Meet Hartati Pamungkas, also known as Atta Basuki (20). This short haired young lady was born in Palembang, March 12. With her 6 siblings, she dropped as the last hope of her parents, also she came from a very ordinary family, which made her a hardworker. Since a kid, she's obsessed in becoming a career woman and artist. She likes to sing,  talking to a mirror (while dreaming she was talking to public at that time), since then she wanted to be a radio announcer.

"When I was young, I love to talk and sing in front of mirror. I thought, a radio announcer is a really cool profession. I love fashion since I was a child, sometimes I used my mother's dress in front of mirror. I love many forms of arts since I was young."

Failed in scholarships to some schools, she entered private school for Senior High School. This was when she started to get some points for her future life. Won at resume contest made teachers supported her to take communication major for her bachelor in university. At this time, she already kept a big desires to live in Bandung. For her, Bandung is a great place full of artists and creative people. She believed Bandung will guide her to find her passion,  making a good networking.  Start a better life.  And catch her dream as an artist.  So she decided to enter Communication major in UNPAS Bandung.

Besides, she was inspired by Notes From Qatar by Muhammad Assad at that time, she quoted

"There is no growth in comfort zone,  and there is no comfort in growth zone", it made her believe that she should move from Palembang to another city.

 

She told me the reason why she turned her name becomes Atta Basuki,  because that name reminds her of bad experience by bullying at 3rd grade of JHS.  It makes her change her nickname to Atta when she started enter senior High school with hope that will bring new character and change her life.  Then "it successed" she said.  She became more confidence with that name. By changing the name, she Enter senior high school and voila! She has a lot of friends,  she never felt bullied anymore. Since then people know her as Atta not Hartati.

For two-three years in her college life, she is an active radio annoucer and a proud one. She was told to change her name into a simpler one by her producer. So she decided to pick Atta Pribadi, she turned Hartati into Atta to make it easire for people who can't pronounce 'r'. And ‘Pribadi’ has meaning for being herself. Then she decided to turn 'Pribadi' into 'Basuki', and basuki is the last name of her father,  the person who inspired her. So there goes the puzzle of where-Atta Basuki-name-came-from.

“At sixth semester of my college life, I have to stop become a radio announcer. I was going through some situations in my finance, and it forced me to take a job. I was introduce to Rock n’ Roll Haircut by a friend of mine. I sent an application to RnR (Rock n’ Roll Haircut), and the very next day, I was called for training. Two months of training was a hard times, and finnaly I got two years contract at RnR. By the time I started to work at RnR, it’s quiet hard to match schedule as radio announcer in college. Though I was still an anctive announcer, I decided to quit and focus at RnR.” said Atta.

“I still remember the first day I worked in RnR, I got a customer, and he gave me a tip.

It was Rp.15.000, and it was a jumpstart for me to work. I felt appreciated directly for a work I’ve done. It’s a different emotion from radio announcing, because as a radio announcer, you don’t really know the audience you are speaking to, you never meet them, and how they feel about your topic or things you talk about. So it’s not about the amount of Rp.15.000, but rather the appreciation that motivated me until now.”

As now, Atta is working on her essay to graduate her college and still working at RnR as a capster. She has a tumblr http://duniaatta.tumblr.com/ where she writes about romance and anxiety (And personally, I love her writing!). She still got her artist spirit, she attends art-related exhibition, music and movie show too. She has a dream that in some years ahead, she will live in Malang, East Java with her boyfriend when they married and start a business there. The funny thing is, she hasn’t go to Malang even for once yet, but she really believes it’s a great place to live.

“For me, short hair is simple, and it suits perfectly for they who has a lot of activities and busy, so they don’t have to take a lot of time to take care about hair.” Atta

Check her haircut works here!
instagram.com/lunacutt/

Her personal instagram here,
instagram.com/attabasuki/

And last but not least, her cool blog here!
duniaatta.tumblr.com/