The Inland Youth of the Heir

The true Self

"Son Arka!! For 20 years you have been living with us on this remote island and have never been far from it.

"Don't you want to see the outside world?

"Not that we want to kick you out of here, Father and Mother just don't want you to spend your whole life on this remote island!!

and who knows, you might find your real family

Say it again with his breath.

A handsome young man with a height of 180 cm of mature sapodilla skin and a perfectly muscular body was transfixed to hear the words of the couple who were in their 70s

The young man was Arka

And the couple Dambung Ekot and Hanyam were his adoptive parents, they live on the island of Randayan in northern West Kalimantan with an island area of about 500,000 square meters and only inhabited by 37 family heads and Dambung Ekot as tribal chief there

20 Years ago Dambung Ekot and Hanyam were looking for fish for food and also to be sold to the island market across the river stream around the island of Randayan,

they saw something floating along the stream and when approached it turned out to be a wooden box that resembled a baby bed and in its ceiling was tied with 4 large oil jerry cans and inside it was a toddler boy wrapped in a red baby blanket was patterned with a golden dragon image

Dambung Ekot and Hanyam at that time thought that his parents must have thrown the baby, because it is seen from the jerry cans that are bound around the wooden box that indicates that the box does not sink and will be washed away on water, then they decided to bring the baby to be a child because after 25 years of living together they had no children, they also saw on the baby's neck a gold necklace that read "ARKA" And on the contrary it says 20-04-1990, but because they can not read the writing, because they can only read and write their own alphabet and then ignore the writing

Until 8 years later the government held socialization into remote islands that were not touched by the outside world to provide free education and knowledge about the outside world, it was only discovered that their son was named ARKA and was 11 years old at the time, the fact was known because of the notice of volunteers from the government who read the writing of the necklace

during the course of the lesson and the understanding given, Arka turned out to be very genius in any case and for 5 years the free education program of the Arka government was able to far exceed the target of the volunteer teachers and statistically if it was in the city as well as the Ark was able graduated bachelor at the age of 16 years and only took 5 years from the beginning he could not read and write but of course without a diploma because it was just a socialization program, but certainly not a program,

Volunteers boldly suggested to Dambung Ekot and Hanyam as Arka's parents that the government be allowed to bring Arka to the city to be given a new life and of course there is another purpose to see the genius of the arka owned

But Dambung Ekot who of course still think primitive immediately reject and expel the volunteers, who, because Ekot wants to make Arka as his son forever and does not want to be affected by the outside world especially until he knows his own genealogy

Until finally now when Arka was 23 years old Dambung Ekot and Hanyam wanted to release Arka to the outside world for the sake of the future of Arka and they did not want his adopted son to spend the rest of his life as an outback

Still fixated on hearing the words and all the stories from the beginning about him

Arka also stood up from his seat and knelt to hug the legs of Dambung Ekot and Hanyam while crying

"I really didn't expect it to turn out that I wasn't your real child, all this time I felt happiness with you, did I have to get off this island?

"As Father and Mother often say, the outside world is very cruel

if that is the best advice for me, though, I will certainly follow what Father and Mother said and also I am very grateful to you for what you have given me until I grew up like this.

"I will always be your son, because you have loved me all this time

and if it wasn't for you guys saving me in the river back then maybe I would've been alligator food and never breathed air again" recalls Arka who was still soaking her face,.

"Wake up my son!!

"Be a useful person out there

Father and mother can not equip anything just the ability to survive and the knowledge of my ancestors that I provide for you and you should never doubt your ability, use wisely your martial skills and also you have learned lessons about the outside world from volunteer teachers, I'm sure you will be able to through the cruel outside world later

"This is your necklace, my son"

Hanyam cried then put on a necklace whose original chain did not fit on the neck of Arka but has been replaced by Dambung Ekot with a rope God root embroidered so that the gold pendant bearing his name can still be attached below neck Arka

After a long conversation filled with sadness and sadness was over, the three of them went to sleep because it was night

3 Days after Arka was ready to go wandering and Arka had boarded the sampan Dambung Ekot, Hanyam could not hold back his tears to release the dashing who had been considered his biological child,

Arka hugged his Father and Mother tightly before he finally climbed on the sampan owned by the locals, some of the people who delivered Arka began to paddle while Arka occasionally waved towards Dambung Ekot and Hanyam as a sign of farewell.

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Not long after 2 hours the boat they use has arrived at a small pier in West Kalimantan Village where the village is the starting point for rural people if they want to go to the city or just go to the market to shop for daily needs

In the terminal that looks crowded by residents, the, there are already seen there are several trucks that will take dozens of people who will go to the port of Dwikora Pontianak to find work there and Arka also asked permission to be able to join the initial purpose of finding work in the city the port of Dwikora, after being allowed, he immediately climbed onto the truck with a predetermined fee

Seen about 20 people in the truck that carried Arka to make them a little crammed, a little, when all had boarded the truck began to depart and a few hours after the truck had arrived at the port and the prospective workers got off the truck as well as Arka