While we were enjoying the meal, two men came, one of them had a height of about 180 cm. Suddenly all people around me stood up, stopped their eating, and immediately shook hands with that man. Apparently we were introduced to Tuanku Rajo Putiah.
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The Footnote of this Election
One by one the ballot paper was opened and read aloud by the head of PPS. The audiences seemed tense. The anxious faces of the candidates’ families were visible. The witnesses were busy writing. There were witnesses who smiled sheepishly because their candidates had not been mentioned yet. The...
The Memory that Remained
Not all had changed. Some things were still the same like they had used to be. The voice of the ticket seller was still the same, with the same tone and the poor English. However, Bangsal was still only a transit harbor. No tourist would stay long in this place, unless they accidentally couldn’t...
Watching Familys Dangdut in East Pamulang
The show was getting merrier. It was proven from the audiences who seemed enthusiastic to fill up the stage area, especially in the front part of the stage. The children dissolved into the show too. Some children watched it on the stage and from the corner of the stage.
The Just Ordinary Round of Sixteen
Any country that qualified for the World Cup usually was a country which had a good building system. Besides that, it also had a good state system (in this case, socio-political) and certainly had a good economic system.
The Election and the Three Sisters
In the middle of this big problem, the closeness between family members felt more, and so did the level of religiosity, to the mystical level. They kept repeating the story of wird and tahajjud that had been done continuously to save the son’s fate. Anything would be done for him, even selling...
The Rice, Cassava and Corn Competed for the Votes
From my conversation with my neighbor behind my house, he said that the money game like that was common. In the previous elections it had also happened. However, the money in the past had not been as much as now. It meant that for the next election, the money game would be bigger. And the next one...
The World Cup’s Myths: From Tsubasa’s Back to...
Once I’ve accompanied my friend searching for information about football. It was quite fun, making me want to keep watching this game which was played by 22 people. My friend then suggested me to browse the myths in football game. Many myths were given to me, all of them were interesting, but one...
I Want to be Mick Jagger
That’s Mick Jagger and his influence on the young people’s lifestyle in Indonesia from various eras. They actualize themselves with ‘Jagger’. But nowadays the idol concept has shifted a little. I don’t know if it’s positive or negative, but we can see everywhere the present young people do not only...
Pledge
I believe, certainly the people’s paradigm in my hometown wouldn’t be that bad without any cause. Now I came to think about it, here was the connection. It was because some government policies and the presence of the businessmen who exploited people brought out the structural poverty. Because they...