Orang(h)utan

“Mengapa harus selamatkan orangutan?. Sementara masih banyak orang beneran yang lebih butuh untuk diselamatkan”

Sejumlah pertanyaan atau pernyataan sekitar lingkup di atas kembali bertebaran akhir-akhir ini, usai berita tentang Pelepasliaran Orangutan oleh BOSF (Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation / Yayasan Penyelamatan Orangutan Borneo) beberapa waktu yang lalu. Hal ini memang hampir selalu terjadi bagi sebagian orang yang belum cukup paham, di setiap program pelepasliaran yang dilakukan.

Jadi, kenapa harus diselamatkan?.

Maritime

Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, Canada

New year, everyone all over the world, celebrated many things wiht any ways. Firework, music concert, indoor party, religion things, and other shows.

But there is a few things that often forget to be celebrated, to be improved. Most of the common celebration are just symbolic .

Less people who muse about theirself, their group, and their entity in celebration. In term of entity, there is an entity which has very big potential in many sectors. This entity made some other countries attracted from couple hundred years ago. They are Indonesia, which made Portugal, British, Dutch, and Japan came to colonize.

Indonesia has a lot of term for their country ; agriculture, multicultural, archipelago, and maritime. The last term is a classic term which is so weak in its maintenance and empowerment. Not many people who really care or aware with this term : maritime.

All My Relation

Kids Tour in GHC

Glooscape Heritage Centre (GHC), - which is also called Mikmaq Museum – is one of best native museum in Maritime Canada. They are located in Truro, Nova Scotia. I was volunteering overthere during 3 months in Youth Leaders in Action Programme with Canada World Youth in partnership with Kemenpora RI (Ministry of Youth and Sport – Indonesia).

GHC look like really try to perceive what is real meaning of museum. Muse, in English means 'contemplate'. Then, museum could means a place contemplate the history. Learning, more than just receiving, but also thinking; muses about its value. GHC did this role pretty good.

Christmas, Mikmaq, and Glooscape

Glooscap Statue in Mikmaq Museum, Truro

In the northern hemisphere, there are some people quite open in ‘learning’ and ‘sharing’ culture. They are indigenous people in North America. One of their group named Mikmaq, they live in maritime Canada.

Mikmaq believes to existence of Glooscape in the past, the first human was created out of a bolt of lightening in the sand and remains a figure that appears in many of the Mi’kmaq legends. These legends are stories that are passed down from generation to generation and tell of the Mi’kmaq culture.