Ponari???

My curiosity was intrigued by this ad in the internet Ponari Sweat (supposed to be Pocari Sweat). Who/What is Ponari???
After asking Om Google and swimming on detik.com and equivalent. I found out that Ponari is the name of a boy who became a phenomenon in Indonesia because of his "ability" to heal people. It was told that once upon a time he found a rockstone after thunder struck his home. Then he kept it, when his mom and dad wanted to throw it away it kept on coming back. The so called "magic rock" somehow gave him special power to heal people. At least that's what I concluded from the story.

Thousands of people came to his house, drink a special water that was said to have the ability to heal people. This phenomenon brought the attention of Kak seto (a famous children phsychiatrist) and even MUI (maybe becos this is considered as the syirik action). Even the Komnas PA (national child protection agency) was a bit concerned of the exploitation fact. It became the concern of the authorities and the local government because some of the sick people who are queueing are too exhausted and some even died on their way to the hospital. So far 4 people have died from exhaustion of queueing. Imagine.. there are maybe 1000 people queueing each day!!!

Sometimes.. those people on top think too much. Their basic needs are somewhat all fulfilled they can't tolerate or even understand why people behave like they did in this case. Imagine yourself extremely poor, you can't afford medication, even for a living you have to struggle your way through. This will be like the ultimate chance to be better, and they've got nothing to lose! If the illness is really bad, it's worth a try, since they will day anyway.. but better die trying (a harsh way to put it). The healing doesn't cost a thing, usually people give as much money as they can afford. They've got no education, no idea what happens to them, but it's just killing them.. They want to get better to continue on with their life, provide food, find one way or the other just to survive.

Do you think they'd care if it's syirik, nonsense, impossible, or out of this world? If I were them I wouldn't give a shit about it.. Well, like it or hate it, that's how most Indonesians are..
They are still those poor people who never dreamt of going abroad, or buy a BMW, pursue career in Europe, traveling around the world.
This is one of the things that is caused by the unequality of education quality throughout of Indonesia. We have what is called the curriculum, but I wonder whether it is applicable.

One thing is for sure.. We don't have an equal standard of how educated our people are. We all may count, we all may read.. but it's how we see the world is different. I personally think education is not measured by how well u read the book, or how good u are in math.. but your perspective of looking at the world.

So Ponari? Whether it's true or not.. we have to note that.. this is how OUR people look at things. THIS is what we are dealing with..