We found ‘cultural shock’ among foreign nations, even the neighboring countries such as Malaysia and the Philippines, when they visited Indonesia.

“Indonesia is kinda ‘alien’ among countries in the world”.

Let’s skip opinion of good or bad, and here are some examples:

We love spicy food.

We love Durian which is the most expensive fruit here.

We eat rice in breakfast and entire meals in the day for entire life.

We are not too strict/serious even in work environment.

To smile at strangers is okay and there is no any connotation about it but happy, pleased, respect or such.

We have variety of languages, ethnics, religions, races.

Scooter are abundant in streets.

Street food are abundant in streets.

We ‘waste time’ with random chatting in coffee shops or similar occasions.

We come late in scheduled gatherings.

We mix cheese and sweet milk.

Many of us ask for taking photograph with foreign tourists.

What else? 😅

Again, Indonesia is more than Bali 👌

And as a tourist, this guy prefer to also interact with local people as part of tourism.

Even I read Imam Ja’far Shadiq suggested it a long time ago.

He is 6th generation of Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) descendants.

You calculate a circumference based on Pi, but the reality gives you Phew, whose value is 3.17157 ~ more or less.
3.14 is too small, baby. #FlatEarth #maths #pi #phew

The condition after the first week in Indonesia vs after 1 year

Becoming younger

Just two examples of their opinions. What’s Yours?

In Indonesia, generally speaking relation between Muslims and Non-Muslims is smooth. It’s no problem if you are a follower of any religion other than Islam which is the religion of majority.

So talking about other religion is okay, as long as no offensive remark is included.

Interestingly, sometimes non Muslims give interesting inputs to Muslims. Let’s take two examples:

Ahok AKA Basuki Tjahaya Purnama, Christian, ex governor of Jakarta:

About chicken, he urged Muslims to fix their way of slaughtering chickens so as to make the chicken’s meat free from left blood, which is not only unhealthy, but also religiously not allowed to consume.

He even explained how Prophet Muhammad taught his people to slaughter cattles with proper way.

Too bad, Ahok’s suggestion didn’t work. (Raw) chicken meats are still filled with blood. That’s quite disappointing.

Bule Barbie AKA Daria Gartman, Christian, entertainer from Germany.

She said she is interested in Islam and still learning about it.

In daily conversation, she likes to use Islamic expressions such as “Alhamdulillah” or “In Sya Allah”, or “Bismillahirrahmanirrahim” etc.

What surprising is, she feels ‘energy’ within those expressions.

This kind of teaching of hers is special, even we hardly find it from preachers. 👍

To produce a cloud, there must be machinery inside it, regardless such machinery is visible or not; with color or transparent.

If rain was the consequence of vapor condensation, the cloud would be everywhere above the sea. Not to mention the altitude needs to be much higher to allow condensation occur.

It’s useful for tropical climate. The garment is quite thin. While, by joking, there are other benefits for wearing daster. ~

Bener mangots
Daster emang ga ada lawan 😍 pic.twitter.com/wv2zE9Z9RY

— 𝕂𝕚𝕛𝕒𝕟𝕘 𝟙 𓃲 (@KlJANG_1) February 14, 2023

Perhaps this is new: Daster soccer match by moms, held on independence day: August, the 17th.

Sundanese is one of 700s local languages in Indonesia. The users rate is the second, after Javanese.

“Eta” = “That one/thing” for both languages.

“Cai” = “Tea drink” for Russian, and “Water (drink)” for Sundanese.

There must be historical link happened between both nations.

What was that?

Just wait till the answer shows up next time. For the time being, it’s still unknown due to “school’s long curriculum deception” 😅