Happy Birthday Indonesia

Marcelita Rinda
http://sundaymorningwakeupearly.blogspot.com/
@bbunnn

17 August was never more than an independence day for me, which can only be celebrated by people who truly "independent".

Today i went to Jakarta, not to attend the independence ceremonies. i went to Jakarta because i want to see, how independent are we when seen through the eyes of the capital. well, i saw a lot. i see how great our capital is. luxury buildings, shopping centers everywhere, high way filled with expensive cars, the air smells like money. Jakarta is the city of life, of glamorous, of everything you ever wished for.

We are already independent.

Until i saw the dark part of this heaven on earth. i saw black dirty river filled with trash with kids bathe and moms washing clothes and other goods there. for a while i wanted to not believe what i saw. and then i saw a highway guardrail, it filled with laundry. what is this? where is the luxury buildings? where is the city of life? there are two questions that pops into my head, are they dont know what they're doing? Who has done this to them? i sighed. im sure this is only the small portion of Jakarta's dark parts.

then i think, what I want to be a material lift for my writing tonight. the luxury? or the dead part? i dont know i cant decide. both is interesting. both is a problem. i dont know which part is describe the situation of our independence now. i need a help. while thinking, i checked my twitter, then i read something interesting. wow, zooey deschanel, from 500 days of summer/ she&him said, if she could. she wanted to come to Indonesia. suddenly, my feeling turned into a pride. famous artist like her amazed to Indonesia. not only her, but a lot of artist. artist that come from countries that dont have black dirty river love Indonesia. then why can we love Indonesia? social problems in Jakarta, must have happened in other cities from Sabang to Merauke. but if compared with the richness and beauty that we have, all problems will look very small.what we have to do is, not looking for any good or any bad things, all we have to do is love our Indonesia more. if we can love, surely we can keep.

so here we are, independent as we can be, independet as we want to be.

Happy Birthday Indonesia.
i love you