Assalamualaikum teman, akhwan, ukhti, sista, broder, freunde, sodara sebangsa setanah air, dan para penggemar saya yang budiman….

Sedikit Fakta tentang Debi (yg sudah terungkap dan belum terungkap dan akan segera terungkap)

Fakta 1

Dilahirkan atas takdir Allah dengan wajah yang sangat ke-baby-an, di sebuah Rumah Sakit Islam, tanggal 27 Juni 1994. Dengan kualitas di atas rata-rata. Diklaim sebagai anak paling gemuk yang pernah lahir di keluarga besar gue saat itu bahkan hingga saat ini.

Fakta 2

Memiliki sejarah penamaan yang sangat unik aneh, yaitu: Dahulu kala, di sebuah taman kanak-kanak islam, seorang ibu yang masih muda dan memiliki tampang ke-ibu-an bersama seorang anaknya yang masih kecil dan memiliki tampang ke-imut-an, sedang berada dalam kebingungan dan kebimbangan. Saat itu terjadi percakapan antara guru TK dan si ibu.

Guru TK: siapakah nama anak ibuk yang lucu ini? Mau sekolah di sini ya?

Ibu: (tersenyum) ooo namanya debi.

Guru TK: ooo… debi apa?

Ibu: (terdiam dan berpikir dalam hati)

Anak: (terdiam)

Guru TK: (terdiam)

Terjadilah aksi diam-diaman selama beberapa menit…kemudian,

Anak: (mulai berpikir beberapa nama untuk dirinya, seperti Chantal Debi Concetta, Debi Bieber, Debi Gaga, Debi Swift, Debi Lovato, dll. Kemudian si anak berusaha menyampaikan aspirasinya tersebut)

Ibu: Debi Wulandari! (sambil tersenyum senang dan bangga dengan namanya tersebut)

Anak: (sedih tak berdaya, rencananya gagal sodara-sodara)

Guru TK: (mencatat nama tersebut dengan penuh nafsu seperti seorang malaikat atid yang sedang mencatat amal buruk manusia)

Anak: (ditakdirkan memiliki nama tersebut dari ayunan TK sampai liang lahat)

Fakta 3

Memiliki seorang ibu yang “mungkin” memiliki darah bule, sehingga ibunya mirip bule. Tapi anaknya harus terkena dampak tragis dari Global Warming, sehingga sama sekali tidak memiliki unsur bule seperti ibunya.

Fakta 4

Kata nyokap dulu pas gue masih baby, gue mau diikutin kontes bayi sehat gitu, tapi pas mau hari H nya gue digigit nyamuk. Dasar nyamuk durjana!

Fakta 5

Akhir-akhir ini mempunyai hobi terlarang bagi para wanita belia seperti gue, yaitu ngorekin jerawat (haduuh!).

Fakta 6

Selain hobi terlarang seperti yang disebutkan di atas, belakangan ini gue juga hobi tidur.

Fakta 7

Gue adalah penggemar berat Chantal Della Concetta. Tau nggak? Kalo nggak tahu tanya sama mbah google. Oh ya, gue bangga karena tanggal ulang tahun gue hampir mirip sama tanggal ulang tahunnya tante Chantal. Bangga saya! (Bahagia)

Fakta 8

Di SMA gue tergabung dalam sebuah perkumpulan anak-anak imut se-kecamatan masing-masing. Yang menyebut diri mereka Jungle. Walaupun jungle berarti hutan kami tetap baik hati, tidak sombong, dan rajin menabung (nggak nyambung).  Semuanya adalah penggemar  Justin Bieber, mulai dari penggemar kelas ringan sampai penggemar kelas  berat.

Fakta 9

Waktu SD gue juara kelas terus. (Sombong ya? Itulah kehidupan sodara-sodara. Terimalah kebenaran meskipun itu pahit).

Fakta 10

Di kelas ada seorang teman gue kita, sebut saja Bunga (bukan nama sebenarnya) *namanya gue samarin aja supaya teman gue tersebut nggak malu dunia akhirat. Yang khilaf dan dibutakan oleh setan durjana, sehingga dia menganggap hidung gue imut (yang pengen muntah dipersilahkan dengan hormat). Ya Allah terimalah segala kebaikannya di sisi Mu.

Fakta 11

Hari Sabtu tanggal 13 bulan November tahun2010 jam 16.47 merupakan waktu yang sangat bersejarah dalam hidup gue. Setelah 15 tahun gue hidup di dunia yang fana ini, gue berhasil menshooting bola basket dengan indah dan dengan efek slow motion ke dalam keranjang yang dilanjutkan dengan tepuk tangan riuh penonton serta lampu blitz kamera disertai suara gemuruh yang menggelora dan dilanjutkan dengan munculnya cahaya surga dan kemudian turunlah seorang malaikat Atid ke dunia ini untuk mencatat sejarah tersebut ke dalam diary nya disertai tangisan haru guru olahraga yang membahana ke angkasa. Terima kasih Justin Bieber. (?)

Fakta 12

Memiliki kebiasaan yang dilarang dalam Asosiasi Gadis-Gadis Imut Anti Jorok (AG2IAJ) yaitu kalo bangun tidur gue suka burping gituh (bahasa kerennya sendawa). *Ini berlangsung selama beberapa menit di dalam kamar mandi. 

Fakta 13

Gue suka ketiduran di dalam angkot. Walaupun ada ribuan bau yang nge-blend secara sempurna didalam angkot dan lagu-lagu dangdut yang berhasil membuat suasana semakin panas, gue tetap bisa tidur dengan pose putri duyung tidur. Biasanya gue terbangun setelah gue sadar bahwa seorang paparazzi depresi sengaja memfoto gue dan berhasil membuat dunia Hollywood yang jauh di sana heboh, kemudian terjadilah berbagai tindakan anarkis dan demo besar-besaran di berbagai belahan dunia dan akhirat untuk mencekal gue, sehingga Metro TV menjadikan berita ini sebagai Headline News dan Top Picture dalam acara Top Nine News yang dibawakan oleh news anchor bernama Eva Julianti. (boong)

Sekian “sedikit fakta tentang Debi” yang berguna untuk mengklarifikasi beberapa kabar burung yang beredar di infotainment dalam dan luar negeri melintasi berbagai galaksi, bahkan penghuni surga pun telah mendengar kabar burung tersebut yang disampaikan langsung oleh burung ababil, sehingga di pintu surga dipasanglah poster pencekalan terhadap seorang Debi Wulandari. Semoga setelah terpost nya postingan ini, para blogger di surga dapat menyebarluaskan berita ini, demi kemaslahatan penduduk bumi kita yang tercinta. Stop Global Warming!

 Baiklah, sebelum pak Nof semakin merasa berdosa karena telah memerintahkan muridnya untuk ngeblog, marilah kita tutup acara ini dengan mengucapkan istighfar dan jangan lupa untuk mencuci tangan sebelum tidur dengan tanah sebanyak tujuh kali dan dilanjutkan dengan mandi wajib dengan niat demi keridhoan Allah SWT. Akhir kata Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatu.

Indonesian Youth Pledge

On October 28, 1928, Indonesian youth nationalists from all over the country proclaimed a historic Youth Pledge, known as “Sumpah Pemuda”, for a unity of homeland, nation and language. This pledge helped Indonesia’s unification in Indonesia’s struggle for Independence. Ever since then, the Youth Pledge has been the quintessential symbol marking youth’s role and involvement in a nation building and development.

As a youth, and as an Indonesian, one could not help but to question whether any development has occur within the youth’s movement in the past 79 years. In evaluating this situation, we shall first analyze the challenges faced by each youth movement. This analysis is needed because the characteristic of a youth’s movement is largely intertwined with the challenges faced by such movement. Hence a comparative analysis on the characterization of the youth’s movement and its challenges before and after 1928 has to be employed.

Youth’s movement before the year of 1928 faces the challenge of colonialism and the repression of any freedom, particularly for any freedom of expression and right to education. This challenge is not only faced by Indonesian youth movement, but almost any other movement in any colonized territory. Specifically in Indonesia, the youth movement is characterized with segregation. This character is due to nature of multicultural Indonesia which is comprised more than 300 ethic groups and 200 different languages that stretch across 1,919,440 km². Along with this nature is the divide et impera’s politic employed by the Dutch colonialism.

The second character of youth’s movement pre-1928 is how it was led by intellectuals that reside in foreign countries. This character is mostly caused by the nature of education provided by the Dutch colony in Indonesia by that time. Education in Indonesia was only limited to an exclusive class of society, and focused on professional training rather than on higher graduate education. This tendency occurs because the Dutch colony’s need to have employees in the bureaucracy and equality of the Dutch children residing in Indonesia while trying to prevent any movement for independence on Indonesia’s part.

The youth’s movement after 1928, particularly after Indonesia’s independence, faces challenges that are different from the challenges faced by the youth movement before 1928. The challenges faced by nowadays youth movement are the fight for democracy and human right, global economy, free trade, and Indonesia’s position within the world’s economic and political realm.

Although the different challenges being faced by nowadays youth movement, there are similar traits from which we may take lessons from. The nature of these challenges are actually same, in spite of its’ different outlook. There still exist, however, a tension between the developed and developing countries, and many views free trade as consequence of globalization is a tool of neo-colonization. Therefore, despite the different outlook that nowadays challenges presents, we are still facing the same demon: colonization.

Moreover, if we compared the second character of youth movement, the number of intellectuals that reside in foreign countries is not too much difference either. The number of intellectuals residing in foreign countries is still and even higher than pre-1928. For instance, there are around 20.000 Indonesian youth intellectuals in Australia, 26.000 in Malaysia, 5000 in Egypt and more than hundred thousands spread in United State, Europe, India, Japan and others.

Based upon this comparison, there are certain actions that could be taken by the present youth movement, particularly for the youth living and/or residing in foreign countries, to handle the national and international challenges.

First, in fighting against the challenges by the outside world, Indonesia would first need strength. Indonesia’s strength would only be derived from Indonesia’s unity. In this context the internal structure within Indonesia has to be strengthened for escalating Indonesia’s reputation worldwide. The sense of nationalism and our national character need to be encouraged and grown. And not less important that in order to balance individual necessity to provide for basic needs while balancing our civic duty to uphold the nations’ and collective needs, each of us should advocate for a better Indonesia by upholding the political, moral and economical standard for ourselves.

Second, intellectuals residing in foreign countries can have much more access to sources that are not available in Indonesia. Thus, we must always remember to transfer the knowledge, information and technology gained by all means, such as writing in mass media, mentoring, giving lectures, conducting seminars or workshop for people who reside in Indonesia. This is similar to what was done by the intellectuals residing in the Netherlands that established the “Pendidikan Nasional Indonesia” (Indonesian National Education) which aims to share the education and knowledge gained with fellow Indonesians.

Third, the fact that we are all Indonesians means that we all represent Indonesia either we are residing in Indonesia or abroad. By being outside of Indonesia, one is held up to a higher standard than the one being held in Indonesia, because one then becomes an unofficial ambassador of Indonesia in every aspect. We reflected on Bung Hatta’s experience that gained friendship with Jawaharlal Nehru in seminars against colonialism. This friendship then developed into diplomacy, and this diplomacy helped Indonesia when Nehru takes sides and supported Indonesia’s independence in front of the United Nations right after 1945.

Bearing in mind that the past experience had shown us how we are able to make changes through actions taken in foreign countries that would eventually shape and influence the national development that will bring Indonesia become a greater nation. Unfortunately, till today there has not a global unity among Indonesian youth across the world nor enough coordination and communication between domestic and international youth movement. Consequently, the youth movement and its role are become powerless to tackle current challenges.