User:Tyasto Prima Ahmadi/Ahmad Rapanie

Activities
Ahmad Rapanie Igama is a South Sumatran Ulu (ka-Ga-Nga) Script Preservationist, Recipient of Cultural Award from the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia in 2016. Rapanie, his daily nickname, is also known as a poetry writer and is included in the South Sumatra Literature Catalog published by the South Sumatra Language Center. His activities in the world of literature led him to receive the Batanghari Sembilan Art Award for the Literary Arts category from the Governor of South Sumatra. His solo poetry collections: Potret Bingkai (1998), Bilakah Pelayaran Malam Berakhir (2000), and Airmata Makam (2005). Some of his poems were made into poetry musicalizations, and some of his narrative scripts have been staged in performance art.

He had great motivation to pursue Ulu script after meeting Pak Sarwit (Prof. Dr. Sarwit Sarwono, Bengkulu University) at the MANASSA forum in Bogor in 1996 and then became acquainted with Lubuklinggau historian Suwandi Syam. The Ulu script that was first read was named "Gelumpay Nabi Muhammad", Balaputra Dewa Museum Collection. The manuscript is in the form of 14 bamboo slats, in ulu script but in Javanese. The results of this study were published in 2005 by the Education and Culture Office of South Sumatra Province. Furthermore, the manuscript of the Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Museum bambo slats was published in 2007 by the Palembang City Tourism and Culture Office.

As a result of his research on bark manuscripts (kaghas), bamboo slats (gelumpay), bamboo logs (surat buluh) and buffalo horn inscriptions, Rapanie was invited by the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) to present a paper entitled "Surat Ulu: The Written Tradition of South Sumatra" ("Surat Ulu: Tradisi Tulis Sumatera Selatan") at the International Workshop on Endangered Scripts of Southeast Asia in 2014. A year earlier (2013) Rapanie was asked by the Dean of the Faculty of Adab and Humanities at Raden Fatah State Islamic University, Palembang, Prof. Dr. H. J. Suyuthi Pulungan, to teach Ulu Script for the first time. Rapanie has contributed as a reviewer in getting Surat Ulu certified as an Intangible Cultural Heritage (WBTB). Rapanie is also the advisor of the South Sumatra Ulu Script Lovers community. Until now, she is still actively providing training in Ulu script.

The Family
Ahmad Rapanie Igama was born in Palembang on March 23, 1964 to father: Makmun Tachta Igama and Mother: Rukoyah, from the Komering Tribe from Campangtiga and Kuripan Villages, Cempaka Sub-district, East Ogan Kemering Ulu, South Sumatra, Indonesia. He is married to Dian Susilastri, a National Research and Innovation Agency researcher, and has three children, Ardian Kurniaji Pradipta ("passed away"), Tyasto Prima Ahmadi, and Tyastri Suryaninda.

Education Background
Ahmad Rapanie Igama holds a Bachelor of Literature from the Department of Indonesian Literature, Faculty of Letters, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, and a Master of Social Development, Sociology, FISIP, University of Indonesia, Depok.