Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Museums overlook English info

"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, January 9, 2008

Museums overlook English info

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

A set of hand puppets at the Puppet Museum was carefully labeled: "A gift from Association Democratic of France Citizen Abroad who stayed in Jakarta".

The label also noted said that the puppets "originally came from Lyon 400 km Sout werd of Paris".

The Puppet Museum in West Jakarta has some 2,000 puppets on display and another 3,500 in storage. Hundreds of brief narratives accompany the collections, trying to provide visitors with the story behind them.

But in most cases the narratives haven't been translated into clear English.

"We asked people at Museum Bank Mandiri to help with the translation," said the museum's education division head Budi Santoso.

Museum Bank Mandiri is located near Puppet Museum in the Old Town area of West Jakarta.

"As the two museums here in Old Town, we help each other. We don't have a translator, so we had to ask for their help. It was a favor."

Some of the exhibits at the Maritime Museum in North Jakarta are also accompanied by awkward descriptions, like: "The characteristic of this sailboat is that it looks like a coconut husk." The raft with attached sail didn't resemble a coconut, either.

Elsewhere, the descriptive material accompanying a sailboat exhibit simply doesn't make sense: "First before they only used their boats made of a piece of log or composed bamboos."

Head of the Maritime Museum, Dewi Rudiati, said translation costs weren't included in the budget so the task fell to museum employees.

Budi said, for the Puppet Museum, translations weren't crucial because it was best to learn about puppets through live performance.

Tourists who visit museums accompanied by a tour guide perhaps aren't overly concerned about the quality of the descriptive information accompanying exhibits.

Michiel Boile, a tourist from the Netherlands, said he was satisfied with the Puppet Museum. "The museum has many puppets on display and they are quite nice. We got a lot of help from our guide who explained everything. Also, because I'm a Dutch, I already know what wayang is".

The Jakarta History Museum has six official tour guides, but when things get busy, all employees are required to perform guide duties, according to museum official Rucky Nellyta.

"If we are overstretched we'll get more guides. Usually domestic tourists pay a guide Rp 20,000 while foreign tourists pay Rp 40,000," she said.

A similar strategy also applies at the Puppet Museum. Budi said his museum had only 13 employees and all of them were able to do guide tasks or present a puppet show. (tif)

1. National Museum
Monday/National holidays: closed
Tue, Wed, Thu, Sun: 08.30 - 14.30
Fri: 08.30 - 11.30
Sat: 08.30 - 13.30

2. National Monument Museum
Everyday: 08.30 - 17.00
Last Monday of every month: closed

3. Jakarta Historical Museum
(No. 3 - 11 same opening times)

4. Puppet Museum
Tue - Sun: 09.00 - 15.00

5. Visual Art&Ceramic Museum
Monday/National holidays: closed

6. Juang 45 Museum

7. MH Thamrin Museum

8. Maritime Museum

9. Textile Museum

10. Inscription Museum

11. Onrust Archeology Park

Source: EnjoyJakarta brochure