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“The Scout emblem incorporates the seed of the coconut palm, a common native Indonesian plant and all parts of which are used in Indonesian everyday life, symbolizing the philosophy of a true Scout, who must make him or herself useful in all aspects of life. The seed form represents the growing spirit, physical toughness, adaptability, and high aspiration of the Scout.”
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—— Wikipedia: Gerakan Pramuka Indonesia.
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Sitting on the flower bed by the sidewalk, scenery on the street seems very familiar to you. The southeast Asian migrant workers have shaped Taiwan’s multifaceted and diverse culture, as well as brought great improvement into our aging society and the labor-intensive industries. The “coconut seed”, which symbolized the persevering spirit and an ideal in their mind, exactly reflect their life of being a migrant worker.
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Every holiday, you can find them gathered whether at a train station hall or the waiting corridor. With the colorful artificial interior decoration surrounded, you might feel like being at a famous tourist spot somewhere in Southeast Asia.

They sometimes wave to you, even you are already late for their gathering, the migrant workers will still welcome you to join their “Silaturahmi” (mean meetup with friends in Indonesian) and order a “Dangdut” (a particular style of Indonesian music.) to relax after a tiring workday.
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During residency at The Pier-2 Art Center, the artist collective “Working Hard” researched about different culture aspects of Southeast Asia randomly and casually in the Kaohsiung City. Every Sunday is the day they go out for field research. They often start a conversation with those Indonesian migrant workers by saying the only sentence they have learned: “Jalan Jalan ”(Let’s hang out and have some fun together in Indonesian) . In order to memorize and document the weekly meeting, they painted the portraits of Indonesian migrant workers by using the Japanese “Snowman” color pen, which they brought back from Indonesia, and applied themselves to carefully control the deviation within plus or minus 50% of each figure they sketched. Instead of looking for the truth, they are more concerned with the value transfer of people’s perceptions of things.
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They also built a flower bed near the street and invite different audience to have a seat. While different group of people sitting, the role of “the invisible people” who are only known as “the migrant workers” are replaced and exchanged. Through this action, artists want to remind that instead of seeing those migrant workers through a prejudicial filter, we should see them as a person, just like each of us is part of the city sceneries.

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