Andai Aku Jadi Gayus | Bona Paputungan

“"Orang pasti pernah mendengar namanya atau melihat fotonya saat mengenakan wig yang konyol itu."”

Satir, sarcasm, criticism. Anything that can be impregnated impression of the song titled "Andai Aku Jadi Gayus Tambunan" should she comes down to one thing: that to be able to speak at the "frequency" equal to the listeners, the song can tell or write poetry about anything, even serious problems like case Gayus Tambunan. In other words, only believe in the theme of love to be able to capture a broad audience is excessive (though, perhaps, it is true this is more easily find an audience, because not everyone has or at least want to feel the love?).

Gayus, lately, who do not know? At least people have heard his name or see his picture while wearing a silly wig. He's not a popular romance novel character. He has no sense of romance that touching anyone. He was the antagonist, a person who becomes a suspect case of big mafia and mafia taxation law who happened to perform extraordinary actions that show how, as depicted in the poem Bona Paputungan, "the penalty can be bought. "

Surely not all people want to know how the mafia had actually twisted government agencies, law enforcement, and perhaps also political organization, so the transaction to outsmart and evade legal sanctions can be done. But there is one point that would bring together the interests of anyone else: they understand how the practice of gross violation of law involving bureaucrats, businessmen and politicians as well as the ongoing injustice.

And that's where Bona Paputungan get a chance to express disappointment, resentment, and despair of the poor legal system - and especially morality - in this country.

Through Andai Aku Jadi Gayus Tambunan, 30 years this man, consciously or not, has thrown up a protest song. This is almost lost in our musical landscape, because almost no musicians who care about what happens in the middle of the community or in the country.

Of course, we can say that Bona Paputungan had a bitter experience he can tell me and contrary to what happened to that experienced by Gayus: he had been imprisoned without being able to get out to go anywhere. For artists, direct experience, in any case, would act more as an urge to expression and creativity.

James Joyce produces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by way of life. Pramoedya Ananta Toer publishes Silent Sing A Mute, which is a collection of his writings during the prisoners on Buru Island. Many other works that are more similar background - which is the autobiography of the creator.