NABI ABRAHAM suatu ketika di uji Tuhan, ia taat maka Ishak anak kesayangannya ia antar sebagai persembahan, kurban bakaran. Dalam kitab Kejadian dituliskan, setelah semuanya itu Allah mencoba Abraham. Ia berfirman kepadanya: “Abraham, “lalu sahutnya: “Ya, Tuhan.” FirmanNya: “Ambilah anakmu yang tunggal itu, yang engkau kasihi, yakni Ishak, pergilah ke tanah Moria dan persembahkanlah dia di sana sebagai korban bakaran pada salah satu gunung yang akan Kukatakan kepadamu” (Bdk Kej 22:2-3)
Kisah ini berakhir dengan dibatalkan seluruh upacara pembakaran itu, Ishak digantikan domba sebagai persembahan. Tetapi berserulah Malaikat Tuhan dari langit kepadanya: “Abraham, Abraham.” Sahutnya: “Ya Tuhan.” Lalu Ia berfirman: “Jangan bunuh anak itu dan jangan kau apa-apakan dia, sebab telah Kuketahui sekarang, sebab engkau takut akan Allah, dan engkau tak segan-segannya menyerahkan anakmu yang tunggal kepada-Ku.” (Bdk Kej 22:11)
TAK SETUJU CARA SONDANG
Ketika identitas pelaku bakar diri terkuak, bulu roma saya saat itu, tiba-tiba bergidik. Tidak saja karena ulah nekat pelaku, motivasi dibalik aksinya, namun karena sondang adalah mahasiswa, orang muda Indonesia. Cara sondang mengekspresikan kekecewaannya terhadap rezim, bagi saya sangat tidak wajib untuk dijadikan acuan. Bunuh diri bukan cara! Ini keyakinan saya. Bagi saya masih banyak pilihan ekspresi yang jauh lebih kreatif, yang mampu membangkitkan gairah baru perlawanan. Sekali lagi bunuh diri bukan cara! Tapi apa yang saya katakan tak mungkin lagi membangunkan Sondang. Dia, sondang telah memilih jalannya. Sondang telah mati, dia hangus terbakar, namun saya percaya spirit perlawanannya sedang menyala, hidup dihati semua kaum yang mencintai keadilan. Ini salah satu hikmah, setelah sondang membakar kita !
Pada kesempatan lain, sahabat Lilik (Lilik Krismantoro, red) bercerita, suatu ketika di seorang sahabatnya, anton di Kuningan, meninggal dengan kegelisahan yang sama, dia gantung diri karena kegelisahannya akan tanah air dan kemanusiaan. Hanya saja dia tidak menjadikan bunuh dirinya sebagai aksi publik. Saya menghormati kematian-kematian itu, saya menghormati panggilan yang tersembunyi di baliknya, tetapi saya menyayangkan pilihan tindakannya.
Maka menjadi penting untuk menarik momentum ini, dari momentum heroisme bunuh diri, menjadi momentum produktivitas orang-orang muda, agar mahasisw merenungkan siapa dirinya, panggilannya, dan cara lain yang tersedia untuk menjadi Indonesia” demikian Lilik dan saya setuju dengannya.
Jika diamati, setelah aksi bakar diri Sondang, cukup berimbang komentar seputar peristiwa ini, di beberapa akun facebook tidak sedikit orang muda yang mencibir, menertawakan bahkan ada yang tega mengatakan ini kekonyolan. Namun tidak sedikit pula yang mendukung cara sondang, kemudian mengajak untuk bertempur, atau bisa dibilang, memanfaatkan kisah sondang untuk membangun sebuah perlawanan baru.
Selain itu tanggapan dengan nada 'provokatif' justru muncul dari beberapa tokoh politik. Bagi saya menanggapi aksi sondang sebaga sebuah kekonyolan, apalagi diucapkan orang muda sungguh menyakitkan. Pada aras lain usaha penunggangan kematian sondang untuk kepentingan politik kekuasaan adalah kekurang-ajaran. Seperti Lilik, saya menghormati pilihan sondang/anton untuk berkurban meski saya tidak menyetujui cara mereka berkurban.
SETELAH “SONDANG” MEMBAKAR KITA
Kisah Nabi Abraham diatas bagi saya bisa dijadikan acuan kita, khususnya mereka yang percaya pada Allah (kaum beriman). Tuhan saja melarang Abraham mengurbankan anaknya, demi sebuah kesetiaan. Lantas apa pilihan yang bisa dilakukan orang muda/mahasiswa untuk mengekspresikan idealismenya.
Kembali saya mengutip Lilik, kita bisa terlibat di kelompok aksi untuk advokasi dan pendampingan mereka yang tertindas dan tersingkir. Bisa mengadakan kampanye penyadaran dengan berbagai media pada masyarakat juga kepada orang-orang muda lainnya yang sekarang seperti tertidur akan tantangan kebangsaan yang kian memprihatinkan. Mampu membangun gerakan-gerakan alternatif yang menunjukkan, kalau kita semua bisa hidup dengan cara yang lebih bermoral dan menjunjung semangat keadilan dan kemanusiaan.
Kita bisa membuat musik, puisi, novel, film indie, pamflet, poster, mural, blog, website untuk mengekpresikan Indonesia versi kita. Menganalisa situasi bangsa ini, dari semua segi, semua sisi, agar kita semua lebih memahami bagaimana bangsa ini telah diperas dan dibodohi, bahkan bisa memilih untuk mengajar di daerah terpencil, atau menulis di koran-koran, buku, surat pembaca, blog, atau dimana saja, termasuk surat cinta pada kekasih tercinta, bahwa hubungan cinta bakal tak bisa hidup damai ketika Indonesia masih seperti ini, cinta harus juga berarti perjuangan untuk Indonesia.
Kita bisa membangun relasi ke luar negeri dan membangun solidaritas bagi pemerdekaan negeri ini dan juga bisa memilih satu bidang khusus yang jarang digeluti dan memaksimalkan diri kita di situ, membuat penemuan dan menulis prestasi, menunjukkan bahwa Indonesia kita mampu membuat prestasi yang tak kalah dari bangsa lain di dunia. Kita juga bisa memilih satu bidang seni dan budaya, melestarikan bahasa daerah dan tradisi yang terancam hilang, kalau kita tidak masuk ke dalamnya dan ambil bagian. Kita bisa berjanji kelak kalau kita jadi penguasa, tak bakal korupsi, menindas mereka yang miskin, merusak lingkungan, dan menjual Ibu pertiwi. Kita bisa menjadi seorang sahabat yang baik bagi setiap orang yang membutuhkannya. Kita bisa menjadi sumber cinta, inspirasi, perhatian, dan perdamaian bagi dunia dan sahabat terdekat kita ! Yakin kita bisa !! (fw)
Referensi: Catatan Lilik Krismantoro, Facebook (terima kasih bung untuk pesan-pesan yang menginspirasi)
Senin, 12 Desember 2011
Minggu, 11 Desember 2011
For the Manggarai people of Flores, coffee is more than just a crop or a drink.
The coffee was Arabica
It was served in a petite, colorful glass, its jet-black residue banked up at the bottom. The gritty texture gently massaged my tongue, tickling the excitable tissues of my soft palate. As I waited for its lean acidity to unravel itself fully from the intoxicating sweetness of the sugar that had captured my taste buds, I raised the glass close to my nostrils and inhaled greedily. The rising vapor settled within me, its warmth filling my nasal cavities, its gorgeous aroma sending my olfactory nerves firing on all cylinders. My eyes, shorn of conscious control, rolled upward, as if my irises had arranged a tryst with my drooping eyelids.
During that timeless yet transient moment, Manggarai coffee entered my soul. The spell of ecstasy was broken by the honest, impish laughter of children, directed right at me. The adults couldn’t help themselves either – the otherworldly potency of this flavorful blend must have spoiled me such that I looked downright ridiculous to them. So I endeavored to straighten my face, trying to appear more sensible – with meager success – as I carried on sipping this divine drink, lingering as long as possible, until nothing remained but sludge.
“Some more?” An elderly woman with a shiny smile emerged from inside the house, a sooty tin kettle in hand. After a questioning glance at my partner – with the steaming mug clasped between her palms, she was lost in her own bubble of pleasure – I nodded.
It was only our second serving, but the people we’d met just minutes before had suddenly become affectionate friends. It was a cool, cloudy late afternoon in Melo, a pristine village surrounded by lush valleys and the stately vertebrae of volcanoes, in the region of Manggarai, Flores. Dark, menacing clouds were convening in great numbers above us, yet rain was hesitant to come down.
All the better. The villagers, done with their morning work in the fields, were able to flock to this simple house built of neat narrow planks, to chat about life over the ubiquitous cups of freshly brewed, sweetened Manggarai coffee. Indeed, life for these people revolves around Coffea arabica and the mighty beverage humanity has brewed from it: Next to me sat a young mother with a toddler, who could barely say hello but was already practiced in the art of imbibing coffee from his plastic demitasse.
“We do this sometimes once or twice a week, sometimes every other day,” the woman who’d served us the brew remarked. “Always plenty of beans for all of us!”
Why, of course. I peeked through the window of a large shack beside the house: Inside, girls and young women were industriously helping their mothers sort the mounds of dried beans they’d collected in straw baskets.
Most of these greenish beads of bliss would go straight to the market, to be consumed, sooner or later, by someone sitting in a cafeteria on the other side of the world. (That’s how coffee and a few other commodities like candlenut and cocoa help most families in Manggarai make a living and send their children to school.) The rest would stay here, ending up at the bottom of people’s cups after being stripped of their shape, zest, taste and scent. Only the black sheen would remain.
For devout coffee aficionados such as the Manggarai, whose fertile highlands are blanketed in plantations of one of the most adored – and heavily exported – coffee varieties in Indonesia, freshness is the main – if not the only – point of concern. Roasting raw coffee beans is a routine commonly observed in any kitchen or backyard on a typical afternoon, whether here in Melo or in a neighboring village. As for grinding, not a day goes by in this coffee country without at least a few households engaging in this activity.
In Their Veins
As the sky gradually turned gloomier, the fathers and the older boys came home, to the welcoming gestures of the women. These men had just returned from a caci performance held not far from the main road. The Manggarai’s most celebrated traditional whip-fighting ritual turned sporting event, caci is customarily held after a major rice harvest for the sake of the communities involved, or as a sideshow to celebrations of certain national holidays. In the latter case, however, it is more an ostentatious spectacle for attraction-thirsty tourists than a sincere display of gratitude toward the munificence of Mother Earth and the ancestral spirits.
Bare chested, but sporting ornate headgear and finely crafted accessories around their waists, the caci fighters grabbed what empty chairs among us there were. Some simply sat down on a patch of grass, not remotely concerned about keeping their splendidly woven songket sarong bright and spotless. After a long day of preparations, succeeded by brief but fierce bouts of fighting, they were finally allowed their peaceful moment of repose.
Some of the men returned from the battle-dance with fresh wounds, embellishments on their solid arms, their rigid backs, their broad chests. A warrior had had the skin on the left side of his abdomen torn quite badly; the gash was covered with a slender streak of thickening blood. A curious boy poked the wound with his tiny fingers; the warrior squeaked in surprise, to which the kid, and of course the crowd, responded with frenetic laughter. His wounds, and those of the others, would soon enough be tended by mothers, wives, daughters or sisters. But the first line of treatment for these warriors following their demonstration of valor was not attention to those blood-smeared cuts. Instead, they were handed coffee.
Only a short while later, the first droplets of rain began to hit the soil. For us, that was our curtain call, as we had to leave to resume our journey eastward. Hours earlier, we’d left Labuanbajo with its punitive heat, dusty streets and mesmeric sunsets. Our sojourn in Melo didn’t even last an hour, yet this village felt so much more serene – so far removed from the maddening din that governs Labuanbajo.
Brew to a Thrill
Ah, Labuanbajo. This quirky port town at the western tip of Flores continues to be the island’s most evident embodiment of growth, a magnet not just for tourists, who flock to the spot partly thanks to the Indonesian government’s wholehearted efforts to promote Komodo National Park to the world – face off with a monstrous dragon, anyone? – but also for native people from rural areas in pursuit of better jobs and more lucrative prospects in the booming economy.
It isn’t that hard, however, to sense how the budding town is at odds with itself. At any one time, you might hear that at least two or three luxury hotels are being developed, sending the prices of beachfront properties shooting into the stratosphere. Yet good manners, let alone proper hospitality, among those working in the hospitality business are still a rarity.
But in Melo – at least in Melo – hospitality is never an issue. Although they might never have even heard of the word, their hospitality is expressed, unrefined as it is, through the cup of coffee they bring you with a cheery countenance the minute you step into their house.
In our quest to discover the multifarious facets of Flores, particularly those still unglazed by the monochromatic golden tint of commercial tourism, we embarked from Labuanbajo in the relatively well-known (though not yet well-worn) west, to Larantuka, deep in the more enigmatic east.
Sitting in a truck, winding along the Trans-Flores “highway”, an erratically fragmented, rutted road so perilously jagged I guess only Florinese drivers can master it – but which also gives you more than 600 kilometers of an untamed, terrible beauty – I let my mind wander.
I closed my eyes, shutting myself off from the hypnotic landscape before me. Even deprived of sight I could picture what I missed: mountains crashing upon mountains, the ground tearing itself apart ever so sluggishly, at geological pace, carving ridges and savage cliffs out of bedrock, an arresting landscape marbled with luminescent staircases of rice fields alternating with impenetrable islands of tall ancient trees.
But I couldn’t help my tongue. In abject loneliness, it began to roll inside my mouth. It searched and searched, prying deep into the nooks between my teeth, sliding along my gums, for a hint of that indescribable taste, familiar only moments ago but now sorely missed. All I pined for was what had once been in my soul – that liquid hospitality called Manggarai coffee.
It was served in a petite, colorful glass, its jet-black residue banked up at the bottom. The gritty texture gently massaged my tongue, tickling the excitable tissues of my soft palate. As I waited for its lean acidity to unravel itself fully from the intoxicating sweetness of the sugar that had captured my taste buds, I raised the glass close to my nostrils and inhaled greedily. The rising vapor settled within me, its warmth filling my nasal cavities, its gorgeous aroma sending my olfactory nerves firing on all cylinders. My eyes, shorn of conscious control, rolled upward, as if my irises had arranged a tryst with my drooping eyelids.
During that timeless yet transient moment, Manggarai coffee entered my soul. The spell of ecstasy was broken by the honest, impish laughter of children, directed right at me. The adults couldn’t help themselves either – the otherworldly potency of this flavorful blend must have spoiled me such that I looked downright ridiculous to them. So I endeavored to straighten my face, trying to appear more sensible – with meager success – as I carried on sipping this divine drink, lingering as long as possible, until nothing remained but sludge.
“Some more?” An elderly woman with a shiny smile emerged from inside the house, a sooty tin kettle in hand. After a questioning glance at my partner – with the steaming mug clasped between her palms, she was lost in her own bubble of pleasure – I nodded.
It was only our second serving, but the people we’d met just minutes before had suddenly become affectionate friends. It was a cool, cloudy late afternoon in Melo, a pristine village surrounded by lush valleys and the stately vertebrae of volcanoes, in the region of Manggarai, Flores. Dark, menacing clouds were convening in great numbers above us, yet rain was hesitant to come down.
All the better. The villagers, done with their morning work in the fields, were able to flock to this simple house built of neat narrow planks, to chat about life over the ubiquitous cups of freshly brewed, sweetened Manggarai coffee. Indeed, life for these people revolves around Coffea arabica and the mighty beverage humanity has brewed from it: Next to me sat a young mother with a toddler, who could barely say hello but was already practiced in the art of imbibing coffee from his plastic demitasse.
Coffee Manggarai: Black Gold
From a very young age, children of the Manggarai tribe must not only learn to drink their homegrown coffee and love it (that comes pretty naturally), but also to weave the daily sight of – and interaction with – the coffee plant, with its budding flowers, its fleshy red cherries and especially its fragrant beans, into their narrative of reality. As I joked with the younger boys, two girls aged no more than 10 were gaily pounding pestles taller than themselves into a huge timber mortar, rhythmically, dexterously pulverizing the beans inside into rough powder.“We do this sometimes once or twice a week, sometimes every other day,” the woman who’d served us the brew remarked. “Always plenty of beans for all of us!”
Why, of course. I peeked through the window of a large shack beside the house: Inside, girls and young women were industriously helping their mothers sort the mounds of dried beans they’d collected in straw baskets.
Most of these greenish beads of bliss would go straight to the market, to be consumed, sooner or later, by someone sitting in a cafeteria on the other side of the world. (That’s how coffee and a few other commodities like candlenut and cocoa help most families in Manggarai make a living and send their children to school.) The rest would stay here, ending up at the bottom of people’s cups after being stripped of their shape, zest, taste and scent. Only the black sheen would remain.
For devout coffee aficionados such as the Manggarai, whose fertile highlands are blanketed in plantations of one of the most adored – and heavily exported – coffee varieties in Indonesia, freshness is the main – if not the only – point of concern. Roasting raw coffee beans is a routine commonly observed in any kitchen or backyard on a typical afternoon, whether here in Melo or in a neighboring village. As for grinding, not a day goes by in this coffee country without at least a few households engaging in this activity.
In Their Veins
As the sky gradually turned gloomier, the fathers and the older boys came home, to the welcoming gestures of the women. These men had just returned from a caci performance held not far from the main road. The Manggarai’s most celebrated traditional whip-fighting ritual turned sporting event, caci is customarily held after a major rice harvest for the sake of the communities involved, or as a sideshow to celebrations of certain national holidays. In the latter case, however, it is more an ostentatious spectacle for attraction-thirsty tourists than a sincere display of gratitude toward the munificence of Mother Earth and the ancestral spirits.
Bare chested, but sporting ornate headgear and finely crafted accessories around their waists, the caci fighters grabbed what empty chairs among us there were. Some simply sat down on a patch of grass, not remotely concerned about keeping their splendidly woven songket sarong bright and spotless. After a long day of preparations, succeeded by brief but fierce bouts of fighting, they were finally allowed their peaceful moment of repose.
Some of the men returned from the battle-dance with fresh wounds, embellishments on their solid arms, their rigid backs, their broad chests. A warrior had had the skin on the left side of his abdomen torn quite badly; the gash was covered with a slender streak of thickening blood. A curious boy poked the wound with his tiny fingers; the warrior squeaked in surprise, to which the kid, and of course the crowd, responded with frenetic laughter. His wounds, and those of the others, would soon enough be tended by mothers, wives, daughters or sisters. But the first line of treatment for these warriors following their demonstration of valor was not attention to those blood-smeared cuts. Instead, they were handed coffee.
Only a short while later, the first droplets of rain began to hit the soil. For us, that was our curtain call, as we had to leave to resume our journey eastward. Hours earlier, we’d left Labuanbajo with its punitive heat, dusty streets and mesmeric sunsets. Our sojourn in Melo didn’t even last an hour, yet this village felt so much more serene – so far removed from the maddening din that governs Labuanbajo.
Brew to a Thrill
Ah, Labuanbajo. This quirky port town at the western tip of Flores continues to be the island’s most evident embodiment of growth, a magnet not just for tourists, who flock to the spot partly thanks to the Indonesian government’s wholehearted efforts to promote Komodo National Park to the world – face off with a monstrous dragon, anyone? – but also for native people from rural areas in pursuit of better jobs and more lucrative prospects in the booming economy.
It isn’t that hard, however, to sense how the budding town is at odds with itself. At any one time, you might hear that at least two or three luxury hotels are being developed, sending the prices of beachfront properties shooting into the stratosphere. Yet good manners, let alone proper hospitality, among those working in the hospitality business are still a rarity.
But in Melo – at least in Melo – hospitality is never an issue. Although they might never have even heard of the word, their hospitality is expressed, unrefined as it is, through the cup of coffee they bring you with a cheery countenance the minute you step into their house.
In our quest to discover the multifarious facets of Flores, particularly those still unglazed by the monochromatic golden tint of commercial tourism, we embarked from Labuanbajo in the relatively well-known (though not yet well-worn) west, to Larantuka, deep in the more enigmatic east.
Sitting in a truck, winding along the Trans-Flores “highway”, an erratically fragmented, rutted road so perilously jagged I guess only Florinese drivers can master it – but which also gives you more than 600 kilometers of an untamed, terrible beauty – I let my mind wander.
I closed my eyes, shutting myself off from the hypnotic landscape before me. Even deprived of sight I could picture what I missed: mountains crashing upon mountains, the ground tearing itself apart ever so sluggishly, at geological pace, carving ridges and savage cliffs out of bedrock, an arresting landscape marbled with luminescent staircases of rice fields alternating with impenetrable islands of tall ancient trees.
But I couldn’t help my tongue. In abject loneliness, it began to roll inside my mouth. It searched and searched, prying deep into the nooks between my teeth, sliding along my gums, for a hint of that indescribable taste, familiar only moments ago but now sorely missed. All I pined for was what had once been in my soul – that liquid hospitality called Manggarai coffee.
Senin, 05 Desember 2011
DPRD Mabar Jawab persoalan Pertambangan dengan “Onani”
“Kalian bilang Tolak tambang tapi tidak berpikir Cincin Uskup terbuat dari apa, Piala serta bahan ekaristi lainnya?. Semua itu Kan mengunakan bahan tambang. Bilangnya Tolak tambang tapi masih mengunakan HP, Komputer, naik motor, naik mobil. Bahkan Kelompok penolak tambang sangat sering mengunakan Facebook. Kalian menolak tambang tanpa memberi pilihan alternatif. Tolak tambang setelah itu bikin apa. Kalian Asal omong tolak saja. Asbun alias asal bunyi. Biar dibilang aktifis lingkungan. Berdemoria yang berujung pada kompesasi proyek pada Rezim GustI. Karena GustI juga tolak Tambang”
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Inilah olokan yang dilontarkan sesorang pro tambang di Manggarai Barat ketika berbincang dengan saya di jakarta beberapa waktu lalu menanggapi sikap kritis GERAM serta Gereja katolik terhadap kegiatan pertambangan di wilayah Manggarai Barat. Mereka sedang melakukan “bunuh diri filsafat”, atas ketidakmampuannya menjelaskan hubungan antara pertambangan dengan kemakmuran rakyat yang sebenarnya tidak perna memiliki korelasi positif itu.
Di wilayah Manggarai Barat, mantan Fidelis Pranda yang menjiwai soehartoeisme selalu memberikan ilusi ilusi tentang “kemakmuran” dan “kesejahteraan” dari eksploitasi kekayaan alam yang dikeruk dari Bumi Manggarai Barat. Hal yang sama juga dilakukan oleh para insvestor pertambangan. Aliran devisa, penyediaan lapangan kerja, memepercepat pertumbuhan ekonomi, mempercepat pembangunan Manggarai Barat serta menguranggi kemiskinan adalah mantra setan yang mereka gulirkan secara terus menerus untuk menghegemoni rakyat bahwa kehadiran industri pertambangan mutlak dibutukan. Sehingga yang menolak tambang berarti juga menolak PANCASILA
Rezim Soeharto memang berlalu, namun rezim rezim pengantinya masih bergentayangan dan mewariskan kebijakan sebelumnya. Inilah kesesatan berpikir pemerintah yang memaknai era globalisasi pada pasar bebas hanya dari sudut pandang ekonomi, sementara banyang bayang bencana tanah longsor, krisis air bersih, krisis pangan, wabah penyakit, panas gobal yang sekarang ini terus menghantui rakyat dunia, sama sekali tidak cukup penting untuk dipikirkan.
Bayang bayang Rezim soehato juga ada dalam jiwa jiwa Anggota DPRD Manggarai Barat. Memang tidak semua. Di lembaga rakyat ini sangat sibuk dengan mencari cela mengamankan investasi pertambangan di wilayah pariwisata itu, kemudian melupakan nasib rakyat kebanyakan yang menentang kebijakan pertambangan.
Sebelumnya DPRD Manggarai Barat sempat mendapat apresiasi rakyat ketika mengeluarkan surat pemberhentian aktifitas pertambangan di wilayah itu. Surat opemberhentian ini dikeluarkan setelah GERAM terus mendesak sikap politik DPRD. Dukungan politik rakyat terus mengalir sekaligus mempengaruhi konstelasi politik dalam Pileg 2009, para oknum yang getol menolak tambang sebut saja Mateus Hamsi, Blasius Jeramun, Editadius Endi, Silverter Syukur, Abdul Azis, Frans sukmaniara terpilih kembali. Sementara para pengerak tolak tambang terpilih Bernadus Barat Daya, Stefanus Herson hingga Vitus Usu yang selalu membantu logistik gerakan tolak tambang mendapat jipratan dukungan politik. Dukungan politik ini juga direbut GustI, pihaknya mengkampanyekan tolak tambang. GustI-pun menang telak satu putaran dalam pertarungan politik pilkada 2010.
Ironisnya setelah mendapat kepercayaan penuh dari rakyat DPRD Manggarai Barat kini berwajah lain. Sikapnya kini sangat romantis dengan investor pertambangan. Entah kenapa? Ditengah Memoratrium bupati menghentikan aktifitas pertambangan, DPRD Mabar malah mengeluarkan rekomendasi aktifitas pertambangan. Roh apa yang ada dalam jiwa masing oknum DPRD Mabar? Kalau Roh kudus, kepercayaan rakyat selalu dipegang teguh. Saya menduga apa praktek komersialisasi kebijakan. Rekomendasi yang dikeluarkan itu dibeli dengan harga sangat tinggi oleh pihak perusahaan pertambangan.
Dugaan lain dari pristiwa hilangnya roh kerakyatan DPRD mabar adalah persoalan internal partai, sebut saja Golkar. Kebijakan partai Golkar memang harus menerima semua aktifitas pertambangan, setelah partai yang perna berkuasa di rezim otiter ini dipimpin Aburizal Bakrie. Siapa yang tidak mengenal Bakrie di republik ini, lapindo adalah sati fakta prilaku buruk Bakrie dalam investasi pertambangan.
Partai PDI Perjuangan-pun demikian. Partai yang katanya milik wong cilik alias rakyat miskin ini di wilayah NTT tak lagi mengembangkan semangat partai wong cilik. Pimpinan PDI Perjuangan di wilayah NTT yang sementara ini menjabat Gubernur NTT jelas berihak pada investor pertambangan. Program anggur merah ternyata terselip banyak kebijakan pertambangan.
Partai Hanura jangan disebut lagi, partai ini sangat jelas membelah kepentingan pertambangan di Manggarai Barat. Ketua Hanura Kab. Mabar adalah Fidelis Pranda, sehingga rakyat tidak meragukan lagi kalau partai ini akan tanam kaki pada industri pertambangan. Lalu, dimanakah mantan ketua GERAM, Bernadus Barat Daya, Frans sukmaniara dari Demokrat, Edi Endi, Stef Herson, Vitus Usu dari PAN? Ikut “bermain”?, atau memilih “diam”? atau membela masyarakat dengan setenngah hati? Yang jelas dengan munculnya rekomendasi DPRD, menunjukan orang orang ini tak bisa diharapkan.
Jika benar ada komersialisasi kebijakan di DPRD Mabar, berarti DPRD Mabar sedang mengalami kebangkrutan moral yang mengerus kepercayaan publik. Bahwa sesunguhnya telah terjadi kebangkrutan kepercayaan serta kebangkrutan legitimasi terhadap DPRD. Tiga kebangkrutan fundamental. Lalu dengan dasar apa DPRD masih layak memutusakan kebijakan publik atas nama rakyat?
DPRD Mabar belakang lebih banyak “beronani” ketimbang memberi “kenikmatan” hidup pada rakyat. Oleh karena itu sebaiknya DPRD berhenti bersidang, dengan memperpanjang reses hingga sampai masa kontrak 2014, sampai rakyat memilih DPRD penebus hasil pemilu mendatang. Anggap saja DPRD sekarang ini koma, pingsan berantakan akibat keracunan berbagai kelakuakn jorok. Kiranya untuk sementara DPRD Mabar berjalan tanpa DPRD yang suka “beronani” itu.
Ada Pemadam Kebakaran DUMA
Setiap orang sudah tahu tugas instansi pemadam kebakaran. Bekerja 24 jam, selalu siap siaga baik peronil maupun peralatan. Mobil Pemadaman selalu terisi air. Jika terjadi kebakaran reaksi cepatpun dilakukan, sirene dibunyikan kemdaraan lain wajib hukumnya menepi memberi ruang sang pemadam melaju mulus dijalanan.
Anggota pemadam kebakaran diberi bekal khusus, tentu saja saya tidak bisa gabung didalamnya karena perekkrutannya berstandar khusus. Jiwa seorang pemadam kebakaran juga dilatih secara khusus, “pantang mundur sebelum padam” itu semboyan sang pemadam kebakaran. Mereka dilatih untuk pasang badan, sekalipun nyawa menjadi taruhannya.
Istilah pemadam kebakaran belakangan dipakai untuk mengkritisi sikap pemerintahan yang reaktif mengatasi persoalan kerakyatan. Ketika terjadi persoalan baru bergerak, selalu realitas yang mempengaruhi kesadaran.
Belakangan gaya seorang pemadam kebakaran muncul dalam jejaring social, salah satu yang sering saya perhatikan adalah jejaring social Facebook, yang saya namakan Pemadam kebakaran DUMA (Dunia Maya). Anggota Pemadam kebakaran DUMA bisa dikatakan disiapkan secara khusus atau seseorang dengan kemauan sendiri. Berlatar belakang birokrat atau swasta (Kontraktor, preman) sebagian berwujud sebagian lagi tidak.
Pemadam kebakaran DUMA bereaksi cepat dalam status status yang mengkrucut pada kritikan kritikan, khususnya penyelenggaraan pemerintahan. Pemadam kebakaran DUMA tentu saja ini sebuah pangilan untuk memadamkan status status itu, dengan cara memberi komentar yang tidak ada hubungannya dengan tema postingan/status, hal ini agar proses diskusi menjadi kabur. Cara lain adalah dengan membuat postingan baru, dengan demikian postingan kritikan tergeser dan luput dari perhatian para member Group. Pemadam kebakaran DUMA juga mengunakan cara memposting tema tandingan dan menarik perhatian member group, ukuran keberhasilan pemadam kebakaran DUMAI ini adalah member berfokus pada postingannya.
Hampir sama dengan petugas Pemadaman kebakaran “Nyata”, petugas pemadaman kebakaran DUMA juga “pasang badan”, “tanah kaki” berjuang membela sang “prabu”. Sang Prabu dibela karena disana banyak kenikmatan. Setiapkali selesai melakukan pemadaman postingan/status kritikan, sang pemadam kebakaran DUMA lalu melapor pada sang Prabu. “tadi ada postingan pa, serang bapak lagi. Tapi saya sudah amankan, saya bantah psotingan itu” kira kira begitu isi laporan sang pemadam kebakaran DUMA sekaligus menunjukan print out hasil kerjanya. Maka pujianpun didapat yang berujung pada kompesasi (proyek, Finasial, jabatan)
Beberapa kawan menilai para pemadam kebakaran DUMA adalah sebuah profesi, pekerjaan yang mendatangkan profit. Memberi klarifikasi layak seorang PR dari institusi yang dikritik.
Kira kira begitu….selamat buat para pemadam kebakaran DUMA.
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