インドネシアから文盲をなくそう

皆さんは文盲という言葉をご存知ですか？

最近の日本ではあまり聞きなれない言葉ですが。目は見えるのですが教育を受けられなかったために読み書きができない人のことを言います。

            インドネシアでは、今もそう言う人が多くいます。現在、世界の人口は約６６億人です。世界の文盲の人は８，６％いると言われています。アフリカのBurkina Fasoという国では８０％が文盲です、日本では０．０１％オーストラリアでは日本と同様、９９・９％の人が読み書きができます。

インドネシアの人口は約二億三百万人です。

その内１２，１％の人が文盲です、

１０歳から１４歳が３０％

１５歳から４４歳が１０％

４５歳以上は６０％です、世界でインドネシアの文盲率は第七位と言われています。

現在、インドネシアでは一千二百万の子供が貧困による理由で、学校に行くことが出来ないでいます。

就学時期を迎えてもお金がなく就学できず、そのまま大人になり恥ずかしくて未だに就学できないという人もいます。子供自ら家庭の事情で行かないと選択する場合も多くあります。

その他、何百万の学校でも、水準を満たす教師、教材の不足などで困難な状況にあります。

この原因については政府の対応の悪さが問題になっているといわれています。

インドネシア政府は、政府団体とも、未だに教育問題に対し関心が低い。教育に対する国家予算も常に低く、職業としての教師が軽視されている傾向にあるようです。

インドネシア政府は世界教育会議で、学校に行けない子供達の問題を早期に解決すると約束したにもかかわらず。

義務教育9年間を実際にできないでいるのです。

都会と田舎を比較するとやはり田舎は都会より文盲の人がたくさんいます

ジャカルタでは０．８２%田舎のパンダンでは８０％、つまり田舎のほうがこのような状況になりやすいということです。

都会では田舎より教育を受けられる人が多いし田舎では学校に行かない子供達がまだたくさんいます。

インドネシアの経済も悪いので子供が学校に行けない、その子供は将来、仕事がなく、結局その子の子供も学校に行けない。。。

こういう状況を繰り返している人も多いからです。

そのほかの原因としては、多くの村人はその問題を「大きな問題」だと思わない人もいるようで。

彼らの中には子供は学校に行かなくても大丈夫と考えている人もいるのです。

最近では年齢が高い人でも入れる社会スクールというものができ幼いころに教育が受けられなかった人でも受けることができるようになりました。しかしこの状況を見て私は残念だと思います。全ての人が平等に教育が受けらないということが残念だと思うのです。

日本では中学までは基本的に学費は無料です。国が子供たちを中学校まで卒業させる義務があるので。

日本の子供達は、安心して義務教育の9年間を受けることが出来るのです。

わが国も、教育にもっと力をれて欲しいと思います。

国が子供達を就学させ、大人になって勉強したいと思う人たちにも夜間でもいい。勉強するクラスをけるべきです。

私の友人の話ですが。。。

ある日、私の友達はスラウェシ島のKampung pandanという村で労働実習しました。彼は１ヶ月ぐらいそこで住んでおりました。そして住民に読み書きを教えてあげました。その村はスラウェシ島にある田舎で、８０％以上の住民が読み書きが出来ない人達です、

私の友人は無料で文房具を配りました、はじめは、私の友達は勉強したい人は市場へ来てください。と多くの村人たちに声かけましたが

少しの人しか来なかったんです。

でも彼はあきらめないで、次の日もまた次の日も村の人に声をかけていきました。その後だんだん多くの村人が来るようになりました。でもその村では黒板がないので彼は中古の板を使っていました。設備が無くても彼は、毎日一生懸命文盲の人たちに読み書きを教えてあげました、教えた後、殆どの村人たちは読み書きができるようになりすごく喜んでもらえたそうです。で、そのあと村の人達は授業料のかわりに果物や野菜とか色んなものを持ってきてくれたそうです。

そんな話を聞いて

私も彼のように文盲の人たちを助けたいとおもいました。。どうすれば文盲の人をなくすことが出来るのか。

文盲の人はテレビやラジオなどの情報にあまりわからないです。。たとえば大統領選挙にも彼らは何を選んだほうがいいか彼らはわからないです。災害の情報などもわからないので、デマによって行動をしてしまう、それをなくしたいです。

私の夢は、オスロで進学したいです。そしてインドネシアへ帰ったら。文盲の人たちのための学校を作りたいです。インドネシア語だけでなく。ローマ字や日本語なども教えてあげたいのです。そして一番の問題である、文盲の人たちがこのインドネシアの国からなくなるように。私たちが出来ることから、一歩づつ努力していきたいと思います。でも、今はお金がないので。まだ夢は実現しません。一生懸命、がんばって奨学金をもらえるように努力したいと思います。

Video games VS Traditional games

Hello guys, today I would like to talk about traditional games, I played  traditional games everyday during my childhood. Usually the children played after we came back from school. I am pretty sure you played these games everyday too if you were born around 1980s-1990s. In my homeland Indonesia especially in Bandung, the city where I was born and grew up, traditional games were very popular among children at that time.

What are traditional games? in my opinion traditional games are the games which are played by at least 2 or more children that take place in a wide field or in nature. To be able to play these games children should establish  groups and use natural objects such as stones, leafs, or tree branches for playing. for example let say Ucing sumput which also known as Hide and seek, Boy boyan, pris prisan, gatrik, kasti, ucing kup etc. These traditional games are fun and have positive effects on children’s mentality and social life which useful for their future  because these games require the player to establish a good teamwork with other players. Whether we realize or not, traditional games influence child’s mind during growing up.

However,  nowadays the circumstances in Indonesia have totally changed. Children tend to stay on their own room and play with computers or video games all day. Maybe it is still good because they will learning about how to use computers and form a habit that will help them to know more about technology at an early age. Nevertheless ,  What about their mentality? and about their social life? if they just live in circumstances that don’t require them to socialize with others, I think they will grow up as Individualism characters and tend to not to care about the others.  On the other hand, it is hard to find a vacant field or play ground for children because most of nature has turned into big building, supermarket, department store, or gargantuan mall in big cities. as the result today’s children have no choice except just play with computer or video games.

You can imagine if this condition happens continuously mature people in the world will be very individualism, maybe they won’t care about each other and tend to do anything alone because they get used to be a solitary person since they were a child. On the other hand this may lead to serious crime and war because they never know  the meaning of togetherness and make a good relationship with others during their childhood.

This is our responsibility as young people, we should take action to resolve this problem. I think we can provide a playing group for children and invite them for playing traditional game in one place to reinstate traditional game among the children. for example 1 day in 1 week to establish a traditional game which will form a habit to work as together. In addition, the government is supposed to provide  play lands in nature for children so they can play there.

Oslo Pillow Fight Day 2013

On Saturday April 6th we had celebrated World Pillow Fight Day with a massive pillow fight in Vigelandsparken. It was the most fun you could have at a park and on this day, it happens in hundreds of cities around the world. You are all invited to get your pillows, come out and play!
The Oslo Pillow Fight is a free event. This doesn't only mean it's 'gratis', it also means that it is devoted to freedom. Our world is increasingly obsessed with regulations, security and commercialism. This threatens our freedom, happiness and creativity. That’s why we must reclaim the streets as a place where everybody can simply have fun - without meddling authorities or corporate sponsors.

Enthusiastic Group

Before the war

Yehaaa

Sms Sms

Sms Sms 2

Still SMS

Japanese Group

Sculptures

The Fight begins!

Yooo

I'll kill ya!

take picture

pitiful pikachu

Intan

developing strategies

The japanese girls

Yoewee

Run!

Laughing Pikachu

Pikachu in action

crowded

chaos

peace!

Welcome April!

Welcome April!

Spring has just come in Norway!, the cold weather goes away slowly but it's still too  cold for Asian boy like me. Today is the warmest temperature since first time I stepped my feet in this country, yes it was 9 degree this morning!.

If in the mid of winter animal had been hiding in their nest, now I can see herd of birds and other kinds of animal flying or walking on the street make the street became very crowded.

I noticed that the biggest differences between winter and spring, is the duration of day light.  in the winter the day started to be dark at 3 PM, it is very different in spring,  I still can see the sun still shining at 9 PM, it makes me can’t sleep!.  In addition, people in Norway suddenly change their habit in this season, in winter time they were always went back home after office hour, in spring city is still lively at the night , people tend to take a walk or just enjoying a cup of coffee in the bars around Oslo.

The Ancient City of Netherlands- AMSTERDAM

Hello backpacker mania! I would like to share whith you my journey to one of the captivating cities of the Netherlands; Amsterdam. My journey began from Gare du Nord Station Paris. My friend  from the Indonesian Embassy and I, led by a friend who helped at a free shelter, went hastily to the station by taking a taxi because we were almost late. Fortunately we arrived at the station 10 minutes before the train departed.

Windmills

windmills

Before entering the train, we had to print train tickets from an automatic machine at Gare du Nord  station,  It is important to get the ticket stamped in an automatic machine to validate them otherwise you will be charged inside the train. We deliberately purchased the tickets two months earlier to get a cheaper fare. It was only $40 for the journey from Paris to Amsterdam.

The train finally departed at 12:20 Paris time.  The express train left Paris very quickly. The view outside the window of was very beautiful but I got bored without internet. I remember that I’ve read blogs about other travelers who got free WIFI inside the train but unfortunately my ticket was only an ordinary ticket with no extra WIFI so I had to purchase an internet connection. They offered some kind of 1 hour internet connection package for EUR 6.5 or EUR 13 for unlimited internet connection.  I would not recommend this because the connection is very slow and lame! It can only can be used for Facebook or light websites.

Wooden shoes factory

wooden shoes factory

We spent about 3.5 hours on the train before we finally arrived at Amsterdam Central Station. The magnificent European building was welcoming us; it was a very enchanted building that I’ve never seen before.  In the station you can ask helpful people who wearing red jackets with an “I” mark on their backs.  They can give you information about any place, attraction or anything about the city. I got lost and asked them about my hotel.  They showed us a map and marked my destination. It was very helpful!  We arrived at Aviengo youth Hostel at 16:30 Amsterdam time, checked in and took a rest for a moment before continuing our journey. The Hostel atmosphere was good; there are two rooms with 20 beds in each co-ed room.

There were discount cards on the wall for travelers who have a limited budget.  These cards can be used for entering attractions. The discount is depending on the cards which varies from 20% to 50% discounts.

We took a walk and enjoyed the night view of Amsterdam,  The scenery was lively at the night! It was a view that I’d never seen when I was in Indonesia or even in Norway!.. The next day, We used the discount card and paid EUR 29 to travel to Volundam to see windmills, a cheese factory and the most famous wooden shoes factory. We used two kinds of transportation; bus and boat. When we arrived in Volundam there are lot of bars with drunk young people. 

The most impressing part of the journey were the windmills, very big! I had only read or seen them on the television but now I saw see real windmills with my own eyes and touched them.  I decided to visit Amsterdam again someday since I didn't enter the red light district.