I
gather with my friends. In a food stall called angkringan, a symbol of wong
cilik. People. We talk about our journey as a Yogyanese who live in a city
where we can find culture and modern living sit together in a circle. Yes,
Yogyakarta. As a special province in Indonesia where a kingdom still runs it
wheels, Yogyakarta is a beautiful modern city. I learn to play Gamelan, waving
at the people around with smiles in their face, to see traditional market stand
in the light of urban living. Cultural richness in Jogja is used as the weapon
to gain the welfare. That’s why it needs more attribute to draw tourists
attention. Hotels, restaurants, fun places to go. What else?. You gonna find many
more in this big city.
Years
living here make me understand that Yogya grows as I am. There are lots of new
building brings new culture in this city. Lost most of playgrounds make me
realizes that I am not cute little child anymore. I lost in this town. Hotel is
everywhere. That is right that Yogya is a tourism city. And I say to myself
that Yogya such a girl who dress up herself to attract more and more people to
visit. Many-many hotel dresses in the deep Jogja to fulfill tourist’s need.
Ah.. such a live.
We
are really sorry for this condition. Yogya is getting hotter and hotter day by
day. Though we are not stake holder or VVIP people who is able to take the
decision about the city development, we give our opinion to the government by
making action: an exhibition. This is it. A great idea from Bondan Peksojandhu
leads us to criticize the situation with unique idea.
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| Memeluk Pelangi Dalam Dekapan Sudut Hatimu by Bondan Peksojandhu |
The project
called Memeluk Pelangi Dalam Dekapan
Sudut Hatimu. Translation in English: Hugging
The Rainbow Within Your Heart. We call our self with Rainbow Paratrooper. It is a special name for us that becoming the
knight who will spread rainbow in the city. How to spread happiness in the
city?. Rainbow Paratroops were looking
for participants who live in Jogja from any background and make them sketching
their picture about hotels in Yogyakarta. Seems fun, aint it is?. Yah, sure.The pictures are the representative of society's aspiration about the hotel growth in this city. What we aim is to show to the government about society's response about Jogja's development nowaday. Furthermore, we hope that there will be no more hotels added because there are too much here. Jogja has already more hundreds hotel. Unfortunately, we do not know why it grows more year by year. When its let to happen, there will be no space again in Jogja. Every space gonna run to be business and no more playground or green spaces. So, sad.
Many
paratroops have stories about their experience during their knight time. They thought
that it was amazing moment to dig the information about Jogja people’s
perspectives. During accompanying the participant drawing the sketch, people
began to talk. Some of them said that the growth of hotels in Jogja increasing
significantly. “Jogja was not as crowded as like this before, Mbak. More hotels mean more people come
and it is so hot nowadays. There are no more trees, but hotels”. “They were
promising that local people here will be given occupations. But, now? I still
do unemployed”. Any other people told “it is really good to have a hotel here.
My mother has a job now”. They have their own opinion about Jogja’s development
in tourism sectors.
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| Rainbow Paratroop (a smiling lady) with the Participants |
There
are more than hundreds of sketches successfully collected. It was a great event
of the society in picturing their feeling in nowadays situation. We treat their
pictures by framing them inside of CD’s boxes. Instead of put it in the common
frame, we use recycle things. To save the earth in an elegant way. That’s what
we call.
To
display them, we build shelves in the wall of Pusat Kebudayaan Koesnadi
Hardjosoemantri in Universitas Gadjah Mada during an event Jogja Art Week in
June 2015. Don’t forget to prepare the chairs for the audience. So, whenever
the audiences visit our booth, they can sit, enjoy the works and think critically
the moral values of nowadays situation.
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| Display Room. Photo by: Rainbow Defender |
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| To embrace society's mind Photo by: Rainbow Defender |
Not
only showing the artworks, there is a magazine ready to be read above the desk.
It contains papers from people about Jogja’s condition nowadays. Their creative
mind is not stopping only in the artwork but printed-in as masterpiece of
writing. This event will be shown to the government as the society aspiration for
Jogja.
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| Watch, Enjoy and Read Photo by: Rainbow Defender |
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| Let's visit Photo by Rainbow Defender |
Lets
end the day by saying that We Love Jogja. We see, criticize and give solution
for Jogja. Yes, we do make demonstration such as the university students who
make a long march and shout in the street. But in our creative way. We do show
our demo way by art. Cause we love art and.. Jogja.
