Batik and About

It’s been a few week since we celebrate the announcement of Batik as our national heritage. So do you still wear your Batik today?

While I like the fact that the world finally recognizes Batik as one of our national heritage, I do believe that there are still a lot of thing we should consider, about batik and our other so called national heritage. Especially about how we appreciate and treated those crafts, arts and cultures.

For one, indeed, as many have said and write, we only do care about our arts and culture when other country claim that arts and cultures as theirs. In retrospect, considering how rich our country is, actually this is not an entirely surprising attitude. Honestly, if I’m asked about a certain culture, arts or traditional thing coming from one region, most of the time I just shrugged for I don’t have the knowledge or information regarding such thing. Not meaning that this is an okay behavior though, I agree that something we must do something about this. And what I mean by we is us, the citizen of this country. It’s time to stop relying on our government to do everything.

The second point that comes into mind, while having a conversation at twitter and Chic plurk thread is that most of the time, while the we appreciate the crafts, the arts, and the cultures, we seldom convey our appreciation the all those people who makes that happened. I still can recall the news a little while ago about how those ketoprak actor who only gets less than Rp. 50.000,- per show. In similar notes, such fate is also happened to most of the traditional craftsman. While their product is sold at tremendous price tags here and abroad, they only get a little fraction of it.

Should this trends continue, the only thing that assured is that those so called our national heritage will dies and forgotten, simply because it was not a viable option to earn a living. In regard of this issue, I recalled something that the Japanese government does, they’re not just simply taking the arts, the crafts and those cultural things as their national heritage, they also recognize the people as Living National Treasure of Japan. Something that I wish we could also do to show our appreciation to those who dedicates their lives to preserve and guard our National Heritage.

And I Still Do Walkaway

garbage collector kid

For quite sometime now, I see this kid who always sleep in the front yard of a big supermarket near my house. Every time I’ve seen him – it was always around the evening hour – he would sits there, leaning his seems to be tired back against the fence of the supermarket and hugging his big sack. Yup, he’s a garbage collector. A sights not too uncommon to see here around this country I supposed.

Yet every time I’ve seen him, my heart would lurch. From the first time I’ve seen him, I always have this sense of feeling that, this is something that shouldn’t be happening. I can sense that this was not your casual garbage collector kids and I’d really want to do something to him. Something real, something that would really mean something to him.

No, I know i don’t want to simply just give him some money – I’ve already do that – my hearts says that the right thing for me to do is to take him home, provide him with shelter, put him to school, those kind of thing that he really need.

But that was one hell of a big responsibility and I know it perfectly. And I shudder at the thought and I choose to walkaway from it. My thought always finds me a reason for not doing it. Heck I can barely take good care of myself sometime, what in the world makes me think that i can take care of him? Those and million other reason would surface, and the real reason is I simply don’t have the real willingness to do what matter for him. the real reason is that I don’t want to do something and face the hard consequences. The real reason is I simply don’t care enough.

So, I just do what convenience for me, like giving him money, then yeah, I would walkaway. I still see him occasionally. Whenever I go to that supermarket to get some groceries in the evening, I would still see him. Sitting there, leaning at the fence wall. Probably he’d recognized me, for his eyes would stares at me as if to ask me “what would you do for me”. Then I would turn my face in shame, and I would walkaway. And I still do walkaway …

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For one hell of a courageous lady, who dares to take the responsibility and really do something instead of walking away …

Picture taken by Jonathan McIntosh, 2004. and can be seen here.

Independence Day

Indonesian Independence Day, at first I’ve already given up on making any post regarding this event. Got myself making several drafts, but in retrospect, I simply don’t feel any of that draft can convey what I really think about this special day for this country. Besides I really was running out of any inspiration lately to really be able to make any post.

That was until someone inspires me to make this post. So here I am not, tries to make the best out of the drafts I’ve already make.

To be honest, probably the main reason that makes it hard for me to write this down is because I never really give much thought about this day. At least that’s what I feel ever since my high school years.

During my junior high school years I have a friend, a Timor descent kid, whose being adopted since his parents are killed during the Indonesian occupational war there. He tells me stories about the cruelty and the killing that both parties – the Indonesian and the Timorese – do in the name of nationality. That I think is the seeds that really shape my point of view up till today. Also during my senior high school years, I got myself two teachers that influence me a lot. One of them tells us about the oppression that our government does to the Kedung Ombo residents that refuses to be reallocated when the government build the Kedung Ombo dam. Another one tells us story about how Golkar and ABRI manipulate the politics those days.

Afterward there’s really not much to tell. I got myself involved in underground movement and such during my college years. And my point of view toward these celebrated national holidays is dwindling along the way. I really don’t put much faith on nationalism nor patriotism. Instead I choose humanity, I choose freedom and I choose tolerance.

That being said, I do love the people of this great country. And I do admire those who fought and give their lives for the people of this nation. People like Munir, Bang Ali and his friend on Petisi 50 and many others who really stand against the oppression and injustice that our government does toward the Indonesian people.

And now, at the sixty forth anniversary of this Republic, we’re blessed with more freedom. And the rise of online social networking tools like twitter, facebook and plurk gives us media to channel our freedom of expression. And some of us really use this opportunity and media for good cause, like to build community of similar interest people and to express ourselves to some issue in more visible way.

Like for this Independence Day celebration, initiated by one outstanding man, Anggun Adi Prasetya, along with the Kopdar Jakarta community. They made these two videos

This one is as part of their celebration of the Independence Day.

And this one is their response to the July Bombing incidents and terrorism in general.

No doubt we’re going to see a lot of similar movement in the future. Heck, some movements actually has already established prior to this, like the ‘Free Prita‘ movement and indonesiaunite Movement. And this is just a glimpse of the many movement out there. And I do believe that it’s just a matter of time before we’re seeing movement that really in touch with reality instead of simply an online movement and with a more long term projection. And I can’t really wait to see all that. And may be, one day, we can really be independence …

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Why We Fight

Dalam Miniseri Bands of Brothers Di Episode 9 : Why We Fight, digambarkan bagaimana Pasukan Sekutu dalam hal ini diwakili oleh Easy Company masuk ke Jerman yang sudah kocar-kacir. Semangat pasukan menggelora, setelah sebelumnya mereka menghadapi masa-masa sulit, seperti yang digambarkan dalam episode sebelumnya, seperti saat D-Day, Pendaratan di Belanda serta pengepungan Bastogne.

Pasukan Jerman menyerah dalam jumlah besar (dalam episode 10 ini digambarkan sampai 300.000 pasukan menyerah) dan secara moral Easy Company dilanda euphoria, yang sampai mendorong mereka melakukan penjarahan. Euphoria ini terhenti, ketika dalam suatu patroli mereka menemukan sebuah kamp konsentrasi kecil, dengan pemandangan yang memilukan. Mayat-mayat telanjang dan kurus kering bertumpukan, ruangan yang dijejali orang-orang yang sakit, serta wajah-wajah survivor yang kurus kering akibat penyekapan mereka di dalam kamp konsentrasi tersebut.

Pemandangan ini menyadarkan Pasukan Sekutu mengenai tujuan mereka berperang. Yaitu melawan tindakan Jerman yang bertentangan dengan peri-kemanusiaan. Disadarkan bahwa Jerman sesungguhnya hanyalah sebuah icon dari kekuatan yang melakukan kesewenang-wenangan dan diskriminasi.

Hari ini tanggal 3 Juni 2009, keluar berita yang menggembirakan. Jusuf Kalla, Wakil Presiden RI dan Calon Presiden RI untuk Pemilu 2009 mengeluarkan pernyataan bahwa beliau menjaminkan dirinya untuk pembebasan Prita Mulyasari dari tahanan Kejaksaan Negeri Tangerang. Selain itu juga ada berita bahwa Calon Presiden Megawati Soekarnoputri akan menjenguk Prita.

Sebuah kabar yang tentunya cukup menggembirakan. Paling sedikit terdapat perhatian dari para Calon Presiden atas perkara ini. Tentunya dengan catatan tebal dibawahnya bahwa hal ini hanya akan menjadi suatu hal yang benar-benar menggembirakan bila atas intervensi mereka Prita Mulyasari dapat dibebaskan dari tahanan. Karena bila hanya sebuah pernyataan tanpa tindak lanjut maka hal ini tidaklah lebih daripada sebuah kampanye untuk menarik simpati. Dan itu merupakan kampanye yang akan berakhir buruk karena hanya mempermainkan emosi dari pihak keluarga Prita Mulyasari yang sangat menantikan pembebasan Prita.

Kejadian ini, terutama jaminan dari Jusuf Kalla untuk pembebasan penahanan Prita Mulyasari, sesungguhnya bukanlah solusi ideal atas kasus ini. Jaminan Jusuf lebih merupakan jalan pintas, untuk dapat segera membebaskan Prita Mulyasari. Mengingat yang sesungguhnya diperlukan adalah perbaikan menyeluruh terhadap UU ITE yang digunakan sebagai landasan untuk menuntut Prita Mulyasari dalam kasus ini. Namun demikian atas nama kemanusiaan, inisiatif dari Jusuf Kalla dan Megawati Soekarnoputri ini merupakan inisiatif yang patut diapresiasi.

Lepas dari fakta tersebut, satu hal yang tidak dapat begitu saja kita abaikan. Sesungguhnya perlawanan ini bukanlah hanya sekedar perlawanan untuk membebaskan Prita. Perlawanan ini bukanlah hanya sekedar perlawanan untuk membatalkan tuntutan hukum atas diri Prita Mulyasari. Perlawanan ini lebih dari itu semua adalah perlawanan terhadap upaya untuk memberangus kebebasan warga untuk berekspresi, untuk mengeluarkan pendapat. Tanpa perbaikan menyeluruh terhadap masalah mendasarnya, kita akan kembali melihat Prita-Prita baru di masa mendatang.

Kita dapat bergembira, bila akibat inisiatif dari Jusuf Kalla dan Megawati Soekarnopoetri ini Prita Mulyasari dapat segera dibebaskan dari tahanan. Namun kita tidak boleh lupa, bahwa musuh sesungguhnya bukanlah Omni Hospital, yang menanggapi keluhan bekas pasiennya dengan tuntutan hukum, bukanlah Kejaksaan, yang tanpa alasan yang valid telah menahan Prita Mulyasari, namun UU ITE dan upaya-upaya yang dilakukan oleh segelintir kalangan untuk kembali melakukan pengekangan hak warga untuk berekspresi dan mengeluarkan pendapat.

Satu fakta yang harus diingat, bahwa beberapa negara yang bergabung dalam Pasukan Sekutu, saat ini adalah merupakan negara-negara pelanggar perikemanusiaan nomor wahid. Tanpa konsistensi dan tanpa adanya suatu kesadaran mengenai apa yang sesungguhnya kita hadapi, bukan tidak mungkin justru suatu saat kita dapat menjadi pihak yang berusaha mengekang kebebasan berpendapat dan berekspresi orang lain.

Update:

Pukul 16 Wib, Ndorokakung memberitakan di Plurk dan FaceBook bahwa Jusuf Kalla telah menandatangani SP3 dan penahanan Prita Mulyasari ditangguhkan. Masih menunggu penjelasan lebih lanjut, namun ini juga perkembangan yang patut disyukuri.

Update 2:

Pukul 18.30, Tempo Interaktif memberitakan bahwa Prita Mulyasari telah kembali ke rumahnya di Sektor 9 Bintaro, Tangerang.

Awal Pemberangusan Lagi ?

Sejak awal UU ITE ini keluar, sebenarnya sudah bertanya-tanya, apakah ini merupakan taktik terbaru rezim yang berkuasa untuk melakukan pemberangusan kebebasan warga untuk berpendapat.

Kasus yang baru-baru ini terjadi terhadap ibu Prita Mulyasari semakin meyakinkan saya bahwa memang itulah tujuan dari UU ITE ini. Rasanya kasus ini dijadikan test case bagi kekuatan UU ini, dimana bila berhasil maka pemberangusan yang lebih luas akan dapat dilaksanakan oleh pemerintah terhadap semua bentuk penyebaran informasi secara digital melalui internet.

Hal ini terlihat dari begitu sigapnya Kejaksaan Negeri Tangerang menahan dan menempatkan Prita Mulyasari ke Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Wanita Tangerang semenjak 13 May lalu. Tindakan ini menurut saya terkesan berlebihan karena dua alasan mendasar. Pertama, apa yang dilakukan Prita Mulyasari bukanlah kejahatan yang dapat mengancam nyawa seseorang atau berpotensi menimbulkan kerugian secara langsung sehingga harus segera diamankan agar tidak mengulangi perbuatannya lagi. Kedua Prita Mulyasari tidak berpotensi untuk menghilangkan barang bukti.

Hal lain yang menarik perhatian adalah mengapa Kejaksaan tidak memeriksa Omni Hospital untuk mengetahui kebenaran dari apa yang dikeluhkan oleh Prita Mulyasari yang dianggap sebagai pencemaran nama baik oleh Omni Hospital. Logikanya jika Si A menyatakan secara terbuka bahwa  si B adalah maling, dan si B menuntut si A karena mencemarkan nama baiknya, maka yang pertama harus diperiksa adalah apakah si B benar-benar maling, sebelum memeriksa si A untuk kasus pencemaran nama baik. Karena jika si B benar-benar maling, maka apa dinyatakan si A bukanlah suatu bentuk pencemaran nama baik.

Dan sesungguhnya hal ini juga mudah dilaksanakan. Yang perlu dilakukan oleh Kejaksaan hanyalah membaca keluhan yang disampaikan oleh Prita Mulyasari dan membandingkannya dengan catatan medis yang ada di rumah sakit. Dan rasanya untuk hal ini maka Kejaksaan perlu menahan beberapa orang yang terkait dengan administrasi rekam medis dari rumah sakit Omni Hospital untuk mencegah mereka menghilangkan barang bukti.

Terlepas dari semua hal diatas, setelah membaca berulang kali surat Prita Mulyasari yang diklaim sebagai pencemaran nama baik oleh Omni Hospital, sungguh saya tidak dapat menemukan suatu bentuk pencemaran nama baik. Menurut saya surat itu tidak lebih dari sekedar keluhan yang sering disampaikan dalam rubrik surat pembaca di koran-koran. Silahkan anda nilai sendiri berdasarkan surat itu berikut ini:

Jangan sampai kejadian saya ini akan menimpa ke nyawa manusia lainnya, terutama
anak-anak, lansia dan bayi.

Bila anda berobat, berhati-hatilah dengan kemewahan RS dan title International
karena semakin mewah RS dan semakin pintar dokter maka semakin sering uji coba
pasien, penjualan obat dan suntikan.

Saya tidak mengatakan semua RS International seperti ini tapi saya mengalami
kejadian ini di RS Omni International.

Tepatnya tanggal 7 Agustus 2008 jam 20.30 WIB, saya dengan kondisi panas tinggi
dan pusing kepala, datang ke RS. OMNI Intl dengan percaya bahwa RS tersebut
berstandard International, yang tentunya pasti mempunyai ahli kedokteran dan
manajemen yang bagus.

Saya diminta ke UGD dan mulai diperiksa suhu badan saya dan hasilnya 39
derajat. Setelah itu dilakukan pemeriksaan darah dan hasilnya adalah
thrombosit saya 27.000 dengan kondisi normalnya adalah 200.000, saya
diinformasikan dan ditangani oleh dr. Indah (umum) dan dinyatakan saya wajib
rawat inap. Dr. Indah melakukan pemeriksaan lab ulang dengan sample darah
saya yang sama dan hasilnya dinyatakan masih sama yaitu thrombosit 27.000.
Dr. Indah menanyakan dokter specialist mana yang akan saya gunakan tapi saya
meminta referensi darinya karena saya sama sekali buta dengan RS ini. Lalu
referensi dr. Indah adalah dr. H. Dr. H memeriksa kondisi saya dan
saya menanyakan saya sakit apa dan dijelaskan bahwa ini sudah positif demam
berdarah.

Mulai malam itu saya diinfus dan diberi suntikan tanpa penjelasan atau ijin
pasien atau keluarga pasien suntikan tersebut untuk apa. Keesokan pagi,
dr.H visit saya dan menginformasikan bahwa ada revisi hasil lab semalam
bukan 27.000 tapi 181.000 (hasil lab bisa dilakukan revisi?), saya kaget tapi
dr. H terus memberikan instruksi ke suster perawat supaya diberikan
berbagai macam suntikan yang saya tidak tahu dan tanpa ijin pasien atau
keluarga pasien. Saya tanya kembali jadi saya sakit apa sebenarnya dan tetap
masih sama dengan jawaban semalam bahwa saya kena demam berdarah. Saya
sangat kuatir karena dirumah saya memiliki 2 anak yang masih batita jadi saya
lebih memilih berpikir positif tentang RS dan dokter ini supaya saya cepat
sembuh dan saya percaya saya ditangani oleh dokter profesional standard
Internatonal.

Mulai Jumat terebut saya diberikan berbagai macam suntikan yang setiap suntik
tidak ada keterangan apapun dari suster perawat, dan setiap saya meminta
keterangan tidak mendapatkan jawaban yang memuaskan, lebih terkesan suster
hanya menjalankan perintah dokter dan pasien harus menerimanya. Satu box
lemari pasien penuh dengan infus dan suntikan disertai banyak ampul.

Tangan kiri saya mulai membengkak, saya minta dihentikan infus dan suntikan dan
minta ketemu dengan dr. H namun dokter tidak datang sampai saya dipindahkan
ke ruangan. Lama kelamaan suhu badan saya makin naik kembali ke 39 derajat
dan datang dokter pengganti yang saya juga tidak tahu dokter apa, setelah dicek
dokter tersebut hanya mengatakan akan menunggu dr. H saja.

Esoknya dr. H datang sore hari dengan hanya menjelaskan ke suster untuk
memberikan obat berupa suntikan lagi, saya tanyakan ke dokter tersebut saya
sakit apa sebenarnya dan dijelaskan saya kena virus udara. Saya tanyakan
berarti bukan kena demam berdarah tapi dr. H tetap menjelaskan bahwa demam
berdarah tetap virus udara. Saya dipasangkan kembali infus sebelah kanan dan
kembali diberikan suntikan yang sakit sekali.

Malamnya saya diberikan suntikan 2 ampul sekaligus dan saya terserang sesak
napas selama 15 menit dan diberikan oxygen. Dokter jaga datang namun hanya
berkata menunggu dr. H saja. Jadi malam itu saya masih dalam kondisi
infus padahal tangan kanan saya pun mengalami pembengkakan seperti tangan kiri
saya.

Saya minta dengan paksa untuk diberhentikan infusnya dan menolak dilakukan
suntikan dan obat-obatan.

Esoknya saya dan keluarga menuntut dr. H untuk ketemu dengan kami namun
janji selalu diulur-ulur dan baru datang malam hari. Suami dan kakak-kakak
saya menuntut penjelasan dr. H mengenai sakit saya, suntikan, hasil lab
awal yang 27.000 menjadi revisi 181.000 dan serangan sesak napas yang dalam
riwayat hidup saya belum pernah terjadi.

Kondisi saya makin parah dengan membengkaknya leher kiri dan mata kiri saya.

Dr, H tidak memberikan penjelasan dengan memuaskan, dokter tersebut malah
mulai memberikan instruksi ke suster untuk diberikan obat-obatan kembali dan
menyuruh tidak digunakan infus kembali. Kami berdebat mengenai kondisi saya
dan meminta dr. H bertanggung jawab mengenai ini dari hasil lab yang
pertama yang seharusnya saya bisa rawat jalan saja. Dr. H menyalahkan
bagian lab dan tidak bisa memberikan keterangan yang memuaskan.

Keesokannya kondisi saya makin parah dengan leher kanan saya juga mulai
membengkak dan panas kembali menjadi 39 derajat namun saya tetap tidak mau
dirawat di RS ini lagi dan mau pindah ke RS lain. Tapi saya membutuhkan data
medis yang lengkap dan lagi-lagi saya dipermainkan dengan diberikan data medis
yang fiktif.

Dalam catatan medis, diberikan keterangan bahwa BAB saya lancar padahal itu
kesulitan saya semenjak dirawat di RS ini tapi tidak ada follow upnya
samasekali. Lalu hasil lab yang diberikan adalah hasil thrombosit saya yang
181.000 bukan 27.000.

Saya ngotot untuk diberikan data medis hasil lab 27.000 namun sangat dikagetkan
bahwa hasil lab 27.000 tersebut tidak dicetak dan yang tercetak adalah 181.000,
kepala lab saat itu adalah dr. Mdan setelah saya complaint dan marah-marah,
dokter tersebut mengatakan bahwa catatan hasil lab 27.000 tersebut ada di
Manajemen Omni maka saya desak untuk bertemu langsung dengan Manajemen yang
memegang hasil lab tersebut.

Saya mengajukan complaint tertulis ke Manajemen Omni dan diterima oleh Og
(customer service coordinator) dan saya minta tanda terima. Dalam tanda
terima tersebut hanya ditulis saran bukan complaint, saya benar-benar
dipermainkan oleh Manajemen Omni dengan staff Og yang tidak ada service nya
sama sekali ke customer melainkan seperti mencemooh tindakan saya meminta tanda
terima pengajuan complaint tertulis.

Dalam kondisi sakit, saya dan suami saya ketemu dengan Manajemen, atas nama Og
(customer service coordinator) dan dr. G (customer service manager) dan
diminta memberikan keterangan kembali mengenai kejadian yang terjadi dengan
saya.

Saya benar-benar habis kesabaran dan saya hanya meminta surat pernyataan dari
lab RS ini mengenai hasil lab awal saya adalah 27.000 bukan 181.000 makanya
saya diwajibkan masuk ke RS ini padahal dengan kondisi thrombosit 181.000 saya
masih bisa rawat jalan.

Tanggapan dr. G yang katanya adalah penanggung jawab masalah complaint saya
ini tidak profesional samasekali. Tidak menanggapi complaint dengan baik,
dia mengelak bahwa lab telah memberikan hasil lab 27.000 sesuai dr. Mimi
informasikan ke saya. Saya minta duduk bareng antara lab, Manajemen dan dr.
H namun tidak bisa dilakukan dengan alasan akan dirundingkan ke atas
(Manajemen) dan berjanji akan memberikan surat tersebut jam 4 sore.

Setelah itu saya ke RS lain dan masuk ke perawatan dalam kondisi saya
dimasukkan dalam ruangan isolasi karena virus saya ini menular, menurut analisa
ini adalah sakitnya anak-anak yaitu sakit gondongan namun sudah parah karena
sudah membengkak, kalau kena orang dewasa yang ke laki-laki bisa terjadi
impoten dan perempuan ke pankreas dan kista. Saya lemas mendengarnya dan
benar-benar marah dengan RS Omni yang telah membohongi saya dengan analisa
sakit demam berdarah dan sudah diberikan suntikan macam-macam dengan dosis
tinggi sehingga mengalami sesak napas.

Saya tanyakan mengenai suntikan tersebut ke RS yang baru ini dan memang saya
tidak kuat dengan suntikan dosis tinggi sehingga terjadi sesak napas.

Suami saya datang kembali ke RS Omni menagiih surat hasil lab 27.000 tersebut
namun malah dihadapkan ke perundingan yang tidak jelas dan meminta diberikan
waktu besok pagi datang langsung ke rumah saya. Keesokan paginya saya tunggu
kabar orang rumah sampai jam 12 siang belum ada orang yang datang dari Omni
memberikan surat tersebut. Saya telepon dr. G sebagai penanggung jawab
compaint dan diberikan keterangan bahwa kurirnya baru mau jalan ke rumah saya
namun sampai jam 4 sore saya tunggu dan ternyata belum ada juga yang datang
kerumah saya. Kembali saya telepon dr. G dan dia mengatakan bahwa sudah
dikirim dan ada tanda terima atas nama Rukiah, ini benar-benar kebohongan RS
yang keterlaluan sekali, dirumah saya tidak ada nama Rukiah, saya minta
disebutkan alamat jelas saya dan mencari datanya sulit sekali dan membutuhkan
waktu yang lama. Logikanya dalam tanda terima tentunya ada alamat jelas
surat tertujunya kemana kan ? makanya saya sebut
Manajemen Omni PEMBOHONG BESAR semua. Hati-hati dengan permainan mereka
yang mempermainkan nyawa orang.

Terutama dr. G dan Og, tidak ada sopan santun dan etika mengenai pelayanan
customer, tidak sesuai dengan standard International yang RS ini cantum.

Saya bilang ke dr. G, akan datang ke Omni untuk mengambil surat tersebut
dan ketika suami saya datang ke Omni hanya dititipkan ke resepsionis saja dan
pas dibaca isi suratnya sungguh membuat sakit hati kami, pihak manajemen hanya
menyebutkan mohon maaf atas ketidaknyamanan kami dan tidak disebutkan mengenai
kesalahan lab awal yang menyebutkan 27.000 dan dilakukan revisi 181.000 dan
diberikan suntikan yang mengakibatkan kondisi kesehatan makin memburuk dari
sebelum masuk ke RS Omni.

Kenapa saya dan suami saya ngotot dengan surat tersebut? karena saya ingin tahu
bahwa sebenarnya hasil lab 27.000 itu benar ada atau fiktif saja supaya RS Omni
mendapatkan pasien rawat inap. Dan setelah beberapa kali kami ditipu dengan
janji maka sebenarnya adalah hasil lab saya 27.000 adalah FIKTIF dan yang
sebenarnya saya tidak perlu rawat inap dan tidak perlu ada suntikan dan sesak
napas dan kesehatan saya tidak makin parah karena bisa langsung tertangani
dengan baik.

Saya dirugikan secara kesehatan, mungkin dikarenakan biaya RS ini dengan
asuransi makanya RS ini seenaknya mengambil limit asuransi saya semaksimal
mungkin tapi RS ini tidak memperdulikan efek dari keserakahan ini.

Og menyarankan saya bertemiu dengan direktur operasional RS Omni (dr. Bina)
namun saya dan suami saya terlalu lelah mengikuti permainan kebohongan mereka
dengan kondisi saya masih sakit dan dirawat di RS lain.

Syukur Alhamdulilah saya mulai membaik namun ada kondisi mata saya yang selaput
atasnya robek dan terkena virus sehingga penglihatan saya tidak jelas dan
apabila terkena sinar saya tidak tahan dan ini membutuhkan waktu yang cukup
untuk menyembuhkan.

Setiap kehidupan manusia pasti ada jalan hidup dan nasibnya masing-masing,
benar…. tapi apabila nyawa manusia dipermainkan oleh sebuah RS yang dpercaya
untuk menyembuhkan malah mempermainkan sungguh mengecewakan, semoga Allah
memberikan hati nurani ke Manajemen dan dokter RS Omni supaya diingatkan
kembali bahwa mereka juga punya keluarga, anak, orang tua yang tentunya suatu
saat juga sakit dan membutuhkan medis, mudah-mudahan tidak terjadi seperti yang
saya alami di RS Omni ini.

Saya sangat mengharapkan mudah-mudahan salah satu pembaca adalah karyawan atau
dokter atau Manajemen RS Omni, tolong sampaikan ke dr. G, dr. H, dr.
M dan Og bahwa jangan sampai pekerjaan mulia kalian sia-sia hanya demi
perusahaan Anda.

Saya informasikan juga dr. H praktek di RSCM juga, saya tidak mengatakan
RSCM buruk tapi lebih hati-hati dengan perawatan medis dari dokter ini.

salam,
Prita Mulyasari

Salinan surat ini diambil dari Forum Pembaca Kompas disini. Nama-nama yang terdapat dalam surat tersebut sudah saya samarkan.

Dari surat tersebut, selain faktor emosional dan panjangnya surat tersebut, sejujurnya saya tidak menemukan adanya pencemaran nama baik disitu. Dan dari keterangan yang mendetail yang disampaikan oleh Prita Mulyasari, seharusnya kejaksaan memeriksa terlebih dahulu (dan melakukan penahanan bila perlu) terhadap Omni Hospital untuk mengetahui apakah apa yang disampaikan oleh Prita Mulyasari itu benar atau tidak. Karena bila didapati apa yang disampaikan tersebut benar maka tuntutan pencemaran nama baik itu haruslah gugur dan sebaliknya Omni Hospital harus diperiksa lebih lanjut terhadap kemungkinan malpraktek.

Saya bukan seorang ahli hukum, hanya menyampaikan apa yang saya pikir sesuai dengan logika yang saya punya. Dan berdasarkan logika tersebut, jelas disini bahwa yang tengah terjadi sesungguhnya adalah test case terhadap UU ITE untuk memberangus kebebasan rakyat untuk berpendapat. Modal yang menarik untuk pemerintahan berikut, bukan?

Update:

Tunjukkan dukungan dengan bergabung dalam Causes dan Fanpage di Facebook, dan pasang banner dukungan bagi Prita Mulyasari. Dukungan ini bukanlah sekedar dukungan bagi Prita Mulyasari sebagai perorangan namun juga dukungan bagi keberlanjutan kebebasan berekspresi yang sudah kita nikmati.

And So It Is

 

So this is how it should all ends. The man stands under the shadow of the building directly across the café. Watch her with the laptop in front of her and cups of coffee that she finished earlier. Also her cigarette packs slightly open and small butane lighter next to it. A vices that he introduce to her years ago.

Funny how he recalled all the things that goes between him, the girl and the cigarettes… She used to be against it vehemently. He remembered how her lips would pout whenever she saw him enjoying his cigarettes when she approached him with her story. She would pout her mouth and stare at him violently. Little did she know that time how beautiful she was in that poses. So he’ll just finish his drags, sometime replacing it with a new one just so he could savor that moment a little longer.

It all change when one day, he accompany her home during a rainy day after a school event, where she carries lots of stuff from home to help out the event. He carries a large bag in each of his arm and the mass of the bags prevents him to get under the umbrella that she used. The rain merely a drizzle at that moment so the decided to walk to her home.

It was at that moment when he fumbling to get his cigarette packs, she raised her arms to his shirt pocket, nervously tries to picks the cigarette pack with her finger. Than unskillfully she takes one shot and puts it in his lips while he stares at her amazed of what he saw. She proceeds to pick the wooden match that she brought for the school event because she doesn’t want to frisk his pants looking for one. The rain and the wind and her inexperience in lighting a cigarette make the process takes awhile to accomplish. And he memorized every second of it in his minds. Later she never minds his smoking habits and after awhile, since bad habits spread easily she follow suit.

He never understood what attract her to him. Nor he understands why she put distance between them some moment before their graduation. But he knows how it defines the path he walks now. At first he was angered by her distancing. He tries to find out why. But all he gathers are just small gibberish from her. Such like she wants to study for their final exam and all. No, he never takes that as the truth. But he know she already burns their bridges and don’t want to rebuild it again. So he moves on with his lives. Going for the path he actually had chosen until she comes into his lives.

That’s how it is, she goes away from their hometown and so does he. From time to time he still heard tidbits of her lives. While still carrying unanswered question, he decided to keep it all inside and move forward. Until he heard from his high school friend that she somehow still carries the burden of their relationship.

At that moment actually he doesn’t give much thought about it. He just feels that he has to see her and show her somehow that he survives and she doesn’t have to feel guilty whatsoever.  Carefully he plans the meeting. At their favorite café, on Friday so there will be plenty of other customers so they can distract the awkwardness of their meeting. Up to the fake invitation in a faraway place to add the finality of he’s being okay. Also to prevent her from entering his lives ever again cause the path he took wouldn’t allow him of such distraction.

She’s a bit hesitating at first to see him, though she finally surrenders to his wishes to see her. But it doesn’t goes as planned. Not at all. Up to the first time he sees her again he saw in her eyes, the eyes that he recognized right away. The eyes that is always there whenever she longs for him. And his heart starts to flutter. But he steeled himself. And goes with his flawed plan that he just realized.  Each moment of that meeting goes heavily in his heart. He can see that behind the charade of her lies of how happy she was now and how everything falls in the right place for her, she still longed for him.  No she still hasn’t learned to lie properly. Not to him anyway, and that makes his heart sunk like a lead.

But there’s no way he can withdraw everything he already said to her in the first place isn’t it.

So now underneath the shadows his heart lurched as he watches her lighting the cigarette one after another. Adding up the quilt that already mounting there. How he wished he could go there and comfort her the way he used to be. Or better yet, to turn back time so he doesn’t have to say the lies he said to her a moment ago.

But he turns away. Goes back to the path that he has already chosen. Steeling each steps so he don’t faltered …

Childhood

A while back I’ve found my self the digital version of  ‘It’, a horror story by Stephen King. This is the first English book I’ve bought by myself, so there’s a nostalgic value about it too . And let me tell you it really feels good to re-read the book we have. It gives you more insight to the story if I may say so

The book it self in my own opinion is one of the best story by SK, the battle against the monster – which called as ‘It’ spans for more than two decades long. From the time the main characters still in childhood up until when they’re grow up twenty seven years later.

But it wasn’t the story itself that intriguing me on this book. It’s the epilogue that linger in my mind for quite sometime. In short the monster is slain by the heroes at the cost of two lives of the seven initial heroes. And they all lost their memories of their childhood, gradually. In time they didn’t even remember each other.

Can you imagine it ? losing all of your memory about your childhood. The friends, the game, the fight … everything. Not event the name of city where they grew up. This is the biggest lost of all by far in my opinion. May be not for the character in the story since, well it was really a nightmare and who don’t want to forget their nightmare. Furthermore they’re unaware of the condition – the lost of their childhood memory – so they can live it just fine.

But can you imagine one day you wake up and you realize that you don’t remember it all ? We might have already had that kind of experience though its quite partial – only certain detail that we forgotten – but what if we lost it all … not only the memories but also all the emotion related to that memories, the joy, the thrill, the exhiliration and the adrenaline rush when we’re about to do something dangerous (I’ve climb the roof of a warehouse about ten meters high once ). Can you imagine losing all of those thing, I know I can’t.

Fortunately Stephen King too can’t imagine such condition, so here’s what he wrote for the epiloque

He awakens from this dream unable to remember exactly what it was, or much at all beyond the simple fact that he has dreamed about being a child again. He touches his wife’s smooth back as she sleeps her warm sleep and dreams her own dreams; he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be grownup and able to consider the mystery of childhood . . . its beliefs and desires. I will write about all of this one day, he thinks, and knows it’s just a dawn thought, an after-dreaming thought. But it’s nice to think so for awhile in the morning’s clean silence, to think that childhood has its own sweet secrets and confirms mortality, and that mortality defines all courage and love. To think that what has looked forward must also look back, and that each life makes its own imitation of immortality: a wheel.
Or so Bill Denbrough sometimes thinks on those early mornings after dreaming, when he almost remembers his childhood, and the friends with whom he shared it.

Yeah, even only in morning dream and to be forgotten, it’s nice to remember it all.

PS. All of my childhood friends I miss you all

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Education and Grades

Two draft failed to be finished miserably . Well I wouldn’t want to publish unfinished post, yet the pressure inside me to at least release something is mounting higher . So, let’s talk about something simpler – for me at least .

Disclaimer : just a rambling uncoherent thought that pass my mind tonight.

There’s something I always loathed during my education days, it was the grading system. Just plain hate it. Well maybe not the grading system in itself, rather the teacher and my classmate attitude toward it. I simply loathed the way they worship the grade as if their life hang upon it. It diminished the value that should be found in education system and makes the kids never gets the important – the most and the only important – thing which is the love of knowledge. All the curiosity and the love of new things are slayed by our education system in the altar of holy grade.

And for what ends?

Nothing but to satisfy some parent so they can praise or punished their kids. Nothing but to increasing the teacher and school administration ego that their school is producing a better grade. Nothing but to makes some learning centre (bimbingan belajar) to grow like mushrooms in rainy season.

At what cost?

Ah nothing but to produce graduate with high grade but no knowledge. Nothing but to rob the kids from their time wasting fun of childhood. Nothing but a morally impaired graduate who will do anything to get good grades.  Nothing but to let the kids learn that the ends always justified the means.

So What …

Well then don’t you ever wondered why Indonesian always lead in the rank of the most corrupt country. The cause is plain to see, we produce morally impaired graduates at higher level than any other country. Just ask your common college graduate if they’re ever cheat on their exams. Ask them how much part of their thesis was copied from other people’s idea, or do they paid to get ‘em done – i’ve made nine thesis for my classmate . And ask them what they think about that attitudes. I’ll say most of them will tell you that it was they way it has to be :doh:.

The corelation is simply too clear to be ignored. Yet what do we do about it? Nothing but to create a national exam to emphazise how important and holy is the grade in education altar of graduation. Nothing but to punished the teacher who wants to work some honesty.

Yeah rite …

And we wonder why it’s so hard to eliminate corruption in our contry. And we wonder why so many of our bright people chooses to fled this country altogether. And we wonder why this country is so poor with invention, with good morality and good long-term thinking.

Hell don’t just critisize then, what do you think of the solution ?

Nothing much but to put your grades in to the back office – I’m not gonna say you should abolished those grades and exams altogether. Just use it properly, using grade to make the student becoming more competitive is sooo yesterday you know. Now is the age of cooperation, the one who can work with most people will be the one who will reap the most benefit. So stop publishing the grades as methods to make them work harder, it’s not working. Kept your grade to analyze yourself, how effective are you educating your pupil, what methods of education work best and so on and so forth. Just don’t use it to judge your student by.

Nothing much but a clear understanding that every children is bright and you can not fully and completely measure their brightness with your poor grading system. Understand that curiosity and love of knowledge is an inherent part of every kids. Look at how they’re amazed when they see new thing, new game. So stop poisoning them with what you think they must learn. Let them develop their own interest for tomorrow belongs to them and they’re the one who will implement their own world. Simply teach them good morality and a sound logic thinking and try as much as you can to preserve the curiosity and the love of knowledge they already possessed.

Nothing much but understanding that the world is changing ever faster now. Nothing you can teach will be good enough to prepare them for the world they’re going to face but some sound logic thinking and good morality. Open your eyes, ten years ago no one would have a dreamt to be a search engine optimizer or a web developer. It was new and in the future there will be more of them. So just quit the illusion that you know what study they must learn now, or how to grade them.

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A short story to emphasize my point here. It happened back when i was in senior high school. So one day we’re going to have this planned exam in biology. Fortunately – or unfortunately – our class will be the last class that will have the exam. Yeah, as you predicted it, every one start scouting the other class that will have the exam earlier. Negotiating, bargaining, threatening other kids to give them the exam matery. In a particular case one kids threatened her boyfriend not to allow him to kissed her anymore if they don’t get them the correct answer along with the exam material . And needless to say that the exam material got pass along in accordance with the group the student belongs – yeah, my class is segregated with several group too.

And so it goes, the exam day. The teacher start handling the exam material, she gives out the answer sheets first then the exam material. Loo and behold, one of the kids start putting the answers he written down in the palm of his hand right after he got the answer sheets and he has not get the question sheet yet . My teacher, noticing this scenes went uproar. She stops giving out the exam and went on frisking raid to each and every kids in the class. Out of forty something member of my class only five of them not having the cheat sheet whatsoever – yeah I was one of them, along with two friend of mine and two real geek who just don’t have the connection to get the cheat. So the rest of the class was thrown out and the five of us have to do the exam – the good one never gets a break .

Later – about a week later – the teacher start to declaring our grades and mentioning that the cheater will have to stay for their exam later that day . I get a six in that exam, not to bad all thing considered. And in the next biology session my teacher also declaring the grades of the rest of my class. While listening to this, I noticed that they were all gets a good grade, mostly eight and nine range. I start asking myself whether it’s fair for them to get their good grade this way. And being me, there’s no way i’m gonna be silence with this kind of thought. So I raised my hand after she finished her grades declaration and request to speak privately. I ask her whether she’ll going to enter that grade as is, or whether she’ll gonna take down some point of the grades as compensation of their attitudes in the first exam. Judging by the expression in her face, I know she haven’t even think about it, but she’s a fair teacher, she immediately told the class that their grades will be taken down by five point and there will be no remedial exam. She mentioning this while I still stand in front of her desk, so you can easily guess where their hostility going to be channeled right.

No, I wasn’t beaten up for that accident – I was already big enough for them to be able to take me easily – and my good friend actually just laugh it out. But well it didn’t get me a good rank among my classmate either.

One thing worth mention is the culprit in the first exam – the one who fill out the answer sheet before the he get the question sheet – is among the best ranked student in my class. And I definitely know he is not a stupid kid too for I sat beside him in the previous semester.

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So I there goes my midnight rambling