5th TEDxJakarta Event

Yesterday, i was going to the 5th TEDx Jakarta Event. It was held by TEDx Jakarta, at Pusat Perfilman Usmar Ismail, Kuningan, South Jakarta. First i heard about TEDx, i have no idea what it is. I never heard that actually, really. For those who dont know at all about TED (well, me too), TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TEDx program and the annual TED Prize. (http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/5)

I was invited by Putera Utama to attend the conference. Because i dont know aything about TEDx, i just directly opened http://tedxjakarta.eventbrite.com/ . I saw many fluent speakers who liked to share some ideas from their experience, and they came from various different object, such as Irfan Amalee, Iwan Ahmed, Barry Likumahuwa, and more. (Surely, I'll tell about what speaker was said soon) And then, i applied for 1 seat at conference. So, me and Putera Utama was planning to attend that.
I also invited my friends too through twitter. And happily, my friends Riesha, Genta, Dewa, Olive, Firdha, Mia, was applied for the conf too. I dont know exactly when the registration was open, but it was simply registration. I just being asked about my email address, name, and little bit information. Simple. But unfortunately, at lately time, Mia, Firdha, and Putera couldnt join us to attend the conf because they had their personal bussiness. Well, Putera was joined GCC Indonesia's Youth leadership program batch 2 (yeah, same with me. Im batch 1)

And then, we just planned to meet up at Pusat Perfilman Usmar Ismail, Kuningan @ 2.30 pm

The conference was started at 3pm. Firstly, we saw UBER video (well i forgot the name), which was storied us about GNH (Gross National Happiness).
I got 1 good question.

Why people in the world are complaining, or arguing, or debating, or blaming about their country's GNP (Gross National Product ; an indicators of someone's prosperity life level)? Why just we dont sit, and take a breath, and thinking about GNH (Gross National Happiness) which is more completely important for ur life and others?
Cause when you are not happy, your live wouldnt be valuable and remarkable for yourself.
Waw. Good point.

Then, we got others sepakers.
1. Irwan Ahmett
Irwan is a senior graphic designer who struggled to be survive at Jakarta. He was worked so hard to be successful one. But, in order to do that, he was being sicked and hospitalized. So,he decided to change his strategy about surviving at Jakarta. With 1 simply word. PLAY.
Irwan and Tita (her wife) are currently doing another fun, urban art project called “Urban Play” where they invite people to unleash the child in them and play. Throughout all the struggles in his life, Irwan survives by continuing to be thankful while searching for answers to the questions: Why was I born to this world? Who’s the happiest person in this world? Where is happiness? Is it in you? Are you searching for it?. From a simple thing called PLAY, we got our happiness in there.
I just loved what was he said, "hidup jangan terlalu serius karena tidak seorang pun dapat melewatinya hidup-hidup"

or.

"Hidup di Jakarta memang SULIT. tapi lebih sulit lagi untuk meninggalkannya"
that was a brillilant Irwan Ahmed

2. Irfan Amalee
He was the creator of the Peace Generation Program that trains peace agents, develops peace education module which is supposed to be start since child age.
He made 12 cartoon books for kids and tennagers, 12 values to keep peace in the world. And in fact, kids are prefer to learn those cartoon books than learning PPKN, which is both of the contains are having same point.

3. Barry Likumahuwa
Yeah, Barry Likumahuwa as breakthrough bassist in Indonesia (in my opinion) was our third speakers. He proudly call his self as "musisi jalanan", because he didint took a formal education in music, and he always used "learning by doing" method. His performance at stage was awesome. He said taht it was a spontaneous played. Waw. Sometimes, sense of spontaneous makes some blast or burst in life, right?

4. Ade Rai
Ade rai was reminded us how important healthy life is the key of reaching high quality of life and longevity. Ade made 1 pattern, which was i liked,

Motivation+ Information + Action = Destination

5. Ridwan Kamil
Ridwan is a successfull architect, and also a teacher at ITB's Architecture. He believes that the right design can solve many urban problems, by using pedestrian walkways and green spaces to bring the city back to the people. He also practices what he preaches - his house in Bandung is made from 30,000 used Red Bull bottles.
I liked some of his adopted quotes.

The future will be ruled by right brainer

Innovation distinguished between followers and leaders

Imagination is the soul of the creativity

He isnt only a good architect, but also a wise man.

The event is brought to us in partnership with British Council, Telkom Flexi, Chamoe Chamoe, and also, Anomali Coffee. So, my cutie goodie bag was contained by some little merchandise and brochures about those sponsors. We could also try the Papuan Coffee, Mendaling Coffee, and Sumateranese Coffee. Well it was same taste in my tounge, actually. i didnt really like coffee. hehehe :p Beside that, they provided us some food and beverages, which is cool. I dont know the name of foods, but it was oke it all. At the end of the conf, they gave us a coupon for our dinner, which provided by Chamoe Chamoe. I chose nasi goreng between 2 other, nasi biasa or nasi kuning.

The event was awesome.
We are not only got insipiring ideas, but also being good served here.
We are not only met up speakers or other entertainers, but also captured photo with them :p

And you have to know, TEDx Jakarta's main team are containing only 5 persons. With the rests, around 10 people, are volunteers. Wow you all have done the GREAT job! I love TEDx Jakarta!