The fourth day of ‘The World is Our Household!’ FORUM started off with a ‘Daily Retelling’ by Ika Yuliana, researcher and contributor to our ‘Writing’ Program, sharing her interpretation of the previous day’s program. In the event that followed, the participants of our ‘Fellowship’ program presented two “Dialogues”, the first with Sulton Mochammad Kadhafi (Cianjur, West Java, ID) and Rahmadiyah Tria Gayathri from CluBelajar (Palu, Central Sulawesi, ID), who presented their experience with ecological disaster and mitigation in their home contexts and in Indonesia more broadly. In the second “Dialogue”, Bang Gilung (Talang Mamak indigenous community/AMAN, Riau, Sumatera, ID) spoke with Agung “Geger” Firmanto Budiharto (Yogyakarta, ID) about the preservation and sharing of traditional knowledges (and drinks!). In both dialogues, other Fellows acted as moderators, respondents, time keepers, and harvesters.
The final event of the day was a ‘Gossip Forum’ by ‘Artist Partner’ Badan Kajian Pertanahan (BKP). This session, entitled ‘I Can But I Won’t’, was an informal conversation between friends, and those joining in Zoom, focussing on the opposing value systems present in the region of Jatiwangi, West Java, Indonesia, specifically the capitalist industrial labour values produced by large textile factories catering to global brands on the one hand, and the social reproductive community labour needed to sustain local village life on the other. Together with BPK, the participants carefully deconstructed the hurtful, capitalist notions of “laziness”’, and “the lazy villager”, terms that in recent years have become part of the daily lives of friends in Jatiwangi, discussing how we can refuse these dominant and oppressive values, and instead take back control over our own (re)production, communally.
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