While the Script is Drawn

Mosaic 12 - Wolf

The huts in the slum are just cardboard, zinc and makeshift wood. So simple and so flat. Just for them to shelter from the hot sun, the cold of the night and the rain. And when night falls, the herd of mosquitoes has prepared to suck the blood of its inhabitants. Understandably, here is a place that is made TPA. Not a daycare but a landfill. Although it has not been mountainous like TPA in other slum villages. But this TPA is enough to make residents anxious.

The conditions in the slum are very uncomfortable. The huts are jealously. There is no garden, let alone a garden. There are no large plants that supply fresh air. Everything is narrow, stuffy and smelly.

The work of the people in this village is only as crude laborers. Even though he worked tirelessly during the night. But fate has not changed. The rank never goes up. Lho? Where do you want to go up? Climb to the river bridge as one of the residents had done.

Yep. A citizen. A middle-aged man who because he was not strong bore the burden of life that was always difficult. He jumped into the river. His body was washed away under the current. Innalillahiwainnalillahiroji’un...

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When the residents of the slum were carrying out their usual activities, suddenly they were shocked by the rowdy and chaotic atmosphere.

“Tear down those huts. There's nothing left. It's an order from superiors.”

Tramtip officers sprung up on the accompaniment with two large tractors. They carried out the task of the local authorities to carry out evictions in the slum. It was done on the grounds for the creation of better TPA, which has been in the government's progamkan. Indeed, there has previously been confirmation of this eviction. But when asked the fate of the next citizen, the government was silent. People are reluctant to move because they have no other place to live.

Panic immediately enveloped the slum. Soon the people saved their things. They saved everything they could save. There is no resistance because Tramtip comes suddenly and in very large numbers.

In the midst of the commotion, Nurmi, a 9-year-old little girl, misplaced the residents of the village, remained calm scavenging for garbage in TPA to find used toys. Nurmi did not hear the noise around her because she was deaf. He kept scavenging for rubbish.

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In a rice barn, Adam hears that his village is being riled up. He immediately ran off the ridge, went home. When he arrived, he was very surprised to see his village had been crushed like it had been destroyed in a very powerful whirlwind.

Anxious Adam ran among the people who were still noisily due to the eviction. He found his house flat on the ground. And more than that, he was very agitated because he did not find Nurmi, his only deaf and mute sister. Adam searched Nurmi here and there, asking everywhere, but he could not find Nurmi.

Adam could only sigh, wail and cry. He cursed a fate that was never good to him. She lost her mother when she gave birth to Nurmi. If only they had the money to go to the hospital, it wouldn't have happened. The position of the baby breech, the baby shaman can not save the life of the mother because the bleeding is really severe.

Not until here the calamity that befell Adam's family. For the second time he had to lose a loved one. His father was under great stress from losing his wife. Also because the economy is not improving. That made him sick. While their finances are very insufficient to see a doctor. In the end, he committed suicide by jumping off a bridge. Adam was badly hit by his soul. He officially became an orphan. But Adam did not want to drag on in consciousness. Adam tried to rise because he had to support himself and Nurmi who was 4 years old at the time.

And now she lost Nurmi, the only one she has now. He doesn't know where to look anymore. Adam was crying. Grinding fate. Riding the government that has destroyed his home. He was furious with the government itself.

In her desperation looking for Nurmi, she recalled that she had once dreamed of a wolf. The wolf emerged from the trash. The wolf in his dream was neither white, brown nor black. But the wolf was wearing a suit and tie. The wolf howled before finally pouncing on Nurmi who was playing and brought her back into the trash pile.

Adam was very angry with the wolf. Just as furious as he was to the one who had knocked down his village that was none other than the government of his own free will. He curses and makes an oath, but only the wind responds. Then Adam stepped back to TPA with tears of sadness.

Jepara, March 7, 2017