Cempaka Culture and Tourism: 'I never knew Kemang would be like this'

"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. …”

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

'I never knew Kemang would be like this'

The Jakarta Post

Talking about South Jakarta, particularly Kemang, one cannot forget Bob Sadino, the founder and owner of Kem Chicks market, one of the first businesses in Jakarta to cater to the needs of expatriates. To complete the story of South Jakarta, The Jakarta Post's Evi Mariani interviewed Bob, who shared some stories about the place he knows better than anyone else.

One day in the 1960s, Bob Sadino took shelter in front of a house in Kemang, then covered mostly by paddy fields and jungle. It was a nice area, still green, the air clean and it already had access to the city.

"I spotted a plot of land. I was interested in buying it. Next, the owner of the house came out and we talked," Bob said.

The owner of the house also owned the plot of land, and the two came to an agreement: Bob got the 1,000-square-meter plot of land and the owner got Bob's 1963 Mercedes-Benz, valued at US$1,000.

At almost the same time, Kemang began to become popular among a small circle of expatriates. They liked the tranquility and the greenery and they could travel in their cars to the city.

In the 1970s began the process that saw Kemang transform into what it is today: a chic and fashionable area.

"It was a coincidence that I chose Kemang and that Kemang was the choice of expats at that time," Bob said.

Bob, born in 1933, has witnessed Kemang's development into a bustling commercial area. "Kem Chicks was the only business there in the 1970s. Besides me, there were only a few small kiosks serving the locals."

"There's a perfect Betawi expression for what I was: biang kerok (pioneer). I was also the first to introduce eggs and chickens from modern farming. I brought them from the Netherlands. Indonesians were not familiar with those eggs and chickens; they ate homegrown chickens and eggs.

"It's now wild and chaotic. The traffic is wild. People open every kind of business from upmarket restaurants as well as McDonald's, antiques, bookstores, hotels," he said. "I never had a hunch that it would be like this."

He said all the development grew from the people and had little to do with the city administration's planning or help.

Bob said he had mixed feelings about Kemang's development. "I'm happy but also worried."

He said he worries mainly about the traffic, but he was happy the area was bustling. He has plans to turn his homey Kem Chicks into a large building containing 24 levels of residential units and two levels of commercial units.

"After that, I will just leave it to the next generation."