As a big city, Jakarta
has unique cultures and special features. Jakarta is also well-known as capital
city that is made up of people of different races, religions, abilities, and
interests. One thing interesting of the
excitement of this city is a place where
i was born and have been growing up. The location is in the west of Jakarta,
called Rawalele, the miracle creature, a small town in a big city.
Rawalele is an ideal
place to live. At least, there are four reasons that makes this area very
strategic for everyone who wants to be happier. First of all, located at the
highest point in Jakarta, Rawalele has never been flooded. Therefore, Rawalele
becomes a potential promising area that are comfortable for citizens and
particularly more profitable for a businessman. The businessman can get a lot
of benefits because there is no cost of minimizing the potential harmful impact
(loss) of flood. This special thing is rare in Jakarta.
Secondly, this town is
near Soekarno-Hatta Airport. The availability of the airport gives a great
chance for society who live here to get a good job because there are so many
job vacancies available. It can significantly reduce unemployment rate among
young people. Moreover importantly, there is a Waduk (reservoir or dam) in this
place. Waduk brings good opportunities to a community. Not only Waduk creates
small business opportunities surrounded the society, but also waduk offers many
positive things to the people. People can fish, watch a big match of local football
team, have an exercise or just take a walk around with their family in the
Waduk. People can also clean their mind by blowing up fresh air in this area
and seeing a rice field and green trees as far as they can see and enjoy feeling
deeply how beautiful the view of Waduk is.
The third, the cultures
and the customs of society here basically and fundamentally make this town more
beautiful and more interesting. The ways of most people life are the best thing
that ever I love most. They think about being happy in life is to do good things
voluntarily for others even though they do not know someone who they help and
there is no one who sees what they are doing for someone else. They keep doing
it although they must face hardships and tasted the bitterness of life. One
reason behind it that I know is they have a strong religious background. They
consistently follow their own religious beliefs, values and cultures so that they
can erase individualities from their community in the age where a huge changes
always happen everyday.
The last, Rawalele has
many organisations that have a variety of different backgrounds. One of them is
IRMAN, the unity of Moslem Youth Ar-Rahman, the oldest islamic organisation in
this place. The organisation offers teenagers to grow up as a person and learn
a lot things based on Islamic’s thought and original Indonesian cultures that
is valuable for their whole life. They will be the initiator of change in the
future, not only for people here but also for people in Indonesia like the ancestors.
The existence of IRMAN has also many advantages for parents. The organisation
can help them to avoid (minimize) the probability of their children to be a
lazy, unmotivated and selfish generation. Their children will have no time to
do something useless or bad for themselves or society because they are so busy
in doing all IRMAN activities.
In the same situations as
other towns, Rawalele has dark sides, too. The advantages of living here have
stimulated other people (I called it foreigners) to come here. More and more
foreigners shift from the place where they come from to Rawalele to stay. Of
course, day by day, total people here increase dramatically. Increasing people
has strong positive impact on vehicles that are owned by people here. The lots
of private vehicles mean more pollutions to the environment. The environment
will be seriously hurt and people’s health will be affected.
Another impact of
increasing number of people is that more homes will be needed to accommodate more people. There are numerous
new homes that had been developed in a decade. Obviously, it destroyed many
large open fields that caused this town
not suitable for bringing up children. The ideal area where they mostly spend
their time playing with their counterparts is just a dream nowadays. Both
physical and mental their behaviors is worse than those who were in my era.
From what has been
described above, the brief and dark sides of this town are unavoidable but I
still believe that society here (including me) will work hard together and help
each other to achieve precious things and make this town the best place for
living in the future. Furthermore, Rawalele is home to a well informal educated,
diverse pool of talent that can not be replicated fully by others.
I am very lucky living
here and have been undergoing numerous great changes since I was child until
now. Oh yea, if I am ever given the chance to change one important thing about
my hometown, it will be a system of life. Are you curious about what the system
of life I mean? Ok, next essay I will describe it fully. Thanks for reading it.
CMIIW
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