Let Ndasmu be a Greeting so that it Seems more Familiar in Our National Future Culture
By,Jacob Ereste
Freelance Journalist
Ndasmu’s attack was an expression of anger that only Wong Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat and Solo understood. Then whoever Wong Solo was present at the event when this angry attack was made, it was clearly not directed at Atek Suroboyo. Especially for Ucok, my brother from Sumatra.
So Ndasmu’s attack was an expression of anger towards a friend from Solo. So it’s like an old adage: hit the son of the son-in-law. Because the expression of Ndasmu’s attack, in the cultural etiquette in Yogyakarta and Solo, can only be uttered because anger has penetrated the crown. So it could be said that it is beyond common sense.
Even so, words will show culture anyway. It could be because the language treasury is indeed limited, well what can be done, after all there is an old proverb that has begun to be forgotten by many people such as what is meant by the meaning of “without rattan, roots will do”.
This means that language shows culture, maybe not always true. Because good and correct Indonesian language lessons in school in the past may also be considered less important than knowledge of times and add, so the tendency to inflate project costs is much more proficient as proven by the many corruptors who continue to appear and appear like the main actors who play a role in illustrated or written stories throughout our mass media, especially through social media which is increasingly fierce and ferocious because there are opponents who immediately counter such as the story of the great Baratayudha war.
Likewise, for example, there is a voice shouting “Long live Pak Lurah”, that means in Javanese pasemon “Pak Lurah is really dying”. Then is Pak Lurah really sick?
It could be that the meaning of being sick is not in the physical sense, it could be in the psychological sense, like my uncle who just retired so he suffered from a kind of acute power syndrome. Up to the level of danger can be unpredictable causing damage. Because the presence of similar diseases can cause damage that is increasingly unexpected and serious.
So for those who still feel sane, just increase your vigilance, so as not to be infected by the disease which also has a fairly high contagious power. But also do not be careless, because stubbornness can recur at any time, without ever being able to predict the extent of its influence, such as the value of our country’s debt which continues to be entangled in a kind of pinjol (online loans) which swells faster like a boil on the head.
Yes, it really is a disaster!
Banten, February 24, 2025
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