Treating Culture by Indonesian People

“Ciee ulang tahun!! Traktiran bro”

“Happy Birthday! May Allah bless you, sis! Jangan lupa makan – makan kalo engga karaoke aja yuk!”

“Gue keterima magang bro!” “Alhamdulillah, Traktir! Syukuran!”

“Akhirnya seminggu lagi sidang.” “Yeayy, abis itu makan – makan ya coy!”

Hi Food Fighter!

Let’s re-read the piece of conversation above. Do you ever hear the conversation like that? Of course you do, if you live in Indonesia. The piece of conversation above is the conversation when we are on our birthday or when we get something that maybe hard to get but finally we got it. Treating Culture or in Bahasa we called it ‘Budaya Traktir’ is the culture that actually I don’t know when it began.  I just found on one social media that shared this notes,

"If your friends have an event, don't ask for free tickets, Appreciate it.

Moreover, when your friends sell something then you ask the things for free, It's shame.

If they are your friend, you should appreciate it even less its created by themselves.

And birthday culture, all of friends ask for treating, it should the people who have birthday that treated and give a gift,

With this culture, birthday becomes the nightmare, we must think about the people that we want to treating and think about the money too. It's burden. If we switch it, it more easier, the friends of people who have birthday can join to collect money to treating the one people who have birthday its more better than collect money to buy egg, flour, and the not important things and then throw it then ask for treating to the one who have birthday. It called friends?"

What do you think about it?

From my own perspective, treating is a thing that shoud not be forced. Don’t make treating culture as the compulsion for the people when they found their happiness because not all people can do ‘this thing’. The fault of some people is they cannot ignore what their friends ask to them even though actually they cannot do that. Usually, ask for treating from our friends is also a joke, we can answer their ask with a joke too. So, it’s only from where we think about treating culture. My suggestion is don’t make treating as the compulsion that burden you. If you are happy, you will know your real friends will feel happy for you even though you did not treating them! J