Category: Expanding Gold Teak

It has been several times, PT Petrolink and PT Goldteak gave donation to SD
Cibeureum, not only books, school bags, school uniforms, shoes, computers but also
repaired the ceiling and painted the school. All donation was an appreciation,
attention and care for the school and its achievements since PT Goldteak open the
plantation in Cibening Village.
This year, it has been decided to give a special program to SD Cibeureum, the
students were given presents and an opportunity to visit Bogor Botanical Garden.

On 23rd of August, Jon Curtis, the President Director of PT Petrolink and PT
Goldteak, accompanied by Adi Iswanto, PT Goldteak’s Director, went to Cibening and
visited SD Cibeureum.The school principal, Yanti Roslianti, all teachers and students
welcomed them happily. It was an honor to have their visit, the students have been
waiting for the surprise.

Jon brought presents; school bags and school stationary to the students grade one,
two and three. He gave Junior encyclopedia, crayons and drawing books to the school
to be used together in class. They also gave chocolate candies and milk to all
students.

And for students grade four, five and six, they had a trip to Bogor to visit The
Botanical Garden.

New school academic year has been started after long holiday. The six grade students had
graduated and continue to the higher education, they go to Junior High School.

The new students who registered for grade one are six or seven years old. All of them did not go
to Kindergarten, they went to PAUD (Early Childhood Education), the programs is managed by
the community. It is designed to stimulate cognitive and behavioral skills, children study through
play. It helps children build and develop their intelligence and their physical as well.

This year, SD Cibeureum has got 12 new students, actually they already know the school well. The
teachers allow them to sit or play at the porch, they listened the students read the story or make
recycled handy crafts. We can see their happiness on their smile when they enter the class
room on the first day.

“Tell me, I forgot. Show me, I remember. Involve me, I understand”. (Chinese Proverb)

During fasting month, students get a long holiday, almost one month. Since they received report
books in the middle of June until Mid of July. Students often visit the school to meet friends and
play together, but many of them come to school to read books at the porch.
Usually they go to Islamic school in the morning to practice reading Qur’an and the afternoon
they can spend their time to practice Abacus, or making seedling at home with friends while they
are waiting the fasting break. They will bring the seedling when they go back to school mid of July.

Piras is on second grade now, every day he walks to school. His house is not far from the school. His elder brother is on high school and his elder sister is on Junior High. Not many parents send their children to the High School, they do not need to pay the tuison but they need money for transportation and supporting books because the schools are far from their village.

SD Cibeureum always provide books for the students, parents need little money to buy shoes, bags and note books only. But since Goldteak donated shoes and bags several times, the parents do not need to buy them every year. The teachers can use computers to help the students find more supporting materials for daily assignments.

This year Piras is on the third grade, his friends and he study at the same classroom with the fourth grade. They study together with the same teacher, while other class study in the room, Piras and his friends study at the porch. Piras is exited when they study outside of the class, because they have an assignments to read, to draw or to make handycrafts from recycled materials.

Last year, Goldteak donated Takraw balls, Volley balls and footballs for SD Cibeureum. Almost
every day, the students practice and play in the school yard after the school dismiss. Although
the yard is not big but they are happy to play alternatelly. They are anthusiatic every time they
play, because they do not have many games to play.

Actually they are also interested in Karate, Badminton or table tennis (ping pong), but they do
not have a coach to train them. So the school choose the popular games for them.

The students are very exited, because they will have a long school holiday and the rainy season
will end soon, so they will play as they like.

“If you don’t practice, you don’t deserve to win” (Andre Agassi)

Goldteak has donated computers in last four years to SD Cibeureum, the Portable Computers
are put in the classrooms and the laptop are used by the teachers in the Principal’s office. By
using computers, the students have big improvement because they learn not only by reading
books, listening to the teachers but also through other media. The teachers will help them to find
something new outside of the books.
The process of learning and teaching becomes more interesting and not boring because they
always find something knowledgeable and informative. The school has responsibility to help the
students to take care of the computers but when it is brokendown, the school will fix it. So
when modernization is coming to the school, the teachers and the students have an opportunity
to explore the unlimited knowledge and information.

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success
have no meaning.” (Benjamin Franklin)

Everytime the students receive the books from Goldteak, they are curious about the books;
science, stories, encyclopedia or about handycrafts. The boys like reading science books first
and the girls like reading story books first then the others later.

Some science books or children magazine have some pages for experiments, and the students
will do the experiment in group. They feel more exited when they do it together than by
themselves.

No wonder, teachers have new assignment to answer students’ questions which not related with
the school subjects, sometimes teachers do not know the answer neither, so they will search the
answers on internet.

The school has limited rooms, it does not have a library. Students usually seat at school porch to
read the books after school. They make noise, because they are in groups and they read
differents books.
“Write to be understood, Speak to be heard, Read to grow” (Lawrence Clark Powell)

Mrs. Yanti has been appointed as a new Principal for SD Cibeureum, replacing Mr. Suprapto
who got new assignement to lead the other Elementary School in different village.

As she knew that SD Cibeureum has got many achievements, she promised to continue the
vision and mision to be more successful for the students.

This time, PT Goldteak donated books (children story books and children ensiclopedias ) to
SD Cibeureum and shared the biscuits and sweets to the students because they planted Sun
fllower seeds around the yard.

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace”.
(Confucius)

Children have their own favorite games, modern or traditional ones, they are always happy
when they play with their friends.

But in some villages where the children do not have modern games, they still enjoy playing some
games like hide & seek, marbles, kites, sack races, jumping rope or hopscotch. They can play
with small team or big team at home or at school yard or even at the rice field after harvest time.

Basically games are not including into sport but they gave good impact to the children. Through
the games they learn how to be sportive, creative, patient and they train themselves how to play
in a small team or big team, how to respect their opponents, and the most important is the goal
of every game is happiness and cheerfulness.

“To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent” (Johan Cruyff)

SD Cibeureum has got a small old globe, it is as small as a tennis ball. It is not easy
for the teachers to teach geography by using globe.

PT Goldteak donated a new and big globe for the school, now the students learn
geography easily. They know how to find Indonesia or other foreign countries on
map and on globe, they also know where is the equator or Wallace line.

“I was not born for one corner, the whole world is my native land” (Seneca)