"Blusukan" comes from the main word "blusuk" which means entry (come in) in the Java language. If this activity is done several times or repeatedly, usually this word is repeated like; "blusak-blusuk". This is almost the same as the word "ganti" (change), if it done repeatedly to become "gonta-ganti" or "balik" becames "bolak-balik".
If the word "blusuk" is positioned as a noun, the word will get suffix "-an" becomes "blusukan", is a term used to describe an activity entered into a place, then out again, and in again.
However, there is specificity in the use of the term "blusukan". Activities out into common places or luxury places, we can not use the term "blusukan." More precisely, "blusukan" is defined as an activity out into places that rarely passed or visited by people, such as forests, muddy rice fields, villages, and many others.
Tresno Legowo, a writer comes from Java said that he's very familiar with this term. Javanese child, with their peers used to do "blusukan" into muddy rice fields and rivers in the middle of the woods to do fish or eel fishing.
Lately, the term "blusukan" has became so popular after Jokowi, Jakarta governor also uses the term "blusukan" while doing the review directly to the citizens. Regardless of whether this is just an image or not, the use of the term "blusukan" by Jokowi already in the right place. Review activities undertaken by Jokowi ranging from slums, garbage dumps, rivers polluted, even to go into the sewers to see firsthand the water pipelines in the center of city, said Legowo.
But there are also those who define "blusukan" as a way to perform imaging officials (as pro-people). This in no way related to the official or not, pro-people or not. Everyone can do blusukan to anywhere he likes. [Tresno Legowo]
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