What Do You Think About Dry Season?

What happened in Indonesia? There are many fired cases, not only forests but also cities. Why could it happen?
Mass medias say it happened because of dry season in Indonesia. Indonesia gets so dry weather every day. If there was rain, it average happened just once in three months. 

People say that they have difficulties in their life because of dry season. They're a little bit complaining.

Let say forrest fires in Sumatra Island and Kalimantan Island. Smoke from one of the fire locations have spread to other regions. One of them is smoke from Pekanbaru, Riau. The smoke have spread to Aceh Province , North Sumatra Province and West Sumatra Province , also Riau Islands Province, either do the smoke from Jambi.

Why do people worry? The smoke from the fire result a disease of breathing pipe or lung disease. Hence, society should wear masker on order to protect their breathing. People also worry about reducing distance of sight because of the smoke. It can cause traffic accidents.

In Jakarta, there are many fire cases which came from short-electric current. It came from houses or buildings. One of them is PLN office (A national company which advances electricity in Indonesia). As result, some houses at Jakarta have to get extinction of electricity. This conditon makes more difficulties for society. Many activities have to stop for a while.

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Then, what should we do for dry season? Should we blame it? I think it is not worth thing to do. However, we should realize that dry season is also the mercy from Allah SWT the God Almighty. We should have mind that those all are useful for humanlife. There's no useless from The God if we can make it work in true ways effectively.

Remembering when the days were rainy season. People complained that they got difficulties to do anything. They had to fight in big rainy day, even in the flooding day.

Ya, the only one that we can blame is ourself. We cannot make them (nature) useful. We are not able making a plan about how to change the 'bad stuff' into advantages. We enjoy the duty too much so that we couldn't pay much attention to what will happen. Whereas, The God instructs us to think more and well, but we just follow our negative appetence. 

For today, what should we do when all that stuff happened? I think we should muse and remember The God. Because, one reason why it happened is our forget to The God. It is systematic. When we forget The Creator, we might forget how He also gives us the rule and direction to use what He created.

Now, we should pray more and more to The God. At least, we pray for asking much rain in order to flush the smoke in everywhere. In Islam, there is Praying for Rain, it worked in many cases. After we do that, we should always give thank so much to The God for the dry season. We cannot reject His gift for us. We just have to say thanks.

What do you know about Minangkabau? (2)

Let me continue my writing about Minangkabau. It is the second writing. (For the first one, please visit What do you know about Minangkabau? )In this session, I'll discuss about how Minangkabau's society lived. It won't be discussed exactly for every body. I'll talk generally.

Like other ethnics in Indonesia, Minangkabau is also unique. It has owned typical stuff. Minangkabau people are known by others in their habit of going abroad. As result, there must be Minangkabau people all around of Indonesia. What do they do? Public also know them by their habit of trading.

People know Minangkabau because of many restaurant in Indonesia which menyajikan Minangkabau typical food such as rendang, ayam balado, dendeng batokok, etc. You must know that rendang is one of international food.

What makes Minangkabau people wanna go abroad around Indonesia even around the world? It comes from their characteristic which cannot give up to what condition they deal with. Whatever problems they get, there is embarrassment to sigh. They always want to solve the problems by their ability even they have to go to other place.

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Hence, they should own certain abilities in their life which have to gotten since they were teenagers. In Minangkabau folklore, there are three abilities that people should own before facing a lot of challenges. What are they? They are sewing, cooking and self-defending by Minangkabau traditional martial art. It will be their provisions to be strong in life with no sigh.

You can see that story in Merantau film which is starred by Iko Uwais who also starred The Raid 1 and 2. Iko Uwais as the main actor showed that young boy from Minangkabau always wanna go abroad from his hometown to get better life. However, getting better he has to be prepared well. At least, he owned one of the three abilites, he owned self-defending ability. Rightly, the ability was useful for him to get better life and to learn more about how to get the best one.

 Some friends asked me why Minangkabau people are generally able to do trading. I answered that I don't know exactly. In my opinion, trading is just a derivative from well speaking way. I mean, Minangkabau culture gives lessons to people in speaking way. Speaking way is one of the ways of communication to other people.

For your information, there are four ways of communication in Minangkabau culture. There are kato mandaki (go-up words), kato manurun (go-down words), kato mandata (go-flat words) and kato malereang (go-slope words). Kato mandaki is used in communicating to older like parents, kato manurun is used in communicating to younger like parents to child or older brother to younger, kato mandata is used in communicating to the same age guys, and kato malereang is used in communicating to certain special persons in Minangkabau who is respected.

That ways teach Minangkabau people to speak carefully. It must not randomly in order to make people respect. In my humble opinion, these stuff make people able to speak well to another person. It stimulates the ability to persuade other persons about something, includes offering a product. That also influenced predecessors who fighted in Indonesia. Let see, some of them are Tan Malaka, Mohammad Hatta, Agus Salim, Buya Hamka, etc. They lead people's mind to get freedom and to move in some great ways.

This is the sequel of the previous discourse. There will be so many more I can discuss to you all. Be waiting, and thanks for reading.