“Don’t go to the service station, daddy. It’s hot outside. Just stay at home.”

Minangkabau is one of the largest tribes in Indonesia who inhabit the area in West Sumatra. The Minangkabau tribe is famous for its cultural characteristics, one of which is the matrilineal system it adheres to. Currently the Minang tribe is the largest matrilineal community in the world.

Minangkabau tribe is believed to be the origin of Melayu ethnic.

Speaking of culinary, Minangkabau Tribe is where Rendang comes from.

Minangkabau is synonymous to Padang.

Below is a variety of Padang Foods usually served in Padang restaurants which exist everywhere in Indonesia, due to their tradition of “merantau” or moving and living in outside the original place.

Within one year, from 2020 to 2021, there is a ‘sudden’ increasing of affiliates in study of Bahasa Indonesia.

The number of foreign countries increases from 23 countries to 38 countries ~ nearly twice.

The institutions: from 89 institutions to 204 institutions ~ more than twice.

Usually they learn Bahasa Indonesia with the reason of a prediction about the future of Indonesia as one of the world’s leading countries in economy and politics.

Another reason is to communicate with Indonesian common people, for business, study, making friend, etc. It seem you don’t need an interval time to consider one is a friend.

You can talk with strangers and even laugh together with them.

So, from the two poles above, which one is better? To be careful in dealing with a new person, or, to easily accept anybody to be your friend whoever they are?

Your experience might urge you to go in between.

By the way, Fouly is an Egyptian YouTuber living in Indonesia.

Thank you, moderator, for dumping a number of my threads to Complete Nonsense section — without notification. That means, I’m among special users in the forum. That’s terrific. 😎

^_^

Translation:

“Keep being forgiving, okay. Don’t be vengeful , that’s not good.”

In Bahasa Indonesia it is called “ghost bird” (burung hantu)

Items of culture is not always proper to implement, in my opinion.

What about gunungan in Wayang? (Javanese traditional puppet show)

There are terrible images there: two raksasa (evil creature), dragon, wilderness beasts.

No matter how they interprete the symbols with “good meanings”, still I personally disagree about such terrible images and situation in cultural symbols.

They give a negative feeling.

Why not change those symbols? Hopefully a better reality will happen — of course with real implementation.

Hope no one got offended. It’s just my personal opinion. 🙏

They claim having invented a treatment for removing tattoo. If laser method needs six times processes, they claim to do it by once process.

The ingredients contain 6 chemical substances available at regular drugstores. So, it is not a herbal treatment as usually practiced in alternative medications.

Anyway, they are community of pesantren (traditional Islamic boarding school) named An Najach, situated in Magelang, Central Java.

Why should remove the tattoo?

First, culturally it connotes a person to belong to a gangster or criminal.

Secondly, to make the prayer justified, one must keep away their tattoos. (Just an interpretation among various interpretation in Islamic world).

Tattoo can be related to art or gangster, it depends on the culture in particular society.

What makes you think it’s ‘natural’? It more resembles a covered flying ship. Angels are real. Ancient knowledge is valid (not necessarily applying to all of them)