Field Visit to Green Village Banjarsari, South Jakarta
(Baca versi Bahasa Indonesia)
Banjarsari village in West Cilandak, South Jakarta has been appointed by Provincial Government of Jakarta as excursion village in South Jakarta. Pioneered by Mrs. Harini Bambang, Banjarsari citizen has created a green environment and full of tree. Mrs. Harini Bambang in Banjarsari is the same person mentioned in the previous article. Every house is decorated by flowers, medication trees, and trees. Felt leafy and cool.
Aside from its green environment, the neighbourhood are also clean. Straggled waste was unseen. Every alley has colourful garbage can, green for organic waste, yellow for inorganic waste, and red for dangerous waste. This green village has delivered Kalpataru reward (a reward given to people who has contributes in conserving environment) for Mrs. Harini and one of Jakarta’s best houses for Mrs. Nina on year 2000.
ACF invites women group (PKK) of Penjaringan to visit Banjarsari village in order to grow the awareness and spirit to do the same thing for their neighbourhood.
Twenty eight member of PKK joined this visit. They come from RW 03, RW 08, RW 017, 4th Working Group of PKK Penjaringan and member of Posyandu.
The group from Penjaringan arrived at Banjarsari at 9.30 am. Mrs. Harini greeted all participants directly. After short introduction, Mrs. Harini explained the importance to create clean environment as it is closely related to the health of citizen. She also share her experience in waste management, waste recycled process, and waste reduction efforts.
There are 4 efforts to avoid pile of waste, they are: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Replant. At the end of the session, a plant was given as reward for one of the participants which are actively giving question.
The second note speaker was Mrs. Siska. She explained various medicine trees. This session interest most of participants because plenty of new information was received. Most of the trees were found near their houses, but they did not realize the name and the use of those trees.
Right before lunch break, the group were receiving a lesson about recycled waste from Mr. Iwan. There are plenty of item that never thought to be able to be used after. Mr.Iwan shows plenty of examples. He also explained how to make recycled paper.
After lunch, the group was guided to take a tour around Banjarsari village and visit Mrs. Nina’s house which was appointed as the best green house in Jakarta
Finishing the tour, the group came home with plenty of new information and experience which expected to brings changes to their own environment.
Writer : Arde Wisben
Editor : Erma Maghfiroh
Translator : Erma Maghfiroh
