Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Charles Dickens in my Childhood


After decided continue my studies, again.. yeah. I commitment to write more in my blog. Well, maybe one day I want to write a poem, my broke poem, maybe my opinion or maybe my useless opinion about everything. Maybe one day you got a green article or maybe my feminist opinion. Everything I want to talk about. I still confused, what I really want but maybe it’s not too dark like before.
Today, I got a little bit of free time on my own. Then I decided to use it for one journal. I open my ugm library access *yeah thanks to UGM to still allow their alumni to read journal for free*
And I found this,

Free trial journal until February 2020. Jstor's article about art and literary studies.
And I found this

"Charles Dickens: Great Expectations and the Evolution of Women"

As a  daughter from a lecture and growing up with so many books, Charles dickens has a spot in my childhood. I remember how I started with 'A Christmas Carol' and read it many times. 


 This journal talks about British popular writer : Charles Dickens. Who is Charles Dickens? 
Charles Dickens was a British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator and social commentator who wrote such beloved classic novels as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. 

Well, I'm not talking about who and everything about Charles Dickens. But I will talk about what I read from that article. 
I just know if you can see how the writer's life insight theirs. Such as Charles Dickens who wrote soo many orphans. like a oliver twist or david copperfield. Charles Dickens has a not much wonderful relationship because he slandered his marriages with a young artist. 

Well in this journal, you can't see much writer's opinion but it full of his books resume. Its some opinions but not much. 
Like 
How the writer thinks Charles dickens as a man in victorian era thinking about woman. How he thinks woman and her sex appeals. And how dickens love kids have seen in his point of view. 
For everyone who doesn't know yet about him. Please read first. I think Gramedia sell it in after they tried to sell an English book. 


Tuesday, January 28, 2020

New Year eve in Water

After all night long rain in new year's eve, Jakarta had a big flood. Not only DKI Jakarta but also JABODETABEK. Mostly and the worst is Bekasi, West Java.
well, this not too serious talk about where and when the flood but this is about my dumb opinion about why flood can happen in Jabodetabek.
so, why?

Well,
from not much literature I read on LinkedIn, Google, the guardian and also Jakarta post.
I ended up with some reason why...
first. 
Less space for infiltration.
well, BMKG told it because of heavy rain. But, it never is a problem if more space for water entering the land, right?
   But infiltration can be influenced by many factors such as type of soil, land cover, land use and rain period. Clay as a one of type of soil has sticky and fewer mineral items contained in it. Clay soil makes easily pound than another type of soil. 
    Land cover and land use as an important part of infiltration have different perceptions. Land cover is something covering and land use is how People using the land. Land cover such as forest, wetlands, peatlands, or grass. Land use such as highway, recreations, or agriculture. 
In my opinion, why Jakarta can be sink? not literally sink but flood
well because we had less space to give water naturally enter the ground. As a Capital City and center of business in Indonesia, Jakarta has 10.5 million people living here. Not much ground space without covering with way or housing. Then what city should do to avoid flood? well, take all the water back to the ocean. Any solutions? well, nothing faster than that.
How?
Build a big ditch, 
Build a waterway to the ocean. 
As I know, the city government even national government tried so hard to avoid flood with reducing flood every year. The city government normalization flood canals in Jakarta to send all rainwater to the ocean. Also, they employ an orange officer to clean flood canals, the road, and the ditch from the trash. The orange officer works every day, but they will be useless if everybody still throws their trash into the river. They work every time but the trash never been less. Many opportunities I saw, people who live near the river put throw their trash in the river.
and that makes me think,
why mostly poor community have a less environmental concern? I mean where they live, the everyday activities. 
It's okay to be poor, or maybe you just have a little space to live. But, it will be good if you have a clean space for your home. I mean clean have the same standard, right?
Then, Indonesia especially Jakarta still has a big problem.
reduce, the flood
I'm not mentioning avoid because I know it will be a big work and maybe a little bit ambitious.
and then, still need to improve community concern about their trash. 😀

Second, 
Jakarta topography.
As the fastest sinking city in the world from the BBC report, Jakarta living closely with the seawater level. From not too high topography, Jakarta sinking every year. From the misunderstanding government about groundwater and how to manage it. Mostly Jakartans used groundwater for daily use. Unwellmanaged groundwater make Jakarta have a big hole. It called subsidence. 
Subsidence - sinking of the ground because of underground material movement—is most often caused by the removal of water, oil, natural gas, or mineral resources out of the ground by pumping, fracking, or mining activities. (https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/) 


Because, if we are not working together to solve this
it will be more serious 
Unless reducing the flood, traffic jams, slums, and the unemployment government run away with move capital city planning. Is that the answer? Absolutely not. Maybe it will be moving the problem too. 
After a look at these, tell me what is your opinion?  Have you biopori hole in your yard?



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Today, after one year we (me and my blogs) promise to study harder. HAHA And what happened in one year? nothing happens. Time flies so fast....