Sumiati. What was it a month ago? It meant nothing, nobody knew what it was. It might be a name of a person, but who cared about it. Sumiati was nothing to talk about. But in these few days Sumiati has been a burning topic, it has been headline of the mayority country's media.
She is a simple woman, she comes from a simple family of a simple region. But she is a woman with great dream. She wanted to change her life. She wanted to bring her family better than their life now. That's why she went to Arabian kingdom. She didn't think that in that country dominated by machista culture, she would find a terrible treatment, she didn't think that in that country characterized by religious rules, she would lose her upperlip. She never thought it. On the contrary, she might pass her nights before flying to Arabian country in beautiful dreams about a better future, she might dream about a dream family she wanted to bring up.
But all these dreams have ruined and became dust lost in the blowing wind. Nothing kept. Even her self pride.
Sumiati is just an example of the weakness of this country's leaders. The history of the placement of indonesian workers abroad has always been a history of humiliation, torture and some times tragic death.Their dreams then turned in nightmare. But the govt has never done enough to prevent all these history. Sumiati is just a name of all tortured indonesian workes abroad and a mirror to see how weak this govt is.She is a symbol of a wounded pride either as a single person or as a nation. The nation pride which Soekarno in his time proclaimed as a high value that all indonesian should fight for now has become a ruin, a fosil.
Nation pride. It is what distinguishes Soekarno from this regime.
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