EUTHANASIA = KEPUTUSASAAN?

Oleh : Maulida
Penulis adalah Volunteer prodi Pendidikan Agama Islam dan
Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura Pascasarjana UIN Ar-Raniry

Beberapa waktu lalu, masyarakat Aceh digegerkan sebuah peristiwa unik. Hal tersebut berawal dari seorang warga korban penggusuran barak Bakoy pada bulan lalu yang berniat melakukan euthanasia (suntik mati). Korban penggusuran tersebut bernama Berlin Silalahi (46), dibantu sang istri mengajukan permohonan ke Pengadilan Negeri Banda Aceh pada 3 Mei 2017 lalu. Pengajuan permohonan euthanasia yang dilakukan Berlin sendiri bukan tanpa alasan, melainkan hal tersebut dilakukan karena kondisi Berlin yang lumpuh sejak tahun 2013 lalu yang tidak mampu untuk bekerja menafkahi keluarganya. Namun, permohonan yang dilakukan Berlin tersebut ditolak oleh hakim Pengadilan Negeri Banda Aceh, karena euthanasia belum dikenal dalam hukum Indonesia dan juga dilarang dalam agama Islam. (Serambi Indonesia, 3/5/2017). 

Kasus euthanasia yang diajukan Berlin bukanlah satu-satunya kasus yang terjadi di dunia, melainkan telah banyak terjadi di negara-negara lain, salah satunya adalah Belanda yang merupakan negara pertama yang melakukan euthanasia tepatnya pada tahun 2001 yang lalu yang selanjutnya diikuti Belgia setahun kemudian. Proses permohonan untuk euthanasiapun harus melewati proses yang sangat panjang, dimana pemohon sendiri harus mendapatkan konseling dengan psikologi dalam periode tertentu. Selanjutnya, pasien juga diberikan waktu untuk berpikir dalam periode yang telah ditentukan, kemudian pemohon harus mendapatkan sertifikat minimal dari dua orang dokter dengan pernyataan bahwa kondisi pasien sudah tidak dapat tertolong lagi.  Setelah melewati proses yang sangat panjang, baru diajukan ke pengadilan untuk mendapatkan keputusan. 

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Restoring Faith: Women Entrepreneurs in Post-tsunami Aceh

Adawiyah, Aceh Batik Trainer and Emboider
Written by Maida Irawani

“I was only a housewife and only did domestic chores but now live changes.” The 2004’s tsunami destroyed our home and lives. We were survived from the tsunami but we had nothing left except what we had in our body. We displaced to a safe area located around 2 km from our home and live together under the tents with hundreds of people who also lost their everything on that tragic natural disaster. Life was difficult for us as we relied on the aids and supports from donors or NGOs. My husband could not work as the school where my husband work as a teacher was also vanished.

I did not lose hope and faith because of the condition that we faced, I did what ever I could do to survive. When I was young, I used to be able to play rebana or tambourine, this skill helped me to become one of the village facilitator to teach the children in a displaced camp. For about two years, I was recruited to support in psychosocial activity, teaching the children how to play rebana and Islamic Nasheed. It was in 2007 when we decided to return to our village and rebuild back our lives. I participated on some vocational training such as sewing, embroidery and was selected to be one out of 40 villagers who participated on Batik training in Java and later became the member of Rumoh Batik Cooperatives, a new livelihood concept developed by Indonesian Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency to restore the community livelihood in my village. We received supports from training, tools, capital, assistances in management and marketing, and also network. It was successful at the beginning, we received many orders both from government and publics and often being invited in exhibitions. However, this glory came to an end by 2010 as the orders and selling was decreased in numbers due to the decrease of the quality of our products and also our product could not compete in the market as people prefer to buy Java Batik as the price is cheaper than Aceh Batik.

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