By: Christopher Philip Hanson

Field trip Kampung luar batang

BEFORE THE FIELD TRIP

How much say do people have over where and how they live?

• They have the right to chose where they want to live.

• If we are still underage, we have to depend on our parent.

• When we are grown up and are able to take care of ourselves, we have the right to live anywhere we would like.

• How we live is based on the conditions we have. Some of the people have higher living quality because they can afford it.

• Some people who cant, they must live their lives in a normal or lower conditions.

• With these differences on how to live, we should respect one another, not to differentiate those below or above us.

How do living conditions affect everyday life? Give specific examples (school, sports, games, food, family, etc.)

• Living conditions would really affect lives because they have different resources and different needs.

• People in the slums cannot really afford anything they want and they need to think on how can they afford those things.

• They have less resource than the people in the city and they have to use the minimum resources to live their everyday lives.

• The people in the slums have different school; they are mostly national schools by the government.

• The sports and games they play are just simple games like soccer because they only need a ball and a sandal as the goal post.

• The foods they ate is also different than the people in the city because they ate different things such as vegetables.

What role should the government play in helping the poor?• The law states that the government should help the poor and took

care of the orphans.

• The government should help the people by giving them shelters and a workplace for them to make money.

• They should give them daily needs such as cooking oil every month to help them.

• The government has tried some acts to help the poor by giving them carts for them to sell food in the street but they sold them instead.

• The governments should give them seminars on how to take advantage and make money with the items they gave them.

• When the poor people gets the idea on how to make a living, they can live on their own and start to make extra money on their own.

 What role should ordinary citizens play in helping the poor around them?• The citizens could give charity to the people around them.

• The citizen could also give them workplace such as shopkeeper or a labor to help them with their economics.

• By giving work to the poor people, it will create less poor people and it’s an advantage to the work owner because they can get more workers.

• Charity is also important because we have something’s we don’t need anymore and the poor people might need those things.

• Its better to give to the charity than keeping the things we don’t need anymore.

BIBLICAL STUDIES

Biblical Studies• S

ince we will be visiting the slum area in Jakarta, we will make a questionnaire about the people’s lives.

• We should know what is the living condition in the area they live in and do they feel comfortable living on it.

• We should also see it in the government point of view and how can they help the poor to get jobs and earn money.

• We should know the impact if the government did not help the people at all.

• With these questionnaires, we can know the conditions and way of living of the people in the slum areas

What is the people’s daily routine?•M

ost people in works in the malls as a cleaning service. •A

lot of people also sells stuff on the market nearby or somewhere else. •W

hile most parents worked, their kids are being taken care of by their grandmothers.

•1 room is usually occupied by 4-6 people.

•1 family can consist of 2-4 kids.

•They share a room approximately 3 x 3 meters for 6 people.

What is their standard of living?

Does the amount of money you make enough for your daily needs?

Where do you go when you are sick?

Does the government provides some groceries fro the people?

Expectations for the Government.

Conclusion•T

he people gets a very minimum attention from the government when they needed them the most.

•They hoped that the Government and the people around can help each other to make a better life.

•Some facility have been done by the government but its not completely free for the people.

•People barely makes enough money for them to live everyday. They earn enough to keep them alive for food and shelter.

Pictures during Field trip

The conditions of the houses is just near the river and full of trash.

Pictures during Field trip

On the way to the Houses. We have toCross a market in order to get to thehouses.

Pictures during Field trip

Conditions on one of the resident’s house, Ibu Rosana.

Picture with the kids.

Science Report

Objective•T

he objective of this project is to compare the head circumference of the slums area kids and the average size of the head circumference.

•We will use the WHO (World Health Organization) chart then compare the chart with the data we found during the field trip.

•The target for the data is 0-5 years old and we measure their head circumference using a measuring tape.

•The head circumference will be counted from the top of their eyes to the back of their head.

Data of the children found

Name Gender Age Height Head Circumference

Rafa Male 16 Months 73 cm 47.4 cm

Reihan Male 16 Months 75 cm 46 cm

Rafli Male 3 Years old 87 cm 49.8 cm

Jena Female 18 Months 67 cm 45 cm

Arja Female 2 Years old 88 cm 48.2 cm

Kayla Female 2 Years old 88.3 cm 47.1 cm

Muhammad Mustafa

Male 5 Years old 106 cm 50.2 cm

Kamila Female 8 Months 72 cm 46 cm

Jendo Female 3 Years old 86 cm 47 cm

Jondo male 7 Months 66 cm 43 cmAverage: 2 years old 88.83 cm 47 cm

Comparison with the WHO chart-Head circumferenceBoy and Girl

Discussion• F

rom the comparison of the graph, we can see that the data taken is represented by the black trend line. The average head circumference of the world is represented in the green color.

• We can see that the head circumference is Jakarta's slum is below average. Although some were able to meet the average head circumference, the majority of kids in the slum areas have smaller head circumference.

• According to the AJCN (American journal of clinic nutrition), The nutrition the person having is really significant to the head size.

Georgieff, Michael K. "The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition." Nutrition and the Developing Brain: Nutrient Priorities and Measurement. N.p., 2007. Web. 27 Mar. 2014.

Conclusion•T

he head circumference depends on the brain size which is caused by the nutrition inside our body such as iron, zinc, and copper which is really essential for brain energy. (Georgieff)

•The kids in Jakarta slums did not have proper nutrients in their food which caused their head circumference to be below average.

•The food they ate effects the growth due to the lack of nutrients and the food they ate was not washed really cleanly.

•The Jakarta post also claims that the distribution of clean water in Jakarta is not good. The slums area still gets dirtier water than the city people.

Elyda, Corry. "Privatization 'violates' Human Rights." Jakarta. N.p., 5

Mar. 2014. Web. 27 Mar. 2014.

Comparison with the WHO chart-HeightBoy and Girls

Discussion•F

rom the graph we can see that the trend line from the data that we found is below the average. The green line from the WHO chart shows the average height of kids age birth-5 years old.

•The line started below the lowest average but it goes a little higher and it also ends below the shortest average.

• The data really shows that the Jakarta slums kids is below average and its quite bad. The kids there were smaller than normal kids size around the world.

•Genetics, ethnicity and genetics could cause the lower development of child's growth. (DEECD)

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/childhood/professionals/support/factorsaffgrowth.pdf

Conclusion•G

rowth is affected by the nutrition, ethnic and genetics. •N

utrition is affected by the food they are consuming and the amount of milk they drank throughout the early years. If the mother breast feed the baby, the nutrition came form the mothers food. The mother must keep healthy to keep the baby healthy as well.

•Ethnic is also one of the factors. The Asian groups tends to be smaller than others groups compared to Caucasians and Africans. Since Indonesia is Asian, this could cause one of the factors.

•Genetics is also the factor of growth. If the parents is small, the kids will follows and if they are big, the child will also follows. This factor does not apply every time but its most likely like this.

AFTER THE FIELD TRIP

Had you ever been in a place like this previously? (If so, briefly compare the experiences)

•Yes,• Kampung luar batang is much more crowded and much more

dirty.• The location of Kampung luar batang is full of trash and it

stands above the water which is not safe. • It is quite memorable going to kampung luar batang because

we go inside the houses for interview and we can see the their living condition and houses. • We have to walk through some kind of a marketbefore going in

to the location.

Were you surprised by the living conditions that you saw in Kampung luar batang? • Yes, because there is so many kids and they are playing

around everywhere. • There are many dirty wild cats around the area as well.

On the way there, I found many dead rats on the streets and nobody cleans them.

• The situation also surprised me because below the woods are sea and bamboos is the only thing keeping them from falling to the sea.

• The houses is also very small and so many people can fit in that house.

How does living in kampung luar batang affect the people who are there? Give specific examples (Schools, sports, games, food, family, etc.)

•While we are interviewing, they say that they could get some advantage like low school fee and KJP (Kartu Jakarta Pintar). Some schools were supported by the government but they still have to pay some fee’s.

•The sports the play is mostly soccer because they only need a ball and sandals/rocks as a goal post. They have to walk to an empty field to play.

•The games they play is just simple games and traditional games. The kids who are there does not have many resource to play games so they play simple traditional games.

•Most food they buy is from the market nearby. The food have not been washed cleanly and the water sanitation there is not that good.

What will you remember most from this field trip.

•Interviewing the four woman/mother in the museum because we can get the specific detail about the problems they are having. They could share their hopes to the government freely.

•Seeing the condition around the area.

•Going inside the civilians houses and looking at the conditions they are living in.

•Measuring the kids because most of them get cranky and they don’t want to be measured. The parents are supportive to us and helped us to measure their kids.