Owl as Symbol of Knowledge, Gunungan as Symbol of Reality (???)

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. 🙏

Unique Method for Removing Permanent Tattoos

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.

Some Catholic People Wear Peci (Black Hat) Lately

it happened on Christmas day. Not regularly.

Wearing a peci used to be an ancient Israelites’ tradition. It is preserved by common Indonesian people, especially among Muslims. For Muslim men, going to mosque for ritual or attending religious sessions means wearing peci. A lot of political party members wear peci in party’s formal gatherings.

The interesting part is, most Indonesians basically don’t aware that peci is initially an Israelites tradition. And non Muslims especially Christians and Chatolics follow such a tradition lately, even though only for certain religious leaders, not common people, even that is not a daily habit. That generally says.

Soekarno, the first president of Indonesia, in his youth as an independence fighter, pioneered wearing peci among political party activists in the beginning of 20th century. Peci in turn became the symbol of rebellion against the Dutch colonial regime.

Indonesia obtained the independence on August 17th, 1945.

Seeking Spouse through Twitter: Why Girls Dominate?

Translation;

Welcome to #GolekJodo Jawafess.

There are already testimonials of success. Let’s add to the list.

Condition:

  • Reply with your best photo
    -Write your domicile
  • Reply to people who have tried to get up the courage to respond to you
  • I will retweet

WL. Come on!