KARYA PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS YANG TERHEBAT SESUDAH MENBUAT API KEMUDIAN MELEBUR LOGAM ADALAH MEMINTAL SERTA ALAMI, MENENUNNYA, KEMUDIAN HOMO SAPIENT MENENUN BATU DAN LOGAM LANGKA

KARYA PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS YANG TERHEBAT SESUDAH MEMBUAT API KEMUDIAN MELEBUR LOGAM ADALAH MEMINTAL SERAT ALAMI, MENENUNNYA. KEMUDIAN HOMO SAPIENT MENENUN BATU DAN LOGAM LANGKA. Bung Karno founding father bangsa kita, pernah bercerita, bahwa ketika beliau berkunjung muhibah ke Korea dipamerkan kepada beliau technology yang baru didalami oleh bangsa Korea adalah menenun batu dan memintal dan menenun logam, lama sekali kata-kata itu saya ingat. Dari semula kita tahu bahwa bangsa Korea ini piawai dengan kepandaian memintal dan menenun sutra (dari ulat sutera Bambuch mandarina) dan kapas (Gossypium spp) dari bangsa China berbarengan dengan bangsa Jepang dan mulai medalami kepandaian ini ribuan tahun yang lalu hampir bersamaan. Bahkan begitu piawainya konon mereka telah berhasil membuat cangkir teh yang istimewa dari tenunan sutra dan laquer, menganyam baju zirah tali sutera dengan lempengan logam yang enteng namun sangat kuat. To honor the readers of my Blog, who are English speaking, I try to translate this article in English. This is time consuming and difficult, but at least to avoid the translation of machines which sometime loss the context of this article. THE MOST IMPORTANT CREATION OF OUR ANCESTORS , PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS AFTER DISCOVERING TO TEND FIRE AND TO SMELT METALS, TO SPIN NATURAL FIBERS AND WEAVING FABRICS OF IT. THAN THEIR DESCENDENT , HOMO SAPIENT WERE CONTINUING THIS ABILITY TO WEAVE ROCK- STEEL ROD AND MAKING DRAMS WEAVING SEMI CONDUCTORS TO CONSTRUCT SUPER COMPUTERS. The founding father of our nation, Bung Karno, once told us, when he visited Korea presumably the South Korea, he was proudly told that this country’s research and development of sciences are learning hard new technologies to weave rock and steel rod ( pre stressed steel concrete block) and weave tiny thread of rare metals. I always remember, and I was amazed of this remark for more that 50 years. Than recently after 50 years, suddenly I am inspired by this long unfogoten remark. Indeed this nation was learning to spin and weave silk at the same time with the Japanese from the Chinese, thousand years ago. They were keen in this trade, they were able to make a tea cup from woven silk and lackuer, they were making the war’s protecting garbs/ harness by woven metal chips with silk threat, strong and light Why our founding father was so impressed, and tell us the youngsters this Korean piece of remark ? Fifty years afterward I am intriged to express my thought about this, and am trying to share with you. The amazement of our founding father was correct, that since eon years ago all Pithecanthropus erectus inhabitant of this earth were rapidly equipped themselves with tools to survive, making tools were stimulating their brain and their fingers hands/legs abilities to coordinate with their brains, transcendentally up in million years, living close together in harmonious societies to encounter unfriendly climate and beasts, to grow crops of cereals, to domesticate cattles and horses for their use and became Homo sapient. This thinking creature physically became apt to the need of a pair of creature from another dimension of the universe named by somebody of Homo sapient lately the Garden of Eden, this pair who were making mistakes, and to be ousted from there, destined for earth. Of course this pair were made from finer materials from there, and earth was too coarse to them. Our ancestors call them (the spirit) of Adam and Eve. So a pair of Homo sapient which was dwelled by these spirits of Adam and Eva became more sophisticated then Homo sapient in general, easily dominated the nature of earth, able to learn regulating their lusts to obtain worldly matters, therefore whichever Homo sapient not able to cross breed with the descendants of this spirited pair from the God’s garden of Eden, Adam and Eva, were extinct by eon of time. I am a disciple of Biology, I can’t deny the Darwinian theory of evolution which is well supported by intense serious study of scientific world, But I am a Moslem with a tint of Javanese culture. I am in peace with myself because my mind can combine this controversial thought. Controversial pair is always exist, it is the law on worldly nature. Human being is body and spirit ( soul) who can deny it ? ( This enlightenment was given by my teacher in Islam, Mr. Qudratullah from Banten W. Java, a member of Indonesian National Assembly/MPR 1967-1973) Polynesians thousand years ago were sailing cris-cross the tropical Pacific ocean with their catamaran powered by sail of woven pandan leaves (Pandanus) , strong enough to resist saline sea water for months, to power their sail, They gave us in Nusantara archipelagos their culture and varieties of yams and fruits. Apparently to strengthen these sails they used abaca fiber and palm fiber as rope. The Vikings sailed the Atlantic ocean, up to the Greenland and many believed up to Canada, due to their ability to spin short fiber of animals hair/wool, but this short woolen fiber was strong enough if it was spun thick to weave a fabric to propel ships of adequate size only, therefore a Viking sailing ship is light, in proportion with the weight of this sail, not to make this small ship imbalance, the sail will be heavier in wet condition. The ancient Egyptians sails to and fro the Nile, carrying slabs of stone weighting several tons, using the strength of their sails spinning from Egyptian cotton, exceptionally long up to 40 mm, strong enough for making a good sail. The Aria tribe Dravidian tribes able to make sail strong enough to propel big sips along Indian ocean the gulf Bengal to Indonesian archipelagoes, big enough to carry peasants and soldiers and their working cattles , horses for months voyages ( imagine how many fodders and foods these sailing ships had to carry ), although these ships used balancing bamboo bars parallel along both sides of the ship’s bows, to make it stable.these sailing ships were similar to one of a fresco craved on stone wall of Borobudur temple, These ships had sails weaved the yarn of long fibered cotton variety from arid region surrounded Rajahstan desert, to make a good sail. The ancient Egyptians, created advanced culture, blessed by their ability to crate sails strong enough and light enough to propel sailing ships to and fro the Nile, big enough to carry several tons of slab stones to build their pyramides, because their variety of cotton fiber was long enough to spindle small yarn, strong enough to make a strong fabrics for sails, they had no ambitions to sail along dangerous water beyond Mediterranean Than the inhabitans of lowland Europa begin to master the making fabric woven of flax fiber, strong and light enough to make a big, strong, and light canvase sails, to propel big- man-of-war /sailing ships with multiple guns. Weighted several hundred ton totally. But long before that happened, the Chinese, had no problem in making the needed specifications of large sails, form silk fiber. Therefore there were no size’s limitations of their jung/sailing ships with typically bamboo poles rigging. The armada of admiral Cheng Ho had proven this fenomenal voyages of strength, along the medieval Asia. The attitude of Chinese kingdom was different and more sophisticated than the voyagers of Lowland of European Nations. We Indonesian knew since the beginning that admiral Cheng Ho himself was chinese moslem, and had build a mosque in Surabaya town during his visit of his armada, in 15 th ce Why the native of this archipelago were unable to make a strong big and light sail using the rami fiber ( Bohmeria rami) or abaca fiber ( Musa textilis) ? Why than our ancestor who build a commercial kingdom named Majapahit kingdom based on the strong navy patrolling incessanty the seas, inland coasts and straits along these archipelago to deter sea pirates privateering and looters which were popular amongst the inhabitants of these island ? The fabric’s productions in these region were poor, our fiber culture, cotton was not yielding a long and good fiber until now. The thickness and water absorbtion of cotton fabrics were small in weight increasing rate, so this Majapahit navy was using cotton, In making lateen sails, probable the yarn was mixed of importing long cotton fiber from India with native short native cotton fiber. In fact Majapahit kingdom could maintain its patrolling navy for several millineum. Operating small “Madura”s type of sailing boat which typically agile easy to maneuver, but armed by small guns which was casted by their smelting in miniature foundries beside their “kris” ( a sort of dagger). Buginese sea rovers of South Sulawes iIsland was more fortunate, they are able to make sails of silk, producing this by tending silk moth themselves, since medieval periods. Their sailing ships were bigger and faster, but it did not carry guns. Buginese had no foundry big enough to be able of casting miniature guns ( Malayan named this gun “rantaka” -google) There are enough proves that the nations around the world, able to spin and weave fabrics to make a good sails were roving the world ahead each other, to build up their fortunes. Recently they are competing to weave steel rod in concrete slab, building sky scrapers, waeving the viaducts, tunnels, constructing arck dams, smelting rare amalgam of rare metal and making thread of it, weaving fabrics of semiconductors and manufacturing drams, sophisticated computers, aren’t they ? And arranged molecule of kevlar yarn (google ) to weave bulletproof jacket against terrorist’ bullet and sharpnel. And we are on the side track, sucking our thumb, we are not in. Meanwhile all the powerfuls in the world are uniting to maintain and weave the communications to enable them to control the energy and foodstuffs prices. To make all the nations submit its actual and potential wealth to the MARKET, to be controlled by them, by the principle of neoliberalism But as a small present to console you my countrymen. May I tell you, If advance nations weave informations to dominate market, mastering the stockpiles or energy and foodstuffs, we are the victim of these activities. May be we can weave friendships with equally poor countries once, to trade our food produces with other foodstuff we need but the yield were either failed or it is diffecult to grow, such as garlic, chilli, some time even rice, and soybean with our abundant produces of batatas, cassava flour ( tapioca flour indispensable ingredient of Chinese cuisines) oil palm, and fish catch from our sea coasts and straits. Don’t worry we can make it by barter trading. At last, we can eliminate our lust for corruptions to enable this nation open new arable land for rice, cassava and soybean growing. So we will weave and make fabric of friendships and co-operations with the Moslem's forgotten credo of bimillahirakhnanirrakhim – by the name of God, the most merciful and most compassionate principle. To cooperate together amongst the ¾ World Nations to harness the sails our voyages to limitless other habitable planets or another dimensions of this universe in this limitless cosmos. *) Mungkin kita bisa menunjukkan pada bangsa bangsa lain bahwa kita bisa jadi Khalifah Allah di Bhumi dengan berazaskan bismillahirakhnanirrakhim karena kita sudah mengorbankan hidup dari terlalu banyak saudara saudara kita berkat kebodohan dan kesempitan pandangan kita, yang akhirnya dunia dapat meneima sebagai azas hidup yang alami dan mudah. Karena alam, iklim dan tanah air baik terhadap kita bisa mendidik kita jadi makhluk yang mampu mempraktekkan azas bismillahirakhanirakhim. Betapa alami azas yang sama sama dilupakan oleh kebanyakan bangsa bangsa ini, kita membangun tenunan yang kuat sepanjang zaman dengan azas yang mudah dan alami yaitu bismilahirakmanirakhim dari serat serat perbuatan kita terhadap sesama hidup, sebagai bekal jalan untuk barlayar kekedalaman kosmos dan dimensi lain dari alam raya ini*)

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