Sania Saraswati

Enjoy writing but not doing it enough. Concerned with how the world turns out. Co-Initiator Koalisi Berhak Bergerak. Views are my own.

[MALAYSIA_JAYA @MALAYSIA_JAYA]

tahun dah baru tapi indon masih primitif

[jul, ᮏᮥᮜ᮪ 🧪💛 @bsahsawth]

Min, hasil crosscheck video live YT dan foto dari pengguna KRL itu kek gini:

[Tom Wright @TomWrightAsia]

Halo teman-teman di Indonesia, tolong baca ini. Ada banyak misinformasi terkait kasus Nadiem Makarim. Jika Google menyuapnya, mengapa mereka tidak ikut didakwa? Google harus angkat bicara untuk membelanya.

[Ajie @ajiehatadji]

Benar.
Dalam studi kebencanaan, istilah yang tepat adalah "natural hazards".

Alam sejak dulu adalah sumber potensi (hazards), tapi tidak perlu selalu menjadi resiko bencana (risk of disaster), jika manajemen kebencanaan tepat dan mengurangi kerawanan (vulnerability) = MITIGASI!!

[Txt Tata Kota - The Urbanist Zine @stravenues]

Selama pemerintah merasa tugasnya dalam mobilitas itu cuma bangun jalan, sementara warganya ke mana-mana disuruh mikir sendiri mau pake apa, selama itulah ongkos transportasi bikin boncos banyak orang.

Selalu dikasih solusi yang ga solutif, entah disuruh nyicil mobil/motor atau "kan ada ojol".

[Sania Saraswati @madebysania]

Nanti malam (Kamis, 14 Agustus) (wow, malam jumat) bareng @stravenues’s ngobrolin transportasi umum di Bali, yuk? https://t.co/HEvwCzULni

[Txt Tata Kota - The Urbanist Zine @stravenues]

Transportasi massal di Bali ini mesti kita kawal implementasinya.

Investasi ke public service kaya transportasi umum ini jelas mahal di awal, tapi returnnya akan besar dalam bentuk wisatawan dan perputaran uang di kawasan tersebut dengan dampak/risiko yang minimal.

[Sania Saraswati @madebysania]

15:00 - 16:00 waktu tempuh naik ojek & Trans Metro Dewata dari Sumerta Kelod hingga Halte Mas (Ubud). Jarak tempuh 22 km.
16:00 - 16:28 waktu tempuh TMD Halte Mas-Halte Pura Dalem Puri Peliatan. Jarak tempuh 2,2 km.

[Sania Saraswati @madebysania]

@jinafile Hi, if you’re taking request can I ask for Kitchen Stories? I’ve been looking around for it but haven’t got the luck since I watched it the first time in 2017 abroad. Thank you

[Sania Saraswati @madebysania]

Jalan depan Pasar dan Puri Ubud masih macet terus padahal halte Trans Metro Dewata udah dicabut dgn alasan bikin macet. Terus knp masih macet? Ya krn banyak yang naik turunin penumpang dan mobil berhenti contohnya kaya di foto

[Sania Saraswati @madebysania]

Peneliti kesukaanku mengkritik industri pariwisata dgn contoh Spanyol. Bahwa industri ini tidak menguntungkan masyarakat lokal, sama aja kaya industri ekstraktif lainnya ya..sama aja dengan yang terjadi di pulau dewata

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

About Spain's tourism problem... it seems intractable but the solutions are actually quite straightforward.

First, we need to recognize that tourism is not a good allocation of real resources and labour. It means producing goods and services that do not themselves directly benefit the local population. In fact, they are actively harmful to locals... gobbling up public space, destroying neighbourhoods, driving housing prices up, worsening climate change, etc.

It is much more rational and beneficial to allocate all this labour toward creating things that people actually need, like public services, affordable housing, renewable energy, and so on.

So, why do tourism at all? Two main reasons.

One reason is to get foreign currency. In this sense, tourism is basically an export (but where the export factories are plunked disastrously right into the middle of your historic downtowns). Why do exports? To pay for imports.

The solution here is simple: reduce unnecessary imports. Reduce luxury goods imports (these only benefit the rich), reduce car/SUV imports (build up your public transit system instead), etc. There are many options here. This reduces pressure for obtaining foreign currency.

A second reason to do tourism is to create jobs. This one seems like a strong argument but in fact it's not.

The obvious solution here is to implement a public job guarantee. Not only does this solve unemployment (a major problem in Spain), it mobilizes labour around socially and ecologically useful things that benefit society, rather than allocating labour to useless things like serving tourists.

In other words, there are simple alternatives to the two main reasons people cite for needing tourism. Any political party that realises this can ride the current wave of popular discontent and translate that energy into real, practical social improvements.

This is not to say that tourism should be abolished, far from it. But it's clear to everyone that extreme dependency on tourism is socially and ecologically destructive and it has to stop.

[Jiang Xueqin @xueqinjiang]

In this talk, I use game theory to examine how the US-Iran conflict might play out: https://t.co/LM3luZC34y

[Sania Saraswati @madebysania]

Iya jg ya, manusia kan adaptif dlm memenuhi kebutuhannya jd tinggal diberikan sarana yg mendukung. Gak harus rumah tapak, di bangunan vertikal bisa terpenuhi kebutuhan sosial dan ekonomi.

[raihan aulia @raihanaulia_rar]

Lantai dasar bisa digunakan untuk akses pedagang kaki lima, warung atau toko kecil, dan kegiatan warga.

Artinya, kehidupan ekonomi dan sosial kampung tetap dipertahankan, walau bentuk bangunannya vertikal.

Ini yang sampai saat ini masih kurang di banyak apartemen atau rusun.

[Sania Saraswati @madebysania]

That one scene from ATLA Book 3 Ep. 6 got me tearing up 🥺 Fang’s loyalty

[Logos ID @logos_id]

Yang melakukan kekerasan: aparat

Yang dijadikan tersangka: tim medis

Make it make sense! Copot status tersangka untuk 4 tim medis dan 10 kawan lainnya!

[Richard H (Urbanly.SG) @Richard_URD]

Recently, NTWU (Singapore's bus driver union) had a special bus serving free coffee, which I went to. This bus has lots of bus-related memorabilia and stories about the Union...(please read thread)

[Sania Saraswati @madebysania]

10 km ditempuh dalam 1 jam itu kemacetan di Ubud. Lebih cepat lari gak sih?

[Timo Mason🤠 | Wealth Writer @Timo_Mason]

That’s why Bali feels safe.

The yogis would tell you: "The Hindu gods have praised us with peace."

Nah man, the mafia just wants your money.

Paradise has a guardian.

And it's no spiritual power, more like dudes with sunglasses.

[Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi]

Hear me. We can’t build a better future without facing the ways this system is broken, without facing the evil this country has wrought, without facing that there have always been people for whom the law and the courts offer no protection.

[Sania Saraswati @madebysania]

@mandiricare min, bank Mandiri masih di daftar jaringan BI-FAST kah? Pas mau transfer ke Mandiri dr bank lain kok bilangnya ada biaya Rp 5.000 krn bank tujuan bukan BI-FAST ya..