The name of guardians who work for Goldteak plantation :
Zaini Lutvi is a site manager.
Parid & Budi are the supervisors.
Guardians: Ganda works at Bumisari plantation and other 20 guardians work at Cibening plantation: Maman, Kudil, Caci, Bana (single), Oleh, Oni, Ater, Aji, Kusnadi, Ajat, Dede P (son of Parid & still single)), Dede M (son of Majun & still single), Adun, Kading, Heni, Deni, Jaji, Sidem, Majun, Andri (single).
Fruit harvest :
Some of the fruit trees are fruiting now but not very productive: 2 Mango trees are fruiting, Sapodilla tree just got the first time fruiting, 2 Lychees trees are fruiting and some of Oranges trees are fruiting. Hope next rainy season all the fruit trees will have fruit. Although the fruit is not much and the quality is not too good (probably still start fruiting) but can be sold.
Lebaran Bonus :
This year all Goldteak’s staffs and guardians received a Lebaran Bonus (THR means Tunjangan Hari Raya = financial support as much as 1 month salary for a religion holiday given to Muslim, Cristian, Budhis, and Hindu once a year).
All guardians received the lebaran bonus and the salary on the same week, so they were very happy when they received it. As tradition, they celebrate the lebaran with the family and relative, sometime they visit their relative at different village or their relative visit them. Mostly they use their money to buy new clothes and make a nice meal and cookies, but the most important thing is when lebaran Eid Fitr they have to pay the “zakat” (alms) 2,5 liter of rice (old, young, rich, poor, male or female muslim) or exchange with the money (1 liter rice is about Rp 6,000 and every one prepare 2,5 liter rice or Rp 15,000. So if the guardian has 2 children, he should pay Rp 60,000), they give the rice or the money to the mosque and the mosque will collect and distribute it to the poor people 1 day before lebaran Eid Fitr).
New well at Goldteak plantation :
The position of Cibening village is down the hill and Goldteak plantation is on the hill, this area does not have much water during hot season and since Goldteak opened the area, water is one of the problem, the trees got water from rain and 2 water spring which has very less water. Naturally, when the dry land is planted with trees, slowly the trees will keep the water from rain. It is not easy to inform or educate the villagers how to get water beside rain and water spring, but finally some of guardians tried to make a weel in the midle of the plantation. After digging 6 meter deep, Parid, Budi and Kusnadi found water and they stop digging after 8 meter deep because they found much water. This work will make an encouragement for other guardians to believe that there is water in the plantation and hope can teach other villager about the importance of planting trees.
