Lebaran holiday was celebrated on Sunday 20th September 2009. All guardians were happy because they all received THR or “Lebaran Bonus” as much as one month salary.
“Holiday Bonus” is a bonus given to the workers who celebrate the Holidays like Eid ul- Fitr for Muslim, Christmas for Christians and Waisak for Budhis. The policy of “Holiday Bonus” was applied since 1994, it is an obligation for the company to pay their workers one month salary especially to the workers who already been working for the company more than half year.
Goldteak Guardians received “Lebaran Bonus” because all of them are Muslim, and this time “Lebaran Bonus” is paid on September 12th, so the guardians still have time to buy their Lebaran needs (clothes for the children and food for the Lebaran days). Traditionally Indonesian people celebrate Lebaran by visiting family or relatives and serve food and drink for the guests, sometimes they have to visit the family or relative in different village, so they need an extra expenditure for transportation. For people who have life stocks like cows, goats or chicken they will sell them to have an extra income, if they do not have cow or goat, they will cut their chicken for the Lebaran lunch. Pak Parid and pak Abah sold their roasters this year to make an extra income. Both of them have a big family and relatives and this year the children of pak Abah came to Cibening to celebrate the Lebaran together. This year Goldteak also gave a lebaran gift to SD Cibeureum, cookies for the school principal and 4 teachers, they were very happy and appreciated.
September and October will be very hot in Cibening, guardians still work during fasting month (Ramadan) and sometimes they prepare the fasting break together (they make a fruit juice or fruit coctails) pak Zaini bought the fruit and syrup for them.
All guardians were expecting the rain, because they have very little water for the trees and for their family. The fasting day without water was very hard. But they are lucky because after receiving the lebaran bonus it rained hard for several hours, they still hoped that it would rain for several days so they would have enough water until the hot season ends.
There was a land checking for acacia and mahagony which were burnt last August. From the picture we can see that the black area is large, it is because Goldteak land is side by side the neighbour’s land with 6 meter border, actually there is about 441 m2 for 46 acacia trees and 990 m2 for 113 mahogany trees.
There are some teak trees given the fertilizer and now they are about 6 meter tall with bigger trunk comparing with other trees without fertilizer. The ones with fertilizer grow faster, healthier, bigger and stronger.
There are some trees got a sprout deceases, the top should be cut and the new leaf will grow again.
One of pak Zaini son had been circumcised and the celebration will be held on November. In Indonesia circumcision is done more for religion recognition, usually baby girl will have circumcision before she is 1 year old but for a boy he will have circumcision when he is between 1 to 9 years old.
“ Happy Eid ul-Fitri 1430 H, May Allah bless us and our family, give us happiness, prosperity and good health today and in the future, Amiin…”