“This place is the best side of Indonesia, you know! You don’t know the worst side yet” said a man who standing next to me at the lift last Friday. I saw the man with one of his friend in the Grand Indonesia Shopping Mall. They are foreign I thinks. But, wherever they come from, what they say is totally true. The place where we are standing at the time I found two man is one of the biggest mall in Jakarta. Firstly I went to there, I looks like a village girl that come to the glamorous place. The people who I saw at every corner of the place wear kinds of glamorous dresses. Some people enjoy their meals at the restaurant with a beautiful decoration, and the others enjoy with their shopping things. I know the meals and the every thing that be sell there are all about highly prices ones. Hmm,, maybe the people who usually came to the place saw me that I didn’t deserve to enter the place..yup..but me, I still walk around without minding my step..haha…
In this discussion I will not continue about what GI is or what glamor that place. I just want to tell you about the difference of GI as the best side of Indonesia maybe and a slum area as the worst side one. For the rich people like you, maybe you never know what they (slum people) are feeling. I’m not rich women or maybe be part of the slum people, but I feel their sadness sometimes. What do you feel when you are at the where people called as “kopaja” or “metromini”? and the kopaja are very crowded with the people, and then you see someone driving at the luxurious car? We just can see and expect that we are the person one. But it’s just hoping. Or you are walking at the street, you must see the cadger, the beggar and the waif along the street. What a pity they are. It’s so difficult for them to get money, even a little of money such one hundred thousand rupiah. But you (the people at the GI that I ever saw especially or you are spend your money by nothing), maybe you never feel what they are feel everyday, what they are always thinking what meals I can eat today, or what will they go to get something useful. I’m not naive if I often to go to Mall with my friends just for lunch, supper or see the movie. At the time, sometimes I see my meals carefully, how much I spend my money just for paying my lunch, it will be a great amount for them (the cadger, the beggar and the waif). Hmm..whatever I think, I say or I write there, I can’t help them more yet. I’m sorry for it. I wish I can do something for them sometimes, not only thinking, saying or writing. May it be..aamin..
someday you can help them
BalasHapus