Super Gelo, Pengalaman Sekolah di Tanah Aborigin

Telah terbit buku terbaru kami berjudul "SUPER GELO" Catatan Pengalaman Bersekolah di Tanah Aborigin. Buku setebal 95 halaman ini ditulis dengan gaya anak muda yang lincah mengalir dan enak dibaca. Penulisnya Haikal Adlan menuangkan pengalamannya yang unik dan menarik selama 3 tahun bersekolah di Darwin Middle School Australia. Buku ini sangat layak dibaca sebagai bekal untuk anak/remaja yang berminat dan akan sekolah di luar negeri, termasuk juga penting dibaca oleh orangtuanya. Selamat menikmati...

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Haikal Adlan, sering dipanggil “Haikal” atau “Adlan” oleh teman-temannya di Indonesia tapi teman-temannya di Darwin (Australia) memanggilnya “Heycool”. Lahir di Jakarta, 27 Desember 1998 dari kedua orangtua yang berprofesi sebagai psikolog. Ia begitu mencintai sekolahnya Al-Azhar Sentra Primer Jaktim, karena memang dari Play Group, TK sampai SD memang ia menjalaninya di sana. Di Al-Azhar pula ia dibentuk menjadi seorang siswa yang memiliki karakter pribadi yang jujur, taat beribadah, berprestasi di bidang akademik dan musik. Bekal tersebut ternyata tidak sia-sia, karena ketika orangtuanya mendapat tugas belajar kemudian membawanya ke Darwin (Australia), ternyata Haikal berhasil menunjukkan prestasi yang cukup membanggakan. Selama bersekolah di Darwin Middle School (DMS) ia berhasil meraih Platinum Good Standing Award (Year 9), Platinum Good Standing Award (Year 7), Bronze Good Standing Award (Year 8), Academic Excellence Award in Music (Year 9), Academic Excellence Award in several subjects (Year 7 & Year 8), Consistent Effort Award in several subjects (Year 7 & Year 8). Selain itu, ia menjadi personil DMS Band sebagai pemegang keyboard dan menjadi anggota DMS Debating Team yang berkompetisi dengan SMP-SMP lainnya di Darwin. Bukan hanya di sekolah formal saja, tapi ia juga aktif di kegiatan Masjid Islamic Centre Darwin dan menjadi siswa Madrasah yang berada di bawah naungan Islamic Society of Darwin (ISoD). Di sana pada tahun 2011, ia meraih prestasi Academic Excellence Award dan 1st Winner Essay Competition. Sementara sumbahsih langsungnya pada Negara adalah ia menjadi salah satu penabuh gamelan pada pagelaran “Pesona Indonesia” – pestanya orang-orang Indonesia di Darwin. Ia mengaku minat menulisnya muncul ketika masih di Jakarta ia banyak membaca buku-buku dari penulis idolanya, Raditya Dika. Sesampainya di Darwin, ia pun selalu minta dibawakan buku-buku Radtya Dika. Bukan hanya buku-bukunya, semua yang berhubungan dengan Raditya Dika yang ada di internet selalu dibuka dan ditonton berulang-ulang. Oleh karena itu jangan kaget kalau gaya bercerita dalam tulisan-tulisannya mengadopsi gaya bertutur Raditya Dika. Karya-karya tulisannya banyak dituangkan di blog pribadinya dan di kanal Kompasiana (untuk yang berbahasa Inggris). Buku ini merupakan buku pertamanya, ia mencoba menceritakan dan men-sharing pengalaman-pengalamannya selama bersekolah di Darwin Middle School (DMS) yang menurutnya banyak berbeda atau aneh dibandingkan suasana bersekolah pada umumnya di Indonesia. Untuk itu atas usulan teman-temannya ia setuju memberi judul buku ini dengan “Super Gelo.”

Three Biggest Challenges of Muslim Teens in Australia

By Haikal Adlan

adlan_haikal@yahoo.com

As teenagers, there are many problems and issues that are brought up or challenges, we as Muslims have to face. I think the main problem for Muslim teenagers is the strength to continue with their faith. I will talk about the biggest challenges of being a Muslim in a non –Muslim countries, according to what I experienced after two years in Australia.

Firstly, Mosque can be very limited or not even there at all. Even though there is a mosque, it would probably be far away from your house so you will not have a courage to go. It is true that if you have a Muslim friend, you will have more courage to go to the mosque but the only problem is, it would be hard for teenagers to have a friend with same belief/religion. Problems can also appear when it is the month of  Ramadhan, when we Muslims do fasting for a month. Unlike in a Muslim country, schools will not change their normal lessons and activities. From what I experienced, it does not feel that good when you can see other people eating and drinking in of your eyes at the time of recess or lunch. Some Muslim teenagers cannot stand it anymore and would just drink or eat at school. Even I find it difficult to do fasting in a place where other people eat and drink whenever they want. Also, for Muslims that live in areas that do not have a mosque also cannot celebrate the Eid Al Fitr or Eid Al Adha.

Secondly, most foods such as KFC and McDonalds are not halal. It is quite hard to find halal foods. Some shops might say that their foods are halal, but it actually is not. Looking for halal food restaurants with the halal certificate in it is a hard thing to do. Some people think that by just saying ‘Bismillah’ before eating the food, therefore it can be classified as halal foods. Furthermore, friends from another religion or background might affect us. When you go somewhere with your friends to eat in a restaurant that is not halal, and you are not eating anything while your friends eat, first, you do not feel good if not eating with them. Second, your friends may tease you because of your super obedience to the religion. The temptation to consume the non halal foods are just too great, as the halal foods are not that available.

Lastly, teens’ life in school is a problem. In Western countries, we find it really hard to find a Muslim School and sometimes there is not even any. Therefore, Muslim teens must go to a normal school. These schools are not the same as the normal schools in Muslim countries. They are different especially in the way people socialize with each other. Unlike us Muslims, these people swear or used the worst words whenever they like without some teachers care about it. Bullying also happens a lot, which makes us Muslims one of their targets. Moreoever there are also (what they call) racist people, whom do not like people with different colour of skins or from Africa and Asia. ­Those racist people will ignore us Muslims, tease us, or do something bad to us. We muslim teens actually suffers more than our parents think.

In addition, the non Muslims wear clothes whatever they want to look like. What I mean is, they have no aurat. They wear shorts that look like an underwear (because of how short they are). Also, non Muslim people does their expression of love (such as hugging, kissing, etc) in public. Muslim teens are not allowed to do those stuff or even look at those things. Well, we Muslim teens cannot just avoid them all because they are all everywhere! And because teens have a weak faith in Allah, we might just do not care about the Islam rules anymore and do such things.

Muslim teens have many kinds of problems they should face. What I just said above are what I think, the three biggest challenges that muslim teens face today. I believe it is quite hard to beat those problems. Well, adults might say it is easy, but they cannot feel what we muslim teens are facing today. Their youth life was different than the teens’ life these days. We should just have faith in Allah (SWT), keep active and strongly engage in Mosque/Islamic Community, choose a kind of friends (friendship environment) that would understand you and lastly, keep doing what Allah (SWT) tells you to do, and to not do what Allah (SWT) forbids.

Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds, their Lord will guide them because of their faith. Beneath them rivers will flow in the gardens of pleasure. – Yunus 10:9

And whoever believes in Allah, He will guide his heart. And Allah is knowing of all things. – At Taghabun 64:11

Darwin, 10 March 2013

To My Friend of the Future

By: Haikal Adlan *)

My name is Shimon Seto, and I am a soldier of the kingdom of Egypt. I am writing this letter because I want the future  leaders of the world know all the great achievements that the kingdom of my timeline has mastered and how wonderful Egypt is now.

As I write this letter, I am sitting  under a tree near the pharaoh’s palace. I usually sit under this tree because it’s very special to me and it’s located in the village where I live. Before I’m working as a soldier, I was a farmer. It is quite hard being a farmer. Farmers are heavily depend on the Nile’s Annual Flooding to provide water and fertile soil for their crops. The Egyptians built most of their towns close to the Nile river because we need its water everyday. We need daily watering from the river. We are lucky that there is the flood of the Nile river.

We’ve  got quite a lot of pyramids now. The kings of the old and middle kingdoms built pyramid tombs in cemeteries in the northern dessert. The earliest pyramids were made of stones. The later ones were built of mud brick. Pyramid buildings required a large workforce at the pyramid site in the quarries. Some of these workers are full time professional pyramid builders.

The pharaoh lives in Thebes. Memphis were most often used as capitals, but the pharaoh wants to live in Thebes. Other big towns had palaces for the pharaoh to use as he traveled. Some temples are also had palaces, built on one side of the temple buildings. The palaces always had a wall around them, to keep them seperate from the town,

I must leave you now so that I can help the pharaoh. I hope that reading this letter has enlightened you about the good things in Egypt.

Regards,
Shimon Seto

*) Student Year 8 Darwin Middle School, Northern Territory, Australia; Alumni SD Islam Al-Azhar 19, Sentra Primer, Jakarta Timur, Indonesia.

(Tulisan ini dipublikasikan di Kompasiana tanggal 25 Februari 2012)