Cempaka Culture and Tourism: 'Sesame Street' courts Indonesia

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

'Sesame Street' courts Indonesia

2007/5/23, The China Post

By Adhityani Arga JAKARTA, Reuters

Tantan the orangutan and Jabrik the Javan rhino are among four new characters due to appear in an Indonesian version of the TV show "Sesame Street" -- part of U.S. funded efforts to win hearts and minds in the Muslim nation.

The local version of the children's show, called "Jalan Sesama", which translates directly as Everyone's Street, is beginning production in Jakarta and expected to air later this year after contracts with Indonesian stations are secured.

The U.S. Agency for International Development had earlier set aside US$8.5 million for 156 episodes, part of US$157 million pledged in 2003 by the Bush administration for education in Indonesia, which Washington regards as a key voice of moderation and democracy in the Muslim world.

"The show will help in laying the foundations of elementary education that would benefit in later stages of education," William Frej of USAID said on Tuesday after the unveiling of the four new characters at a television studio in the capital.

Tantan, a smart orangutan with long shaggy orange hair who plays a motherly figure, and Jabrik, a baby rhino with a purple Mohawk, both represent endangered Indonesian species and are very different from the original cast of the Muppets.

But the other two new characters -- Momon, a 5-year-old boy who likes math and drawing, and Putri, a 3-1/2-year-old girl with a healthy dose of curiosity -- bear a closer resemblance to Elmo and Ernie from the original show.

To help draw in Indonesian viewers, the screenplay plans to adopt many familiar elements of local culture, featuring singing in local dialects and the use of traditional musical instruments.

A miniature of a typical Indonesian neighborhood of clay-tiled houses, along with a motorcycle taxi stop and a snack vendor's cart, has been built in the studio in south Jakarta.

Indonesia is a key regional ally in the U.S.-led "war on terror" and looks to America for trade and investment.

But many of President George W. Bush's policies, especially in the Middle East, are unpopular in the world's most populous Muslim country.

About 85 percent of Indonesia's 220 million people are Muslims. Most are moderates although there is an increasingly vocal radical fringe.

The six-year U.S. education program also includes spending on upgrading 3,000 schools across Indonesia, a country with huge health and poverty challenges.