In this globalization era, there has been a considerable number of major changes occurred in the social life of the entire Makassar community. As can be seen from the recent phenomenon, one of the changes is the isolation of traditional games such as dende’-dende’accangke’, ma’guli’, bekel, and mabbenteng from the local children due to the emergence of modern games. With regard to this issue, there have been many controversies from various critics and comments which demand further analysis and good discussions.

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Indeed, these traditional games are not isolated from the children completely. These traditional games might be found in rural areas and still played by many children. In contrast, the change that signifies the extinction of traditional games gradually has become evident in many Indonesian metropolitan cities including Makassar. The wide spreading of this extinction even gradually infected the children in rural areas. It seems that the children nowadays have more tendencies to play the modern games rather than to play the traditional ones.

In response to this alteration, the generations of 19s will absolutely consider this change very pathetic. They think that their willingness to restore the ancestors’ heritage including traditional games should be practiced by the children. Besides the cultural values, it is believed that the sense of exploration will be further developed through traditional games. Far more profound, these traditional games will develop the values of creativity, solidarity, cooperation and happiness because  unlike modern games, traditional games cannot be practiced by only one person. Therefore, they will be more consolidated as they become more frequent practicing the games.

According to a research, the extinction of traditional games is due to the deviant sub-cultural socialization. The parents as the first social agent, has no serious concern to introduce their children to the traditional games. Furthermore, they are introduced to modern games such as Angry Bird, Clash of Clans and other modern games. In broader sense, the government has very less concern to promote the traditional games. They only place emphasis on promoting traditional dances, traditional clothes and other cultural objects that are considered the more influential cultural value than the traditional games. Besides, the national development causes the decreasing number of playgrounds which in turn, will annihilate the practice of these traditional games. However, in spite of the unsupportive agents, there is still a certain community which has serious concern to keep the sustainability of Makassar traditional games such as MTGF (Makassar Traditional Game Festival) which is conducted once a year so as to attract various elements of Makassar society to participate in maintaining the traditional games.

Far more profound, the impacts of modern games become tangible and they can be identified through the behavior of young generation. Indeed, there have been a number of behavioral changes concerning the social awareness of the children. Modern games do not provide social consolidation to the children because unlike traditional games, the children become addicted to play it individually and it does not need other player to play with. Therefore, one manifestation of the practice of modern games is the loss of many cultural customs such as Tabe’(giving permission) among the children. However, still it is questionable and further research needs to be conducted to clarify this claim.   

Written By: Muhammad Afdal

Well let's start with some kind of example of cheating that I found almost everyday. Someone who cheat in the road. This is one of the most common cheating that people do, maybe only in Asia (since we "Asian" are stereotypically judged by the western people as a terrible driver/rider) or maybe only in Makassar. All of the drivers do not obey the rule anymore. Well maybe not all of them. But we can found so many street violation happening right in front of our eyes. Ignoring the traffic sign and traffic light (especially yellow one), driving in opposite direction that it should be, crossing the footpath, and wearing no helmet are some of many common traffic violation that are happening almost everyday. What in the world is happening right now? All of those keep happening over and over again without paying attention of the consequence.

Aside from all those horrible thing we are not proud of but still keep on doing it above, there are still so many kinds of cheating happening in our beloved world. A doctor who only gave antibiotic when they actually needed a further examination, a seller who were raising the price just before they put the discount, teacher who didn't assess the assignment/quiz responsibly, and many other thing had happened that I consider that is some kind of a big cheating. Even there are a big old kind of cheating that are mostly known a corruption. Well yeah, it is the biggest problem that we are facing nowadays, cheating.

How is this happen? Well let us take a look back at where everything are started.When you were in your mummy's tummy. Hmmm, let's not go that far back. I mean you should really know where this is going.

Okay, it's cheating at school such as copying homework, making a live vest (if you know what I mean) before facing a quiz, etc. I think the first time I cheated was in my 4th grade (or maybe 5th or 6th I can't really remember). Since I know that I hate social study so I made a small paper with history of colonialist in Indonesia for some test. I wrote every single year and person that are in my book. But fortunately everything I wrote was on that test. But, I ended up not using it. Not because I got caught. No, I didn't. It is because I remember every single thing in that paper. Yeah, so making that "cheaty" paper is kind of a good way of studying for me at that moment. So this is not really is a cheating. Well, maybe it is, since  the paper is actually being used by one of my friend.

Well, why I tell you this is not to brag about such a very smart little me (maybe a little bit) but to tell you that I am not very good at cheating. The thing is, maybe because my parents are both teaching (even my grandparents, aunt, and uncle are). That made me think that if I cheated, I would betray my family and that for a 12 years old children is kind of a big thing. However, I can't say that I didn't cheat at school, no no no, I admit that I did it lots of time.

You might be asking why am I do that horrible thing. Well I ask my self why and there I have the answer. Because everybody does that and I don't want to be the only one to get an advantage from cheating. That might sounds very terrible for you but that is the truth. What I feel about how bad cheating is blown away just by the fact that every single one in the world love to cheat.

From my explanation above, we found one of the reason what make people cheat. It is the environment that made who we are now. At first people think that cheating is bad because it take benefit from other people but knowing that even that other people are cheating, so, yeah, we are such amazing humans. (sarcastic ways)

There are some reason why people cheat, and people have made research about them and one of them are shown in a video below.

Have you seen that? Well you better see that now! But, I will made a quick review because some of you might not be able to watch that discerning Indonesian's slow internet connection.

Dan Ariety, which is the one who performed the research, discovered that people try to cheat only a little bit. So people are not cheating because they feel bad about themselves. This is why people cheat only a little bit it is because somebody want to still feel good about themselves but still get a benefit from cheating. The most interesting part of the research is the method he was using. He made several people answer several number of simple mathematical problems but limited by a very small amount of time. Every number they solve will be rewarded as some amount of money. The twist is after the time is over they are asked to shred the paper. So the research intentionally remove the possibility of getting caught so they can focused more on why people cheat.

I can't explain you everything about it but I will explain you a little bit of thing

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by Ahmad Akram | Faculty of Engineering | Hasanuddin University