COVID-19 AND CULTURAL STUDIES

COVID-19 AND CULTURAL STUDIES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INDONESIA by Yohanes Padmo Adi Nugroho I was writing about virtual-reality game, when the COVID-19 Pandemic spread to the whole world. My country, Indonesia, was so confident that we will not and will never be contract this disease. There were even jokes among ministers that Indonesian is too strong for SARS-CoV-2 to infect, or that the virus cannot enter Indonesian area because the permission is difficult. It was February 2020. But, then, in the early of March the government announced that there were two Indonesian citizen s being COVID19 positive. From that day, we are slowly swallowed in panic. Not long after, the first two Indonesian COVID-19 patients are announced to public, the case is rapidly increasing. The epicenter of Indonesian COVID-19 Pandemic outbreak is Jakarta and the area nearby (Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi), but because people are still able to mobile and travel, the cases are now everywhe

KEPADA YANG TERKASIH DI HARI SABTU

KEPADA YANG TERKASIH DI HARI SABTU

 

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Esok akan kubacakan puisi untukmu

Sebelum kau benar-benar meninggalkanku

Kaudatang,

mengganggu tiap Sabtuku

Lalu sebelum waktu berganti baru,

akan pergi begitu saja berlalu!

Sangkamu aku akan baik-baik saja

dan berlagak seakan tak terjadi apa-apa?

Tidak!

Satu-dua puisi perlu kubisikkan pada telingamu

Supaya kau pun selalu  ingat Sabtu-Sabtu kita!

Dan aku bisa merelakanmu... melepasmu...

menjalani takdir dan perutusanmu.

Pergilah... wahai yang terkasih di Hari Sabtu.

 

Malang, 16 Desember 2022

Padmo Adi

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