EDUCATION HERO WHO IS SINCERE WITH REALITY

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Inspirational Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

I am a resident who lives near a public trash can, Here you can find residents as officials who are silent with the establishment, officials who process trash in suits and ties and whose women dress elegantly in white shirts and shirts with black blazers as if to signal a different association. Her children look elegant. However, the scavengers are far from established.

Indeed, trash cans smell of garbage, especially near public toilets, it's impossible to smell good. Can you imagine how it smells? Outside or in the trash can area, that's true, but it's different if you come, stop by and visit the homes of the residents, there you find the smell of a house full of fragrances and the arrangement of a luxurious and elegant home, and mine is no exception.

The garbage cart puller there has a classy luxury car and is clearly the opposite of reality. It's ironic because everything is clearly different when you have a piece of diploma paper in the formal sector then you will enjoy beauty even though not everyone has it or is lucky. It is 180 degrees different from those who do not have a diploma or enter the formal sector of their institution.

It is true that God is fair in creating classes so that the poor need the rich for the sake of their lives as well as the rich will need help and energy from the poor. Once one of the Hadiths that I studied in a hadith when I was a child believed "You only get help and sustenance because there are weak people from among you." However, the reality is different, as if the rich become arrogant and arrogant with their wealth, thus marginalizing the existing poor. Fortunately, I saw scavengers who incidentally are not well-off people who seem to be carrying out what has been stated in the Hadith "Indeed, Allah helps this community because of their weak people among them, namely by praying, praying, and their sincerity." that's just my assumption, whether true or not, patience is the key to the test that God gives to his creatures.

The place is an arena for seeking fortune and even so there is rarely competition and conflict between them. The Integrated Garbage Treatment site, which is quite far from the city centre, is also dirty and full of rotten doors, and even then, it turns out that there is a beauty from the incarnation of a goddess who descended from heaven and turned out to be lost at the garbage collection site. The scavengers who each deposit plastic and various recyclable wastes. But she, the young girl who is not even 17 years old, has to live hard by scavenging. She was forced to leave her hometown because she was lulled into a promise to be hired as a maid in order to support her elderly mother and younger siblings who needed money for their education.

But the reality is different. It turns out that the person who promised to give him a job is a pimp. He must abandon the norms and ethics that he has embedded in his life. But he rebelled and ran away from reality and turned into a disease of society. He was stranded living on the streets, armed with faith he picked up mineral water bottles, cans and all items that could be recycled to garbage collectors.

Indeed, her body is dirty but her beauty never fades how women are busy going for manicures and pedicures or injecting serum for the beauty of their skin and face or scrubs while she scrubs with dust and garbage, as if the bacteria or bacteria that used to break down trash are reluctant to take care of her clean body. Beautiful. Even though it looks a bit shabby, dull and dirty, it doesn't make her body sick. It's strange to see him struggling with trash every day.

Garbage park is like a dry paradise, all enjoyed in a maze thread. She remains steadfast in her beliefs and purity even though many people sometimes tempt her. She still holds the norms and ethics where her religion teaches her how to behave. She is a teenager who has to give up her youth to have fun. It is hoped that good fortune will lead him to a reality for a better fate.

One day the head of TPST saw him scavenging, and then was tempted by the beauty that Sunarti possessed. A trick was used to get her by starting to send food through a person instructed by Pak Narto to mention the official's name. However, she only accepted and gave it to others. And that was known to him, but he did not stop to be able to have and enjoy her ripeness. Various ways have been done, starting from going to a shaman to peel her, but the results are still nil.

The various tricks performed by Pak Narto clearly did not work for Narti because he is a being who, despite his deprivation, still obeys the Creator. He is not deceived by the world's material because what he does is achieve sincerity to God. Until finally, He gave up with her firmness

When he has free time he collects children to teach them about reading and writing even though he only graduated from junior high school. Understandably, when he continued his education at SMK when he was in grade 2, he had to be willing to leave it because he had to support his mother and younger siblings because he had to struggle due to the death of his father. When he had just entered grade 2. Conditions that maybe some people were impossible to live with but not in a literal way, there were people who came to his family to offer jobs but that was not the case so he was thrown here where bitter and bitter is felt in this life of course it will bear fruit.

The honesty and sincerity that she has done for the community has been appreciated by many residents who are not far from the waste processing site. He saw it as something good and was forced to give up his masculine side in the name of benefiting society. He invited his wife and child to help her to eradicate illiteracy in that area. She also understood this and from the start thought that Pak Narto was her own father because if you do the math, they are almost the same age.

She is a portrait of how to behave because we have to benefit others no matter how little we give, alms don't have to be in material form but can be in other forms, similar to what she does, being a teacher, ustadz, ustadzah, sensei, Laose or whatever it's called don't have to go through formal education and teach in formal education too.

She only had Junior High School education, but she was able to change the world of people's thinking about the old-fashioned meaning of education with academic assessment. She was able to overcome the arrogance of education which never touched the realm of the society in which she lived. He emphasizes that being smart does not need to go to school, because he often collects the books he picks up when he collects waste and becomes a reading garden which is clearly beneficial for himself and his students. Thank you for what She does for the benefit of education.

December 05, 2022 01:57

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Firda Aulia
03:48 Apr 03, 2023

The story above is an interesting story. Many lessons can be drawn from this story. like we should always be grateful for the life we live even though sometimes it doesn't match what we expect. besides being grateful we also have to always try. should not give up under any circumstances. and don't forget to always do good to others

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Ramadan Maulana
03:44 Apr 03, 2023

in my opinion this story is very good, because there are many interesting characters in the story

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Aulia Felys
03:42 Apr 03, 2023

Very inspiring story, we can take a learn from the character Sunarti that we can be a light for others as long as we always take the positive side 'cause I believe even if a diamond falls to the ground, a diamond will still be a diamond.

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03:39 Apr 03, 2023

the story is good and interesting, and very inspiring, there are many lessons that we can also take from the story

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Sulis Tya
03:07 Apr 03, 2023

This story is very interesting and inspiring. Because there are social and religious elements conveyed by the author in this story.

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03:02 Apr 03, 2023

In my opinion, the story is good and interesting. We can get motivation from the story, that is, we must prioritize honesty and sincerity if we want to do something without asking for anything in return.

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07:18 Feb 08, 2023

the story is good and interesting, and very inspiring, there are many lessons that we can also take from the story

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13:26 Feb 11, 2023

Thank your for compliment.

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03:35 Feb 08, 2023

Sarah Khairunnisa (26) I think God is really fair in creating classes like the poor need the rich and the rich need the poor, because every human being must help each other when they both need each other especially in terms of kindness.

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13:27 Feb 11, 2023

Indeed the startification of social class will be useful for eternity of life

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03:35 Feb 08, 2023

Sarah Khairunnisa (26) I think God is really fair in creating classes like the poor need the rich and the rich need the poor, because every human being must help each other when they both need each other especially in terms of kindness.

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13:27 Feb 11, 2023

Thank your for your comment

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00:27 Feb 08, 2023

After reading the story, there are many positive things that we can take and apply in life. I took lessons about the meaning of sincerity, high humanity, full faith in God, accepting any problem and trusting God at the lowest point, never giving up is something we have to learn from Sunarti. Sunarti teaches us, to give even though we don't have money, believe that what we sow is what we will reap. So we must not give up under any circumstances. and don't forget to always do good to others.

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Bagus Budiman
00:17 Feb 08, 2023

The story is very inspiring. It tells the story of a 17-year-old girl who has to live hard scavenging at a public garbage dump to support her mother and younger siblings. There are also many lessons that can be learned from this story that a junior high school graduate is not an obstacle to giving or sharing knowledge to children who need it. Thanks to his honesty and sincerity, he is also appreciated by residents who live in the garbage disposal area.

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Lusiana Dewi
00:11 Feb 08, 2023

The story really motivates me and there are many positive sides that we can take from Sunarti's character to apply in our daily lives, from this story it teaches us to remain grateful and to be people who never give up as well as to be someone who benefits the environment around us.

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Adhit Aprianto
23:58 Feb 07, 2023

The story above is an interesting story. There are many lessons to be learned, starting from being grateful for the life we ​​live even though sometimes it doesn't go according to what we want. Never give up on the circumstances that we experience and must always try, and lastly always do good to others, even though sometimes what we give is not in accordance with what we receive.

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Alan Maulana
23:56 Feb 07, 2023

Very inspiring story, we can take a learn from the character Sunarti that we can be a light for others as long as we always take the positive side 'cause I believe even if a diamond falls to the ground, a diamond will still be a diamond.

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23:55 Feb 07, 2023

In my opinion, this story is very interesting and inspiring. Because there are social and religious elements conveyed by the author in this story. Sunarti's character in this story is a girl who is not yet 17 years old who lives in poverty. However, she is a hard worker. Even though he was deceived, she still sincerely lived his life. Sunarti also has a great social spirit, even though she only graduated from junior high school she has a passion for teaching and has made a reading garden for children from the used books she collects. Sunarti...

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Saryana Saryana
03:44 Feb 07, 2023

Sunarti is a person who is very patient, sincere and accepts reality even though she is lied to by other people. She wants a decent job but she works in the trash. Sunarti is a woman who is wanted by many men. Like Mr. Narto who is chasing after Sunarti

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Putri Astuti
03:13 Feb 07, 2023

From the story above, there are many lessons that can be taken from this story. like we should always be grateful for the life we ​​live even though sometimes it doesn't match what we expect. besides being grateful we also have to always try. should not give up under any circumstances. and don't forget to always do good to others

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Edi Rahmadi
02:19 Feb 07, 2023

Theme : Education Hero Who Is Sincere With Reality Sunarti is a 17 year old girl who adheres to religious ethical norms. She is a figure that we should emulate, because even though she lacks material things, she is still sincere in teaching education to children around the landfill. Sunarti is also the backbone of her family. She was even tricked by pimps to get a job. Sunarti points out that being smart doesn't have to be schooling, but she often collects the books she picks up when she's picking up the trash. Sunarti's actions made her c...

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Indah Afifah
00:50 Feb 07, 2023

After I read this story, I was amazed by Sunarti's character here. There are many messages conveyed by the author in this story. That being poor does not mean we are also poor in morals. Sunarti's character in this story is a beautiful woman who lives in poverty, but she is a hard worker who only wants to choose a lawful job, she also has a big social life. Even though he only graduated from junior high school due to economic factors, he was able to provide benefits to others and was able to change people's thinking about education. Apart fr...

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Singgih Restu
00:48 Feb 07, 2023

The story above is an interesting story. Many lessons can be drawn from this story. like we should always be grateful for the life we live even though sometimes it doesn't match what we expect. besides being grateful we also have to always try. should not give up under any circumstances. and don't forget to always do good to others

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