Saya termasuk orang yang "geram" dengan tindakan2 rakyat malaysia terhadap
bangsa kita, tapi terlepas dari siapa yang benar dan yang salah, semalam saya
sempat berdiskusi dengan beberapa teman kerja. Kebetulan teman kerja saya,
orang Indonesia yang sudah lama tinggal di luar negri, jadi boleh dibilang
sedikit "cuek" dengan situasi antara Malaysia & Indonesia. Pada saat saya
membahas bagaimana artikel/surat2 yang muncul di forum ini, terus bagaimana
tindakan rakyat malaysia yang merendahkan budaya kita, teman saya itu dengan
entengnya (sambil tersenyum) berkata :" WAH, PERNAH NGGAK KITA MIKIR YA, KALAU
ANTARA INDONESIA DAN MALAYSIA BENER2 "BERTARUNG", NEGARA MANA YANG BAKAL
DIUNTUNGKAN??????? "
Sekali lagi, terlepas dari siapa yang benar/salah, sebenarnya perkataan teman
saya itu benar, jika memang sampai Malaysia dan Indonesia bisa BERSATU.......
(ini kalau memang bisa.......) pasti ada negara yang takut dan merasa
dirugikan.....
Dan mungkin juga negara itu sudah meng-antisipasi supaya 'PERSEKUTUAN" itu
tidak terjadi, maka paling gampang adalah mengadu-domba.........
Mungkin "skenario" ini harus dipikirkan, mungkinkan pertikaian kita ini karena
ada pihak luar yang meng-adu domba??? dan ini tidak hanya dipikir dan
direnungkan oleh 1 pihak saja, Malaysia dan Indonesia harus berani duduk
bersama dalam 1 forum dan membahas hal ini.....
----- Original Message ----
From: Hosea Saputro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Forum Pembaca KOMPAS] [ENIS] Where Have All the Brotherly Love Gone?
Jejaring Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia (PPI) Eropa
(European Network of Indonesian Students)
Where Have All the Brotherly Love Gone?
Why we are where we are now?
Malaysian and Indonesian history are so intertwined and our future are
so closely linked that we are either hang together or hang separately.
Weren’t we both used to be part of the glorious kingdom of Srivijaya
and Majapahit? Wasn’t the founder of Malacca Sultanate, Pramesyara, a
runaway prince from Palembang? Wasn’t Dipati Unus from Jepara lead
sizable troops to get rid of Portuguese from Malacca not once but
twice? Weren’t our past royalties intermarried for too many times to
precisely counted. Weren’t we quick to get over the Konfrontasi and
start building Asean together?
Wasn’t Indonesian and professors left the comfort of homes in the past
to reach the in classrooms in Malaysia half a generation ago? Aren’t
Indonesian students these days filled Malaysian Universities instead?
Aren’t the economic prosperity in Malaysia could and already benefited
from Indonesia workers with our proximity and cultural and linguistic
links
Not only our languages are from the same roots and only slightly
differentiable, our aspirations are one. We both want to be a
prosperous and harmonious country, respected among the world’s
brotherhood of nation
We are brothers and will always be brother.
However, we can choose to live with brotherly love or without it. Some
say that family feud is the worst kind of feud, but it doesn’t have to
be that way.
• Family don’t hurt each other
Assigned prized, bounty hunter like, is no way to treat family member.
Search without warrant should be ceased and let’s return the entire
jurisdiction over illegal immigrant from non-state body and to police
and immigration officer. Indonesia should put the utmost effort to
reduce forest fire which cloud reach Malaysia while Malaysia should
tighten the Kalimantan border over illegal logging from Indonesia.
• Family protect each other
Let Indonesian workers in Malaysia have a right organized themselves in
labor union. Despite all the goodwill of Malaysian government, some
companies are bound to be overeager in their quest for profit and union
is one of the best ways for protection. Let us revised our Labor MoU
and no longer allowed the company to keep the workers passport.
• Family share heritage
Our long share history sometime makes it hard to distinguish the origin
of culturally related product. Lets put a memoratiorum on patenting any
of them and establish a join commission to study the true origin of any
particular product before going to patent office and discuss a revenue
sharing for joint patent when it is more appropriate.
• Family visit each other
It has been too long the Indonesian embassy in Malaysia to stand
without an ambassador. The Indonesian government and parliament need to
immediately send a trusted liaison, more than any other time, to mend
our ties and deepen our relation.
As the sound of bedug in lebaran still faintly heard and the scent of
Eid Mubarrak is still in the air let us both acknowledge our past
mistakes and vow to renew our bond..
Let the subsequent lyrics be a thing that unite us rather than divide
us. May we could savor the sweet taste of brotherhood once again. This
time, let it linger.
Kalau ada sumur di ladang, Boleh kita menumpang mandi
Kalau ada umurku panjang, Boleh kita berjumpa lagi
Rasa sayange rasa sayang sayange
Eeee lihat dari jauh rasa sayang sayange
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