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Posyandu Melati
Contoh makanan sehat (susu sehat, biskuat dan telur rebus)
Pemberian contoh makanan sehat kepada balita
Penimbangan ibu hamil
Pemberian contoh makanan sehat kepada lansia
Kader posyandu Melati
Photo-photo kegiatan posyandu gelatik
Posyandu Gelatik
Para Peserta Posyandu
Contoh Makanan Sehat
Para Kader Posyandu
Penimbangan Balita
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Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country. The
total population of Indonesia was last reported about 248,2 million in 2012.
Based on the statistics, 13.3% of the population living under the national
poverty line and around 18.06% of the population living on less than $1.25 a
day at 2005 international prices.[1]
“Poverty means going short materially, socially,
and emotionally. It means spending less on food, on heating, and on clothing
than someone on an average income. . . .
Above all, poverty takes away the tools to build the blocks for the
future – your life ‘chances’. It steals away the opportunity to have a life unmarked
by sickness, a decent education, a secure home and a long retirement.”[2]
- Oppenheim and Harker,
1996, pp.4-5
Indonesia is a nation that is trapped in an endless cycle of
poverty. There are many causes of poverty in Indonesia, which includes lack of
education, overpopulation, corruption and a centralized government. The
difficulty that many underprivileged faced is that they lack of education,
which has separated them to those who received good quality of jobs. As a
result, many underprivileged are content to accept any jobs that they can get,
even if the job has no benefit and most are poorly paid. At most time, in
desperate needs to earn a living, many turns to drugs and commit crimes such as
stealing, robbing and even murder. In particular, women often engaged in
prostitution and sex trade.
My project has three
parts. First is to help them move away from all those degrading activities.
Second is to provide them with more knowledge on how to do useful things to
earn money and finally to create a better home. Nevertheless, my mother who is working in this area has developed a
program regarding this event. We have a villa in Puncak, which is located at one of the hills in Java, and since the
place is rarely being occupied, she decided to change the villa into a
non-profit school where the kids could play while learning. The school offers a
distinct program that includes activities such as musical, art, math and different other activities. We encourage people to visit and to share their knowledge and worked
together to create a learning environment for the students. The program does
not applied solely to children’s; in fact the school also focus to women to be
a part of the learning environment. While their husbands are away for work, my
mother thought that it would be better for the wives to also contribute to the
program and learn more about arts and crafts. The tutors would teach the women
to create items from cheap materials such as newspaper, magazines, unusable
fabrics, etc. As a result, these materials can produce different kind of
selling items such as rugs, small wallet, keychain, and bucket. The idea is
that the women can sell something from their own creation and help earn money
for their family.
Keychain Carpets Soap
One of my projects is to enhance the program by adding a new
concept to contribute to the aim of the school that is providing knowledge to
the underprivileged. For this I found a new technique that I believe could
benefit to others. This technique called Makigami, which means roll paper in
Japanese, and was invented by Benjamin John Coleman in 2009. Coleman saturates
newsprint (newspaper) in a solution and then rolls it to form tapered
branches. The rolled branches are then dried on cylindrical molds (like
curtain rods, clothes hanger rods and vacuum cleaner tubes) and assembled to
form complex branches. Folded Origami leaves and flowers are then
attached onto the branches resulting in a highly durable botanical sculptures
made entirely from paper.[3]
For my project, instead of using this technique only to design bonsai, it could
also be used to create different objects such as jewelry, container, vase, or
any kinds of selling items. As I experimented with the materials, I decided to
make a bracelet using waving technique. I decided to create jewelry because I
think jewelry is strong selling products particularly for women and in addition
it would provide a great opportunity for the women to sell the jewelry to earn
money.
I found another inspiring documentary that gives me ideas
for further research and experiment:
A toughest place to
be a bin man (BBC Television Documentary)
A bin man from London, Wilbur Ramirez, drives a brand new
rubbish truck. Part of his route takes him to the homes of wealthy. During the
job he found laptops, bicycles, brand new telephones, and even wads of money.
For ten days, he went to Jakarta to experience his job there. He worked
together with Imam Syaffi who also a bin man in Jakarta. He discovered that
Imam’s job is really different than what he does in London. He pushes a
decrepit handcart along the streets, barefoot, and scoops up rubbish with a
large wooden fork. He is also responsible to keep the open sewers. The cart
gets heavier each time he scooped. It is an exhausting physical work and not
worth the paid. Imam gets paid really low, not enough to pay a good rent. He
lives with his family in a shantytown by the side of the road opposite to a
large pile of ill-smelling rubbish. At nights, rats run through the handmade
huts. Jakarta promotes itself as an enterprising city and is fast becoming a
powerful economy, but it has failed to modernize its most basic of services.[4]
The documentary shows the most well-known and worst
occupations for the poor. It is to be a bin man, or in other word rubbish
scavenger, which us Indonesian called ‘pemulung’.
Each day they comb the waste in their own sites and search for items to recycle
or consume. After they finish collecting items, they bring it to their dealer
and earn money from the items that they collected. Each material has different
values. Plastic is one of the best selling material. It is worth seven thousand
Rupiah per Kilograms, that is around 80 cents of Australian Dollar.[5]
Their earnings each day are around ten thousand Rupiah to fifty thousand
Rupiah, but most of them only earn ten thousand to fifteen thousand. With that
amount of money they can only eat once or twice a day and have nothing left. They
cannot afford to maintain the minimum living standard, which requires healthy
food, decent house, clothes, education, and transportation. Therefor, as I
mentioned it before, my project is to educate them on how to earn decent money
from experimenting with found objects as items that could sell. Another project
that I am approaching in this method is to educate them on how to use these
found objects as useful objects. For an example of this project, I will show
several objects that could be use as useful objects.
Crates as chair and table:
Glass Bottle as a Vase:
Isang Litrong Liwanag
(1 Liter of Light)
According to statistics, three millions households still
remain powerless outside Metro Manila and even in the metro area, families
still continue to live in darkness. Therefore, My Shelter Foundation created a
project that is called Isang Litrong Liwanag to help brighten up millions of
underprivileged homes in Philippines. Isang Litrong Liwanag is a sustainable
lighting project, which aims to bring the eco-friendly Solar Bottle Light. It
is designed and developed by students from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT). The Solar Bottle Light is made out of one liter of soda
plastic bottle consist of mineral water and a little amount of bleach. They cut
a 9x10 inch of metal roof sheet then cut a circle slightly two millimeters
smaller than the circumference of the bottle container then attached the bottle
with a rubber sealant. They protect the bottle cap from cracking by sun with a
protective plastic tube then attached it on the roof. It creates a beautiful
solar bottle light bulb. [6]
Experiment:
These inspiring individuals discussed above, Wilbur Ramirez,
Imam Syaffi and My Shelter Foundation, have motivated me to create and
implement their ideas for underprivileged families in Indonesia. I experimented
with different found objects that can be found in places in Indonesia. Specifically,
I have experiment with re-used crates, glass bottles, and plastic bottles and
discover ways that can benefit underprivileged families for better living
conditions. These objects could be easily found in a piling up garbage in
Indonesia. Rather than just throwing it away, they could use it for much better
tools such as interior furniture. With this project, they would not have to
spend more money to be able to decorate their house into a better place. The
great things about this project is that it is free, mostly recyclable, and to
increase creative minds for living. In regards to crates in particular, often
crates can be found in restaurant, supermarket, factories, and these crates are
often thrown away after used. However, many garbage scavengers collect this
item and usually sold to the plastic dealers in exchange for little money.
Instead, these crates can be use for families at their homes. For example,
crates collected can be cast into tables and chairs. As for glass bottles that
are found in streets lakes, sewers and gutters can be use for home decorations
such as a vase or even to store water. Finally the plastic bottle can benefit
many families in their homes as a source of light. Inspired by Isang Litrong
Liwanag, I could not help myself to experiment with the plastic bottles it
selves. I tried to use smaller bottles and tried to mix some watercolor into
the solution, but it failed because of the strong effect from bleach. So I used
one Liter of bottle instead and put it in a huge cardboard box to see if it
works and it did. It is a really beautiful source of light yet it does not cost
the light. For future experiment, I will use different colors of bottles to
create different colors of light to give a fun interior light experience.
The documentary that inspired me was “A toughest place to be
a bin man”. This documentary had given me an idea to design a shelter
especially for the underprivileged. For further research of this project, I
found another inspiration by an American architect, Michael Reynold, who is
also known as a “Garbage Warrior” builds houses structures from the garbage.
For thirty years he is based in New Mexico to advancing the art of “Earthship
Biotecture” by building self-sufficient, off-the-grid communities where design and
function converge in eco-harmony. He uses cans, car tires, and glass bottle as
a structure of houses that produce thermal mass and energy-independent.
How it is Earthship?
First, it is a passive solar home made of natural and recycled materials; Second,
thermal mass construction for temperature stabilization; Third, renewable
energy and integrated water systems make the Earthship an off-grid home with
little to no utility bills.
How it is Biotecture? It
is the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration
for their sustainability and it is a combination of biology and architecture. [7]
Another architect that inspired me was Shigeru Ban. He is
from Japan and he does a brilliant and eco-friendly design of buildings or
house structures. One of his designs that are called “Paper Emergency Shelters”
is built with a structure out of a low-cost paper tubes. He started this
temporary shelter in Rwanda when two million people became homeless when civil
war broke out. This shelter does not cost as much, since paper tubes can be
manufactures in low cost and by small and simple machinery.[8] Indonesia
is accompanied by humid and rainy seasons. Thus it is important the selected
materials must be design according to this. Shigeru Ban had design his house
structures made of paper. According to Conroy, 1987 factor such as climate
should be taken into consideration when designing a shelter. Hence, with
Indonesia majority of rainy weather using paper as the found object is not the
best idea. As the water can damages the foundation of the shelter. Hence, I
felt that PVC pipes would be best-suited materials for the shelter. Not only
PVC is easily found and it is also eco friendly since it can be recycled.
According to UNCHS (1985 as cited in Conroy, 1987) the elements of shelter
include “adequate space, safety, water, sanitation, lighting, ventilation, and
protection from noise and population”. UNCHS also suggested that these shared
facilities include “ sufficient transportation, communications, shopping
facilities and child care, religious and recreational services”. According to
these useful element proposed by UNCHS, I have made my shelter cover the
important elements.
Shigeru Ban - Paper Tubes House
Shigeru Ban - Paper Emergency Shelter
PVC Pipe Shelter - Proposal (Elevations)
The next step that I wanted to achieve is to take my design
of the shelter to the next level by making it mobilized. According to Oram
(1979 as cited in Conroy, 1987), housing should meet four main requirements.
First, it should provide adequate protection and security. Secondly, it should
be secure from the dangers of fire and structural collapse. Third, it should be
under the conditions, which promote good health; including clean and sufficient
water supplies and the removal of various kinds of waste. Finally, it should
ensure that the individuals living in the area must have adequate space and
privacy. Thus, the idea that I made the shelter mobilized can correspond to the
requirements made by Oram, (1979 as cited in Conroy, 1987). [9]
The inspiration for the design of my mobile shelter I got it
from the garbage scavenger’s cart, which is the cart that they use for
collecting the garbage to earn money. I research the existing size of the cart
by asking my friend in Jakarta to measure it. After knowing the size of the
cart I made drawings on how it could be transform into a shelter. By making the
sides of the cart adjustable, the base and the sides could be the whole base of
the shelter and while continue measuring it I found that the spaces of the
mobile shelter is large enough to fit one family of five which includes both
parents and three children. To show more about the space I made a conceptual
model with the actual scale. It shows well on its height, and the area of the
floor. I made a further work on this project because I think this project is
the most important part of my whole experiments. It gives them a house yet it
is portable which can be easily positioned anywhere.
There are parts added to the existing cart to be able to
make the structure of the shelter. It needs the frame of the shelter’s structure
and it also need a cover tent for the roof and walls. For the frame and the
tent I will use the same material as the shelter that I design before, which is
the PVC pipe for the frame and sacks for the cover of the roof and walls. Another
material that I thought of was adjustable steel pole where they can adjust the
sizes of the height of the shelter.
Another advantage from this mobile shelter is that they do
not have to rent for a land. They could park anywhere and open their shelter in
an empty land that has a clean environment.
To make it homier for the exterior, I design the cover with
entrance door and some windows. I also design a roof window for them to have an
exhaust from smoking, because out of 248,2 million people in Indonesia, twenty
eight percent of them are smoking. That is about sixty five million people
smokes in Indonesia. [10]
Therefore, roof window would be convenience from them to have a smoke inside
the shelter. Storage is also designed for the shelter where they could keep the
frame and cover of the shelter. It is also could be used to store their private
belongings. There would be another cover for the carts while their collecting
the garbage to keep the carts clean.
Concept Drawings:
Conceptual Model:
As for the interior, I could use my previous experiment in
above for the furniture and energy source at daytime. They wont be able to use
a chair since the height is not high enough for them to sit on a chair,
therefor crates could be use for tables and storages inside the shelter. For
the energy source at daytime they could use the solar plastic bottle and for nighttime
they could use some candles. For the water supplies, they could store it in the
bottles, and use it to wash their clothes, dishes and other things.
The disadvantage of this design is that the shelter would
not have a place to shower. The solution for this is to go to public bathrooms.
In Indonesia public bathroom are accessible for the underprivileged.
For further research, I made a video showing the space of
the shelter using my conceptual model, and use crates as tables, and some
pillows and blanket for a place to sleep. The video shows the shelter during
daytime and nighttime. The source for nighttime I lighted up some candles. This
video shows the homey feelings inside the shelter.
Overall I found that this research has give me the
understanding of the underprivileged people in Indonesia and it also give me an
opportunity to help them in terms of education, job opportunity, and a better
home. I also got to experience and earn more knowledge from my research. I
really hope this project will be continued for future reference when I go back
to Indonesia.
[2]Alcock, P. Understanding
Poverty. (London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1990.)
[3]Coleman, B. ‘How
Makigami holds the key to unleashing the power of Origami’. 2009.
<http://www.origamibonsai.org/images/How_Makigami_holds_the_key_to_unleashing_the_power_of_Origami.pdf>
[4]‘A Toughest
Place To Be A Binman’. 2012, video
recording, BBC Two, London, UK.
