Tag: perempuan

• I can read AlQuran but I don’t speak Arabic: My life as an Indonesian Moslem living far from home

    As a woman with a headscarf, people can tell my religion based on my appearance. This won’t cause any problem, of course, if we live in a world free from assumptions, judgments and prejudice. But sadly, we don’t. So every time I walk, wherever I go, or whatever I do, I carry the identity […]

  Hayu Hamemayu

  March 30, 2017

  Stories from Sweden, Stories in English

  assumption, asumsi, blog, cerita, experience, indonesia, indonesian muslim, Islam, judgment, moslem, muslim, muslim woman, perempuan, personal blog, personal story, personal thought, prejudice, stereotype, story, story as a moslem

• Mawar Padang Pasir

  Kemarin.. aku menemukan secarik kertas di depan rumah tampak kusam dan sedikit basah oleh sisa hujan semalam kuambil kertas itu dan kubaca isinya: “Aku mengenal seorang perempuan dia sering menyebut dirinya mawar padang pasir waktu kutanya mengapa dia hanya tersenyum dan menjawab aku mawar padang pasir yang mencari oase, begitu katanya padaku …

  Hayu Hamemayu

  April 14, 2009

  Stories from Indonesia, Stories in Indonesian

  mawar, oase, padang pasir, perempuan, puisi, surat