This situation is very typical of Indonesia. In "normal" countries, someone
can only achieve the position of public intellectual after he accepted maotap in
his own profession, his own field: that is, after he produces,
is it a writing in an influential journal or book that challenges,
and provide an alternative to, previous tradition of scholarship. With
high professional standards, a specialist not easily out of bounds
discipline itself. Being in our country. ivory tower and laboratory
has long collapsed. Someone becomes a "public intellectual" with provisions
the main moves in kelisanan, without a single piece of scientific work
means. If he published a book, it was just a collection of columns.
Correspondingly the circumstances of our storytellers. They also conjure up
self as a social commentator. By loading one or two short stories on
sural kabarnasionalbertiras besar, they may obtain a national reputation.
But do not their short stories just push the lipological figure. stupid
which we have found, even more riveting. in a few
a lot of news? Is not their moral message just a mere routine, repeating
a sea of jargon that has been ringing in our ears? So after us
dealing with stories that are no more bloody than our experience
alone, no smarter than a good repo, and no more sharp
rather than tracts, what else is left? Forget. We remain deep inside
girlishness.
And justice is the virtue of the ancestors. Straightforwardness
sides make us feel at ease into a set named "society" or
"nation", on the other hand makes us not dare to correct so much
wounds, defects, dreams, shame. angry. and ignorant us. Without documents, everything
mistakes are repeated again, even worse without writing culture
deeply rooted, all our institutions fall out of moths. Without
powerful and earnest scientific books-experience
traumatic for 35 years is just a flavor of pahityangsia-sia. Will be able-
do we escape the circle of motion without these liberations?
But if the sound sneers (also hopes) like this too
"modernist", let's just assume the writing is just a casual job,
crafts that do not need to be mired by all kinds of morals. A writer
it should be like a soupman. as a friend said, whose job
is just making the stuff more delicious and more delicious, and this is none other
rather than sweating to improve the intensity. He needs to follow
kalam