Wayang Suket

You want something, then you get it, are you happy? You have obsession, then you have chance to do it, are you excited? You can call me "kampungan" or something, but i have obsession to watch theatre in Gedung Kesenian Jakarta. Lucky me, friend on my CCF class give me free invitation to watch Wayang Suket Theatre Show on a series event Festival Art Summit Indonesia VI 2010, what a moment :D

So, wednesday night October 6, i went to Gedung Kesenian Jakarta. I feel excited with the aura, with the art circumstances, and also feel great to see splendor building, kind of room in the phantom of the opera, hehe.

I love to see something traditional in contemporary, and exactly Wayang Suket showing it :).

At first, i was imagine that i'll see Wayang Show as a common, there's a puppet, mastermind, and traditional music also. But, i saw different thing, more than just usual Wayang Show, and it's great :)

A man, called Slamet Gundono, who has idea of Wayang Suket. He's also become a mastermind of the show. He has consistently preserved and explored the local indigenous and wisdom of wayang with contemporary touch.  He and his Komunitas Wayang Suket present mixed or call it "Gado-gado" style  of conventional performances such as traditional theatres (lenong, ketoprak, makyong), humour, music, and current issues. They put 'politic issue' in their art language and in their style which is blended on the show. There's a joke about our president, parlement, and religion leader, and also offend our religion atmosphere in Indonesia. Beside that,He tell about prophetic story, such as Ibrahim, Sulaeman, Yusuf, etc, with his style in his "gado-gado" way.

Slamet Gundono play anything, include himself, wayang, human (performer) for delivering the stories. Therefore his show feels in absurdity versus reality, modernity versus traditional, and lucidity versus vagueness. But, because his capability in narrating story with songs while playing Ukulele to combine paradoxes with dramatic structure, it's resulting an attractive performance although we barely understand his language, his art language. 

In Art Summit that i watched, They presented a fragment of Serat Centini adapted by Elizabeth D.Inandiak, French Journalist who learn about Indonesian Culture since a long time. She also narrating  the show, so  we hear 4 languages there, Bahasa, English, French, and Java language. The title of the fragment was "Minggatnya Cebolang". The story is about a young naughty man named Cebolang who flee from his parents, Syek Akhadiyat, to roam and find his self-identity. Through this journey of life and moral, he explores human sexuality and ended up with various affairs of many people, including "ronggeng", immaculate widow or even Reog Dancer. A journey filled with lust, but finally it's also the searh for the One (Illahi), especially after Cebolang met the holy hermit who taught him about Dewa Ruci.

The moral of this story, the journey of Cebolang, is that despite the fall in morality, the man, at the end, will find the water of truth.

Great experience to have a chance watching it, which is art become a tool to deliver any messages of goodness, and also the important thing is to entertain all the viewers :)

Wanna go there much more :D

Credit : Sisca for the invitation :) , Slamet Gundono and His Group, and Art Summit Indonesia commitee for the review

Learn in Anomali

I was running on training this past three weeks. Running means day to day, even weekend, i have to learn and learn on three different trainings. One of them made me learn so hard to get a license. Unfortunatelly, i wasn't fit enough, in a class i was chills, then every evening on my way home, i got nausea. But i just have one thing in mind, Learn! whatever it is, let me gain knowledge a lot. No pain no gain. Then what's interesting in these trainings, me become 'anomali, haha..

First, in the Occupational health and safety training, i was the one who's not a nurse. A nurse as a paramedic in the company has to take part in developing healthcare due to every risk in every job/task inside the company. Hehe well, i'm not a nurse in this case so it means i don't need to do that in my company :p. My side is in my company, we could facilitate all of you for testing your health condition in order to enforce Occupational health.

Next, in Electrocardiograph (ECG) Course, i was the one who's not a doctor. I got little depressed because i don't have knowledge to do diagnosis or interpreting cardiogram result. But, a bit lucky, actually almost all participants do the same, they are GP who learn deeper as beginner about ECG, beside effort to reach "SKP". In my 'anomali' condition on this course, i have empathy that being doctor isn't that easy, i know when they were in college isn't easy, then actually regulation made them to do certification every 5 years if they aren't collecting SKP untill 250 SKP. It means every year they have to get 50 SKP. A course like this around 6 SKP, so in a year they have to do course around six courses. Maybe it's good for maintaining knowledge, but i guess for me it's too high to cost :p. Gladly tough the beginning i was nervous, but in the end i have more confident and pass it all as well.

Finally, my last training is training for Radiation Protection Officer (Petugas Proteksi Radiasi in Bahasa, let's call it PPR). So, i was the one who's not a radiographer. PPR is someone who is mandated by laws (in our country "Undang-Undang") and is appointed by radiation approval owner to implement radiation protection. PPR in performing this task, they must have work permit/license from Bapeten (Badan Pengawas Tenaga Nuklir). So, in this training, i have to learn and get license! Actually, i need all the basic of radiation in order to assurance quality of radiodiagnostic as my responsibility in my company by now, not about get license thing. Radiation has advantage and also danger. We have to justify what's benefit of utilization the radiation, then we have to assure that doses are as low as reasonably achievable. Every work has their own risk. In this case, of course radiographer has a risk of getting radiation. One of radiographer said that a friend of him died in leukemia after 7 years work in fluoroscopy (interventional radiography). Salute for all of you radiographer, for being brave and get me inspiring!

Thanks God for all the lesson you gave to me, make me feel that i only know very very a little from your infinite knowledge. Make me want some more, i pray to have many chances again in the future.

Beside that, when we become 'anomali', we have a lot of chances to understand another and being more respectfull to another :)

-life long learner and part of learning by doing-