A TRUE LOVE STORY FROM INDONESIA: HABIBIE-AINUN

Reza Rahardian and Bunga Cinta Lestari in Habibie and Ainun movie

Habibie (a former president of Indonesia) and his wife, Ainun (a lovely first lady of Indonesia)

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BY. NANI CAHYANI

Love is a nice topic to be talked by people around the world. It always makes us happy. Love is not always sexual attractiveness but the core of love is feeling to accept and give. A simple love comes without telling any word but from actions, expressions and attentions. We called it, a simple love.

Many poets have their own understanding of love means. For example; William Shakespeare said that love is a rose and rose is a love. The point of this concept of idea is about sacrification in love. Love according to Kahlil Gibran; “apabila cinta tidak berhasil.. BEBASKAN dirimu biarkan hatimu kembali melebarkan sayapnya dan terbang kealam bebas lagi dan temukan cinta baru” into English “if love does not work… just be free and spread over the wings of your heart back to the nature perhaps you will find a new love”. Still there are lots of different people with their own view of true love.

Around the world many versions of love stories appeared and told by people from one generation to next generation. Some stories are not true or just a fair tale, for instance the story of Cinderella with a handsome and kind prince, the beast and the beautiful and so many more. While, some are true or based on true story, they are: a love story of Samsul Bahri and Sitti Nurbaya, King Shah Jehan to her wife Mumtaz Mahal as he made a great Taj Mahal to make his wife memory’s long lasting forever. A well known of love story from British Emperor is Prince Charles who loves Diana but their love did not work well.

The story of love which is taken from a true story usually, so amazing as the author of best selling book is a person who experienced a true love. One of the famous best selling books is HABIBIE AND AINUN. This story comes from Indonesia. Habibie was the former President of Indonesia after the resignation of Soeharto (Indonesian’s President). He wrote a book, its title Habibie-Ainun and in his book he explained how hard the time he passed on with his beloved wife, Ainun.

The very touching thing here was a tough struggling of Habibie in proving and showing his love to his lovely wife, can be read in his book when he was in airplane to go to German and at that time his wife asking about the reason why the planes vibrate and Habibie tried to convince his wife everything will be fine, but a promised he made to himself is one day he will make an airplane for Ainun. As years goes by so quickly in a future he made an airplane “N250”, Its called “Gatot Kaca” his promise to Ainun becoming a reality.

The greatness of the great in Habibie is Ainun. Habibie loves Ainun with all his heart and Ainun as well. They both is the representative of love that is not about physical attractiveness or a perfect physical performance but is a genuine thing within human being, such as a love of mum to her child, a love of sky to earth, a love of sun to universe and a love of moon to the lightness.

A small attention, a nice surprised, a lovely greeting, a tender hug, a softly called, a loving embrace, a tender smile, a meaningful touching, a promised inside a heart. All is done and showed by a simple couple and precious couple that is Habibie-Ainun, until ovarium cancer separated them but the emotional boundary already tied tightly. Habibie is a symbol of a loving man who trust that only one love GOD gives to ones, Habibie believes that Ainun is his. One quotation from the book of Habibie-Ainun;

Mereka mengira aku lah kekasih yang baik bagimu sayang …
tanpa mereka sadari, bahwa kaulah yang menjadikan aku kekasih yang baik …

Mana mungkin aku setia padahal memang kecenderunganku adalah mendua, tapi kau ajarkan aku kesetiaan, sehingga aku setia, kau ajarkan aku arti cinta, sehingga aku mampu mencintaimu seperti ini …
Selamat jalan …
Kau dari-Nya, dan kembali pada-Nya …

Into English;

they probably think that iam a good lover for you darling. They do not realize that you make me become a good lover. How come I loyal to you as basically I tend to have more than one, but you taught me about being loyal, so iam loyal, you taught me the meaning of love, then I can love you as it is. Goodbye, you come from the GOD and get back to the GOD home..

           

            The inspiration of writing this story is when I watched Habibie-Ainun’s movie in cinema 21 Makassar. It was very touching movie as most of the watchers were crying. In this movie Reza Rahardian as Habibie, and Bunga Cinta Lestari as Ainun. They both successful make Habibie and Ainun character become very strong as their acting so awesome. Reza Rahardian speaks looks like Habibie’s way, the way he walks also perfectly like Habibie, speaks Germany very fluently, I do respect to his acting and admire him a lot now, what a great actor.

           

Yesterday on 30^th of December 2012, I proud of become an Indonesian people, I love Indonesian movie. Working and showing the world we also have many great stories to be introduced and told.

What a lovely feelingJ, lovely heart and lovely thought. Keep writing your story because it will make you mature and being inspired all the time. I love you all alwaysJ

Menulis adalah bahasa jiwa, ia melewati sekat sekat perbedaan dan menjembatani hati dengan cinta selamanya.

 “Writing is a soul of language, It can pass all the differences boundary and become a heart of bridge with love forever”

Langit Makassar, 30^th of December 2012