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useless-indonesiafacts · 6 years

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HOW THE FUU is wkwkwkwk supposed to be read? and origin, backstory? when I first saw that in my chat my initial reaction was wtf is that a duck impression :v Pls educate this uncultured Indonesian swine :’) aka me who lived in a faraway land without durian and nyamuk and es cendol until now

id send all the nyamuk to you wkwkwkwkw

*well…wkwkw… it does sounds like a duck.

wkwk supposedly read as Weka-weka or Waka-waka in Indonesian tongue. it is firstly spread in Indonesian online game chat board community back in the 90s.

since these game chat board full of erm ‘young person’, they don’t like using formal indonesian and use slang like “gue” instead of “saya”. and then of course they want it shorten coz its game chat board, so then “Gue” became “Gw” ; which basically read the same in Indonesian tongue since “W” can be read as “UE”.

the same things happen with laugh expression

the use of formal indonesian sound for laugh which is “ha ha ha” looks not appealing in these hip chat board full of young gamers. so they start use “hi hi hi he he ” or “ka ka ka” or “hue hue he he” or whatever and yup like “gue” became “gw”, it start modified to “hw hw hw”

and finally at its finest “gaul” form, its transformed into our beloved “wk wk wk”

there is argument that it also influences by another indonesian slang word for laugh or “tertawa” which is “ngakak” or Lol .

ngakak is shortened into “ka ka ka” , then transformed into “wk wk wk” (coz somehow “w” is so cool instead of normal vowels idk)

and since these chat board also includes international player, and these people start using it everywhere in the internet. it then became what is it now

just as “55555” is used to write lol in Thailand slang , and “wwww” used in japan

“wk wk wk” has became known internationally to present laugh in indoneisan chat platform

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prohaus · 5 years

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this is just my frustration, sorry

Okay. First thing first, pardon my Inglish

So a couple of months ago, there is this movie, a documentary, about using coal in Indonesia. Well, it got viral, everybody talks about it, everybody somehow becomes, environment expert. A lot of my friends (who are mostly environmental engineering graduates or students) discussed this, they seem pretty concern. Myself in another hand, seem like “meh”. I mean like literally, every year, every time my family and I go “mudik”, I have seen all of those, those scars, wow, these human sure does destroy our earth (wkwkwk). Palm oil? Palm Plantation? Jeez, it’s everywhere. Sometimes, I joke around that on my island (especially my province), used to have a lot of forests, we produced a lot of wood related raw material for those of you in Java. And now, it doesn’t exist anymore, wooden houses are much more expensive than brick-mortar houses. Everything is palm plantation or coal mine now, it’s a joke, a terrible and sad joke. Yes, and I am not really a concern, even laughing, like you just cared about it now?. The problem is, you (outside the island, especially Java) need this to fuel your economy, your hunger, your thirst of cheap-ass electricity, meanwhile electricity in my province is still byarpet from time to time.

Okay, it’s beginning to become a rant. But that’s not my point, my point is my sense towards caring the environment is dying.

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I have seen a lot of my friends work at various industries, some of them work as HSE officer, some of them work as an environmental officer, and some of them (again) study environmental engineering (or even environmental science). This “revelation” started after I compare (a bad habit, I know) me self to other people, their reaction about that documentary. And as time goes on, I started to realize that my knowledge about environmental science is kinda buried, or even worse disappear. I almost forget that we learned about how to calculate pollution loads, the impact of environment, how to make AMDAL or UKL-UPL, while most of my friends know about this stuff, they even work in this kind of industry. Some of them even studied this kinda stuff. One of my close friend said that he/she wants to study global “warming”. Well…

Yes, I mean what I see through social media lens is altered, sometimes faked, but it’s still left me wondering. Why the hell I am not like them? Jeez.

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The worst part of it is my sense towards caring about the environment is dying.

I become skeptical. Economy first, Social second, Environment Third (?). I become someone that believes in order to save the environment, you need to take care of your people first, but before that, you need to take care of you goddamn economy first, and I mean the Macroeconomy. The short answer is, you need money to take care of your house. And I hate that I become that person. I want to love the earth because I want to love it like most of my friends, not just because if you don’t take care of the earth, the economy and society will be dead. F*ck

I mean I appreciated when my friends supporting zero waste movement etc, but like just so many movements, I’m afraid that it’s going to lose its hype, I hope not tho. Zero waste movement (especially just using stainless steel straw wkwkw) alone can not “save the earth”. You still need a big amount of green paper to take care of the rest. What about car pollution? What about industrial pollution? That stuff takes a a lot of money and this (beloved) country is still doesn’t commit towards green or even renewable energy etc, it’s just a law.

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“Save The Earth” why the quotation marks tho?

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I mean, why?

F*ck

Yes, back when SNMPTN era, I choose “Environmental Engineering” because my father said that if you want to study how water and sanitation system works, choose that. That has been my purpose since the beginning, I don’t really want to become Environmental Engineer, I want to become Sanitary Engineer (said someone that graduated from environmental engineering program).

Because of that, I mostly care about water and sanitation condition and its problem, especially in this country. (Jeez when the hell 100-0-100 is achieved, I mean it was mentioned in RPJMN 2015-2019, even since SBY-era). But it’s not easy, especially if you want the ideal condition, 100% water access, SAFE water access. Seeing that building infrastructure is not cheap, socializing safe sanitation culture is not easy, a lot of Indonesian suburban or village is so isolated, and also environment-related problems like river pollution, it’s challenging and expensive as hell. Meanwhile, the funding for this kind of project keeps decreasing. It makes me skeptical, sure reducing water consumption is helping, but how much? We still need a lot of investment. This is why (I guess) I started to become like this, thinking that if you want to take care of the world, you need to take care of the economy first. And sometimes, taking care economy first means exploiting the environment for that sweet sweet stimulus.

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But, if God paved another way, it’s okay if I become Environmental Engineer or HSE engineer. It’s okay.

Maybe this is why, I choose that program for my next study, so I can say “I am Sanitary Engineer”. But who knows?

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