Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Seven local artworkers win Rancage 2008

"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. …”

Friday, February 1, 2008

Seven local artworkers win Rancage 2008

Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung

The Rancage Cultural Foundation presented seven Sundanese, Javanese, Balinese and Lampung literary persons the 2008 Rancage Literary Award for creative excellence as well as dedication to preserving local literary traditions.

Rancage, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, gives special awards to Indonesian men and women of letters who write in tongues increasingly being sidelined by modernization.

The awards are the brainchild of Sundanese man of letters and chairman of the board Ajip Rosidi.

This year's award decisions were announced on Thursday by jury member and foundation secretary Hawe Setiawan at an event also held in honor of Ajip's 70th birthday.

Taking place at Padjadjaran University in Bandung, the party was attended by writers from across the country.

The award for Sundanese literature went for "Sandekala", a novel written by Godi Suwarna who took the award for the third time. The award in the category of Sundanese language preservation efforts went to the Sunda Kiwari theater group (TSK) led by Dadi Danusubrata.

The theater group was founded in 1975 in Bandung and is behind the Sundanese Language Drama Festival, also in its 20th year. TSK is responsible for bringing to light numerous professional Sundanese theater groups.

The Javanese literature award was presented to Turiyo Ragilputra for his work titled "Bledheg Segara Kidul", while the Javanese preservation award went to Jaya Baya magazine editor Srijono whose fiction has taken awards in the past.

Roman Secuil is a column Srijono initiated in Jaya Baya for young authors who write in Javanese.

Members of the Rancage panel of judges voiced their concern over the limited number of Balinese literary works -- only five in 2007, a far cry from dozens previously.

"Despite the drop in numbers, quality-wise they showed improvement, especially in new expressions and pronunciation," said Hawe.

I Nyoman Manda with his work Depang Tiang Bajang Kayang-kayang won the award for Balinese literature, while I Made Suatjana, the mind behind an MS Word-compatible program for Balinese script called Bali Simbar, won in the services category.

The winners got cash worth Rp 5 million (approximately US$555) as a motivation reward.