THE LOVINA PAGES, JUNE 2011

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COMPUTERS HELP HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN OF BULELENG TO REACH OUTA study from the World Health organzation in 2005 shows that about 278 million people in the world suffer from moderate to profound hearing impairment. Eighty percent of them live in low-and middle-income countries.

The Buleleng area in Bali has a relatively high percentage of hearing impaired people in com-parison to other areas in Bali because of the appearance of pockets of deafness. This is the most obvious in Kubutabahan, the region that includes Desa Kolok (which means deaf village), where the rate of deafness is 1 in 550 people. A study from 1999 called, Storytelling and con-

they can get an official education. The school is called; the Sekolah Luar Biasa or SLB. Teachers are trained to work with the hearing impaired and the children learn sign language. For deaf children to get the chance to learn sign language is a life changing opportunity.

Deaf children who do not learn sign language find themselves isolated from the hearing world with lesser capacities to communicate or find employment.There is no single form of sign lan-guage that is universal. Different sign languages are used in different countries or even regions and since 2008 Indonesia officially has its own

Students ‘listening’ to their teacher

versation: discourse in deaf communities, by Elizabeth Winston shows that seventy percent of hearing impaired children over the age of six in Buleleng had never been to school. At this time, this was comparing to a number of 18% of the overall population of Buleleng not joining school.

The increase of deaf people attending schools, is steady so that more recent figures should show a more optimistic picture. Most children att-ending school are coming from the urbanized areas. For hearing impaired children in North Bali there is a special school in Singaraja where


sign language. Communication, the getting and giving of information, is a big challenge. People who can communicate effectively can exchange ideas and share feelings, sometimes on to one, and sometimes in groups. Different media can be used including telephone, radio and televisi-on. So, is there anything available that will help hearing impaired people in these and other situ-ations? Happily, the answer is yes.

Apart from devices (like hearing aids) different systems are available to help hearing impaired people improve communication, adapt to their environment, and function in society more ef-fectively. The mobile phone with the opportuni-ty for sms-ing is a very popular medium among hearing impaired young people nowadays and so are computers. Computers also open up a whole new world of job opportunities for people with hearing difficulties because it draws on vi-sual capacities rather than hearing. So there was more than one good reason for the Foundation Wahyu from The Netherlands to equip the SLB B in Singaraja with ten computers and an inter-net connection.

The School in Singaraja teaches the Indonesian national curriculum to 72 children. For children who live outside the Singaraja area there is the possibility to join the boarding house opposite the school. The boarding house provides a home to 40 children. From these children 25 were born deaf. According to Mr. Yoko Winarso edu-

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cation increases changes of employment and so-cial acceptance. The Wahyu Foundation was set up by Willemien en Frans van Gardingen and is based in The Netherlands. The Wahyu Founda-tion has the aim to offer help to underprivileged children in North Bali and to give opportunities for professional education.

For some years now, Foundation Wahyu has been helping the boarding house to improve the building and provide daily needs. The school and boarding house get financed by the government as well as parent fees. Unfortunately, many pa-

rents cannot afford these fees. Since the school and boarding house never want to turn children down, they need extra funding from sponsors. New at the school is the special speaking classes that are taught by Mr. Winarso, the leader of the institute. He received special education in Sura-baya to be able to teach these classes. Visitors are always welcome to visit the school premises but are asked to make an appointment with Mr. Joko Winarso first.

After the installation of the computers and the necessary instructional sessions, Willemien and Frans together with their good friends Piet and Ria, helped to set up a connection with a school in The Netherlands. Children from both schools were able to communicate via Skype, much to the enjoinment of all involved in this gathering. Now Singaraja has got the first school for hea-ring impaired children with its own computers. A major step forwards. Apart from the computer skills the children learn they can also overcome their social inadequacies through e-mailing, chatting with each other and with others on the network, oblivious of their disability. The world has opened up!

For further information on the work of the Yayasan Wahyu go to their website: www.stichting-wahyu.org (Dutch), or e-mail to: [email protected] SLB B Jln. Yudistira Selatan no. 15. Hp Joko Warsono 081 557 07 451 Z

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Organic waste tanksFor Mr. Moeliono (l) and Supardi Asmorobangun (r) there is one motto about the en-

vironment that stands above all others. We should try to prevent plastics and other

non- organic waste from getting into our environment, rather then having to clean it

up later. They are speaking from experience.

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a very simple solution to keep the environment clean

Moeliono, a business man, and Supardi a pho-tojournalist by profession, have always enjoyed the outdoors. Where Moeliono is an enthusias-tic mountain hiker and ‘hash house runner’, Supardi is, besides being an enthusiastic hiker, also a scuba diver. They witnessed the growing amount of plastic in Bali’s waterways and na-tural habitat first hand on their trips, and long ago made it a habit to collect garbage on their outings.By Conincidence in 2005, Moeliano and Supardi’s paths crossed during a hiking trip on Mt Mangu (1950 metre) in Bedugul. They, toge-ther with friends, were taking a rest at the ‘Pura Pucak Mangu’. They started a conversation, and sharing the same views concerning the garbage problem on the island Supardi and Moeliano teamed up.

Moeliono’s view is that the only way we can tac-kle the garbage problem on Bali is by making children and young adults aware. So this beca-me an important approach. Over the years, their efforts going under the name of ‘Bhakti Bumi Bali’, (which is not an official organzation) ad-dressed governments, schools and many young people in order to create awareness for their cau-se. They have taken a very pragmatic approach.

They take SMA and university students along on their hiking trips so they can see the garbage problem with their own eyes, and immediately take action by cleaning up the rubbish they find on their way. Collecting garbage that has already entered our waterways and natural habitats is much more complicated than it might sound.

Plastic gets scattered around sawahs, trees, and riverbanks, and underwater plastic gets inter twined into coral reefs and weeds, stuck under

stones, and buried in the sand. Both men recall cleaning up the mangrove forests in South Bali, probably the worst of all places to clean, since plastic has grown into the trees’ roots and bran-ches, half disappeared into the mud, and cur-rents make it difficult to make your way around. Besides their ongoing cleanup initiatives, their focus is on finding solutions to keep the plastic out of our natural habitat in the first place.

One way is to provide households, schools and small restaurants with a so called ‘organic waste tank’. Supardi explains. ”The problems starts when people go to the market and come home with their vegetables and chicken in a plastic bag. They clean the vegetables and the chicken; put the leftovers back into the plastic bag and the bag with its contents gets thrown out. From this moment onwards it becomes complicated to se-parate the plastic from the organic material. It is important the organic material is kept separated from the plastic but people don’t know what to do with their organic waste. It has become a ha-bit to put organic waste into a plastic bag before trashing it. The organic waste tank however is a cheap and simple way to turn organic waste into compost. The whole idea is to combine the hu-midity and the steady warm temperature that we have in Bali, and let these factors do the work.”

All we need is a closed, empty oil drum with a small tap at the bottom. The organic materials are thrown in from the top and will pretty quic-kly dissolve into a liquid that can be used as a fertilizer. The materials should be naturally wet, like leaves and fruit and vegetable peels. Garden material can go in as long as it it freshly cut, thus ‘wet’. The plastic bags people use to carry their shopping can easily be reused again and again if we keep them clean. Or even better, do not use plastic bags at all.

In the South where Supardi and Moeliono have been actively working on promoting their ‘orga-nic waste tanks’ their first focus is on getting tanks into as many schools as possible. This way the school areas will stay clean, and the child-ren learn to separate their garbage. Even better, children will experience how organic waste ma-terials will dissolve into a natural fertilizer that can be used for the garden.

We can make an organic waste tank out of an old oil drum for around Rp200,000. You can e-mail Supardi to ask for directions. To buy the tanks ready made will cost around Rp250,000. With the profit that is made on the tanks, other tanks can be placed in schools. Get a tank for yourself or help sponsoring a tank for a school in your area. One tank can save hundreds of plastic bags being thrown away into the natural envi-ronment every week!

For inquiries you may drop an email to: [email protected] Z












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Garbage festival in Sambangan

The unspoiled look of the area started to change when, like so many other areas in Bali, the Sam-bangan villages began to suffer from an over-load of plastic litter strewn about their streets, paddy fields and rivers. The garbage that pollu-tes the rivers started to cause trouble in the re-lationships between different villages, since the villages that are located downstream suffer from a pile up of garbage that flows down from up the river. Farmers found plastic garbage clogging the water channels that are feeding the paddy fields, plastic bags smothering their crops and cattle getting sick from consuming plastic. The picture, of littered paddy fields and rivers, was not creating a positive picture for further deve-lopment of eco-friendly tourism either. The ac-cumulation of garbage related problems made the villagers realize that something had to be done, and that they had to do it collectively to make it work.

The head of Sambangan village, Nyoman Sela-mat Arya explains that the villages of Samban-gan are teaming up in their efforts to make their area clean again, realizing they have a long road to go and that it needs involvement from every single person living in the area. Nyoman Sela-

mat Arya said ”The fight against plastic pollu-tion has brought a sense of togetherness among people from different backgrounds. We clearly notice that many people share the same con-cern including local people from the Samban-gan villages, the many foreigners who live here, government offices, businesses and social work groups. All would like to see a change.”

The official start of the campaign that aims to return Sambangan to the lush and pristine area it once was, was celebrated with a ‘Garbage Fes-tival’ that was held on the 14th of May. For this festival the villages co operated with the Bule-leng Regency Department of Health and Hygie-ne and the Department of Tourism in Singaraja.

Other participants in the organzation were the army and police departments. LPD Tukadmung-ga and numerous private sponsors also chipped in to enliven the event with music and dance and the possibility for people to get free medical check- ups and medication came from Usadha Santika Bali.

What does the future look like for the Samban-gan area? Nyoman Selamat Arya said ”We will have to start by making people aware that the garbage problem starts around everybody’s own private house. Keeping organic and non organic garbage separate is the key solution to the pro-blem. And we can make a profit from it too.

The organic garbage can be composted and be used as an organic fertilizer and the plastic can be sold. In this way, our villages can actually profit from garbage!” Z

Locked in between lush green paddy fields, rivers, and the foothills of the moun-

tains that separate North Bali from the rest of the island are the villages of Samban-

gan; Babakan, Banjar Anyar and Sambangan. The Sambangan villages are known

for their natural beauty. They are a favorite destination for people who like to go for

walks enjoying the traditional rural Bali. The partially terraced area houses walking

tracks which lead through small valleys and over hills offering extraordinary viewing

locations.

THE PICTURE, OF LITTERED PADDY FIELDS AND RIVERS, WAS NOT CREATING A POSITIVE PICTURE FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF ECO-FRIENDLY TOURISM EITHER

Nyoman Selemat Aria (on the right) with other officials


‘BEST AIDS HIV INFORMATION CENTRE’Foundation Citra Usadha Indonesia started as a small initiative in 1999 but has

since grown into a mature health centre. The foundation provides information

about HIV/AIDS and other sexual transmittable diseases, and makes sure that

people who have been tested positive to the virus get the help they need. For the

past two years the foundation’s North Bali chapter has run a help centre on the

main road in Kaliasem.

On May the 11th, Foundation Citra Usadha in Kaliasem was the centre of festivities welco-ming the vice regent of Buleleng, Arga Pinatih as its guest. Arga Pinatih was visiting the HIV/AIDS centre to show support for the work they are doing. At the moment, Citra Usadha is ta-king part in a National Competition organized by the central government in co operation with the governmental organization for Counseling Centers, called Pusat Informasi Konseling or PIK. The winner of the competition can call it-self ‘best HIV/AIDS Information Centre in In-donesia’.

Three members of the national jury had come to Bali to visit the centre and Mr. Arga Pinatih showed them the way to Kaliasem. There were speeches and entertainment and then it was off to the serious business. The competing founda-tions are assessed on effectiveness (impact) and organzation (administration).

The other participants still being in the race are from Palangkaraya (Kalimantan) and Tomohon (Manado).“AIDS/ HIV is a big concern on Bali with num-bers of infected people still on the rise despite the presence of information centers”, explains one of the Citra Usadha workers.

We have sixteen people nowadays and we are al-ways busy. We provide counseling and guidance to the general public about the dangers of this virus but there is still a lot of ignorance. The number of infected people in the Buleleng area is alarmingly high. People should understand that “no man is immune to HIV/AIDS”.

We will you posted on the works of this organi-zation and the outcome of the National Contest.

Entertainment during the visit of Vice Regent Arga Pinatih


NGENTEG LINGGIH CEREMONY IN PAJENENGAN TEMPLE PANJI SAKTI SINGARAJANgenteg Linggih is a Balinese Hindu ceremony carried out to purify and strengthen

a Hindu temple or holy place for Hindus. The ceremony is carried out after the tem-

ple has undergone restoration. Restoration can be needed because a temple is old

but also because of damages. On Bali damages often come as a result of natural

disasters.

The ceremony has to be conducted before any other sacred activities can be carried out on the premises again. The ceremony is rich and color-ful and can only be carried out at a specific date. The Pajengan temple in Panji restoration was focused on the restoration of the shrine because of the shrine’s old age. The restoration was not a major one but considered important because the temple used to be a place where the early kings

of Buleleng used to go and pray. A ngenteg ling-gih ceremony gets planned a long time ahead. Usually a committee of men consisting of lea-ders and elite figures is set up to make proposal for the money needed for the ceremony and the rundown and venue of the ceremony. Woman will start planning the offerings, the cooking and the preparation of the ceremonies. In a ‘Linggih ceremony’ there is a series of activities

aimed at purification of the building, from the cleaning of the facility to offerings and prayers directed to the building. In the case of the Pajen-gan temple the infrastructure from the temple to the beach was also part of these cleansings. The believe is that materials like soil, stone, sand and wood used in the manufacturing or renovation process of a temple were living ma-terials before they were turned into building materials and that they lose life during that pro-cess. Soil is dug up and burned in the process of making bricks and tiles, stone gets broken into small fragments, sand gets mixed and woods gets cut up and reshaped. It is important that the restored elements, in this case the temple’s shrine, will be re-purified so that life returns to the materials that were used to carry out the res-toration. Without the purification ceremony the materials could act like a obstruction between devotees and the gods (Hyang widhi wasa).

There were several ceremonies on the days lea-ding up the final ceremony. On the day of the final ceremony villagers wore their best Balinese costumes, and make up. Woman and girls wore sanggul cemara in their hair. The women car-ried on their head the towers of fruit, colored rice cakes and meat or square leaf basket con-taining multicolored flowers, offerings made of young coconut leaf and incense sticks. In spite of dark clouds hanging over the temple grounds the rain stayed away and later that day the sun showed its face which added to the festive at-mosphere. Z

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