BrotherScoot in English...

The BrotherScoot
Ride With Pride

Flashing back to the year of 2007, precisely on March 11th, there was a group of STiBA Satya Wacana (also known as School of Foreign Languages Satya Wacana abbreviated to SFL-SW) Students about 10 Students of any grade (some had became alumni) who were united by the resemblance of their transportation means which in this case were Vespa scooter motors that were used to attend any of their school activities inside or outside the campus. They were then ultimately declaring an automotive organization of a Vespa lover named Side Machine BrotherScoot SFL-SW. The name BrotherScoot was chosen after quite long and often discussion and meeting held in which several names were brought to the surface. Among of them are STiBA Scooter Owner Group, Homo Scooterist Vespanicus, Side Machine BrotherScoot SFL-SW, etc. Nonetheless, the name Side Machine BrotherScoot SFL-SW was then chosen as an acclamation due to the meaning contended by the name.
Side Machine was referred to the fact that only Piaggio’s Vespa scooter motor is the only motorcycle in the world which located their motor engine on the side part of the motorcycle as attached. The BrotherScoot it self was actually a compound word made out of the words Brother and Scoot. Brother was referred to the idea of brotherhood relationship that appeared among of those students who declared the organization which comprehend them selves as a family one to other, which were united and inseparable as one. The word Scoot was referred to the type of motorcycle they ride. In completion to that, the label SFL-SW was added by considering that they were all part of the School of Foreign Languages Satya Wacana institution as students.
As times gone by, member of the Side Machine BrotherScoot SFL-SW were expanded not only to students but also to other elements of the institutions. That were, staff and workers of SFL Satya Wacana. The name it self was also revised through the elimination of the words Side Machine. The elimination was committed based on the idea of not being such a selfish nor arrogant scooter motor club by considering the fact that Vespa was not the only classic European scooter imported and brought inside the country over decades but there were others as well such as Lambretta, Motobi, Berlin, and Etc. Even more, members of Side Machine BrotherScoot SFL-SW at that time did not necessarily have to have a Vespa scooter motor. Those who ride any types of motorcycle or even none as long as they were SFL Satya Wacana students or other elements as explained, kin on scooter and have the spirit of socialism inside their mind and soul which leads them to be able to and willing to share to others could join in and become the member of this organization.



Unfortunately, by the year of 2008 a blistering incident happened to this organization, some rejection appeared and was aimed to the appearance of this organization in SFL Satya Wacana livelihood. Such rejection which leads to the elimination of the SFL Satya Wacana’s Label (SFL-SW) on the organization name out of such uncertainty whether The BrotherScoot was still be considered as part of the SFL Satya Wacana institutions or not as one of the Students Activity Unit under the Student’s Senate organization. The organization name had now been changed into The BrotherScoot only with a keep hold upon the former meaning of this compound word.
The BrotherScoot was then expanding the member qualification of joining in not only to the SFL Satya Wacana students but also to the commons as long as they have the same overview to the former members considering about scooter hood. Accidentally, the majority members who joined in after The BrotherScoot “go public” were still students or alumni. Only this time the students or alumni who had joined in were coming from various faculties of different university but SFL Satya Wacana. They were coming from Satya Wacana Christian University (SWCU) Salatiga, Universitas Muhamadiyah Surakarta (UMS) -Mohammedans University of Surakarta, and so on.
As any other motor clubs commonly do, rolling thunder (travelling by motorcycle) had also been done by members of The BrotherScoot and in fact the organization had gotten its noticed, appreciation and respect from other motor clubs through out the country especially the scooter motor clubs by this rolling thunder as they had reached more than 1000km length of their first province to province intra continental touring which was also the second touring done by the BrotherScoot. The first rolling thunder was done to an invitation sent by Magelang Scooter Club which located in the Borobudur temple Magelang Central Java Indonesia due to the inviter club’s 16th anniversary. The second rolling which can also be marked as the introduction touring as what have been explain in the previous paragraph was done due to the invitation of the Pangandaran scooter community -over various scooter clubs- West Java. The invitation was sent over a regular national scooter gathering event which held annually by Pangandaran scooter community. It was quite a nice touring as it was located at the Pangandaran Beach. Both of those rolling thunder activities were taking place on the same year (2008) but of a different month.





Yet the currently challenging as well fascinating rolling thunder done by The
BrotherScoot’s members was the touring done end of this May 2009. It was another province to province intra continental touring which nicely and sophisticatedly done by The BrotherScoot. The destination was again West Java but of a different location. It was Bandung West Java Indonesia which is also known as Parijs Van Java (The Paris of Java) under invitation of the Anniversary of The International Scooter Owner Group where this very city is the Mother Chapter of this organization. The long, hard and winding road to take to the destination had not been such obstacles to The BrotherScoot. Somehow it had been a challenging journey that strengthened the brotherhood ties among all members who involved in that very rolling thunder.
Beside all those rolling thunder activities, The BrotherScoot had also scored an achievement as the organization appointed as a member of the prime committee in charge of an annual international scooter event done on December 2008 under the authority of the Indonesian Scooter Motor Community. The event’s name was The 3rd Java Scooter Rendezvous which was held in Magelang Central Java Indonesia. The Fact that members of The BrotherScoot are mainly university students had probably made the organization of being chosen as member of the committee by considering the responsibility to bare where brain was needed more than muscles more as it was an international occasion in which a serious handling should be committed to have the event done successfully. Yet it was.



The BrotherScoot is proudly declared that this club is different to others as an organization. Others are living because of their members but The BrotherScoot is not as the members are living because of The BrotherScoot. Common clubs order their members to hand in some cash whether weekly, fortnightly or monthly in order to obtain the club’s fund. In the contrary, The BrotherScoot had found a different way in gaining its club’s fund by facilitating members’ hobby in playing music to make it saleable by finding any possible job on music performance involving all members which in the end the cash obtained through out each performance is then split. Some to pay those who performs and the rest amount is kept as the club’s fund which would be use by all means necessarily to cover the club member expends in any given occasion such as, rolling thunder, club’s uniform, merchandising, and so on. One clear example of this could be seen on The BrotherScoot Acoustics Band performance every Friday night starting from 8pm up to 12pm at Tweede Lekker Café on Jl. Brigjend Sudiarto Salatiga.
All the achievements gained by the BrotherScoot had not turned its members into such an arrogant being. The BrotherScoot is willing still to have any relation to others especially motor clubs through out not only this very country but even further this very world. This is aimed not only to show that The BrotherScoot is or just to gain new acquaintances as well but also to learned and share. Such taking and give action of how a club should be organized well. Due to this, in other to build relations to others the BrotherScoot do not based upon the conventional way through out a direct meeting only but also taking the modern way by using the internet. It had built a blog account and a social network account (Blogspot and Facebook). Those who are interested in could check The BrotherScoot’s pages on http://www.wearebrotherscoot.blogspot.com and also its Facebook profile http://www.facebook.com/brotherscoot.
Above all, trough out all the stories above, of all highs and lows, ups and downs, and straight and bends which had been experienced by The BrotherScoot, when a BrotherScoot member is being asked of how they feel of becoming a BrotherScoot member they would be saying: “we are proud of what we are. We ride with pride as we are one; we ride with pride for we have one another and we’ll keep riding to mould as better. We ride with pride because we are BrotherScoot”. One and togetherness is the basic foundation of this organization so to say. Through the motto that always been kept inside of each every the BrotherScoot member “Ex Unitate Vires” which means through unity there is strength, the BrotherScoot members had been tied up one to another. Together they had passed all the obstacles which they had survived from and afraid not to face what to come for each member believe that they would not be alone as other member would willingly support them.

Compliled by: Dhamma Viriya Edward Soepratignja