Pink Love

The fall of Ndaru

Three days of atmosphere in Sumber Balong village, suddenly deserted from the campaign. Because that day and the next two days, is a period of calm before the election of kades which will take place on Monday morning.

Offline campaigns pause, but online campaigns still continue to mill around in each phone supporting prospective village heads that exist.

Although the day is calm, but the teams are very good at doing a role in the mission to succeed their cadet candidates. They secretly target residents by carrying envelopes or basic food for residents who want to support their prospective kades.

Three nights, the atmosphere of the village is getting heated, because the tamses pak Seno and Timses mas Indra are now moving towards the base of supporters of mas Bakti in the hamlet of Balong.

Timses mas Bakti is now overwhelmed to ward off campaign attacks from the opposing camp. Even the division of the task of the teams in keeping the supporting citizens of their heroes, so as not to be tempted by the persuasion of the opposing team is now getting heavier in front. Half of the Bakti mas teams who stood guard at the Cenang fortification, were forced to be pulled partly to the hamlet of Balong to guard against incessant attacks by opposing teams.

The hamlet of Cenang abandoned by half the timses of the Bakti mas, is now a bit loose. The opportunity was used by the Yuli team to get closer through light discussions with various residents in the hamlet of Cenang.

That night the inner jolts of the candidates for kades felt unrelenting. Because so many teams of five prospective kades, viral moves spread the bait to get additional support.

Timses move in all directions, more deft like octopus legs that move under the control of the core team as the frontline of the candidates who want to achieve a victory.

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Two days later in the evening ‘H’ the atmosphere of the village is increasingly tense, some of the residents and the team of prospective village heads, the village, willing to stay up late in their respective posts to keep their supporters from the target of other teams who will bribe them.

Some of the fanatical supporters of each prospective village head, there are also those who always chant dhikr with prayer beads that are always rotated on their fingers.

The night is getting late and quiet, some timses and residents are still engrossed in chat while enjoying coffee and playing gaple as entertainment. They also do not hesitate to warn other teams who always roam on a night that is slowly crawling.

“Hi! It's night, it's time for the people to rest. You should just go home, rather than you continue to wander around inviting suspicion.” Jarjit mas Bakti's

Not wanting to take risks and also guts, three Indra mass teams who were looking for time immediately went to leave Jarjit and friends at the guard post in maintaining security.

Time seemed to move slowly, making some young people who were guarding the patrol post, now began to sleep in their posts.

While away from the village center, the recently finished Ustadz Salam performed evening prayers, now standing in a corner of the village while turning the prayer beads in hand. The mouth of Ustadz Salam continued to recite dhikr in silence. At 01.30 in the morning, Ustadz Salam suddenly looked at the shining object that was moving in space.

The object shone brightly like a tailed star in the sky, first moving quickly west towards the home of one of the candidates for village head in the hamlet of Rejo. But not long after, the bright glowing object, moving again flew eastward in the hamlet of Turi. After a few moments of silence in the hamlet of Turi, the luminous object disappeared and was no longer visible.

In fact, in the west or in the hamlet of Rejo, there are three prospective village heads, they are Pak Seno, Pak Asrori and mas Indra. While in the eastern hamlet of Turi hamlet, there is one candidate for kades, namely Yuli.

According to Ustad Salam, Yuli is most likely to be the head of the village. Because the luminous object or ndaru falls in the hamlet of Turi where Yuli is domiciled.

The next morning, the news and cross opinions among the people in Sumber Balong village more diverse.

While residents who saw Ndaru fell in Mr. Seno's house, they said that Seno sir is the one who is most likely to be re-elected as the village head.

Information on the fall of the ndaru is not just anyone can see it. But there are also some residents who happen to catch a glimpse of the movement of the ndaru.

Some residents who only briefly see the movement of ndaru towards the west, of course their opinion is not the same as residents who only see the movement ndaru heading east.

News of the emergence of ndaru in the middle of the night, making multi-tafsir of all the people who happened to win some of the ndaru movement on that night.

Ndaru is just a natural phenomenon that sometimes appears as if it shows the existence of a fortune. However, it cannot be used as an absolute benchmark for a victory. Because, it could be that the ndaru entered the earth and then moved to one of the residence of the candidate of the kades who did not enter into the prediction of some citizens who cross opinions.

While some would-be kades who do not believe in a sign or natural phenomenon of ndaru being one of the indications of a victory, continue to exert their teams in the dawn attack.

According to their mathematical logic, the movement of teams that target citizens/supporters of other candidates, it is more relevant in influencing the political decision of citizens to turn their backs.

According to them, real donations in the form of money or basic goods to citizens, it is more relevant in influencing political decisions or the voting rights of some citizens in the next election.

But beyond the awareness and logic of the prospective kades, some residents turned out to be only willing to accept help from them. Because according to some residents, as long as there is no written agreement or agreement between the teams and the beneficiary citizens, then the citizens remain free to channel their political rights according to their conscience.

“Receive the money, but do not choose the person!” Echoes of political jargon that has been echoing before the election of kades in the village.

The political jargon that is echoed to maintain democracy, as if seeped into the heart of the citizens to continue to channel their political rights purely.

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In the morning before noon, the election of kades in Sumber Balong village was very lively. At 07:30 a.m., all citizens of the public were present at the Voting Venue (TPS) to channel their political voice aspirations.

While the five brides of the village head candidates who sat on the stage (Indra, Seno, Asro, Bakti, and others, and Yuli) continues to spread a smile to every citizen who wants to vote on the voting booth.

The optimism of the village chief candidates before the vote is possible, but when the vote takes place, the smile and the faces of who will win or lose, it was now beginning to blossom in the smiles and auras of their faces.

The hustle and bustle of residents at the Voting Place (TPS) in conducting ballot voting in TPS cubicles, continues to run cool and smoothly.

Soul acceleration between citizens who have the right to vote with five candidates for kades and their times, certainly not the same. Citizens feel comfortable after channeling their voting rights in TPS, but the hearts of 5 candidates for kades and their timses, increasingly felt dag dig dug before the final calculation of the election results of kades as the final answer.

The faces of some of the candidates for kades and their timses increasingly look upset and quite tense. And the round of time, as if running very slowly will be a waiting result at the end of the calculation at the end of the election kades later.

At 12:00 p.m., the vote was over, the next time lag was a 60-minute break.

Each group of teams that exist, now struggling in chat/discussion in the middle of the gala heart. A cup of coffee and a cigarette that they smoked, as if unable to drive away the galla of the heart.