"Nyaris Roboh"

"Nyaris Roboh" 

Salah Satu Sabtu Sore yang Nikmat

         Sudah agak lama  saya tidak mendatangi acara "Pensi" atau pentas seni. Mungkin sudah hampir lima atau enam bulan yang lalu saya datang ke acara seperti ini. Sudah menjadi mahasiswa semester tiga bukanlah alasan untuk menghindari acara seperti ini, kalau suka dan enak maka nikmati saja. Oke kali ini saya berkesempatan menikmati pensi SMAN 2 Surakarta, yang di beri nma "SMADAGASKAR III". Hanya tahu bahwa ada acara ini sehari sebelum acara, dan ada di venue tak lebih dari 90 menit, tapi ini bisa dibilang pentas musik yang nikmat. 

        Datang di GOR Manahan sekitar setengah empat sore, penampilan "Spirit of Life" menyambut di atas panggung, selaras dengan antrian sobek tiket dan pemeriksan untuk masuk venue.  Aksi band hardcore kota Solo ini, membakar semangat para pemuda di depan panggung, cukup liar aksi para pemuda ini, tapi sepertinya asyik juga. Teriakan, moshpit, dan tak lupa crowd surfing tak pernah hilang dari aksi tiga lagu mereka.

       Lepas dari  "Spirit of Life", ada band ternama dari Yogyakarta, "End of julia". Penampilan mereka cukup menghangatkan kembali semangat di depan panggung. Sing along dan gerakan moshing juga cukup liar. Tiga lagu yang mereka bawakan cukup memuaskan para pencinta musik mereka di Kota Solo.  Tetapi bagi saya aksi belu dimulai.    

        "Bandoso", band black metal kenamaan Kota Solo kemudian naik ke atas panggung. Saya pun bersiap di depan pagar barikade panggung. Mencoba bermain-main dengan pagar tersebut, saya merasakan pagar itu belum terlalu kuat, bahkan bisa dibilang longgar di beberapa titik. Saya dan seorang pemuda di kiri saya mencoba mengingatkan panitia penjaga barikade untu kmengencangkan dan menjaga titik lemah tersebut.  Setelah itu Bandoso bersiap mainkan aksi mereka, sayang nya aroma dupa tak tercium, ya seharusnya aroma wangi tersbut merasuki hidung sebelum mereka beraksi. 

          Aksi pun mulai, lagu pertama cukup nimat, moshpit mulai panas, tapi masih terkendali. Gerakan tangan dan headbang mulai terlihat. Pagar hitam di depan panggung juga mulai bergoyang-goyang karena dorongan penonton.  Panggung makin panas ketika lagu kedua "Tikaman Nafsu" berkumandang. Hentakan tangan penonton di depan pagar makin liar. Pagar tersbut terdorong mundur maki mendekat ke panggung.  Bahkan di beberapa bagian hampir terputus. Aksi di tengah moshpit juga tak kalah panas, meskipu saya tak begitu memperhatikan, yang jelas aksi crowd surfing masih berlangsung.  

           Menjelang lagu ketiga, atau lagu terakhir, suasana di depan pagar barikade juga makin panas. Panitia mulai berteriak untuk menyuruh mundur penonton dan menghentikan aksi menggoyang pagar dan crowd surfing.  Untung nya aksi tersebut tak begitu ditanggapi secara emosi oleh para penonton. Beberapa penonton di depan pagar bahakn mencoba menenangkan panitia, bahwa niat mereka bukan untuk merusak. Dan akhirnya penampilan Bandoso ditutup dengan lagu "Maha Gelap Maha Sesat" yang diriringi gerakan moshpit penonton didepan panggung yang nikmat. Yeah, cukup untuk berolaharaga sore itu. 

             Penampilan selanjutnya adalah "the Mobster", band SKA ternama dari Solo ini, menyapa para penggemarnya dengan lagu "Candy". Beat bercampur gerakan dan teriakan sing along penonton menikmati lagu pertama mobster. "Bersepeda" salah satu lagu andalan merka d album baru mereka. Penonton makin larut dalam musik riang tersebut, gerakan kaik, tangan, serta lompatan-lompatan terlihat  harmonisdianatara para penonton. Penampila mobster ditutup  lagu "Sing and Dance" membawa penonton untuk berdansa bersam The Mobster. 

       

              Setelah aksi The mobster, saya pun pulang, melewatkan aksi "abdul and the coffe theory" yang menjadi bintang tamu utama. Tapi aksi selama di venue sudah cukup membayar lunas atas harga tiket Rp. 17.000. Yeah Bandoso dan Mobster memberikan keringat dan keringanan di sabtu sore itu.  Yeah terima kasih juga untuk panitia dari SMADA Solo, lain kali buat pagar barikade yang lebih kuat ya . 

Kereta Gratis

 Kereta Gratis                                 

                         

      Hari ini, 25 Oktober 2012, kereta api Prameks (Prambanan Ekspress) dan ManJa (Madiun Jaya) sudah beroperasi normal kembali. Setelah kemarain seluruh jadwal prameks dibatakan, sebagai akibat dari anjloknya kereta api prameks 213 dari Solo Jebres tujuan akhir Kutoarjo di sebelah timur stasiun Kalasan.  Selain mengakibatkan korban luka dan kerusakan pada gerbong kereta yang anjlok, akibat lainya dari peristiwa tersebut adalah terlambatnya jadwal keberangkatan kereta api jalur selatan, bahkan beberapa kereta api harus memutar melewati jalur utara sehingga menambah waktu perjalanan sekitar dua jam. Penumpang kereta api lokal tujuan Yogyakarta, Solo, Madiun, Kutoarjo pun harus menggunakan mode transportasi lain, karena kereta batal berangkat.

         Sebagai kompensasi atas kejadian anjlok nya kereta api prameks tersebut, PT Kereta Api Indonesia membuat kebijakan tiket gratis bagi kereta api prameks mulai hari ini 25 Oktober 2012 hingga 28 Oktober 2012 untuk rute Solo-Yogyakarta PP. Kebijakan ini di berikan kepada penguna kereta api prameks sebagai kompensasi dan rasa simpati atas kejadian anjlok nya kereta api prameks di Kalasan .

          Kebijakan tiket gratis ini disambut baik oleh masyarakat. Euforia ini terlihat di media sosial ketika beberapa orang mengungkapkan rasa gembira atas kebijakan ini. Ya, memang kebijakan ini patut diapresiasi, kebijakn ini menunjukan tanggung jawab PT KAI daop Vi Yogyakarta terhadap para pelanggan nya. Tetapi sebenar nya ada beberapa hal yang seharusnya dipertimbangkan seperti kondisi kereta api dan tiba nya long-weekend pada saat pemberlakuan kebijakan ini. 

          Marilah kita, jangan salahkan PT KAI, kebijakan tesebut adaah bentuk tanggung jawab mereka sebagai penyedia jasa transportasi yang mengalami kecelakaan. Tetapi marilah, kita berpikir secara jernih atas kebijakan ini. Sebagai orang awam, ada baik nya kita jangan terlalu berpikir euforia saat ini.  Kita lihat jumlah kereta api prameks yang beroperasi.  Jumlah Kereta api prameks adalah tiga rangkaian; satu rangakaian rusak dan satu lagi anjlok di Kalasan kemarin. Andai kata keadaan kembalo normal (sesuali jadwal sebelum kecelakaan)pasti lah  beban rangkaian kereta itu bertambah

          Kondisi long-weekend juga bakal sangat berpengaruh. Dengan pemikiran orang Indonesia yang pragmatis, tentu nya kejadiaankereta api gratis ini tak akan dilewatka begitu saja. Tetapi ada hal-hal yang perlu diperhatikan, kereta api prameks pada masa long weekned seperti sekarang ini, biasanya sangat penuh, bahakn tak tersisa tempat untuk duduk di lantai. Apalagi jika jumlah penumpang makin tinggi akibat dari kebijakan tiket gratis ini. Masyarakat harus nya mengsntisipasi ini. Jangan sampai mereka kecewa karena tidak meras nyaman selama perjalanan. 

           Dengan kondisi seperti di atas, sebaiknya kita maklum dan sadar akan kondisi tersebut.   Sebaiknya, manfaatkan dengan baik kesempatan ini. Tetapi terimalah keadaan yang ada, jangan kemudian mengeluh dan bahkan tidak terima atas keadaan tersebut.  Selain itu mari kita berharap Keteta Api Indonseia dapat meningkatan pelayanan, fasilitas, serta infrastruktur perkereta-apian sehingga dapat memuaskan para penguna kereta api. Karena kompensasi yang terbaik adalah layanan yang baik.   

What’s Polite and Impolite Question in Your Country?

What’s Polite and Impolite Question in Your Country?

            What’s polite and impolite question for conversation in your country? That’s important question to us, to find the answer before we have conversation with foreigners. It’s because there are some question which are commonly used by Indonesian people to have conversation are impolite for people from others countries.  To find the answer, I asked a group of foreigners that I met at “BonBin” (a Famous food court on my faculty), they are consist of many countries such as; France, Lithuania, Tunisia, China, Argentina, Germany, Morocco, and Switzerland. I found some interesting answer from them, and this time I want to write the answer according; Cathy, student from China and Steve, student from Germany.

            Cathy is student from China, she now studying Bahasa Indonesia in my faculty. She has lived in Indonesia for one month and will stay for about six month.  When I asked her about impolite question in her country, she answers with unique answers. She said the in polite question is such as “How many girlfriend/boyfriend that you have before? “. She said that is a harsh question, it’s same as like “how many is your boyfriend/girlfriend right now?”  She also said a question like “What is your father/mother job? “ is also in polite question.  Beside that she said beside private matters, those are polite question.

            Steve is student from Germany, he’s has been in Indonesia for one year. Steve said that the first impolite question is about money. It’s impolite to ask someone about “how much is your salary?” or “How much money do you get every week/ every month?”. It’s also impolite to ask someone political side, it’s impolite to ask “are you left side or right side?” Religion question also sensitive issue, when you asked it in conversation.  The common conversation that Germany people had is about; sport, hobby, activities, food, etc. Steve also noted that they prefer to talk directly to their purpose. He also said that most German people is very concern about time, they prefer to done their work in time. It’s make them less have talk each other, even for have a little joke, it’s very rare for them to have it.

            Have a little talk with this group of foreigners is very nice. They had good responds of my question, instead my English is not very good.  The situation also enjoy, the answer my question while they have lunch.   There is Philip, foreigner from Switzerland which give me a joke, he answer “the polite question in Switzerland, is which not impolite ones”. Philip also told me that Swiss people usually make a joke about French.  They also ask me about Indonesian people joke. Unfortunately I can’t give them a good joke, because it’s difficult to make funny joke in English.

            At the end, I have some conclusions for my talks with them.  The first is they commonly used non private topics to have conversation with others people. It can be such as; sport, music, hobby, activity, etc. The private matters are impolite topics, it can be such as about; money, politic, family, relationship, age, and physical condition. The impolite question is can be said as rude question, and it’s bit hard for them to answers such kind that.  We must know what polite and impolite ones are, so we can have a good conversation and not make hurt feeling our partner.     

Rica-Rica and Sate Jamu “ Massri “

Jl. Ir. Sutami, Jebres, Solo 

             Sate is one of Indonesian popular food.  It’s usually made from chicken, goat, or  beef. How about Sate Jamu ? Is it made from jamu (Javanese traditional drink ) ?. Surely it’s not made from jamu, Sate Jamu is made from dog’s meat which combined with local spices.  It’s make Sate Jamu has spicy taste and can make warm our body, so people usually called this kind of food Sate Jamu.

            Rica-Rica is kind of food that come from Manado. This food name is come from Manado language which mean “hot” or refer to  “chilli” This food specialized on the spicy and hot taste of meat that cooked with the spices. The kind of Rica-Rica are very varietives, it can be from: chicken, duck, fish, beef, pork, etc. But this time we want to talk about Rica-Rica from dog’s meat. 

            Sate Jamu and Dog Rica- Rica is one of unique food that you can find easily in Solo. There are some famous stalls that sell this kind of food spread out around the city.  They usually open their stall in the evening, but you also can find who open in the afternoon, for example in Pemuda Street, Manahan there is a popular stall who sells food from Dog’s meat. That’s one of my favourites, but now I also want to tell another delicious dog’s meat food. It’s on Ir.Sutami Street, Jebres, Solo, the stall is owned by Massri and opened since 1977.  I had a little talk with about his stall in Friday evening , 28 September 2012. There are some point that i got from that talk, and I want to classified it with 10 contol point of food service control. 

·           Menu Planning

35 years ago Massri is a truck driver, he drive truck regularly from Solo-Jakarta vice versa.  He feel his job that time is not give him worthy money, beside that he also feel tired and want to lived with his family in Solo.  So in that time he decide to open a stall in Ir.Sutami Street, near his house in Jebres. 

He decide to sell Rica-Rica and Sate Jamu that time. It’s because he liked that kind of food.  It’s also because he was already familiar to cook that kind of food.  Rica-Rica made by Massri had a special things, it’s not made by Manado style but by Javanese style.  This food also had many lovers. He said that almost every day his food is sold out. He also said that every day he can gain profit around five hundred thousand rupiah. Those profits then shared with his wife and his employee which help him in the stall.

·           Puchasing

The food primary ingredient is Dog’s meat, to get best dog’s meat Massri had a supplier, which supplied him 50 dogs every week. The supplier is from Bandung,West java,  dogs is supplied in alive condition by truck every week.  In special case condition Massri also sometimes buy additional dogs from local breeder in Solo, for the example is when he get a big order, and his dogs is not enough, he buy extra dogs from the breeder.  For the spices and other ingredients such as : Rice. Carbon, Tea, salt,sugar, lemon,etc; Massri buy it from the market three times a week. 

·           Receiving

            From the supplier. Massri get a good quality dogs everyweek.  Massri said that the supplier usually come on time, it’s very rare that the supplier come after he got the short stock of dogs.  For the other iggredients which buy from market, it has own special seller. He buy from he has own  regular seller as a place to but his food ingredients.

·           Storage

            After get the ingredients, then the ingredients is keep in his house before being cooked. For the dogs, Massri had a large cage to keep his dogs. He keep his dogs and only take 5-7 dogs everyday to be killed and be cooked.

·           Issuing

            Before prepare cook the meat and ingredients, the ingredients is moved to the kitchen. The kitchen is located in Massri house.  Before that the dogs also moved to the back yard to be killed.

·           Preparing

            In Preparation to killed the dog,  there are some equipment that needed. There are knife, carver, bucket and hose. The knife and crver must be sharp and clean. It’s must be to keep the meat clean and the dog can died instanly.

            In Cooking there are some other equipment. The equipment for cooking is frying pan, pot, and stove.  There are also a griller to make sate. The griller need carbon to make fire on it, so the carbon must ready everyday.   The Ingredients and equipment must be ready before cooking. Massri usually preparing his cook in the morning, he also helped by his wife’s to prepare and cook the food.

In this step is also include the process of killing the dogs. The dog is killed by knife to make it died instanly, not like the other style which make dog drawn on the water to killed it. After the dog is died, it need to be clenaed. The meat is cutted and separated from the skin. It also cleaned the dog meat from the dirt.  After the meat is cut out and separated, the meat is wah out by water. This also to make sure the meats are clean.

·         Cooking

            The cooking process is usually start after noon. It start after the meats and ingredients are ready. The first the meat is boiled on the pot. It’s to make the meat to be more sotf. While the meats are cokked, the spices is blend together into a mix. This mixture is become the combination of the food.  After around 2 hours, the meat is moved to other pot and mix woth the spices. It boiled and mixed until the meat is well cooked. The sign the meat is well cooked is the meats colour that red.  That is the basic meats that cooked in Massri house. This meat can be used to make Rica-Rica or Sate.

            The next step is to cook and serve the menu to customers.  The basic meat then bring to the food stall and be set up for cook. The nest cook is depend on the customers request. Is it Rica Rica  or Sate Jamu ? If it Rica-Rica it will cooked with the spices again in the frying pan and added with pepers. If it’s Sate Jamu, it will cook in griller and griill with sweet soy sauce, not with peanut sauce. .

·         Holding

           The cooking process in the food stall is quick. It’s only need around five minutes per order. The time is little bit longer for making Sate Jamu because it depend on the fire temperature in the grill.  Because Massri used medium frying pan, it makes if there are big number of order he need to separated the order and cooked it into two part or three part of cooking.

·         Serving

            The serving of the food is just  like other Rica or Sate. Rica Rica is served in a plate with it’s tick dressing.  It’s consist of bones and meat, every plate should  consist of it and also some lever.  It’s served in hot condition, people can eat it by spoon and fork or eat it by hand.  But mostly of the customers eat it by using their hand, because it’s more easier and had special taste.

            Sate jamu is served just like ordinary sate.  It’s consist of meat which grilled and served with soy sauce.  It little bit different because it’s not using peanut sauce. Massri said that peanut sauce is not match if combined with Sate Jamu.  In Sate Jamu plate there are also chilli, cabbage,onion, and garlic, it’s can be used to add more taste for the sate.

·         Cleaning and Maintenance

Cleaning, is one of the important part of food business. Massri said that he always tried to make his food product is clean. He always clean the dishes by dish soap. He provide four until five bucket to wash and collect the dish.  For the water source he get it from the Factory behing his food stall, which connected to his food stall.   For the maintenance, Massri said he change his equipment when it’s wrecked. For the example for frying pan if it’s sticky, it’s mean it need the new one . For the pot , it sometimes leak, so it ned to be fixed, or be change.