Koen pancen sampurno
Nek tak delok koen pancen elok
Koen nggarai awakku
Bakal tetep mujo sliramu

Saben awakku mlangkah
Aku mesthi mikirno awakmu
Ra iso tak bayangno
Uripku tanpo tresnamu

(*)Koen ojo ninggalke awakku
Ora bakal iso ngadepi kabeh
Cuma karo kowe awakku iso…

Reff:
Koen iku getihku
Koen iku jantungku
Koen iku uripku
Njangkepi awakku
Oh tresnaku koen pancen
Sampurno… sampurno..

Tok gegem tanganku
Pas awakku lemes tibo pisan
Koen mbisiki tembung
Tur mbusek kabeh getunku

(*)Koen ojo ninggalke awakku
Ora bakal iso ngadepi kabeh
Cuma karo kowe awakku iso…

Reff:
Koen iku getihku
Koen iku jantungku
Koen iku uripku
Njangkepi awakku
Oh tresnaku koen pancen
Sampurno… sampurno..

(*)Koen ojo ninggalke awakku
Ora bakal iso ngadepi kabeh
Cuma karo kowe awakku iso…

Reff:
Koen iku getihku
Koen iku jantungku
Koen iku uripku
Njangkepi awakku
Oh tresnaku koen pancen
Sampurno… sampurno..

*) Lagu pertama yang saya gubah secara penuh… hehe

The Mosque of Djenne, Djenné, Mali, the oldest known city in sub-Saharan Africa is situated on the floodlands of the Niger and Bani rivers, 354 kilometers (220 miles) southwest of Timbuktu. . Founded by merchants around 800 AD (near the site of an older city dating from 250BC), Djenné flourished as a meeting place for traders from the deserts of Sudan and the tropical forests of Guinea. Captured by the Songhai emperor Sonni ‘Ali in 1468, it developed into Mali’s most important trading center during the 16th century. The city thrived because of its direct connection by river with Timbuktu and from its situation at the head of trade routes leading to gold and salt mines. Between 1591 and 1780, Djenné was controlled by Moroccan kings and during these years its markets further expanded, featuring products from throughout the vast regions of North and Central Africa. In 1861 the city was conquered by the Tukulor emperor al-Hajj ‘Umar and was then occupied by the French in 1893. Thereafter, its commercial functions were taken over by the town of Mopti, which is situated at the confluence of the Niger and Bani rivers, 90 kilometers to the northeast. Djenné is now an agricultural trade center, of diminished importance, with several beautiful examples of Muslim architecture, including its Great Mosque. In addition to its commercial importance, Djenné, was also known as a center of Islamic learning and pilgrimage, attracting students and pilgrims from all over West Africa. Its Great Mosque dominates the large market square of Djenné. Tradition has it that the first mosque was built in 1240 by the sultan Koi Kunboro, who converted to Islam and turned his palace into a mosque. Very little is known about the appearance of the first mosque, but it was considered too sumptuous by Sheikh Amadou, the ruler of Djenné in the early nineteenth century. The Sheikh built a second mosque in the 1830′s and allowed the first one to fall into disrepair.

Mosque Construction

The present mosque, begun in 1906 and completed in 1907, was designed by the architect Ismaila Traoré, head of Djenné’s guild of masons. The Great Mosque is built on a raised plinth platform of rectangular sun-dried mud bricks that are held together by mud mortar and plastered over with mud. The walls vary in thickness between sixteen and twenty-four inches, depending upon their height. These massive walls are necessary in order to bear the weight of the tall structure and also provide insulation from the sun’s heat. During the day, the walls gradually warm up from the outside; at night, they cool down again. The mosque’s prayer hall, with ninety wooden pillars supporting its ceiling, can contain as many as 3000 people. This helps the interior of the mosque to stay cool all day long. The Great Mosque also has roof vents with ceramic caps. These caps, made by the town’s women, can be removed at night to ventilate the interior spaces. Djenné’s masons have integrated palm wood scaffolding into the building’s construction, not as beams, but as supports for the workers who apply plaster during the annual spring festival to restore the mosque. In addition, the palm beams minimize the stress that comes from the extreme temperature and humidity changes that take place during the year.

Latest Condition

Such earthen architecture, which is found throughout Mali, can last for centuries if regularly maintained. The repair or maintenance of the Great Mosque is supervised by a guild of 80 senior masons, who also coordinate the annual spring replastering. Many of the citizens of Djenné work to prepare banco (mud mixed with rice husks) for the event. It may be compared to a community fair “with much festivity and laughter,” as described by a visitor in 1987: “Every spring Djenné’s mosque is replastered. This is a festival at once awesome, messy, meticulous, and fun. For weeks beforehand mud is cured. Low vats of the sticky mixture are periodically churned by barefoot boys. The night before the plastering, moonlit streets echo with chants, switch-pitch drums, and lilting flutes. A high whistle blows three short beats. On the fourth, perfectly cued, a hundred voices roar, and the throng sets off on a massive mud-fetch. By dawn the actual replastering has been underway for some time. Crowds of young women, heads erect under the burden of buckets brimming with water, approach the mosque. Other teams, bringing mud, charge shouting through the huge main square and swarm across the mosque’s terrace. Mixing work and play, young boys dash everywhere, some caked with mud from head to toe.” This festival, called the”crepissage”, is under threat, however. In 1988, the old Town of Djenné and its Great Mosque were named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Voltaire

Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) mostly known as philosopher . He wrote about civilian freedom, religion freedom, also law right for every people. He is recognized as one of French thinkers whose led France Revolution. He is also gets respects as a great writer with his masterpiece, Candide (1759).

Rene Girard

Rene Girard, the man whose born at 1923 in Avignon. One French thinker whose famous with his thoughts about critical literature and social knowledge. He was a creator Mimesis theory. In his book, “Violence and the Sacred” (1972) he explain violence as a manifestation of mimesis desire in a life society as cause of jealousness.

Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard, born 1929 in Reims. Known as one post-modernism thinker and a famous pioneer of post-structural in the world. His famous thoughts is about hyper-reality and simulacrum. For Baudrillard, today is no more mode of production which is basic for Human development as analyzed by Karl Marx. Middle capitalism has brought post-modern society development through what he thought as mode of consumption. He is not only known as a philosopher and social thinker, he is also known as a great journalist.

Guy Debord and his book "La Societe du Spectatle"

Guy Debord was born 1931 in Paris. Founder and leader Lettrist International and Situationist International group, that led and directed french students revolution in France at 1968. His Book “La Societe du Spectatle” (1967) essentially a radical critic about life that existed in typical alienation form, from consumptive society.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau, born at 1712 at Geneva. He is known as one thinker who has influence toward French Revolution. His most important book (Du Contrat Social, ou, Principes du Droit Politique” (1762) analyzed politic basic principal and still learned and and discussed until this time. The “Social Contrat” has inspired Human Rights Declaration and all revolution philosophy. He is also known as a composer and writer. His book “Emile” (1762) showed that he was attracted to education world.

Now the village is become very cool, even in dry season. The villager also enjoy very much natural resources such as, cocoa, coconut, clove, durian, etc. They also can build road and enjoy electricity in their village.

When Andy F Noya from Kick Andy ask him about the reason why he save his village, he answered “I won’t let my children and my grandchild suffer pain that I’ve felt”. So, let us save our environment, not only for us, but also for next generation.

“Superheroes don’t save the world, we do”

After finished 3rd grade, i thought that i was very bored to live in Bandung, so I said to my Mom that I wanted to lived in the village together with my Grandparents, my Mom just asked me “why ?” I said my reason then we (Me and my Mother) moved to a small isolated village in Wonogiri, Central of Java.  My grandfather was a farmer, and my Grandmother was a tempe (a fermented soybean patty) maker and seller in a market in the center of the city, i always waited for her after i came back from the school (SDN Pare 1), because she always brought me various of snacks, that’s one reason why I love her very much ^_^.

My favorite activity while I was still lived in this village was tracing the river near my Grandpa’s house with my best friend and collected fish as  much as We could. After we finished the tracing we fried the fishes and shrimps that We got and ate it together, the tracing itself could took time from 4 until 6 hours. Sometimes we swam when we were bored, gone fishing, or looked for eel in rice field, those activities make We went home with dirty clothes, but I thought for experience that is worthed.

At 4th grade I entered my first mathematic competition in my region. Due to my appearance that time (not good looking, small, unkempt hair) some teacher believed that I wouldn’t won that competition, but I try to prove if that prediction was wrong. The competition held, my teacher didn’t gave me any target and amazingly I won that competition. That made the teacher that doubt me was very ashamed. The trophy I got became the first trophy for my school, that made my teachers became very proud of me.  For the next two years (5th and 6 th grade) I still won that competition. Now I still hold the record with 3 consecutive wins.

After finished elementary grade, I schooled in SMPN 1 Wonogiri, the most favorite junior high school in my city. In this school I was known as “Fery the biker”, that’s because I went to school by a bicycle (a BMX actually) for 12 km, with slopes everywhere. For 1 year, I became the only one student whose went to school by a bicycle. My favorite moment while I was in junior high school was when I “bombed” a police office with a firecracker. I almost got jailed by did that, fortunately the police men couldn’t caught me ^^.

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still to be continued

After several month we lived in Lembang, we moved to Bandung. My parents decided to bought a house, and we lived there until this time. That house was very small (just nine meter square), I thought that space is enough for us that time. I also had new adventure here, met new friend, and did everything together, such as play with marbles, crossing river, climb a tree, and something else, very very unforgettable moment.

when I was five years old, I requested my parents that i want to go to school. My Mother (almost) registered me at a kindergarten near my mother workplace, but instead registered to a kindergarten, I persuaded my mother to registered me in that elementary school. The headmaster said that i wasn’t ready yet. I couldn’t accept that reason, i thought i have ready because i could read. My mother entered the office again and tried to convinced the headmaster that I could read. After waited for several minutes my mother called me in. After did several test the headmaster said “congratulations, you can start go to school next Monday”. I was very very happy that time. My first week in elementary school was not so bad. After two weeks, I realized that I couldn’t write as well as my friend did,. That made me hated school. My father cheered me up, he said that i could do that. That made me learned write be myself, because sometime my father or my mother who have really finished my homework (:P).

to be continued…

to be continued…