Legenda Nicholas Flamel

Nicholas Flamel(28 September 1330-1418) adalah seorang ahli penulis dari Perancis yang sukses dan penjual naskah yang mengembangkan reputasinya sebagai seorang alkemis karena karya terkenal tentang batu filsuf(Philosopher Stone).

Menurut pengantar karyanya dan rincian tambahan tentangnya sejak publikasi, Flamel adalah yang paling berhasil dari para ahli alkimia Eropa, dan telah belajar seni dari converso Yahudi di jalan menuju Santiago de Compostela. Deborah Harkness katakan, “Others thought Flamel was the creation of 17th-century editors and publishers desperate to produce modern printed editions of supposedly ancient alchemical treatises then circulating in manuscript for an avid reading public.” Penegasan modern dan referensi yang banyak mengenainya atau tulisan-tulisannya muncul di teks alkimia abad ke-16, bagaimanapun, tidak dikaitkan dengan sumber tertentu.

Pada suatu masa ketika dia hidup, dia dan istrinya, Perenelle Flamel, membeli buku Abraham Sang Magus(Abraham The Mage). Karena bahasanya yang sangat unik, aneh dan kuno, suami-istri Flamel berkelana ke seluruh dunia untuk menerjemahkan buku tersebut sedikit demi sedikit. Setelah 21 tahun, mereka kembali ke Paris. Tidak banyak yang diketahui tentang hasil perjalanan mereka, namun yang pasti mereka menjadi sangat kaya raya. Mereka membangun rumah sakit untuk kaum miskin, bersedekah untuk orang-orang yang membutuhkan dan membuka tempat pengajaran ilmu Alkemis. Perenelle meninggal pada 1402, dan tak lama kemudian Nicholas meninggal. Para penjarah datang ke rumahnya di Rue de Montmorency untuk mencari harta yang ditinggalkan Flamel, namun tidak menemukan apa-apa. Lalu mereka membongkar makamnya, namun ternyata makam mereka kosong!!(Ini kisah nyata)

Apakah mereka dimakamkan di makam rahasia atau mereka masih hidup, itulah yang tidak diketahui.

Inti dari reputasi adalah bahwa ia berhasil pada dua tujuan magis alkimia – bahwa ia membuat Philosopher Stone, yang mengubah timah menjadi emas, dan bahwa ia dan istrinya Perenelle dicapai keabadian melalui “Elixir of Life“.

Lalu, mulailah muncul penampakan pasangan Flamel, sang Alchemyst dan istrinya, sang Sorceress di seluruh dunia.

Terkadang, legenda merupakan kebenaran

 

Mengembangnya Alam Semesta

Mengembangnya Alam Semesta

Edwin Hubble dengan teleskop besarnya.

Dalam Al Qur’an, yang diturunkan 14 abad silam di saat ilmu astronomi masih terbelakang, mengembangnya alam semesta digambarkan sebagaimana berikut ini:

“Dan langit itu Kami bangun dengan kekuasaan (Kami) dan sesungguhnya Kami benar-benar meluaskannya.” (Al Qur’an, 51:47)

Kata “langit”, sebagaimana dinyatakan dalam ayat ini, digunakan di banyak tempat dalam Al Qur’an dengan makna luar angkasa dan alam semesta. Di sini sekali lagi, kata tersebut digunakan dengan arti ini. Dengan kata lain, dalam Al Qur’an dikatakan bahwa alam semesta “mengalami perluasan atau mengembang”. Dan inilah yang kesimpulan yang dicapai ilmu pengetahuan masa kini.

Sejak terjadinya peristiwa Big Bang, alam semesta telah mengembang secara terus-menerus dengan kecepatan maha dahsyat. Para ilmuwan menyamakan peristiwa mengembangnya alam semesta dengan permukaan balon yang sedang ditiup.

Hingga awal abad ke-20, satu-satunya pandangan yang umumnya diyakini di dunia ilmu pengetahuan adalah bahwa alam semesta bersifat tetap dan telah ada sejak dahulu kala tanpa permulaan. Namun, penelitian, pengamatan, dan perhitungan yang dilakukan dengan teknologi modern, mengungkapkan bahwa alam semesta sesungguhnya memiliki permulaan, dan ia terus-menerus “mengembang”.

Pada awal abad ke-20, fisikawan Rusia, Alexander Friedmann, dan ahli kosmologi Belgia, George Lemaitre, secara teoritis menghitung dan menemukan bahwa alam semesta senantiasa bergerak dan mengembang.

Fakta ini dibuktikan juga dengan menggunakan data pengamatan pada tahun 1929. Ketika mengamati langit dengan teleskop, Edwin Hubble, seorang astronom Amerika, menemukan bahwa bintang-bintang dan galaksi terus bergerak saling menjauhi. Sebuah alam semesta, di mana segala sesuatunya terus bergerak menjauhi satu sama lain, berarti bahwa alam semesta tersebut terus-menerus “mengembang”. Pengamatan yang dilakukan di tahun-tahun berikutnya memperkokoh fakta bahwa alam semesta terus mengembang. Kenyataan ini diterangkan dalam Al Qur’an pada saat tak seorang pun mengetahuinya. Ini dikarenakan Al Qur’an adalah firman Allah, Sang Pencipta, dan Pengatur keseluruhan alam semesta.

Penciptaan alam semesta

Penciptaan Alam Semesta
Ini bwt teman2 smua….

Utk pertama kalinya saya menggunakan bahasa Indonesia di blog inii…

Asal mula alam semesta digambarkan dalam Al Qur’an pada ayat berikut:

“Dialah pencipta langit dan bumi.” (Al Qur’an, 6:101)

Keterangan yang diberikan Al Qur’an ini bersesuaian penuh dengan penemuan ilmu pengetahuan masa kini. Kesimpulan yang didapat astrofisika saat ini adalah bahwa keseluruhan alam semesta, beserta dimensi materi dan waktu, muncul menjadi ada sebagai hasil dari suatu ledakan raksasa yang tejadi dalam sekejap. Peristiwa ini, yang dikenal dengan “Big Bang”, membentuk keseluruhan alam semesta sekitar 15 milyar tahun lalu. Jagat raya tercipta dari suatu ketiadaan sebagai hasil dari ledakan satu titik tunggal. Kalangan ilmuwan modern menyetujui bahwa Big Bang merupakan satu-satunya penjelasan masuk akal dan yang dapat dibuktikan mengenai asal mula alam semesta dan bagaimana alam semesta muncul menjadi ada.

Sebelum Big Bang, tak ada yang disebut sebagai materi. Dari kondisi ketiadaan, di mana materi, energi, bahkan waktu belumlah ada, dan yang hanya mampu diartikan secara metafisik, terciptalah materi, energi, dan waktu. Fakta ini, yang baru saja ditemukan ahli fisika modern, diberitakan kepada kita dalam Al Qur’an 1.400 tahun lalu.

Sensor sangat peka pada satelit ruang angkasa COBE yang diluncurkan NASA pada tahun 1992 berhasil menangkap sisa-sisa radiasi ledakan Big Bang. Penemuan ini merupakan bukti terjadinya peristiwa Big Bang, yang merupakan penjelasan ilmiah bagi fakta bahwa alam semesta diciptakan dari ketiadaan.

Ig Noble

For achievements that first make people LAUGH
then make them THINK

“The Ig Nobel awards are arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar.” —Nature

At the 2009 ceremony, Public Health Prize winner Dr. Elena Bodnar demonstrates her invention — a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander. She is assisted by Nobel laureates Wolfgang Ketterle (left), Orhan Pamuk, and Paul Krugman (right). PHOTO: Alexey Eliseev.

The Ig Nobel Prizes are an American parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October for ten achievements that “first make people laugh, and then make them think.” Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), they are presented by a group that includes Nobel Laureates at a ceremony at Harvard University‘s Sanders Theater.

History

The first Ig Nobels were awarded in 1991, at that time for discoveries “that cannot, or should not, be reproduced”. Ten prizes are awarded each year in many categories, including the Nobel Prize categories of physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine, literature, and peace, but also other categories such as public health, engineering, biology, and interdisciplinary research. With the exception of three prizes in the first year (Administratium, Josiah Carberry, and Paul DeFanti), the Ig Nobel Prizes are for genuine achievements.

The awards are sometimes veiled criticism (or gentle satire), as in the two awards given for homeopathy research, prizes in “science education” to the Kansas and Colorado state boards of education for their stance regarding the teaching of evolution, and the prize awarded to Social Text after the Sokal Affair. Most often, however, they draw attention to scientific articles that have some humorous or unexpected aspect. Examples range from the discovery that the presence of humans tends to sexually arouse ostriches, to the statement that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements to be the location of Hell, to research on the “five-second rule“, a tongue-in-cheek belief that food dropped on the floor will not become contaminated if it is picked up within five seconds.

In 2010, Andre Geim became the first person to receive both the Nobel and an individual Ig Nobel prize.^[1][2]

Name

The name is a play on the word ignoble (“characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness”) and the name “Nobel” after Alfred Nobel. The official pronunciation used during the ceremony is /ˌɪɡnoʊˈbɛl/ “ig-no-bell”. It is not pronounced like the word “ignoble” (/ɪɡˈnoʊbəl/).

Ceremony

The prizes are presented by genuine Nobel laureates, originally at a ceremony in a lecture hall at MIT but now in Sanders Theater at Harvard University. It contains a number of running jokes, including Miss Sweety Poo, a little girl who repeatedly cries out, “Please stop: I’m bored,” in a high-pitched voice if speakers go on too long.^[3] The awards ceremony is traditionally closed with the words: “If you didn’t win a prize — and especially if you did — better luck next year!”

The ceremony is co-sponsored by the Harvard Computer Society, the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association and the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Physics Students.

Throwing paper airplanes onto the stage was a long-standing tradition at the Ig Nobels, changed at the 2006 ceremony because of “security concerns”.^{[citation needed]} In past years, physics professor Roy Glauber has swept the stage clean of the airplanes as the official “Keeper of the Broom”. However, Glauber could not attend the 2005 awards – he was traveling to Stockholm to claim a genuine Nobel Prize in Physics.

The “Parade of Ignitaries” brings various supporting groups into the hall. At the 1997 ceremonies, a team of “cryogenic sex researchers” distributed a pamphlet titled “Safe Sex at Four Kelvin“. Delegates from the Museum of Bad Art are often on hand to display some pieces from their collection, showing that bad art and bad science go hand in hand.

Outreach

The ceremony is recorded and broadcast on National Public Radio and is shown live over the Internet. The recording is broadcast every year, on the Friday after U.S. Thanksgiving, on the public radio program Science Friday. In recognition of this, the audience chants the first name of the radio show’s host, Ira Flatow.

Two books have been published as of 3 September 2009 with write-ups on some of the winners: The Ig Nobel Prize (2002, US paperback ISBN 0-452-28573-9, UK paperback ISBN 0-7528-4261-7) and The Ig Nobel Prize 2 (2005, US hardcover ISBN 0-525-94912-7, UK hardcover ISBN 0-7528-6461-0), which was later retitled The Man Who Tried to Clone Himself (ISBN 0-452-28772-3).

An Ig Nobel Tour has traveled to the United Kingdom and Australia several times. The Tour visited Aarhus University in Denmark in April 2009.

Criticism

In 1995, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, the chief scientific adviser to the British government, requested that the organizers no longer award Ig Nobel prizes to British scientists, claiming that the awards risked bringing genuine experiments into ridicule. Many British researchers dismissed Lord May’s pronouncements, and the British journal Chemistry and Industry in particular printed an article rebutting his arguments.

A September 2009 article in The National, titled “A noble side to Ig Nobels,” says that although the Ig Nobel Awards are veiled criticism of trivial research, history shows that trivial research sometimes leads to important breakthroughs.^[4]

For instance, in 2006 a study showing that the malaria mosquito (Anopheles gambiae) is attracted equally to the smell of Limburger cheese and the smell of human feet^[5] earned the Ig Nobel Prize in the area of biology. As a direct result of these findings traps baited with this cheese have been utilized in strategic locations in the nations of Africa to combat the epidemic of malaria.^[6][7]

The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

The 2010 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, September 30, at the 20th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. The ceremony was webcast live on YouTube. You can watch archived video.

ENGINEERING PRIZE: Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse and Agnes Rocha-Gosselin of the Zoological Society of London, UK, and Diane Gendron of Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Baja California Sur, Mexico, for perfecting a method to collect whale snot, using a remote-control helicopter.

MEDICINE PRIZE: Simon Rietveld of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Ilja van Beest of Tilburg University, The Netherlands, for discovering that symptoms of asthma can be treated with a roller-coaster ride.

TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PRIZE: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Atsushi Tero, Seiji Takagi, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Ito, Kenji Yumiki, Ryo Kobayashi of Japan, and Dan Bebber, Mark Fricker of the UK, for using slime mold to determine the optimal routes for railroad tracks.

PHYSICS PRIZE: Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams, and Patricia Priest of the University of Otago, New Zealand, for demonstrating that, on icy footpaths in wintertime, people slip and fall less often if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes.

PEACE PRIZE: Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston of Keele University, UK, for confirming the widely held belief that swearing relieves pain.

PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews, and Larry Taylor of the Industrial Health and Safety Office, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA, for determining by experiment that microbes cling to bearded scientists.

ECONOMICS PRIZE: The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways to invest money — ways that maximize financial gain and minimize financial risk for the world economy, or for a portion thereof.

CHEMISTRY PRIZE: Eric Adams of MIT, Scott Socolofsky of Texas A&M University, Stephen Masutani of the University of Hawaii, and BP [British Petroleum], for disproving the old belief that oil and water don’t mix.

MANAGEMENT PRIZE: Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, and Cesare Garofalo of the University of Catania, Italy, for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.

BIOLOGY PRIZE: Libiao Zhang, Min Tan, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, and Shuyi Zhang of China, and Gareth Jones of the University of Bristol, UK, for scientifically documenting fellatio in fruit bats.

Mysterious Life of Nicolas Flamel Fabled Alchemist Searched for the Philosopher’s Stone

Apr 4, 2009 William Silvester

Nicolas Flamel – Wikimedia Commons
Much of what has been written about Nicholas Flamel is shrouded in legend and mystery.

Nicolas Flamel was born in France around the year 1330. He was a writer and book seller and it was while involved in the latter occupation that he purchased a 21-page book with mysterious text.

Philosopher’s Stone
In an attempt to translate the work he traveled to Spain in 1378 to seek assistance. Somewhere between France and Spain at Santiago de Compostela he met a sage who claimed that the book was the original translation of the Book of Abraham and that it contain a recipe for making the Philosopher’s Stone. Thereafter, Flamel became obsessed with translating the book. Under the tutelage of this Jewish convert he learned the art of alchemy. Over time Flamel and his wife, Perenelle, were able to understand enough of the book to produce a Philosopher’s Stone and by 1382 had replicated silver and not long after, made gold.

Alchemist
Now an accomplished alchemist, Flamel wrote a book on the subject entitled Exposition of the Hieroglyphical Figures that was not published until 1612 in Paris and 1624 in London. Flamel’s search for the Philosopher’s Stone was detailed in the introduction. Over time the alchemist became well known and his life and works were mentioned in a number of alchemical books for not only did he supposedly succeed in making gold but he and his wife were also believed to have attained immortality.

Despite his wealth and longevity, Flamel was a generous man and a devout Roman Catholic. He and his wife often invited the poor into their home for lodging and prayer. The Flamel home stands to this day and is thought to be the oldest house in Paris.

Immortality Legend
Nicholas Flamel lived into his eighties, which in those days of short life spans must have made him seem almost immortal. He had apparently designed his own tombstone and when he passed on in 1418 a grave robber in search of gold found the grave empty. Thus the legend of his immortality grew compounded by the fact that a number of books were published in his name long after his death. The tombstone, covered with arcane symbols, is at the Musee de Cluny in Paris.

Over the years sightings of the alchemist were claimed in parts of Paris including a witness who claimed to have seen him at the opera in 1761. The alchemist and his wife were supposed to have led a transient life and moved from town to town often changing their names. According to the legend Nicholas remarried and produced a son to whom he passed on his secrets of alchemy and longevity. Texts state that he lived for almost 300 years after his death was recorded. Flamel is mentioned by Victor Hugo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and more recently by J.K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone where she asserts he lived for 666 years.

Read on
Alchemy in the Middle Ages
Alchemy and the Philosopher’s Stone
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
Bibliography:

Decoding the Past: The Real Sorcerer’s Stone, November 15, 2006 History Channel video documentary

Michael Scott – The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel – Delacourt Press (2008)

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Youth Pledge (Soempah Pemoeda)

Youth Pledge

The Youth Pledge (Indonesian: Sumpah Pemuda), was a declaration made on 28 October 1928 by young Indonesian nationalists at a conference in the then-Dutch East Indies. They proclaimed three ideals, one motherland, one nation and one language.

Background

The first Indonesian youth congress was held in Batavia, capital of the then-Dutch East Indies in 1926, but produced no formal decisions but did promote the idea of a united Indonesia. In October 1928, the second Indonesian youth congress was held at three different locations. In the first session, the hope was expressed that the congress would inspire the feeling of unity. The second session saw discussions about educational issues. In the third and final session, held at Jalan Kramat Raya No, 126, on October 28 participants heard the future Indonesian national anthem Indonesia Raya by Wage Rudolf Supratman. The congress closed with a reading of the youth pledge.

The Pledge

In Indonesian, with the original spelling, the pledge reads:

SOEMPAH PEMOEDA
Pertama :
– KAMI POETRA DAN POETRI INDONESIA MENGAKOE BERTOEMPAH DARAH JANG SATOE, TANAH AIR INDONESIA

Kedua :
– KAMI POETRA DAN POETRI INDONESIA, MENGAKOE BERBANGSA JANG SATOE, BANGSA INDONESIA

Ketiga :
– KAMI POETRA DAN POETRI INDONESIA MENGJOENJOENG BAHASA PERSATOEAN, BAHASA INDONESIA

In English:

Firstly:
We the sons and daughters of Indonesia, acknowledge one motherland, Indonesia.
Secondly:
We the sons and daughters of Indonesia, acknowledge one nation, the nation of Indonesia.
Thirdly:
We the sons and daughters of Indonesia, respect the language of unity, Indonesian.

Original report:

SOEMPAH PEMOEDA
Pertama :
– KAMI POETRA DAN POETRI INDONESIA MENGAKOE BERTOEMPAH DARAH JANG SATOE, TANAH AIR INDONESIA

Kedua :
– KAMI POETRA DAN POETRI INDONESIA, MENGAKOE BERBANGSA JANG SATOE, BANGSA INDONESIA

Ketiga :
– KAMI POETRA DAN POETRI INDONESIA MENGJOENJOENG BAHASA PERSATOEAN, BAHASA INDONESIA

Djakarta, 28 Oktober 1928

Teks Soempah Pemoeda dibacakan pada waktu Kongres Pemoeda yang diadakan di
Waltervreden (sekarang Jakarta) pada tanggal 27 – 28 Oktober 1928.

Panitia Kongres Pemoeda terdiri dari :

Ketua : Soegondo Djojopoespito (PPPI)
Wakil Ketua : R.M. Djoko Marsaid (Jong Java)
Sekretaris : Mohammad Jamin (Jong Sumateranen Bond)
Bendahara : Amir Sjarifuddin (Jong Bataks Bond)
Pembantu I : Djohan Mohammad Tjai (Jong Islamieten Bond)
Pembantu II : R. Katja Soengkana (Pemoeda Indonesia)
Pembantu III : Senduk (Jong Celebes)
Pembantu IV : Johanes Leimena (yong Ambon)
Pembantu V : Rochjani Soe’oed (Pemoeda Kaoem Betawi)
Peserta :

1. Abdul Muthalib Sangadji
2. Purnama Wulan
3. Abdul Rachman
4. Raden Soeharto
5. Abu Hanifah
6. Raden Soekamso
7. Adnan Kapau Gani
8. Ramelan
9. Amir (Dienaren van Indie)
10. Saerun (Keng Po)
11. Anta Permana
12. Sahardjo
13. Anwari
14. Sarbini
15. Arnold Manonutu
16. Sarmidi Mangunsarkoro
17. Assaat
18. Sartono
19. Bahder Djohan
20. S.M. Kartosoewirjo
21. Dali
22. Setiawan
23. Darsa
24. Sigit (Indonesische Studieclub)
25. Dien Pantouw
26. Siti Sundari
27. Djuanda
28. Sjahpuddin Latif
29. Dr.Pijper
30. Sjahrial (Adviseur voor inlandsch Zaken)
31. Emma Puradiredja
32. Soejono Djoenoed Poeponegoro
33. Halim
34. R.M. Djoko Marsaid
35. Hamami
36. Soekamto
37. Jo Tumbuhan
38. Soekmono
39. Joesoepadi
40. Soekowati (Volksraad)
41. Jos Masdani
42. Soemanang
43. Kadir
44. Soemarto
45. Karto Menggolo
46. Soenario (PAPI & INPO)
47. Kasman Singodimedjo
48. Soerjadi
49. Koentjoro Poerbopranoto
50. Soewadji Prawirohardjo
51. Martakusuma
52. Soewirjo
53. Masmoen Rasid
54. Soeworo
55. Mohammad Ali Hanafiah
56. Suhara
57. Mohammad Nazif
58. Sujono (Volksraad)
59. Mohammad Roem
60. Sulaeman
61. Mohammad Tabrani
62. Suwarni
63. Mohammad Tamzil
64. Tjahija
65. Muhidin (Pasundan)
66. Van der Plaas (Pemerintah Belanda)
67. Mukarno
68. Wilopo
69. Muwardi
70. Wage Rudolf Soepratman
71. Nona Tumbel

Every October 28, the Indonesian nation commemorates Youth Pledge. Youth Pledge for the first time ever united in an attempt to seize independence from Dutch colonial hands. If in the days before the movement took conducted its own independence, ethnic and regional character of the Youth Pledge of struggle after that is nationality. This is new ethno nationalism after the national revival May 20, 1908.

Youth no longer represent the interests of the region and tribe, but on behalf of the Indonesian nation. And interestingly, the initiative is coming from young people not from the elders. Youth with all its idealism able to formulate what would become the future of this nation that constantly seized with the shackles of colonialism. Youth with the spirit of pluralism and stripped of all able to unite all the cloak differences that hamper partition to independence.

It is not surprising that there is confidence without the Youth Pledge of independence of this nation cannot be achieved. Youth Pledge to be a unifying event unanimity embroidery nation’s children. Whereas in an atmosphere of national unity and integrity of all things become possible implemented including repel invaders from the Earth in Indonesia.

One of the weaknesses of the struggle for the independence movement there is no unity, scattered and easily boxed-boxing in the politics of divide.  Gait youth continues in the era of independence when the young men “kidnapped” to Rengasdenglok Sukarno Hatta and then together to formulate the text of the proclamation which was played on August 17, 1945.

Without the text of the proclamation of the role youth cannot be read out in East Pegangsaan 56 by Sukarno Hatta on behalf of the Indonesian nation. At the urging even the threat of Sukarno Hatta youth then “forced” to read the text independence. Role of youth continued in 1966 when the youth became a pioneer in the Old Order regime toppled.

1966 youth movement in the social control finally succeeded in overthrowing the Old Order regime of guided democracy. The role of social control that continued throughout the history of the New Order but with the threat of violence and repression. And at the end of the New Order in 1998 was arguably not the role of a small boy in overthrowing the New Order. The role of youth since the time of the independence movement is not small.

Unfortunately, history proves after successfully overthrowing the regime of arbitrary youths then left. The young men needed only moral support to topple a regime, but after that their work was almost forgotten. In fact, when power tends to corrupt and abuse the power of moral force is expected to youth.

Authority is only needed when there are youth wants. By the time power was successfully grasped, the youth then abandoned. The most obvious evidence is the weakness of government in fostering young people. A youth movement such as up to this moment remains a movement that half-hearted and hot-hot chicken shit. There are no adequate budgetary supports for youth development through youth. No wonder the event is any more youth activities such as dating agents alone. Or the voice summary of the youth who just became carpenters seeking donations during Agustusan.

Governments often have slogans regeneration of the nation, but did not prepare the young generation to be the successor to the future. Not surprisingly, news of the youth also tend to be summary and half-hearted as entangled drugs, promiscuity, criminality because of the narrowness of young people the opportunity to actualize himself. Of course this condition is a challenge for the managers of the state. Allowing youth mired in hedonism scene especially drugs will be demoralizing and their future.

As the country and the government did not give adequate place for the youth, then it will happen in line with the regeneration crisis of leadership. Therefore, the momentum of Indonesian Youth Pledge young people are challenged to prove gait and its role that can do something even smaller for the nation and state. It is time for brave young men collect the government’s promise. And do not let the youth co-opted and fragmented in practical politics and the party which benefits only a handful of people.

Youth Pledge event should be a reflection of many parties that the role of youth should be brought back to life. Youth should be more involved in development and to proactively participate in the life of society, nation and state. Do not let the youth have a short memory just to work, marry, have children and do not have the slightest idea of thinking contributed to the nation. Congratulations celebrate Youth Pledge!