Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Young people in Jakarta get into the swing of Aceh's 'saman' dance

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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. …”

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Young people in Jakarta get into the swing of Aceh's 'saman' dance

Adisti Sukma Sawitri, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Describe cool for high school students. The general notion of what is cool may include the ear-clinging iPod or joining a band or the basketball team.

But this is not the case for hundreds of high school students who came to cheer their friends in a saman dance competition at the Jakarta Convention Center on Friday.

The 2007 FEMME Exhibition featured the dance competition, to cater to the growing interest among students to learn the Acehnese traditional dance.

Thirteen groups from schools in Greater Jakarta were selected for the final of the competition, beating out 15 other groups from the preliminary rounds.

Groups of girls in colorful costumes sat down while moving and shouting in harmony with the beat of the drums accompanying an Acehnese song on the stage.

Said Rahmat, president of an organization dedicated to traditional arts and folklore festivals -- the Conseil International des Organisations de Festivals de Folklore et d'Arts Traditionals -- said the growing interest in saman was related to the increasing international recognition of the dance.

"Every time I attended sessions of Indonesian performances abroad, people often ask for saman instead of Javanese or Balinese dance," he said.

He said his organization, which actively teaches traditional dances at schools, introduced saman to students in 1997.

Said said the growing interest in the dance among youth came from its dynamic moves, which matched the students' young spirit.

Saman is usually performed in a group of up to 15 students, with one person playing the drum and another singing an Acehnese song. Since the dance was originally about spreading Islamic teachings, the songs mostly deal with religious advice and examples of good deeds from the past.

Some artists also develop new songs, but still in Acehnese.

The exhibition's organizing committee director, Linda Herlinda, said it was the second time the annual event had included saman among its events.

The saman performance at last year's exhibition was recognized by the Indonesian Record Museum as it involved 114 dancers in one performance.

"We made it a competition for youth this year because we want to draw more young visitors to the exhibition," she said.

The FEMME Exhibition, which is aimed at small and medium enterprises, particularly those owned by women, is in its fourth year. Part of the revenue from the exhibition will go to an organization that works with women diagnosed with breast cancer.