Bersama damai yang berkedip pada bintang, aku berteriak

Bersama lekat yang berlinang pada rotasi, aku berlari

Bersama diam yang bertatap pada dimensi, aku tak bertemu

Flood have attacked Jakarta and several regions in Indonesia for couple weeks and so many people who live in underpoverty lost their belongings and properties. Within this circumtance, rural dwellers are attempting to find new jobs in fulfilling daily needs and is situatuation drives them to forge social cohession amongst the victims of the flood. Inspite of living in rural areas, they are stratified into vary of groups, social class, and so forth. According to Theory of Stratification, people who engage in those groups are incline not to separate each other and not working hand-in-hand. Fortunately, the flood has unified them to stay altogether within sufferings because when people are in stressful situation, crowds, and turmoils they tend socially and psychologically to integrate.

to be continued..

Today is holiday. Paul and john will spent the holyday with some plans. They want to go swimming, playing foot ball and window shopping. However they wont go to mall to window shopping but go to traditional market. How so excited the idea because they have not gone there yet. So they decide to go the traditional market first.

When they arrive in the traditional market, they want to buy the chocolate since it is cheaper than in supermarket. Then, they go to the snacks shop but the shop is close. In the same time, they also look a man is jumping from the window shop that the glass has broken. Paul and John are very surprising. They guess that the man is a thief. Immediately, they shout, THIEF…..THIEF…!!!!!!!

The man is suprising too to hear the Paul and John shouts. Then, the man goes to run since Paul and John want to catch him. The man feels threatly and try to escape. Paul and John are fighting for catch the thief. They chase the thief by go on. They want to catch the thief and will give him to the police. After Paul, John and the man run for a kilimeters, the thief is catched successfully. Then, Paul and John hit the thief.

“You are the looser,” Paul say. Read the rest of this entry »

Tidak seperti pagi-pagi yang lalu, detak jam itu terdengar begitu lambat. Laju udara yang biasanya merapat untuk melegakan sela-sela rongga dada justru terasa kian sesak. Sepertinya ada yang membuat ini semuanya menjelma menjadi asing yang tetap ditahan agar tetap dinanti. Satu., dua, tiga begitu seterusnya kejenuhan ini berhitung. Berharap urut-urutan angka itu tidak lagi sama dan bisa meloncat begitu saja. Agar dari satu dapat segera beranjak ke tujuh. Atau angka yang pertama adalah tujuh saja. Sebab aku menantinya di angka itu.

Talking about sex and sexuality is the different case. People tend sex is a biology activity or used to mention a gender label. However, sexuality has more complex meaning, relates with how to express the feeling to the others through actions, such as touch, kiss, hug, coitus or the softer action like body language, dress code, and conversation performance.

Shortly, every society plays the strong role to shape sexual value and action, also in forming or hampering the development and expression of member sexual. For example, in the east country, especially Indonesia, conducts intercourse before married is a sin, but in west country, that is a common habbit.

In the west culture, sexuality is a biological necessity that is not only restricted on normative dogma. Yet, it is also to consider the empirical experience that grows in the social interaction. As Yos’s story, Indonesian member who works in Amsterdam, that sex do not have to be conducted in marriage, like some stories of his colleagues in Amsterdam that have a daughter :

First colleague : I will be a grandmother. My daugther is 20 years old in pregnant condition. According to the plan, she doesn’t want to get married.

Second colleague : I was surprise this morning. Apparently, my daugther whose 16 years old had slept with her boyfriend, last night without informed me before.

Third colleague : my daughter whose 18 years old is still virgin and she never allows her boyfriend to come to our home (http://www.bebekrewel.com/holland-safe-koki). Read the rest of this entry »

Dimuat di www.jurnalperempuan.com, Kamis 3 Juli 2008

Oleh: Desintha Dwi Asriani*

Menjelang pemilu 2009 penyambutan perayaan kompetisi kekuasaan kembali terjadi. Semua hal dipersiapkan secara besar-besaran, menjadi ritus yang berharga sampai menyedot energi begitu besar. Pemilu dikemas dengan balutan ideologi atau visi misi yang tampak dahsyat, tentu dengan kerangka normatif. Perhelatan kampanye-kampanye resmi maupun terselubung, dan susunan acara pun telah dirancang jauh-jauh hari lewat pengesahan Undang-Undang Politik. Menariknya, pemilu yang bakal digelar 2009 nanti akan menyertakan secara wajib realisasi kuota 30% perempuan duduk di parlemen. Dengan demikian perempuan akan memiliki peluang yang lebih baik, terlibat dalam perumus kebijakan. Dengan begitu, diharapkan mampu menghasilkan regulasi yang juga memperhatikan kepentingan serta kebutuhan perempuan. Mengingat permasalahan struktural berwajah perempuan masih sangat kompleks, sebut saja misalnya kesenjangan akibat diskriminasi upah, masih maraknya kasus kekerasan berbasis gender hingga angka kematian ibu melahirkan yang sulit berajak dari urutan pertama di ASIA. Read the rest of this entry »

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