“HARAPAN UMMAT” – THE MOVIE
The gloomy atmosphere opened the film. The scene begins with the figure of the founder of the Ummat Party “Amien Rais” opening the wide gate of the house at night. The color of the twilight gives the impression of bittersweet and gray. The pitch black color is everywhere. The lighting simply comes from ten torches, five on the left and five on the right, which flank the street in the yard of the house.
A reform figure “Amien Rais”, he is the Generalissimo of Indonesian Change. He had just returned home at night and entered his yard. In a much different move 21 years earlier when he gallantly led the reforms.
In the age of over 70 years, Amien Rais step shows the maturity and wisdom of a nation’s teacher. Age does not fade his spirit, but further confirms the principles that he has been fighting for.
After arriving in the boudoir, Amien Rais began to write the preamble to the founding of the Ummat Party by handwriting on a notebook. This preamble is a response to the current state of the nation which is indeed grieving due to many injustices.
Demonstrations against the Omnibus Law that did not favor the people caused many casualties. At a ceremony mourning the death of a poor family member, Amien Rais appeared to be present to provide solace.
On the way home to ride a rickshaw after cutting, Amien Rais saw a transport truck that read “clean and fragrant imported rice” accompanied by Chinese characters, even though the news mentioned Rice stocks are still piling up in Bulog warehouses. This reality seems absurd, but that is what the reformer sees in plain sight.
Shortly after that Amien Rais found a job application map on the side of the road belonging to a Papuan-faced job seeker. This folder was previously slammed by its owner for failing to get the expected job.
Unemployment everywhere. People want to work to make a living, but these hopes run aground because low economic growth does not allow it to happen.
After finding the address, Amien Rais returned the object he found on the side of the road to the owner who was in a stall with a busker “man” silver” and another member of the lower-class society.
The humans that Amien Rais encountered in everyday life who struggled just to connect life were those who were referred to in postcolonial studies as subaltern groups, namely they Which even a voice does not have.
It was to them that Amien Rais spoke empathetically. Amien Rais sought to understand every unspeakable suffering, a real portrait presented before the eyes.
The film “Harapan Ummat” provides a way out of the siege of the black atmosphere, inviting the nation’s children to come out of the darkness to the light or min azzulumaati ila annuur as stated in the The holy book of the Qur’an, invites us to return to the Qur’an and keep His commandments (Allah SWT). What is the content of the order? “First, do al amru bil ma’ruf and annahyu anil munkar, which is to order the establishment of virtue and eradicate ugliness. The second, running al amru bil adli and annahyu aniz zulmi, is to uphold justice and eradicate tyranny.”
The above quote is the preamble that became the foundation of the establishment of the Ummah Party. Why did the founders invite all levels of society to gather in a party-shaped association?
“The former moves more on the personal, familial and communal level, then the second moves more at the national level and deals with the issue of power.”
Amien Rais through the Ummat Party called on all the nation’s children to fight to change this dark state. The Ummah Party is the party of all who desire the establishment of truth and justice and the disappearance of tyranny.
This call was so pervasive into the heart that it was greeted wholeheartedly by the subalterns, and then declared the establishment of the Ummat Party on the seafront full of waves.
They are the family of a little girl in a white headscarf who has just been left for dead by a family member, a desperate Papuan-faced job seeker, a rickshaw driver, a “silver man” busker., the clown busker on the street who came with his clown using a rickshaw, and other low-class humans.
When this declaration on the seafront was recorded and uploaded to the internet, lecturers, students, security guards, mothers who were working in the kitchen, and all walks of life found similarities of hope with those who are in the place of the declaration.
Yes, hope. Hope for change.