JOURNAL is a rubric containing articles written by members of the participating communities of the AKUMASSA workshop and other contributors. This rubric theme, in general, is about small narratives, locations, and mass events that are scattered in the daily lives of the writers.
Among the 80 thousand people who joined the audition, there was one of my friends who came all the way from Baso, Agam Regency, West Sumatra to Jakarta to try becoming a superstar, his hidden dream since the Indonesian Idol was held for the first time.
The Bangsal Harbor was a crossing place to go to Three Islands (Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air). Bangsal also became one of the livelihood places of residents to fulfill their daily needs.
here were the members of Forum Lenteng in the days before the Reformation 12 years ago? How far that Reformation has achieved its goal all this time according to them? I tried to ask them one by one… Where were you on these days 12 years ago? Jaka, 19 years old back then: In Lenteng Agung and was...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
