Praise is to Allah, the lord of
the world, and the sequel is for those who keep their duty unto him. Further,
there will be no hostility except against wrongdoers.
Blessing and salutation upon the most honorable prophet and messenger, his
families, all his disciples, and those who follow them in goodness till the any
of judgment.
Standing
in front of you all, I’m Irfan from SD Islam Al Azhar 35 would like to present
my speech under the title of GLOBALIZING LOCAL WISDOM FOR A BETTER LIFE.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Do you realize that lately, the
world is in debate on the so called global warming, extreme earth changes and
all the hot topics related to the environmental problems?
Global warming has been a
worldwide issue. People from all over the world have seen so many theories
about what’s happening to our earth. From term of global warming proposed by Wally Broecker to the “Inconvenient truth” proposed by Al
Gore .
Indeed, No scientific body
standing disagrees with the view of the extreme climate change happening to our
earth. And therefore, now, the awareness of beingenvironmentally friendly is
blown all over the world.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Do you realize that so far we
often see how international organization or individual has been in the efforts
of maintaining the environmental problem? And people in our country, some of
us, step by step positively follow this good step.
Steps like producing eco-plastic
bag or waste recycling action are surely positive.
However,
Has it ever crossed your mind
that our ancient has taught us, even long time ago how to maintain our nature?
If only we are willing to see inside what we have, we’re never too late in
taking action of caring our nature.
Take a look at what Papua people
believe about keeping nature. They say tearoneweaklako, which means nature is me. What
does it mean?
Nature is me, me is nature. So if I
treat myself well, I’ll behave the same to my nature. And vice versa.If every
day we shower our body, we feed our body, we protect our body of being harmed
and even keeping the growth of our body, that’s what we’re supposed to do to
our nature.
Can you imagine if we can internalize
and pally that?
Now let’s go to West Kalimantan to see how Undau Mau tribed believes in
“Bera” which is the selection of technology they use in farming system, to make
user that the technology they use will not be a boomerang for them.
Now, I’m sure that all of us agree that
preserving nature not only preserving plants but also other creatures like
animals. Asn you know what, people in Sulawesi has a unique tradition in their
way of taking the enau , you know enou? It’s sugar palm. They said: Aja' muwababa huna nareko depa na'oto adake, aja' to muwababa huna nareko matarata'ni manuke,
which means, “
Don’t take the sugar palm from the tree too early morning nor too late evening”
Why?
Because they know that
there are some animals use the enau tree as their living place. If the people
go to the tree too early, it will disturb the sleeping animals, and if it’s too
late in evening, they will disturb the animals which return home after
searching for food.
What can we learn from all of those local views?
It’s clear ladies and gentlemen, that our country has been so rich
with the paradigm of preserving nature. From the idea of treating the nature as treating our
own selves until keeping the way of ecosystem works and technology selection. We
shall not deny those ideas, right?
I believe ladies and gentlemen,
That the local wisdoms, like what I’ve
mentioned, isin line with today’s global thinking, specifically in natural
conservation. We have got the idea., we have got a real example of our people
who has been doing it. What we haven’t done is to bring it in wider and more
technical way.
So ladies and gentlemen,
Value is only value without
application. I believe that many of our local wisdoms are fit to solve the natural problems if we
seriously implement them. Then what are we waiting for?
Let’s make the value done and see how
they will work!
Now,
Let us leave here with a sharpened focus on globalizing our local
wisdom for achieving true a better life for all human being.
Make it better place for you and for me….
Thank you,
Wassalamualaikumwr.wb
