How I perceive Religion

Everyone unconsciously believe that there is an omnipotent power that create universe and rule the time. Scientist called it 'physical properties of Universe to create themselves' (Stephen Hawking), ignorant called it destiny, and religious people define it God. All of them only refer to one power, it just the matter of perception. Religious people define their fear to natural power as God's power to create order in society, to persuade people to do kindness. If there's only one power that called God, Why there are so many religions existed now?

Thousands years back then, many people try to interpret That power to give tangible definition of value that "God wanted to say". Muhammad define that value as Islam, Jesus define it as Christian, Siddhartha Gautama define it as Buddhist and other figures define it as their own interpretation of God. They claim God has spoken to them, and order human to be good to each other. Even inside one religion, there's different perspective and apart into several specific groups. Islam has Sunni, Syiah, Wahabi, Suffi, Salaf and other countless grous even Ahmadiyah or LDII. Christian has Catholic, Protestant, Evangelist, etc. Why they are has different groups? because hundred years ago they followed interpretation of their own leaders about right and wrong concept. What i'm trying to say? I just said that actually religion and ritual that we believe in right now was just how our ancestor interpret 'what God want' and 'the right ritual'. When someone try to giving new paradigm or interpretation about God today, they'll labeled as 'Kafir' or 'Satanic religion' even the difference justin the matter of time, past was true and present is wrong.

I actually don't want to justify Ahmadiyah existence nor other 'new religion', but what I'm trying to say is do they do a crime? do they defile your religion? How? Or you have defile your own religion by killing those 'satanic people'? I don't understand how people could end their relationship with their siblings who have changed their religion but justifying murdering of 'kafir' who didn't even lay a tip of finger to them.

Basically Religion teach 2 things :

1. Maintaining individual relationship to God.

according to my explanation before, People have different way to feel close to God. some people feel it in Shalat, some people feel it in Singing, the other feel it in meditation. Everyone has personal way to feel close to God with their own Way. We shouldn't judge other's ritual because it is personal as long as it isn't violate other's right. Your relationship to God won't be distracted by other's ritual, because God and you have personal channel.

2. Maintaining inter-human relationship.

This thing might have been abandoned by some extremist people. Your religion might be everything, but you shouldn't backlash your own religion value. For Moslem in Indonesia, I wanna ask: Have you do what Muhammad do in his era? I don't ask what he did as a leader, but I ask what he did as a human. He didn't attack Jews before he have been attacked. He is defensive person who know war is only last resort. As a leader he lived in harmony society. In his society there was Jews and Christian. Those religion weren't forced to revert their religion to Islam. They also allowed to have their own house of worship. But now, people have wrong focus. Try to make their religion as the most superior one. They want to have more followers for political reason: to dominate the other.

What they called "care" is when they try to stop other people action that's not suitable with their value, to stop 'kafir' thingy on their own opinion. But don't you think those "care" resulted in conflict? Look how people that claim they are right murdering 'kafir people' as if they are not human? look how FPI burns everything to stop maksiat thingy?

They are just too scare of they can't hold their value anymore. because those value isn't really well internalized by themselves.

I choose Islam because i think personally it is true. I pray to my own God and try to maintain relationship to other human with humane way. If you have different paradigm, just try to tolerate the others

- Random thought -

Moonzher : Gap antara SMA dan perguruan tinggi

jujur saya merasa malu jika ada yg bilang bahwa moonzher adalah sekolah yg bagus dari segi akademis. apa parameter suatu SMA bisa dikatakan bagus? Nilai UN? dengan contekan nilai bisa melejit. atau mereka yg belajar sendiri?

piala yg didapatkan? apakah sekolah memiliki kontribusi yg cukup dalam pembinaannya. apakah pembinaan olimpiade dan ekskul lainnya merupakan kontribusi yg signifikan dalam sekolah?

ataukah seberapa banyak lulusan yg masuk perguruan negri ternama? tujuan sekolah hanyalah sampai UN saja, tidak ada pembinaan khusus u/ tes perguruan tinggi.

SMA yg bagus adalah sekolah yg memberikan modal bagi siswanya dalam melanjutkan pendidikan di perguruan tinggi. Modal itu merupakan konsep dasar dalam tiap pelajarannya.KONSEP DASAR adalah ilmu yg seharusnya didapatkan di SMA. hal yg terjadi, hanyalah guru melemparkan rumus dan hal2 praktis bukannya membahas hal paling dasar yaitu konsep awal mula dan fenomena sehingga dapat dirumuskan sehingga kita dapat learnig by thinking. dengan sedikit logika, rumus dapat ditemukan tanpa harus menghapal. Cara mengajar para guru SMA pada saat ini terlalu terfokus pada UN, selesaikan masalah dengan cepat yg penting soal selesai. ada seorang guru yg berkoar bahwa ia mengajarkan konsep, tetapi malah ia menjelaskan prakteknya saja.atau si guru menyuruh siswa yg membaca sendiri dan menerangkan ke teman2nya secara bergiliran, padahal cara ini menyebabkan si siswa akan membual apa yg ada di buku tanpa ada inti pelajaran yg masuk ke otak, hanya "membodohi" si guru agar ia dapat nilai dan semua selesai karena tidak ada fasilitas bertanya kepada guru sebelum ia maju. ada pula guru yg konservatif dan merasa dirinya benar walaupun ada buku yg menjelaskan sesuatu yg berbeda, tidak ada pikiran terbuka untuk berdiskusi dan meluruskan pendapat yg berbeda.Yang paling bermasalah apabila si guru hanya menjelaskan sama persis seperti apa yg ada di buku sehingga ada atau tidak ada guru sama saja.

Ketika kuliah, terutama di TPB ITB akan terlihat (secara umum) mana sekolah yg bagus dan yg tidak. Tujuan TPB sendiri adalah menyetarakan kemampuan dasar dan konsep dasar yg didapat dari Sekolah yg berbeda2. ITB menyadari, basic concept yg didapat tiap sekolah berbeda2, sehingga perlu penyetaraan seperti sistem "college" di luar negeri sehingga diharapkan konsep yg didapatkan berada pd level yg sama. Pada saat ini, konsep dasar anak dari moonzher pada umumnya akan terlihat pada level bawah. buruknya nilai akibat dari shock karena banyak konsep yg belum didapatkan. misalnya pd saat SMA terbiasa mengerjakan soal asal hajar saja dg rumus yg banyak, tanpa meninjau syarat penggunaan rumus tersebut.atau misalnya pd saat sma hanya mempelajari materi UN saja, sehingga soal typical UN bisa dikerjakan namun dasar dari konsep itu belum didapatkan sehingga lebih banyak materi yg harus dipelajari.soal2 yg ada di TPB kebanyakan adalah soal yg menguji konsep dan sejauh mana kita mengerti tentang suatu permasalahan. Dibandingkan secara umum dengan lulusan sekolah yg benar2 bagus, kualitas lulusan mzr masih pada strata rendahan.

Mungkin benar apa kata beberapa dosen yg mengeluhkan tentang sistem pengajaran di SMA, banyak guru yg sebenarnya juga belum mengerti sepenuhnya tentang suatu materi, sehingga pada akhirnya penjelasan kepada murid kurang mumpuni, pada ujungnya si murid mengalami kesulitan belajar di universitasnya. Yang saya lihat pada saat ini, Guru terlalu dibebani oleh banya tetek bengek administrasi RSBI lah, ISO lah, yg membebani guru sehingga TUGAS UTAMA guru terlupakan. tetek bengek itu berhasil menghipnotis orang tua calon siswa yg berpikiran sempit agar memasukan anak nya ke sekolah ini tanpa ada konsiderasi lainnya. Guru juga di bebani dengan pelajaran berbahasa Inggris supaya bisa mengajar bilingual di kelas. secara kasarnya, wong ngajar dlm bahasa Indonesia aja susah dimengerti, apalagi dengan bahasa Inggris? Sekolah memang kekurangan ahli di bidangnya masing2!

Sekolahpun berusaha bersolek dg membuat siswa nya sibuk dengan jam belajar yg lama dan materi yg padat namun minus konsep karena hanya dibahas dipermukaan saja saking banyak nya materi yg ada. Tugas yg banyak dan menumpuk juga bukan solusi memperbaiki kualitas dari lulusan, Kuantitas telah melebihi kualitas. pada akhirnya hanya lelah yg didapat siswa. mungkin mengerjakan ulangan SMA bukanlah hal yg terlalu berat, namun pada saat kuliah semua akan terasa sangat berat dan menyiksa.

Janganlah mencoba membandingkan mzr dg SMA seperti SMA 8 jkt, SMA 3 bdg atau SMA 81. terlalu jauh kasta kita dari mereka.janganlah melihat kebawah, karena membuat kita akan sombong tak berdasar. ibarat orang kaya, kita cuma orang kaya di kampung. Janganlah bangga karena 'nebeng' Si pemenang olimpiade Kimia, Fisika, Paskibraka, atau Bahasa Inggris. karena mereka berusaha sendiri.

Cisauk : Our own way

Cisauk. That shameful name has a long story to be told.
we admit it is so-villagers-name because we have experienced how shameful when we have to raise our hand when role call. In my year we started with 6 debaters : Me, Salsa, Fiky, Haryo, Tyas and Adel. But when times go by Adel and Tyas didn't involve further. they don't join in Varsity debating club. Now, Me belong to ITB, Salsa belong to UGM, Fiky belong to U, adn Haryo belong to STAN.
Me, Salsa and Fiky met as a opponent firstly in IVED complete with our former coach, Naufal. Unluckily Haryo can't join us due to can't pass intercomp in STAN. Sunday, February 6th we meet again complete with Deta, Opi, Dito and Wieda to celebrate Naufal's farewell party as Cisauk coach. 3 different generations of Cisauks gather and chit chat like in the past when we had a lot of fun together as a team. Now, there is something different, we are representing different institutions and we have our own interest. we can't be really open because there are some important institution secret that can't be talked outside our own institution. But it makes everything more interesting. Befriend and compete in same time, this is politic in Varsity :D
Soon we'll face each other in debate competition. we used to sit in same bench, now we'll meet in opposite bench

post-IVED: ived's bright side

Actually last IVED wasn't that bad. my previous post was written in my bad mood. you know sometimes teenagers feel galau :P
well I got B in adju acrre in IVED, even if it isn't satisfying but at least it can be very usefull. So let me share the bright side of ived:

Room 316
This was my room in Hotel Amaris, Panakukang Makassar. I stayed there with Rifan, Vicario and Yosaka. The first night this room was even scarier than horror movie that we watched. Yosaka took bath and being topless after that, he said he just want to wait till his hair dry by itself, Rifan and Vicario sleep behind same blanket and they were moving awkwardly till we think it was wrong than we decide to make it right, yosaka wear his shirt then separating vicario and rifan. we sleep in peace. *actually this part is just exaggeration to make it interesting :p *
Later on, every night this room was used for gossiping by SEF! after debating, we didn't make any evalution, but a gossip session to summarize what happen on IVED. It was awesome nights. Instead sleeping, we gossiping till 1 am. we were so damn noisy! We mocked people then laugh to die!

Trans Studio
This is the main course ! IVED social day and breaking night party. we enjoyed all day in Trans Studio Makassar. this place is nice place. even its game isn't as thrilling as Dufan have it is still fun because we had it with our closest friends and after 3 days of tiring debating. We played a lot of games! Me try Bumper car for the opening. somehow it becomes ITB vs UGM in the ring. Me Uphie karmen Gladys and Falah against Eldhi Urfi Gray Salsa and Gentur. The I continue to "Dunia Lain", some place just like Ghost House. One session, 40 people enter this place and gathered in a wide-enough room where there is a screen shows Hari Panca talked on it. Me and SEF was together w/ SD kids from somewhere. the suddenly a Ghost came up from behind, everyone screams scarily. but it didn't scare me. He's not shocking enough for me. then we were directed to a snake-queuing-line. I was so bored so I make it more interesting by grabbing other's leg to scare them. I grabbed Yosaka's , a teacher's then the most interesting one was one of the SD kid. she scream to die lol! Then we were put in a train where one carriage can fit for 4 people. But actually the train didn't run together, it ran one carriage per session. carriage in front of me was filled by 8 SD kids, they were scared to death. then the guide asked 4 of them to move, until it just filled d by 4 kids, 2 in the behind were girls that hugged each other as they were scared. Me and Gladys behind them try to calm them down but I put white plastic bag to cover my face the surprise them! They were scream and almost crying! it so damn funny!
then We played hysteria-like, kora-kora-like and other games!

Food
The Food in Makassar are awesome! Coto Makassar was nice even people said it is not the best in that town! But you have to try the seafood! The fish is so fresh! it will give you the yummy taste! The God-like food is Konro! I tried Konro Bakar in Kareboshi. Everyone said it is the best food! I can't describe it in words, because you have to taste it by yourself!

IVED Makassar : I've been left behind

IVED 2011 was held in Unhas,makassar. I was being n1 adju for ITB B there. Generally, it was so damn fun. going together through thousands kilometers with SEF ITB, 6 nights gossiping, and having fun in Trans Studio. But, behind all of those fun, I have one regrets. I have left behing my friends.

It begins 2 months ago, when Intercomp of ived was held. I can't through the intercomp, I couldn't be better than them. my friends that 2010, 3 of them has passed the intercomp for the team ITB to ived. then aain when adjudicator intercomp, i can't though it for the second time. I'm just lucky because ITB got 3 quotas so I can join as adju. Actually I enjoyed the ived training, yet my progress in adjudicating wasn't significant. Marsha and Gladys a lot better in adjudicating, I was the one who left behind again.

Makassar, January 2011 the Ived began. I met many ex HS debaters whom I used to know in HS debating. What make special, was my ex Cisauk teammate Fiky and Salsa. we had little reunion there. Me, Salsa, Fiky and our ex coach Naufal meet again yet now the condition is different. We used to go to competition in same Institution, Cisauk. But now, we meet again in competition with different institution. we used to sit in same bench, now we sit in opposite bench. Salsa was represent EDS UGM B, and Fiky represent EDS UI C. They were good in their own institution. In breaking Night party, everything was clear, Fiky's and Salsa's team, Both break to elimination round yet I didn't break as an adju. what pressurize me was all EDS UI's and EDS UGM's teams+adjudicators broke to elimination round, while SEF ITB didn't clean-sweep because all teams and adju broke except me. I feel so suck. But in GrandFinal night, everything was so clear that distinguish me and my old friends. Fiky and Salsa got 5 best novice speakers, but me even can't break as an adju..

I realize, I can't left behind forever. I will rise and being in the level where they can't beat me. I will train myself harder to be compared with them. ALSA unpad, next month, I will meet you again and I should face you as your strongest opponent

Moonzher, Gap antara SMA dan Universitas

jujur saya merasa malu jika ada yg bilang bahwa moonzher adalah sekolah yg bagus dari segi akademis. apa parameter suatu SMA bisa dikatakan bagus? Nilai UN? dengan contekan nilai bisa melejit. atau mereka yg belajar sendiri?

piala yg didapatkan? apakah sekolah memiliki kontribusi yg cukup dalam pembinaannya. apakah pembinaan olimpiade dan ekskul lainnya merupakan kontribusi yg signifikan dalam sekolah?

ataukah seberapa banyak lulusan yg masuk perguruan negri ternama? tujuan sekolah hanyalah sampai UN saja, tidak ada pembinaan khusus u/ tes perguruan tinggi.

SMA yg bagus adalah sekolah yg memberikan modal bagi siswanya dalam melanjutkan pendidikan di perguruan tinggi. Modal itu merupakan konsep dasar dalam tiap pelajarannya.KONSEP DASAR adalah ilmu yg seharusnya didapatkan di SMA. hal yg terjadi, hanyalah guru melemparkan rumus dan hal2 praktis bukannya membahas hal paling dasar yaitu konsep awal mula dan fenomena sehingga dapat dirumuskan sehingga kita dapat learnig by thinking. dengan sedikit logika, rumus dapat ditemukan tanpa harus menghapal. Cara mengajar para guru SMA pada saat ini terlalu terfokus pada UN, selesaikan masalah dengan cepat yg penting soal selesai. ada seorang guru yg berkoar bahwa ia mengajarkan konsep, tetapi malah ia menjelaskan prakteknya saja.atau si guru menyuruh siswa yg membaca sendiri dan menerangkan ke teman2nya secara bergiliran, padahal cara ini menyebabkan si siswa akan membual apa yg ada di buku tanpa ada inti pelajaran yg masuk ke otak, hanya "membodohi" si guru agar ia dapat nilai dan semua selesai karena tidak ada fasilitas bertanya kepada guru sebelum ia maju. ada pula guru yg konservatif dan merasa dirinya benar walaupun ada buku yg menjelaskan sesuatu yg berbeda, tidak ada pikiran terbuka untuk berdiskusi dan meluruskan pendapat yg berbeda.Yang paling bermasalah apabila si guru hanya menjelaskan sama persis seperti apa yg ada di buku sehingga ada atau tidak ada guru sama saja.

Ketika kuliah, terutama di TPB ITB akan terlihat (secara umum) mana sekolah yg bagus dan yg tidak. Tujuan TPB sendiri adalah menyetarakan kemampuan dasar dan konsep dasar yg didapat dari Sekolah yg berbeda2. ITB menyadari, basic concept yg didapat tiap sekolah berbeda2, sehingga perlu penyetaraan seperti sistem "college" di luar negeri sehingga diharapkan konsep yg didapatkan berada pd level yg sama. Pada saat ini, konsep dasar anak dari moonzher pada umumnya akan terlihat pada level bawah. buruknya nilai akibat dari shock karena banyak konsep yg belum didapatkan. misalnya pd saat SMA terbiasa mengerjakan soal asal hajar saja dg rumus yg banyak, tanpa meninjau syarat penggunaan rumus tersebut.atau misalnya pd saat sma hanya mempelajari materi UN saja, sehingga soal typical UN bisa dikerjakan namun dasar dari konsep itu belum didapatkan sehingga lebih banyak materi yg harus dipelajari.soal2 yg ada di TPB kebanyakan adalah soal yg menguji konsep dan sejauh mana kita mengerti tentang suatu permasalahan. Dibandingkan secara umum dengan lulusan sekolah yg benar2 bagus, kualitas lulusan mzr masih pada strata rendahan.

Mungkin benar apa kata beberapa dosen yg mengeluhkan tentang sistem pengajaran di SMA, banyak guru yg sebenarnya juga belum mengerti sepenuhnya tentang suatu materi, sehingga pada akhirnya penjelasan kepada murid kurang mumpuni, pada ujungnya si murid mengalami kesulitan belajar di universitasnya. Yang saya lihat pada saat ini, Guru terlalu dibebani oleh banya tetek bengek administrasi RSBI lah, ISO lah, yg membebani guru sehingga TUGAS UTAMA guru terlupakan. tetek bengek itu berhasil menghipnotis orang tua calon siswa yg berpikiran sempit agar memasukan anak nya ke sekolah ini tanpa ada konsiderasi lainnya. Guru juga di bebani dengan pelajaran berbahasa Inggris supaya bisa mengajar bilingual di kelas. secara kasarnya, wong ngajar dlm bahasa Indonesia aja susah dimengerti, apalagi dengan bahasa Inggris? Sekolah memang kekurangan ahli di bidangnya masing2!

Sekolahpun berusaha bersolek dg membuat siswa nya sibuk dengan jam belajar yg lama dan materi yg padat namun minus konsep karena hanya dibahas dipermukaan saja saking banyak nya materi yg ada. Tugas yg banyak dan menumpuk juga bukan solusi memperbaiki kualitas dari lulusan, Kuantitas telah melebihi kualitas. pada akhirnya hanya lelah yg didapat siswa. mungkin mengerjakan ulangan SMA bukanlah hal yg terlalu berat, namun pada saat kuliah semua akan terasa sangat berat dan menyiksa.

Janganlah mencoba membandingkan mzr dg SMA seperti SMA 8 jkt, SMA 3 bdg atau SMA 81. terlalu jauh kasta kita dari mereka.janganlah melihat kebawah, karena membuat kita akan sombong tak berdasar. ibarat orang kaya, kita cuma orang kaya di kampung. Janganlah bangga karena 'nebeng' Si pemenang olimpiade Kimia, Fisika, Paskibraka, atau Bahasa Inggris. karena mereka berusaha sendiri.

"itb banget "

"itb banget" sebenernya sebuah style yg bisa keliatan dari cewek-cewek itb. Kalo tinggal di Bandung mungkin banyak yg bisa ngebedain mana yg anak itb mana yg anak unpad.

Pertanyaan yg terlintas adalah : Gimana sih cewek yg itb banget?
jawabannya adalah : Pake kaos simple+jeans+sepatu kets dan yang paling penting : backpack

Simple nya kalo typical cewek itb itu ga banyak dandan, yang penting berangkat kuliah, belajar, ngerjain tugas, dapet nilai. kalo cewek unpad, biasanya ke kampus dandan, baju matching, sepatu pake wedges atau apaupun bukan sepatu kets, pake handbag. ada cerita2 yang aneh tentang itb banget:

>Tukang angkot aja tau
Kalo dari arah Dago atas, angkot yg lamgsung lurus ke itb cuma ada jurusan stasion-dago. sisanya lewat Dipatiukur dulu. nah kalo pagi, jam berangkat kuliah ada beberapa angkot kalapa-dago yg ga lewat DU kalo dia mau ngangkut anak itb. biasanya si abang angkot ngetem kalo ada calon penumpang yg lagi jalan. dan kalo misalnya si abang angkot ini berniat buat ga lewat DU, dia pasti melihat cewek dg tipikal ITB banget dan teriak, "ayo neng ITB neng". dan hampir selalu benar si abang angkot yg menebak itu mahasiswi itb atau bukan

>Tukang pijet aja tau
cerita yg ini gw dapet dari temen gw yg temennya lagi pengen nyobain pijet di kamar kosannya. pas si tukang pijet masuk kamar si mahasiswi ITB, si tukang pijet langsung ngomong "Anak ITB ya mbak?" si mahasiswi langsung kaget dan tanya "lho kok tau? padahal ga ada amal atau sesuatu yg berbau itb." Dan si tukang pijet bilang "kalo anak unpad, dikamarnya banyak handbag, sepatunya macem2, sama bajunya banyak dress. kalo kamar mbak kan banyak bukunya, sepatunya sedikit dan lemarinya isinya kebanyakan kaos -____-