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In Memoriam: Taman Budaya Sumatera Barat

Oleh : Ardoni

On 14 Jul 2023

Sahabat,

Sekian puluh tahun yang lalu, dalam usia 19 tahun, saya melintasi gerbang Taman Budaya. Mata saya jelalatan. Di sekitar terlihat kelompok-kelompok orang yang sibuk melakukan kegiatan yang beragam. Ada Pak Darwis Loyang sedang melatih anak-anak menari. Ada Pak Wisran Hadi sedang mengarahkan pemain Anggun Nan Tongga. Ada Uda Des Monon, dan kawan-kawan sedang memainkan musik mengiringi tari grup Indojati.

Ada seseorang berambut gondrong, memakai jas hitam kedodoran, asyik menekan-nekan tuts piano. Orang ini kemudian saya kenal dengan nama Da In Kagami. Ada Uda Rizal Tanjung sedang melatih anak-anak Elen English School main teater. Saya mendekat ke tempat latihan teater itu karena saya salah satu dari anak-anak Elen yang ikut berlatih. Saya bukan pemeran utama, kedua, ketiga, atau keempat, melainkan figuran belaka. Tidak seperti Boyke Sulaiman, Syarifuddin Arifin, atau Zamzami.

Saya masih teringat, agak ke belakang, ada tempat penari suami istri, Hardian Rajab dan Deslendra. Soal tari-menari ini banyak juga sanggar-sanggar yang aktif di Taman Budaya. Salah satu di antaranya adalah sanggar seorang pemuda yang suka memanggil dirinya “Ambo”, tapi lebih sering “Aden”. Ya, Eri Mefri. Sekarang tentu dia bukan pemuda lagi, petua malah.

Taman Budaya “heboh” oleh bunyi-bunyian, termasuk suara Dadang Leona sedang membaca puisi, bertanding keras dengan Asbon Budi Nan Haza dan Andria C. Tamsin. Di belakang, ada seorang yang dipanggil Om sedang memberi petuah atau sekadar bercerita tentang PRRI. Belakangan saya sering duduk di lepau Om itu dan mengenalnya sebagai Om Fahmi atau lengkapnya Bagindo Fahmi. Pokoknya kalau soal perang, tanyalah Om Fahmi; soal budaya Minangkabau, tanya Mak Katik.

Seingat saya, gedung-gedungnya (entah layak disebut gedung, entah tidak) dibuat dari sedikit semen. Selebihnya papan yang sebahagian sudah agak lapuk. Ada juga gedung yang bagus berlantai dua. Di lantai dua itu saya diajari oleh Mak Etek B. Andoeska main talempong, lengkap dengan marah-marahnya kalau saya memukul talempong yang salah.

Di sebelah kiri, terdapat galeri, tempat Is Tojes dan kawan-kawan memajang karyanya. Galeri itu dilengkapi dengan lampu-lampu, yang bagi saya asing, yang menyinari lukisan, mungkin agar lukisan itu lebih jelas.

Berpuluh tahun kemudian, sekarang, malam-malam di Taman Budaya sering memperdengarkan bunyi jengkerik, sepi. Siang juga sepi, paling-paling beberapa orang maota di lepau Da Kardi. Sesekali orang-orang itu main band. Hanya itu. Selebihnya sepi.

Taman Budaya menjadi tempat yang aneh. Di Taman Budaya ini tidak ada lagi taman, tidak ada pula budaya. Begitu melintasi gerbang, terlihat tiang-tiang agak besar dan banyak. Di belakang tiang-tiang itu ada bengkalai gedung yang cocok sebagai lokasi syuting film horor. Eh, jangan-jangan sudah ada hantunya di situ.

Dari Jakarta, pernah tersiar kabar bahwa Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) juga akan dipermak. Bahasa hebatnya revitalisasi. Tapi sangat berbeda daripada Taman Budaya Sumbar. TIM benar-benar direvitalisasi. Gedung-gedungnya bukan berkurang, melainkan bertambah. Gedung-gedung baru itu misalnya Gedung Panjang, Gedung Perpustakaan, Wisma Seni, Pusat Arsip H.B Jassin, dan kantor pengelola TIM. TIM semakin keren, semakin lengkap. Para seniman tetap akan berkarya di situ, termasuk Bram Ilyas, yang kini sudah hijrah ke Jakarta.

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Begitu pula, Taman Budaya Lampung. Tetap taman tempat budaya Lampung dilestarikan dan kreativitas seniman difasilitasi. Pokoknya kalau ingin mengenal budaya Lampung, datanglah ke Jalan Cut Nyak Dien No.24 Tj. Karang, pusat kota Bandar Lampung, tempat Taman Budaya Lampung berada.

Hampir semua Taman Budaya adalah tempat para budayawan dan seniman, mungkin berdiskusi, berkarya, “mentas” dan seterusnya. Hampir? Ya, karena Taman Budaya Sumbar rencananya akan dijadikan hotel berbintang-gemintang. Lalu bagaimana dengan budaya? Entahlah. Seniman? Entahlah.

Sahabat,

Budaya memang kadang-kadang tidak menguntungkan secara finansial. Budaya adalah warisan dan diwariskan. Budaya adalah nilai-nilai peradaban manusia. Budaya adalah pedoman hubungan antarmanusia atau antarkelompok, wadah penyalur perasaan dan kehidupan, pembimbing kehidupan manusia, dan pembeda antara manusia dan binatang.

Seni juga tidak selalu diniatkan sebagai sarana penambah panjang deretan angka di dalam rekening. Tidak selalu. Seniman bukanlah mata pencaharian, dan juga bukan lapangan pekerjaan. Seni adalah sebuah karya manusia yang merupakan ekspresi atau ungkapan dalam diri. Seni adalah kegiatan manusia untuk menciptakan karya yang mengungkapkan imajinasi, gagasan, atau teknik dalam pembuatannya dengan tujuan untuk dihargai keindahannya maupun kekuatan emosinya.

Budaya dan seni sangat erat kaitannya dengan manusia dan kemanusiaan. Lebih mengarah pada batiniah, alih-alih lahiriah. Semua inilah yang mestinya disampaikan dan disadari oleh para perencana pengalihfungsian Taman Budaya menjadi hotel berbintang-gemintang.

Tapi, sahabat,

Hotel dapat menghasilkan uang, kalau laku maksudnya. Hotel lebih berorientasi bisnis, lebih moderen, lebih apa lagi ya? Mungkin juga kota Padang kekurangan hotel, sehingga perlu ditambah. Apalagi lokasi Taman Budaya ini dekat dengan pantai walaupun diantarai oleh Kantor Dinas Kebudayaan. Mungkin itu yang ada dalam pikiran mereka, pejabat pemerintah daerah.

Lalu apa yang harus kita lakukan? Melawan? Tak bisa, sahabat. Mereka punya segalanya untuk mengalahkan kita. Kekuatan kita hanyalah keinginan tetap berkarya, di manapun tempatnya. Kita, orang-orang tak bertaji ini hanya memiliki semangat untuk menghargai kaeindahan. Semangat yang mungkin mereka abaikan.

Lalu? Tetaplah berkarya. Lawanlah dengan karya. (Dibacakan pada saat Panggung Ekspresi Seni dan Orasi Kebudayaan Seniman Sumatera Barat pada Kamis malam 13 Juli 2023)

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Emmanuel Asbon turned 4 today!

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here's amelia!

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There was a certain, claustrophobic relief that came with the inner-most stacks of the Hogwarts Library. Like if the world came down around him he would remain there forever, buried deep in old paper and bindings, and free from the nuisances that the rest of the world seemed determined to rain down upon him.

Nuisances like his sister, whose current warpath was directed entirely upon Professor Slughorn for marking her down for the clarity of her last potion and the Greengrass girl who had dared to giggle about it. Nuisances like the second-year Gryffindors currently plotting something three stacks away who he could still hear despite his very best attempts to erase them from existence with only the sheer force of his brain.

Nuisances like the book he’d been trying to obtain from the top-most shelf without attracting attention because the last thing he wanted was to be banned from the library for violating Madame Pince’s No Magic in the Library rule. He’d found a secure enough foothold on the shelf containing the last fifteen volumes of Pittiman’s History of the Goblin Wars and a handhold amidst the History of Magical Medieval Warfare texts, but he just couldn’t quite reach—

A soft, sound from behind him upset the balance entirely and he tumbled backwards, landing in a heap on the floor with a copy of ‘Magical Maces — a Practical Guide to Bludgeoning’ on his chest and staring, horrified, up at the all-too familiar face that was less a nuisance than a — than a — well, than a something that Amycus hadn’t quite been able to determine yet. 

He locked eyes with Amelia for a moment, blinking rapidly and hissed, “Don’t tell Pince,” as he scrambled to sit up, batting aside the anthology on Maces and wincing as another tome on Blacksmithing tumbled, belatedly, down to thump across his head.

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Im really liking the fact that newer “male-audience” manga have been taking such progressive steps with their characters over the years. The first real push that I can remember for specifically male characters (mainstream wise) is probably the friendship/rivarly dynamic that was naruto and sasuke. What kinda gayness was that right? Shared first kiss? Staring at each other asbone lays unconscious in the rain? The whole second half of the shows plot trying to bring the other back home and save him from himself? In canon they both end up with wives that they never seemed to pay much attention to until way later (and in sasuke’s case he still doesnt even pay attention lmao) but the dynamic between male friendships had changed somewhat, it became more of the focus and in important dynamic to have a protag and deuteragonist aaanndd have them grow and bounce off each other as part of the story.

Then let’s skip to Tokyo Ghoul (more a seinen though) especially the immediate sequel Tokyo Ghoul:re where we have a couple of well-written, complex trans characters who have major roles in the story as well as two very important male characters who both support and admit their love for the protag (although one does it a bit more...creepily. At first. He gets way better and pure in his love and respect as the series goes on) the ither is a childhood friend who has done soooo mich shit for this dude and when asked why he just straight up says he loves him. Yes, using the word that’s usually meant in the romantic sense!

Nothing comes from either of these besides implied long-lasting friendships which is fine because the female love interest that is provided is fleshed out pretty well and their romance is shown to develop throughout the story at a pretty easy pace before it just suddenly DIVES RIGHT INTO THE BARELY CENSORED ———

Then we go to bnha right? Current popluar shonen with so much pure pureness everywhere you have to be baptized before you start reading it while also being praised for how it subverts so many basic shonen tropes! There’s a couple of trans characters too! Both of which are taken seriously and people use their pronouns! (Except that one time but he was immediately corrected by a very pissed off Twice) the females are pretty developed and adored like the girl who has a crush on the protag who decides she’s gonna push it aside so she can instead focus on her goals! How realistic and refreshing of her to have goals outside of her crush!!

Oh man and lets not forget the protag and deutero amirite? Ever since they talked/fought out their feelings they have been encouraging and pushing each other to be their best not just for themselves to compare to, but for each other all the same. I can go on and on about them as others have, but the main point is how their friendship/rivalry isn’t just about being stronger than the other and only hanging around each other because “they respect them for being strong” or some other traditional shonen trope. They don’t have any opposite goals nor do they even have completely opposite move sets thanks to the prtag constantly taking inspo from the other. These two aren’t traditional. And it’s getting to a points where they aren’t even going to be rivals. Maybe just proper friends who occasionally banter to push themselves to even greater heights. I doubt they’ll be anything more in canon, but who knows really!

There is still a looonngg way to go for shonen/seinen but i think it’s going in the right steps! Maybe one day we will even get a gay couple in there!

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Alien studying the human race badly desguised asbone of us

A tall, thin blonde person of indeterminate gender was watching me. They were very tall, dressed like David Bowie and had a German accent. They took a big drag of their cigarette and said, “You know, the problem with you humans is you give away every part of your self until there is nothing left.” I looked down at my body, and my entire torso had been hollowed out. Everything inside had been replaced with black and silver machines. They blew out a big cloud of cigarette smoke and told me, “Just because you exist by accident doesn’t make it any less meaningful.”

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NASSI, ASBON appraise FG’s MSMEs Clinic drive

By Franklin Alli

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) bodies in the country have given kudos to the Federal Government for its nationwide Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Clinic (MSMEs Business Clinic initiative).

Recall that the initiative was launched in July this year by the Federal Government and is being implemented through the supervision of the Office of the Vice President, Professor Yemi…

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New Post has been published on http://www.voiceofarewa.com/2014/07/27/tackling-unemployment-in-nigeria/

Tackling Unemployment In Nigeria

The issue of unemployment in Nigeria has remained a recurring decimal. In this piece, Friday Atufe, Samson Echenim, George Okojie, Taiwo Ogunmola  and Olushola Bello, examine some of the efforts to bring the rate down to the barest minimum

Unemployment, according to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, occurs when people are without work and actively seeking work. The unemployment rate is a measure of the prevalence of unemployment and it is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labour force. During periods of recession, an economy usually experiences a relatively high unemployment rate. According to International Labour Organisation, more than 197 million people globally were out of work or six per cent of the world’s workforce was without a job in 2012.

 Causes

On a global scale, there are considerable theoretical debate about the causes, consequences and solutions to unemployment. For classical economics, new classical economics and the Austrian School of economics, market mechanisms are reliable means of resolving unemployment. According to these theories, interventions imposed on the labour market from the outside, such as unionisation, bureaucratic work rules, minimum wage laws, taxes, and other regulations discourage the hiring of workers.

Unemployment is one of the most critical socio-economic problems facing Nigeria. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) the unemployment rate in Nigeria increased to 23.90 per cent in 2011 from 21.10 per cent in 2010 while the unemployment rate averaged 14.60 percent from 2006 until 2011, reaching an all time high of 23.90 percent in 2011 and a record low of 5.30 per cent in 2006.

Some of the causes of unemployment in Nigeria can be attributed to sustained level of corruption, civil war, military rule, and mismanagement of abundant natural resources both in human and material, a development which has hindered economic growth of the country over the years.

Despite the fact that the country is endowed with diverse and infinite resources, both human and material, long years of negligence and adverse policies have led to the under-utilisation of these resources. These resources have not been effectively utilised in order to yield maximum economic benefits. This is one of the primary causes of unemployment and poverty in Nigeria.

The unemployment situation in Nigeria has over the years been a major problem both economically and socially and it has therefore resulted in more and more people who do not have purchasing power. Less consumption has led to lower production and economic growth has been hampered. Unemployment also has social consequences as it increases the rate of crime. The secondary-school graduates consist of the principal fraction of the unemployed accounting for nearly 35 per cent to 50 per cent. The rate of unemployment within the age group of 20 to 24 years is 40 per cent and between 15 to 19 years it is 31 per cent.

Under employed farm labour, also referred to as disguised unemployed, makes the rural unemployment figures less accurate than those for urban unemployment. Almost 2/3 of the unemployed rural population is secondary-school graduates.

Panacea to unemployment

According to the minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr Olusegun Aganga, “We need to create a minimum of 1.8 million jobs annually. To keep the unemployment level at 33 per cent.”

He adds that anyone establishing companies in the country is assisting the central government to provide the needed platform to create jobs for the teeming unemployed youths.

He explains that one major method to sustain the existing jobs and to create new ones was that citizens of the country must support the existing and new companies through patronage.

For Mr Babatunde Fashola there is need for a complete overhaul of programmes and courses being run by Nigerian universities so that they could be in tune with the nation’s current realities.

He explains that the courses being offered in Nigerian universities were designed over a century ago by the colonial masters to advance their own economic gains and set up trading businesses under royal charters within their territories.

“To man such business setups, the colonial masters needed lawyers, accountants, clerks to oversee them and that was the purpose for which they designed those programmes to suit their needs,” he says.

He advises the youths to have a change of mindsets from white collar jobs and be adaptive to vocational and skill-oriented jobs that are relevant to the Nigerian nation of today.

The governor also says every major city in Africa, including Nigeria, is contending with the problem of transport planning and management, yet no Nigerian university is offering any course in both fields.

According to him, this posture accounts for why many of the giant construction companies operating in the country are owned by foreigners that are willing to embrace dirts and jobs we term dirty jobs”.

He says several years ago, it was almost unthinkable for a Nigerian graduate to accept to drive a bus in Lagos but would rather travel abroad to drive a cab in the harsh weather of London, adding that many are now coming back home to embrace such jobs.

Fashola says unlike what it was when he was growing up as a child, when every fresh graduate had a job waiting for him, “now it is only those who are ready to change and adapt that will partake in the paradigm change.”

Enjoining the youths to stop waiting for automatic white collar jobs, but “think of new options that are too enormous for anyone to remain jobless or idle,” he reminded the youths that though they require academic certificates, it is not a meal ticket but a preparation for how they would behave, interact, reason well and interact with others in the nearest future.

“We want to stir you into areas where there is a legitimate livelihood for you, so that you can engage yourself in new areas where you are adaptable to quickly responding.”

He charges participants to be ready to undergo more training in diversified fields of human needs, while assuring that the State Government was going to assist them in realizing their dreams along such new lines.

For Comrade Issa Aremu, vice president, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and General Secretary, Textile Workers’ union a positive relationship exists between economic growth and job creation.

“With 50 per cent open unemployment Nigeria is not just seating on time bombs but as we can see the bombs are exploding in scores through murderous insurgencies.”

According to him, economic growth must translate into expanded employment and prosperity for the citizens, saying people must reject the neo-liberal policies that celebrate “jobless growth.”

He reasoned that, “Mass unemployment and huge idle human capacity are more expensive to the society both in the short and long terms as we have seen with the violence fuelled by idle capacity willing to unleash terror.

“Unemployment is one of the greatest challenges facing Nigeria’s democracy today. Federal Government has set up a committee on Job creation and has recently held a one-day Job Summit. Several State Governments have also initiated some programmes of Job Creation, but they all constitute a drop in the sea of head counts of the unemployed.

“The real challenge is the urgent need to revive the closed factories and import substitutes the mass goods and services that Nigeria currently imports. Every imported good to Nigeria means imported unemployment and exported employment while every locally produced good means job creation and job retention in Nigeria.”

President of Trade Union Congress, Comrade Bala Bobboi Kaigama affirms that the country missed it when it endorsed what he called privatisation without human face that amounted to nothing, pointing out that the policy has cut jobs and worsen the situation.

The labour leader argues that government should have consulted workforce before privatisation, saying the policy amount to nothing without the workforce.

While proffering solutions, he says that governments at all levels need to provide an enabling environment especially on the supply of electricity and road rehabilitation that will boost agriculture which in turn will create jobs.

Kaigama cites the jobs created by the GSM companies in the country, adding that if there is stable power, more companies will come into the country.

Though the TUC boss disagrees with the fact that some of our graduates are not employable, he said the school’s curriculum should include entrepreneurial subjects that will make our school leavers or graduates self employed. He suggested that government should be able to provide fund that would assist the project.

Government should also know that it must listen to the plight of the people. ‘The joblessness has created insecurity and it is the people at the helms of affairs that would be at the receiving end. We pray government will put power in place and boost agriculture,’ he says.

On his part, the General Secretary of Joint Action Front (JAF), Comrade Aremu Abiodun adds that policy of privatization promote job cut, saying it does not create jobs.

“It is not possible for government to provide jobs with such policy and there is little organized labour can do because they cannot create jobs. They can only engage government on the policy made,” he added.

Former TUC boss, comrade Peter Esele attributes the problem to inconsistency of government policies and lack of direction.

“We need to look at the area where country is lacking whether inadequate of doctors or others and do the needful. Also, our education system needs total overhauling,” he said.

For the chairman of the Nigeria Shipowners Association (NISA), Dr. Isaac Jolapamo, the problem with unemployment in Nigeria is largely government’s failure to make requisite policies and implement such policies where they existed.

He says government needed not to build factories or companies in order to employ people because it is not a good manager of business, especially in this part of the world.

According to him for a focused government, employment creation would not be a problem and would not be a challenge. Formulation and implementation of specific policies backed by legislations to develop the various industries in the economy would lead to employment creation.

He says in the maritime sector, there is enough potential to activate about five million jobs for Nigerians. The Cabotage Act is a very good piece of legislation hinged on local content development in the maritime sector. Particularly, the law seeks to protect the local shipping industry by giving it the right of first refusal on any job that has to do with cabotage trade. This means that if there is a job to be done, the local shipowners will have to be engaged first.

He says it was envisaged that when the indigenous shipowners could get jobs regularly, they would be able to employ so many seafarers and the industry would   develop, remarking that unfortunately agencies of government responsible for the implementation of the act have refused to allow it work. The same agencies are deliberating suffocating the indigenous shipping industry. So, the shipping industry is not tapped at all

“Imagine if some five million Nigerians could be engaged directly and indirectly in the shipping industry, more people could be exported to earn foreign exchange, just like Philippines. There is also employment generation in the area of ship building, ship repair and this will have ripple effect of boosting other trades. It’s simple. Let government begin to enforce the Cabotage Act now and unemployment situation in the country would be halved in this country.” Jolapamo said.

According to the director -general of Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Muda Yusuf, the rate of unemployment in Nigeria is currently one of the highest in the world, at 24 per cent, particularly with over 50 per cent of the youths in the urban areas unemployed.

He proposes that there should be increased support for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) and business start-ups through capacity building and funding, domestication of private and public sectors spending in order to boost the multiplier effect of domestic spending on the economy and promotion of sector-linkages in the economy so that all sectors could be mutually supportive.

He notes that the agricultural sector has enormous job creation potentials and should therefore be given more attention, adding that SMEs have some challenges ranging from lack of finance, inadequate infrastructural facilities, shortage of skilled manpower, poor entrepreneurial skills and lack of enabling operating environment.

Also speaking, the president of Association of Small Business Owners (ASBON), Dr. Femi Egbesola said that all over the world, SME is key to real sector growth, saying, SMEs generally have huge potentials for employment generation and wealth creation in any economy and that if they were duly encouraged, they would help create more jobs thereby reducing the high level of unemployment and consequentially helping to reduce crime rate in the country.

He stresses the need for the establishment of small-scale enterprises as a way of developing and providing a training ground for indigenous entrepreneurs.

He also noted that small-scale enterprises would help to reduce rural urban drift particularly when they are cited in the rural areas, explaining that the drifts are due to lack of job opportunities in the rural areas.

Egbesola says government should as a matter of urgency prioritise the SME sector by giving it devoted, practical and visible attention with a view to making it virile, vibrant, focused and productive.

Conclusion

From the foregoing, we can conclude that one key sector that holds the key to the growth and development of the country is the energy sector, particularly the electricity industry. The federal government should do all within its powers to enhance electricity generation to its fullest capacity.

SOURCE: LEADERSHIP

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