Forgotten Answer

In our first year, my bestfriend and I having a discussion. Her major is Social Anthropology and mine is Regional and City Planning. She asked me, why government or anyone should set some standard about how people should live? Sometimes we thought it was poverty but actually it just how they wanna live. Like tribal people in Papua or Baduy. Why we have to come there and said they need to go to school, live in certain house with maximal capacity per houses with certain lifestyle which we thought for better health and better life. She said sometimes they don’t want our interventions. They like the way they lived. They lived like that for hundreds years and still survive, so why they should listen to us? Aren’t people entitled to their rights to choose how they gonna live their life. Especially when they’re not interrupt other people. And they definitely not interrupting the nature since only the modern people do that.

And that time I'm not even certain with my answer, which I forget. Just say I can’t answer that question.

But few months ago I read National Geography Issue-The Gold Issue-and suddenly the answer come to me. We’re have to get them education and health not because we denied their rights, but because we want to protect them. Because they’re one of us, therefore we should do our best to protect them. From who? From every opportunist out there. Because fact is, there are people who wouldn’t even care about those rights. And they’re smart enough to take what we have and we’re not gonna realize it until it’s too late. If we don’t prepare them, they’re not gonna survive in the next 50 years.

We have to gave them education and health so they can defend themselves against those people. So we can be smart enough to realize the tricks. Because that’s what they have and we didn’t. Advance in knowledge and how to use it. And that’s how we should prepare ourselves.

That's how I think for now...

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