell someone that I’m in pain. I’m in a lot pain, doc.”

“Okay, then you can cry. Cry as much as you want, show me how deep you’ve fallen into the pain.”

Then I cry harder than before.

For about seven minutes, there was just silence. Once more.

“is it okay, doc?”

“what?”

“crying this hard?”

“hm… that was lacrimal fluid.”

“Hm?”

“those tears, we called it lacrimal fluid. A watery physiologic saline, with a plasmalike consistency, but also contains the bacteriocidal enzyme lysozyme, it moistens the conjunctiva and cornea, providing nutrients and dissolved O2 to the cornea.”

“Hm?”

“Ah, what major do you take at college now, Kim?”

“Landscape Architecture, doc…”

“Ah, okay then I’m not thinking of lecturing you about lacrimal fluid, that won’t be any help for both your major or your pain. I was just say that it’s okay to cry…”

“thanks, doc.”

“You’re welcome, but. Can you tell me, Kim?”

“Yeah?”

“What’s the point of your pain?”

“It’s the fact that I don’t know Joo anymore. she behave like someone I never know before. Joo who’s always be the one I know so well was completely gone somewhere else. Dareun saram, geu yeoja ya.” 

Then, those sentence just giving me more tears to cry.

It is now freely flowing on my cheeks. Those lacrimal fluid.

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....just end it here, or to be continued? 

Well, let's see

When I wrote about those tears, I'm also crying in reality.

About the post that recently deleted

Nothing, it's just another sadd az zariah, remember that I'm the one who have not been good at avoiding those takabur thing. It might be, right?
So that's deleted.
The end.

Have no power to say those in front of your face, dear friend

"Heeey, you're responsible for making me worriying myself looking at how far you're already!"

What kind of excuse is that?
Well, have you ever watch dream high korean drama?
What happened to the characters?
well, some of them got the chance to debut early than another, not just lucky, but they deserve it because they're working harder than another. the lucky guys go around and finally become stars.
And then, what happened when they go back to school? They're startled to see how far are their friends have improved and ready to become their rival.
Do you got a lesson?
You should be.
So, why?
I mean, I was involved in some seniors projects and that means I read and experience a lot passing the minimal standard that our semester has to reach. You can't blame me when they come to me, asking, I'm answering and we got in to discussion. You blame me for your perception of I am talking nonsense just because you can't understand it.
I thought when we're apart because of my projects, you did well on catching me. I thought you also read some books or journal or even discuss with seniors, but I was wrong.
All I know was: you're betraying me.
And it's about our promise on ignoring guys as long as it hasn't been halal for us. And I accidentally find out about that guy whom you give permission on bothering you.
While I always show you those read-only chats on my phone from those guys, that I always ignore.

Really, girl, my dear friend, it doesn't seems like you.
Which one of me is wrong?
The one who is husnuzhan to you before, or the suuzhan one now?
Don't blame me for your disunderstanding on those topics and I won't stop running just because waiting for you who is still walking calmly.

Typically Bogor

Ada yang bilang, kalo dilihat dari atas (satelit) kota Bogor itu ijooo banget. Iya, ijo angkot maksudnya.
#typicallyBogor
#kotaseribuangkot
#katanya

Ada lagi yang bilang, benda wajib dipunyai warga bogor dengan jumlah lebih dari satu: payung.
Curah hujan tinggi: Kota Bogor
#typicallyBogor
#kotahujan
#katanya

Kota ini khasnya banyak yaaaa
Attorney Jeong dalam drama 'Hello Monster' berkoar-koar soal ketidak percayaannya pada kebetulan, dipertanyakan oleh Hyeon mengenai perencanaan matang, dan dijawab oleh Jeong dengan satu kata bernada pencarian sudut pandang: destiny?

Do you believe in destiny?

Then, what kind of destiny brought me all the way here? To this Bogor?

Nado moreugesseoyo~~

Naeganeun pappanikka, so I will just let it go without any single effort to find the answer.

gidarilge, hangsang :)

Relationship Level: A Theory of Islamic Ukhuwah

1. Ta'aruf (knowing each other)
2. Tafahum (understand each other)
3. Ta'awun (helping each other)
4. Takaful (responsible for one another life)

Those theory I got from my lecture for muqaddimah in the matter of "Insurance". As we know that there's an insurance company unit named "Takaful". Takaful is the highest level of relationship when a muslim is being responsible for another's life. So we got the philosophy here. An insurance that's run and driven by sharia principle has takaful as a great philosophy.

Well, back to the theory.
And it'a always based on me. My own story. I already live in this world for about 21th and I met people other than my family.

Friends.

I have many friends, like automatically I get along with them so well, instantly and don't really need so much effort. May be that's the reason why I don't really know how to treasure them. And maybe that's why I don't really being on to the third even more the fourth level of relationship.

.... to be continued insyaAllah

Negeri Ceteris Paribus

          Sejalan dengan membangkitnya kinerja perekonomian Amerika Serikat, dolar kembali menguat terhadap mata uang asing seluruh dunia, termasuk rupiah. Pelemahan rupiah menyentuh angka 13.000 rupiah per dolarnya. Jika ditarik data secara agregat, disaat rupiah melemah terhadap dolar, sebenarnya ia justru menguat terhadap mata uang asing lain seperti yen, euro, dolar Australia maupun dolar Singapura. Sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa pelemahan rupiah terhadap dolar tidak lebih parah dari pelemahan mata uang-mata uang lain di dunia.

Hal ini juga mungkin yang membuat Bank Indonesia sebagai Bank Central tidak melakukan kebijakan moneter dalam rangka mengendalikan nilai tukar dengan menaikkan tingkat suku bunga (dalam makroekonomi, pelemahan nilai rupiah dapat diatasi dengan melakukan kebijakan moneter menaikkan tingkat suku bunga sehingga money supply rupiah rendah karena banyak didepositkan dan pada akhirnya mencapai nilai tukar yang stabil). Dalam Rapat Dewan Gubernur (RDG) Bank Indonesia tanggal 17 Maret lalu, Tirta Segara selaku Direktur Eksekutif Departemen Komunikasi Bank Indonesia mengumumkan bahwa Bank Indonesia memutuskan untuk mempertahankan BI rate pada angka 7.5%. Langkah BI ini sejalan dengan tujuan program kerja Presiden Jokowi yakni membangkitkan sektor manufaktur dan menggerakkan proyek-proyek infrastruktur. Pemertahanan BI rate ini ditujukan untuk menjaga stabilitas investasi sebagai sumber modal bagi sektor manufaktur tersebut. (saat BI rate tetap, masyarakat diharapkan tidak akan banyak mendepositkan uangnya, namun mengalihkannya untuk berinvestasi).

Keputusan ini dapat dihitung sebagai keputusan yang cukup bijak. Karena perbaikan nilai tukar melalui kebijakan moneter dinilai tidak lebih baik daripada kebijakan yang bertujuan untuk menggerakkan sektor riil seperti yang dilakukan pemerintah sekarang. Dengan tetap stabilnya investasi baik dari modal dalam negeri maupun modal asing, maka sektor industri, manufaktur dan proyek-proyek infrastruktur pemerintah dapat terus berjalan dan menggerakkan sektor riil perekonomian. Targetnya adalah peningkatan ekspor dan mensurpluskan neraca perdagangan, sehingga Indonesia memiliki cadangan dolar lebih dan pada akhirnya dapat menstabilkan nilai tukar.

Mekanisme diatas menggunakan dimensi waktu jangka panjang. Hasil dari kebijakan ini tidak akan dapat dirasakan dalam waktu dekat ini. Tentu saja, dengan tidak dilakukannya kebijakan moneter untuk mengendalikan nilai tukar rupiah pada saat ini, dolar diperkirakan akan terus melambung, rupiah semakin melemah terhadap dolar meskipun menguat terhadap mata uang asing lain, dan akan cukup untuk menyebabkan inflasi.

Apa akibatnya? Akibatnya harga-harga kebutuhan akan terus naik seiring dengan pertumbuhan inflasi. Kalangan menengah keatas disinyalir akan baik-baik saja dengan hal ini. Kalangan ini terdiri dari para pembuat kebijakan itu sendiri, para pejabat pemerintahan dan pengusaha dibidang jasa maupun manufaktur yang mendapat suntikan dana investasi dari kebijakan yang berlaku. Namun, bagi kalangan menengah kebawah yang tidak mendapatkan kompensasi apapun dari kebijakan ini akan sangat terbebani dengan harga-harga bahan pokok yang terus melambung.

Memang benar, sektor riil dapat bergerak dan menghasilkan output dalam jumlah tinggi. Tetapi sektor riil ini bukanlah milik para petani gurem, pedagang kecil, pekerja kasar, kuli-kuli kecil yang jauh dari kucuran dana investasi dan bahkan tidak diperhitungkan dalam kalkulasi PDB. Kalangan bawah yang tidak menikmati kucuran dana investasi namun masih harus dipaksa berkontribusi dalam pembesaran angka investasi dengan membayar lebih saat mereka sekedar ingin memenuhi kebutuhan pokok. Tingkat harga yang naik ini membebani dan terus mencekik rakyat miskin yang berjumlah besar di negeri ini.

Mengingat bahwa kebijakan ini adalah kebijakan yang memberikan hasil dalam jangka panjang, dapat kita pertanyakan kelak. Ya, kelak jika memang benar Indonesia dapat meningkatkan kinerja perekonomiannya, menghasilkan PDB tinggi dan menstabilkan nilai tukar rupiah, kira-kira berapa banyak rakyat miskin yang hidupnya menderita, berjuang hidup dengan berdarah-berdarah selama kurun waktu jangka panjang tersebut? Akan berapa banyak darah mereka tertumpah demi menopang sektor manufaktur para konglomerat? Dapatkah tingginya PDB nanti dapat menebus pengorbanan luar biasa dari rakyat kecil tak berdosa, tak tahu apa-apa yang seharusnya berada dalam perlindungan Negara ini?

Ironis. Para pembuat kebijakan seakan-akan telah merumuskan langkah-langkah yang tepat dengan menggunakan model-model ekonomi berasumsi ceteris paribus. Factor-faktor lain dianggap konstan. Namun perlu kita sadari bahwa negeri ini, bahkan dunia ini, bukan dunia ceteris paribus.

-IZS-