Less, support at the Art-Culture of the Government Stimulus Minim

Interest and appreciation of arts and culture community is actually quite good. It is precisely the government's support to the development of cultural arts that are deficient, including the lack of arts buildings and the absence of a tax break for the performing arts.


Thus the red thread of letters presented Radhar Panca Dahana (Jakarta), Edy Utama (Padang), and cultural Suryadi (Netherlands), when contacted Kompas, Friday (28 / 8). They respond to the statement the Minister of Culture and Tourism Jero Wacik, which mentions low public appreciation of the arts and culture (Kompas, 28 / 8).


Radhar say, lack of government appreciation not only of art, but also of cultural actors. "The appreciation of a good society," he said.
Likewise, Edy Utama independently assess many community activities and continue to maintain cultural traditions. "Despite huge spending, because of his conviction, the public still hold traditional activities," he said.
Suryadi, Indonesia is a cultural researcher and lecturer at Leiden University, Netherlands, said that the government forgot to build the various aspects of culture, including art that comes from our own. "The element of the government related to national cultural development has no clear vision. It has a" blueprint "that its implementation be seen in practice. Maintenance in the form of teaching among students is also not optimal.


Expenses artists
Radhar says, artists have a very heavy burden to show the creativity and his work because they are charged to the artist, without government support.


Radhar example, if used for theatrical performances put on the building did not pay, now for rehearsal only have to pay. Billboards that show too. There is no tax and levies are given to artists when viewing his work. The government did not have a solution for this problem. (NAL)


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Send their children only dream

Prawiro (54), farm laborers trampling rice so that regardless of the stem in Bantul, Yogyakarta. During the harvest season, he became a laborer for wages Rp 20,000 a day.


Deprived of life have united in the life of a laborer. Eat with side patch, even just to eat tiwul (dried cassava), are common. Could send their children to school is just a dream, because there were no funds to pay for school children. Can be up to junior secondary schools alone was a miracle.


Munali (48 years), a farmworker from Pepe Village, Sedati District, Sidoarjo, East Java, to describe how miserable life of a laborer in this country. Deprived of his life. Eat only with side patch, two children dropped out of school because there is no cost to send their children.


"Earnings as a laborer just to eat. The rest of us deprived of life," said Munali, to Swedish, in the middle of rice fields with her employer's verdant, Sumali, Monday (10 / 8).


Two children, Rohman and Ainur Rohim, now have to work as laborers in the area of the cloth lifter Kapasan, Surabaya. They were not able to continue school and junior high school diploma only pocketed, for lack of fees. Munali not afford it.


"Both my children are able to support themselves by working as laborers lifting the cloth. As a laborer, my average can only earn Rp 10,000 a day. The money was only enough to eat, and certainly not enough to pay for my children school, "said Munali, who looks hot to work in the fields that afternoon.


When two children were in school, the money received Rp 300,000 per month, must be taken in part to finance them.


"I used to use them as well as the income derived from a small farm laborers, to buy books and some of their pocket money.


They continue to fund schools to a higher level is not possible with the income only for that, "she said.


Job as a laborer has cultivated Munali since he was able to work.


Without having any other skills, but to work as a laborer making Munali life has not changed despite the country's president has several times changed and now Indonesia has just celebrated the anniversary of the Independence-64, dated August 17, 2009 the last.


In the midst of life that concerns them, Munali still have hopes of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who was elected to lead the country until 2014 to come. "I hope president-elect can help farm workers with cheap credit disbursed in the form of agricultural land. We therefore not only worked as a laborer, but could have done his own land," he added.


Farm laborers, said Munali, buy agricultural land through the government-owned bank or local government. Certificate of ownership is made guarantees, while obliged to pay in farm laborers in the long run, that is not burdensome. Through this way can be expected to manage the farm laborers of his farm, without having to depend on the employer.


Similarly, Mrs. Prawiro (54years) who worked as a laborer since he was young. He only works when there is arable in the fields. Wages received for processing rice is 25 kilograms of rice each harvest season. If the daily work, paid only Rp 20,000 a day.


"The money is at best up to daily family meal," said Mrs. Prawiro, women from Bantul, East Java.


However, women with four children was admitted afford to send one of his children until they graduate STM. "The STM graduate work in yesterday's bike shop. Anyway so his workers, too," he insists his fate hereditary.


"Once stained (grandfather-Red) is a field, but has been divided for children of men, by chance I descended from the mother or daughter, would not miss out. Be our mburuh," he said.
If the work in the field was vacant, Ny Prawiro, slam into the steering wheel cleaners or builders iron in laundry businesses. When planting season arrives, customers always trust the owners. "during the planting season arrives, I usually work non-stop for two weeks. Yes, the pay USD $ 20 thousand a day. But when harvest time comes, each of 2x14 meters of land, I can 25 pounds of rice, depending on how my abilities," he said again.


His skills were also reduced to a female child. Since I was in junior high school age, children are good at growing rice to harvest. So later, baton as a laborer going down to his daughter. That is, there will be no improvement for the child's fate offspring.


Whether to when this generation of workers has declined to their grandchildren. Without government assistance to send their children, this farmworker's life will not be increased. Hereditary they remain a poor farm laborers. Portrait of life and Ny Prawiro Munali been talking about this.


BPS data in 2002 mentions, farm laborers in 1995 was around 5.064 million families, and increased to 7.10 million families in 1999. In 2003 recorded that there were 11.7 million families. Economic difficulties that resulted in very limited employment opportunities and lack of improvement fate, will make a number of farm workers continue to increase. [Mus]


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Traditional values Abandoned, Indigenous Peoples Forced to "Modern"

Indigenous peoples face a tough challenge to stay within the tradition. Now they are forced to "modern" than the general public spectacles with having to leave the ancestral traditions that have cultural values higher.


For the sake of development which is only meant to pursue economic growth, the existence of indigenous communities or isolated tribes are often ignored. In fact, the way and the value of traditional community life is important to maintain the persistence of cultural diversity.


Dodi Rokhdian, one of the movers Sokola Foundation which focuses on education of tribal children, such as the Family Child Within in Jambi, Monday (10 / 8), said that indigenous communities are often viewed as people who are not civilized and wild. Assessment is because modernity as narrowly interpreted by the government and the community as to leave the ways of traditional life. In fact, traditional life is not necessarily worse than the modern life.


"Like the right to education for children isolated tribes, look at all the national education system does not appreciate the peculiarities of local society," says Dodi.


Cultural perspectives
In commemoration of the International Community World Indigenous every August 9, the Director General of UNESCO Koichiro Matsuura said that indigenous communities are encouraged to become part of the international community to approach the perspective of cultural development and identity. UNESCO believes that development should be based on cultural diversity.


Development, said Koichiro, do not be understood narrowly, ie just about economic growth. Development also means to achieve intellectual satisfaction, emotional, moral, and spiritual existence, as stated in the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity problem in 2001.


Recognizes the right
UN Declaration of Human Rights over Indigenous Peoples in 2007 recognizes the rights of indigenous communities to develop in accordance with the aspirations, needs, and their interests. At this time it is important to recognize as a reflection of the relationship between culture, development, and identity.


Indigenous communities in the world representing 5 percent of the world. This fact shows their capacity to adapt to change while still continuing the values and way of life unique.


That indigenous communities should be recognized as guardians of cultural diversity and biodiversity. "We must protect and promote the diversity of cultural expressions, whether in traditional forms and contemporary, with special emphasis on indigenous communities," said Koichiro.


Ignoring indigenous communities means killing the expression of cultural diversity. In a few generations, 50persen than 7,000 languages spoken in the world is likely to become extinct. The situation is critical for indigenous communities who have 5000 languages in 70countries on six continents and about 75 percent of them still exist. [MUS]


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