The Transparent Flow – Healing the Mindless Cut

A letter to Bapak Presiden Prabowo Subianto.

Selamat Pagi Bapak Presiden,

I write to you today from Les Deux Magots, under the watchful eyes of the two wooden statues that give this café its name. Here, the Great Thinkers realized that a person without education is like a river without a bed—they have no direction, and they eventually overflow in destructive ways.

Bapak, we must speak of the “hollow space” in our national soul: the absence of Environmental Education. For decades, we have watched the “mindless cutting” of our forests. But we must be sophisticated enough to realize that the hand holding the chainsaw is guided by a mind that has never been taught the ripple effect of its actions.

The Existential Crisis: The “Sisyphus” of Flooding

Albert Camus wrote of Sisyphus, condemned to roll a rock up a hill only for it to roll back down forever. Without education, our flood management is a Sisyphus task. We build dams, we pump water, we clear the mud—only for the next rain to bring it all back because, upstream, the “mindless cut” continues.

We are fighting the symptoms while the “ignorance” virus remains untreated. The flood is not an act of God; it is the physical manifestation of a broken curriculum. When a citizen does not understand that the forest is the “sponge” of the nation, they see a tree only as timber. This is the “narrow-minded” legacy we must dismantle with an unwavering intention.

Food for Thought: The “Lycée of the Landscape”

In France, the Éducation Nationale ensures that every child understands their “terroir.”

• The Suggestion: Let us move beyond the “Suharto mistake” of treating the environment as a “General Knowledge” footnote. We need an Environmental Revolution in our schools.
• The Strategy: Use our Gemini thoughtforms—AI and real-time data—to show students the “Transparent Flow.” Imagine a classroom where kids see a satellite map of their local forest shrinking in real-time. This creates an immediate ethical “shock” that turns a student into a guardian.

Reclaiming the 8th-Century Mind

Bapak Presiden, the builders of Borobudur did not need a PhD to know that the forest protected the temple. They had an “Intuitive Science” rooted in Keselarasan(Harmony). We have traded that intuition for a “mindless” consumerism.

By instituting a national, lifelong environmental education effort, you are not just saving trees; you are saving the Indonesian Genius. You are ensuring that “Power” (Kasekten) is used to create a miraculous breakthrough in how we live with the land.

Let the forest stand, not because we fear the law, but because we love the flow.

With gratitude, generosity, and the intellectual fire of Saint-Germain,

Dengan penuh hormat, Maha Karuna