Feature: Many youngster in Jakarta have no knowledge about “April Mop” history
By Eliswan Azly
Jakarta - April 1 is only two days away. Many people, especially members of the older generation, often referred this special date to “April Mop”. Mop is a Dutch word meaning joke. In English it is called April Fool’s Day.
What they know about April Mop is a big lie often carried in the media to attract public attention. But, do they know the history of April Mop. It is a day to tell lies, no matter how serious they sound. Yeyen, a student of Dharma Persada University of East Jakarta, when interviewed on Sunday said she had now knowledge about the history of this fool’s day. “What I know about it is only a blunder made by many media to cheat the public.”
“Perhaps, a serious incident took place in the past in April and but how the incident became popular as April Mop is a point beyond my knowledge,” she said. In the meantime, Feizy who happens to be a student of the Jakarta State University (UNJ) as contacted by cell phone said April Mop was likely linked to a habit of media to tell a lie to the public by diverting their attention to a certain object in the news story. “What I know April Mop is only that, as my parents never tell me the history of April Mop,” she said while joking. “When I was still in high school, my teacher never explained it and eventually I made my own interpretation that it has to do with a lie caried in the media,” Feizy said.
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