A family, a built family, comes from integrity and innovation; to empower them, they should stand as one, whatever happened, and strive to the glory of heaven. Just like Ali Imran Family.
Witness the sacrifice of the elders, O human. Your Bolster Spirit. May Allah, the Most Merciful grant you peace with it. – Puteh
The third Encounter Effect
In her late 20’s, Kampung Melayu Subang, Selangor After their time in Taman Malawati, changing workplaces was normal for Nancy’s husband as a Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) member with the rank of Lance Corporal, in a state of ups and downs in her husband’s mental health, sometimes normal, sometimes back to being sick, due to past stories while at the border of Sulu and Malaysia. Nancy became a housewife for a while when that year was the “Inflasi Sifar” program, driven by the Prime Minister of Malaysia at the time, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad, after the collapse of the Thai Baht currency and the countries around Southeast Asia. At this time, many of the families were going through poverty and hardship to buy necessities, with Nancy’s husband, who only earns around $135 – $180 a month, earning the most at that time for a police officer with the rank of Lance Corporal, still managed to lives.
Nancy is still able to take care of her family well and still carries the value of the continuity of life of the Dayak ethnic community, which is skilled in growing vegetables, raising poultry, and gathering forest products. lived with her first child, Abang, and her second husband, Usman, at the time Nancy was pregnant again. They were happy as a family at that time, even in the tough economic situation that gripped Malaysia.
We are the settler
Living with her in-laws in an area of rubber plantations near Jalan Besar Kampung Melayu Subang, where the distance to the town is within 1 kilometre of a small house that is always flooded when the monsoon season hits, Nancy’s in-laws, who are of Javanese ethnicity, come from Surabaya, Indonesia, through his great-grandfather-in-law named Haji Ali, who has assimilated modern Malay culture. Nancy’s family at that time lived next door to the Suratman family in a connected wooden house. With the lack of facilities, still using a charcoal wood stove to cook, no television, and the condition of the bathroom without a toilet bowl, normal life for ordinary people was also normal for Nancy when she grew up in Nanga Ibau Long House.
Almost every day, Nancy cultivates, raises, and uses the produce to help her husband improve his standard of living while Nancy is pregnant with her second child, Sofea, who will be born at any time. Her husband travels every day to the police station in order to maintain public order, not far from where they live as a family, with Kretek cigarettes and coffee every day.
First Priority
In Malaysia, there is an understanding that causes the gap between the people to deepen, where if one of their families has a job with a strong government or private entity at that time, it will be highly praised by other families, and at that time, members of the Suratman family, including Nancy’s husband’s siblings, will be working as school teachers, police officers, and airport general workers. Before 1965, this Kampung Melayu Subang area was all rubber plantations until the opening of the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport. In terms of the local economy, it balanced the economic situation of nearby families at that time for the Javanese, Malay, Chinese, and Indian communities. Nancy’s husband’s eldest brother works as a Marshall at the airport, so for them, getting a job with a steady salary was the dream of the family there. in addition to being able to advance in life and be respected by people with a rank and a permanent job, but unlucky for people who migrate to Malaysia after Hari Malaysia 1963. From 1980–1999.
Reviving the weak
Nancy was reminded of the situation of her younger sister, Lily, who was in Borneo, where at that time formal job opportunities were still limited, while living in a state of high inflation and poverty in the Borneo region, and the communist threat after the Second World War, which resulted in unity in Borneo almost torn apart by western beliefs, after the Indo-Malayan conflict in the “Ganyang Malaya” confrontation between the Malaysian Federation and the Communists, one of which was in Tanjung Kunyit, which was won by the Union, was once told by Nancy’s uncle, Sergeant Pilai, about the extermination of communist guerrillas in Tanjung Kunyit. Nancy still takes care of her sister Lily’s interests even though the world is in an uncertain state.
Even though Lily went through a very difficult time with her children, Azlan and Azrul, without a husband to support and no permanent job, Nancy still took care of the welfare of Lily and her nephews, helping them to survive. Lily was able to survive while helping both of their parents. Lily’s marriage only lasted for a few years before Azlan and Azrul’s biological father married another woman from Peninsula. Originally, Lily’s husband cared about Lily, Azlan, and Azrul, but as we understand it, men are usually not enough with one wife, and practising polygamy requires a high level of justice for men who intend such, but Lily’s husband failed to keep it fair, so divorce is the last resort without leaving a single bit of support for the children, and Lily was left alone to raise her children.
I consider the “Ganyang Malaya” Confrontation to be just a matter of profiting colonialism and one of the blackouts of harmony by the invisible hand that was built after a long time in the Southeast Asian region, after the failure of MAPHILINDO in Manila to realise the spirit of “Malay Raya” led by the first President of Indonesia, Seokarno. The reason that caused us to separate is the difference in political beliefs, which caused an army of two sides that came from the same ethnicity and family but fought a civil war because of different ideologies. That’s what happened to all the ethnic groups that were originally united because of the sharing of customs but fell apart because of modern western ideologies. So witness the terrible events of enmity between family members. Tiredness, sweat, and brains of moderate parties in an effort to secure both sides; although in the end it worked well, in the pre-confrontation it had a profound effect in terms of regional economy, politics, and social. This piece exists as a reminder of regional unity and is not only subject to one party but to all.
Clash of Ideology
Between you and me, we are the same. persevere in creating civilization – Puteh
War on our own kind
Among us, there are those who support the establishment of “Malay Raya,” which favours the regional union of Southeast Asia, but the formation of new countries, which are factors resulting from the effects of old colonies, cause us to be separated by new borders. Specifically, the Philippines, Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia We remain a puppet of the British, but it is too late because the issue of “Ganyang Malaya” has already happened, which resulted in the murder of the royal family in Indonesia, who conspired with the colonialists before the formation of a new country that the Dutch wanted to emulate once upon a time. Malaysia remained with the British policy, Indonesia experienced a People’s Revolution against the Royal Family and the VOC, the Philippines with the Spanish policy, Singapore with the British policy, and Brunei was self-governing.
Nancy is always wary of the greedy nature of some people who don’t care about customs, because the cause of poverty after the war, driven by western superpowers, resulted in the original social system of Southeast Asia being fragmented and changed because of western ideology; before colonization, it was still under the same group of people who cared about relatives and brotherhood regardless of ethnicity, tribe, or race, but not for now, mostly.
It reminds me of Hikayat Abdullah Munsyi, which tells about the lives of Southeast Asians who are under the influence of colonialism and the greed of the rulers. It reminds me also of Mat Kilau’s rebellion against the Pahang Sultanate after the King of Pahang realised friendship with the British federation once upon a time, so Mat Kilau was called a traitor to the King. It starts with the Treaty of Pangkor, World War II and Cold War.
Cancel Culture is abusive
In my attempt to connect the friendship between us all under the flag of civility, we remain as an entity of “politeness and morality.” However, for Nancy, the social imbalance occurred when her marriage was not approved by her mother-in-law, Sapinah. Her mother-in-law once said to Usman, “Entah perempuan longkang mana kau ambil jadikan bini.”Nancy was very saddened by her mother-in-law’s racist actions against the Dayak tribe. Even her mother-in-law also poisoned the minds of her children to consider these Dayaks as uncivilized, disrespectful, and rude; even more heartbreaking for Nancy’s husband were the words of her mother-in-law, who threw inappropriate words at Nancy.
Even so, Nancy is still determined to prove that she is able to win her mother-in-law’s heart without holding a grudge. The marriage issue between Nancy and Usman is the result of Usman’s ex-fiancee, who is a Malay woman, breaking off the engagement on the grounds that Usman is away due to his public duties guarding the border, which as a ranger at that time was indeed a soldier’s duty, causing him to look for a replacement after that. Although Usman did not see Nancy that way, he still fought to take care of her after she converted to Islam, making Nancy love him and her children very much.
There was a very deep gap between Nancy and the Suratman family; however, her father-in-law loved Nancy very much because, in the last moments of his life, he was taken care of by Nancy like a daughter and a father when his health was uncertain. It was once said that Nancy was the daughter-in-law who was loved more than any other.
Encouraged by her father-in-law’s and decency as well as the motherly spirit of a sea dayak practised in the concepts of Islam and Christianity and also the morals of the unity of Panggau Libau, Nancy gave birth to Sofea in 1990 in the kitchen yard of her house in Kampung Melayu Subang with midwife Sapinah. No hospital, no birth facilities – a Dayak-Javanese princess was born from the marriage of Nancy and her husband, Usman. They moved from Kampung Melayu Subang to Shah Alam because her husband changed jobs again after she gave birth to another son named Abdul in 1991. one every year. They are happy as a family, and at this time, Nancy’s spirit is at the height of raising her three children with her eldest son, Aliefi Tero, from a previous marriage.
Hard work always beats talent
To be talented continuously, you must work hard to earn it, just like Nancy.
In Shah Alam, Nancy was very protected by God about the morals of life. Nancy is very lucky; she was able to work as an accountant for 3 Singaporean construction facilities services companies in Subang and as an accounts clerk for paint companies in Section 17 of Shah Alam before having the opportunity to venture into the trading of Bursa Malaysia. Inventing the accounting books manually for the boss made her easily promoteable to be the accountant for both companies. Thanks to his passing in schooling in the Principles of Accounts stream and also passing in typewriters at the typing college in Sibu. Nancy can also help Usman raise his children well with working as Accountant. Bolstering her spirit through Abang, Sofea, and Abdul.
Luck
In 1995, Nancy became pregnant again for the fourth time with a baby girl named Dewi.
Brave childs. They are the heirs raised in the Silaturrahim who will bring good to the whole world after Nancy.
To be continued …
Chapa7
Next Episode ; From Borneo with Love – Episode VII : A Dreams
