Overcoming the limits of inequality.
Still in kampung Sentak Dulang, in Desa Mekarmanik, Cimenyan, north of Bandung. Up in the hill, there lives Pak Yaya Sukarya, with his wife Sutinah. He is a 76 year-old man with blue eyes burned by the heat from working as blacksmith in his house.
He must work hard even in his old age. But not only that. These are unfortunate and exploited lands, which have lots of pure spring water and rice field with terraces, but those are not for the people who live there: the land with spring water is fenced by walls, property of others, as well as the rice fields. Residents of the kampung can only work but cannot drink that water or eat that rice.
In their homes there is no water. So, at his age Pak Yaya must descends every morning, through the rugged soils, down to the river, to collect very heavy doses of water flowing in the river below. Every morning, in the same river the inhabitants of the kampung have to go for a shower and washing clothes.
Meanwhile others drink pure water sitting in their velvet lounges.
Still in kampung Sentak Dulang, in Desa Mekarmanik, Cimenyan, north of Bandung. Up in the hill, there lives Pak Yaya Sukarya, with his wife Sutinah. He is a 76 year-old man with blue eyes burned by the heat from working as blacksmith in his house.
He must work hard even in his old age. But not only that. These are unfortunate and exploited lands, which have lots of pure spring water and rice field with terraces, but those are not for the people who live there: the land with spring water is fenced by walls, property of others, as well as the rice fields. Residents of the kampung can only work but cannot drink that water or eat that rice.
In their homes there is no water. So, at his age Pak Yaya must descends every morning, through the rugged soils, down to the river, to collect very heavy doses of water flowing in the river below. Every morning, in the same river the inhabitants of the kampung have to go for a shower and washing clothes.
Meanwhile others drink pure water sitting in their velvet lounges.
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| Cisanggarung, 15 October 2017 |
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal~Aristotle
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