Diffable

I stucked on the traffic jam. In front on me, there were a man riding his tricycle—a modified motorcycle that has 3 tires. From right behind him, I can see his leg laid down. I suggest, one of his another leg has lost or disabled.

Diffable

Those situation reminded me of an essay written by Roy Thaniago. He was a media activist/ media scientist. Once on his facebook post, he shared the thought about how diffable in Indonesia and Sweden live their life.

Roy stated that there was one condition that make diffable became what there were. Those are: infrastructure. In the place where he was studied his master degree, public facility was well-built. So much so that one with different abilities can be present. They were appear—as mentioned on the essay—on the street, or in the library.

Different condition occurred in Indonesia. We seldomly see disabled people because for them, there were only two options: being active with their own resource, or being held in confinement deliberately. This kind of situation was certainly not a best way of how we treat them. Through this encounter, I would love to risen up our consciousness, that they are need the same support from society—not only from government.

One Humankind

The moment of #blacklivesmatter campaign on social media—that incinerated by the racial killing in US—also became the right time to gather the same solidarity. Last night I watched an interview of Syamsi Ali, the director of Jamaican Moslem Center in New York, US.

He said that moslem community supported the campaign of Black Lives Matter, but not because of the color of their skin. It was considering about one main value of religion: perpetrate all people as one humankind.

The Way

There was one simple way we can do to prevent ourselves from being a racist. Ernest Prakasa dechiper it in one of his instagram post. He shared his experience of being marginalized due to his racial backgound. In Indonesia—especially on the president Soeharto’s regime—chinese people had to face some restriction. From forbidden to complicit in political activity, to cultural repression. They obliged to change their chinese name.

Ernest conclude, that those vicious condition was ever held because there were no empathy. Chinese people became stigmatized because of their lack of exploration. Nonchinese people also tend to judge them by this missunderstanding. In conclussion, the simple thing that Ernest has mentioned on the net is: socialize. []