Interview

June 18, 2007

This morning i saw 2 kids who's collecting recycle stuff around my town. I asked them to visit my house and interviewed them.
Rohman<16> and Navi<14>
Both of them didn't continue their education since grade 4 <>. I asked them, do they want to study at school again, they looked confused and hesitate to answer my questions. Navi finally told me that sometimes other schoolmates teased and mocked him because their profession. It was not answering my question yet. Then i asked them, do they have passion to study again.. to start new world again, knowledge, learn about something interesting then they said yes!! I know they would like to study again, but Rohman said he must quit from school to earn money <>. Rohman has 2 sisters, he's the oldest. His father works as gardener and his mother doesn't work, she looks after the kids. Just for information, there are no free school in Indonesia, so if Rohman wants to keep study at school, his dad must work really hard to covered their education fee. It's really hard for Rohman's father to pay the school fee. Rohman's said, working as "trash picker" help his family to buy daily food. Then i asked them a silly question, " why don't you pay school fee with your own money ". They were laughing and said, if we did, we would not eat. I asked them about their future, what they would like to be. Navi said he wanted to be a teacher and Rohman wanted to be a engineer. It was amazing to listen about their dreams. They have big passion to tell me what they would like to be, their hope.
There are thousands kids who has same problems like them, there are thousands kids who wants to study and get their dream. It just a short story from me. Short conversation between me and them.

Welcome/Selamat Datang

Welcome

Thank you for viewing this blog, this blog created to show people unlucky kids in Indonesia

Nothing else i can do to help them except to show and encourage people to help this poor kids.

There are millions kids in Indonesian who can't get normal education or even they have never tried education at school. Indonesia is an archipelago country in South East Asia, the biggest archipelago country in the world... the population is about 200 millions, 30% of them live under poverty.

first of all i'd like to apologize if i write some mistake, english is not my native language so i hope to understand.

The capital of indonesia is Jakarta, which located in Java island. Java island is the main island, which has big population, developing and industrilizing.. but it also has big problem which goverments are not able to solve it yet, it's educatioan and kids right. Big population make this country seem not able to handle their citizents, especially education. Although goverment always trying to solve it but their program works very slow. It will not help for millions kids in this country. It's common in Indonesia when you see kids works as bagger or become vagrant on the street. They should get education to be better in the future, but they also think how they could life if they didn't work.

The other case what we face now is malnutrition. In few village we found babies/ toddler who's suffer from malnutrition.

SELAMAT DATANG

Terima kasih telah membuka blog ini, blog ini di tujukan kepada anda semua untuk mengetahui lebih jauh tentang anak - anak Indonesia. Sebagai seorang Indonesia, tentunya kita melihat banyak sekali anak kecil di sekitar kota kita yang mengemis dan melakukan pekerjaan yang lain. Sebagian mereka memang masih bersekolah, tetapi BANYAK diantara mereka yang tidak dapat melanjutkan edukasi mereka. Bahkan ada pula yang tidak pernah mengayam bangku sekolah. Sebagai negara kepulauan, persebaran penduduk di Indonesia memang tidak merata. Semua berpusat pada Jakarta dan penduduk terpadat di pulau Jawa. Tetapi realita yang kita hadapi sekarang, masih banyak di ibukota anak-anak "gembel" yang mengemis, meminta-minta di jalanan. Saya juga pernah merasakan menjadi anak kecil seusia mereka, dimana kita ingin sekali banyak bermain dan aktivitas lainnya. Tetapi apa yang terjadi di antara mereka, tentunya tidak mereka hendaki juga. Banyak pula diantara mereka yang putus sekolah karena masalah ekonomi, bukan berarti mereka bekerja dan menghasilkan uang lalu dapat membayar edukasi di sekolah. Semata-mata hanya untuk menyambung kehidupan mereka.

Di pulau lain, seperti Papua dan Indonesia bagian Barat, banyak sekali anak-anak yang tidak bersekolah. Sekolah pun terbatas hanya di beberapa desa saja. Dengan bantuan organisasi swasta tentunya sangat menolong anak-anak ini. Ulurkan tangan kita, untuk saudara kita.

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