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I was invited to join my friend to Bogor to see this particular flower, he said. It turned out that we actually were heading to another place, to see the S flower in C park.

We arrived at 6.11 while the closing time was 6.00 PM. The gate was already closed and locked, and there's no one near that gate.
Two of us are exchange students from Japan and it was only their 3rd days here in Indonesia. With that reason, and not to mention the traffic that we had, we didn't want to waste our time to just go home.

There was this little gap between the wall and the side gate that the size of it was big enough for us to pass through it. Without thinking much, we came inside the gate though that gap. It was already dark and there's no lighting whatsoever. We could only find the map of the park. One of my friends said that we should walk, but we all knew that it'd take a long time to walk because people usually use car to get around the park. After discussing for a little bit, finally we decided to just walk and find S garden and go home.

Not so long after we walked, we met security officer. He told us that the S flower hasn't bloomed yet and there's no lighting so what I took from his words was please don't go to S garden at this hour. However, he did not say anything like "This garden has closed already, please go home now"
So I told my friend that he should tell the security officer that that day is their last day here in Indonesia so it'd really mean so much if they could see the flower. Then the security officer told us to ask other security officers who were inside the office. We went there, but there's no one there. There  were many security officers but they're outside, smoking, chatting, and just sitting.

Then we just stood there for like 10 minutes without knowing what we should do. We contemplated again whether or not should we continue our walk. This friend started to lead the way to our destination again.

Just a few hundred meters after we walked, we were missing 2 girls.. So we got back and found they're with the security guards. They said they didn't want to continue...

After a while, the security officer told us, "If you really want to see the S flower, then we will take you there," without us realizing that they were already ready with their patrol car. We were a bit stunned and we spontaneously asked how much we should pay for this. They said, "No, it's alright. We just want to help you. It's already dark and it's far away so we don't want you to get hurt or get something else'"

We hopped into the car, and in no time they took us to see the S flower and the waterfall. There was just one flower that was blooming in the tree. And that's it.

The security officers even told us the history of this tree on why they ended up here. They were giving us information just like a tour was supposed to be. We were having fun near the waterfall, taking pictures anplayingng around there. And they still waited for us.

We got back riding that patrol car again to the place where we first met them. We gave some tips to the guards, even though they didn't ask for it.

The Japanese students then asked us, "Why are Indonesians so kind?" "I don't know, we're just like that. Maybe they're thinking that it's dangerous to go outside at night, we could encounter animals or even spiritis since the land is full of forest and trees. But actually, it's not right like this. This could be a bribary. This park is closed now, but we got a free ride, with no tickets which were supposed to be Rp 10.000 each. But in return we gave money directly to the security officers."

And then it hit me. Why we're always like this, full of corruption and lies. They say we're developing country but we're not developing at all. We all stay the same. Only people with money or power is developing, not us.
Why can't we change? Why is it so hard to just develop and change this dirty culture? It's simply because we're too kind. We're too kind to always forgive those powerful people when they make use of us. We're too kind to not do anything that could harm their position. We're too kind so we easly accept any form of bribary with the reason of "gak enak soalnya".

It's as simple as that.

We're too kind and it's in our culture so it wouldn't be an easy task to change it.

After we had done with the giving money thing, we started walking. The security officers then asked, "Why are you walking again?" "We parked our car in front of the other gate," "Oh! Hop on again, we'll take you there," and then we rode that car again, arrived safely near the gate. We then went to our car through the same gap when they were still around there.