Lingua Franca Kekerasan

Kalau buat kita yg gede di Medan rasanya ini sudah makanan kita sehari
hari. Mungkin dulu kita rame rame belajar ikut latihan judo juga
didorong rasa tidak ama ini ya.. barangkali...

Waktu di Medan ibu saya pernah satu hari butuh tukang ledeng. Dan ada
seoarng apek apek tua memang sering dipanggil sama kawan kawan ibu
saya utk membetulkan ini itu yang ringan ringan .. Handy man lah kalok
di Inggris dipanggilnya.

Saya ingat sekali apek ini cuman punya satu tas terpal agak besar.
Isinya kunci pipa dan lain lain tools nya. Pake topi agak lebar karena
dia jalan kaki kemana mana atau naik angkutan Sudaco itu.
Disimpang jalan rumah kami waktu itu ada warung dan selalu ada anak
anak muda ngumpul disitu. Yang aku ingat jelas juga si apek ini mesti
bayar " tol " sama mereka itu. Jumlanya lumayan besar buat si apek.
Dan yang lebih menyakitkan cara minta dan ucapan ucapan mereka itu.

Kenapa banyak orang Medan ke JAkarta adalah antara lain karena ini
juga. Di Medan bisnis agak besar sikit, berdatangan lah namanya Pemuda
Pancasila, Hansip, Polisi, Koramil, entah apa lagi. Susu tante kalok
istilah modernnya, utk Butch ini singkatan :" Sumbangan Sukarela Tanpa
Tekanan".. protection money.

Hari ini adalah tulisan di Jakarta Post (www.jakartapost.com ) ttg
Linguq Franca Kekerasan.

Kekerasan terjadi tidak hanya di jalan jalan secara brutal fisik, juga
dikalangan namanya pejabat, baik pemerintah maupun sipil atau swasta.
Yang atas menjadi feodal dan tidak adil, yang dibawah nelangsa
menderita tak punya kepastian hukum.

Sedikit demi sedikit mudah mudahan kita pun ikut menyumbang
perbaikannya. Yang sulit mendidik anak anak kita bagaimana untuk tidak
terlibas terlilit dalam lingkar syeiton ini. Contoh dimasyarakat dan
khotbah kita dirumah tidak sejalan.

Violence becoming lingua franca of Greater Jakarta
Evi Mariani, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta

Suta Wijaya ended up in the hospital simply because he wanted a quiet
night's rest.

Approaching a car parked in front of his house in Pulogadung, East
Jakarta, Suta asked the driver to turn down the music that was
blasting out of the vehicle.

The driver sped off but shortly returned riding a motorcycle, carrying
a knife and looking for Suta, who ended up in the hospital with a
nasty cut on his wrist.

On the same day in November, an argument between business rivals at a
trade center in Central Jakarta ended with one man being rushed to the
hospital with a stab wound.

After a heated argument, Hendra, 42, stabbed a fellow vendor, Roy, 24,
in the neck.

Violence also occurs in the home, the one place in the city that
should be safe and filled with love.

On Dec. 26, Yuda Kusuma, 23, came home from work in the afternoon to
find that his wife, Rohayati, 23, was not at home.

The neighbors later took the wife to the hospital with severe bruising
on her neck and head, a broken arm and a broken leg.

Violence, it seems, has become the first language of people in the city.

The smallest of arguments or the least slip of the tongue can lead to
a stabbing or a beating.

According to data from the Jakarta Police, from January to November
this year, 2,059 incidents of violence were recorded in Jakarta,
Depok, Bekasi and Tangerang, or an average of about 187 incidents a
month.

That figure is almost double last year's 94.5 cases a month.

The data shows the violence peaked during the general election
campaign in August and September, with 303 and 335 cases,
respectively.

"During the campaign, the number of conflicts on the street increased.
The smallest incidents generated violence," Jakarta Police spokesman
Sr. Comr. Tjiptono said on Monday.

However, violence was also up in moths outside the campaign period. In
November, when most residents were observing the fasting month and
Idul Fitri, the police recorded 170 incidents of violence.

A sociologist at the University of Indonesia, Ida Ruwaida Noor, said
that in large heterogeneous cities, conflicts often occurred due to
the lack of solidarity and social cohesiveness.

On top of that, she said, economic factors continued to be a major
factor for the violence.

"Living in Jakarta is not easy. People are frustrated and they express
their feelings through violence. They do not care about how their
behavior will affect others or that it may take lives," she said.

"There are no social controls, so when violence happens people just
ignore it," she said.