Hier eine weitere Definition, was nongkrong bedeutet und welche Bedeutung es in Indonesien hat:
To hang around” might be the right expression in English for nongkrong, while a friend of mine thinks that “to chill out” is the right translation. For Indonesians, nongkrong simply means “to meet and talk, and smoke for some”.
Quelle: thejakartapost.com
Hard Work often pays off after time,
but idleness always pays off now.
— author unknown
Time you enjoy wasting isn’t wasted time.
— Bertrand Russell
You can procrastinate later.
— kanzure
Procrastination is the art of waiting.
— Procrastination help
Ihr habt die Uhr, wir haben die Zeit.
— altes arabisches Sprichwort
Strafen für den Müßiggang?! Die Entstehung läßt sich auf die erfolgreiche Lobbyarbeit der Calvinisten zurückführen. Mit der Einführung des Gesetzes ist der Calvinist doppelt erfolgreich: Die Totsünde - der Müßiggang oder das Warten - wird spürbar sanktioniert und die Durchsetzung des Gesetzes ist mit einem wirtschaftlichen Erfolg verbunden. Vorbildlicher kann ein Calvinist nicht handeln!
3 Minute Idling Law
Foto: David Boyle
I woke at six the next morning; and found George awake too. We both turned round, and tried to go to sleep again, but we could not. Had there been any particular reason why we should not have gone to sleep again, but have got up and dressed then and there, we should have dropped off while we were looking at our watches, and have slept till ten. As there was no earthly necessity for our getting up under another two hours at the very least, and our getting up at that time was an utter absurdity, it was only in keeping with the natural cussedness of things in general that we should both feel that lying down for five minutes more would be death to us.
Three Men In a Boat; Jerome K. Jerome
Auch oder gerade in anderen Kulturen ist das Warten verbreitet. Als Beispiel für eine entspannte Nation dient hier Indonesien. Hier heißt das Warten ‘nongkrong’ und es gibt sogar einen Begriff für ‘Warteort’.
Indonesien:
If one thing stands in stark contrast to Jakarta’s fast pace, and is its natural antidote, it is the delicate art of nongkrong. The official dictionary definition of the verb is ’sitting around and not working’, but in colloquial Bahasa Indonesia translates as something like ‘hanging out’. The act can be performed by squattering on the roadside, sitting on the front steps of one’s house, lying in a hammock, sitting atop a bunch of parked motorbikes, or even leaning against a railing in the shopping mall. Classic nongkrong is done wearing flip-flops and smoking a pungent kretek clove cigarette. Nongkrong is a means without an end. The purpose of nongkrong is…nongkrong. And it is not a fleeting, fiveminute activity. Nongkrong must be long and drawn out, with absolutely no sense of urgency and no agenda whatsoever. If someone is doing something else like eating, for instance, they are not nongkrong, they are eating. Similarly, if they have to be somewhere in half an hour, they are not nongkrong either.
Quelle:
Jakarta Inside Out, Daniel Ziv, 2002, Equinox Publishing (Asia) Pte.Ltd. Jakarta/Singapur, ISBN 979-95898-7-8
Informationen:
nongkrong (alternative spelling: tongkrong); (informal) squat; (informal) sit around doing nothing, hang out; idle, not in use
nongkrongan [kata dasar/root word : nongkrong] (alternative spelling: tongkrongan) place where someone sits around idly.
