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

SEORANG PEREMPUAN DI PENGHUJUNG MALAM

SEORANG PEREMPUAN DI PENGHUJUNG MALAM

 

Seorang Perempuan di Penghujung Malam.
Dokumen pribadi

Seorang perempuan di penghujung malam

Menanti fajar, katanya

Di seberang sana ada kekasihnya

Kemarin sore mengirim sajak cinta

“Biar seribu tahun, aku akan kembali

Jika mencintaimu adalah dosa,

aku rela disiksa di neraka”

Semalaman perempuan itu matanya tak dapat terpejam

Kekasihnya hingga pagi tak jua datang

Mungkin benar dia dijebloskan ke dalam gehena,

sebab cintanya telah memporak-porandakan tatanan surga!

 

Malang, 14 Desember 2022

Padmo Adi

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