Author: Herawati Dewi

Liburan Tahun Baru

Seperti akhir tahun lalu, kali ini SD Cibeureum libur selama dua minggu juga. Setelah murid
murid menerima rapor semester pertama tanggal 15 Desember 2017, mereka kembali ke
sekolah tanggal 2 Januari 2018. Warga desa Cibening tidak pernah merayakan Tahun Baru
Masehi, tetapi mereka merayakan Tahun Baru Islam, jadi liburan akhir tahun bukanlah hal yang
istimewa. Biasanya mereka hanya menonton hiburan di televisi bersama-sama keluarga di
rumah.

Hampir semua murid menghabiskan liburan di rumah saja, mereka tidak pergi berwisata ke luar
desa. Kegiatan mereka sehari-hari hanya membantu orang tua di rumah atau di kebun, dan
bermain dengan teman-teman di halaman rumah atau halaman sekolah. Desember dan Januari
adalah musim hujan, anak-anak Cibening sangat suka bermain diwaktu hujan, mereka bisa
mengejar kodok atau mencari buah yang jatuh.

Murid-murid SD Cibeureum sangat beruntung karena akhir tahun ini mereka mendapat banyak
buku-buku dari Goldteak. Ketika mereka bermain di halaman sekolah, mereka juga bisa
membaca buku bersama-sama dengan teman atau saudara di teras sekolah. Liburan menjadi
menyenangkan, cerita-cerita baru mulai memenuhi pikiran mereka dan akan menjadi semangat
untuk belajar lebih giat.

Expanding Gold Teak

New Year Holiday

Like last year, SD Cibeureum has two weeks holiday this end of year. After the students
received their progress reports, they started holiday and they came back to school on 2nd of
January 2018. People in Cibening village very seldom celebrate the New Year (AD), they just
watch TV to see the celebration, the fireworks and firecrackers as the year is already changed.
They celebrate the Islamic New Year with big celebration.

During the holiday, students usually spent their time at home, at the rice field or garden to help
their parents. They play with their friends at school yard or visit their friends in other village.
December and January rain falls almost every day, children like playing football under the rain,
sometimes they look after the frogs or collecting the fruit on the ground.

SD Cibeureum’s students are very lucky, they received many books from Goldteak before the
holiday. When they played at the school yard, some of them sit at the porch and read books.
Children spent their time for something fun, creative and knowledgeable during the holiday, they
will be exited to start the New Year 2018.

Cibening Kunjungan Lapangan

Bambu Penahan Erosi

Menunggu bantuan dari pemerintah akan makan waktu, jalan menuju desa sudah longsor
sebagian. Warga desa dan beberapa pekerja Goldteak bergotong royong memperbaiki jalan
supaya tidak terjadi longsor lanjutan.

Bambu sangat mudah didapat dan tidak perlu membeli, hanya mengambil dekat kebun Jati dan
dipakai sebagai siring penahan longsor. Tentunya tidak bertahan lama, tetapi paling tidak
menjaga jalan tidak sampai putus dan bisa dilalui oleh kendaran bermotor.

Jalan sepanjang hampir 4 Km itu sudah beberapa kali diperbaiki, ditambah batu dan pasir. Di
beberapa bagian juga sudah disemen, tetapi perbaikan selalu tidak pernah tuntas, jadi ketika
hujan turun dan debit air melimpah ke jalan maka jalan cepat menjadi rusak. Warga desa
dibantu dengan pekerja Goldteak selalu memperbaiki kerusakan jalan itu sebelum pemerintah
datang membantu.

Cibening News From The Field

Bamboo to Protect the Land Slide

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Post date December 28, 2017
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Waiting the government’s support will take time, the road to the village is already broken in
some areas. Cibening people and some of Goldteak’s workers worked together to repair the
road. If they did not repair the road, the damage will be bigger and wider and they can not ride
or drive the vehicles.

Bamboo is easy to get and not necessary to buy, we can find easily near the teak plantation, it is
used to hold the land from erosion. Bamboo does not stand for long time, but at least people
can pass the road during the rainy season. People can ride and drive their vehicles to or from
the village.

The road is almost 4 Km long, it has been broken for several times, people often repaired it by
giving more sand, stones and sometimes it was cemented in critical area. But when the rainy
season comes, the road is broken again because of land slide or the soil is away by the water.
People always worked together with Goldteak guardians to repair it before the local
government come to help.

Cibening Kunjungan Lapangan

Tanah Longsor & Jalan Rusak

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Post date November 30, 2017
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Musim hujan sudah mulai dari bulan lalu, hampir setiap hari hujan turun.
Pagi, siang, malam, sepanjang siang atau sepanjang malam. Air hujan
melimpah dan semua sumur penuh. Pohon-pohon sudah berganti daun, kini
bukit nampak hijau kembali.

Hujan yang turun tidak hentinya menyebabkan tanah longsor di beberapa
tempat, tanah yang tidak tertutup batu atau tanaman akan tergerus air.
Jalan masuk ke desa Cibening sudah retak-retak dan tanahnya longsor.
Mobil tidak bisa lewat dan motor harus di tuntun, apabila hujan turun terus
menerus selama beberapa hari kemungkinan jalan akan putus.

Warga desa bersama-sama dengan para pekerja kebun siap bergotong
royong ketika Kepala Desa meminta mereka untuk memasang bambu
sebagai penahan longsor sampai pemerintah daerah mengirim bantuan
melalui Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana.

Cibening News From The Field

Land Slide & Broken Road

Since last month, rain falls almost everyday in Cibening village, morning,
afternoon, evening, all day or all night. Rain water is abundant, all wells are
full with water. New leaves make trees green again, now we can see
Goldteak plantation is green.

There will be a land slide when it rains continuously, water from up hill will
bring the soil away. The road to the village is not good, has no cover, only
rocks and stones. It is easily broken when the road can not hold the water.

People and some of the guardians will work together to repair the road with
bamboo to hold the side road not to slide, until government repair it through
National Agency for Disaster Management program.

Pengembangan GoldTeak

Berlibur Sambil Membaca

Bulan Desember akan ada libur panjang, setelah ulangan umum dan menerima rapor murid-
murid akan libur selama tiga minggu. Libur panjang selama dua minggu di bulan Desember dan
satu minggu di bulan Januari. Murid-murid sangat senang menerima buku-buku dari Goldteak.

Musim hujan sudah mulai dari bulan lalu dan akan terus sampai bulan Februari atau Maret tahun
depan. Hujan yang terus menerus membuat jalan menjadi rusak dan beberapa tempat longsor.
Kalau hujan lebat dan turun terus beberapa hari maka jalan juga akan longsor.

Warga desa Cibening akan sulit pergi ke luar desa, terlebih anak-anak kecil dan murid-murid akan
tinggal di rumah saja atau hanya bermain di sekolah atau di rumah teman.

Kegiatan di dalam ruangan yang terbaik adalah membaca atau bercerita. Beberapa buku berisi
cerita anak-anak berpetualang dengan proyek-proyek sekolah. Mereka akan mencoba
beberapa percobaan sederhana yang cukup menyenangkan apabila dikerjakan bersama-sama.

Kali ini buku-buku akan menemani murid-murid menghabiskan libur panjangnya sampai waktu
sekolah tiba di bulan Januari 2018.

“Bersama-sama kita bisa melakukan hal-hal yang hebat” (Mother Teresa)

Expanding Gold Teak

Books for Holiday

There will be a long holiday for the students after they finish the examination and receive the
progress report. They will have three weeks holiday, two weeks in December and one week in
January. The students were very happy when they received books from Goldteak.

Rainy season has been started last month and will end in February or March next year. Rain falls
almost every day, morning, afternoon or evening, all day or all night. The heavy rain damages the
road, water brings stones and clay and the road will be thinner and finally there will be a land
slide.

Cibening people will have a problem when they want to go out from the village, especially the
children will stay home or play at school or visit their friends during the holiday.

There are several activities can be done indoor, but the best is reading. Books with interesting
topics and simple experiments will make students’ holiday more exiting.

Students will spend their holiday with their friends and books until the holiday ends in January
and they start to school again.

“Together we can do great things” (Mother Teresa)

Cibening Kunjungan Lapangan

Air Hujan dan Sumur

Baru beberapa hari hujan turun di desa Cibening, sepanjang awal musim
hujan ini. dampak yang terasa bagi warga desa adalah sumur-sumur telah
dipenuhi air lagi. Walaupun untuk air minum warga desa perlu mengambil
dari mata air, tetapi air sumur sudah membuat mereka gembira. Mencuci
dan mandi dengan air sumur serta tanaman mulai hijau kembali.

Dua bulan yang lalu ada beberapa bagian jalan yang diperbaiki oleh warga
dengan bantuan dana dari Pemerintah Daerah, tetapi bagian yang lain yang
belum diperbaiki sudah mulai nampak tanah merah. Jalan menjadi licin dan
sulit dilalui.

Cibening News From The Field

Rain Water & Wells

Rain has been falling for several days in the end of October, but it made a good impact to the people in the Cibening village. The wells are full of water, although for drinking water they have to take it from the water spring. This situation makes people happy, because they can do bathing and washing easily and also the village looks green.

For the last two months, the local government gave the fund to fix the road but it could not fix all of the road. Some part of the road are still broken, covered with clay and it is slippery and difficult to ride and drive on.