5 Things that Will Change Your Life!

Have bored life, Stuck on daily routine, Stay in comfort zone. 

I used to had these down moment. When these things happen to me; Its like the end of world is coming soon! But now imma try to get my real life back! and ready for happier life. Here's something that I want to share and hopefully your life will change to be better yahh!Check these out :p 

1. Set your goal 

Its not hard to set your own goal! Gampang-gampang susah sih tapi its really fun when you do brainstorming abt your life.Just ask your self and know what you want to achieve. I love to do it! that's why notebook gue banyak banget gambar-gambar ngak jelas bentuknya tapi jelas pathway-nya (amin semoga aja sesuai dengan jalan Tuhan juga) 

2. Time management is important 

I'm so so so bad in time management! even I missed my flight! hahaha but I'm willing to set my time management. Now or later is the matter of time; but it'll be better if we know which one is your priority. Up till now; gue kadang mis-manage; yang bukan priority gue malah di prioritized and it messes up everything. At the end; the regret always comes last lah yaaa. That's why, TIME MANAGEMENT IS IMPORTANT :) 

3. Learn New Things 

You know! I got my dad' DNA, dia suka coba hal-hal yang kadang-kadang terlalu new things for his generations. Gue cobain selagi itu make sense and enrich my knowledge and experience. Akhir-akhir ini gue suka baca and baca random information hahaha,its kinda fun oi! Coba deh kalian learn something new and find your self into it. 

4. Give Your Life to Have Creative Thinking 

You can think whatever you want! have creative mind and be free of it! I know, to get creative thinking is not easy; buy you can let your life enjoy every single creative music or film and then find your self being creative unintentionally. You know what, I found a facts (hana's fact that perhaps occurs on hana's life hahaha) We have unlimited creative thinking, just use it for purpose and it'll turn to life changing.  






 5. Explore and Go Out!!! 

Explore what you have learned; the new things or your creative thinking. Its like you take an action! kalau gue baru nonton action movie neh, pengen nya  coba nembak di senayan hahaha and I did it! for several times gue nembak di senayan; lumayan lho untuk melatih konsentrasi (BELAJAR FOKUS) dan fisik. And Go out! make a new friend will be more awesome. Idw; kalau ketemu orang baru I'm super exciting to know their story; it doesn't mean gue kepo ya! but I want to be a good listener; so I can listen people life' story and I can learn from it. One more things! Go and do something out of your comfort zone. 


Just Share and I'm keep learning everything; sorry if you feel bad of it or it doesn't work on you. Please try another way! hehehe 
GOOD LUCK BRO & SIST! 


                     HHM

My Key Opinion Leader

 Theoretically, Opinion Leader is a leader for a certain group who gives details and information to lesser active people in the group. Opinion leaders pick up information from mass media and they interpret the information to their own language and pass on the information to the people. Opinion leader only can be leader for their own group / field not for all.

When leaders are transforming the information, leaders may add their opinion on the actual content. But also the Opinion leaders can filter the actual content ensures the information is needed by the people. Leaders should be able to influence public especially their followers to have same opinion. At least they have strong opinion which able to create public opinion. Those leaders got the power from many sources: it can be from culture capital (family background), status social, and also reputation. These reasons will gain a trustworthy of people to listen and follow leader’s opinion.

In the past, opinion leader get the access to spread their opinion through traditional way, they talk face to face and the opinion was spread. But now, the communication channel improves, the opinion leader use new medium, which is social media to deliver their opinion.

Opinion Leader

She is Melanie Subono, a multitalented woman. She sings, writes, does business, and social media activist. She has more than 600.000 followers on twitter and 30.000 followers on instagram, she also has own website; www.melaniesubono.com to publish her writing, opinion, and campaign. Based on her writing and social media post, she concerns to some issue such as; immigrant, women and fauna.  Because of her writing, achievement in music industry and contribution to social issue, she becomes popular in society.  

She becomes famous because her family background too. She comes from reputable family; her father is Adrie subono who is one of the best music promoter; Javaindo. Her grand father is Bj. Habibie who is third president of Indonesia.  Unintentionally, her family background supports her to be influential in her society.

She also well known as the founder of some petition such as; the immigrant case; Bukankah seharusnya dia membela mereka? #SupportImasTati[1]. In June 2012, Melanie won a campaign that forced Migrant Workers Task Force chairman Maftuh Basyuni to apologize for his remarks about abused migrant workers. Another petitions; she asked for the House of Representatives to not endorse Daming Sunusi as a Supreme Court justice for making insulting remarks to rape victims. More than 10,000 Internet users supported her cause by signing the petition over the course of only one day, and the number is growing. [2]It shows that she use change.com as communication channel to spread her opinion to influence public opinion.

Analysis of Case Study

A couple of week ago, she also speaks out about the fauna care in Bali. She critiques Bali government who states like in the picture. She posts it to her instagram and a lot of her follower comment about it. Her caption on this post is quite sensitive because she mentions to the government rudely. But she get same thoughts from her followers, her follower agree of what she thinks. Not only that, she also mention about the dog in twitter and got hundred of re-tweet.

Through this context, why does she become opinion leader; she able to influence people to have same thought. How does she become opinion leader?  she pick up the news from mass media which is kompas.com and pass on to the follower through her social media. She uses her communication platform to convey her opinion to build public opinion. Not only that, she also was interviewed by metro TV and discussed about immigrant issue as her concern. This can be good example of opinion leader, because metro TV was asking her opinion to a specific issue; immigrant. And she pass through the opinion to the audience.

Relate to Theory

Back to her background, she is influenced by cultural capital. What kind of cultural capital, which are family reputation and social status. This cultural capital shapes the way of she is. Through this cultural capital, she defines herself as someone who has power to influence others. This her identity impacts to the character of her followers too, how the character defined them self and current issue based on her perspective.

Talking about ideology, she transfers her ideology; (what she interests) to the follower and audience. Her aim of ideology framework through print or media; which is to make people her followers have same perspective when they concerns to several issue; migrant. She sets the framework by filtering and editing the, message or information; so

She also contribute to create an imagined community, for example; the dog’ case in Bali. Unintentionally, she states that behalf of dog lovers against it. It means she use the term of behalf which is all of dog lovers to encourage a society to be community. How she shows her semiotics also quite amigo, because actually, she uses media to deliver the information. I think she represents her self through personality, she doesn’t has specific strategies for her branding but in my perspective; she already set her future and keep maintaining the relationship with followers via social media.

For Introduction in Sociology 

HHM 

5th Semester - Binus International 

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[1] https://www.change.org/p/bukankah-seharusnya-dia-membela-mereka-supportimastati

[2] http://www.nationmultimedia.com/aec/Indonesian-online-activists-gather-for-change-30198352.html

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Toraja Escape

Hi Readers! Finally I'm back :> (Back ke jalan yang benar hoho). Gue kangen banget ngepost! kemarin-kemarin ini, mau ngepost ngak sempet karena gue kelabakan nge-manage waktu gue antara study, intern, JJS (jalan-jalan sendiri) dan me time! biasa orang sok sibuk hahaha (sumpah gue songgong banget ini, ok balik ke topic) Alrite! Gue ngak sabar mau share my journey in TORAJA!! di bulan yang penuh dengan canda tawa ini; bulan maret yeayyyyy !!!

ok, sebelum gue share lebih jauh, gue mau confess dulu :( I made a big big big huge mistake!! OMG this's my first time, I missed my flight T.T!! even though there were 15 mins left before take off!!!!!!!!!!! The L*on airline staff didn't allow me, even though I already done website check-in. Its because the flight document already hold and signed by stewardess.  FML! I kept blame my self. Maaf lebaii tapi It hurts for me because I paid my bill with my saving, and when I misses the flight; ahh sakit nya thu di sini, di dompetttt!!!!! even gue nangis pun ngak   akan ngembayar ticket yang hangus dan terpaksa beli ticket baru huhuhu. 

its such a learning for me to be more and more ONE TIME and of course TIME MANAGEMENT should be arranged. (but actually time management untuk orang yang tinggal di jakarta, hmmmm its kinda hard rite? due to the traffic is getting worst these days) Ok, never mind; this's can be a learning too for you who are reading this :) 

Well, continue; 

I had flight to Makassar bareng Sysca (one and only temen yang paling jago tidur AKA pelor banget. Dimanapun kapanmu bareng siapapun keadaan apapun dia bisa tidur!! luar biasa bukan temen gue yang satu ini ) hahahahah! It's compliment dear :p Sedangkan gue selama di pesawat gue ngak bisa tidur! mau tau kenapa???? karena mbak-mbak pramugari yang cantik ngak bisa diem. Padahal gue duduk di row 8C dan gue masi bisa denger mbak-mbaknya ketawa. (mungkin mereka lelah) Ok, boleh mbak ketawa tapi jangan sampai kedengaran sama penumpang. Anw, yang denger bukan hanya gue aja tapi di sebrang gue ada old guy mid 40's juga bereaksi yang sama. Pokoknya perjuangan bangetlah gue ke toraja ini huhuhu! udah ketinggalan pesawat, dapet flight yang berisik banget, lagi diare pulak !!!! 

Nyampai di makassar, kita di jemput dari Bernard and Ronald. (Intermezzo) Ronald ini koko terhits se-makassar lah pokoknya. Bagi yang jomblo, silakan contact gue nanti gue kenalin hahahaha (@Ronald: ingat komisi 25% ya hahaha) Balik lagi ke cerita; touched down di Makassar kita ngemil pisang ape dulu di pantai losari dan keesokan harinya kita baru lanjut ke toraja. 

Ronald, Me, Sysca, Bernard

Ok! jujur aja gue kira Makassar - Toraja palingan 200an KM lah ya, ternyata kita harus melewati jalur darat  -/+ 350 KM!! yang kondisi jalan-nya berombak-ombak, bolong dan gitu deh lu bayangin sendiri. Normally, it takes around 8 hours if you go straight w/out transit ya. Tapi ya karena kami manusia biasa dan lemah (#apaansihhana) kita mampir dulu di kota pare-pare, ngisi nyawa dan lurusin tulang ekor, at least we already halfway there :>. Well, sepanjang perjalanan Makassar ke Pare-Pare we enjoyed rice field and hill view. Landscape nya ok banget! (maklum gue anak belitung, anak pesisir; jadi kalau ketemu sawah-sawah jadi udik to the max hahahaha) tapi ironisnya di belakang permandangan itu, ada pertambangan marmer dan semen haiyaaa (welcome to Indonesia ya bapak ibu) 

Sampai di kota pare-pare, we had dinner at asia restaurant punya temen ronald; named Puji. WAH WAH WAH WAH! itu ayam goreng tanpa tulangnya SABI bangetttt. Bahkan gue yang lagi diare, bodo amat; gue hajar aja terus!! Tolong di note ya, kalau ke pare-pare mampir ke sini!! (INI BUKAN ENDORSEMENT or PIAD PROMOTION KOK, ini rekomendasi atas dasar ikhlas dan pertemanan asal nanti kalau gue ke sono tolong disiapkan ayam nya lagi ya Puji hahahaha Ok, gue mulai engga tau diri #bye) 

Bukit Nona 

Ok, keesokan harinya kita melanjutkan perjalanan kita yang kurang lebih 170 km lagi!!! Huff (kalau di belitung neh 170km udah muter belitung trus balik lagi malah hahaha). Mau tau selama 170km gue ngapain aja? tidur, ngemil, benggong, mancing keributan, and repeat! Gila sangking jauhnya man, ngak ngerti lagi mau ngapain lagi hahahaha. Kita sempet lewatin bukit nona, kata si ronald sih dibilang nona karena mirip Mrs. V dan sampai detik ini gue masih mencerna  mirip dari bagian mananya hahahaha 

Setelah melewati ratusan km, akhirnya kita sampai di gerbang TANA TORAJA!!!! Ughh LALALALA. Baru sampai gerbangnya aja, kita langsung kesenangan; langsung ambil hp - Gopro mau photo gerbangnya hahahaha (Indonesian style banget yaaa, apapun di photo). Sepanjang perjalanan memasuki Tana Toraja, I pay attention to unfamiliar things. Ehmm, I'm actually a detail person; apapun gue perhatiin penting atau engga urusan belakang yang penting gue pengen tau. Banyak hal di Tana Toraja yang stuck di kepala gue and keep questioning. Kata Ronald, pas masuk ke Tana Toraja, lu bakal nemu salib dimana-mana. Dan ternyata benar oi! banyak banget gereja-gereja, based on my eyes ya; setiap 500m kayaknya ada gereja dan setiap gereja punya masing-masing jemaat berdasarkan  nama area dan keluarga. Misalnya Gereja Jemaat Rama Rante Mambo.

 

Dan ini interesting banget neh, even thought I'm christian, I dunno the meaning of rooster on the top of church roof. Saat itu juga gue langsung kepo, dan ternyata ayam jago menyimbolkan banyak hal salah satu nya bentuk penyakalan petrus kepada Tuhan Yesus dan perintah untuk hidup berjaga-jaga dan penuh dengan kewaspadaan. Untuk orang toraja, Simbol ayam jago bukan hanya di gereja tapi juga selalu nampak pada ukiran rumah adat masyarakat Toraja. Padahal segala bentuk simbol yang diukirkan di rumah adat Toraja hanyalah simbol yang penting dan memiliki makna tersendiri bagi kehidupan masyarakat Toraja, yang hanya dimengerti oleh mereka saja.  Ukiran ayam jago yang diterapkan di kesenian ukiran rumah adat Toraja disebut Pa’manuk Londong, yang wajib ada dalam ragam ukiran rumah adat. Ditambah lagi, jenis ukiran ini letaknya selalu diukirkan pada dinding depan dan belakang paling atas dari rumah adat, yaitu di bagian longa, dan terletak paling diatas dari ukiran-ukiran yang lain.  Bahkan diukirkan  sebagai pasangan salah satu ukiran yang disebut pa’barre allo, yang memiliki arti sebagai simbol pemersatu masyarakat Toraja.[1]

At LEMO

Well, satu pertanyaan sudah terjawab tapi I still have hundreds of questions hahaha. Back to story, first destionation adalah LEMO. Konon katanya ini adalah makam para kepala suku. Tadinya gue kira, badan yang ada di dinding makan ini adalah tubuh asli almarhum ternyata itu hanya patung yang terbuat dari kayu untuk mewadahi spirit atau roh si almarhum. Setelah dari LEMO, Kita menuju ke LONDA yang merupakan sebuah goa yang dijadikan makam. Kita kali ini pakai guide dan guidenya adalah anak kecil, Luar biasa!

Pas masuk ke dalam goa, atmofsternya langsung beda (atau perasaan gue aja ya) tapi yang pasti tempatnya sejuk dan dinding goa nya dingin banget. Setiap peti mati ada semacam sesajen berupa; rokok, uang koin dan air mineral. Dan gue lupa tanya kenapa 3 macam ini yang dijadikan sesajen. Masuk lebih dalam lagi ke goa nya, ternyata ada cerita Romeo and Juliet versi Toraja. Kita melihat makam sepasang kekasih yang cintanya engga di restui karena salah satunya merupakan keturusan bangsawan and at the end mereka memilih untuk gantung diri 70 tahun yang lalu.

At Kete Kesu

4 KM dari Londa, kita mampir ke Kete Kesu yang merupakan sebuah desa wisata dan isinya rumah khas Tana Toraja. Keren banget! Ukiran-ukiran rumahnya ternyata ada cerita dan arti, setiap rumah pasti ada symbol ayam jagonya. Kita juga jalan ke belakang ke makam juga dan beli batik toraja. Dan kita juga lihat KERBAU yang harganya melampaui harga NEW CRV! Which is Rp 450millions. Ini gila!

Senja pun tiba, saatnya kita menuju hotel. Kita nginap di heritage hotel, yang kamar-kamarnya berbentuk rumah adat Toraja. Unique sih tapi sepi banget pengunjungnya. Dan yang lebih dahsyatnya lagi!!!!!! Pas Ronald lagi ngerokok di teras kamar, dia ngelihat yang putih-putih. Ok, ngak perlu di lanjutkan ya man-teman, udah pada tau kan??!?!?!?!

We-fie sebelum rafting! 

Next day, kita rafting dialiran sungai Mai’ting! Gila gue beneran kampungan banget sih, enggak pernah rafting man! Jadi mohon maaf kalau gue norak pas cerita keseruannya hahahahaha. Kita jalan ke lokasi sekitar 1 jam menggunakan mobil, lanjut lagi jalan kaki sekitar 30 menitan dan baru sampai di titik raftingnya. Wah! Gue berasa lagi di zaman-zaman dinosaurus gitu (#lebai), ngelihat tebing-tebing tinggi, burung lewat kesana kemari, dan kita bisa lihat langsung IGUANA! Aduh gue baru pertama kali juga lihat iguana yang bisa terbang. Terus kita main-main di air terjun (padahal air terjunnya warna cokelat gitu hahahaha) Terus lunch di pinggiran sungai sambil menikmati indahnya alam, gue senengnya to the max! gue engga boong. Gue bisa aja duduk di atas batu, sendirian dan benggong. GILA! akhirnya gue bisa menikmati alam tanpa harus ngecheck path, twitter, dll. INI namanya baru REFRESHING!!!

Take me Back to Here!!!!!

Sepertinya selama rafting, teriakan gue paling lebai hohoho. Secara gue duduk paling depan dan berasa kalau gue udah mau nyungsep ke depan hahahahaha Sumpah! itu seru banget (bikin nagih). Terus kita basah-basah nanggung gitu, mau berenang tapi pikiran gue aneh-aneh mulu takut ada buaya lah atau anaconda lah, so kita ngechill lagi di pinggiran sungai yang didepan nya ada air terjun lagi hahahahaha. WAH! Kalau hidup gue kayak gini terus, dijamin awet muda dan panjang umur hahahaha.

Semua keseruan di Toraja mau gue tutup dengan sharing fun facts seputar Toraja!

1.    Semua orang di Toraja menganut agama Kristen dan mereka masih berpegang erat kepada hukum adat dan kental akan kepercayaan mistis.

2.  KERBAU merupakan hewan yang paling sangat teramat mahal! Apalagi kerbau yang albino harganya bisa mencapai 1M!!!!! Orang Toraja mempercayai apabila keluarga almarhum menyembeli kerbau albino untuk almarhum. Kerbau itu akan menuntunnya dan memimpin kerbau-kerbau lainya untuk melindungi almarhum sampai ke alam baka maupun siang atau malam.  Karena mata kerbau albino dipercayai dapat melihat dalam keadaan apapun.

3.    Rumah adat toraja tidak menggunakan PAKU!!!!!! Ini kedahsyatan orang zaman dulu yang sudah mengerjakan konstruksi rumah secara sederhana!

4.  Orang toraja sangat erat kekeluargaanya! Ini disampaikan oleh guide-nya, apabila akan merayakan kematian seseorang. Semua anggota keluarga akan di minta kontribusinya dan diharapkan terlibat dalam prosesnya. 

5.     Orang-orang Toraja juga demam BATU AKIK! Hahahaha ini lucu sih, pas kita rafting setiap batu sungai yang kita lihat, kita anggap bisa dijadikan batu akik 

6.   Membangkitkan mayat atau yang di sebut manene memang ada, namun sekarang cuma ada di beberapa tempat saja (udah ngak semua daerah toraja melakukan ini). Dan hanya diadakan pada peringatan hari-hari tertentu. (Padahal gue pengen banget lihat LIVE!)

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7.     Last fun facts nya adalah, GUE BANGGA JADI ORANG INDONESIA. Gue engga lebai, I just admit kalau gue amaze aja sama budaya Indonesia yang beraneka ragam. Apalagi landscape yang LUAR BIASA. 

Walaupun berita-berita selalu menyudutkan Indonesia sebagai Negara penuh dengan corruption case, criminal, etc. Ada sisi lain dari Indonesia yang bikin gue semakin bangga jadi seorang warga INDONESIA. Hopefully, Tuhan kasih gue kesempatan untuk menjelajah budaya-budaya Indonesia lainnya :) 

Thanks for reading!

XOXO,

HHM

28 Feb – 4 March 2015  

[1] Abdul Azis Said, Toraja; Simbolisme Unsur Visual Rumah Tradisional, Yogyakarta: Penerbit Ombak, 2004, p. 133.