Dokumenter Meditasi Politik & Lingkungan (2024): TERPEJAM UNTUK MELIHAT

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We are miniatures of the universe.

The more I think about it,

then observe all the patterns in nature,

seeing the patterns within myself,

there are so many similarities.

Turns out, the microbes in the soil are the same as the microbes in our stomachs.

Our blood vessels are similar to the roots of a tree.

So, looking at nature,

if we harm nature, it's like harming ourselves in the end.

We don't know,

what situation we will be in, as citizens.

Whatever I'll choose, or whatever we'll choose

can really impact others.

Indonesians have forgotten how to be true citizens,

who should oversee those in power.

We've become mere fans!

In democracy, you oversee those in power

because the greatest power lies in the people.

In my opinion, the most dangerous thing is oligarchy.

Rather than being representatives of the people,

it's dangerous to become representatives of the wealthy,

business people,

those with money.

Give us equal rights.

We are also Indonesian citizens fulfilling our obligations.

Especially approaching elections like this,

LGBT individuals, especially transsexual or trans women, will be raised and fried until burnt.

As long as there's still the perception

that accessibility for our friends with disability is a privilege,

even though it's their right that should be fulfilled.

Islam, as a love to the universe,

is not just about the relationship with Allah and humans,

but also with nature.

It's all interconnected, the universe.

The universe is not just humans.

Whoever chooses and supports me,

they have the right to control me because I work for them.

I was chosen because of them.

Without the people we choose, we can still live,

but without rain, we cannot survive.

Whoever the candidates,

unless I can vote for the sky to rain, then I'll vote gladly.

I believe that this awareness is inherent in our human souls.

Long live the people!

The first thing we must do out of love...

...is to be angry.

This is what people don't do now.

Where has all the anger gone?

Call me by my real name.

Don't say I'll leave tomorrow,

even today I'm still arriving.

I always come to laugh and cry.

Every beat of my heart

is the birth

and death

of all living beings.

I'm a happy frog swimming in a clear pond

and I'm a snake silently preying on the frog.

I am a child in Gaza,

full of trauma and amputations.

I am a soldier,

an arms dealer,

and a politician.

My heart is not yet able to see and love.

My happiness is like the sun,

make the flowers bloom all over the earth.

My sadness, my pain

are like river of tears,

extending widely across the five oceans.

Call me by my real name,

so I can hear all my cries

and my laughter at once,

so I can see

that my happiness and pain are one.

Call me by my true name

so I can wake up

and the door of my heart may open,

the door of compassion.

First Part - Interbeing

Ath Thaariq is a school with a vision

strongly inclined towards Islam as a love to the universe.

Its teachings are not just about the relationship with Allah and the relationship with humans,

but also about the relationship with nature.

It's all interconnected,

compassion, the universe.

The universe is not just humans.

Leaves are one of God's love to us.

We must strengthen each other.

Wow!

He's tall, isn't he?

We must give them love,

both must provide benefits toward each other.

We are miniatures of the universe.

The more I think about it,

then observe all the patterns in nature,

seeing the patterns within myself,

there are so many similarities.

For example, in plants that lack potassium and phosphorus

in the early stages of growth, they can suffer from stunting.

Humans can experience that too.

Turns out,

the microbes in the soil are the same as the microbes in our stomachs.

Our blood vessels are similar to the roots of a tree.

So, looking at nature,

if we harm nature, it's like harming ourselves in the end.

This is what was lost later

because everything got industrialized,

everything got monetized.

It all boils down to money!

In the past humans used to farm, first to meet the needs of their families and themselves.

The surplus was then sold.

For her, going to the market was entertainment.

Of course, entertainment!

Not to earn money.

Her food is always available.

So, when going to the market, she found entertainment, met friends, chatted.

The remaining goods were used for barter.

For example, when meeting a friend,

"Do you have chili, granny?" "No."

"Here, I'll give it to you, granny."

All her food is from here.

Of course!

This is the way of the Javanese people.

Granny, you're already so rich, everything is available here.

In terms of clothing, food, shelter, and ecological needs,

all human needs are fulfilled

without the need to eliminate each other.

What's happening now is the opposite.

People farm to earn money and to buy things,

Our formal education is designing us to compete for money,

to find the best jobs.

Successful people are the rich,

not those who enjoy life.

In religion, we find a very strong vision,

which is the vision of love for the universe.

This is a view based on the universe.

Rahmatan Lil'Alamin is

when people can gather in one place with comfort.

Starting from the school.

Ath Thaariq develops an education

for every skills that we have lost, must be retaught.

It must be compared

how the pleasures of agrarian culture

with the pleasures of the industrial culture.

All of that must be taught.

What's the form?

Just enjoy!

Enjoy the surroundings in this agricultural world.

So, this is agrarian culture.

Starting from us enjoying food

just by picking it,

enjoying eggs, just enjoy.

All of that is taught in Ath Thaariq

because when we encountered the industrial world,

those enjoyments will be gone.

School on how to arrange firewood,

because it's gone.

Then how to plant rice.

Planting rice is classified as monoculture,

but it's saved

by polyculture farming.

Cultural habits of farmers are cultivated in Ath Thaariq.

There's a saying in Minang, that the best teacher is the universe.

Permaculture is the art of designing,

but from this knowledge, we are required to observe.

When we observe,

one of the principles is

paying attention to pattern details

From there, we have to observe patterns around us.

Lately, we might be familiar with the term slow living.

In permaculture, without knowing the meaning of slow living,

actually, it's already slowing us down.

We are required to always observe,

to always look around,

to always be aware of every decision,

every step,

every thought

because what we do can affect everything around us.

So, we really need to be aware of what we do.

You have to appreciate the process,

enjoy it,

slow down,

because from there you can understand

why some things have to be done.

Why do you have to enjoy the process?

Because by enjoying it, you actually learn a lot!

So, that's the solution,

that we need to go back to our old ways of survival,

restore our lost abilities.

Draw a line, make a hole, then mark it.

Our abilities are lost because of comfort, we are over pursuing for comfort.

We plant trees.

It turns out, from that tree, we give birth to the firewood culture.

Finally, giving birth to the culture of cooking on a furnace,

gathering and eating together.

Planting a tree is only done once.

Then we accompany them.

After that, we nurture and harvest them.

This is part of our ecosystem. Look!

If there is no love for plants,

it won't survive.

Plants need to be nurtured.

Plants need companionship.

Plants need to be accompanied!

That is one form of our love.

That's the most important thing.

We accompany, greet, and reap the benefit from them.

Look at Ath Thaariq, everything grows lush.

This is the education

that has been here since ancient times,

since our ancestors. The practice of agrarian culture.

It's time.

There's a time to harvest.

Although ...

... it looks relaxing like this,

but maybe because I'm already influenced by the industrial culture way of thinking,

like there's a burden to always be productive.

So, relaxing...

... in my mind, I can no longer truly be relaxed.

It looks like I'm relaxing from the camera,

but...

... the sophistication of capitalism is ...

... really entered the mind!

I once thought,

what if...

...by not doing anything like this,

what if...

...I can be useful to the universe,

precisely by not doing anything?

Is there a point?

I absorb oxygen

trees absorb the carbon dioxide from me.

Usually, prayer has become a personal matter with the Creator,

that's the only goal.

Here our teacher has a complete understanding.

When she prays, any living being seen by her,

plants or whatever it is, prays together with her.

If we talk globally,

then think about global solutions,

as individuals we will feel confused.

We then feel discouraged.

We feel hopeless and demotivated, because the problem is too big for us.

But if everyone does what they can,

with their own portion,

small in each place,

that will also be a global solution.

We educate our students here to settle down.

In the future you must have a community.

This community will speak up about climate change.

The effort must be real.

Bru di juru,

bro di panto,

ngalayah di tengah imah.

Saeutik mahi,

loba nyesa walatra.

That's a very ancient language.

Ngalayah means when the harvest season comes, everything is in the middle of the house.

So, when you open the door, there's food.

When you look at the corner of the house, there's food.

Saeutik mahi means

from our small cultivated land,

there's an abundance of harvest.

Then, all is shared.

For everyone,

for all living beings, to get their share equally.

Prosperous and blessed,

love and compassion.

Everything is interconnected.

Second Part - The Chosen Ones

We are all connected.

Not just through nature,

but even through all the choices in our lives.

My dad used to read news magazines.

If I'm watching TV, it must be news.

My father was very strict,

I was not allowed to watch non-news TV shows.

Well, it was always the news channels.

Journalism, media.

I think those habits and small things

that exposed me during my formative period.

It also influenced me.

Things my parents did, shaped me,

it's mostly my dad

because I interacted more with him than my mom.

Both parents worked until I was in elementary school in 1998.

Then the crisis came,

then my dad was laid off and didn't work again.

Since then, he became a househusband.

During those times,

I felt he was very diligent in taking care of things.

How does it feel when we're raised by someone that,

from when I woke up until I went back to bed,

he took care of all my needs diligently.

It feels like there is so much love in that.

When he's gone forever, it feels ...

... like someone who genuinely cared for me in this world is no longer there.

and I won't be able to find a replacement,

even if one day I have a partner.

That's roughly what's ingrained in my mind.

I feel that he shaped me, to be a blessing to others,

to give without expecting anything in return,

including giving from what we have, even if it's limited.

Those values are then

carried into every aspect of life.

People's access to information is not the same,

while their choices

are determined by the access they have.

For example, I live in Jakarta.

I'm exposed more, I can know

there are media outlets named Kompas, Tempo, Project Multatuli.

Such a privilege

to access any information we want.

How about friends who live in places where internet access is hard to come by?

Access to information is a privilege

and that will determine our choices.

Furthermore, access to information can also be skewed from one person to another.

If, for example, not conveying the issues

of people affected by coal dust every day in Jakarta,

who struggle to breathe,

get respiratory infections every month.

Small children,

who are regularly taken by their mothers to the hospital for the same illness,

and their homes are dusty.

Maybe people think there are no problems like that in Jakarta.

Maybe people don't know what Marunda Flat is ...

... and that happens.

Even among us, there may be those that don't know about it.

Imagine if we don't report

those who are experiencing a lot of hardships.

This world is scary!

Knowing just this, we're still scared,

what if we don't know?

It's scary!

Very scary!

That's why, what we choose

can really impact others.

We don't know how

the situation will be like, in the context as citizens.

So, control is still needed.

For example, I changed not because ...

... not because I wanted to be in power,

but because when we avoid it,

political damage happens faster,

than the recovery efforts we make.

This political damage is greater, than the efforts we make.

So, whether we like it or not,

we have to get into that mess.

Otherwise, it will get dirtier and more damaged.

The media is capitalistic.

In Indonesia, it's controlled by oligarchs,

who naturally have political interests to control, censor, and more,

or it's market-driven.

What's special about being a journalist?

You can sit in the front row and witness history being made.

However, at Project Multatuli, you can't just do that anymore.

You have to be part of making history.

There's something called a news desert.

So, there's a very vast news desert.

What exactly is this news desert?

Women in the village,

community conflicts with companies.

The practice of colonialism is still there.

What is colonialism? Divide et impera,

divide the citizens so they fight among themselves,

then they just reap what they need to reap.

It's the same!

Now we're experiencing horizontal conflicts, right?

Reflecting on how the New Order sanitized,

cleaned our minds

from political thoughts.

We're not aware actually,

that we're designed to no longer talk about politics.

We were educated by the New Order to no longer talk about it.

This is the era of apolitics,

a legacy of the New Order called the floating era.

Indonesian people no longer remember

how to be true citizens,

who should oversee those in power.

We're just fans!

People are easily enchanted by things that are only seen on the surface.

"Oh, this person is kind!"

Even though goodness can

be highly manipulated by many social media strategists.

This is a machine

we call it in Indonesia as buzzers,

political influencers,

social media strategist.

There's a big machine behind it.

So, whether you abstain,

or choose one out of three,

whatever your choice in 2024,

after that,

go back to being citizens who watch over their power,

including the person you chose!

Don't turn them into idols,

constantly defending whatever they do.

That's been very prevalent in the last 10 years.

What is love?

What is the manifestation of love?

The first thing we should do because of love...

...is to be angry.

Actually, you should be angry first.

That's what people don't do nowadays.

Where has all the anger gone?

I still remember

when you were still a free-floating white cloud,

when I was still a river

tracing my flow towards the open sea.

Then you called me,

grasped my hand,

and then together

we fought to create thunderous storms.

How could we not fight,

while wildflowers

and mountains groaned

from the pain of injustice.

Duri Village is indeed infamous

for being the biggest slum area in Asia.

So, coincidentally, we are close to the market.

These friends, some of them are street performers,

like Rika, while performing, she'll collect discarded items.

Chika does the same.

For example, collecting second-hand clothes,

plastics.

There's someone making flowers over there,

it's made from cleaned straws, sir.

Earlier I mentioned utilizing items

that have piled up and are unused.

Sometimes we hangout at restaurants,

waiting for discarded items.

For example, Rika and Chika here

intentionally wait at a seafood restaurant,

then bring home seashells.

Used water gallons.

Since the '70s,

there have been many

trans women or "waria" residing in Duri Village.

So, this is a region that's friendly towards trans women or "waria".

It's a place where trans women from various areas.

Mama Kakak's love!

Where are you going? Let's sleep in my room!

Stay, please!

This is my daughter whom I raised from a baby,

Here, little kids call her sister.

So, little kids call me mama kakak.

- Mama Kakak? - Yes.

Hopefully, this will end soon.

When it comes to elections, you know,

whoever is chosen,

we'll still be like this.

We also want to be heard because we also vote.

We are still marginalized, oppressed.

Even for jobs, we always face difficulties,

especially to work in the government is very difficult,

even though there are one or two who's capable.

We also have our own intelligence.

This has already been turned into clothes.

This one is for the inside but it's still messy.

So, this will be made into a costume.

Give us the same rights as other citizens

because we are also Indonesian citizens who fulfill our obligations.

Especially nearing elections like this,

LGBT, especially trans women, will be highlighted and roasted to a crisp.

It's uncertain whether the elected ones

caring for the environment here.

For environmental issues, it can't be solved within a year or five years.

So, yeah, we should take care of it first.

The trans women in Seroja Studio,

finally, fight against social and environmental injustice

through their own expressions of love.

Oh, like a sea ghost.

- Like a ghost of what? - Like a sea ghost.

This is an example of daily choices

from a group of marginalized people.

Very political choices,

real choices.

Through arts and crafts

in an environment that doesn't receive help and support

from the state system.

Alright, then maybe we should just go ahead, Victoria.

Without waiting any longer,

let me introduce,

our latest trans superhero.

Who's first?

First, we call upon the trans superhero...

...Setra!

I feel

that if, for example,

we stay silent a lot,

we get trained to be silent,

we know what needs a deeper look.

We are aware of thoughts that come and go

and we don't judge those thoughts,

we don't deny them or follow them,

but we acknowledge them.

We can clearly see what needs to be seen.

By looking more clearly at what needs to be seen,

we know what actions need to be taken.

As a journalist, I feel this is very necessary

because we have to listen a lot

without judging,

without having prejudices.

Third Part - Guaranteed

Just refilled.

Anyone want coffee?

Do we want to be born or not,

for me, free will also involves that.

Anyone who chooses to continue living

or not continue living,

that's a human choice.

If we think in religious terms,

that judgment belongs only to God,

then we cannot judge someone's choice not to continue living.

We don't know what's inside everyone.

Face may not need makeup,

but eyebrows must stay slay!

As my niece says,

"Must slay, Auntie!"

There is still a perception

that accessibility or suitable accommodation

for friends with disabilities is a privilege,

when, in fact, it is a right that must be fulfilled.

I've been stuck in an elevator before.

Oh my God!

I forgot to check that, it turns out the button is high.

I entered, turns out the button is too high.

So, can't press it?

Can't.

So, I waited,

until someone came.

Hello!

Later, I'll just say that it turns out it's not accessible enough.

Yes, okay.

So, just make sure, yeah, this one.

Yes, just make sure.

If you agree, we'll order.

If it's upstairs, there must be a lift, right?

Oh, this?

Do I use the elevator?

Is there a wheelchair accessible toilet, Sir?

- Right here. - Is there? Oh, over there. Okay.

- If there's an event, where is the toilet? - Here.

Oh, here. Let's check the toilet!

This seems to be difficult for people with disabilities.

This,

from here, the rotation.

It shouldn't be like this.

People only think about the looks but not functionality.

It doesn't even have handrails.

This one has a handrail.

Why is the men's toilet more accessible?

It should be a bit this way

- Oh, dangerous, huh? - Dangerous.

If somebody's using a wheelchair, it means they have to lean here.

But, yeah, hopefully.

There's an accessible toilet.

Have you checked?

Yes, I'm just a bit worried about the shaky handrails.

Someone has to guard the elevator

because if a wheelchair or someone like me...

Oh yeah, can't.

I can't reach it.

If the wheelchair user has difficulty, he will be too far away.

So, someone has to guard there.

It's good to have special parking spaces for the disabled.

Only the ramp needs to be smoothed out

from the parking lot to the waiting room,

stairs to go up to Metro Dewata

might need to be made less steep.

To and from the terminal,

it seems like it needs to be made more accessible.

Is there a good person in politics?

Hmm,

even though it looks like

looking for a needle

in a haystack

or a handful of straw,

they exist.

There are good people in politics.

Not only in practical politics, but ...

... in any aspect of life,

actually, that is also politics, isn't it?

At a glance, Anggiasari seems like an activist,

but she is the expert staff of the vice-chairman of the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly.

Anggiasari tries to enter the system

to change

and continue to monitor policies for her friends with disabilities.

In 2019, Anggiasari became a legislative candidate

from one of the established political parties.

Although in the end,

she was not elected as a representative.

Anyone who wants to enter politics must have connections and money,

maybe four to six billion rupiah

to become a representative.

One out of more than 600 people in the DPR,

each needs four billion rupiah,

how is that achievable?

As a professor,

my last salary ten years ago was five and a half million rupiah per month.

If I want to be a representative,

how many months and years do I have to go without eating until I can gather that much?

The challenge I consider the most dangerous is oligarchy.

Instead of becoming representatives of the people,

there is a danger of falling into representatives of the rich,

businessmen,

people with money.

I decide...

...to declare...

...the resignation from my position as president...

We realize after the Reformation,

that's the measure.

The longer the democracy, the narrower it becomes.

So, our rights to fight for it are getting smaller.

We cannot distribute our aspirations in an apparent way

to the existing political parties.

Coming with the disappointment,

with frustration seeing existing political parties,

and we imagine creating a new political party,

which consists of ordinary people.

Today, all political parties are damaged

and we want to build something different,

that really allows

ordinary people to be involved casually.

No need for tycoons, no need for anything else.

There is something called the backbone of the earth in producing oxygen.

In that group, there is Indonesia,

Africa, espeacally Congo,

then the Amazon in Brazil.

Actually, this group

is the one that really needs to be considered in the world.

Imagine, people cannot live without oxygen.

In 2021, there was an increase in members,

many members joined.

Among young people to high school students.

They proposed a system called holacracy,

no longer democracy but holacracy,

then wanting the existence of heterarchy which means equal hierarchy.

This means not no hierarchy,

but heterarchy which means equal or egalitarian.

This concept is what we use now.

There's still around three thousand members

and those who re-registered until now are hundreds.

We hope that after 2024,

The Green Party can already exist,

In 2029 we can be a participant in the elections.

Those who choose and support me,

they are the ones who have the right to control me

because I work for them.

I was chosen because of them.

Pesantren Abadi Fund!

One village, one community health center

or post with one health worker.

Environmental issues are a priority.

Environmental ethics and development ethics!

We are determined to eradicate corruption until the roots!

Voting means having responsibility

to monitor the promises and policies of the representative,

We demand their promises,

we criticize if they break them,

instead of defending them to death.

He will call the Angel Gabriel,

"O Gabriel, I love my servants,

whose name, God willing, is Anies Baswedan."

Of course, religion should not be used as a tool for anything.

Religion is not a political tool.

Christianity once waged war in the name of religion.

The Crusades, in their view,

liberated holy places,

Jerusalem,

Bethlehem

from non-Christian occupation.

Now, we feel ashamed

because pouring blood in the name of God,

that's never right!

Since then, in Europe

countries reject religious interference in politics.

Social justice is the most important challenge.

Fifty percent of Indonesian society is still not prosperous.

If they get the impression,

that Indonesia belongs to those above, it's dangerous!

They will say,

"What's the use of Pancasila?

We better find another ideology!"

Pancasila only works for those above,

who are already rich, keeps getting richer.

There's something that cannot be controlled by the state.

For example, like this,

who owns the ozone?

Does it belong to America?

Does it belong to Indonesia?

No!

Who is responsible for the North and South Poles?

They do not belong to any country!

We can be indifferent,

but if it melts,

the Earth will flood!

The fish in the ocean that we catch,

doesn't taste salty.

Imagine, it lives in saltwater but it's not salty.

Nature teaches us that,

it means we can live in...

...a place with a different faith than ours.

It's very possible!

As we change the situation,

it's a different matter

and it definitely requires unity.

Why is unity important?

Why is the number important?

The footpath in the forest

will always exist and be visible if walked on frequently.

always frequently passed.

When we rarely pass,

there will be wild grass growing there

and then it'll cover the footpath.

Where are you, little star?

I search for you in every direction.

I know you're behind the clouds.

Tonight, the full moon is bright,

buds are growing.

Fourth Part - The Marginal

The poverty standard for most people is like me,

no income at all.

I never really had any money,

every day, every month, every year I don't have any.

It gets eaten right away!

I want to breed weaver ants, but it's difficult.

Weaver ants can be cooked as a dish.

If the larvae can be processed into pepes,

served with coconut and chili sauce.

Money is usually used to buy food.

If our bodies are healthy and can produce food from nature,

then what's the use of money?

Living without money feels liberating,

feels like there's no burden,

no rules,

feels free!

I used to be like everyone else,

believing that there are standards in life.

It should be like this and that,

now it feels strange,

why should there be standards in life?

"Life standards should be like this"

or "decent standards should be like this."

So I call my way of life "backward",

because my life is actually backward.

From other people's point of view,

my value is decreasing.

But for myself,

my value is increasing.

I used to often have headaches and stomachaches.

Now I don't feel any of those pains anymore.

Even though I used to have an income,

now I have no income.

But the impact can be very different.

Food adaptation is the most important.

Why food adaptation?

Because eating is a primary need.

whether you have money or not,

rich or poor,

you have to eat to continue living.

When I moved to the village, the first thing I thought about was food.

How can I produce something I can eat,

I eat according to what's available in that season.

During jackfruit season,

we can eat jackfruit for a month or two straight.

Just different ways of cooking.

During melinjo season, I eat melinjo leaves continuously

before the melinjo season ends.

In cricket season

or mushroom season, I eat that.

This is called wood ear mushrooms.

This amount is just for one meal.

I like it.

These mushrooms taste

like...

"crunch, crunch, crunch" like cartilage.

Can be mixed with eggs,

more practical if made into an omelet.

Can also be stir-fried with garlic.

Catch it first!

This is called "laron Ireng," it comes out at night.

They say it's high in protein.

But it tastes good!

Can be cooked into "peyek," peeled, fried,

or eaten directly.

Delicious!

If familiar, it tastes like sago caterpillar.

Sal is an office worker from the capital city

who eventually decides to return to the village

to fulfill the calling to take care of his parents.

He returned just moments before his mother passed away.

Sal then changed his name to...

...Maharlikha.

Maharlikha chooses to live outside the system,

defecting from the economic system,

from the state system.

Maharlikha means freedom or free.

In Sanskrit, it means like mahardika.

It means independent.

Nature has a significant impact on our lives as farmers.

During the dry season, we cannot work in the fields,

and our food supply decreases.

While our way of life and farming system

truly follows the pattern of the universe.

When the rainy season comes, we will surely be blessed.

Plenty of food,

plenty of vegetables.

As advanced as technology may be,

humans without nature surely cannot survive.

However, nature can sustain itself,

without human assistance, nature can survive.

Without nature, Maharlikha cannot survive.

It's cloudy, looks like it's going to rain.

After 6 months of drought, one day the rain came,

like being tied up and then released.

If there's no rain, there's no life.

No water, no life.

Rain should indeed be celebrated.

If rain doesn't fall for one or two years,

what will happen?

When the rain falls, there are so many blessings.

So many, beyond anything.

With a life like this, I come to know,

that what makes us live is not just work.

But nature also gives us life.

I often get asked,

"Aren't you lonely being alone?"

But I never felt alone.

For one, there are these chickens.

If I don't work in the field, I won't be able to eat.

The last time I voted was in high school,

voting for the student council president.

After that, never again.

Choosing anyone if it doesn't rain,

we still won't be able to eat,

We cannot survive.

Without the people we choose, we can live.

But without rain, we cannot live.

Maharlikha itself,

whoever the candidate is,

except for voting for the sky and then rain, we'll vote with pleasure

Not voting...

...is a choice.

But it's a heavy and responsible choice.

Voting means

we have a responsibility,

to monitor the promises and policies of the chosen representative.

To always demand their promises

and criticize them if they break them.

Being abstinent is not apathy

and not caring.

But it means having a commitment

to monitor and criticize all candidates.

Like Maharlikha,

who harshly criticizes all established systems

by living outside the system.

Sometimes the poor are considered to not have freedom.

Even though I'm poor, I feel free.

Even more than free.

Freedom in the truest sense.

Freedom to live,

freedom to breathe,

freedom to work.

Independence in everything.

So, against the tide,

because independence for me is going against the flow...

...of normal life in general.

I am free to choose,

when people move forward to migrate in search of opportunities in the city,

I return to the village.

Living in the village.

That's also independence.

Chapter 5 - Awoke

Actually, I think enlightenment

is not something new.

If I believe that actually this awareness

is already inherent in our souls as humans.

Values like courage

there are values like,

working together with others.

Not only with fellow humans,

but also working together with nature.

Then there's caring, there's compassion

Rayuan Pulau kelapa,

not Rayuan Pulau Kelapa Sawit.

Sometimes we underestimate the small things we do,

but the impact is significant.

Starting from simple and small things that we can do every day.

If we count the daily plastic straw consumption in Indonesia alone,

it can reach 500 million uses per day.

So imagine if there's a collective movement,

every individual stopped using plastic straws,

multiplied by the population,

how much can we reduce pollution in nature

with an item called a plastic straw?

Don't underestimate simple decisions,

because collectively, the impact can be huge.

Like the choice of Andre and the Copernik researchers.

So actually, this is a response,

where actually simple and appropriate technology,

can answer the problems in the community.

Elaborating initiatives with appropriate technology,

easily accessible to the community,

and can be easily replicated.

Wira's choice to create a game board.

When making the game more complicated,

convincing people to play it becomes more difficult.

But when achieved, people can feel more engaged,

because they gain a deeper understanding.

This game assumes that carbon footprint has a price,

that the world will physically end when emissions are high.

They will understand,

"Oh, clearly,

even though we know climate change is a problem,

why don't all countries want to work together?

because each country has its own interests.

Hopefully, by playing the game,

they understand and are willing to engage with all these difficult concepts.

There might be a card from blue that can steal a card.

Putri's choice to create homemade soap products.

Our sea is currently in chaos.

There's a lot of plastic waste,

and there's detergent pollution.

Laut Tentrem is a prayer so that our sea...

...can be peaceful.

Whenever that is!

But we slowly reduce the use of detergent

Then reduce plastic waste from liquid soap packaging.

Maybe focus on small things that can be done at home.

Like sorting waste.

Aryanto's choice

to quit working

and establish a waste bank.

The application's name is "Si Darling."

Cardboard 5.6kg,

so the total waste is 4 types.

The nominal is 14,240.

Formerly, waste collection and transfer were supported by the government.

When the funding allocation has decreased,

automatically everything is handed over to the village to process the waste.

It has to be sorted.

If all of this is still mixed.

This is called duplex,

this one is a regular cardboard, etc.

These teachers' choice to regularly gather

and conduct beach cleaning actions.

Even though I wear a bun and makeup,

I am never ashamed to pick up trash.

Out of 300 people present today,

we collected a total of about 130 kilograms of trash.

Amad's choice,

an illiterate domestic helper,

utilizing unused land in front of his house,

for gardening

and raising chickens.

Initially, I made this garden,

from dry leaves.

Initially, just for fun because there was often leftover rice,

rather than being wasted,

then I bought a pair of chickens.

As time went on, they laid more and more eggs.

Many of these have been sold.

Originally, there were so many.

Who is our real enemy?

Our only enemy,

is suffering.

Everything we do every day,

over time,

is far more important than the ritual of politics every 5 years.

To always be aware,

in our choices every moment.

Through music,

food,

games,

technology,

soap,

trash,

gardens, anything!

It may seem trivial.

But if it's done together,

collectively,

the impact will be massive.

This is the real form of political choices

that actually matter.

Epilog - Connected Now we will close this film with our eyes closed.

Sit,

relax,

close your eyes slowly,

breathe in,

and breathe out.

Take a deep breath,

breathe out slowly.

One,

two,

three.

Be quiet

and listen!

All hopes

and manifestations.

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

Because...

...it is unrealistic for us now to accept...

...corruption with "Oh well,"

sexual violence, "Well, you're a woman, just accept it."

"So, don't wear strange clothes,

don't wear heavy makeup, don't wear this and that."

Demand the impossible.

What is impossible?

What is impossible?

Yes, we may not know the answer yet.

Let's look for it together,

not alone.

How do we get there?

Starting with the smallest things we can do,

but imagine a world without exploitation.

Don't be a victim, don't be an exploiter.

That's it for now.

Sanggar Seroja has wanted to have a shelter from the beginning,

where it can accommodate our trans friends who are truly powerless

already not accepted by the family, who have been abandoned by the family.

Like that, right?

Shelters that are not specifically for trans women,

it is very difficult to accept trans friends.

I get really sad when talking about this.

There is no inequality in the world,

any form of inequality.

There is no economic inequality,

there is no educational inequality,

there is no inequality in access to information,

we are all equal.

My dream is

is that everyone can travel independently,

having a proper job,

with a good quality of life.

Equal access to education. The same as our non-disabled friends.

That's a big dream.

Hopefully ...

... I'm in a timeline that can see all that happen.

With love for the nature in agriculture,

everything is shared very evenly.

For the birds,

for the snakes,

for humans,

and these humans are not just Muslims

but, for everyone.

Slowly ...

... open your eyes.

May all beings ...

... be happy.

We can start moving together, collectively, in our own ways.

Right now.

Europe in the year 1400

Witches hunted by the holy

Millions of women extinguished

Burned to ashes

Accused, tried without evidence

Pointed at, here and there

Judged, already destined to die

Same fate as 1965 GERWANI

We are hunted by hell!

Without reason and logic our conscience dulled and wounded

Wounds festering with pus!

We are hunted by hell!

Without reason and logic our conscience dulled and wounded

Don't forget history!

Fingers crushed by an iron hammer

Shaved and stripped naked

Pierced with thorns

Drowned

Finally hanged by the executioner

The sacred executioner

400 years, changing popes

Millions of women burnt

Continuously hunted

Only stopped in the year 1800

We are hunted by hell!

Without reason and logic our conscience dulled and wounded

Wounds festering with pus!

We are hunted by hell!

Without reason and logic our conscience dulled and wounded

Don't forget history!

When tortured

Painful and confessing

Proven to be witches

Let's burn and hang them immediately

When tortured and steadfast, not confessing

Proven to be witches

Being strong torture, surely

definately using witchcraft!

We are hunted by hell!

Without reason and logic our conscience dulled and wounded

Wounds festering with pus!

We are hunted by hell!

Without reason and logic our conscience dulled and wounded

Don't forget history!

We are hunted by hell!

Without reason and logic our conscience dulled and wounded

Wounds festering with pus!

We are hunted by hell!

Without reason and logic our conscience dulled and wounded

Don't forget history!

The ruling masses doesn't mean democracy

The majority keep accusing others of heresy

Yet secretly have personal motives

Burned by hatred, jealousy, envy, and spite

Use your brain before becoming a politician's dog

Those who like to invoke the name of God and The People, yet it's all for their own ambition!

We are hunted by hell!

Without reason and logic our conscience dulled and wounded

Wounds festering with pus!

We are hunted by hell!

Without reason and logic our conscience dulled and wounded

Don't forget history!

We are hunted by hell!

Without reason and logic our conscience dulled and wounded

Wounds festering with pus!

We are hunted by hell!

Without reason and logic our conscience dulled and wounded

Don't forget history!