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Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school
Kakenya Ntaiya: Anak perempuan yang menuntut bersekolah
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Kakenya Ntaiya membuat perjanjian dengan ayahnya: Dia akan menjalani ritual tradisional Maasai untuk disunat hanya jika dia dibolehkan melanjutkan sekolahnya. Ntaiya bercerita tentang tekadnya untuk lanjut ke sekolah tinggi, dan bekerja dengan para orangtua di desa untuk membangun sekolah untuk anak-anak perempuan di komunitasnya. Inilah perjalanan edukasi seseorang yang telah merubah nasib 125 anak perempuan. (Difilmkan di TEDxMidAtlantic.)
Kakenya Ntaiya - Educator and activist
Kakenya Ntaiya refused to accept the continued oppression of women in her Maasai village -- so she built a school that's shifting gender expectations in her community. Full bio
Kakenya Ntaiya refused to accept the continued oppression of women in her Maasai village -- so she built a school that's shifting gender expectations in her community. Full bio
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00:16
There's a group of people in Kenya.
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Ada sekelompok orang di Kenya.
00:20
People cross oceans to go see them.
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Banyak orang dari jauh ingin bertemu mereka.
00:24
These people are tall.
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Orang-orang ini berbadan tinggi.
00:27
They jump high. They wear red.
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Mereka bisa melompat tinggi. Mereka selalu pakai baju merah
00:31
And they kill lions.
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Dan mereka bisa membunuh singa
00:33
You might be wondering, who are these people?
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Mungkin anda berpikir, siapakah orang-orang ini?
00:36
These are the Maasais.
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Mereka adalah sukubangsa Maasais.
00:39
And you know what's cool? I'm actually one of them.
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Dan sebenarnya saya adalah salah satu dari mereka.
00:45
The Maasais, the boys are brought up to be warriors.
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Anak laki-laki bangsa Maasais dibesarkan untuk menjadi pejuang.
00:49
The girls are brought up to be mothers.
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Anak perempuan dibesarkan untuk menjadi ibu.
00:52
When I was five years old,
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Waktu saya berumur 5 tahun
00:55
I found out that I was engaged
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Saya diberi tahu bahwa saya telah ditunangkan
00:57
to be married as soon as I reached puberty.
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dan akan dinikahkan segera sesudah akil balik.
01:00
My mother, my grandmother, my aunties,
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Ibu, nenek, bibi saya
01:03
they constantly reminded me that
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berulang-ulang mengingatkan manakala
01:06
your husband just passed by.
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suami saya baru saja lewat.
01:08
(Laughter) Cool, yeah?
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(Tawa) Seru ya?
01:13
And everything I had to do from that moment
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Sesudah itu segala sesuatu yang saya lakukan
01:16
was to prepare me to be a perfect woman at age 12.
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adalah mempersiapkan diri saya sendiri menjadi wanita yang sempurna di usia 12 tahun.
01:21
My day started at 5 in the morning,
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Hari-hari saya dimulai dari pukul 5 pagi,
01:25
milking the cows, sweeping the house,
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memerah susu, menyapu rumah,
01:27
cooking for my siblings, collecting water, firewood.
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memasak untuk saudara-saudara saya, mencari air, kayu bakar.
01:31
I did everything that I needed to do
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Saya melakukan semua hal yang perlu
01:35
to become a perfect wife.
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untuk menjadi istri yang sempurna.
01:38
I went to school not because the Maasais'
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Saya bersekolah bukan karena
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women or girls were going to school.
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semua wanita atau gadis Maasais bersekolah.
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It's because my mother was denied an education,
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Tapi karena ibu saya dilarang menempuh pendidikan,
01:47
and she constantly reminded me and my siblings that
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dan beliau selalu mengingatkan kami bahwa
01:51
she never wanted us to live the life she was living.
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ia tidak menginginkan kami hidup seperti dirinya.
01:55
Why did she say that?
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Mengapa ia berkata demikian?
01:57
My father worked as a policeman in the city.
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Ayah saya bekerja sebagai polisi di kota.
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He came home once a year.
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Dia pulang sekali setahun,
02:02
We didn't see him for sometimes even two years.
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Kadang kami tidak bertemu dia sampai 2 tahun.
02:05
And whenever he came home, it was a different case.
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Dan acapkali beliau pulang, masalahnya berbeda lagi.
02:09
My mother worked hard in the farm
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Ibu saya bekerja keras bertani
02:11
to grow crops so that we can eat.
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dan menanam tanaman supaya kami bisa makan.
02:13
She reared the cows and the goats
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Dia memelihara sapi dan kambing
02:15
so that she can care for us.
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untuk membesarkan kami.
02:17
But when my father came, he would sell the cows,
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Tapi kalau ayah pulang, dia akan menjual sapi,
02:20
he would sell the products we had,
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dia akan jual semua barang yang kami punya
02:22
and he went and drank with his friends in the bars.
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lalu dia akan pergi minum-minum bersama teman-temannya.
02:27
Because my mother was a woman,
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Karena ibu saya perempuan,
02:28
she was not allowed to own any property,
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beliau tidak diijinkan memiliki properti apapun,
02:31
and by default, everything in my family anyway
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dan secara hukum, semua posesi milik keluarga
02:34
belongs to my father, so he had the right.
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menjadi hak milik ayah saya.
02:36
And if my mother ever questioned him,
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Dan kalau ibu saya sesekali mempertanyakan hal ini,
02:39
he beat her, abused her, and really it was difficult.
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ayah saya akan memukul dan menyiksanya. Keadaannya sangatlah sulit waktu itu.
02:45
When I went to school, I had a dream.
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Waktu saya mulai sekolah, saya bermimpi.
02:48
I wanted to become a teacher.
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Saya ingin menjadi guru.
02:51
Teachers looked nice.
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Menjadi guru sepertinnya nyaman.
02:53
They wear nice dresses, high-heeled shoes.
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Pakaian mereka bagus-bagus, dan mereka mengenakan sepatu hak tinggi.
02:55
I found out later that they are uncomfortable, but I admired it.
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Belakangan saya baru tahu kalau mereka sama sekali tidak merasa demikian, tapi kekaguman saya tidak berkurang.
02:58
(Laughter)
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(Tawa)
03:01
But most of all, the teacher was just writing on the board --
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Tapi yang paling hebat, guru cuma menulis di papan tulis --
03:05
not hard work, that's what I thought,
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kerjanya tidak berat, pikir saya,
03:08
compared to what I was doing in the farm.
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berbeda dengan pekerjaan saya di lahan pertanian.
03:11
So I wanted to become a teacher.
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Jadi saya ingin sekali menjadi guru.
03:13
I worked hard in school, but when I was in eighth grade,
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Saya belajar keras di sekolah, tapi di kelas delapan,
03:16
it was a determining factor.
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terjadi sesuatu yang akan menentukan masa depan saya.
03:19
In our tradition, there is a ceremony
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Menurut tradisi kami, ada satu upacara
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that girls have to undergo to become women,
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yang harus dilalui orang para anak gadis untuk menjadi wanita,
03:24
and it's a rite of passage to womanhood.
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dan ini merupakan ritual untuk masuk ke dunia wanita.
03:27
And then I was just finishing my eighth grade,
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Tapi saat itu saya baru menyelesaikan kelas delapan,
03:30
and that was a transition for me to go to high school.
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dan ini merupakan transisi bagi saya untuk memasuki sekolah menengah atas.
03:33
This was the crossroad.
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Saya ada di persimpangan jalan.
03:35
Once I go through this tradition, I was going to become a wife.
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Sekali saya lakukan tradisi ini, saya akan menjadi seorang istri.
03:40
Well, my dream of becoming a teacher will not come to pass.
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Tentunya, impian saya untuk menjadi guru tidak akan terjadi.
03:44
So I talked -- I had to come up with a plan
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Jadi, saya membuat rencana
03:47
to figure these things out.
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untuk mengatasi hal ini.
03:49
I talked to my father. I did something that most girls have never done.
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Saya bicara ke ayah saya. Saya melakukan sesuatu yang tidak pernah dilakukan kebanyakan gadis.
03:53
I told my father, "I will only go through this ceremony
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Saya bilang, "Saya hanya mau melalui upacara ini
03:57
if you let me go back to school."
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kalau ayah mengijinkan saya kembali ke sekolah."
03:59
The reason why, if I ran away,
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Karena, kalau saya melarikan diri,
04:02
my father will have a stigma, people will be calling him
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ayah saya akan dipermalukan. Orang-orang akan menganggap beliau
04:05
the father of that girl who didn't go through the ceremony.
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sebagai ayah dari gadis yang tidak ikut upacara.
04:08
It was a shameful thing for him to carry the rest of his life.
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Hal itu akan menjadi hinaan seumur hidup baginya.
04:12
So he figured out. "Well," he said, "okay,
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Jadi terpaksa dia bilang, "Baiklah,
04:15
you'll go to school after the ceremony."
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kamu boleh balik ke sekolah sesudah upacara."
04:19
I did. The ceremony happened.
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Maka saya melalui upacara tersebut.
04:21
It's a whole week long of excitement.
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Satu minggu dipenuhi keceriaan.
04:25
It's a ceremony. People are enjoying it.
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Semua orang menikmati upacara tersebut.
04:27
And the day before the actual ceremony happens,
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Dan sehari sebelum upacara yang sesungguhnya,
04:30
we were dancing, having excitement,
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kami semua menari, bergembira,
04:32
and through all the night we did not sleep.
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dan tidak tidur sepanjang malam.
04:36
The actual day came, and we walked out of the house
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Hari yang dinanti tiba, dan kami keluar dari rumah
04:40
that we were dancing in. Yes, we danced and danced.
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dimana kami menari. Ya betul, kami menari dan menari.
04:42
We walked out to the courtyard, and there were a bunch of people waiting.
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Kami berjalan melalui lapangan dan segerombolan orang menunggu.
04:46
They were all in a circle.
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Mereka membentuk sebuah lingkaran.
04:48
And as we danced and danced,
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Dan sambil terus menari
04:50
and we approached this circle of women,
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kami mendekati lingkaran itu.
04:53
men, women, children, everybody was there.
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Wanita, laki2, anak2, semuanya disana.
04:56
There was a woman sitting in the middle of it,
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Ada seorang wanita yang duduk di tengah lingkaran,
04:58
and this woman was waiting to hold us.
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dan dia menunggu untuk meraih kami.
05:03
I was the first. There were my sisters and a couple of other girls,
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Saya yang pertama. Ada juga kakak saya dan dua anak gadis lain.
05:07
and as I approached her,
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Waktu saya mendekati dia,
05:10
she looked at me, and I sat down.
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dia memandang saya dan menyuruh saya duduk.
05:12
And I sat down, and I opened my legs.
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Jadi saya duduk, dan merentangkan kaki saya.
05:16
As I opened my leg, another woman came,
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Kemudian, seorang wanita lain datang,
05:19
and this woman was carrying a knife.
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sambil membawa pisau.
05:23
And as she carried the knife, she walked toward me
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Ia berjalan ke arah saya
05:26
and she held the clitoris, and she cut it off.
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dan memotong klitoris saya.
05:31
As you can imagine, I bled. I bled.
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Dan seperti yang anda harapkan, saya berdarah-darah.
05:36
After bleeding for a while, I fainted thereafter.
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Saya pingsan setelah beberapa saat setelahnya.
05:41
It's something that so many girls --
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Ini terjadi di hampir semua anak2 gadis itu --
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I'm lucky, I never died -- but many die.
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Saya beruntung saya masih hidup - tapi banyak yang meninggal.
05:47
It's practiced, it's no anesthesia, it's a rusty old knife,
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Namun ini merupakan kebiasaan kami, tanpa bius, dengan pisau yang sudah berkarat,
05:54
and it was difficult.
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dan sangatlah sakit.
05:56
I was lucky because one, also, my mom did something
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Saya beruntung, karena ibu saya melakukan
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that most women don't do.
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hal yang jarang dilakukan wanita lain.
06:02
Three days later, after everybody has left the home,
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3 hari kemudian, sesudah semua orang pergi dari rumah,
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my mom went and brought a nurse.
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ibu saya memanggil perawat.
06:07
We were taken care of.
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Kami dirawat dengan baik.
06:09
Three weeks later, I was healed, and I was back in high school.
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3 minggu kemudiann, saya sembuh dan kembali ke sekolah.
06:13
I was so determined to be a teacher now
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Saya semakin ingin menjadi seorang guru,
06:17
so that I could make a difference in my family.
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supaya saya bisa membawa perubahan di keluarga saya.
06:21
Well, while I was in high school, something happened.
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Tapi, ketika saya SMA, terjadi sesuatu.
06:24
I met a young gentleman from our village
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Saya bertemu seorang pemuda dari desa kami
06:27
who had been to the University of Oregon.
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yang pernah menempuh pendidikan di Universitas Oregon.
06:29
This man was wearing a white t-shirt, jeans, camera,
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Pemuda ini memakai kaos putih, jeans, kamera,
06:35
white sneakers -- and I'm talking about white sneakers.
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sepatu karet putih -- ya, benar-benar sepatu karet putih.
06:38
There is something about clothes, I think, and shoes.
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Ada sesuatu yang ajaib tentang bajunya, dan sepatunya.
06:42
They were sneakers, and this is in a village
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Dia pakai sepatu karet disini di desa
06:46
that doesn't even have paved roads. It was quite attractive.
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dimana jalan beraspal pun tidak ada. Ini cukup menarik perhatian.
06:50
I told him, "Well, I want to go to where you are,"
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Saya bilang kepadanya, "Saya ingin pergi ke tempat kamu pergi,"
06:55
because this man looked very happy, and I admired that.
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karena pemuda ini kelihatan begitu bahagia, dan saya mengaguminya.
06:59
And he told me, "Well,
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Dan dia berkata,
07:01
what do you mean, you want to go?
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"Apa maksudmu, 'kamu mau pergi'?"
07:02
Don't you have a husband waiting for you?"
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Bukankah ada suamimu menunggu di desa?
07:05
And I told him, "Don't worry about that part.
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Saya berkata,"Jangan khawatir.
07:08
Just tell me how to get there."
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Beritahu saja bagaimana caranya untuk kesana."
07:11
This gentleman, he helped me.
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Pemuda ini mau membantu saya
07:13
While I was in high school also, my dad was sick.
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Pada saat yang bersamaan saat saya SMA, ayah saya jatuh sakit.
07:16
He got a stroke, and he was really, really sick,
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Beliau terkena stroke, dan cukup parah,
07:19
so he really couldn't tell me what to do next.
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jadi dia tidak mampu memaksa saya melakukan apapun.
07:23
But the problem is, my father is not the only father I have.
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Masalahnya, beliau bukanlah satu-satunya ayah saya.
07:26
Everybody who is my dad's age, male in the community,
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Semua pria yang sama tuanya dengan ayah saya di desa tersebut,
07:30
is my father by default --
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secara otomatis menjadi ayah saya --
07:32
my uncles, all of them -- and they dictate what my future is.
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mereka semua paman saya - dan mereka bisa mendikte masa depan saya.
07:36
So the news came, I applied to school
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Saya mendaftar ke sekolah tinggi,
07:39
and I was accepted to Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia,
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dan diterima di Randolph-Macon Woman's College di Lynchburg, Virginia.
07:43
and I couldn't come without the support of the village,
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Tapi saya tidak bisa kesana tanpa restu dari desa
07:48
because I needed to raise money to buy the air ticket.
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karena saya membutuhkan dana untuk membeli tiket pesawat.
07:50
I got a scholarship but I needed to get myself here.
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Saya mendapatkan beasiswa tapi saya harus berangkat kesana.
07:53
But I needed the support of the village,
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Dan saya butuh sokongan dari desa.
07:56
and here again, when the men heard,
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Dan di desa itu juga, saat para lelaki di sana mendengar,
07:59
and the people heard that a woman had gotten an opportunity to go to school,
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dan semua orang mendengar bahwa seorang wanita mendapat kesempatan untuk bersekolah,
08:03
they said, "What a lost opportunity.
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mereka berkata, "Sayang sekali."
08:06
This should have been given to a boy. We can't do this."
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Kesempatan semacam ini seharusnya diberikan ke anak laki-laki. Kita tidak bisa mendukung hal ini."
08:09
So I went back and I had to go back to the tradition.
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Jadi saya pulang dan harus kembali menuruti tradisi.
08:14
There's a belief among our people
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Ada kepercayaan di kalangan kami,
08:16
that morning brings good news.
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bahwa pagi hari selalu membawa kabar baik.
08:19
So I had to come up with something to do with the morning,
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Jadi saya merencanakan sesuatu di pagi hari,
08:22
because there's good news in the morning.
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karena itu artinya kabar baik.
08:25
And in the village also, there is one chief, an elder,
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Ada seorang tua, kepala desa,
08:29
who if he says yes, everybody will follow him.
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yang perkataannya selalu ditaati orang lain.
08:32
So I went to him very early in the morning, as the sun rose.
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Jadi saya ke rumahnya pagi-pagi sekali, waktu matahari terbit.
08:36
The first thing he sees when he opens his door is, it's me.
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Hal pertama yang beliau lihat saat membuka pintu rumahnya adalah saya.
08:40
"My child, what are you doing here?"
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"Anakku, apa yang kamu lakukan disini?"
08:42
"Well, Dad, I need help. Can you support me to go to America?"
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"Ayah, saya perlu bantuan. Bisakah mendukung saya untuk pergi ke Amerika?"
08:47
I promised him that I would be the best girl,
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Saya berjanji kepadanya bahwa saya akan jadi yang terbaik,
08:49
I will come back, anything they wanted after that,
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saya akan kembali, dan melakukan apa pun yang mereka ingin saya lakukan sesudahnya,
08:52
I will do it for them.
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akan saya turuti.
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He said, "Well, but I can't do it alone."
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Dia bilang, "Baiklah, tapi saya tidak bisa melakukan ini sendirian."
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He gave me a list of another 15 men that I went --
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Dia memberikan daftar berisi 15, eh 16 orang
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16 more men -- every single morning
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yang harus saya temui setiap pagi.
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I went and visited them.
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Jadi saya mengunjungi mereka satu persatu.
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They all came together.
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Mereka semua akhirnya sepakat.
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The village, the women, the men, everybody came together
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Semua orang di desa, wanita dan pria, sepakat
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to support me to come to get an education.
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untuk mendukung saya bersekolah.
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I arrived in America. As you can imagine, what did I find?
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Saya tiba di Amerika. Coba tebak apa yang saya dapatkan?
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I found snow!
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Salju!
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I found Wal-Marts, vacuum cleaners,
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Saya melihat Wal-Marts, penyedot debu,
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and lots of food in the cafeteria.
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dan banyak sekali makanan di kafetaria.
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I was in a land of plenty.
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Saya berada di tanah yang berkelimpahan.
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I enjoyed myself, but during that moment while I was here,
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Saya berpuas diri, tapi selama saya disini,
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I discovered a lot of things.
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saya juga menemukan banyak hal.
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I learned that that ceremony that I went through
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Saya belajar bahwa upacara yang saya lalui
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when I was 13 years old, it was called female genital mutilation.
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waktu berumur 13 tahun, disebut mutilasi alat kelamin wanita.
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I learned that it was against the law in Kenya.
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Saya baru tahu bahwa hal tersebut ilegal di Kenya.
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I learned that I did not have to trade part of my body
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Saya belajar bahwa saya tidak perlu menukar organ tubuh saya
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to get an education. I had a right.
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untuk mendapat pendidikan. Saya punya hak.
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And as we speak right now, three million girls
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Selagi saya bicara sekarang ini, 3 juta anak gadis
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in Africa are at risk of going through this mutilation.
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di Afrika terancam mengalami mutilasi ini.
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I learned that my mom had a right to own property.
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Saya belajar bahwa ibu saya berhak memiliki properti.
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I learned that she did not have to be abused
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Saya belajar bahwa dia tidak harus disiksa
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because she is a woman.
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hanya karena dia perempuan.
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Those things made me angry.
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Semua hal itu membuat saya marah.
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I wanted to do something.
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Saya ingin berbuat sesuatu.
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As I went back, every time I went,
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Saat saya kembali, setiap saat
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I found that my neighbors' girls were getting married.
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saya melihat anak gadis tetangga saya menikah.
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They were getting mutilated, and here,
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Mereka mengalami mutiilasi, sedangkan disini,
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after I graduated from here, I worked at the U.N.,
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sesudah lulus, saya bisa bekerja di PBB.
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I went back to school to get my graduate work,
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Saya bisa kembali bersekolah untuk mendapat gelar doktor.
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the constant cry of these girls was in my face.
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Tapi tangisan anak-anak perempuan itu selalu menghantui saya.
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I had to do something.
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Saya harus melakukan sesuatu.
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As I went back, I started talking to the men,
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Ketika pulang, saya memulai dialog dengan para pria
10:43
to the village, and mothers, and I said,
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seluruh desa, dan para ibu. Saya berkata,
10:45
"I want to give back the way I had promised you
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"Saya ingin membalas budi seperti janji saya dulu,
10:47
that I would come back and help you. What do you need?"
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bahwa saya akan kembali dan membantu kalian. Apa yang kalian butuhkan?"
10:49
As I spoke to the women, they told me,
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Waktu saya berbicara dengan para wanita, mereka berkata,
10:51
"You know what we need? We really need a school for girls."
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"Kamu tahu apa yang kami butuhkan? Kami perlu sekolah untuk anak perempuan."
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Because there had not been any school for girls.
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Sebab belum ada sekolah untuk anak-anak perempuan.
10:56
And the reason they wanted the school for girls
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Dan anda tau kenapa?
10:58
is because when a girl is raped when she's walking to school,
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Karena kalau ada anak gadis yang diperkosa dalam perjalanannya ke sekolah,
11:02
the mother is blamed for that.
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Ibunya lah yang disalahkan.
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If she got pregnant before she got married,
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Kalau dia hamil sebelum menikah,
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the mother is blamed for that, and she's punished.
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ibunya juga yang disalahkan dan dihukum.
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She's beaten.
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Ia dipukuli.
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They said, "We wanted to put our girls in a safe place."
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Mereka bilang, "Kami ingin menempatkan anak-anak gadis kami di tempat yang aman."
11:15
As we moved, and I went to talk to the fathers,
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Waktu saya bicara dengan para ayah,
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the fathers, of course, you can imagine what they said:
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anda bisa tebak, mereka berkata,
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"We want a school for boys."
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"Kami ingin sekolah untuk anak laki-laki."
11:22
And I said, "Well, there are a couple of men from my village
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Jadi saya bilang, "Ada beberapa pria dari desa saya
11:26
who have been out and they have gotten an education.
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yang sudah pergi keluar dan mengenyam pendidikan.
11:28
Why can't they build a school for boys,
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Mengapa bukan mereka yang membangun sekolah buat anak laki-laki,
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and I'll build a school for girls?"
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dan saya membangun sekolah buat anak perempuan?"
11:33
That made sense. And they agreed.
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Itu masuk akal. Dan mereka setuju.
11:36
And I told them, I wanted them to show me a sign of commitment.
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Dan saya utarakan bahwa saya ingin menunjukkan komitmen saya terhadap mereka.
11:41
And they did. They donated land where we built the girls' school.
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Mereka setuju. Mereka menyumbangkan tanah untuk membangun sekolah anak perempuan.
11:46
We have.
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Sekarang kami sudah memiliki sekolah tersebut.
11:47
I want you to meet one of the girls in that school.
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Saya ingin Anda menemui salah satu gadis di sekolah tersebut.
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Angeline came to apply for the school,
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Angeline datang mendaftar di sekolah tersebut,
11:53
and she did not meet any criteria that we had.
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dan dia tidak memenuhi kriteria kami.
11:56
She's an orphan. Yes, we could have taken her for that.
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Dia seorang anak yatim piatu. Tentu, kami bisa saja menerimanya dengan alasan tersebut.
11:59
But she was older. She was 12 years old,
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Tapi dia terlalu besar. Umurnya 12 tahun.
12:02
and we were taking girls who were in fourth grade.
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Sedangkan kami hanya mengambil anak-anak yang duduk di kelas 4.
12:05
Angeline had been moving from one place --
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Angeline sudah pindah kemana-mana --
12:07
because she's an orphan, she has no mother, she has no father --
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karena dia anak yatim-piatu, tanpa ibu dan ayah --
12:09
moving from one grandmother's house to another one,
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ia berpindah-pindah dari rumah nenek yang satu ke rumah yang lain,
12:11
from aunties to aunties. She had no stability in her life.
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dari rumah bibi yang satu ke bibi yang lain. Tidak ada kestabilan dalam hidupnya.
12:15
And I looked at her, I remember that day,
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Dan saya memandangnya hari itu, dan saya teringat saya sendiri.
12:18
and I saw something beyond what I was seeing in Angeline.
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Saya melihat sesuatu di dalam Angeline.
12:22
And yes, she was older to be in fourth grade.
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Memang dia terlalu tua untuk kelas 4.
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We gave her the opportunity to come to the class.
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Akhirnya kami memberinya kesempatan untuk mengikuti kelas.
12:28
Five months later, that is Angeline.
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Lima bulan kemudian, inilah Angeline.
12:31
A transformation had begun in her life.
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Terjadi transformasi dalam hidupnya.
12:34
Angeline wants to be a pilot so she can fly around the world
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Angeline ingin menjadi pilot supaya bisa keliling dunia
12:37
and make a difference.
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dan membuat perubahan.
12:39
She was not the top student when we took her.
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Dia bukanlah siswi yang paling pintar saat kami pertama menerimanya.
12:40
Now she's the best student, not just in our school,
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Sekarang dia adalah siswi terbaik, bukan cuma di sekolah kami,
12:43
but in the entire division that we are in.
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tapi di seluruh divisi yang kami bentuk.
12:46
That's Sharon. That's five years later.
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Ini Sharon. Yang ini ia lima tahun mendatang.
12:50
That's Evelyn. Five months later, that is the difference that we are making.
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Ini Evelyn. Lima bulan kemudian, inilah perbedaan yang kami buat.
12:57
As a new dawn is happening in my school,
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Bagaikan matahari terbit di sekolah saya,
13:01
a new beginning is happening.
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suatu awal yang baru terjadi.
13:03
As we speak right now, 125 girls will never be mutilated.
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Saat ini, 125 anak perempuan tidak akan pernah dimutilasi.
13:08
One hundred twenty-five girls will not be married when they're 12 years old.
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125 anak perempuan tidak akan menikah di umur 12.
13:13
One hundred twenty-five girls are creating and achieving their dreams.
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125 anak perempuan menciptakan dan menggapai impiannya.
13:19
This is the thing that we are doing,
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Inilah yang sedang kami lakukan,
13:21
giving them opportunities where they can rise.
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memberi kesempatan untuk mereka bangkit.
13:25
As we speak right now, women are not being beaten
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Saat ini, wanita tidak akan dipukuli lagi
13:28
because of the revolutions we've started in our community.
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karena revolusi yang telah kami mulai di komunitas kami.
13:32
(Applause)
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13:39
I want to challenge you today.
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Saya ingin menantang anda hari ini.
13:42
You are listening to me because you are here,
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Anda duduk disini memperhatikan saya karena
13:45
very optimistic.
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anda orang yang sangat optimis.
13:48
You are somebody who is so passionate.
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Anda adalah orang-orang yang terbeban
13:51
You are somebody who wants to see a better world.
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untuk melihat dunia yang lebih indah.
13:55
You are somebody who wants to see that war ends, no poverty.
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Anda adalah orang-orang yang ingin agar perang dihentikan dan kemiskinan dibasmi.
14:00
You are somebody who wants to make a difference.
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Anda adalah orang-orang yang ingin membuat perubahan.
14:02
You are somebody who wants to make our tomorrow better.
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Anda adalah orang-orang yang ingin membuat hari esok yang lebih baik.
14:06
I want to challenge you today that to be the first,
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Saya ingin menantang anda hari ini untuk menjadi pemula,
14:10
because people will follow you.
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karena orang lain akan mengikuti langkah anda.
14:12
Be the first. People will follow you.
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Jadilah yang pertama. Orang lain akan mengikuti Anda.
14:14
Be bold. Stand up. Be fearless. Be confident.
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Jadilah berani. Berdirilah tegak. Tanpa takut dan percaya diri.
14:20
Move out, because as you change your world,
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Melangkahlah keluar, karena di saat anda merubah dunia anda,
14:23
as you change your community,
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saat anda merubah komunitas anda,
14:25
as we believe that we are impacting one girl, one family,
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saat kita percaya bahwa kita telah mempengaruhi satu anak perempuan, satu keluarga,
14:30
one village, one country at a time.
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satu desa, satu negara -- satu per satu dari mereka,
14:33
We are making a difference, so if you change your world,
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kita telah membuat perubahan. Jadi saat anda merubah dunia anda sendiri,
14:36
you are going to change your community,
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anda akan merubah komunitas anda,
14:38
you are going to change your country,
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anda akan merubah negara anda,
14:40
and think about that. If you do that, and I do that,
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dan coba pikirkan. Jika anda melakukan hal ini, dan saya juga,
14:43
aren't we going to create a better future for our children,
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tentu kita akan menciptakan masa depan lebih baik untuk anak-anak kita,
14:47
for your children, for our grandchildren?
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untuk anak-anak anda, untuk anak cucu kita.
14:49
And we will live in a very peaceful world. Thank you very much.
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Kita akan hidup di dunia yang damai. Terima kasih banyak.
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(Applause)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kakenya Ntaiya - Educator and activistKakenya Ntaiya refused to accept the continued oppression of women in her Maasai village -- so she built a school that's shifting gender expectations in her community.
Why you should listen
Kakenya Ntaiya was set to follow the traditional path of girls born in the small village of Enoosaen, Kenya. Engaged at the age of 5, she was to participate in a female circumcision ceremony as a young teenager and then be married. But she had a different plan. First, she negotiated with her father and willingly agree to be circumcised -- only if he would allow her to finish high school. Later, when she was accepted to Randolph-Macon Women's College in Viriginia, she negotiated with her village elders to do what no girl had ever done before: leave her village to go to college in the United States.
She didn’t leave forever, though. Deeply proud of her heritage and of her community, Ntaiya returned to the village after school and worked with her elders to establish a school for girls there. The Kakenya Center for Excellence was established in 2009 with 32 students. A primary grade boarding school just for girls, the curriculum focuses on academics, leadership and female empowerment, along with cultural preservation and life skills. While families that can afford tuition do, Ntaiya also works with donors to provide scholarships for others.
In addition to her work with the school, Ntaiya is also a National Geographic emerging explorer.
Kakenya Ntaiya | Speaker | TED.com