Jakarta In Today
Neighborly Woe

Like there is no difference between neighbors in the village or neighbors in the city, because they are all from the village who went wandering for a purpose in life.

There are many reasons for left or right rented neighbors to choose to live abroad, from the problem of finding a job, finding a mate, finding a money, finding a family or even looking for problems.

Where indeed if humans will live if they have a purpose, they-they try with all their efforts until later reach the final line between success or failure.

One example is Marjuki's left-hand side neighbor Soldier in Haji Hasan's rented line. Middle-aged man with a left serong haircut, drizzle and thin mustache.

Tells little about Marjuki, he is a village poet who always entertains everyone with his singing skills.

But don't get me wrong, Marjuki has auditioned 5 times in the singing competition and never once escaped to the recording kitchen.

Even in the shabby rented place where he lived it had no kitchen, so it was difficult for Marjuki to feel how great the simulation sensation was when he had to be there for the recording.

The familiarity of Askar with the poet man is because Narmo and Marjuki have one similar hobby of listening to dangdut, keroncong, koplo, mixed saris and also Malaysian.

Every day, not absent every time entering the dawn, it has been played by Marjuki Azan recording at dawn through bass speakers a little muddy, drowning and occasional loss of sound, but that will wake up the neighbors to perform worship as Muslims.

Although for some people Marjuki is considered as a bully of the enjoyment of their beautiful dreams after tired of working overtime, but the good side as a fellow prophet Muhammad who must indeed remember-remind in terms of goodness.

After that, for two hours played a nostalgic melayu song from the overseas country music groups to entertain everyone before starting the activity.

From the song 'holy in the dust' to 'isabella', from the song 'peace' to 'The world in the news', at the time of defecation to ******* until the end of the bath time, don't break the speaker.

"Young time for a while bro, don't expect it to happen again, enjoy it while warm, before it gets cold later ." It was a wise expression from Marjuki to Narmo.

Marjuki's words see a lot of reality in the bitterness of life, where bang marjuki himself is 35 years old, talking with a rocking tone like Bang Haji playing a favorite guitar when delivering wise advice.

The story of the overseas life of the poet Marjuki is romantic, the reason is simple, he is looking for a lost soulmate.

Once the figure of the woman he loved, Juminah, has not returned home for 10 years, the beloved woman lives abroad, supporting the family as the backbone for the lives of three brothers and his mother because the father has died.

Strong determination bang marjuki to follow Juminah to the city, but it is bitter fate of his life after a search for 4 years. When meeting Bang Marjuki with his beloved woman, Juminah who was sitting casually in front of a small contract of old Depok area.

But what power, Marjuki's heart was broken when he saw a little boy running closer and a soft voice from the boy called him mama.

It is ironic that every night the silent song of Marjuki as a PHP victim who has a tragic end, humming softly through his guitar, sad Askar and Narmo saw the heartbroken poet man when he told a story.

From the Marjuki story..

There is also Hermanto neighbor to the right of the Army contract.

A man with a neat appearance, tall body strapping and has a firm voice, Hermanto's educational history is slightly qualified, namely STM majoring in light vehicle engineering. Of course it is not bad for the villagers, even considered great because it is able to complete the mandatory nine years of study.

However, there is a reason why Hermanto came to Jakarta, which is to release all the problems of living from loan sharks because they owe tens of millions, due to being fooled about the business of selling shares.

All of these difficulties occur because Hermanto's thinking is too high and easily utilized by others. He imagined a large income without hard work, only giving tens of millions of capital with the lure of many times over.

There is no doubt Hermanto mortgaged his parents' estate, but when he heard about the man who brought his capital money he became wanted by the police.

"There is no such thing as sudden success without hard work, it is like foretelling the future, we as believers are haram to believe in prophecy." Said Hermanto as an advice to Soldiers and Narmo.

Learn Him from his mistakes and now Hermanto works as a motorcycle repair shop employee with barely enough income for him to live, all in order to redeem the land he made to loan sharks.

One more...

Darmad, he is not like Marjuki or Hermanto, because it is not a rented neighbor of Soldiers, only limited to people who often hang out together to participate in their talks.

Darmad's departure to Jakarta, only because he got the idea that his success would come, if he worked in Jakarta. But it is no different from them all as a destitute nomad who is increasingly destitute to live in Jakarta.

"Don't believe what you call a wangsit, a shaman or a psychic, it's a idol." Bang Darmad said with regret.

Already hit by the stone Darmad, between the Marjuki bang and Hermanto bang, Darmad became the most beautiful figure. Without a diploma, without expertise, without any skills, he wandered to Jakarta only hearing the words of a white bearded man known as a smart man.

Meanwhile, according to Soldiers, if shamans or smart people can predict people to be rich, he will not work as a shaman of course. Unless the shaman manages to profit from the person he deceives, it is only successful.

Unknowingly Soldier shook his head, while lined up the three people who had misguidedly lived his life all this time. In accompanied by a sad song from Bang Marjuki, Hermanto who continues to calculate income to be divided and continues to divide until it reaches unlimited.

And Darmad who can only be pensive to mourn his fate as a market porters, Soldier slightly hopes not to be like the three people.

"What a hard life to guess, today it succeeds tomorrow do not know what, whether the wife goes because of tired of eating poor food, business is destroyed because of the deceit of the bailiff, or the wife goes away, or even become a vagabond because of forgetting the land, fate, fate, to what extent this life continues, we can only live it ."

Heard those words from Bang Marjuki, but they were all reality.