Setiap kali denger,
“tanah airku tidak kulupakan, kan terkenang selama hidupku, biarpun saya pergi jauh, tidak kan hilang dari kalbu.”
atau
“di sana tempat lahir beta, dibuai dibesarkan bunda, tempat berlindung di hari tua, sampai akhir menutup mata.”
entah kenapa lirik sesederhana itu selalu punya cara sendiri buat bikin hati sesek.
Karena ternyata, di balik semua capek, marah, kecewa, bahkan muak sama kelakuan para pemimpin negeri ini, banyak dari kita, mungkin hampir kita semua, masih sayang banget sama Indonesia.
Kita ga pernah benci negaranya. Kita cuma capek liat negara yang kita cintai diperlakukan seenaknya sama orang-orang yang harusnya paling bertanggung jawab menjaganya.
Maybe that’s the saddest part.
Kita sayang banget sama rumahnya. Kita bangga sama tanah tempat kita lahir. Kita cinta makanan, lagu, bahasa, dan hal-hal kecil yang terasa sangat Indonesia.
Cuma kita udah terlalu lelah sama orang-orang yang pegang kuncinya.
Semoga Indonesia cepat pulih.
Semoga suatu hari nanti, mencintai negeri ini ga selalu datang sepaket dengan rasa kecewa.
Dirgahayu Indonesia ke-81 🇮🇩
#HUTRI81
Pandji Pragiwaksono is the biggest comedian from Indonesia. But for him to perform in his home country, he must have his material approved by the government.
“I’m required to send a transcript of my jokes to the police,” he tells Variety. Only after the cops sign off on his punchlines will they provide a permit for the event.
After one special where he targeted Indonesia’s two largest Muslim organizations for accepting state mining concessions (therefore tying themselves to the Indonesian government), six people filed police reports accusing Pragiwaksono of blasphemy.
He was interrogated on four occasions, for six hours each. Pragiwaksono believes the campaign against him is politically motivated and that the vice president is behind it.
“A week after the special was released, over 1,000 Muslim people poured into the streets protesting my jokes, saying that it was blasphemy and it was condescending Islam,” Pragiwaksono says. “It caught me by surprise because I have no intentions of condescending Islam. The joke wasn’t even about religion.”
Read the full profile from @ethanshanfeld: https://t.co/l0hXDMNsHo