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Have you still remembered about your most memorable vacation spot?
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Try to remember again about its beauty.
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If that was a mountain,
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Look how that mountain can be so high that it pierce the clouds.
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If that was a beach, remember about the waves
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and the fineness of the sand you felt.
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But how can a mountain be so gigantic and looming from the first place?
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Why beaches have to be separated by the sea and make us
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be so distant from nearby island?
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These thoughts also make us wondering
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about the earth we live in.
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And from there, we enter the science which talks about all of them.
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Welcome to GEOGRAPHY.
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In a nutshell, Geography talks about a region and how it interacts with all of the living beings which live there.
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Maybe, when we talk about geography the first thing which may come into our mind is
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the world map. But it doesn't only talk about
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maps but it also persuades us to think why
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the continents on the world have such shape and size,
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and why do the people in this place can have
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numerous tribes, but in this place, it's the complete opposite.
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Yeah, if we think about it, geography is
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like a travel guide everytime we go somewhere.
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The one who is always ready to ask us to travel anywhere,
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and always ready to explain what and why something can happen
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in a place. Millions of people may not realize that we often use
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the way of thinking of geography in many occasions.
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By knowing the number of places and the condition in a region,
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We can be helped if we go to a place and can choose
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the fastest route. And if we learn another branches of (social) sciences,
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Economy, for example,
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the location, condition, and the nature of each country,
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We will be able to know the best strategy to trade with them.
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we understand the interaction
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And phrases such as "local wisdom" (in Indonesian: "kearifan lokal") appear.
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that was because, let's say, those who lived in the
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west side of Sumatera (an Island in Indonesia), such as Nias,
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Aceh, Nias, and it continues
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to Bengkulu and southern Java,
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and they started to understand and think, "oh, we have to build a house
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which looks like this," earthquake-resistant,
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to be able to anticipate from tsunamis, etc..
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So, from physical understanding,
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it became a local understanding
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or knowledge, or the so-called "local wisdom" (or "kearifan lokal" in Indonesian).
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Yeah, those are the benefits if
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we know about many places and be considerate
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with the society. If you would like to know more about
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this science, let's follow the compass and start the journey.
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The earth is really spacious, and the fact is that
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we really have changed the world from every side of it.
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Because of that, Geography is present as our effort to
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understand the earth, which is, in the outline, is divided
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into 2 points of view.
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There's Physical Geography, which tries to answer our questions about
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the nature.The soil, the river, the sea,
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The animals, the plants, the weather, and any other
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natural object which is there.
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And Human Geography (anthropogeography), which explains about the impact
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of what we bring into the surface of
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the earth and what the earth brings to us from the perspective of
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economy, socio-cultural, and politic.
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These efforts has been fought by us for such a long time.
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Approximately 2400 years ago,
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The ancient Greeks were the first one to try to search for
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the earth's mysteries. They were curious and
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wondering what could be out there.
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And from that they did some experiments and looking for
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all of the answers. Until the time when
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science were developing, Geography
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were streaking and became the foundation on how to make an accurate map.
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Big explorations were done to every side of the earth,
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which business development or a country
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Up until now, Geography is still formed by
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many scientists through many methods and new understandings.
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Just believe it, Geography is exciting.
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Because it talks with our environment and the nature
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around us. And today, with the development of
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the so-called "science stub",
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so it's like science communities,
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which doing something about, for example, spices,
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they have many tours, by the way, or even a group of people who
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create something like, camping, that's also, I mean,
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please join it if you can.
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Or boy scouting, that's not just doing activities in the nature,
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but also remembering,
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what I have read, known,
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when we are in the nature.
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From Geography, we will know how
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wide this world is. How the numerous place
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and human life which makes us realize that
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this earth is not just about our life.
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But also theirs, the human beings, floras, and faunas who also live in the other side of the world,
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That if we just carelessly create smokes
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or throwing trashes into the sea,
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it can have an impact to our brothers and sisters on the other side of the world.
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Not only that, there are also many other problems
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out there which keep become news on the TV.
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They still need help or at least attention
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So try to open your window, try also to
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dive more in the internet or books,
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look for information about places and stories which make us
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more challenged to learn and explore.
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From there, we will soon know that there's someone
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waiting for us out there. It can be a little child
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who is waiting to be told a story, or an adventure through the
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beauty of the great jungle which hasn't been searched yet.
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And that's GEOGRAPHY, after numerous places and met many people,
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the next question is that how all of them begin.
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So besides developing Geography,
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We also developed a science about the past,
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So get ready to enter the time machine since in the science of HISTORY
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we will travel across the past.
